Chapter 4
Dewey looked right at Webby and Lena. It was in the middle of the night, so he tried to be as quiet as he could.
"What are you guys doing here?!" Dewey whispered with a surprised expression.
"We're here to save you guys before it's too late." Webby said in her normal voice. "You know you don't have to whisper, we already took out all the guards." Just as Dewey's servant was about to get up, Lena whacked him with a wrench.
"Too late for what?" Dewey asked in a normal voice.
"Too late for you to be king!" Webby said causing Dewey to be confused. "First of all, your father never wanted Huey or Louie to be king. His favorite color was always blue. He wants you to be king Dewey. You're more like Della than any of your brothers." Dewey was still confused.
"Oh yeah, if he likes me so much then why was he so eager to have someone else punish me for defending Huey?" Dewey asked causing Webby to be confused.
"Look, we'll talk about this in the morning, but right now we gotta go before someone wakes up." Webby said as she Dewey a peck on the cheek. She then started to whisper in his ear. "Please don't let them die." With that said, Webby jumped through the window.
"Meet us at the stables in the morning." Lena said as she followed Webby through the window. Dewey went back to sleep hoping that was just a bad dream, with benefits. To find whether it was a dream or not, he made it a priority to get to the stables.
Huey woke up in the morning. He saw that Rose was changing her clothes. She turned around to greet Huey, but she wasn't all the way dressed. Huey hid himself under the covers.
"What are you doing?!" Huey asked a confused Rose. "You can't change in front of a guy." Rose was still confused.
"Might I ask why?" Rose asked as Huey sighed.
"I'll tell you after you put your clothes on." Huey said as she finished getting dressed. Huey then came out from under the covers. "Boys and girls aren't supposed to see each other like that at this age. It implies something bad." Rose was still confused about what was going on.
"What is that something bad?" Rose asked. Huey started looking around to make sure nobody was listening.
"It implies the "S" word." Huey said giving Rose another question that needs to be answered.
"What is the..." Before she could finish, Dewey walked in.
"Perfect timing." Huey sighed as Dewey walked up to Huey.
"Hey Hue, we need to go to the stables." Dewey said as he took Huey by the hand and dragged him out of bed. Huey started complaining.
"Wait, let me get out of my PJs." Huey said as Dewey continued dragging him.
"No time!" Dewey said as Rose stopped him.
"My master said to let him go." Rose said as Dewey let Huey go. Huey brushed himself off.
"First of all, please don't call me that." Huey said to Rose. "Second of all, Dewey, what's this all about?" Huey asked as Dewey explained.
"Webby showed up last night and told me to meet her in the stables." Dewey said causing Huey to be surprised. Rose was surprised as well.
"There is an intruder in the kingdom?" Rose asked as Huey held his hand over her beak.
"She's not an intruder, she's a friend." Huey said as Rose pulled his hand away from her face.
"What's a friend?" Rose asked. Huey didn't know how to answer any of her questions. "All I know is that the servants aren't supposed to have "friends"." Huey didn't know what to say.
"Well, I'll be your friend." Huey said sentimentally. They started heading towards the stables as Huey explained what a friend was. "A friend is someone who has your back no matter what." Rose put a finger up and Huey knew exactly what she was gonna ask. "Not literally, what I mean is they help you when you need it." Rose felt happy knowing she made her first friend.
They made it to the stables and Dewey saw Webby hiding in the hay. Dewey was really happy to see her. He jumped with joy and gave her a huge hug.
"Oh my gosh Webby, I'm so glad you're here!" Dewey said as he started speaking really fast. "Our dad is a total jerk. He made his butler hurt Huey and me." Huey corrected his grammar in the background. "He makes his servants fight to the death and he's tearing the family apart." Webby was scared at that.
"Oh no, this is bad." Webby said as Huey and Dewey were confused. "Do you all want to get out of here?" Huey and Dewey were confused by the question.
"Of course we do!" Huey and Dewey said in unison.
"We have to wait for Louie." Webby said. "If he doesn't want to leave, then physically, none of us can leave." Huey and Dewey were confused by this. Webby sighed and started to explain. "There's a spell on the kingdom that makes it so none of the blood relatives of the king can leave, unless all of them want to go." The stables were right next to the exit of the kingdom. "Are you sure Louie wants to go too?" Dewey decided to prove it. He started walking out of the kingdom.
"See, we all want to leave." Dewey said.
"Dewey, you didn't leave, in fact you turned around." Huey said as Dewey slapped his forehead.
"He doesn't want to leave does he?" Dewey asked rhetorically as Huey slapped his forehead as well.
"Lena said she'll take care of Louie." Webby said as Huey and Dewey were confused.
"Why Lena?!" They said in unison. Webby just shrugged.
"I don't know, she was just really insistent on talking to him herself." Webby said "Maybe she knows something about him that we don't." Huey and Dewey had a hard time believing that.
"How can she know Louie better than his own brothers?" Huey asked as Webby shrugged. Webby then noticed the person that was standing next to Huey.
"Who's that?" Webby asked as Rose stuck out her hand.
"I am Huey's servant, but he would prefer if I were called Rose." Webby was confused.
"Why did you make her change her name?" Webby asked as Huey started shaking his hands.
"No, you got the wrong idea." Huey said as he started to explain. "See I was only trying to help her. She was born without a name so I gave her a name." Dewey then started to add on.
"Yeah, and our good, old dad didn't really seem to like that very much." Dewey said as he started looking on the ground angrily. Webby was confused and Huey started finding a way to save his brother the embarrassment of talking about it.
"Its a long story that we can tell you another time." Huey said. "Come on, let's go find Louie." They all started looking for Louie in the kingdom.
Louie was getting dressed as he heard what sounded like a coin toss behind him. He looked around to see where it was and it sounded like it was coming from outside of his room. He opened the door only to find Lena standing there flipping a coin. She then walked right in.
"You miss me green?" Lena said as Louie just finished putting on a new green suit. Lena was about to ask where he got it. Before she could, he already answered.
"My dad got it for me." Louie said as Lena sat on his bed. "I know why you're here. You wanna take us back. Well the thing is, I'm not sure I wanna go back. Our dad seems pretty cool. And there're a lot of good things that come to being royalty. I don't have to feed myself, I don't have to brush my own teeth, I get everything I want, I don't even have to bathe myself." Lena seemed disgusted by the last part. "I know it sounds bad, but it's not as bad as you think. I can literally order a smoothie with the snap of my fingers." Louie snapped and his servant gave him a mint chocolate chip smoothie. "I'm sorry, did you want one?" He then snapped his fingers again and got Lena a smoothie.
"So are you just gonna turn your back on your brothers, your family?" Lena asked as Louie drank from his smoothie.
"This is my family." Louie said as he drank from his smoothie. "You should stay too. Here we don't have to pretend we're not together." Lena got angry at that.
"We don't have to pretend at all!" Lena said angrily. "If you would just, I don't know, tell your uncles we're a thing, there wouldn't be any problems. You're just doing this for the money aren't you?!" Louie got furious at that.
"I WISH EVERYONE WOULD STOP THINKING THAT!" Louie said angrily causing Lena and his servant to jump. "I'm sorry, it's just that I want to get to know my father that our dear grand-uncle refused to let us meet. And that our dear uncle said was dead. And maybe it would be cool to inherit all of this cool stuff, but I'm not just doing it for the money." Lena was surprised.
"Wow greeny, almost like you feel sentimental about something for once." Lena said as she looked at the pocket watch on the table. "What's this?!" Louie took it from the table and put it in his pocket.
"It's nothing!" Louie said secretively. Lena looked around the room before she walked. "I hope you think about my offer."
"I hope you think about mine." Lena said as she walked out and closed the door. Lena looked at her shadow. Her Aunt Magica hasn't been around ever since she and Louie became a couple. She felt conflicted about that. She then heard Webby talking through the earpiece she gave them.
"Lena, first I would like to say that your earpiece was on." Webby said as Lena started blushing.
"For how long?" Lena asked as Webby answered.
"About, the whole time." Webby said as she continued. "And second, OH MY GOSH!" Webby started screeching like a little girl as Lena got hurt by the sound of her screech. "We have to talk about this later." Webby then turned off her earpiece and so did Lena.
Webby pulled Dewey aside and said that she wanted to talk to him alone. Rose and Huey left as Webby started telling Dewey about Draco.
"Draco probably told you his favourite color was red." Webby started telling the story of Draco becoming king as Dewey listened. "But in truth, his favourite color is blue. He was once a triplet too. His brothers names were Haco and Laco. Their father said that Haco was destined to become king. This made the Laco mad, so he tried his best to become king. He would please his father in ways that would make it hard to top. When it came time for the father to choose the king, he chose Laco. Haco grew angry, he was always told that he was the one to be destined as the king. He was the smartest one in the family. He challenged Laco to become heir to the throne. After a long battle, Laco had died from a loss of blood. Haco had thought that he had earned his rightful place as king, but then the father stave his own child in the back with a steel, blue sword. He then gave the sword to Draco, and gave him a blue handkerchief. 'Blue was always my favourite color' was the last thing he said before he stabbed himself with Haco's sword. This whole process has been going on for generations." Dewey was surprised by the whole story.
"You mean that Huey and Louie are going to fight to the death and they're both gonna die?!" Dewey said as Webby nodded her head in agreement.
"Only if we don't stop Draco." Webby said as she pulled out an amulet. "If we can put this in Draco's prized pocket watch, and then put it on him, he'll be trapped in a bubble of regret. I call it 'The Regretful Bubble'!" Dewey started clapping.
"I think you did a great job with the name." Dewey said as Webby thanked him.
Huey and Rose started walking back to his room as they saw his father. Huey didn't want to speak with him, but his father already started talking.
"Huey, I'm sorry I had to punish you last night." Draco said faking his apology.
"I'm sorry, I don't remember you punishing me, I remember your butler." Huey retorted. "Not like you would do it yourself anyway." Draco grabbed his son by the shirt.
"Next time I might." Draco said angrily. He raised his hand causing Huey to flinch. He then started rubbing Huey's face with the back of his hand. "Remember what I said. Start treating me with respect, or else. Is that clear?" Draco asked already knowing what Huey would say.
"Yes." Huey said as he started walking up to his room with Rose. Once in his room, Huey started going off about his father. "He's such a jerk. He thinks he can bully me around like I'm some kind of weakling, well guess what, I'm not taking it."
"What's a bully?" Rose asked as Huey started getting emotional. He didn't like talking about bullies, since he's been bullied a lot throughout his life.
"Well, a bully is someone who doesn't want you to belong." Huey explained as Rose listened. "They try to make you think you're inferior to them, but really it's because they feel inferior to everyone else. It's almost like their ego feeds off of other people's pain. For me it was always because I was such a nerd." Rose was confused, but she also felt bad.
"Am I hurting your feelings with all of these questions?" Rose asked as Huey gave a little sniffle.
"No, you're fine. I'm just getting a little emotional, that's all." Huey said as Rose had one last question.
"Would you rather be the bully or the bullied?" Rose asked. Huey was happy that she had her own creative question.
"To be honest, I'd rather be the bullied." Huey started as Rose listened. "I could never wish anything like that on to someone else." Rose started to smile.
"I think I like that answer." Rose said as she continued to smile.
"Me too." Huey said as he started thinking about why Louie wanted to stay.
End of Chapter 4
