The voice stayed for a while. As the platforms began to shake it whispered directions on where to go. Left, down, jump and middle. Moving to where I was told the movement didn't so much as shake my balance. "See I'm helpful. Say my name..." It said trailing off. This time the voice was more solid and I could easily tell that it was male. Everyone was finally on the same platform, yet it still seemed off. "Say it..." The voice echoed again. With a sigh I gave in. Everyone else had a strange looking person and in one's case, a griffin? "Junichi, what in the world do you want?" I ask. Realizing I said his name caused my head to hurt a bit. Before he even appeared I my head throbbed. This was probably due to what I knew was going to come.

The apple on my screen lit up and from what I saw, I knew the pain in my head was only going to get worst. "Fuyuki!" He called wrapping his arms around my shoulders. No matter how irritating I knew my character was, he was somehow comforting to have around. "Yuki-chan, there's a strange looking guy in a cape." He says laughing. With a small sigh I looked up at the figure. Listening to the voice, my opinion of Wonderland only got worst. "Yuki-chan! Did you hear!" Juninchi screams into my ear. "What now?" I asks. "He said wonderland, right? That means it's like a game or somethin' right." He says excited.

Before the rock even started to shatter Junichi was already dragging me up the stairs with his nagging. "Faster, I want to see the fair!" He whines. "It's not a fair, it's a digital world of some kind and we want to leave not stay." I reply. Junichi shakes. "No! If you leave I won't be able to talk to you!" He complains. "I get it please stop." I ask knowing those words will go further with him. He nods, rubs his face into my back, then remains quiet as I walk through the door.

Acting fast Junichi puts his hands over my eyes and slowly releases them so I wasn't blinded by the bright lights. Looking around the area seemed to be a gym? Junichi jumped off and started running around playing with anything he could get his hands on. A found a wall and leaned against it. Looking at the computer it seemed okay, so I just left it at that and tried to enjoy the peace for a bit.

((Okay here are the links for him. He looks like the first one, but will change when Fuyuki is in danger or something.))

http://media.photobucket.com/image/anime+guy/damit-dog/anime/41bea6e23e2aab0e086fc3717d45cf08.jpg?o=348

http://media.photobucket.com/image/anime%20guy/Hitokimi_2009/Anime/boy15.jpg?o=302

What was going on? Just a few seconds ago he had been all alone in this strange world; now there were no more than three boys, one girl, and a number of other people that didn't even look real in his line of vision. He couldn't see how they had been summoned, but he wouldn't have the chance to; before he could prepare himself for the next jump his laptop started shining. Confused, he knelt down and opened it. Nothing seemed different... wait, there was something. A folder labeled "Wonderland", except silver. Right hand shaking, he moved the mouse toward the folder and double-clicked.

There were five files in the folder, all of them in a format he could not recognize. Figuring this had to have something to do with the game, he took a chance and double-clicked on one, expecting the usual "Cannot open this file, look online for software." What he got was most certainly unexpected.

"Hello, Aikurushii."

At this, the anemic child turned his head to see a very familiar nine-tailed fox looking down at him kindly. It was Ran Yakumo, otherwise known as the Extra boss of Touhou 7. "H-hello..." he stammered, blushing deeply. But... he couldn't bring himself to fall in love with a character who didn't exist, even if she was such a kind woman. Well, for now, he just stood up. "Could you... please help me get down to them?" he asked.

Ran said nothing, but instead gave a light smile, before effortlessly picking him up and jumping straight down to ground level, setting him down gently. "Thank you..." he said in an aside to her, before turning to the others. "Um... excuse me..." he stated, though whether anyone heard him or not was completely unknown to him.

As I watched the chaos below, I was shocked to the cat person randomly appear and start chasing the other...was it a female or male? Looks were always so confusing and it was almost impossible to tell with some people. Best not to judge until you talked to them for a bit. A chuckle escaped me when he collided with the other guy, though my eyes widened, surprised to see someone would be dying even before I had gotten to know them. It was amazing to me, how messed up my own mind was. When the bird-lion thing (weren't they called griffins or something like that? I couldn't remember) appeared, flying from under one slab and catch the other guy, I exhaled, not realizing I had held the breath.

"Oi! Don't leap of the ledge you idiots!" I shouted at them, mostly for my own amusement. Already growing bored with what my mind had thrown at me this time, I looked at my iPod screen and checked to see if it was working and yes! It was. I gave a wordless shout of joy as I clicked on my favorite song and started jamming out, only to noticed that there were more picture files than I had remembered downloading, and numbers were my thing, I never forgot them, even the useless ones. Clicking on the spinning dial fast, I opened the first file and looked, shocked, at the face of a character that I had written about years ago, back in junior high when I was still convinced I could be something, a writer. Never before had I seen the face anywhere but in my mind, and a small, bitter smile came to my face as my thumb traced over the lines of it and I whispered, "Flight."

Suddenly the screen lit up brightly and so did the dial, though the light around it spinning. A little freaked out, I held it out at arms length, not wanting to risk breaking my iPod by dropping it. The image of Flight rose out, her whole body, her eyes were closed, but then, once her whole body extended out of it, her eyes snapped open, locking onto mine and she leap free of the light, landing with lithe grace on the floor, spinning to me with fire in her eyes. In a bitter tone, she asked, "Miss me, Michael?"

"Can't say I did," I replied evenly, as if it was natural to talk to a fictional character that hadn't even been published...well for me it was. I had argued with her a lot as I tried to work out her story. She was my brilliant wolf shifter, a warrior princess of long, lost people, and she had an attitude that could rock the world.




((OOC:/ sorry about the uber slow update. I had trouble finding pics I liked so I ended up making them, which is why they are so crappy...also, is it okay that I have Flight as a female? I can use another charrie if that would work better...))

A sigh escaped my lips as it seemed no one was able to answer my question. One, two, three other males and one female, great. One, we were stuck in this weird place; two, my programs were acting a bit weird; and three, the female seemed to be getting chased by what looked like a cat boy. What in the world could go anymore wrong? Not wanting to get involved I sat down with my bag on my lap, making sure my computer was alright. it only took a few more minutes of madness before I opened my laptop again. The strange thing was that none of the battery seemed to be depleting. Whatever this place was, it would keep tec. alive, but limit what could and couldn't be accessed. A few clicks here and there and it very seemed impossible to hack into a the sever or any other sever for that matter.

Finding the situation useless I put my computer away. I closed my bag tight and looked around. Moving the the edge it was only a hop away. WIth one quick movement I moved from my floating rock to one a little higher. I continued to jump from floating platform to platform each time landing softly and evenly on my feet. Landing at what looked like a good height I looked around into the vast landscape. There really was nothing up there. The area seemed to stretch further than my eyes could see, past what seemed to be the horizon. Looking for land there seemed to be something in the distance, but that was way out of jumping distance, even for an olympic jumper. "This is pointless. There is nothing here, and the only other thing is way beyond reach." I mutter to myself. "That's not true." Answered a voice. Looking around it was easy to see no one else said a word. "Not there. You'll know when the time is right. I'll help you. All you have to do is say my name." Echoed the voice before disappearing leaving a lingering feeling of arms around my shoulders.

(Because we need a second female guy.)

With anemia preventing him from hardly leaving the house for fear of danger if he were to pass out unexpectedly, Aiku had lived a reasonably sheltered life. Of course he was home-schooled, where his parents could take care of him and make sure nothing bad happened when he was out cold, but even so, the boy wished to experience life outside.

But he knew what happened when he walked outside. Even when he was young, he was easily mistaken for a girl. Back then, they had come up to the two of them and complimented how cute he looked. Now they held back, though it was clear in their eyes that they wanted to ask him out. When accompanied by his mother, they occasionally did, much to his embarrassment and theirs as well when he had to tell them that he was a boy.

So, Aikurushii's exposure to the outside world was limited to the Internet. But today his relationship with cyberspace would become much more... personal.

"Wonderland... like Lewis Caroll's book?" he breathed out, as he saw the message in his inbox. "Welcome to Wonderland" it said, in bright red letters. Suddenly his computer screen turned blue, and for a moment Aiku had been worried the mail had given him a virus to cause it to BSoD. But... something was different. Usually there was a message, but this screen was all blue. "...Huh...?" he vocalized out loud, tapping the side of the laptop. Suddenly it got brighter, and everything was dark.

The first thing he realized when he could see again was that he was standing on a hard surface. Linoleum, or marble, based on how smooth it was. Looking around, I noticed a number of platforms above me and in front of me. Below me, there were more platforms and what looked to be random 0s and 1s. Regardless he knew that couldn't be a good place to end up. Looking around for another platform that was close enough for him to jump, he found one and took a leap of faith, just managing to hold on by the fingertips. Struggling, he pulled himself up, exhausting himself in the process. Would he really have to get used to dealing with just how easily he could get tired, as he trekked through this... wherever he was?

It was late and most the sane people were already inside, out of the rain, but not me. The rain was soaking through my jacket and I didn't have a hood to pull over my head so that each droplet struck my jet black hair and registered in the back of my mind. It was almost peaceful, but the fast beat music that was pouring from my headphones was anything but and it kept distracting me was I walked down the road. Where was I heading? I wasn't sure, but hey, the worse that could happen was I got even more lost, which was extremely difficult to imagine.

Just as I was getting to the point where I could totally forget myself in the lyrics, my Ipod cut out and my foot froze in the air, midstep. "Hell no!" I hissed, pulling it out of my pocket and looked at the screen, which was totally black. I wanted to cry as I shook it, praying that it would work. I knew that the battery wasn't dead. I had had a full charge only five minutes before when I had turned it on, but now it wasn't turning back on. Suddenly, in a bright red that I didn't even know that my Ipod screen could make, the worlds Welcome to Wonderland appeared, scrolling across. The words stirred the memory of an email I had gotten earlier that evening, but before I could give it serious though, things got a little weird.

Suddenly I was floating in all darkness, the word around me gone, and then my foot touched down on a slab of marble and the world was recreated, with dozens of other platforms floating around me. I noticed one that was with in leaping distance and went for it, moving from platform to platform, convinced that I was lost in my own mind. Insanity had finally set in and I was finally free...or so I thought.

Click, click, click, the sound of keys echoed throughout his whole room. "Fuyuki, get off that laptop of yours and look the door. We're going out to visit your aunt, your than welcome to come." His mother called. Fuyuki looked at his screen and decided it could wait a few minutes. "His mother looked at him shocked, her son even left that room of his. She cleared her throat and looked at her son's silvery-white hair. "As I said, we're going to visit your aunt. Do you want to come?" She asks in a gentler tone. Fuyuki looks up at her and shakes his head. "Didn't think so." She says with a sigh. "There's some money on the table and some food in the refrigerator, try and eat tonight." She says before leaving. Quickly he looks the door and heads back into his room.

Once in the comfort of his space he wakes his computer up and enters in his password. "If only they knew what I actual was doing." He says putting a peice of pockey in his mouth. The typing went on until he was done. He read over the digits, numbers, and symbols once before hitting enter. "Another one done. What's that make? About five?" He asks talking to himself since no one else is in the house. Fuyuki saved his new program and went to see his mail icon jumping. "Mail?" He asks a bit confused. Thinking it might have been something important he clicks on the icon and is directed to his inbox. Looking over the messages he scraps a bunch of them stopping at the newest mail that seems to be from himself. Apple I He reads the information that pops up and figures it was about the time he finished his new program. Not wanting his new program to be anywhere online where hackers could get to it, he opens the mail. His computer screen turned black, darkening his room to an almost pitch black. The only thing that stood out were the letters Welcome to wonderland.

"Wonderland? Like that book, what's his name wrote with all the crazy creatures?" He asks turning to get the book only to turn back and grab his laptop. Sure enough it was frozen like that. With a sigh he closes the screen and puts his bag over his shoulder. Reaching for the computer once more he falls onto a slab of floating marble? What the hell was that doing there? More importantly he puts his computer into his bag so it doesn't get damaged.

Fuyuki looks around and figures the whole place looks like this. He figures it's either a dream or he is going crazy. With straight A's and a perfect academic record, not to mention his computer programing skills, he rules out being crazy. That left dreaming until the block a few meters away from him moved. Judging the distance jumping wasn't impossible to jump, but the nothingness underneath wasn't the greatest net. He figured just staying still would be for the best.

Fuyuki opened his computer to see most of the formats had changed. Things were in files and out of place. His software writing format was still there, but his programs had weird golden areas. "One per file. So five total." He thinks, since there is someone here. He puts his computer away locking it and calls out to the nearest person. "Hey, what kind of place is this?" He asks wanting to know why all his stuff is messed up.

[On the fact my computer won't post any pictures, there is a link to what he looks like. The other charas will appear when they are needed I guess. Hope the post is alright.]

http://media.photobucket.com/image/anime+male/cooliness/Male%20Anime%20Characters/Guy3.jpg?o=280

((OOC:/ it's not sucky. I like it actually. also, we can join in any time now, right?))