Treasure Planet: Katherine
Summary: Ten years ago the Princess Katherine Myers went missing. Kate is an orphan with no memory of her past, Jim is a con artist devoted to finding a girl to pretend to be the Princess to get the reward money from the Dowager Queen. Kate's only clue to her past is Mortornas; the Dowager Queen lives in Mortornas. Jim and Kate journey to Mortornas together, Kate to find her past, Jim for the money, but will they both find something else they're looking for?
SPH: Hey-o! I do not own Treasure Planet or any of its content, they belong to Disney. The plot is based off of 20th Century Fox's Anastasia movie which I also do not own. I only own Kate, the story, and all other OC's. On with the story!
Chapter 21
Kate searched the people in the ballroom from behind a red velvet curtain.
"He's not out there." Maria said walking up behind her.
"Oh I know he's not out…" Kate started. Then she acknowledged Maria's words. "Who's not there grandmamma?" she asked wanting to be certain they were talking about the same person.
"A remarkable young man with the Myers gift and who found a music box." Maria said joining Kate behind the curtain.
"Oh he's probably out spending his reward money as fast as he can." Kate said bitterly.
Maria smiled softly, amused by the fact Jim hadn't told her he hadn't taken the money. "Look at them dance." She said gesturing to the people dancing.
Luna who was sitting by a throne in front of the curtain yawned and looked back at Maria and Kate, her expression showing she was miserable. She yawned again hoping to get a message across.
"You were born into this world of glittering jewels and fine titles," Maria continued as Kate smirked at Luna, "but I wonder, is this what you really want?"
"Of course!" Kate cried backing away from the curtain. "Of course it is! I found what I was looking for, I found, well, remembered who I am," she continued walking towards the balcony, "I found you!"
"Yes, and you'll always have me." Maria said making her turn around. "But is it enough?" she asked hugging her. She smiled. "My dear, he didn't take the money." She whispered.
"He didn't?" Kate asked pulling away and taking a step back shocked.
"Knowing you are alive," Maria continued taking a step back herself, "seeing the woman you have become brings me joy I never thought I'd feel again." She kissed Kate on the forehead before going over to the curtain.
Kate frowned and fiddled with her necklace as she turned around to process what Maria had said.
"Whatever you chose, we will always have each other." Maria said before stepping out to join the party.
"Grandmamma can't you just tell me what?" Kate said turning around to see Maria was already out in the ballroom.
She walked to the curtain and took a deep breath. She smiled and pushed it aside. She started to walk out, only to step back and close the curtain while she debated on what she should do to mend her broken heart… and what it was she really wanted. She heard Luna barking behind her and turned to watch Luna run out into the maze or hedges behind the palace.
"Luna?" she asked. She ran onto the balcony. "Luna!" she called, "Luna come back here!" She started down the steps hurriedly. "Luna, here girl!"
Kate walked into the maze between two pillars with hedges growing around them.
"Luna!" she called not noticing a hedge growing behind her blocking her way out or the eyes of the two gargoyles on top the pillars eyes glowing.
Jim was standing in line to buy a ticket to take a ship off Mortornas and back to Montressor. As the person in front of him bought his ticket Jim searched for money, he was going to actually buy the ticket and have Morph serve as his travel papers rather than repeat the train incident on a ship. Reaching into a pocket her pulled out as rose, the same one he'd pocketed the night of the ballet when they'd gone shopping. Smiling at it he realized Katherine must have put it in there some time before the ballet and couldn't stop staring at the rose.
"Sir, you're next." The woman behind him said tapping him on the shoulder and snapping him out of it.
"Here, take my spot," Jim said grabbing his bag, "I just realized I forgot something."
He took off towards the palace. He'd changed and made up his mind. He wasn't leaving, not without Kate, and if she wouldn't come, well, then he'd find some way to stay, just so long as he was with her. That rose was no accident, Katherine put it there to remind him she loved him, that they shared a love for each other, and that they'd promised to always be together as kids, and there was no way he was breaking it.
Kate wandered around the maze looking for Luna. She entered a four way crossroads in it when she heard a whooshing noise behind her and spun around to find a large hedge blocking the way she just came.
"Okay, definetly not going back that way." She said in a nervous giggle to try and calm her nerves.
She spotted an eerie glow coming from one of the paths and gasped. Not long after she heard Luna's barking coming from the path and darted down it.
"Luna, here girl." She said slightly shaky. This place was giving her the creeps to no extent. Another whooshing sound came from behind her and she turned to see once again a hedge had grown in the place she'd just come from. Just then she heard Luna barking and turned around giving a relieved sigh when she saw Luna barking at her feet. "Luna, there you are." She said sweetly bending over and picking up Luna.
"Katherine…" an eerie voice whispered.
Kate froze as she glanced around. She picked up her skirt and started running with Luna barking madly at all sides.
"Katherine…" the voice said again.
Kate gasped as the hedges soon sprouted large overgrown thorns that tore at her dress and struggled away from them, somehow with little damage to the dress. Jumping away from them as she exited the maze she landed on her stomach in front of a bridge. As she stood up and dusted off her dress a cold, eerie fog came over the bridge while Luna shook her head after almost being crushed by Kate.
"Katherine." A voice half growled, half cooed.
Kate gasped, froze, and looked up while Luna growled at the man who'd spoken.
"Your Imperial Highness." Ironbeard continued. "Look at what ten years have done to us," he motioned to Kate, "you a beautiful young flower," he motioned to himself, "and me, a rotting corpse!"
Kate stared at him more shocked then scared.
"That face…" she muttered.
"Last seen at a party like this one…" Ironbeard continued.
"The curse…" Kate mumbled a slight fear momentarily taking hold.
"Followed by a tragic night on the ice, remember?" Ironbeard cried. He raised the reliquary and thick ice blasted out of it, covering the bridge and the water below it, knocking Kate down in the process.
"Ironbeard." Kate growled ticked. As if her day couldn't get any crappier he had to somehow come back from the dead.
"Ironbeard." Ironbeard mimicked in a scared tone, clearly mistaking Kate's rage for fear. He scowled as he looked at her. "Destroyed by your despicable family!" he cried making Kate back up a step. He grinned and held up the reliquary. "But, what goes around comes around, and around, and around." He said as his minions came out of it.
His minions circled Kate tearing at her dress and spinning her around in the process.
"Stop!" Kate cried as the minions tore off most of a tulle sleeve and knocked over her tiara. "Stop, stop, stop"
"You're on your own sir!" Flint cried landing on a statue and pointing at Ironbeard, "This can only end in tears!" he turned away from the scene and hugged himself while shuddering.
"Stop!" Kate repeated until she was leaning against the railing of the bridge with her dress damaged, half her hair out of her bun, and her bracelet and pearl necklace broke.
Kate growled as she regained her balance.
"I'm not afraid of you!" she cried ready to kill Ironbeard once and for all. Tonight was supposed to be her happy ending and even though Jim had left already messing it up, Ironbeard just had to ruin it completely. Oh was he going to pay, if there was one thing he should have remembered from when he served her father was that if you made her mad she personally made sure you regretted it.
"I can fix that!" Ironbeard cried holding up the reliquary. "Care for a little swim? Under the ice?" he asked as energy shot out of the reliquary making the part of the bridge she was on crack and fall from underneath her as it dangled above the ice.
Kate gasped and desperately clung onto where bricks had fallen out of the bridge hanging on for dear life. Now, now she was scared, not of Ironbeard, she was still ready to kill him, but now she was scared she'd die and never get to see Jim again and tell him how she felt.
"Say your prayers Katherine, no one can save you now!" Ironbeard cried laughing.
"Wanna bet?" Jim asked running onto the bridge and tossing off his jacket before punching Ironbeard in the jaw enraged he'd put Kate in danger.
The impact of the punch was so strong it knocked Ironbeard over and sent a beam of energy flying from the reliquary.
Kate gasped as the bridge fell even further making Jim dive over the side after her.
"Jim!" Kate cried taking his hands and trying to climb back to the rest of the bridge. "If we live through this remind me to…" she started.
"You can thank me later." Jim said raising a hand to silently tell her to shut up.
"How enchanting," Ironbeard said ""together again" for the last time!" he raised the reliquary and his minions flew out of it grabbing hold of Jim and placing him on top of a giant statue of a Pegasus.
"Jim!" Kate cried as the minions took Jim while at the same time he cried out her name.
"You'll get a kick out of this!" Ironbeard cried raising the reliquary again as the Pegasus came to life and started trying to buck Jim off.
"Jim no!" Kate cried.
"Whoa!" Jim cried trying to stay on.
Kate managed to climb her way back up to the bridge just as the Pegasus flew down to the bridge. The force of impact the Pegasus made when landing was enough to finally knock Jim off it and onto his back. The Pegasus reared and tried to stomp on Jim who rolled out of the way before standing up and swinging a metal bar at it.
"Jim!" Kate cried reaching her arm out.
"Watch out!" Jim cried as he hit a piece of debris in her direction.
Kate gasped as her grip slipped and Ironbeard hoisted her up by her hair.
"Dasvindanya, you Highness." Ironbeard said laughing before letting go.
Kate gave a startled yelp as he let her go. She struggled to hang onto the bridge with both hands as she looked around for anything that would help her get back on the bridge. She spotted a nearby ledge that would allow her to climb back on, she just had to reach it.
"Hold on!" Jim cried batting away another piece of debris.
"Finally, the last Myers death!" Ironbeard cried as Kate made her way over to the ledge. He went to blast Kate with the reliquary when Morph and Luna bit his leg making him cry out in pain. Turning he pointed the reliquary at them and a minion came out which Luna fought while Morph flew over to Jim. Looking over the bridge at the same time as Jim he saw something go under the water and assumed it was Kate.
"No! Kate!" Jim cried jumping over the bridge knowing there was no way Kate would be able to swim, or at least keep her head above water in that gown. The Pegasus; however clearly didn't want him saving her as it flew up making Jim land and hang onto its face.
"Whoa!" Jim cried as the Pegasus flew onto the remainder of the bridge.
Ironbeard laughed like a nutcase.
"Long live the Myers!" he cried.
"Right!" Kate cried shocking him and Jim.
Both Jim and Ironbeard turned and saw a clearly enraged and ready to kill Kate glaring daggers at Ironbeard and clutching her skirt refraining from doing anything rash, at least for the moment.
"Kate!" Jim cried relieved.
"I couldn't have said it better myself!" Kate cried finally losing control and launching herself at Ironbeard knocking him over.
The two wrestled as the minion fighting Luna finally disappeared. Kate reached for the reliquary only to get thrown off of Ironbeard and do a backwards summersault on the bridge.
Ironbeard raised the reliquary ready to give the final blow when Luna jumped and grabbed it from him, her ears once again working like ineffective wings making Morph go and attempt to catch her, only for Luna to land on him. As she landed Luna dropped the reliquary which rolled across the ground.
Ironbeard gasped as he watched it roll across the ground before landing under Kate's heel.
Glaring at Ironbeard Kate put pressure on the reliquary making it crack and glow an angry red.
Suddenly the Pegasus burst into pieces knocking Jim to his knees. Kate turned and watched as Jim tried to get up only to get hit in the back of the neck by a piece of rock and fall to the ground limp. Kate gasped in horror before turning to face Ironbeard.
"This is for Jim!" she cried stomping on the reliquary and pulling it away from him with her foot.
"Give it back!" Ironbeard cried reaching for it.
"This is for my family!" Kate cried stomping on it again and pulling it even further back.
"I'll rip you to pieces!" Ironbeard cried attempting to threaten her as he grabbed hold of Kate's dress.
"And this, this is for you!" Kate cried pulling the reliquary out of his reach.
"No!" Ironbread cried.
"Dasvindanya." Kate said before stomping on the reliquary one last time shattering it.
The reliquary gave a sort of explosion knocking Kate and Ironbeard over and shooting a green light into the sky. Ironbeard screamed in fear as the minions flew out of it and straight for him while Kate, Morph, and Luna ran over to Jim, Kate shielding Jim with her own body.
Another green light came from the sky and shot down at a still screaming. The light hit him causing him to sort of melt off in the form of dust until there was nothing but a rattling skeleton. Once the skeleton stopped shaking it slowly turned to dust and blew away.
Kate slowly opened her eyes and looked around as she heard the silence. Seeing they'd won she gave a sigh of relief.
"Jim," she said sitting up, "we did it! He's gone we!" she looked at Jim's limp body. "Jim?" she asked leaning over him. She gently caressed his face before turning and burying her face in her knees and crying.
Morph once again cried himself into a puddle and Luna gave a low mournful howl.
"Shut up mutt." Jim muttered soft enough for only Luna to hear making her stop. Jim let out a groan as he attempted to get up.
Kate gasped and turned around accidently smacking Jim in the face.
"Ow!" Jim cried.
He looked up and made eye contact with Kate.
"Jim!" she gasped before flinging herself onto him tackling him as she hugged him.
"Ow, ow, ow, ow!" Jim cried struggling to get her off of him, "Let go, let go! Easy."
"Sorry!" Kate said getting off him as Morph stopped crying.
"I know, I know, all men are babies." Jim said clutching his side as he got to his knees.
Morph burst out laughing at his comment.
"I thought you were going to…" Kate started.
"I was." Jim said.
"You didn't take the…" Kate tried.
"I-I couldn't." Jim admitted.
"Why?" Kate asked.
"Because, I-" Jim started.
Kate held a figure to his lips before leaning into kiss him. Jim did the same, but just before they could kiss, Luna broke the spell by barking.
"Luna, you have the worst timing, you know that?" Jim asked looking at the dog who was panting and wagging her tail.
Morph flew over with Kate's tiara.
"They're waiting for you." Jim said softly handing it to Kate.
Kate examined the crown before looking back and forth between it and Jim. Eventually they landed on Jim and they held the same look they did the night they made their promise.
SPH: Whew! This took all afternoon, evening, and some extension of night! I sincerely hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! Next we get to see what Kate's decision was. Well, this is Samantha Peace HeartStar signing off for now. Peace out and keep spreading the Treasure Planet and Anastasia love! See ya!