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Oz woke up at one of the many Vessaulius households. He was awoken by Gilbert and Alice ranting on about something, probably food. He could also hear something about Break being stupid. In the background Break was laughing.

How did they manage to do this every morning?

He groaned and woke up. It was a good thing that Gil knew how to cook, and a good thing Oz didn't really have a favourite food, apart from cookies… Why was that a good thing? Because Break, Sharon, and Alice were so fussy! Break had to have something sweet, Alice couldn't live without some meat or apples (though she did like most foods…), and to Sharon, well, a meal wasn't even worthy of her unless it was served with a cup of tea and cake!

Everything had calmed down by the time Oz had got dressed and was in the least fancy dining hall. Sharon and Break were visiting, and Uncle Oscar was there as well, however there were no servants. The reason they were all there was quite simple. There had been rumours of strange happenings in the nearby town. Fires and mysterious sightings, people having strange whisperings, telling them what to do. Quite a few people had even reported seeing a tall, humanoid white rabbit, wearing a waistcoat suit and top hat.

They had of course all gone to check it out, but that wasn't the only reason, upon doing research on the town, Pandora found that it used to be the home of Jack Vessaulius. Everyone was curios, and Alice was convinced that one of her memories could be there, it was strange though. The Vessaulius mansion was the only Pandora meeting place within several miles.

Although there were no arguments, Gilbert and Alice were glaring at each other from across the table. Oscar looked flustered, yet amused. Break was laughing, ignoring the delicious looking breakfast, but instead was stuffing his face with sweets and lollypops. Sharon was abnormally calm as usual.

Oz didn't even bother asking what the fuss was all about, he didn't really care. Instead, he just grinned brightly around at everybody in the room. They all smiled back, apart from Alice, who was too distracted by her food to give much more than a grunt of acknowledgement.

Sharon cleared her throat as she did whenever she was going to give an announcement, or make plans, or ask for some more tea…. Or something like that anyways.

"Well then everyone, I think that it is about time that we made plans to find out what the cause of those strange things in the town are. I suggest that we-"

Sharon suddenly stopped.

"What's the matter Sharon-chan?" Oz no longer had romantic feelings for Sharon, but that didn't mean he didn't still care deeply for her.

"I- I don't know... I- just- felt, like...like someone was telling me to stop talking..."

"But that doesn't make any sense!"

"Isn't that what the townsfolk are reporting?"

"Who!"

A million questions bombarded Sharon.

"WILL EVERYBODY JUST BE QUIET!"

And everyone was. An angry Sharon Reinsworth was NOT something that you, or anybody would want to see. Ever.

"Sharon-chan, wha-"

"I thought the young lady asked you to be quiet?"

Everybody juped and turund to face the head of the table. There, was a humanoid, large white rabbit, in a tuxedo a top hat, just as described by the villagers. He- She- It was calmly sipping a cup of tea, face like a mask.

"No." Thought Oz. "The rabbit had definately NOT been there before..."

Gilbert imedately pulled out his gun.

"Who and what are you and why are you here?"

Oz sighed. Why did Gil immediately think that every stranger and/or strange... thing..., was out to get them! Sure, it was true, but still!

The rabbit-thingy-ma-bob laughed to no-one in particular. But, still, no expression.

"There is no need for that, contractor of Raven." It turned it's head in his direction and, presumably, looked at him thoughtfully. "Yes.. yes. You have already thwarted me, haven't you?" It wasn't really a question.

Another echoing laugh.

Oz finally regained himself. He could vaugely see Gilberts confused expression.

"Umm... Sorry, but who are you?"

An emotionless laugh once again.

"I am nobody... and everybody..."

Another bloody god-damn stupid laugh. God that was getting annoying...

"Could you please give me a straight answer. I've just woken up and I am in no mood for cryptic clues. As far as I can tell, you're as bad as Kilgarrah and his stupid obsession with DESTINYYYY!"

Break interrupted. "Who's Kilgarrah?"

Oz blinked.

"No idea..."

Oz cleared his throat.

"Uhh, anyway- Wait, is Alice… asleep?"

Sharon gently woke Alice, and, finally, they were all able to carry on with their conversation.

"I think that it is time to bring this curtain to a close. You are all needed elsewhere… well… some of you anyway" Cue the laugh of emotionless.

Sharon and Oscar looked startled, then promptly collapsed.

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!" Break drew the thin blade from his cane.

The rabbit smiled mockingly, his first sign of any feeling.

"Goodbye… for now"

And with that, intricate, glowing patterns appeared around each member of the group. Metal Chains, glowing, appeared from nowhere and wrapped themselves around Oz, Alice, Gil and Break.

"Wha- What's happening?" Gilbert struggled, and dropped his gun.

"We're being dropped into the abyss!" Break turned to look at the stranger. "How are you doing this? Why are you doing this!"

"Because it is necessary." The rabbit disappeared, and the small group of (somewhat) friends, fell, once again, into the abyss…

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