Green Again Chapter Seven
Hi! Thanks for reviewing my last story so quickly! It truly means a lot :D. I showed my friend Maria this chapter, and she flipped when she found out... something you soon will :P it was hilarious.
All I'm going to say is that someone is back :O.
"Wha-what!" Tiana cried, as she wrenched Zazri away from her to get a better look.
"Tiana, why are you frog?" asked Zazri, who was genuinely curious as Tiana twisted and craned his head for better angles at his features.
Her eyes widened like the log they were standing on, as she realized that this little teal frog was indeed her brother-in-law.
The other animals where still admiring the development, as if they where the audience to a stage production.
Tiana finally snapped out of her state of shock, and asked "Well I should be asking you that question."
Sansri the bullfrog spoke up, "So... You are in fact Princess Tiana? You are the lass who married Naveen?" he asked, the other animals with eager faces.
"Um.. Yes? Wait how do you know Naveen?" she asked accusingly.
"Young Naveen used to visit us in the forest all the time, mostly us frogs. I was very small when Naveen came to play with us. But now the tradition has been passed down to Zazri. So when he was cursed with this body, he knew exactly where to go." Sanri shared, he indeed was an old frog, and Tiana could tell it hurt for him to talk.
Zazri looked up to Tiana, "Did uncle do this to you too?"
The other animals and Zazri where getting into a riot of mad proportions.
"ARE YOU SURE SHE'S THE PRINCESS?"
"THIS IS TWO SPECIES CHANGES, TOO MANY!"
"WHY IS IT NEVER ROYALTY TURNING INTO BATS? WE ARE JUST AS COOL AS FROGS!"
Tiana had had enough of this confusion. She spread her arms and shouted, "HOLD ON!"
Complete silence shattered into the grove.
Tiana turned to Zazri, she knelt down to his height, and put her hands on his shoulders.
She calmly spoke to the child, "Zazri, I want to help you, I need you to tell me everything. Why are you a frog?"
The child perked up. "Okay! Here sit down with me!" Zazri grabbed Tiana's green hand pulling her down with him as they sat on the ledge of the trunk.
As if on instinct the other animals sat down on the grass or on the tree branches.
Uju whispered to Ethel, "I love this story." only to receive a sneer from the rabbit.
Zazri dramatically spread his arms for effect. "The epic tale starts a mere month ago from today, The greatest prince Maldonia has ever had, was walking gracefully down the corridors."
Zazri was chasing after a frog in the castle corridors. But not trying to exterminate it. It was merely a game for the nine year old human, he was having fun as he clumsily tripped over the rugs causing them to scrunch up behind him. But he got back to his feet and continued his pursuit.
The amphibian croaked as it was getting away, and Zazri who was determined not to lose lunged toward the frog and successfully caught it. Oddly enough, it seemed as if the frog didn't mind being captured.
The child got up with his knees and held the frog above his head.
He cried, " ASHIDANZA! I FINALLY CAUGHT YOU SANSRI!" Zazri lowered the frog to eye level. "You really put up a good fight, did you not?" Zazri said waving a playful finger at Sansri.
The frog merely croaked.
"Your right Sansri! We should have some breakfast no? I for one am so very hungry, and the fisherman is here so there is probably dozens of flies around for your sensitive stomach." He said returning the way he came and Sansri hopping off his hand and onto his shoulder.
The frog croaked his response.
Suddenly, as he was passing the hallways, he heard shouting in the discussion room. Zazri was a master at spying. Back when his eldest brother Naveen lived here, he used to spy on him all the time.
Sansri croaked.
Zazri hushed him, "Sssssshhhh Sansri! We have to maintain our stealth! You must keep yourself from jeopardizing the mission. Do you understand?"
Sansri didn't croak.
The child and the amphibian sleeked behind the door to get a better view of what was happening.
His father King Ijori and Zazri's uncle Lord Hendrik were violently shouting at each other, like rabid dogs.
"Hendrik, that is absurd! Valentia never did anything to us! We have been peacefull neighbors since the beginning." argued Ijori.
"Oh so you are just gonna ignore what these people are saying dear brother? If Valentia IS building these weapons, we need to take action and stop anything before they get to us. But our precious King insists on sorting things out peacefully. We have to declare war! " spat Hendrik.
The King shot right out of his seat and glared down at Lord Hendrik. " As long as I am King, there will never be any war." He strode out of the room using the other entrance.
Once the king was out of the room, Lord Hendrik spat, "Well, we will have to fix that won't we." He pulled out a dark whistle from his long blue coat and blew into it. The sound was almost silent.
Zazri gave a confused to Sansri who only ignored the Prince.
Suddenly, the fireplace in the room began rumbling and coming out of the wall. The wall lining around the fireplace crumbled a bit as it slowly turned to reveal four menacing men in blue uniforms coming into the room.
They reminded Zazri of... henchmen.
The bald henchman spoke first, "You called master?"
"Yes, Change of plans my brethren." Hendrik paced in front of them waving his black cane around. "My poor deer brother is getting quite old. It seem as if he finally lost his marbles, so to speak."
The henchmen laughed hardily.
This statement made Zazri cheeks turn burn bright red, but not out of embarrassment; out of fury!
Lord Hendrik smiled at his men's agreement, "I say we take politics into our own hands. It is official gentlemen. We are overthrowing the king."
Zazri's eyes widened, and Sansri jumped a little on Zazri's shoulder.
The tyrant continued, "And with some," he paused, "Some new friends of mine, I will be your new king and together we shall take over Maldonia."
The henchmen cheered in agreement.
"All we need to do is get rid of that retched nephew of mine and his wife, and then and only then can we assist dear brother out." He said grasping the skull on top of his cane.
Zazri gasped. This was too much for him to handle. He was about to make his escape and turn back, but as he did he ran right smack in the middle of an even larger henchman's stomach.
The huge man grabbed Zazri by his shirt collar and carried him inside the room.
The man's dark booming voice was heard, "Master look what I found, a little fly on the wall."
Lord Hendrik turned and sneered at Zazri, who was struggling helplessly against the giant.
"Well well, you are just in time little prince! Oh boys!" he said smiling at the henchmen, "I think we found the perfect test subject for my new friends." gloated Lord Hendrik as he gave Zazri an evil grin.
The henchmen carried the Prince as he struggled and screamed into the fireplace entrance.
"AAAAAHHHH! HELPP! SANSRI! GO GET HELP!AHHHHH!"
Sansri croaked, and he swiftly hopped out of the room.
Once Lord Hendrik, and the henchmen holding Zazri completely entered the Fireplace escape, the fireplace reemerged, again crumbling some of the wall lining, then closed shut.
As if it never existed.
"Uncle! What are you doing? Please let me go!" pleaded Zazri as the henchmen where tying the prince to a chair.
They were now in a secret underground room under the castle. The walls were made of complete stone, and there were test tubes and potions everywhere.
But the really creepy part was he was standing in front of a red curtain.
A curtain holding a giant horned mask...
Zazri looked around to find several more weird looking masks around the room. It all seemed so...dark.
He was shaking from his fear, "uh-hh-hh I d-do not like this." he faced Lord Hendrik once more. "Uncle! Please let me go! I promise I will not tell anyone! I promise!"
Lord Hendrik only grinned his evil smile, "Silence, You would not want to disappoint my new friend now would you?"
The room began to shake, Hendrik and his men backed up to the back of the wall which was melting and changing colors. Music began pouring out of the masks as the seemed to fly off the walls and move back and forth to the tempo of the music.
"Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum. Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum."
"Are you ready?"
Suddenley the giant mask that was alive now opened his mouth wide open.
Zazri almost began crying out of fear. What was going on?
From the murky greenness inside of the mask, a skinny arm suddenly grabbed onto the floorboards.
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!" screamed Zazri.
Another arm came from the green dimensions. Suddenly as the arms clawed their way out they revealed as boney man wearing a top hat gasping for breath.
"Nice to see you in person, Facilier." laughed Lord Hendrik
The man weakly got up and tipped his hat towards his direction, "Dr. Facilier thank you."
"I saved you from those depths, I believe when you first contacted me you promised to complete your part of the bargain." questioned Lord Hendrik.
"Oh I'd be happy to, your majesty," chuckled the Shadowman, "Especially if I have to start with the OTHER froggy prince. Hehe" He said as leaned towards Zazri.
Zazri merely whimpered.
The Shadow man turned to talk to the masks. "Friends! We are back in business! And this time, I will not fail you!"
The spirits began singing again.
"Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum. Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum."
"Are you Ready? (Are you Ready?)" sang the Shadow man, " Are you Reeeeeaaady?" He sang as he grabbed green powder from the green dimensions.
"Transformation central! (Transformation central) TransforMation Central! (Transformation central) Transformafication Central!" He sang as he walk towards the prince with the dust. Zazri was still trying to break free.
"Can you feeeel it?" he said as he dumped the powder on Zazri, and the prince started coughing.
Suddenly green swirls surrounded Zazri were trying to cover his whole body, It was getting harder to resist because his body just kept getting weaker.
"Your changing! Your changing! Your chaaaanging all right! I hope your satisfied!"
Zazri was slipping away...
"But if you ain't. Don't blame me! You can my friends on the oooootheeerrr SIDEEE!"
"You got what you wanted! But you lost what you had!"
Zazri finally stopped fighting.
"ooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh"
All was black.
"hush..."
Tiana nearly chocked on her apple slice, "THE- THE SHADOW MAN'S ALIVE!" She gasped, her jaw dropped.
"You mean the skinny man? Yeah, for about a month now. He was oh so scary. Later when I woke up I found out I was a frog."
Tiana was quite interested by now in what happened. You can say what you want about Zazri, but he was a brilliant story-teller. "Where you surprised?"
Zazri finished off his apple slice, "Actually, I thought it was remarkable! Why would anyone not want to be a frog? You get to jump enormous heights, you get to use your tongue as archery, and I just discovered teal is a very good color on me."
Tiana laughed at this. Of course Zazri would find being a frog the bee's knees.
He continued with his story, "I was not very thrilled though, when i discovered they had trapped me in a box. Luckily Sansri came back for me with his frog friends... and Uju.
Uju was gobbling down all the left over apple slices. "Glad to help." he replied arrogantly.
Elainee had sliced up apples from the apple tree with her claws, and had them passed them out to everyone as Zazri told his tale. It was almost sunset now.
"They took me back here. Now I am safe according to Sansri, but he and the frog warriors have been trying to get into the castle to try to find a cure." Zazri added.
"So that's why so many of you frogs are getting into the castle! You were only trying to help Zazri!" Tiana gasped in realization.
The prince was glad his sister-in-law was following along, "Right, but it has been a month now, and those stupid henchmen have captured a lot of the frogs already."
Tiana then realized, those frog-hunters weren't frog-hunters at all! They were his henchmen!
He continued, "So I went in there to look myself, and that is when I saw you again!"
Tiana shook her head, "I just can't believe the shadow man's back. He was dead! I SAW him die! - Lord Hendrik is the new Lawrence!" she turned to Zazri "Whatever Dr. Facilier promised him is not true! Its a con!"
This puzzled Zazri, "Then, what could he want?"
"I don't know. It can't be good though." she said looking up at Ray and Evangeline.
Dr. Facilier was in the castle all this time? Tiana wondered where in the world he could be hiding.
Zazri decided to brighten the conversation, since it began to worry Tiana, "So how is my brother?"
Tiana smiled at the child, "I'm not sure Zazri, I hope he's okay."
If you haven't noticed, the chapters sort of take turns. All the even chapters are what's going on with Naveen and Louis, and all the odd chapters are what's going on with Tiana.
I think you math buffs can figure out what chapter 8 is gonna be ;D
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