Aeris In Wonderland

Disclaimer: I only own a copy of Final Fantasy 7 and the only wonderland I have, is in my head.

A/N: Welcome everyone for another round of Aeris In Wonderland! I know I'm on a roll with the writing, I'm taking advantage while I still can. I had actually been writing this on paper and lost interest for a while. On top of that I had really bad writers block, and well you all know how that is. But I'm actually glad to be sharing it with you. By the way - ENJOY!

Chapter 5: Golden Afternoon

Aeris was having a pretty hard time trying to catch up to the silver rabbit, as it sped through the forest. Aeris wondered where he could be leading her to now. 'Why does he have to run so fast? Is he actually getting off on this?' she thought to herself. Suddenly he stopped. And once again, she tripped and fell; hard.

"Oww, not again," she groaned. Her attention was immediately turned to the sound of laughter. 'He's laughing at me?'

"Guess you should have watched your step, eh Cetra?" he chuckled. He was his handsome self again and holding her pink hair ribbon.

'Wow I didn't know he had it in him. What's different about him from everything that I've heard. Is he psychotic?'

'Yes, I am.' he grinned, reading her thoughts. 'Handy little power.'

This frightened Aeris indeed, but she tried her hardest to see past that part of him. She saw a hint of sadness in his soul. She beleived he had a soul, just like every creature of this planet.

. He created this world for Jenova, his mother. In this place, she couldn't inhabit his thoughts. It was the only place he was free.

"Are you alright?" Aeris asked him.

"You're asking me? You're the one who fell." he replied.

"I'm okay. You however, look like life slapped you in the face."

'How could she see that?' he thought. Sephiroth mentally slapped himself for letting her see that part of him.

"What are you talking about?" he asked her.

'Gee the least you could've done was help me up.' Aeris thought to herself. Getting up and dusting herself off. Aeris checked her arm for any scratches. She thought she was okay till she felt a sharp sting on her finger.

"Aww crap! A splinter." she said examining it painfully.

Sephiroth felt a bit guilty for letting her fall, but now he gets to help her.

"Are you alright?"

"It's stuck and I don't have any tweezers to get it out with." she replied.

He also created it for her; Aeris.

"Let's go into my house, I think I might have something to remove that with there."

Sephiroth stepped aside and moved a branch, to reveal a cute little cottage.

"After you, Aeris." he said, a hand gesturing the way.

"Thanks," she said smiling her smile.

'Damn that Strife. Why should he be the lucky one. She should be mine. At least for a couple of hours, as terrible as that sounds; she is.'

The cottage looked like something out of a fairytale. 'Come to think of it, this sort of is a fairytale' Aeris thought to herself. It looked as if it were built out of candy, like the one from Hansel and Gretel. The mail box resembled a lollipop.

"I hate to admit this, but I have sort of a sweet-tooth. Can't help it, it's one of my guilty pleasures." he said to her unlocking the door.

"You should taste my fresh macadamia nut cookies," she said . 'Wait why am I conversating and giggling with him, what's wrong with me?' she thought to herself. 'Can't hurt to be nice, even if he is gonna kill me. Maybe I can change that.'

"How about this, I take that splinter out and you make me some cookies." he said flashing her a smile.

'Flirt.' she thought to herself.

"Okay, you have the ingredients?" she said, figuring it wouldn't hurt.

"I'll conjure something up."

He opened the door to reveal a cozy living room. Beautifully decorated walls; even the funiture was beautiful. There were fresh cut roses in a vase on the wooden coffee table he had. They were each a different color.

"It's really beautiful in here." she said astonished that a mass-murderer could have such taste.

He knew she'd like it. He found the place very peaceful as well, it reminded him of her. Ever since he rummaged through the files at Shinra mansion and found hers, he hasn't been able to get her out of his mind. She was a Cetra, an Ancient just like him. Just like mother. That's why he felt he needed to meet her. He found her in the dilapidated slums of Midgar, selling flowers. He was searching for his mother, when she accidentally bumped into him. He would've killed her then and there if it wasn't for her beautiful smile. Of course he brushed her off cooly.

'Watch where you're going.'

'Oh, so sorry Sir, it was my fault. Take this as an apology'

She handed him a flower and was on her way. He found it strange that a flower would grow in place like this. It dawned on him then who she was. He turned back to see where she went, but she was gone.

"Thank you," he said "Please have a seat."

Until he saw her again at the Shinra building. She was imprisoned there. He would've saved her had it not been for Strife who beat him to it.

"I'll go get something for that, be right back." he said as he disappeared into the next room.

Aeris sat down in a velvety beige couch with with a floral pattern. In front of her was the coffee table with the roses. She leaned over into them and smelled them. They smelled very nice. She turned to see where Sephiroth was. Just because she liked his house, doesn't mean that she had to turn her back on him. In the other end of the living room, she spotted a tray full of chocolate chip cookies.

"I'm so hungry, I'm sure he won't mind." she said as she put one in her mouth; they were bite sized. "Mmm, these are really good," She licked her lips. She was about to reach for another one when she realized how big her hands got all of sudden.

"Oh, no." Aeris said. She grew so big, her arm got stuck through a window. "How am I gonna explain this to Sephiroth?" she asked herself.

"Aeris, how you holding up?" said Sephiroth walking back into the room. "Holy Shiva! How did you manage to do that?"

"I'm so sorry, I was so hungry. I couldn't help my self they looked so tasty" Aeris said, blushing and eyes watering up.

"Well I guess I won't be needing these to take out your splinter. I could just pull it out now." he said; almost laughing.

Aeris began to cry. Her tears began splashing the living room, flooding it a little. It was as if someone was dropping buckets of water.

"Hey Aeris don't cry, it was just a joke. Eat another one to see if it will reverse the effect, before you drown us both." he said to her trying to calm her down.

"I can't. my good arm is stuck through the window, and this splinter really hurts. Besides that one's stuck too." she continued to sob.

Sephiroth grabbed a cookie from the tray. "Here catch, open your mouth."

"What am I a dog?" she said to him getting very annoyed with her current situation.

"Do you want to get back to normal or not?" Sephiroth said getting a little annoyed with her stubborness.

Aeris opened her mouth and Sephiroth tossed the cookie into her mouth. Instantly she began shrinking. Problem was how was she going to stop shrinking? It didn't seem to end. Now Sephiroth was getting larger and larger.

"Shit!" cursed Sephiroth.

He tried to catch her before she shrank even more. Quick reflexes or no, he failed. She shrank so much, so fast, he couldn't grab her. Sephiroth quickly went to the front door and opened it, hoping to drain the water from the room before she could drown.

"I hope she didn't drown. Damn, how could I have been so stupid!" The clock in his house chimed. "I'm sure she's fine wherever she is. As for me I'm late, mother'll scold me if I don't attend to her promptly." With that, Sephiroth left the house.

Aeris swam and swam. More like flailed her arms wildly as she didn't know how to swim. They don't exactly have pools in Midgar, and she's never been to a beach. She noticed the water level dropping and was flushed outside. She landed on the concrete path in front of the house. Aeris began to cough, gasping for air. She was three inches tall again. She began surveying the area before getting up. Just then Sephiroth stepped out of the house. He would've stepped on her had she not jumped out of the way in time.

"And I'm the one who should watch were I am going." Aeris said sarcastically. She started getting up. "Now what do I do?" Before she had a chance to think, she was knocked down again. "Why is it that I take this trip often?" she said annoyed that she kept meeting with the ground. She began choking and coughing violently.

"What's that smell?" she said gagging

Aeris turned and saw a black mushroom standing in front of her. It had a purple outfit on. It was adorable until the thing turned into metal.

"This can't be good." Aeris said scrambling to her feet.

Another wave of the poison gas emanated from the fungus. Aeris began to run, but another one appeared in front of her.

"I'm so dead," she said hesitating to move.

Then she felt something yank her away from them. It was another mushroom. Only this one was different from the others. This mushroom had a white robe and a pink cap.This one seemed friendly. It saved her life and she was grateful

"Thank you," Aeris told it.

It bowed and jumped up and down. It looked playful. It started shivering.

"Are you cold?" She asked it.

It jumped up gleefully. Then it began to fan itself. Aeris figured it out. It was playing charades.

"Now you're hot?"

Again it jumped up. This time it stopped moving.

"Why did you stop?" she asked it.

The white mushroom jumped up gleefully and dropped a little box for her then, it vanished. Aeris walked over to it and picked it up. She opened the box to reveal a remedy potion.

"Oh, thank goodness I can already feel the black mushroom's poison working"

She drank the potion and instantly felt the poisonous toxins leave her body. She began walking through the garden near Sephiroth's cottage. The blades of grass resembled the tall pillars of Midgar.

"I hope something else doesn't mistake me for food."

Then Aeris heard laughing nearby. She kept walking towards it. They were female. Aeris approached them, this time she was watching her step.

"Umm...hello." She started.

"Who are you?"

They were flowers.

"I'm sorry to interrupt your conversation. I'm Aeris."

"It's quite alright, my name's Edea. Pleased to meet you." said one of the roses.

"We were just discussing a tragedy that occured earlier," replied one of the daisies that oddly enough, reminded her of Yuffie.

"Oh my, yes. A dozen of my closest friends were cut from their homes by a fellow with silver petals." Added Edea.

"Oh how sad," Aeris said, remembering the roses in Sephiroth's cottage.

"Yes quite a tragedy indeed." replied a white rose from the far left.

"Good Afternoon, Ultimecia." said Edea to the white rose. "I'm so sorry for your loss dear."

"Thank you, yes Adel was my sister. She will surely be missed." She glanced at Aeris. "And who are you dear?"

"That's Aeris," replied one of the little flowers.

"Selphie dear, I asked her, not you. Mind your manners." Ultimecia snapped back at her.

"Don't be so hard on her, she's just a child." Aeris said to the white rose.

"And what kind of flower are you, with your weird petals?" sneered Ultimecia.

"I'm not a flower at all." Aeris replied.

All the flowers gasped.

"Then you're a weed and we don't like weeds in our garden!" Ultimecia stated.

The other flowers chimed in.

"Oh, no a weed."

"I'm not a weed, I'm a woman!"

'The nerve of those flowers.' Aeris thought.

"Leave at once!" Ordered Ultimecia the white rose.

"But..." Aeris started.

Then Ultimecia shoved Aeris and knocked her down, re-instating the pain in her finger.

"I can't wait till I grow again and when I do, you're the one I'm gonna pluck first!" She said as she staggered to her feet. Aeris was furious. All the flowers gasped and kept calling her a weed. She left the unruly bunch of flowers."She was one to talk about manners." She said to herself and contunued her way through the giant garden.

A/N: There you have it! Hope you enjoyed it. I tried to make it longer than my other chapters. Hope it was. Well let me know what you guys think. This is Lamica Lee, saying good fight, good night. I've gotta lay off the sugar. bye now

Lamica

P.s. I just thought of something silly. If Squall from FF8 was a flower, he'd be Squall DandeLionheart. lol. buh-bye