Hola, amigos! I've been getting myself back to drawing and drew a cover for this fanfic. Yes, I'm working on my other fanfics but that's beside the point. Here's chapter 2 of Here Comes the Would-be Bride!.
Earlier that day...
The richest duck in Duckburg was still bewildered by what just happened. He never expected Goldie to be this angry. I mean, never has he planned nor wrote a letter telling her that he wants to marry her.
He lost his affection towards her years ago yet, he tolerates her. But, seeing how Goldie was really upset with him, to the point where she stole the rare liquid bottle, Flamgant.
Knowing how powerful and strong it is, he fears for the worse for the two girls. Despite knowing its power and its name, even he doesn't know its side effects yet. He then realizes something, if Glendy used the bottle, knowing how ditzy she is, something bad will happen to her. And if Goldie used it, she'll do something worse than he knows.
But, what's the point? Scrooge hurt his ex's feelings and made her hate him as if she didn't dislike him enough. Maybe if he made amends to her, and maybe give her something golden and precious, he'll get her forgiveness and get the bottle.
"Hey, Uncle Scrooge-"
"Louie, I'm going out alone. Adventure is calling my name and I have to get there before it's too late!", said Scrooge.
"Yeah... And while you're at it, you should get yourself an icepack...", said Louie, noticing his uncle's slap mark on his beak.
Scrooge nodded as he opens the door and leaves a note, "Just in case any visitors came by at the manor..." The rich adventurous duck closes the door and left the mansion to find the bottle.
Meanwhile, Louie hears a closet door banging, as if someone was in there. "Oh shut up, possible ghost in the closet. This isn't a good moment right now!", shouted Louie, as he left, yet it continues. As it bangs, a little crack started to show.
Present Day
The two ducks were both in the triplets' room, trying to figure out what to do with Goldie, now that she's a giantess. Glendy is drawing on her book and would draw a plan involving the 30-foot would've-been bride. "Okay, so, we steal Mr. McDuck's money, go to a fabric store, buy a bunch of white fabric, sew them up into one big fabric, give it to Ms. o'Gilt, and maybe use the rest of the money for the food. And maybe find her a place to stay for a while..."
"How would that work?", Louie writes on a notepad to write a plan.
Glendy looked at her drawing for a bit, "Good point." She takes out the drawing and crumples it up, as she draws a new draft. "Seriously, Lou. I don't know why we have to do this instead of telling Mr. McDuck.", the naive brunette looked at Louie, confused. "And let Goldie o'Gilt crush him like a bug? No, we're going to do this ourselves even if it cost our lives and the hospital bill.", explained Louie, "And we can't bring up Macbeth to this problem cause we both know why."
They both drop their notepad and book as they sigh. "Look, even if we have a solution, there are some things that may be impossible like how much food she'll need to eat, where she'll sleep, what she'll wear, and..." said Glendy, gulping. "There's no need to worry, Vasquack. We'll find a way to give her those things as we find a cure for her."
Glendy turned her eyes from left and then back to Louie, before nodding. They looked at each other, before hearing a crash from the other room. "What was that?!"
The two ran to where Goldie is and noticed that she's nowhere to be found. "Oh no... No no no!", Louie said in a fearful way, "She's gone! She's loosed! She's out to get Uncle Scrooge! She-"
"She's at the pool!"
"Exactly! Wait, what?" Louie looked surprised.
Glendy stands next to the pool where Goldie puts her feet in. Louie ran to where the giantess is, "Ohh... Thank gosh...", panting. "Don't ya worry, Ms. o'Gilt! We still working on that plan. And we didn't include him... yet...", Glendy consoled the 30-foot master swindler. "That's good to hear. Now, while you two make a plan, we oughta find us a place to stay in the meantime.", said Goldie, paddling her feet in the pool, as it splashes onto Glendy and Louie.
"Yeah. We definitely need a place to stay away from the city of Duckburg. The FBI or military will kill us all, if not them, it'll be Uncle Scrooge, mom, or Uncle Donald!", said Louie.
"Speaking of Donald, at least his boathouse gets to stay out of the water for once.", said Glendy, noticing the boat outside of the pool.
Inside the manor, Glendy starts packing everything she needs when they find a place to stay for a while until they find a cure for the glittering duck. As she grabs everything she needs, she noticed a bag full of money, like 100,000 dollars. She looked around the place to make sure no one is looking. "I know this would be Goldie's or Dr. Macbeth's doing but... I gotta help her...", said the naive brunette as she grabs the bag of money and runs out.
Louie waits for Glendy to arrive with her stuff as he picks up some roses from the floor. "Hey, I'm ready!", Glendy runs up to him, "I also got you some pep, I also got cranberry pep-"
"THAT'S GARBAGE!", Louie throws the cranberry pep out of the hole, as Glendy walks up to it. "Well, I hope raccoons or bears like cranberry..."
The limo stopped at the manor, as Scrooge opens the door and closes it. He sighed as he walked up to the door. He was saddened at the fact that Goldie might've fled town to get away from him, thinking it was his fault. But he was still determined to find her and get the bottle before it was too late. He opens the door to the mansion, looking at the remaining petals of the rose. He then noticed something was off.
The closet door now has a hole in it. "Closet ghosts...", he muttered. He noticed that Beakley is nowhere to be found. "Is she taking a break?", he thought. As continues walking through the halls, he noticed that in a room, the ceiling has a hole. In fact, he noticed that the box is opened, but he doesn't remember having a box. He looked up to see a huge hole in the wall, leading to the outside.
He then heard loud stomping noises coming from outside. "What was that?" The stomps were so loud, it made the whole mansion shake as if there was an earthquake. Thinking something is definitely wrong, he fears that this must be the work of the Flamgant.
Then, Scrooge heard a familiar scream. "ALRIGHT, WHO DID THIS TO MY BOAT?!", it was Donald Duck, who just came back from grabbing a few things. Then the loud stomps came back. Not wanting to stay here and do nothing, he ran back to the limo. "Follow those stomping, McQuack!"
"But didn't we-"
"I SAID NOW!"
The pilot drove the limo towards the footsteps as Scrooge started to get worried.
At the farmhouse
Glendy continues to draw on her book, making a plan on how to get Goldie back to normal. She plans to find a cure that reverses the effects of her gigantism. But despite all of that, she also needs to get many fabrics to make Goldie a new wedding dress.
"So, what do you think of this plan I thought of? We sneak into the money bin, we steal a book of potions and spells, and we find a cure!", explained Louie.
"Hmmm... Could work... Only one problem. How will we get there? Call a cab and explain the giantess issue? Have a giantess take us there, while the city freak out?", said Glendy.
Louie looked at his plan and starts tearing it apart.
"Oh, you two just don't know how to plan to get a cure!", said Goldie, "Just face it. I'm stuck in this size. You'll never find it."
The naive brunette walked up to the giantess, "Hey, at least you'd make a great bridezilla." She chuckled nervously, before being grabbed by Goldie. "Another word involving a wedding and you're done.", threatened Goldie. Glendy, knowing that she's still angry from what happened, nods but doesn't say a word.
"I'm sorry, Vasquack, but that whole fake letter ordeal still hurts me. I'm just... I'm just disappointed... Scrooge and I used to be into each other and now... Nothing. Instead, we fight as if it's a competition. I still can't forget the time I backstabbed him and nearly died." remembered Goldie, dropping Glendy.
"Hey, you have nothing to be sorry about. After all, you still have us and as soon as we make a plan, we'll find that cure and get you back to normal size," reassured Glendy, as she looks through the farmhouse to find any clues to use on Goldie. She looks at the white coat, as she looks scared and nervous. "I don't know if I should bring Macbeth to solve this problem... But only if it's an emergency."
Glendy then notices a record of a famous guitar artist who goes by the name of Kapono Ashira. Not knowing about his history nor who he really is, Glendy gets an idea of giving both Scrooge and Goldie a better wedding than what she saw. "Maybe I should get Macbeth when the time is right.", Glendy writes a note to Macbeth and place it on a record.
Meanwhile, Goldie would look around at the farmhouse, noticing that there's no animals nor a farmer, thankfully. She didn't bear to think about what would happen if there was a farmer and Glendy had to explain to him why there was a giantess by his farmhouse. Goldie loved to think that the farmhouse was abandoned and was left with just tools and objects. And maybe a box of rings.
Knowing how big she is now, she really hoped there was a giant-sized ring big enough for her to put it on. But if there was a groom waiting for her, she'd let him use a crane to put it on her finger-
The golden-haired duck shakes her head. Why would she think such a thing? She knows what he has done to her yet she still can't deny any love for him all of a sudden.
Meanwhile, the limo driver, Launchpad, noticed the sight of Goldie. "Hey, Mr. McD, you never told me you're engaged to a bridezilla.", said Launchpad. "What?", Scrooge gets out of the car as he saw his old flame, now 30-feet tall. "Oh... My... God..."
"Hi, Scroogie!", the giantess greeted in a surprisingly warm and loving way.
Both Glendy and Louie were shocked to see Scrooge noticing Goldie, while she's this big.
"Uncle Scrooge! I can explain!"
"Mr. McDuck! I didn't mean to steal the bottle you have! I don't know how powerful it is. I think it's the cause of this."
As they try to explain themselves, Scrooge walked over to the giantess, ignoring the two. He was shocked to see her as a giantess, but still in her now torn wedding dress. "Uhh... This will be difficult to get used to... I know what I did to you was pretty selfish-", Scrooge was then interrupted by the giantess, "Oh, don't be sorry... I know you wanted to apologize," said Goldie, "But I was wondering... If we were to get married... I think we should start fresh..."
"I don't know, Goldie, I-"
Glendy, now in a white coat, whispers to Scrooge, "Maybe you should... After all, I think you should start falling in with Goldie again..." Scrooge thought for a second, until he smiled in a heartwarming way, "Well. I guess I could rebuild my relationship with you." The giantess holds on to Scrooge and hugs him, "Oh, Scrooge!" The rich duck gasps for air as he's smothered onto the giantess.
"Oh how lovely this is...", said 'Glendy' as she and Louie watched.
"May I be the man of honor?", Launchpad asked in glee.
Few minutes passed, 'Glendy' takes her stuff out of her backpack as she brushes her hair. "So, did it go well, Macbeth?", a familiar voice alerted 'Glendy'- Macbeth, making her look at the mirror, revealing Glendy Vasquack, the real one, waving at her. "Oh... Hey, Glendy. It went well. Scrooge and Goldie are starting to fall in love with each other again, Louie and I are making a plan, and I told Launchpad to find two normal-sized rings and one gigantic ring for Goldie.", explained Dr. Macbeth.
Meanwhile, Launchpad stares at the huge ring-like structure. He checks the height and width of the structure. He touches it as he feels it. He even puts his hand through it.
"Sir," a bored worker walked over to the pilot, "Are you sure you want to take this for your boss's... wedding? You do realize the bride isn't... that size..."
"When I say big, I didn't say anything about her with a bun in the oven. I mean she's literally big."
The bored worker grabs a ruler and puts their hand up, "This big?" The pilot moved their hand a bit higher, "This big."
"So, are-"
"Yes, I'll take it", Launchpad gives the worker the money Macbeth gave him.
"Imagine how big the ring might be when he comes back with it", joked Macbeth.
The brunette in the mirror laughed, "Boy, the wedding will be the wackest and the first to have a giantess and a rich duck marrying each other." Macbeth puts down the brush. "So, Macbeth, do you think you could take me to that wedding while you give out the rings and throw the flowers?", asked Glendy.
"I sure will but there's only one problem."
"What do you mean?"
"No one in weddings brings a mirror and expects it to watch. It'll make me look like I'm crazy.", explained Macbeth.
Glendy was surprised, "But, but. I have to get to that wedding. This is the only time I ever participated in one! And I can't miss my friend's wedding!" Macbeth chuckles, "Oh, Vasquack... Such a shame that a bridesmaid has to miss the bride's wedding... Even if she's the size of a building..." The doctor smirked in a sinister way.
"Macbeth, please! Goldie needs me! I can't let her get angry and hurt again! She'll crush Mr. McDuck! She'll crush you! She'll crush Duckburg when she has a chance! Even the military won't stop her!", Glendy bangs on the mirror as Macbeth puts a cloth on it.
"That won't happen once I'm through with her.", said Macbeth, "After all, she's not the only one you have to worry about..."
Dr. Macbeth noticed a record on the table and read the note, "When it's in love mode, go for it! - Glendy V." Macbeth was confused at first until she found an article that dates to 1935, "Musician Changes His Notes to Commit a Murder Spree", showing a picture of Kapono Ashira before he went insane. She read the article, as she makes a smirk. "Let's make sure that Scrooge's wedding becomes unforgettable, along with a memory of someone he knows..." The doctor ties her hair into her signature ponytail as she leaves, not knowing that Louie was a witness, watching on what has just occurred.
"Oh god... I gotta tell Uncle Scrooge..."
The rich duck couldn't believe this. After an argument like that, Goldie has officially cooled her spirits and is now willing to marry him at all cost. But he was uncertain about Goldie's current state. Having to marry a giantess while there is no known cure to reverse her gigantism. He got an idea of taking the bottle Glendy currently has and figure out the pink liquid so he'll find an answer to her gigantism.
Scrooge goes inside to where the mirror is covered up, along with Flamgant. Thinking that Glendy probably left the bottle behind for him to take away. He grabs the bottle and was about to leave when...
"Uncle Scrooge! Something's wrong with Vasquack!", Louie ran to his uncle, worrying about his friend.
"Not now, Louie!", said Scrooge, "We already have a giantess to deal with, we don't need another one!"
Scrooge walked away from his grandnephew but was stopped. "It's not about the giant problem! It's about Glendy!", said Louie, "I think... I think... I THINK SHE'S STUCK IN A MIRROR!" Louie ran to the clothed mirror and took the cloth away, revealing... A reflection.
"Lad, I think you're wasting my time over a mirror.", scold Scrooge, exiting the farmhouse, leaving Louie all alone.
Louie couldn't believe that his uncle thought he was lying or playing a joke on him. Groaning, he thinks of a way to expose Macbeth and free Glendy.
The rich duck walked over to the giantess, who is currently trying to fix her hair to her different hairstyle before she became a giantess. Goldie noticed her fiancee, "Oh, Scrooge! What took you so long?" She crouched down to the rich duck.
"I found Flamgant in the farmhouse. I would've come here sooner if it weren't for Louie lying about that Glendy is trapped.", explained Scrooge, holding the bottle up to his fiancee, "I'm guessing this is the caused of your unexpected growth spurt."
"So that's why I fainted when I was given tea. I thought I was poisoned.", said Goldie.
Scrooge reads t the bottle label, "One drop of Flamgant and you become the new you... A little warning to the holder, if take or add more than one drop, the consequences may befall... I already read this when I first found it..." Then, he noticed a rolled-up paper, hiding in the cap, "What's this..."
Scrooge took it out, "Another letter? To the new holder of Flamgant, this potion is well-known for being too powerful for the holder. Once you take more than once, you're most likely larger than life. The reason why the bottle has a heart on it is... It stopped there..."
"Dang it. Seems that we'll never get an answer or the antidote."
"Goldie, no need to feel bad. If we're going to shrink you down, we'll have to decode this. After all, it's 2 days away from your special day.", comforted Scrooge, holding onto the giantess's finger.
"Thanks. For now... I think we should be heading out for a while...", said Goldie.
Thankfully, Duckburg is currently snoozing and quiet, leaving the giantess to take Scrooge to see the cold yet redeeming moonlight. "Here we are, Scrooge. Just you and me, and the sleeping town...", said Goldie, looking at the moon and the starry night.
"I know the moon brings back horrible memories, but thankfully, with you... I think I could forget all about it...", said Scrooge.
"Mmhh... About that... Remember when I backstabbed-"
The rich duck interrupts the giantess, "Goldie, that was in the past... It wasn't your fault you had to stab me in the back. I mean, we danced, we fought Glomgold and the note from you... I'm actually grateful for that." He chuckled and smiled, "Despite the fact that you are a master swindler."
"True... But, I guess I won't be doing that for a while. After all, I'm now too big to even steal one from a person... But I could grab them and steal a fortune from them.", said the giantess.
They laughed for a bit.
"I guess I'm not all bad after all.", the giantess smiled, "Although, I did leave you for dead when we were trapped in that glacier...", frowning from that memory.
"Goldie..."
"You were right, I should've saved you instead of abandoning"
"Now let's not-"
"And if anyone should be left for dead, it should've been me! IT SHOULD'VE BEEN ME!", cried the giantess, soaking the rich duck with her tears.
Scrooge looked at the giantess bride, not wanting her to cry before her wedding day and flood the town with her tears. "Goldie! You don't have to feel bad! That is all in the past now. And here we are. You and I, dating like we used to. And falling back to love.", the rich duck shows sympathy towards the giantess.
The giantess sniffled, "Thanks, I never had any comfort like that before..."
"I never gave you anything like that before either..."
The two embraced each other, as the giantess kissed the rich duck, making him blush.
As the rich duck looked at the night sky, the giantess noticed the museum is currently having a private party, with all of the riches and sparkling jewelry. She snuck past Scrooge, as she looked down at how many people are in there. Seeing how extraordinary jewels and findings are there, she sat by the museum, looking through the window without getting spotted.
As she looks around, she saw how many people are either laughing, chatting, and dancing. The giantess even noticed a couple dancing to the music, while the rest are having a drink. Smiling, she decided to get anything to give her upcoming wedding a bit of pizazz. Goldie reaches for a piece of jewelry, breaking the window. Using her hand, she pats for anything to take from someone.
"hOlD mY nEcKlAcE, pErCiVaL! dOnT lOsE iT oR i'Ll GeT mY dAdDy! mY nEcKlAcE cOsTeD lOt Of MoNeY!", a platypus mocked, before scoffing.
The platypus was forced to hold a rich brat's necklace after someone spilled a drop of wine on her new dress. She didn't want to get her necklace messy so she 'asked' her servant, who only worked for her until he gets a paycheck, to hold her necklace otherwise she'll get her 'daddy' to fire him.
"Oh, that spoiled brat! Wait until the Lovaluck family watches me leave their... Their... their tailfeathers and their dang mansion of h-"
His phone rings as he picks it up, "Hello? Oh, hey Linda. No, I'm still working with them."
As the platypus talked on the phone, the giantess grabbed the necklace, using her fingers. "Gotcha...", whispered Goldie.
But as she grabs it, she accidentally slipped onto a car, making her fall onto the museum's wall, destroying it. The guests stopped with their chatting and dancing and turned around to the giantess.
Goldie nervously laughed, "So... Is everyone having a good time?", as she snatches the necklace. The guests screamed and ran out of the building, knowing that a giantess has entered a building.
"What?", the platypus tries to hear the caller on the phone, not knowing the situation that is currently happening, "Sorry! I can't hear you while a crowd is screaming their heads off."
The caller tells the platypus something, "What? No, I'm not in a concert!"
The giantess gets up and hides the necklace. "Great... The one time when pickpocketing becomes too difficult.", muttered the giantess, as she leaves the scene.
"Time to go!", the giantess grabs Scrooge off of the building.
"What, why-"
"No time!"
The giantess fled the town, hoping that no one noticed that.
Launchpad landed the plane, unloading the gigantic ring. As he took it out, it almost crushed the pilot. Thankfully, it missed. The pilot pushes the ring to get to the farmhouse for the wedding. Although the ring is heavy and hard to push, Launchpad is willing to deliver this ring on time before the wedding.
"This may take a while.", said Launchpad, continuing to push it to the farmhouse.
As he takes the ring to the farmhouse, he hopes that his boss will not only be happy but will be proud of how he'll finally marry his old flame. Little did the rest know, trouble will come their way, leading to some BIG problems.
"I wonder how tall will the wedding cake be."
A/N: Annnnddd... That's all for today! Special guest... Well, I can't tell you 'till the facts are released. Feel free to give out thoughts on what could happen next. See you next time on the next chapter!
Maybe I should tone down the Macbeth B-plot.