It was feeding time. The goon serving food looked into Belle's chamber. No one was there. Puzzled, it walked inside and stood in the center of the room, and being stupid, it left the door open. There was nothing but hay and a broken table against the wall in one corner. The goon was thinking what could've happened, and whether or not Maleficent should know. Belle watched him, and waited for the perfect time. As the goon turned to leave, Belle came up from behind, grabbed the key, and swung the door shut, trapping the goon. Belle went to find her friends' dungeon cells.
As she sneaked through the hallway, she heard a couple of guards coming from behind her. She had to find a place to hide, and fast. She spotted a rather big, round shield, leaned against the wall.
"What are we doing again?" one of the guards as they walked through the hall. Belle got a good look at them from behind the shield. One of them held keys, and the other held chains.
"The frog-girl prisoner, yeah, Shan Yu personally told me to change her restraints from rope to chains. He personally thought ropes were an idiot move by that voodoo guy, but we don't have any say in this." the other guard explained. They passed by, not suspecting a thing. Belle let out a sigh of relief. She slipped away from her hiding spot and quietly followed the guards. They turned right and followed a hallway, leading to a door, which was Tiana's cell. Belle stayed behind the wall, she notice the barred window.
"Psst, Tiana!" Belle whispered rather loudly. Tiana looked up and saw Belle in the window. "I'm here to rescue the girls, when you're done, come and find me."
"When I'm done? Belle why aren't you gonna rescue me?" Tiana asked.
"No need." Belle explained the whole thing to her. When the guards opened Tiana's door, they immediately started their work. They chained her, before cutting the ropes. But that didn't matter.
"Alright we're done. Back to the party?" the guards turned to leave. Tiana turned into her frog-human form and slipped right through the chains. The guards turned around and were horrified with what they saw. Tiana lunged at them, tied them up to each other, and shut the door.
"Nice job." Belle gave her a high-five, she didn't mind if there was mucus all over her hand. Thanks to Mulan's loud punching, the girls ran further down the hall, and found where the rest of the team was.
"Belle!" Snow White saw them through the little window on the door.
"Tiana!" Cinderella called from her chamber.
"We'll get you out." Belle began unlocking Snow White's door as fast as she can. Tiana broke open Cinderella's door and unstrapped her from the chair. Belle and Snow White made their way to Mulan's chamber.
"Guys, get me out, and let me at that...that...WITCH." Mulan's emotion was equivalent to a raging bull about to enter a ring.
"You'll have your chance." Belle replied calmly and finished unlocking her door. Tiana looked around for Ariel and Aurora on the upper floor. Belle followed the sound of Jasmine's sobs and found her door. Snow White could hear Jasmine telling herself that she'd absolutely change places with Aladdin.
"Oh please, Jasmine I'm the youngest of all us princesses, and even I didn't act this way." Snow White rolled her eyes. Belle unlocked the door and heard something.
"Shh...quiet girls..." Belle listened as Jasmine threw her arms around her. The other princesses began to hear it too...Footsteps.
"Hurry, they're coming! Quick we have to find Rapunzel, Aurora, and Ariel! Let's go!" Bell ordered. She saw the shadows of the goons coming from the top of the staircase. Meanwhile, Tiana had found Aurora in her chamber.
"Belle's getting the other out. I'm covering you and Ariel." Tiana told her as she broke the lock the door with spear.
"Oh, I'm glad to see you Tiana!" Aurora exclaimed.
"Guys? Is that you?" Rapunzel called from across the hall.
"Rapunzel! I'll get you out in a second." Tiana ran over to Rapunzel's cell. Her feet made squishy sound every time she stepped. As she ran, Belle and the other girls arrived. Tiana found herself face to face with Belle.
"Tiana, the goons are coming, find Ariel, I'll handle this." Tiana nodded and went to find the mermaid girl. Belled unlocked Rapunzel's door and found the hair cut contraption.
"If I move, hmpf, my hair gets cut!" Rapunzel told Belle.
"We need to do something about that hair if we're trying not to get caught." Mulan pointed out. Hmm...Belle thought and scanned the room quickly.
"Alright girl's I'll hold up these scissors while you all style. Quick!" Belle ordered. The girls got to it. This is a pretty heavy pair of scissors...Belle thought to herself. The girls settled on a braid, just like Rapunzel had the first time she stepped in her kingdom.
"Done." Jasmine looked over at Belle who let the scissor go. The scissor had seem to cut a string that lead to...a huge boulder hanging above.
"Look out!" Belle shouted. The girls got out of the chamber safely and ran to find Tiana and Aurora.
"Where's Ariel?" Cinderella cried. The girls could all hear the goons coming from both ends of the hallway.
"I don't know I didn't find her." Tiana replied.
"Hide!" Belle pushed them all into a random dungeon cell. The girls stayed quiet, not making a sound. Aurora felt a tap on her shoulder. Snow White pointed to a huge tank of water in the back of the room.
"Girls," Aurora whispered as quietly as she can, "I think we've found Ariel." The girls crawled to the back of the room, sitting in front of the tank.
"She's not in there!" Rapunzel pointed out. It's true, she wasn't in their sight. All there was, was sand, a bit of seaweed, and a giant oyster. Snow White got up to get a better look, and banged her head on a shelf that hovered above her. Jasmine pulled her down and put a finger to her lips and made the "Ssh" sound. Aurora, Belle, and Cinderella saw a little can of oyster food was knocked off the shelf and it all spilled into the tank. The oyster opened it's mouth and they could see Ariel inside, eyes wide open. Ariel saw them too and squirmed around in the clam as it opened and closed its mouth, filtering the water. The girls stared at Ariel every time the oversized mollusk opened. The goons outside of the chamber have moved on, searching another part of the dungeon. As soon as they left, Tiana jumped into the tank and swam down to the oyster. It opened its mouth and Tiana looked at Cinderella. Cinderella gave a nod and froze time. Tiana grabbed Ariel and swam out. Cinderella unfroze time and the clam went back to opening and closing. The girls helped Ariel out of her ropes and took the bandana off of her face.
"I'm so glad you guys are here!" Ariel praised her friends.
"We all are, but you all know who we have to free next, the princes." Belle told them.
"My poor Aladdin!" Jasmine cried on Snow White's shoulder, who rolled her eyes and patted her on the head.
"Yeah but where are they?" Mulan asked.
"That's why we're going to find them." Belle replied.
"Where else would they be? Here in the dungeon!" Ariel exclaimed.
"Yes, but where in the dungeon?" Aurora asked her. Ariel was gonna say something, then realization hit her.
"Split up?" Belle asked.
"Split up, and a distraction." Rapunzel pointed out.
"Alright, let's form the two rescue teams," Belle told them, "Mulan, you're with Tiana and Aurora. I'll go with Jasmine, and we're taking Rapunzel." Belle looked over at Snow White, Cinderella, and Ariel. "That leaves you three as bait." The three nodded. The girls got up and took deep breaths. "You all know what to do, we'll meet up in the main hall." Belle instructed. Cinderella, Ariel, and Snow White went outside of the room and stood in the hallway. Before the two rescue teams separated, Aurora tapped Belle on the shoulder.
"Told you, you were important to the team." she leaned over and whispered. Belle smirked.
"Are you sure you'll be alright?" Rapunzel asked Ariel.
"Better than alright." She replied. Belle, Jasmine, and Rapunzel went up the left of the upper floor of the dungeon, and Aurora, Tiana, and Mulan went to the right.
"Alright girls, I say we lead them in here once they start running down the stairs." Ariel told them.
"But we'll be cornered." Cinderella pointed out.
"Er...that's right." Snow White said.
"Then what do we do?" Ariel asked. Cinderella didn't know what to say, when the girls heard the goons coming down the stairs. The girls got in fighting stance. Cinderella, using her little tricks as always, opening warp holes in the time zone and pushing goons into them. Ariel was right beside her, shooting water from the tank at the little demons. Snow White ran into the chamber and backed up against the tank. She was right...I would be cornered...she thought in her head. The goons held their weapons in front of them, making fake lunges at the princess. Snow White noticed the oyster in the tank.
"Help!" she shouted, and closed her eyes. There was a loud thud, and Snow White saw the oyster smash the goons under it. Snow White walked over to the creature and hugged it.
Tiana, Mulan, and Aurora were on the right side of the dungeon. They looked through the chambers and eventually found four princes.
"It's Eric!" Tiana pointed into one of the cells.
"Shang!" Mulan shouted.
"And we have Florian and Adam!" Aurora started busting the doors open using her voice.
"Shang!" Mulan busted the door immediately with a kick, destroyed his chains. The two embraced each other with a hug and kissed.
"I was afraid of losing you." Shang told her.
"You have no idea!" she yelled at him.
"Mulan, help me with the chains please!" Aurora tried prying off the chains that held Adam.
"Adam I'm so sorry about what happened earlier to you." Aurora looked at the badly beaten prince.
"As long...as Belle...is safe..." Adam breathed.
"She is." Aurora assured him. Mulan walked in and karate chopped the manacles. Mulan proceeded to break the chains off of Florian.
"Won't Snow White be glad to see you." Tiana's voice had a sort of hiss when she was in frog form, which didn't make sense to her. But what could she do?
"Snow White! I long to see her beautiful face!" Florian was the romantic poet, who fell on his knees as soon he was free with his arms outstretched towards the ceiling.
"How are we getting Eric?" Shang asked. Eric was also in a humongous tank, unconscious, with his foot chained to a metal ball.
"Break the glass." Tiana pointed out. Mulan walked up and punched the glass as hard as she could.
"I can't break it alone." Mulan turned to Aurora.
"Tiana, get in there and start working at his chains." Aurora threw her a fire iron, and Tiana caught it with her tongue. She jumped in and started poking. "Mulan, you and I are going to break this glass." Mulan started punching, and Aurora started singing a song with the highest notes she knew. Her voice ringed through the castle, making all of it shake. The princes watched, amazed. Three girls on the bottom floor could hear her.
"Aurora at work." Cinderella told Snow White and Ariel, as she gave a punch to a goon in her grasp. The glass started cracking and Eric was almost free. Finally, a loud shattering was heard, and water gushed out onto the floor. Tiana had Eric in her arms and carried him away from the mess. She put an ear to his chest.
"He's breathing, but he ain't moving." Tiana rolled up his sleeves to find the scars of the electric eel and jellyfish stings.
"Oo, Ariel will not be happy when she see's that." Aurora put a hand over her mouth. Mulan just stood next to Shang squeezing his hand. Aurora lead the princess down to where Ariel, Cinderella, and Snow White were.
"Florian!" Snow White ran to her prince, and he spun her in the air.
"Where's Belle?" Adam asked.
"Be patient, she's rescuing the others." Cinderella explained. Ariel fell onto Eric's body.
"Is he going to be okay? Oh no." she started crying.
"He'll be okay, we just need to wake him up." Tiana turned human. And helped Ariel tend to Eric.
"We better get to the main hall as soon as he wakes up." Aurora notified.
Belle, Rapunzel, and Jasmine were running like the wind up the stairs. The found the chambers where the princes were held in almost an instant. Belle immediately started unlocking doors.
"Eugene!" Rapunzel saw Flynn on his knees with his hands tied behind him. He looked up to see Rapunzel.
"Rapunzel!" he shouted back. Belle came to unlock their door.
"Hurry Belle, open the door!" Rapunzel begged her.
"I'm going as fast as I can." Belle unlocked it and moved onto the next one. Rapunzel burst in and hugged Flynn. She found a spare sword in the hallway and cut at his ropes.
"Rapunzel!" Flynn hugged her back. "You're safe!" he hugged tighter.
"I am, I am safe. Now let go so we can rescue the others." Rapunzel was being squeezed. Flynn let go and assisted in freeing the other princess. Jasmine looked through the chambers. Flynn, Charming, Naveen, Phillip...
"Aladdin!" Jasmine cried. There he was, shackled to the wall. He slowly looked up but it was all a blur to him, though he'd know that voice anywhere.
"J-jasmine?" he weakly asked aloud.
"Yes, Aladdin it's me!" she answered. Belle unlocked the door and Jasmine rushed in. She threw her arms around him and cried a bit.
"Jasmine? W-what's going on?" he was weakened by Jafar's torture.
"I'm here to free you." Jasmine stepped back and used her telepathy to unlock the handcuffs. It was like a puzzle in her head, but she solved it for her love. Aladdin slumped to the floor on his knees. "I'm here now, you'll be okay." she caressed his face and hair.
"Jasmine, a little help here?" Rapunzel poked her head in the room. Jasmine supported Aladdin on her shoulder and she walked him. Belle was picking and Jasmine was using her powers to pick at the restraints.
"Tiana will be very happy to see you Naveen." Belle told him as he was freed.
"And I am most happiest to see her!" he massaged his wrist. Charming came over and gave him brotherly hug.
"Alright, let's get to the main hall. That's where the meet is." Belle authorized.
Heck yeah! Go girls! Ending is coming VERY SOON. Only a couple of chapters to go. That's why I wanna thank everyone who's been here with the princesses to this point. Hope you all stay 'til the very end! Alright, I gotta start typing, Read on, and your imagination will stay strong!