A Realm of Magic and Dragons

By: KidHeart4

Disclaimer: I do not own Disney's Mighty Ducks the Animated Series, but I do own the character Lis.

It was not long after Duke and I had gotten together.

We had been watching the news with the others. A news caster was accusing us of being cowards for missing a game. Nosedive finally got fed up and turned it off as the man yelled, "If they show up for tomorrow's game, I'll eat an old boot!"

"Aw, the only reason we missed that game was because we happened to be savin' the world!" Duke retorted.

"No," Grin argued, "In te words of Hockey Master, Tai Quack Doh, "We Blew It!""

Wildwing sighed, "Grin's right, losing by forfeit is humiliating! As long as I'm captain of this team, we'll never miss another game!"

Before anyone could add anything else Drake One's alarm went off, showing signs of the Raptor. Despite Nosedive's warning that it may be a trap we headed out to the migrator.

When we got to te street in our coordinates we headed out. Wildwing used te mask to find the Raptor, and just as he did shots suddenly fired toward us. Before I could react I felt Duke grab my arm as he pulled me close to him.

"Duke, I can fight just fine," I told him as I activated my glaive.

"I know. I jus' really like havin' someone ta protect," he answered as we stood ready to fight back.

I couldn't help but blush from his response. He was relishing in the heroic role he took on now.

Though soon after the fight had started a huge portal was opened up by the Raptor's gateway device. Immediately we grabbed a hold of another, except for Grin, who had been sent flying back behind the building he hung onto now. The rest of us braced ourselves, clinging to one another like a rope. Wildwing tried to anchor us by grabbing hold of a street sign. Yet the pull of the portal proved to be too much as the sign snapped, sending all of us, except Grin, flying through the gateway!

In what fell like mere moments we were dumped into a street identical to the one we had been on, or so we thought.

"Where are we?" Mallory asked aloud.

"Exactly where we were," Duke stated, a bit confused.

Duke then turned to me as I started to get up. He offered a hand to help me up that I accepted. As I was pulled carefully to my feet I looked around the area. Tanya mentioned that it was impossible for us to be where we were due to being thrown through a dimensional portal. Wildwing and Mallory pointed out that Grin, the Migrator, and the Raptor were all missing.

"But everything's the same, even that drug...store?" Nosedive trailed off as he noticed the shop sign.

"Spells and potions?" Wildwing asked.

I found myself approaching te door. The sign above was shaped like a small, metal dragon. Something felt odd as I grasped the handle. Yet as I hesitated I felt Wildwing put a hand on my shoulder, "You okay little sis?"

"I think so," I answered, stepping back as I rubbed my head.

Before I could even blink Duke walked up to me, but I assured him that I was fine.

Wildwing pushed the door open now we all entered the shop. We passed by several shelves stocked with several bottles with various powders and potions. Jars of strange ingrediants also stood on display. We finally found someone sitting behind a newspaper at a desk.

"Excuse me...but wha-what are you?" Wildwing enquired.

The short figure jumped up, folding the paper as he exclaimed, "What?! Ya don't know a gnome when you see one?!"

"Look, where are we?" Tanya asked politely.

"You're in Anaheim were else? A once proud kingdom, now under the vile sorceror Asteroth! It disgusts me just to say it! But uh, don't let it get around that I called him that, alright?"

We all kind of looked at each other, surprised. Then the shopkeeper tried to offer us some of his stock in a sale attempt. To which Tanya laughed respectfully, "We're just gonna browse."

After a few minutes of looking around we unfortunately left him dissappointed without a single purchase. As we walked along the street we came to another magic shop with a crystal ball behind the display case. It was showing an advertisement for some sort of breakfast "cereal" called Dragon Flakes, featuring a witch and a little fawn satyr child.

This left Nosedive dumbfounded, "This is blowing my mind Daddio-man!"

Duke seemed to ponder over all of this a moment before speaking, "Well hey it's obvious, we came to Anaheim from another dimension right?"

"I know I saw that episode, go on!" Nosedive rubbed his head.

Duke drew his saber, slashing the air excitedly. "So we've been sent to a totally new dimension! A dimension that's ruled by magic! Sorcery! Adventure! Oh yeah, this is my kinda town baby!"

With every word Duke grew more excited. I couldn't help but smile at his eagerness. This was a new side of him I hadn't seen before now. And yet as he spoke, something resonated within me. These concepts seemed strangely familiar.

"Well get used to it, because I don't see how we're ever gonna get out," Wildwing said, lowering Duke's blade with a gloved hand.

Just then we heard a fight of sorts down the street. We all decided to check things out. That's when we found a young warrior wielding a sword and shield fighting off vulture creatures that flew off injured. When he saw us coming he laughed, "Asteroth sends more bird creatures to capture me? Can't he think of something original?"

With that he threw his sword toward Nosedive, but as it flew around him Duke stepped up. He knocked the blade to the ground, "Hey take it easy! You could put someone's eye out with that thing; I should know!"

I winced unwillingly wen he said that, and I couldn't resist resting a hand carefully on his arm. He glanced at me with a reassuring smile.

"You appear to be malevolent creatures," the warrior said with concern.

"Yeah well, looks can de decievin' ya know?" Duke assured, posing heroically with a hand on his hip, "We are friends to anyone that struggles for a good cause! I always wanted ta say that!"

I smiled at his excitement. Had he become a knight all of the sudden when we arrived here? I wondered this as I gave in and hugged his arm now.

"Well then friend, I am glad to see you!" The gnome fighter said, "I am Borg, royal prince of Anaheim!"

Borg was actually smaller than me, but not by much. He was dressed in regal blue pants with a matching tunic. His golden blonde hair reached down his back in a ponytail. His ears were pointed. On his back he carried his sword and shield. Borg asked us to follow him, telling us that it was not safe for him to linger out in the open.

As we followed him I could not help but look around, noticing vast mountains passed the kingdom's walls. Deep caverns called to me for some reason.

"Ya okay sweetheart?" Duke asked, placing a hand on my shoulder.

"I think so," I said uncertainly.

"I wish we could explore here," he admitted to me as he looked out at the expansive landscape sprawling out beneath the starlit sky.

"Are you secretly a knight?" I teased him.

Duke shrugged, blushing slightly for once, "Maybe things would've been different for me here."

He must have noticed my slight uneasieness, because he then squeezed my hand, "But if it meant not meetin' you, well that's different of course. I jus' want ta adventure with you here."

He and I paused before following everyone into an alley. As I looked up at the open sky I felt a pang within me. This place seemed to call to me somehow, but why?

"I almost feel like I've been here before," I said quietly as I rubbed the back of my head.

Before Duke could say anything in response Wildwing called us both into the alley. There Borg told us how his kingdom had been enslaved by Asteroth, Lord of the Red Dragon. The sorceror had turned his palace into a citadel of evil, and sent monsters to hunt him down. In turn Duke told him how we had been sent to his world.

"Friends!" Borg announced as he jumped onto the dumpster he'd been sitting on, "I think we can help one another!"

"How your heiness?" Duke enquired.

"Asteroth's amulet is the key to his magic," he said, "help me defeat him and it can return you to your world!"

"Your heiness, it's a deal!" Wildwing agreed, shaking hands with the prince in a way with a single finger, for his whole hand dwarfed that of the gnome prince.

Duke:

As we headed to the palace that Borg once called home I felt excitement taking over me.

Soon we were in front of the building that in our Anaheim would have been city hall. As Borg lead the way a pair of gargoygles broke through their stone encasements and swooped down towards us. Screeching they flew down spewing flames at us that turned into spears that we quickly deflected with our own weapons. Amidst the fight I stepped before Lis, defending her as I fought.

I knew she could fight rather well. Yet I couldn't stop myself for some reason. This place, this adventure, I loved it. Just for right now I wanted to be a knight for her.

"Duke, I want to fight beside you," she told me as she stepped next to me with her glaive activated.

I smiled. As much as I wanted to fight for her, this felt even better, "Let's go sweetheart!"

With the help of our teammates we quickly disposed the two creatures, tieing them up with bolo pucks as they crashed to the ground.

"Sorry boys, all flights have been grounded until further notice!" Nosedive told them.

Borg laughed, "Well done my friends!"

He then walked up to the entrane, pushing a statue head of a beast facing down to reveal the entrance of the palace. We all filed in after him, taking in the gloomy atmosphere. Skulls with lit torches decorated the otherwise darkened hallways.

"Interesting decor," I mentioned as we walked through.

I felt Lis reach for my hand nervously all of the sudden.

"I can fight just fine," she blushed, "but this is a little unsettling."

I smiled, happy I could help her feel safe from something.

After a while we had come to what had once been a council chamber. Borg mentioned that it hadn't been used since Asteroth's conquest. Just then we heard rattling footsteps approaching us from the entrance ahead of us. Looking towards the door we saw a squad of skeleton warriors charging toward us.

"I'm guessin' Asteroth's got a few skeletons in his closet huh?" I laughed as I drew my saber and charged to meet them.

"Let's rock ducks!" Mallory cried out.

"I'm with you my friends!" Borg yelled as he drew his sword and shield.

We were soon engaged in battle with the skeletal undead. Each of us seemed to be having fun as we made various puns about skeletons as we battled with them. Though I noticed Lis unusually frozen amidst all this.

"Lis, I need your help!" I called to her encouragingly.

Lis seemed to snap back to her normal self, activating her glaive as she laughed, "Let's take out these boneheads!"

After taking out a second soldier myself I jumped from the table I had been fighting on, "Looks like the coast is clear!"

Just then we heard a lumbering sound of cracking bones as a large shadow fell over us. We turned to see a skeletal giant raising a huge sword over us.

"Woah! Except for him," I said, keeping Lis behind me this time as I asked our leader, "Got a spare puck Wildwing?"

Without a word our leader placed one in my hand. I then activated it and threw it at the giant as it blew it up.

"Anybody got any more bone jokes?" I asked, "No? Then let's move on!"

We passed through the entrance finding a winding labyrinth before us.

After what felt like an hour or so we found that we seemed to be just getting more and more lost every second.

"I'm sorry friends, my magic isn't strong enough to get us through the maze," Borg told us, sounding fatigued.

"Mine is!" Wildwing assured as he activated the mask, pointing us in the right direction, "That way!"

In seconds, after blasting away some of the walls, we arrived at an eerie door that we also blasted open. We quickly rushed through the entrance to confront Asteroth!

The room was drenched in a shrowd of dark magic. Green smoke reached the ceiling from a cauldron in front of us. A tall, frail looking man in a red cloak turned to us laughing, "So, you've survived the journey to my stronghold!"

Lis seemed to step behind me for a moment. It was so odd that before she had been so eager to fight with us, but something about this sorceror seemed to bother her. More than Dragonus ever did it appeared.

"I'll protect ya," I whispered while the others mocked the dark magician before us.

This seemed to give her some courage as she took a deep breath and stood next to me again.

"No one challenges the Lord of the Red Dragon and lives!" Asteroth warned as he touched the emerald green amulet he wore.

With that he began to glow as he grew and changed before us. He now towered over us, growing large wings as he transformed into a red dragon. Then in moments he looked down at us threateningly, breathing fire! Wildwing quickly raised his shield, guarding us from the flames.

"Time for a mass body check team!" Our leader yelled as we charged forward together.

"I'm with you my friends!" Borg assured as he aided us.

With some effort we managed to push him through the stone wall of the building, knocking him down to the ground below. Though we also fell to the stone streets with him. Asteroth immediately got up, spreading his wings as he took off flying around us, "You'll pay for this!"

He then began breathing fire again, torching the streets as we tried to take cover to make a plan. Yet he stopped us at every street. Instinctively I pulled Lis back behind me again. As we stood there, trying to figure out what to do, I held her near me as I tried to think quickly.

"Hey, hey!" I realized, "What's the one thing a fire breathin' dragon would fear?!"

After a few good humored guesses I shook my head, "Those were all very good, but no, water!"

I pointed to the sides of the street, " Yeah if we can keep him penned with those fire hydrants, I think I can get the amulet!"

We quickly got into our places to put our plan into motion. Wildwing and the others stationed themselves near the hydrants while Lis and I climbed one of the towering buildings.

"Ya don't have ta go with me for this one Lis, stay with the others!" I told her as I shot a grappling hook up to the corner of the building.

"I'm staying with you," she said, determined.

I smiled as I slipped an arm around her waist, pulling us both up with the grappling hook and rope.

As Asteroth swooped down, breathing fire at the streets again.

"Now Wildwing!" I called down to them as they shot at the hydrants, releasing the water as it surged from the pipes below.

Asteroth began to ascend, "Water! No!"

"I've got you now!" I laughed as Lis and I jumped from the building, landing on the dragon's back.

"Worthless vermin! Get off me!" Asteroth roared.

Lis and I hung on tight as I drew my saber and cut the golden chain that fastened the amulet to him. As Asteroth roared in rage and began to change back, Lis and I quickly jumped off of his back. I landed on my feet and instinctively held my arms out as I caught her safely. She blushed as she hugged me, "my dear hero!"

I smiled. Then I gently set her down as we turned to our friends. Borg had caught the amulet, and Asteroth was landing shakily on the ground before us. We quickly surrounded the sorceror, daring him to make a move.

"Now sorceror, you have no power! Be gone!" Borg commanded.

"You may have one this time, princeling," Asteroth hissed, "but you have not learned the last of Asteroth!"

With that a pair of red wings emerged from his back and he flew off into the reddened sky.

"I don't care what anyone says, but that guy is a one man party!" Nosedive mocked.

"The tyrant has vanished!" Borg exclaimed proudly, "Anaheim is free again! My friends, how can I ever thank you?"

"You can get us out of here!" Tanya told him quickly, "This place is weird city!"

I looked to Lis, feeling a little reluctant. She seemed to share my thoughts as we looked out the scenery we weren't allowed to explore. Yet we knew we had to return home to our teammate and deal with our mission left back home.

"Easily done!" Borg assured as he offered the amulet to us, "You must all touch the amulet, and speak the incantation, which is-"

"Don't tell me, There's no place like home?" Nosedive joked, surprising Borg.

"How did you know?"

Nosedive shrugged, "I own the video."

Lis:

I shook my head, laughing softly at this as we all were engulfed by a bright light. In moments we were transported home. Though we still couldn't rest as a large device shook the city, threatening to tear it down. Phil called to us from a building, captured along with Grin as he pleaded for our rescue. Duke told me to stay with Mallory and Tanya as he and the guys rushed in, rescuing our two family members just as the building crumbled to the ground. Meanwhile Tanya examined the cable of the device, but Mallory interupted her as she fired a puck launcher upwards, destroying the device and saving the city from destruction.

Once it was safe again we were able to deactivate the binds around Grin and Phil.

"How did you get back?" Grin asked.

Wildwing held out the amulet, "With this, we'll have to put it some place safe."

"You can use it as a puck for all I care! You guys have a game in five minutes!" Phil yelled.

Minutes later we were on our way to the Pond. Then I stood with Phil behind the boards as my teammates hurried onto the ice, cutting off the news reporter that had tried to drive our name into the mud. As they skated up to meet the opposing team, Nosedive threw an old boot to him, "Enjoy the play of sole buddy!"

With that the game started, and Duke quickly got a hold of the puck. I cheered excitedly, watching with pride as he shot the first goal of the game, "Sorry fellas, there'll be no forfeits tonight!"

The crowd cheered as the team met at the center to hit their sticks together in a momentary celebration and then returned to the game.

Duke:

Pride filled my heart when I heard Lis cheering my name. Once it was time for a quick break from play I skated over to her as she threw her arms around my neck, pulling me into a tight hug. I smiled, blushing a little myself as she kissed me on the cheek. In that moment I was again reminded of how lucky I felt when she looked at me. No matter the world, knight in shining armor or not, I was a hero in her eyes. With every day I changed a little more, walking away from the lonely life I once had and keeping her with me now. I vowed to continue on this path so I could always fight beside her, and protect her if she ever needed me to.

"Go win this game!" Lis cheered as we headed back to the ice, exchanging high fives with her while we each skated to the center.

Though before I followed the others I kissed her quickly, promising to not let her down. And that night we certainly won that game.