Certain Death, Again.

Azalea's P.O.V.

I met Finn and Charlene at DisneyQuest. The other Keepers and the two sisters were somewhere else in the complex and I had only been able to find Finn and Charlene. "Let's split," Finn whispered.

"What's wrong?" I whispered back, looking around for any suspicious characters.

"Greg's over by the arcade. If he sees us, it's not going to end well." I frowned at the thought of Greg "Lousy" Luowski. The oaf who was currently playing some game was the ninth grade bully of Finn and I's school. He also happened to have a crush on me and try to mess with Finn because we hang out. Key word there is try.

"Let's head towards the CyberSpace Mountain," Charlene stated, pulling Finn in that direction. I took one last quick glance at Greg to make sure he hadn't noticed us before running after the cheerleader and the boy she was currently dragging over to the simulator. We got in line.

"Uh oh," Finn sighed. "Lousy noticed us." I turned and looked behind me to see Greg making his way towards us with a frown on his face that made it look like he had taken a dodge ball to the face in gym class, which I may or may not have thrown at him. I walked up to one of the roller coaster designers and made one for Charlene, who insisted upon having every single loop and drop in her rollercoaster.

I saved it on her ticket and made a milder one for me. After I saved it on my ticket, I made the mildest roller coaster on the face of the earth for Finn who insisted that Barnstormer was as wild as he wanted his rollercoaster. I took all three tickets and was about to hand them to my fellow Keepers when someone knocked me down from behind.

I fell forward, dropping the tickets on the floor in the process. "Lay of Luowski," Finn growled, helping me up. Greg glared at Finn before placing the tickets lightly into my hand.

"I am sorry, truly, Azalea," Greg replied to me before stalking off. I raised an eyebrow as I dusted myself off.

"You okay?" Finn asked.

"Yeah, it was probably a ploy by him to make him seem nice for a change," I shrugged handing Finn and Charlene their tickets. Finn still looked upset as I dragged him up the stairs. I was led to a simulator where an attendant choose my ride and opened the door for me. I thanked her and got in. I buckled my seat belt and after the attendant checked it, closed the door.

The ride started, and it went through exactly as I designed it and was over after about three minutes. I unbuckled my seatbelt and walked outside the capsule where Charlene was standing, with just a twinge of green on her cheeks. "Is Finn done yet? The ride I designed him was basically going around a track a couple of times."

"No, but he wasn't in capsule three was he?"

"He was, why?"

"Because that's the capsule that's going haywire," Charlene said, nonchalantly.

"What?" I shouted, looking to see Capsule 3 going all over the place. An attendant was pushing every single button possible to try and stop it but the ride continued on.

"You don't think-"

"-I'm pretty sure that they're back," Charlene interrupted. The ride started to break apart when it suddenly stopped, mechanics and other people rushing at it. Finn was pulled from the wreckage, unharmed thankfully.

"What happened?" I asked him, rushing towards him.

"Oh nothing, it just seems that the ride you designed just tried to kill me," Finn replied, frowning at me, pulling pieces of the ride out of his hair.

"Excuse me," I replied, crossing my arms.

"You designed the ride. You handed me the card," he stated.

"If you're implying that I chose to sentence you to die in that simulator, you're going to be tumbling down those stairs before you can even say sabotage," I growled. He didn't reply and just stared at the ground. I uncrossed my arms and walked towards the stairs, making it down them in record time.

"Azalea! Come back here!" I heard Finn shout.

I rolled my eyes, continuing to walk away from Finn and Charlene who was trailing behind him. I turned down another stair case, flying down them very fast. I made it down to the first floor and found myself staring at the Evil Queen who was staring straight back at me. I sucked in a breath. I quickly dashed towards where the most people were gathered. I was about to run towards the entrance when Cruella De Vil blocked my escape.

I took a step back running into someone's chest. I turned around to see Finn, out of breath, Charlene right behind him. "What do you want?" I replied coldly.

Finn was about to reply when Cruella cut him off. "It's the Kingdom Keepers," she shouted. I felt everyone turn to look at the three of us. A mass of kids rushed at us. Finn started signing everything that the kids wanted and I did the same, realizing that the mass of kids would prevent the OT's from getting to Finn, Charlene, and I.

"Can you sign my hat?" a young boy asked. He looked about five and was blushing. I smiled and bent down to sign his head, looking through the masses legs to see the Evil Queen coming from one direction, Cruella from the other. The fans started screaming loudly, all pointing upwards. I got up, looking as Charlene hung from the ceiling. As she moved, the fan wall did as well. Finn grabbed my hands and pulled me with the fans.

As we reached the entrance, Charlene jumped down and Finn and I ran through the crowd. A few fans followed us as we sprinted towards the bus. The Evil Queen and Cruella de Vil included. Finn fell behind Charlene and me as we ran towards the bus. I looked backwards seeing Cruella at a payphone. Payphone? Since when was there a phone number for evil.

I ignored it as I sprinted onto the bus, where Maybeck was shouting for Finn to hurry up. The bus took off as Finn stepped on. I avoided eye contact with him as I filled in Maybeck about what happened, leaving out the part where Finn accused me of trying to kill him, lest a fight break out between the two. There was always tension between them, and this would just give them both an excuse to get on each other's cases.

The bus stopped at the Transportation Center. I hopped of the bus, promising to text the other Keepers if I heard anything suspicious. I ran towards my dad's car. He was on his way back from a business trip in Boston where the headquarters of the company he works for were located. "Hey sport, how was DisneyQuest?"

"Fun, the simulators there were really cool," I stated, masking the fact that I had been hanging out with the other Keepers and was almost captured by OT's. My dad doesn't like me hanging out with the other Keepers. He says that they have a bad influence on me.

"How's Gram?" he asked.

"Still weak. But she's fighting," I smiled weakly, thinking about my sick Gram. Her breast cancer was taking a toll on her. She was too weak to go through treatment again. She had up to a month left according to the doctors. I didn't tell the other Keepers, I didn't want their pity. We arrived at our home where Gran was lying in her bed, my uncle sitting next to her.

My Uncle Marty lives in Chicago but came down as soon as we found out that Gram was sick, he came down to stay with us. Gram was asleep and Uncle Marty was reading a book in silence. "How is she?" my dad asked, picking up the plate with Gram's dinner on it. I was still mostly full.

"As good as she can get," he sighed, putting the box down on the bookcase. I nodded and went to bring Morris outside. The golden retriever noticed my distress and stayed by my side as I walked out to the backyard.

"I know buddy, I know," I sighed, petting Morris' head.

A.N. Hey everyone I'm back with the fourth installment of my Kingdom Keeper series. Hope you like it!