Chapter 4- The next 'Phase' of Operation DARK WEDDING

Grace got a message in the afternoon from Nick Wizard:

'Meet me in Costa at 2 pm. We need to discuss wedding details. Nick Wizard'.

She internally rolled her eyes but a tiny part of her was curious about what he wanted to talk about.

So, when the writing course was over, she headed down to town to Costa and sat near the window.

He appeared minutes later with a friend. Cosy Glow.

"What is SHE doing here?" Grace asked, her voice dripping with venom.

"She is my support for our negotiations" Nick Wizard replied, calmly.

Grace sighed.

"Now then, I'm here to discuss planning the wedding and a weekly schedule. This will be needed for meeting my friends" the 'charming' mature wizard explained.

"Your…friends?" She asked with suspicion.

"Yes, I have friends and I'd love for you to meet them. You did have trouble with your own friends, correct?" he asked.

"Yes, but…." Grace began.

"Then allow me to introduce you to my friends" Nick Wizard cut her off excitedly.

"Anyway, for today I have a list of who can help with the wedding planner. They're called the Broodals, from Rabbit Ridge of the moon with the Dark Side from Mario's games. They're expert wedding planners and have clients that can vouch for them" he continued as he got out a picture of the group of 5 rabbits.

The leader on the far left was Madam Broode. Madame Broode is an obese female rabbit who wears a red dress with a white pearl necklace with a yellow half-moon charm, blue eyeshadow, brown eyes, red lipstick, golden star bracelets, blue hair and a red hat similar to Pauline's. Chain Chompikins is a golden Chain Chomp who acts as Madame Broode's pet, and his chain is gold and ends in a handle which she uses to drag him around.

Beside her was Topper the client relations guy. He was a squat and round rabbit with red eyes and black shadows on his eyes like the rest of the group and wears a green suit and yellow bow tie, as well as a green top hat with a spiked ring. Under his hat was a small purple pompadour.

Next was Harriet, in charge of Pyrotechnics. She is the only female Broodal (other than their leader) with red eyes, purple eyeshadow and braided blonde hair wearing a purple dress, gloves, pumps, and a little hat with a little bow on it over the left side of her hair.

After her was Spewart and Rango.

Spewart, the entertainer was the rabbit with orange hair and red eyed dressed in a blue suit, black shorts, a white cravat tie, along with a blue hat with a golden spiked ring, and physically similar to Morton Koopa Jr with his hairstyle resembling a drooping version of that of Ludwig von Koopa.

Rango, the wedding bouncer/ security Rango, was the tallest Broodal. He had red eyes and his ears were down (due to his hat) dressed in a white button up shirt, red bowtie and a yellow hat with a blue spike ring around it, orange trousers connected to his dungarees on his shirt and black spikey wristbands.

Grace was unsure upon looking at the picture.

"If you want to hire them for this, then sure but….must all your 'friends' be villians?" she questioned.

Nick Wizard just smiled innocently.

"Don't worry your little head, my dear. I just need you to work on who you'd like to invite and possible wedding locations" he stated.

"But…I never said yes" Grace pointed out.

Cosy Glow chuckled.

"That's beside the point, 'little bird'" she remarked.

Grace recalled Young Xehanort calling her by that EXACT nickname and began to shiver.

"What's wrong?" Nick Wizard asked in concern.

"I…it's just…Young Xehanort called me that" Grace said in a low voice.

Nick Wizard and Cosy Glow stared at each other in thought.

"Excuse me, both of you. I….need to leave" Grace stated, quickly as she rushed out.

"It was a half success then?" the young Pegasus asked.

"Yes…we just need to get her to trust us all fully" Nick Wizard stated.

-Meanwhile-

Kamek made contact with Tempest Shadow, a former general to the infamous 'Shadow King' and part of the team known as 'Shadowfire' which included TKO (or Turbo KO) as the Plaza tournament ring was being set up for the coming weekend in KO's world.

"I need your help with something. It involves a wedding, I hope you're not too busy to help out" Kamek said on the phone.

"We'll be over once the co-ordinates are received. As long as this task does not obstruct us from picking up TKO…. I'm in" Tempest replied.

"Excellent, you get to help with reception by helping Grace with the guest list" Kamek instructed.

"I'm guess you have an idea of what we can wear to not be suspicious in mind right now?" Tempest questioned.

"When you get here, I'll show you" The turtle wizard replied, cunningly.

Then he hesitated.

"Actually, on second thought come over after picking up Vanitas. He'll be needed as well" he added.

"Ok…I'll send a message when we're heading off" Tempest replied as the call ended.

Strike and Zak Monday were planned to be additional bodyguards with the Broodals' 'bouncer'.

Kamek then made another call to the people on his list.

It included Avocato possessed by Invictus still, Warp Darkmatter and Todd along with Sheryl Goodspeed who had been tasked with helping titans and villians reach their 'potential' by 'The Unknown'. Their invite was crucial to the plan.

Then Nick Wizard got a call.

"Nick Wizard, I need you to gather everyone on the team. I know you want her to meet your friends one by one, but we have to gain her trust faster. Try going on dates with her and then have whole team except Emerald hang out with her" Kamek requested.

"I'll see what I can do" Nick Wizard replied.

He sent the following text to Commander Peepers: 'Need help organising the team into a group for a meet-up with Grace. Try to arrange to happen a week after she talks to her family ok? Nick Wizard'.

Then he started making a list of date ideas to convince Grace to trust him with the wedding plans.

Kamek knew of events that were to come after this (Outside of the wedding and Grace's personal timeline) like an event in the Final Space universe regarding Invictus and the 'Team Squad' led by Gary Goodspeed that hadn't occurred just yet.

Once he met Invictus through Avocato in the flesh, he'd do some back-up plans for that.

He smiled to himself.

This should be fun he thought.

-To be continued-

Next time: more changes will be seen with Grace. See ya!