Third chapter.

Please comment on which character I have chosen for each role, and the character of Amethyst (to see if she's a Mary–Sue). They may be different to whom you may think they'll be, or maybe not. Perhaps yours are better (probably will be) or maybe mine are just a spur of the moment thing (probably that too) or from a sugar high. But enough drabble, on with the story!

Disclaimer: As with Chapters 1 2, nothing belongs to me except the character Amethyst and the story. The song belongs to Walt Disney. I am not being paid for this and all other things belong to their respective owners. And Disclaimers are annoying. -.-()

The hallway was growing colder and colder as Amethyst picked up Ryou's gloves and fan. She gazed at them in awe at their fine needle-work and craftsmanship, then dropped them on the floor. The vial, with its cork on, rolled across her line of vision. Picking it up shakily, she drank the last few drops left in. She dropped the vial in shock as she shrank to the size of an ant and fell into the stormy waters below. Luckily, she fell back into it and without harm. Amethyst watched in horror as the vial floated under one of the other doors, and not the one she intended to go through.

Amethyst's heart sank. Today was one of the worst days in her life and none of her friends were here to help her – all Ryou did was run off all day. Malik wasn't here, and neither were her friends' yamis, Marik and Bakura. She had never met the pair, only hearing about them from Malik and Ryou, hearing that they look like them, but more... sinister. She shivered in her shoes. Even the thought of my friends makes me worry...

She soon washed up on a beach of sorts and crawled out of the vial. There was a group of animals running around a giant rock, and the tide sloshed over them. On top of the rock was a dodo trying to light a fire. When the tide came in, it extinguished the fire and the dodo was angry. For some strange reason it looked like Duke from school.

"Come along child!" Dodo Duke called out to her from the rock. "You must get dry!"

"Err, how?"

"Simple! Run around and around and join the caucus race!" Dodo Duke danced a little on the rock just as the tide came in. Amethyst laughed. Her body went one way, her mind another, and soon she was running in the caucus race against her will. The tide fell over all the animals, making them wetter before they began running. What a useless race! We'll never get dry! Suddenly, they all began singing a jolly tune:

Forward, backward, inward, outward, come and join the chase!

Nothing could be drier than a jolly caucus-race.

Backward, forward, outward, inward, bottom to the top,

Never a beginning there can never be a stop

Skipping, hopping, tripping, fancy free and gay,

I started it tomorrow and will finish yesterday.

Round and round and round we go, and dance for evermore,

Once we were behind but now we find we are be-

Forward, backward, inward, outward, come and join the chase!

Nothing could be drier than a jolly caucus-race.

Forward backward...

The waves crashed over her again, and slowly she was breaking free of the race. The other animals were leaving too and soon they all sat at the side of the beach together for an awards ceremony.

"To you, dear child," Dodo Duke began, "I give you this, a token of our gratitude." And he handed her a china thimble. She placed it in her pocket and tried extremely hard to keep a straight face. The animals acted so solemnly it was comical.

"Now, where is Ryou Rabbit?" Amethyst asked the Dodo. She named the rabbit this because that seemed the only explanation to do him justice. Fortunately, the Dodo knew who she was talking about.

"He has just run home for his maid to get him his things."

"Where is this house? Coz if you don't tell me, someone will get seriously hurt and..."

"Okay you win! It's over there!" Dodo Duke pointed towards the woods. "Now don't hurt me kind lady!" He put his hands to protect himself. Amethyst laughed, then thanked the Dodo. She walked off towards the woods, following the little pathway as she went. The things in the woods stared at her with large, orange eyes and hooted whenever she strayed off the path. It's so strange here... Oooh, I have another thing to do to Kaiba when I get out of here! She reached for her notebook: 2. Go to the roof of Kaiba Corp and shout to the world that Kaiba loves Joey. He he... Amethyst soon reached a fork in the road and saw a sign pointing east: Ryou Rabbit's House, This Way.

"Well thank heavens I got his name right!" She followed the pathway to a quaint little house on the hill. It was, as she described it later, a Tudor home with a thatched roof and shutters on every window. They were painted spotless white with a grained finish. She waited at the gate just in time to see Ryou racing out from the front door, this time in a heart-pattered tunic.

"Alice! What do you think you're doing! Don't just stand there, get me my gloves and fan! Oh, I shall be late!"

"Alice?" Amethyst questioned, but Ryou Rabbit didn't answer her as he ushered her through the front door. He led her up the stairs and pointed toward a small oak door. She opened it up curiously and Ryou Rabbit waited in the hallway. His room was oval-shaped with small pieces of furniture dotted about the place. Amethyst began her search in the top drawer of Ryou Rabbit's vanity desk. They weren't there, so she checked on the silver platter. On it, however, were little bags of sugar with the words 'Eat Me' embossed on every one.

"Don't mind if I do, I really need a sugar high now." She set herself on a bag and poured it down her throat. She walked off to the chest at the bottom of the four-poster bed and was just about to find the gloves when her head hit the ceiling.

Shit. She was growing again, having to sit herself down on the floor to have enough room. Her arms grew out of the upstairs windows and her feet fell out of the downstairs ones. Ryou Rabbit was seen panicking on the lawn outside, shouting to his fellow neighbours that his maid had been attacked by a giant monster and it was now living in his house.

This is yet another cliffy. Does she have any original endings? you shout. And the answer is... maybe.

REVIEWER REPLIES:

Cecilia DevilAngel: Thankyou! Please could you send me an email with your address so I can tell you who Amethyst likes? My email's in my profile.

samuraiduck27: Okie Dokie! (conjures update from out of nowhere) Sorry if it's a bit later than you were hoping for, but I'm hooked onto Sims 2. Sims...