It was night when Dave started eating.

But then, he suddenly heard loud rustling outside.

Thinking it was Julien, Dave growled and crawled to the door.

"I thought I told you to stay outside, fuzzball!" he shouted.

"But I am outside" protested Julien, who shouted from the window.

Fearless, Dave checked every corner of the house. He didn't care who or what sneaked in his house as long as they get scared away.

He checked the floor, nothing. He checked the table, three penguins were on there.

"Well, boys, we've been transported from the zoo" said one, whose name was Skipper.

"But what choice do we have?" replied Kowalski.

"It's not like home or Antarctica, but it'll do just fine."

The third penguin, Private was bouncing on a cooked slug.

"Oh, what a bouncy bed" he sighed.

Dave then grabbed Private by the foot, but he escaped and landed on Dave's head.

"HI-YA!" shouted the penguin, hitting Dave in the eye.

Private landed on the table.

"I found some cheese!" he cheered and bit into it.

"Good eye, Private" smiled Skipper.

But Dave had enough, he grabbed the three penguins.

"What are you horrible penguins doing in my house?!" demanded the octopus.

He soon got jumped from behind and dropped the penguins.

"Hey!"

Dave turned to see a sleeping little girl on the table and noticed seven creatures (Fix-It-Felix, the Grinch, Olaf, Bartok, Garfield, Snowball and Spike the dragon) at the end of the table.

"Oh, no, no, no!" shouted Dave. "Dead kid off the table!"

"Where are we'd suppose to put her?" Snowball, snapped back.

"Besides the bedroom was already taken" sneered the Grinch.

Dave was confused. Already taken?

He went into the bedroom to see Cedric, a sorcerer, trying to adjust to his 'new room', he stopped when he saw Dave.

"What?" he asked.

Dave grabbed Cedric by the robe and dragged him out the door.

"I live in a swamp, can't you read the signs? I'm a terrifying monstrous octopus!" Dave shouted. "What do I have do to get a little privacy here?!"

He threw Cedric out the door, but then saw all the collected fairy tale creatures were on his land.

"Oh, no" moaned the octopus.

The three mammoths sat by the fire, happy to be together again. Happy little fairies were flying everywhere. Even Sherman Pan was with Judy Bell, who was crying.

"I know, Judy, I know" cooed Sherman. "I'm sorry, I won't do it again."

"I miss the Lost Minions" cried Judy Bell.

Swans were in the lake, looking for food.

All this made Dave panic and he shouted as loud as he could.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY SWAMP?"

His voice echoed and everyone soon fell silent. The only sound he heard were loud gasps.

The three good alicorn fairies, Celestia, Luna and Cadence flew away to hide.

"Oh, dear!"

Trolls used their hair to hide.

Dave was enraged. His privacy was disturbed.

"Julien" he scowled the lemur.

"Do not give me those angry eyes" Julien responded. "I didn't invite them to a party at all."

"This isn't a party anyway" grumbled Gargamel.

"You see, sir, we were forced to come here!" cried Sherman Pan.

"Forced? By who?" frowned Dave.

"Lord Grimmel!" said Mr. Weenie. "He huffed und he puffed und he... signed an eviction notice."

With a heavy sigh, Dave wasn't going to put up with thousands more of creatures.

"It's not my problem" Dave said rudely. "You all need to go back from wench you came!"

The fairy tale creatures gasped and whimpered.

"Go back?!" gasped Tanya. "We can't go back!"

"Grimmel will turn us into hot dogs!" cried Max.

The other Max barked in agreement.

"This Grimmel guy is bad news!" chirped a bird, Rapunzel.

"All right, peoples, calm down!" Julien finally said. "Dave will be talking to him."

"What?!" Dave growled.

Hearing this, the fairy tale creatures liked the idea.

"Yeah, he'll listen to you!" cheered Judy Bell.

The fairy tale creatures started to grovel and plead with Dave until Elsa, the Snow Queen approached the octopus.

"Look, we don't want any of us to be here any more than you do" she said. "But you're the only one tough enough to stand up to that no-good Grimmel. Don't you see? You're our only hope."

"You're our only hope, you're our only hope" chanted the fairy tale creatures until Dave couldn't take it any longer.

"ALL RIGHT! All right" he said. "Who knows where this Grimmel guy is?

But everyone looked around at each other but no one answered.

"Oh, I do, I know where he is!" said Julien, raising his hand in the air.

"Does anyone else know where to find him?" Dave asked.

Sherman Pan was about to say "I'll go" but Judy Bell pulled him back.

Cedric shook his head.

"Anyone at all? Anyone?"

But still, no one would answer until the good alicorns stepped up.

"We know where Grimmel is" said Celestia. "He is in the kingdom of Duloc."

"If you follow our magic" smiled Cadence, lowering her horn to the ground. "It will take you directly to Duloc."

"Even if it takes you day and night" added Luna.

The three lowered their horns to the ground and a magical, glowing trail was made from the swamp and into the distance.

"Okay, fine" sighed Dave.

Then, he spoke in a loud, clear voice.

"Attention, all... fairy tale things. Do not get comfortable. Your welcome is officially worn out. In fact, I'm gonna see this guy Grimmel right now and get you all the heck off my land and back where you cam from!"

There was a long pause, then the crowd went wild!

Judy Bell placed a charm around Dave's tentacle.

"Oh! That was that for?" he groaned.

"It will protect you from harm" smiled Judy Bell.

"Uh... Thanks."

Smiling, Judy Bell hopped away.

"And you!" Dave sneered at Julien. "You're coming with me."

Julien was happy. He and Dave were gonna be on a whirlwind adventure and he loved it. He started singing and dancing.

"Life is a highway

I wanna ride it all night long!

Dave and Julien started to follow the alicorn's travel made for them.

"If you're goin' my way

I wanna drive it all night long!

The octopus waved his thanks to the alicorns, who waved back, then slapped Julien, shutting him up.

"Hey! What did I say about singing?" he reminded Julien.

"Can I hum it?" asked the lemur.

"All right, hum it out."

Julien began to hum "Life Is A Highway."

Dave didn't care, he just wanted to get his swamp back, even if he had to kill Grimmel for it.

To be continued...