User blog:Galexgan/Kingdom Hearts: Child of the Sun, Part 1, Chapter 5+

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Chapter 5+: Down the Rabbit Hole/Shadows
Galexgan was the first to step out of the corridor of darkness, Soixjah followed close behind. Once both were completely out the portal dissapeared. The two Nobodies were on a grassy hill with and old withered tree on the very top. Surrounding this area was a forest of trees and far in the distance the top half of a large manor could be seen. "Where to?" Soixjah asked his teammate. But before Galexgan was able to respond, a white rabbit in an waistecoat came running by on two legs. The rabbit carried a large pocketwatch in one hand and shouting, "I'm late! I'm late! I'm late! No time to say "Hello." Goodbye! I'm late! I'm late! I'm late!" as he ran by. The rabbit then ran straight for the withered tree and leaped into a large hole located at the base of the trunk. Galexgan looked to Soixjah. "Should we follow?" Soixjah inquired. But once again they were interupted by, not another rabbit but, a blond headed girl in a blue ballgown dress running by shouting "Wait! Mr. rabbit! Wait there! Oh, where did you go? Oh Mr. rabbit, please wait!" She arrived just in time to see the rabbit go down the hole in the tree. "There you are!" She yelled, then proceeded to follow the rabbit down the hole. "I suppose that might answer your question?" Galexgan said, grinning. "Let's go." Gale continued, and pointed to the tree. The two Organization members then followed the white rabbit's trail and leaped down the hole.

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Galexgan was down the hole first, falling through pitch black darkness for a moment before finally reaching a point where lanterns were attached to walls. This was especially odd because just a moment before Galexgan was outside, then falling down a dark hole, now there was walls? With lanterns attached? But this wasn't even the begining of the oddness, further down could be see floating objects normally seen around a house, such as a bed, a piano, piture frames lined the walls as well and some floated in the space around, vases and flower pots with flowers actually in them. The strangeness didn't seem to have an end until Gale abruptly landed on the floating bed below and was slung finally to the ground. The Nobody gave a loud gasp as he landed, unhurt but for a small spot which hit the ground first which was likely to be bruised later. Soixjah, who was close behind Galexgan as he fell, followed suit and landed on top of Gale. Gale sounded a loud cry of "Oof!" when his teammate landed on him. Soixjah started laughing ashe got off of Gale, making sure to reach down and help his ally up. "Well, that was certainly interesting!" Soixjah managed to say through the laughing. Still shocked by the rough landing Galexgan accepted his friends hand and stood up. "Definetly interesting, I know we've been to strange worlds before but so far this tops it just in the first few seconds." Gale replied.

The two now took the time to take a quick look around. They were in a small round room with one hallway that lead to who knew where. Portraits hung on all over the walls and what looked like furniture was flat against the floors, as if it had been squashed like a bug there. There wasn't much else to the room other than the long, strange, fall that the two had come from and before the two could gather anymore there was a shadow of a person up a ahead, projected in the hallway. The shadow wagged it's finger in a taunting "follow me" guesture. "Are you ready?" A strange voice said. Galexgan had the thought that the voice was connected to whoever the owner of the shadow was but he had seen stranger things so he couldn't be sure. "Should we follow the shadow?" Gale asked, looking at Soixjah. "It's time for you to see what's on the other side." The strange voice said again. Soixjah looked to Galexgan and shrugged in response to his previous question so Gale motioned with his hand to lead the way. Soixjah chuckled and gave the same motion in return. Galecgan frowned but lead the way.

Down the hall was a small door, still large enough for a person to get through though. Soixjah opened the door only to find that another, smaller door was behind it. Gale reached for this one and found the same problem, an even smaller door. Galex opened the next one and found the problem once more. Galexgan scratched his head in contemplation as Soixjah opened the next door, finally solving the problem. A door, small enough for a really large white rabbit in a waiste-coat to fit through, and large enough for the two nobodies to crawl through. Taking the afore mentioned approach, the two then crawled through, one after the other. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The strange voice started to speak the moment the two nobodies were through the door. "Why don't you try the bottle first. The little girl that came through here before had trouble with figuring that out for some reason." And indeed as Gale and Soixjah took a quick scan of the new room they had entered and found there to be a small table and chair in the center. The table had two bottles on it, one of which said something to the effect of making the user smaller, and the other stating that it would make the user larger. "Try the smaller one." The strange voice said. Looking once again to his friend for a differentanswer, Galexgan reached for the stated bottle and drank a little bit. He then handed the bottle over to Soixjah who took a drink. After a moment of no effect it seemed nothing was going happen and just when Soixjah was going to state so the two began to shrink rapidly until they were like tiny ants compared to the size they were before. "Now thats pretty odd..." Gale said, trailing off as a large shadow climbed up the wall opposite the one they had entered. "Hahaha!" The voice cackled. "It's high time you met a friend of mine from the other side, don't you say?" The voice bellowed menacingly. The shadow now split from the wall and shrunk down to a smaller size, taking shape as it went into a heartless that was juggling glowing black pins. "What type of Heartless is that?!" Galexgan cried out, dodge rolling out of the way as the Heartless stomped the spot where hehad just been standing. "I'm not sure..." Soixjah started to say before having to dodge out of the way of an attack against himself. Before he could try to finish his sentence the strange enemy was swinging one of its club-like pins at him again, forcing him to once again leap out of the way.

Gelexgan took the chance to attack while the Heartless was focusing its attention on Soixjah. Gale rushe towards the enemy and leaped to attack its head, summoning his own weapon mid-flight. It was successful, a loud scream announcing so, and Galexgan's weapon slicing through the Heartless. The creature dissapeared in a cloud of black smoke. "Well that was odd... I would have thought it tougher than that." Soixjah said as hewalked over to his friend. "Definetly. I don't think that was the end." Gale replied. And indeed, the it was not the end because the moment the Nobody had finished his sentence another giant shadow loomed on the wall. "Ha ha! That was good show, I'll give you these as a token of my good sportsmanship." The mysterious voice said. Two cards fell from the table above and Soixjah went over to pic them up. As he examined them he saw that one had a picture of puzzle pieces with a piece missing and light shining through, and the other had an image of a looming black coated figure standing above what appeared to be an unconscious figure in the same attire. "The one with the black coated people seems to be refering to the Organization." Galexgan stated as he looked over Soixjah's shoulder at the cards. "The cards refer to your pasts, unfortuneatly their both a mystery to me so you'll have to figure out the meaning of them yourselves. Now, I also have a second gift for you... the world you've just entered is not real, it's an illusion. What you see is the past of a world, now let me bring you back to the present, have fun there kiddies." The strange voice said, starting to laugh evily at the end of its sentence. The world Soixjah and Galexgan were in started to fade into blackness until nothing could be seen but each other, and the still laughing shadow of the strange person, which was glowing in a dark purple color.

When light and color reappeared the two Nobodies found themselves standing at the foot of the old withered tree with a rabbit hole in the bottom. "My last suggestion would be to not go back down the hole. The heart you see is not in this world anymore and the people in the Underland below are not very happy right now and await two heroes to save... which are not you two by the way. Now farewell, and until we meet again." The strange voice said. No shadow could be seen at the time and a person wasnowhere to be seenso it was unknown where the voice came from. "Wait! We never actually met! Who are you?" Galexgan shouted out at the voice but no reply came. "I guess we should head out then. Where to next?" Soixjah asked, turning to Gale. "Sigh... Alright, let's go then. Not sure where were going next but it seems like this is going to be a long chase." Galex replied. He then turned and opened a corridor of darkness, motioning for Soixjah to enter first.

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Trivia
Did you know that...
 * ...Chapter 5+ consists of Chapters 17 through 19 of the original series?
 * ...This period in the story had many alternate versions before a final decision was made? (Extreme writer's block at this time.)
 * ...That this chapter has two titles to represent the two main things to appear here? First being the world of Wonderland for the title "Down the Rabbit Hole" and "Shadows" to represent the Shadow Man from Princess and the Frog?