Chapter 24: Destruction
Suddenly, Leo felt an invisible force sending the deranged sloth flying to the ground away from the others.
"What the heck?! Who did that?!" Leo groaned in confusion.
All of a sudden, the light of the cave grew colder before Manny and Diego began to groan in agony before red and purplish aura started to leave the bodies of the large mammals and slowly began to absorb into the injured sloth, levitating Sid into the air as the mammal writhed and cried in deep agonizing pain.
Manny and Diego then flopped to the ground, releasing the weasels from thier grip as they gathered together in fear and confusion on what was going on.
"Sid!" Flora frightfully gasped.
"What's happening to him?!" Tawk questioned Diana in fear.
"I don't know, I never seen this kind of magic before" Diana gasped out.
It wasn't long before Sid was on top of the throne like rock on the middle of the circle-like cave as the sloth stood there like a possessed ragdoll despite his injuries from earlier. Soon, Manny and Diego awoke from their possession as they looked up to see Sid, alarmed at the state he was in.
"Sid?!" Diego exclaimed in fear.
"What happened to him?!" Manny asked the weasels in concern.
"You happened to him!"
The group and even Leo looked around for where the voice came from before images of Carlotta appeared on each side of the wall like a projection to which she then sneered, "Both of your true nature took over yourselves and you both showed the sloth how you truly felt about him."
"W-We did this to him?!" Manny appallingly yelled.
"We wouldn't! We would never try to kill Sid!" Diego angrily denied.
"But...you two tortured him! I heard you both!" Flora whimpered.
"No..." Manny gasped as he and Diego couldn't believe what they were hearing.
"I knew you two couldn't stand him in the end!" Leo evilly laughed at the duo.
"You!" Diego growled viciously with his fangs baring at the villain.
"Carlotta! Get me out of here please!" Leo snapped at Carlotta.
The wicked wolf just laughed out loud much to Leo's confusion and annoyance before she scoffed, "You are, without a doubt, the most brainless sloth in the world! More brainless than poor Sidney is!"
"What are you saying?!" Leo yelled.
"I'm saying that it's over for you. I'm about to close this revenge, starting with you guys!" Carlotta sneered.
"Me?! What did I ever do to you, you backstabbing mutt?!" Leo yelled in alarm.
"You set my Victor and Ripper to their doom with your stupid plan! If you hadn't intervene with them, they would at least had a chance of survival!" Carlotta growled viciously at Leo.
"All of this was a lie?! You set me up!" Leo growled back.
"Uh, duh!" Carlotta scoffed at the angry sloth.
"You crazy bitch! After all I've done for you!" Leo raged.
"Maybe I'll start this revenge with you," Carlotta evilly giggled.
"Like hell you are!" Leo bellowed as he was about to flee when he felt another invisible force sending him back to the area.
"You're not escaping this time, Leo...None of you are...Now witness my Fire King's powers! See and feel his pain you had caused both him and me!" Carlotta sneered at the group before she looked down at her possessed sloth and growled, "Now my Fire King, unleash you powers!"
The possessed Sid screamed in agony whilst holding his paws on his hands before dark aura-like paws come out of Sid's head, each of them attaching the weasels, Manny, Diego and even Leo's head as they could both feel and see Sid's miserable past, his fears and his sorrows before their eyes.
DARK SID (in agony and misery):
Oh my god! Oh my god!
I'm sorry Momma, I'm sorry Pop,
I'm so sorry everyone...I...I'm sorry...
Please don't leave me...
I will not cry,
I'm okay
I tried so hard to play their way
Mama, please, I'm sorry!
I rather have a son than a rotten curse,
A rotten curse
All I ever wanted was love and a family
Is that too much to ask?!
To them I'm just a little worm
That they wish to pull me apart!
EVIL SHADOWS:
Momma Knows Best
Embarrassment to nature
Each of the mammals whimpered and groaned in terror and agony, feeling every pain and every sorrow Sid felt in his life before Manny groaned out, "Please stop! No more! Please!"
"Sid!" Diego cried in agony.
Carlotta's face appeared before the others as she directly spoke to a broken Sid on the ground while shadows of Sid's family, the mammals of the valley, the weasel tribe and the herd members stood before the sloth as Carlotta raised the fear and pain in Sid with the torturing of the mind by sneering at the sloth.
CARLOTTA:
They'll make fun of you
They will break your heart
Then they'll laugh at you
Watching you fall apart
EVIL SHADOWS:
Creepy Sidney!
The shadows began to laugh at the injured sloth whilst the real herd members except for Leo cried out for Sid in vain to help him, but it was too late. Carlotta finally made the possessed Sid snap as the wicked wolf broke the connection of the magic from the group until she made Sid into a creature of destruction and vengeance.
DARK SID:
Doesn't anybody ever get it right?
Doesn't anybody think that I hear?
Suddenly, ice began to slither down from the throne by Carlotta's magic to which Leo whimpered and was about to flee when the exit he was going to take was covered in ice.
"What the hell?!" Leo whimpered in fear.
Diana held Flora as they stepped back a bit when all of the sudden, ice began to spread to the exit where the females were on the other side.
"Buck!" Flora cried.
"Tawk!" Diana also cried.
"Girls!" Tawk gasped.
Buck tried to break the ice apart, but it was too strong to break. Manny soon saw another exit being covered in ice as he too tried to break it, but it was useless even for the mammoth as Manny yelled out, "She's trapping us inside!"
Diego saw the last exit covered in ice to which the roof of the cave was getting icicled from above before he spoke out, "What do we do now?!"
"There's nothing you can do but suffer..." Carlotta deviously mocked the group before she controlled Sid like a puppet through her magic once again.
The possessed Fire King lifted his paws up a bit before fire appeared behind the group near the exit as they exclaimed out in fear while Sid bellowed in a distorted voice.
DARK SID:
I've had enough of your abusing and your hurting!
Prepare to feel the wrath of my destruction
Your time has come!
Pray or...
I will burn you!
I will burn yoooooooooooooou!
Soon, miniature fireworks exploded all around the bottom of the throne like-rock, sending the group down in pain and alarm as some icicles and debris fell and smashed to pieces on the ground. Buck climbed up to the rock where Sid was and frantically shouted, "Sid! Fight Carlotta's powers! Don't let her possess you!"
Carlotta then controlled Sid to make a fireball from his paw and he threw it at the weasel, directly hitting Buck and sending him down onto the ground.
"Buck!" Flora cried in fear for her husband.
Buck got up, grunting in pain before the sloth, by Carlotta's command, let out a whip made of fire as the possessed sloth whacked and smacked the one-eyed weasel multiple times, making Buck yell out in agony before Tawk stopped him by blocking the whip with his spear for Buck to which the older weasel cries out, "Sid! Don't let her control you! You are stronger than she is!"
Suddenly, the spear got too hot and exploded on Tawk, making the older weasel yell in pain within the flaming debris on his paws and shoulders.
"Boys, look out!" Diana screamed.
But it was too late. A flaming boulder plummeted at the two weasels, making them collide into the wall and knocking the weasels down with minor injuries.
The possessed sloth was soon pinned down by Diego who tried to snap Sid out of Carlotta's possession whilst restraining the evil version of his best friend.
"Sid! Listen to me! You're not what Carlotta sets you to be! You're hurting your friends here! This isn't who you are!"
"You can't save him now, sabre!" Carlotta snapped.
She then used her magic to make Sid's paws heat up in intensive fire before the sloth grabbed Diego's paw, burning the roaring sabre before Carlotta then used her powers to make Sid throw Diego over the roof of the cave making the boulders on top fall down with Diego on the ground.
Diego, in agony, looked up at the sloth in fear and desperation, unaware that the dark fire king was heating up the debris near Diego setting it to blow.
"Diego! Move!" Manny shouted out, but it was too late.
The flaming debris exploded like glass shattering as the poor sabre was blown away by the exploding debris, sending Diego withering and roaring in pain before one of the fallen boulders hit Diego on the head knocking the sabre out cold.
Manny turned to the image of the laughing witch wolf and angrily bellowed out, "Stop this! Stop this madness right now, you old hag!"
"I will end it...when he destroys you!" Carlotta venomously snapped.
Manny turned to see Sid glaring at him before he grabbed a boulder and firmly yet desperately cried out, "Don't make me do this, Sid!"
"Fool!" Carlotta scoffed as she used the power of fire to make the boulder hot for Manny to handle.
The mammoth cried out in pain and dropped the boulder before the wicked wolf finally used her powers to make Sid burst flames from his paws and burn the mammoth, making the fiery impact soar Manny to the wall and crash into it before more fallen debris plummet on Manny, injuring him and knocking him unconscious.
"No!" Flora tearfully cried.
"This is a nightmare!" Diana whimpered helplessly.
Suddenly Leo yelled out in anger and stabbed Sid in the back with the sharp rock knife, sending waves of agonizing pain to Carlotta before Sid fell to the ground, bleeding from the wound as Leo was not going down without a fight.
"You goddamn monster! YOU FREAK!" Leo insanely screamed out as he was about to finish Sid off with the final plunge of the knife.
Carlotta growled angrily and used her powers to send a small comet-sized flaming boulder to blast Leo away once and for all.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Leo screamed out before the flaming boulder crashed through the wall, sending it down a cliff nearby as it plummeted down before it exploded on impact from the ground, killing Leo in the process.
Soon, Carlotta finally released Sid from her magical grip as the injured sloth lied on the ground while the flames went down and the ice melted away. Flora and Diana finally rushed in by the heroic sloth's side before Carlotta sneered at them and mocked, "See you soon, my pretties!"
And with that, the images of Carlotta faded away leaving nothing but darkness and ruins within from the destruction inside the cave.
What happens next?
Stay tuned to find out!
ALSO PRETTY PLEASE GIVE CREDIT TO DUSK19, FOR NONE OF THIS WOULD BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT HIM
THE DESTRUCTION is from Carrie the Musical and is copyright to Michael Gore and Dean Pitchford