Sequel to: Happy To Know You, Grumpy.
This story will contain Humpy Moments, Jolly Royals Moments, and maybe a few others.
This story will be much longer than the first one; but you should still read that one if you haven't already, because you'll miss key points.
Just a small warning: There will be a little bit of gore, but not enough for me to place this in "Mature" section. I'm just saying that beforehand in case anyone is squeamish, but trust me, it's not bad at all. The biggest amount of "gore" would be a bloody nose, lol.
It's the beginning of Summer, the sun gleamed brightly, practically burning the ground to crisp. Everyone in Jollywood were playing outside, either picking up flowers at the Jollywood park, or swimming in pools or beaches.
The 7D were hanging out at the beach. Sneezy, Dopey and Bashful were building sandcastles, Sleepy was snoozing on a lounge chair next to a relaxed Doc. Doc had on sunglasses and he held a tiny smile. Happy was sitting on the sand, holding his usual shimmering smile as he began strumming his guitar.
"Ooooh~ It's a beautiful day in Jollywood!
A wonderful day indeed!
Children are happy
And every dwarf's smiling
Yes- it's a wonderful day indeed!"
Happy looked over at his three friends playing around in the sand. He walked over to them, peeking upon their sandcastles. "Whatcha guys doin'?" He asked.
Sneezy peered up at Happy for split second, before returning his gaze back to the sandcastle he was working on. "We're seeing who can build the best sandcastle! Who do you think'll build the best?"
Happy shrugged, believing all of their castles would be wonderful. "I'm not sure." Happy smiled.
Bashful giggled shyly. "I'm almost done!" He proclaimed.
Suddenly, Sneezy's nose jerked up slightly. "Ahhh-ahhh-ACHOOO!" He sneezed his sandcastle down by accident. "Oh no!" Sneezy cried, looking down at his destroyed castle with disappointment.
Bashful felt bad for his poor friend. Bashful poked Sneezy shoulder. "Watch this." Bashful said, as he sprung up on his feet. He then began kicking his half-way finished castle to the ground. Sneezy began laughing, before joining in on the fun, Bashful and Sneezy laughed together in harmony.
Dopey, however, finished his masterpiece of a castle. Dopey slowly stood up as he whistled, telling everyone he was done. Everyone glanced down at his castle, impressed 'oohs' and 'ahhs' escaped the 5D's lips.
Doc took off his sunglasses to take a peek at
Dopey's castle. "Fascinating!" He whispered to himself, walking over to it.
"That's amazing Dopey!" Sleepy praised, staring at the detailed castle. The sandcastle was identical to the Queen's castle. The castle had the same red rooftops along with the blue tinted windows- except the sandcastle didn't actually have color. There was even a moat around it! Dopey smiled and grabbed a bucket, carefully pouring water into the moat, just to add a hint more of that realism.
"NO ONE should vandalize this piece of work!" Bashful said, glorifying a statue of sand.
"Yeah! It really is good! Hey Grumpy, check out Dopey's...-" Happy twisted his neck to find Grumpy, but he was no where near them! "Grumpy?" He asked in worry.
Doc also turned around. "He was here just a minute ago. He's probably inside complaining unnecessarily rude or trying to find some cheese." Doc stated, gesturing towards the large beach house, crowded with other people.
"I'll get him." And with that, Happy entered the breezy beach house, waving around at all the dwarfs who bid him welcome, until he finally found Grumpy cleaning up a mess someone made on a black tabletop. "Uhh... Grumpy? What are you doing?"
Grumpy scrubbed the table angrily, practically tearing the paint off. "I'm cleaning this mess of a beach house. Seriously NO ONE cleans this place up! It's a dump!"
Happy giggled nervously as a few janitors shot insulted glares their way. Happy caught hold of Grumpy's hand, leaning in close, he murmured, "Grumpy... it's Summer break! Stop putting more stress on your life! Besides... we already had enough of that before Christmas."
Grumpy nodded, thinking back to Hildy sucking the joy out of everyone, becoming the Queen, and locking him along with Happy up in the Secret Shed. "Well... alright." He sighed.
"Yay!" Happy blurted cheerfully. "I wanted to show you a cool sandcastle Dopey made!" Happy pulled Grumpy, leading him back outside where the rest of the fellas were.
Deep in a dark dreary forest stood a large purple manor, the rooftops unnaturally slanted, and the colors eerie and creepy- the scary forest was a perfect surrounding for the matching manor. Inside that manor lived the Glooms- a gothic couple whom usually enjoyed harming Queenie-Bo-Beenie and basically everything that existed in Jollywood, but Hildy and her husband haven't been near Jollywood since Chirstmas!- which is indeed a big surprise.
Hildy lay in bed, an activity that recently became a habit. She stared out at the glass doors that lead to the balcony, where Hildy spied on the Jollywoodians. But today, Hildy merely wanted to stay in bed. She wasn't in the mood to get up and do anything.
Some emotion brought her to her feet. She groggily got out of bed and reached into her side drawer, opening it up, and took out a black spider-webbed choker, which also held a plum purple moon. She walked out to her bathroom, staring into the mirror, she cautiously clasped her choker on. She then smiled. Yes- her hair was a complete mess, and her eyes were bloodshot due to her lack of sleep- but she was smiling because she loved that choker. She thought the choker was purely... well...
Delightful.
Grim popped his head into the bathroom, scaring his wife. "HILDY! YOU'RE AWAKE!"
Hildy stared at him with fiery eyes. "YES! I'M AWAKE!" She growled. "DON'T startle me like that!"
"Sorry my diabolical darling. I was started to think you were sick." Grim apologized. He then pulled out a piece of folded paper from his jean pocket. "But I found this notey-thingy outside by our doorstep! It's from: Antamous!"
Hildy scrunched her eyebrows. "What?"
"An... Ah-uh... well, I can't really... I can't say that word..." He sputtered, rereading the signature about a thousand times. Hildy cringed as her husband's stuttering echoed in her ears. She snatched the letter out of his hands, much to his surprise.
Dear Hildy and Grim Gloom,
We hope you receive this letter soon. There is an important topic we must talk about. I know you are in deep understanding of said topic; but to keep it a secret I mustn't tell you what this about until you come here.
Do not tell anyone about this letter. This stays between the group of us. Now- meet us all in the Jollywood arcade on Sunday around 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm. We'll be waiting. And remember:
Go Fish!
-Anonymous
Hildy stared at the letter with bewilderment. "What? What is "Go Fish" supposed to mean?" She asked her dimwitted husband as they began wandering down the stairs. Grim shrugged.
"Don't ask me! I just found the letter."
Suddenly, the Crystal Ball's face appeared, overhearing their little conversation. "Hildy!" The Ball yelled a bit too loud. Hildy winced in annoyance. "You've finally went downstairs! It's been what... three months?"
Hildy shot the ball a look. She rolled her eyes, deciding not to yell. "Whatever." She retorted as she headed for the kitchen, but halted with a thought. She glanced down at the letter, than her eyes darted a gaze towards the ball. "Crystal..." She chanted, suddenly gaining enough energy to skip towards him. "Can you decipher this letter? I have NO idea who it's from, nor what the person is trying to tell me. And it's freaking me out!"
She placed the letter in front of the ball, allowing him to read it. He skimmed it pretty quickly. "Hmph. Well, whoever this is says "Go Fish" which means they possibly like playing card games... which is interesting..." He trailed off.
"Interesting?" Hildy titled her head, getting impatient. "Tell me what it MEANS!" Hildy wanted to yell at the Crystal Ball, but knew better.
"Ok-ok-ok, jeez... calm down witchy..." The Ball groaned. "It means some person wants you to enter their gang, or something. She wants to meet you at the Jollywood Arcade, at the table where you play Go Fish."
Hildy interrupted him. "How do you know it's a female?"
"Duh. Women are always the vague ones!" The Crystal Ball laughed at his own joke as if he was the most hilarious comedian ever to live.
Hildy glowered at the ball, her narrowed eyes threw daggers at him, nearly killing him. "YOU'RE THE REASON WHY I WAS ASLEEP FOR "3 MONTHS"!" Hildy yelled, mimicking the Crystal's voice when stating the time. The Crystal Ball merely rolled his eyes, stifling a chuckle.
"Anywho..." The Crystal Ball continued, "the person whom wrote this is trying to be sneaky. I'm not quite sure if it's clever or just plain dumb."
Everything remained silent for a while more as the Ball kept skimming over and over the letter; desperately trying to read between the lines and find more information about this odd letter.
"Well?" Hildy suddenly barked, ending the silence. "Should Grim and I go?"
"Sure why not." The Crystal replied, heedlessly.
"What is that supposed to mean?" She snapped.
"It means I don't care." He shot back. "It could be dangerous or it could be a really cool gang that gives you free candy or whatever."
Hildy raised one eyebrow. "Candy?"
"What? I have a soft spot for sweets. I guess you could say I'm a SUCKER." He laughed loudly, yet again.
Hildy rolled her eyes. "Shut up."
Hildy fixated her dress. She was wearing a long, midnight blue dress embedded with shimmering white gems. Fake gems nonetheless, but they were beautiful. She had on boots that almost touched her knee, but since the dress is so long, you couldn't tell either way. Hildy then slipped on matching colored gloves, long gloves that reached her elbow but didn't cover her fingers. She then put on a black glittery ring. When putting on her choker, however, she took her time. Her necklace breaking would be the worst thing she could ever imagine. The purple moon fell perfectly on the top of her dress.
Before Hildy headed downstairs, she took one last long gaze in the mirror. She certainly looked different. There was still gloom existent in her attire, but it was becoming less and less noticeable each day.
"Hildy my wildy? Are you done?" A shout was heard from below, causing Hildy to jump.
"Y-y-yes! I'm coming!" She rushed down the stairs and stood next to her nicely dressed husband. He too was wearing fancy clothes. He had on a grey suit on with grey dress pants. The corner of his suit had miniature light blue stars and moons; like his normal clothes. He also had a black tie. He smiled at Hildy.
"Hildy, my precious, you look frightening wonderful." Grim complimented, speaking in his baby voice.
Hildy blushed at this before returning the favor. "Awww, and you look scrumptiously terrifying too, Grimmy-Wimmy!"
The Crystal Ball gagged. "Get out here!" He heckled.
And with that, the door to the manor slammed as the Glooms zipped through the sky on their magic brooms, going to meet Anonymous!
Hildy and Grim entered the arcade. Grim interlinked his arm with Hildy's like he was an escort.
They began wandering around, not sure where they were headed, but found the card table anyway. Three people surrounded the table: The Gingerbread Witch, a large grizzly bear, and a man with a stubby beard.
Hildy and Grim glanced at each other simultaneously.
The Gingerbread Witch was the first to speak up. "Are you two Hildy and Grim?" She asked with a pointed finger.
Grim gulped as he nudged his wife. Hildy sighed. "Yes, we are. Why?" Hildy said sternly.
The Gingerbread Witch beamed approvingly. She crept over to them with that same smile. "Good." She said, not answering their question. "Then does this phrase sound familiar?" She leaned into their faces, Grim and Hildy could smell her disgusting breath. "Go Fish." She whispered, as suddenly a teal blue tail wrapped around Hildy and Grim, squeezing them together, tightly.
Hildy gasped in shock and Grim freaked out a little as the Gingerbread Witch transformed completely into a built teal man, with the same colored suit and a mischievous grin. "Shapeshifter?!" Hildy and Grim exclaimed in unison.
Shapeshifter carried them into a dark room in the corner of the Jollywood Arcade. Hildy and Grim were too scared to care; they had their mouth gaped in shock, widen eyes and they couldn't bring themselves to shout or mutter anything.
Shapeshifter slammed the door, locking it behind him as darkness enveloped everything. It was pitch black, and deathly quiet, until Shapeshifter dropped the couple, they landed harshly on the wooden floor.
"OUCH!" Hildy complained, rubbing her elbow.
The lights zapped on, and Hildy and Grim flinched, squeezing their eyes shut at the flashing lights. Their eyesight gradually came back, and Hildy squinted at what lay in front of her. There was an extensive steel table, with six grey chairs around it. In some of the seats sat a man with a long nose and a long white overcoat with corn yellow gloves. His hair was orange with white stripes flowing through it. He was scowling. The person sitting next to him was much smaller than him, and he had terrible posture. He has on a zaffre overcoat which looked more like a cape since it covered all of his body. Next to that man sat a little girl with golden curly hair. She was currently reading a book. She looked quite innocent with her gleaming childlike eyes and soft smile, but inside she was a demon.
Hildy and Grim continued to glance around, until they returned their gaze to face Shapeshifter.
The little girl looked up from the book she was reading. "Ugg! FINALLY! You caught them!" She whined, shattering Shapeshifter's eardrums. "I was about to burn this stupid arcade to the ground!" She giggled.
Hildy finally got on her feet. "Why are we here? What was that letter about? What is this room- and most importantly- WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE!?" Hildy screeched, adding more pain to Shapeshifter.
"QUIET!" Shapeshifter snapped, before smugly smiling again. "All your questions will be answered. Now- take a seat." He gestured towards the seats next to the little girl as Shapeshifter took his own seat next to the scrawny man with the eccentric hair. Hildy and Grim shared one last glance before Grim cautiously took a seat next to the insane girl. Hildy sat beside him.
Shapeshifter leaned against the desk, clasping his hands and intertwining his fingers together. Hildy just scowled at him. "Well? Answer my questions!"
Shapeshifter laughed. "You're just as rudely impatient as I remember you being!" Hildy was takenaback by this. She didn't know if it was a compliment or if he was merely messing with her.
"Calm down, darling." Shapeshifter cooed, as he got up from his chair and walked over to Hildy, touching her shoulders in a creepy way.
Hildy moved away. "Excuse me... I'm married, you freak."
"I'm just testing you. Anyway, I brought you two here because I'm intrigued with you two. I have a few questions of my own, actually."
"Well, what about?" Grim asked.
"About Queen Delightful."
Hildy straightened her back completely out at this. She avoided Shapeshifter's eyes and stared straight ahead of her at nothing in particular and began fiddling her thumbs.
The little girl cleared her throat as he glared up at Shapeshifter. "Are we just not important?" She quipped. Shapeshifter's eyes softened a bit.
"Oh. Yes." He muttered, obviously uninterested in introducing his company.
The girl beamed. "Thank you!" Her curls bounced freely as she jumped off her cold chair. She waved wildly over at Hildy and Grim, with the cruelest smile one could imagine, even her innocent looking eyes began turning evil. "Heya!~ My name's Goldilocks!" She squealed, enjoying the anxious expression plastered on Grim's face.
The two men behind her also greeted them. "And my name's Dr. Jinglehei...-" The man with the orange hair was cut off by the short guy next to him.
"And I'm Bingo!" Bingo yelled, causing Dr. J to wince.
"Why do you ALWAYS cut me off BINGO?" Dr Jingeheimer leaned into Bingo, nearly causing him to fall. Bingo gritted his teeth into a nervous smile.
"S-sorry master..." He replied, glumly.
Shapeshifter rolled his eyes, face palming himself in a very annoyed way. He didn't like those two, and didn't care much for Goldilocks. Goldilocks was very good at manipulating people and she certainly had evil blood flowing through her; but she was a loose canon and Shapeshifter found her sarcasm and remarks quite obnoxious. He hated how Goldilocks constantly wanted to be the leader. Shapeshifter was the leader. No one else.
And don't get him started on Dr J and Bingo. Bingo was incompetent and Dr J was hardly any better. The only reason Shapeshifter invited Dr J in was because he was decently intelligent and could create useful machines that could possibly held them.
Bingo just HAPPENED to tag along.
Shapeshifter didn't care about those three any more- his main attention was stuck on Hildy and Grim. He needed Hildy to join his gang. Hildy knew the most about the Queen. She knew her everyday schedule and Hildy even knew what a few of those 7D dorks did in their free time as well. Shapeshifter wanted to destroy Jollywood more than anything.
"Alright-alright enough dilly-dallying." He turned to face an anxious Hildy and secure Grim. "Hildy- I know you know the most about Jollywood. All of us want something from Jollywood." He said, walking back over to Hildy. Hildy stopped fiddling her thumbs and inhaled loudly, trying desperately not to freak out. She was sweating profoundly, but somehow managed to keep a poker face.
"Yeah!" Goldilocks butted into their conversation, "I want to KILL those pesky 7D!" She smiled wickedly.
"Yeah- yeah- and we want to use the Jollywoodians as slaves!" Bingo exclaimed right next to Dr. J's ear.
Dr J cringed before twisting around to face Bingo. "Oh gee, thanks Mr. IStealPeople'sThunder!"
Bingo doubled back sheepishly.
"And I want to finish off the Queen and Agent Bash." Shapeshifter beamed at the thought of Bashful's demise.
"Agent Bash?" Hildy questioned.
"BASHFUL!" Shapeshifter shouted.
Hildy chuckled in disbelief. "Yes, I know that. But I thought Bashful ended his "Agent Bash" thing after this Christmas."
Shapeshifter took a pause. "He has? Hmmph. That would explain why he hasn't been at the arcade for 3 months.." He paused to think for a bit. "That still doesn't mean I don't hate him."
Shapeshifter's eyes then landed on Hildy's dress. "You know Hildy... you certainly do look beautiful..."
"If you think a compliment will win me over- you'd better think otherwise!"
Shapeshifter frowned. "Why so stubborn?" His eyes then landed on her choker. Shapeshifter cackled. "Haha- who gave you that girly necklace?" He asked, pointing towards her choker in a mocking way.
Hildy clutched the plum moon design in her hand quickly. "Ooooh... uh, this ummm... G-Grim! Grim stole it at an jewelry store." She stammered.
Shapeshifter's lip swerved up to form a malicious grin. "Grim huh? That's really surprising." He rubbed his chin in thought.
Hildy jumped. She gritted her teeth as Grim glanced over in a confused yet elated gaze.
"Hildy? I didn't give you that...-" Shapeshifter cut him off, wrapped his bulky arm around Grim's neck, pulling him in closer.
"Hehe, Grim, you have me impressed." Shapeshifter chuckled menacingly before turning back to Hildy with a smug smile. "Join us -Hildy and Grim- and together we can defeat the Queen, along with Starchbottom and the rest of her measly pesty helpers: The 7D." He extended his arm out, waiting for her to shake his hand.
Hildy gulped as she continued to rub her necklace in a rhythmic motion, trying to calm herself. She gritted her teeth into a fake smile. Shapeshifter noticed her hesitation.
"Uhm, Hildy... don't you want to become the Queen?"
Hildy nodded slowly. "Uh-O-o-of course..." She murmured.
And then shook his hand, full of regret. Shapeshifter beamed.
"Delightful..." He muttered, causing Hildy to shiver all over.
((Hope you liked the first chapter! :)
It took forever to plan out, mostly because I was unsure of how to start the plot. I didn't know how many characters to add. Hildy will be the most focused on, along with Queen Delightful and Happy and Grumpy. Agent Bash most likely won't be shown, sorry. ))