Chapter 2

Yami the Cheshire Cat

Looking up, Yugi froze at the sight of a boy, about seventeen or eighteen wearing a really dark red long-sleeve shirt, like the color of blood, dark pants, black boots, and a few other things of his appearance surprised Yugi a lot; the older boy appeared to be a mirror image of himself but he had more masculine features, his gravity-defying tricolor hair was tipped in a deep crimson like his eyes, a black base, blond bangs with some blond going up the black base like lightning bolts, but what really surprised Yugi was that the teen had a crimson pair of cat ears set on top of his head and noticed a black tail swaying behind him and instead of normal human nails he had claws.

Seeing the expression on Yugi's face, the older teen gave him a gentle smile. "No need to appear so startled. You startled me when you crashed through the ceiling."

Being able to regain his composure, Yugi felt the need to ask this teen something. "Sorry if I was staring. Just who are you sir?"

Before answering, the teen raised his hand as if to stop something. "No need to call me 'sir', Little One. My name is Yami. I'm a Cheshire Cat." Yami said and ended with a bow. When Yami called him that nickname, Yugi couldn't help but blush a little. He was being a little bit shy when he barely missed Yami's own question as the older teen got a bottle full of some sort of liquid with a label that read "Drink me", "What is your name, Little One?"

When he realized what he had asked, Yugi snapped out of his trance to gather his thoughts calmly and noticed the bottle for the first time. "My name is Yugi Mutou."

Hearing that name, Yami just stood there, almost dropping the bottle. "You mean, you're 'The' Yugi Mutou?"

Confused, Yugi asked, hopefully to be able to clear his confusion, "What do you mean?"

But before Yami could answer he froze when he heard a voice. "Oh Yami! Where are you?"

It was a young, feminine voice that Yami knows all too well. Sighing in annoyance, Yami said with a groan, "I better go see what she wants."

"Who's 'she'?" Yugi asked as Yami took a quick sip from the bottle as he took a key out of his pocket.

"Rebecca, my 'mistress'. I'm going to explain a few things while we get out of here." Yami said as he hand Yugi the bottle before the effects of the potion activated, taking Yugi by surprise; Yami had started to shrink until he was as small as a mouse.

Being mindful of stepping on him, Yugi went down to his knees and asked, "Why did you do that?"

Before answering, Yami pointed to a door that was no bigger than a full-grown hand. "That door is the entrance to Wonderland. We need to be this small in order to go through there."

Understanding that is what he needs to do, Yugi took a sip from the bottle, finding the liquid to be a mix of mango, coffee, custard, pineapple, roasted turkey and a few other random things, and soon enough he was as small as a mouse. As Yugi glance around the now huge room, Yami couldn't help but smile at the small child's curiosity.

Once he had enough of looking around, Yami took Yugi's small hand, lead him over to the door where he used the key to unlock it. Once the door was open, Yugi is surprised to see that on the other side of the door was a river. Taking out another potion, Yami said to Yugi, "This is the Vale of Tears. We're going to need to sail through the river to get to land." and took a big swig of the potion before handing it to Yugi.

Just like with the shrinking potion, the effects activated immediately and Yami was back to his normal size and soon enough Yugi also took a swig of the potion and he too was back to his normal size. Seeing a huge boat-like leaf, Yami helped Yugi in first before he pushed the leaf into the fast flowing currants of the Vale of Tears and leaped into the leaf. When they felt the waves get really rough, Yugi clung onto Yami to keep himself from moving around so hard by the rough waves and the older teen happily held the child close to him so he doesn't get thrown overboard.

As they sailed, Yugi couldn't help but notice a few other leaves sailing through the fast currants of the Vale of Tears. A strange man with silver hair with amber eyes and a dodo bird beak for a mouth and dodo wings for arms, wearing a red waistcoat with white pants and brown boots with another man that had black hair and mustache wearing an outfit like the man with the dodo beak but it was all black instead and his hands and feet were that of a crow's were in a leaf that was a bit ahead of Yugi and Yami's leaf. There were other leaves all around them with the passengers appearing so strange to Yugi with one girl having the ears and tail like a mouse, a few boys had antennas and claws of lobsters and a few others had beaks and wings like any bird you could think of.

One hour passes when all of the leaves finally made it to shore. Once everyone had made it out of the leaves, the man with the dodo beak and wings then changed into the extinct bird and everyone except Yami turned into their animal forms. Seeing everyone start a strange dance around a bonfire, Yugi asked as the two watch, "What is everyone doing, Yami?"

"They're doing a caucus-race." Knowing that Yugi doesn't know what a caucus-race is, Yami answered his unasked question. "It's a race where everyone dances around the fire to dry off from being in the Vale of Tears."

"Why did they change into their animal forms?"

"Being in those forms help them to dry off faster."

Well, Yugi is now officially in Wonderland with the Cheshire Cat as his companion and kind of like a guide for him. I know I have this labeled with romance and there doesn't seem tat much love here. There will be in the later chapters and there will be more in the sequel. For now I want everyone to enjoy and leave some reviews o le me know what you all think. 'Till next time, my friends!

Next chapter: a story and a new but unlikely friend