Kingdom Hearts

Wonderland

Ch. 9

Down the Rabbit Hole

The hole kept going and going so much so Sora calmed himself and pondered his situation. After first he was worried about hitting the ground but as the seconds turned to minutes, he began to think and try to piece together what is occurring to him. The hole was poorly lit with only a little brightness coming from above. He reached out his hand to see if he can feel anything. When he did his fingers accidently grasped a light switch. Instinctively Sora flipped the switch brightening up the hole he was falling down. Sora couldn't believe his eyes; he fell passed cabarets and chairs nailed to the walls around the pit. He looked up as he saw the items remain in their spot. He also saw Donald and Goofy tumbling after him down the rabbit hole. They were no more than 20 feet behind him.

As Sora looked around in an instance, he saw a map that depicted a strange continent. On the top of the paper was the name "Wonderland." Sora fell past the map wondering what a "Wonderland" was. He causally stared down to see if he's was nearing the bottom only seeing the floor right underneath him. With a loud crash Sora fell straight on his feet. Upon impact Sora's body shook abruptly. He remained standing somehow unscathed from the fall. Sora's giant yellow shoes weren't just for show. They were specially designed on Destiny Islands to allow the user to jump off incredible heights and land safely without breaking their legs. Assuming they landed on their feet.

He stared straight forward seeing the girl from before chase the white rabbit through a small door. She quickly crawled on all fours and went after it leaving behind Sora.

"Wait," shouted Sora raising his hand out to her. Sora suddenly felt a large weight crash upon his head and back forcing him to the ground. Donald and Goofy came tumbling down and crashed on top of Sora breaking their fall. The three were dazed laying in a pile.

Jiminy came down after them with his open umbrella in his hand slowly descending. He landed safely on Goofy's back without a scratch probably because of his umbrella that he used to slow his fall. He stood on top of the three and quickly brushed any dust off his sleeves. He hopped off to see how the others were doing. The three recovering from the fall all began to look around to see where they landed. "What is this place?" asked Goofy puzzled.

"It's another world 'Wonderland," explained Sora. The three stood up and began to converse.

"Wonderland?" asked Jiminy.

"Yeah I saw it on a map as we fell."

Donald looked up to see how far the rabbit hole went. He could not see the top from where they were standing.

"Hmmm, maybe the citizens of this world managed to exist underground instead of the surface," he added.

"That's quite plausible," said Jiminy.

Sora stared at the door the girl crawled through. "Come on let's do some exploring," he rushed towards the door at the end of the hall. Jiminy hopped in Sora's hood as he took out his journal to begin the next chapter of their journey.

Sora turned the knob as the door opened with a smaller door behind it, then another, then another. Till a small one opened allowing entrance into the next room. Sora got on all fours and made his way through, Donald and Goofy followed. Upon entering the next corridor they discovered themselves in a bizarre room. With another tiny door at the end of the room.

'What a strange place' each thought as they came through the small door. The room was pink with a small white table in the middle of the room with two strange bottles placed on it. Several appliances occupied the room like a stove, a bookshelf, and several comfy chairs huddled in the corner of the room. At the other end of the room was a red door with a smaller one built into it.

Sora walked to the other end of the room bent down and to turn the knob. As he did he heard a little squeal followed by a yawn. "What's with all the racket, can't a door knob get some sleep around here." Sora jolted back as the knob talked back. A face began to form around the knob. It yawned as it looked at Sora and the gang.

Sora shocked upon seeing a talking object hesitated to speak. He knew he'd be dealing with talking animals but not talking objects. Sora collecting his thoughts accepted the situation and bent down to ask the knob a question. "Excuse me, how can we get in? You're so small."

"No you're just too big," replied the knob.

Donald asked, "How do we get small?"

The knob eyes stared behind them at the table "Why don't you try the bottle."

Sora and the others looked around to a white table. On it laid two bottles one saying shrink the other saying grow. Sora walked over and picked up the shrink bottle. "So we just drink this?" asked Sora.

"That's the point," replied the knob. Sora unclogged the cork and took a sip. He handed it to Donald and Goofy who preceded in doing the same. "Blueberry, it takes like blueberry" claimed Sora.

Donald corrected Sora "No, it tastes like ewwwww, like roast beef."

Donald wiped his tong to get the taste out of his mouth. Goofy leaned over to Sora "Donald's a vegetarian, he doesn't eat any kind of meat."

"Really?" asked Sora.

"Yeah, but it's not what you think. He's a duck, ducks don't eat meat. Well sometimes fish but that's only once in a while. Besides this drink tastes like syrup anyways." After Goofy said that the three in a split second shrunk. Jiminy who was in Sora's hood was thrown from his seat. He fell from the height he was just at. He brought out his umbrella and floated back to the ground safely. The others looked around to see the white table behind them become giant and the door now just the right size stood before them.

The gang was shocked at what they became immediately compared their heights. Jiminy still shorter than everyone else stood knee high next Sora without his hat. They stared at Jiminy and laughed "Guess we know how you feel now." Jiminy took of his hat and scratched his head. Sora walked over to the door. He placed his hands over the knob representing its nose. But as he did a swarm of heartless appeared out of nowhere. Shadows and Soldiers surrounded them along with a new heartless. A red one with no arms, tiny legs, and a yellow hat. It floated around the others at it shot a fireball at Donald. He dodged and decided to give it a taste of its own medicine.

"Fire" sounded Donald as a fire ball raced toward the heartless. When it made contact the heartless instead absorbed the blast. "What?" shouted Donald. In desperation, he cried "Blizzard". Just as before the spell hit the enemy. But instead of absorbing the attack the heartless was destroyed.

Knowing the new enemies weakness and strengths they charged forward fighting the creatures off while Jiminy went to hide. The three were victorious as the enemy was quickly defeated in moments. The four regrouped to continue what they were doing. Sora attempted to turn the knob in order to open it, but the door was locked. "Huh, you're locked," proclaimed Sora as he tugged on the door.

"Don't tell me you forgot the key," said the knob. Sora looked up to see the key appear on top of the table were they got the drinks. "How about I jump up to get it," Jiminy offered, "Being a cricket I can jump incredible heights.

He was about to hop up until Donald stopped him. "Wait we don't need that key, Sora already has one," he said.

"You mean the keyblade," said Sora summoning it.

"Yeah, the keyblade is said to open any lock. I bet ya can use it to open the door." The doorknob not caring how they do it yawned opening its mouth. Sora saw a small light flicker in the keyhole.

Sora lifted his keyblade as a light pervaded from the weapon. The light trailed to the keyhole creating a lock sound. The bright lights quickly faded as fast as it appeared. After that little show Sora tried to turn the knob but he was still unable to open the door. "What it's still locked," said Sora tugging at the knob again.

"Well you locked it with that giant key of yours," explained the knob.

"Oh come on," said Sora a bit embarrassed.

Jiminy heard the news and preceded to hop on the table to retrieve the real key. He threw it down on the floor in front of Donald and Goofy who lifted it towards the doorknob. They inserted it into the keyhole twisting it. They dropped the key with the doorknobs face seceding. The tiny door slowly opened revealing to the gang what's on the other side. As they did the four friends faces turned cold as what appeared through the door was not the next room, but a body of water that flooded the bizarre room. It poured in filling the room completely with water. They all were suddenly submerged underwater being pulled towards the door. Like a vacuum the four were sucked through the door in a rapid current into the unknown.