Hiya! I am Katherine Freundschaft. I am currently in an amazing costume store with one of my best friends in hopes to stylize ourselves. Okay. . . fine we just was to be weirdos who go to school in animal costumes to scare our classmates and get a good laugh with our other friends.

I hold up a pair of black cat ears and tail next to me with my left hand and a pair of chocolate brown rabbit ears with a slightly lighter fluffy tail next to me with my right hand. I compare them to myself in front of the mirror. "Hmmmm . . . what do you two think?" I ask my friend and they turn to look at me.

My amazing friend just went ahead and laughed at my indecision. "Hmph." I said putting my nose in the air. "Hey I was going to be a bunny." My friend Clair said. Clair Morgan is her name and she is one of my best friends and she is super duper adorable. "Yeah, Yeah! You can be a bunny because this isn't a bunny!" She simply gave me a look that said 'oh really?' "It's a hare. I can't decide between a black cat and a brown hair." "Get both." She said simply and I looked at her and agreed happily.

She held up a pair of sleek black ears. "Should I go with a black tail or white tail?" I looked at her and at the same time we said, "Black." We laughed at our unison always agreeing without trying. We bought our animal appendages and walked to the dressing room we have at the store. We come here so often that the workers know us and know that we have a tendency to purchase what we want and change into them before leaving. We are just awesome like that.

I changed into the outfits we bought at the costume store before picking out the animal accessories. I wore a pair of black jeans lined with green thread and a neon green tube top with 'angel' written in cursive black lettering across my chest. I had a tie dye scarf with peace signs randomly on it around my thin neck. I sported a pair of converses which I took the liberty to draw little chibi characters on the toes. My ever-faithful black satchel on my hip and my pocket watch in my pants pocket. My hair cascaded down past my shoulders to mid-back in chocolate colored ringlets. I held the two animal additions in front of me.

Clair wore a white button down shirt with a red vest on top of the button down. Black skinny jeans covered her short legs. She wore black combat boots that had sparkly silver laces. She had a black and white checkered scarf that she stole from my collect of scarfs around her neck. She wore a chain belt that was also taken from my closet. (As you can see we tend to borrow one another's clothes.) Her light brown hair, slightly past her shoulders, with random thin braids thrown in. On her head was a pair of sleek black rabbit ears and on her rear end was a cute fluffy midnight black rabbit tail.

We left the shop and walked down the street and I told her I couldn't decide which to wear. "Wear both!" She declared proudly with her arms in the air. "I would look like a weird hybrid to people!" "Who cares?" I swear I saw three periods appear above my head and a sweat drop display itself on my head. I complied and put both the cat and hare ears and tails on. We spoke about our favorite topics on our way back home.

"Hey, Clair?" I spoke my friends name with curiosity. "Yeah?" "I reread one of my favorite books yesterday." "Which one?" "Alice in Wonderland. I was thinking that it would be interesting if I were to go to Wonderland. Would you go to?" Clair looked at me as if I was a loony. 'Aww well don't I feel loved.' I thought in a sarcastic way. "Well, of course –" She was cut of midsentence as we fell . . . Wait . . . fell?

We . . . we're falling through a random hole in the ground that I am sure wasn't there this morning. I looked at Clair with wide eyes. "I ain't insane right?" She asked me. "Oh, so you realized we are falling down a random hole too?" She nodded at me in confirmation. We looked down the seemingly endless hole and back at each other. "We are most likely going to die falling from this height." I said to her in a nonchalant way. "But this is kind of fun. It's like we are flying!" "I was just thinking that!"

We started laughing and doing weird swim-like movements through the air. We did weird dances too. Eventually we just lie downwards and spoke. I took off my scarf and pocket watch and placed them in my satchel, afraid that the wind from falling would make me lose them. Suddenly I see a bright light at the end. "'bout time! I got bored!" I yelled and Clair agreed with me. We fell into some thorn bushes covered in crimson red roses. I stood up and plucked the thorns out of my skin and sleeves. 'Wait . . . sleeves? I had a tube top! I will deal with that later I have to help Clair.'

I walked over to Clair happy to see that she didn't land in a rose bush and in just a normal, plain old bush. I noticed that her clothes were gone, well not gone per say but different. "C-Clair! Y-Your clothes!" I yell pointing at her new yet cute outfit. She looked confused and then took notice of my change of clothes. I looked at my outfit and gasped.

I wore a solid green tutu dress that reached mid-thigh. 'To short!' I thought angrily but then I realized the bright green and black checkered pattern tights that ended right before my knees. 'Thank God!' I realized that I had a black apron tied in a flimsy bow around my waist, neon green clovers, electric blue diamonds, crimson red hearts, and silver spades dotting the bottom in an irregular pattern. I realized that that the green dress had a sweet heart top that had a black ribbon at the top that weaved its way into a secure bow behind my neck. A green ribbon wound its way up one arm from the wrist to the elbow. My hair still down in ringlets was pulled back by a solid black headband. I noticed that my satchel was still around me and thanked God for that. I realized something and dug through the bag I pulled out the scarf I was wearing earlier. I had remembered I put it away while we were falling so I wouldn't lose it. I wrapped it around my neck to cover myself more up top.

She wore a bright red dress that went to her knees. A black belt that had crimson red hearts and white as snow diamonds circling it around her waist. The tips of the bottom of the dress was white triangle shaped lace with black hearts. She wore knee high socks that had red and white horizontal stripes. Her feet were covered by black mary-janes. It was a halter top with white cloth tipped with the same triangle lace. In the white cloth was red and black heart switching between right side up or upside down. A single black ribbon helt the halter top dress, tied behind her neck. Between the belt and halter top was a wide white diamond and placed inside that diamond was a black heart. Her arms were covered with the red fabric lined with white diamonds. Black fingerless gloves graced her hands. A red bow with a black heart where the knot should be held her hair. Still the same light brown with random thin braids wherever the pleased to be. A black stuffed bunny sat upon her shoulder that seemed to show emotions like a human. The rabbit cocked his head to the side observing me.

I noticed something, "Clair where are your rabbit ears?" "Huh?!" She felt around the top of her head feeling nothing but the bow. She slumped her shoulders forward and streams of tears fell from her closed brown eyes. Then she suddenly opened her eyes and reached forward grabbing my head forcing me to bend downwards for the shorter girl. She looked at the top of my head. "You lost yours too!" I felt the top of my head, "I lost two pairs?! No fair!" I gloomily cried out.

We decided to look for residents of this land so I walked with her down the stone pathway hoping to see some form of human life and not just plant life. We eventually came to an archway made out of hedges and walked through only to see a . . . tea party?

We stared at the residents and I spoke. "Pardon me. We–" I stopped speaking when I got a full view of the people. Two girls were there. One was a beautiful women donned in a black and red gown fit for a queen. She had beautiful violet hair curled perfectly, but I could tell they weren't natural being a girl with natural ringlets myself. The other girl had dirty blonde hair that was straight and wore an outfit that made me think of Alice from Alice in Wonderland.

There was a man in a white suit that I found a bit girlie. 'I already don't like him. He gives off a bad aura.' Next to him was a cute carrot top that was eating carrot cake, a fork still in his mouth. 'Heh, carrot top eating carrot cake. Funny.' I noticed that carrot top donned hare ears I could tell it wasn't a rabbit ears, any animal fanatic would. Beside carrot top were two nearly identical twins. The only distinction was their eye color and uniforms. One twin had a pair of dark blue eyes with a dark blue uniform. The other twin had crimson red eyes and a crimson red uniform.

After the twins was a pink haired boy with cat ears to boot. He wore a black punk outfit that had a skirt and pink and black stockings. 'He can pull that off.' Beside Mr. Cat dude was a man in way to much yellow and had horses around his waist. 'I'll call him Mr. Merry Go-Round.' Next to Mr. Merry Go-Round was an adorable boy who looked afraid and had Dormouse ears. I am an animal fanatic I can tell, though the tail helped. I was tempted to hug the boy.

After him was a man who looked like he rather sit in a cold corner then to be there. He had long navy blue hair. Beside him was a man with an eye patch and a pale face. 'I'll dub thee Sir Pirate!' Beside sir pirate was a man with yellow eyes and a lizard tattoo that made me think of newts for some reason.

After Mr. Newt-Lizard guy was a knight who Mr. Newt-Lizard guy didn't seem to like too much. Can't blame him. That brunette knight smiled way too much and seemed to be on an eternal sugar high. "I don't like that guy, I don't know why but I am going to go with my gut on this.' Beside the knight was an albino man with pure white rabbit ears. I looked at Clair for a split second. 'Oh no. She saw rabbit ears.'

I quickly grabbed her was I saw her nearly bolt at the rabbit man. The white rabbit eared guy was closest to us, not the hare. She struggled to move toward him but I was stronger. I held her back. The rabbit man flinched backwards from her near attack. "Sorry! She really likes rabbits. She saw your ears and well . . . you see."

The twins chuckled and spoke in unison, "The why didn't she go for the cheeky rabbit?" "He isn't a rabbit." "I'm not a rabbit you—" I said at the same time the hare spoke. Everyone, except Clair who is still trying to escape my grasp, turned to look at me. "What?" Everyone said again excluding Clair. "Finally!" The hare spoke than higged me as if I was a miracle worker. I was shocked from the hug and accidentally let Clair go. Of course she glomped Mr. Albino Rabbit who yelped from the surprise attack. "See Peter how do you like it?" The blue dressed girl said.

"What do you mean?" The cat eared boy said. I sighed and looked at Clair. "Those are real animal parts right?" I questioned all the animal-people to which they nodded. The cat man let me feel his ears for proof and he purred lowly in response to which only I could hear along with him.

I walked up to Clair. "Clair release the rabbit man so I can explain using a comparison." "No!" She said in a childish way. "I still wanna hug him!" She said hugging the taller being. The rabbit guy seemed shocked and gave a light blush which I could barely see even being as close as I was. I gave a sigh and dug through my satchel pulling out a chocolate chip cookie. "Clair I have one of the chocolate chip cookies I made yesterday." She looked between the cookie I held teasingly and the rabbit man who I noticed was wearing a red, plaid waistcoat and had a large clock around his waist.

"Can I hug you later?" Clair asked with pleading with large, cute brown eyes. 'Ah, she is trying to guilt trip him.' The man seemed taken off guard and just nodded stiffly. Clair smiled hugely, "Thanks!" She had a big smile and took the cookie from me.

I told the rabbit man to stand by the hare. "First off the body built. A hare has a larger body and is considerably bigger than a rabbit. Hares are taller and considerably more muscled. Also the rabbit has shorter ears than that of a hare. The ears tend to be darker in fur color as well. There are more differences but they are more habitat related."

Everyone stared at me in shock. "H-How do you k-know this?" The cute mouse boy asked me. "Well Mr. Dormouse—" "Kat is super smart! She likes animals so she researches all kinds of stuff about them! She even wanted to be a vet before." I glared at Clair for cutting me off. She just smiles cheekily and continued to nibble away at her cookie.

"C-C-Cat!" The mouse boy cried. I gently grabbed his arm before he tried to run away. "It is a nickname. It is short for my real name." I calmly and soothingly explained noticing that this boy was skittish. "W-What is your real name?" He innocently asked. "Before I give my name away I want to know why we are here." While I said that I stood guard in front of Clair, wanting to protect her from the strangers.

"What do you mean?" The long navy blue haired man asked. I proceeded to explain the falling down the hole. Everyone listened and then explained how we are called foreigners and that they have clocks for hearts. I found that cool and told them that which surprised them and the girl dressed in blue, apparently she found it weird and creepy in a way.

"Nightmare, look into why they are here. Alice has a game already. We need to know why to more foreigners are here." Mr. Pirate Dude nodded. "I am not a Pirate! Stop calling me that!" The man shouted. Clair eeped from the sudden yell. I turned to look at her seeing black bunny ears atop her head. I turned her around and saw a cute black cotton looking tail. "Clair you have rabbit ears and tail!" "Ohhhhh, so that's what happened to them. Suddenly they disappeared. "Aww." She stated sadly. "They came out when you were surprised I wonder when else and why else they would appear."

I felt a hand on my shoulder and felt a weird sensation go through my chest up to my head and tingle down my back. "Well you cat ears appeared when the feminine cat boy touched you." Clair said. "Hey!" The punk cat yelled out in offense. "Well we don't know any of your names." I said in retaliation. To which each and every person responded with their name. I thought of something.

"Hey Mr. Elliot." "You don't have to add the Mister to my name." He said with a blush from not being used to being refered to with respect. "Okay, but could you come here." He walked over to me. "Touch my shoulder or hand or arm." Everyone looked confused. I felt the sensations go in reverse and then go back again. I felt my head and pulled the ear down slowly knowing how sensitive rabbit and hare ears tend to be. I saw a chocolate brown hare ear in front of my face.

Everyone stared at me. "Imma genious! Well, Clair, now we know were my animal ear and tail sets went." I spoke happily. "How do outsiders have animal parts?" Gray spoke calmly while staring at my ears. "Wait, and tail?" This time it was the twins. "Yup! They went to me and circled around and saw my tail resting at the bottom of my tail bone. They grabbed my ears suddenly and pulled down. "Ow!" I yelled out in pain. Suddenly I grabbed their hands and twist them back ripping their hand s from my ears. I flipped the boys over my shoulder.

"Don't you freaking know that hare and rabbit ears are highly sensitive! You treat them with gentle care. It is just the same with cat and mice tails!" "How did you do that?" The two asked in excitement. I ignored them and pet one of my aching ears with bubbled tears in my eyes. Elliot rubbed the other ear in a comforting matter. 'Stupid twins.' I thought.

Welcome to Wonderland

Hey y'all fruity here. New story for me. This is my sixth story and second Heart no Kuni no Alice. I own nothing but Katherine aka Kat. Clair is owned by my friend who is MikuNinja0607.

I did not plan for the first chapter to be this long.

Let me know what you think and there is a plot for this story more than one actually.

Fruity-chan out peace