GW: Only two chapters to go! Now, here's where the heroes face off against the evil forces of the Earl. Enjoy!
Chapter 13
It was Michelle who first spotted the flight of dragons. Pointing to the band of flying reptiles, she gasped, "Look!"
The heroes looked at the flight grimly as Hal commented, "I should've just stayed at CPIS."
Bandanna added, "Dragons! The Earl's fleet. This is hopeless."
"Hopeless it may be," Karen said as she got her blasts ready to fight along with Michelle, Karen, and Victor. "But we'll take a few of them before they get us."
"I'll take on Maleficent!" Derrik said bravely as Hal and Bandanna cringed at a painful death, but said weakly, "Aye." "For Haku and Timcanpy," Halo howled.
"If I die horrible, let me kiss Megumi for the last time!" Buster said as Megumi eye-rolled and the trainers brought out their Pokemon and cheered, "Hooray for victory!"
"No offense to the dragons, but I'm gonna be eatin' dragon flesh tonight," Chairo snarled as Sophie nodded. "For my siblings," she said quietly.
"Uh, not to bring down the triumphant mood of everyone, but there is a better way," Eddy deadpanned, making the heroes anime fall-over.
Ed turned to Megumi and told her, "Megumi, take out the flute and play a tune." Megumi did so as she began to play the song from the beginning of the story.
"How do we know the flute will work?" Chairo asked. "Yeah, for all we know it could be a dud, right Victor?" David asked his dragon friend. But to his and everyone else's shock, Victor and the Eds, being dragons, were already asleep.
"Something tells me it's working," Nim said pleasantly as the heroes turned to see the flight of dragons falling to the ground, asleep.
With Hero, Allen, Maggie, and Artie, Hero said in her dazed slumber, "And so, the dragons fell to the ground, one by one."
"Destroyed?" Allen asked as the Nobodies yelled, "The dragons can't all die!"
"No, just asleep," Hero told them, making the Nobodies sigh in relief. Allen said in joy, "They're in an enchanted sleep. When they awaken, the Earl's spell on them will be gone. They can help us! Lero the umbrella is going to be ours and the Earl defeated."
"No, Allen; one dragon of the Earl's is still awake," Hero said.
Back at the Realm of the Earl, Maleficent is seen flying towards the heroes. The flute's spell didn't work on her!
Hero's voice continued, "Maleficent. The Earl's brawn, who's stronger than Negi and Rika's dragons combined. She has blood on her mind and can take them all."
Maggie's voice said confidently, "The Eds can take her on."
Hero said, "No, for since the Eds are dragons too, they are asleep."
The heroes were trying to wake the Eds and Victor up, but the dragons wouldn't budge.
"Come on, you guys," Sarina laughed. "We have to celebrate."
Suddenly, Maleficent flew from the sky and screamed, "Scum of Allen Walker. You will die!"
"Oh, crap; why couldn't she go to sleep?" Hal whined as Maleficent landed near the heroes.
The Pokemon trainers tried to attack her, but the evil dragon kicked them into a rock very hard along with their Pokemon. There were sickening cracks as Sarina, Buster, Megumi, Leah, Nim, and their Pokemon died. Halo tried to attack but Maleficent merely scorched the poor unfortunate hound to death.
Michelle and Karen blasted the dragon, but Maleficent grabbed the two girls and crushed them in her grasp.
"Michelle! Karen!" David and Derrik cried as the dragon threw their bodies of Michelle and Karen to the ground. Derrik, David, Hal, and Bandanna went to the fallen girls as David said softly, "Michelle…no, I can't lose you!"
"My sweet Karen…dead," Derrik said, tears in his eyes as Hal and Bandanna shouted at an advancing Maleficent, "You're going to die, bitch!"
"Fools, I'll crush you all!" she laughed cruelly when Sophie threw rock spikes at the dragon while Chairo bit into her flesh.
Maleficent slashed Chairo and Sophie with her claws. The only heroes left standing were Derrik, Hal, Bandanna, and David.
"The Trainers, their Pokemon, and Halo…Michelle and Karen….and Sophie and Chairo," Derrik growled angrily as he, David, and Hal got out their swords while Bandanna growled angrily. "We'll avenge our friends, even if we die."
"Scum!" Maleficent laughed. "Die by my fire!" With that, Maleficent blew fire at the remaining heroes. Bandanna immediately fell off his master's shoulder due to the blast, but the three boys remained standing, even though the flames hurt.
With one last motion, the three threw their swords at Maleficent's heart, getting a direct hit and killing the evil dragon.
The three heroes fell to the ground. Hal had already slipped away, but David and Derrik were holding on to say good-bye to their loves.
"Michelle, I'm coming," David said softly as he closed his eyes and breathed his last breath.
"Karen, I wanted to live a life with you since I saw you for the first time," Derrik said, slowly dying. "Now, I die." With that, Derrik moved on.
The dragons were all asleep and the heroes gone as the Earl appeared with Lero in his hand, laughing evilly. "I won! I'm victorious!"
"Not yet, ugly!" Eddy's voice snapped. The Earl looked to see Ed, Edd, and Eddy…in their human forms again! They materialized in front of Sparky, Effie, and Hotaru, who were still sleeping as they glared at the evil man.
"Well, well, well. It's the dorks," the Earl sneered as Ed said dumbly, "Dorks?" The Earl continued, "How did you get into your human forms again?"
Double D explained, "As the dragons slept, we suddenly felt ourselves again. And I thought to myself that two things cannot occupy the same place at the same time. So, my comrades and I unmerged with the dragons."
"What would we do without your big brain, Sockhat?" Eddy gushed over his friend. The tiny Ed-boy gloated to the Earl, "Looks like your silly magic tricks can't beat brains after all."
"Stronger than my magic?" The Earl laughed. "Behold my power!" Soon, the land split into two as the Eds and the Earl were standing on a single strip of land. "My power is infinite!" The Earl's back then mutated into six dragon heads.
The Eds looked on grimly as the Earl boasted, "I can do anything. Test me. I can rise up and pluck out the Sun."
Edd shook his head and said, "No, you can't." "Why not!?" the madman snarled.
Double D explained with a smug look. "Ha, six heads and each one a simpleton. Don't you know that what you reach for isn't in that position anymore?"
"The Sun is the Sun! I saw where it is!" the Earl boomed. Double D argued, "You saw where it was, stupid. Any schoolboy knows that light travels at 186,3oo miles/second. What you see is the Sun's position 8 ½ minutes ago."
"No magic but mine can move the Sun!"
Double D retorted, "Not magic, idiot. Mathematics. And that's the reason why the Temple of Magic chose me. You are magic, mere illusion. I am science, the truth!"
"And we are the brawn and scheme of things," Eddy laughed as Ed blew a raspberry at Earl.
One of the dragon heads blew fire at the Ed-boys, but a light reflected off of them. Eddy said boldly, "We're not afraid of you. Nothing as horrible as that can ever exist except in Ed's comics and B-movies. We deny you!"
"Deny me and you deny all magic," Earl hissed. The Eds looked taken aback, but the three boys said loudly, "Then, we deny all magic!"
"Deny this." The Earl began making incantations as he moved closer to the Eds.
Double D smirked. "Those incantations don't frighten us. I have incantations of my own: a body in motion tends to stay in motion. Protons have 1,832 times the mass of electrons."
Then, one of the dragon-heads exploded. "Double D, keep doing what you're doing!" Eddy cheered his pal on.
The smart teen continued, "All light is bent or refracted as it goes from one surface to another. Matter has three states: solid, liquid, or gas. The formula for density is mass divided into volume. The Pythagorean Theorem is A plus B equals C."
Like that, the dragon heads explode done by one as the Earl collapsed on the ground, holding his head in pain. The power of knowledge is too much for him to handle.
"Ahh! Witches, demons, ghosts, ghouls, Akuma, Hollows, goblins, ogres, vampires, Heartless, Nobodies…" The Earl tried to counterattack with his list of evil.
The Eds advanced on the evil man as they ranted off the branches of knowledge, "Economy, biology, theology, anatomy, chemistry, sociology, geometry, algebra, zoology, mythology, psychology, trigonometry!"
The Earl screamed in pain one last time as he melted, leaving a motionless Lero behind. Double D picked up Lero as the world turned into a beautiful field again and the dragons awoke. Even the fallen heroes had awoken as Michelle hugged David and Karen hugged Derrik.
"Whoo-hoo! We lived after all!" Hal and Bandanna cheered happily.
"Man, what a nap," Sophie yawned as Chairo licked her face.
"Look, the magic realm in its true beauty," Derrik said happily. "Look!" Michelle said, pointing to a house that fell from the sky.
"It's Allen!" Halo barked happily as the house landed in the field. Allen, with Maggie and Artie behind him, came out with joyous faces, knowing that the Earl had been defeated.
Heroes: Hooray for knowledge!
GW: The Earl is gone and the world of magic is saved. Next up is the final chapter. Read, review, and suggest 'til next time.