Back in Duloc, Grimmel was still navigating on his map, wondering where the other hiding fairytale creatures were located, but he had other problems.
"So, it's like this..."
Grimmel had another fairytale creature he was trying to get answers out of. It was Bufo, a bullfrog-like toad.
"I lived in the kingdom of Far Far Away but then King Tui and Queen Sina had me leave the pond" he said to Grimmel. "They were nothing but party poopers, always spoiling the fun."
"Enough!" bellowed Grimmel. "Where's the other fairytale creatures?!"
"There ain't no way you're gonna find 'em" Bufo replied.
Mr. Smee wanted the interrogation to stop, so he tried to reason with Grimmel.
"Uh, maybe... the toad is tellin' the truth, sir" stammered Smee.
"If I wasn't tellin' y'all the truth, I'd better on a tray for frog legs or toadstool soup" Bufo rudely remarked.
Grimmel was enraged. He wanted all fairytale creatures gone and he's interrogated some of the creature who were just stubborn as mules.
Bufo was about to hop away when Grimmel said to Drago.
"Take this slimy animal away and throw him in the swamp!" he ordered.
Drago took Bufo by the collar and carried him away.
Grimmel was enraged. He had to remove every single fairytale creatures gone or he will be ruined.
Meanwhile, Moana emerged from the cave door and sneaked past by the sleeping Dave and Julien.
She wandered into the open forest and sang beautifully.
The princess' singing attracted a small bird. It flew down toward the lake, singing sweetly.
Moana felt like a real princess and continued to sing notes, which the bird repeated. But as the notes got higher, the bird exploded.
Embarrassed, Moana walked away toward the lake to wash her face.
Then, she noticed a goose screaming and honking in anger.
"Hey, what's wrong?" asked Moana.
"Oh, these eggs!" the goose replied. "I've never laid so many that I can't handle!"
The goose lifted herself to reveal her nest with ten eggs.
"I could take some that you don't want" Moana insisted.
"Oh, thank you, God bless you, child" cheered the goose.
And so, Moana took three eggs and cooked them over the campfire.
This woke up Dave, who stared at Moana with a confused look. But Julien was still fast asleep, snoring.
Still staring at Moana, Dave used one of his tentacles to wake up Julien.
"What? Nobody hits the king" complained the lemur.
Dave glared at Julien, but they were interrupted when Moana spoke up.
"Good morning" she said with a smile. "How do you like your eggs?"
Yawning, Julien sat up like an excited child waiting for his meal.
"What's all this about?" asked Dave, curious.
"Well, you know, we kinda got off to a bad start yesterday" Moana explained. "I wanted to make it up to you."
She handed the fried eggs close to Dave and Julien. They sniffed their meal, curiously.
"Uh... thanks" Dave replied reluctantly.
"You did rescue me after all" Moana smiled. "Now, eat up. We've got a big day ahead of us."
After a decent meal, the trio started off again.
In the forest, Dave bleached loudly.
"Dave!" Julien said, annoyed.
"What? It's a compliment to the chef!" Dave answered with a laugh. "Better out than in, I always say."
"Well, that's no way to behave like a smelly beast in front of the princess."
At that moment, Moana bleached even louder, which made Dave stop in surprise.
"Thanks" Moana said.
Julien was shocked, he realized that Moana is nasty as Dave is.
"You're not exactly the traditional princess I expected" Dave said to Moana.
"Maybe you shouldn't judge people before you get to know them" replied the princess.
Dave watched as Moana wandered further into the forest, vocalizing.
And then suddenly, something swooped down from the trees and snatched Moana.
"Princess!" gasped Dave.
Moana was placed up in a tree by a strange fox.
"What are you doing?" asked the confused princess.
"Calm down, sweetheart" said the fox "I'm rescuing you from this purple beast."
The stranger was none other than the sly, cunning and brave Nick 'the Hood' Wilde.
Moana scoffed, she didn't like Nick already. She had enough rescuing for one day.
"Hey! That's my princess!" growled Dave.
"Yeah, go find your own, Mr. Steal-Our-Peoples" Julien snarled in agreement.
Nick face-palmed himself and faced Dave.
"Please, can't you guys see I'm busy here?" he said with a sly grin.
But Moana grabbed Nick by the tail and confronted him.
"Look, pal, I don't know who you think you are!" yelled the Princess.
"Oh, how rude of me" mocked Nick. "Please allow me to introduce myself."
He whistled loudly and then the bushes moved through the forest.
And all of the sudden, several animals jumped from behind the bushes and Clawhauser, a large cheetah, playing an accordion in the trees. They were Merry Mals (short for animals).
"Ta, da, da, da, da, da, whoo!" they sang.
Nick began to sing too, which made Julien dance much to Dave's annoyance.
"I steal from the rich and give to the needy Nick announced.
"He takes a wee percentage Finnick added.
"But I'm not greedy
"I rescue pretty girls, man, I'm good!
"What a guy! Nick Hood! cheered Merry Mals.
"Break it down, Friar Clawhauser!" Nick ordered.
The Merry Mals soon started to dance to the Irish jig, joined by Julien.
"Oh, I love you, guys!" cried the lemur.
Dave scoffed in disgust and Moana shook her head.
Idiot they thought to themselves.
Nick Hood and the Merry Mals continued to sing.
"I like a dishonest fight and a hot little maid
"What he's basically saying is he likes to get
"Paid
"So...
"When an octopus in the bush grabs a lady by the tush, That's bad
"That's bad, that's bad, THAT'S BAD!
Now it was serious, Nick and the Merry Mals danced in an advanced rage, which made Julien stop dancing and Dave gulp nervously.
"When a beauty's with a beast it makes me awfully mad! continued Nick.
"He's mad, he's really mad agreed the Merry Mals.
Moana was scared as Nick pulled out a knife from his pocket. She knew something had to be done.
Nick continued to sing.
"Now I'll take my blade and ram it through your heart, Keep your eyes on me, guys, 'Cause I'm about to staaa-"
The fox was cut off from his song when he was kicked in the face and crashed into a tree.
Then, there was a loud karate yell.
"HE-YAH!"
Landing on the ground was Moana with an oar in her hand.
The Merry Mals gasped while Dave and Julien were quite impressed.
"Man, that handsome guy was annoying" Moana snarled.
Hearing this, Finnick aimed a bow and arrow at Moana.
"Oh, you little twit!" he barked. "I'm gonna bite your face off!"
He shot the arrow, but Moana ducked in time and nearly got Julien.
The lemur screamed and jumped onto Dave's head, causing the octopus to catch the arrow in his tentacle.
At an instant, Moana back-flipped toward the Merry Mals and started to beat the crap out of them; she sweeps Finnick to the ground and smacked Duke Weaselton with her oar twice.
However, Gideon Grey and Travis charged at Moana, but the princess jumped in mid-air and pauses for a moment to hair and then, kicked the fox and the black footed ferret.
Clawshauser gulped nervously and waved a white flag.
"We surrender!" he said.
Moana backed away from Clawshauser, respecting the fact that he's backing off.
Then, Duke got up and attempted to fight Moana, only to be punched and kicked to the ground.
All of the Merry Mals, expect Clawshauser, were down.
Moana soon walked away from the battle scene, leaving Dave and Julien surprised of what happened, their mouths hanging open.
"Come on, guys" she said.
After a moment, Dave placed Julien on the ground and threw the arrow away.
"That wasn't supposed to happen" he said, in awe.
Then, he ran after Moana.
"Where did that come from?" asked Dave. "Back there, that was outstanding! Where did you learn that?"
Moana couldn't help but smile.
"Well, when someone lives alone, they must be alone in case of stranger danger" Moana answered.
Dave was impressed.
Julien had a strange feeling that something was up between Dave and Moana, so he decided to keep a close eye on them as the trio started off on their journey.
To be continued...
