Disclaimer: Oh, the things I would do if I owned Vegeta but sadly I don't own him because I don't own Sailor Moon or Dragon ball Z.
Theme: Alice
A freezing cold breeze licked at his bare feet filtering through the cracks of the old wooden floorboards. The old rotting wood creaked; almost sounding like it was screaming out pain, under the weight of his footsteps announced his presence to her. But, she paid him no heed, continuing to stare off into the darkness that seemed to encase her very being.
Using his ki he lit a nearby candle and watched as the flame rippled, instantly the other candles scattered across the room lit up, adding some illumination to the gloomy attic. "Usagi?" His voice sounded strange to his own ear, appearing to be echoing in itself.
Vegeta approached his wife, regarding her unchanging movements quite suspiciously. It was as he neared her that he noticed that she held a small golden locket in her small delicate hands. Reflecting off one of the candle's a bright light shined off of it, blinding him for a split second. When the flash subsided instead of seeing his own reflection staring back at him on the locket he instead saw his wife's figure.
Usagi stood in the middle of the locket's reflection twirling around in a floor length ball gown.
Quite suddenly a mellow and hypnotic sounding melody filtering out the golden locket that Usagi held in her hands, catching Vegeta off guard. Before he could pull away Usagi's hand suddenly shot out catching his muscular forearm in her grasp. An eerie sounding giggle escaped past her sweet tasting, plump lips as she turned her head towards him.
His breath caught in his throat as he stared deeply into her once bright eyes.
These weren't his wife's eyes.
He watched as her pupil spread, taking over entire eyes becoming opaque and sinister.
"Down the rabbit hole," As the words past through her plump lips they seemed to echo eerily in her own throat. Vegeta's eyebrows both shot up towards his widow's peek but before he could ask her what she meant she reached behind him, taking a hold of the back of his head and pulled him forward.
Before he could stop or even brace himself Vegeta felt himself falling forward, being sucked into the very reflection of the golden locket. He could feel himself floating, unmoving in total darkness. 'Where am I?' He mentally questioned.
His onyx eyes darted around, straining to see through the darkness but couldn't make out a single figure. "What-" As soon as the syllable past through his lips a light appeared underneath him causing him to crane his head back. Below him was a marble floor, with no walls to confine it, just flooring that seems to stretch out into eternity.
Without warning the Sayjin Prince felt himself drop, crashing face first into the unyielding marble floor. "What the fuck!" Vegeta cursed while straightening himself, holding his forehead in his hand.
"Crows," A feminine voice glided towards his ears catching his attention and making him towards a figure standing with her back turned towards him. "Crows," The girl said again as she began to sob.
"Woman, cease your tears," Vegeta gruffly demanded as he stood and began to approach the girl. "Tell me what the hell is going on here!"
"Crows," The girl continued to say, his sobs becoming more intense as she fell to the ground, wrapping her arms around her torso.
Vegeta couldn't help but roll his eyes, "Crows, is that all your pea brain knows how to say?" He awaited a moment for response but when he only heard her continued crying his irritation got the better of him. Grabbing the girl by her shoulder he forcibly spun her around, his eyes growing wide as he saw her face.
Blood-filled tears ran down the girl's face and while her fingers covered her eyes he could still see through the open slits that her eye sockets were completely hallow. "Crows ate my eyes," She stated while continuing to sob her bloody tears. Even though the girl's eyes were missing the part that had shocked Vegeta the most was that he was starting into his wife's face.
"Usagi?" He began to question but as he blinked the girl completely vanished into the darkness. "Usagi!?!" Vegeta yelled, turning his head in either direction, searching the room for her.
"Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's getting!" He heard a voice coming from his left and as he turned he saw his Usagi dressed in a little one piece bathing suit, her skin painted white and little bunny ears sticking out of her blond head.
"Usagi?" He questioned again and shot out to grip her upper arm but before he could catch her she hopped away, turned towards him in mid-air. "No time for questions can't you see I'm late!" She yelled taking out her pocket watch to show him. "Late for what?" Vegeta asked and she simply rolled her eyes before disappearing. "No time for explanation, I'm late!"
"Don't-" Vegeta began to yell but she was gone before he could tell her not to leave him.
"'Ello, excuse me Sir, but have you seen a white rabbit coming along this way?" A girlish voice asked while tapping him on the shoulder. Whirling around he saw his wife again standing before him this time dressed in a knee high blue dress with a white apron covering the front, her usual floor length hair chopped to hip length. "Have you?" She asked once again, her eye shinning in the light.
"Usagi, just what the hell is going on here!?!" He practically yelled in her face causing the young girl to take a step backwards.
"Usagi?" She inclined her head sideways, "Oh yes! A white usagi, have you seen one?"
"Usagi! Quit playing games!"
Again the girl turned her head sideways, "I'm afraid you're mistaken, I'm Alice."
Narrowing his eyes onto hers he gripped her by the shoulders, roughly shaking her. "Usagi, snap out of it and explain what the hell is going on here!" Vegeta demanded and watched as a smile spread across the girl's face.
"I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, Sir, because I'm not myself you see." She stated while beginning to giggle.
"Enough of these trite games, woman!"
"Games! Games, I know where we can play plenty of games!" A feminine voice asked and he watched as the girl he held eye's darted towards the ground. "I know! I know!" She yelled and Vegeta watched as a child-like version of his wife jumped out in front of him, floating in mid-air. "Oh, do tell then!" The child-like version of his wife was wearing a strange green top hat with a card imbedded into it that had written in black ink 10/6. She wore a mustard colored jacket with a dark green vest and light green pants.
"A tea party!" The girl, who was calling herself Alice, yelled while somehow escaping past Vegeta's clutches.
"Correct!" The child-like girl lifted up her hat, revealing a full tea set underneath. "Would you care to join us stranger? The Mad Hatter," She began while pointing to herself, "Always accepts guests into her tea parties."
"Come, do join us!" Usagi or Alice insisted while stretching out her hand towards Vegeta. In a moment of weakness Vegeta lifted up his hand and tried to take her hand in his but before he could she suddenly pulled away.
"No! You can't!" She yelled at the top of her lungs and quite suddenly the Madd Hatter turned towards Vegeta, a tight frown on her face. "Look what you've done!" The child-like version of his wife, also known as the Madd Hatter yelled, throwing her tea cup to the ground. As it smashed into tiny pieces he watched at the girl fell to the ground, lifeless.
"Usagi!" Vegeta tried to run towards the girl but found that he was immobilized and unable to move.
"She's been tainted," The Madd Hatter stated before pulling off her hat once again, while staring at the fallen girl she reached into her hat pulling out a bloody ax. "Off with her head!" She screamed before raising the ax above her head and bringing it down on the girl's neck.
"N-no!!!!!" Vegeta screamed.
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Quite abruptly Vegeta's eyes shot open and before he could even consciously register what had just taken place his eyes shot out looking for his wife, Usagi. He found her sound asleep in the bed next to him.
Letting out a sigh of relief Vegeta felt himself relax, 'It was all just a dream.' He was about to settle back into bed and continue his sleep but something jabbed at his side caught his attention. Lifting up the blankets he could see his cotton candy haired child sleeping next to him, tightly clutching a book to her chest whose edges were poking him.
Gently he pried the book out of his daughter's hold raising the picture book up where he could see it. "Alice in Wonderland," He read before snorting. "Foolish garbage," He stated before tossing the book across the room.
In the morning he would have to have a discussion with his wife about reading to their daughter trivial foolishness before bedtime.
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An: Yea, I know it's kind of strange, but that's my brain.
Disclaimer: I don't own Alice in Wonderland!