The Pool of Tears (Merida version)

Merida continued to fall, but she began to float down. As she floated downward, she sighed in relief.

"Well, after this, I shall not think of anything but fa-" Merida began, before part of her dress covered her mouth and she pushed it away, and she finished, "of falling downstairs."

She saw a lamp attached to the side of the hole and turned it on. The rabbit hole suddenly was bathed in green. Merida was surpriesd to find that she was floating down a strange room. As she floated downward, she looked surprised to see that her reflection was upside down. She saw a book float past her, so she picked it up and looked through it and saw that it was nothing but pictures, so she set it on a floating table.

Suddenly, she heard loud chiming noises and saw a grandfather clock attached to the wall. As she continued to float down, the room's light became red and she floated into a rocking chair. She sighed, as she relaxed, but then, she went back too far and fell out and continued to float downward.

"Goodness," Merida said. "What if I should fall right through the center of the EAARRTH...?" She said, before floated down fast and went through a tight space in the hole. "... and come out of the other side, where people walk upside down?" She turned upside down, as she said this, but then got caught on something. She then saw Fidget run down a weird hallway. She was upside down and her legs were hanging from a bar. She righted herself and resumed the chase. "Oh, Mister Bat!" Merida called, as she chased after him. "Wait! Please!"

She ran into a room and heard a door close. She ran to the door and opened it, only to find a smaller door. She continued opening doors, until she reached the last door, which was about a foot high. She squeezed through it and crawled into a very large empty room.

"Curiouser and curiouser," Merida commented.

She saw a small pair of curtains close and she ran up to them and opened them up. There was small door about six inches high, with an orange tiger with black stripes. His name was Shere Khan. She began to open the door and the tiger let out a yelp of pain.

"Oh!" Merida said. "Oh, I beg your pardon. My name is Merida."

"Oh, oh. Quite alright." the tiger said. "My name is Shere Khan. But you did give me quite a turn!"

"You see, I was following-" Merida began.

"Rather good, what?" Shere Khan said. "Doorknob, turn?"

"Please, sir," Merida said.

"One good turn deserves another," Shere Khan said. "What can I do for you?"

"Well, I'm looking for a gray bat," Merida said. "So, uh, if you don't mind..."

"Uh? Oh!" Shere Khan said before he revealed an image and Merida peeked in to see Fidget running away.

"There he is!" Merida said. "I simply must get through."

Shere Khan shook his head and said, "Sorry, you're much too big. Simply impassable."

"You mean impossible?" asked Merida.

"No, impassable," Shere Khan said. "Nothing's impossible. Why don't you try the bottle on the table?"

"Table?" Merida said, before a table appeared out of nowhere with a small bottle on it and she ran to it. "Oh!"

"Read the directions," Merida said, with a laugh, "and directly, you'll be directed in the right direction."

Merida read the tag hanging from the bottle. "DRINK ME," she read, before she said, "Hmm, better look first. For if one drinks much from a bottle marked 'poison', it's almost certain to disagree with one sooner or later."

"Beg your pardon?" Shere Khan asked.

Merida laughed and said, "I was just giving myself some good advice." She drank some of the bottle and licked her lips. "Mm! Tastes like, uh... cherry tart." Suddenly, she shrunk a couple inches. "...custard..." She said as she shrunk some more. "...pineapple..." she said, as she shrunk to four inches in height. "...roast turkey," Merida said, before the bottle suddenly collapsed on her. "Goodness!" Merida said, before she put the bottle next to her on the floor. "What did I do?" she asked.

Shere Khan laughed and said, "You almost went out like a candle!"

"But look!" Merida said, as she ran up to Shere Khan. "I'm just the right size!"

"Oh, no use," Shere Khan said as he laughed again. "I forgot to tell you, ho-ho-ho-ho! I'm locked!"

"Oh, no," Merida groaned, as she put her hand on her forehead, looking like she was about to cry.

"Ha-ha-ha, but, of course, uh, you've got the key, so..." Shere Khan began.

"What key?" Merida asked

"Now, don't tell me you've left it up there," Shere Khan said, as he glanced up at the table and the key appeared.

"Oh dear!" Merida said. She tried climbing on the glass table's leg, but it was too slippery. She slid down to the floor and then sat down with her legs close to her body and put her hand on her face. "What ever will I do?" she said.

Shere Khan said to Merida, "Try the box, naturally."

"Oh," Merida said, as a small box appeared in front of her. She opened it up and inside of the box were a bunch of cookies with words on them. "Eat me," Merida read. She picked up a pink cookie with EAT ME written in blue frosting. "Alright. But goodness know what this will do," Merida said, as she took a bite. She suddenly started to have a series of rapid growth spurts. "Wow, wow, wow, wow!" Merida yelled, as she grew bigger. Shere Khan's mouth was covered by Merida's giant foot. "Oh!" she said, as she bumped her head on the ceiling.

She was about 70 ft. tall and barely fit in the room.

"Whtwhsthswwdthdwd!" Shere Khan mumbled behind Merida's boot.

"What did you say?" The giant Merida asked, moving her foot aside.

"I said, 'A little of that went a long way!'" Shere Khan said and he began laughing.

Merida sniffled, looking close to tears again.

"Well, I don't think it's so funny," Merida said.

Then Merida teared up and started crying. "Now-Now, I shall never get home!" she sobbed.

A giant tear fell onto the ground in front of Shere Khan.

"Oh, come, come now," Shere Khan said. "Crying won't help."

"I know, but..." Merida sobbed. "I-I-I just can't stop!"

She began crying like crazy and the massive tears began to flood the room.

"Hey! Hey, you! Bwbwlwbbwlwbl!" Shere Khan said, as he swallowed some water. "Say, this won't do at all! You, you up there, stop! Stop, I say!" Merida didn't listen, as she continued to cry her eyes out. Shere Khan noticed the bottle floating in the water. "Oh, look! The bottle! THE BOTTLE!" he shouted.

Merida picked up the tiny bottle and drank the last of it. She shrunk to 2 inches and fell into the bottle.

"Oh dear," Merida said, "I do wish I hadn't cried so much."

"Glpglpglp," Shere Khan said, as he swallowed the water, and Merida and the bottle floated into the keyhole.