Chapter 3

The Tweedles

and the Rabbits' House

As they continue to watch the race, two certain figures caught Yuu's eye; the pink and brown rabbits he chased earlier. Pointing to the now rabbits-turned-boys, Yuu sayd to Mika, "They are the rabbits I followed here."

Seeing the boys with pink and brown rabbit ears run into the trees and Yuu running after them while Mika followed, the boy became curious why he was following his friends, "Why were you following Yoichi and Kimizuki?"

"Is that their names?" Yuu asks when they stopped for a moment. After Mika nods once, Yuu answers his question. "You see, back when I was in the backyard with my cat Ame after having my history lesson with my twin sister, I saw them pass by. When they changed into rabbits and started to hop away fast, I became curious as to what they were late for. So I followed them to this rabbit hole where I fell in. After falling for so long, I finally crashed through something and that's how I arrived in Wonderland."

"I see." Mika nods his head, now that he knew how came Yuu to Wonderland.

"Could you tell me what they could be late for?"

Just as Mika opens his mouth to answer, they heard the feminine voice from before. "Mika, come here!"

Growling with annoyance, Mika faced Yuu and said, "Sorry Yuu-chan but I need to leave you alone for a while to see what Krul wants. I'll try to be back as soon as I can." With that, Mika ran into the trees and just as he is leaping to reach a branch, he suddenly changed into a golden mist before disappearing among the trees.

After seeing Mika vanish like that, Yuu's eyes widened at the fact he disappeared in the blink of an eye. Just as he was shaking his head, two feminine beings appear behind him from a few trees. Seeing the child glancing around the forest, one of the girls spoke so suddenly that it startled him. "What could this small child be doing here?"

Looking over his shoulder, Yuu looks around the trees to see who said that. "Who's there?"

Seeing nothing was behind him, Yuu did not notice that the two figures that were once there reappeared behind him again. "Just what brings you here, cutie?" the second girl said.

Quickly turning to look before they could disappear again, Yugi saw two girls, about maybe early twenties, very busty with one girl having short purple hair, big red eyes, wearing a white Victorian gown that stops just above her knees, white stockings and silver flats while the other had long, bouncy blond hair, sharp seductive red eyes, wearing a crimson and black gown that is long in the back and short and open in the front to show off her slender legs with open shoulder sleeves and the chest open, and white heels. Startled by the two suddenly appearing like they just did, Yuu asks, "Who are you?"

With a hand to her chest, the blond woman said as she went for a curtsy, "We are the Tweedle Sisters. I am Horn."

Using the same gesture with a more playful attitude, the woman with short purple hair said before she wraps her arms around Yuu, holding him right against her chest with the child barely blushing, "And I am Chess."

No longer curtsying and Chess releasing him, both sisters crossed their arms over their chests with Horn speaking, "And what brings you here?"

"I've been following the pink and brown rabbits."

To hear that he has been following their young friends, Chess asks as the two suddenly took out twin daggers that Yuu didn't know that were hidden, "Do you mean Kimizuki and Yoichi any harm?!"

Quickly raising his hands and shaking his head in denial, Yuu quickly said, "No! I'm just curious where they are going. That's all."

To know that this young child doesn't mean any harm to anyone, the two put their daggers away as they remembered this one time when someone was curious. "The little oysters were curious once too." Chess said as the two face each other.

"And everyone knows what had happened to them." Horn adds, making Yuu become even more curious about what did happen to the oysters.

"What happened to the curious oysters?"

To hear his question, the two sisters face him. "If you want to know, you're going to need to stay here to hear the story."

"I can stay long enough to hear the story."

With a nod, Horn had Yugi sit on a log and so the two began the story of the Walrus and the Carpenter.

Entering day from night, two old friends of the Duchess, Rene who is a walrus, currently in his human form with his flipper hands behind his straight back and Lacus the carpenter were walking down a very sandy beach. Tired from so much walking on the hot sand with the grains starting to get in their shoes, the two became hungry and were in need to rest and regain their strength when Lacus had found a group of oysters in the ocean.

Since he was a sea creature, Rene, averting to being a walrus, went into the salty water to talk with the oysters to join them on a 'walk'. But the mother oyster was smarter than her young ones and knew it was not the time to leave the sea. When he saw that the mother oyster was trying to convince the younger curious oysters to stay at their home, Rene convinced the young girls to come with him.

And so, the curious oysters followed the walrus to land as he changes back to a human where Lacus lead them to a nearby restaurant. Once all seated at a table, Rene and Lacus soon pick up the oysters one by one and in no time, all that was left were their sparkling shells. Now having full strength, the two friends left the restaurant with the shells in their pockets to sell at a market for money and then pay a visit to their old friend.

Once they had finished the story, Yuu let out a sad sigh for the poor oysters. "What a sad story."

"Yes." Chess agrees.

"But there is a lesson to it." Krul added.

"Oh yes it was a very good lesson, for an oyster."

"Not just to oysters, young one; for anyone who could become curious."

Knowing what they mean, Yuu nods his head as he starts to get to his feet. "Well, I'm going to get going."

"Okay, just be sure you don't cross paths with the Jabberwocky." Horn warns him.

At the sound of that name, Yuu froze. "What is a Jabberwocky?"

"A fearsome creature that is terribly deadly. If someone like you faces one, you're better off running away and hide until it leaves." Chess adds to her sister's warning.

"Okay, thank you, Chess, Horn."

"Just be careful out there." and with that, the Tweedle Sisters disappear into the trees as quickly as they came, as if they were never there. Once alone, Yuu starts to walk through the forest, hoping that maybe he can find Mika.

Making his way through the trees, hoping to find any signs of his friend, Yuu enters a clearing where a grey two-story house stood that had two rabbit ears, one pink the other brown, a garden behind the house where different produce were growing and a white picket fence with the gate having a pair of white rabbit ears. Then Yuu hears shouting coming from the house. "Fumie! Kōta!"

"Just where are those two!? We don't have time for this. Let's just go, Yoichi!"

Just as Yuu is opening the gate, the front door swung open and Yoichi and Kimizuki, as humans, ran out and ended up running into Yuu, causing all three to fall to the ground. "Ow." Yuu mumbles to himself from the impact of getting bumped into and collapsing onto the hard Earth.

Being the first to recover, Kimizuki glares at Yuu through his glasses, "Who are you and where did you come from, brat?!"

Not liking his attitude one bit, Yuu was about to snap at the pinkette when Yoichi spoke up, "Excuse my friend's attitude. Could you do us a favor? We are needed somewhere but we need the things that our maid Fumie keeps in her room, but she and her brother are no where in sight and she doesn't allow us into their room."

"Well um, ok." Getting back to their feet, Yuu asks as he dusts off his clothes, "Which room am I looking for?"

"A pink door with silver flowers and wind movement designs." Yoichi answers since Kimizuki is currently still annoyed that he ran right into a stranger that happens to be intruding on their property.

"Ok thanks." Yuu enters the house and heads upstairs, searching for the one specific door. Yuu saw he didn't need to look far because the door he needed to find is the first one on the right wall. Entering the room, Yuu glances around for anything that the maid kept until Yoichi and Kimizuki need when he noticed a small glass box on a desk. Opening the lid, Yuu finds little cakes that have the words 'Eat Me' on each one.

Taking out one cake, Yuu nibbles on it a bit as he looks around the room when he felt something happen to his body; he feels himself growing bigger and bigger, filling up the entire room with one leg bent against one wall while the other went out the bedroom door and his left shoulder leaning against the opposit wall while his right arm went out the window, having to bend his neck a bit to try to get as comfortable as possible.

Then, Yuichiro stopped shifting when he heard a high pitch scream. Shifting a bit so he could look out the window, he could see Kimizuki and Yoichi frozen where they stand just like rabbits. "Y-Yoichi, you get out of the area and I-I'll get Shigure!"

"R-R-Right!" However before either of them moved a muscles, they froze again when a voice said, "What are you two doing?"

Turning in the direction the voice came from, the three see a young girl younger than Yuichiro, maybe only five or six years old, shoulder length brown hair, big grayish brown eyes, wearing a simple beige dress with matching flats, a basket full of flowers on one arm. Next to her was a boy who appears to be no older than seven, short dark brown hair, dark brown eyes, wearing a white shirt, grey pants, black shoes and carries a sack of flour on one shoulder while his free hand held a couple grocerie bags.

Once Yuu spot the second boy, a smile spread across his face and relief wash over him when he recognizes the boy as Mikaela. "You two are freaking out over nothing." the boy with dark brown hair and eyes said as he set his items down.

"If you two weren't in such an unnescassery hurry, you would have found my note stating where Kōta and I would be at and we wouldn't be gone too long."

"But Fumie, you know how much the queens hates anyone being late." Yoichi starts to protest.

But she only snaps, making both boys flinch. "That is not an excuse!" Then she turns her attention on Mika and asks her friend, "So Mika, how do you suppose your friend got in this predicament?"

Seeing one leg stretch out past the front door and one arm sticking out a window, it didn't take long for the Cheshire Cat to figure out the problem. "Easy, Yuu-chan had one of those cakes that had the words 'Eat Me' on them."

"Oh that'll be easy to fix." Kōta says with a slight chuckle as Fumie takes out a vial and place it in the hand sticking out of the house.

"Drink this and you'll be back to your regular self." Fumie put simply.

Pulling his arm back in carefully, Yuu examines the vial first before draining it of the contents inside.