I just returned from my own Disney World excursion, and man, it was not as interesting as this. This chapter, I don't think is as good as others, but it does move the plot along, so enjoy! :)
Chapter 12: The Battle of Neverland Part Two
Sarah's POV
(1:33 p.m. less than a half an hour 'til the shift) (AHHH! OoO)
Sarah and the group followed Quasimodo quickly through the slightly clearing woods. During their, well, run through the woods, Quasimodo told them about the torture and pain she inflicted on her victims and even other villains, saying it the pain would prove to them one day how far they'd come. Eventually they were led to a large decaying coliseum-like arena. It was made out of old, cold, gray stones, and was lit with dim flamed torches. The dark skies made the arena look even more terrifying with its long, projected shadows.
"Oh my god. They've got the real deal going on here," Sarah said.
"Yep, Adeline had no remorse for using the riches from Mickey's and Yensid's rules," Quasimodo said.
"Wait, who's standing outside?" the Beast asked. There were two cloaked figures standing outside the entrance to the arena.
"They must be guarding the entrance," Gaston said.
"Then we've got this," Sarah said. She led the group over to the entrance where the figures stood, however the problem was that they were unaware as to whether or not they were armed. As they were about ten feet from the entrance, the guards finally noticed them.
"Who goes there?" a female voice came from one of the guards.
"We demand entrance into this establishment," Phoebus stated, while Sarah mentally face palmed, knowing who just asked the question.
"By who's orders, his?" she asked motioning her hands to Frollo.
"By orders of the chosen one," Gaston said slamming his hand on Sarah's back.
"The frick dude, that hurt!" she said holding her left shoulder blade.
"Sorry :(," Gaston said.
"It's okay," Sarah said patting his back.
"Guess you moved on from Belle, finally," the other female guard said.
"Reveal yourselves, cloaked ones," Sarah said.
First the guards looked at each, then shrugged. They each took off their hoods to reveal themselves. Under the hood of the first guard was Esmeralda. Her hair was messily put into a ponytail, and she wore a black fitted t-shirt with high waisted leggings with ankle height boots. Under the hood of the second guard, was Belle. Her hair was parted in two and loosely tied braids. She wore similar clothes to Esmeralda, but she had a slash on her right eye that was covered by a black eye patch. Something else the group noticed was that their eyes were glowing a hazel/yellow-gold color.
"What happened to you?" the Beast asked.
"That'll be none of your concern," Esmeralda said.
"If you know what's best, you won't come any closer, but if you do," Belle said, "you face death". The group looked at each other, and slowly took some steps towards them.
"Do you not understand? You're done if you come any closer," Esmeralda said. Sarah glared at Phoebus, Gaston, and the Beast, then nodded to signal their action.
Sarah snapped her fingers and they took action, by action, it meant they ran over and tried to pin them down. Phoebus nearly body slammed Esmeralda to the ground, but was able to hold onto her long enough that Sarah could use her light magic to save the real Esmeralda. When Esmeralda recovered as the gold tones faded away from her eyes, they saw Gaston and the Beast trying to fight Belle. Eventually, she disarmed both of them.
"Both so weak, lust and even love disarms the strongest of warriors," Belle said, as she pulled a blade out of her pocket and started to run towards them. Sarah saw this and her eyes widened. She reached her arm out and thought the words, stop. Suddenly Belle froze in her place. She struggled to move, and realized what happened. Sarah carefully walked behind Belle, so if she'd somehow escaped, she wasn't near the blade.
"Not today," Sarah said, placed her hand on Belle's forehead, and the gold tones in her visible eye disappeared. When this happened, she released Belle who collapsed to the ground. She held her eye covered by the eye patch, which was now bleeding.
"Belle?" the Beast asked and he slowly walked over to her. She looked up and saw him as she continued to hold onto her eye patch with the bleeding scar.
"Adam!" Belle cried as she ran to him. When they held each other, a bright light flashed and revealed the beast back to his normal human self.
"I'm so sorry!" Belle said.
"But how are we back to normal?" Esmeralda asked. Kendrick whistled to get their attention.
"Introducing, the savior of Disney, Sarah Marie Franklin!" he exclaimed.
"Dude, you trying to get us killed, we're right outside the villains' base!" Sarah said playfully slapping his face.
"Sorry your highness," he said bowing and laughing.
"So if you're the savior, what are these jokers doing here?" Esmeralda said directing her attention to Frollo, Gaston, and Hook.
"They're helping, Hook has no grudges against either of you, and I'll punish Frollo and Gaston if they misbehave," Sarah said putting her arms on either of their shoulders.
"They've held up pretty well, and are helping us save Sarah's sister, Lirita," Kendrick said.
"Alright, if what you said is true, we'll make a temporary truce," Belle said.
"It's fine, we've already made up," Adam said shaking Gaston's hand.
"Okay, this is awkward, and this shift start really soon, can you lead us to the arena please?" Sarah asked.
"Sure, let's go," Esmeralda said.
(five minutes 'til the shift)
Sarah and the group ran to the main arena, and stood behind tall, cracking pillars. They peered behind them and saw all current evil-doers speaking to each other and staring up at the main stage. On the stage there was a large cauldron, almost like the one from 'The Black Cauldron' that already contained most of the parts of the spell to make the shift occur. On the left side there were a couple seats lined up, where she also saw Iris standing and talking with Hans casually.
Oh dude, that's so wrong, Sarah thought.
Dude I know, I've heard them for the past fifteen minutes I've been here, a voice said in Sarah's head.
Liri? Is that you? Where are you? Sarah asked in her head.
Look to the right side of the stage, yeah, I'm that thing covered by the stupid black sheet, Liri explained.
We'll get you out of there, Sarah thought, as she looked at what she knew now was a tied up Liri. She and the group watched as a wizard wearing dark purple robes, walked past Liri and towards the cauldron.
Cedric, darn, now I owe my little cousins an autograph from him, Sarah thought. As he stood there for a few minutes, the crowd settled down and paid attention to him and the stage. Iris took her seat in between Hans and Grimhilde who also sat on the stage.
"Comrades, today we gather to enact the shift that will bring balance to all worlds of Disney, which will be our first part of the Villains takeover of Disney! And now I introduce to you, the queen that's made all of this possible, Queen Adeline Raynell Lindmon of Disney," he exclaimed.
Everyone watched as Adeline made her regal way over to the cauldron while Cedric walked over to where Lirita was hidden.
"Thank you, my loyal comrades, but let's not completely give me all the credit. After all, there are several of you who came out to help gather enough of us to complete this spell, including a very special someone. Everyone, I'd like to introduce to you, princess of villains, number two to the savior, Lirita Nevaeh Franklin," Adeline exclaimed. Cedric pulled off the black sheet revealing Liri wrists tied to wooden stakes on either side of her. Her mouth was tied over with fabric and her left arm had well-done bandages tied on with little blood showing.
"What'd they do to her?" Gaston asked. Sarah shushed him and continued to watch, and Cedric carefully untied the knot behind her head, revealing her mount with slightly smudged lipstick.
"Anything to say princess?" Cedric asked Liri with a firm hold on her chin.
"How 'bout you back up before I kick your ass into oblivion!" Liri said. Several members of the crowd laughed.
"You may have some power over me, being a major villain, but you still bow to me," Cedric said.
"Kay, cool," Liri said blandly. Cedric rolled his eyes, got up, and walked away.
"Anyways my subjects," Adeline started, "here, we have the final ingredient," she said holding up a vile of blood. Liri's blood.
"STOP!" Sarah yelled coming out from behind the pillar, motioning the others to follow.
"Oh, Sarah, you've finally arrived," Adeline said as members of the villain audience laughed.
"Shut up! I've come for my sister, and I have no time for your crap right now!" Sarah said.
"Ooh! What's the princess of light gonna do?" Cedric asked.
"Kick your ass into oblivion," Sarah said.
"That's what she said," Frollo said pointing to Liri.
"Oh dude, you don't even understand that joke!" Liri yelled.
"I agree!" Hans yelled.
"Yeah, from our time that's an innuendo joke so if you couldn't say that that be appreciated," Sarah said.
"Oh my god, what have I started?!" Frollo asked.
"Just shut up all of you!" Kendrick said pulling out a gun and shooting the vile of blood. The glass and blood flew around the immediate area.
"Where did you get a gun?" Phoebus asked.
"I've had it the whole time!" Kendrick yelled. Soon a thick fog arrived from the cauldron.
"What is this?" Belle aksed.
"Oh, well even the slightest drop from blood like Liri's enacts the curse. Guess we didn't need the half pint of blood," Adeline said slightly laughing.
The fog thickened and lingered in the area for almost five minutes until it finally cleared. At first many of the people were confused and then recognized who they were. They were good, they were evil, they were back.
"Now my trusted villains, takeover!" Adeline said. As she walked over to the chairs with Cedric, while fighting heroes. Sarah ran up to the stage to untie Liri, while Kendrick fought random villains.
"Get me out quick!" Liri said and Sarah ran behind Liri trying to undo the knots.
"Sarah, look out!" Liri screamed as Hans stood over them with a knife, with Iris on the other side. Sarah screamed. Iris grabbed Sarah's arms away from the rope and behind her back weakly, while Hans quickly cut the ropes of Liri's arms.
"What?" Sarah questioned.
"Just punch me and get yourselves out of here, no questions asked!" Hans said. Sarah gave him a pity punch to the shoulder grabbed Liri and ran.
Liri and Sarah were close to the steps off the stage when Gaston jumped onto the stage. He ran and them and grabbed Liri's wrist.
"What the hell are you doing?!" Liri asked struggling to free herself. Sarah ran over and tried to help Liri, but Gaston pushed her back and she fell on the stage with her left wrist first. Sarah yelped when she hit the floor and grabbed her wrist. Kendrick, Phoebus, and Esmeralda ran to the stage to see what happened to Sarah. Just as they reached the stage, Adeline flung Sarah a couple more feet away from Gaston, who still held onto Liri's wrist, but a little less tight.
Gaston pushed her away. The girl that saved him and his bar buddies from the person he was defending now. The girl who actually cared if he was alright. The girl he asked if she was alright even if she was just clumsy or tired. The girl he treated like a little sister. What had he done? What had he done to Sarah? He let go of Lirita and back away from the situation.
Adeline had Cedric bind Liri's hands behind her back and kneeled on the floor. While Phoebus and Esmeralda stood with their blades in front of Sarah and Kendrick. Sarah kept her left arm close to her out of fear she'd hurt it more than it already had been hurt.
"Finally we slightly disable to savior!" Adeline said. Sarah's sad and frustrated brown eyes met Adeline's advantaged green-hazel eyes.
"I think it's time to offer you a deal," Adeline started, "Grimhilde, go get our staple to the deal".
Oh no... Sarah's been injured, the curse has been enacted, and the rescue for Liri might fail (O_O)! And even when this curse is enacted, Gaston has remorse for injuring the person who's now supposed to be his enemy? We'll find out in the next chapter, and what is this staple to the deal? A cookie? I could go for a cookie right now... :) See ya soon! :) And thanks for all the views from, wherever you're reading from!