Pathway to Madness: Chapter 2: Fatal Countdown to Madness. Part 2: It's a mad world out there. Part 1 of 2 Will you, Won't you, Will you, Won't you, Won't you join the dance. · 11:07pm Oct 4th, 2020
Characters in this Chapter:
Lemon Zest
Midnight Sparkle
Pathway to Madness:
Chapter 2: Fatal Countdown to Madness,
Part 2: It's a Mad World out there.
Part 1 of 2: Will You, Won't You, Will You, Won't You, Won't you join the dance?
Written By: The CyberEmperor
Lemon Zest was busy heading back to her apartment after a long day of work. Lemon Zest worked as a singer for the nearby music shop, but what people didn't know is that, before music, Lemon loved to read nursery poems. She loved reading poems such as the Quangle Wangle's Hat, The Language of Cat, The Spider and the Fly, and The Mock Turtle's Song. She especially loved reading the Alice Adventures in Wonderland books, as she would normally go to the library and would usually read many of the wonderland books that were there.
That is until her father found out about what she was doing and since he wanted her to go into the music industry and didn't want her drowning her mind in books, he decided to burn up every wonderland book that she owned. Lemon Zest was devastated after losing her precious books. Her father told her that she needed to get out of her supposed wonderland and face reality. Well, Lemon has seen reality, and it's completely engrossing and horrid. Sometimes she wished she could quit the music business forever and go back to reading the books she used to love so much.
Lemon knew about what had happened to her classmate Indigo, back at the Grand Prix, so she decided that the most logical thing she needed to do was to stay at home and lock all her windows and doors. She knew she had enough food to last her until this incident fades away. But, she will not only soon find out that just because you're at home, doesn't mean that you're safe, but once the laughing girl is done with her, Lemon will realize that Canterlot can become a perfect wonderland.
Lemon Zest opened the door to her apartment room, only to be greeted with a dark room. Lemon thought this was odd since the lights are usually on when she comes home, but even though she couldn't see anything, she could faint buzzing coming from the dining room. She assumed that it was from that old radio she had in her dining room that she used to listen to either listen to the news or listen to classic rock.
Using her phone as a flashlight, she tried to find the door leading to the dining room was, and once she found it, opened the door, revealing nothing but an empty room. Nothing was out of place and her radio was shut off, but she could still hear that buzzing noise. Then she saw a package on the dining room table that was wrapped in purple wrapping paper, like some kind of Christmas present.
"I never ordered any package today, who sent me this?" Lemon Zest thought to herself. She at first didn't want to open the mysterious box, but as her curiosity got the better of her and she decided to open the strange package.
"What is this?" Lemon said curiously as she saw a white mechanical rabbit which was the source of the buzzing. She then saw a red button underneath the rabbit right back paw, and once she pushed the button, the rabbit started to move in a weird motion, almost like it was dancing. The rabbit then started to sing as it said,
“Will you walk a little faster?” said a whiting to a snail.
“There’s a porpoise close behind us, and he’s treading on my tail.
See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance!
They are waiting on the shingle — will you come and join the dance?
Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, will you join the dance?
Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, won’t you join the dance?"
"Th-This is crazy, whose doing this?" Lemon said in fear of what the mechanized rabbit was saying. Then the rabbit stopped singing as it turned to face Lemon, and as it did so, it raised its right paw, and as it put its paw on Lemon's arm, she felt a sharp pain course through her arm, startling her enough to make her drop the rabbit, smashing it to pieces.
After that, her vision started to get blurry, and the room and the room turned to a bright green. As time went on, Lemon saw the walls of the floor of her room start crumbling apart. And then, she saw herself falling and falling and falling as if it was a bottomless pit. Then Lemon saw a light at the bottom of the hole and as she braced for a hard landing, she saw herself sitting in a chair that looked more like a throne room.
She then saw many figures looking at her. The figures were all like characters from one of her wonderland books, some wore rabbit masks, others looked like living playing cards, and the final figure looked was wearing a twisted jester mask. The Jester walked towards Lemon and after taking off its mask, revealed itself to be Midnight Sparkle.
"Welcome Lemon, it's been a while hasn't it?" Midnight said, as one of the Rabbits took her discarded mask and put it on a nearby bookshelf.
"Mmmmmm," That was all Lemon could muster out of her mouth, as she was still groggy because of that drug.
"Let's see, how long has it been, a year, two years, heck I don't know so why am I asking you, hehhehhehhehhehhehheh!" Midnight said while chuckling to herself. "Alright, now with all the fun stuff out of the way, back to business, I guess you are wondering where we are. Well, I looked at your school file, and when it said that you used to enjoy reading "Alice in Wonderland," I decided that we'll all go to an Alice in Wonderland theme park Attraction. Well, there were some guards, They looked so glum, so I put smiles on their faces."
"Mmmm, what a-am I doing here. Are you going to ki-k-kill me?" Lemon said in a tired tone of voice.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA! KILL YOU? I'm not going to kill you. I mean, If I wanted you dead, I would've killed you by now. Oh, some things are worse than death. So the punch-line is, I'm not going to kill you...I'm gonna drive you mad. Get ready to meet your perfect WONDERLAND!" Midnight said as the chair Lemon sat on moved, revealing to be a cart for the attraction.
An intercom above her then said, "Please, keep your arms, legs, and madness inside the vehicle at all times. Now, hang on to your seat Lemon...The show's about to begin." Midnight said as the doors opened up and the ride into the mouth of madness begins.
End of Part 1. Will continue in Part 2: Would not, could not, would not, could not, could not join the dance.
Looks exciting!