Hello! Sorry this chapter took so long but y'know, busy with school and other.stuff.*ahem* .so I finally posted this with the next chapter close behind so I hope it lives up to your expectations. I have the basic storyline in my head but I'm still partly making it up as I go.

Enjoy! + plz be honest

Chapter 4 ~ Welcome 2 Wonderland

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Riku sat back in the gummi ship and watched Sora pilot it expertly. After a childish argument earlier between him and Sora about who would pilot, Sora had taken the controls and Donald had retreated to the corner sulking.

Riku wasn't impressed. Sora was beginning to annoy him and so were his little friends. Sora had become the "leader" of their bunch, acting confident and in charge. Donald was snappy and controlling, perhaps the brain of the group. Goofy was slow and dim-witted, the peacemaker of the group, valiantly trying to strengthen the fragile friendship bonds between Donald and Sora.

And what did that make him? The meek follower who was quick to obey orders? No. As far as he was concerned, he was his own group. He would remain loyal to Kairi and the first chance he got he was ditching this bunch. Donald, Leon, Yuffie and Aerith wouldn't control him.

He was not the Keyblade Master even though he could have been once. But not now.

The heart of the Keyblade Master was meant to be untainted and pure. Only the heart that is strong and true shall win the keyblade. His heart wasn't true and Sora had won back what had been rightfully his.

It should have been him who Kairi had given the lucky charm to. Him who had promised Kairi he would return.

But Riku knew that Kairi would never be his. Her heart belonged to Sora, and so did the keyblade.

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The group disembarked and floated down the Rabbit Hole. Sora led the way with Donald and Goofy close behind and Riku far away.

They reached the Bizarre Room and Riku started towards the sleeping doorknob at the other end of the cramped room.

Sora however stopped at the table in the centre of the room and took a swig from one of the bottles that were there. Sora and the other two began to shrink and Riku watched the tiny figures walk towards the sleeping door and pause.

Riku felt his dislike of Sora mounting and he felt a strong urge to crush them. He resisted his urge and followed Sora's lead and drank from the bottle. Riku ran towards the trio.

"What's up?" he said in what he hoped was a friendly tone.

Sora scratched his head. "Last time we came here, we locked the keyhole. It was in the mouth of that doorknob but he was barely awake when we did."

"So?" Riku inquired.

"So we don't know how to access it!" Donald snapped and folded his arms/wings across his chest. He missed the look of loathing Riku gave him.

"Gawrsh, I guess we better find Alice then, right?" Goofy suggested.

"Sounds good to me," Sora said, shrugging. He started towards an opening to the left of the doorknob.

"I guess it's settled then, since there's no problem you have with it," Riku muttered and followed behind Goofy. He missed Donald's sidelong glance at him.

Donald had never trusted Riku. The first time they had met, Donald had been anxious about his intentions. He knew Sora wanted to impress him but it seemed to Donald that Riku had something against him, something Donald thought was because of jealousy.

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Sora entered the deserted court and padded across the lush green grass. He stepped up to where the Queen of Hearts had sat when he had first met her whilst accusing Alice of stealing her heart.

Sora looked around thoughtfully. Surely the Lotus Forest would be deserted and the Tea Party Garden abandoned except for the Mad Hatter and his friends. So where could Alice, the Queen of Hearts and all the others be? There had to be a castle of some sort where they were.

Sora moved to the right of the judge's stand and drew his keyblade. He hacked at the hedge and surprisingly enough, discovered an opening. They had entered a maze.

Each wall was a perfectly trimmed bushed approximately three metres high. Sora began to feel excited, Donald and Goofy looked intrigued, Riku just looked bored.

After half an hour of wandering around in the maze, the four found the exit and an amazing sight greeted their eyes.

A huge sparkling grey castle was about a hundred metres away with a delicate and large garden leading the way to the doors. Trees clipped in the shapes of hearts came in all shapes and sizes. Carefully trimmed rose bushes flourished in all directions and in the distance immense rolling green hills could be seen.

A few metres away to their left were three oversized cards flustering around the rose bushes carrying cans of red paint and casting numerous nervous looks towards the castle.

Sora, Donald, Goofy and a ticked off Riku approached them.

"Hello?" Sora asked tentatively. The cards jumped and one dropped his can of red paint that headed in Sora's direction. Sora dodged it but felt it's sticky contents splash onto him. He did his best to wipe it off while Goofy spoke to the cards.

"Gawrsh, what do ya think you're doin'?" he asked.

"W-we were.painting the r-roses r-red," one stuttered.

The second one squealed nervously, "We accidentally p-planted white roses instead, s-so we have to paint them! Otherwise she'll behead us!" The other two looked miserable.

".We'll help you!" Sora volunteered.

Of course, Riku scowled. Trust Sora to be the hero.

But Goofy spoke first, "But uh wouldn't that be muddling?"

"Meddling!" Donald corrected impatiently.

"Uh right! And that's against the rules!" Goofy said helpfully.

"C'mon guys! The Queen will behead them if she finds out! We have to help them!" Sora said desperately.

"Oh all right," Donald agreed when Goofy looked at him.

"Th-thankyou!" stuttered the third card and they all began furiously painting except for Riku who coolly strolled over to a nearby bench and stretched out.

Slowly they began to get exhausted. They were covered in paint and had managed to change most of the roses from white to red when a fanfare of trumpets sounded.

The cards scurried away. The trio collapsed onto the grass, unaware of what the trumpets meant. Sora closed his eyes lazily when a few minutes later a foot nudged his shoulder.

He mumbled and opened his eyes to come face to face with a red-faced Queen of Hearts.

"DID YOU PAINT MY ROSES RED?!" she roared. The three jerked to their feet.

"Well-" Sora began.

"You see-" Donald started.

"It-" Goofy said.

"SILENCE!" The Queen screamed and with a firm gesture cards armed with sharp spears seized them and carried them towards the castle. Sora struggled and tried to catch a glimpse of Riku but the bench he had sat on was empty.

Riku was gone.

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Sora, Donald and Goofy sat in a damp, dark dungeon and waited. They had been waiting for an hour.

"We shouldn't have muddled in the affairs of other worlds!" Goofy said bleakly.

Nobody said anything. Donald didn't even correct him as usual. All three expected the worst.

"What do you think they'll do?" Sora asked, breaking the silence.

"Probably behead us," Goofy replied miserably with negativity that was unnatural for him.

"I don't see Riku coming to our aid," Donald said bitterly.

"Leave him out of it!" Sora snarled. Donald glared but fell silent.

Goofy sighed, "And where's Alice? We haven't even found her yet."

No one spoke. The gate rattled and three guards entered and roped bound the hands of each prisoner tight enough to cut off one's circulation and led them out.

"What will they do to us?" Sora asked the guard leading him.

The card sneered. "What does her Majesty do to all her prisoners?"

Sora gulped and the card laughed harshly. No one dared speak again as they walked down a narrow corridor. The entered through a doorway at the end of the corridor and squinted in the sunlight.

They were back in the courtroom but instead of being deserted, the Queen sat at the judge's table with guards everywhere.

Sora was lead to the stand in the centre of the room in front of the Queen and his companions were put to the Queens left and held securely by the guards.

The white Rabbit darted up a flight of stairs on the Queen's right and blew a trumpet to call the court to order.

"Court is now in session!" Sora looked at Donald and Goofy grimly. The rabbit continued, "Her Majesty the Queen of Hearts presiding!"

The Queen looked at the trio imperiously. "You three stand accused of painting my roses red! WHY DID YOU DO THIS?!"

"Because they were white," Sora said bluntly. The queen huffed and peered more closely at Sora.

"You aren't even from this world! WHO ARE YOU AND WHY ARE YOU MEDDLING IN OUR AFFAIRS?!" the Queen shrieked at him. Sora flinched. A guard stepped forward carrying the keyblade.

"Begging your pardon Your Majesty but he was carrying this weapon when he and the others were caught," he said nervously.

"WHAT?!" the Queen screamed, her eyes boring into Sora. "You are the KEYBLADE MASTER?!"

Sora nodded.

"YOU WERE HERE BEFORE, WEREN'T YOU!" she accused. "YOU INTERRUPTED ALICE'S TRIAL! WHY HAVE YOU COME BACK?!"

Sora sighed, "We came to find Alice. You wouldn't happen to know where she is though.would you?"

The Queen looked thoughtful. "No I haven't!" she huffed. "Well not since she was having tea with the Mad Hatter. I accused them of treason but found they spoke to much nonsense and let them go."

Sora looked up hopefully. The Queen paused, "If you were looking for Alice then WHY did you paint my roses!?"

"We were helping three cards who accidentally planted white ones," Sora replied.

The Queen gave him an overly sweet smile. "So you thought you'd give them a hand?"

Sora nodded. The Queen's face changed dramatically as her eyes bulged and her face became redder.

"THAT MEANS YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE!" she screamed. "I'M GOING TO PUT A STOP TO YOUR MEDDLING ONCE AND FOR ALL!" A maniacal grin lit up her face. "GUARDS! SEIZE THEM AND OFF.WITH.THEIR.HEADS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Sora jumped and kicked the guard that held the confiscated weapons in midair. He brought his rope bound hands across the sharp point of a spear a charging three of diamonds held and seized his keyblade.

Goofy and Donald had managed to beat off the two guards that restrained them and release their own bound hands so they were ready to catch there weapons when Sora threw them.

The trio reunited in the centre of the courtroom, guarding each other's backs. Sora blocked an out-of-control strike and kicked the guard in the stomach before swinging his keyblade horizontally sending the guard flying off only to land somewhere far off to his right.

Donald ducked a harsh jab form an angry looking ace of spades and cast a gravirja (A.N. not sure about the spelling of that one) spell that glued him to the ground.

Goofy simply smashed at an attacking guard, knocking almost instantly unconscious. More guards replaced those that had fallen.

"Guys," Sora grunted. "I think we gotta.get outta here." He cried out in pain as a nearby card took a lucky swing at him.

"What about," Donald said, healing Sora with a curaga spell, "Alice?"

"Retreat.to the Tea Party Garden," Sora panted, smiling at him gratefully. Donald nodded and cast a stopaga (A.N. ???) spell and the guards froze like it was a game of freeze frames, even the Queen had frozen, her face scrunched up with a finger pointing at the trio.

"RUN!" Sora yelled and all three sped towards the entrance to Lotus Forest.

A minute later, the guards unfroze and resumed attacking as if no time had passed. They paused, stunned. The three they had been attacking a second ago had disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The Queen saw them pause and her face turned an ugly shade of puce when she saw the trio had escaped.

"FIND THEM!" she screeched, which sent the guards moving in all directions, determined to please their Queen.

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There ya go! How'd ya like that? I'm still really sorry it took so long to put up but yeah it's there now. Next chapter is in development and hopefully won't take as long to post.

Ooo yeah got some gos about the real KH2 for ya! IT'S COMING OUT ON PLAYSTATION 3! (pray that I am wrong!) And PLEASE FIND SOMETHING TO PROVE ME WRONG!!!!!!!

Oh yeah and if any of you guyz are interested I can send u some KH2 pics if u haven't seen them already!

And do u guyz know how to space your work out more coz I can't get it 2 work!