They came up to a half open set of doors, and they peeked through, and instantly, disgust, horror, shock filled their hearts and souls as in one of the main throne rooms, with the fireplace on full blast, in a circle of runes in solid blood and black ink and white chalk, with a shield in cover is Frollo standing in the middle, chanting in Latin, with three children in spread-eagle positions around him, bleeding.
Nuka, on the right side, is now four years old, tied to invisible strands, unable to help his twin brother, Kovu, on the left side or their baby sister, Vitani who is just over a year old, behind Frollo.
"What in god's name is he doing?", Adam whispered as Jasmine shook her head. "Human sacrifice, I think... he's using, what I think are, Zira and Scar's children for it...", she felt sick saying that.
Sure, their parents were horrible monsters that had caused much pain and suffering... but those three still were probably innocent: Vitani, for sure.
John snarled, his fatherly instinct on full blast, "I ain't letting no kids die on my conscience!", his cyborg arm smashing the doors open, and the others agreed, joining him, knowing what Pippa and Logan would say about this, if Emma wouldn't have already thanks to being an extremely protective, scary mother for Kyle's sake.
"So much for surprise...", Adam muttered as the two of them followed right after him as Frollo suddenly stopped chanting at the nasty surprise he had just heard as his eyes locked on John who was charging right for him.
Frollo narrowed, and slapped a foot into a rune, chanting even louder, and before John knew it, he crashed into the shield, which is changing more solid than transparent, falling on his behind.
Frollo smirked and kept chanting as the children screamed out in pain, as John got up, slamming his body into the shield, but nothing happened, not even when Adam and Jasmine joined him, slamming their fists and shoulders into the shield.
The citadel quickly went shaking even more in vibrations and motions as the courtyard went into shatters, with Chernabog emerging out, climbing, and unknown to them, the United Talons is seeing it happening outside while the team didn't know that the trio is so close to foiling Frollo.
The magic mirror gleamed even brighter as it was tucked in Adam's trousers, and Adam took it out, looking at the mirror, and heard a familiar voice from years ago, the one who cursed him, telling him to listen for the sake of the children.
Adam listened hard over the chanting and the grunts of John and Jasmine's efforts to physically break the shield, and exhaled, nodding, and shouted, "Silver, Jasmine, touch the mirror! Trust me!".
"What do you-", John asked as Adam stomped his foot down. "Just do it!", He yelled as John was a bit shocked to hear him like that. It was almost like the Beast was back for a moment there. John and Jasmine did as he ordered and touched the mirror with Adam.
Suddenly, the magic mirror's green-white magic enveloped the trio, and through them, through their other hands, and three beams slammed into the shield, destroying it second by second, and under two minutes, the shield was gone.
Frollo kept chanting despite his widened eyes of fear, and John went dragon, half the size than usual, and the last thing Frollo knew was an open jaw of teeth as John jumped at him like a lion, roaring as they left the circle, with John pushing him out.
Adam and Jasmine ignored Frollo's scream as John went for the neck as they went to help the children, with Jasmine taking the blood replenishing potions out of her satchel, and Adam ripping the invisible ropes off the children, starting with Vitani.
Outside, the Chernabog was fully outside, with the United Talons attacking him with fireballs, illusions, golems, everything they could think of, and the eclipse, full for the last several minutes, suddenly vanished, leaving the sun in all its shining mighty glory, and the Chernabog roared in irritation, the sun burning him like vicious sunburns and such.
The stones around their necks glowed strongly, and voices spoke to them from the Stones, and with unspoken words, the dragons lined up in a wing-to-wing conjunction, and with roars in unison, the Stones' colors enveloped into a rainbow beam, creating a pure magical dragon of rainbow colors, transparent, dancing like the Northern Lights all through the body, and it went straight for the Chernabog.
As the Chernabog realized that he was done for, trying to escape, trying to fly away, it was too late as the magical dragon dived into his chest, to his dark heart, and the Chernabog tried to save himself, gorging himself with his claws, trying to grab at the magical dragon with desperate madness and fury, his skin was breaking into a spiderweb of pieces, with light shining through the cracks with continuous roars of pain, of denial, of fear as he said 'No' over and over again.
"Come on... you can do it...", Mickey said to himself as the rest of the army watched the fight with the Chernabog and the Talons. What had been a moment of fear and worry, now had change to one of hope as the Chernabog continued to fight the pain that was being inflicted.
"Are you so sure, your majesty?" Orcus announced as Mickey ducked down and just barely missed having his head removed from his shoulders as the dark prince swung his blade at him.
Mickey clicked his fingers, and an enchanted blade came into his hand, and he fought Orcus, "I trust my friends, and I believe in them! But for you, it's time to go back to Tartarus or become dust either way!", the sound of the blades ringing in the air.
After a minute, Mickey strikes him, and Orcus screamed out in pain as he looked down to see his body becoming dust, and Mickey smirked, "Good prevails evil, and you forgot about my other friends.", and a blast of golden magic hit Orcus from the back, coming from the Trident in King Triton's hand.
Orcus, speechless, faded into oblivion, seeing Mickey stare at him with a gesture of his hands sweeping like he was done with him, and then nothing as he became dust at last.
The United Talons roared again, and the stones glowed as one, creating an even larger magical dragon, and it flew straight into Chernabog's head, and he screamed out in pain, clenching his head in his claws, and with the pure magic doubled, the cracks became even larger, with his skin departing, leaving him into muscle flesh, and his wings, his horns began to crumble into dust.
The attacks continued as the sun burned into the dark flesh of the monster, more and more of the fearful beast was being destroyed as confidence continued to swell amongst all the forces of good on the field.
The United Talons sent fireballs at the same time at the Chernabog's eyes, blinding him to pure darkness, and with another roar in unison, the Stones went for the third time, feeling the confidence and hope emanating off the forces of good, creating a humongous, magical dragon, almost the size of Chernabog, and it flew around Chernabog, diving into his spine at the core spot, and Chernabog gave out about the loudest, echoing, ear-piercing roar of pain that shook the mountains slightly, the grounds vibrating, and the army clenching their ears.
With now triple of pure magic inside the beast, Chernabog exploded, limb by limb, yet he tried to stop it, but with all his shadow minions, and all the forces of evil dead, he couldn't gather any more strength or power, and the last thing he knew as he became nothing was Death approaching him.
The Talons moved into their last position, before unleashing the final blast that the Chernabog could only feel coming. The last thing to go through the dark mind was how he could've lost all this?
As the Chernabog is finally destroyed, the armies of good cheered and hugged all around, realizing that they finally won. Suddenly, the citadel and its surrounding walls crumbled into pieces, falling into the massive hole that the Chernabog made in its climb out, and the trio, carrying the children, with John and Jasmine in their dragon forms, holding Nuka and Kovu in their mouths by their shirts, and Adam carried Vitani in his arms, trying to avoid the crumbing ruins as fast as possible as they all ran.
John and Jasmine finally made it clear of the ruins around the massive hole, but they were too slow to save Adam and Vitani when a piece of a watchtower caused Adam to fall, Vitani from his arms falling so close to the edge.
Adam, seeing Vitani cry out in alarm and fear, somehow became the Beast again, ran to save Vitani, and the edge crumbled underneath them, and they fell into the darkness of the pit, with Adam roaring, struggling to reach for the wall, but it was no use.
Everything slowed down for Adam as practically everything was coming to an end around him. His arms managed to reach out and at least grasped Vitani, at least saving her for perhaps a few more moments but it looked hopeless for them to be saved as he was unable to reach the wall. All that was going through his mind was the pain of leaving Pippa alone without him, as he was sure death would come for him and probably Vitani as well.
Adam then saw a green glow underneath them as they fell further and further, and he glanced down, holding Vitani in his furry arms, surprised to be the Beast again, but with good intentions, and the green glow got closer and closer.
His eyes widened in shock when he saw a green-skinned woman with strange wing-like arms and legs, with hazel eyes, and she smiled reassuringly as she saw them, and then caught them on her back, flying up with a pure, unbridled laugh of joy, freedom, and happiness, her green appendages touching the walls, transforming the earth into flowers, grass, filling up the massive hole as she grew bigger and stronger, feeling the sun.
Adam was just in complete shock at this sudden turn. He thought he was going to die one moment, and now he appeared to be saved as they were flying out before reaching the surface once more. He was just privately praying that Pippa didn't see him be swallowed by the collapsing fortress before.
Pippa indeed saw the collapsing fortress and was distracted by the cheering army for a moment before her comrades saw John and Jasmine in the clearing with two children, and she grew confused as she didn't see Adam anywhere, and her heart began to worry and clench of terror and concern as she landed with the others, shifting back to human form.
"Where's Adam?", Pippa asked, and Jasmine closed her eyes in pain as John spoke, "He was behind us...He was carrying a third child we found...He...I'm sorry, Pippa...".
As if on a sort of cue, the green skinned woman shot out of the ruins high into the sky before Emma patted Pippa on the back as she pointed up.
"John, I think you might have been too quick to judgement about Adam there.", Emma smirked as Pippa's heart nearly stopped for a moment there at the sudden relief that struck her.
The United Talons mentally gasped as they recognized the green-skinned woman. It was the Spring Sprite from Fantasia 2000 the movie, though they guessed that she's of the summer and spring variety as they can see so many kinds of flowers as the woman flew over the ruins, smiling widely, and saw the group, landing with a winged arm assisting Adam as he got off with Vitani in his arms as he shifted back to human form, realizing that the danger is over.
Pippa cried out, "Adam!", running to Adam, and Adam, with Vitani adjusting to his shoulder, opened his arm, hugging Pippa as she sobbed and cried, with Adam kissing her all over her face, murmuring, "I'm here, I'm here, it's alright, Pippa.".
The green-skinned woman smiled at the tender moment, and tilted her head, now looking at Emma who came up to her, bowing her head, "Thank you for saving Adam and little Vitani, miss.".
Smiling with a gesture of her hands, the green-skinned woman pointed to the grass, and Emma blinked, "Oh, you're a nature spirit...A earth name...Is it Eden?", and the green-skinned woman nodded her head, smiling brightly, affirming her name to be Eden.
Eden pointed to the ruins and the hole, and Emma chuckled, "Oh, yeah, we indirectly did that because we destroyed the Chernabog. He's dead through and through.", and Eden clapped her hands happily, and gestured with her hands on her neck and arms.
Emma widened her eyes, "Chernabog was keeping you as a prisoner because you're a spirit of earth magic and rebirth?", and Eden nodded, giving her a grateful look before smiling as she then shot off, flying through the air, touching the ground, laughing as she passed around the group before pausing upon Jason.
Eden blinked, seeming to listen before smiling again, looking determined as she then left, growing so big as she covered all the dead ground, swam in fun through the river, purely changing it into crystal water, with the fish leaping and swimming earnestly, and turned through the merman army before confronting King Triton.
She blinked at King Triton, listening for a moment again, and nodded to herself as she went on to cover the entire valley, over the mountains, through everywhere which had dead, lifeless earth, regrowing so much, and the army cheered for her as trees, berry bushes, you name it, appeared.
"Fantasia ain't got nothing on this shit...", Jason couldn't help but swear at what they were witnessing. It was one thing to see it in an animated movie, but to see it in real life, before your very eyes... the true tragedy was not having a camera to record what was happening. A one-time thing in the history of the world that would never be witnessed again.
Haku smirked, "Yeah, no kidding.", before checking on the children, and sighed in relief, "The blood replenishing potions saved their lives, thank goodness, but they are still very traumatized, and I have a feeling they would refuse blood-adoption magic...I can change their memories so they would forget about all of this including Zira and Scar, but in place, the new parents have to be committed to those three...We might have to ask Sarabi as they're technically her nephews and niece via being her brother-in-law's children, but I don't think she would accept especially when Scar killed her husband and son...".
Adam replied, "Pippa, what do you say to adopting them? John and Emma are already busy, and I don't think Jason would go for it since Scar indirectly put Mulan in danger that time...".
"Adam... this...", Pippa shook her head. "This is a bit sudden...", she admitted.
"I know... but those three really need a family now... and maybe it is some guilt that I'm feeling... we're the reason they're orphaned now. Yes, I agree, their parents... not good in the slightest and we'll probably spare them from walking that same path... but...", Adam looked back at them.
Pippa exhaled slowly, and looked at Haku, "Are they all related?", with a subtle gesture, and Haku blinked, remembering the Lion King 2, and many theories about Vitani and Kovu, and checked on them again, checking the memories as far back to birth, and snorted, "Figures...Okay, turns out Nuka and Kovu are 100% related, purely twin brothers, but not Vitani. She was adopted-kidnapped by Zira secretly when Zira had a miscarriage which Scar didn't know about, and I believe, no, know that Zira killed the parents.".
Pippa smiled softly, "I always wanted a daughter..Is it possible to change her name?", and Adam smiled, remembering that moment back on the ship, and replied, "We can do that. New name, and new life for her. And what about the boys?".
Jasmine chuckled, "I can take the boys in. After all, Logan, you and Jason are twins. You know already a bit about that aspect.", looking at Logan with a smile. "Wait, are you sure?", Logan looked at her. "I just thought we were...".
"I said I wanted three, we can still have one of our own, besides, we get to avoid quite a bit of those baby troubles I've heard you mention a few times.", Jasmine teased him.
Logan blushed with a little groan, "I knew I was going to regret telling you about some of my embarrassing stories of childhood.", before smiling wryly, "Okay, we'll have the boys. Haku?".
Haku smiled softly and went to change the children's memories as gently as possible, with recommendations of their new names from the new parents, and the procedure made them sleepy, falling asleep, and Haku smiled, "When they wake up later in the afternoon, they will know their names; Sura, knowing that she's Pippa and Adam's daughter, and Makalo with Lebron, knowing that they are Jasmine and Logan's twin sons.".
"It's certainly for the best that we did that... I just hope that none of Scar and Zira's evil had infected the boys yet...", Jasmine nodded.
"It'll just have to be a wait and see... but at least good love from the two of you should make sure that they don't follow their true parents' path.", Haku said.
