AN: I'd like to start by thanking everyone who has taken the time to read my story, as well as I would like to take the time to thank the readers that have taken the time to review my story. I also sadly have to state that I still don't own Harry Potter or Kingdom Hearts.
Harley couldn't help but to jump as a purple cats head appeared, a massive smile spread across his face that even Sora would be jealous of. She sighed as she simply stood back and let Sora talk to the insane feline. Harley was somewhat grateful that the cat had been helpful to their little group even if the crazy cat had barely made sense, but what they had gotten from the strange animal was a small checkered box, that the cat had claimed would be able to collect any evidence that they came across so that they could prove that Alice was innocent.
The group of four began their slow careful trek through the woods, searching for proof that the actual culprit who had attempted to take the queen of hearts heart, which the group was sure was actually a heartless. The first piece of evidence they came across was actually a small black antenna that seemed to have been caught in a small bush. Sora couldn't help but to wonder just how they were going to take the antenna with them, only for the small box that Goofy had been carrying to glow before the antenna seemed to lift into the air and fly into the box.
"Oh so that's what he meant by 'the box will help us show the true villain'" Sora said as he smiled back at the rest of his new friends. Before the four resumed walking through the forest looking for evidence. The group ended up stopping three more times as they found other pieces of evidence, each time the small box would glow before absorbing the evidence. Harley sighed as she sat on one of the overly large mushrooms that had grown in the forest that they were currently traveling through. She hadn't but sat down for more then a few moments when Sora came and sat down not to far from her.
"You okay Harley?" Sora asked softly as he looked at his friend. Harley just smiled as she looked at him.
"I'm fine Sora, just not used to having to walk so much, usually its just from class to class." Harley admitted as she simply tried to catch her breath. Sora simply smiled at her before turning to look back out at the forest. His mind focusing on how they were going to prove that Alice was innocent. Sure the box that the strange cat had given them had absorbed all the evidence that they had found but he wasn't sure how they were going to use it, or even if they could, since none of them had been able to open the box.
Harley sighed as she stood up, she suspected that Sora would sit and wait for however long she needed, but she couldn't help but to feel guilty since while they had been waiting for her to catch her breath, Alice had been stuck in a cage.
"Come on Sora, lets go prove that Alice is innocent." Harley said with a smile as she held her hand out for the boy to take. Sora smiled as he grasped her hand before standing up, and with a single nod the group of four was off, heading back to the faux court. It didn't take the group long to reach the archway that split the forest from the clearing where the queen held court.
"You guys ready for this?" Sora asked the others with a soft sigh. The group smiled softly before nodding to him. Sora inhaled deeply before marching forward, prepared to go and face whatever the queen was going to try and throw at them. The group had barely made it past the arch when they were stopped by a pair of the humanoid cards.
"Do you have your evidence ready?" The card on the left asked, its body having a red diamond in the center. Sora simply nodded, his eyes focused on the spear tips that were held less then a foot from his face. "Give the evidence to my partner, then go to the podium. The rest of your group will have to go and wait in the stands." The card stated, as his partner who had a black club in the middle of its body, reached out to take the small pink checkered box from Goofy.
Sora inhaled as he looked towards the podium that he was supposed to go to, uncertainty beginning to over take him, once more wondering if he'd be able to save Alice. His thoughts halted though as he felt and hand gently rest on his shoulder, turning to look, he saw Harley's hand resting on his shoulder, before following the arm up until his eyes met hers.
"You got this Sora." Harley stated softly, with a small smile on her face. Sora grinned as he nodded back to her, before turning and marching up to the podium. Harley turned and followed after Goofy and Donald, sighing softly as she took a seat next to the large dog. She couldn't help but to feel a small amount of frustration as she watched Sora stand on the podium, frustrated at the fact that she was forced to stand on the side lines instead of being able to help her friend directly. Her frown grew as she listened to the queen talk down to Sora before the club card lifted the top of their evidence box. Harley, Donald, and Goofy couldn't help but to gasp as they watched a soldier heartless appear from the box, before said heartless disappeared into the void.
"That your majesty was your culprit." Sora declared, his anger at the psychotic cat temporarily being replaced with a smug happiness knowing that he and his friends had managed to prove that Alice was innocent. His smile quickly fell into a frown though as the queen declared that anyone that went against her was guilty, and she had her card hoist Alice's cage high up into the air. A group of the cards quickly surrounding Sora their spears pointed at the young teen.
With a simple flick of his wrist his Keyblade appeared in his hand, before he blocked the first strike. A jet of red light flying just beside his head caught the spiky haired boy's attention, before he heard a grunt from behind him, as the spell hit one of the cards that had been attempting to attack him from behind. He'd have to remember to thank Harley after the fight for the help, Sora thought for but a moment before he returned his attention to the fight before him, and the tower that he was heading towards. It didn't take long for Sora to reach the small tower that Sora suspected was holding Alice's cage up. He growled unsure how he was going to use the controls without being skewered until he saw Harley, Donald and Goofy form a perimeter around him.
"We have your back Sora." Harley stated as she launched another spell at the approaching guards. Sora simply nodded before turning and using the cranks he lowered Alice's cage, already trying to figure out how they'd make it over to Alice's cage and then get her out of the faux court. All his plans came to a screeching halt though as the covering for the cage fell revealing that Alice was no longer there. The boy didn't pay any attention to the queens screams to find her, or the fact that they were no longer being attacked by the cards, his mind trying to come to terms with the fact that somehow she was gone.
"Come on." Harley said as she pulled Sora towards the arch back to the forest. She could tell that Sora was having some issues with everything that had just taken place. She wasn't sure what she could say to Sora though, but what ever she had been planning to say left her mind after they entered the forest, as the insane cat that she realized had named itself the Cheshire cat appeared before them again. Rambling about how Alice had been taken by shadows, and how those shadows had apparently spirited her away towards the tea party garden, where ever that was, before promptly disappearing again.
"Ah darn cat" Sora growled as he began marching around the area. "First it gives us a box that absorbs the evidence, but fails to mention that it was using that evidence to recreate a heartless, then he tells us that Alice has been taken by shadows, which I assume means heartless, and then he says to go to the tea party garden, but doesn't tell us where it is." Sora rants, finishing by throwing his hands in the air, before turning and marching deeper into the forest, intent on finding this garden.
Harley can't help but to giggle slightly, understanding how Sora's feeling, but at the same time seeing the usually upbeat boy, have a minor temper tantrum was actually kinda funny. It took the group of four probably around forty minutes to find another arch in the forest this one leading into a small garden with a large table set up for a tea party, and at the head a portrait of two people, one a rabbit in a rather flamboyant suit, and the other a man wearing a top hat and a suit that made him look like a leprechaun, both of which appeared to be sobbing. Harley quickly turned to look away from the slightly disturbing image, only for her eyes to alight on a small house. She quickly gestured the others to follow her as they walked through the door way only to find themselves back in the first room, except it didn't look right, she didn't remember so many doors, and where was the table, and that kinda snobby knob. Harley's questions were answered though mere minutes later, as the Cheshire cat had Sora light, to light fixtures, before joyfully pointing up, saying that the shadows would be down there. Harley froze as she looked up and realized that she was staring at the table, her eyes widening as she realized that they were in fact standing on the roof, before she turned and all but sprinted back to the door they had came in from. Sora was the first to exit after her, finding Harley sitting at the table.
"You okay?" Sora asked softly as he came to stand next to her.
"Yeah, it just kinda freaked me out standing on the roof." Harley admitted softly, feeling slightly foolish, after all she played quidditch, but there was a big difference between riding on a broom in the air and simply standing on a roof, after all what if gravity decided to reassert itself and made them fall to the floor. Sora simply smiled as he looked at Harley before the group turned and left the area, making their way back to the queens court, and then through into the bizarre room.
Resting calmly on top of the table was the Cheshire cat, smiling down at them, a smile that frankly was beginning to put Sora on edge, since almost every time they saw the cat it had that same smile, which usually resulted in them having to fight something, or someone. But even knowing that the group quickly made the climb up the chair and then up onto the top of the table, only for the cat to point behind them, before disappearing, the two jars that his feet had been touching disappearing with him.
All four flinched as they heard something massive slam into the ground behind them, before slowly turning around to watch as a heartless seemed to unfold itself before staring at the small group. Harley scowled at the heartless before quickly launching a stupefy at the heartless, only for her mouth to drop open in shock as the heartless didn't even seem to notice her spell hit it. She was so lost in shock at the lack of effect that her spell had, that Harley didn't notice the monsters massive baton coming at her until it was to late. She through her hands in front of her, even though she knew that they'd probably have no effect in protecting her, but before the baton slammed into her, Harley was tackled from the side. Her and Sora rolling three times, before they came to a rest just a few feet away from the massive baton.
"You okay?" Sora asked as he stood up, pulling her up with him. Harley simply nodded before she looked back at the massive heartless that was currently focused on Donald and Goofy. Harley looked at Sora, a scowl on her face as she felt useless since her main attack spell had no effect on this monster. But her scowl shifted as she looked at Sora, noticing the large grin that had overtaken his face, that would look more at home on the Cheshire cats face.
"Sora?" Harley asked softly, before seeing the boy's smile turn to her.
"Harley, you have any spells that could help me fly?" The boy asked softly. Harley simply raised an eyebrow, before nodding. Sora grinned as he quickly began to explain his frankly insane plan to the girl, whose eyes simply widened before she stared at him.
"Your joking right?" Harley asked the boy, only for her jaw to all but drop as the boy shook his head no. "Sora do you have any idea how insane that is? Think about how this could end." Harley all but pleaded. Sora's smile shifted to a smaller more resolute one, before he looked back to Donald and Goofy.
"Harley we're fighting a giant heartless, a sane plan might not work. Please help me." Sora said softly. Harley simply sighed before nodding, her wand quickly aimed at her friend as she used wingardium leviosa, lifting Sora high into the air, above the heartless, before releasing the spell, watching as her friend began plummeting towards the massive heartless.
Sora grinned as he felt Harley's spell release him, gravity reasserting itself on his body as he began to plummet towards the massive heartless. His eyes narrowed as he used the movements that he had seen in movies to help angle himself towards the massive heartlesses head Keyblade first. The teen couldn't help but to grin savagely as his Keyblade struck true, the tip impaling into the top of the massive monsters head. He bit back a scream of pain as he felt his arms pulled from the force of stopping his body, as he held onto the Keyblade, before slowly standing to his feet, and gripping the handle of his Keyblade with both hands. Sora focused as he stood there summoning as much of his magic power as he could, before letting it loose with a mighty roar.
"FIRE!" The teen bellowed, a white hot fireball ripping through the heartless for a moment before the massive creature shuttered and disappeared. Sora never got a chance to scream as he was knocked unconscious by the massive release of power.
Harley's eyes widened as she watched her friends body fall, before quickly casting wingardium leviosa to catch the descending boys body, gently guiding him to rest on the floor. Harley was continent to wait for her spiky haired friend to wake on his own, after all he had let her rest when she needed it, sadly though Donald was not, as the duck marched forward before raising his finger into the air, a small bolt of lightning falling from the sky to slam into Sora, causing the boy to groan as he was shocked awake.
Sora groaned as he was forced awake, before turning to glare at the duck that had just shocked him, only to be shut up, as the duck began screaming at the boy for how reckless he had been with that insane attack. Sora growled as he stood up intent to begin arguing his case against the duck when they were interrupted by the door knob, complaining about the ruckus that their fighting had apparently made. He was about to try and argue with the door knob, when all four noticed what appeared to be a glowing key hole appear in its yawning mouth, the groups attention turned to Sora as they heard the boy gasp in surprise before watching as the Keyblade seemed to force itself to point at the door knob a small glow appearing at the tip, before launching forth a thin beam of white light, which disappeared into the key hole followed by the sound of a massive lock turning.
All four simply looked at each other before turning and looking back at the door knob when they heard the sound of something hitting the floor, their eyes landing on a small brightly colored box, which Donald was quick to pick up and hand to Goofy to place in the dogs pack. Before turning and beckoning the group to follow him, back up the table to grow big again and then out to where they had left the Gummi ship. Sora and Harley couldn't help but to look at Donald confused, wondering how they were possible going to return when with a quack the duck made all four float back up the tunnel to where their Gummi ship waited.
Sora sighed as he walked to the small room that he had claimed as his, before laying down, as he felt the ship begin to move to their next destination, where ever that may be, but knowing that it was a new adventure, with his new friends, and though he was tired he couldn't wait to see what was in store for them.
AN: And with that we finish Wonderland and move on to the next world. I'd like to once again thank everyone who has taken the time to read my story, and please feel free to leave a review, I love to hear your opinions. Now if no one minds I just got Kingdom Hearts 3 and it's finished installing on my PS4 so I'm gonna play that. Thanks again for reading.