Long Live the Evil Triplet

Chapter 21

Cursed Bound

(Age 4 - Luis - inside Louie's head)

Luis stood, waiting, below the hole that poured out the light.

It felt so warm inside the cold dampness of Louie's mind.

He watched with longing as the four-year-old Louie played, laughed, and cuddled with his brothers.

Luis wanted that. He wanted that from Louie.He wished he didn't have to stand in attention, waiting on Magica's beck and call.

She said once Louie showed a sign of weakness, they'd be together. That he'd never have to come back to this place for very long ever again..."

You believe her?" Asked a voice. "Magica doesn't care about anyone but herself, ya know..." The disembodied voice continued. "She'll drop you just like all the others..."

It was a girl's voice, and Luis turned around in a small circle looking for it's owner. He was alone.

"You, whoever you are, You're wrong!" Luis shouted into the darkness.

His voice echoed around him, as the girl laughed.

Despite Luis already hating the voice, the laugh brought out a bit of clarity for Luis.

It was better then being alone. With nothing but watching Louie's life to mock him. To tease him.

To wish he had something else to hold onto other then Magica's cold, dark, curse...

"I'm not wrong. I'm never wrong." The girl told him.

"As for who I am. I'm Asha. Luis. I'm part of the curse too."

Part of the curse?

"Who. Who's curse are you bounded too?" He asked, finally.

"I'd rather not say at the moment." She told him. "Not that I don't trust you, Luis. I have trust issues." Asha admitted."

You don't have to with me." Luis said, without thinking.

Luis desperately wanted someone to talk to.

It was so lonely here.

Maybe he and this girl...

Both Luis and Asha looked totally different from their cursed counter parts. Secretly Louie wanted to be the good, quiet, type who always followed the rules. So Luis is imaged as such. His feathers slicked back and combed, his clothes pressed neatly against his skin, unwrinkled and not a speck of dirt on them.

Luis secretly wanted very much to see Asha's form.

But either she was embarrassed by it or couldn't appear to him that why while she was inside Louie's head.

Silence, only to be followed by Louie and Dewey fighting over the TV remote.Luis's attention was drawn away from Asha for just a moment, just in time to see Dewey break the remote by throwing it across the room.

He felt Louie's feelings then. For the first time ever.

Felt that wonderful feeling of hate, sadness, anger.

He was never able to feel anything in this form.

Not on his own.

But now...He had to motivate Louie.

Get him to open up to him."

You seem to trusting." Asha said as she felt Luis being pulled upward towards the mouth of the hole, a grin spreading across his face. "Maybe some time on the outside will convince you." She called up to him.

Luis merely shrugged at the voice as he floated out of the hole, feeling those emotions run high inside him. The only emotions he's ever known...

(Back to present day)

"Think you can handle them on your own?" Luis asked, as he stared at her.

Asha rolled her eyes.

Luis had no idea at the time that Asha was cursed bounded to Webby. Didn't even consider the possibility Webby had been cursed. Not until they got out of the woods.

But now that he's seen her, in this form. The one person who he felt actual love from, and wanted to break the curse for, other then Louie...

He had no idea how or what to make of her.

"Think that little of me, don't you. Luis." Asha stated.

Luis blinked.

She smiled at him and licked the end of his kolepesh with her tongue. "I'd have thought all those years in isolation in Louie's mind might have changed the way you thought of me."

Luis frowned.

He knew of Asha being alone inside Louie's mind when Louie didn't need or have asked for him. She kept him company. Told him all the things she was going to do once she was free of this curse.

Asha just scoffed at his frown.

If Luis couldn't get that kind of love he felt for Webby, then, maybe, if he broke the curse himself, he'd finally get it. He hadn't really done anything to gain Louie's love really. So maybe...

"I'm going to break the curse." He told her, finally.

Now it was Asha's turn to stare at him her eyes darkened.

"You realize, you will be gone too. Right? Both of us." She stated.

"Don't tell me," Luis said, "that you don't want to break it too. I know you feel that burning pain inside you. Magica's hold on us. You want to be free of that too, because I want too. We are both the same. Born from Magica's curse on Scrooge McDuck..."

Asha's eyes softened.

"Just do what you gotta do, Luis. End this curse. If not for us, then for them." She told him, and with that she jumped from window, right in front of the pack of wereducks.

"I'm planning on it." Luis said.

He looked from Huey, then to Dewey.

For them.

For Louie.

He was going to end this curse.

Luis looked around for something to pick a lock, and spotted Huey's sewing kit he uses to sew up his woodchuck badges onto his sash.

Rolling his eyes he opened it and got out the small needle then glanced over at Huey. He was standing waiting for Asha to give him the order, staring at Luis with a blank expression.

He was such a nerd!

He then looked over at Dewey. He was pouting, and staring out the window at Asha who was busy fighting off the wereducks with his kolepesh. He heard them snarling, chomping their jaws at her, while one howled a battle cry.

This one,

Luis paused as he passed Dewey, making his way towards the door.

"Is hopelessly in love." Luis muttered, outloud. "So, what abut it, Lou-Lou? Should I do something about that with Asha as Webby now? Play with his emotions a bit?"

He was hoping to get something out of Louie.

Any kind of emotion, because right now, he didn't really have any. He wanted to feel something. Since he was breaking the curse, he'd have to confront the one person who had cast it in the first place, and after his first run with Magica as his Mom and after all theses years of avoiding her. Ignoring her calls to submit to her will...

Nothing.

Not even a hint of anger out of his taunting his brothers.

Luis sighed as he pricked the lock with the needle and pushed it slowly open.

He peered into the hallway and was relieved to see no one standing guard. He looked back at Huey and Dewey. They were in good hands until he got back. Asha wouldn't let anything happen to them.

Luis took a deep breath and stepped out into the hallway and made his way down the hall. He paused at Scrooge's office, and wondered why Scrooge hadn't been aware of any comotion from outside.

Luis only hoped that he didn't run into anyone while he was on his mission. He could only imagine what Donald would do, but considering no one has seen him since that morning. Luis was more worried about Ms. Beakly catching him out of bed at this hour. No doubt she'd send him back to his room, and notify Magica, thinking she's Della.

Luis shivered.

He didn't even want to know if Magica was a good shot with his rifle, though he'd knew Magica wouldn't hesitate to shoot him, in Louie's body, then making him go back inside his mind just to make Louie suffer from the gun shot wound on his own.

Making Luis feel guilty and helpless.

Luis made his way down the hall and paused at Scrooge's office. He wondered if Scrooge was up burning the midnight oil by researching the latest lost treasure. It seemed odd to Luis that with all that was going on, none of the grown-ups had come to check out what was going on. Perhaps Magica put a spell on the grown-ups?

Now, if he were Magica, where would he be right now?

He knew that Magica wouldn't have gone to bed. Not now, not when she was so close to the number one dime.

He made it to the top of the grand staircase then slowly made his way down them. He saw two doors on each side of the staircase. One was Della's room, the other was the library. He decided to take a peek in Della's room first.

He got to the bottom of the stairs and paused at the door. His heart pounding hard against his chest as he reached for the knob. He slowly turned it, surprised that it wasn't locked. He didn't know rather to take that as a good sign, or bad.

He slowly pushed it a bit and peered inside.

He saw her.

Magica as Della, by Della's roaring fireplace sitting in a wooden chair and cleaning his rifle. She was humming softly to herself, and Luis was horrified to realize that she was singing Della's moon.

Luis felt his anger rising.

How dare she?

No matter how Luis felt about Della, Magica had no right to sing that song. Much less take over her body and pretend to be her!

He inched inside, being as quiet as he could. He had no idea what he had planned to do to break the curse. Maybe destroy Magica? Make her undo it?

He crept up towards Della's bed which was sitting between him, and Magica by the fireplace. He ducked down, then slowly lifted his head up over it just to scoop out the four square inch around her, and his heart practically stopped.

Della was bounded and gagged by the fire place. Her face was red from screaming into her gagged mouth, and she was in a tangled mess as she tried to wiggle her way out of her rope bondages. She had rope burns on her wrists and ankles, and fear in her eyes.

But no tears, Luis noticed.

"I know you are there, Luis." Magica said, suddenly.

Luis's muscle's tensed up as he remained hidden behind the bed.

How'd she -?

"Did you forget I made you, you brat?" Magica snapped, still staring into the crackling fire. "I can feel the evil still inside you."

Luis heard Della muffle a cry of warning, making Luis's heart sink. If she did believe that Luis was there, then she would have wanted to warn him. Despite what would happen to her if -.

SMACK!

Luis winced when he heard Della's muffle cry turn into a whimper.

"Unless you wish to survive tonight," Magica hissed, just loud enough for Luis to hear too, "I suggest you be quiet. Or I'll quiet you, for good." She threatened.

Silence.

"Now then, where was I?" Magica continued and straightened up.

Luis covered his head with his hands, trying to keep him still from trembling so badly. What was Luis thinking? He can't take on Magica. He couldn't even take care of the one person that made Louie summon him in the first place.

Not now...

Something always got in the way.

Rough hands grabbed Luis and pulled him upward, making him yelp in pain. Magica's eyes gleamed at him as she slowly turned back into herself.

"I've been waiting for you, for a long time now Luis." Magica hissed.

She used her free hand to brush back Luis's sweaty bangs away from his eyes, so that Luis can stare into hers.

"Time for you to do what you were made to do." Magica told him.

Luis swallowed hard and shooked his head.

Magica's eyes twinkled with amusement.

So, her pawn has a will of his own, eh? She knew how to handle a disobiediant slave. Magica only hoped that this wasn't going to be a habit. First Lena, now this...

It was a good thing that brat was out of town with that new family of hers. She wouldn't have to put up with how poorly she used her magic against her.

"Did you just say, no to me?" Magica asked. She quickly turned back into Della and sat him back down on the ground, gently.

Luis quickly rushed over to Della who's eyes brimmed with tears this time.

"I guess I'm going to have teach you that lesson after all..." Magica went to the door and quietly shut it behind her. She turned back around to face Luis who was busy trying to untie Della, but froze when he heard the bedroom door lock.

He slowly turned to face her.

"Y,You don't need to do that." Luis stammered as she strolled up to him. "W,What about the, the number one dime? Those wereducks you were using as a distraction won't be for long. Webby -." He stopped when Magica stopped in front of him.

It was like time stood still for the two of them.

Luis was trying to give an explanation to the real Della behind him. He glanced at her and saw her eyes widen.

Magica scoffed, making Luis turn back around at her. His back was pressed up against the real Della now. He could feel Della behind him, trying to comfort him the best she could. But with her arms tied behind her back it was rather difficult.

"I have plenty of time for that later." Magica snarled. "Right now, I have to tie up a few loose ends..."