HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE! Here's a long chapter just for my most loved holiday! Please enjoy!
God damn dislaimer - I do not own anything Disney realted, or anything related to Fate/Stay Night! But I do own my characters, this story and . . . that's about it.
Opening her eyes, Gale sees only darkness.
Awake. I'm awake. She thought. Need to make coffee, breakfast, my lunch, do the dishes and pots . . . what . . . what else . . . oh yeah. I have to pack for Disney.
"Disney . . ." she whispered
So long since I've been there. Last time I was there was before . . . before V died.
V, or Vail, was at one time a bright, happy little girl. She had wavy dirty blonde hair, that in the right light would turn gold, and wide dark green eyes that took in everything they saw.
No one could have thought that a healthy 10-year-old, with thw world ahead of her, would get a cold and never recover.
"Vail, don't be surprised if I start to cry when I get there."
"Who's Vail?"
Gale bolted up as someone lit the candles.
Oh it's him . . . I forgot . . . I am in Disney.
"Who's Vail?" he asked again
"No one you need to concern yourself with." she sneered
Peter grimaced.
"I was told by Merlin to show you around the base."
"Tch."
Gale got out of the hammock and stretched.
"I thought I was going to get Excalibur?"
"Merlin still needs to find volunteers. Not many are willing to help someone they don't know."
"Oh."
They made eye contact and didn't speak for a few seconds.
"Well?" said Gale
"Well, what?" Peter responded
"Aren't you gonna show me around the base, like Merlin told you to?" She said putting her hands behind her head
Gale gasped and started to pat her head.
"What are you doing?"
"I HAVE HAIR!"
She started dancing around chanting "My hair's back, my hair's back!" with a big smile on her face.
"Gale!" he called from the stairs
She stopped "Party pooper." she whispered
"Base!"
"Coming!"
She jogged over to him and they started up the stairs.
As they went up the stairs Peter would periodically glance behind him and watch Gale bring her fingers through her wavy hair. Getting out the knots that had formed while she slept.
She had a little smile on her face as she did this, revealing her cute dimples.
Peter snapped his head forward with a light blush on his face.
What are you doing? He thought She wants to castrate you, remember?
They got to the top of the stairs and saw Merlin walking to them.
"Hi, Merlin!" Gale said
"Hello, Gale. Did you have a nice rest?" he asked
"Yup! Uh, could you tell me what you did with the bandage that was on my leg?"
"I had it washed and dried. Why? Would you like to have it?"
"Yeah, I need something to hold my hair back."
"Alright then, the next time I see you, I'll give it to you."
"Thanks!"
"Remember Peter show her the whole base. I'll send someone to find you when I've found another person for the group."
"I will, let's go." Peter said walking away
"See ya' later, Merlin!"
Peter showed her all around the bas starting at the bottom. There was the Storage room, Weapons room, Infirmary, the Gathering room; where Gale had been dragged to when she first came here, lots and lots of sleeping areas, and the Plan room.
"God what is it with this place and stairs?" she said her legs starting to burn
"Get used to it. The last place I'm bringing you to is called "The Watchtower."
They climbed higher and higher up to a point when the stairs actually went outside and wrapped around a tree.
"Wait a minute,"Gale whispered to herself
She looked around seeing gadgets, conveyer belts and rooms built into the tree.
"Is this the Swiss Family Treehouse?" She asked
"Hm-hmm."
"Cool."
They got up to the railed platform that sat on top of the tree. The view was amazing! They could see almost every part of the Magic Kingdom from this spot.
Gale's eyes were wide as she looked at this beautiful view.
"Wow." she saighed
She looked out at the Magic Kingdom. From what she could see everything looked okay, but she knew from what happened to her before, nothing was how it seemed.
Looking at Cinderella's Castle she could see the shimmering blue shiled that Merlin had talked about.
"How did it get to be this way? When did it all start?" Gale said turning to Peter
Peter turned his head in thought.
"I don't know exactly when it started but I know that I was asked to join the Resistance, after the first battle, and that was . . . baout four years ago?
After that things just kept on getting worse. When a human would be brought here, after gaining our trust, and giving us hope, would switch over to the Lord's side. Leaving us to once again fend for ourselves against a growing force."
Gale scrunched her forehead in thought.
"Good tactic." she said
"What?"
"The human who earned your trust and gave you hope, ditched you for what they thought was something better. Correct?"
"Yeah . . .?"
"Well whoever recruited them would know that. Thus having more pleasure in tearing out a piece of your heart and spirit, affecting you emotionally."
Peter raised an eyebrow.
Gale groaned. Remember Gale, you're explaining this to a child.
"The less hope you have, the less you'll want to fight, and friend or not the less you trust someone, the less you'll trust them to fight with you."
"Ohhh, okay. I-I guess that's a good tactic." he said still looking confused
Gale shook her head, and went back to looking at the view.
Are you here? You dissapered when you went to Disney World. Were you sucked into this dimension like I was? If you were, why aren't you fighting against the Lord?
"Peter!" someone cried
"I'm up here!" he responded
Cubby ran up the stairs and saluted at Peter.
"Report!" Peter commanded
"Merlin is ready for departure! Gale is needed!" he said
"Good job. Come on Gale, let's go."
"About time." Gale whispered
The three of them ran through the corridors to the Gathering Room where Marling was surrounded by a small group of three.
"Gale! Good, now we have the whole group. Here." He said handing her the bandage and a brush
"Thanks."
She quickly brushed her hair and tied it into a high ponytail, the long tails of the bow falling down either side of her hair.
"Good now time for introductions. Gale this is PJ, Pete's son, and Clarabelle; PJ and Clarabelle, Gale."
"Hi!" said Gale waving
Both PJ and Clarabelle looked up and down at her.
"Hey, old goat, can we get goin' already?" said PJ
"Yeah, let's get a mooove on!" said Clarabelle
Gale smiled Vail always liked it whenever I would copy that habit of Clarabelle's.
Her smiled dissapered when she saw the female mouse.
"What're you doing here? You're not coming with us, are you?" Gale asked
"Of course I'm coming with you!" she said angrily "Why do you think otherwise?"
"Uhhm . . . you don't like me?" she answered
"It's to keep an eye on you. So if you turn tail I can get you in the back."
Gale's eye grew wide.
"Okay. Whatever make's ya' feel comfortable."
WOW! Note to self: Do NOT turn my back on Minnie! She thought eyeing the small lethal blades on the mouse's waist.
"Gale it's time to go. Are you ready?" asked Merlin
"Been ready since I got up!" she declared
"Enthusiasm, I love it! Let's go!"
As Gale took her first step to follow Merlin a hand grabbed her wrist. Turning her head she saw it was Peter.
"What?" she said annoyed
He recoiled his hand and started to rub his head.
"Uhm . . . I-I just . . . just wanted to . . . uhhh . . ."
Gale groaned and put her hands on her hips.
"Spit it out already!"
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry I didn't believe you before, I'm sorry about dragging you and I'm sorry for not remembering what Merlin told me!"
Gale turned her face away and covered her mouth as she giggled.
"You really want to get off that list, don't you?"
"Yes."
"Well, the list isn't long, and it's very hard to get on, only if you do something really bad to me. But to get off . . . it is something that none of these people have learned to say."
"What is it?"
"You've already said it."
He thought for a few seconds.
"I'm sorry?"
"Yup. Congrats! You are the first person to get off my list."
"Thankyou." he said
"No prob. Now I gotta get goin'. See ya' later Peter!"
"See ya'."
Peter watched as the auburn-haired female bound away after the old wizard. As soon as she got out of sight he thought,
That's the first time she's said my name.
Making their way up a long ladder and through a tunnel, they came out through the hole at the back of the Mickey's PhilharMagic theater.
They set down on the carpeted floor.
"Merlin, could you tell how we're going to get Excalibur?" Gale asked
"Alright I'll say it quickly. At Thunder Mountain I've set up a little diversion that should give us enough time to go over and get Excalibur."
"And this distraction is . . .?"
BOOM!
Gale's eyes went wide as she felt the ground rumble.
"Let's go!" Merlin said grabbing Gale's wrist.
"You blew up Thunder Mountain!?" she cried
"Just a little!" he yelled as they got outside
Gale looked behind them and could see over the buildings, a huge grey mushroom cloud.
They got over to Excalibur and Merlin put his hands on the anvil.
"Get ready Gale!" he said
She put her hands on Excaliburs handle and gripped it tightly.
"You remember what to do?"
"Yes."
"Good, when I say pull, PULL!"
"Got it."
Merlin closed his eyes and concentrated. Gale watched as the anvil started to glow a dull red, then a bright orange, and finally a blinding white.
"PULL!" he yelled
Gale pulled, and the only thing she could relate to pulling out the sword, was putting a spoon through frozen yogurt.
A white light surrounded Gale, and a few seconds slipped by.
The light dissapered to reveal Gale in a white and black dress. Silver armor over her hips, a chest piece with a small black insignia on it, gauntlets and knee length armored boots. A small black bow on each of the sleeves, with a larger black bow keeping her hair together.
PAUSE!
A woman walks out from nowhere and clears her throat.
"I am sorry, but I need to inform you now that when it comes to describing intricate clothing I am just utter crap. Just Google or Bing, 'Saber Lily outfit.' For Google, should be the first images on the left. Bing will be the second row down, third pic in. I'll give you a few seconds."
She starts tapping her boots and looks at her watchless wrist.
"Did you see it. Completely bad ass outfit right? Okay, back to the story."
She walks back to nowhere.
UNPAUSE!
Merlin wiped the sweat off his brow.
"You did it!" he cried happily
"Did you think I wouldn't?" Gale asked
"Little bit." he said bringing up his fingers
Gale laughed. "That's alright, I was a bit nervous, so I actually used an outfit from a character I really like."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
Gale turned her head and saw something that seemed odd to her.
Was there rubble over there before? Gale thought uneasily
"Gale, where're you going?" Merlin cried
Her 'Lily outfit' and Excalibur dissapered and returned to her original outfit, as she ran over to the rubbled area.
As she turned the corner she gasped.
The Mad Tea Party . . . was demolished.
The metal girders were sticking up out of the concrete rubble, the colorful bits of the large teacups were scattered around, and in the middle of it all, was a large shoe print dented a few feet into the ground.
"Oh . . . my . . ." Her eyes went wide in horror as a chill went down her spine
On the rubble ahead of her, there was a large red blotch that before it had dried, oozed its way onto the ground to create a puddle. Little streams had flowed from the puddle just to coagulate near Gale's bare feet.
A strangled cry escaped her lips as she stepped back and fell on her bum.
Backing up until she hit the wall she covered her mouth, and swallowed the bile that had forced it's way up her esophagus.
As the tears from, the burning bile escaped her eyes, Merlin came around the corner and saw the wreakage of the beloved ride.
He kneeled next to Gale, and rubbed her back, like a person would to comfort a sick child.
"Gale, you need to be strong." He whispered "This is why we need you more than ever."
She nodded her head as she sucked air in through her nose and swallowed.
"I'm sorry, jast a . . . a bit of a shock." she said slowly getting to her feet
Gale took Merlin's outstretched hand, and took one last look at her favorite ride.
"Merlin, wait . . ."
"What?"
Gale let go of his hand and walked around the rubble.
"Hatter!" Gale cried
She ran towards the white haired man sitting on the ground. His clothes and hair were covered in a fine layer of dust, giving his white hair a grey shade. Making him look older and decrepid.
His eyes though, is what worried Gale. They were devoid of color and emotion. Like before when she was trying to escape. But Gale knew that this time it was because of lose, and she knew what lose could do to some people.
She sat down next to him and for the first time notced he wasn't wearing his hat. Probably lost inside the rubble.
Thinking for a few seconds she smiled. She took the bandage out from her hair. It was the same color that his hat had been.
Concentrating, the bandage started to glow and morph.
When the light dissapered she had in her hand an exact duplicate of his old hat, with a few extras that Gale added.
She blew at his hair getting the dust out and placed the hat on his head.
"Happy un-birthday." Gale whispered
She got up and walked over to the group that watched what happened.
"What?" Gale asked
"What do you mean 'what?'" said Minnie angrily "We should be back at the base right now! But you have to waste our time with meaningless things!"
"Meaningless? That was not meaningless! He is the Mad Hatter, and a hatter is not a hatter without his hat!"
"I don't care! He's part of them, he abandoned us! He dosn't deserve to live!"
"So you say he should just die?"
"YES!"
"My god . . .how heartless are you?"
Before any other words could be said she walked past the group and headed for the theater.
"Gale." Merlin called going after her
"What?"
"Where's Excalibur?"
Gale dangled a clip that was attached to a small chain, with a miniaturized Excalibur dangling off of it.
"What the . . ."
"I turned it into a keychain, so I could clip it onto something."
"How . . . amazing. That's ingenious!"
"Thanks."
"Everyone," PJ said "We have to move. I see blobs up ahead."
But Gale didn't hear him. The only thing she noticed was a tall white haired man, wearing a white tophat with a deep red band around it and a lavender lotus flower, with gold on the edges of the petals, sewed into the crook of the hat.
The man looked up, made eye contact with her, and smiled.
"Yes." Gale sighed
As she started to run for him she felt her feet leave the ground, a small blade wiz past her head, and a pain in her hip as she fell to the ground.
Ignoring the pain she looked for him, but he wasn't there anymore.
"Where . . . where he go?" she said wide-eyed
"MINNIE!"
Gale looked behind her and saw Merlin yelling at Minnie.
"HOW COULD YOU!? YOU ALMOST KILLED HER!"
What?
Gale looked at Minnie's waist and saw she only had one blade.
Gale got up, grabbing the Excalibur key chain that she dropped, and walked over to Merlin, tugging on his cloak like a child would.
"WHAT!?" he yelled "Oh, Gale I'm, I'm sorry."
"Shouldn't we get out of here?" she asked
"Hmm? Oh, oh yes, come on! Hurry!"
He once again grabbed her hand and they all hurried back to the base, even though somehow the blobs had dissapered.
They were all breathing hard from their run, as they stood in the Gathering room.
Charming walked over to them.
"I hope your trek was successful?" he asked
"Yes . . . ah . . . it was." Merlin gasped
"Where's Excalibur?"
Gale showed him the keychain.
He pointed at it. "Excalibur?"
"Yup" she said
"Tiny."
"Minnie! You and I need a talk!" Merlin cried suddenly
"Don't bother Merlin, you know exactly why I did it. The only question you should be asking is 'Why did she start to run from us?'"
"Gale, why did you run from us?"
Gale looked at them.
"You didn't see him?" she answered sadly
"See who?"
"The man. He was standing near 'It's a Small World.'"
The rest of the group looked at each other.
"He had white hair, pale skin, tall, white top hat! Please! Tell me one of you saw him!" She pleaded
"Gale, I'm sorry but I don't think any of us saw whoever this person is." said Merlin
"You had to have seen him! He was right there! How could you not have seen him!?"
She rubbed her eyes as tears started to form.
He was there! I know he was!
"Merlin," Minnie whispered " we need to get her out of here, I knew she was unstable . . ."
"I have ears you know! They might not be as big as yours but I have 'em!"
Gale looked away as more tears of frustration escaped her eyes.
"Gale, I believe you. I believe you saw someone." Merlin said bringing her into a hug
"Really?" she questioned looking up at him
He looked away.
Gale pushed him away dropping the keychain.
"Leave me alone!" she cried as she ran away from them
She ran and ran until the railing of the watchtower stopped her.
"Why?" she sobbed "Why didn't they see you!? Am I going insane?"
She hit herself in the head.
"NO! STOP IT! YOU SAW HIM! HE IS HERE! He- he is here. But, why didn't he show himself to everyone?"
She rubbed her eyes.
"He . . . must have had a good reason not to show himself."
She looks out at Magic Kingdom.
"At least . . . at least I know you are here, and I will find you. Maybe you can somehow even hear me. I hope you can hear me, cause . . . cause I'm gonna sing the song you love to hear."
I'll be your candle on the water
My love for for you will always burn
I know you're lost and drifting
But the clouds are lifting
Don't give up you have somewhere to turn
I'll be your candle on the water
'Till every wave it warm and bright
My soul is there beside you
Let this candle guide you
Soon you'll see a golden stream of light
A cold an friendless tide has found you
Don't let the stormy darkness pull you down
I'll paint a ray of hope around you
Circling in the air
Lighted by a prayer
I'll be your candle on the water
This flame inside of me will grow
Keep holding on you'll make it
Here's my hand so take it
Look for me reaching out to show
As sure as river flow
I'll never let you go
I'll never let you go
I'll never let you go . . .
Her hope was answered and he could hear her. He could even see the golden glow around her that was only visible to him.
He clutched his heart, and reached for her, as if he could grab her wrist and hold her against him for the rest of eternity.
"Songbird."
Me - (Drawing circles and lines on paper)
Merlin (Peeks over shoulder) - What are you doing?
Me - Writing my name in Gallifreyan.
Merlin - Galli-what?
Me - 'Gallifreyan' it's from my favorite show 'Doctor Who.'
Merlin (o_O)
Me (sniff) - It's so lonely being a nerd sometimes.
A drawer on my desk opens up and the Mad Hatter jumps out of it.
Me (D:)(sobs) - WHYYYYY?
Mad Hatter - Why what my dear? You know you should really be more specific as to why you scream in such a distressing tone.
Me (rubbing temple)(groans) - How 'bout this everytime I want tea you make it.
Mad Hatter - Now whhyyy would I do that?
Me - I'm paying for the roof you're going to live under.
Mad Hatter - Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm . . . Deal!
Me - Now go make me some tea, black with two tablespoons of sugar.
Mad Hatter - Aye aye capitain!
Hatter runs out of my room to go make tea.
Me (-_-) - Merlin, why do characters keep appearing in my house after every chapter?
Merlin (sighs) - I have no clue.
Me (sighs) - Thanks for reading the story guys! If you liked it, loved it, or hated it with a burning passion leave a review. Oh and once again have a HAPPY HALLOWEEN!