Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, and Cheshire were back in the forest. Luffy smiled, stretching her arms, jumping off trees to find that none of it hurt. She smiled.

"My Devil's Fruit! Thank you!" She bounced around. Cheshire looked over his shoulder a few times.

"Geez, I've really done myself in now," he muttered. "Princey'll really kill me this time... why did I save you idiots!?" He pulled on his ears.

"Because that's what friends do!" Luffy smiled.

"Friends? You're just some stupid girl I met a few days ago! I thought I could... forget it." Cheshire sat on the ground.

"Thought you could what?" Sanji asked.

"So many girls come here, all led around by that stupid King. And you know what? They all end up with dead," Cheshire spat out.

"Dead?" Zoro asked.

"Every time! They never pass. I thought I could keep Luffy hidden until they gave up. When that didn't work, I thought, maybe, Luffy could pass their ridiculous test and it'd all be over." Then he glared at Zoro and Sanji. "Then you guys showed up!" he yelled. Zoro and Sanji glared at the cat-boy. Luffy watched, thinking about what to do next.

Luffy thought long and hard. Did this test have to do with the big event? She wasn't good at tests, yet Cheshire thought she could pass. She scratched the back of her head, glad that she had to shift her hand under her replaced hat. The test... she shook her head. Something else was bugging her. Cheshire was a cat. All the animals/people she had seen so far... a mouse, an owl, a squirrel, a hare, a bunny; they were all animals that reside in the woods. The people, they were all unusual. But Cheshire just seemed so out-of-place. He was a cat and cats were pets. Pets to people.

"Hey, Chess?" she asked. The boy stopped his pacing and cursing as he turned to Luffy.

"What?" he asked coldly.

"You're not from Wonderland, are you?" she inquired. Cheshire's eyes went wide.

"How -"

"You're very out-of-place," she said. "How did you get here, Chess? What have you been doing?" she asked. Cheshire sat.

"I guess... I guess I could tell you."

Cheshire's Flashback

A boy ate a very strange fruit. He grew ears, a cat's tail and gained strange powers. He could disappear. He could make parts of his body invisible. But, he was a bit... too strange. His village rejected him. All except for one person, his big sister. He loved her. She had purple hair like him and loved the fact that her brother was part cat now.

"Cheshire! You're just like a Cheshire cat now!" She would laugh at the irony that came with him being named after a cat. He would laugh along with her, and they laughed as the villagers turned them away. His sister didn't seem to mind.

"I'm sorry, Nori," Cheshire mumbled. Nori shook her head.

"No, Chess! It's alright. Come on! I have a surprise." She dragged her little brother to the beach.

Cheshire and Nori stared at the boat that was floating in the shallow water.

"What's that?" he asked.

"It's a boat, stupid brother." Nori laughed.

"I know that! What's it for?" he asked.

"To set sail, of course. If this village doesn't want us here, then we'll just leave." She ended that sentence with a mischievous wink. Cheshire smiled. The siblings hopped into the boat, not knowing where they were going, but they were together, and that's what mattered.

Cheshire kicked rocks as he walked down the shore of the deserted island he had run away to. At least, he thought it was deserted. A few days later, while the boy and his sister were sleeping on the sand, a boat pulled onto the shore. He jumped up, ears flattened at the noise.

"Chess? What's up?" Nori rolled over and looked at a man who was walking towards them. He was wearing a butler's uniform and had dark black hair. Cheshire hissed. Something wasn't right. The mans eyes fell on Nori.

"What beauty!" He smiled. Nori looked around, confused.

"Me?" she asked.

"Of course!" The man walked forward. Cheshire jumped in front of him, hissing with his ears pressed against his head. The man glared down, kicking him aside.

"Chess!" Nori jumped up and ran over to her brother, but the man blocked her path with his foot. She tried to stop but she was running too fast. She tripped, falling into his open arms.

Cheshire shook his head and looked to see the man getting into the boat with his sister.

"Nori!" he yelled, running after them, the boat was a little ways into the water. Cheshire stopped. His Devil's Fruit - he couldn't swim. He shook his head. Cheshire ran back and then shot forward, jumping as far as he could, landing on the edge of the boat and trying to claw his way up. Nori was unconscious now, laying still on the boat. "Nori! Hey! Wake up!" Cheshire clawed at the boat's side. The man turned around.

"How rude," he muttered, plucking the young Cheshire's hands off the boat. The cat boy fell into the water. He kicked and screamed for help, but nothing seemed to work. He sunk down into the water, watching the bottom of the boat sail away.

Cheshire felt a pull before he slipped out of consciousness. His still, hammer-like body was sucked into a large, powerful, whirlpool. When he came to, he was on a different beach. He looked around. Was it all a dream?

"Nori?" He coughed up water. No, not a dream. His side was bruised and his head hurt. So that means...

Nori was gone.

"What is it?" a voice said.

"It looks like a boy," another said.

"But it could be a cat!" The first voice laughed. Cheshire turned to see two identical twins. They yelped and jumped back.

"Who're you guys?" Cheshire asked.

"I-I'm Tweedle D.," one said.

"And I'm Tweedle D. Dum," The other grinned nervously. Cheshire stood, shaking water from his hair and tail.

"Well, I'll have you know I'm a both a boy and a cat!" he spat, walking by the twins who followed.

"That's amazing!" Tweedle D. said.

"Thanks," Cheshire muttered, walking faster.

"Where are you going?" Tweedle D. Dum asked.

"To find Nori!" Cheshire said. The twins popped in front of him and clicked their tongues. They were looking at each other, then back at Cheshire.

"Can't let you do that!" they said. Cheshire glared, then he smirked and disappeared. The boys started panicking.

Cheshire left them to search for him as he ran by past a garden, where he reappeared. The flowers talked to him. He convinced them he was a "cat tail," some plant he had encountered before. They told them they saw Nori just moments ago. She was heading north. They pointed Cheshire in the right direction.

"Thank you!" Cheshire ran away.

"What a nice flower," a flower sighed.

"And he was so adorable!" Some of the flowers giggled as they watched Cheshire run into the forest.

Cheshire ran to a house with a rabbit sitting outside.

"Hello!" he yelled.

"Hello to you!" The rabbit waved, then twitched his nose in irritation.

"A cat?" he muttered.

"No. I mean, yes. I mean - forget it. I'm Cheshire," Cheshire said.

"Well, I'm Fredrick and I do not welcome cats! Now, run along! I only have a certain time to relax before the big event!" Fredrick waved a dismissive hand.

"Have you seen a girl?" Cheshire asked.

"I have. She went that way. Now, go! Go! I have wasted enough time!" Fredrick pointed in a random direction. Cheshire clicked his tongue in annoyance and stomped off.

After, he went past a gate where two people were having a tea party. He stopped to look at them.

"- ah yes! The big event is sure to be something this time!" The orange-haired rabbit man poured a cup of tea. The man across from him, who had a large top hat, nodded.

"Yes, yes!" Then he saw Cheshire. "You there! Boy! Are you going to he big event?" He waved. Cheshire looked around, then walked over, sitting down next to a sleeping boy.

"I'm not sure. Where is it?" he asked, since it was becoming obvious his sister was going to be there. The men nodded.

"It's in the Kings Garden. Right, Hatter?" the orange-haired one said. The other one – Hatter, Cheshire noted - nodded.

"That's right, Hare! Just past Absulin's place and the Duchess's house." He nodded to himself. Cheshire nodded.

"Thanks, Hatter, Hare." He started walking away.

"Wait! Boy! What's your name?" they called after him.

"I'm Cheshire!" Cheshire yelled back as he ran away.

Cheshire huffed. He had looked everywhere! He grabbed some water from a nearby stream and drunk it down. He yelled when he started shrinking. The boy looked up. Everything was bigger. He walked around.

"Who are you?" a voice breathed. Cheshire felt a cloud of smoke hit his face. He looked up at a caterpillar-like man who was sitting on a mushroom.

"Cheshire," Cheshire answered. Then he sucked up some smoked. "Who are you?" he asked, blowing out the rings of smoke.

"Absulin," the caterpillar-man stated.

"Have you seen my sister?" Cheshire asked.

"You mean that foolish girl who followed the King?"

"I guess so."

"Then, she went, that way."

"It'll take forever for me to get over there at this size!"

"Then eat this." Absulin tossed a piece of the mushroom at Cheshire.

"What's this?"

"Just eat it, foolish cat." Cheshire glared and ate it. Then he grew.

"Whoa!" He smiled, reaching down to pick up Absulin. "Thanks a bunch!" The little boy smiled. Absulin wriggled around.

"Dandy, now put me down," he said in a bored tone. Cheshire dropped Absulin in his shirt pocket.

"I will, just help me out first. You seem like you know a lot." The cat-like boy smiled. Absulin blew a tiny puff of smoke into his face.

"Very well..."

Cheshire was lost. He had no clue as to where he was going. He was sitting on a branch, leaning against the tree trunk.

"Good job, kid." Absulin yawned. Cheshire looked down and saw that a door had opened into a tree. He walked through and looked around. "Welcome to the King's Garden." Absulin breathed out some more smoke.

"Wow... is Nori here?" Cheshire asked.

"She should be." Absulin yawned again, shifting in Cheshire's pocket. Cheshire nodded. He peered past a hedge and saw Nori. She was wearing a blue dress and playing a game of some sort. Cheshire smiled. He jumped out from the trees.

"Nori!" he yelled.

"What are you doing!? You'll get -" Before Absulin could finish that sentence, Cheshire was pushed to the ground.

"Chess!?" Nori was running over, but was stopped by that man from earilier and another man. Cheshire winced in pain.

"Who're they?" he hissed.

"Ryuu and Zyuu, the Kings," Absulin muttered back. Cheshire was lifted up.

"What should we do with him?" a guard asked.

"The dungeon." Ryuu smiled Cheshire was carried away.

"Nori!" Cheshire struggled.

"Chess! Let my brother go!" Nori yelled, trying to push past the guards. Cheshire looked back at her.

"It seems you're too attached. I had hopes for you," Ryuu said. A loud shot rang out. Everything went silent as Cheshire watched his sister fall back and lay still. He yelled but no sound came out. He was carried away.

In the cell, he cried.

"Cheshire..." Absulin didn't know what to say. After days of nonstop crying, Cheshire decided to escape.

"Hey, Absulin..." Cheshire said with a dry throat.

"Yeah?"

"I think I'll stay in Wonderland." And, with that sentence, Cheshire disappeared. The Kings tried to find him, calling him a thief and a troublemaker. He fell into care under the Duchess. It wasn't the best home, but Cheshire came to love it in Wonderland. He loved it. He knew everything about Wonderland, and he tried his best to mess with Ryuu as much as possible. It was his way of revenge.