Chapter 37: Happily Ever After At Last
The last chapter is finally here! (wipes away a tear) So I will now answer comments for the last time, at least for this particular story.
Ptroxsora: Thanks for catching that mistake, although I did finish that chapter at 2 am, so it's surprising that I didn't make a lot more!
Shellspectacular: Hey now don't be sad! You have one more chapter to read before it's over! Also, maybe I'm just slow today, but remind me what CR stands for? If it's obvious I'm sorry, but I guess it's just one of those days!
LadyOfSlytherin101: Thank you so much! I kind of felt like I was there too! As to what happened to the villains, I'm going to touch on that in the sequel, but until then, what do you think happened to them? I'd love to here your ideas, and am looking forward to reading your story when you post it!
Now on to the final chapter of How Reality saved Fantasy! (Starts sobbing!)
Quick Disclaimer: I do not own anything Disney, characters, attractions or otherwise. I only own my 10 OC's and the unfolding plot of this story, so no flames please!
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Carmen's P.O.V.
When I woke up the next morning, I felt an overwhelming feeling of sadness. This was the last morning that all of us would be together, and I still hadn't told them that Peter had asked me to come back to Narnia with him. I had said yes, for I had nowhere to go back to in this world. Yet, it would be strange living in Narnia when I was used to the real world, but if it meant that I got to be with Peter, I would do almost anything. These thoughts kept my mind busy as I packed, tossing in clothes and stuff slowly.
The last thing that went into my suitcase was a framed photograph that Mickey had taken last night, of all ten of us decked out in our finery, laughing and grinning with our eyes around each other. It brought tears to my eyes as I thought about how I wouldn't see them for possibly a very long time. Wiping away these tears, I placed the picture in the suitcase, and shut it tightly. Then, using a nifty spell that Fairy Godmother had placed on our luggage, I tapped the suitcase once.
"Shrink please," I said, and the suitcase did, shrinking to size of a toy, and small enough to fit in my pocket. All I had to when I got to where I was going was to ask it to grow, and it would revert back to its normal size. Fairy Godmother was truly an amazing Disney character.
I put the now tiny suitcase in my jacket pocket, and left the newly repaired bedchamber, pausing a moment as I reflected on our time here. I then went to track down the girls, wanting to meet with them before breakfast. I found most of them saying goodbye to the characters they had befriended here, so I told them that when they were done, to meet with me outside of the hall of character portraits. After about 20 minutes, all the girls had arrived, all except for Emily, who just then came speeding around the corner.
"Sorry, guys. I was saying goodbye to Pooh Bear and his friends, and Piglet started crying, so I had to cam him down," she said sheepishly. The rest of us awed. That was cute, but in a sad kind of way.
"So, What did you want to talk to us about, o fearless leader?" asked Ashley, smirking as I made a face at her. I still wasn't entirely comfortable with the status of leader, but everyone had told me that since I was the eldest and had made the ultimate sacrifice that I deserved the title.
"Well, seeing that it's our last morning together, I thought that this would be a good time to show you this," I said, leading them into a chamber that had just been added last night. Mickey had showed it to me last night and told me that if we had to leave anything here, that this was the place to do it. I think he was talking about the swords.
"Mickey told us we could leave stuff here, and I think he met the swords, for I don't think we could use them outside of the park. Just in case we come back here some day," I said, and the girls nodded and voiced their agreement, taking out their swords.
On the walls of this chamber, that had only just appeared, were ten glass cases, all of them both bullet and dark magic proof, all of them open and ready to hold the swords.
"I do have to warn you though, once we put in the swords, the only way the cabinets can be opened again only when all of us are here together again," I said, and I watched them hesitate a moment but still agreed. So one by one they set them in the cases, all of them shutting and locking themselves once they all were inside. All of us looked at each other sadly, knowing that by giving up these powerful swords was bringing us one step closer to having to say goodbye. I was the first to voice the sadness we were all feeling.
"I'm really going to miss you guys," I said, a lump forming in my throat as I spoke. Ashley put her hand on my shoulder.
"Girl I'm going to miss you too, but you can't live that far away. We'll find a way to see each other," she said, completely unaware as to what I was about to tell them.
"But Ash, I'm not going back with you guys. Peter asked me to come back to Narnia with him, and …. I said yes," I blurted out, looking at Ashley's expression of pure shock uneasily.
"But won't you be lonely there all by yourself. I mean, I know you have Peter, but still," said Emily, looking at me curiously.
"She won't be alone thought," said Zoey, speaking before I could answer.
"What do you mean, Zoey?" asked Carly, looking at her friend in confusion. Zoey smiled brightly.
"Ed asked me to come with him back to Narnia as well, and I said yes too," she said, smirking at me.
"Can't get rid of me that easily, Car," she said, excitement flashing in her eyes.
"But won't your parents miss you?" asked Ashley, her hands on her hips.
"Miss me? They spend all their time away on business trips then at home with me. I usually stay at a friends almost all of the time, but now that I have Edmund, I'm happier then I have been in a long time, and I want it to stay that way," she said, and I knew that nothing we said could possibly sway her. Ashley was still a bit angry that we hadn't told her this before, I could tell.
"Anyone else have anything to share with the group?" she asked, and I could tell she was more sad then angry that she wasn't going to be able to see us for a while., but I guess an angry expression was just easier to do for her. She then trained her eyes on Chloe and Kim, who were smiling nervously.
"We're staying too, guys. We're going to live as mermaids in Atlantica," said Kim, looking at Ashley with a mix of a happy and apologetic expression. Chloe looked at Ashley straight in the eye.
"When I had my voice stolen from me, I thought my life was over. But when Kim and I went down to Atlantica to get my sword, I found in Atlantica the place where I truly belonged. As a mermaid," her voice as confident as her expression.
"But what about the folks issue?" asked April, her dark eyes looking at Chloe in concern. Chloe took a deep breath, and it looked like she was forcing the words out.
"My mom, she died when I was a baby, and my dad recently passed away from a bad case of cancer, so there's no one for me to go back to," she said, her shoulders shaking as she suppressed tears. That shut us up. We had never known that she had to deal with that. I walked over and hugged Chloe tightly.
"It's ok Chloe. I know how that feels. Both my parents died in a car crash a couple years back, so that's another reason why I'm going with Peter," I said, smiling at her when she looked up in surprise.
The rest of the girls gasped too, for I hadn't told them that either, except for Carly, and she hadn't seemed to have told anyone.
"It's better to go somewhere you feel safe then to go to a place where you have no one right?" I asked her, and she nodded, both of us feeling the same pain.
"And what about you, Kim?" I asked, releasing the younger girl from our hug. Kim rolled her eyes.
"They're divorced, and still spend all their time arguing over who has to have me. Neither of them wants me, and I'm sick of it. Besides, someone has to keep an eyes on this one," she said, pulling Chloe into a headlock, the girl laughing as she struggled to get free.
Then Julia spoke up, her face set in her usual smirk. "I'll just come out and say it. I'm not sticking around either, in fact I'm going back to the Caribbean with Jack Sparrow, to become a pirate. As to why, I'm actually skilled with sword fighting now, believe it or not, and I've always wanted to go sailing on the high seas," she said, the silence filling the air so much that you could here a pin drop. Emily then spoke up, a bit timidly.
"And your parents?" she asked, Julia grimacing as she rolled her eyes.
"What parents! My parents either died, didn't want me and abandoned me! Either way I was put up for adoption, and I was adopted by my Great Aunt Gertrude, this horribly mean old bag with a temper of an angry caged rhino!" she said, leaving us stunned.
"She can't be that bad," said Carly, trying to be optimistic. .
"Do you call smacking someone with a ruler for getting less then a A on a geometry test not that bad?" she asked, raising an eyebrow at us as we gulped. There was cruel and unusual punishment in a nutshell.
"You're right she sounds completely horrible," said April, getting nods from the rest of the girls.
"You have no idea, but if I go with Jack, I'll finally have an opportunity to fight back for once and not feel so helpless anymore," she said, and I knew that out of everyone here, she was the one that was capable of doing it.
"Well, at least keep your wits about you while you're hunting for treasure and sword fighting in battles, cause when I see you next, I expect you in to be one piece, as in not full of bullet holes!" said Ashley, wagging her finger but winking at Julia, who made a face.
"Yes Mother," she said as the two redheads hugged each other, the two toughest girls in the group letting go of their hard facades fro just a moment to hug each other.
"So I guess it's just 5 of us going back, huh?" said Emily, referring to herself, Carly, Ivy, April, and Ashley, who nodded sadly.
"Well before all the blubbering starts, can we have a group hug?" asked Emily, the youngest and sweetest of the group.
"Sure Emily," I said, coming over to hug her. The rest of the girls followed, except for Julia and Ashley, who hung back until they were yanked into the circle.
"I don't know about you know guys, but I for one am starving," said Ivy, everyone laughing as he stomach growled loudly.
"If there are chocolate chip pancakes, I call them!" cried Julia, sprinting from the room ahead of everyone as fast as she could. Everyone laughed as they ran after her, except for me. I paused a moment before closing the door.
The swords looked kind of lonely, locked up in the cases, for who knows how long. Yet, I had a strong feeling that this wouldn't be the last time I'd see them. I knew I'd come back here, someday, was my thought as the I run down he hallway after my friends, the smell of sausages making my own stomach growl.
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Third Person P.O.V.
About 2 hours after the girls had talked and had breakfast, the time had finally come for them to say goodbye for the last time. The park was scheduled to open to the public at 12 sharp, and the girls wanted to be out of there before then, to avoid any awkward questions. So, a few minutes before 11, everyone meet at the Stature of Walt and Mickey. Mickey himself was there to see everyone off, trying to hide tears, but then everyone was like that. Carmen and Zoey had changed their clothes, and now wore traditional Narnian dresses, with Carmen's being a red and gold dress with a gold traveling cloak, and Zoey's being a blue and silver one with a grey traveling cloak. The former also had her hair styled in a long braid, while the latter kept her hair loose.
Julia had changed clothes also, and now wore skintight black pants, a puffy red shirt and a orange bandana wrapped around her head. She completed the look with heavy-duty black boots and a thick brown jacket similar to Jacks. All in all, she looked every bit a fearsome female pirate. Then, as the clock struck 11, the girls knew it was time to leave. After a lot of hugging and tears, Carmen and Zoey were the first to depart, accompanied by Peter, Edmund, Susan, Lucy, Caspian and Aslan, through a portal that led right back to Narnia.
They waved goodbye as the portal closed, Carmen and Zoey holding onto Peter and Edmund tightly. When their portal had closed, Ariel, in her mermaid form, called out to Chloe and Kim, for she was the one escorting them to Atlantica. The two hugged everyone goodbye, then dove into the water after Ariel. They then jumped out of the water, giving everyone a chance to see their mermaid tails, before disappearing for the last time beneath the waves, hardly leaving a ripple. No sooner had they disappeared, then a bright flash of light it up the harbor, and a huge ship appeared, Jack smiling as his precious Black Pearl came sailing up. Will and Elizabeth, who Jack was dropping off at Port Royale, climbed aboard, followed closely by Jack, who was eager to get back out to open sea. Julia quickly said goodbye to her remaining friends and jumped up onto the ship. She quickly climbed up into the rigging, and hoisted herself up into the crow's nest, where she waved to her friends until the ship disappeared in another flash of light.
Finally, it was just the last five girls and Mickey. The mouse looked up at them with glistening eyes, but his smile was strong and true.
"Well girls, it's been a real pleasure getting to know you these past few days. I hope to see you really soon," he said, shaking their hands with his gloved ones. The girls nodded, trying to stay strong, and it was Ashley who finally was able to speak.
"Will do, Mic. Will do. See yah later," she said turning to leave, but not before stopping and giving the mouse a quick but tight hug. She then spun around and quickly walked off the rest of the girls following her in surprise.
At the entrance of the park, the group split up again, April, Carly and Emily walking up the stairs to the monorail, which they would ride back to the Contemporary Resort to meet their parents. Ashley and Ivy watched them walk away, listening to the them as they were already making plans to meet at Clearwater Beach, a beach on the Gulf of Mexico that they all lived close by to. When the train pulled away, Ashley and Ivy left the park and walked to the bus station, where they'd catch a bus back to the Coronado Resort where their parents would pick them up. As they walked up to
the bench, Ashley's iPhone started ringing.
"You wait for the bus, I'll be right there," she said, Ivy nodded as Ashley pulled her phone out.
She smiled; she was usually so obsessed with her phone, but she hadn't touched it once while at Disney World. It was amazing how much your priorities could change in just a few short days. She accepted the call and put it on speaker.
"Oh hey mom. Yeah I had a great time. No, nothing really, just rode on the rides and meet the other contest winners." If only she knew. Still, no way was she going to tell her mom what had really happened. The truth was staying between the people who had actually been there to experience it. Ashley listened ad her mom started telling her about the Coronado and how her dad had been promoted to manager of the hotel.
"How would I feel about living there? That sounds great! Oh and mom, there's someone I'd really like you to meet. Yeah, I'll tell you when I see you, Ok, love you too. Bye,"
She snapped her phone shut and literally leaped onto the bus, where Ivy had already saved them seats. " I know what were doing the rest of the summer!" she said excitedly, and told her what her mom had said, Ivy's eyes getting big with excitement as she listened, the bus slowly pulling way from the park.
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Mickey smiled sadly as the bus pulled away, taking the last of the hero's back home. He would miss them, as he knew the other characters would to, but he also knew that he would see them again one day. Because while the park was safe now, there was always some sort of dark evil hidden in the shadows, waiting for the opportunity to strike once again. But for now at least, the sun was out, the sky was blue, and pretty soon the park would be filled with parents and children, excited for a day of their dreams coming true. With this happy thought, he had strolled up Main Street, grinning as the sunlight reflected off Cinderella Castle, the very symbol that brought reality and fantasy together in one magical place.
The girls would never forget the adventure they had experienced here. The adventures, the dangers and the extraordinary bond they had created between them all. A bond that no dark magic or evil villain could ever sever. And to this day, there was one thing they never forgot, as you should never forget as well. That it was all started by a Mouse.
THE END
Oh my freaking god, I finally finished this story! What started as a small idea back in November of 2011, has become this huge story that's taken almost 6 months to complete! I'm kind of sad now that it's over , but because of all your positive comments, I will be writing a sequel to it as soon as I can, but seeing that it will be a sequel, and as hardly are they as good as the original, I'm apologizing in the advance. Now I'd like to thank the following people for the for their amazing comments over these past few months.
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