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Chapter 1:

The Door and the Tweedles

Yugi sighed as he trudged home from school. It had been a long day and all he wanted to do was crash down into his own bed and sleep. He had to give an oral report in class on why he didn't do his written one. He'd never been so embarrassed in his life. Jonouchi and Honda weren't helping either.

"Ah, man, when we get to the shop I'm giving Yami a play by play report on you up there trying to explain that you forgot to do your essay 'cause you were talking to your online boyfriend," Jonouchi laughed.

"Yugi doesn't have an online boyfriend!" Anzu yelled. She blushed and stammered. "I…I mean he wouldn't be dumb enough to meet someone online and develop an intimate relationship with them…" She was trying desperately, and failing pathetically, to hide the fact that she had a crush on Yugi.

"Look guys, I'm really tired," Yugi said, trying not to be rude. "Could you just let me go home solo? You know, so I'm not distracted when I get home and can go take a nap for a while."

"Sure, Yugi, if you really need a wittle nap," Jou teased. It was all in good fun, though, and Yugi soon found himself walking home alone. In fact he thought it was strange that there was no one around. It was 3 P.M. and usually the streets were full of people, but there didn't seem to be anyone around anymore.

So it seemed, at least, until Yugi heard a voice coming toward him. "Oh my, oh dear, I'm late, I'm late!" a familiar voice rang out. Yugi looked behind him and saw Mokuba running toward him carrying a large pocket watch and seeming to wear a pair of floppy, white rabbit ears on top of his head. "I'm late! I'm late! I'm late!" Mokuba yelled, running by.

"Wait!" Yugi called, happy to see a familiar face. He chased after Mokuba, wondering what the young VP was doing out there all by himself.

"No time! I'm late!" Mokuba called back. He turned into an ally and disappeared.

Yugi hurriedly turned the corner. Before he could register that Mokuba was no longer there he found himself falling right through the ground. "Whoa!" Yugi yelped, grabbing for something to hold. He wasn't afraid of neither heights nor falling, per say, but it was the sudden stop at the bottom that made him nervous. He found, though, that the ground that he had run across not a moment ago had disappeared completely and there was nothing to grab.

'Oh, man!' Yugi thought morbidly. 'I'm gonna be a duelist pancake!' That was when he realized that other things were falling around him. Next to him he saw an umbrella. 'This is the dumbest idea I've ever had…' he thought with a sweatdrop as he reached out and grabbed the umbrella. He held it up and opened it and, low and behold, he jerked as his momentum greatly lessened. He was now floating gently down a hole and he didn't know where the bottom was. He took the opportunity to look at what he was falling past.

"Everything looks so strange," he said aloud, the sound of his own voice comforting in the bizarre place. There were books with blank pages, portraits with no faces, and clocks that all had different times. One particularly old-looking grandfather clock actually went past 12 and stopped at 17.

Before he knew it, his feet had hit the floor and he closed the umbrella. "This might come in handy later," he told himself, putting the umbrella in his backpack.

"I'm late! I'm late!" he heard down a hall. He looked around and found that he had fallen through the chimney of a rather bizarre house. He followed the voice and saw Mokuba run through a door at the end of the hall. As soon as he reached the door, Yugi opened it and found another door, this time smaller. He opened this door, then another and another on and on until he finally opened the last door and found that it was so small he had to crawl through it. When he stood up he was in a room so tiny his head almost hit the ceiling, but there was no sign of Mokuba.

"Excuse me," Yugi heard below him. He looked down and saw a young man he felt he knew from somewhere standing in front of what looked like a door. Well, that is to say that he saw the top half of the young man sticking out of the door like an ornament. Both the door and the young man in it were only about as tall as Yugi's own shoe. "Can I help you?" the young man asked.

Yugi thought hard and remembered where he'd seen the young man before. "Shadi?" he asked, bending down.

The tiny Shadi blinked up at him. "Sorry?" he inquired, seeming confused.

"You…are Shadi aren't you?" Yugi asked cautiously.

"I am afraid not," the young man smiled apologetically. "I am merely a door, I have no name."

"Oh, well," Yugi didn't quite know how to respond. "Can I go through? I'm looking for someone I…thought was Mokuba."

"I am afraid you are too tall. And besides, no Mokuba has passed through recently. Only the White Rabbit," the door informed him.

"Oh, well, I can't go back the way I came. Is there a way I can go home through there?" Yugi asked.

"That depends where your home is. This door leads to many places, but as I said before, you are much too big," the door answered.

"What am I going to do?" Yugi sighed, sitting down.

"You can try drinking the tea," the door suggested.

Yugi looked at him questioningly. "What tea?" he asked. As he said that a table with a cup of tea seemed to appear right beside him. "Oh!" he said, surprised. "Well, alright, but I don't know what good this will do." Yugi took a sip of the tea and felt something funny inside. Suddenly, as if by magic, his body shrunk. He blinked and looked around, taking it all in. Then he smiled joyfully. "I can fit through!" he cheered, running up to the door.

"So you can," the door smiled warmly. "That means you can indeed go through." The door reached to his side and turned the doorknob, swinging open. "Good luck finding what you are looking for," he said as he swung closed, leaving Yugi alone on the forest path behind him.

"Well, a path means people, so I guess if I follow this path then I'll find someone who can get me home," Yugi reasoned. He followed the path, passing many bizarre and extraordinary creatures and plants, but found no people. That is, until he felt as if someone were watching him. "Hello?" he called out into the forest. There was no answer and he thought he must have been imagining things. But as he moved on he again felt as if he was being followed.

"Who's there?" Yugi asked, turning quickly at the snap of a twig. There was no one there so Yugi decided to continue. As he turned to continue he jumped. Standing in his path were two young men – who looked exactly like Jonouchi and Honda! "Who are you?" he asked. He determined that since the boy who looked like Mokuba wasn't actually Mokuba and the door that looked like Shadi was just a door these two probably weren't who they looked like either.

"Who are we?" the one who looked like Jonouchi echoed.

"Strange thing to ask someone when you are in their territory," the one who looked like Honda said.

"Oh, I'm sorry," Yugi said. "I didn't know this was your territory. My name is Yugi Mutou."

"Well I'm Tweedle Dee," the one who looked like Jonouchi said.

"And I'm Tweedle Dum," the one who looked like Honda finished.

"It's very nice to meet you," Yugi replied, bowing politely. "You wouldn't happen to know how I can get home, would you?"

"That depends," said Tweedle Dee.

"Where is home?" asked Tweedle Dum.

"I live in Japan, in Domino," Yugi said, hoping they could point him in the right direction.

"Japan?" asked Tweedle Dee.

"Domino?" asked Tweedle Dum.

"Never heard of them," Dee and Dum said together.

"Never heard of Japan?" Yugi asked, stunned. His mouth hung open. "I understand Domino, but how can you not hear about Japan? It's a country!"

"Hey, I bet there are lots of things that you've never heard of!" Tweedle Dum huffed.

"Like maybe the Cheshire Cat," Tweedle Dee smiled and looked at Dum, who smiled back. "Ever heard of the Cheshire Cat?"

"No, I haven't," Yugi admitted. "What's a Cheshire Cat?"

"Not what," Tweedle Dum corrected. "Who."

"He lives here in Wonderland. He looks human, but don't let it fool you. He can't hide his cat's ears or tail," Tweedle Dee explained. "And don't let him make you think he wants to help, either. He's bad news."

"What do you mean?" Yugi asked, starting to feel nervous.

"He likes to try and make you feel comfortable with him…make you think he's your friend…" Tweedle Dee said, putting his hands in front of him and bending his fingers like long, ugly claws. "He'll lead you deeper…and deeper…until…"

"Off with his head!" Tweedle Dum shrieked behind Yugi, making the duelist jump. "He'll lead you straight to the King of Hearts!"

"K-King of Hearts?" Yugi squeaked, backing away from the boys.

"Yep," Tweedle Dum nodded. "He's the tyrant ruler of Wonderland. He believes himself the best at everything. The Cheshire Cat will find something you're really good at, something you'd hate to lose at, and tell the King of Hearts what it is. The King of Hearts will challenge you to whatever it is. If he wins, he's happy. If he loses though…" Dum ran his finger across his neck, "…you lose your head…literally!"

Yugi unconsciously grabbed his neck, swallowing hard. "I…I don't like the sound of that…" he whimpered. "Can you at least point me to someone who might know Japan, or even Domino? Someone who won't make me…lose my head?" He then remembered that the White Rabbit had come from Japan. "Do you know which way the White Rabbit went?" he asked quickly.

"The White Rabbit?" Tweedle Dee asked, looking at Tweedle Dum.

"Why, of course, we know which way the White Rabbit went," Tweedle Dee replied, smiling as if he and Dee were in on a joke that Yugi somehow missed. "And I believe that he probably can help you get back, if he's not in a hurry."

"But then again, he's always in a hurry," Tweedle Dee pointed out. "But I'm sure if you ask politely he'll make room for you in his schedule." He pointed deeper into the forest, along a path. "He went down that path."

"If you hurry, you may be able to catch up with him," Tweedle Dum added.

"Hurry, now!" Dee and Dum both pushed Yugi toward the path.

"Oh, well, thank you!" Yugi said, walking down that path. After a few steps, he turned to say something else, but Dum and Dee seemed to have disappeared. Yugi shrugged and continued down the path, unaware that he was being watched.