A/N: Here we are at the final part of the Hunchback of Notre Dame arc. This one was uploaded pretty close to the last chapter so make sure you've read it first.

It was four o'clock in the morning. Frollo walked down the hallway in the west tower. He opened the first door slightly and peered in. Ms. Del Ray was sound asleep in her bed.

Good. Frollo thought to himself. She won't be interfering.

Frollo sneaked into Ms. Del Ray's office and went through her filing cabinets until he found the room assignments. Frollo scanned the room list over until he spotted what he was looking for:

ROOM E14: ROMA, ESMERALDA :: SCHEHERAZADE, JASMINE

Frollo put the folder away and went to room E14. He grabbed a torch that was lightning the hallway and entered the room. Frollo quietly slipped over to the window and lit the curtains on fire. He sneered with delight. He then saw Jasmine lying fast asleep on the bed next to Esmeralda's bed. She would have to be dealt with first. Frollo approached Jasmine's bed and shook her awake.

"Jasmine, Jasmine," Frollo called out with mock concern, "A fire has broken out. You have to evacuate, NOW!"

"Wh-what?" Jasmine yawned, still half asleep.

"FIRE! Go, now!" Frollo shouted at her, "Don't worry about Esmeralda. I'll make sure she gets out safely. Alert the other teachers of the fire. GO!"

As the severity of the situation dawned upon her, Jasmine bolted out the door in her night gown. Frollo smiled wickedly as he shut the door behind Jasmine. Frollo proceeded to light various other things in the room on fire as the curtains blazed brightly. Esmeralda awoke from the weird noises going on around her. Frollo leaped on top of Esmeralda and pinned her down. Esmeralda gasped and tried to scream, but she was speechless.

"The time has come, gypsy," Frollo whispered, "You stand upon the brink of extinction. But I can save you from the fires of this world and the next. Choose me, or the fire!"

Esmeralda, coming to her senses spat right in Frollo's eye.

"ARGH!" Frollo groaned, "Wretched witch! You've made your decision I see. You know, a fun fact about anatomy: hair is the most flammable part of the human body. It's only fitting that it should burn first."

Frollo drew his torch closer the Esmeralda's hair and slowly began to burn strands of it. Suddenly, something burst through the window and knocked Frollo back into a burning bookshelf. Frollo realized what it was.

"QUASIMODO!" he shouted.

Quasi slung Esmeralda over his shoulder and climbed out of the broken window. Frollo, furious, climbed after them, dropping his torch on Esmeralda bed. The fire had engulfed the entire room and was starting to spread.


Jasmine ran down the hallways, alerting everyone of the fire. The students all awoke begrudgingly, irritated that their nightly sleep had been disturbed. Of course, most of their attitudes changed immediately when they learned why they had been awoken. Jim and Peter ran out of their room and right into Jasmine.

"Jasmine, what's wrong?" Jim asked, rubbing his eyes.

"There's a fire in our room and it's spreading," Jasmine explained, "Mr. Frollo alerted me and told me to tell everyone. He also said that he would help Esmeralda escape."

"WHAT? Frollo?" Jim shouted, now fully awake and having realized how much Esmeralda's life was in danger, "Oh no, Esmeralda!"

Jim ran down the hallway as fast as he could and over to Esmeralda and Jasmine's room. Jim kicked down the door and was immediately greeted by a billowing could of smoke and a wave of intense heat.

"ESMERALDA!" Jim called out.

But it yielded no results. The room was now fully covered in flames, and Jim could see that the window was broken. Jim ran down the hall to the tower balcony. He looked out to see Quasimodo carrying Esmeralda on his back and climbing up to the bell tower. Climbing after them, Frollo was in hot pursuit. Jim ran back down the hallway and darted towards the bell tower, praying that he'd get there in time.


By now, the fire had spread to cover almost the entirety of the west tower. Many of the teachers were now awaken and doing all that they could to fight the fire. Professor Merlin was using ice magic to put out the fire as well as he could, Nurse Tanana tended to injured students, and King Arthur himself aided in rescuing students the were still trapped in burning rooms.

Arthur carried Andy Davis, who had passed out from the smoke, to the safety of the main hall. Andy's roommate, Sid Phillips, gave Andy CPR as Arthur ran back into the burning tower to rescue more students.

"Hello!" he called out, "Is anyone still trapped?"

The ceiling behind him collapsed and formed a wall of debris behind him.

"Yes," a slithering voice said, "You are!"

Mr. Alagud materialized before Arthur.

"What kind of demon are you?" Arthur asked, drawing his sword, Excalibur.

"The most powerful sorcerer in the world," Mr. Alagud replied with a sneer.

Alagud fired a blast of lightning from his snake staff, but Arthur merely absorbed the spell with Excalibur.

"I anticipated this," Alagud stated.

Alagud then pulled out the spell that Jim had mixed for the Challenge Exam yesterday morning. He tossed the spell directly at Excalibur. Upon contact, the sword was immediately coated in a stone like material, rendering it powerless.

"And so the sword returns to the stone," Alagud hissed, "And now, King Arthur, your golden reign shall end before it even begins."

Jafar fired another blast of lightning at Arthur. The spell began to burn Arthur from the inside, and a fire began to blaze through any escape that it could find, making for a grizzly sight. Jafar merely smiled as he disappeared. King Arthur was dead, burned alive.


Quasimodo reached the bell tower and set Esmeralda, who had fainted, down on the floor. Frollo crawled up over the ledge.

"You cannot escape me!" Frollo shouted as he produced a hunting knife from the folds of his robe.

Frollo lunged towards Esmeralda. Quasimodo jumped in the way and grabbed Frollo by the wrists. The two pressed against each other, until Quasimodo's adrenaline improved strength overcame Frollo's own. Quasimodo hurled Frollo back and knocked the knife out of his hands.

"Now, now, listen to me!" Frollo pleaded as he backed into a corner.

"No, you listen!" Quasimodo shouted back at Frollo, "All my life you've been telling me that the world is a dark, cruel place. But now I see that the only thing dark and cruel about it are people like you!"

"Then you are lost!" Frollo yelled back.

Frollo swept his leg across the floor and tripped Quasimodo, knocking the boy over. Frollo grabbed his knife and ran towards Esmeralda. However, as he approached her body, something grabbed Frollo from behind and was strangling him.

"Go, now!" Jim yelled to Quasimodo, "Get Esmeralda to safety!"

Quasimodo scooped up Esmeralda and ran out onto the balcony.

"You dare interfere?" Frollo coughed out.

He brought back his hunting knife into Jim's shoulder, causing Jim to cry out in pain and release Frollo. Frollo ran out onto the the balcony after Quasimodo and Esmeralda. They were nowhere in sight. Frollo peered over the edge of the balcony to see Quasimodo and Esmeralda hanging on to one of the castle's gargoyles.

"Leaving so soon?" Frollo asked with a devilish grin.

Frollo then leaned over the edge and prepared to bring down his knife on Quasimodo's hand. However, before he got the chance to, he was pushed over the edge by Jim, who was still holding his bleeding shoulder in pain. The knife fell from Frollo's grasp and into the burning tower below. Frollo, however, managed to grab onto Quasimodo's foot and hang on for dear life.

"I can't support both of their weights," Quasimodo cried out, "We're slipping!"

"Try to get Esmeralda up to me," Jim shouted.

Quasimodo's shaky arm held up Esmeralda and put her within Jim's arm's reach. Even with one of his arms stained red by the gushing blood from his wound, Jim managed to pull Esmeralda up onto the balcony. Esmeralda began to come back to her senses.

"Quasi?" Esmeralda asked, dazed as she came back to consciousness, "Jim? What happened to your arm?"

"I'm fine, help Quasi!" Jim blurted out in pain.

Esmeralda ran to the edge of the balcony and grabbed Quasimodo's slipping hand. It took all of her strength to support his weight as well as Frollo's. Jim grabbed on to Esmeralda to keep her from falling. Frollo, seeing this as his chance, attempted to crawl up Quasimodo towards Esmeralda.

"And he shall smite the wicked and plunge them into the fiery pit," Frollo called out as he reached Esmeralda.

Quasimodo, realizing what he had to do to save Esmeralda, let go of her hand. Esmeralda screamed out as the two figures fell. However, some large birdlike creature swooped in a caught Quasimodo before he could fall any farther. Frollo, however, plunged into the fiery tower below and was engulfed by the flames that he himself had created.

Whatever had caught Quasi was clearly struggling to support his weight, and, what ever it was, crashed into a window on the floor beneath Esmeralda and Jim. The two friends rushed down the stairs to where the two figures had crashed to find Quasimodo and Peter lying on the floor, panting from exhaustion.

"Peter?" Jim asked in shocked, "How did you-?"

"Fly?" Peter interrupted, sitting up, "Turns out that messed up spell that I made in Mr. Alagud's class yesterday can make people fly. It's so cool! You've gotta try it sometime."

"Quasi!" Esmeralda cried out as she embraced her friend, "I was so afraid!"

"Esmeralda," Quasimodo responded with tears as they hugged, "The danger is gone now. We're both free!"


Jim, Peter, Esmeralda, and Quasimodo all sat around the table in Professor Merlin's office.

"Let me get this straight," Professor Merlin reiterated, "Mr. Frollo was the one who started the fire in the west tower because he was lusting after you. And you confronted him in the bell tower where he fell to his death into the burning tower."

"Yes," all four nodded.

"All that I can do is apologize for the darkness in his heart," Merlin explained, "I should have realized that the man had an evil inside of him. And because I didn't see it, you four almost lost your lives."

"It's not your fault, professor," Esmeralda stated.

"Well, the fire's been put out, thankfully," Merlin explained, "And I'm going to cancel classes today until we can finish using magic to rebuild the burnt down tower. Quasimodo, I've enrolled you as a student here at the academy. You can still live in the bell tower but you'll be expected to attend classes from now on. You can see Mrs. Packard about your schedule. I'd also better start looking for a replacement for Mr. Frollo."

"Already done," Ms. Faery said as she entered the office, "I've already taken care of the replacement. Mrs. Amzy will now be taking on half of Frollo's classes and Mr. Dees will be handling the other half. However, there's more tragic news: there was one other fatality besides Frollo."

"Who?" Merlin asked, puzzled.

"Arthur," Ms. Faery stated blankly as she turned and left Merlin's office.

Merlin's face just dropped and he sank back into his chair, a look of concern on his face.

"You children are dismissed," Merlin addressed the four friends.

Jim, Esmeralda, Peter, and Quasimodo exited the office, and Jim believed that he could hear a muffled cry come from within the office. The sound of it almost broke his heart.


"The story came true," Hades stated, "Albeit with some minor differences."

"True enough," Jafar hissed, "But I did manage to slay King Arthur. If I'm not mistaken, this should make the Hunchback the one and only story that will ever see the light of day."

"Time will tell if this is true," Maleficent noted, "I must commend you on a job well done, Jafar. However, next time, don't leave evidence at the scene of the crime."

Maleficent pulled the stone covered Excalibur from her robe.

"My apologies, milady," Jafar groaned, "I'll watch my actions for future reference. Now, anyways, about my reward."

"Reward?" Hades asked, "Didn't you volunteer to bump Artie off?"

"What do you request?" Maleficent questioned, ignoring Hades.

"I want to know where the cave is," Jafar explained.

"Do you take me for a fool Jafar?" Maleficent sneered.

"Arthur is dead," Jafar sneered, "You should have no further fear of a story unraveling. What harm could my finding the cave do?"

Maleficent glared silently for a moment before responding.

"North wing, third floor, room Theta-13"