It had now been some time since falling through the doorway; a tired and bored Maka continued to fall past many random familiar objects, mainly furniture.
"When is this ever going to end," he sighed unimpressed by the time the strange event was taking, "Is this just some weird dream?"
Suddenly she felt her back land on a soft and springy surface and as she glanced back to make out a pillow and shinigami-shaped headboard; a bed. Just as she had identified the object, she felt her body being forced upwards by the springs. At that moment, she turned her body to face the bed in an attempt a more permanent landing however, to her surprise, there was no longer any object below.
"What the…?" she began however, before she could finish her body was flung into the depth of the darkness at full speed and within seconds she felt her body crash into a cold, hard surface.
"Ouch!" she cried as she shoved her body into a kneeling position, "Where am I now?"
Slowly she looked around the circular room; except for a small glass table, there was no furniture however, there were many exits.
"Hmm… maybe if I exit through one I'll wake up," she proclaimed jumping to her feet and rushing to the first door in front of her, "locked?"
Right enough, the door was impossible to open, even by force as she tried kicking it. With the first door being a failure for an exit, she hastily tried all the other doors however not one of them budged. As she turned to look around the room, she spotted the glass table once again and with hope she made for the table where she found a small key.
"Ha! Just like in 'Alice in Wonderland'" she giggled remember how in the novel she had read earlier the young girl had found a key just as she had.
"Wait," she thought to herself, "if this is like the story then…"
She looked behind her to see a draping curtain covered with dust and dirt, it looked at though it hadn't been touched for years. She strolled towards it and without thought, she pulled it back and right enough, there was a tiny door with a giant keyhole.
"Please tell me it doesn't fit," she sighed while kneeling down and shoving the key through the lock and twisting it around.
As the door clicked in agreement, it swung open and Maka peered through it; a beautiful garden was visible.
"Just like…" alarmed Maka cried however, she was interrupted by the same voice as before this nightmare had began.
"Maka! We're going to be late if you don't hurry!" it cried though the tiny passageway; "I'll go on ahead, hurry and catch up!"
"Tsubaki?" questioned Maka peering through the door and right enough her bunny-like friend was visible hopping towards the tiny garden, "How did you get through there? I can't even fit my head through this door!"
As she awaited instructions she continued to peer outside, only the bunny ears were now visible in amongst the flowers.
"She must not have heard me…" she sighed getting back onto her feet and facing the room in which she was imprisoned. It was only as her eyes met the small glass table that she remembered the novel she read before…
"The table!" she exclaimed rushing towards it and a bottle had now appeared with a label tied tightly to it.
"Drink me?" she laughed suspiciously while pulling out the cork out the bottle and sniffing the contents, "Yuck, it smells worse than Blair's sardines!"
Despite her outburst, she pinched her nose close with her fingers and swallowed the liquid inside without though; it was icy cold goo which she felt slowly crawling down her throat.
"Disgusting!" she coughed uncontrollably dropping the now empty bottle onto the floor. After her fit of coughing ceased, she felt something strange happening as she moved around slightly…
"My clothes… are they… growing?" she questioned as her clothes seemed to feel as though they were getting baggier however, she soon realized the truth. It was not her clothes which were growing like she thought; it was that she was shrinking and at a fast pace too!
Within seconds, Maka had disappeared as her clothes lay in a giant heap where she had been standing.
"Didn't Alice's clothes shrink along with her?" thought Maka in horror as she crawled her way out of the pile, "I can't leave here without any clothes!!"
Searching the room for any form of fabric to use as clothing, her eyes spotted a small manikin underneath the glass table wear a cute blue dress. With good haste, she ran from the cover of her original clothing towards the manikin almost ripping the dress of and shoving it on.
"There!" she barked, her cheeks flushed red as she spotted a pair of white pumpkin pants, white silk stockings and heeled white shoes! Quickly she slipped them on and once she tidied her newly acquired outfit, she made her way to the once tiny doorway and out into the gardens….