Hello, fellow readers! Welcome back to the story. Now, let's see what we got:

Spartastic 4: I don't remember seeing Terumi wearing a fedora, but of course the smooth criminal is gonna be in this story. I love his fighting style and his stylish fashion sense. We shall see, but not just yet. Good, I'm catching them one by one.

Azure Legacy: Well, Wonderland is usually the first world people go to in the first game, so it makes sense to start there. I can definitely see Ragna doing that.

Haxorus Knight: I'm updating at my own pace, thank you. But, we shall kick heartless in the butt!

Sonicdude8: An extremely dangerous one, indeed.

ArmantusCumPinnae: What the visits are based on, specifically. Since KH1 is using the original animated movie, that's what I'm going for. Though, stuff from the live action movies would be very cool.

Now then, let's keep going!

Chapter 4: Innocence of Madness

On an unknown world in a castle of sorts, a small room was rather dark except for a candle that was lit, a boy was writing something in his journal on his desk before closing it.

The boy was a young teen that had pale skin, bright blue-green eyes, and silver hair that reached his neck. He wears a yellow vest that has two black straps trimmed with white and crossed to form an X on his chest and upper back, black gloves also trimmed white, dark blue-gray pants held up by a black belt with a silver rectangular buckle, finishing with blue and white shoes.

"You must be Riku."

Riku turned around to look at where the voice came from, seeing a man at the doorway. The man wore a stylized suit with a fedora to match, brown straps on his palms, and brown shoes that had armor parts on it. He had pale skin and neat green hair, but what creeped him out was his eyes were closed.

"Who's asking?" Riku questioned, taking a cautious step to the side.

"Pleasure to meet you. Maleficent has told me a bit about you." The man answered as he walks a few steps inside. Once he stops, he takes off his fedora and bows a bit.

"My name is Hazama, a new ally." This was news to Riku, making him more curious as the man named Hazama puts his fedora back on.

"What's your reason to join?" He asked.

"Simple. One of your friends knows an enemy of mine, which of course makes the enemy to them a friend to me. Know what I mean?" Hazama explained.

"Yeah, I do. But I'm only saying this once, leave my friend alone. He has nothing to do with you." Riku threatened.

Hazama rubbed his chin as he paced a bit, making Riku glare at him. He then puts his hands up in a casual way, "OK, OK... your friend will not be harmed."

The entire exchange just now, his smile never dropped at all. Riku had a bad feeling and it grew more.

"I understand the feeling of seeing people you know on the other side..." Hazama casually walked to the doorway, but finished before exiting that Riku heard in a slightly deeper tone.

"But you'll get used to it..."

The forest of Wonderland was colorful, to say the least as the group walk on the clear path ahead. There were also two big yellow flowers ahead of them that sounded like they were singing, but quiet. They stopped in front of the flowers, curious on what the tune was.

"Green leaves of healing, let us bloom and grow..."

"Leaves of healing..." Aqua repeated before getting an idea. She then cast a Cure spell on them, causing them to blossom fully and letting out a powder on her. She coughed a bit before realizing she was growing bigger. She was now at her normal size as the others looked up at her.

"Huh, didn't expect that. That song was oddly specific, though." Ragna pointed out.

"At this point, the whole world is random." Terra agreed.

"What can you see up there?" Sora called up to her.

Aqua looks around and sees that the stump from earlier looked a bit loose at the ground. She then crouches down, the others backing away to avoid getting crushed, and reached her hand, resting it at the edge for it to then sink into the ground like a button. When it did, the lily pads on the pond lined themselves in a straight path across the water.

"Huh. That's simple enough." Aqua commented.

"Ugh... even simple gives me a headache." Donald rubs his head in annoyance.

"Gawrsh, Donald. My head's been spinning since we landed." Goofy agrees.

"Then it's only getting worse from here. Brace yourselves." Ragna guessed as he lead the way across the lily pads.

As the group does that, Aqua stood back and looked around before seeing a fruit the size of her palm hanging from a nearby tree branch.

"Well, I guess I'm a bit hungry..." She mentioned before grabbing it and taking a bite.

When she did, she grew smaller and smaller until she was as small as the others. Noticing the others went off on the new path, she quickly followed across the water into the new hole.

When she entered, she saw the others looking at... a tea party?

The table was a bit hard to see as there was a blanket of steam hanging above a bit higher than it should, with teapots of various sizes and colors lets out more with a rather catchy tune to boot. They saw movement at the other end of the table as they walk up to the pink chair on their end. Over the steam, they see a pair of brown rabbit ears and a green top hat bouncing up and down as voices were singing.

Aqua ducked her head under the steam, which the others followed, to see who was at the other end.

The first one was actually a hare with tan-colored fur and a buck tooth, a blond head of hair and black eyes, a magenta nose, a white cottontail, and wearing a red suit.

The second one was a short but slender man, with fair skin and white hair who also has a buck tooth as well. As he bounces, the hat goes up a bit showing that he is half bald. Along with his green top hat, he wore a brown suit with a light blue bowtie and an upturned white collar.

The group watched as they sung their song:

"Oh, a very merry unbirthday to me!"

"To who?

"To me!"

"Oh you!"

"A very merry unbirthday to you!"

"To me?"

"Yes you!"

"Oh me!"

"Let's all congratulate us with another cup of tea!"

"A very merry unbirthday to you!"

As he starts the final line, the hare then removed the lid of the teapot he was holding and pulled out a mouse that was slender with gray fur. He had small blue eyes, wearing a purple vest under a pink coat, a loose pink bowtie and a white unfastened collar. As he finishes the song, the man removed his hat to show a smaller one, which the hare took, revealing a smaller one, which the mouse took.

The group was only perplexed by this, which made Terra fall back into the pink chair. That immediately caught the duo's attention, the hare dropping the mouse as the two ran to their end of the table.

"No room, no room, no room!" The duo said, baffling them.

"What are you talking about? There's empty chairs here!" Ragna responded in utter confusion.

"Ah, but it's very rude to sit down uninvited." The hare pointed out.

"I'll say it's rude... it's very, very rude indeed." The man supported the point.

"Very, very rude indeed..." The mouse repeated in a very drowsy voice before sinking back into the teapot.

"Uh, sorry." Terra apologized as he stood up.

"If you don't mind, can you help us with finding clues?" Aqua asked.

"Clues, you say? What for?" The man questioned as the hare poured a cup... out of the teapot?

"A girl named Alice is getting trialed for something she didn't do." Ragna answered.

"Alice... I'm afraid I don't know who..." The hare said, dropping two sugar cubes into the cup.

"We met a girl who came here before. Rude, but nice." The hatter mentioned before sipping on his tea.

"Did she have blond hair?" Sora suggested.

"Blond? What color is that?" The hare asked.

"Your hair is that color." Goofy answered.

"Oh, you're right!" The hare lets out a chuckle before finishing, "I am a hare!"

Ragna only facepalms at this, "Oh my god..."

"On top of your head!" Donald shouted in annoyance.

One of the hare's ears ruffled his hair, "Oh! You mean this color!"

"Then yes, we have seen a blond girl. Poor dear didn't know what unbirthdays were." The hatter said.

"Well, have you seen anything... out of place recently?" Aqua asked.

"Out of place... Aha!" The hatter then switch two teapots between their respective places. "Much better."

"Have you seen these dark creatures roaming around?" Terra chooses to be more direct in approach.

"Creatures, you say? As in cats and dogs?" The hare responded with, holding up two tea cups in the shape of the animals as he poured tea into them.

"More like shadows with yellow eyes." Sora described.

"Do they move like little critters across the floor?" The hatter mentioned as he dipped a small plate into his cup, actually taking a bite of it soon after like a cookie.

"Yeah, how did-" Ragna was cut off as Donald yelled, "There it goes!"

The shadow scurried under the door into the house nearby, Donald and Goofy running as they entered the house soon after. Before the others gave chase, the hare spoke up as he pulled them to the table.

"Before you go, you must have a cup of tea!" He said as he held tea cups in impossible stacks that would fall.

Ragna didn't want any, but rather not know if these two have a angry emotion. "All right, just half a cup."

"Very well." The hare then took a cup and a butter knife, which lead to him... cutting the cup in half.

"Funny." Ragna commented before seeing them fill that same cup up... with no logic, the tea stayed in and was handed to Ragna.

He couldn't comprehend the cup as they stared at the tea that was staying in that half of the cup. He then poked his finger in the opened side, able to touch the tea itself. He then dropped it and jumped over the table to the house, kicking the door in before entering.

"Nice meeting you." Aqua said before they ran off after Ragna.

The hatter and the hare sat there before singing yet again.

Ragna then finds himself falling face first into the ground, "As if my headache isn't any worse..."

Terra then picked him up to his feet as Sora spoke, "Weren't we just here?"

The four looked around and saw that it was the room with the doorknob, but they were standing on one of the walls instead.

"Where did Donald and Goofy go?" Aqua wondered.

They looked around to then spot a painting on the floor, or wall, that is having a ripple effect. As they investigate it, the picture acted like water as Sora moved his hand over it.

"Maybe they fell in here." He suggested.

"Most likely." Ragna agreed as he stood up. "Let's go!"

He jumps in, falling into it like a pool with the others following one by one. Sora was the last one, but noticed something at the corner of his eye. He looks to see the cat again on top of a oil lamp.

"A wild goose chase, quite the trick for a culprit." The cat said as Sora walked over. "But you can find what you search for by lighting the way."

"How so?" Sora asked.

"The smallest flame can reveal the biggest shadow." The cat answered vaguely before disappearing.

"OK..." Sora scratched his head at this as he looked at the lamp, examining it. It didn't have a switch to turn it on, which was weird.

"Oh!" Sora then summoned his keyblade and pointed it inside, using a Fire spell to light it. Once he did, a lion head lifted itself off the wall and opened its mouth, letting out... puppies?

There were twelve of them, all of them dalmatians, came out and walked around on all fours before seeing Sora. He then sees the pups run at him in excitement, jumping at him to knock him over onto his butt. They surrounded him as Sora laughed a bit, slowly realizing what just happened.

"You guys must have been trapped in there. But for how long..." He wondered before feeling a pup lick his face.

Ragna popped out of a small geyser and land safely, only to notice themselves back at the forest.

"Great, we just went in a circle!" He shouted in frustration as Aqua and Terra popped out as well.

"But at a different place." Terra corrected.

"Look!" Aqua pointed at what she spotted, where Donald and Goofy were still chasing the heartless into the tall grass in the distance.

"They're still chasing it!?" Ragna shouted in annoyance as Terra and Aqua ran ahead to help. He calms himself soon after before running over as well.

As the group chase the shadow through the tall grass, which reached up to their knees, they were spread out to cover more ground.

Goofy tiptoed as he looked around for it, nearing a pond where the shadow was crawling underwater.

"Gotcha!" Goofy dived at it... only to slam his head against a rock that was strangely the same shape. "Ow..."

Donald was pursuing the actual one, going in a zigzag as it jumped just out of his reach. "Stand still, ya little-" Not watching where he was going, he hits himself against a tree trunk and slides down to the ground.

Aqua stands still and listens out for any grass bending around her, the shadow slowly moving across the ground to her blind spot and went solid. It stood still for a moment, tilting its head in curiosity before preparing to attack. It then jumped high into the air... only to get caught by golden chains.

"Gotcha, troublemaker." Aqua said with a smirk as she turned around, keyblade now in hand.

"Good catch." Terra commented as he came over, "Now we got our evidence."

Donald and Goofy walks over while rubbing their heads, "I prefer fighting them from now on..." Donald admitted.

"Hey, you guys seen Sora?" Ragna asked as he walked around, looking at where they came from.

The others looked around as well, not seeing Sora with them.

"I'll go check on him." Terra then headed back at the geyser as Ragna spoke, "You two go with him just in case. Me and Aqua will head to the court, we'll meet up there."

As the duo headed after Terra, the chains on the heartless started to fade which Aqua noticed. "No, not now!"

Ragna quickly grabbed it by the back of the neck with his left arm as the chains disappeared, hanging like a little child in trouble.

"Getting a bit worn out?" He asked.

"No, must be lower on magic than I thought." She answered.

The heartless squirmed a bit, trying to swing its claw at Ragna as he blinked in response. He simply sighed, "Let's get this over with."

He walks to the hole leading to the court with Aqua following as she spoke, "Feeling all right?"

"Got a headache..." He answered as he held the heartless up like a lantern.

Terra came out of the painting to find Sora surrounded by puppies, "There ya are." He said to get his attention.

"Hey, sorry about that. Got a bit sidetracked." Sora responded with as Donald and Goofy came out of the painting as well.

"Wah! Where did they come from!?" Donald called out.

Most of the puppies went to surround the three as Sora explained what happened. "When you guys jumped in, the cat talked with me about these lamps. I lit it, and they came out of that head." He gestured to the lion head as proof.

"In that case, we can't leave them here." Goofy pointed out, "I'm sure we have space on the Gummi Ship for them."

"Give me a sec..." Donald then turned on the screen of his watch, "Hey, Dale. We're gonna need a bit more space..."

And done! So sorry for the delay, but when I realized Soul Calibur VI was gonna be released, I had to play it. Now that I had my fill for now, I'm gonna be back at writing.

So, gonna keep this short and sweet, we had a silly little chase to catch the culprit responsible to have our minds not dive too deep in the rabbit hole, as Ragna will agree with.

Riku shows up finally with a slightly different design then normal. Honestly, Riku's KH1 design was all right, but those pants and gloves annoyed me. So, he's basically without the balloon pants over his normal ones and one belt, along with gloves that cover his hands properly without the wristbands and shoes that are a bit smaller from being as big as Sora's.

Another thing I want to do in this story is to show how it looks from Riku's perspective, which I think would better explain his mindset and his fall into darkness.

Feel free to tell me what you guys think, until then, thanks for reading and Happy Halloween! (Not really a special for it, but it's all I got.)