Written by: Haillie

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The Seven-Stage Comeback

Chapter 3:

The Queen

After many miles of walking the seven little men, who were now tired and even more cranky then before stepped inside the huge palace where they soon saw a long man standing behind a table, a pen in hand as he leaned over whatever he was writing on.

Happy bravely knocked on the platform, but the man did not see them, he glanced up from his work but expected those pesky kids had come to prank him again, and the poor man had work to do. So he kept writing on his scroll.

Once again Happy knocked on the play form to receive the man's attention, and once again the man ignored this, thinking it was another prank call until finally after many minutes passed by Grumpy spoke up.

"The service is rubbish here! It's all rubbish! We've been here for minutes now and you won't help you! We should have you fired." at this the man bent over the stand, taking a close look at six very unhappy dwarfs, and one who was jumping happily.

"Sorry good Sir." the man said quickly, "I did not notice you and your company, and, may I say-"

"Yeah, yeah, just lead us to the old witch." Grumpy scoffed.

"Excuse me Sir?" the man asked, he clearly someone who was confused easily, that or he didn't have a very long attention spam.

"The bloody Queen!" Grumpy growled slamming his hands against the stand.

"Excuse me Sir, but I would be careful, the paint on my stand is wet." Grumpy removed his hands to see that they were indeed, covered in brown paint.

"The Queen Sir," Sneezy said quickly before sneezing again, but he was quickly forgotten as Doc finished for him.

"We have come to see the Queen on special business." the man cringed slightly, like he was repressing bad memories, or have just been whipped.

"The Queen, is not feeling well, and is still-"

"Recovering from an accident some years ago. We know." Grumpy said, a steady stream of smoke starting to come out of his ears.

"She gave me strict orders not to let anyone see her!" the man warned. "Good day now. I am sorry I could not help you."

The seven dwarfs huddled in a corner. All waiting for Doc's guidance, but instead Grumpy gave his input to the issue.

"Just let me talk to the guy, I'm sure we can come to some, well agreement."

"Grumpy! For heaven's sake stop rubbing your hands together like that! You look like you're planning to kill someone!" Itchy bellowed. Grumpy looked down and, indeed, he was rubbing his hands together like an evil person from the movies or some insane person who was planning to do something incredibly stupid.

Grumpy walked away from the group and back to the man who was still happily at work. Grumpy slid next to the man's ear, his voice only a small whisper.

"You know," the man jumped, for he had not noticed Grumpy was sitting on his shoulder, "You should let us see the Queen, because, well we all do what the Queens bids of us but for your own safety, let us in." The man set Grump back down the ground, annoyance written all over his face.

"Sorry good Sir but that Queen said-"

"Look at those men, see that one there?" Grumpy cut in pointing to Itchy, who was scratching behind his ear. "I bet that guy can turn into a dog and cause chaos, I mean. Then there, that guy," this time Grumpy pointed to Sneezy who had just sneezed, "I bet he could blow the building down, or even him," and for the last time Grumpy's chubby finger pointed to Bashful, who was hiding behind Doc.

"I bet you he's hiding his evilness." Grumpy said calmly like he had been talking about the weather.

Now the man's face had turned very blue. And with a click of his pen his hand pointed down a long hallway,

"Last door on the right good Sir," Grumpy smiled, pleases his work was completed.

"Thank you kind Sir." Grumpy left the man, who still looked quiet worried and headed toward the six men.

"Were in," was all Grumpy said, and in a second he was heading down the right hall to the right door with the little men hot on his heels. After a little trouble the seven dwarfs opened the grand doors to reveal a grand room. And there, lying peacefully in her bed was the Queen. Or at least, the records say she was peaceful, no one was quite sure what the Queen was feeling.

The Queen watched carefully as Doc approached her bedside,

"Oh Queen," he began, "I see you are a grand bird and even though you've broken a feather, I need-" Doc began, trying to sound as cheesy as possible, for that's how he was taught to talk to a queen, but none the less, he was cut off by the witch.

"Broken a feather?" the Queen asked, "Broken a feather? I'm in a full body cast for crying out loud! Look!" with a twist of wires the dwarfs were able to see the Queen's foot, which was half gone.

"When you dumped me off that cliff I lost have my foot, now only have three tuffs of hair and have been in a body cast for thirteen years!" The Queen screeched.

The room was quiet for a moment as the dwarfs regained their hearing before Doc spoke up again, "Listen, we need your help." the Queen's eye stretched, so the dwarfs guessed she was raising one eyebrow.

"You left to me die after I fell off a cliff and now you need my help." Doc growled and passed the Queen her card. Her eyes scanned the card quickly.

Planning a comeback?

Have revenge on your mind?

Ask the Queen!

"This is from a decade ago!" she screeched. All seven dwarfs blushed at this, but finally Grumpy spoke up,

"Do you want to help us or not?" he sneered, the Queen scowled before a wailing scream came out of her mouth that sounded like "no."

Doc snatched back the card, then, strangely, a smile touched his face,

"So, I guess you don't want to help us get back at Snow White then." The Queen's eye's widened,

"What? Get Back at Snow White, wait why?"

"The freaking prince stole her! We want our house keeper back!" Grumpy bellowed. The Queen's face became relaxed as she thought thing over, weighing the facts.

"Okay," her voice seemed so small but clear. "I'd like to see the brat again," she grinned. "I'll do it."

And in that second all seven dwarfs and the Queen thought that were going to bravely bring back Snow White and then rip off the other party. But What they didn't know, was they weren't only getting Snow White, they were also getting White Snow.

Sorry it took me forever to update. I blame it on lack of reviews though. This is the second to last chapter before the big surprise. The next chapter will be mainly filling everyone in on what happened to the Queen and how she got where she was and such. Then we'll move onto the main plot. Oh, and the last part, wasn't really supposed to make since, but it's a HUGE hint.

I know, you can feel the excitement can't you?