Kingdom Hearts - Wonderland
by Chaos0110
Author's Note:
(By the way, this is the unedited version, meaning I haven't reread it and corrected it, so it won't be as good as my normal chapters, I'll probably have the edited version up tomorrow, or the day after, depending on schoolwork)
So long! Three months or so!!! And I know my few fans are just DIEING to read this...lol.
This chapter is specifically based on Alice In Wonderland's world in Kingdom Hearts. Okay, now on how I'm going to do the Disney Worlds. I plan on keeping them basically on the same track as their movies, because Sora just drops into the beginning or end of their movies. The only difference is that there are Heartless, Ansem, and Donald & Goofy; which complicates things for everyone in the worlds.
The Heartless Enemy in this story is the same; Trickmaster. And I kept the plotline part from Kingdom Hearts about the Queen of Hearts having been attacked to. And I used a bit of the manga as well...
On other news for this story, I've added many new worlds. Counting every world seen in the game, and that includes Destiny Islands, Disney Castle, Hollow Bastion, End of the World and Traverse Town, plus the ones I added you get 24 Worlds in total. Several worlds connect with others based on characters' in their movies. Like Jane Porter comes from England, but the world's barriers being destroyed by the Heartless left her the chance to travel between worlds. *hint, hint*
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They fell into darkness, slowly falling downwards. When they reached outwards, they could feel nothing.
"Where are we?" Sora's curious voice asked.
"I don't know," Donald answered, quacking furiously as he tried to see what was below.
"It's nice though. A perfect place to sleep, in the air..." Goofy announced, laying his head in his elevated arms.
"Wake up!" Donald cried, hitting him on the head with his staff.
"What's that below us?" Sora asked as light glared off their sides.
Donald reached out to a small figure in the darkness. "It's a chain!" Donald said, jerking it down. Light flooded from the lamp, who's chain Donald had pulled.
"This is weird..." Sora said, looking at himself in a mirror on the green, square indented walls.
As they floated, they passed tables and bird cages. As Sora passed another mirror, he noticed that it showed him upside down.
"Oh! A book! Maybe this has something in it that can help us," Donald cried, taking a red-covered book from a small table. He looked inside, trying to determine its contents. "It's written in rubbish!" Donald shouted, throwing the worthless book down the tunnel, which flew backwards and hit him in the face causing a loud squawk.
"Shouldn't we have met someone by now?" Sora asked, looking at a patch of daisies sprouting from the wall. On his words, the lower light changed to blue and he could here a dull sound, like a piano key. He looked down, to see a grandfather clock dinging a time change.
"Gawrsh!" Goofy cried as he was engulfed in a tan rocking chair. The surrounding walls had changed to bricks now that they were further down, several portraits hanging cozily on the walls.
"It's getting warmer!" Donald shouted, his tail feathers almost colliding with a red flame inside a fireplace on the wall, a tea kettle burning ferociously over it.
As they fell farther, the brick changed to a dark cavern wall. As Sora's legs propelled backwards, so that he was going head-first down the tunnel, Donald and Goofy in the same position, he noticed a map of a blue and green planet, with poles on either side of it and the people walking upwards, depending on where they were standing.
He was paying too close attention to the map, that he hadn't noticed the pole his feet stuck to as the gravity returned to the three of them. Donald and Goofy fell to the ground from the sudden change, Sora dangling above them on a black pole that held a pair of parted, red curtains.
He pulled his feet from overtop of the pole so that he became a heap on the ground.
"Sora, look!" Donald cried, pointing down the awkwardly proportioned hall. Sora followed his gaze to see a small, white rabbit with large spectacles and a red nose hopping around the bending wall. He was coated in a red jacket, black bow-tie, yellow shirt, and grey pants that revealed his fluffy tail and feet.
He grabbed his head as if he was sick, grasping a golden, over-sized pocket watch and checking it for the third time. "Oh, dear," he moaned, tears splashing down his furry face as he disappeared around the wall. "I'm late! Oh! I'm late!"
The room was shaped oddly; walls jutting out at ever angle, tiles different sizes and shapes, furnitue that floated just above the ground.
"Hey, wait! Can you help us!?" Sora cried out to the rabbit.
"Let's follow him. He's bound to lead us to someone who can help!" Donald said, taking off down the hall. Sora followed past portraits of clocks until they passed the curved wall and came to a small, blue door.
"Let's go!" Donald repeated, opening the door and rushing in to collide with the next, brown door that opened from the opposite side. "Oh!" Donald moaned, falling to the floor.
"Come on," Sora said, taking Donald's place at the doors. He opened the next, which Donald had run into, and then the next, and the next and then the last, smallest door of all. "I think we can fit through there," Sora said, stuffing his upper body through the opening.
He had to use his hands to help push the rest of himself through. He stood up, turning to the newly discovered room. The walls on each side were different colors with the same square indentation along each of the many rows.
The wall he emerged from was burgundy, the right wall blue, the left pink and the wall before him was green. "It's okay, you can fit through," he told his companions, peering through the doorway he emerged from.
Donald, having recovered from his recent accident, flew directly through the hole after jumping, being the perfect fit for his small size. Goofy was another thing completely. He was only halfway through before he was stuck.
"Come on, Goofy!" Donald shouted angrily, seizing Goofy's gloved hands and pulling as hard as he could until Goofy had burst through, throwing them both backwards onto the stitched floor.
"Woah! Thanks, Donald," he said, smiling two buck teeth.
"No, problem. Sora, did you see where that white rabbit went?" Donald asked, turning to Sora questionably
"Isn't it obvious? He had to go through there," Sora replied, pointing across the pink and white patched floors to a pink curtain held from a golden rail.
Sora pushed the curtain aparts after rushing the small distance. "Oh, no! Not another door! And this one is even smaller!" Sora moaned. Sora went ahead and reached for the golden doorknob, twisting it. He jumped backwards as the knob cried out in pain.
"I beg your pardon!" it glared at them.
"What?! It can talk?!" Donald cried out from Sora's right.
"Oh, I'm sorry," Sora replied, completely suprised.
"It's quite all right. But you did give me quite a turn," it said in a royal manner. It opened its eyes, thinking to itself, then, smiling, he laughed, "Rather good, what? Doorknob, turn!
"One good turn disserves another. What can I do for you?" he asked, fixing his gaze on the three of them.
"Well, we saw this rabbit earlier. We had to ask him, if he had seen someone we're looking for," Sora told him. "And, we were wondering if you could open up, so we could get through to find him?" Sora added.
"Oh, I'm sorry. You're much too big. Simply impassable," the doorknob replied.
"You mean 'impossible,'" Donald corrected.
"No, 'impassable.' Nothing's impossible!" he laughed. "Why don't you try the bottle on the table."
"There isn't a table!" Sora replied, turning to emphasize the empty room, but was startled to see a glass table spin from out of nowhere and glide to stop in the middle of the room, a bottle falling atop it.
He stood from his place on his knees and walked to the table, grasping the small bottle. "This place is getting weirder and weirder...," Sora said to himself, shaking his head.
"Read the directions, and directly, you'll be directed in the right... direction," he laughed gleefully.
"Wait! What's in this!? Are you sure it isn't poison are something!?" Donald asked Sora impatiently.
"Why would it be? Noone knew we were coming, so why would they want to poison us?" Sora replied in disbelief. He looked at the tab hanging from the bottle's neck. "'Drink Me,' the bottle says," Sora said to himself, just audible to the others.
He raised the bottle to his mouth, taking a small sip before setting it back down onto the glass table. "It tastes like the pineapple we had back on my island!" Sora said, noticing his body lurch.
"What!?" Sora asked as he shrunk even smaller. "I've shrunk!" he shouted, looking down at his now tiny body.
"Now what!? I told you something might be wrong with that stuff!" Donald shouted at the new, miniscule version of Sora.
"Well, it helped!" Sora glared up at Donald.
"How? Now you're just going to waste our time," Donald challenged.
"No, now I can get through the door," Sora told him, walking over to the Doorknob, which looked down at him with it's yellow eyes.
"Can you let us through now?" Sora asked the odd door handle.
"Soory! Didn't I tell you? You need the key, I'm locked," he laughed.
"Where is it?" Sora asked, exasperated.
"It's up there," the Doorknob replied, nodding to the glass table between Goofy and Donald.
"Donald, get that key!" Sora shouted up to him.
"I know that!" Donald said, plucking the golden key that appeared from the table. He dropped it down to Sora. Who fell backwards trying to keep from colliding with the golden key as it shot to the floor.
Donald laughed from up above him, thinking it was hilarious that Sora nearly got hit on the head. Sora stood up and walked to the limp key. He propped it up and pushed it towards the door. The Doorknob guffawed at his efforts. "Pretty tough being that tiny isn't it!" he laughed at Sora.
"Yeah, it is" Sora said angrily. He had a feeling he wasn't going to like this place any better than he already did as he went farther into it. He struggled to hold the key up and then entered it into the shaking mouth of the Doorknob. He let it hang there and turned around.
"Hey, you guys. Go ahead and come down here," Sora shouted up to Goofy and Donald.
"All right," Donald said, grasping the small, round bottle. He took a small sip and let it go as he was shrunk to the floor. "Aaah!," he cried, as he fell over in dizziness. The bottle hit the glass table, spinning around for a few seconds before Goofy picked it back up. He took the bottle and took the last swallow. He placed back on the table where it mysteriously filled itself up.
"Ahahuey!" Goofy cried in suprise as he too came to rest on the ground.
"Come on," he told them as they pulled themselves up from the ground. He turned back to the key. The Doorknob said something, but it was inaudible with the key in his mouth. Sora turned the key, and pulled it out of the Doorknob's mouth. "What did you say?" Sora asked as the door popped open.
"I said watch out for the water!" the Doorknob cried in anguish as dark, blue water quickly flowed out of the open doorway.
"Aaaaaahhh!" Donald cried as he turned to run from the oncoming water. Sora and Goofy wasn't as lucky. The two friends were pummeled by the first waves of it and then engulfed. Donald, in feudal efforts, was also taken by the water as it swirled through the room.
Sora, who was now almost completely underwater, shouted to his friends, "Go for the doorway!" He only hoped they heard him as he dived into the watery depths and swam for his life. He glanced back to see that Goofy was swimming after him, with Donald clutching onto his leg.
As he came to the opening of the door, the water was pushing him harder and the buubles of movement were increased. He could barely see enough to get through the door, but pushed himself harder to the door. He'd made it through, Donald and Goofy right behind him as they rushed upwards for oxygen.
Sora crashed through the surface, gasping for breath. Donald and Goofy followed suit, splashing through the surface and breathing hard.
"That was....dangerous," Sora said, still gasping for breath and keeping his arms and legs moving so as to stay afloat.
"Yeah," Donald replied, now swimming on his on. "Let's go before we get sucked back end," Donald told them, feeling the pull at his legs.
They quickly swam the rest of the down the ocean of water. In the distance, they could see a human-size Dodo standing on a giant, brown boulder. He was holding a log lit with fire in his white-feathered hands. The entire boulder was slowly engulfed by the water.
They swam up beside the boulder as the water began to recede. The Dodo was wearing a sky-blue vest with a black overcoat and a black hat with a blue bow on the end of a ponytail made from the feathers on his head. He was singing some kind of marching song. They could faintly hear something from beneath the water surrounding the boulder.
"Hey you! Why don't you join in the march, young man! Standing around in the water like that, you'll never get dry!" the Dodo shouted to Sora and his companions as the water slowly receded while he placed the fire logs at his bird-feet.
As the water disappeared, a firm, muddy soil ground was reveiled and on it was a group of galloping sea animals. They were dancing around the Dodo bird, chanting the song he had been singing before Sora had arrived.
"No! We can't!" Donald told Sora. "We have to find that rabbit! He was going somewhere important! He might lead us to what we're looking for!"
Sora nodded and turned back to the singing Dodo. "Sorry, but we can't right now!" Sora shouted back. "We're looking for a rabbit. He's white, has a big pocket watch and wear's clothes!"Sora finished. He felt like he was going insane. Donald and Goofy being able to talk and act like humans we're one thing. But now almost every animal he met wore clothes and talked.
"Nope, haven't seen him! Why don't you join in with the march and dry off while you're waiting for him," the Dodo responded, gesturing to the marine animals who we're still running around the boulder and singing. They we're slowly leaving a line marked into the mud of their escapade around the boulder.
The walking creatures seemed unaffected as the water splashed back at them. Unlike Sora, Donald and Goofy, who we're thrown to the ground and covered with water from the impact.
"Uuuh! What's with this water!" Sora shouted out angrily as he pulled himself from the mud. He was instantly knocked back over as something spinning in a black umbrella flew out of the retreating water and went through his legs.
Pulling his head out of the mud and ignoring Donald's quacks of laughter, Sora glared at whatever had plunged him back into the mud. It was the White Rabbit. He was inside his black umbrella and had just come to a stop. He had obviously used the umbrella as a boat to get him across the water since he probably couldn't swim. He jumped out of the water-filled umbrella, emptied it and looked at his gold watch again through his glass spectacles.
He gasped in suprise and glanced over at Sora. "I'm so sorry, but I'm late! I'm late!" the Rabbit said, taking off for the forest near the singing animals.
"Wait, please wait!" Sora commanded the Rabbit, but it was in vain as the Rabbit simply kept running for the forest. "Come on!" Sora said to Donald and Goofy before taking off after the perplexing Rabbit
The mud slowly turned from mud to sand and then into grass-covered sand as Sora rushed up the beach and into the forest. Most of the grass was covered with white-petaled flowers and gray-trunked trees.
Sora tried his best to keep up with the Rabbit, but he lost him around a bend of trees about twelve feet into the forest.
"Now what?!" Sora said, exasperated after finding no clue as to where the Rabbit had gone. The area he stood in was a small gap in the trees where the sun could see through. There was a tree trunk that sat in the middle of the sunlight, but seemed untouched.
"Maybe we should just pick one direction and go, huyuk!" Goofy said looking down the different paths opening between the trees.
"Well, that seems like the best plan if we want to...Aaaahhh!!!" Donald screamed as he fell backwards.
Sora turned around to find to identical twins standing in front of Donald. They were both plump with extremely thin legs with black shoes. There pants were red and were pulled all the way up to a blue bow that covered a white banners that each side circled around and met in the middle of their chest. They had red beanies topped with yellow flags on their orange-haired heads.
"Who are they?" Sora asked walking up to the stock-still men. Goofy looked at them and noticed something written on their banners.
"Oh, I got it! He's Tweedle Dee," Goofy said, pointing to the twin on the right, "and he's Tweedle Dum!" Goofy finished pointing at the opposite twin.
"What kind of stupid names are those?" Donald asked aloud.
The two twins jumped up onto the tree trunk, bounced on top of each other until they had fully passed Sora and landed onto the ground in front of the suprised duck.
"Why, there our names of course!" Tweedle Dum said and elbowed his twin.
"Contrare to whack if you think we ought to let you speak to us!" Tweedle Dee responded.
They hit each other with the elbow, which emanated a strange horn sound and jumped back onto the unmoving log. They done another dance, bouncing on each other, giving off another horn sound everytime they collided and landed back onto the ground in front of Donald.
"That's logic!" they said together, holding up their opposite hand's index fingers.
Sora shook his head and turned back to the pathways in the trees. "Well, we have to be somewhere else. Come on, guys," Sora said, taking off on one of the pathways.
"Oh no, you can't go yet!" Tweedle Dum said, bouncing in front of Sora's way.
"The visit has just started!" Tweedle Dee finished for his twin as they both held out their hands to signal Sora to stop.
"Sorry, but we're going somewhere!" Sora said, getting annoyed and trying to push his way through the odd brothers.
"Don't you want to play a game or two!" Tweedle Dum began.
"Yeah, like hide and seek or button, button, who's got the button?" Tweedle Dee finished.
"Noooo!!" Donald shouted at them as he followed Sora off into the opposite direction.
"Stay around long enough and we might have a battle!" Tweedle Dee said as he and Tweedle Dee jumped back into their way. They both began to punch Donald in a way you would if you were having a battle.
Donald quacked in anger at each punch. "Fire!" he shouted, shooting a flame at one of the twins. They moved out of the way as the inferno soared into the sky.
"No, no! You don't try to hurt your hosts!" Tweedle Dum said, raising his index finger again.
"That's manners!" Tweedle Dee finished.
"We're leaving!" Donald said, walking through them followed by Sora and Goofy.
"Why!?" the twins asked in unison as they bounced in front of them once again.
"We need to find the White Rabbit we met a little while ago," Sora replied, moving with the group in another direction. They were stopped once again as the twins gave another question.
"Why!?" they asked again.
"Because we're trying to find something and we think he might know where it is!" Donald answered, pushing them backwards so they could walk through them again.
"We tell stories too ya' know!" Tweedle Dum began, meeting with his twin in front of them once again.
"Why don't you sit down while we give you some eddication!" Tweedle Dee finished as they took Donald's hands and forced him back, along with Sora and Goofy, to the old tree log. The twins pushed them down onto the trunk like it was a bench.
"Reciting Father William!" they said together.
"First verse!" Tweedle Dum said as they begun their recital.
"Come on," Sora whispered to Donald and Goofy as he crawled behind the old log and off onto one of the paths. The twins, caught up in their recital, didn't take notice to their vistors' leave.
"Geez, what a bunch of whackos!" Donald said after they had gathered enough distance away from the two brothers.
"I though they were funny!" Goofy replied.
"Oh, what do you know, you big palooka?" Donald said, ending the conversation.
They kept walking until they came to an end of the shadowed forest. In the open area sat a pink and white house that was concrete at it's base. It had a small, pink rounded door. It had two windows that were closed in with pink shutters. The roof was of yellow hay and shadowed the burgundy grass that grew there. There was several yard utensils on the edges of the house and was enshrouded by the surrounding trees that were covered with pink blossoms.
The three companions walked up to the fence post, where the gate was open wide to the cement path that led to the doorway, and was topped by yellow leaves.
They could hear the voice of the White Rabbit coming from inside and began walking for the door.
"Now you listen here, Mary Anne...Help!!!!" the voice screamed. The door was threw open and the White Rabbit, who was now wearing a red, gray and white uniform with a red heart as the logo, was pushed out by a very large, black shoe along with some of his pink possesions.
He landed near a bird house beside the gate. The top windows' shutters were thrown off by the arm shaped intruder. The White Rabbit didn't seem to notice Sora as he looked as his house.
"Oooohh! Noooo! Hellllp!! Monnnnsteeer!!" he shouted out, jumping over his stone fence and running to the right of his house down a white path into the forest. "Help!! Assistance!" his voice called out as he blew his newfound trumpet.
"What is that thing?" Sora asked Donald and Goofy, taking a step back.
"A monster! A monster, Dodo! In my house, Dodo!" the rabbit's voice continued. Coming closer from the forest he had retreated to.
Sora looked back at the forest where the frightened Rabbit was walking beside the Dodo they had seen earlier.
"Oh my poor little bitty house!" the White Rabbit said in sadness.
"Steady, steady, my old chap. Can't be afraid of all that you know," the Dodo said, puffing an old pipe, which littered smoke into the air.
"All my good roof and shutters and all my walls and...there it IS!!" the Whhite Rabbit cried out, jumping into the air about as high as Sora stood while pointing at the small ruptured house.
The Dodo, who had been walking calmly while swinging his gray cane, lost everything in the air upon seeing the house, but caught hold of his belongings before gravity took them. "By Joe!" he whispered, amazed at the house.
"Jolly well is, isn't it!" the bird continued, eyes wide.
"Well, do something Dodo!" the White Rabbit said, giving him a little push before taking a hiding place behind the edge of his fence and glancing at his house every so often.
"Yes, indeed!" Dodo said, looking up at the roof. He turned to the large shoe and rapped it several times with his cane. "Extroadinary situation, but uh..."Dodo continued.
"But, but, what?!" the White Rabbit asked, coming out from behind the fence. The two conversing adults, as they seemed to be, had simply ceased to know of Sora, Donald and Goofy's existence as they continued their conversation.
Taking out a blue hankercheif, Dodo blew his beak while holding his coat and cane with his left hand. "But I have a very simple solution!" he said while stuffing his hankercheif into his coat sleeve.
"Thank goodness!" an anonymous voice said.
Sora looked around the White Rabbit's yard. "Who said that?"
"W-w-what is it?" the White Rabbit stuttered.
The Dodo blew his beak again while walking closer to the house. "Simply pull it out the chimney!" the Dodo responded, pointing his cane to the chimney.
"Yes! G-g-go on!" the White Rabbit said, pushing the Dodo forward with all his might.
"Who, me?" the bird asked in disbelief. "Don't be ridiculus," he continued, coughing. "What we need is a..." he thought, putting his wing up to his chin to help him think.
A whistle sounded throughout the area, signaling the entrance of a green overalled lizard. Inside of his overalls was a black sweat shirt and he had a black hat over the head of his green-scaled body. He held a chimney sweep and a ladder in his hands and was walking pass the White Rabbit's infested house, tail dragging behind him.
"A lizard with a ladder!" Dodo finished, staring at the newcomer.
"Hmmm? Oh! Bill! Bill!" the White Rabbit began, running over to the lizard who waved his hat at him. "We need a lazard with a lidder!" he continued, tugging on Bill's arm and pulling him into his yard. "A lidder...a li... Can you help us?" the White Rabbit concluded questionably, letting his grasp on Bill's arm go.
"At your service, Governer!" the lizard replied, holding the first two fingers of his left hand to his forehead and continuing down the stone pathway.
Dodo met him in the middle, embracing him with a wing around the lizard's back and walking with him. "Bill, me lad! Have you ever been down a chimney?" Dodo asked him.
"Why, Governor! I've been down more chimenies than-"Bill began.
"Excellent! Excellent! You just pop down the chimney..." Dodo interrupted, putting the ladder against the front of the White Rabbit's house and pushing Bill up it. "And pull that monster out of there," Dodo finished, watching as Bill continued to climb up the ladder.
"Righteo, Governor!" he replied, looking back at the governor as he continued up. As he passed the window, he done a backflip and looked at it once again. Whatever he saw, Sora couldn't see it because of the angle of the building. "Monster?" he asked, jumping up and screaming his way back down the ladder.
The White Rabbit and Dodo took Bill'stail, trying to keep him from running away in fright, saying reassurances that couldn't be heard over the lizard's screams. Dodo forced the lizard's tail around as if he was steering a car and pointed him back at the ladder, squashing the White Rabbit while doing so.
As Bill took notice in his sudden change in direction he began to run back the ladder again, only to be caught in Dodo's wings as the bird carried him up to the roof.
"That's better. Bill, lad, your passing up a golden oppurtuntity!" Dodo explained as he climbed the ladder using only his feet.
"I am?" Bill asked in disbelief.
"You can be famous!" Dodo continued, waving his smoking pipe around as he held Bill with his other arm.
"I can?" Bill queried, beginning to smile.
"Of course! There's a brave lad! In you go now!" Dodo commanded as he reached the rooftop. "Nothing to it, old boy. Simply wrap your tail around the monster's neck and drag it up!" Dodo told him as he stuffed the lizard's body down the thin chimney hole.
"But-but-but-but, Governer!" Bill stuttered in desperation.
"Good luck, Bill," Dodo gave one last word before stuffing the lizard completely down the chimney.
Suddenly, the whole house began to shudder. Donald, Goofy and Sora jumped back in suprise, watching as Dodo himself jumped onto the ladder as it fell over to the ground. The White Rabbit ran to his hiding place below the intruding foot, followed closely by the dazed Dodo.
There was a loud, sharp sound and the chimney burst open as something black flew out of it, leaving a trail of ash behind it as it shot up into the air.
"Well, there goes Bill," Dodo said to the White Rabbit as he started to smile.
"Poor Bill," the voice Sora had earlier sympathized. Again, Sora looked around and, again, finding noone.
"I know I'm not hearing things," Sora whispered to himself, frowning.
"Uh...," Dodo thought to himself, sucking onto his pipe as he thought harder. "Perhaps we shuld try a more...," he said while pulling out a match and lighting it by rubbing it against the giant shoe, "energetic strategy!" Dodo finished, holding the burning match in his left wing while proposing his idea to the White Rabbit.
"Yes! Anything, anything! But hurry!" the White Rabbit replied, pulling out his ticking pocket watch and pointing at the time to emphasize his point.
"No, I propose that we uh..." Dodo responded, stopping to think once again.
"Yes!? Go on! Go on! Yes!? Yes!?" the White Rabbit, apalled at wasting more time, hurried.
"I propose we uh... Ohhhh!!" he stopped as the match turned burnt down to his wing. "By Joe, that's it!" he answered after staring at his red wing. "We'll burn the house down!" Dodo told him, showing his burnt wing to the White Rabbit.
"Yeah..." the White Rabbit repeated. "We'll burn the house do-What!?" the White Rabbit cried in realization.
"Oh no!" came the anonymous voice's reply to the suggestion.
"Who keeps on talking? Who are you?" Sora asked, annoyed at the weird voice.
"Ooohuhooh!" Dodo shouted as he began a song while he lifted the White Rabbit's furniture and carried it over to the side of the house.
The White Rabbit could be heard whimpering, "Oh, me! Oh, my!"'s and, "No, no, no!"'s as he pleaded with Dodo to come up with a better plan.
Finally coming to grips with Dodo's suggestion, the White Rabbit carried his pink, wooden gate over to the pile, although he still wished there were a better way. He dug a match out of his pocket and handed it to Dodo when the bird asked.
"We'll smoke the monster out!" Dodo concluded his song, lighting the match and throwing it into the pile of wood.
"We'll smoke the monster ou-Nooo! Nooo! My poor house and furniture!" the White Rabbit replied, holding his face with his furry paws.
"Oh dear. This is serious. I simply must... ah! A garden. Perhaps if I ate something, it would make me smaller!" the voice reassured itself. Sora found that the voice must've been coming from the so-called monster all the time as it's hand moved to the garden at the voice's words.
It began to pluck at one of the carrots in the garden, which were all deeply buried, much to the White Rabbit's dislike. He jumped on the prying hand, trying to keep his poor carrot in the ground. Once the hand had pulled the carrot from the Rabbit's yard, it lifted the carrot and its creator, the White Rabbit, into the air.
"Noooo! Let go! Help!!!" the White Rabbit commanded as he was carried through the window.
"I'm sorry, but I must eat something!" the feminine voice of the monster replied.
"Not me! You, you, you, you, you barbarian!" A loud chopping noise was the Rabbit's reply. "Helppppp!!!!!" the White Rabbit's reply sounded. "Monster!!!!"
The giant shoes that were protruding from the house's entrances suddenly pulled themselves back in, along with the human-like hands sticking out from the windows.
"Aaah! I'm LATE!!! Oh, dear I'm here, I should be there!" the White Rabbit cried, running out of his soon to be burned down pink house.
"I say, do you have a match?" Dodo asked him as he flew past. The first match he lit had long worn out, without bringing embers to the Rabbit's pile of furniture.
"Must go! Goodbye! I'm late, I'm late, I'm late!" the White Rabbit replied, shaking Dodo's hand and running out of the land that was uncovered from the trees and into the shadowed forest.
"Oh, wait! We never got to ask him!" Sora asked, crestfallen.
"You, young man! Do you happen to have a match!" Dodo asked him.
"Sorry, no," Sora told him, shrugging.
"Oh, well, young lady, do you have a match?" the bird asked something that Sora didn't see.
"Who is he talkng to?" Sora asked, edging towards the doorway where Dodo had turned to.
"No, I'm sorry, but...wait! Mr. Rabbit!" the feminine voice he had heard earlier shouted from the ground.
"What!?" Donald shouted in suprise as they came face to face with a young girl the size of a pixie.
"Oh, hello! Can you help me?" the young girl asked, looking up at Sora with high hopes. She had a blue dress that went down to her knees and was covered by a white apron. Her black shoes were tiny and oval-shaped and ended the white hoses that covered her legs. Her hair was blonde and engulfed a small black bow, clashing with her big, blue eyes.
"Who are you?" Sora asked, kneeling down to see her better.
"I'm Alice, who might you be? I haven't seen a human here so far."
"I'm Sora, how'd you get here?" he asked her.
"Well, I don't mean to be rude but, could you help me please! I've been chasing that Rabbit all day and I don't want to loose him now!"
"All right," Sora replied picking her up in his hands. He took special care not to drop her as he rushed down the path that curved into the forest, where the White Rabbit had fled. There was a field of flowers around the bend and the White Rabbit had disappeared. I was too late to tell where he had gone. There were around seven different roads to choose from.
Donald stopped me from carrying Alice any farther. "We need to talk for a second," he said, pointing to Alice.
Sora nodded and looked down at Alice. "Why don't you go ahead and will catch up with you," Sora said.
"All right, but don't expect me to wait forever," she said before pushing through the blades of grass.
"Okay, what is it?" Sora said turning back to Donald and Goofy.
"Where should we go from here?" Donald asked him.
"Why don't we just stick with Alice and find the White Rabbit? It might lead us to what you two are looking for and, who knows, we might find my friends somewhere in the forest," Sora answered.
"But, we're not sure exactly what we're looking for," Donald told him.
"What!?"
"We just know that our King told us to find a person with a key and that it was important. Gawrsh, I wonder what it's for!" Goofy intervened.
"It has to have something to do with the worlds otherwise the King wouldn't have left. He said that there was some reason that the stars we're blinking out in his letter," Donald continued.
"Is that all?" Sora asked.
"No, there something else. Have you noticed that there hasn't been any Heartless so far that we've been here?" Donald asked.
"No... I didn't notice that...," Sora whispered silently, becoming suspicious.
"And the Heartless are supposed to follow the Keybearer everywhere, right? So don't you think it's weird that none have attacked us, or even shown that they're here?"
"That is weird... And the people living here don't seem to no about the Heartless either... What's going on here?" Sora responded.
"I don't know, but I think we should be prepared for the worst. They might attack us soon, we better be ready," Donald finished cautiously.
"I'm sure everything'll be all right," Goofy said after they had finished talking about the Heartless.
"Yeah, that's right!" Sora said, gaining his hopes again. "I couldn't have got this Keyblade for nothing!" Sora persisted, raising the Keyblade, which appeared in his hand at will, so that he could study the mysterious weapon. Coming back to his senses, he turned back to the small meadow just as a red butterfly flew by him.
"Come on, let's find Ali-"
"Ih, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yigh!!!" a voice screeched across the meadow.
"Wahhh!" Goofy screamed as he looked up into the air.
"What was tha- Woah!" Sora gasped after turning to see the noisemaker. It was Alice. She was about fifty times the size they had last seen her.
"Helpppp! Serpent! Serpent!" a bird atop Alice's head with a pink bonnet and spectacles squawked after being pushed out of her nesting place in a tree.
"Please, please!" Alice said, trying to calm the mother bird down before she shouted any louder.
"Off with you! Shoo, shoo! Go away! Serpent! Serpeeeeeent!!!" the bird shouted to the sky, holding on to her bonnet so it wouldn't fly away.
"But I'm not a serpent!" Alice tried to explain.
"What!? Indeed!? The just what are you?" the bird asked, landing on the tip of Alice's nose to look her in the eyes.
"I'm just a little girl!" she answered.
"Little? Ha! Little!?" the bird laughed, flying up into the air in front of Alice's head.
"Well, I am! I mean... I was..." Alice told the bird, looking down at her feet.
"And, I suppose you don't eat eggs either?" the mother said sarcasticly.
"Yes, I do. But, but, but, but, but..." Alice tried to reason as the bird started in her shouting again.
"I knew it! I knew IT! Serpeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeent!!!!!" the bird screeched, circling around Alice's blond head.
"Oh, for goodness sake! Hmmm...." Alice said, holding her hands up and glancing at both as the bird gathered her eggs out of her nest on Alice's skull. "And the other side will..." she continued, taking a bite from something in her left hand. She swallowed and instantly shot back down to the earth at her feet, disappearing into the grass.
"What was that about?" Sora asked rhetoricaly as he made his way over to Alice vanishing spot in the green blades. He almost didn't stop in time to keep himself from running into Alice as she popped back up, now the normal size of a girl her age.
"Hello, Sora!" she greeted him. "Better save these," she told herself, sliding something into the pockets of her apron.
"What happened to you?" Sora asked, worried.
"Oh, nothing. Just some advice I gained from a caterpillar," she smiled. "So, how did you get here, Sora? And who are they?" Alice asked, pointing at his two companions.
"They're Donald and Goofy. We just met a little while ago. And we came from Tr-" Sora began but was suddenly jerked down by a feathered hand.
He heard Donald's whispering voice in his ear. "We can't tell her where we're really from! You would be meddling with how the worlds work. Noone's supposed to know of other worlds besides their own!" he hissed and let him loose.
"Are you alright?" Alice asked him. "What did he say?" she inquired as they continued to walk down a sandy path that led deeper into the forest.
"I'm okay. Oh, it was nothing, he just had to remind me of something," Sora replied. "About where we came from, we came from somewhere outside Wonderland. Down a giant rabbit hole," he answered.
"Really? That's how I got here! I was minding my own buisness as I took a break from my sister's teachings and then I saw the White Rabbit. I followed him, curious to know where he was going and what he was late for when I fell down the rabbit hole I followed him into, bringing me here," Alice told them, indicating the grounds of Wonderland.
Goofy gasped and covered his mouth. Donald looked at him and placed his index feather over his beak. "Shhh!"
"What? What did I say?" Alice asked, confused from Goofy's awkwardness.
"Um... Nothing," Sora stated, glancing back at the guilty Goofy.
"Either way, I'm trying to find the White Rabbit because he led me here, maybe he knows a way back out," Alice told them.
"Don't worry, I'll help you get out of here if the White Rabbit doesn't, Alice," he said as they came nearer to another patch of trees.
"That's very kind of you," Alice thanked him, curtseying as they stopped in front of a thick and tall, red tree.
"Who posted these?" Donald asked aloud, stalking up to the tree's bark, which was covered with small, wooden posts that had words of every direction cut onto them. They walked to the right of the tree, where another tree was revealed to be covered with the carved words.
"I wonder which way we should go..." Alice wondered aloud as a voice filled the air. It was a deep, sultry voice and it was singing to itself. The dark spots of the forest shining with every beat of it's rhythms.
"Who do you suppose...?" Alice's voice whispered.
"Loose something?" the voice came from behind them, clearer than before.
"Oh!" Alice shouted in suprise as she jumped to face the person, who she assumed was male, that had been singing seconds before.
"What the...?" Sora examined, seeing only a set of shining row of dull-ended white teeth floating above an outstretched tree branch.
"Oh, that's quite all right," the teeth responded to Sora's suprise. "Just one moment, please," the teeth asked as two drowsy eyeballs fell into place above the teeth. "Second chorus," the voice began as he recited the unknown verse as his body's entirety faded into place.
He was a plump cat that was laying on it's stomach, surrounded by his fluffy tail, swinging his paws to the words and beats of his song. He was covered in stripes all the way down to the end of his tail, made up of two shades of purple. The tip of his tail and his face were pink while his pug nose and head hair were a dark shade of burgundy. His face was the shape of banana on it's side and his teeth filled his entire cheek structure.
"Why-why, you're a cat!" Alice grinned up to the newcomer.
Stopping in his song, his tail raised his ears as if they were his hat in gratitude for her notice. "Cheshire Cat," he corrected, continuing on with his lyrics. His tail lashed in front of him and he began to depart behind it.
"Wait! Don't go! Please!" Alice exclaimed.
His tail replaced itself just above his eyes and he peeked out at her. "Very well," he replied, rendering himself back into reality.
"Third choru-"
"Oh, no, no, no. Thank you, but, I just wanted to ask you where you think we ought to go?" Alice asked expectantly.
"Well," the Cheshire Cat began, raising his back paws into the air and folding his front legs underneath him as his eyes rolled around in their sockets. "That depends on where... you want to get too!" he said matter-of-factly, living up to his name all the time.
"Oh, it really doesn't matter as long as-" Alice began.
"Then it really doesn't matter...which way you go" he answered before she could finish talking. He had floated back onto the branch so that he was standing on his hind legs like a human and dived off at the end of his words, evaporating in color and then in lines as he fell.
Paw prints dug into the dirt, leaving highly defined marks as they walked forward, around Sora, Alice, Goofy, and Donald's feet, and to the pathway behind them. Then the smiling cat formed atop the branch next to his markings opposite the way he had left the other, lines first, followed by color.
"Oh! By the way!" he stated as he folded his paws and leaned against the tree. "If you'd really like to know, he went that way!" the Cheshire Cat said, slowly beginning to point to the right but changing to the left.
"Who did?" Alice asked.
"The White Rabbit," the Cheshire Cat answered with his paws on his tail.
"He did!?"
"He did what?"
"Went that way," Alice answered by pointing in the same direction the cat had moments before.
"Who did?"
"The White Rabbit!" Alice answered, becoming annoyed.
"What rabbit?"
"But didn't you just say...! Oh dear!" Alice cried, turning away from the changing positions of the pecuilar cat.
"Can you stand on your head?" he asked her, having pulled his head off his body, which was now balancing on one foot atop the talking globe.
"However, if I were looking for a White Rabbit," he began, noticing her impatience. "I'd ask the Mad Hatter."
"Mad Hatter?" Sora asked, turning to a sign reading the aforementioned man's name.
"No, no I don't want to-" Alice replied quickly, her head shaking in agreement.
"Or, there's the March Hare. In that direction," the Cheshire Cat told them, pointing the opposite of the Mad Hatter's sign.
"Thanks, we'll see him," Sora pronounced, turning to the pathways to the left as Alice curtseyed him.
"Of course!" the Cheshire Cat interrupted their escape. "He's mad too."
"But I don't want to go among mad people!" Alice said in frustration, on the brink of tears.
"Oh, you can't help that! Most everyone's mad here," the Cheshire Cat laughed at her disappointment. "You may have noticed that I'm not all together there myself," he remarked, verifying the retreating rings of his tail. A last chorus of his musical signaled the cat's exit from the forest.
"Geez," Sora sighed.
"If the people here are like that, we must try not to upset them," Alice advised, glancing at Sora.
"Yeah. So where do you want to go now?"
"I suppose to the March Hare. He sounds less insane than the Mad Hatter."
"Yeah. This place is getting more weird by the minute," he said to her as they begun down the March Hare's path, signs posted on every tree that they passed.
"I wonder if we'll ever find our way out of this nonsense, Sora," Alice said sadly as they continued to walk down the path leading to the March Hare.
They walked the rest of the way in silence due to Alice's melancholy. She seemed to dislike Wonderland very much. Which was hard to believed since, no matter how she seemed to have transported herself to Wonderland, it was still her world at the moment.
After walking along the path for fairly ten minutes, they slowly heard high-pitched singing near in the distance, breaking the silence that had been in place between the four of them.
"What do you suppose...?" Alice asked rhetorically aloud, as they followed the path more urgently to where the sunlight from above could be seen outside the forest leaves, they came to yet another cottage not unlike that of the White Rabbit's.
It was a two story house adorned with greys of stone and bright pink hues of paint bordering every corner's edge. The house was leaning in a crooked stance outwards toward the right, where the wooden door was fitted into the same direction. The ceiling was made of yellow lofts of hay with a block chimney protruding from its center in the opposite direction, two blue antennas elevating into the air of the surrounding, and concoted colors, of the surrounding forest trees.
A maze surrounding the back of the cottage was one of the most prominent features. Its hedges were yellow in color and bent up and down in the air as if by will. The doorway to the inside of the hedges was cut out of the middle, forming a brightened archway of yellow leaves, where upon rested the hinges of a greyed wooden, door with a circle cut through its head.
As they followed the chaotic pathways up to the hedges, peering into the arena formed by its walls, they saw, and heard, two oddly short men singing a song that repeated the words "A merry merry Unbrithday!" again and again over a large, rectangular table running across the yard.
The table was covered by a low mist, or smoke, and it was hard to see the men's faces clearly. They were raising teapots and teacups in the air with each chorus of the song. And, as they slowly clambered along the stone path outlined with hooping, black wires to where a large pink chair was, they noticed that the music creating a pattern for the song's repetition of words was the teapots. They were spurting sounds from their snouts, which had caused the fog over the table.
And as the song slowly reached its high-pitched climax, Alice's hands rang out with applouse for the performance. The men took notice of them immediately, jumping out of their chairs resting on the opposite side of the table and running toward the four intruders.
"No room!"
"No room!"
They both shouted the same phrase, running past the rows of chairs, teacups, and teapots. Sora quirked an eyebrow at them, Donald sighing in exasperation. No room? What were they talking about? There were dozens of empty chairs to be filled.
Alice looked up at them strangely also from her seat in the bulky, pink lounge chair she had placed herself in.
"But we thought there was plenty of room!" she said, confused even farther by the two new men, who slowly became clear as the mist evaporated from the air.
The first man, who they assumed to be the Mad Hatter because of the green hat, which was far too big for the man's head, seated upon his gray-haired head, slowly turned himself away from them in disgust. He had a nose the size of a stone that was topped by dark and grim eyebrows. He had a yellow overcoat, with a blueish-green bow tie at the base of his neck. His shirt was a darker green, familiar with the color of their surroundings, and pants of a slightly lighter hue of the same color. His tiny shoes were barely noticeable because of their dark color that blended with the ground.
The other man, or rather, the other hare, was slowly marching up to them in his red overcoat and bow tie, with shirt, breeches, and shoes a dark burgundy matching his bunny nose. The coat of brownish hair that covered his body as if it were a tan led up his body frame past his whiskers and bucktooth front teeth to a patch of blond hair where his tan colored rabbit ears drooped in the air. It seemed as if they had also met the March Hare in the backyard of the Mad Hatter's home.
The March Hare perched himself on the seat of a chair beside Alice and wagged his furry finger at her, while holding himself up with another hand on his knee. "Ah, but it's very rude to sit down without being invited," he said in his starch, deep voice.
"I'll say it's rude! Very, very rude, indeed!" the Mad Hatter said, flustered, in his aged voice, which seemed as if it would fail on him at any second. His two front teeth were also bucktoothed and his pink tongue lay limply on the edge of his lips when he closed his mouth.
"Yes. Very, very, very rude indeed," came a lazy and squeaky voice from under the lid of a yellow teapot on the table. It was a mouse wearing all pink, with a bow tie just as the March Hare and the Mad Hatter. As soon as he had spoken, he lowered his grey, droopy-eyed face back into the teapot with a click of the lid.
"We're sorry," Sora told them, raising his hands out in explanation.
"Yeah, ahyuk," Goofy apologized from behind him in his jiggling voice, Donald dead silent as he stood to Sora's side.
"Yes. Me as well," she continued the string of apologies. "But I did enjoy your singing. And I was wondering if you could-"
"You enjoyed OUR singing?!" the March Hare cried in delight at her words, frightening Alice so she would raise her hands in defense as he rushed to her side, hands together.
"Oh! What delightful children!" the Mad Hatter began again, Sora noticing a label in the crook of his hat with 10/6 printed as a fraction on a piece of note-card sized paper. He raised his hands in flattery before lowering himself to the table, where his elbow splashed into a cup of tea. "And-uh!" he cried, exasperated, having noticed the cup's attachment. "Oh, my. I'm so excited!" he began again, trying to pry the wite cup from his imprisoned arm. "We never get company! You simply MUST have a cup of tea!" he said, pointing to the unlistened teacup locked over his elbow.
"Yes, you must have a cup of tea!" The March Hare ordered gently, picking up a pearly white teapot. He poored it over his furry hand, the first few drops turning into a small plate, teacup, and sugar cubes before filling the newborn cup with the brown, steaming liquid.
"That would be very nice!" she said eagerly, as the Mad Hatter removed the cup from his shoulder and slowly poured Sora, Donald, and Goofy cups of tea as well. "I'm sorry we interrupted your birthday party. Thank you," she said thankfully as she took the steaming cup from the March Hare, though it was soon jerked back from her grasp.
"Birthday? My dear child, this is NOT a birthday party!" he said impatiently, tapping his furry fingers against the tea cup's rim, rabbit ears twining together in ignorance.
"Of course not!" the Mad Hatter said matter-of-factly, before noticing the teapot resting on the pink table-cloth in front of him. He grasped it and lifted above the white rimming around his neck and letting the tea flow freely down his neck. "This is an UNbirthday party!" he continued as the tea rolled about his outstretched wrist into another teacup.
"Unbirthday?" Alice questioned curiously. "I'm sorry, but I don't quite understand..." she told them, puzzeled. She reached out for the re-offered teacup and it was, yet again, jerked from her reach.
"It's very simple!" he began, leaning onto the table edge knowingly. "Thirty days past s-No!" he explained before holding his hands out to signal his meaning. His right ear bending down to nuzzle his blonde patch before he began again. "An Unbirtday! Iff you have a birthday, then...you..." he said before cocking his head in befuddlement. He then lowered his head to rest it on the table and laughing. "She doesn't know what an Unbirthday is," the March Hare directed to the Mad Hatter behind his left hand, right hand pointing at Alice as his eyes rolled themselves around in their sockets.
"How silly!" the Mad Hatter giggled into his hand. "I-" he began before stopping as brown bubbles filtered from his open mouth. He picked up another teapot, blue this time, and sprayed a small cloud of white mist into his mouth. "I will illuminate!" he said, turning to her while laying a hand on his chest.
The March Hare flung himself into the center of the teapots before raising a teaspoon as if he were a band director and the teapots sprang to life, making musical sounds with spurts from their spouts and jiggling along with the tune.
"Now, statistics prove! Prove that you've one birthday!" the Mad Hatter sung aloud and out of tune, pointing to Alice, who was smiling in glee.
"Imagine! Just one birthday every year!" the March Hare piped out before continuing his ministrations on the orchestra of teapots.
"Aaaah! But there are 364 UNbirthdays!" the Mad Hatter continued, indicating each finger as if to try to magically make three hundred and fifty-nine more fingers appear.
"Precisely why we're gathered here today to cheer!" the March Hare finished the song, jumping into the air as if to make the pots play louder.
Alice boosted herself from the pink cushions of her chair and cried, "Why, then, today is my unbirthday too!"
"And mine!" Sora raised his voice in agreement.
"Gawrsh, it's my unbirthday too! Ahyuk!" Goofy entered, Donald simply rolling his eyes at their absurdity, arms folded, and webbed feet tapping in boredom.
"It is?!" the March Hare shouted in suprise.
"What a small world this is..." the Mad Hatter said in his raspy voice, looking up into the tree-covered sky.
"In that case!" he said gleefully, as if this was all a performance they did for every passerby, and bounced over to Alice, Sora, and Goofy along with the Mad Hatter, encircling their arms around the group as they began singing their earlier song once again, pushing Donald out of the way.
"A very merry unbirthday!" the March Hare began, moving around the three.
"To us?" Alice asked for them, flattery written across her face as the Mad Hatter removed his hat to reveal a three layered, pink cake with three candles atop its mouthwatering icing.
"To you!" the Mad Hatter squeaked in reply.
"A very merry unbirthday!" the March Hare repeated again.
"For us?"
"For you!" the March Hare replied happily as they released their grip around the three of them and the Mad Hatter handed Alice the light cake.
"Now blow the candles out my dears and make your wishes come true!" taking his index finger and scooping up some icing on his fingertip, which he gobbled up hungrily.
"Ahyuk!" Goofy blushed before blowing air past her shoulder at one of the candles, followed by Alice, and soon joined by Sora, who was wishing to find Riku and Kairi.
As the flickering, orange flames disappeared, flickering sparkles were revealed on the candle tips, making a burning sound. Alice's smile soon disappeared and she held the cake away from her as it jumped to the sky in blue sparkles of its own accord.
"A very merry unbirthday!!! To YOU!!!!!!" they sung the climax as the cake sparkles burst into fireworks. As the sparkles began to collapse to the ground, with it came the sleepy figure of the mouse that had been resting in the yellow teapot in a puff of blue smoke with an umbrella hooked to his pink overcoat as he floated silently to the ground singing a soft song.
"Twinkle, twinkle little bat. How I wonder what your at. Up above the world you fly. Like a daimond in the sky," he sung in his drunkened blue-eyed gaze as hefloated into his teapot, the Mad Hatter slipping the lid quietly over them.
As Alice began to clap in appreciation, she didn't notice a solemn black creature approaching her from behind. But Donald, from his place on the ground, did. He turned in suprise to Sora, who was closer to Alice.
"Sora, Sora!" he cried pointing at the yellow-eyed creature as it was nearly upon her. "Help her!"
Sora turned to him, confused at first, before following his finger to the dark creature. His eyes widened as it jumped, Alice only just turning to Donald, still having not noticed the Heartless behind her.
"What? What? What is it?" she asked innocently as Sora lurched at her. She raised her arms in defnse as he pushed her out of the way and, weapon appearing mysteriously in his hand, swiped it away into green spheres with his Keyblade.
"Oh my!" the Mad Hatter cried as the dark creatures appeared across the forest floor. "Run for your lives!" he shouted in concern for his life, taking off out of his garden as the pink covered table was over-turned by groups of Heartless covered in purple and silver armor.
The March Hare followed his example and ran for his front door.
Alice, having fallen to the ground, noticed with wide eyes the mysterious and deadly creatures. She pushed herself up and, maid's dress shaking, took off after the two short men.
Sora could see that the two men were in the doorway and slammed the door shut, refusing to let Alice in to safety, looked through the front window and the March Hare told her, "Come back some other time for another cup of tea!"
She glared at the brown covered hare. "I definitely won't be coming back here!" she shouted at him through the glass and, once again noticing the Heartless who had begun to follow her, ran off into the forest.
Sora stayed back to fight and angrily sliced through the attacking Heartless. Shadows and Soldiers throwing themselves at him each in turn. He sliced quickly through the weaker of them, the Shadows, before being blocked by several Soldiers who cut at his skin with their sharpened armor.
He continued to try and strike them out of his way, but the Keyblade would bounce back off the metals covering their flesh. He faintly heard the striking of metal on metal behind him as Goofy used his Smasher Shield to pummel the Heartless into more green spheres, letting them be absorbed into him to keep him healthy and energized.
Sora continued to counter one of the Soldier's attacks as two others scraped his arms and face with slices of their spear-like claws. Donald, having rid two Soldiers rushing him, turned to Sora's rescue, casting Fire at the two Soldiers bashing him as Sora managed to slice through the other's revealed stomach. The destroyed Soldiers collapsing in green balls, bringing health to Sora's scarred arms.
As they layed waste to the last of the Heartless and slowly gathered the munny that also collapsed from the Heartless, the turned to find that Alice was nowhere in sight.
"Oh no! Where'd Alice go?! We have to find her!" he said in a worried voice.
"Who cares! We need to do something important! And following that girl isn't leading us anywhere but into more trouble!" Donald quacked angrily, shaking the Morning Star clasped in his feathered hand in dispute.
"I've already lost two of my friends, I'm not going to lose another!" Sora glared at Donald. "I'm going to search for Alice, I don't care if you come!" he said marching out of the garden, which was littered with shattered teapots and teacups from the seemingly thunderstruck table, and off into the forest following the path he had used to follow to the Mad Hatter's earlier except in the opposite direction.
He could hear two pairs of foot steps slowly appear behind him in pursuit. He glanced back knowingly, seeing the blue and yellows of Goofy and Donald's uniforms. He was grateful that they were here with him, no matter how angry he seemed. Because, even though he was angry now, he knew he wouldn't be able to stay alive by himself at the moment, seeing how weak he was against the earlier Heartless. And even if he could, he would still need to get off this world somehow, and Donald and Goofy were his only answers at the moment.
They marched silently through the forest, Sora glancing this way and that in search of Alice as they once again entered a cluster of trees. It seemed to have been hours since they had been blowing out a candle for their unbirthday party and they hadn't spoken since. It was almost as if they were walking through a graveyard.
"And the momeraths outgrabe!" came a deep singing voice behind them. They jumped, startled, before turning to see the pink and purple smiling cat. "Looking for someone?" the Cheshire Cat asked knowingly.
"Oh! It's you! Yes, we're looking for Alice. Do you know what happened to her?" Sora asked the cat desperately.
"Well, what I can tell you is that she stumbled across the almighty ruler of this world!" he said, mockingly forming a patch of black hair tied up in a bun before it disappeared again to his normal fur colors. "And what WILL happen, if someone doesn't get their soon, will be a tragedy. For Alice's sake at least," he smiled despicably.
"Ruler? Where is Alice now?! If she's in trouble we have to save her!" Sora said heroically, slicing his balde through the empty air to prove his point.
"Don't tell me?! You haven't met the Queen?!" he cried in suprised glee. "You hav-en't?!" he asked again, rhetorically, before rolling across the tree limb he was seated on in laughter.
"Can you just tell us how we can find her?!" Sora asked angrily, glaring up at the laughing feline.
"Well, it depends. Just how fast do you want to get there?" he asked with a smirk, tail waving in the air.
"As fast as possible!" Sora cried anxiously.
"Alright then. I suppose you would want the shortcut!" he said, reaching up to grasp a loose treebranch and pull down on it. The trunk of the tree slowly creaked open, an opera of light freeing itself from the opening.
"Woah...," Sora said in awe as he looked through the hole. A green, hedged maze ran along the ground from the opening inside to open up to a clear lawn where there was a giant court in place, overshadowed by a tall, black and white palace. And there, upon the stand, was Alice.
"Alice! There she is!" Sora cried in joy at seeing the blonde girl. He glanced up to the Cheshire Cat. "Thanks!" he said gratefully to the fading feline.
"Don't thank me yet!" he grinned before fading away. "And the momeraths outgrabe!" he cried with his disapearance, though it was not heard by the three rescuers who rushed into the maze grounds toward the stand.
They rushed up through the courtyard, where the Jury, the Judge, and the Defendant, Alice, were set up in their rightful places. As they entered, they noticed several dispatched cards, carrying spears and axes, black and red in color, as guards. Before they could enter the court too far, the cards jabbed their weapons in their way.
"Noone must enter the court while the trial is taking place!" a red card explained.
"Or they will face the wrath of the Queen of Hearts!" a black card finished, poking Sora once before they once again stood in a line to guard Alice, who was on the stand, from escaping if she tried to flee.
They stopped in place in front of the court, where the grass turned to a blue floor with hearts embroidered over each tile.
"Your Majesty," came a raspy, desperate voice from up above beside who Sora assumed to be the Queen of Hearts. It was the White Rabbit! So this is where he had been running off too. He was in his uniform with his heart banner and bowing to the Queen. "Members of the jury," he continued, bowing to them also. "Loyal subjects," he said, nodding to Sora, Donald and Goofy as he pulled out a scroll which he loosened to let it roll slwly to the ground. A heart shaped scepter tapped on the White Rabbit's shoulder.
It was held by a man wearing a crown and red and white garments that draped to his feet. He was a small man, smaller than the Mad Hatter and the March Hare had been, with red hair and a miniscule, almost unseeable mustache. The White Rabbit glanced at him. "And the King," he said lazily as the King of Hearts removed his crown as if it was a hat as if he expected an applause.
"The prisoner of the bar is charged with attempted theft of the heart of the Queen of Hearts. Her majesty, the Queen of Hearts, presiding," he bowed to the Queen after reading the long paper, though his speech had been rather short.
The Queen of Hearts was seated on a chair that was hearts and other odd designs. The King was seated in a similar chair, but instead he was standing atop a mountain of books piled on the chair. She had her pitch black hair back in a bun, held by a red ribbon, with a small crown that was thinner in width than a normal crown. She had a set of golden earrings that dangled from her small ears and was barely noticeable because of the white collar that surrounded her head. Her body was plump and huge in comparison to her tiny husband. Her royal robes were a series of blacks and reds that crossed sides in opposition, where her lower dress split into a yellow and black arrow desing to wear her dress ended at her feet. Her face seemed almost kind with her large nose, fluttering eyelashes and thin lipstick, so thin it could barely be seen.
"This girl is the culprit. And the reson is...because I say so, that's why!" the Queen shouted angrily as the jury, which Sora noticed to be a group of oddly colored animals, quickly wrote down her words. The King did nothing and sat obediently while holding the gavial and wincing when his wife shouted.
Alice who shook her head in despair. "But that is so unfair! I've done nothing wrong!" she cried innocently.
"Well, do you have anything to say in your defense?" the Queen smiled evilly and leaning on the ledge of her sitting place.
"Of course I do! You may be Queen, but that doesn't give you the right to be so mean and unreasonable! I was only running for my life with that creature-"
"SILENCE!!!" she ordered angrily, face growing red as she glared at the young girl below her. "You dare defy me?!"
Sora watched hesitantly from the sidelines as Alice was interrogated. "We have to do something!" he persisted to Donald and Goofy.
"Yeah, but the-" Donald began.
"We're outsiders, so wouldn't that be muddling?" Goofy interjected.
"'Meddling'!" Donald corrected angrily.
"Oh, yeah. And that's against the rules," Goofy finished, smiling.
"But she's in trouble. And that Queen isn't-"
"The court finds the defendant...GUILTY AS CHARGED!!!" the Queen of Hearts bellowed. Alice took a step back in the stand from her ferociousness. "For the crimes of assault, and attempted theft of my heart," she supplied her reasons. "OFF WITH HER HEAD!!!" she ordered, pointing at Alice with her own Heart Scepter, as the cards jumped to apply their duties.
Alice held her hands in defense as the cards rushed forward with their spears and axes. "No, no! Oh, please!!!" she cried desperately.
Sora couldn't stand there and watch one of his new friends be unfairly accused and subjected to punishment for a crime she didn't commit. He knew who the real enemy was...
"Wait!" Sora clamored, throwing his Keyblade forward to knock down the cards obeying the Queen's orders.
"Who are you!? And how dare you interfere with my court!?" she demanded, slamming her fists against her table.
"Excuse me, your Majesty. We know who the real culprit is!" he explained to her in desperation for Alice's life.
"Uh-huh! It's the Heartle-" Goofy began, clasping his gloved hands over his mouth knowing he had revealed too much.
Sora glanced at him, then turned his attention back to the Queen. "Anyway, she's not the one you're looking for," he told her.
"That's nonsense! Have you any proof?" she grinned as if she knew he didn't.
"Um....n-no..." he blushed.
"Then...OFF WITH THEIR HEA-eads... What?!" she asked the King angrily, as he tapped on her shoulder with her scepter.
He clung to the desk to keep from being blown away by her breath. He quickly gathered himself back together. "Well, why don't we give them some time to gather some evidence? Hmm? Wouldn't that be nice? Hmm? What do you say?" he questioned her hopefully. He seemed to be a kind man who didn't want to see Alice lose her head, but he also seemed to be under his wife's thumb.
"Well....alright!" she told him as he jumped gleefully. "Bring me evidence in Alice's defence!" she ordered them. "Fail, and it's off with all of your heads. Gather as much or little evidence as you please. Report back here once you're ready to present. In the meantime...Alice will be my prisoner!" she smirked as one of the black spaded cards took Alice by the shoulders and stuffed her into a cage next to the Queen.
Sora turned to Donald and Goofy. "Sorry, I couldn't just let her have her head cut off," he said in apology, rubbing the back of his head and smiling.
"It's alright, Sora. She doesn't diserve to be beheaded anyway. We'll help!" Goofy replied as Donald sighed and nodded in agreement.
"Sora! Sora!" Alice called from her cage. He rushed over to her, where the guard watched them suspiciously and wearily. "Oh, thank you so much Sora! I'm sorry you got mixed up in this nonsense!"
"Why are you on trial anyway?" he asked.
"Well, you know those creatures that attacked the Mad Hatter's party? They chased me into the forest where the Cheshire Cat helped me by showing me my way here. I came running for help, but as soon as I reached the Queen, the creature stopped following me and attacked her. Though I know she is mean, I'm glad that creature didn't get her before the guards killed it. Though I do wish she wouldn't blame me for this mishap!" she explained.
"That's terrible! I don't know how, but we're going to find a way to help you, Alice!" he consoled her as she frowned sadly.
"I'm glad, I just wish none of this had every happened. I suppose I'm a little too curious for my own good!" she sad, beginning to cry.
"Silence! The defendant will be quiet!" he ordered and turned a wheel that was beside him, forcing the small cage up to where the Queen was seated farther up in the air. As the cover of the cage began to close Alice shouted urgently to him, "Sora! Ask the Cheshire Cat what to do! He'll-" and her voice was drowned out by the encasement.
"...Well...let's go, you guys!" he said, taking off for the opening they had entered through from the forest, passing a heart shaped hedge above them as they re-entered the dreary forest.
They found gloom and darkness as they sped into the grassy tundra. Sora looked up to the tree he had last seen the Cheshire Cat near. He was gone. But where, exactly?
"Cheshire Cat! Cheshire Cat!" he echoed through the forest. He could here that sultry voice coming nearer, singing his logo song.
"And the momeraths outgrabe!!!" the Cheshire Cat signaled his entrance as he formed above the tree once again.
"Now what do you want?" he grinned.
"We-we need your help! Alice's in trouble and we need you to-to... We need you to tell us where we can find the evidence of Alice's defense," he clarified in anxiousness.
"For Alice's defense you need to show the Queen of Hearts the truth. The truth you seek, and the evidence it withholds lies within this box," he smiled, throwing a pink box that appeared into the air and laughing slightly as it bounce off of Donald's hat and fell into Sora's arms. "Or maybe it does not?"
"How do we know this isn't a trick?!" Donald asked irritatedly, Sora glaring at him.
"To trust, or not to trust? I trust you'll decide!" the Cheshire Cat said, pleasured at seeing Donald's confused glare.
"Now we can save Alice!" he said eagerly.
"Don't be so sure! She may be innocent, but what about you?" the cat questioned him.
"What's that supposed to mean?!" Donald raged.
"I won't tell, but I'll give you this," he answered, holding open his right paw where a glittering light shot down and surrounded Donald and Sora. "And the momeraths outgrabe!" he sung silently and mysteriously, disappearing in the night.
"What did he do?!" Sora asked Donald in panic.
"Somehow, he gave us the experience we needed to learn how to use the Blizzard spell...,"Donald replied.
"What kind of evidence do you suppose is inside?" he asked curiously, turning his attention back to the box and peeling the lid slightly open to peer inside. The lid burst open wide and threw him to the ground as a Heartless took off through the opened tree-hole for the court.
"A HEARTLESS!!!" Sora roared in suprise, chasing it through the maze to the court where the Queen sat, unexpecting the oncoming creature.
As the Soldier Heartless lumbered up the courtyard and across the heart embroidered tiles, carelessly making plenty of creaks and clangs, the Queen finally took notice of her danger.
"Guards! Dispose of that thing, immediately!" she roared frantically.
"Immediately! Immediately! Just as the Queen ordered!" the King edged the numbered cards to fight back against the unknown, to them at least, creature. As the cards fought to hold the Heartless back, it jumped high over their heads, aiming its talons directly at the Queen's chest...where her heart presided...
"Look out, your Majesty!!!" he cried, summoning the power within him to call forth his newfound magic spell. He was too far way to attack it physically and jumped into the air where he was and cast, "BLIZZARD!" at the predator Heartless. Blue crystals shot from the end of his Keyblade through the sky and barely collided with the Soldier, though it hit him hard enough to make him collapse into munny and green health.
"There's your evidence, Queen! Alice's innocent!" he told her, running through the shocked guards and to the wheel beside the card keeping Alice prisoner in the cage. He pushed the card aside as it tried to ward him off with its axe and snapped the wheel off with a cut through the air from his Keyblade. The cage dropped instantly. And inside was...
"What?! This can't be happening?! Where'd Alice go?!" Sora asked aloud, eyes wide with suprise.
"How dare you?! You used that creature as a pawn to set free the prisoner and hide her?!" the Queen of Hearts thundered, enraged.
"What?! That He-creature is the criminal! And Alice was already gone!" he defended himself.
"NONSENSE! Alice is the criminal! Article 29 clearly states 'Anyone who defies the Queen of Hearts is guilty'! OFF WITH THERE HEADS!!!!!!!!!" she shouted, jumping down from her thrown and leading the cards after Sora as he and Donald and Goofy took off running from the cards, which multiplied in number.
They ran down to the opening where the tree in the forest had led them in. He glanced back to see the Queen coming ever closer followed by all her cards, The White Rabbit, the jury, and the King. He turned back as they entered the forest, but saw that he was nowhere in sight of the forest. He was on a shadowed green lawn where the mayor, Dodo, was leading the march of animals and him, along with Donald and Goofy, followed by the Queen and all her followers in a circle just as he had before. Except there were no crashing waves this time.
They broke off from the group hopping over jutting stones as he followed the green lawn down the hill as Heartless formed slowly out of the ground. There was no way he could take on the Queen and the Heartless at the same time, so he continued tracking across the field, slashing at any Heartless that jumped in his way.
He glanced back again to make sure that Donald and Goofy were keeping up, Goofy crying out in fright as the Queen drew closer. He turned back and was in a completely different setting. He was running along the pink covered table of the Mad Hatter's backyard. "Wha-!?" he quirked his brow. But he didn't dare stop, even though the Heartless had picked off a few of the cards, he knew they were still in greater number than he was.
Suddenly the two Unbirthday givers appeared out of nowhere, clutching and tearing at his arms.
"You can't leave a teaparty without having a cup of tea, you know!" the green covered Mad Hatter declared, pulling him to where a collosal teacup appeared in front of them.
"Leave us alone! The Queen! She'll catch us if we don't keep going!" he said, trying his best to fight off their suddenly strong arms.
"Ah, but we insist! You simply must have a cup of tea!" he said, the Mad Hatter pulling him up the spoon of the teacup, the March Hare pushing the three of them up so that they were diving into the brown liquid.
He took a deep breath before splashing into the tea. He swam for what he believed to be the surface. As he broke through, he saw the sky, which had grown into a blood red.
"Come on, hurry!" he urged Donald and Goofy as he glanced behind him, flinging his arms continuously so that he kept moving over the tea.
"OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!!!!" she bellowed once again to the swimming cards. She was, herself, seated on the feet of a bird who was floating in the tea on its beak, another bird skimming her along the surface by pushing her.
He turned back to his surroundings, Goofy and Donald's splashing of feathers and gloves could be heard behind him. He came to a large mushroom, not looking to see what was on it before pulling himself up.
"Who are YOU?" a voice cried and he glanced up to see a blue caterpillar glaring down at the three of them before they were engulfed in smoke. He coughed as he swallowed half of it and suddenly felt something solid beneath his feet. And took off running again as the smoke billowed around them and formed a tunnel.
"OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!!!!" the Queen of Hearts' voice rang out again. "Don't let the culprits get away!" she ordered the cards rushing after her.
Sora looked ahead to a door floating in midair and as he slowly felt the ground fall from beneath his feet he ordered, "JUMP!!!" and launched himself to the door. He grabbed ahold to the golden knob as he realized that this was the same door he had entered into Wonderland. The one that talked.
He felt Donald and Goofy's hands grab onto his ankle, tugging him down slightly so that he could see through the Keyhole into the many colored tiles. There, rushing frantically around, though he wasn't sure why, was Alice.
He turned the Doorknob, despite its protests, and pryed it open with his other hand. Grabbing hold to the tile behond the boundaries of the door, he pulled himself through. As he was gathered into the room, he turned to help Donald and Goofy in, who were holding onto his ankle for dear life as the Queen was circling below.
Having pulled them in, he reached quickly out to the otherside of the door and slammed it shut. Having done that he turned to see...
"What's going on here?!" he barked angrily to the empty room, the glass table in its center laden with the bottle he had used to grow small.
"Could you be quiet now that you're done trying to kill me?" the Doorknob asked angrily. Sora turned to him as the Doorknob yawned lazily. "I'm trying to get some sleep!" he continued with another yawn. "So, good night!" he finished, drooping sleepily.
"I didn't know Doorknob's could get sleepy..." Goofy said oddly.
"Well, they usually don't talk either, do they?" Donald replied, glaring at him because of his idiocy.
"I guess not, ahyuk!" he said, giggling at his own absurdity.
"Now what?" Sora asked Donald as he turned to look at the duck. "I could've sworn I saw Alice in her through that Doorknob's keyhole...," he said, crestfallen.
"I really don't understand what's going on here. Something was supposed to happen when we entered a world! But I haven't noticed anything odd or special at all!" Donald said exasperatedly.
"Are you sure about that?" a deep, rich voice asked him.
"Of course I'm sure! I-" Donald stopped, turning to the glass table where the purple feline was watching them intently.
"Cheshire Cat! Do you know where Alice is now?!" he said, rushing up to the table where the bottle shook, dangerous of falling, from Sora's steps.
"Of course! The Cheshire Cat knows all the answers, but doesn't always tell," he grinned mischeviously. "For one, I know that this world is not the world in which you are trying to save in the great scheme of worlds. This is just the beginning for beginners such as you, since the best way of beginning for beginners is at the beginning!" he told them happily, leaning back on his haunches.
Donald stood staring at the white teeth of the Cheshire Cat. He knew that there were other worlds...? And that they weren't from this world...? But how could he know that...?
"And about Alice, she's closer than you think... The shadows were with her last time we met," he said mysteriously.
"Where'd they go?" Goofy asked him, still oblivious to the fact that this world's resident knew more than he should.
"This way, that way? Does it matter?" he answered and questioned rhetorically, pushing himself up onto his two backfeet so he stood up almost as tall as Sora did since he was on the glass table.
"The shadows will be here soon. Are you prepared for the worst? If not, too bad," he continued, shaking his head in mock sadness for them as he faded away into the air.
"What do you think he meant?" Donald asked Sora.
"Waaaahhh!" Goofy cried suddenly, eyes wide and running stark mad for the other side of the room.
"What is it you big paloo-" Donald asked angrily before turning to meet a large, black foot squashing him into the tiled floor.
"Woah!" Sora said, jumping out of the way of its other foot so as to not meet the same fate as the flattened duck.
Sora and Goofy stared up into the ten yellow eyes of a monster Heartless that stood completely up to the ceiling. The tile-covered room was already huge, so the enemy had plenty of room to move its paper, black arms and to attack the trio. The black heel still pressing down hard on to the helpless white duck led up to its red covered legs. But, instead of having one leg, it split into two directions from the purple socket of its ankle, forming a daimond shape. Its shoulders were covered with a heavily designed black, red, and yellow cloth and curled up into small spikes. Its five heads, alternating in red and black hues from its neck up, were leaning like a layered cake.
Its paper, black arms, which folded back and forth from each side, held two scepters, with thin ovals with the pattern of the Cheshire Cat's tail, in both its talon-fingered hands.
Before they could move, the boy and his friend were swiped to the floor with one thin sweep of the ovaled scepters. As it did so, its body leaned on the tip of its axe-shaped boots, freeing Donald from his suffocating imprisonment, who literally flew to the opposit doors of the Doorknob. Focusing its attack mainly on Sora and Goofy, Donald jumped as high into the air as he could, casting embers on the paper-like appendages.
Its center joint, purple as the others and just below its small chest piece, glowed white as the inferno quickly dissipated from the burning arms. After pummeling Goofy and Sora once more so that they were laying on the floor tiles, it turned its assault onto the agitated duck.
It reached out its scepter, smacking Donald's weapon, the Morning Star, from his grasp to the other side of the room. The tile colors slowly faded from the room as a low shadow fell over the battleground. As another arm rang past Donald's shoulder, Goofy was jumping up and attacking his glowing center joint with the gleaming shield.
Sora ran to join Goofy's attack just as the scepters tips, as if they were candles, lit with flames. As it swirled its weapons, it pointed them each, seperately, at its two attackers and speeding bullets covered in fire collided with them, one bouncing off the steel of Goofy's shield, with the other damaging human flesh.
"Uuuh!" Sora voiced aloud in pain as he was threw back as his chest lit with flames.
"Blizzard!" came a helping voice as icy sparkles lowered the pain of his burning chest. Donald then turned his attention on the crisping scepters, casting more blizzards and putting out each as they came near him.
"Take THAT!" Goofy's voice echoed around the room as a loud banging of steel on metal followed. The Trickmaster fell to the ground in an unconcious heap of colors. Several health spheres released from its joints with its collapse.
They charged the fallen creature, cutting, magicking, and slicing through the oddly proportioned form. They were doing the creature major damage as its paper arms were slowly decapitating into ashes. Sora, having recovered the air in his chest from his last hit, banged the Keyblade's metal against its center joint. The purple orb glowed ominously before the dark creature sprang to life as if it hadn't been hurt at all.
As it spread out its arms as if they were curtains being uncovered for a play, they jerked and fell to the ground. The middle section of its right arm had benn shredded, the remaining bits of its paper arms fell to the ground and faded away with the hand's scepter.
As much as a Heartless could glare, the Trickmaster shot daggers at them with its yellow eyes. Donald laughed scornfully at the creature's anger before jumping up and throwing a fire spell at it, knocking it back and causing it to shake.
As it stilled, Goofy having taken up his attack on the center orb of the creature's body, it held out its other scepter, knocking Donald, who was trying to rush for safety to no avail, against the wall harder than it had hit so far, putting the gasping duck out of commission. Sora watched horrified as it threw Goofy against the sleeping Doorknob just as roughly as it had the mage, the poor knight falling over with an "Ahyuk."
The creature smiled its deformed grin down to him.
"Need some help?" a familiar voice spoke aloud to the challenged child. Sora stole a glance at where the purple feline formed on the table between the Trickmaster's feet. He smiled as much as ever, seeming not to feel any danger at all from the horrible creature above him.
"Cheshire Cat!! Yes, yes!!! I do!!!" Sora clamored hopefully, running past the gloomy arms that reached down to swat him away from the glass table.
He stopped in front of the grinning cat, who looked up expectantly at him. "Aren't you the Keybearer, child? And yet you seem as helpless as poor, little Alice..." he smirked.
"Yes...I am...but-HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT?!" Sora bellowed angrily as he moved from the shifting boots of the Trickmaster, who was trying to move himself in a posititon to hit the hidden boy.
"I've told you before, the Cheshire Cat knows all."
"Do you know a way I can survive this Heartless, then?! I'm running out of time!" Sora told him, glancing at the form of the Trickmaster, who was slowly moving himself into a striking station.
"Of course. It would be a pity if the Keyblade Master couldn't use more than one spell, wouldn't it? A pity for all the poor hearts that would lose them," the Cheshire Cat replied. "Since this is your first, let me grant you your second of what you will have seven which will have, themselves, four upgrades of spells," the Cheshire Cat continued, holding out a paw, where the sparkle of snowflakes fell across his fur.
"But how?!" Sora asked, still confused by the cat's words but getting the gist at the forming of a Blizzard spell.
"Take it you'll need it..." the feline commanded as his spirals slowly faded away in circles.
As he disappeared into the air, Sora caut the snowflake.
"Wha-?!" he gasped as he froze over, covered in ice and becoming an unmoving solid. The Trickmaster, having finally found him, swiped quickly. Sora's frozen eyes stared at the incoming scepter, feeling betrayed. As the baton skidded over his frozen flesh, it retreated almost immediately. Sora felt as if he was melting and didn't see anything that was happened as he closed his eyes from the icy pain.
Suddenly, he felt normal, unfrozen and mobile. He opened his eyes to see sparkling white flakes shooting through the air around the layered head of the frighted Trickmaster. The flakes, unnormal in their creation, sliced through the creature's body as if they were paper shredders. As the Heartless raised its hand in defense, a flake knocked rod out of its hands.
As the flakes continued, by the time they had faded away the Trickmaster was rugged and drooping. The center orb that seemed as if its powerpoint was dimming with every second, and, seeing his chance, Sora galloped to the fallen Heartless, slicing through the orb in its weak state.
The creature looked up sadly as the orb split apart, revealing a small, glimmering purple heart. Released of its prison, the heart shot out into the air as it, itself, began to crack down its middle before diminishing in the open air. With it faded the shadow over the room, revealing the dazzling colors of the tiled walls.
The Heartless shuddered in front of the Keybearer as he ran for safe ground as the Trickmaster collapsed. It landed flat, with its head standing up straight on the ground. It shimmered and faded in the light as the black paper that made up its head was unloosed and faded open revealing a shaking girl in a blue maid's dress.
"Alice!" Sora voiced cheerfully as he ran to meet her.
"Sora! It's you! I was wondering where I was!" she said, enveloping him in her arms thankfully. "I don't know what would've happened if you hadn't saved me! When the Queen locked me up some odd creature formed inside the cage while I was in the air. I tried pushing it out, but it caused a shadow to surround me and I appeared here. I saw the Cheshire Cat just as that creature you saved me from picked me up and dropped me in a dark place that was as small as the Queen's cage!" she explained to him as she unfolded herself from his arms.
"While I was there, something was pulling at me. Gripping at....at...right here" she said, patting her hand against her chest, where her heart was beating somewhere inside her. "Oh, I didn't think I'd survive! If it wasn't for you Sora! You and your-what happened to them?" she asked, eyes wide as she stared at the unconcious duo, Goofy and Donald.
"Oh, they'll be alright! They just need some items!" he said, turning and moving to where Donald was breathing slowly. He reached into one of the many pockets that he had saw Donald fill after they had visited Huey, Dewey, and Louie's shop. He pulled out a small vial, that had steaming green liquid inside. He pulled the cork and tilted up the duck's beak, pooring the fluid down Donald's throat.
He groaned in anguish as he swallowed the potion. "What happened?" he asked drowsily, putting a hand to his head as he swayed from side to side.
"It's alright Donald, I took care of that Heartless, don't worry," Sora answered, pulling out another vial from Donald's pocket.
"That Heartless...?" he asked, confused at first. His eyes widened in realization as the boy walked over to where Goofy lay and repeated the same steps he had used on Donald, Alice following him close behind.
"You okay Goofy?" Sora asked the knight as he came around conciousness.
"Ahyuk, yeah..." he said doozily. "But have stars always flew around this room?" he asked, dazed.
"Sora what did you-?" Donald began as he stalked over to the teenager before a sleepy voice interrupted him.
"What a racket! How's a doorknob ever to get any sleep around here?" the golden Doorknob said with a yawn.
"Hey! Don't you know it's not polite to interrupt peop-.... Sora! What is that?!" Donald, wide-eyed, asked the tired boy as a beaming light flowed from the inside of the Doorknob's mouth.
Sora peered inside. "I'm not sure, but-woah!" nearly falling over as the Keyblade appeared in his hands, quaking eagerly, Sora held out the trembling key.
"What-?" Alice asked curiously as a strand of white light connected to the light inside the Doorknob's mouth from Sora's Keyblade.
A clicking sound resounded around the room as the gleaming light faded and the Doorknob closed its eyes and jaws. Donald stood in shock as Sora let the Keyblade fall to his side and Goofy limped beside him, nonplused.
With a final cough, which sent a small, blue shard bouncing to the their feet, the Doorknob fell to slepp, snoring loudly every so often.
"Well, I do believe that was an exciting finale! Bravo, Keyblade master!" a voice echoed across the room.
"Cheshire Cat! I'm so glad to see you again!" she said gladly.
"Ahyuk, a Gummi block..." Goofy announced to Donald and Sora, bending over to gather the small daimond shape into his gloved hand. "Doesn't look normal though."
"Give it here!" Donald barked angrily, snatching the shard from Goofy's hands. "Hmm... You're right, Goofy. I've never seen a Gummi block like this one..."
"A Gummi block...?" Sora asked, unknowingly.
"It's the stuff we use to build Gummi ships, but this one isn't like the kind we use..." Donald replied.
"I do say, Keyblade Master, that you shall have to improve your improvements before you can accomplish what you are meant to do. This is no job for simplings such as yourselves. But you'll find, that now you'll be able to use another spell now..." the grinning cat spoke to them, Alice standing next to his place on the see-through table.
"Either way, that was a show of innate talent, that display. Your powers will bloom true, if I do say. Keep it up and you'll be a florist someday!" he continued joyfully. "But now that you've found what you've looked to find, I blieve it is time you find your way to someplace that you need to be..." the Cheshire Cat recommended as he faded away.
"Sora, I want to thank you for all you've done. Now that I've found my way back here, I can return home up the rabbit hole I came through. Thank you all," Alice curtseyed to them in graciousness.
"There's something special about you, Sora. Don't let what nearly happened to me happen to you," she added as she began for the red-tiled wall.
"Hey, wait up! We'll join you!" he said, uniting with her as they began to search along the tiles for the door that had led them to Wonderland, Donald slipping the Gummi block into a blue pocket before he and Goofy joined the search.
"Ah! Here it is!" she said in excitement, pushing open a loose tile so that it folded backwards where the other doors were already open. She pushed herself through to the other side, Sora following after squeexing through himself. "I wonder what my sister shall say when we meet again. She probably want believe a word I say!" she huffed, walking past the crooked wall.
"Help me!" Goofy whispered to Donald in urgency being stuck again as Sora followed the blonde girl around the crooked wall.
He noticed the crimson curtains at once, the shadowed hall, and the floating furniture. All of different proportions while in Wonderland. "I'll be so happy to have returned home! i don't know what I'd have done if I had never returned. I'd probably have lost my head because of that wicked Queen," she said angrily in her memory of the Queen of Hearts as she stood in the center of the rabbit hole, clocks ticking and dinging in the air.
"WAAAGH!!!!" the voices of Donald and Goofy shouted as they shot from around the corner and collided against the wall, Donald being squashed by his companion.
"Get off of me!" Donald snapped as he kicked the knight to the floor with one of his feet.
Alice giggled gently as her feet idly raised from the ground. "Oh!" she gasped as she flipped upside down as she floated up into the brick-built rabbit hole. She looked down to her saviors and waved. "Goodbye Sora, Donald, and Goofy! I owe my life to you..." she finished as she faded into the shadows of the ceiling.
Sora leaned against the wire of the curtains. "There goes another friend," he sighed.
"Sora, we should get back to the Gummi ship...maybe we'll find your friends in another world...?" the duck uttered silently as he saw the sad grimace on the boy's face.
"I used to wish me and my friends could visit other places, or worlds, someday and get off my islands. We would talk all the time about it, we was even building a raft that we though might help us get to another world. Then, one night, a storm called and the creatures you call the Heartless appeared. One of my friends, Riku, told me that I should go with him just before he was taken by a pool of shadows, that's when I got the Keyblade," he told them, shifting his eyes to look at the mentioned weapon, not noticing Donald narrowing his eyes suspiciously as he told them of Riku. "And then my other friend, Kairi, disappeared just as I found her. And then I met one gigantic Heartless and then I woke up in Traverse Town."
"Now, without my friends, I just wish we could've lived on the islands forever. At least we would've been together. I didn't want any of this" he said angrily, throwing the Keyblade down the hall, Donald and Goofy gasping. Where it would've smashed into the wall, it vanished, reappearing in Sora's hands. He sighed exasperatedly.
"So...now what, you guys?" he asked, pushing off from the curtain stand. Let's use the save point to go to the Gummi-woah!" Donald squawked as the ground began to shake, causing him to nearly falling to the ground if it weren't for Sora's helping hand.
"What's going on?!" Sora asked. He could here a distant echoe. As it bounced off the walls and neared them it gained power.
"Alice! Alice!" an older woman's voice cried impatiently from somewhere unseen.
"Let's get outta here!" Goofy offered, running to where the Save Point was glowing in the center of the rabbit hole. Donald and Sora quickly joined him on the glowing circle, Donald smashing at some of the buttons on his blue commander watch.
"COME ON, STUPID THING!!!!!" he said, smashing it with his feathered hands.
They were enveloped in the white light of the save point. And, at once, appeared on the ledge of the Gummi ship.
"What's happening to that place?!" Sora asked them as Wonderland slowly began to dissolve in space.
"I don't know! That's not supposed to happen.
"Alice! Alice! Would you kindly repeat your History lesson?" the woman's voice echoed throughout the empty universe before falling silent with the vanishing of the world.
"That's...I don't get it...," Sora muttered to himself at the glowing stars that were in the place of what was once the world of Wonderland.
"Let's go ahead inside. We need to get going. The mission is never over, so we shouldn't waste much time except for finding the world's Keyholes. Since that's what we're looking for now," Donald voiced to them, walking into the blue interior of the Gummi ship as Sora and Goofy followed. The duck pushed up a button beside the ledge hanging out from the Gummi ship, causing the ledge to slowly raise back up to seal the openings of the ship.
Donald waddled into the inner room, passing two chipmunks who were working on some pipes. Sora stared at them, and, following his gaze, Donald answered his unspoken question. "They're the ngineers, Chip and Dale."
He charged up into the cockpit and sat himself into one of the blue chairs, spinning to the computer screen. He clicked a few buttons here and there as Sora settled onto a similar fluffy, blue chair behind where Donald and Goofy commanded the console.
"Next world is called Prydain... Looks kind of medieval to me," Donald quacked.
"What? Let me see," Sora asked, peering over Donald's shoulder to the computer screen. The world had a small cottage with a hay roof on the bottom of the world, a gigantic black fortress on the top, a forest on the right, and a small swamp with a dreary cottage in its depths on left.
"That looks creepy... Definitely darker than Wonderland had been," Sora gave his opinion.
"Yes, and the Heartless are supposed to be stronger in this world," Donald told him.
"Well...let's get going!" Sora stated them excitedly.
"Goofy, you take over while I talk to Sora about something," Donald said to Goofy.
"Ahyuk, sure!" Goofy replied gleefully, taking the controls in his hands as if he were playing a video game.
"You probably have some questions about what happened when Alice asked you where we came from and I told you not to tell her where. Well, every world is defined by its particulay boundaries. Within which some understanding of reality emerges as truth," Donald began. "Two truths cannot coexist. And so, from the introduction of foreign bodies, conflicts and chaos are spawned. That's why we try to limit our involvement in local affairs. We can help people out but we just can't tell them a lot about ourselves, where we come from, and about our histories," Donald explained.
"Oh...well, that does make sense..." Sora nodded after listening to Donald's explanation. Suddenly, gravity pulled the two of the forward, and if not for the seatbelts on the chairs, they probably would've been thrown out of the window.
"We're here!!!!" Goofy cried happly as the Gummi ship came to a sudden halt.
"Alright, let's sleep up here for the night and wait until morning to go into Prydain," Donald told them. "I'll put up the barriers so the Heartless ships don't do anything suprising while we're asleep," he said, pushing a button, before unbuckling his belt and walking to the back of the cockpit where a built in shelf was. He opened the cupboards and pulled out three small, suare plastic bags. He threw two of them to Sora and Goofy.
Sora read the words 'Sleeping Bags made by Sand Man co.' printed across the plastic. He ripped open the plastic and threw it over to one of the trash cans before unrolling the blue and black sleeping black and climbing inside the covers. Donald hit a switch turning out the lights in the cockpit before settling himself in a sleeping bag beside Goofy, who was in the middle of the two of them.
"Ahyuk, good night!" Goofy said before falling silent.
"Good night..." Donald and Sora said in unison before falling into their own dreams of talking cats and screaming queens.
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Okay! Chapter List(Includes the world in the previous Chapters) so far along with the next:
Chapter 1: Intro/Dive To The Heart
Chapter 2: Destiny Islands Day 1
Chapter 3: Destiny Islands Day 2
Chapter 4: Traverse Town Beginnings
Chapter 5: Wonderland(Alice In Wonderland)
Chapter 6: Prydain(The Black Cauldron/Next Chapter!)
For some reason I think this chapter turned out bad a little bit. Well, I'm going to over it again before I posted so maybe it will be better. I think I followed the movie too much. And by the way, I think I've watched Alice In Wonderland enough times to last me for the rest of my life ^_^.
I am so sorry for the long wait, but I was being so lazy and I wrote this chapter in 2 snow days but waited forever to do the ending. But I promise to have the next chapter faster than this one was, and I'm not lying this time.
And, please, if you review tell me if you would like me to write a 100 Acre Wood chapter later on in the fanfic, I doubt anyone will want me too, but you never know, some people actually like Pooh! lol
by Chaos0110
Author's Note:
(By the way, this is the unedited version, meaning I haven't reread it and corrected it, so it won't be as good as my normal chapters, I'll probably have the edited version up tomorrow, or the day after, depending on schoolwork)
So long! Three months or so!!! And I know my few fans are just DIEING to read this...lol.
This chapter is specifically based on Alice In Wonderland's world in Kingdom Hearts. Okay, now on how I'm going to do the Disney Worlds. I plan on keeping them basically on the same track as their movies, because Sora just drops into the beginning or end of their movies. The only difference is that there are Heartless, Ansem, and Donald & Goofy; which complicates things for everyone in the worlds.
The Heartless Enemy in this story is the same; Trickmaster. And I kept the plotline part from Kingdom Hearts about the Queen of Hearts having been attacked to. And I used a bit of the manga as well...
On other news for this story, I've added many new worlds. Counting every world seen in the game, and that includes Destiny Islands, Disney Castle, Hollow Bastion, End of the World and Traverse Town, plus the ones I added you get 24 Worlds in total. Several worlds connect with others based on characters' in their movies. Like Jane Porter comes from England, but the world's barriers being destroyed by the Heartless left her the chance to travel between worlds. *hint, hint*
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They fell into darkness, slowly falling downwards. When they reached outwards, they could feel nothing.
"Where are we?" Sora's curious voice asked.
"I don't know," Donald answered, quacking furiously as he tried to see what was below.
"It's nice though. A perfect place to sleep, in the air..." Goofy announced, laying his head in his elevated arms.
"Wake up!" Donald cried, hitting him on the head with his staff.
"What's that below us?" Sora asked as light glared off their sides.
Donald reached out to a small figure in the darkness. "It's a chain!" Donald said, jerking it down. Light flooded from the lamp, who's chain Donald had pulled.
"This is weird..." Sora said, looking at himself in a mirror on the green, square indented walls.
As they floated, they passed tables and bird cages. As Sora passed another mirror, he noticed that it showed him upside down.
"Oh! A book! Maybe this has something in it that can help us," Donald cried, taking a red-covered book from a small table. He looked inside, trying to determine its contents. "It's written in rubbish!" Donald shouted, throwing the worthless book down the tunnel, which flew backwards and hit him in the face causing a loud squawk.
"Shouldn't we have met someone by now?" Sora asked, looking at a patch of daisies sprouting from the wall. On his words, the lower light changed to blue and he could here a dull sound, like a piano key. He looked down, to see a grandfather clock dinging a time change.
"Gawrsh!" Goofy cried as he was engulfed in a tan rocking chair. The surrounding walls had changed to bricks now that they were further down, several portraits hanging cozily on the walls.
"It's getting warmer!" Donald shouted, his tail feathers almost colliding with a red flame inside a fireplace on the wall, a tea kettle burning ferociously over it.
As they fell farther, the brick changed to a dark cavern wall. As Sora's legs propelled backwards, so that he was going head-first down the tunnel, Donald and Goofy in the same position, he noticed a map of a blue and green planet, with poles on either side of it and the people walking upwards, depending on where they were standing.
He was paying too close attention to the map, that he hadn't noticed the pole his feet stuck to as the gravity returned to the three of them. Donald and Goofy fell to the ground from the sudden change, Sora dangling above them on a black pole that held a pair of parted, red curtains.
He pulled his feet from overtop of the pole so that he became a heap on the ground.
"Sora, look!" Donald cried, pointing down the awkwardly proportioned hall. Sora followed his gaze to see a small, white rabbit with large spectacles and a red nose hopping around the bending wall. He was coated in a red jacket, black bow-tie, yellow shirt, and grey pants that revealed his fluffy tail and feet.
He grabbed his head as if he was sick, grasping a golden, over-sized pocket watch and checking it for the third time. "Oh, dear," he moaned, tears splashing down his furry face as he disappeared around the wall. "I'm late! Oh! I'm late!"
The room was shaped oddly; walls jutting out at ever angle, tiles different sizes and shapes, furnitue that floated just above the ground.
"Hey, wait! Can you help us!?" Sora cried out to the rabbit.
"Let's follow him. He's bound to lead us to someone who can help!" Donald said, taking off down the hall. Sora followed past portraits of clocks until they passed the curved wall and came to a small, blue door.
"Let's go!" Donald repeated, opening the door and rushing in to collide with the next, brown door that opened from the opposite side. "Oh!" Donald moaned, falling to the floor.
"Come on," Sora said, taking Donald's place at the doors. He opened the next, which Donald had run into, and then the next, and the next and then the last, smallest door of all. "I think we can fit through there," Sora said, stuffing his upper body through the opening.
He had to use his hands to help push the rest of himself through. He stood up, turning to the newly discovered room. The walls on each side were different colors with the same square indentation along each of the many rows.
The wall he emerged from was burgundy, the right wall blue, the left pink and the wall before him was green. "It's okay, you can fit through," he told his companions, peering through the doorway he emerged from.
Donald, having recovered from his recent accident, flew directly through the hole after jumping, being the perfect fit for his small size. Goofy was another thing completely. He was only halfway through before he was stuck.
"Come on, Goofy!" Donald shouted angrily, seizing Goofy's gloved hands and pulling as hard as he could until Goofy had burst through, throwing them both backwards onto the stitched floor.
"Woah! Thanks, Donald," he said, smiling two buck teeth.
"No, problem. Sora, did you see where that white rabbit went?" Donald asked, turning to Sora questionably
"Isn't it obvious? He had to go through there," Sora replied, pointing across the pink and white patched floors to a pink curtain held from a golden rail.
Sora pushed the curtain aparts after rushing the small distance. "Oh, no! Not another door! And this one is even smaller!" Sora moaned. Sora went ahead and reached for the golden doorknob, twisting it. He jumped backwards as the knob cried out in pain.
"I beg your pardon!" it glared at them.
"What?! It can talk?!" Donald cried out from Sora's right.
"Oh, I'm sorry," Sora replied, completely suprised.
"It's quite all right. But you did give me quite a turn," it said in a royal manner. It opened its eyes, thinking to itself, then, smiling, he laughed, "Rather good, what? Doorknob, turn!
"One good turn disserves another. What can I do for you?" he asked, fixing his gaze on the three of them.
"Well, we saw this rabbit earlier. We had to ask him, if he had seen someone we're looking for," Sora told him. "And, we were wondering if you could open up, so we could get through to find him?" Sora added.
"Oh, I'm sorry. You're much too big. Simply impassable," the doorknob replied.
"You mean 'impossible,'" Donald corrected.
"No, 'impassable.' Nothing's impossible!" he laughed. "Why don't you try the bottle on the table."
"There isn't a table!" Sora replied, turning to emphasize the empty room, but was startled to see a glass table spin from out of nowhere and glide to stop in the middle of the room, a bottle falling atop it.
He stood from his place on his knees and walked to the table, grasping the small bottle. "This place is getting weirder and weirder...," Sora said to himself, shaking his head.
"Read the directions, and directly, you'll be directed in the right... direction," he laughed gleefully.
"Wait! What's in this!? Are you sure it isn't poison are something!?" Donald asked Sora impatiently.
"Why would it be? Noone knew we were coming, so why would they want to poison us?" Sora replied in disbelief. He looked at the tab hanging from the bottle's neck. "'Drink Me,' the bottle says," Sora said to himself, just audible to the others.
He raised the bottle to his mouth, taking a small sip before setting it back down onto the glass table. "It tastes like the pineapple we had back on my island!" Sora said, noticing his body lurch.
"What!?" Sora asked as he shrunk even smaller. "I've shrunk!" he shouted, looking down at his now tiny body.
"Now what!? I told you something might be wrong with that stuff!" Donald shouted at the new, miniscule version of Sora.
"Well, it helped!" Sora glared up at Donald.
"How? Now you're just going to waste our time," Donald challenged.
"No, now I can get through the door," Sora told him, walking over to the Doorknob, which looked down at him with it's yellow eyes.
"Can you let us through now?" Sora asked the odd door handle.
"Soory! Didn't I tell you? You need the key, I'm locked," he laughed.
"Where is it?" Sora asked, exasperated.
"It's up there," the Doorknob replied, nodding to the glass table between Goofy and Donald.
"Donald, get that key!" Sora shouted up to him.
"I know that!" Donald said, plucking the golden key that appeared from the table. He dropped it down to Sora. Who fell backwards trying to keep from colliding with the golden key as it shot to the floor.
Donald laughed from up above him, thinking it was hilarious that Sora nearly got hit on the head. Sora stood up and walked to the limp key. He propped it up and pushed it towards the door. The Doorknob guffawed at his efforts. "Pretty tough being that tiny isn't it!" he laughed at Sora.
"Yeah, it is" Sora said angrily. He had a feeling he wasn't going to like this place any better than he already did as he went farther into it. He struggled to hold the key up and then entered it into the shaking mouth of the Doorknob. He let it hang there and turned around.
"Hey, you guys. Go ahead and come down here," Sora shouted up to Goofy and Donald.
"All right," Donald said, grasping the small, round bottle. He took a small sip and let it go as he was shrunk to the floor. "Aaah!," he cried, as he fell over in dizziness. The bottle hit the glass table, spinning around for a few seconds before Goofy picked it back up. He took the bottle and took the last swallow. He placed back on the table where it mysteriously filled itself up.
"Ahahuey!" Goofy cried in suprise as he too came to rest on the ground.
"Come on," he told them as they pulled themselves up from the ground. He turned back to the key. The Doorknob said something, but it was inaudible with the key in his mouth. Sora turned the key, and pulled it out of the Doorknob's mouth. "What did you say?" Sora asked as the door popped open.
"I said watch out for the water!" the Doorknob cried in anguish as dark, blue water quickly flowed out of the open doorway.
"Aaaaaahhh!" Donald cried as he turned to run from the oncoming water. Sora and Goofy wasn't as lucky. The two friends were pummeled by the first waves of it and then engulfed. Donald, in feudal efforts, was also taken by the water as it swirled through the room.
Sora, who was now almost completely underwater, shouted to his friends, "Go for the doorway!" He only hoped they heard him as he dived into the watery depths and swam for his life. He glanced back to see that Goofy was swimming after him, with Donald clutching onto his leg.
As he came to the opening of the door, the water was pushing him harder and the buubles of movement were increased. He could barely see enough to get through the door, but pushed himself harder to the door. He'd made it through, Donald and Goofy right behind him as they rushed upwards for oxygen.
Sora crashed through the surface, gasping for breath. Donald and Goofy followed suit, splashing through the surface and breathing hard.
"That was....dangerous," Sora said, still gasping for breath and keeping his arms and legs moving so as to stay afloat.
"Yeah," Donald replied, now swimming on his on. "Let's go before we get sucked back end," Donald told them, feeling the pull at his legs.
They quickly swam the rest of the down the ocean of water. In the distance, they could see a human-size Dodo standing on a giant, brown boulder. He was holding a log lit with fire in his white-feathered hands. The entire boulder was slowly engulfed by the water.
They swam up beside the boulder as the water began to recede. The Dodo was wearing a sky-blue vest with a black overcoat and a black hat with a blue bow on the end of a ponytail made from the feathers on his head. He was singing some kind of marching song. They could faintly hear something from beneath the water surrounding the boulder.
"Hey you! Why don't you join in the march, young man! Standing around in the water like that, you'll never get dry!" the Dodo shouted to Sora and his companions as the water slowly receded while he placed the fire logs at his bird-feet.
As the water disappeared, a firm, muddy soil ground was reveiled and on it was a group of galloping sea animals. They were dancing around the Dodo bird, chanting the song he had been singing before Sora had arrived.
"No! We can't!" Donald told Sora. "We have to find that rabbit! He was going somewhere important! He might lead us to what we're looking for!"
Sora nodded and turned back to the singing Dodo. "Sorry, but we can't right now!" Sora shouted back. "We're looking for a rabbit. He's white, has a big pocket watch and wear's clothes!"Sora finished. He felt like he was going insane. Donald and Goofy being able to talk and act like humans we're one thing. But now almost every animal he met wore clothes and talked.
"Nope, haven't seen him! Why don't you join in with the march and dry off while you're waiting for him," the Dodo responded, gesturing to the marine animals who we're still running around the boulder and singing. They we're slowly leaving a line marked into the mud of their escapade around the boulder.
The walking creatures seemed unaffected as the water splashed back at them. Unlike Sora, Donald and Goofy, who we're thrown to the ground and covered with water from the impact.
"Uuuh! What's with this water!" Sora shouted out angrily as he pulled himself from the mud. He was instantly knocked back over as something spinning in a black umbrella flew out of the retreating water and went through his legs.
Pulling his head out of the mud and ignoring Donald's quacks of laughter, Sora glared at whatever had plunged him back into the mud. It was the White Rabbit. He was inside his black umbrella and had just come to a stop. He had obviously used the umbrella as a boat to get him across the water since he probably couldn't swim. He jumped out of the water-filled umbrella, emptied it and looked at his gold watch again through his glass spectacles.
He gasped in suprise and glanced over at Sora. "I'm so sorry, but I'm late! I'm late!" the Rabbit said, taking off for the forest near the singing animals.
"Wait, please wait!" Sora commanded the Rabbit, but it was in vain as the Rabbit simply kept running for the forest. "Come on!" Sora said to Donald and Goofy before taking off after the perplexing Rabbit
The mud slowly turned from mud to sand and then into grass-covered sand as Sora rushed up the beach and into the forest. Most of the grass was covered with white-petaled flowers and gray-trunked trees.
Sora tried his best to keep up with the Rabbit, but he lost him around a bend of trees about twelve feet into the forest.
"Now what?!" Sora said, exasperated after finding no clue as to where the Rabbit had gone. The area he stood in was a small gap in the trees where the sun could see through. There was a tree trunk that sat in the middle of the sunlight, but seemed untouched.
"Maybe we should just pick one direction and go, huyuk!" Goofy said looking down the different paths opening between the trees.
"Well, that seems like the best plan if we want to...Aaaahhh!!!" Donald screamed as he fell backwards.
Sora turned around to find to identical twins standing in front of Donald. They were both plump with extremely thin legs with black shoes. There pants were red and were pulled all the way up to a blue bow that covered a white banners that each side circled around and met in the middle of their chest. They had red beanies topped with yellow flags on their orange-haired heads.
"Who are they?" Sora asked walking up to the stock-still men. Goofy looked at them and noticed something written on their banners.
"Oh, I got it! He's Tweedle Dee," Goofy said, pointing to the twin on the right, "and he's Tweedle Dum!" Goofy finished pointing at the opposite twin.
"What kind of stupid names are those?" Donald asked aloud.
The two twins jumped up onto the tree trunk, bounced on top of each other until they had fully passed Sora and landed onto the ground in front of the suprised duck.
"Why, there our names of course!" Tweedle Dum said and elbowed his twin.
"Contrare to whack if you think we ought to let you speak to us!" Tweedle Dee responded.
They hit each other with the elbow, which emanated a strange horn sound and jumped back onto the unmoving log. They done another dance, bouncing on each other, giving off another horn sound everytime they collided and landed back onto the ground in front of Donald.
"That's logic!" they said together, holding up their opposite hand's index fingers.
Sora shook his head and turned back to the pathways in the trees. "Well, we have to be somewhere else. Come on, guys," Sora said, taking off on one of the pathways.
"Oh no, you can't go yet!" Tweedle Dum said, bouncing in front of Sora's way.
"The visit has just started!" Tweedle Dee finished for his twin as they both held out their hands to signal Sora to stop.
"Sorry, but we're going somewhere!" Sora said, getting annoyed and trying to push his way through the odd brothers.
"Don't you want to play a game or two!" Tweedle Dum began.
"Yeah, like hide and seek or button, button, who's got the button?" Tweedle Dee finished.
"Noooo!!" Donald shouted at them as he followed Sora off into the opposite direction.
"Stay around long enough and we might have a battle!" Tweedle Dee said as he and Tweedle Dee jumped back into their way. They both began to punch Donald in a way you would if you were having a battle.
Donald quacked in anger at each punch. "Fire!" he shouted, shooting a flame at one of the twins. They moved out of the way as the inferno soared into the sky.
"No, no! You don't try to hurt your hosts!" Tweedle Dum said, raising his index finger again.
"That's manners!" Tweedle Dee finished.
"We're leaving!" Donald said, walking through them followed by Sora and Goofy.
"Why!?" the twins asked in unison as they bounced in front of them once again.
"We need to find the White Rabbit we met a little while ago," Sora replied, moving with the group in another direction. They were stopped once again as the twins gave another question.
"Why!?" they asked again.
"Because we're trying to find something and we think he might know where it is!" Donald answered, pushing them backwards so they could walk through them again.
"We tell stories too ya' know!" Tweedle Dum began, meeting with his twin in front of them once again.
"Why don't you sit down while we give you some eddication!" Tweedle Dee finished as they took Donald's hands and forced him back, along with Sora and Goofy, to the old tree log. The twins pushed them down onto the trunk like it was a bench.
"Reciting Father William!" they said together.
"First verse!" Tweedle Dum said as they begun their recital.
"Come on," Sora whispered to Donald and Goofy as he crawled behind the old log and off onto one of the paths. The twins, caught up in their recital, didn't take notice to their vistors' leave.
"Geez, what a bunch of whackos!" Donald said after they had gathered enough distance away from the two brothers.
"I though they were funny!" Goofy replied.
"Oh, what do you know, you big palooka?" Donald said, ending the conversation.
They kept walking until they came to an end of the shadowed forest. In the open area sat a pink and white house that was concrete at it's base. It had a small, pink rounded door. It had two windows that were closed in with pink shutters. The roof was of yellow hay and shadowed the burgundy grass that grew there. There was several yard utensils on the edges of the house and was enshrouded by the surrounding trees that were covered with pink blossoms.
The three companions walked up to the fence post, where the gate was open wide to the cement path that led to the doorway, and was topped by yellow leaves.
They could hear the voice of the White Rabbit coming from inside and began walking for the door.
"Now you listen here, Mary Anne...Help!!!!" the voice screamed. The door was threw open and the White Rabbit, who was now wearing a red, gray and white uniform with a red heart as the logo, was pushed out by a very large, black shoe along with some of his pink possesions.
He landed near a bird house beside the gate. The top windows' shutters were thrown off by the arm shaped intruder. The White Rabbit didn't seem to notice Sora as he looked as his house.
"Oooohh! Noooo! Hellllp!! Monnnnsteeer!!" he shouted out, jumping over his stone fence and running to the right of his house down a white path into the forest. "Help!! Assistance!" his voice called out as he blew his newfound trumpet.
"What is that thing?" Sora asked Donald and Goofy, taking a step back.
"A monster! A monster, Dodo! In my house, Dodo!" the rabbit's voice continued. Coming closer from the forest he had retreated to.
Sora looked back at the forest where the frightened Rabbit was walking beside the Dodo they had seen earlier.
"Oh my poor little bitty house!" the White Rabbit said in sadness.
"Steady, steady, my old chap. Can't be afraid of all that you know," the Dodo said, puffing an old pipe, which littered smoke into the air.
"All my good roof and shutters and all my walls and...there it IS!!" the Whhite Rabbit cried out, jumping into the air about as high as Sora stood while pointing at the small ruptured house.
The Dodo, who had been walking calmly while swinging his gray cane, lost everything in the air upon seeing the house, but caught hold of his belongings before gravity took them. "By Joe!" he whispered, amazed at the house.
"Jolly well is, isn't it!" the bird continued, eyes wide.
"Well, do something Dodo!" the White Rabbit said, giving him a little push before taking a hiding place behind the edge of his fence and glancing at his house every so often.
"Yes, indeed!" Dodo said, looking up at the roof. He turned to the large shoe and rapped it several times with his cane. "Extroadinary situation, but uh..."Dodo continued.
"But, but, what?!" the White Rabbit asked, coming out from behind the fence. The two conversing adults, as they seemed to be, had simply ceased to know of Sora, Donald and Goofy's existence as they continued their conversation.
Taking out a blue hankercheif, Dodo blew his beak while holding his coat and cane with his left hand. "But I have a very simple solution!" he said while stuffing his hankercheif into his coat sleeve.
"Thank goodness!" an anonymous voice said.
Sora looked around the White Rabbit's yard. "Who said that?"
"W-w-what is it?" the White Rabbit stuttered.
The Dodo blew his beak again while walking closer to the house. "Simply pull it out the chimney!" the Dodo responded, pointing his cane to the chimney.
"Yes! G-g-go on!" the White Rabbit said, pushing the Dodo forward with all his might.
"Who, me?" the bird asked in disbelief. "Don't be ridiculus," he continued, coughing. "What we need is a..." he thought, putting his wing up to his chin to help him think.
A whistle sounded throughout the area, signaling the entrance of a green overalled lizard. Inside of his overalls was a black sweat shirt and he had a black hat over the head of his green-scaled body. He held a chimney sweep and a ladder in his hands and was walking pass the White Rabbit's infested house, tail dragging behind him.
"A lizard with a ladder!" Dodo finished, staring at the newcomer.
"Hmmm? Oh! Bill! Bill!" the White Rabbit began, running over to the lizard who waved his hat at him. "We need a lazard with a lidder!" he continued, tugging on Bill's arm and pulling him into his yard. "A lidder...a li... Can you help us?" the White Rabbit concluded questionably, letting his grasp on Bill's arm go.
"At your service, Governer!" the lizard replied, holding the first two fingers of his left hand to his forehead and continuing down the stone pathway.
Dodo met him in the middle, embracing him with a wing around the lizard's back and walking with him. "Bill, me lad! Have you ever been down a chimney?" Dodo asked him.
"Why, Governor! I've been down more chimenies than-"Bill began.
"Excellent! Excellent! You just pop down the chimney..." Dodo interrupted, putting the ladder against the front of the White Rabbit's house and pushing Bill up it. "And pull that monster out of there," Dodo finished, watching as Bill continued to climb up the ladder.
"Righteo, Governor!" he replied, looking back at the governor as he continued up. As he passed the window, he done a backflip and looked at it once again. Whatever he saw, Sora couldn't see it because of the angle of the building. "Monster?" he asked, jumping up and screaming his way back down the ladder.
The White Rabbit and Dodo took Bill'stail, trying to keep him from running away in fright, saying reassurances that couldn't be heard over the lizard's screams. Dodo forced the lizard's tail around as if he was steering a car and pointed him back at the ladder, squashing the White Rabbit while doing so.
As Bill took notice in his sudden change in direction he began to run back the ladder again, only to be caught in Dodo's wings as the bird carried him up to the roof.
"That's better. Bill, lad, your passing up a golden oppurtuntity!" Dodo explained as he climbed the ladder using only his feet.
"I am?" Bill asked in disbelief.
"You can be famous!" Dodo continued, waving his smoking pipe around as he held Bill with his other arm.
"I can?" Bill queried, beginning to smile.
"Of course! There's a brave lad! In you go now!" Dodo commanded as he reached the rooftop. "Nothing to it, old boy. Simply wrap your tail around the monster's neck and drag it up!" Dodo told him as he stuffed the lizard's body down the thin chimney hole.
"But-but-but-but, Governer!" Bill stuttered in desperation.
"Good luck, Bill," Dodo gave one last word before stuffing the lizard completely down the chimney.
Suddenly, the whole house began to shudder. Donald, Goofy and Sora jumped back in suprise, watching as Dodo himself jumped onto the ladder as it fell over to the ground. The White Rabbit ran to his hiding place below the intruding foot, followed closely by the dazed Dodo.
There was a loud, sharp sound and the chimney burst open as something black flew out of it, leaving a trail of ash behind it as it shot up into the air.
"Well, there goes Bill," Dodo said to the White Rabbit as he started to smile.
"Poor Bill," the voice Sora had earlier sympathized. Again, Sora looked around and, again, finding noone.
"I know I'm not hearing things," Sora whispered to himself, frowning.
"Uh...," Dodo thought to himself, sucking onto his pipe as he thought harder. "Perhaps we shuld try a more...," he said while pulling out a match and lighting it by rubbing it against the giant shoe, "energetic strategy!" Dodo finished, holding the burning match in his left wing while proposing his idea to the White Rabbit.
"Yes! Anything, anything! But hurry!" the White Rabbit replied, pulling out his ticking pocket watch and pointing at the time to emphasize his point.
"No, I propose that we uh..." Dodo responded, stopping to think once again.
"Yes!? Go on! Go on! Yes!? Yes!?" the White Rabbit, apalled at wasting more time, hurried.
"I propose we uh... Ohhhh!!" he stopped as the match turned burnt down to his wing. "By Joe, that's it!" he answered after staring at his red wing. "We'll burn the house down!" Dodo told him, showing his burnt wing to the White Rabbit.
"Yeah..." the White Rabbit repeated. "We'll burn the house do-What!?" the White Rabbit cried in realization.
"Oh no!" came the anonymous voice's reply to the suggestion.
"Who keeps on talking? Who are you?" Sora asked, annoyed at the weird voice.
"Ooohuhooh!" Dodo shouted as he began a song while he lifted the White Rabbit's furniture and carried it over to the side of the house.
The White Rabbit could be heard whimpering, "Oh, me! Oh, my!"'s and, "No, no, no!"'s as he pleaded with Dodo to come up with a better plan.
Finally coming to grips with Dodo's suggestion, the White Rabbit carried his pink, wooden gate over to the pile, although he still wished there were a better way. He dug a match out of his pocket and handed it to Dodo when the bird asked.
"We'll smoke the monster out!" Dodo concluded his song, lighting the match and throwing it into the pile of wood.
"We'll smoke the monster ou-Nooo! Nooo! My poor house and furniture!" the White Rabbit replied, holding his face with his furry paws.
"Oh dear. This is serious. I simply must... ah! A garden. Perhaps if I ate something, it would make me smaller!" the voice reassured itself. Sora found that the voice must've been coming from the so-called monster all the time as it's hand moved to the garden at the voice's words.
It began to pluck at one of the carrots in the garden, which were all deeply buried, much to the White Rabbit's dislike. He jumped on the prying hand, trying to keep his poor carrot in the ground. Once the hand had pulled the carrot from the Rabbit's yard, it lifted the carrot and its creator, the White Rabbit, into the air.
"Noooo! Let go! Help!!!" the White Rabbit commanded as he was carried through the window.
"I'm sorry, but I must eat something!" the feminine voice of the monster replied.
"Not me! You, you, you, you, you barbarian!" A loud chopping noise was the Rabbit's reply. "Helppppp!!!!!" the White Rabbit's reply sounded. "Monster!!!!"
The giant shoes that were protruding from the house's entrances suddenly pulled themselves back in, along with the human-like hands sticking out from the windows.
"Aaah! I'm LATE!!! Oh, dear I'm here, I should be there!" the White Rabbit cried, running out of his soon to be burned down pink house.
"I say, do you have a match?" Dodo asked him as he flew past. The first match he lit had long worn out, without bringing embers to the Rabbit's pile of furniture.
"Must go! Goodbye! I'm late, I'm late, I'm late!" the White Rabbit replied, shaking Dodo's hand and running out of the land that was uncovered from the trees and into the shadowed forest.
"Oh, wait! We never got to ask him!" Sora asked, crestfallen.
"You, young man! Do you happen to have a match!" Dodo asked him.
"Sorry, no," Sora told him, shrugging.
"Oh, well, young lady, do you have a match?" the bird asked something that Sora didn't see.
"Who is he talkng to?" Sora asked, edging towards the doorway where Dodo had turned to.
"No, I'm sorry, but...wait! Mr. Rabbit!" the feminine voice he had heard earlier shouted from the ground.
"What!?" Donald shouted in suprise as they came face to face with a young girl the size of a pixie.
"Oh, hello! Can you help me?" the young girl asked, looking up at Sora with high hopes. She had a blue dress that went down to her knees and was covered by a white apron. Her black shoes were tiny and oval-shaped and ended the white hoses that covered her legs. Her hair was blonde and engulfed a small black bow, clashing with her big, blue eyes.
"Who are you?" Sora asked, kneeling down to see her better.
"I'm Alice, who might you be? I haven't seen a human here so far."
"I'm Sora, how'd you get here?" he asked her.
"Well, I don't mean to be rude but, could you help me please! I've been chasing that Rabbit all day and I don't want to loose him now!"
"All right," Sora replied picking her up in his hands. He took special care not to drop her as he rushed down the path that curved into the forest, where the White Rabbit had fled. There was a field of flowers around the bend and the White Rabbit had disappeared. I was too late to tell where he had gone. There were around seven different roads to choose from.
Donald stopped me from carrying Alice any farther. "We need to talk for a second," he said, pointing to Alice.
Sora nodded and looked down at Alice. "Why don't you go ahead and will catch up with you," Sora said.
"All right, but don't expect me to wait forever," she said before pushing through the blades of grass.
"Okay, what is it?" Sora said turning back to Donald and Goofy.
"Where should we go from here?" Donald asked him.
"Why don't we just stick with Alice and find the White Rabbit? It might lead us to what you two are looking for and, who knows, we might find my friends somewhere in the forest," Sora answered.
"But, we're not sure exactly what we're looking for," Donald told him.
"What!?"
"We just know that our King told us to find a person with a key and that it was important. Gawrsh, I wonder what it's for!" Goofy intervened.
"It has to have something to do with the worlds otherwise the King wouldn't have left. He said that there was some reason that the stars we're blinking out in his letter," Donald continued.
"Is that all?" Sora asked.
"No, there something else. Have you noticed that there hasn't been any Heartless so far that we've been here?" Donald asked.
"No... I didn't notice that...," Sora whispered silently, becoming suspicious.
"And the Heartless are supposed to follow the Keybearer everywhere, right? So don't you think it's weird that none have attacked us, or even shown that they're here?"
"That is weird... And the people living here don't seem to no about the Heartless either... What's going on here?" Sora responded.
"I don't know, but I think we should be prepared for the worst. They might attack us soon, we better be ready," Donald finished cautiously.
"I'm sure everything'll be all right," Goofy said after they had finished talking about the Heartless.
"Yeah, that's right!" Sora said, gaining his hopes again. "I couldn't have got this Keyblade for nothing!" Sora persisted, raising the Keyblade, which appeared in his hand at will, so that he could study the mysterious weapon. Coming back to his senses, he turned back to the small meadow just as a red butterfly flew by him.
"Come on, let's find Ali-"
"Ih, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yi, yigh!!!" a voice screeched across the meadow.
"Wahhh!" Goofy screamed as he looked up into the air.
"What was tha- Woah!" Sora gasped after turning to see the noisemaker. It was Alice. She was about fifty times the size they had last seen her.
"Helpppp! Serpent! Serpent!" a bird atop Alice's head with a pink bonnet and spectacles squawked after being pushed out of her nesting place in a tree.
"Please, please!" Alice said, trying to calm the mother bird down before she shouted any louder.
"Off with you! Shoo, shoo! Go away! Serpent! Serpeeeeeent!!!" the bird shouted to the sky, holding on to her bonnet so it wouldn't fly away.
"But I'm not a serpent!" Alice tried to explain.
"What!? Indeed!? The just what are you?" the bird asked, landing on the tip of Alice's nose to look her in the eyes.
"I'm just a little girl!" she answered.
"Little? Ha! Little!?" the bird laughed, flying up into the air in front of Alice's head.
"Well, I am! I mean... I was..." Alice told the bird, looking down at her feet.
"And, I suppose you don't eat eggs either?" the mother said sarcasticly.
"Yes, I do. But, but, but, but, but..." Alice tried to reason as the bird started in her shouting again.
"I knew it! I knew IT! Serpeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeent!!!!!" the bird screeched, circling around Alice's blond head.
"Oh, for goodness sake! Hmmm...." Alice said, holding her hands up and glancing at both as the bird gathered her eggs out of her nest on Alice's skull. "And the other side will..." she continued, taking a bite from something in her left hand. She swallowed and instantly shot back down to the earth at her feet, disappearing into the grass.
"What was that about?" Sora asked rhetoricaly as he made his way over to Alice vanishing spot in the green blades. He almost didn't stop in time to keep himself from running into Alice as she popped back up, now the normal size of a girl her age.
"Hello, Sora!" she greeted him. "Better save these," she told herself, sliding something into the pockets of her apron.
"What happened to you?" Sora asked, worried.
"Oh, nothing. Just some advice I gained from a caterpillar," she smiled. "So, how did you get here, Sora? And who are they?" Alice asked, pointing at his two companions.
"They're Donald and Goofy. We just met a little while ago. And we came from Tr-" Sora began but was suddenly jerked down by a feathered hand.
He heard Donald's whispering voice in his ear. "We can't tell her where we're really from! You would be meddling with how the worlds work. Noone's supposed to know of other worlds besides their own!" he hissed and let him loose.
"Are you alright?" Alice asked him. "What did he say?" she inquired as they continued to walk down a sandy path that led deeper into the forest.
"I'm okay. Oh, it was nothing, he just had to remind me of something," Sora replied. "About where we came from, we came from somewhere outside Wonderland. Down a giant rabbit hole," he answered.
"Really? That's how I got here! I was minding my own buisness as I took a break from my sister's teachings and then I saw the White Rabbit. I followed him, curious to know where he was going and what he was late for when I fell down the rabbit hole I followed him into, bringing me here," Alice told them, indicating the grounds of Wonderland.
Goofy gasped and covered his mouth. Donald looked at him and placed his index feather over his beak. "Shhh!"
"What? What did I say?" Alice asked, confused from Goofy's awkwardness.
"Um... Nothing," Sora stated, glancing back at the guilty Goofy.
"Either way, I'm trying to find the White Rabbit because he led me here, maybe he knows a way back out," Alice told them.
"Don't worry, I'll help you get out of here if the White Rabbit doesn't, Alice," he said as they came nearer to another patch of trees.
"That's very kind of you," Alice thanked him, curtseying as they stopped in front of a thick and tall, red tree.
"Who posted these?" Donald asked aloud, stalking up to the tree's bark, which was covered with small, wooden posts that had words of every direction cut onto them. They walked to the right of the tree, where another tree was revealed to be covered with the carved words.
"I wonder which way we should go..." Alice wondered aloud as a voice filled the air. It was a deep, sultry voice and it was singing to itself. The dark spots of the forest shining with every beat of it's rhythms.
"Who do you suppose...?" Alice's voice whispered.
"Loose something?" the voice came from behind them, clearer than before.
"Oh!" Alice shouted in suprise as she jumped to face the person, who she assumed was male, that had been singing seconds before.
"What the...?" Sora examined, seeing only a set of shining row of dull-ended white teeth floating above an outstretched tree branch.
"Oh, that's quite all right," the teeth responded to Sora's suprise. "Just one moment, please," the teeth asked as two drowsy eyeballs fell into place above the teeth. "Second chorus," the voice began as he recited the unknown verse as his body's entirety faded into place.
He was a plump cat that was laying on it's stomach, surrounded by his fluffy tail, swinging his paws to the words and beats of his song. He was covered in stripes all the way down to the end of his tail, made up of two shades of purple. The tip of his tail and his face were pink while his pug nose and head hair were a dark shade of burgundy. His face was the shape of banana on it's side and his teeth filled his entire cheek structure.
"Why-why, you're a cat!" Alice grinned up to the newcomer.
Stopping in his song, his tail raised his ears as if they were his hat in gratitude for her notice. "Cheshire Cat," he corrected, continuing on with his lyrics. His tail lashed in front of him and he began to depart behind it.
"Wait! Don't go! Please!" Alice exclaimed.
His tail replaced itself just above his eyes and he peeked out at her. "Very well," he replied, rendering himself back into reality.
"Third choru-"
"Oh, no, no, no. Thank you, but, I just wanted to ask you where you think we ought to go?" Alice asked expectantly.
"Well," the Cheshire Cat began, raising his back paws into the air and folding his front legs underneath him as his eyes rolled around in their sockets. "That depends on where... you want to get too!" he said matter-of-factly, living up to his name all the time.
"Oh, it really doesn't matter as long as-" Alice began.
"Then it really doesn't matter...which way you go" he answered before she could finish talking. He had floated back onto the branch so that he was standing on his hind legs like a human and dived off at the end of his words, evaporating in color and then in lines as he fell.
Paw prints dug into the dirt, leaving highly defined marks as they walked forward, around Sora, Alice, Goofy, and Donald's feet, and to the pathway behind them. Then the smiling cat formed atop the branch next to his markings opposite the way he had left the other, lines first, followed by color.
"Oh! By the way!" he stated as he folded his paws and leaned against the tree. "If you'd really like to know, he went that way!" the Cheshire Cat said, slowly beginning to point to the right but changing to the left.
"Who did?" Alice asked.
"The White Rabbit," the Cheshire Cat answered with his paws on his tail.
"He did!?"
"He did what?"
"Went that way," Alice answered by pointing in the same direction the cat had moments before.
"Who did?"
"The White Rabbit!" Alice answered, becoming annoyed.
"What rabbit?"
"But didn't you just say...! Oh dear!" Alice cried, turning away from the changing positions of the pecuilar cat.
"Can you stand on your head?" he asked her, having pulled his head off his body, which was now balancing on one foot atop the talking globe.
"However, if I were looking for a White Rabbit," he began, noticing her impatience. "I'd ask the Mad Hatter."
"Mad Hatter?" Sora asked, turning to a sign reading the aforementioned man's name.
"No, no I don't want to-" Alice replied quickly, her head shaking in agreement.
"Or, there's the March Hare. In that direction," the Cheshire Cat told them, pointing the opposite of the Mad Hatter's sign.
"Thanks, we'll see him," Sora pronounced, turning to the pathways to the left as Alice curtseyed him.
"Of course!" the Cheshire Cat interrupted their escape. "He's mad too."
"But I don't want to go among mad people!" Alice said in frustration, on the brink of tears.
"Oh, you can't help that! Most everyone's mad here," the Cheshire Cat laughed at her disappointment. "You may have noticed that I'm not all together there myself," he remarked, verifying the retreating rings of his tail. A last chorus of his musical signaled the cat's exit from the forest.
"Geez," Sora sighed.
"If the people here are like that, we must try not to upset them," Alice advised, glancing at Sora.
"Yeah. So where do you want to go now?"
"I suppose to the March Hare. He sounds less insane than the Mad Hatter."
"Yeah. This place is getting more weird by the minute," he said to her as they begun down the March Hare's path, signs posted on every tree that they passed.
"I wonder if we'll ever find our way out of this nonsense, Sora," Alice said sadly as they continued to walk down the path leading to the March Hare.
They walked the rest of the way in silence due to Alice's melancholy. She seemed to dislike Wonderland very much. Which was hard to believed since, no matter how she seemed to have transported herself to Wonderland, it was still her world at the moment.
After walking along the path for fairly ten minutes, they slowly heard high-pitched singing near in the distance, breaking the silence that had been in place between the four of them.
"What do you suppose...?" Alice asked rhetorically aloud, as they followed the path more urgently to where the sunlight from above could be seen outside the forest leaves, they came to yet another cottage not unlike that of the White Rabbit's.
It was a two story house adorned with greys of stone and bright pink hues of paint bordering every corner's edge. The house was leaning in a crooked stance outwards toward the right, where the wooden door was fitted into the same direction. The ceiling was made of yellow lofts of hay with a block chimney protruding from its center in the opposite direction, two blue antennas elevating into the air of the surrounding, and concoted colors, of the surrounding forest trees.
A maze surrounding the back of the cottage was one of the most prominent features. Its hedges were yellow in color and bent up and down in the air as if by will. The doorway to the inside of the hedges was cut out of the middle, forming a brightened archway of yellow leaves, where upon rested the hinges of a greyed wooden, door with a circle cut through its head.
As they followed the chaotic pathways up to the hedges, peering into the arena formed by its walls, they saw, and heard, two oddly short men singing a song that repeated the words "A merry merry Unbrithday!" again and again over a large, rectangular table running across the yard.
The table was covered by a low mist, or smoke, and it was hard to see the men's faces clearly. They were raising teapots and teacups in the air with each chorus of the song. And, as they slowly clambered along the stone path outlined with hooping, black wires to where a large pink chair was, they noticed that the music creating a pattern for the song's repetition of words was the teapots. They were spurting sounds from their snouts, which had caused the fog over the table.
And as the song slowly reached its high-pitched climax, Alice's hands rang out with applouse for the performance. The men took notice of them immediately, jumping out of their chairs resting on the opposite side of the table and running toward the four intruders.
"No room!"
"No room!"
They both shouted the same phrase, running past the rows of chairs, teacups, and teapots. Sora quirked an eyebrow at them, Donald sighing in exasperation. No room? What were they talking about? There were dozens of empty chairs to be filled.
Alice looked up at them strangely also from her seat in the bulky, pink lounge chair she had placed herself in.
"But we thought there was plenty of room!" she said, confused even farther by the two new men, who slowly became clear as the mist evaporated from the air.
The first man, who they assumed to be the Mad Hatter because of the green hat, which was far too big for the man's head, seated upon his gray-haired head, slowly turned himself away from them in disgust. He had a nose the size of a stone that was topped by dark and grim eyebrows. He had a yellow overcoat, with a blueish-green bow tie at the base of his neck. His shirt was a darker green, familiar with the color of their surroundings, and pants of a slightly lighter hue of the same color. His tiny shoes were barely noticeable because of their dark color that blended with the ground.
The other man, or rather, the other hare, was slowly marching up to them in his red overcoat and bow tie, with shirt, breeches, and shoes a dark burgundy matching his bunny nose. The coat of brownish hair that covered his body as if it were a tan led up his body frame past his whiskers and bucktooth front teeth to a patch of blond hair where his tan colored rabbit ears drooped in the air. It seemed as if they had also met the March Hare in the backyard of the Mad Hatter's home.
The March Hare perched himself on the seat of a chair beside Alice and wagged his furry finger at her, while holding himself up with another hand on his knee. "Ah, but it's very rude to sit down without being invited," he said in his starch, deep voice.
"I'll say it's rude! Very, very rude, indeed!" the Mad Hatter said, flustered, in his aged voice, which seemed as if it would fail on him at any second. His two front teeth were also bucktoothed and his pink tongue lay limply on the edge of his lips when he closed his mouth.
"Yes. Very, very, very rude indeed," came a lazy and squeaky voice from under the lid of a yellow teapot on the table. It was a mouse wearing all pink, with a bow tie just as the March Hare and the Mad Hatter. As soon as he had spoken, he lowered his grey, droopy-eyed face back into the teapot with a click of the lid.
"We're sorry," Sora told them, raising his hands out in explanation.
"Yeah, ahyuk," Goofy apologized from behind him in his jiggling voice, Donald dead silent as he stood to Sora's side.
"Yes. Me as well," she continued the string of apologies. "But I did enjoy your singing. And I was wondering if you could-"
"You enjoyed OUR singing?!" the March Hare cried in delight at her words, frightening Alice so she would raise her hands in defense as he rushed to her side, hands together.
"Oh! What delightful children!" the Mad Hatter began again, Sora noticing a label in the crook of his hat with 10/6 printed as a fraction on a piece of note-card sized paper. He raised his hands in flattery before lowering himself to the table, where his elbow splashed into a cup of tea. "And-uh!" he cried, exasperated, having noticed the cup's attachment. "Oh, my. I'm so excited!" he began again, trying to pry the wite cup from his imprisoned arm. "We never get company! You simply MUST have a cup of tea!" he said, pointing to the unlistened teacup locked over his elbow.
"Yes, you must have a cup of tea!" The March Hare ordered gently, picking up a pearly white teapot. He poored it over his furry hand, the first few drops turning into a small plate, teacup, and sugar cubes before filling the newborn cup with the brown, steaming liquid.
"That would be very nice!" she said eagerly, as the Mad Hatter removed the cup from his shoulder and slowly poured Sora, Donald, and Goofy cups of tea as well. "I'm sorry we interrupted your birthday party. Thank you," she said thankfully as she took the steaming cup from the March Hare, though it was soon jerked back from her grasp.
"Birthday? My dear child, this is NOT a birthday party!" he said impatiently, tapping his furry fingers against the tea cup's rim, rabbit ears twining together in ignorance.
"Of course not!" the Mad Hatter said matter-of-factly, before noticing the teapot resting on the pink table-cloth in front of him. He grasped it and lifted above the white rimming around his neck and letting the tea flow freely down his neck. "This is an UNbirthday party!" he continued as the tea rolled about his outstretched wrist into another teacup.
"Unbirthday?" Alice questioned curiously. "I'm sorry, but I don't quite understand..." she told them, puzzeled. She reached out for the re-offered teacup and it was, yet again, jerked from her reach.
"It's very simple!" he began, leaning onto the table edge knowingly. "Thirty days past s-No!" he explained before holding his hands out to signal his meaning. His right ear bending down to nuzzle his blonde patch before he began again. "An Unbirtday! Iff you have a birthday, then...you..." he said before cocking his head in befuddlement. He then lowered his head to rest it on the table and laughing. "She doesn't know what an Unbirthday is," the March Hare directed to the Mad Hatter behind his left hand, right hand pointing at Alice as his eyes rolled themselves around in their sockets.
"How silly!" the Mad Hatter giggled into his hand. "I-" he began before stopping as brown bubbles filtered from his open mouth. He picked up another teapot, blue this time, and sprayed a small cloud of white mist into his mouth. "I will illuminate!" he said, turning to her while laying a hand on his chest.
The March Hare flung himself into the center of the teapots before raising a teaspoon as if he were a band director and the teapots sprang to life, making musical sounds with spurts from their spouts and jiggling along with the tune.
"Now, statistics prove! Prove that you've one birthday!" the Mad Hatter sung aloud and out of tune, pointing to Alice, who was smiling in glee.
"Imagine! Just one birthday every year!" the March Hare piped out before continuing his ministrations on the orchestra of teapots.
"Aaaah! But there are 364 UNbirthdays!" the Mad Hatter continued, indicating each finger as if to try to magically make three hundred and fifty-nine more fingers appear.
"Precisely why we're gathered here today to cheer!" the March Hare finished the song, jumping into the air as if to make the pots play louder.
Alice boosted herself from the pink cushions of her chair and cried, "Why, then, today is my unbirthday too!"
"And mine!" Sora raised his voice in agreement.
"Gawrsh, it's my unbirthday too! Ahyuk!" Goofy entered, Donald simply rolling his eyes at their absurdity, arms folded, and webbed feet tapping in boredom.
"It is?!" the March Hare shouted in suprise.
"What a small world this is..." the Mad Hatter said in his raspy voice, looking up into the tree-covered sky.
"In that case!" he said gleefully, as if this was all a performance they did for every passerby, and bounced over to Alice, Sora, and Goofy along with the Mad Hatter, encircling their arms around the group as they began singing their earlier song once again, pushing Donald out of the way.
"A very merry unbirthday!" the March Hare began, moving around the three.
"To us?" Alice asked for them, flattery written across her face as the Mad Hatter removed his hat to reveal a three layered, pink cake with three candles atop its mouthwatering icing.
"To you!" the Mad Hatter squeaked in reply.
"A very merry unbirthday!" the March Hare repeated again.
"For us?"
"For you!" the March Hare replied happily as they released their grip around the three of them and the Mad Hatter handed Alice the light cake.
"Now blow the candles out my dears and make your wishes come true!" taking his index finger and scooping up some icing on his fingertip, which he gobbled up hungrily.
"Ahyuk!" Goofy blushed before blowing air past her shoulder at one of the candles, followed by Alice, and soon joined by Sora, who was wishing to find Riku and Kairi.
As the flickering, orange flames disappeared, flickering sparkles were revealed on the candle tips, making a burning sound. Alice's smile soon disappeared and she held the cake away from her as it jumped to the sky in blue sparkles of its own accord.
"A very merry unbirthday!!! To YOU!!!!!!" they sung the climax as the cake sparkles burst into fireworks. As the sparkles began to collapse to the ground, with it came the sleepy figure of the mouse that had been resting in the yellow teapot in a puff of blue smoke with an umbrella hooked to his pink overcoat as he floated silently to the ground singing a soft song.
"Twinkle, twinkle little bat. How I wonder what your at. Up above the world you fly. Like a daimond in the sky," he sung in his drunkened blue-eyed gaze as hefloated into his teapot, the Mad Hatter slipping the lid quietly over them.
As Alice began to clap in appreciation, she didn't notice a solemn black creature approaching her from behind. But Donald, from his place on the ground, did. He turned in suprise to Sora, who was closer to Alice.
"Sora, Sora!" he cried pointing at the yellow-eyed creature as it was nearly upon her. "Help her!"
Sora turned to him, confused at first, before following his finger to the dark creature. His eyes widened as it jumped, Alice only just turning to Donald, still having not noticed the Heartless behind her.
"What? What? What is it?" she asked innocently as Sora lurched at her. She raised her arms in defnse as he pushed her out of the way and, weapon appearing mysteriously in his hand, swiped it away into green spheres with his Keyblade.
"Oh my!" the Mad Hatter cried as the dark creatures appeared across the forest floor. "Run for your lives!" he shouted in concern for his life, taking off out of his garden as the pink covered table was over-turned by groups of Heartless covered in purple and silver armor.
The March Hare followed his example and ran for his front door.
Alice, having fallen to the ground, noticed with wide eyes the mysterious and deadly creatures. She pushed herself up and, maid's dress shaking, took off after the two short men.
Sora could see that the two men were in the doorway and slammed the door shut, refusing to let Alice in to safety, looked through the front window and the March Hare told her, "Come back some other time for another cup of tea!"
She glared at the brown covered hare. "I definitely won't be coming back here!" she shouted at him through the glass and, once again noticing the Heartless who had begun to follow her, ran off into the forest.
Sora stayed back to fight and angrily sliced through the attacking Heartless. Shadows and Soldiers throwing themselves at him each in turn. He sliced quickly through the weaker of them, the Shadows, before being blocked by several Soldiers who cut at his skin with their sharpened armor.
He continued to try and strike them out of his way, but the Keyblade would bounce back off the metals covering their flesh. He faintly heard the striking of metal on metal behind him as Goofy used his Smasher Shield to pummel the Heartless into more green spheres, letting them be absorbed into him to keep him healthy and energized.
Sora continued to counter one of the Soldier's attacks as two others scraped his arms and face with slices of their spear-like claws. Donald, having rid two Soldiers rushing him, turned to Sora's rescue, casting Fire at the two Soldiers bashing him as Sora managed to slice through the other's revealed stomach. The destroyed Soldiers collapsing in green balls, bringing health to Sora's scarred arms.
As they layed waste to the last of the Heartless and slowly gathered the munny that also collapsed from the Heartless, the turned to find that Alice was nowhere in sight.
"Oh no! Where'd Alice go?! We have to find her!" he said in a worried voice.
"Who cares! We need to do something important! And following that girl isn't leading us anywhere but into more trouble!" Donald quacked angrily, shaking the Morning Star clasped in his feathered hand in dispute.
"I've already lost two of my friends, I'm not going to lose another!" Sora glared at Donald. "I'm going to search for Alice, I don't care if you come!" he said marching out of the garden, which was littered with shattered teapots and teacups from the seemingly thunderstruck table, and off into the forest following the path he had used to follow to the Mad Hatter's earlier except in the opposite direction.
He could hear two pairs of foot steps slowly appear behind him in pursuit. He glanced back knowingly, seeing the blue and yellows of Goofy and Donald's uniforms. He was grateful that they were here with him, no matter how angry he seemed. Because, even though he was angry now, he knew he wouldn't be able to stay alive by himself at the moment, seeing how weak he was against the earlier Heartless. And even if he could, he would still need to get off this world somehow, and Donald and Goofy were his only answers at the moment.
They marched silently through the forest, Sora glancing this way and that in search of Alice as they once again entered a cluster of trees. It seemed to have been hours since they had been blowing out a candle for their unbirthday party and they hadn't spoken since. It was almost as if they were walking through a graveyard.
"And the momeraths outgrabe!" came a deep singing voice behind them. They jumped, startled, before turning to see the pink and purple smiling cat. "Looking for someone?" the Cheshire Cat asked knowingly.
"Oh! It's you! Yes, we're looking for Alice. Do you know what happened to her?" Sora asked the cat desperately.
"Well, what I can tell you is that she stumbled across the almighty ruler of this world!" he said, mockingly forming a patch of black hair tied up in a bun before it disappeared again to his normal fur colors. "And what WILL happen, if someone doesn't get their soon, will be a tragedy. For Alice's sake at least," he smiled despicably.
"Ruler? Where is Alice now?! If she's in trouble we have to save her!" Sora said heroically, slicing his balde through the empty air to prove his point.
"Don't tell me?! You haven't met the Queen?!" he cried in suprised glee. "You hav-en't?!" he asked again, rhetorically, before rolling across the tree limb he was seated on in laughter.
"Can you just tell us how we can find her?!" Sora asked angrily, glaring up at the laughing feline.
"Well, it depends. Just how fast do you want to get there?" he asked with a smirk, tail waving in the air.
"As fast as possible!" Sora cried anxiously.
"Alright then. I suppose you would want the shortcut!" he said, reaching up to grasp a loose treebranch and pull down on it. The trunk of the tree slowly creaked open, an opera of light freeing itself from the opening.
"Woah...," Sora said in awe as he looked through the hole. A green, hedged maze ran along the ground from the opening inside to open up to a clear lawn where there was a giant court in place, overshadowed by a tall, black and white palace. And there, upon the stand, was Alice.
"Alice! There she is!" Sora cried in joy at seeing the blonde girl. He glanced up to the Cheshire Cat. "Thanks!" he said gratefully to the fading feline.
"Don't thank me yet!" he grinned before fading away. "And the momeraths outgrabe!" he cried with his disapearance, though it was not heard by the three rescuers who rushed into the maze grounds toward the stand.
They rushed up through the courtyard, where the Jury, the Judge, and the Defendant, Alice, were set up in their rightful places. As they entered, they noticed several dispatched cards, carrying spears and axes, black and red in color, as guards. Before they could enter the court too far, the cards jabbed their weapons in their way.
"Noone must enter the court while the trial is taking place!" a red card explained.
"Or they will face the wrath of the Queen of Hearts!" a black card finished, poking Sora once before they once again stood in a line to guard Alice, who was on the stand, from escaping if she tried to flee.
They stopped in place in front of the court, where the grass turned to a blue floor with hearts embroidered over each tile.
"Your Majesty," came a raspy, desperate voice from up above beside who Sora assumed to be the Queen of Hearts. It was the White Rabbit! So this is where he had been running off too. He was in his uniform with his heart banner and bowing to the Queen. "Members of the jury," he continued, bowing to them also. "Loyal subjects," he said, nodding to Sora, Donald and Goofy as he pulled out a scroll which he loosened to let it roll slwly to the ground. A heart shaped scepter tapped on the White Rabbit's shoulder.
It was held by a man wearing a crown and red and white garments that draped to his feet. He was a small man, smaller than the Mad Hatter and the March Hare had been, with red hair and a miniscule, almost unseeable mustache. The White Rabbit glanced at him. "And the King," he said lazily as the King of Hearts removed his crown as if it was a hat as if he expected an applause.
"The prisoner of the bar is charged with attempted theft of the heart of the Queen of Hearts. Her majesty, the Queen of Hearts, presiding," he bowed to the Queen after reading the long paper, though his speech had been rather short.
The Queen of Hearts was seated on a chair that was hearts and other odd designs. The King was seated in a similar chair, but instead he was standing atop a mountain of books piled on the chair. She had her pitch black hair back in a bun, held by a red ribbon, with a small crown that was thinner in width than a normal crown. She had a set of golden earrings that dangled from her small ears and was barely noticeable because of the white collar that surrounded her head. Her body was plump and huge in comparison to her tiny husband. Her royal robes were a series of blacks and reds that crossed sides in opposition, where her lower dress split into a yellow and black arrow desing to wear her dress ended at her feet. Her face seemed almost kind with her large nose, fluttering eyelashes and thin lipstick, so thin it could barely be seen.
"This girl is the culprit. And the reson is...because I say so, that's why!" the Queen shouted angrily as the jury, which Sora noticed to be a group of oddly colored animals, quickly wrote down her words. The King did nothing and sat obediently while holding the gavial and wincing when his wife shouted.
Alice who shook her head in despair. "But that is so unfair! I've done nothing wrong!" she cried innocently.
"Well, do you have anything to say in your defense?" the Queen smiled evilly and leaning on the ledge of her sitting place.
"Of course I do! You may be Queen, but that doesn't give you the right to be so mean and unreasonable! I was only running for my life with that creature-"
"SILENCE!!!" she ordered angrily, face growing red as she glared at the young girl below her. "You dare defy me?!"
Sora watched hesitantly from the sidelines as Alice was interrogated. "We have to do something!" he persisted to Donald and Goofy.
"Yeah, but the-" Donald began.
"We're outsiders, so wouldn't that be muddling?" Goofy interjected.
"'Meddling'!" Donald corrected angrily.
"Oh, yeah. And that's against the rules," Goofy finished, smiling.
"But she's in trouble. And that Queen isn't-"
"The court finds the defendant...GUILTY AS CHARGED!!!" the Queen of Hearts bellowed. Alice took a step back in the stand from her ferociousness. "For the crimes of assault, and attempted theft of my heart," she supplied her reasons. "OFF WITH HER HEAD!!!" she ordered, pointing at Alice with her own Heart Scepter, as the cards jumped to apply their duties.
Alice held her hands in defense as the cards rushed forward with their spears and axes. "No, no! Oh, please!!!" she cried desperately.
Sora couldn't stand there and watch one of his new friends be unfairly accused and subjected to punishment for a crime she didn't commit. He knew who the real enemy was...
"Wait!" Sora clamored, throwing his Keyblade forward to knock down the cards obeying the Queen's orders.
"Who are you!? And how dare you interfere with my court!?" she demanded, slamming her fists against her table.
"Excuse me, your Majesty. We know who the real culprit is!" he explained to her in desperation for Alice's life.
"Uh-huh! It's the Heartle-" Goofy began, clasping his gloved hands over his mouth knowing he had revealed too much.
Sora glanced at him, then turned his attention back to the Queen. "Anyway, she's not the one you're looking for," he told her.
"That's nonsense! Have you any proof?" she grinned as if she knew he didn't.
"Um....n-no..." he blushed.
"Then...OFF WITH THEIR HEA-eads... What?!" she asked the King angrily, as he tapped on her shoulder with her scepter.
He clung to the desk to keep from being blown away by her breath. He quickly gathered himself back together. "Well, why don't we give them some time to gather some evidence? Hmm? Wouldn't that be nice? Hmm? What do you say?" he questioned her hopefully. He seemed to be a kind man who didn't want to see Alice lose her head, but he also seemed to be under his wife's thumb.
"Well....alright!" she told him as he jumped gleefully. "Bring me evidence in Alice's defence!" she ordered them. "Fail, and it's off with all of your heads. Gather as much or little evidence as you please. Report back here once you're ready to present. In the meantime...Alice will be my prisoner!" she smirked as one of the black spaded cards took Alice by the shoulders and stuffed her into a cage next to the Queen.
Sora turned to Donald and Goofy. "Sorry, I couldn't just let her have her head cut off," he said in apology, rubbing the back of his head and smiling.
"It's alright, Sora. She doesn't diserve to be beheaded anyway. We'll help!" Goofy replied as Donald sighed and nodded in agreement.
"Sora! Sora!" Alice called from her cage. He rushed over to her, where the guard watched them suspiciously and wearily. "Oh, thank you so much Sora! I'm sorry you got mixed up in this nonsense!"
"Why are you on trial anyway?" he asked.
"Well, you know those creatures that attacked the Mad Hatter's party? They chased me into the forest where the Cheshire Cat helped me by showing me my way here. I came running for help, but as soon as I reached the Queen, the creature stopped following me and attacked her. Though I know she is mean, I'm glad that creature didn't get her before the guards killed it. Though I do wish she wouldn't blame me for this mishap!" she explained.
"That's terrible! I don't know how, but we're going to find a way to help you, Alice!" he consoled her as she frowned sadly.
"I'm glad, I just wish none of this had every happened. I suppose I'm a little too curious for my own good!" she sad, beginning to cry.
"Silence! The defendant will be quiet!" he ordered and turned a wheel that was beside him, forcing the small cage up to where the Queen was seated farther up in the air. As the cover of the cage began to close Alice shouted urgently to him, "Sora! Ask the Cheshire Cat what to do! He'll-" and her voice was drowned out by the encasement.
"...Well...let's go, you guys!" he said, taking off for the opening they had entered through from the forest, passing a heart shaped hedge above them as they re-entered the dreary forest.
They found gloom and darkness as they sped into the grassy tundra. Sora looked up to the tree he had last seen the Cheshire Cat near. He was gone. But where, exactly?
"Cheshire Cat! Cheshire Cat!" he echoed through the forest. He could here that sultry voice coming nearer, singing his logo song.
"And the momeraths outgrabe!!!" the Cheshire Cat signaled his entrance as he formed above the tree once again.
"Now what do you want?" he grinned.
"We-we need your help! Alice's in trouble and we need you to-to... We need you to tell us where we can find the evidence of Alice's defense," he clarified in anxiousness.
"For Alice's defense you need to show the Queen of Hearts the truth. The truth you seek, and the evidence it withholds lies within this box," he smiled, throwing a pink box that appeared into the air and laughing slightly as it bounce off of Donald's hat and fell into Sora's arms. "Or maybe it does not?"
"How do we know this isn't a trick?!" Donald asked irritatedly, Sora glaring at him.
"To trust, or not to trust? I trust you'll decide!" the Cheshire Cat said, pleasured at seeing Donald's confused glare.
"Now we can save Alice!" he said eagerly.
"Don't be so sure! She may be innocent, but what about you?" the cat questioned him.
"What's that supposed to mean?!" Donald raged.
"I won't tell, but I'll give you this," he answered, holding open his right paw where a glittering light shot down and surrounded Donald and Sora. "And the momeraths outgrabe!" he sung silently and mysteriously, disappearing in the night.
"What did he do?!" Sora asked Donald in panic.
"Somehow, he gave us the experience we needed to learn how to use the Blizzard spell...,"Donald replied.
"What kind of evidence do you suppose is inside?" he asked curiously, turning his attention back to the box and peeling the lid slightly open to peer inside. The lid burst open wide and threw him to the ground as a Heartless took off through the opened tree-hole for the court.
"A HEARTLESS!!!" Sora roared in suprise, chasing it through the maze to the court where the Queen sat, unexpecting the oncoming creature.
As the Soldier Heartless lumbered up the courtyard and across the heart embroidered tiles, carelessly making plenty of creaks and clangs, the Queen finally took notice of her danger.
"Guards! Dispose of that thing, immediately!" she roared frantically.
"Immediately! Immediately! Just as the Queen ordered!" the King edged the numbered cards to fight back against the unknown, to them at least, creature. As the cards fought to hold the Heartless back, it jumped high over their heads, aiming its talons directly at the Queen's chest...where her heart presided...
"Look out, your Majesty!!!" he cried, summoning the power within him to call forth his newfound magic spell. He was too far way to attack it physically and jumped into the air where he was and cast, "BLIZZARD!" at the predator Heartless. Blue crystals shot from the end of his Keyblade through the sky and barely collided with the Soldier, though it hit him hard enough to make him collapse into munny and green health.
"There's your evidence, Queen! Alice's innocent!" he told her, running through the shocked guards and to the wheel beside the card keeping Alice prisoner in the cage. He pushed the card aside as it tried to ward him off with its axe and snapped the wheel off with a cut through the air from his Keyblade. The cage dropped instantly. And inside was...
"What?! This can't be happening?! Where'd Alice go?!" Sora asked aloud, eyes wide with suprise.
"How dare you?! You used that creature as a pawn to set free the prisoner and hide her?!" the Queen of Hearts thundered, enraged.
"What?! That He-creature is the criminal! And Alice was already gone!" he defended himself.
"NONSENSE! Alice is the criminal! Article 29 clearly states 'Anyone who defies the Queen of Hearts is guilty'! OFF WITH THERE HEADS!!!!!!!!!" she shouted, jumping down from her thrown and leading the cards after Sora as he and Donald and Goofy took off running from the cards, which multiplied in number.
They ran down to the opening where the tree in the forest had led them in. He glanced back to see the Queen coming ever closer followed by all her cards, The White Rabbit, the jury, and the King. He turned back as they entered the forest, but saw that he was nowhere in sight of the forest. He was on a shadowed green lawn where the mayor, Dodo, was leading the march of animals and him, along with Donald and Goofy, followed by the Queen and all her followers in a circle just as he had before. Except there were no crashing waves this time.
They broke off from the group hopping over jutting stones as he followed the green lawn down the hill as Heartless formed slowly out of the ground. There was no way he could take on the Queen and the Heartless at the same time, so he continued tracking across the field, slashing at any Heartless that jumped in his way.
He glanced back again to make sure that Donald and Goofy were keeping up, Goofy crying out in fright as the Queen drew closer. He turned back and was in a completely different setting. He was running along the pink covered table of the Mad Hatter's backyard. "Wha-!?" he quirked his brow. But he didn't dare stop, even though the Heartless had picked off a few of the cards, he knew they were still in greater number than he was.
Suddenly the two Unbirthday givers appeared out of nowhere, clutching and tearing at his arms.
"You can't leave a teaparty without having a cup of tea, you know!" the green covered Mad Hatter declared, pulling him to where a collosal teacup appeared in front of them.
"Leave us alone! The Queen! She'll catch us if we don't keep going!" he said, trying his best to fight off their suddenly strong arms.
"Ah, but we insist! You simply must have a cup of tea!" he said, the Mad Hatter pulling him up the spoon of the teacup, the March Hare pushing the three of them up so that they were diving into the brown liquid.
He took a deep breath before splashing into the tea. He swam for what he believed to be the surface. As he broke through, he saw the sky, which had grown into a blood red.
"Come on, hurry!" he urged Donald and Goofy as he glanced behind him, flinging his arms continuously so that he kept moving over the tea.
"OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!!!!" she bellowed once again to the swimming cards. She was, herself, seated on the feet of a bird who was floating in the tea on its beak, another bird skimming her along the surface by pushing her.
He turned back to his surroundings, Goofy and Donald's splashing of feathers and gloves could be heard behind him. He came to a large mushroom, not looking to see what was on it before pulling himself up.
"Who are YOU?" a voice cried and he glanced up to see a blue caterpillar glaring down at the three of them before they were engulfed in smoke. He coughed as he swallowed half of it and suddenly felt something solid beneath his feet. And took off running again as the smoke billowed around them and formed a tunnel.
"OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!!!!" the Queen of Hearts' voice rang out again. "Don't let the culprits get away!" she ordered the cards rushing after her.
Sora looked ahead to a door floating in midair and as he slowly felt the ground fall from beneath his feet he ordered, "JUMP!!!" and launched himself to the door. He grabbed ahold to the golden knob as he realized that this was the same door he had entered into Wonderland. The one that talked.
He felt Donald and Goofy's hands grab onto his ankle, tugging him down slightly so that he could see through the Keyhole into the many colored tiles. There, rushing frantically around, though he wasn't sure why, was Alice.
He turned the Doorknob, despite its protests, and pryed it open with his other hand. Grabbing hold to the tile behond the boundaries of the door, he pulled himself through. As he was gathered into the room, he turned to help Donald and Goofy in, who were holding onto his ankle for dear life as the Queen was circling below.
Having pulled them in, he reached quickly out to the otherside of the door and slammed it shut. Having done that he turned to see...
"What's going on here?!" he barked angrily to the empty room, the glass table in its center laden with the bottle he had used to grow small.
"Could you be quiet now that you're done trying to kill me?" the Doorknob asked angrily. Sora turned to him as the Doorknob yawned lazily. "I'm trying to get some sleep!" he continued with another yawn. "So, good night!" he finished, drooping sleepily.
"I didn't know Doorknob's could get sleepy..." Goofy said oddly.
"Well, they usually don't talk either, do they?" Donald replied, glaring at him because of his idiocy.
"I guess not, ahyuk!" he said, giggling at his own absurdity.
"Now what?" Sora asked Donald as he turned to look at the duck. "I could've sworn I saw Alice in her through that Doorknob's keyhole...," he said, crestfallen.
"I really don't understand what's going on here. Something was supposed to happen when we entered a world! But I haven't noticed anything odd or special at all!" Donald said exasperatedly.
"Are you sure about that?" a deep, rich voice asked him.
"Of course I'm sure! I-" Donald stopped, turning to the glass table where the purple feline was watching them intently.
"Cheshire Cat! Do you know where Alice is now?!" he said, rushing up to the table where the bottle shook, dangerous of falling, from Sora's steps.
"Of course! The Cheshire Cat knows all the answers, but doesn't always tell," he grinned mischeviously. "For one, I know that this world is not the world in which you are trying to save in the great scheme of worlds. This is just the beginning for beginners such as you, since the best way of beginning for beginners is at the beginning!" he told them happily, leaning back on his haunches.
Donald stood staring at the white teeth of the Cheshire Cat. He knew that there were other worlds...? And that they weren't from this world...? But how could he know that...?
"And about Alice, she's closer than you think... The shadows were with her last time we met," he said mysteriously.
"Where'd they go?" Goofy asked him, still oblivious to the fact that this world's resident knew more than he should.
"This way, that way? Does it matter?" he answered and questioned rhetorically, pushing himself up onto his two backfeet so he stood up almost as tall as Sora did since he was on the glass table.
"The shadows will be here soon. Are you prepared for the worst? If not, too bad," he continued, shaking his head in mock sadness for them as he faded away into the air.
"What do you think he meant?" Donald asked Sora.
"Waaaahhh!" Goofy cried suddenly, eyes wide and running stark mad for the other side of the room.
"What is it you big paloo-" Donald asked angrily before turning to meet a large, black foot squashing him into the tiled floor.
"Woah!" Sora said, jumping out of the way of its other foot so as to not meet the same fate as the flattened duck.
Sora and Goofy stared up into the ten yellow eyes of a monster Heartless that stood completely up to the ceiling. The tile-covered room was already huge, so the enemy had plenty of room to move its paper, black arms and to attack the trio. The black heel still pressing down hard on to the helpless white duck led up to its red covered legs. But, instead of having one leg, it split into two directions from the purple socket of its ankle, forming a daimond shape. Its shoulders were covered with a heavily designed black, red, and yellow cloth and curled up into small spikes. Its five heads, alternating in red and black hues from its neck up, were leaning like a layered cake.
Its paper, black arms, which folded back and forth from each side, held two scepters, with thin ovals with the pattern of the Cheshire Cat's tail, in both its talon-fingered hands.
Before they could move, the boy and his friend were swiped to the floor with one thin sweep of the ovaled scepters. As it did so, its body leaned on the tip of its axe-shaped boots, freeing Donald from his suffocating imprisonment, who literally flew to the opposit doors of the Doorknob. Focusing its attack mainly on Sora and Goofy, Donald jumped as high into the air as he could, casting embers on the paper-like appendages.
Its center joint, purple as the others and just below its small chest piece, glowed white as the inferno quickly dissipated from the burning arms. After pummeling Goofy and Sora once more so that they were laying on the floor tiles, it turned its assault onto the agitated duck.
It reached out its scepter, smacking Donald's weapon, the Morning Star, from his grasp to the other side of the room. The tile colors slowly faded from the room as a low shadow fell over the battleground. As another arm rang past Donald's shoulder, Goofy was jumping up and attacking his glowing center joint with the gleaming shield.
Sora ran to join Goofy's attack just as the scepters tips, as if they were candles, lit with flames. As it swirled its weapons, it pointed them each, seperately, at its two attackers and speeding bullets covered in fire collided with them, one bouncing off the steel of Goofy's shield, with the other damaging human flesh.
"Uuuh!" Sora voiced aloud in pain as he was threw back as his chest lit with flames.
"Blizzard!" came a helping voice as icy sparkles lowered the pain of his burning chest. Donald then turned his attention on the crisping scepters, casting more blizzards and putting out each as they came near him.
"Take THAT!" Goofy's voice echoed around the room as a loud banging of steel on metal followed. The Trickmaster fell to the ground in an unconcious heap of colors. Several health spheres released from its joints with its collapse.
They charged the fallen creature, cutting, magicking, and slicing through the oddly proportioned form. They were doing the creature major damage as its paper arms were slowly decapitating into ashes. Sora, having recovered the air in his chest from his last hit, banged the Keyblade's metal against its center joint. The purple orb glowed ominously before the dark creature sprang to life as if it hadn't been hurt at all.
As it spread out its arms as if they were curtains being uncovered for a play, they jerked and fell to the ground. The middle section of its right arm had benn shredded, the remaining bits of its paper arms fell to the ground and faded away with the hand's scepter.
As much as a Heartless could glare, the Trickmaster shot daggers at them with its yellow eyes. Donald laughed scornfully at the creature's anger before jumping up and throwing a fire spell at it, knocking it back and causing it to shake.
As it stilled, Goofy having taken up his attack on the center orb of the creature's body, it held out its other scepter, knocking Donald, who was trying to rush for safety to no avail, against the wall harder than it had hit so far, putting the gasping duck out of commission. Sora watched horrified as it threw Goofy against the sleeping Doorknob just as roughly as it had the mage, the poor knight falling over with an "Ahyuk."
The creature smiled its deformed grin down to him.
"Need some help?" a familiar voice spoke aloud to the challenged child. Sora stole a glance at where the purple feline formed on the table between the Trickmaster's feet. He smiled as much as ever, seeming not to feel any danger at all from the horrible creature above him.
"Cheshire Cat!! Yes, yes!!! I do!!!" Sora clamored hopefully, running past the gloomy arms that reached down to swat him away from the glass table.
He stopped in front of the grinning cat, who looked up expectantly at him. "Aren't you the Keybearer, child? And yet you seem as helpless as poor, little Alice..." he smirked.
"Yes...I am...but-HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT?!" Sora bellowed angrily as he moved from the shifting boots of the Trickmaster, who was trying to move himself in a posititon to hit the hidden boy.
"I've told you before, the Cheshire Cat knows all."
"Do you know a way I can survive this Heartless, then?! I'm running out of time!" Sora told him, glancing at the form of the Trickmaster, who was slowly moving himself into a striking station.
"Of course. It would be a pity if the Keyblade Master couldn't use more than one spell, wouldn't it? A pity for all the poor hearts that would lose them," the Cheshire Cat replied. "Since this is your first, let me grant you your second of what you will have seven which will have, themselves, four upgrades of spells," the Cheshire Cat continued, holding out a paw, where the sparkle of snowflakes fell across his fur.
"But how?!" Sora asked, still confused by the cat's words but getting the gist at the forming of a Blizzard spell.
"Take it you'll need it..." the feline commanded as his spirals slowly faded away in circles.
As he disappeared into the air, Sora caut the snowflake.
"Wha-?!" he gasped as he froze over, covered in ice and becoming an unmoving solid. The Trickmaster, having finally found him, swiped quickly. Sora's frozen eyes stared at the incoming scepter, feeling betrayed. As the baton skidded over his frozen flesh, it retreated almost immediately. Sora felt as if he was melting and didn't see anything that was happened as he closed his eyes from the icy pain.
Suddenly, he felt normal, unfrozen and mobile. He opened his eyes to see sparkling white flakes shooting through the air around the layered head of the frighted Trickmaster. The flakes, unnormal in their creation, sliced through the creature's body as if they were paper shredders. As the Heartless raised its hand in defense, a flake knocked rod out of its hands.
As the flakes continued, by the time they had faded away the Trickmaster was rugged and drooping. The center orb that seemed as if its powerpoint was dimming with every second, and, seeing his chance, Sora galloped to the fallen Heartless, slicing through the orb in its weak state.
The creature looked up sadly as the orb split apart, revealing a small, glimmering purple heart. Released of its prison, the heart shot out into the air as it, itself, began to crack down its middle before diminishing in the open air. With it faded the shadow over the room, revealing the dazzling colors of the tiled walls.
The Heartless shuddered in front of the Keybearer as he ran for safe ground as the Trickmaster collapsed. It landed flat, with its head standing up straight on the ground. It shimmered and faded in the light as the black paper that made up its head was unloosed and faded open revealing a shaking girl in a blue maid's dress.
"Alice!" Sora voiced cheerfully as he ran to meet her.
"Sora! It's you! I was wondering where I was!" she said, enveloping him in her arms thankfully. "I don't know what would've happened if you hadn't saved me! When the Queen locked me up some odd creature formed inside the cage while I was in the air. I tried pushing it out, but it caused a shadow to surround me and I appeared here. I saw the Cheshire Cat just as that creature you saved me from picked me up and dropped me in a dark place that was as small as the Queen's cage!" she explained to him as she unfolded herself from his arms.
"While I was there, something was pulling at me. Gripping at....at...right here" she said, patting her hand against her chest, where her heart was beating somewhere inside her. "Oh, I didn't think I'd survive! If it wasn't for you Sora! You and your-what happened to them?" she asked, eyes wide as she stared at the unconcious duo, Goofy and Donald.
"Oh, they'll be alright! They just need some items!" he said, turning and moving to where Donald was breathing slowly. He reached into one of the many pockets that he had saw Donald fill after they had visited Huey, Dewey, and Louie's shop. He pulled out a small vial, that had steaming green liquid inside. He pulled the cork and tilted up the duck's beak, pooring the fluid down Donald's throat.
He groaned in anguish as he swallowed the potion. "What happened?" he asked drowsily, putting a hand to his head as he swayed from side to side.
"It's alright Donald, I took care of that Heartless, don't worry," Sora answered, pulling out another vial from Donald's pocket.
"That Heartless...?" he asked, confused at first. His eyes widened in realization as the boy walked over to where Goofy lay and repeated the same steps he had used on Donald, Alice following him close behind.
"You okay Goofy?" Sora asked the knight as he came around conciousness.
"Ahyuk, yeah..." he said doozily. "But have stars always flew around this room?" he asked, dazed.
"Sora what did you-?" Donald began as he stalked over to the teenager before a sleepy voice interrupted him.
"What a racket! How's a doorknob ever to get any sleep around here?" the golden Doorknob said with a yawn.
"Hey! Don't you know it's not polite to interrupt peop-.... Sora! What is that?!" Donald, wide-eyed, asked the tired boy as a beaming light flowed from the inside of the Doorknob's mouth.
Sora peered inside. "I'm not sure, but-woah!" nearly falling over as the Keyblade appeared in his hands, quaking eagerly, Sora held out the trembling key.
"What-?" Alice asked curiously as a strand of white light connected to the light inside the Doorknob's mouth from Sora's Keyblade.
A clicking sound resounded around the room as the gleaming light faded and the Doorknob closed its eyes and jaws. Donald stood in shock as Sora let the Keyblade fall to his side and Goofy limped beside him, nonplused.
With a final cough, which sent a small, blue shard bouncing to the their feet, the Doorknob fell to slepp, snoring loudly every so often.
"Well, I do believe that was an exciting finale! Bravo, Keyblade master!" a voice echoed across the room.
"Cheshire Cat! I'm so glad to see you again!" she said gladly.
"Ahyuk, a Gummi block..." Goofy announced to Donald and Sora, bending over to gather the small daimond shape into his gloved hand. "Doesn't look normal though."
"Give it here!" Donald barked angrily, snatching the shard from Goofy's hands. "Hmm... You're right, Goofy. I've never seen a Gummi block like this one..."
"A Gummi block...?" Sora asked, unknowingly.
"It's the stuff we use to build Gummi ships, but this one isn't like the kind we use..." Donald replied.
"I do say, Keyblade Master, that you shall have to improve your improvements before you can accomplish what you are meant to do. This is no job for simplings such as yourselves. But you'll find, that now you'll be able to use another spell now..." the grinning cat spoke to them, Alice standing next to his place on the see-through table.
"Either way, that was a show of innate talent, that display. Your powers will bloom true, if I do say. Keep it up and you'll be a florist someday!" he continued joyfully. "But now that you've found what you've looked to find, I blieve it is time you find your way to someplace that you need to be..." the Cheshire Cat recommended as he faded away.
"Sora, I want to thank you for all you've done. Now that I've found my way back here, I can return home up the rabbit hole I came through. Thank you all," Alice curtseyed to them in graciousness.
"There's something special about you, Sora. Don't let what nearly happened to me happen to you," she added as she began for the red-tiled wall.
"Hey, wait up! We'll join you!" he said, uniting with her as they began to search along the tiles for the door that had led them to Wonderland, Donald slipping the Gummi block into a blue pocket before he and Goofy joined the search.
"Ah! Here it is!" she said in excitement, pushing open a loose tile so that it folded backwards where the other doors were already open. She pushed herself through to the other side, Sora following after squeexing through himself. "I wonder what my sister shall say when we meet again. She probably want believe a word I say!" she huffed, walking past the crooked wall.
"Help me!" Goofy whispered to Donald in urgency being stuck again as Sora followed the blonde girl around the crooked wall.
He noticed the crimson curtains at once, the shadowed hall, and the floating furniture. All of different proportions while in Wonderland. "I'll be so happy to have returned home! i don't know what I'd have done if I had never returned. I'd probably have lost my head because of that wicked Queen," she said angrily in her memory of the Queen of Hearts as she stood in the center of the rabbit hole, clocks ticking and dinging in the air.
"WAAAGH!!!!" the voices of Donald and Goofy shouted as they shot from around the corner and collided against the wall, Donald being squashed by his companion.
"Get off of me!" Donald snapped as he kicked the knight to the floor with one of his feet.
Alice giggled gently as her feet idly raised from the ground. "Oh!" she gasped as she flipped upside down as she floated up into the brick-built rabbit hole. She looked down to her saviors and waved. "Goodbye Sora, Donald, and Goofy! I owe my life to you..." she finished as she faded into the shadows of the ceiling.
Sora leaned against the wire of the curtains. "There goes another friend," he sighed.
"Sora, we should get back to the Gummi ship...maybe we'll find your friends in another world...?" the duck uttered silently as he saw the sad grimace on the boy's face.
"I used to wish me and my friends could visit other places, or worlds, someday and get off my islands. We would talk all the time about it, we was even building a raft that we though might help us get to another world. Then, one night, a storm called and the creatures you call the Heartless appeared. One of my friends, Riku, told me that I should go with him just before he was taken by a pool of shadows, that's when I got the Keyblade," he told them, shifting his eyes to look at the mentioned weapon, not noticing Donald narrowing his eyes suspiciously as he told them of Riku. "And then my other friend, Kairi, disappeared just as I found her. And then I met one gigantic Heartless and then I woke up in Traverse Town."
"Now, without my friends, I just wish we could've lived on the islands forever. At least we would've been together. I didn't want any of this" he said angrily, throwing the Keyblade down the hall, Donald and Goofy gasping. Where it would've smashed into the wall, it vanished, reappearing in Sora's hands. He sighed exasperatedly.
"So...now what, you guys?" he asked, pushing off from the curtain stand. Let's use the save point to go to the Gummi-woah!" Donald squawked as the ground began to shake, causing him to nearly falling to the ground if it weren't for Sora's helping hand.
"What's going on?!" Sora asked. He could here a distant echoe. As it bounced off the walls and neared them it gained power.
"Alice! Alice!" an older woman's voice cried impatiently from somewhere unseen.
"Let's get outta here!" Goofy offered, running to where the Save Point was glowing in the center of the rabbit hole. Donald and Sora quickly joined him on the glowing circle, Donald smashing at some of the buttons on his blue commander watch.
"COME ON, STUPID THING!!!!!" he said, smashing it with his feathered hands.
They were enveloped in the white light of the save point. And, at once, appeared on the ledge of the Gummi ship.
"What's happening to that place?!" Sora asked them as Wonderland slowly began to dissolve in space.
"I don't know! That's not supposed to happen.
"Alice! Alice! Would you kindly repeat your History lesson?" the woman's voice echoed throughout the empty universe before falling silent with the vanishing of the world.
"That's...I don't get it...," Sora muttered to himself at the glowing stars that were in the place of what was once the world of Wonderland.
"Let's go ahead inside. We need to get going. The mission is never over, so we shouldn't waste much time except for finding the world's Keyholes. Since that's what we're looking for now," Donald voiced to them, walking into the blue interior of the Gummi ship as Sora and Goofy followed. The duck pushed up a button beside the ledge hanging out from the Gummi ship, causing the ledge to slowly raise back up to seal the openings of the ship.
Donald waddled into the inner room, passing two chipmunks who were working on some pipes. Sora stared at them, and, following his gaze, Donald answered his unspoken question. "They're the ngineers, Chip and Dale."
He charged up into the cockpit and sat himself into one of the blue chairs, spinning to the computer screen. He clicked a few buttons here and there as Sora settled onto a similar fluffy, blue chair behind where Donald and Goofy commanded the console.
"Next world is called Prydain... Looks kind of medieval to me," Donald quacked.
"What? Let me see," Sora asked, peering over Donald's shoulder to the computer screen. The world had a small cottage with a hay roof on the bottom of the world, a gigantic black fortress on the top, a forest on the right, and a small swamp with a dreary cottage in its depths on left.
"That looks creepy... Definitely darker than Wonderland had been," Sora gave his opinion.
"Yes, and the Heartless are supposed to be stronger in this world," Donald told him.
"Well...let's get going!" Sora stated them excitedly.
"Goofy, you take over while I talk to Sora about something," Donald said to Goofy.
"Ahyuk, sure!" Goofy replied gleefully, taking the controls in his hands as if he were playing a video game.
"You probably have some questions about what happened when Alice asked you where we came from and I told you not to tell her where. Well, every world is defined by its particulay boundaries. Within which some understanding of reality emerges as truth," Donald began. "Two truths cannot coexist. And so, from the introduction of foreign bodies, conflicts and chaos are spawned. That's why we try to limit our involvement in local affairs. We can help people out but we just can't tell them a lot about ourselves, where we come from, and about our histories," Donald explained.
"Oh...well, that does make sense..." Sora nodded after listening to Donald's explanation. Suddenly, gravity pulled the two of the forward, and if not for the seatbelts on the chairs, they probably would've been thrown out of the window.
"We're here!!!!" Goofy cried happly as the Gummi ship came to a sudden halt.
"Alright, let's sleep up here for the night and wait until morning to go into Prydain," Donald told them. "I'll put up the barriers so the Heartless ships don't do anything suprising while we're asleep," he said, pushing a button, before unbuckling his belt and walking to the back of the cockpit where a built in shelf was. He opened the cupboards and pulled out three small, suare plastic bags. He threw two of them to Sora and Goofy.
Sora read the words 'Sleeping Bags made by Sand Man co.' printed across the plastic. He ripped open the plastic and threw it over to one of the trash cans before unrolling the blue and black sleeping black and climbing inside the covers. Donald hit a switch turning out the lights in the cockpit before settling himself in a sleeping bag beside Goofy, who was in the middle of the two of them.
"Ahyuk, good night!" Goofy said before falling silent.
"Good night..." Donald and Sora said in unison before falling into their own dreams of talking cats and screaming queens.
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Okay! Chapter List(Includes the world in the previous Chapters) so far along with the next:
Chapter 1: Intro/Dive To The Heart
Chapter 2: Destiny Islands Day 1
Chapter 3: Destiny Islands Day 2
Chapter 4: Traverse Town Beginnings
Chapter 5: Wonderland(Alice In Wonderland)
Chapter 6: Prydain(The Black Cauldron/Next Chapter!)
For some reason I think this chapter turned out bad a little bit. Well, I'm going to over it again before I posted so maybe it will be better. I think I followed the movie too much. And by the way, I think I've watched Alice In Wonderland enough times to last me for the rest of my life ^_^.
I am so sorry for the long wait, but I was being so lazy and I wrote this chapter in 2 snow days but waited forever to do the ending. But I promise to have the next chapter faster than this one was, and I'm not lying this time.
And, please, if you review tell me if you would like me to write a 100 Acre Wood chapter later on in the fanfic, I doubt anyone will want me too, but you never know, some people actually like Pooh! lol
