The Papou Fruit

Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts, but I own the new character in this chapter.

A/N: This chapter took me forever to write. I hated writing it, and I would not write it again. With this said, let's start chapter 4!

Summery: Riku, Yume, Donald and Goofy are headed to Wonderland, now looking for more parts of the land and trying to find a way to save Sora from death. Is Sora really dead??

Chapter 4: Wonderland Part I

Riku, Yume, Donald, and Goofy, landed the ship on Wonderland, and walked towards the castle of the Queen of Hearts. However, before getting there, everyone fell down a hole.

Yume yelled, "What's going on!?"

Riku looked around, and pointed. "Look! It's a white rabbit!"

The White Rabbit was swirling around in the air, glancing nervously at his golden watch every often.

"I'm late! I'm late!"

The White Rabbit was far ahead of them, and Donald was annoyed at the long and tedious trip.

"MRAHHHH!! COME ON!!! LET ME DOWN!!!!!!!!"

As if he was being answered, Donald fell to the ground, with a very hard landing to his buttocks.

"MRAHHHHHHH!!!!!"

Yume, Goofy, and Riku all landed safely on the checkered floor. Ahead of them, the White Rabbit was running towards a small door.

"Wait! Mr. Rabbit!" Yume ran after the White Rabbit, only to have a small door slammed in her face.

Yume pouted for a moment, before realizing how small the door was. Yume walked around the room, just realizing how odd it looked. Some furniture was hanging on the ceiling, and some was attached to the wall.

Yume saw a white table with a curled stand, and walked over to it, noticing there was some sort of bottle on it. By this time, Riku, Goofy, and Donald had made their way down the hall into the odd room, after having a large disagreement about the ship's name.

By the time Yume had reached the pretty white table, however, she heard a loud yawn. Clutching the bottle, which turned out to be filled with a blue concoction, she looked around for the source of the noise. Hearing yet again another yawn, she looked down and saw a small doorknob. Smiling, Yume bent down so that the doorknob was eye level to her. Yet to her immense surprise, the doorknob started to talk!

"Do you mind? I'm trying to sleep- Huh? Who are you?"

Yume blinked, and tried to wipe the look of surprise off her face.

"My name is Yume, and I was wondering about something."

With a suspicious look, the Doorknob started to look at Yume and then glanced at her bickering companions.

With a heavy sigh, the Doorknob said, "What would you like to know?"

Yume blinked before saying in a quiet and soft voice, "Well, I was wondering, what is in this bottle and what is the purpose of this liquid?"

The Doorknob chuckled. "My dear, this is a Shrinking Potion. You are to use it to gain entrance into the castle of the Queen, and the forest."

Kate thought all of this over for a few moments, then drank the potion. There was a loud pop as she started to shrink, and Riku and Donald looked over. Goofy was already heading over.

"Miss Yume!" Goofy shouted, before he tripped on his own feet. Goofy fell, and Yume had just finished shrinking. She looked up to see Goofy falling, and screamed. Luckily for her, Riku ran over, and gently took her away and let Goofy fall.

"YOW! That hurt." Goofy cried, while rubbing his buttocks. Riku, however, was more concerned with Yume.

"Are you all right Yume?" Riku asked, with a concerned look on his face. However, now that she had shrunk, Yume's voice matched her small stature, and Riku, sadly, could not understand a thing she was saying.

By this time, Donald had walked over to the bottle of Shrinking Potion. With a loud quack, Donald took a sip and started to shrink.

Quacking loudly with fear and surprise, Goofy and Riku turned around and saw Donald shrinking! Riku and Goofy ran over, and Goofy picked up his tiny friend.

Riku turned to Goofy. "I think we are supposed to drink this." In the palm of his hand, Riku could feel Yume running around in circles.

Riku grabbed the bottle, set down Yume on the floor, and took a sip of the blue Shrinking Potion. Almost immediately, everything around him started to enlarge, and he felt the bottle slip out of his grasp. Luckily, Goofy caught it and started shrinking as well.

Finally, after everyone had a sip of the Shrinking Potion, everyone walked towards the small door next to the Doorknob, and continued to look for the White Rabbit.

As they left that odd room, Yume, Riku, Donald and Goofy seemed to be in the courtyard of the Queen of Hearts. She was at what seemed to be a podium, and to the utter bewilderment of Riku and the others, Princess Alice was locked away in what seemed to be a giant birdcage, which was perched next to the Queen.

Angrily, Yume marched up to the Queen, against the protests coming from Donald, Riku and Goofy.

"Your MAJESTY!? What are you doing to Princess Alice!?" Yume shrieked. Alice, looking shocked, gazed at Yume. Yume, seeing Alice, bowed to her and smiled.

The Queen of Hearts was outraged at the behavior of these odd visitors, especially the girl. How dare SHE yell at HER! With a face that could kill a person, the Queen yelled, "OFF WITH HER HEAD!"

Different cards, Hearts and Spades, left their jury seats and charged at Yume, the Hearts holding spears and the Spades carrying axes. Yume, frightened, started running away from them, not knowing exactly where to go. Seeing a small opening, which would be too small for the cards, Yume ran to it, tripping, however, on the way. Donald, using his powerful magic, cast Stopra on the cards, and they froze in place. The Queen, getting angry, stole an axe from one of the spade Cards and proceeded to chase after Yume herself. Yume, screaming, quickly crawled over to the opening and pushed herself through, falling on the way. Donald, not wanting to use magic on the Queen in fear of hurting her, ran after her. Riku ran as well, and Goofy held off some of the cards, which had broken away from the spell.

Riku, pushing the large Queen aside, followed Yume into the hole, falling down what appeared to be a slide. Goofy slashed at one more card, then tried to follow, yet was grabbed away by a card. Poor Donald had been captured, and both he and Goofy were put into smaller birdcages next to Alice.

Yume awakened from the hard fall to the ground, and slowly sat up. She turned her head and read a little wooden sign, though the words were starting to fade away.

"Lotus Forest..." Yume read slowly. She tried to remember where she had heard about a forest in Wonderland, and then it hit her. The Doorknob had mentioned it. It had said: "My dear, this is a Shrinking Potion. You are to you it to gain entrance into the castle of the Queen, and the forest."

Yume snapped her fingers. "Of course!" she said loudly. Then, Yume noticed that there was a slight rumbling. Fearing that the Queen was coming into the forest, Yume backed away, and felt something against her back. Turning her head slightly, she saw a large oak tree. Suddenly shivering and paralyzed with fear, Yume watched the slide, praying it wasn't the Queen.

Luckily for her, it wasn't. As she saw the flash of blue coming towards her, she sighed in relief. Then she froze. IT WAS COMING TOWARDS HER! Finally freaking out, Yume tried to get up, but kept tripping. Riku had finally come down the slide and was flying...

BAMMM.

Riku collided into Yume and they rolled down a large hill. After what seemed like forever, they stopped rolling.

Riku, on top and alive, looked down. He was greatly shocked to see Yume, unconscious! Slowly, however, Yume opened her eyes. Riku started to get nervous. Would Yume kill him when she saw the position they were in?

Yume awakened, to find Riku on top of her! Squirming to get her hand out from underneath herself, Riku stopped her by getting closer to her.

"Stop Yume. Because we are on a giant leaf and if we move, we could fall and die."

Yume, shocked, stopped squirming. She looked up into the eyes of Riku, yet Riku looked away. What about Kairi?

However, Riku's questions were to be unanswered, for suddenly, there was a loud pop, and a purple and pink stripped cat appeared before them.

Turning her head slightly, Yume saw the grinning cat. Suddenly, she let out a cry.

"It's the Cheshire Cat!"

The cat's grin widened at Yume's remembrance. Riku, however, was totally clueless as to what was going on.

"Yume?" Riku asked, with an odd look on his face.

Yume let out what could have been a chuckle or a cough, Riku didn't know. He could tell, however, that she was nervous.

"Yume?" Riku repeated. "What's going on?"

The Cheshire Cat grinned.

"Hehehoho, she will tell you soon my friend." And with that puzzling statement said, he vanished.

Riku glanced at Yume.

"What's going on Yume? Who was that...?"

Yet she only sadly smiled, and Riku decided not to bother her about it for a while. In the meantime, however, they now had to decide what to do.

"Ok, how will we get off this leaf and back into the forest?" Riku asked Yume.

She smirked. "Leave that to me." She suddenly pushed Riku off her and he started to fall.

Riku closed his eyes, feelings tears rolling down his cheeks. She had betrayed him…

Suddenly, however, he felt himself being lifted higher and saw to his amazement that he was flying! He looked up, and saw Yume gliding.

She rolled her eyes. "Honestly, did you think I would LET you fall?" She chuckled. "You chump."

Yume started gliding back towards the forest, and gently dropped Riku onto the grass. Unfortunately for her, she collided with a giant flower.

"OWWW!!!!!" Yume yelled, falling to the ground. "THAT HURT!"

The flower turned towards her, and started talking!

"Now really my dear, it couldn't be that bad!!"

Yume looked up at the flower, and sighed. "This keeps getting weirder."

The flower seemed insulted, and instead, turned HER attention to Riku.

The flower person smiled coyly, and leaned towards Riku.

"So, how do you like Wonderland so far? Would you like to tour it with someone other than HER?" the flower girl asked, pointing at Yume.

Riku flushed slightly, from embarrassment. "Actually, she is a nice girl and I enjoy being in her company."

Yume flushed a crimson red, and looked down at her feet. The flower girl, however, laughed. She grabbed Riku by the arm (with an extremely long petal), and transformed into a pretty teenage girl. She had ear-length red hair, and bright blue eyes. She was wearing a green blouse and a black skirt, just above the knees in length. She had no shoes on.

"Come on, let's go. Oh yes! What is your name by the way?" The flower girl smiled a sickly smile.

Riku sweatdropped. "It's Riku, but I don't really want to go with you. I'm staying with Yume."

The flower girl completely ignored his last comments, and said, "My name is Gardenia. Where do you want to go? How about we go to the Unbirthday Party?" Deciding not to wait for an answer, Gardenia started dragging away Riku. Yume, however, got extremely jealous, and cast a Firaga spell on Gardenia.

"ACK! I'M ON FIRE! I'M ON FIRE!!!" Gardenia was running around, her hair was on fire. Riku, seeing this as their chance to escape, grabbed Yume's hand and dragged her farther into the Lotus Forest, away from Gardenia.

As they entered the Forest, Yume fell to the ground, exhausted, and noticed a small white envelope. She slowly picked it up, and noticed that something was written on it. In a small and graceful cursive, the name Alice was scrawled across it. She pocketed the envelope, hoping Riku wouldn't notice. Riku glanced around, making sure Gardenia was no where to be seen.

Riku then looked down at Yume, who seemed to be in deep concentration. Hating to break her train of thought, but not wanting to be caught by Gardenia, he tapped her on the shoulder.

Yume looked up at Riku, with a small smile planted firmly on her lips. She got herself off of the ground, and walked back towards the slide where they first entered. Riku, however, cut her off.

"What are you doing??? The Queen of Hearts is still there, and she wants to kill you!!! I WON'T LET YOU GO BACK!!!"

Riku was shocked at himself for yelling at her, but even more shocked at what happened next- Yume slapped him.

"Don't you realize that if we don't go back, Donald and Goofy will get their heads chopped off? Not to mention what might happen to Alice... And besides, where would we go?"

Riku looked down at Yume, and started to lower his face towards her. Yume's eyes widened, but she remained still. Just as they were about to share their first kiss, Gardenia came out from behind a plant, hair singed and soaking wet. She glared over towards Yume, and smiled at Riku.

"RIKU!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Gardenia ran over to Riku and pushed Yume aside, who fell to the ground with a sickening thud. Riku glared at Gardenia, who continued to talk.

"Riku, I knew this girl was evil! I'll get rid of her for you!"

Before either Yume or Riku could do anything, Gardenia started to glow. Roots covered with thorns appeared around her. Gardenia, glaring at Yume, thrust her hand out forward, and the roots with the thorns went flying in Yume's direction.

Yume dove out of the way, but a root still made its way towards her. It tightly wrapped around her arm, and she winced, her arm now bleeding heavily. Gardenia laughed manically, and sent a normal, no thorn root towards Riku, who was now tied to another flower, though not a talking one like Gardenia.

Gardenia took a few menacing steps towards Yume, then stopped. She created three more roots with thorns, and another wrapped around her arm, and the other two around her legs. Gardenia and the roots started glowing again, and Yume was lifted off of the ground. Gardenia approached YUME, who was heavily bleeding and extremely pale.

"Hmm, I guess you aren't so strong without Riku around, are you?" She laughed and slapped her in the face, though she was already in much pain. Yume let out a sickening shout, which caused Riku to wince.

"Well, I'll leave you here for awhile, I guess. I MIGHT come back." Gardenia laughed again, and untied Riku, who immediately tried to help Yume, who was very pale by this point, and now unconscious. However, Gardenia was actually very strong, and she led Riku out of the Forest. Just as they left, the envelope with Alice's name fell out of Yume's pocket. Yume's breathing slowed down, and she slowly lifted her eyes open, with tears rolling down her cheeks.

"Help.... Cheshire....Cat......." She said these last words, and passed out again. A few silent moments, other than the sound of crickets chirping, passed, and the Cheshire Cat suddenly appeared.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, I am surprised at you." The Cheshire Cat grinned. "However, I shall help you, JUST THIS ONCE!" The roots released Yume, and she fell to the ground. The Cheshire Cat floated over to her, and slowly dropped onto her back. He started glowing a pink and purple color, as did Yume. After a few more minutes, she was healed. The Cheshire Cat grinned.

"Farewell, Yume." The Cheshire Cat grinned, winked, and was gone with a loud POP.

Riku was out of the forest, dragged out by Gardenia. The Queen of Hearts was back at her podium, and Alice was near the guillotine, a large card guard behind her. Gardenia waved at the Queen, and the Queen smiled.

"Ah my daughter! How was the Lotus Forest?"

Gardenia smirked. "Good! I found a husband!"

A horrified look swept across Riku's face. The Queen however, had turned a disgusting green color.

"Ugh, your boyfriends. They are always ! However, if you wish to marry him, I give you my blessings. NOW! OFF WITH ALICE'S HEAD!"

Just as a crying Alice was forced into the guillotine, a shout was heard from the entrance to the Lotus Forest.

"STOP!!!!!"

Yume came limping out of the Forest, still in pain, though the Cheshire Cat had given her some of its energy.

Gardenia smirked, and dropped Riku, a scary glint in her eyes. "I thought I already killed you. Well, maybe I should finish you off now..." Gardenia raced off towards Yume, who was surprisingly rushing towards the Queen.

"Your Majesty? Why are you trying to behead Alice!?" Yume managed to shout, before Gardenia grabbed her arm, and pushed her back towards the Lotus Forest.

"YOU KNOW, I'LL MAKE SURE YOU BECOME A PERMANENT RESIDENT OF THE LOTUS FOREST!!! HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE TRAPPED IN THERE FOR YEARS!? AND WHEN YOU ARE IN THE FOREST, I'LL MAKE SURE RIKU IS NO LONGER YOURS!!!!"

And with that little speech said, Gardenia threw Yume back down the slide into the forest. She then proceeded to glow a bright green color, and vines covered the entrance to the forest until it could no long be seen.

Riku ran towards the spot, seeming to gasp for air. He could not perform any level of magic to open the portal, and Donald was being held captive by the Queen, along with Goofy. If Yume was going to get out, she would have to do it on her own. Then, he noticed an envelope with Alice's name written on it. He slowly turned around towards the Queen, his hearts filled with rage, and his eyes gleaming with hidden tears.

"Your Highness?" Riku asked, with a small bow and an extremely honey-filled voice.

The Queen looked pleased by his "polite" nature. "Yes?"

Riku smirked. His plan was working. "Could you tell me, why is Alice going to be beheaded?"

The Queen looked like she would be happy to answer that question.

"Well, Riku. As I'm sure you know, there have been many odd things going on, what with Sora's death. (Riku slightly winced) Anyway, there has been much destruction and other terrible stuff going on, and Alice was at the scene when she was discovered to be guilty. She was standing by one of my personal card guards, and his heart was clearly gone. She was right there, and crying, so it had to logically be her. That is why I am beheading her." The Queen smiled kindly at Riku, not noticing the disgust in his eyes.

Riku then suddenly smirked at the Queen, and stuck his tongue out at her! The Queen was appalled, and frowned at his rude behavior. Riku grinned, just like Sora had done.

"Well, your highness! I have proof that Alice did not take the heart of your guard!"

Riku wanted to finish this quickly- he wanted to try and help Yume.

"Oh?" The Queen looked at him, as if daring him to defy her.

"Yes. In this envelope, is a hologram of the real criminal!"

Riku ripped open the envelope, and dropped what looked like a floppy disk on the ground. A hologram about his size appeared. A hologram of....

"A SOLDIER HEARTLESS!" The Queen screamed, and fainted. Riku kicked the large guard by Alice, knocking him out. Alice quickly freed herself from the guillotine, and ran away, yelling her thanks to Riku. Riku rescued Goofy and Donald from their "birdcage prison" and raced towards the forest.

However, Gardenia stopped them.

"Riku, she will only hurt you in the end. Please, just stay with me, and be mine forever..." She started slinking towards him, and wrapped her arms around his neck. Riku started leaning towards her.... when he punched her in the stomach, knocking her unconscious.

In the Lotus Forest, Yume was looking around, trying to find a way out. Soon, she discovered the Unbirthday room. She walked around, seeing a large table, with many good-looking desserts. She sat down at one chair, and it instantly vanished, and she was amazed to see that she was back where everything had begun- in that weird room with the Doorknob!

She could feel Riku's aura coming closer, so she hastened her pace. She glanced around, and suddenly the Cheshire Cat arrived. He grinned at Yume, who grinned back. There were two clouds of smoke. One from the Cheshire Cat, and one from Yume. Yume had transformed into Kairi and the Cheshire Cat had transformed....into Sora!?

A/N: Fine, you win. This chapter will be a two parter, cause I'm getting tired. Goodnight, and please like my story. ; takes a nap