Elsewhere, a dark portal had opened up and Nash stumbled out of it. The teenager yelled in surprise as he tripped on his feet and he landed on his stomach in the grass.

He winced and opened his eyes and slowly pushed himself up, glancing around at his new surroundings. Nash could see several buildings nearby, but they didn't look anything like the kinds back at home.

"Aw, come on! Where am I now?!" he groaned out loud.

In the Gummi Ship, Anne was resting in her chair with her headphones once again over her ears. That fight with the Harpy and that swarm was rough, so they would need this rest. Her eyes were closed as she tried to relax.

Chase, on the other hand, was blabbering away about the Heartless they faced. "That Harpy was so intense! I thought you'd only see something that ugly in a nightmare or an anime." He was saying. "And that swarm! It was like a living wave. If only I had a surfboard. I would've been hanging ten on it."

Jason was covering his ears in annoyance. He was tired and did not want to listen to this. "Anyone have earplugs?" he asked. "Nope." Clair replied casually as she kept reading out of one of the books she was given. Jason groaned at this and slumped down in his seat.

"And the way that Sora just bounced off the walls was SWEET!" Chase continued. Jason felt like grabbing one of Clair's books and banging his head against it. "Someone make him shut up before I toss him out the airlock!" he snapped. Dylan glared at him for that. "What? He was annoying me!" Jason defended. "You throw my brother out of an airlock and I'll give you a showdown." Dylan scowled.

Jason scoffed. "I'd like to see you try."

Dylan got out of his seat. "Then let's go. You and me."

"Guys, no..." Sora tried to calm things down. "Stay out of this." Jason got to his feet, but Riku got between them. "No fighting!"

"He started it!"

"We are a team, so you'll have to learn to get along, whether you like it or not!"

Jason just humphed and looked away. Clair looked up from her book casually. "Jace, don't be rude."

Her cousin was about to reply, but was cut off by the monitor beeping. Everyone looked at it, except for Anne. She was still into her music as she nodded her head along to the music that flowed into her ears. Donald looked at it, then smiled. "New world coming up, guys!" he annouced to the group as the mage piloted the Gummi Ship towards the world. "Do you know which world it is?" Riku questioned. Donald checked the monitor again, then groaned. "It's Wonderland..."

Clair rose an eyebrow, closing her book and setting it back in her bag. "Wonderland?" she questioned. Sora glanced over his shoulder at the teenager as he headed towards the Gummi Ship's exit. "It's a really confusing world." he explained. Anne was unaware of the group about to leave, as she was still mouthing the words along to the song. Clair seemed to notice and nudged Anne, gaining her attention. "Hm?" Anne asked as she took her headphones off her ears.

"We've landed on a new world, apparently." Clair said. "Let me warn you, it's weird." Sora added as Anne got out of her seat.

"Because a talking duck and dog thing and fighting shadow monsters with giant keys is perfectly normal." Jason commented sarcastically.

Clair rolled her eyes at her cousin as they headed to the platform while it slowly opened up. Kairi was the first to step out with the others following them, but Anne paused as she looked down and saw... that there was no ground below them.

"Aw, not again...!" Donald quacked before the group plummeted downwards screaming. Anne shut her eyes tightly, thinking they were about to die, when they suddenly started to float downwards gently. "Huh...?" Anne looked around with fear. "W-What's going on?!"

"We're floating!" Chase answered as he did a back flip.

Kairi had been the first to fall. "Falling off a tree is nothing compared to this." she commented. There were many strange things they saw on their way down. They passed several pieces of furniture floating in the air, including a mirror that showed their reflections going in the opposite direction, much to their confusion. Clair pulled a book off a bookshelf that levitated past her, but it had only pictures in it. Jason ended up floating upside down as he looked at a picture of something that happened to be upside down as well.

"Could someone let me know when the weirdness en-ow!" He ended up getting smacked on his head by a lamp. "You okay, Jace?" Clair asked, letting go of the book. Jason groaned quietly. "Yeah, I'm good. And don't call me that!"

Clair just smiled at her cousin's reaction. Goofy relaxed and folded his arms behind his head as if he was on a bed. "I can't decide if I want gravity normal or not." Anne spoke up as she tried not to look down. Riku crossed his arms as he glanced up at the items floating ahead. This was... probably one of the strangest things he's seen so far. Lea crossed his legs and relaxed, enjoying the slow ride down. Dylan, however, ended up floating around in somersaults. "I think I'm gonna be sick..." Dylan groaned out. "I can't stop spinning!"

Suddenly, the gravity appeared to come back on as they landed on the floor with a thud. Most of them grunted upon landing. Chase had ended up landing atop his brother. "Chase, get off me!" Dylan groaned as the two struggled to get up. Anne tried to get back up, but something bounced off her head, forcing her back down. "Ow!"

It also bounced off of Jason and Donald's heads before running off. "Oh my fur and whiskers! I'm late, I'm late, I'm late!"

Much to their surprise, they saw a white rabbit in a red jacket over a yellow waistcoat with gray pants hopping away. "What the..." Jason trailed off. The rabbit scurried down a hall frantically, paying no attention to the group in a dog pile.

"... What just happened?" Anne asked after a moment, voicing everyone's thoughts. Sora managed to sit up. "Was that the White Rabbit?" he questioned. "What's he late for this time?" Donald wondered out loud as he crawled out from under Goofy. "Let's follow him!" Goofy said. Chase was about to ask why, but Sora had already gotten up and was in the lead. "Huh? W-Wait up!" Dylan exclaimed as the rest of the group scrambled up to their feet, running after the red, gray, and black clad teen.

However, they screeched to a halt when they came across a door at the end of the hallway. Sora opened the door, but paused as he saw another one. "Huh...?" He opened this door, but yet again, there was another door, but smaller than the last one. Didn't this happen the last time he was here? "You have got to be kidding me." Jason frowned with annoyance. Sora opened the doors one by one, each revealed to be smaller than the last, until it finally revealed a small, square door big enough to squeeze through. Kairi just stared with an eyebrow raised in confusion, but Sora got down on all fours and crawled through it, managing to get through.

He looked around and saw the same light purple and pink walls and checkered floor. One one side was an empty fireplace and by the wall opposite of it, it had two red chairs propped against it. The most notible thing in the room was a white table with a red bottle and a blue bottle on it. He knelt down and peered through the doorway. "It's good, guys! You can come in."

"You expect us to fit in that?" Jason asked. Anne rolled her eyes before she walked past him, got down on all fours, and started to crawl through the doorway. She had a bit of difficulty, though, as she was not used to crawling through this as Sora was. Sora helped her through and back up to her feet. She glanced around the bizarre room with confusion. As she did, Jason started to crawl through the small door. He had a bit of trouble though, due to the mini-sized door. "Need help?" Anne smirked.

"No." Jason scoffed as he attempted to pull himself out. "You sure?" Anne smirked again. "Yes, I'm sure!" Jason struggled to get himself through the tiny frame.

On the other side, Chase was struggling to keep a straight face. "Looks like you're stuck." He dodged a kick from the teenager's boot.

Clair shook her head and approached her cousin. "Jason, you're stuck." she deadpanned.

"I am not!" Jason insisted as he struggled. Clair sighed before she placed her foot on his butt and began pushing.

"Ow! What are you doing?!"

"Trying to get you through!" She kept pushing her cousin, but to no avail.

Chase stood watching, failing to keep himself from laughing. However, when he looked at his brother, a light bulb went off in his head. Dylan frowned when he saw the expression on his face. "What are you thinking about?"

"Bro, I need to borrow this real quick." Chase ran and pulled the sword from its sheath. Dylan tried to grab it back, but Chase was too fast. He approached Jason and poked him with the end of the blade.

"YEOW!" That did the trick. The energy Jason got from being poked was enough to pull himself through the door. Anne burst into laughter at the sight of Jason hopping up to his feet after that.

"WHO DID THAT?! WHO DID THAT?!"

Clair squirmed through the door next. "This is a tight space..." she commented as Sora helped her out. Dylan passed his sword through to make passing through the door easier. Jason glared at him as he came through. Dylan merely shrugged. "Don't glare at me."

Chase pulled himself through next. He paled when he saw Jason's expression. "It worked, didn't it?"

"THAT WAS YOU?!" Jason exclaimed while Kairi pulled herself through next.

"... well, at least it got you through, right?" Chase smiled sheepishly. Jason just grumbled while Lea pulled himself through the door next. The pyro looked at the door. "That thing is tiny."

"I forgot how small it was..." Donald commented while Goofy crawled through next, but he got stuck. "Uh oh... help?"

Sora, Kairi, and Dylan each took his hands and together, they pulled him through. Clair looked around. "So where'd the rabbit go?"

"Probably through that door." Dylan pointed to the door on the other side of the room.

Jason groaned at the sight of it. "Let's just get this over with." he said as he walked over to it and grabbed the doorknob.

"D'OH!" A sudden cry of pain pierced the air. The five new ones yelled in surprise and Jason let go of the doorknob. It was the doorknob that yelled!

Clair stuttered for words. She never met a doorknob that talked back, and had no idea what to say. What ended up coming out of her mouth was, "W-We're sorry. We didn't mean to hurt you..."

"Quite all right." The Doorknob said. "You gave me quite a turn." The Doorknob then smiled. "Quite a good one eh? Doorknob? Turn? Well, one good turn deserves another. What can I do for you?"

"Well... could you let us through?" Chase questioned. "We saw a white rabbit go this way."

The Doorknob opened his mouth. Anne peeked through it. "There he is!" she noted. The White Rabbit was hopping away through what appeared to be a forest.

"Where could he be off to this time?" Donald questioned as he peered through it as well. "Does it matter?" Jason asked.

Dylan ignored Jason's comment. "Can you let us through?"

"Sorry. You're much too big. Simply impassible."

"You mean impossible." Kairi corrected the Doorknob.

"No, impassible. Nothing's impossible." the Doorknob countered. "Can't we just crawl through?" Chase inquired him. "Why don't you try the bottle on the table?" the Doorknob sugggested, gesturing to the table. They all looked back, seeing the two bottles on the table. "Which one?" Kairi questioned. "Read the directions and immediately you'll be directed in the right direction." The Doorknob instructed.

Clair picked one up. "It just says 'Drink Me.'"

Riku looked at the bottle. "Wait, wait, wait. You want us to drink out of a random bottle?" Anne asked suspiciously. "Yeah. What if it's poison?" Chase asked. Jason crossed his arms before he took the bottle and examined it for a moment before he drank it. "Hmm..."

"What is it?" Clair asked.

"Tastes like... I don't know, but it's interesting."

Clair then took a sip. "Tastes like a mixture of cherry tart, custard, pineapple... a little bit of ice cream... roast turkey... whoa!"

Much to Anne, Chase, and Dylan's shock, Jason and Clair SHRUNK!

"What happened?!" Jason asked in horror as he looked up at the group.

The Doorknob laughed. "You almost went out like a light."

Anne screamed and jumped away. "THEY SHRANK!"

"That's how we're going to get through that door?" Kairi asked, trying to get over the surprise. "Yep!" Sora replied as he took the bottle. Anne shook her head. "Oh no. NO WAY I'm drinkin' that!"

Sora just shrugged as he took a sip. "Suit yourself." he told her before he shrank down to the same size as Clair and Jason. Anne just stared in shock as she simply stood there. Chase shrugged and took the bottle next. "Cheers." he said as he drunk from it. A few seconds later, he shrunk down as well. Thankfully, their clothes shrank down with them. Kairi took the bottle and shrunk down next. Lea followed shortly after, as well as Riku. Dylan took it next. "It'll be okay." Dylan assured Anne as he drank and grew smaller. Goofy and Donald drank after him and they shrank down. Anne looked at the group, then at the bottle, then let out a sigh. "I'm gonna regret this, I know it..." she muttered before taking a sip from it.

She rose an eyebrow. It tasted... interesting. Like how Clair described. She didn't even notice she was shrinking, but when she did, she noticed the table getting higher. "WHOA!"

"There you go! Now you're the right size!" the Doorknob said as if this happened every day. Anne walked over and tried to open it, but the door remained firmly shut. "Why won't you open?"

"Oops. I forgot to tell you. I'm locked!"

"You might've mentioned that a bit sooner!" Jason said.

Donald groaned. "Oh, come on!"

"Why didn't you tell us?!" Lea asked. Jason growled with annoyance.

"Forgive me, but I'm quite forgetful. However, there is another door your size that way." the Doorknob gestured to a doorway nearby. "Why didn't you tell us that before?!" Jason asked.

"You didn't ask." the Doorknob replied simply before he yawned. Sora groaned and shook his head. "Come on, guys... this happened last time we were here. We need to go through that door." Sora pointed to the one the Doorknob mentioned. "Why?" Chase questioned.

"It's the only way to get in right now." Sora replied as he headed towards the doorway. The group exchanged looks before they followed him. When they exited, they were rather surprised to find a bright blue sky, as well as a clearing with hedges and heart shaped arches that led to many different directions around them. "Well, this seems familiar." Sora commented with a smile as he looked around. Dylan was surprised at the area around them. First, the room, and now this?

Up ahead, they saw the White Rabbit checking his golden watch. His eyes widened and he let out a yelp. "Oh my fur and whiskers! I'm so very late! She'll have my head!" he panicked before running through one of the arches. "There he is!" Donald pointed at the direction he went. "Let's follow him!"

"Why?" Jason questioned.

"Well, there might be something important at wherever he's heading off to!" Sora replied without missing a beat before he headed towards the arch. "Huh? Sora, wait up!" Kairi called as she and the rest ran after the eager teen.

Surprisingly, after they headed through the tunnel like arch, they found themselves in some sort of forest with oddly shaped trees, strange looking flowers, and large mushrooms surrounding them. However, there was no sight of the White Rabbit anywhere.

"Any more bright ideas?" Jason asked Sora with a frown. "Play leapfrog on the lily pads?" Chase joked, looking at some lily pads. Dylan and Anne elbowed him for that. Just then, several Heartless materialized in front of them, gaining their attention. "Looks like we got some company!" Sora warned as he summoned his Keyblade.

Jason got his Keyblade ready as well. "They don't look so tough..." he declared. Right after he said that, he got attacked by one of them. "GAH!" he exclaimed, stumbling back. Clair got her Keyblade ready and quickly fired a Fire spell at a Blue Rhapsody.

It immediately was destroyed, releasing the heart.

Dylan unsheathed his sword. "Chase... think you can make a distraction?"

Chase grinned. "You know me, bro." he replied before he sped off. Moments later, a Soldier Heartless was kicked forward by a blur. "Eat this!" Dylan slashed at it with his sword, unknowningly adding a bit of lightning to the attack and electrocuting the Heartless. It, too, vanished into darkness as the heart was freed and floated away.

Jason charged at a Large Body and attacked it, only for his Keyblade to bounce off an invisible shield. It was then he remembered that its weak spot was behind it. However, the Large Body still ran him over. He was sent tumbling backwards into Anne and they both landed on the ground. "I hate that thing!" Jason groaned. "So do I." Anne grumbled as it charged again. Anne and Jason dived out of the way and the Large Body crashed into a tree instead. "HA!" Jason smirked before he ran behind it and slashed at its back. That did quite a bit of damage to it. Riku finished it off with a Fira and the heart was released, but noticed Clair was surrounded by Blue Rhapsodies.

Clair's eyes widened as she dodged a blizzard attack. Another one, a Yellow Opera, floated towards her as it attempted to attack her with a Thunder attack. "No, you don't!" Lea slashed at it, causing it to burn. The others then rushed in to help Clair. "Back off!" Jason growled as he slashed through a Blue Rhapsody. Anne ended up facing down a Red Nocturne. Trying to focus, she shot a Blizzard attack at the floating Heartless, effectively freezing it. Anne sliced through it, destroying it and releasing another heart.

However, there were still several left. Goofy threw his shield at a few, dealing a bit of damage. Kairi also attacked one, finsihing it off. Anne also jabbed her Keyblade into one, destroying a Blue Rhapsody.

Clair then fired a Plasma Bolt, but unfortunately, it hit a Yellow Opera and it surged with electricity shortly after. "Uh... I think that's bad!" Anne warned Clair. However, the Yellow Opera sent out a powerful thunder spell. This time, the lightning was much stronger and the rest cried out in pain as they were hit. Donald cringed and casted Cure on the group and himself. "Don't use electricity on the yellow ones! Got it memorized?!" Lea called.

"Got it!" Anne sliced through one. Clair shot a Fire spell at the Yellow Opera, hitting it with the flames and burning it. She sliced through it once it was immobilized and destroyed it. Goofy then rammed his shield into one of the last Yellow Operas, destroying it. "Take that!" he exclaimed.

Donald finished off the last Yellow Opera with a Fire spell. Lea shot a fireball from the tip of his Keyblade at a Blue Rhapsody, burning the ice using Heartless. It was then Jason noticed two green Heartless the same shape as the Nocturnes, Rhaposdies, and Operas appear and begin to float around the remaining Heartless. Chase's jaw dropped when he saw the other Heartless being healed. "You've got to be kidding me."

"Green Requiems!" Donald warned them. "This kind can heal other Heartless!"

"Then we'll have to take out the green ones first." Dylan said before charging at one of the Green Requiems. He slashed at it, but it floated out of the way. Kairi attempted to attack, but the Heartless floated away, as if to taunt them. Riku did a dodge roll before he bounced off a tree with Flowmotion, sneaking up on the Green Requiem and attacked it from behind. The Heartless shuddered a bit before vanishing in a dark purple and black cloud with a heart floating out of it. "One down!"

Anne jumped up and attempted to swipe at the remaining Green Requiem, but it floated out of her reach. However, it made the mistake of floating towards Jason with its back turned. Jason slashed it from behind three times, effectively destroying it. Now, there were only three Heartless left.

Lea quickly dispatched a Blue Rhapsody with ease. A Soldier moved around erratically as it attempted to kick Chase, but Chase sped out of the way. "Missed me!" he taunted before he kicked it in the back where it was vunerable. The Soldier stumbled forward and nearly fell on its face, but Dylan slashed at it twice before finishing it off by bringing his sword down on its body. It twitched with electricity surrounding it before he disappeared into a dark cloud.

Sora snuck up behind a Red Nocturne, slashing at it twice. "It's over!" he exclaimed before shooting a Blizzard spell at it, freezing it in a block of ice. The teen sliced through it, finishing the last Heartless in the area off.

Seeing there were none left, the group panted slightly. "Is... is that the last of them?" Dylan questioned as he hunched over while resting.

"I... think so." Goofy replied.

"There was... so many of them..." Dylan added. "There will be more to come." Riku warned them as they recovered. "You guys good?" Sora questioned. Chase gave a thumbs up. "Yeah, let's get movin'." he replied.

The group headed down a path that led out of the clearing, but they paused seeing several paths leading off in different directions. There were many signs nailed to the trees pointing random ways, making the group stop to examine them. They read 'this way', 'that way', 'up', 'down', 'left', 'right', 'yonder', and so on.

"Great..." Anne deadpanned, placing a hand on her hip. "Which way?"

Sora glanced around the area. "Um... hehe, no clue."

Jason frowned and crossed his arms. Before anyone could say anything else, the sound of singing filled the air. However, it seemed to come from all directions around the group.

"... twas brillig and the slithy todes

Did gyre and gymble in the wabe

All mimsy were the borogoves

And the mome raths out grabe..."

The fighters looked around for the source of the singing. Just then, Clair let out a scream and jumped. "Up in that tree!"

Anne, Kairi, and Chase looked in the direction she was pointing and they screamed as well. Above a branch was a wide grin hovering in middair with no face. Sora jumped a little, but then slowly relaxed when he recognized just who the grin belonged to. "It's the Cheshire Cat..." he noted.

Much to the rest of the group's surprise, a pink and purple cat slowly appeared out of thin air with the smile attached to his face.

Dylan's jaw dropped. "Did... did that cat just pop out of nowhere?!" he asked incredulously. "Why, yes I did!" the Cheshire Cat replied in a matter-of-fact tone. Donald groaned and shook his head. "Aw, not him again..." he muttered to himself. "Hello to you, too." Cheshire Cat grinned as he used his tail to take the top of his head off like a hat, which creeped most of them out.

"Could you not do that? Please?" Chase requested. "You'll give me nightmares."

"Oh, no I won't." The Cheshire Cat grinned. "I don't have any to give."

"Who or what is that?!" Anne asked. "Oh, it's the Cheshire Cat." Goofy replied. "He's pretty weird." Sora told her as the cat then resumed his strange song as he wiped his tail in front of him as he started to disappear. "Hey, where are you going?" Riku asked, getting him to stop.

"Where I want to go." the Cheshire Cat replied.

"Have you seen anything suspicious?" Riku questioned.

"That depends on who or what you are suspicious of. Do you know?"

"We... don't know." Sora admitted. "Then I haven't seen anything suspicious." the grinning cat told them. "But if you want to search, I suggest you go that way." he said as he pointed in two different directions. "Which way's right?" Anne asked.

"Maybe both ways are wrong." the Cheshire Cat replied with a smile. "You're not making any sense." Dylan deadpanned. The Cheshire Cat just grinned. "Any sense is no sense here." he told them.

"You'd better start making sense or I'll..." Jason started.

The Cheshire Cat suddenly appeared on his head. "You'll what?" he questioned.

"GAH!"

Jason tried to grab him, but the cat suddenly vanished and he ended up hitting himself in the face. The cat reappeared on Anne's shoulder and tried to pick up her headphones. "Very interesting... mind if I take them?"

She jumped with surprise. "Get off me! Don't touch my headphones!" Anne exclaimed as she tried to swipe him off, only for the Cheshire Cat to leap off and disappear. He appeared on Clair's shoulder, causing her to yelp in surprise and try to get him off before he vanished again. Footprints then appeared around Anne in a strange fashion as they could hear the Cat humming his strange song again. The group's eyes widened as they wondered how that was even possible while the Cheshire Cat leapt up and reappeared on a tree. "Oh, by the way, if you'd really like to know... he went that way."

"Who?" Donald questioned.

"The White Rabbit." the Cheshie Cat replied.

"He did?" Goofy asked.

"Did what?" the Cheshire Cat smirked.

"Went that way." Lea said.

"Who did?"

"The White Rabbit!" Anne stated with a bit of annoyance.

"What rabbit?" the Cheshire Cat asked as he used his paws as hands to shrug while he folded his front paws behind his head. Jason growled. "The one you were just telling us about, you crazy furball!"

The cat then casually took his head off his body and stood on it like a circus ball. "Can you stand on your head?" he asked them randomly. Anne grabbed her mouth while Chase ran off. Clair let out a yell of shock as Dylan had a disgusted expression. Lea looked like he was ready to knock himself out at that. Riku just had a disturbed expression. "I don't think I can get that image out of my head anytime soon." Dylan muttered. Chase then came back wiping his mouth. However, one look at the Cheshire Cat made him run off again.

The Cheshire Cat casually put his head back in place before appearing on Dylan's shoulder leaning on his head. Dylan tried to swipe him off, only for him to vanish and reappear by Donald. Donald tried to hit him with his staff, only for the cat to disappear. Anne was beginning to grow annoyed at this. "Will you stop it?!" she snapped. The Cheshire Cat then casually got back up into the tree. "Well, if I were looking for a White Rabbit, perhaps I'd ask the Mad Hatter."

"Mad Hatter?" Anne asked. Sora just shrugged. "Never heard of him."

"He's simply MAD!" the Cheshire Cat laughed.

"Yeah, I'm not okay with going around crazy folk. So, bye." Lea tried to leave. "There's always the March Hare in that direction." The Cheshire Cat pointed another way. "Of course, he's also mad." he added.

Chase gulped. "Is there anywhere in Wonderland we can go where the people aren't crazy?"

"Nope. Mostly everyone here's mad." the cat grinned. "Well, that's just great." Dylan muttered, shaking his head. "Come on." Jason grumbled. "Let's just get out of here."

"I'm with you." Anne muttered.

They both looked back, but there were paths going everywhere. "Uh... on second thought..."

"Which way to the Mad Hatter's?" Kairi questioned.

"In that direction." The Cheshire Cat replied before he vanished and appeared on Anne's head with a wide grin and mischievous look. Anne's eye twitched before she tried to snatch him, but he was too fast and disappeared once again. Anne groaned. "Come on, let's go..." she muttered as she tried to leave, but something stopped her. She looked down and saw the Cheshire Cat holding her ankles in place looking up at her with a teasing grin.

"YOU LITTLE TROLL!" she snapped.

Anne lunged down and tried to grab him, but the cat disappeared and she landed on her face. "Ow!" she groaned before pushing herself back to her feet and glared at the grinning feline. "I hate that cat."

"Ditto..." Jason grumbled.

The Cheshire Cat just laughed as he disappeared slowly. First his body vanished, then his face and eyes, and finally his smile. "And the mome raths outgrabe~!"

Clair shuddered. "That was disturbing in all capital letters." she muttered to herself. "Couldn't agree more..." Lea nodded. Anne grumbled and dusted herself off. "If I see that cat again, I'll-"

"Okay, let's go." Sora quickly cut her off. The others agreed and quickly headed down the path the Cheshire Cat pointed them towards. Sora inwardly hoped that the Cheshire Cat wasn't pointing them on a wild goose chase again like the last time.

The path twisted a bit, but it eventually led them away from the other confusing paths. As they walked, they saw many strange creatures.

Riku ducked as an oddly shaped bird flew by. "Was that an owl?" Chase questioned.

Anne squinted her eyes as she tried to get a glimpse of it as it flew away. "Looked like it had an accordian for a neck..." she noted.

Goofy then paused as his ears picked up something. It sounded like... singing?"

"Hey, do you fellas hear that?" he asked. The group paused for a moment and listened closely, picking up the singing. "Yeah..." Sora nodded as he started to walk towards the direction of the singing.

Eventually, they found an oddly shaped house where the singing seemed to be coming from. "You think this is the place that cat told us about?" Dylan questioned.

"Only one way to find out." Donald answered before they headed towards the gate and entered the yard. To their surprise, they saw a long table with many chairs surrounding it. Atop the table were several teapots whistling a tune as they blew out steam. Through the steam, they could faintly see two figures. One appeared to be a man wearing a large hat while the other was a brown hare wearing an orange jacket with a bowtie. This had to be the Mad Hatter and the March Hare!

However, the group had a bit of trouble seeing thanks to the steam, so Sora, Kairi, Anne, Donald, and Clair knelt down and peered through some handles as the March Hare and Mad Hatter sang.

"A... very merry unbirthday to me!" the March Hare sang.

"To who?" the Mad Hatter questioned.

"To me!"

"Oh, you!"

"A very merry unbirthday to you!"

"Who, me?"

"Yes, you!"

"Oh, me!"

"Let's all congratulate us with another cup of tea!

A very merry unbirthday to... you!" the March Hare finished as he, the Mad Hatter, and a tired looking mouse dressed in a tiny coat each took a top hat and waved it.

Anne rose an eyebrow at the odd song. 'Unbirthday?' she thought to herself. 'What the heck's an unbirthday?'

She was pulled out of her thoughts by Kairi calling, "Excuse me?"

The Mad Hatter and March Hare froze and their eyes widened before they set down their teacups and ran over to them. "No room! No room! No room!"

Sora rose an eyebrow at this exclaimation. "What do you mean? There's plenty of room here."

"Look, first, there's lots of space. Second, we're not interested in your tea party." Jason told them. "What? How rude!" the March Hare frowned.

"I'll say it's rude! It's very, very rude, indeed!" the Mad Hatter saiagreedd.

"Sorry about my cousin. Jason's not big on manners." Clair apologized to them. "But have you seen anything rather suspicious around here?"

"Hm, I don't think so. Say, would you like a cup of tea?" the Mad Hatter asked.

"No thanks, we're kind of looking for something. Have you seen anything strange around here?" Riku inquired. "Well, stranger."

The Mad Hatter seemed to ponder about it for a moment as he took a tea kettle and poured it, but surprisingly, a plate came out of it, then a cup, and then tea, which landed in the cup. "Now that I think about it, I think there was some sort of thing near Tulgy Wood."

"Thank you. We're sorry we interrupted your birthday party-"

"Birthday? This is not a birthday party!" The March Hare corrected before sipping some tea.

The Mad Hatter laughed and set his tea cup down. "Don't be silly. This is an unbirthday party!"

"UNbirthday?" Chase questioned as he looked at Sora, who just shrugged with the same confused expression. "No idea what they're talkin' about."

"Well, it's really quite simple. Now, thirty days, half..." the March Hare paused and thought about it. "No... if you have a birthday, then... hehe, you don't know what an unbirthday is!" the March Hare chuckled. "Well, let us explain." the Mad Hatter began. The March Hare then conducted a group of teapots with a spoon as they whistled, creating a tune.

"Now statistics prove that you've one birthday," The Mad Hatter started.

"Imagine, just one every year." The March Hare added.

"But there are three-hundred-sixty-four unbirthdays!"

"Precisely why we're gathered here to cheer!"

"So... An unbirthday is any day that's not your birthday." Lea summarized. "Exactly!" the Mad Hatter chortled as he sipped some tea. "But that makes today my unbirthday!" Chase said with excitement. Dylan gave his brother a deadpan expression. "Seriously?" he questioned.

"It is?" asked the March Hare.

"What a small world." the Mad Hatter chuckled.

"In that case..." the March Hare grinned before he and the Hatter leapt over to Chase. "A very merry unbirthday!"

"To me?"

"To you!" the March Hare nodded as the Mad Hatter took his hat off, revealing a large cake. "A very merry unbirthday!"

"For me?" Chase asked as the cake was given to him.

"For you! Now blow the candle out, my boy, and make your wish come true!" the Hatter told him. Chase blew out the candles and much to his and the group's surprise, the cake shot up into the sky, turning into a firework as the cake exploded.

"A very merry unbirthday to you!" the Hare and Hatter sang.

"That... was AWESOME!" Chase grinned.

"Yeah... can we get to this Tulgy Wood place now?" Jason asked impatiently. "Sit down! You should have some tea, first!" the Mad Hatter insisted. "We don't have..." Jason started to say, but was cut off when the two pulled the group to the table. Each of them took a seat and a cup. "Uh, thank you, but we really need to keep moving." Clair tried as the Mad Hatter poured some tea. "Why? What are you going to do?" he questioned. "We're looking for a White Rabbit and anything that seems off." Clair added.

Anne nodded in agreement. "Only thing that appears off to me is the lack of sugar. SUGAR!" the Mad Hatter called. "SUGAR!" the March Hare yelled into Donald's face. Donald had an annoyed expression and also muttered something under his breath, but no one could tell what he was saying. The Mad Hatter poured a bit too much into Kairi's cup. "We rarely get visitors! It's quite a delight to have some today." he stated as it ended up pouring over the sides. "Uh..." Kairi tried to tell him. "It's pouring over!" Jason bluntly told them. "Oh! Sorry." the Hatter apologized before moving on to the next cup.

"Have you seen any weird creatures? With yellow eyes and black bodies?" Dylan questioned. "Lots of them around the Tulgy Wood." the March Hare replied.

"Really?"

"Clean cup! Clean cup! Move down!" The Mad Hatter suddenly exclaimed. "Hey, what the-" Jason protested as they were moved down. "Cleap cup, clean cup! Move down, move down! Clean cup, clean cup, move down!" the March Hare said as they were led to new seats. "Now, would you like some tea?"

"But you just gave us-!" Anne protested, slightly annoyed by the random action. "We haven't had any yet." Riku said. "And you didn't give us a chance!" added Lea. "So you can't take less." the March Hare said.

Clair shook a tea kettle with no spout. "You mean we can't take more." she corrected as she tried to get the tea out.

"No, you can't very well take less." The March Hare took the kettle and cracked it like an egg as tea poured out of it and into a cup. "You can always take more than nothing." he Mad Hatter added. Chase just had a blank look at this. "... huh?"

"Now, you were asking about the Tulgy Woods?" the Hatter asked, changing the subject. "We've been trying to ask you about the strange creatures." Anne told them, deciding not to mention the Heartless.

"What creatures?"

Anne sighed. "The ones with black bodies and yellow eyes and some sort of symbol on them."

"Oh, those! Well, I haven't seen those today." the Hatter stated absentmindedly. "WHAT?!" most of the group groaned. So this guy really didn't know anything about the Heartless!

Jason groaned and banged his head on the table. "You gotta be kidding me!"

"Clean cup! Move down!" the Mad Hatter suddenly called before the group was moved down the table again. "Now, you were saying?"

Just then, they heard the sound of feet scampering. The White Rabbit rushed through, running across the table and out of the gate. "There he is!" Sora exclaimed as he set his tea cup down. "I'm late! So very late! The Queen will have my head!" the Rabbit panicked before he continued to scamper off until he was out of sight. "Follow that rabbit!" Chase yelled as the group scrambled up to their feet and ran out of the yard. The Mad Hatter and March Hare stared for a moment, then shrugged and returned to their tea party.

"Some help that stupid cat was! All he led us to was more crazies!" Jason grumbled as they ran towards the direction the White Rabbit went. "Well, at least we found the White Rabbit." Sora told him. "But now we're in this Bulgy Woods!" Jason said.

"Tulgy Woods." Clair corrected him.

Anne glanced around them as they followed the path. This place was just getting weirder and weirder. "Are you sure we should go that way?" she asked, looking in the direction the Rabbit went. "Yeah! He should be able to lead us to what we're looking for." Sora nodded before they took off running again.

The teenager just hoped that they'd get out of this place soon, or else they, too, would probably go crazy from this place...