Kiara Gets Stuck

***Kiara in Wonderland (Extended Edition)* - Chapter 05/18**

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*Unknown Tale's note: I know I'm writing the chapters out of order.  When a good idea comes into my head, usually I need to write it down before I forget. I also made a few changes to how the Queen of Hearts is presented. Instead of just leaving her at the end, I decided to have her talked about here and there to make her sound like a looming threat instead of just the "Final Boss of Wonderland."*

## Masikio's Cottage

With no sign of Kion or Masikio anywhere in the forest, Kiara started to
wander on her own.  Eventually, the curious lioness was back on the path before coming across a clearing.  The house was pink and white with a roof made of straw.  Kiara decided to take a closer look and walked up to the gate.  She was a bit astonished to find out the gate was unlocked, but more so of the owner of the place.  The shutters of the front window flew open, and a familiar rabbit started to shout.

"MARY ANN, WHERE ARE YOU?" called out Masikio.  The shutters closed again. Kiara approached the building and was about to open the door, when the rabbit opened it himself, only to run into Kiara and fall back onto the ground.

"Oh, sorry sir," said Kiara, helping the late rabbit back up.  "I wanted to ask if you seen-"

"Why, Mary Ann," Masikio interjected looking at Kiara.  "What are you doing out here?"

"Wha- Mary Ann?" Kiara repeated.

"Well don't just do something, stand there!  Wait, that's not right..."  Masikio hopped around Kiara as she entered the house.  "Where are my fan and
gloves, Mary?"

"I'm afraid I left them out... there..." she pointed towards where she came from.  It seemed as though the tiled room where she saw Zazu no longer existed.

"You left them out there!?" Masikio repeated in shock.  "Oh, this won't do. Quickly, fetch me another pair and fast. I'm on the clock."  Masikio hopped back outside.

Without a second thought the lioness let out a quick "Yes sir,"
and went upstairs.  "Goodness," she said to herself, "next thing you know I take orders from a butterfly."

Kiara entered what was believed to be Masikio's bedroom.  It appeared to be very unkempt when she entered it.  Nevertheless, she started to search the room, wondering about Kion in the process.  He couldn't have gone too far if Masikio was nearby, right? The lioness then looked inside a vase-like jar, only to find cookies like the ones she and Kion saw back in the tiled room.  She picked one up and closed the jar.

"I haven't eaten anything since I got here, so I might as well have a little snack," Kiara said before biting into the cookie.  She looked around the room for a moment before continuing her search at a chest full of clothes.  Unbeknownst to her, Kiara started growing again.  She seemed rather calm as she continued to look.

"Uff!" Kiara had hit her head on the ceiling.  "Oh no, not again!"

Outside, another lioness with blue eyes and a black maid outfit was approaching Masikio who was waiting.  You might know a young lioness by the name of Vitani, which this lioness looks like a splitting image of.  "Hey, Masikio!" she called to him as she went up to him.

"Mary Ann?" asked Masikio in confusion.  "But I thought you were inside the cottage."

"You must be hallucinating again, master," the young maid replied.  "Are you having too many carrots
again?"

"Well, I, umm-"

Vitani giggled.  "Come on, let me get you some tea and help you relax."  She got Masikio onto her back as she entered the house.  Meanwhile Kiara was still growing inside the bedroom.  She blushed unable to control her growth and was forced to move and shift into a comfortable position.  Her front paws went through the windows as her hind paws toppled over some furniture before pressing against the bedroom door and wall.

Vitani just opened the door by that time and wondered why she was seeing the sole of a shoe in front of her.  She peeked around with Masikio and they both saw Kiara.

"Help!  The monster from earlier!" shouted Masikio with a jump.  He and Vitani turned to high tail it, only to start getting pushed by Kiara's paw.  The two were shoved back down the stairs as the wall broke so Kiara's left hind paw could head out.  The entire downstairs was being trashed as Vitani and Masikio made a run out the door.  The house morphed to make it a bit more comfortable for Kiara to sit within as she continued to grow.  Finally, her hind legs exited the house as Masikio and Vitani were covered in dirt and dust.  Masikio made a run for it requesting help as Vitani stood there coughing before looking back at the fully grown 'Monster.'

## Dollhouse Trap

Kiara struggled to lift herself up, grunting a bit as she pushed down on the ground. The house was unable to budge. "Don't move!" called the maid, looking up at the closed shutters above. "You'll only create more work for yourself!"

Kiara started to listen closely to her surrounding. "That voice..." She opened the front window and was a bit surprised about the young girl beside her paw. Vitani curtsied politely.

"Apologies for the confusion, miss. I'm the Mary Ann the rabbit speaks of."

Kiara couldn't help but smile, but that only lasted for a couple of seconds as Masikio had just returned. "Please, Mzingo, you gotta help me get rid of a monster in my house!" Kiara's smile turned to a bit of annoyance. That vulture didn't help her and Kion at the Caucus Race at all. Masikio kept trying to get Mzingo's attention as he brushed off the idea. It wasn't until Masikio would literally point it out to him that the vulture would get the shock of his life.

"You weren't kidding," Mzingo said. "That's one big monster you've got there."

Mzingo walked towards Kiara and Vitani as Masikio pushed the vulture towards them. "Do something, Mzingo! Anything!"

Mzingo took a broken pole and started tapping Kiara's right hind paw. "Looks to be like you, Mary," he said to Vitani. "An extraordinary situation, but I have a simple solution."

"What is it, sir?" asked Vitani.

"Simple, we just pull it out the chimney."

Vitani was dumbfounded by the answer.

"Pull me out, huh?" Kiara repeated with a smirk. "Go ahead, it should work well for you."

"Me!?"  This clearly got Mzingo off his guard. "Don’t be ridiculous!  I don’t want to get dust all over my feathers. You do it, Masikio!"

"I'm too rich," Masikio countered. "I can't afford to die."

"Then Mary A-" Mzingo was stopped by Vitani glaring at him. "Alright, alright." The vulture was a bit puzzled by the dilemma. "If none of us can get in, then what we need is a..."

The four had their attention grabbed by a monitor lizard passing by with a ladder, just casually whistling to himself and not giving a care in the world. "Oh! Kenge, if you please...!" Vitani called out with a wave. Kenge waved back before entering the front yard as well. Masikio tried to explain the situation to Kenge, who occasionally glanced up at Kiara. Upon being asked if he could help, all he muttered was, "Very well, sir, but I might hate myself in the morning."

Mzingo walked him up to the front door Kiara's leg was sticking out of. "Tell me, ol' acquaintance, have you ever been down a chimney."

"Certainly," the monitor lizard replied. "I have been down more than Sa-"

"Excellent, excellent. Set it over here." Kenge placed the ladder up against the house and started climbing it. "Just head down the chimney," Mzingo instructed, "and get that monster out."

Kiara was a bit perplexed by the situation as she looked down to her left where the chimney was. "Why would they send a small lizard to pull out a giant lioness?" she asked herself quietly.

"Small!?" Kenge replied, pouring a wave of distress over the princess. "I'll have you know, I'm much stronger, faster, and smarter than you. so you better take back what you said about me while you still breathe. After all, I am no ordinary lizard!"

*Still the same Kenge from back home I see,* Kiara thought to herself as Kenge climbed the rest of the way up.

"Now to make that monster eat her own words," he said approaching the entry of the chimney before diving in. "GERONIMO!"

Just as Kenge threw himself into the chimney, smoke plumed out of the fireplace, shrouding itself fully within the room, flying about in the air. Unfortunately, the front window closed in on itself trapping the dust within the room. Kiara was a bit surprised at first before a calm sensation started to tickle her nose. She was rather curious at first as to why. She didn't recall having an allergy to dust, then another roaming thought occurred to her, it wasn't the same as the dust devils in the Pride Lands. She blushed as she felt herself starting to inhale a bit uncontrollably. "Ah ah... ah, ah ah ah, ah..."

Mzingo, Masikio, and Vitani panicked a bit upon hearing Kiara starting to sneeze. What could they do? If they stay within the incoming wind blast, they could be sent into next week!

"Ah ah ah ah... ah, ah... ah, ahh, ah..."

With no other options, Masikio and Mzingo hid behind Kiara's right paw. Vitani hid behind the fence as she shivered a bit in cold sweat.

"Ah... ah, ah... ah ah ah, ah, ah ahh, ah..."

The house started to shake a bit as if it was alive due to how strong Kiara's sneeze was about to be. Kenge was just about to bite Kiara when he suddenly realized what was about to happen. He tried to climb back up the chimney as fast as he could only to release more dust into the room.

"Ah a-ah ah, ah... AH, AH, AH, achoo~!!" Kiara sneezed so hard that Kenge was shot clean out of the chimney, almost sounding like a blunderbuss blast as the top of the chimney practically exploded from his ejection. Kenge let out a Goofy Holler as he screamed for his life, before disappearing as a twinkle in the sky. The animals down below felt a bit of the blast from the sneeze, but looked upward as they came out of hiding. Their voices together echoed out, "There goes Kenge!"

“Poor Kenge, they seemed to have put everything upon him…” Kiara said in a sympathetic way.

## Smoke the Blighter Out

Mzingo got out a smoking pipe like the one he had out at sea as he casually lit it. "We must try a different remedy to this problem," he said aloud.

"But what?" Masikio asked.

"Well if we can't pull the monster out, and she is clearly capable of sending us into orbit, then we have no other option but to burn the house down."

Masikio nodded. "Yes, of course, a perfect sol- WHAT!?"

"Are you serious, Mzingo?" asked Vitani as she approached.

"Absolutely," replied the vulture.

Kiara started to panic before blurting out, "If you do I'll set Kion on you!"

The three stared at Kiara for a brief moment, before Mzingo laughed it off under the belief she was bluffing and broke into song, gathering various bits of broken furniture with Vitani, all while Masikio tried to stop them.

Mzingo: *Oh, we'll smoke the blighter out*

*We'll put the beast to rout*

*Some kindling, just a stick or two*

Ah, *This bit of rubbish ought to do!*

Mzingo and Vitani threw a grandfather clock near Kiara's left leg as Masikio watched in horror. "Oh dear," he said.

Mzingo: *We'll smoke the blighter out!*

*We'll smoke the monster out!*

Masikio: *Don't you dare touch my beautiful birdhouse!*

Mzingo shook said birdhouse off the ground as a dozen bluebirds flew away, much to Kiara's intrigue. Masikio tried to interfere, only to miss and break the gateway on the fence from the impact. Vitani comedically waved a kerchief to fan him as the poor rabbit saw stars. Mzingo snapped the pole in half and tossed it into the pile to be burned.

Mzingo: *Oh, we'll roast the blighter's toes*

*We'll toast the bounder's nose*

*Just fetch that gate*

*We'll make it clear*

*That monsters aren't welcome here!*

Vitani placed the gate on the pile, before striking a match she had and throwing it onto the pile. She and Masikio without a second thought joined in on singing the last stanza.

Mzingo, Vitani, and Masikio: *Without a single doubt,*

*We'll smoke the monster out!*

"Wait, what am I doing!?" Masikio asked himself out of realization. "My house and furniture!! You're so getting the guillotine for this!"

Kiara felt a lot of fright as she saw the smoke billowing into the room. "Oh no no no no no no...! Not this again! I need to get out of here f-" She gasped when she saw her one way ticket out of this mess on her right after moving her front leg a bit to the side. "The rabbit's garden, of course...!"

She reached down to grab a carrot casting a shadow over the three friends below. "Look out above!" Vitani shouted in a frenzied panic. The three moved out of the shadow as Kiara plucked a carrot from the ground and brought it closer to her face.

"I just hope this works. I don't want to grow any further." She bit down on the carrot, and almost immediately she shrank down. She was now a more proper size as she rejoiced in finally being freed. However, smoke still entered the house and she felt herself let out a cough or two from it. She grabbed a fan and a pair of gloves as quickly as she could, after all it was the least she could do for all the trouble that was caused, and charged for the window, knowing the house was going to burn down soon enough. She tumbled onto the ground accidentally letting go of the fan and gloves in the process. She looked back at the house, and much to her surprise, it remained in one piece and the fire died out. Masikio was already on the run, so she picked up the fan and gloves and was about to give chase.

"YOUNG LADY," Mzingo called which froze Kiara in her tracks. She turned. "Do you have a match on hand?"

"No, I'm sorry," she replied before giving the fan and gloves to Vitani. "If you could, may you give these to your master? He'll need them for whatever he's late for."

"You have my word," she replied. "I apologize for all the trouble you went through and all."

"Just blame my curiosity, Mary Ann." Kiara made a run after Masikio hoping to catch up with him fast.

"Tch. No cooperation at all, even with strangers," Mzingo said out loud out of anger. "We can't have monsters about around here so-"

"Hold it, Mzingo," Vitani interjected grabbing his wing. "The monster's vanquished already. If you want to keep your job with the Queen, you better start by putting the rest of the fire out. Understand?"

"Y-Yes, ma'am..."

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