Hey guys, I'm back and man this chapter should've been done last week but Animal Crossing New Horizons come out and It took over my life for a few days. Anyway here it is the next chapter based on Wonder Land and might I say this is the funnest chapter I ever wrote so far.
Chapter 9: A Wondrous Mystery
Flying to our second world was pretty quiet for the first fifth teen minutes. "Ahhh!" Emily screamed when the first wave of Heartless ships started attacking us "Who knew space had so much traffic." I said, "Hey, look, we're here." Sora said, pointing to the world, "That's a cool looking world, what's it called?" I asked, "According to the radar, it's called Wonder Land." Goofy said, "Do you guys remember the rules?" Emily asked, "Yeah, we can't let anyone know we're from another world." Sora said, "Great, you're a fast learner Sora." Emily said, "How do we land." I asked, "Uh, look, I see a hole down there." Amy said, pointing to it, "Great, let's go, guys." Emily said, "But, how do we get down?" I asked, "We jump, of course." Emily said, "Jump?!" I exclaimed, "Well, we jump. Sora and the other use a tracker beam." Amy explained,
"We use our wings to fly down. But, since you're still learning to use them, we have a parasol for you." Emily explained, "A parasol?" I asked, "It's on your winged backpack. We gave it to you for a safe grade. It can also protect you from fire, ice, thunder, and anti-freeze." Chloe said, "Why, anti-freeze?" I asked, "Don't ask, just don't ask." Cindy said, "Alright, I'm ready. 3, 2, 1 wahoo!" I said, jumping off my airplane, opening my parasol, and floating down gently with my friends.
"Hey, I recognize this world." Chloe said, "I do, too; let's hope we aren't too late." Amy said as we hit the ground. "This is the weirdest place I've ever seen." I said, "That's Wonder Land for you." Amy said, "Wait, have you girls been here before?" Sora asked, "A few times." Amy said,
"Oh, my fur and whiskers! I'm late. I'm late; I'm late! Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear! I'm here. I should be there. I'm late. I'm late. I'm late! The Queen, she'll have my head for sure!" A white rabbit with a large pocket watch said, "Wow, the rabbit can talk." I said as he ran past us "He seems like he's in a hurry." Sora said, "That's the White Rabbit; he works for the queen." Chloe explained, "Wow, so this world has a queen?" Sora asked, "It does, and she is madder than a flock of Flamingos being used for croquet." Emily said, "What kind of saying is that?" I asked, "I think it's a Wonder Land one." Goofy said, "Come on, we know the area. We'll show you around, and hopefully, we'll find Riku and Kairi." Amy said, "Yeah, before the Heartless do." Sora said,
We walked down the hallway where we opened three doors, heading inside a strange room we saw the White Rabbit go through a small door. "How, did he get so small?" Sora asked, "No, you're simply too big." A talking doorknob said, "Wak, it talks!" Donald exclaimed, "Must you be so loud? you woke me up." The Doorknob said, "Sorry, Mister doorknob. We just wanted to know how the White Rabbit went through you." I said, "Good morning." Goofy said, "Good night! I need a bit more sleep." The Doorknob yawned, "Wait, what do we have to do to grow small?' Sora asked,
"If I remember currently. There should be some bottles on a table." Amy said, "You mean that table?" I asked, pointing to a table that popped up out of nowhere. "How did that get there?" I asked, "It's Wonder Land; anything can happen." Emily said, "Well if that's all, I'll be going back to sleep now. And please, keep it down." The Doorknob said, before going back to sleep. "We will pleasant dreams." I said, "Alright, which one makes you shrink, and which one makes you grow?" Sora asked, "The blue one makes you shrink, the red makes you grow." Amy said, "Hold on before we go, I need to move this bed." Amy said, pushing a bed in a corner, revealing a secret passageway. "Wow, you knew that was there?" Sora asked, "I told you, we've been here before." Amy said, "Alright, let's go." Sora said, drinking from the blue bottle, making us shrink.
"Wow, it worked." I said, "Now we're the size of the White Rabbit." Sora said, "Come on; let's see where he went." Emily said, jumping down from the table. "Isn't it weird how we haven't seen any Heartless yet?" I asked as Sora was getting me down. Just as some appeared, "Spoke too soon." Cindy said, getting out her rainbow wand. "Over here." Amy waved, taking out any Heartless in our way. We followed her down the secret passageway. On the other side, we saw card soldiers, the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, and a little girl standing on a podium, "Amy, look." Emily said, pointing to the girl. "It can't be." She replied,
"Court is now in session!" The White Rabbit said, blowing a trumpet, "I'm on trial? But why?" The girl asked, "Her Majesty, the Queen of Hearts, Presiding!" The White Rabbit said,
"This girl is the culprit. There's no doubt about it. And the reason is... Because I say so, that's why!" The Queen said, "That's not a reason!" Emily exclaimed, running and jumping onto the podium. "With all due respect your Majesty but. Where's your evidence? Where's your honor? And more importantly. Where my lawyer?!" Emily exclaimed, "Emily get down; you'll make things worse." Amy said, grabbing her sister by the hand, "Sorry about that, just pretend we weren't here." Amy said, taking Emily back to us.
"She's right. That is so unfair!" The girl said, "Well, have you anything to say in your defense?" The Queen asked, "Of course! I've done absolutely nothing wrong! You may be Queen, but that doesn't give you the right to be so…So mean!" She said, "Silence! You dare defy me?"
"Hey, guys, we should help her out." Sora said," Yeah, but the—" Donald said, "We're outsiders, so wouldn't that be muddling?" Goofy asked, "Meddling!" Donald corrected, "Oh, yeah. And that's against the rules." Goofy explained, "But, we have to help her." Emily said, "Emily's right; she's one of the seven pure lights." Amy said, "She is? Well, why didn't you say so? Let me at 'em!" Donald said,
"The court finds the defendant… Guilty as charged! For the crimes of assault and attempted theft of my heart… Off with her head!" The Queen exclaimed, "No! No! Oh, please." The girl pleaded, "Hold it right there!" Sora said, running to the Queen, "Who are you? How dare you interfere with my court?" The Queen said, "Excuse me. But we know who the real culprit is!" Sora said, "Uh-huh. It's the Heartle—"Goofy cut himself off, remembering the rules, "Anyway, she's not the one you're looking for." Sora said, "That's nonsense. Have you any proof?" The Queen asked, "Well, do you?" Emily asked, "Emily, shush, you've done enough." Amy said, "Uh." Sora said, not sure how to answer, but that was enough for the Queen as one of the card soldiers put Alice in a cage, "Bring me evidence of Alice's innocence! Fail, or it's off with all your heads! Gather as much or as little as you please. Report back here once you're ready." The Queen said, "Great; now we're in trouble." I said,
"She's right, you heard her its ether find the right proof, or it's off with our heads." Emily said, "And I need my head." I said, "We all do, Dakota." Amy said, "Shouldn't we talk to Alice?" Sora asked, "Yeah, we should." Cindy said, walking over to her, "Who are you?" Alice asked, "I'm Sora." He said, "I'm Goofy, and that there's Donald." Goofy said, "I'm Dakota, and this Emily, Amy, Cindy, and Chloe." I said, "It's nice to meet you, Alice." Amy said, "Pleased to meet you, though I wish it were under better circumstances. I'm sorry you got mixed up in this nonsense." Alice said,
"It's okay. We'll get you out of here." I said, "How did you get here in the first place?" Chloe asked, "It started this morning. I chased the White Rabbit down the rabbit hole and when I came here. I was put on trial for stealing the Queens's heart. But I didn't do it. I was just minding my own business and trying to get home, and now I'm trapped." Alice explained, "Don't worry, we'll get you out of here." Cindy said, "And when we do, we'll help you get home." I said,
"Oh, thank you so very much." Alice said, "Alright, enough talking with the prisoner." A card soldier said, "Come on, let's go find that proof." I said, leading the way to a forest.
In the forest, we saw a floating cat head appear in front of us and reattach his head to his body. "Who are you?!" Donald asked, "Who, indeed. Poor Alice about to lose her head, and she not guilty of a thing." The cat replied, "Hello, Cheshire." Amy said, "Hey if you know who the culprit is, tell us!" Sora said, "The Cheshire Cat has all the answers—but doesn't always tell. The answer, the culprit, the cat all lie in Darkness." He said and disappeared, "Wait!" Sora said, "They already left the forest. I won't tell you which exit. There are four pieces of evidence in all. Three are a cinch to find. The fourth is tricky. Big reward if you find them all." Cheshire said, and he was gone.
"Should we trust him?" Donald asked, "To trust or not to trust? I trust you'll decide." Cheshire said, appearing again. And this time, he was gone for good. "I think we have no choice. If we want to help Alice, We need that evidence. I say we split up." I said, "She's right. We'll go into two groups: Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Dakota. You guys search here, the Queen's Castle and the Bizarre Room. The rest of us will search everywhere else. We'll meet back at the Queen's Castle in an hour. No matter what, we can't let Alice lose her head or be lost to the Heartless. Understand?" Amy explained, "Yes!" We said, "Good luck, everyone." Amy said, and we went our separate ways.
After searching for a while, we managed to find all four clues. Donald and Goofy found footprints, and Sora found an antenna in the forest. We also found some Dalmatians in a treasure chest. I found claw marks in the Bizarre Room.
"Well, look what you found. Nice going." Cheshire said after I saw the claw marks
"Now, we can save Alice." Sora said, "Don't be so sure. She may be innocent, but what about you?" He asked, "He's right, Sora. Alice may not have done this, but the Queen could blame us." I said, "You're right. What do we do." Sora asked, "I won't tell. But I'll give you this." Cheshire said, giving Sora and I the power to use Ice magic, "Don't Worry, Sora we've got this." Amy called out from the ceiling of the room, "How did you get up there?" Sora asked, "We've been looking for clues top to bottom." Emily said, "Dakota, the final clue is on the fireplace. Use your wings." Chloe said, "I got this. Sora, give me a leg up." I said, Sora helped me get on the table, and I flow over to the fireplace. I was a little shaky, but I got the final clue. "Ew, what a bad smell." I said, opening the box, "That's the smell of a Heartless, alright." Amy said, flying down next to me.
"So, they were the culprit after all. But why are they trying to steal the Queen's heart?" Sora asked, "Heartless have no hearts, so they steal others to be completed again. But, now that they know Alice is here, it'll be her they really want." Emily explained, "Which is why we have to hurry before it's too late." Amy said, "Come on, girls. Let's go save Alice." Chloe said, and it was back to the Queen's Castle we go.
"We're back." I said, "Are you ready to present evidence before the queen?" The Card of Hearts asked, "Yes." Sora said, "Very well. Counsel, step up to the podium." The Card said, and Sora did, "Now, show me what you have found." The Queen said, "This is all the evidence we found." Sora said, showing her the boxes "Well, that's certainly a lot of evidence, but I'm still not impressed. Cards! Bring forth my evidence!" The Queen said, just then, a fifth box appeared, and the boxes shuffled.
"Hmm, checking all five would only be a waste of time. All right, then. Choose the one you wish to present. "I'll decide who's guilty based on that evidence." The Queen explained, "What? After all the trouble of collecting it?" Sora asked, "You dare object? Then you will lose your head! Now choose! One box!" The Queen exclaimed Sora choose the box he wanted, and a Heartless appeared. "What in the world was that?!" The Queen asked, "There's your evidence. Alice is innocent." Sora said, "Rrrrrgh, Silence! I'm the law here! Article 29: Anyone who defies the Queen is guilty!" She exclaimed, "Guards! Those girls are working with those fiends who tried to steal my heart! Seize them at once!" The Queen exclaimed, "That's crazy!" Donald exclaimed, "We did no such thing. I want to speak to my lawyer!" Emily shouted, "Emily, we don't have a lawyer." Amy said, "Well, one should have been provided to us!" She replied,
"Lookout," I said, the scenery disappeared and in its place was a tower used to raise Alice's cage. Emily and the others were captured and put into cages, and the Queen sent the rest after us "Cards! If they touch the tower, you lose your heads!" The Queen said, "Sora, you get Alice down. I'll get Emily and the others." I said, "We'll cover you." Sora said, "Come on, Goofy, let's teach them a lesson in manners!" Donald shouted, "Get us out of here!" Emily shouted, using my rainbow wand and wings to attack and get away from the cards I managed to free my new friends "Are you girls okay?" I asked, "We are now." Chloe said, "Now, let me at that Queen! I'll show her what happens when you put me in a cage!" Emily exclaimed, "Cards! The prisoners have escaped, seize them!" The Queen exclaimed, "Not on my watch." Emily said, shooting her rainbow wand at the Queen. Knocking her off her feet, showing us her knickers. All of us started laughing. But the Queen didn't find it funny.
"How dare you humiliate me?! Cards, off with their heads!" The Queen exclaimed, "Great, now she's really mad." Amy said, "Cheshire's right. It is fun seeing the Queen mad." Emily said, "It isn't if it means losing our heads." Amy reminded, "Guy's, a little help here." Sora said, trying to get past the cards to get Alice down, "Come on, ladies, we have to get Alice down." Cindy said, working together to take the cards soldiers out, we managed to bring the cage down. But Alice was gone. "She's gone!" Chloe said, "How is that possible?" I asked, "All right, which one of you saw her leave?!" The Queen asked, "Not I." The White Rabbit said, "Me neither." A card said, "Well, she must have gotten away." The Queen said, "Indeed, she did. Attention everyone Alice has been kidnaped." Amy said, "But, how is that possible?" I asked, "She must have gotten kidnaped while we were fighting." Donald said,
"Great, there goes another one." Amy said, grimly, "You fools! Find the one who's behind this! I don't care how! And when you do. Off with their heads!" The Queen exclaimed, "Considering we weren't fighting for very long. The kidnapper couldn't have gone far." I said, "Yes if it was a normal kidnapper. But, Heartless can use the Darkness to get around fast. For all we know, it could be too late." Amy explained, "We have to at least try to find her or at least make sure it doesn't happen to anyone else." Sora said, "Let's talk to Cheshire; maybe he's seen, Alice." I suggested, "I don't see what good that would do. But, it's worth a shot." Amy said, "I'm with her; I'm willing to try anything to make sure Alice doesn't lose her heart." Emily said, and it was back to the Lotus Forest we went.
Cheshire appeared on a rock that was spat out by a flower.
"Have you seen Alice?" Donald asked, "Alice, no. Shadows, yes." Cheshire replied, "Where did they go?" Goofy asked, "This way? That way? Does it matter?" Cheshire asked, "Yes, it matters. Alice is in trouble." I said, "Left, right, up, down! All mixed up, thanks to the shadows! Step deeper into the forest to the deserted garden. You might find some shadows in the upside-down room." Cheshire said, and he disappeared. "I know where that room is; it's the celling of the bizarre room." Emily said, "Well, what are we doing standing here? Come on. We need to find Alice." Sora said,
After exploring the world for a bit, finding some more Dalmatians, and asking some friendly Heartless for directions. We finally managed to find our way to the upside-down room. Where Cheshire was waiting for us. "They're hiding somewhere. And the moderates outgrabe." He explained, "Want to find the shadows? Try turning on the light." Cheshire said, disappearing, "Turn on the lights?" I asked,
"There are lights over here, Sora, use your Keyblade to turn one on." Emily said, and Sora did, "It's too dim make it brighter." Cheshire said, "What's next?" Donald asked, "One more lamp you need to light." Cheshire said, "Hold on, I got this." Sora said, lighting the other lamp. "All the lights are on. You'll see the shadows soon. They'll arise in this room, but somewhere else. The shadow might go after that Doorknob, too." Cheshire said, disappearing again. "Great, now we need to walk all the way back." I said, "No need, I know a short cut." Emily said, opening a door back to the Queen's castle. "Now, that's more like it," Donald said, jumping through.
Heading back to the bizarre room. We saw Cheshire lying on the table. "You'll have a better view from higher up." He said, "So, where's that, Heartless?" I asked when we climbed onto the table, "Patience, my dear. The shadows will be here soon. Are you prepared for the worst? If not, too bad." Cheshire said, pointing to the ceiling
"Please, we're the size of a shadow. Considering our size, the Heartless in question has to be the size of a door frame!" Emily exclaimed, seeing how big the Heartless really was. It was black and white had a tall head with many faces on it; its arms were like folded pieces of paper, and he was juggling pins. "What kind of Heartless is that?!" I asked, "It's called a Trick Master. Be careful of his juggling pins. He can set them on fire and throw them at you." Amy explained, "Any tips?" Goofy asked, "He can dish it out, but can't dish it in. Use fire against him. Also, aim for the head, the feet will take no damage." Amy said, "We've got this." We said, the Trick Master was a tricky foe to deal with, and he made things harder when he destroyed the table and chair.
"I've had just about enough of you," I said, using my wings and flying around his faces. He lost his focus on the others and started swatting me. But, I was so fast and small his arms began to get tangled up. "Hey, Dakota's on to something. Come on. Girls, let's fly." Cindy said all five of us flow around the Trick Master until he couldn't use his arms anymore. "Sora and Donald used one strong fire spell, and the Trick Master was no more. "What a racket. How's a doorknob to get any sleep?" The Doorknob yarned, showing us this world's keyhole. Sora's Keyblade reacted to it by shooting a beam of light and locking it. "What was that?" Donald asked, "The world's keyhole." Amy explained, "You hear that? Sounds like somethings closed." Sora said as something fell out. "What's that?" I asked, "It's a gummie piece." Donald said, "This gummie ain't like the others. No, sir." Goofy said, "Okay, I'll hold on to it." Donald said, "Splendid. You're quite the hero." Cheshire said, "Thanks. But we didn't find Alice." I said, sadly
"Alice, I forget all about her." Amy said, "If you're looking for Alice, she's not here. She's gone off with the shadows, into Darkness." Cheshire explained, before disappearing one last time. "I was afraid of that." Amy said grimly, "No..." Sora said, "Let's go back to our gummie ship. We might find her in another world." Donald said, "We've gotta go to a save point to return to our ship." Goofy said, "Good, Idea. We need a new plan." I said,
Returning to the lanes between we started flying aimlessly, "I can't believe Alice was kidnapped." I said, "Me neither, what's so special about her, anyway?" Sora asked, "I know why she is." Amy said, "Have any of you heard of the seven pure lights?" She asked, "I have." Donald said, "I haven't." Goofy said, "That's because you weren't listening when Yen Sid explained it to us." Donald said, "Oh right, now I remember. I was thinking about the yummy sandwich I packed for lunch." Goofy said, "Oh, brother." Donald said, facepalming. "The seven pure lights or seven princess. Are said to have hearts filled with pure light, so pure that they will open the door to ultimate power." Amy explained, "That would be bad if it got into the wrong hands." Sora said, "It would be chaos!" Emily said, "Three have already been captured and Alice is the fourth. While we're at others we have to make sure the others don't meet the same fate." Amy explained, "We understand Amy." Donald said,
Meanwhile, at a world called Hollow Bastion. A friendly Wizard Heartless named Wendy just got word about Alice's capture "Jessabelle?! Jessabelle?! Jessa- Ah!" She screamed, when a Barrel Spider got in front of her "Down Webby, you nearly gave me a heart attack now where's your owner?" Wendy asked, "What's with all the shouting I'm trying to read." Jessabelle said, she was a Shadow Heartless like Emily and the others, and she was also the only cursed Heartless angel to remain in the world. "Sorry, Jessabelle. But what are you reading." Wendy asked, "50 Fascinating Facts About Spiders." She said, holding up the book, "Oh, of course. Look, this is important, Princess Alice has been captured." Wendy said, "Who?" Jessabelle asked, "Wait? The Princess Alice as in the pure light?" She asked, "The very same." Wendy said, sadly, "Okay, I can round some troops, and we can take her back to her world. Where does she live? And what's her parent's phone number?" Jessabelle asked,
"Jessabelle, it's too late. They already have her heart." Wendy said, "Did they put her in one of those glass cases?" Jessabelle asked, "Mm, hm." Wendy nodded. "What we need to do is make sure they don't capture anymore. We owe it to Emily and the others." Wendy said, "And I stayed here to make sure no one ever falls for one of Maleficent's tricks again." Jessabelle said, "Speaking of which. How is he?" Wendy asked, "He's a stubborn one, but I think he's caving in." Jessabelle said, "We need him to leave and never return. The last thing he needs is believing that his friend abandoned him." Wendy said, "But, how do we get him to leave? It's not like we have a return to sender policy." Jessabelle said, "It doesn't matter how we do it. He just needs to go and never come back." Wendy explained, "And what if he does?" Jessabelle asked, "Then, I will be very disappointed in him." Wendy said,
Next chapter will be based in the Deep Jungle world. I hope you look forward to it.