~~^_^ Not much to say...hey, schools finally out for me! YAY! This chapter is longer than the last one, so happy reading!~~

Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts. I own Corita. WAHAHA!

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"Yay! We're FALLING!" Goofy cheered.

"Stop it!" Donald shrieked.

"I thought ducks were meant to fly." Sora pointed out.

"I wasn't!" He cried.

The 4 friends had gotten off the gummi ship at the new world they'd discovered. Naturally, they were now falling through what seemed like an endless hole.

"How long has it been?" Corita wondered.

"About 10 minutes." Sora answered.

"This is kinda fun!" Goofy said, laying on his back as they slowly made their way to the ground. Sora, Donald and Corita landed with a small thump, but Goofy landed clumsily on his back.

"Are you okay?" Corita asked.

"Yeah, I guess so." Goofy answered.

"OH! My fur and whiskers, I'm LATE!"

They turned their heads and saw a very peculiar sight. There, running away from them, was a very large rabbit. What made him so odd was that he was wearing clothes, and held a watch in his hand.

"Oh dear, oh dear, I'm here, I should be there! I'M LATE!" he cried as he turned the corner.

They all just stood there for a minute, taking in what they'de just seen.

"Where are we again?" Corita asked.

"Let's just...keep going..." Sora said. The others agreed. Continuing through a strange doorway, they came into a room that seemed a bit too small for them. Below, they spotted the rabbit running through a tiny door.

"How did he get so small?" Sora wondered, looking at the door.

"No, you're simply too big." The door responded.

"AH! It talks!" Donald said.

"What kind of place is this?" Corita asked.

"You don't know?" The door asked. "You're in Wonderland!"

"Wonderland?"

"Don't ask me. I'm just a door."

"How did he get so small?" Goofy asked.

"Try the bottle on the table." The door yawned. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going back to sleep."

"Thanks for your help!" Sora said. The door, however, had already gone back to sleep.

"So which one do we drink?" Corita asked.

She had a point. There were two bottles on the table, a blue one and a pink one.

"Just pick one at random, I guess..." Sora said. He then picked up the blue bottle and drank a small amount of it. Suddenly, a misty white fog appeared around him as Sora slowly began to shrink.

"AH! Corita, since when are you so tall? Goofy, you were too tall to begin with! Even you look taller now, Donald!" Sora joked.

"Be quiet, you little..." Donald began.

"HEARTLESS!" Sora cried, taking out the Keyblade. It was true. Suddenly, several of the little bug like Heartless had materialized on the table. Sora began to take them on, as Corita, Goofy and Donald all took their turns at a sip of the liquid in the bottle. When they had all been defeated, Sora sighed.

"Great. Heartless here too, huh?"

"I guess we should continue on." Goofy said.

"Um...how do we get down?" Corita asked. They all peered over the edge of the table, and it was true. The drop was only about 3 feet, but at a height of 5 inches, the fall could do some painful damage.

"Hey guys, there's a chair over here!" Goofy said.

So, they spent the next 10 minutes slowly making their way down the table, being very careful.

Finally, they were all on the ground.

"Let's go!" Corita cheered, walking forward.

"Corita, turn around please."

Behind them, many more Heartless had appeared, including a new type they had never seen before. They were red or blue and had odd "hats" on their head. They were very small and flew around in no paticular pattern and shot magic at them.

"OW! That's going to leave a mark!" Corita said as she nursed a burn from one of the Heartless.

"Well, you're the Healer, you do something about it!" Donald said sarcastically.

"Be quiet!" Corita said as she slowly drank a potion to heal the wound. "UGH! This tastes terrible! I can't wait until I can actually do cure spells regularly..."

"Hey, get used to it. This is what I've been drinking my whole life." Donald said. Corita glared at him, and he shut up.

"Where to now?" Sora said.

"We should probably follow the path the rabbit took." Goofy said.

They into the doorway the rabbit had taken, and were taken to a small courtyard, where it seemed a trial was in session. The rabbit they'de seen earlier was perched on a tall tower near a "throne." Soldiers who seemed to be cards were stationed around the courtyard.

"Have you anything to say in your defense?" said what appeared to be a very grumpy queen.

"Of course. I've done absolutely nothing wrong!" said a young girl at the defendant's post.

"What's going on?" Corita whispered to Sora.

"You may be queen, but that doesn't give you the right to be so...so mean!" said the young girl.

"I don't know. Why would that little girl be on trial?"

"SILENCE!!! YOU DARE DEFY ME??!?!?" Screeched the queen.

"Hey guys, we should help her out!" Sora said.

"We're outsiders, so wouldn't that be muddling?" Goofy asked.

"MEDDLING!" Donald said. It seemed that they'de gone over that before.

"I find the defendant guilty as charged!"

"Yeah, and that's against the rules!" Goofy said.

"What rules?" Corita asked.

"For the crimes of assault and attempted theft of my heart..."

"Assault? Theft of her heart?" Sora said.

"OFF WITH HER HEAD!" the queen shrieked.

"C'mon guys!" Corita said, pulling at Donald and Goofy.

"No! Oh, please no!" Cried the girl.

"Hold it right there!" Sora yelled, followed by his sister and friends.

"Who are you?" asked the queen. "How DARE YOU interfere with my court?"

"Excuse me, but we know who the real culprit is!" Sora said meekly.

"Uh huh! It's the Heart-" Goofy started to say, but covered his mouth first.

"Anyway, she's not the one you're looking for!" Sora said.

"That's nonsense! I ruled her guilty, she must be!" the queen raged.

"That makes no sense!" Corita said.

"Have you any proof?" the queen asked.

"Uh, no, but I'm sure we could find some!" Sora said.

"Fine. Find me proof of Alice's innocence! Until then, she remains locked up! Fail, and its off with your heads!" the queen said. And with that, the girl was taken to a cage and locked in.

"We should go talk to her." Corita said, and let them to the cage.

"Who are you?" the girl asked.

"I'm Corita, and this is my twin brother Sora, and these are our friends, Goofy and Donald."

"It's lovely to meet you, although I wish it was under better conditions. My name is Alice." she said.

"Where did you come from?" Goofy asked.

"I remember peering down a rabbit hole, and then tumbling downward, and I was immediately taken here! Apparently, I was guilty before I even took the stand!" Alice said.

"That's crazy!" Sora said.

"Well, look where my curiosity's gotten me..." Alice said.

"SILENCE!" roared one of the card soldiers. "THE DEFENDANT WILL REMAIN SILENT!"

With that, they slowly turned away, going to find proof of Alice's innocence.

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They took a door into a dense forest, where small amounts of light were filtering through the trees. Looking around, they could see several tall trees, large toadstools, and a huge stump in front of them.

"What kind of evidence do we need?" Corita asked.

"The evident kind, naturally!"

Looking at the stump, the 4 friends saw the body of a cat dancing on its head. It stopped dancing, and placed its head on its shoulders. The cat had purple and magenta stripes, and had an eerie ear-to-ear grin.

"WHO ARE YOU?!?" Donald raged.

"Indeed, who am I? I don't know myself."

"You aren't making any sense, you know that, right?" Goofy said.

"Nothing in the world makes sense!" The cat said.

"What do you mean?" Sora asked.

"All upside sideways or downside upways thanks to the shadows!" the cat said.

"You mean the Heartless?" Corita asked.

"Are the Heartless shadows, or are shadows Heartless?"

"You're giving me a migrane!" Donald groaned.

"Everything heals but a broken heart." The cat said simply. "There are four pieces of evidence in all. One is hard to find, but I'm sure you'll figure it out." With a final flash of his smile, he vanished into thin air.

"Should we trust him?" Donald said.

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"Hey guys, look at this!" Corita called. Her friends ran to her, and she held up what appeared to be some Heartless antennea.

"This'll be pretty good! Alright, what do we have now?" Sora said.

"We have a photo of the footprints, some stench in a bottle, and now this!" Goofy said, putting the evidence in a bag.

"One piece left to find!" Corita said. Donald glared at her.

"You actually trust that annoying cat?" he said.

"Yes, I do." Corita said.

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After some more jumping, hopping, falling, attacking Heartless and using potions, they finally found the last piece of evidence, the claw marks. With a single snap, the evidence was sealed.

"Very good. You must be smarter than I thought!"

The cat was staring at them as they gathered the evidence into the bag.

"Yeah, so what's our 'big reward?'" Donald asked.

"Oh, I'm sure someone who doesn't believe me wouldn't want it." The cat gave another huge grin. "But, this is for you." He said, looking at Corita and Donald.

"For us?" Donald moaned.

"Yes. It's a magic spell, I'm sure as soon as you figure it out, It will be very useful to you. The Healer, on the other hand, may not be able to use it until she perfects her healing." With another huge grin, the cat vanished.

"How did he know I was a Healer?" Corita asked.

"How did he know I didn't trust him?" Donald asked.

"How did he know I don't cast magic?" Goofy asked.

"How did he know I don't cast magic?" Sora asked.

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"Excuse me. Excuse me! EXCUSE ME!" Corita yelled.

"Huh? What? WHAT IS IT?" The queen howled, who had dozed off in her seat.

"We've gathered up all the evidence!" Sora said.

"Ah, then let's see it!" she said.

Together, they presented the evidence to the queen, who didn't even look at it.

"Ah, that is quite a lot of evidence, but I'm still not convinced. GUARDS! BRING FORTH MY EVIDENCE!"

The queens evidence was placed on the ground in a small pink box. The guards then placed the other evidence in other pink boxes.

"Hmmm.....It would be a waste to look at all of them. YOU!" she shrieked, pointing at Sora. "PICK ONE FROM THE GROUP!"

As she spoke, the boxes mixed themselves up, making it impossible to tell which was which.

"Who, me?" Sora said.

"YES! CHOOSE! ONE BOX!"

"After all the trouble of collecting it all?"

"DON'T YOU DEFY ME! CHOOSE NOW!"

"Alright, I'll pick..."

"Sora!" Corita whispered. "Pick the one in the middle! I'm pretty sure it's one of ours!"

"Alright."

Not wanting to think of what would happen if he picked the wrong box, Sora walked up to the pink boxes and picked up the middle one.

"Are you sure?" The queen said in a sickly sweet voice.

"Yep." Sora said, opening the box.

"Whoa!" The queen said as an image of a Heartless appeared out of the box, and then vanished.

"What was that?" she said.

"There's your evidence. The Heartless did it, not Alice."

"Heartless? I have no time for this nonsense! I don't care if it wasn't Alice anymore, TAKE THEM ALL DOWN!" the queen yelled to her soldiers. With this, one card cranked the tower, lifting Alice's cage high in the air.

"NO!" Sora yelled, hitting the tower. Corita, Donald and Goofy then ran to help him.

"Take that!" Donald yelled, hitting the tower with a blast of ice.

"Well, there's your new spell Donald!" Corita said. "Let me try!"

Corita tried to muster up the emotion she had when she'd cast cure, but all she could get out of her staff was a few pebbles of ice that melted away quickly.

"Hey, at least I'm trying!" Corita yelled angrily as Donald rolled over laughing.

"Hahahahahahahahaha.....HEY! Let go of me, you stupid card!" Donald yelled as he was dragged off by one of the card soldiers, and thrown into a makeshift cage. Corita was rolling over laughing at this point too. "Corita! Could you give me a hand here?" Sora said as he attacked the tower, sometimes looking back at the cage where Alice was held. "Sure! Hang on...HEY! LET ME-" The rest of her words were muffled as she was grabbed by a card and thrown into the same cage where Donald stood.

"I hope you're happy!" Corita said.

"ME HAPPY!?!" Donald yelled.

"Oh hush, now's not the time. SORA! GOOFY! GET US OUT OF HERE!" Corita yelled at the top of her voice.

Goofy came over and broke the weak cage, and they went to help Sora break the crank tower.

"Finally!" Sora said as the tower finally broke and Alice was lowered to the ground. He ran over to the cage, until he realized that the cage was there, but there was no Alice inside.

"Where'd Alice go?" Goofy wondered as they walked over to the cage.

"She must've gotten kidnapped while we were fighting." Corita said.

"YOU FOOLS!" The queen raged. "FIND OUT WHO'S BEHIND THIS! I DON'T CARE HOW!!"

The cards ran around in opposite directions, trying to find a way to fufill their queen's orders.

"Let's go. I have a feeling that cat had a few answers for us." Corita said, dragging them away.

~~End of whatever chaper this is (I lost count. Chapter 6??) Please wait until next time to find the fate of our 4 friends!! ^_^~~