Kita In Wonderland

Chapter 6 - The Brothers' Story

As Kita continued to fall through darkness, she couldn't help flailing and looking for something to grab. She already lost track of Seyber in the chaos.

To her surprise, her fall suddenly slowed to where she was gently floating down, similar to her first plummet down the rabbit hole. Her blue dress seemed to be helping, acting as a sort of parachute, which was just as humiliating as it was handy.

Kita sighed, "Why am I always falling into strange areas?"

Thankfully, her descent was not nearly as long as the first one. More surprising than that, though, was that she was not in any sort of forest, beach, or even abandoned ruin. Even though it was dark with no lights, she could tell was a small, neat room. The wooden ground was mostly obscured by an elaborately-patterned rug with gold, bronze, and dusky mauve hues. There were some pale red highlights in the mix, too. The walls had narrow indents with arched, pointed tops. In the indents, there were elaborate vases with similar patterns to the rug. Ahead of her, there were two large doors, set in a cutout shaped much like the others.

Kita looked up. She couldn't see where she fell from, anymore. It just looked black.

"This is just as strange as the first fall," Kita murmured. "I don't see Seyber, though."

She reached for the gold knob of the dark wood door, and was glad to see it was unlocked. As she pushed the door open, slowly peeking inside, she was further relieved that there was light on the other side. However, from just one faint glimpse, she could tell there was something very unusual ahead.

Confused, but far from intimidated, Kita swung the door open and stepped inside. The walls were striped gold and yellow, while the ground was composed of several diamond tiles, alternating white, dark blue, and yellow colors. The roof was pointed like a circus tent, with a chandelier hanging from the center. There were giant children's blocks stacked all about, on either side of the door in particular. A giant wooden horse on wheels was in the corner, a jumping rope draped over its neck. In another corner, there was a giant red drum, with a couple of red and green balls in front of it. A life-sized clown figurine was on one of the blocks, with a tea set and table on the ground below it. The entire wall behind Kita, apart from the section with the door, looked like it was built to be part of a massive dollhouse, with several different rooms and life-size versions of toy furniture.

Kita held her breath, looking around. Although there were even more toys that varied in size, spread all over the room, none of them were as big as the behemoth blocks, horse, and drum. Spinning tops, balls, marbles, plushies, puzzle pieces, and the like were all about. As she passed one block, she was even startled to see the head of a massive china doll, previously hidden behind the stack.

"Ugh..." Kita shuddered. "I don't know if this place is cute or terrifying. I guess it reminds me of Mao's room, more than anything. That was the first time I saw any kind of toy."

As she continued looking around, she eventually stumbled across a white teddy bear laying on the ground. It was about the size of her entire torso, and it was wearing a red vest. It almost immediately brought her back to that night, as a little girl, when her sisterly friend broke her out of her cruel father's cabin and brought her to her own room. Kita was terrified of all the foreign objects and colors, until Mao hugged her and handed her a simple, plain teddy bear. That was her favorite object ever since.

"Nostalgia..." Kita sighed, "I still miss her, no matter how comfortable I get with the demons. Although, I will say, bear..." She laughed, adjusting the red vest. "This reminds me of Timbur. It almost feels like you're about to yell at me to get to work."