"You shouldn't have left without telling me!"

Hildy groaned, she rolled her eyes so high up into her head, it felt like her brain could burst at any second. Hildy would have had an easy night after warning Queen Delightful about Shapeshifter, had she not been caught.

Grim and The Crystal Ball shared a glance. Their eyes screamed with worried apprehension, Grim shivered a bit. Hildy had her arms resting on the dining table, heedlessly ignoring the little lecture she received.

"Hildy... why did you go to the Queen's castle?" Shapeshifter leaned closer to Hildy, invading her space. Hildy growled, standing up as if on instinct. "And where is that choker Queen Delightful gave you?"

Hildy stopped dead in her tracks. "It's right in my pur...-" Reaching for her side purse, she gulped when realizing it was missing.

"Look... I KNOW about your little relationship with the Queen. She gave you a choker as a GIFT and now you think you're all buddy-buddies."

Goldilocks rocked on the balls of her feet. She smirked smugly over to Dr. J and Bingo. "Smack her!"

Shapeshifter glared behind his shoulder, burning holes into Goldilocks' fair skin. "What?" He muttered.

"Give her what she deserves for hanging with dumb Queenie-Bo-Beenie!" Goldilocks chanted. "Smack her! Smack her! Smack her!"

Bingo was somehow "inspired" by Goldilocks' violent speech. He began shouting along with her. "Smack her! Smack her!"

"QUIET!" Shapeshifter silenced everyone, causing Goldilocks and Bingo to bounce back. He paused, then zipped his head to face Hildy once again. Hildy felt anxious. Would he really hit her?

Shapeshifter raised a fist, slamming it into Hildy's kitchen table. The side of the table split in half, splinters and tiny pieces of wood flew all around, landing on the ground underneath the table. He took a large deep breath, trying to keep his cool. His gaze returned to Hildy and with a nasty snarl, he asked her, "Hildy. I'll ask one more time. WHAT were you doing at the party? And why did you not tell ANYONE about your departure?"

Grim slowly ambled to his wife, protecting her. "H-hildy didn't do anything wrong... don't hurt her!"

"Is your name Hildy?" Shapeshifter retorted. "No! So move over!"

Grim flinched. He glanced over to his wife with worry-some eyes, hoping she had a good explanation. No one knew why she went to the party. She didn't tell anybody- not even her own husband!

"Shapeshifter... you wanted me to go to the party. So why is it such a big deal to you?"

"Because you never told me!" He yelled. "You were supposed to tell us! And for the record- I would have LIKED to go with you. I wanted to mess up Doc's fireworks with you." He paused.

"You did ruin the fireworks like I asked... right?"

"N-no... there wasn't enough time..." Hildy lied.

"Not enough time?" He stole a glance over at Grim. Grim smiled sheepishly as a response to his gaze. "When exactly did you leave for the party?"

"Uhh... I don't remember?" Hildy responded, although it sounded more like a question.

"Hmmph." He snorted. He relaxed his fists, placing his hands behind his back in a formal way as he headed towards the door to exit. Hildy pleaded in her mind, wanting him to leave immediately. Before he left, he looked behind his shoulder. "Goldilocks, Dr J and I will work together to come up with the first phase of our plan to kill Queen Delightful... and you WILL join us."

Goldilocks left with a giggle, Dr J and Bingo absent-mindedely stumbled out, and the door shut with a loud BAM!


Happy giddily slammed the door open, his smile wide as per usual, and he hopped his way over to the messy sofa, picking up random objects, making everything look nice and clean. Doc, whom was reading a newspaper, glanced up from it, sending a weird glare Happy's way. Happy didn't seem to notice. Happy swiftly picked up a duster, dusting all the walls, despite them hardly carrying any dust at all.

"Uh... Happy? You ok?" Doc stifled a snicker at Happy's beaming smile and strange attitude. Happy didn't turn around to face Doc, but merely continued dusting the exact same spot on the wall for a long time.

"Hehe, awwh nothing." Happy replied. "Just my parents are coming over and such."

Doc dropped his paper in excitement and shock. "YOUR PARENTS?!"

"Well yeah! Did I forgot to tell you..?"

"FORGOT? I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW YOU HAD PARENTS!" Doc practically shouted.

"Hehe..." Happy awkwardly laughed. "Well, uh... they aren't my REAL parents. Adopted. Adopted parents."

"Well we gotta clean this place up!" Doc declared, as he zoomed out into the kitchen, and as quick as a flash he returned, pushing a large wooden machine in front of him. "Cleaner-Upper should do the trick!" He announced, pushing a red button on the machine. The machine sprung to life, mechanical arms flung out of it, similar to Doc's hat, except there were a lot more arms. The arms held dusters, dusting pans, and cleaning spray. Doc smiled with glee. He rubbed his hands together in satisfaction.

"Wow Doc!" Happy's eyes were glistening, easily impressed. "That reminds me of those machines in that Cat In The Hat movie Mike Myers stared in!"

Grumpy gazed over at Happy as if he just insulted his whole ancestries. "NEVER mentioned that awful movie again..." Happy laughs at this.

The machine's work is done in 10 seconds flat. The machine returns to Doc, it's arms vanish back inside itself, and Doc pats the machine on the head as if it's some sort of dog. "Good boy. Who's a good boy? You are!"

Bashful chuckles to himself. "Doc is insane."

There's a knock heard on the door, waking Sleepy. Sleepy yawns loudly as Doc begins freaking out. "FIRST IMPRESSIONS ARE EVERYTHING! FIRST IMPRESSIONS ARE EVERYTHING!"

"Uh... Doc, uh, maybe you should relax in the kitchen for a bit." Happy says to him, but there is a slight pause. "A-actually... if you all don't mind... I'd actually prefer if all of you left for a bit. It's been a while since I've seen my parents, so I kinda wanna take it slow before I bombard them all with the knowledge of you guys... nothing against you... just...-"

Another knock was heard, this time abrupt and obnoxiously loud. Happy nervously chuckles, and the others decide to go into the kitchen.

"Alright. Well, hope everything goes smoothly." Doc replies with a sigh.

They all head into the kitchen. Grumpy gives Happy a thumbs up. "Don't worry about anything, Hap. They'll love you."

Happy gushes, before hearing the third knock. He zips towards the door. "Coming! Coming, coming, coming!" He hastily turns the knob, greeting his adopted parents after a long time.

His mother has tan skin with a sweet, soft miniature smile. It was a perfect size for her adorable figure. She's wearing a long coral pink colored dress. It's styled nicely. Underneath the dress are black boots. She has black hair that overlaps a side of her face, but when seeing Happy, she quickly wraps it behind one ear.

His father looks a bit different. Because of a rare condition called Purplimotimus ((fake disease, lol)) he has amethyst colored skin and lighter purple hair. His hair is pretty short. He's wearing a cyan shirt with black pants and black shoes.

"Hapsy!" His mother, Renata shrieks with joy. She pounces at him, squishing a large and disgustingly wet kiss on Happy's cheek. Happy smiles at his mother's look of joy, but bounces back a bit at her random kiss.

"Hi mother!" He exclaims back.

"You live here? Wow... how'd you get all the money to save up for something so roomy?" His father, Vincent, spoke next.

Happy waved his father's question off. "Oh no, no, no, I don't actually live alone! I'm a part of the 7D! Remember?"

His two parents stare at him with questioning eyes and puzzled expressions, obviously not getting the memo.

"The 7D? Grumpy?"

They stood still.

"Bashful? Doc? Sneezy? Sleepy?"

No response.

"...Dopey?"

Renata and Vincent glance at each other simultaneously.

"Did you not read any of the letters I sent you two?!" Happy asks in anguish.

Renata's eyes suddenly sparkled, as if she deciphered her son's question. "Oooh! We moved out of that cruddy house YEARS AGO!"

"Oh." Happy murmurs, feeling a bit vacant.

"But we would LOVE to meet em'! Where are those sweet little munchkins?" Vincent asks, slamming his hands together, making a low clapping sound.

Happy giggled. "Come out you guys!" He screamed towards the kitchen. The door opened and all Happy's friends greeted Happy's parents with open arms.

"H-hi..." Bashful squeaked shyly.

"Hi-ACHOOOO!" Sneezed Sneezy.

"Hiya." Sleepy waved, his eyes halfway open.

"How are ya?" Grumpy asked, munching on a cheese roll.

Dopey entered, waving his hands around with a cute smile. He whistled to say hello.

"It's nice to meet you!" Doc said, exiting last.

"Ahh, the kid with the flowerpot hat! What's his name... Grumpy, is it?" Vincent paused. "You used to talk about him a lot!"

Happy blushed. "Wha...? Uh what are you talking about?"

"Yeah! The few conversations we had with you on the tin can thingy revolved around Grumpy!"

Grumpy dropped his cheese. "What?"

"Y-you're mistaken!" Happy lied. "By "Grumpy" you mean "Sir. Gramps"! A character from a book series!"

Bashful cocked his head to the side. "Since when do you read books?"

"Since Doc introduced me to them!"

"I did?" Doc asked himself, nearly going insane.

"Yes! You probably forgot. It was a long time ago!" Happy explained.

"Oh."

It was silent for some time, the 7D were going through that awkward conversation in their minds for a few moments, before Bashful spoke up.

"Why don't we introduce your parents to Queen Delightful?" He broke the silence.

Happy highly liked that idea. "That's a great idea!" He exclaimed. "To the castle!"

"HEIGH-HO!" They all shouted in unison, as everyone rushed their way over to the Queen's castle.

Happy turned to face his parents. "That's what we say when we visit the Queen!"

Vincent and Renata shared a glance before happily bounding after the 7D, following their trail to the Queen's castle!


Queen Delightful has deep, grey lines underneath her eyes from lack of sleep. She yawned, and then slowly reached up for her sun choker she was currently wearing. She fingered the design, until the 7D knocked on the royal doors.

Queen Delightful groaned, her headache growing as every light sound flew through her ears. "Lord Starchbottom..." She mumbled, "...could please get that?"

Lord Starchbottom nodded, doing as he was told, he opened the door, greeting the 7D and two unfamiliar faces.

"It's just the 7D!" He shouted to her. "With... some two new dwarfs."

Queen Delightful's eyes lit up slightly when hearing this. "Well let them in, silly-willy!"

Lord Starchbottom nodded, allowing them to come inside. Happy jogged ahead of everyone, bowing to the Queen with common courtesy, and then introduced his family to her.

"Good day Queen Delightful! I brought my family along on this bright sunshiny day! Meet Renata and Vincent!" He exclaimed happily.

Queen Delightful tried to look cheery. She applauded as the two parents took a bow, but once they glanced back up at her, they finally got a good look at her.

She had large bags under her eyes, a slip of droll dribbled out the corner of her mouth and she didn't seem too elegant this day. Her head was heavy, her posture not great and her hair was disorganized. They gaped for a second before faking a smile so they didn't seem rude, but were interrupted but Grumpy. "Wow what happened to you, Queen Delightful? You look awful!"

Everyone shot a glare behind them with sour expressions. Grumpy stared ahead and shrugged. "What? Someone had to tell her!"

Bashful scoffed.

Queen Delightful sighed in sadness. "I knew you'd figure out something happened... you always do..." She sighed heavily. "I'm sorry I look terrible when your parents came over for the first time ever, Happy... I just..."

Happy's eyes enlarged. "Oh no- no- no! Don't apologize your highness! Everyone has bad days." He was quick to understand.

"I know." She muttered almost to herself. Doc walked over to her, placing a reassuring hand on her knee.

"Well, if you don't mind telling us, what IS wrong, your highness?" Doc asked.

Queen Delightful shared a short glance with Lord Starchbottom. Starchy nodded, as if he accepted her telling everyone about Hildy's choker and River Brooke Sea. Cutting to the chase, Queen D said, "After a wonderful night of partying and hanging out with the nice girl, River Brooke Sea, she left during the fireworks, leaving this behind..." Queen Delightful opened up her clutched hand, revealing the choker. Gasps and murmurs erupted from the 7D. Vincent's eyes sparkles as he stared mindlessly at the choker. Grumpy just happened to notice Vincent's lips swerve ever so menacing at the sight of the choker.

"Hildy's choker?!" Everyone screamed.

"What did you say her name was?" Vincent asked, continuing to stare at the choker.

"River Brooke Sea... well- and Hildy... but...-"

"Hmm. River Brooke Sea..." The purple man whispered whimsically to himself. "Thank you for that piece of information."

"What?" Grumpy asked, getting suspicious.

"Nothing..." Vincent retorted, scratching his arm awkwardly. His nails cut into his purple skin, making his arm look livid.

"I miss Brooke so much." Queen Delightful sighed, melodically. "She was so nice for the hours we talked. And she had Hildy's choker with her the entire time! It's so strange and I'm so stressed and that's why I haven't be able to sleep..." She admitted guiltily.

Doc shook his head. "Don't you worry Queen Delightful. It would keep me up as well. I'm... glad you told us." He told her, squeezing her hand.

Vincent kept staring at the choker for a while, until asking, "Do you mind... if I held that for a minute?"

Queen Delightful was perplexed at first, but reluctantly handed it over. "...sure..."

Vincent jangled the choker about, tossing it in both hands, as if he was weighing it. He rubbed the jeweled plum moon, ambiguously touching every detail. His next words surprised everyone:

"...I think I know who River Brooke Sea is..."


KNOCK

KNOCK

KNOCK

Hildy peeked through the slither in her front door and opened it slowly with a gasp.

"Goldilocks? Dr. J?" She asked in shock.

Bingo hopped in the air with enthusiasm. "Don't forget about me!" He furiously waved his hand around.

"Oh yeah... you..." Hildy rolled her eyes. "What are you all doing here?"

Goldilocks scuffed her foot, her lips pursued in a guilty way. "We... we want to run away from Shapeshifter... and we know you do too."