Isiah: What up! Isiah and Tom here!
Tom: What goes on, fellow readers?
Isiah: And welcome back to Avalor's Nightmare Aftermath! Now before we get into today's chapter, we just wanna say thanks for all the love and support you guys are giving this story. It's really helping me out a lot.
Tom: And me. Don't forget me bro.
Isiah: How could I forget you T? You had my back since day one.
Tom: That's right. *fist bumps*
Isiah: Just as long as you guys keep showing love and support for the story, we'll keep on going with it.
Tom: Yes we certainly will.
Isiah: Mhm. Now let's get into the story. Last time, after teaching Naomi how to use her newfound magic and Elena and Mateo coming back from Avalor, everyone regrouped back at King Taven's castle to plan their invasion of Nightmare and her world.
Tom: Once they've arrived, plenty of fights broke out between the heroes and the demons, but Elena and a few of her allies managed to make it to Nightmare's palace. Elena went inside, but her friends were unable to go in with her.
Isiah: And when she found Esteban and Ash, it was final encounter time. Will Elena survive this fight and revive what remains of her family, or will she fall victim to the wraith of Esteban and Ash?
Tom: Let's get into today's story and find out.
After snapping the last demon's neck, Elena carelessly tossed it to the side without taking her eyes off her cousin and growled his name. Esteban took a quick look at Ash and smirked with her before turning back to Elena and charging at her. He then attempted to throw a punch at Elena but she avoided it and kicked him in his kneecap, putting him down for a minute.
Elena then turned her attention to Ash who instead of having her tamborita, she had a straight sword. Ash tried to strike Elena in the chest but she avoided that as well and roundhouse kicked Ash in the face. Esteban got back up and attempted to strike Elena with a sword of his own but Elena avoided his strikes also and eventually brought his face to her knee, kicking him in the face.
Making sure he was stunned, Elena punched Esteban in the face with a right hook and then kicked him in the stomach, making him fall backwards. She then turned her attention to Ash, who nearly struck Elena in the gut with her sword. It was dodged by a block from her Scepter of Light and followed by a blaze shot to the chest making Ash fly backwards against one of the walls. Her back and spine area taking most of the critical damage from the attack as she landed on the wall before landing on ground.
Satisfied with knowing that Ash wouldn't get back up, Elena turned her attention back to Esteban. While she did this, her gown started glowing orange again and a look of livid was on the Crown Princess's face. She took the sword that Esteban had and waited for Esteban to come back to his senses. He saw the sword aimed directly at his chest and just when Elena was about to strike, he blocked her attack by grabbing the sword and kicking her in the stomach. Esteban then landed a sharp right hook to Elena's jaw, stunning her completely.
Esteban watched as Elena was on the ground, holding her jaw in pain and was even more satisfied when he saw blood on her face from when he punched her. He then saw her trying to go for his sword and when she got her hand on it, he stomped on her hand forcing a scream to erupt from the princess.
After doing this, Esteban let out a chuckle as he spoke. "I gotta 'hand' it to you Elena. You have a lot of heart. But that only gets you so far."
Elena managed to pull out her Scepter of Light and blast Esteban across the room. "See how far that takes me," she said before walking over to him. Just when she was about to finish him off, Elena heard her named being called and she looked to see who it was. She saw a small figure next to a huge switch and it flicked the switch causing the part of the ground Elena was at to split open and she fell down the hole that was underneath it. The figure then ran towards the hole and jumped inside it as well.
Unexpected Survivor
Elena found herself slowly getting up in a dark ally way. While she was at it, the figure that send her down here was behind her and walked up to her saying, "You'll be okay. Right now, we need to get moving."
"I'm sorry...we," Elena asked confusedly. The small figure took off its helmet revealing itself to be Princess Isabel. A look of relief was on Elena's face and they both shared a huge comforting hug together. Some of the pain that Elena had inside her quickly flew away in the hug and a few minutes later, she broke the hug and said, "I could've sworn I saw you killed by Esteban. What happened?"
"Two words: Magic clone," Isabel said. "Me and my friends were hanging out and we saw Esteban and Ash coming forth killing people in their way. So I had Olivia come up with a clone of me."
Elena hugged her sister again and said, "Isa, that's brilliant."
"Yeah it is," Isabel returned the hug. "Now c'mon. We have to open the door that leads to Nightmare's backyard."
"Nightmare's backyard? Why do we gotta do that," Elena asked.
Isabel held up a map as she spoke. "According to this map, this world's core is in Nightmare's Keep on the far end of her backyard. Which means we need to go through a wave of areas to get there. Luckily, while I was sneaking in, I found a bunch of airships docked out in front of an underground laboratory to the west. If we can get to them, we may just have a shot of getting to the Keep easier."
"It's worth a shot," Elena said. "Right now anything's worth a shot."
"If you can do it with us by your side," Elena turned around to see Mateo, Shuriki, Fiero, and Alacazar coming up to her. Elena quickly rushed to Mateo and shared a long passionate kiss with him. Her gown turning pink as they kissed. After breaking the kiss, Elena asked, "How'd you guys get here?"
"Luckily, Nightmare was foolish enough to let train tracks lead to the inside of her palace," Shuriki said. "But it'll be too small for everyone else to get in though."
"The only way our allies can get in is through the front door," Alacazar said.
"Well we'll find a way to open it. Right now we need to find the entrance to Nightmare's backyard," Elena said. "It's the only way we can get to her Keep."
"If I may, we can continue to follow the train tracks that led us to you," Fiero said. "If they can lead us here, then it can lead us to the backyard."
"Sounds like a plan. Let's go," Elena raced her way towards the direction of the train tracks with everyone else following her.
To be continued...
Isiah: Alright, and that wraps up another chapter of Avalor's Nightmare Aftermath!
Tom: This story's coming along real great if you ask me.
Isiah: I couldn't agree more. We hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. If you haven't seen our latest random fun story called The Woman Joke, I urge you to read that because it's so far one of my funniest stories. I might have an idea for another random fun story too, I'm not sure yet.
Tom: And with that being said, please don't forget to leave a nice review. No hateful or rude comments please. As always, we love you guys. Thanks for supporting us everyday. We'll see y'all later. Holla at your boys! YEAH!
Isiah: As always, until next time.
