"You are guilty for attempted theft of my heart! Why? Because I said so that's why!" The queen yelled from the judge's stand.
"What? I haven't done anything!" Riku yelled from the accused stand.
"Oh no." Donald sighed from the back of the room.
"Is that considered meddling?" Goofy asked in a slight whisper.
"What do you think?"
"Do you have any proof you haven't done anything?" the Queen asked leaning over the stand.
"Do you have any proof I did?" Riku asked, showing he was not intimidated by her.
The Queen's face started turning red. "Very well, you gather as much or as little evidence as you like to prove you're innocent. Be quick!"
Donald and Goofy run up to Riku as he was walking off the stand. "How did ya get up there?"
"A couple of those card guys grabbed me and threw me up there," Riku explained and walked to a side exit. They walked through and found themselves in a forest. The whole forest was extremely big, even the grass was taller the Riku and Goofy.
"I should have known this would lead to trouble. You shouldn't have followed that rabbit!" Donald yelled pointing his finger at Riku.
"What's the point of going to other worlds when you can't do anything when you get there?" Riku mumbled. "Besides, I can't leave now. That Queen thinks I tried to steel her heart."
"And of course you didn't." A voice said from nowhere.
Riku jumped to attention and looked around trying to spot who was talking. It sounded like it was coming from nearby but there was no one but the three of them.
"I saw who the real criminal was. Those shadows, of course." A purple and pink cat appeared standing on his hind legs on top of a over grown stump. "They were here earlier, they might still be around."
"So, how do I prove I didn't do it?"
"There should be evidence here, and there. There are 5 clues in all. Find the clues you catch the suspects." The cat said and disappeared.
Riku turned to Donald and Goofy. "Let's find these clues." They started heading deeper into the forest. One of the clues they found with ease. The second one they saw but it took some work to get to.
"Got it!" Goofy called when he found the third clue.
Donald was standing near a hole that lead to another area. "Let's go! Riku's heading to the next area without us!"
Riku got into the new area and stared at the big table in the middle with a bunch of tea pots whistling and three people at the table. Two of them were singing and dancing around, pouring tea and just being crazy. The third person was a girl with blond hair just sitting there watching them.
"Have a very marry un-birthday to you," The hare sang.
"Un-birthday?" Riku mumbled to himself.
Donald and Goofy came stumbling in. Goofy tripped and crashed, landing on Donald. "Oops, sorry." Donald just sighed.
The three at the table looked over at them. "Who are you?" The man asked.
"I'm Riku. This is Sir Clumsy," pointing at Goofy as he got up, "and Mr.Yells-A-Lot," gesturing to Donald.
"Nice to meet you, I'm the mad hatter!" The man said then laughed.
"Are they okay?" The girl asked and went over to check on Donald and Goofy.
"Yup, I've never been better," Goofy said then laughed.
Donald just sighed. He crossed his arms and grumbled.
"That's good. Oh I'm Alice."
"Say! Why don't you join our tea party? There's plenty of room!" The mad hatter swung his arm towards all the empty seats to make a point.
"Huh, we'd love to but-" Donald started.
"That's great! Come, come, sit down!" The rabbit said grabbing Goofy and dragging him to the table.
"Yes, come sit down!" The mad hatter exclaimed. He grabbed Goofy and tried grabbing Riku but Riku ducked behind Alice and he grabbed her instead. As they all sat down at the table, Riku started to slip away into a corner. "So Sir Clumsy, how do you like your tea?"
Riku backed in to a box and stopped. He turned to see it was another clue. He picked up the box and looked over at Donald and Goofy. After a moment of watching Donald getting mad and Goofy enjoying himself, he left. 'One more clue to go.'
Donald turned to see Riku was gone and got even more annoyed. "He's gone again!" Donald yelled at Goofy, but Goofy as too busy talking to Alice.
Riku climbed up to the top of a tree and saw a opening to another area. He jumped across a couple of branches then walked through the opening. He found himself falling until he landed on a faucet head. He looked down to see he was in the bizarre room again. He spotted a clue on the cabinet next to him and got ready to jump. Riku began to jump when-
"Riku!" Donald's voice called.
This caught Riku off guard and he tried to stop but he was already in mid jump. He grabbed on to the edge of the cabinet and sighed. He pulled himself up and started at the ceiling. "You've got to be kidding me." He said staring up at Donald who was staring back.
"Don't run off like that!" Donald shouted.
"How are you on the ceiling!?" Riku asked.
"How are we on the ceiling Donald?" Goofy asked.
"Don't change the subject! Get down here!"
"How? That's up for me and I'm not sure I can just jump and be up there. I've found the last clue so how about I meet you where the Queen is?" Riku said as he picked up the clue.
"Fine... BUT YOU BETTER NOT RUN OFF!" Donald warned and walked off.
Riku jumped down and when he landed a lot of Heartless appeared. 'Great,' he thought as he pulled his Keyblade out.
"How about I give you something to help you out?"
"You again?" Riku attacked several Heartless sending them flying backwards. "What do you have to help me?"
The cat materialized on top of the glass table. He laid there, his tail calmly swaying back and forth as he watched Riku fight. "A little spell for finding that clue." He gave Riku the ability to cast Blizzard. "Use it well," the cat said smiling the disappeared.
"This should help," Riku said and blasted one of the Shadows but it didn't seem to affect it much. "Or not..." A nocturne blasted a fire ball at him and he slashed at it, changing it's direction. He blasted another Blizzard but this time he hit a Red Nocturne. The spell seemed a little more effective and destroyed the Heartless. 'Maybe I just need to use it a bit before it's really effective.'
He slashed, hacked, and blasted a path through the creatures. Several Nocturnes shot fireballs at him and several Shadows lunged for him. He guarded against the fire balls and deflected them towards the Shadows. The Shadows dissolved leaving a clear shot to hit the Nocturnes. He shot a Blizzard at three of the four remaining Nocturnes. He was about to blast the final one but he was out of magic.
The Red Nocturne shot a fire ball at him and he rolled out of the way. Before it got the chance to even get ready he jumped, slashed through the Heartless with ease and landed back on the ground. The Nocturne burst and the pieces faded away. Riku turned around slightly breathless and walked towards the Queens trial.