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... Eh. -runs around, looking for a bed-
The couch'll do! -puts Sil down on the couch and runs to a random closet, looking for a blanket.-
-finds a cloth of some kind big enough to be a blanket and covers her with it, patting it around the sides so no cold can seep through-
..Do I need to tell a bed-time story, too?
Thank you Lavi-kun...~
Can I!? I want an awesome bed time story! *Toasty warm already, snuggles down and puts her glasses on the table.*
.. *regrets asking*
Okay then, let's see...
Once upon a time there was a little girl called Sillie. She was studying outside, but it was terribly boring to her, so she decided to look around and see if there was anything fun to do. Then all of a sudden, a little rabbit called Lavi ran past, holding a clock and muttering frantically.
Sillie was intrigued and decided to follow this rabbit who, according to his muttering, seemed to be late for some sort of important appointment. Lavi the Rabbit jumped down his rabbithole and Sillie was in a bit of a fix. She couldn't possibly fit inside a rabbithole, could she?
Discouraged nonetheless, she crawled into the hole, which all of a sudden enlarged into a big, black hole that swallowed her up. As she was falling, she noticed how terribly odd this situation was and she wondered whether she had fallen asleep while studying. Before she could think about it anymore, she landed with a thud inside a large room without any doors.
At first, it seemed like the rabbit had just disappeared, but then she heard the scratching of feet on the marble floor. Looking down, she saw the same Lavi Rabbit, but decreased in size at least twenty times. His little feet took him to the other side of the room where, when looked upon closely, there was a tiny door.
The rabbit knocked, the little door opened and he disappeared. Sillie, having longer legs, reached the miniature door in a much shorter time than Lavi had and sat down on her knees, lowering her head so she could look at it properly. "Strange..." she said, maybe a little too loudly, because the doorknob awoke with a start.
"Well, I'll be! How rude! I was just calmly sleeping here and this giant of a girl decides to wake me up!" it shrieked, an indignant look on its face. Sillie gasped. This was getting stranger and stranger by the minute. "I'm terribly sorry," she apologized, smiling at the doorknob, "But could you let me through, I was following the cute little rabbit."
The doorknob huffed, and if it had arms, it would have crossed them. "Look at you, you couldn't possible fit through me, now could you?" Sillie thought about it for a minute, looking down at her much too large body. "I suppose... But the rabbit wasn't as small before either. How do I get smaller?"
"I don't know, I was sleeping when it happened, wasn't I?" it glared at the girl, obviously very upset about having to be awake. "But the only things in this room are those little bottles filled with light green liquid. Maybe you should try those."
Sillie followed its gaze to a little table she hadn't noticed before. On that table were indeed two little bottles, each filled with a green liquid. She picked one up and read the label: 'Innocence.. Please Drink This'. "Well, if you ask so kindly." she muttered as she opened the bottle and drank the contents.
She hadn't even finished drinking it yet when she started to grow smaller and smaller until she was tiny enough to be able to fit through the grumpy door. Waddling back to the wood, she smiled at it. "I can go through now, right?"
"No." the bottle answered immediately, a blank look on its face. Sillie frowned, fiddling with her purple dress. "Why not?" she asked, an annoyed tone to her voice. "You just can't go through." the door insisted, and with a large yawn it closed its eyes again, "Now if you will excuse me, I'm going back to sleep."
Sillie's eyes watered as the door denied her entrance and soon she was crying uncontrollably, the tears quickly filling up the room. The noise awoke the door again and he gasped as the tear-sea was splashing around, threatening to drown it. "Stop it, stop it!" it commanded in a high-pitched voice, "You'll drown us both!"
Quickly, the door swung open and Sillie, along with the empty bottle, which was now a lot larger, washed through. She climbed inside the bottle to prevent herself from drowning and so she made her way along the river of tears until she reached dry land. Climbing out of the bottle, she noticed some bubbles were flying her way, out of the forest in front of them.
Following the trail of bubbles, she came across a large caterpillar seated upon a rather big mushroom, smoking a hookah, which explained the bubbles. He had a weird hairstyle, like a some weird lightningbolt on the top of his head, and black circles around his eyes. Sillie snorted to the fact that it looked more like an old man in a caterpillar suit than a genuine one, also because it was smoking.
"Hello.." she said tentatively, moving a little closer. The caterpillar swiveled around to face her, blowing some bubbles from his mouth. "Who are you?" he asked her, staring at her unusual clothing and appearance. "My name is Sillie," she answered, and bopped her head to the side, "And who are you?"
"It doesn't matter who I am," he said, taking another puff on the hookah. Sillie raised an eyebrow. "But you asked me, too," she retorted, hands on her hips, "You should at least be polite enough to introduce yourself, as well."
The caterpillar stared at her for a moment before opening his mouth. "They call me Bookman." Sillie tried not to laugh at this, only a small giggle escaping her lips. "Why Bookman? I see no books. Why not Bubbleman?"
Bookman the Caterpillar, obviously annoyed, glared at her. "It doesn't matter what we are called, what matters is what we do." This sounded pretty thoughtful to Sillie and she thought about it for a moment. "That's true... It doesn't matter whether you are called Bookman or Bubbleman, you would stay the same."
"Yes." the caterpillar agreed, creating some more bubbles, "Now, what can I help you with?" Sillie was taken aback for a moment, not realizing that she needed any help in the first place. Then again, she had ended up in some weird place she knew nothing about. "What is this place?" she asked him, looking around at the strange forest that surrounded them.
"It is called Wonderland." he told her, not looking very interested.
"Wonderland?" Sillie repeated after him, with a snort, "What a stupid name." Bookman the Caterpillar sighed, and blew some bubbles in her face. "Do I need to repeat myself? It doesn't matter what the name is, what matters is wha--"
"Yes, I get it, I'm sorry." she interrupted him, waving his bubbles away. "I'll be going now, then." As she turned to leave, the caterpillar blew some more bubbles in her direction. "Wait a minute, little girl. Little girl, big girl. Small changes, big changes. Take a mushroom."
Sillie's eyebrows knotted together, trying to figure out what this crazy caterpillar was saying. She noticed the small mushrooms around her and decided to take one with her, as he had told her to, althought not knowing why. She muttered a 'thank you' before leaving, not quite sure if it was the right thing to do or not.
A little bit further into the forest, there seemed to be a party going on. It sounded like someone was singing and there were bright lights. Sillie followed the lights until she reached a clearing in the forest, filled with tables and seats of all kinds. Only two of these seats were occupied though, by a man and a girl. The man wore a large top hat and glasses and had a rather mad look to him. The girl, who seemed around sixteen years old, resembled a brown hare.
"Ah! Hello! Have you come to join our coffee party!?" the man with the hat asked her when he noticed her presence. The girl poured the man another cup of coffee. "Um.." Sillie hesitated, looking at all the empty seats, "It's a rather empty party, isn't it?"
"You're right," the man laughed, the top hat bouncing on his head, "It's our Un-Birthday and yet no one comes and celebrates with us!" Sillie sighed. As if the caterpillar hadn't been weird enough. "Un-Birthday..?" she asked, already regretting it the moment the words came out of her mouth.
"Why yes! It's not my birthday!" he smiled and pointed at the girl, "It's not her birthday! It's our Un-Birthday!"
"Well, then it's my Un-Birthday, too. Yay!" Sillie said sacrastically, looking for the exit. The man, however, gasped with delight and grabbed her arm, making her sit in one of the empty chairs. "No? Really? What a delightful coincidence!"
He was starting to pour her some coffee when he suddenly stopped and clapped himself over the head, coffee flying everywhere. "Oh, how stupid of me! I haven't even properly introduced myself yet! Where are my manners!?" He gave a little bow, the hat nearly falling off his head, "My name is Komui, but some call me the Mad Hatter! This here is Lenalee, also known as the March Hare!"
The hare called Lenalee smiled at her and poured her some more coffee, her cup overflowing. "Ah, that's enough, thank you," Sillie reassured her, politely pushing the coffeepot away. "My name is Sillie. Nice to meet you."
As she was about to take a sip of her coffee, she was roughly pushed aside by the two strange creatures. "Clean cup, clean cup, move down, move down!"
Sillie scoffed, and stared at the two before turning to leave. She didn't want to stay here any longer. They didn't seem to have anything more to say and let her leave quietly. She was looking for the rabbit, after all, she wasn't here for some silly coffee party, or Un-Birthday party or whatever it was that they were doing.
She shivered as she walked on, feeling like someone was watching her, but no one was around. All of a sudden, she thought she heard someone grinning and she jumped. Okay, what was going on here? "Show yourself!" she called, her own voice echoing back at her. A flash of white appeared above her, on a branch. They looked like teeth, grinning ridiculously.
"Hello there, are you lost?" the teeth asked her and soon a body appeared as well. It was a pink and purple striped cat... with half its face covered by a mask and a cigarette in his mouth? Sillie stared at it and basically..it was freaking her out. "What's wrong, pretty lady?" he asked, the grin never fading. One word was repeating itself in Sillie's head: Flee, flee, flee, flee, flee, flee.
"Can you tell me the way to the White Rabbit's house?" she asked quickly, wanting to get away from this creature as soon as possible. The Cat thought about this for a moment, his body appearing and disappearing every 5 seconds. "Why would you want to go to that annoying Rabbit's house when you can stay with me?"
"No thank you," she retorted immediately. However much his feelings were hurt, Cross the Cheshire Cat's grin never left his face and he pointed at a random direction. "It's that way."
Not even caring whether it was the truth or not, Sillie quickly followed his directions, wanting to get far, far away from the creepy Cat. But sure enough, after a while, she could see some houses in the distance. The first house was a large, white house and the plate on the gate said that it belonged to the White Rabbit. Sillie smiled, she had finally found his house.
"Miranda!" a voice yelled at her and she turned around, the Rabbit in front of her face. Did he just call her Miranda? "What are you doing, standing around here for? Get in the house and clean!" Miranda was obviously some sort of servant or something, but Sillie wasn't going to let this rabbit talk to her like that.
She glared at him and was about to say something when he pushed her inside his house and handed her a mop. "Go on, I need to go to the Duchess, I'm already late." With this he left, leaving Sillie behind with a mop and a very filthy looking house, papers and books all over the floor. "Um.." she looked around, not exactly feeling like cleaning someone else's house.
She put one hand inside the pocket of her dress and felt something she had totally forgotten about. The mushroom Bookman the Caterpillar had made her take along. She was actually feeling a bit hungry, so she deciced to take a bite, which ended up being a big mistake. She grew back to her original size, which was way too big for Lavi's house, so her arms, legs and head broke through the ceiling and walls.
Lavi the Rabbit, who hadn't been too far away, noticed the breaking sound and looked back at his house, the breath taken away from his lungs when he saw the monstrosity that was growing out of his home. "A-Allen!" he yelled. A lizard with striking white hair carrying a ladder waddled towards him. "What's wrong, Lavi?" he asked.
"There's a giant girl growing out of my house!!" he yelled, pointing at Sillie's head, as it was the only thing, besides her arms and legs, that was visible outside of the home. Allen looked at where he was pointed and whistled. "That's not good." Lavi flailed around, pushing Allen forward. "No it's not, now get her away from there!"
"How do you suggest I go about that?" Allen asked him, staring at the giant girl. "She's too big to fit through the door or windows." Lavi shoved a bottle with a green substance inside in Allen's hands. "Give her this!" Allen saluted him and waddled towards Lavi's house with his ladder and the little bottle. Positioning the ladder against the side of the house, he climbed all the way up to Sillie's head, opened the bottle and poured the contents into her mouth.
Instantly, Sillie grew small again and was back on the first floor of the house, a few pieces of wood from the ceiling falling down. The Rabbit raced inside his house and peered into her face. "You're not Miranda..." Sillie crossed her arms, glaring at him. "No, my name is Sillie, and I will not be cleaning your house."
"No, you won't," he retorted and grabbed her arm, pulling her along outside, "You're going to have a little meeting with the Queen of Hearts." With Allen's help, the Rabbit was able to drag Sillie with him towards the Queen's castle. The Queen was seated on a luxurious throne, her long, black hair pulled up into a ponytail. Lavi bowed to the Queen and pushed Sillie's head down as well.
"Queen Kanda of Hearts, I hereby request that this girl's wrongdoings will be judged in court!"
Sillie scoffed, pulling away from the Rabbit's grip. "Wrongdoings!? I've done nothing wrong!" The Queen looked down on the two with disgust and she waved Lavi away. "Leave, annoying Rabbit." Lavi seemed annoyed at this but didn't disobey in fear of what might happen if he did.
"Little girl," Queen Kanda went on, staring at Sillie with narrowed eyes, "What is your name and what is your purpose of visiting my kingdom?" Sillie stuck out her tongue at the retreating back of the rabbit before facing the Queen. "My name is Sillie and I have no actual purpose for visiting your kingdom."
Queen Kanda considered this for a bit before whispering something to one of her guards and standing up. "Sillie with no purpose, you shall play a game of crocket with me!" Sillie blinked. She hadn't exactly expected something like this. "A-alright.." she said.
The Queen's idea of a fun game of crocket was hitting little winged, golden balls as hard as you could with a club. Her aim was terribly off, but the little ball seemed to spread its wings and fly towards the goals by itself, even if it meant having to do a complete u-turn. Nobody seemed to want the Queen to lose..
Sillie hit the little golem perfectly and it was heading to the goal when all of a sudden it changed course and bumped into the wall. Kanda laughed at her, her badly aimed shot reaching the goal once more. Sillie pouted. "This is unfair! You are cheating!" she pointed an accusing finger at the Queen. The guards around gasped at her accusation and the Queen glared at her.
"Is that so..?" she asked her, an evil look appearing on her face, "Very well, then... Off with your head!!"
Sillie was lost for words. Off with her head!? What was wrong with this person!? The guards grabbed both of her arms and dragged her away, probably to off her head. "No, wait! Y-you can't do this!!" Sillie screamed, wriggled, trying to get away from the guards. The Queen just laughed.
Out of nowhere, Lavi the Rabbit intercepted the guards and hit them over the head with a larger than normal hammer, making them let go of Sillie. He grabbed her arm and ran away from the other guards who were trying to catch them, deep into Wonderland forest where they lived happily ever after!
Well! Wasn't that a nice story, or what!?
