Disclaimer: I own none of these characters or the plotline
Chapter 37: Sakura in Wonderland
The boy ran a hand through his hair, not sure what he should do anymore.
Pikachu was captured and now Grovyle had been sent somewhere he had no idea where.
Suddenly, he felt as if he wasn't alone and quickly looked to see Eriol.
"Eriol-san...?!" the boy said in surprise as Eriol just smiled.
"The reason I can't give it to you is because if I did, this city's time would come to a stop. And I don't think you'd want that, would you?" Eriol said as the boy's eyes widened then looked at the ground.
"I see..." the boy stammered.
"But I do know of a way to keep that from happening." Eriol said. "But there may be some complications..."
"What do I need to do?" the boy asked.
OOOOOOO
Sakura was sitting on a bench at school, reading a book as the fall leaves fell all around her.
"'What a curious feeling! I must be shutting up like a telescope,' said Alice. And so indeed, she was now only ten centimeters high, and her face brightened up at the thought that she was now the right size for going through the little door into that lovely garden. After a time, she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance and she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming. It was the white rabbit returning, splendidly dressed with a pair of white gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other....""
Sakura read on for another few minutes when she sat back on the bench and looked up at the blue sky.
'It's so peaceful, but I still get the feeling something is going to happen again... Especially what happened a few days ago...' Sakura thought.
Suddenly, someone came up in front of her and handed her a leaf.
"Here, use this as a bookmark."
Sakura looked up to see it was Eriol, wearing a kind smile.
"Eriol-kun..." Sakura said in surprise.
Sakura took the leaf and placed it on the page she left off of.
"Sakura-san, what are you reading?" Eriol asked.
"Alice in Wonderland." Sakura said holding up the book.
"Ah, Alice." Eriol said.
"Have you read it too, Eriol-kun?" Sakura asked.
"Yes. Quite a while ago." Eriol said.
"It's really interesting. She gets small and then big. It must have been tough." Sakura said. "Oh! This is a story from England, right? Where you used to live?"
Eriol nodded.
"What kind of place is England?" Sakura asked.
"There are a lot of rainy or foggy days, but there are many old buildings left there. I like it." Eriol said. "There are so many buildings and scenery that look just like the illustrations in that book."
"Amazing!" Sakura said in awe. "I want to go there and see..."
"Shall I take you there?" Eriol asked.
Sakura looked up at him with a puzzled expression.
"To Alice's Kingdom..." Eriol said.
Sakura blinked a couple of times, still not getting what he was saying.
Just around the corner, Tomoyo and Syaoran were watching the whole thing.
"My, they look pretty good over there." Tomoyo said as Syaoran's eyebrow started twitching.
"I'm sure Alice's Kingdom means England of course." Tomoyo said as a couple of mad-marks appeared around Syaoran's head.
"That means, I wonder if Hiiragizawa-kun is going to introduce Sakura-chan to his family. And if he introduces her to his family, that means..."
"All right! I get it!" Syaoran shouted as he rushed over to where Sakura and Eriol was.
"This is really getting quite interesting!" Tomoyo said with a smile. (LOL! Tomoyo makes me laugh!)
"Homeroom is about to start!" Syaoran shouted while waving his arms up and down.
"Y-Yeah. Thank you." Sakura said with a sweet smile, causing Syaoran to blush slightly.
Syaoran then glared over at Eriol, who just smiled at him.
Syaoran's instincts told him to just hit him over the head, but bit his lip and restrained himself, but let out a small growl. (You can tell he still has a bit of Lucario left in him)
Sakura just looked at Syaoran, then at Eriol in confusion. "Hoe?"
As they headed towards class, Eriol stayed behind.
There was rustling in the bushes and Eriol looked over to see Poochyena jump out.
"Master, are you really quite certain we can trust that boy? I mean, he did attack us to get the Time Gear." Poochyena said.
"Don't worry. He's not the type to attack someone from behind. That I know for sure." Eriol said. "Grovyle on the hand, would. But he is not here anymore."
"Why are you so sure? Won't these things jeopardise the future?" Poochyena asked.
Eriol put a hand under his chin. "It might. But I am willing to risk all this... To stop that man..."
OOOOOOO
"What do you want to do? Do you want to go somewhere?" Chiharu asked after class had finished.
"What about your piano lessons, Naoko-chan?" Sakura asked.
"I don't have anything in particular today." Naoko said.
"What about you, Rika-chan?" Sakura asked looking over at Rika.
"I'm going to the library to finish my book." Rika said.
"Then, how about we all go to the library and finish our books?" Sakura said.
"You don't mind?" Rika said.
"I want to finish my book soon." Sakura said.
"Let's go!" Chiharu said.
As Sakura's group turned the corner, she spotted Eriol walking down the hall.
"Eriol-kun!" Sakura called. "Are you going to the library as well?"
"Yes." Eriol said.
"Then do you want to come with us?" Sakura asked.
"Oh, sure." Eriol said.
Suddenly, Syaoran ran past them in lightning speed.
"That was weird." Chiharu said.
"He sure is a fast runner though." Naoko said.
"Li-kun doesn't seem to like being around other people. He's always by himself." Rika said.
Sakura looked over where Syaoran had ran off.
'Syaoran-kun...'
OOOOOOO
At the library, Sakura, Tomoyo, and Eriol were sitting at one table, while Rika, Chiharu, Naoko, and Yamazaki were reading at another.
Sakura looked over at Syaoran, who was sitting in the corner of the library where no one was, reading his book and glancing at a dictionary to see what a word he didn't understand meant.
"It must be tough for him to figure these things out when he wasn't born in our time period." Tomoyo said as Sakura nodded.
"I've also noticed that when someone tries to talk to Syaoran-kun, it seems as if he doesn't know what to say." Sakura said.
"This is all probably just all new to him, that's all. He not used to it." Tomoyo said as Syaoran gave them an annoyed look saying, "stop talking about me."
Eriol looked over at Syaoran at the corner of his eye, before getting up out of his seat.
"I'm going to go return this." Eriol said.
"Okay." Sakura said.
Sakura noticed giving Eriol a glare as he walked by and then leaned over to Tomoyo.
"Is Syaoran-kun mad at Eriol-kun?" Sakura asked.
"A boy's heart is very complex..." Tomoyo giggled.
"Hoe?" Sakura said puzzled as she placed her hand on the leaf Eriol gave her as a bookmark.
Suddenly, the leaf started glowing and Sakura found herself being pulled into the book by an unknown force.
"Ah, ah, ah, AHH!!" Sakura cried as she was fully absorbed into the book.
"Sakura-chan!" Tomoyo cried as the book closed itself.
"What's wrong?" Yamazaki said looking over his shoulder, wondering what all the noise was about.
"N-Nothing..." Tomoyo said nervously.
Syaoran rushed over. "What's wrong?!"
"Sakura-chan was sucked inside the book!" Tomoyo whispered urgently.
"What?!" Syaoran said in a soft voice as he looked down at the book.
Syaoran closed his eyes and lifted a hand to the book.
After a moment, he opened his eyes. "I feel very strong aura emanating from it."
"What should we do?!" Tomoyo said.
Across the room, Eriol was looking at them with a suspicious look on his face, though they failed to notice he was even there.
"Good luck, Sakura-chan... And you too, Syaoran-kun." Eriol said without anyone hearing him as he walked away.
OOOOOOO
When Sakura opened her eyes, she found herself in somewhere she didn't recognize.
Sakura looked around and then down at herself to see she was wearing different clothes than the ones she had on earlier.
"Hoe? These clothes..." Sakura said.
"Tomoyo-chan!" Sakura called. "I wonder where I am..."
"I was reading a book in the library until a few minutes ago... And then what happened?" Sakura pondered as she walked down a dirt path.
"I know! Can this be inside the book?!" Sakura realized.
"That is correct!"
Sakura looked around to see who had said that.
"I'm up here!"
Sakura looked up into a tree to see Eriol, but wearing weird clothes and had cat-ears and tail.
"Eriol-kun?!" Sakura said in surprise.
"No, I'm the Cheshire cat!" Eriol said with a smile.
"The Cheshire cat.. the one that is in the story about Alice?" Sakura asked.
"Yes." Eriol said. (I'm refurring them all as their corresponding characters because I don't want to spell out these names that are so long)
Sakura thought about the situation for a moment, when a thought struck her.
"I got it! This is all a dream, right?" Sakura said.
"Incorrect!" Eriol said as Sakura sweatdropped.
"But..." Sakura said as Eriol started licking his hand and then bringing it to his face like how a cat groomed itself.
"For you to be doing something like that, Eriol-kun, this has to be a dream!" Sakura said shaking her violently.
"That is not necessarily the case. Actually, I have a rather mischievous personality." Eriol said while waving his legs on the branch.
"R-Really?" Sakura said, not sure whether to believe it or not.
"It's always hard for me to keep from making wisecracks when you and Li-kun are both so slow... Yes, yes..." Eriol said while crossing his arms and nodding.
"I'm... Slow?" Sakura said pointing at herself.
"Quite." Eriol said in a rather deeper voice that he usually has, causing Sakura to sweatdrop again.
"Then, why are you so serious around me?" Sakura said.
"You have people around you that know my true personality around you. It would be a little troublesome if they realize who I am right now." Eriol said. "And now..."
Eriol started to disappear, just like how the Cheshire cat did, one part at a time.
"Please take your time and enjoy Alice's Kingdom inside the book." Eriol said.
"Wait!" Sakura called, but Eriol had fully disappeared.
"What should I do?" Sakura said. "If this really is the world inside the book, I have to get out somehow..."
"I must hurry! I must hurry!"
Sakura looked over to see Yukito running down the dirt path wearing weird clothing and had bunny ears coming out from the top of his head.
"Yukito-san?!" Sakura said.
"No, I'm a rabbit." Yukito said as he looked at the giant watch he was carrying. "If I don't hurry, I'll be late!"
"W-Where are you going?" Sakura asked.
"To where the queen is." Yukito said as he ran past Sakura.
Sakura realized he was the rabbit that was in a hurry in Alice's book and realized she really was inside the book.
"Please wait!" Sakura called as she ran after him. "Wait!"
"I know!" Yukito said as his body started glowing with silver aura.
Sakura stopped as Yukito turned into Lugia. (.... LOL! Lugia with bunny ears and a weird coat!)
Lugia turned around to face Sakura.
"Hoe? Lugia-san?" Sakura said as Lugia put Sakura on his back.
"If I fly, then it'll be quick." Lugia said as he took off straight up into the sky.
"HOEEEEEE!!!" Sakura cried as Lugia stopped way above the ground.
Sakura looked down and started shaking in fear to how high up she was.
"We're here." Lugia said as he suddenly spun upside down, causing Sakura to fall off his back.
"AHHHHHHH!!!" Sakura cried as she fell towards the ground far below.
OOOOOOO
Syaoran was trying to force open the book by using Force Palm, but something was shielding the book, so it had no effect.
"Sakura-chan..." Tomoyo said.
Syaoran pulled his hand back and gritted his teeth. "It's no use."
"Hey, where's Sakura-chan?" Chiharu asked as she came over.
"She's gone to the classroom to get something she forgot." Tomoyo said as Syaoran tried to hide his Lucario ears after being surprised.
"Oh, I see." Chiharu said as she headed back to her table.
After she left, Tomoyo and Syaoran breathed a sigh of relief.
OOOOOOO
Sakura opened her eyes again to see herself at a small table across from Toya, who was wearing a green suit and a tall hat.
"Oniichan?" Sakura said.
"I'm a hatter." Toya said as he set a cup of tea down on a small plate.
Toya poured some tea into a tea cup, (Quite weirdly if I may add...) and then placed a cube of sugar in it, before placing it in front of Sakura.
"For me?" Sakura said.
"Yup, yup." Toya said nodding with a grin on his face.
Sakura took a small sip and smiled. "Delicious."
Toya just sat with a grin on his face as Sakura drank the rest of her tea.
"That was yummy! Oh yeah, if this is Alice's world, there might be a potion that makes me shrink! I have to be careful not to drink it." Sakura said. (.... Didn't you just drink something...)
"You just did." Toya said.
"Huh?" Sakura said as she sweatdropped.
"What you just drank is the potion that shrinks you." Toya said with a smirk. (Bad Toya!)
Sakura gasped as she found herself shrinking to about ten centimeters high.
A sudden gust of wind blew her off her seat and into a nearby stream.
"Somebody help me!" Sakura cried as she was being carried downstream and was suddenly dunked under the water.
Later, Sakura opened her eyes again to find Syaoran holding her with one hand.
"Syaoran-kun!" Sakura said in relief. "Thanks!"
Syaoran was in a blue suit with a penguin hood, making him look like a penguin with a bow tie.
He gently set Sakura down on a flower and Sakura sighed in relief.
When she looked up, she saw that beside Syaoran was Lucario with the same clothes on.
"HOE!!! W-Why are there two of you?!" Sakura said.
"I'm tweedle-dum." Syaoran said.
"I'm tweedle-dee." Lucario said.
Sakura just stared at them in shock, then shook her head. "B-By the way, Syaoran-kun, do you know how I can get out of this world?"
"Do you want to know?" Syaoran and Lucario said in unison.
"Yes!" Sakura said.
"We'll give you a quiz. If you answer correctly, we'll tell you." they said.
"Eh?" Sakura said.
Syaoran and Lucario brought the sides of their heads together and leaned over to Sakura.
"Now, which is the truth?" they said.
"I admire someone." Syaoran said.
"I don't admire anyone." Lucario said.
"Which is it?" they asked.
Sakura thought about it for a minute, remembering how Lucario had always looked up to Sir Aaron when he was training him.
"You do admire someone!" Sakura answered.
"Bingo! Correct!" Syaoran and Lucario said together.
Sakura smiled sheepishly, never would have thought she'd see something quite as odd as this.
"The last question." they said.
"The person I admire is taller than me." Lucario said.
"The person I admire is shorter than me." Syaoran said.
"Which is it?" they asked.
Sakura pondered it again, and thought how Sir Aaron was as tall as her dad and Lucario was just a little taller than she was.
"Taller!" Sakura answered.
"BZZT! Incorrect!" Syaoran and Lucario said making a face at her.
"What?! But Aaron-san is taller than Lucario. Syaoran-kun doesn't admire him...?" Sakura wondered.
When she looked up to question them again, both Syaoran and Lucario had disappeared.
"He's not here..." Sakura said, then hit her head. "I have to find out how to get out of this world. But in this size..."
"Maybe this will help."
Sakura looked up just as something was poured on top of her.
"HOEEEE!!!" Sakura cried as she was drenched with a green liquid.
Sakura suddenly started to grow at a fast pace and soon became almost big enough to touch the sky.
"I'm too big!" Sakura cried.
Sakura looked down to see a boy in a cloak, with the hood covering his face.
"W-Who are you?" Sakura asked.
The boy grinned before jumping into the distance.
"Wait!" Sakura called, but he had disappeared.
Sakura glanced up at the sky and saw leaf before it was covered by some clouds.
"Is that a leaf?" Sakura said. "Oh, I have to get back to my normal size!"
"Hm. Maybe, Alakazam-san can help." Sakura said as she turned her charm into a staff.
"I, Sakura, command you to change under the power of the stars, Alakazam!" Sakura commanded as Alakazam came out of staff and turned to a more gold color and its armor became a pink color.
After Alakazam became shiny, it looked at Sakura and freaked out a little as it hovered in mid-air.
"Alakazam-san, do you think you can shrink me?" Sakura asked.
Alakazam regained its composure and looked thoughtful for a moment.
"I can, but I require my opposite to help with that." Alakazam said.
Sakura blinked a couple of times. "Who's your opposite?"
Alakazam sighed. "Gengar."
"Oh, okay." Sakura raised her staff into the air again. "I, Sakura, command you to change under the power of the stars, Gengar!"
Gengar appeared from from the staff and turned into a dark shade of blue and its eyes turned a to a light orange.
"Whoa! Giant girl on the loose!" Gengar cried before he started laughing.
Sakura pouted in annoyance.
"Gengar that's enough." Alakazam said as Gengar went down to a small chuckle.
"I need you both to shrink me." Sakura said. "You think you can do it?"
"Sure thing." Gengar said.
Alakazam and Gengar lifted up their hands and fired a beam at Sakura. When the two beams merged with one another, it hit Sakura, causing her to shrink in size without pain.
When Sakura shrunk back to her original size, she found herself on a giant chess board with chess pieces scattered all over the board.
"Where are we?" Alakazam said as it hovered down over to Sakura as did Gengar.
"You're all on top of a chess board."
Sakura whirled around to see Tomoyo in a wierd dress and sitting in a hovering egg-like chair.
"Tomoyo-chan?" Sakura said.
"I am Humpty Dumpty." Tomoyo said with a smile.
"I thought Humpty Dumpty was suppose to be an egg." Gengar whispered.
"I'm in the middle of a chess match right now." Tomoyo said.
"With who?" Sakura asked and Tomoyo pointed across from her.
Sakura looked over to see Eevee sitting on a pedestal of some sort.
"Eevee-chan!" Sakura said as she rushed over to him with Alakazam and Gengar right behind her.
"Something doesn't look right about him..." Alakazam said as Gengar gave him a puzzled look.
"Eeve-chan, do you know how to get out of this book?" Sakura asked.
"I ain't no Eevee-chan..." Eevee mumbled with his head down. "How dare you interrupt my chess match!"
"What? E-Eevee-chan?" Sakura said puzzled.
"Sakura-sama..." Alakazam said nervously.
Suddenly, Eevee looked up and changed into Ho-oh, who was wearing a crown and a king's cape.
"I am the QUEEN!!!" Ho-oh shouted.
"AHHHHHH!!!" Sakura, Alakazam, and Gengar cried, then started running as Ho-oh gave chase.
"What's wrong with you, Eevee-chan?!" Sakura cried.
"I am the QUEEN!!!" Ho-oh shouted as it flew straight through some of the chess pieces.
"HOEEE!!! Alakazam-san! Gengar-san! Aren't you going to do something instead of just running?!" Sakura cried.
Oh! Right!" they both said before going back into her staff.
"That's not what I meant!" Sakura cried as almost ran off the edge of the chess board, but caught herself before she stepped off.
"Wait! If you don't wait, you'll get hurt!" Ho-oh shouted as he gained on her.
Sakura ran down the side as Ho-oh continued chasing her.
Suddenly, the Ho-oh stopped in mid-air as did everything else.
Sakura whirled around to see everything had come to a stop, even the wind itself came to a stop.
"What's... going on..?" Sakura said looking around.
"Time has come to a stop in this world."
Sakura looked over to see the same boy who poured that potion on her, standing a few yards away.
He still had a hood over his face so Sakura couldn't see it.
"W-Who... are you..?" Sakura asked. "W-What's going on?"
The boy held out a hand, revealing a glowing light blue gear-like object.
"Hoe? What is that?" Sakura said as the boy pulled back his hand.
"It is what caused this world's time to come to a stop." the boy said as he turned around.
"Wait! Please, do you know how I can get out of this book?!" Sakura pleaded.
The boy looked over his shoulder at her. "There is only one way in and out of this book. So you have to find from which you came here."
With that the boy jumped high into air and disappeared behind the clouds.
Sakura stood in shock at how high the boy was able to jump.
'Who is he?' Sakura thought.
She gazed up at the sky and saw, at the corner of a cloud, a little bit of leaf in the sky.
"I now! The leaf I used for a bookmark!" Sakura cried.
"Fly!" Sakura commanded as Swellow's wings appeared from her back and she flew up towards the sky and saw the leaf.
A moment later, Sakura burst out of the book and landed on the table with a thud as her wings disappeared.
"Sakura-chan!" Tomoyo cried.
"Are you all right?" Syaoran said.
"I finally managed to get out..." Sakura said as she started wavering.
Sakura came forward and rested against Syaoran, who started blushing madly and froze.
"Sorry." Sakura said sleepily as she came back up while Syaoran just stood blushing with a sweatdrop.
"Ah... uh..." Syaoran stammered, not being able to talk.
"Something wrong?" Chiharu asked as she came over.
"N-No. Nothing's wrong!" Sakura said.
In the back, Eriol pushed his glasses higher on his face before walking away with a grin on his face.
Sakura held the leaf in her hand and smiled. "Thanks. I was saved thanks to you."
She then placed it in the book and closed it.
To be continued...
It's been a while since I've updated, huh? Anyways, I needed to give Sakura a scenario so she would change some more of the Sealed Pokemon. I tried to add a little bit of humor in this one too. Hope you enjoyed it, Please Review!