Okay.. So, people, sup? Did you guys know that Joker no Kuni no Alice came out in the US a while ago?! SQEEEEEEEUUUUAAAAA! (Insert loud fangirly voice here) But I'm not allowed of get it... My parents are, like incredibly strict when it comes to that kinda stuff. I can't buy any manga without them examining it. Blargh. I hope it'll come out on the net soon... Feh. But ANYWAYS, I hired the invisible fairies that only exist inside my mind to get some of the no kuni no characters (I know, I had to hire them. Even though I'm their creator! Selfish little bastards they are...) So, here we go...
Black: the f***?!
Blood: Hat-man?! Really?!
Alice: Yay! I insult Blood! Inside my head, but still!
Black: That's the first good thing you've done all day, you little slut.
Alice: (Sticks tongue out at Black)
Blood: Essu doesn't own us. God help us if she did.
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Alice yelped and tried to leap backwards, out of harms way, but her foot caught and she stumbled and fell. The man reached out just in time, his strong arms closing around her waist.
"Are you okay there?" He had a huge grin that, for some reason, was strangely infuriating.
"I-I'm fine." Alice blushed furiously.
I've probably blushed more today than I have in my entire life.
She quickly righted herself and glared at the floor directly behind the boy, who, though he had let go of her, was still too close for her liking.
What is it with these people and personal space?!
"So... I don't suppose you know who I am?" He cocked his head to one side, continuing to beam at her.
She shook her head, already formulating a plan. She would excuse herself, move past him as quickly as possible, and then get to class.
"Thought not! My name's Ace, it's nice to meet you Alice~!"
"I'm not even going to ask..." Alice sighed and shook her head, "Well, it was nice meeting you Ace! But I have to get to class now, so goodbye!" She began to move past him, but he put a hand up to block her.
Raising his eyebrows he said, "You're going to class? I figured you were skipping!"
"And what on Earth made you think that?"
"...Wasn't that just the five minute bell?"
Sure enough, when Alice looked at the clock it said that there were five minutes before class... And less by the second.
"Oh dammit! What am I going to do?! I've never, ever been late before! Ever!"
Ace looked at her in exaggerated surprise. As a matter of fact, she was beginning to suspect that every little change on his face was over done. A lot.
"You've never skipped class before?! You should! It's fun~!"
Alice was beginning to have a very bad feeling...
"I know! Let's skip class together!" His smile grew even wider, if that were possible.
"I know! Let's not." She deadpanned, glaring at him.
"But why not~? Alice would have fun!"
"No, I would most certainly not. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to be late for biology." Once again, she tried to push past him, but he put out his hand to stop her.
"Great! I have biology to!"
"Lucky. Me." Alice muttered under her breath.
"Hey, I've already made you late to class, so-"
"For the last time, no!"
He laughed, "Thought not. But at least let me show you a short cut! It'll be fun, and by the way we're taking, you won't be late to class!"
Alice cocked her head to one side and bit her bottom lip, considering his proposition.
"So... You mean a compromise?"
"Yep~!"
So then this guy, Ace will leave me alone, and I won't be late to class? It doesn't sound too bad...
"Great! Let's go!"
What is he, telepathic or something?
He smirked in triumph and grabbed her arm, pulling her out the door and along the wide halls of the school. Pretty much everyone had left, but the couple of people which were still at their lockers gave them odd looks. Alice tugged at her hood self-consciously.
"Why are you doing that?"
"Huh?"
"Tugging on your hood like that. Why are you doing it?"
"Oh, it's... um..." Alice restrained herself from tugging on it again, "A habit."
He nodded with a quick sound of agreement before pulling her around yet another corner, apparently completely absorbed in finding his shortcut.
Which, by the looks of it, wasn't very short.
"Ace?"
"Yeah?"
She glanced around quickly before planting her feet on the ground and refusing to move.
"Ace, class is about to start. And we're farther away from it than we were in the first place!"
"Oh, are we?" He laughed, "I must have gotten lost again! Sorry. But here, let me make it up to you!"
Once again, he grabbed her arm and begin to drag her through the school.
"Ace!" She tried to yank her arm back, but to no avail, "Ace let go!" Finally, with a monster effort she yanked her arm back out of his hand, but she had a strange feeling that he had let go of her on purpose.
"Awwwwww... Alice you're no fun~!"
Alice just glared at him, as she doubled over, trying to catch her breath.
"Still, if you think I'm lost, think again! Here's the biology classroom right here!" Dragging her behind him as if she were a rag-doll, he pulled open the door to...
...Oh shit.
"Ace!" She hissed, trying once again to pull her arm from his, "This isn't biology!"
As a matter of fact, it most certainly wasn't biology. Instead, Ace had dragged her into a certain abandoned music room, where Wonderland usually had its meetings. This wouldn't be a problem if they met before or after school, but, unfortunately for Alice, they didn't. A long time ago, Wonderland had decided that school was pointless and unnecessary (considering the fact that most everyone in the entire organization is rich) and that instead of giving up precious free time, why not give up useless school? That way, fangirls (and/or fanboys) couldn't watch them practice.
And, unfortunately for Alice, their meetings were held during fourth period. And, for her, this was biology.
The girl yanked at Ace's hand again, but it seemed that when he wanted it to, his grip was impossible to break. She heaved a sigh and glanced around her surroundings.
In one corner there was a man with long blue hair, staring at her in surprise. As a matter of fact, almost everyone in the entire room looked surprised, except for Ace and...
What the hell?!
Alice gasped in shock.
It's him.
But there was no way, just no way it could be him!
But it is!
There, in the corner, stood a man wearing a ridiculous hat with scarlet rose decorations. If it weren't for the fact that he was wearing a suit, she would've assumed he was a cross-dresser. That and the fact that he looked exactly like...
Calm down, Alice. Your fine. There is absolutely no way he would wear a hat like that. And besides, this guy is in Wonderland, so he's probably a complete...
The man, noticing her gaze, smirked and raised his eyebrows suggestively at her.
She felt a familiar heat rising in her cheeks.
...Bastard.
Pulling on the hood of her sweatshirt, she scowled at him before clearing her throat and taking a closer look at the members. There was Boris, (who was grinning at her) Pierce, (who was hiding from Boris) Black and his twin brother (who were both having totally different reactions; while Black was glaring at her, while the other one was smiling cheerfully) an orange haired man with rabbit ears, (another cosplayer. Wonderful. But at least he didn't look mean) the rude, black-haired man with the hat, (Alice made sure not to look at him for even a fraction of a second) more twins, (but unlike the others, these were to adorable little boys... They didn't seem too bad) a man with long blue hair, (a wig? There was just no way someone's hair could look that amazing... Especially a boy's.) a beautiful women with long purple hair, (Possibly the only girl in Wonderland) and finally, yet another cosplayer (this was just getting better and better) with white hair and white rabbit ears, and two silver-haired guys, (One of them looked mysterious and the other one looked kind of scary) One had an eyepatch and the other had a black lizard tattoo on the back of his neck.
Alice stood there awkwardly for a moment, before everything exploded.
"ALICE!" Pierce, Boris, and... The white eared man(?!) were running toward her at full speed.
She barely had time to cover her face when she was glomped by three people, one of which she didn't even know. She slammed into the floor, (she seemed to be doing that a lot, lately) giving a slight moan of pain when her side protested against the contact. She struggled feebly underneath then for a moment, before looking up at the sound of someone laughing. Of course, it was Ace.
"Ace, I thought this was a shortcut to biology. Not to your rehearsal or whatever this is!"
"Is Alice mad at me~?"
"Ace. You are so dead." She seethed, glaring at him angrily.
Boris straitened up, grinning down at her, "Boy... If looks could kill!"
She scowled even harder before kicking Pierce and the creepy man off of her.
"Quick question... Who are you?!" She stood up and brushed herself off before addressing the bunny-man (as she had begun to call him in her mind).
"A-Alice... Y-You don't know who I am?!"
"...am I suppose to?"
"B-But I'm Peter! Peter White! Surely you recognized me immediately! After all, we are in love. And since you obviously came here to see me..."
Alice raised her eyebrows giving Peter a you're-creeping-me-out look, "Since when?!"
He smiled dreamily at her, "First sight! I saw you, and knew I was in love! And you saw me and-"
"I was seriously disturbed." She deadpanned, "Rabbit man.. Peter, I am not in love with you!"
"What?! But-But... My darling Alice! I love you!"
"You don't even know me!"
"But I want to!" He insisted.
She a sigh and glared at him, "Look, Peter... I don't love you. I don't know you! You can't 'be in love' with someone you don't know!"
"But you came here to-"
"And I did not come here to see you! The only reason I came here-" She glared at Ace, "-was because this idiot got me lost!"
Ace grinned stupidly at her, "Alice is so mean~!"
Suddenly a cool soprano voice sounded, almost like the chiming of bells. If bells could have emotions. And were in a very violent mood.
"Who is this?" The purple-haired female, who was speaking looked angry, "We were in the middle of directing a rehearsal! Does this person dare interrupt Us?! We declare that her head be cut off!"
"Wh-What?" Alice stared at her, alarmed.
The strange women stepped toward her, leaving the loose ring of Wonderland that had gathered around Alice. "Hmmmmmmmmm..." She murmured, observing the blonde's hoodie, uniform skirt, and crooked bow. "We take it back. Your are cute so you will join Us for tea."
"Wait... What?!"
"You heard Us! Oh, and Our name is Vivaldi. We will not tolerate idiotic boys or annoying girls. We will see you at Our house at eight."
"E-Eh?!"
"Good. We are glad that you will come. Goodbye, than."
"But... Hey, wait!" The girl reached after her, as if to stop her progress toward the door.
But, in a swirl of skirts and purple hair, Vivaldi had already left.
It had been a long day, and Alice was seriously pissed off. She crossed her arms over her chest and, addressing the rest of Wonderland, snapped, "Well?! Does anyone else have something to add?!"
Slowly, almost timidly, the orange rabbit eared man came forward. "U-Um... My name is Elliot March! It's nice to meet you Alice!" He held out his hand for her to shake.
Her horrible mood brightened considerably, "It's nice to meet you, Elliot!" Smiling warmly, she shook his hand.
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Meanwhile, in the back of the room, Black leaned over and hissed in his brother's ear:
"Bipolar f***ing much?!" Before turning and stomping out of the room. His twin brother laughed slightly, Black could get so mad over the simplest of things. Such as the fact that they hadn't had their revenge yet.
But they would, soon...
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Alice was busy shaking hands, exchanging smiles, glaring at hat-man (the black-haired man's insulting nickname; courtesy of herself), and ignoring Peter, who was sulking in the corner. But not so busy that she didn't notice Black's glare out of the corner of her eye. She also covertly watched him from behind her hair as he stormed out of the room.
Good riddance!
She thought, scowling.
As she reached for another hand she noticed in surprise that it was Black's twin brother. She immediately stiffened, but when he smiled kindly at her she eventually reached out and took his hand.
"Hello! My name is White... And I trust you probably know me from my twin brother, Black? I apologize for any, erm, inconveniences he may have caused you... He didn't mean anything by it, he was just bored." He flashed her a winning smile, "Not that you aren't quite attractive, young lady."
Alice felt the corners of lips twitch upwards. She couldn't help it; his smile was contagious.
He started to say something else, but was cut off.
"Onee-san?"
The boy she now new as Dee's voice sounded from directly below her, he was clinging to her uniform skirt.
"Yes?" The girl smiled down at him. He and his twin brother, Dee, were definitely some of her favorite members of Wonderland. They were sweet, little, and not to mention adorable!
"Onee-san, play with us!" Sang Dum grabbing one of her arms as Dee grabbed onto the other.
"Um... I really don't think-"
"Get away from here you little brats!" Elliot had grabbed both twins by their ears and was dragging them away from Alice, "You're not supposed to be slacking anyways!"
She cocked her head to one side curiously, "Slacking?"
"We weren't slacking stupid chickie rabbit!"
"Yeah! We were just trying to play with our onee-san!"
They struggled in his grip as he glared at them.
"Yes you were! And I am not a rabbit!"
Dee and Dum finally broke free of his grip and ran behind Alice, their hands gripping at her skirt.
"Yes-!" Began Dum, pulling down on his bottom eyelid.
"-you are!" Finished Dee, sticking his tongue out.
Elliot glared at them with fire in his eyes fisting up his hands as if to punch them.
"I am not!"
"Yes you are!"
"I am NOT!"
"Yeah you are! Stupid newbie hare!"
"I-!"
Then, for the first time that day, hat-man detached himself from the wall. The minute he moved, both Elliot and the twins fell silent, Elliot looking embarrassed and the twins looking worried.
Alice, however, looked irked. She had disliked hat-man from the very start, he seemed arrogant and very used to getting what he wanted. These qualities were the exact picture of what Alice thought would make up a 'stuck-up rich kid'.
Except for his face.
Every time Alice so much as glanced at him, she ended up struggling to drag her eyes away. He looked exactly-exactly-like her ex-boyfriend. Unfortunately for her, though, every time she did end up staring he would (undoubtedly) notice and, somehow, managed to send her words through his facial expression:
Are you checking me out? Sorry, but you don't have a prayer.
It drove her absolutely insane.
So, when he came toward them, fancy rich-person cane in hand, she wasn't very happy. Half of her wanted to scream:
What is your problem?!
While the other half of her wanted to tell him:
I don't like you! You just look exactly like someone I know! So stop looking at me like I do!
Fortunately for her, they pretty much canceled each other out.
As the hat-man got closer to her, she made sure that she was only looking at the wall (were Peter was sulking) and absolutely no where near hat-man's face, but he (despite all of her precautions) seemed to give off waves of pure and utter disdain.
Ignoring him was one of the hardest things she had ever done in her life.
"My my... Fighting again, are we? Don't you know better? After all, you're probably disturbing the young miss!"
The young miss?!
What was he doing, insulting her?! She cautiously turned to face him, her suspicion clear on her face.
"My name is Blood Dupre. I don't believe we've met." His smile was as cold as his eyes.
Alice carefully out her smaller hand in his gloved one, biting her bottom lip, "It's nice to meet you."
Hat-man!
She mentally added, smirking to herself ever so slightly. Even if she couldn't insult him outright, she could still have that small victory.
She let go of his hand and studied his face again. He really did look exactly like her ex...
She remembered him in flashes. Smiling at her, holding her hand, putting his arm around her shoulder...
Smiling at Lorina, holding Lorina's hand, putting his arm around Lorina's shoulder...
"You're staring at me." Hat-man smiled slightly, examining her from under his half-lidded eyes.
Alice felt her face flush slightly.
"You look exactly like someone I knew. That's all."
"Oh." Was it just her, or did he almost sound disappointed?
"A past lover, I take it?" He took a step closer, still with an openly suggestive look on his face.
"Wha-?!" That girl squeaked in surprise, practically jumping a foot up into the air, "N-NO! Wh-Why would you think that?""
Bloo- Hat-man stalked even closer to her and lightly slipped a hand along her arm.
She blushed harder and tried to covertly brush it off.
Hat-man smirked, "No reason."
Damn him.
"And young miss?"
Alice bit down in her bottom lip, hard enough to draw blood, "Y-Yes?"
He held something out to her, his smirk seeming to get even wider.
"You'll be needing this."
She scowled and glared at the offending slip of paper, not at all eager to take it.
"What is it?"
"It's directions to Vivaldi's house. You are going, aren't you?"
"Well... Not really. I mean, I didn't exactly say I was going and-"
"Does the young miss prefer her head attached to her shoulders, or rolling about on the floor?"
The blonde glared at him. "Is that a rhetorical question?"
"Rea-ha-tomical? What's that?" Boris cut in, pausing long enough in his chase with Pierce to make sure he had not been forgotten by Alice.
She moaned loudly and face palmed. "Boris, how old are you?" When he opened his mouth to answer, she waved her hands in front of her face, cutting him off. "Wait, you know what? Nevermind. I don't want to know."
"My point is," Blood continued, turning his now icy glare at Boris and Alice in turn, effectively silencing them,"That it would probably be a good idea to succumb to her majesty's whims." He (once again) began to smirk.
"Unless you really do prefer the idea of your head rolling about on the ground?"
She answered him with a glare, scowling indignantly, "Fine. Whatever. I'll go."
"Good." He flashed her a grin that was all teeth and pressed the slip of paper into one of her hands before turning on his heel and walking away.
"Elliot. Dee, Dum. Come."
Hat-man waved his hand at the three without pausing, ignoring the fact that Elliot and the twins were practically tripping over each other trying to follow him.
Show-off.
"Right. I-It was nice meeting you all. Goodbye." Alice's natural shyness was back in place, and there was no way she was going to stay in a room with that many people for any longer. She turned and slipped out of the door, ignoring Peter's attempts at following her and (more pressingly) worrying about her trip to Vivaldi's house.
Well... It can't be that bad, can it?
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Yes, I do realize this took me FOREVER but it's, like, 3,000 words so...
Invisible fairies that only exist inside my head: It could've been a LOT longer. You just got lazy.
Me: Whatever. I don't give a crap.
Fairies: (sighs...) Essu is soooooo annoying. We apologize if she never updates.
Me: THAT'S IT! Person with most helpful review gets these useless... THINGS!
Fairies: but.. We only exist inside your head!
Me: And?
Fairies: but... If we're not here, who will force you to do updates?
Me: (Thinks for a moment) Hmmmmmm... (Suddenly, eyes light up) N-No one! (Insert seen of me dancing through beautiful meadow with tons of free time here)
Fairies: ...exactly. - -;
