Ok, all kingdom hearts fans. Like I said, I'll be updating more sooner from now on. If you saw the movie Brave, then I'm sure you know what comes next. In this, after the queen burns Merida's bow, she runs off, and she'll only have Sora with her, and they discover the witch. Also, if anyone has an idea for any worlds I should take them through, feel free to let me know. Ok, on with the story.
For the next few days, in the new world, Sora and the others didn't see Merida much, for the queen was constantly on her back, getting her ready.
On the day the Lords were to arrive, King Fergus had sent Sora, Riku, Donald, and Goofy out on a mission, to make sure there were no Heartless or anything around to ruin it.
Sora and the others all on their assignment had searched all around, but there was no sign of Heartless, or any members of the Organization.
They were headed back to the castle, and from a hill they were on, they could see the ocean and the Lords ships coming towards the kingdom.
"It looks like those Lords have come for an occasion or something," said Riku.
"But you know that Merida isn't gonna be happy with this," Sora spoke out. "After all the queen's the one who's making her do this."
"Then let's show her we mean business!" Donald spoke raising his staff.
"No!" Sora, Riku, and Goofy all said in unison.
"Gawrsh, Donald. If we did that, we would be muddling," said Goofy.
"Meddling!" Sora and Riku corrected him.
"Right. We would be meddling if we helped Merida get out of this," Goofy finished.
"So what do we do then?" Donald asked.
"All we can do is hope that the queen can find it not to force Merida to do this," Sora replied.
"Come on. We should get back to the castle. I don't think we're about to find any Heartless soon," said Riku.
But then, the red Heartless with bows and arrows that appeared when they first met Merida appeared all around.
"Of course I could be wrong," Riku said, raising his Soul Eater.
"Now we can show these we mean business," Sora looked to Donald and pulled out the Kingdom Key.
Donald and Goofy brought out their shield and staff weapons and they all readied to fight.
New Objective: Defeat all of the Heartless.
Sora, Riku, Donald, and Goofy had finally destroyed all the archer Heartless, then they ran off, back to the kingdom.
Back at the castle, they went and found the king in the dining hall.
"Anything to report, boys?" King Fergus asked.
"We didn't find any Heartless until on our way back. But we defeated all those. I don't think any will be interfering with this occasion," Sora explained.
"Well done, then. Why don't you boys go out with the townspeople. There are soon to be games for the Lords oldest sons to compete for Merida's hand. Until then, you can meet all the others."
"Yes, sir!" they all said in unison.
The four went out where everyone else was and all around, there were stands for food, merchandise, weapons, and all kinds of things.
People everywhere were gathered to see the big event, and see the events.
"So what do you think this is all about?" Riku asked.
"Each of the Lords' oldest sons are gonna compete to win Merida's hand," Sora replied.
"How do you know that?" Donald asked.
"I asked one of the townspeople."
"Well, Merida sure isn't gonna be happy about this," said Goofy.
"Yeah. I really wish we could help her, but we have to protect the world order, and we're not supposed to meddle with these things," Sora replied.
Then a bunch of horns blew, meaning it was starting.
Everyone started to go into the direction of a big, grassy field, and there were the Lords, all their warrior men, their sons were up at archery ranges, and the king, queen, princes, and Merida were all sitting at a wooden throne off to the side.
Merida was sitting there, wearing an uncomfortable looking, light blue dress, with gold stitching, and a white veil on her head, that had all her red, curly hair trapped inside.
Sora, Riku, Donald, and Goofy all went, made their way past the crowd, and got a front row seat look. There were the sons of the three Lords.
Standing a distance from behind, were the Lords.
Lord MacGuffin was a rounded man, he had his mossy green hair, tied in two braids on the sides of his head, his big, bushy beard was in the same color. He wore a dark brown vest, with gray sleeves, and his kilt was a dark yellow-green type color.
Lord Macintosh was really thin and skinny, he wore nothing but a red-orange kilt, covering his legs and chest, he had long, messed up black hair, and blue stripes painted on his face and arms, and he had a long, messed up black beard.
Lord Dingwall was shorter than the other two, but was also round like Lord MacGuffin, he wore a green, plaid kilt, covering a most of his chest, but he could also be seen wearing a sleeveless, gray shirt. His hair was silver, all messed up but bunched up at the same time, and he had a full grown, silver mustache.
They were all behind their sons, who were to compete for Merida's hand in marriage.
MacGuffin's son was about as round as his father, he had the same, mossy green hair, but had it flatter, and he wore a brown vest similar to his father's, but a little bit lighter in color, and had no facial hair.
Macintosh's son, had no facial hair either, but he looked similar to his father. He had the same black hair, but had it less messed up, and blue stripes were painted only on his right arm.
Finally, Dingwall's son, he had the same messed up hairstyle as his father, but his hair was blonde, he had long, buck teeth, and what he wore was similar to his father's green, plaid kilt, and his sleeveless gray shirt.
The Lords' sons were stepping up to archery targets, for the games, armed with bows and arrows.
MacGuffin's son stepped up first, he knocked his arrow into his bow, and shot it, but it was far off. He hit past the black line, at the end of the target.
"Oh, bad shot," Riku spoke out.
Everyone in the back were all laughing it MacGuffin's son for his bad shot.
Macintosh's son stepped up next, knocking an arrow into his bow, he then looked back to a bunch of girls behind him, which were cheering for him, then he took his shot.
His arrow hit only inches away from the red dot on the target, but he was so furious, that he started yell angrily.
"At least you hit the target, son!" his father yelled to him.
Then Macintosh's son started to hit the ground with his bow, and then tossed it to the crowd.
"I got it!" one of the people yelled holding up his bow.
"Boy, someone's having a bad day," Sora said to his friends.
And finally Dingwall's son stepped up. He started to reach for an arrow, but they all fell out of their pocket he kept them in, and scattered around him, drawing laughter from everyone as he finally picked up an arrow. But he was having trouble getting it into the bow, as if he didn't know what he was doing. He got the arrow in but started fiddling around with it.
"Shoot, boy!" King Fergus yelled to him, which startled him, making him fire the arrow, and it hit in the center of the target. With that done, everyone started cheering, and his father laughed happily.
"Guess the short palooka wins this," Donald spoke out. "He's funny looking!" And he bust out laughing.
"I think the real fun is about to get started. Look!" Riku pointed back to the archery field, and someone wearing a black cloak stepped up. That person took the cloak off, and it was none other than Merida.
"I am Merida. First born descendant of clan Dun Broch. And I'll be shooting for my own hand!" she looked to her mother at the throne. Merida raised her bow and arrow, and attempted to shoot, but the dress she wore was too tight. "Curse this dress!" She put some weight into it, which tore the dress.
She took the first shot, and hit in the center of MacGuffin's target.
"All right! Great shot!" Sora called to her.
Merida looked to Sora and the others, smiled and winked at them, then moved to the next target.
"Merida stop this!" the queen got up and walked over to her.
Merida went over to the next one, shot another arrow, and again she hit in the center of the target.
"Don't you dare loose another arrow!" the queen said still walking up. Then reached the last target.
"You've got this, Merida!" Sora exclaimed.
"You stop encouraging her!" the queen yelled to Sora. "Merida, I forbid it."
Merida let loose the arrow and it hit Dingwall's arrow, splitting it in half, and went all the way through the target.
"Go, Merida!" Sora and his friends yelled happily.
Merida turned back to them with a smile on her face, but then turned around to her mother.
"Come!" she grabbed Merida by her arm and pulled her along. "Boys! You too! Come!" she looked back to the four and they followed.
As they followed the queen they heard people asking each other questions like "Who are those four?" And "Are they from here?"
Inside the castle, the queen forced Merida in, and pushed Sora and the others in as well.
"I've just about had enough of you and your friends lass!" the queen said angrily.
"You're the one that wants me to..." Merida was about to say, but the queen went and raved on.
"You embarrassed them. You embarrassed me!"
"I followed the rules!" Merida managed to say.
"You don't know what you've done!" the queen slammed the door behind her.
"It'll be fire and sword if it's not set right."
"Just listen!" Merida yelled annoyed.
"I am the queen! You listen to me!" Queen Elinor raised her voice. "And you four! I told you to be on your best behavior! You encouraged her to do something that you all knew was wrong. You talked her into this, didn't you?!"
"Mother, you leave them alone!" Merida defended them. "They had nothing to do with this! It was all me!"
"I will deal with you boys later," she turned back to Merida.
"This is so unfair!" Merida complained.
"Unfair?" the queen got confused.
"You're never there for me," Merida picked up a sword. "This whole marriage is what you want. Do you ever bother to ask what I want? No. You walk around telling me what to do, what not to do..." Merida paced, swinging the sword. "...trying to make me be like you. Well, I'm not going to be like you."
"You're acting like a child."
"And you're a beast," Merida went over to a tapestry of her and her parents on the wall and poked it with the sword. "That's what you are!"
"Merida." The queen tried to stop her.
"I'll never be like you," Merida kept the sword on the tapestry.
"No, stop that!"
"I'd rather die than be like you!" Merida yelled and split the tapestry.
The queen had gasped at what she'd just done, then glared at her and walked over to her. "Merida you are a princess." she took the sword and tossed it aside, then stripped Merida of her bow and arrow. "I expect you to act like one." She walked over to the fireplace and threw Merida's bow in the fire.
Merida gasped, and the queen just stared angrily at her. After that Merida ran out of the room crying.
"Merida!" Sora called and took off after her.
"Sora!" Riku, Donald and Goofy called to him.
"Merida!" the queen yelled out to her. "Merida!" but then she looked back to the fireplace, took one of the tools and pulled Merida's burnt bow out. "What have I done?"
"Great. I hope you're happy now," Riku said to the queen. "Ever hear the phrase two wrongs don't make a right? Huh?!"
Then the queen just broke down crying at the sight of Merida's burnt bow.
"Come on," Riku said to Donald and Goofy. "We gotta find them." Then all three of them ran out of the room, leaving Queen Elinor alone.
Outside the castle, Merida and Sora both rode out on Merida's horse, Angus. Merida still crying, buried her face into the back her horse's neck.
They rode deep into the forest, Angus ran and ran as fast as he could. They passed through nothing but tress and bushes, all the greenage looking the same, until finally Angus stopped and Merida and Sora were thrown forward, off Angus' back.
"Angus!" Merida said tearfully to him.
Merida and Sora got up and saw they were in a circle of big, black rocks, standing tall, like Stonehenge.
All of a sudden, the long grass started to blow, but there was no wind.
Merida looked all around, then she looked to see a little blue misty object.
"What is that?" Sora asked.
"A wisp," Merida answered and they both walked up to it.
Merida attempted to touch it, but it vanished into thin air, then reappeared a few feet away, along with more.
Merida looked back to her horse. "Come on, Angus." She tried to get him to follow, but he hid behind those tall rocks. "Angus!" she said annoyed to her horse, but he just stayed where he was. Merida sighed. "Come on, Sora. Let's have a look."
"All right. But just in case there are Heartless," Sora summoned the Keyblade.
"Oh, that big key of yours?" Merida asked.
"It's called a Key-blade. It's a powerful weapon. It chose me for what seems like ages ago." Sora remembered when he first encountered the Heartless and got the Keyblade.
"Come on. Let's follow those wisps."
They walked towards the wisps, following a trail of them.
Angus whinnied and followed them.
They followed the trail of wisps went through more of the greenage of the forest and the trail stopped at a small cottage covered in greenage.
"Why would the wisps lead us here?" Merida asked.
"I'm not sure. But let's find out," Sora replied and they walked on to the old cottage.
They went to the place, opened the door, and a bell above them rung as they opened it.
Inside was old and musty and there were art carvings all over. There were pots, puppets, figurines and statues.
"Oh, look around," they heard a voice from behind.
Merida and Sora looked behind them to see an old lady, with warts all over her face, wearing a black dress, she had black earrings on her ears, and her gray hair was all bunched up, behind her head in a big braid. She was carving a big piece of wood into a bear statue. "You holler if you see anything you like. Everything is half off."
Merida and Sora looked all around and saw all the wood carvings were all bear designed. "Uh, who are you?" Merida asked.
"Just a humble woodcarver," the old lady answered.
"I don't understand," Merida said and picked up a bear head pot.
Sora put away the Keyblade and looked around. He went next to Merida and picked up a wooden cane, with a bear head for a handle. "It's all bear themed."
They turned around and the old lady stood right next to them and flinched. "See anything you like?" she asked while sweeping.
"Perhaps a touch of whimsy to brighten any dank chamber?" she dropped her broom and went over to a carving of two bears on a seesaw.
"But the Will-o'-the-wisps, they..." Merida was about to say, but then the old lady cut her off.
"Oh, this is one of a kind," the lady held up another carving of a bear catching fish from a lake. "I'll make you a deal for this rare prize."
Merida and Sora looked at it closely but then turned around and gasped at what they saw. Her broom was sweeping the floor, but no one was using it.
"Your broom!" Merida exclaimed. But then the old lady snapped her fingers, and it stopped and fell to the floor. "It was sweeping by itself."
"That's ridiculous," the old woman tried to reason. "Wood cannot be imbued with magical properties. I should know I'm a wit...Whittler. Of wood." She ran over to the other side of the place and grabbed another carving. "How about this conversation starter. It's made of yew wood. Tough as stone." She held it up and it was a wooden picture of a bear being blessed by another bear as God.
Merida and Sora both looked around and on a bear statue, they saw a still, lifelike crow.
"Oh, ah, ah, ah, ah!" she stopped them. "That's stuffed."
Merida stared into the crow's lifelike eyes and was about to touch it, but then it not only moved, it snapped its beak it her. Then the strangest thing of all happened. "Staring is rude." It talked!
"The crow's talking!" Merida exclaimed and jumped back and Sora raised the Keyblade.
"That's not all I can do." And then the crow started singing.
Then the old lady snapped her fingers again and this time, her broom hit the crow, and it tried to sweep him away, but it got back up and squawked at the broom, scaring it off, and making it hide behind a shelf.
"You're a witch!" Merida exclaimed and looked back to the witch.
"Woodcarver," was all she said and started working on another carving.
"That's why the wisps led me here." Merida went on.
"Woodcarver!" the witch exclaimed and went to another carving.
"You'll change my fate!"
"Woodcarver!" she slammed an axe down on a log of wood.
"You see, it's my mother," Merida tried to explain.
"I'm not a witch!" the witch yelled and jumped down from where she stood. "Too many unsatisfied customers."
Sora went by Merida's side still holding the Keyblade.
"If you or your little friend aren't going to buy anything, get out," she snapped her fingers and a bunch of blades and sharp objects came up behind her.
Merida flinched and backed away, Sora followed still wielding the Keyblade, and the witch moved towards them.
"No. The wisps led us here!" Merida exclaimed.
"I don't care!" yelled the witch and she kept making them back up then opened the door with her magic. "Get out! Shoo! Be gone with you!"
"I'll buy it all," Merida said and the witch stopped.
"What was that?" asked the witch.
"Every carving," Merida repeated, and the sharp objects pointed to the witch.
"And how are you going to pay for that, sweetie?" the blades turned back to Merida and Sora.
"With this," Merida took off a silver medallion designed with bear heads.
"Oh, my that's lovely, that is," the witch stared in awe and her crow came and landed on her head.
"That would set us up for months," said the crow.
The blades all dropped to the floor and witch tried to take it but Merida pulled it away.
"Every carving and one spell," Merida finished her terms.
The crow squawked and the witch grabbed him by his beak, then threw him on the floor. "Are you sure you know what you're doing?"
"She has a point, Merida," Sora put away the Keyblade. "Are you sure about this?"
"I'm positive. I want a spell to change my mum. That will change my fate."
"Done!" the witch took Merida's trinket and she pushed them forward and walked out of the cottage, then she snapped her fingers which closed the door.
"What are you doing?" asked Merida.
"You never conjure where you carve," the witch replied and opened the door. Inside the place was completely different.
Inside there were now candles all over the place, books and potions , and a big cauldron in the center.
"The last time I did this was for a prince." The witch clapped her hands and the cauldron started to glow green on the inside.
"A prince?" Sora asked confused.
"Easy on the eyes. Tight pants," said the crow.
"He demanded I give him the strength of ten men. And he gave me this for a spell." She held up a ring with two axes crossed as a symbol. "A spell that would change his fate."
Merida looked close at the ring. "And did he get what he was after?"
The witch laughed. "Yes. And made off especially attractive mahogany cheese board. Now what don I need?" she asked herself and started to browse through all her items. "Just a little bit of this." she threw something into a cauldron, turning what was inside dark, purple and misty.
The witch started to look under something, pulled out another little item, and threw it in the cauldron, making it glow blue.
The crow came down from the ceiling, landed on Merida's shoulder, then pulled out a piece of her red hair.
He gave it to the witch and she put it in the cauldron, turning it red like lava.
"That'll do," said the witch as she stepped onto a stool and started to mix the potion which was now yellow glowing. She pulled out her mixer, and part of it melted. After doing that, she put on a welding mask, then gave one to her crow. Then she sprinkled something in, making the glow of it grow brighter.
Merida looked close at it, but the witch put her hand on Merida's face, covering it.
A bright light then flashed, causing Sora, who stood next to the exit for the whole thing to shield his eyes.
The light flashed and faded in only a second or two.
"And now let's see. What do we have here?" the witch took off her mask then used a pair of metal pinchers to pull something out of the cauldron. She took it and set it on a small cloth on a table. The crow pecked at it, but then the witch slapped him away.
"A cake?" Merida asked seeing as it was just a tiny, bite sized cake.
"You don't want it?" asked the witch.
"Yes. I want it," Merida replied. "You're sure if I give this to my mum, it will change my fate?"
The witch started to laugh again. "Trust me. It'll do the trick, dear." She wrapped it up, gave it to Merida, then moved her and Sora out of the cottage. "Expect delivery of your purchase within a fortnight. What was that thing about the spell?"
"Did you say something about..." they looked behind and saw the cottage was gone, and they were standing in front of those tall rocks again. "...the spell?"
"Are you sure about this, Merida. How do we know she's not the on sending in Heartless?"
"I don't have any other choice, Sora. If I want to be free from my mother and her ways, I must do this."
"Sora! Merida!" they both heard that squawking voice and looked behind to see Riku, Donald and Goofy, all with their weapons at hand.
"There you two are. We thought the Heartless had gotten to you," said Riku.
"Did you see any?" Sora asked.
"They slowed us down when we were looking for you and Merida. Where did you go?"
"We met this old woman who turned out to be a witch, but she gave Merida something that she thinks will change Queen Elinor. Though I'm worried that old woman is responsible for bringing the Heartless."
Then the four all looked to Merida.
"Sorry. I've made up my mind. I'm doing what I have to."
"Just be careful. We don't even know who that old lady really was," said Sora.
"Come on. Let's head back," Merida said and mounted Angus.
All right. I'm gonna stop there. Sorry I waited a long time to update. For some reason I just haven't been feeling up to this, but I don't know why. Anyhow, I hope you enjoy this. Next chapter, well you know what happens if you've seen Brave. Please read, review, and enjoy.
