Chapter 42

It was a bright sunny morning and everyone was still asleep. Flynn was then woken up by a small drop of water. He opened his eyes and saw a angry Maximus standing over him, still wet from yesterday.

"Well, I hope you're here to apologize.", he said in a cocky attitude and went back to sleep.

Rapunzel woke up when Flynn started screaming. She then saw Flynn being dragged away by the foot by Maximus. Rapunzel ran after them, grab Flynn's hand, and started to pull him away from Maximus, but Maximus refused to let go and started pulling his foot away from them.

"Gimmie...him!", she said as she pulled hard to make him let go of Flynn, but Maximus refused.

They both pulled hard until Maximus pulled off Flynn's boot from his foot and making Flynn crashing into Rapunzel. Maximus then got open and charged towards the two.

Rapunzel then ran up to him and started to block his way by waving her hands and blocking his direction.

As she did this, she said, "Wh-wh-whoa! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Easy, boy, easy! Settle down. Whoa, whoa! Easy, boy, easy! Easy."

She then smiled at him, which made Maximus surprised.

"That's it!"

He then looked up and saw the chameleon on her head, telling him with a hand gesture to settle down. The horse blinked.

"What the hell is going on?", asked Gajeel as the mages came over to her.

"Isn't that the horse from yesterday?", question Gray.

"Now, sit!"

Maximus was slightly about to sit.

"Sit!", she said demandingly.

He then immediately sit on the ground.

"What?", question Flynn.

"Now drop the boot."

The horse huffed.

"Drop it!"

After a long pause, he then dropped the boot.

"You are such a good boy!", she said as she went up to him and hugged and petted his neck, which made him wag his tail like a dog. "Yes you are. Are you all tired from chasing this bad man all over the place?"

The horse nodded with a sad look.

"That's is so honorable!", said Erza as she ran up and hugged the horse.

"Wow, an animal that's just like Erza.", said Happy while the other mages nodded.

"Excuse me?", said Flynn.

"Nobody appreciates you, do they? Do they?

The horse continued to shake his head while Rapunzel and Erza kept petting him.

"Oh, come on. He's a bad horse!"

"Ohhh. He's nothing but a big sweetheart. Isn't that right..." She then looked at his badge while the horse happily looked at her. "Maximus?"

"Wha… You've got to be kidding me."

Maximus then looked at him with an angry look.

"Look, today is kind of the biggest day of my life, and the thing is, I need you not to get him arrested."

Maximus looked shocked and unsure about Rapunzel's request.

"Just for twenty-four hours, and then you can chase each other to your hearts' content. Okay?"

Maximus and Flynn looked at each other unsurly. Flynn sigh and held out his hand for a truce, Maximus still was unsure about all this and kept looking at him with a scowl.

"And it's also my birthday. Just so you know."

Maximus then huffed after hearing that. He then lifted up his hove, understanding the agreement. Flynn grabbed his hove and the shook on it.

"Rapunzel!"

Rapunzel looked up and saw Sora, Donald, Goofy, and the other Fairy Tail mages running up towards them.

"You're here. And you're okay!"

"Yeah! You too.", said Sora.

When Rapunzel walked up to them, Maximus hit Flynn in his stomach with his hove, making Flynn grunt in pain, hold his breath and collapse on the ground while Natsu, Gray, Happy, and Gajeel laughed at him.

"Natsu! Happy!', shouted a happy Lucy.

Something quickly moved past Lucy and headed straight for Gray.

"Gray-sama!", shouted Juvia as she tackled Gray down to the grown, making him yelp. "Juvia missed you so much. Don't leave Juvia!"

"Get off me!", shouted Gray.

"Looks like someone misses him.", said Donald.

"Look! I made a friend.", said Rapunzel as Maximus came up to the newcomers. "Meet Maximus. You could say Flynn introduced us. And where one goes, the other follows."

Maximus then moved his head close to the group's faces with a serious look, inspecting them if they are trouble while the others looked really uncomfortable, except for Laxus who gave the same look back at him.

"This is Sora, Goofy, Donald, Lucy, Wendy, Charle, Juvia, and Laxus. They've been helping me. And the people over there were the ones you met yesterday: Natsu, Gray, Erza, Gajeel, Happy, and Lily."

"You are such a handsome horse, Maximus.", said Erza as she hugged him again, making him happy.

"Yup. This horse is definitely like Erza.", said Laxus.

Flynn then got up from the ground and said, "Come on, the Kingdom's not far."

Now that everyone's here, they all continued their journey to the Kingdom.

"And then a flood of water came and covered the entire area, everyone, including us, were swept along it.", said Natsu.

"Yeah, yeah.", sighed Lucy.

"Whoa! This place is beautiful!", said Rapunzel as they all entered a nice sunny forest clearing with a small river and flowers blooming everywhere.

"Wow, so pretty!", said Wendy.

"How 'bout we stop for a second and enjoy the scenery?". Goofy suggested.

"No.", said Erza. "The clock is ticking."

"Aww.", said Goofy and Rapunzel in disappointment.

After passing the clearing, they entered into a rocky area.

"The Kingdom's not far, but up ahead are tall cliffs. We need to scale these cliffs if we are going to get there.", said Flynn.

"Well, then, let's look for a way up.", said Rapunzel.

"We can use these cliffs to make our way up.", said Juvia as she point at the cliffs.

"Nice idea.", said Gray.

"Yay. Gray-sama praised Juvia!"

The group made up the cliffs and jump from one edge to the other to reach their destination. Rapunzel used her hair to swing from one area to another. On their way, they ran into a group of Heartless. But with everyone together again, they all easily defeated the Heartlesses.

"That was easy.", said Natsu.

"Yeah. I think we're getting the hang of defeating them.", said Gray.

"Yes. But there are still some strong ones out there. Be careful.", said Erza.

They then reached a wildflower clearing. It was mostly a cool shaded area with bushes and trees, but flowers were growing everywhere.

"Oh, look! I see some birds! This way!", said Rapunzel as she ran to a nearby trees with birds on one of the branches. But when she came close to them, the birds flew away to another tree. "Wait! Come back! I must have startled them."

"What's wrong?", asked Happy.

"I wanted to hold the birds, but they flew away."

"We can get them back.", said Happy as he summon his wings. "Come on, Charle."

"Fine.", Charle responded by summoning her wings.

Happy and Charle flew to where the birds are and spoke to them.

"I wonder what they're saying.", said Wendy.

"Who knows.", said Laxus.

"Alright, we're going to bring the birds over slowly, so don't do anything stupid.", said Charle as she and Happy flew over to the group with the birds at a slow pace.

"Here you go.", said Happy as he brought the birds to Rapunzel.

"I've never seen a bird like you.", said Rapunzel as she examine the blue bird. The birds then started to chirp. "Listen. They're singing for us!"

The birds then flew off into a different direction.

"They're almost like bluebirds of happiness."

"Hey, that was my thought when I first met Happy.", said Natsu. "He may be a cat, but he blue and he flies."

"Really? That is so cute!"

"Aye, sir!', said Happy.

"Hey, let's keep going.", said Lucy.

After passing the clearing, they entered into a sunny area filled with wild flowers. Beyond the field was a downhill trail leading deeper into the woods.

"I've never seen so many flowers!', said Rapunzel.

"So lovely!', said Wendy as she pick some flowers.

"A perfect spot for flower picking.", said Charle.

"Yeah. Anyone would love to come here and make some flower crowns.", said Lucy.

"Such a marvelous field.", said Erza.

"It is pretty nice.", said Gray as he picked up a flower."

"Oh, breathtaking.", said an amazed Flynn.

"Hey, check this out!', shouted Natsu.

Gray then handed the flower to Juvia and walked towards Natsu. Juvia blushed and was filled with happiness.

"A flower...from Gray-sama!", Juvia said quietly.

"Come here, Juvia.", said Wendy.

"I think this trail leads to the Kingdom.", said Natsu.

"I guess we got to head down.", said Laxus.

"Last one to slide to the bottom's a rotten egg.", said Goofy as he ran and slide down the mountain with his feat.

"Oh, yeah?", shouted Natsu as he ran after Goofy. Then, everyone then started to do the same thing.

"Yahoo!", shouted Sora.

Lucy, Wendy, Rapunzel, and Juvia were laughing while the boys were fighting on getting there first.

"This is amazing!", said Rapunzel.

Everyone then stop sliding when they reached a flat area.

"I guess that's it.", said Lily.

"Aww. But is so fun!', said Sora.

"Guys. Look.", said Happy as he point at a large area.

They walked past the bushes and reached a beach area filled with clean water. They also saw a castle and a town from the distance.

"Whoa.", said everyone in amazement.

"I just knew the outside world would be full of amazing things!", said Rapunzel. "And you...you helped me find them. Thank you."

"Hey, guys!", shouted Wendy. "There's a bridge over here that leads to the Kingdom."

"Alright! Festival here we come!", shouted Natsu.

"Aye, sir!", shouted Happy.