Michael sat up and yawned. He'd had the strangest dream that he was the Cheshire Cat and had just returned to-shit that's a dirt floor. And that's a cat tail growing from the base of my spine. It wasn't a dream.

"Good morning Sunshine." Jackson grinned at him from the doorway. "You slept in late. Everyone is already outside."

Michael groaned and threw his balled up hoodie at his best friend.

"Ahhh! Help me! I'm being attacked!" Jackson said as he threw his hands in front of his face. Michael stood up and pounced on Jackson. He grinned down at his friend.

"Looks like the cat finally caught the bug" he said. He felt a sharp pain in his head as he finished his sentence.

"Ah!" he let out a sharp cry and clutched his head.

This whole chapter is just gonna be innuendos, isn't it? Curse my dirty mind.

"Hey Mich, you okay?" Jackson said, looking up at him in concern. Michael nodded.

"Yea I think so. What just happened?"

"I don't know."

Michael got off his friend and helped him up. They stood almost nose to nose in the doorway and Michael could have sworn he saw Jackson's eyes flicker down to his lips for a millisecond. That's impossible. Jackson is just your friend. You're imaging things.

He cleared his throat. "Well, I'm starving, let's go find the others." he said quickly and left.

Outside the dew sparkled on the grass and the cold morning air brought goosebumps to Michael's skin. He shivered and pulled on his hoodie that he had grabbed on his way out. He made his way over to the group of people standing at the edge of the village.

"Okay so we're lookin' for food. Any food. Animals, plants, anything that looks edible. If what Cora said was correct, there should be plenty of edible stuff in the forest. Le's go." May said.

Michael and Jackson teamed up with Ace and Whitney and started into the forest.

"So where are you two from?" Michael said as an attempt to make conversation. "You two obviously know each other so I was just wondering."

"We're from New York. What about your group?" Ace said.

"Oklahoma. Well, May moved from California a few years ago. But you get my drift."

Ace nodded and they continued in silence.

"Hey does this look edible to you?" someone said and Michael turned around. Jackson was holding up a piece of mushroom.

"Where's the rest of it?" Michael asked.

"Over there." Jackson pointed into the trees. Michael took a few steps in tjsr direction and gasped.

Huge mushrooms were all over a clearing. Some were the size of a chair, some were the size of beds, there was one that was as big as a car and in the center of it was a giant cocoon-looking thing. Jackson frowned.

"Hang on that looks familiar" he said and ran towards it. Michael ran after him.

"Jackson wait it could be dangerous!" he yelled and cursed under his breath. He caught up with his friend just as Jackson reached out to touch the cocoon.

He grabbed his friend's wrist and pulled him away.

"Are you insane???" Michael spat. Jackson glared at him.

"It feels so familiar, I just wanted to touch it. It seemed like the right thing to do." Jackson said.

"You could have been hurt!" Michael said, his new tail swishing. Jackson's glare softened.

"You really care about me getting hurt?" He asked quietly.

"Of course you dumbass! You're my best friend! So don't do stupid things!"

Jackson laughed. "Alright alright. You look like you're about to scratch me, and cat scratches hurt."

Michael laughed too, his anger forgotten. He ruffled Jackson's blue hair.

"Come on man. Let's get away from here and find some food." They rejoined Ace and Whitney who had watched the whole thing. The four of them walked away from the clearing of mushrooms, not seeing as a man with a purple door disappeared from behind a mushroom.

\time skip brought to you by my AP Psych book my mom thinks I'm reading/

"JACKSON!!!"

Michael pulled himself out of the lake Jackson had pushed him into and ran after his friend, wringing out his tail as he went.

Jackson fell over laughing into the meadow full of flowers. Michael walked over and stood above him.

"You are the worst. We are no longer friends." he said dramatically and began to walk away.

"What?!? I have been betrayed!" Michael turned around to see Jackson with a hand on his forehead and arm flung out widely.

Michael laughed.

"Aww I'm sorry. Friends again?" he said to the boy lying in the grass.

He heard a small sound, like bells ringing in the meadow. His head snapped around, searching for the source of the noise.

"Do you hear that?" he said. Jackson looked at him in confusion.

"Hear what?"

Michael shook his head. "Nothing, forget about it. Let's go." He helped Jackson up and they left the meadow.

As they entered the forest again, Michael took another glance around the meadow but didn't see anything. I'm going crazy, he thought.

A few steps into the forest, he heard it again. This time it sounded more like laughter than bells. His ears swiveled in the direction it seemed to come from. Michael shook his head and continued following Jackson, Ace and Whitney.

"Curiouser and curiouser" a faint voice said and he looked frantically around. Still, no one was there. Get yourself together no one's there.

The laughter came again, and Michael looked up. Floating above him was a ball of purple light. His eyes widened and he reached up to touch it. It absorbed into him and he gasped as he felt power rushing through him.

His eyesight sharpened and he could control movement of his tail. He gained knowledge of Wonderland, not his memories, but just knowledge of how it worked and what it was like. He sensed that he could go invisible at will and a grin spread across his face. He was full-fledged Cheshire Cat.

"Hey Michael you okay?" Jackson was looking back at him in concern. Michael nodded slowly.

"Yea, I'm great." he said. "Why do you ask?"

Jackson shrugged. "You look more....Wonderlandian."

"I am. A ball of light went into me. I'm Wonderlandian now. I can't remember my life, but I'm Wonderlandian." He could see Ace and Whitney a bit farther into the forest and he walked forward.

"Come on guys. Let's go back to the village."

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Well that was just a random filler chapter because I needed another chapter before- shit I keep almost giving stuff away. Tenny you know what's gonna happen. I wrote this while waiting for my sister to get off the bus so I'll post it when I get home. In like, 5 minutes.