(Since the last time we were with Pinocchio and Timber, Timber had accidentally eaten Pinocchio in one of her little hunger moments... but dont worry, He's fine now, since Timber spat him out a couple of minutes ago... and now Timber had fallen asleep again, this time with little Pinocchio by her side next to her chest, keeping him and herself warm with her tail wrapping around them like a blanket, since it get's cold at night in Wonderland... Unfortunately, for Timber... She was about to have a nightmare about Pinocchio again...)

(Chapter 25 ; Amnesia...)

Timber woke up in a strange place. It was dark and cold.. She then immediately started to look for Pinocchio, since his was not there, but when she tried to stand up her legs were shackled to the wall with a dark, rusted chain, that made her legs itch since the rust was rubbing off in her fur, making it itch, driving her crazy to scratch the chain off of her ankle.

"Stupid chain!" She spat as she riggled free from the chain around her ankles, as she was on the hard, stone, ground around her, making her back ache. She was itching the spot where her chains were. She then started to look for Pinocchio, since he wasn't by her side where he would be. She then began to smell the dead air to try to smell Pinocchio's scent to find him...

And she smelled his scent...He was nearby...

This made Timber perk a lot as her fluffy Tail was wagging happily, waiting to see those beautiful blue eyes she would always lose herself in... but instead of Hearing Pinocchio, she heard the sound of chains being dragged across the darkness of the shadowy abyss which surrounded her from all sides...

Then... She felt a familiar pressence, It was Pinocchio, But something wasn't right... She then saw Pinocchio walking through the door to her right, and she was so happy to see the adorable happy face, but, she was sadly mistaken...

Pinocchio slowly waked through the doorway to Timber's right, and she almost sprung up and nearly dashed over to him as he walked through the doorway, until she was stopped by what she saw next... And what she saw next, absolutely crushed her heart in sadness...

His hair was messy..

His eyes were dark and lifeless...

His face was pale and broken...

He has a forced smile upon his face the reached the sides of his cheeks...

He was skinny and bony...

And he had chains all over his arms and ankles...

He was the one who was making that sound...

And he has a strange circle around his chest, digging into his heart...

He was Broken and hurting...

Timber gasped, as she saw the once happy- go- Lucky friend that was now the broken monster, just ahead of her a few feet away. "Pinocchio?!" Timber cried as Pinocchio stopped and turned to her and stared at her and she struggled to hold back tears to see the broken child in front of her... Pinocchio was twitching a small bit, but he was breathing heavily at her as if he was struggling to breathe... "T...im...ber...?" Pinocchio said while he choked on some black liguid coming out of his mouth..

"Oh my god! Who did this to you, my dear?" Timber said while she offered a hug to the broken friend before her. Pinocchio's eyes were leaking a black ooze that burned the ground around him.

"Why... are you...here, Timber...? It's not safe...for you...here" Pinocchio gurgled trying to not have a toxic black waterfall of tar around Timber come out of his mouth.

" I actually have no idea on how i got here, little one..." Timber said while slowly approching the child before her, with tears in her eyes.

"Timber... you need...to run... im not...what I...was before..." Pinocchio said while dropping down to his knees as Timber backed away slowly...

She didn't want to leave Pinocchio behind, but she didn't want to have to hurt Pinocchio either...

Pinocchio's face then exploded, sending out a parasite that wanted to kill her. She then ran away as Pinocchio gained on her quickly and swiftly, coming up on her quickly, now he jumped on her, and pinned her down and was now on top of her, restricting her movement.

She was terrified, she was crying hard and she was pale and shaking. Then, Pinocchio lunged down and took a chunk out of her, but, before he got to her face, she shot upward with a gasp of fear, as she woke up in cold sweat... she looked around and saw that she was in Wonderland again... With Pinocchio on her chest, sleeping soundly.

She let out a sigh of relief as she realised it was just a nightmare, just like the one she had before... then, she laid down on her back, as Pinocchio was still sleeping, alive and well... perfectly fine as he breathed softly as Timber felt his rhythmic heartbeat on her chest with hers... so she sighed again, and rubbed his back gently with her hand as she covered him with her tail as she drifted back to sleep, sharing a dream with the wooden boy, about riding on a whale named Monstro...

Monstro... where have i heard that name before?...

Monstro...