[Clover]

Moving farther towads the door Mercutio glanced at Johanna and let out  a small smile.

"Yes princess"

He whispered to himself but then just manged to walk a little before begin attacked by the little furry beast, making an unpleased grunt he held on still to Benvolio, having seen his large dash upon his chest Mercutio didn't wish for it to ache. It had a tendency on doing so when he stopped paying attention to the cats and just to how he felt, which really it wasn't often he sometimes fainted before then.

Opening the door a bit more, so that he could get out with Benvolio in his arms Mercutio made his way out still being nommed on by the little kittens .

"Will you two please stop!"

--

::Clover looked up from his thoughtful moment. Smiling lightly he stopped the run and looked at Leon::

The Queen, is missing...so is one of the Jokers, the other who was vanished lost if most of his powers to wonderland so wonderland had given them to the Hatter, Right?

The Hatter is missing as well, the Hare is too... we have reason to belive they are because the land has gone mad, it is trying to change wonderland...

[Blood Brothers]

Wincing at the roar, Nanashi glanced over at the large cat just before Samir tackled her. Well, that was interesting and definitely telling about the half-elf's personality. That wasn't super important right now, but it was still interesting.

The cat in his arms was squirming and making little, unhappy noises, so he put it down, petting it once all four paws were on the floor. Tenshi would be pouting and whining at him for being mean to any animal so cute and fluffy as this one - even if it was rather big. The tips of its ears had a bit of black fur much like a bobcat, but Nanashi was pretty sure it wasn't that kind. Its long, fluffy tail was another point against the bobcat theory.

It was rather big, though, and the long-haired male wasn't aware of any other breed of cat like that. Then again, he wasn't exactly a cat expert by far. Maybe he'd ask Neko the next time he saw her, just as a tease.

[Spade Siblings]

Silently, Johanna fumed at the rude Jack, stamping her foot a bit to work off the aggression that accompanied their interactions. She shook her head firmly and focused on those closer to her. If she could just get them to help her escape the cage, then she could hurry back to her parents and - and do something.

There was no way that she'd ever willingly marry Clover and she knew that Leon would marry Clover before she did, just because of that silly cat. If the Club Royal was so desperate, then it would have to settle for her little brother because she refused to marry before she became Queen of Spades.

~~~

"She's gone?! Then why haven't you - well, I assume you haven't confronted Nyuriel since you still have that look," Leon stuttered a bit, staring at his friend with wide eyes. If Clover didn't say something, then Nyuriel would continue assuming that all was not well and the cats would continue causing trouble for Benvolio and others. The suffering would continue even in their liberation!

"You've got to communicate this too him, Clover," the blond insisted, expression open, innocent, and determined. He truly and honestly believed that Clover and Nyuriel were meant to be together and it was one of his life goals to make their relationship possible.

~~~

In times like these, his reaction felt like allergies. His breath was short, head spinning, and he could not function normally. This time he had been lucky to have Mercutio there to carry him out of there much like the big brother he used to play.

He was the hero, the rescuer, the reliable one. Now, he was reliable only in that he was deathly afraid of cats.

Nyuriel had utterly destroyed the person he once was.

[Clover]

Mercutio smiled lightly at his friend, taking in a soft breath he patted him.

"Ya know, regardless of how scared you get. You are still my hero."

He nodded, and continued to walk by the time he realized where he was going he was out of the kingdom the two little kittens long gone.

"Y-you are a bit heavy though."

--

Clover blinked then looked down.

"If I knew where the idiot went to I might just tell him exactly what I think."

[blackcat]

Madeline had been standing there deep in thought for a long time, as most of her memories came back to her, when she suddenly realised that she was still holding the kitty in her arms... which was making a lot of noise by now, which was probably to tell her that it wanted to be put down.

'Ah sorry little one', she placed it on the ground and looked around. Mercutio and Benvolio were gone. Well knowing Mercutio he probably had taken Benvolio some place save. She looked around... Well apparently some of the other guests were awake by now. She wondered where the man who was looking for the garden had walked off to.
She turned to the girl in the cage. Somehow that look in her eyes made it clear that she was scheming something.

[S-O-Y]

Oraku was lost in his own mind, his body leaning against the wall lazily.

Im in some place that is much different than Neo-Tokyo, if this is even a place at all. I may be in a memory of some sort that you were telling me about, but unfortunately I do not think this is fake. I have tried to sleep and another day was born like earth does. The moons are different as is the sun, the nature around me is..., he took a second to look around him his eyes widening as he suddenly peered deeper into the trail he had taken from the security of the white domed room. Things were much different yes, and in the most awkward of ways. Flowers of no-name that he knew sat in the bushes lining the trail he took rest on. Faces of beauty and horrid images were placed at the center point of most. Their stems seemed like bodies as did their leaves look like arms. It seemed they were humming a silent tune to themselves almost. A most peculiar thing to watch. He shook his head to rid of the images and closed his eyes focused in thought again. My presence here is not needed. It is like I am a pawn in this mad world, only here as a sacrifice for others to do things in order to get their loved or feared ones. Much talk goes on in this place as well. It seems that there is a war almost between kingdoms. I am not sure what kingdoms these are but if you like I can venture to find out...

He opened his eyes, the voice from before absent in his mind's ear. He sighed a soft sigh and took his back from the wall to only come across something even more awkward. Sitting, laying, and standing were the cats from the room he had just left. Some hiding, some obvious, and others not determined. His eyes widened as he noticed they were all...looking at him. Their tails swished here and there almost in a beckoning to come back to play. He shrugged and walked over to the small gathering of felines and crouched down to them all, some stepping back and others standing their ground as though they were in a battle zone.

"Is there something that you wish for me to do? Why are you all here by chance? Is there something going on?", he asked curiously, his voice coming out a little scratchy, a little creepy, but most of all delicate. He eyed them all waiting for an answer, his gut feeling as though he were a child now wanting animals to talk back to him. He was in another place tho. Who knew what was possible now.

[The Rebels]

She walked out from behind a tree, seeing the man sitting with animals crowding around him. Her hair stayed in her face with her white dress flowing with the wind. She looked like a ghost or a spirit from a far land. She spoke then, a slight soft whisper coming from her pale lips.
"They want to play....i guess....."
She stayed where she stood, looking frail and small.

[Smoke + Mirrors]

Most of the cats had scattered from Babbit when she started attacking and those who hadn't been able to get away fast enough wobbled away once they reclaimed their bearings. Those outside were doing their best to herd the strange one back into the building, but then there was another one suddenly, another one who was not from Wonderland.

Nudging them both toward the building, they strived to keep Clover from going round the bend again since there was no one around to fish him back.

Lt. FluffyTail blinked slowly, noticing that he had been set down and the world hadn't ended yet. The Maine Coon, BigPaws, was staring up at the vampire curiously from his position on the ground. Apparently, they had been set free.

Was it just a delaying tactic?

"(Tell the Second Lieutenant to stand down but keep his guard. Who knows what they're trying to do," the Van cat ordered, eying Madeline distrustfully.

[Blood Brothers]

Amon caught one of the cats, scratching it behind its ears and smiling quite gleefully when it responded positively even if it fought the natural response for a bit. After all of this, the young demon was impressed with their tenacious dedication to their cause as he had started to see it. The cats had an agenda, the entire reason why they had done any of this, and had succeeded in getting that man out of the area.

Apparently, herding cats was near impossible, but cats herding other things was. Forming a cat army was definitely something to look into when he returned home.

The vampire looked down at the big cat, amused to see the cat looking back at him so calmly.

[Spade Siblings]

The feeling of eyes on her drew her attention to the strange girl again, the one that didn't know anything but acted like she knew everything. She had just hopped on top of the cage and reached out to Benvolio as if she were some saint and everyone else, who had been leaving him to his own devices for a reason, was left looking like heartless pigs.

"Did you need something? Perhaps a flagon of common sense? I hear that common sense isn't so common now, especially with commoners such as yourself," Johanna cackled, one arm against her stomach so that her hand was close to her sword and the other in front of her mouth for politeness' sake even when she was being purposefully rude.

~~~

"That's a good thing, right?" Leon giggled, still hanging from his best friend's neck like some awkward yet cute tie. "You'll be gentle and before anyone knows it, there will be green kittens and I'll be Uncle Leon!"

~~~

Blushing, Benvolio flailed, demanding to be put down. Mercutio was just teasing him again, but at least the cats were gone. Safely on his feet, the Jack gave his friend a good solid punch on his arm.

"Once again, everything is great until you speak. I believe that one day someone will command that your tongue be cut out and we will all be better for it," Benvolio grouched, looking around to figure out where he had been taken. From what he could see, they were just on the other side of the border between the Kingdoms of Clubs and Spades, his turf.

[blackcat]

[S-O-Y]

Turning his head at the feeling of something around him, he caught sight of the girl in the white dress. Tilting his head to the right he scrunched his brows together in confusion from the unexpected visitor. She definitely was dressed odd but all together she came off very...slow. Her voice was pure as sound could be, soft and suttle. Smiling at the thought of such kindness he straightened his head and relaxed his face. Standing as the cats gathered around him, one by one they gathered closer edging him towards the domed room's door. Not sure what to do but obey, he stepped quickly towards the door, almost tiptoeing through the cats in the process. Turning around as he did so, he spoke to the girl that had decided the cats were friendly.

"It amuses me to see such intelligence in animals...but you. Where did you come from? Are you a sign of some sort. A messenger by means?", his voice was smooth talked, and full of alluring tone, it being comfortably deep but with a hint of feminine character.

He stood his ground in the door frame where he was now, and waited to see what she would say. He was full alert on her presence now and it pricked at his curious sense so nicely. She was quite pretty, but her hair was in her face an awful bit. If only he could see her eyes, then he would know truly. His ear twitched at the cat fight brewing in the distance behind him, and it sounded like the girl caged, her voice easy to tell from her screams she had emitted earlier, was waiting for the right person to get close to her. A smile spread across his lips. This place is so full of drama..., he thought to himself.

[Samir]

Babbit finaly calmed enough to samir to relaze.. he notice all the cats around them giving him a waerly look. He sighed..
Should have stayed in bed.. still dident understand that vampire.. what the hell did horny mean..
"Babbit.. be a good kittie and dont attack the other kitties." he stare told him no.. So there he layed useig his body wieght and strenght to pin his cat.
Thow that dident last for babbit brought up her rea legs up to samir chest claws coming out.
She was about to shread him.
The one proublem with samir. He felt hardly no pain.
his nervs where deeper under his skin then most. So it was hard for him to know that he had a gash or a scratch. Sometimes he dident feel a broken bone tell his body gives out under him. So the warning babbit was giving him pokeing him with her nail  before she begain kicking was lost to samir.

[Clover]

Clover if anything was a bit stunded at the words it's cute friend spoke. A chuckle scape it's red lips while looking down in an outmost tender look.

"Listen, because many are missing... bad things are happening in wonderland... for one, I am going even more mad every day... As good as that is, we still need them back.."

Clover's voice was in between angered, relief and sad.

---

Mercutio's head more from side to side as he hopped around his friend.

"Well, that would just mean you wouldn't be able to know that I am around you, and it will be easier for me to sneak up on you!"

Mercutio's hands wrapped around his friend, his eyes looked around him.

"We are near your home, lets go have some tea!"

[Spade Siblings]

If she was in a bad mood before, it was absolutely black now.

"As if you could possibly be worthy enough to be considered an enemy," Johanna stated haughtily, cruel laughter bubbling up for only a moment before she clamped down on it. "And I mean everything I say, you little simpleton. You shouldn't assume such things about someone you have no knowledge of, especially a Royal."

~~~

"A~aw, but kittens," Leon whined just for the sake of it. There were so many things - so many things - that needed to be taken care of, to be fixed, but nothing could happen, nothing would ever happen, it seemed.

But Leon kept trying because he would do anything to make his best friend smile.

"So, what's the plan?"

~~~

"My trouble senses aren't damaged, you know," Benvolio pointed out, rolling his eyes but keeping tabs on what his friend was doing. Then he was getting dragged towards the Castle of Spades by a hyper Jack.

"He~ey, that's not a good idea! The King and Queen are upset about their children being missing! All parties and celebrations must be suitably drear or you get thrown into the dungeon!"

[blackcat]

[Blood Brothers]

Ok, so Nanashi was beyond ready to go home by now, what with all the cats and the big one seemingly going nuts. It really didn't help his nerves any that he had Amon to look after, either. There was this heavy feeling that his younger brother was going to murder him when they met next.

Tired of messing with the smaller cats, Amon padded over to the large, stripey one. He crouched down where Samir was pinning Babbit and started patting her head, cooing again as well. The young demon wasn't scared because there was nothing to worry him. All he needed was entertainment and Babbit was perfect to keep him amused and enthralled.

"My nephew is strange," Nanashi murmured to himself as he saw the little one approaching what seemed to him to be a rather dangerous situation. Of course, if No Name had to have a child, whatever resulted would be odd like this.

[Clover]

Clover's heart gave a hard bound causing Clover to shake slightly, they were just a few feet away from the dome. Taking in a breath Clover fell to the ground, hand clutching it tightly.

"Leon, Kittens or not...we..."

Looking up Clover's eyes changed ever so slightly, wonderland was doing it again. It needed to hurry standing without noticing Clover pulled out of the ground a top hat, green it was with many other 'things' upon it, placing it on it's head Clover took in a deep breath.

"Must I say it.... so many times... for they do not ever listen, perhaps a cup upon a mail to the lady in the blue dragon would work better? We must hurry, I care not to start a tea party with idiots"

---

Mercutio shuttered

"Oh.... um.. Benv my man... feel that think the hatter is back? is faint perhaps he is back in the kingdom of hearts?"

Merutio clapped his hands.

"Maybe we can ask for Leon back!"

[Spade Siblings]

"There you go again, making assumptions, but at least you've shown your true self," Johanna stated confidently, eyes having narrowed at the other girl when the change started. The one who had played the saint was revealed as a cold-blooded killer, worthy of even her interest.

"And on the subject of being rescued, I need no one," she pronounced, slipping a lock pick from one of the bows on her dress and approaching the lock. Normally, she didn't allow anyone to see this part of her escape, but just this once she would prove to this girl who was so much like her that she could hold her own. Slipping the pick into the lock, Johanna worked the gears around until there was a satisfying click and the door to her cage inched open. The Princess of Spades pushed open the door properly with a smirk, hiding her lock pick once more and standing outside the cage proudly.

"Now, excuse me, but I must go reassure my parents that I am perfectly alright." With a slight nod to Madeline, the brunette headed for the door and secretly hoping to not run into anyone who knew that she was supposed to be locked up.

Then something just outside the dome shifted and changed. Whomever was out there now was now unpredictably dangerous and Johanna was out of place.

Whirling around and scowling for all she was worth, Johanna rushed back over to the thrice-damned cage, grabbing Madeline's arm on the way, and dragged her into the cage behind her. She shut the door with an ominously clang just as the doors to the dome swung open.

~~~

Leon paled and let go, dropping to his feet in front of his changed friend. The person standing in front of him was not Clover but what his mind had automatically labeled as the Green Hatter.

"U~umm," he mumbled, wondering if he should mention something only Clover would know or start mentioning things that the Hatter would like so as to distract him from the fact that Leon was a Royal.

~~~

Benvolio huffed at his easily distracted fellow Jack, rolling his eyes. Didn't Mercutio know his directions?

"Even if it was really the Hatter returning, then he's most definitely not in the Kingdom of Hearts which is that way," the yellow-eyed Jack pointed to his right. "The feeling we have is coming from that direction."

It took a long moment for that to sink in, but when it did they were understandably horrified.

"The Hatter's in the Kingdom of Clubs? But Johanna's there!"

[Samir]

Samir sighed as the small child came over to pat babbit  who still seemed inraged but now starting to behave.
Anouther mint of kind loving pets babbit begain relaxing and of coures fallwed by her loud ground shaking purr that was samir que to get off letting his larg cat friend roll over.
"let us go outside away from..too gett freah air. Do you want to ride Babbit out Amon?

[Blood Brothers]

Amon looked up very seriously at the half-elf, hand still scratching under her chin. If his memory served him correctly (which it did), then they were not to leave the dome for their own safety. So far, they were all safe and taken care of, but with more people leaving Amon could not be sure.

"We can't go out," he stated shortly in a level voice.

Watching the two girls squabble, Nanashi found himself confused. First, they were putting each other down. Then, the girl in the cage escaped and seemed to be heading for the hills before screeching to a stop, turning 180 degrees, and fleeing back to her cage and taking the other girl with her.

With the amount of threat Miss Madeline held, the vampire didn't think that Miss Johanna would go anywhere near her, much less grab her arm and lock themselves in. The way the brunette was watching the doors, however, spoke of insanity or wariness. So far, the girl had not seemed outright crazy.

If she was a good danger indicator, then -

His stomach complained loudly, posture crumbling as he hunched in an attempt to feel better. The hunger pains were hitting him hard since he had needed so much to attain equilibrium in his system after living on blood wine.

Dear Lucifer, he needed blood. It was too bad that his boss was nowhere around since that would definitely make looking after Amon much easier.

[S-O-Y]

Oraku stared blankly at the girl in the shrubbery. She had stayed quite for two long and the cats had managed to drag him back in. Looking around at the mess of what was to him what they called socializing. It was complete chaos. Kids walking around, people in cages, then being released and then thrown back in. Giant cats and herds of cats as well. He was very out of place and he felt it. His soul was telling him. He would soon have to leave, this was a little too much for him at the moment. Looking around he found a white chair to sit in beside a white table. Finding the seat comfortable, he sat upon it and watched the room silently, keeping a look out on the latest of what was yet to happen.

While he did that though he began to think ideas of technical detail.

They say this world is mad. I truly see that, but what I see most of is this....insanity. Complete...insanity. Neither in low doses or high doses, for technically there are NO doses. In this world there are no limits. Just laws. Plain and simple. I myself do not like it for  I like Law and Boundaries. They make things so much better.

He sighed as he placed his chin on his hand, his arm's elbow now seated upon the armrest of the chair. Crossing his legs, he looked like a statue, his skin oddly lightening with the white walls around him. He was becoming brighter...

[Samir]

Samir blinked looking as if he had forgotten that detail.. he sighed kicking babbit into motion  guiding her to the door in a slow pace. " we are not leaving, im just going to take Babbit outside before she tries to murder anyone.." samir was true to his word, once outside samir had move the cat to the left out of the path of the door and had babbit lay down, taking this moment to groom his feline. A wire brush and some clipper to get at her nails.
If the small demon child was with him hed give the child the brush showing him how to use it on her before letting him set to work.
Babbit being away from all the noes and people relaxed almost instantly.

[blackcat]

[Clover]

Clover smiled a wide smile which was not his own his hand seem to be holding something but air was what surround it. Well then let us go forth and find what has happened with this country of mine, where the thoughts running through it's... wait his head? Clover was becoming confused and a bit terrifide of the thoughts that were running through it. Half of him wished it dead while the other was just fine.

"Lets go then..."

Turning the voice was dark, if anyone was missing there would be hell to pay.

----

Mercutio blinked a few times thinking, processing what the other jack had said. Eyes slowly widen while one had held on to the other's hand.

"I hope you like running, because we are going to have to run up a tower if the is the case."

Mercutio spoke as he ran, his feet were going to be killing him when he got to the 'dome' but it would be much worth it.