The White Rabbit

Down this dead end road

Danny continued to walk forward in to darkening forest, the plants around him becoming sharp thorn bushes. White roses began dotting the briars and Danny dragged himself out if them, standing infront of a big white castle. He walked through the door, coming into a courtyard in what looked to be a rose orchard. Before he could admire them however, the scene flickered to the site of dead briars and thorns as sharp as daggers, but he rubbed his eyes and looked again to find everything as it was before.

'Weird...' Danny thought, continuing on.

He got to the center of the courtyard and found to his surprise a couple of red playing cards, a diamond and a heart he noticed, holding a couple of cans of paint and brushes, painting the white roses a dark red. As he got closer, one of the cards looked over at him and smiled benignly.

"Would you like to help?" It asked.

Danny looked around, "uh, are we allowed to do that?" He replied.

"Of course!" The diamond said heartily, shoving a can of paint and a brush into Danny's hands, "go ahead," the card prodded, pointing to one of the white rose bushes.

Not knowing what else to do and not sure he should ask, Danny nodded and walked over to the bush to begin painting. As he dipped the brush in and mixed it, the paint made a sloshing sound that the raven found strange, but decided to pay no mind as he started painting the roses. A few roses in, he started to notice other things that were off; like the fact that the bucket he was holding was warm, and the paint seemed to have clots in it...wait...

Danny gulped and looked down at the bucket, only it wasn't a bucket, it was...

Danny screamed and threw the severed head away, wiping his hand on his pants and trying hard not to throw up. The one of the cards ran over to him and seen the spilled blood before immediately turning on the raven.

"Look what you've done! Do you realize how much red paint we had to gather up?!"

"Red paint?!" Danny shot back, face twisted in disgust, "that wasn't red paint! That was-"

"The King approaches!"

"Shit!" The diamond cursed before jabbing a finger at Danny's chest, "I'll deal with you later!" It growled before running off.

Danny stood there with his mouth hanging open before he heard rustling and panicked, jumping into some of the hedges to hide and biting back a curse when one of the thorns cut through his pants to his thigh.

A very pale bald man with red irises and yellow scallera walked into the garden, dressed in fine clothes of red and black. A woman was with him, long black hair covering her shoulders and pointed ears with wight inside flicking idly. She had sapphire blue eyes and was wearing a deep blue dress, a fluffy black tail with a white tip dragging on the ground behind her. The woman had a completely blank face, but her eyes sparked in rage and her nose was curled slightly in disgust, whiskers twitching minimally.

"Ah, what a beautiful day to walk in the garden, wouldn't you say Pet?" The man asked whimsically, looking to the woman walking a step behind him and pushing his gold crown with red hearts upright on his head. The woman's nose twitched again as she answered completely emotionless,

"That it is my king."

Danny's eyes widened when he looked through the leaves at the woman, 'is this..?'

The King looked around before he did a double take, leaning down towards one of the roses and brushing a thumb against it, looking at the red stained digit before shouting angrily, "WHO PAINTED MY ROSES RED??!!!"

Danny cringes and covered his ears as the man's voice cracked. He looked out and found himself amazed that the Fox hadn't shown a bit of emotion, not even a grimace. The King looked around with his yellow crooked teeth bared before screaming for the guards. The cards all ran up and got in a single file line, the King slouched and pacing in front of them with a scowl.