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Location: Wonderland
We studied our surroundings, and concluded that we had shifted into some kind of strange forest. Massive trees stood in the middle of this place and brown, barren soil formed the ground. Large blades of grass colored green and orange towered over us all around, but they formed wide paths and made it easy to maneuver through this place. Numerous mushrooms seemed to provide steps to the upper stories of this forest. Using our antennas, we searched for information regarding our location and sensed the heart of this world. Within that heart, we discovered a name: Wonderland. And from that heart, we found a connection to the heart of one of the seven Princesses of Pure Heart. The Princess was a naïve, passive girl named Alice. She had long blonde hair and a white apron over a blue dress. We sensed where she was and immediately shifted there, as if shifting were a natural instinct to us.
We were borne into being with many inherent ideas. We knew that we had to seek the seven Princesses of Pure Heart, who resided in seven separate worlds. And we also knew that we had to take the Keyblade from its Master, because those two together would hinder our purpose. Our instincts also told us how to function, and how to sense hearts. However, there were also things that none of us knew at all. For example why the Keyblade struck such fear inside us, and what true powers lay inside that weapon. None of us remembered how we were born, save for the fact that we were born in Kingdom Hearts, the realm of darkness. A yearning to return there existed deep within us, and that was why we had to follow our instincts. The seven Princesses of Pure Heart and the Keyblade would reveal the way to Kingdom Hearts.
After shifting, we appeared inside a golden cage covered in dark pink shades. The Princess was sitting in the corner when she noticed us. She was startled and backed away, but we leaped to her and took her with us. We sensed a disturbance and quickly shifted out of the cage back into the forest. Princess Alice had fainted because of our encounter, so we sat her down against a tree.
"What do we do now?"
"We must find the heart of this world."
"What of the Princess?"
"She must come with us."
"We must hurry and find the heart, before the Keyblade Wielder does."
"Perhaps, Kingdom Hearts is here…?"
It was that thought that excited us so intensely that we were frightened. We paused for a moment, closed our eyes and tried to sense for more information. At last, we found the great heart and shifted out of that forest with the Princess. We felt the presence of the great heart inside some sort of room. Traveling there took time, because the energy emanating from the heart was disturbing our antennas and it became difficult to sense the precise location. Eventually however, we prevailed and found ourselves in a very strange room. Everything around us was much, much larger than us. Chairs and tables loomed high above, and the ceiling seemed miles away. We stood on checkered tiles colored dark and light pink. The world's heart was nearby, and we could feel it so intensely.
We finally reached the entrance to the heart of this world called Wonderland. What lay before us was a door with a living handle and a large keyhole as its mouth. It had previously been asleep, but our appearance startled it. It said something, and fainted back to sleep. Its mouth remained wide open, and inside it was the Keyhole. The Wielder of the Keyblade had not been here to lock it yet, for we could still feel the world's heart. We moved forward with caution and anxiety, unable to wait any longer to take this great heart. For all we knew, Kingdom Hearts could lie behind this door as well. But before we could pass through the doorway, we heard the voice of a boy say something in a strange language. The figure held a weapon like no other, for this was a weapon we all knew. It was the Keyblade and wielding it: its chosen master.
Astonished at this young boy who possessed such a powerful weapon in his hands, the Keyblade Wielder was given a chance to strike first. He swung the Keyblade at one of us and successfully hit his target. The Keyblade Wielder swung again, striking several more of us. On he went, continuing to slaughter us several at a time. We no longer underestimated this boy for it was clear that he knew how to use the Keyblade. We knew what had to be done: our goal is the heart of this world and we must reach it before the boy does at all costs.
Several of us attacked him, to keep him from reaching the keyhole and locking our only way to the next world. The boy's two companions, a knight and a mage, jumped from behind him and fought as well. The knight bore a shield and the mage bore a wand. I sensed their hearts and discovered their names: the knight was Goofy and the mage was Donald. Shaking my head, I quickly returned to the pertaining matter at hand. Following our instincts of survival, we launched ourselves toward the doorway in hopes to make it through. Success greeted our desperation as we broke through the door and fell in a seemingly endless, dark place. Below us was no light, but only darkness. We felt the great heart was here but it was nowhere in sight.
"Wait! I feel it… it's above us," I said.
The great heart shimmered a great light was above us, and yet we were falling ever further away from it. The light was beginning to lose its luminescence to the distance between us. We struggled to stop falling, to stop drawing away from our destiny and we continued to reach for it. And yet again, the fruits of our efforts were encouraging – the light began to regain its radiance! We drew closer and closer and felt the light on our fingertips. Soon, the great heart's light became too strong to gaze upon, yet we could not do anything but to continue reaching for the heart of the world. Alas, it came into our grasp and the heart was ours, but the light did not stop becoming more powerful. It continued to grow until we felt the intensity of the light's might in every fiber of our existence. The heart almost became unbearable, but it gave us a mind-blowing rush. I wanted it to stop, but at the same time I wished it would never end. Suddenly the light vanished in an instant, and we were left falling again in the absolute darkness.
Overjoyed to weakness as a result of our success, we were in a calm, deep sleep. We felt something change about us, about our bodies. We felt more agile, and we formed a tail but we did not care. We had taken the heart of Wonderland and our victory was the only thing that mattered to us.
