Chapter 2- A Crazy Dream World
This chapter includes cameos from the PJ Masks (as teens)along with old friends from Disney, Miraculous ladybug etc.
Note: There will be times where I don't describe certain characters because of personal reasons. It won't happen for every character so just be considerate of that ok?
While Grace was asleep, she saw something dressed in red, it was calling out for help. "Wah! Wah!" It cried out.
"Why did I fall asleep, it's not even 7 pm yet..." Grace muttered.
Then she realised what she was staring at and jumped back in fright.
"Patch!" She called out.
She saw a manifestation of her subconscious in the form of her Nan.
Grace gasped.
"Is it really you?" She asked with tears in her eyes.
"Be careful, Grace. Something is coming " Her subconscious warned.
The red robe wearing creature continued to cry out. "Help!" She somehow understood the cry it made.
The personified subconscious disappeared as Grace approached the crying being.
"Are you alright?" She asked, nervously.
The being turned around, he had a white mask tied to his face. "I've lost all my friends." He said while flailing his tiny arms.
"Um do they look similar to you? Maybe I can help you find them?" Grace suggested.
She peered at the creature being more closely and then her eyes widen.
I've seen this before in that Mario and Sonic Olympics game! Oh, I wish I had played more Mario games! She thought in frustration.
He nodded yes, but then a bunch of them appeared. "We are Shyguys. The Dream Assassins!" They pulled out various contraptions though the First Shyguy seemed scared of his fellow Shyguy.
"Assassins?!" Grace cried.
She began to run away in fear.
"PATCH!" She screamed.
Patch, who was glowing in his spirit animal form appeared at her request.
Kamek watched Nick Wizard enter the dream of Grace. As for Emerald, she was tasked with altering the perception of anyone who checked on Grace.
Emerald was surprised by how effective the potion was. "I didn't think this would cause me any strain..."
Kamek laughed a little. "Only because you have doubts. You must believe in yourself child." Emerald looked a little annoyed at the comment.
Kamek watched everything unravel through his crystal ball that projected the dream.
She continued to concentrate as Patch tried to find Grace but saw an image of his old friends, the once young heroes the PJ Masks as teens but gravely injured.
"What happened guys? Stay with me!" Patch pleaded.
"It was a shadow...they were too strong and the corruption affected me as well" Illusion Gekko said in a hoarse voice.
Patch's eyes widened.
"I need to find my owner, Grace. She can help…" he began.
Before he could finish his sentence, the illusion heroes died.
The Shyguys continued to give chase until someone fired a bolt of energy at them.
Grace stopped running and turned around.
"Nick Wizard?! What the hell?!" She cried.
"You can thank me later." He said while helping her.
Grace slowly backed away.
"Why would you be in my dream...unless... you really DID send me that letter! You're supposed to be in the mirror dimension!" She cried.
"And where is PATCH?!" She added, desperately.
Nick Wizard spotted a Shyguy that nearly stabbed Grace, but he threw a turnip at the creature. The turnip was the size of a medium ball and had a smiling face on it. "You're in a dream. Been working on spells..." He created a shield and defended her as the turnip impacted the shyguy. "I have been thinking about changing."
"I hope you haven't forgotten that the last time we met, you knew about my age in 2027, about 'Dark Zero' and you still had a devious smile on your face. What makes THIS any different?" Grace questioned.
"Well, I'm working on reforming... A lot like Discord... Tom... And other guys." He saw the First Shyguy. "Is he a new friend?" He was not expecting Grace to befriend a Shyguy, yet it seemed like that was what was going on.
The Shyguy made his odd sounds while hugging one of Grace's legs. "Mercy... I beg mercy..." The masked being cried.
"Ok, ok; I won't hurt you" Grace reassures it.
She looked back at her nemesis.
"Tom Lucitor was never evil (minus when he worked with Vanitas). He has anger issues but that was it. One of your allies killed Jean and then Green never came back. I haven't been able to understand love since then ever since I grew up. Sometimes I dream about Neverland but it's not enough. For all I know, I might be unable to feel love anymore..." she trailed off.
"Would you seriously want someone who could be 'Asexual' and not have a full grasp on what this romantic love is meant to feel like compared to 'love at first sight'" she questioned him.
Nick Wizard remained silent.
He then looked at her. "Perhaps we could become better if we were together? I mean I kind of just jumped for romance like Tom..." He gave himself a face palm. "I really don't have the right to compare myself to any of your friends... I'm sorry about your losses." The Shyguy seemed a bit speechless that Grace spared him.
The Shyguy seemed to like a word Grace said. "Neverland? Neverland! Neverland!" Nick laughed a little.
"Seems like you still have that gift to befriend just about anything." Nick Wizard seemed to feel awkward as he talked. "Look... I admit that I'm the worst and probably the last thing you'd ever wanna see. I'm also not the best at love... I pretty much just proposed by asking an old man to drop you a letter... That sounds bad when I say it out loud." He was acting sincere.
"Yes, it does. I have to wake up now and I'll forget most of this so see you never" Grace pointed out as she heard her alarm.
Nick Wizard quickly left the dream before she woke up the next day and Emerald stopped using her semblance before she collapsed.
Kamek laughed though, his annoying habit of laughing was a means for him to test everyone's patience. "We did excellent."
The Shyguy shook his head while he was attending to his injured companions.
Mordo wasn't entirely sure though. "Why are we wasting our time and energy on Grace marrying Nick Wizard? It will never work." He could hardly stand seeing such a skilled magic user such as Kamek, waste his skills on something so trivial.
The great Kamek shot him a glare. "Fool! I have long term goals in mind. Plotting ahead with my kind of vision is genius!" He then seemed to pause for a slight moment. "Believe me. If I didn't need any of you, I'd have let you rot in your cell with Nick." Kamek was almost hoping that Mordo would challenge him.
Mordo glowered angrily at that comment.
"As for you Emerald. I can always send you back to the pit of a world where I found you. Your mind tricks don't work on me." For everyone else, it seemed like he talked to a wall for a moment.
Emerald stopped using her Semblance as her head was pierced with pain and the others saw she was hiding from them, or at least Kamek. "Crap." She whispered.
Having reached her limit at last, she finally fainted from the strain.
An idiotic thought came to Nick Wizard.
"We could influence young Grace but that's a stupid plan, I've TRIED that a long time ago. What's the FUCKING POINT?!" Nick Wizard yelled as he made his head bleed by bashing his head on the table.
Kamek, looked puzzled.
"If we do that, Nazo will be on to us. Believe me, I've tried rewriting history before. It never works out..." the turtle wizard replied, solemnly.
He was remembering the various times he tried to do away with Baby Mario.
"So, what are we going to do?" Mordo asked.
Kamek then used his crystal ball to show the wedding letter. He altered it so anyone else seeing it would see a letter from Green, in said letter he apologized for not telling Grace what would happen to him. "My spell will make Grace agitated towards those who reject the truth from her. In short, they see a farewell letter, she sees a wedding letter, and in her mind their lack of understanding is a sign they are being inconsiderate" Kamek laughed while watching Grace.
"How did you get Emerald here and WHY is she here? After what Salem did, she shouldn't even BE here!" Nick Wizard yelled.
So, the crazy turtle explained how not too long ago, Mordo brought Emerald to their location.
Kamek rubbed his hands together. "So, you'll need her to help us from the shadows. In fact, I should make a spell that will allow only us to see and hear her. So that way nobody suspects her and her Semblance." He looked at his crystal ball. "Besides. I've got spells to help with perception altering. Just look at how angry Grace got from my little spell on the letter. She'll think nobody can believe her except for us…eventually" he added, smugly.
"You can't mess around with semblances, you crazy goat. Leave her be or I'll get 80's Shredder to turn you into turtle soup!" Nick Wizard threatened.
-In the evening the following day-
Her friends had arrived at her house including Luka, Marc, Mickey, Patch, the Universal Knights etc.
"It's been awhile hasn't it, Luka? Guys, this strange turtle guy, probably from a game, visited me yesterday and gave me this cookie and a letter that was about Nick Wizard proposing to me! Does that sound crazy?" Grace asked.
"That is mighty suspicious, Grace. Isn't Nick Wizard meant to be in the Mirror Dimension?" Mickey pointed out.
"Yeah, he's been there since 2017. I did say if he escaped, the Astral dimension would deal with him" Grace recalled, gravely.
"The last thing he said to me before he went to the mirror dimension was guess my exact age for this year correctly and 'There will be death, despair and destruction and there's nothing you can do about it' being part of it. I know now that by 'HE' that sickening Wizard meant 'Dark Zero' won but we defeated him ...barely. Did...he mean someone else?" She added.
The room went silent.
"Hey, Grace. You don't have to marry some creepy wizard that time travelled. I can help you figure out your future " Luka offered.
The letter from before reappeared.
Grace gasped.
Her eyes narrowed once more.
"I think someone is trying to catch me off-guard. I can barely remember my dream from last night…" she began as she then went over to the chair with the 'letter'.
When she opened it again, her eyes widen.
"It was real? I…I think he's stalking me" Grace said as she started to become paranoid.
"Let me see" Mickey offered as she gave him the letter.
He looked at it and his eyes shone with sadness, not shock.
"Um Grace… this isn't from Nick Wizard. It's from Green" Mickey said, gently in sad tone.
"What?!" Grace cried.
-To be continued-
This will be a very long one. I hope you're ready for a rollercoaster of emotions.
