A large party was going on at night and people were in various costumes, star is in the sky.
An ebony girl wearing a blue sparkle dress put her hair in a bun and wearing a tiara, looking like a1 princess. She pulls out a poster out and hugs it. Looking as if she was making a wish upon the star with her eyes shut. As soon as she opens her eyes to see the star falling from the sky. The girl sighs and gives up her thought of wishing, thinking it's stupid to wish. Her attention was caught by a random frog that just came up. "*sigh* so what now? I 'reckin you want a kiss?" She asks while slumping.
"Kissing would be nice, Yes?"
As she screamed the logo of the world comes up
New Orleans~
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In a Bayou and fireflies are all around. they spread to fly away from the shooting star that fell. Turning out to be the yellow ship having to land and sink to the soft wet mud. A few minutes pass, the fireflies return to be around the ship. Only to spread out again when the glass hatch spews out a gas steam, opening the hatch.
It was the tough red-head who drove. "Phew, that was easy. See that everyone?!" She was wearing the same clothing. This time though she removes a helmet that was borrowed to her (or she randomly took it from Pistol for fun.) to look back at everyone expecting to be praised.
Peg was gripping her pilot seat arm rests and looking panicked, Talon was face down on the ground with pistol on top with her butt on his head, speaking dizzy with stars spinning around her, and Josh had his head stuffed in a potted plant."Eh heh heh."
"I think I'm having second thoughts of teaching you how to fly." Peg claims while slumping her grip and relaxes her breathing, as well as holding her chest where her heart is.
"Oh come on, it wasn't my fault a ton of other ships were firing at me! " Rem retaliates as she stood out of her chair and before thrusting herself back on the seat, crossing her arms and pouting."better than both your landings." She mumbled
"Say that again?!" Peg and Rem glare at each other while growling.
Those two's rivalry ended when climbing out and his head out of the pot, Josh gets up to that level. Groaning "where are we?" they find him looking adorable.
"Oh Josh, you're wearing the vest I got you!" Rem announces after her observing of the clothing he's now wearing. A light green vest with a black paw -print graphic on the back, it was over his gray shirt. She founded the vest in bottom of the ship. Peg said it use to belong to a friend's son named Max. It looked like Josh's size. With permission, Rem wanted to give it to Josh "You look perfect!"
Rubbing the back of his head from embarrassment "T-thanks um, where are we?" He asked as he got to the edge of the opening. The whole land looked muddy islands, some weeping willow trees, and all part of a river.
"a new world that's where!" Pistol announces out loud as she gets to their level. "Let's go explore!"
Before they could jump out, Peg blocked them with her arms out. Talon steps up as he heard "Hold on, first we have to take care of this first."pointing down, the gang sees the ship was in a ton of mud. "Now I'm pretty sure that'll cause us a lot of problem for the ship!" Fists on her hips, Peg orders with a deep voice "Clean up this mud!"
The four salute while lazily saying 'Yes ma'am' and skid down the ship to shovel the mud off, Peg as well.
As they shovel off the mud with their hands, Pistol is near Rem and Pats her arm to gain attention. Rem looks over to see Pistol having her own finger over her own mouth, indicating for Rem to be quiet. Pistol wanted to sneak away and have Rem come along. Rem didn't want to gone from her friends, especially Talon again. Pistol egged Rem to join. Whispering "Come on, we'll be back before they know it. I swear." She quietly grabs a rock sticking out and tosses the thick rock into the air to the water of the Bayou, at the same time Pistol and Rem jumped in the water. Hearing the splash catches the three's attention and not noticing the two girls escape.
The two make it to land, shaking off the water like dogs. "Ooph that water was thicker than I thought, You were lucky I was there Rem to pull you out. Was that really your first time swimming?"
Rem breathed heavily her hands were on her knees and panted as she explained"*huff* I don't *huff never been taught."
Tilting her head and hands on her hips, "Well I could teach you while we're exploring!"Before Rem could thank her, they hear Peg shouting. "Eep, we should go!"
The young ladies jump through the forest, both having experience of running through the woods. Soon they see lights of a party. They both look at each other and pistol suggests "Let's check it out!"
they smiled at one another, they hurry towards the music and lights. Some time to goof off couldn't hurt. Rem started to slow down to a stop once she sees two frogs floating on string balloons, oddly enough it looked like they were talking/arguing with one another. Unknowingly as Rem follows the floating frogs and Pistol kept heading towards the party, the two separate.
Twigs crack and leaving muddy footprints, Rem kept going. Popping goes off in the sky, she rushes once she sees two green figures falling. "Eep!" She squealed as she trips, about to land face first into the water. Still Rem was able to catch the two frogs, well one smacking her on the lips (she accidentally kissing it's belly) and in lands in the water. In the water a green light flashes from it.
The two frogs sprang up from the shallow water, the female one yells at the other "You told me you had money!"
The male responds "My parents have the money! I'm just a- Leach!" He shouted in fear as a third frog head appeared, but this one had red long hair.
The red headed frog moaned from being dizzy " What happened?.. Huh? Oh! Are you all-..right?" It had a female voice that drifted off speaking when it looked at it's flipper hand. The frog looked down at it's reflection in the water(Duh it's Rem) She screamed in panic. "What-what?! Why'm I?!" She kept touching her face, not believing this is happening.
"Who're you?! Did you kiss her too?!" The female frog shouts at the male.
"I would have known if I had! I did feel something on my stomach though."
As the two kept arguing, all three were frightened when a giant fish splashes out. Running out, another thing to scare them is a giant bird standing over them and thrusts it's giant beak down. They rush away as it kept thrusting down. In a panic, Rem blocks the giant beak with her keyblade appearing in an instant. Now that it's being blocked, she had no idea what to do next and struggled. "Hurry run!"she warned the two run away as the were told. Rem fell on to her knee, in the corner of her eye she spies mud on the ground she's on. Quickly leaping away and scooping mud to toss it in the eyes of the bird's eye, blinding it as she escaped. Through the wet ground, Rem noticed that it wasn't a struggle to get through for some reason, she made it with the other two.
Was stopped on her tracks when the male one had his hand out to stop her from going around. she looked up when she sees dots coming only to see they were reptilian eyes coming in the water. she held her finger over her mouth to shush "Shhhh-" only to scream then "Run!" Alligators spring out of the water.
The alligators that appeared were all different than normal, all of them were black and had light purple glowing teeth, yellow rimmed mouths, red symbols of hearts with spiked 'X' were on their bellies, and yellow eyes, heartless. Seeing heartless like this frightened Rem, the heartless she's seen before were small and some flew in mini planes. But these were different. Rem breathe heavily, frozen in fear, until the female frog grabbed her by the arm, snapping Rem out of it. She follows the female into the water. while she was in there, it struck her, she can't swim and had no idea what to do while she was under water, had no idea what to do. Rem didn't have that good of a choice, go in the water unable to swim or be up there and get attacked. Convenient for her, she sees the female frog's swimming pattern. She moves her legs in the similar way, her arms also. Following the frog into the tree.
Inside the tree, Rem climbs up for some air. The female frog offers her a hand. "You alright?"
"Yeah thanks." Gave gratitude while grasping her hand "Wait, where's your friend?"
They hear his voice outside "Heh heh, out here- Ah!" He screamed when one of the black heartless creatures, leaping out at him to attack.
At this moment, Rem decided to face the fear and jumped out of the hole of the tree and attacked the heartless in the face, with her keyblade. Using the same knowledge she used to attack with pipes, she destroyed the croc heartless, but the keyblade was heavier than the pipes she used and fell faster. She felt a hand grab her arm and yank her up into the tree hole again. She tumbles, especially when the tree rumbles from the heartless jumping and slamming to it.
All three held their heads down. After several minutes the rumbling stopped. The whole commotion and she being so dizzy, Rem's vision blurred then went all black as she passed out.
======================= same time as all this===========================
Talon is scooping mud off the ship, Josh is next to him. The boy kept glancing upon him, was very curious to see those eyes, finding them interesting.
Hearing someone humming and mud step splatter from Peg stepping closer, had Josh turn his head over to see who it was. Peg waved at him and looked cheery. A loud bang and grunt behind them grabbed all three's attention to look back. They see a large rock hit a gator's head and splashing into the water.
"Wow, that was lucky. Right, Pistol? All peg got in response was silence. "Pistol?" The dog like hybrid stepped awkwardly towards where she last saw her daughter. Her foot was caught in a branch and she fell over, face planting into the mudd.
After hearing her quickly Yelping, the two looked at one another and followed where it was the small scream came from. Only to end up seeing Peg face down in the mud, groaning. "You okay?" Talon asks her. She answers with a thumb up while her face was still in the mud.
Lifting her head up and gasping for air, the dog woman looked around to see her daughter and redhead were no longer there. Only deep footprints leading to the water. She gripped her fists and hunched her shoulder, the redhead wasn't there but Peg's face got all red and growled. Shouting in her deep toned angry voice "Pistol!"
The three had to work to get the ship out of the own, they had finished faster than expected because Peg wanted to be done quick to search for her daughter. They take an inflatable raft under Peg's pilote seat (Pistol didn't think to get hers because she desperately wanted to immediately sneak away, was not a good day for Rem.) "*Sigh*I swear, that girl is so impatient."
As she kept a finger in the water. The two males looked at one another, thinking Peg really can change her attitude so quick.
"So where do we start looking?" Talon asked Peg
"Heh, Pistol might be good at sneaking out but always leaves some kind of trail, that I follow. Always doing that since she was a little girl, doesn't even know she does it."
The raft bumps to land, Peg hopped out, helping Josh out.
Talon got out, pulling fully on land. Looking around for any such said sign for them. The search was rewarded as they find a lot of broken branches, also some sort of candy stars in different colors and on the ground. His head jumped, wondering what're these.
"Haha, what did I tell you? That Silly girl." The proud woman stepped forward, following the trail of treats
After a shrug, Talon follows her. Stops and looks back to see Josh admiring fireflies over the reflective water. "Hey, we gotta go!" He sees two large seeming fireflies on the ground behind Josh, only to find out they were the eyes of heartless emerging. With a quick dash and a keyblade summon, Talon slams down at the heartless and the same time Josh fell back in fear of it looking like Talon was lunging to attack Josh. Black smoke gave Josh an understanding of what Talon's intention. "Of course. We have to be on guard."
"O-okay" Josh got himself up. held out his hand and took a deep breath, attempting to summon his keyblade again.
Talon stops Josh with his palm out. "Sorry Josh, but no. You must already know how heavy it is. That'd make it hard to use as a weapon."
Hearing this, Josh couldn't disagree that lifting that Keyblade, back at Disney castle, was difficult to keep up. Nodding, He follows the two though the forest.
They make it through the forest to a party all looking like there was a battle, there they found Pistol helping people clean. Peg asked what happened and was told there was frogs that invaded and ruined things. She shivered from the thoughts of frogs. Talon looked around.
"where's Rem?"
"No Idea, thought she was behind me. I was distracted by the thought of the party." She slumps "Came to clean up instead. Next thing I knew. Rem was gone."
That explanation got Talon nervous and hurried to search for his red headed dear friend, he was not alone as Josh searched for her as well inside. Only for the two to end up meeting again and admitting they had not found the young lady.
"You boys lookin' for someone?" Asked a deep voiced man tossing aside a white mask he has on. He was a dark skinned man with a top-hat with a skull and crossbone cartoon graphic on and wearing formal attire, a black coat and pants, purple shirt, and he walked with a cane that had a purple orb for the handel. "Well my friends and I could help y'all out, I need to find somebody myself. You two look like the right kind of men to help each other Just gotta come with me. That's right lil' boy, I mean the both you." He speaks to Josh at the end who was looking around of what other man besides Talon. Assuring the young boy as he pointed at him. "Gents come with me. ~" he invites in a deep tone singing."
"Wait Talon what about Peg and Pistol?!" Josh questioned while tugging Talon's coat
"You're right-"
"Aw come along fellas, you're in a hurry to find that somebody, Right? It'll be real quick."He walked to a small tent near by, they shrugged. And followed. The tall fancy dressed man lifted the entrance, presenting with his other hand to invite them to enter. "Gentlemen."
The two looked at each other, Josh ran eagerly to go inside the tent. Talon, walked carefully and looked at the stranger as the man gave a toothy smile with a gap on the front row of his teeth. With a sigh, Talon kept having the image of Rem on mind. With a tight feeling on his chest, Talon enters. Suddenly what Talon enters in, suddenly was not a small tent but a large room with different voodoo like items and strange masks on the wall. He was amazed by what he sees "Where are we?!" Obviously what they entered into was a completely different area. He sees Josh looking at some of the arts. A loud slam of a door catches his and Josh's attention, obviously the loose tent door they entered from. Had turned to a thick hard wooden door.
In front of the shut door, stood the top hat man "Have a seat, Gents." He says while chairs slide up behind the two. Talon and Josh were surprised by the chairs, the man got his own chair. "Now first boys, lend me your hands. Me and my friends like to know you better." Asking with a gap tooth smile
The two were confused of what he meant by his friends, seemed it was only the three of them. The youngest didn't hesitate though and presented his palms while his hands rested on the table, the man chuckled of the young boy's egarness. Josh's palms were being read. One hand was placed on the table from Talon who thought it wouldn't hurt.
Finishing Josh's palm, the Top hat man tells the boy to keep his hands there and turns his attention to Talon. Raising an eyebrow when he sees Talon only gave one hand out. "Both hands please!" Hearing this order got Talon nervous to show his heartless hand, still he places it there. Seeing this, the man chuckled again. "Forgot to tan the rest of you?" He joked as he read the hands.
The reading was about done. "Who and what are you?" asked Talon, not believing he didn't ask before.
"Ah, how rude of me. The name's Doctor Facilier. I see what're you all about now. You, young man have been away from home for a while and set on movin' on y'alls mission. No matter what happens to you." Describing Talon, next Josh " 'N you boy're comin' along the ride while being split of what's alright. You boys got one thing in common being with a certain person. No surprise that's who you lookin' for. Sadly." Green glowing Skeleton hands spring out from smoke and pin their arms.
Josh and Talon panic, struggling to be free.
Facilier chuckled evilly "See friends of mine from the other side need some special hearts for them, and you two look good for the part." He said as a giant fog of smoke spring out a fanged bright yellow skull with a symbol of a heart out. Grabbing it, Facilier steps toward the two now prisoners "Don't blame me. Blame my friends on the other side." He says with a spark of a skull on his face and the fangs of the skull bites down at their fingers and the heart flashes two symbols on the heart (like a pie chart, one empty space).
They groan in pain from the bites, Josh gets dizzy and his eyelids got heavy, the last thing he sees is Talon glowing green then darkness as Josh passed out.
"-ey... Hey... Hey Josh!"
The young boy heard Talon's voice, groaning a he slowly opened his eyes, spring open when he sees a giant frog staring down at him. With a scared scream, Josh backs away in a panic once he sees the monster. The frog had his hands up, telling Josh to calm down. Suddenly Josh stopped when a sudden wall blocked him. "No, stay away!" Using his hands to stop the creature from coming. Suddenly seeing his own hands made him realize, he's now the same creature.
"No need for me to tell you can see what happened to us." Obviously the other frog is Talon, his eyes were the same ones he hid. Also the voice was Talon's as well. "we got to get out of here before that guy comes back!" He shouted as he leaped out, Josh was amazed by seeing Talon jump like that. Frog Talon looked back at Josh pressing his froggy face to the glass wall. "You can jump like that too, we're frogs."
Taking said advice, Josh jumped out. Amazed how high he leaped as he is the air, like he's flying. He feels the wind through his green skin, he shuts his eyes enjoying it. Reality snaps back when he face plants on the ground (table that the jar he was in) "….Ow."
Chuckling first before helping frog Josh, Talon gets his friend and the two leap down. "Through here!" Points at the door the entered through. As they made it, of course the door handle was so high. They'd of course thought of going under was an idea, but Josh interrupts that idea when Talon sees him reach for the skull that changed them. "What're you doing?"
"We..might...Need it to change back!" Josh shouts as he was so close, that skull changed color to purple and started cackling. Josh got so scared he screamed and jump back.
"Josh, I don't think that's the skull." Carefully said as Talon stepped back to back against Josh. The boy looked to see more purple glowing skulls cackling and floating, with red eyes. In Talon's hand, Josh sees The keyblade springs out. Can tell Talon is now ready to fight, even in that frog form. Yanks the frog boy up, carries on the side. Talon slashes at the first skull in the way and attempting to attack to puff away. Through the smoke, Talon ran with Josh to the door, while all of the other skulls chase them and laughing. Swatting more that started to fly in, he throws his young friend right to the door.
The young frog Josh tumble rolls after his friend threw him, gotten close to the edge of the bottom open space of the door. As he held his head, everything was spinning. in the dizzy vision, Josh sees purple skull figures flying towards him. In a dizzy panic, Josh tried to run away, but he had fell to the ground. The skulls flying towards him start exploding into black smokes.
Of course the cause Josh sees is frog Talon leaping through the smog. Landing and skidding on the wooden tiled floor. "Hurry !" He shouted. More and more of those skull heartless came floating. Slashing a several people are coming by on a sidewalk, on the road there was a trolley. he noticed then "Where are we now? Josh what you- Josh? Josh!" Talon realizes he was on his own now, the young boy was nowhere to be seen.
At the same time in that morning, outside of the tree. The coast was clear from anymore of those heartless Gators. that opportunity the two girls built a raft and row down river, having the plan to go to town and see if there was a way to change back to their original forms. As the two paddled with cattails, the frog man on the other hand wasn't helping at all just relaxing and playing with a webbed stick as a ukulele guitar. The two frogs she met are named Tiana and 'Prince' Naveen, Tiana glared at him while the Rem rolled her eyes.
Tiana yells at Naveen for being lazy and not working "How about a little less-" her ranting stopped when she gasps from seeing a giant alligator rising from the water. At the same time Rem springs out her keyblade. Naveen looked back and jumps away in fear.
A huge shadow of open mouth with sharp teeth engulfs the three. "I know that tune!" The joyful gator shouts out while getting a trumpet and plays a tune.
Naveen grows a wide smile "Play it brother!" He starts playing his twig guitar to join the gator.
Rem shrugged and says to Tiana "well, Gotta admit it's catchy music." Tiana just rolled her eyes and huffed.
The two quickly finished playing and the gator cheered "Ha ha! Where've you been all my life!?"
"where did you learn to play like that?"
After the gator explained, Naveen hopped off the gator's head to introduce himself, bowing while doing so, I am prince Naveen. ~ and yeah these two are with me too I guess."
After sighed of annoyance and ignoring him, Tiana explains the situation " We are all human and on our way to find out how to turn back."
"ah you need to see Mama odi. She can change you all back, she's the voodoo lady of the swamp!"
"do you know where she is?"
"of course I know!"
He then refuses to take them to Odi, because of all the dangers of the swamp and those black creatures posing as fellow alligators. With Naveen's persuasion and Rem's assurance of protection, the jolly blues gator takes them on a ride on his belly through the waters.
Along the way Louis (the alligator) spoke to Rem "you're the second frog I saw today with one of those key things."
"what?! Another one?!" She asked in excitement, thinking it was Talon. " He must ve' changed somehow."
"Yeah poor little guy couldn't lift it through. he ran off."
"Couldn't lift-? Oh no Josh! Do you Know where he went!?"
"Sorry lil' lady, a lot of those black alligators came and we ran off separately. No idea where that fella ran off to." He explains with a shrug at the end.
The little frog boy Josh was hiding from any threat, but kept going until he exhausted. As he was resting while thinking about where he is and what happened to Talon. Luckally for his webbed feet, he steps over the thick mud. 'Where am I even going?' The boy stops when he suddenly asks himself that question. He observes his surrounding. A sunny day, water everywhere with few seen islands a lot of trees sprouting from the water, some bugs are flying over the reflecting blue clear water.
His stomach growled and Josh held his tummy "Grr I really wish I had some food. That party looked like there was a ton!" He complained at first then his attention gets caught by the bugs. His tongue springs out, pulls it back and covered his mouth. "What was that? Ah!" His tongue jumped out again, almost catching a fly. In a panic he reeled it back in to his mouth and began running. 'I almost ate a bug!' He shouted in his mind as he ran to be away from any more sights tempting insects.
Hides in a hollow log in the ground. "Okay this'll have to do." He sat in silence for some minute. Rubbing his face and groaning, Josh stopped and looked hand 'I should've stayed home.' Still he got a flash image of Rem in his mind, reconsidering of leaving since she's always there for him and he being her only friend. Because Talon disappeared. Talon came back, so what's the point of staying with her.1
Sitting in silence then after having that thought gave him doubts about agreeing of coming along. Yet Josh still remembers her saving him multiple times back in their home world. As for his thoughts of Talon, not interested. but something feels he could be trusted.
Josh's stomach growled, had his hand on his tummy. He noticed something moving, catching his attention another bug that he didn't escape from. Speaking of which, his tongue shoots out in a instant. He screamed 'Oh no!' In his mind and it latches to the scurry thing. Eyes spread open in a panic, His tongue shoots back, Josh tried to stop his tongue but it was still slipping through and the horror of devouring a bug is about to come true. Luckily for him that bug suddenly caught himself and using his feet to not get swallowed in and leave Josh gaping.
"Oh hang on 'dere boy! Not a good way of thinkin'. You'd be dead from eatain' me and my glowing butt!" He flickers his glowing rump, he was a firefly the way he spoke was in a very Cajun accent. The firefly popped the lighted rump, Josh sucked up his tongue right back. The bug groaned and stretched "Whew boy what time is it?" The Cajun bug asked
"Uh I don't know the exact time, but it's daylight out"
"What?! You interrupted my sleep! Was dreamin' of ma belle Evangeline! ~"
Having no idea who this bug was talking about, Josh only nodded "erm Sorry about that." Josh apologized and explained "just became a frog last night. Find my friends is more important and gotta find a way to turn back to human."
The firefly shrugged with his fists on his hips "Shoot boy, Betta' see mama Odi."
Josh's attention gets caught as he flicked his head up
"I know the way there, can lead you the way. Might take the while to get there!"
"Oh my gosh, thank you mister- Umm"
"Oh haha, name is Raymond, or just Ray for short. Can Meet up with the family along da' way!"
"Maybe I'll meet with my friends too!"
"Boo ha ha, I like da' positive attitude! Let's go!"
The two head out.
Along the way, Josh said while his voice started to fade as he goes "I'm starving, know anything to eat? I won't eat any bugs."
In the streets of the city of New Orleans, a bright morning and the two different eye'd frog Talon hopped over the rooftops. With more of those skull head heartless chase him. A few people caught glimpses but still ignore them to continue their business.
Several other ghost heartless sprang up and got in his way to continue further. He was surrounded by five floating skull heartless, on a red roof fortune teller place. Clenching his fist and summons his keyblade. He slashes the first into dust, the second catches his attack with it's teeth. Struggling to yank away from the grip of the teeth. Behind him, two other skull heartless fly towards and ready to attack.
surprise, the keyblade vanishes. With that same pull strength, he kicked away that first heartless and flew at the others where his key reapered in his hand and slash one away while getting scratched before hitting the other away.
Talon tumbles away, leaving one skull heatless left. The odd colored eye frog throws his keyblade to spin in the air. Like a boomerang it hits the target in to dust and back to be caught by Talon. "Where to go now?" Getting separated by Josh, in some town, and still a frog. This is not one his best days. Talon was planning to go through that door again. But the skull heartless attacked and he got lost because of it.
Taking a seat on the neon sign, Talon scanned the area in his vision, for anything useful. Just some trains, people walking and talking, and some bands playing music. Stares at the band, talon didn't even notice his foot was tapping to the beat. His body was responding on it's own.
That moment ends when he suddenly sees that top hat man again stomping down the sidewalk, with a balding pudgy man following. Talon snaps up to his feet and follows them on roof.
They made it to the door Talon lost. The top hat man sounded mad. "You stupid little man, You lost 'em! We need his blood!"
"I-I'm sorry, but can't we just use the others. I heard you got?" The pudgy man ask. Only to get a smack on the back of the head.
"Then you wouldn't be lookin' like the prince! We specifically need his blood! Just came back here to talk to my friends for help. You get outta' here and keep 'lookin!" Shouting while pointing as the fat man ran off .
As soon the top hat man opens the door, Talon sneaks in after him, not having to squeeze under the door again.
Hearing random thumping, The top hat man looked behind him, to see nothing. Shrugging and walked ahead towards a empty space where it had masks on the wall. "Friends, I Know I'm in hock to you in pretty deep in to you already."
Talon was hiding by some voodoo and peeked out, wondering who it is the top hat man was talking to, in apologetic look with his hat off. Seeing then those masks started to move with expression.
"Seems our little froggy prince, lost his way and I need your generous assistance to get him back." The masks looked angry and the man laughed. "Ha ha ha –I hear ya'. Now what's in it for y'all? Well, as soon as I dispose of big daddy La bouff. Then I'm runnin' this town! Heh heh heh. I'll have the entire city of New Orleans in the palm of my hand! And you would have all the hearts, your dark little heart's desire!" A figure of the city in his hands and blows out figures of hearts for the masks to swallow. "Y'all love that, don't ya'? So, we got ourselves a deal?"
The big mask looks at the others, grinning and having the looks of approval of the deal. The large mask and it's jaw drops to the ground with green smog escaping and shadow figures spring out, each shadow silhouette of a empty hole of a shape of a heartless mark.
He laughed again, always sounding menacing with his deep voice. "Now we're cookin'! We're gonna' find ourselves a frog!" As he orders the shadows to search in different places. He gets interrupted by a sound of something falling over. He shouts for the shadows to go "and find that third piece for the heart while y'all out there!" Opening his coat, to show the skull heat that had empty spaced pie chart of the hearts that took Talon and Josh's heart.
Turns out Talon knocked over a staff and skeleton when he was shocked to see those shadows coming out. He hid himself next to some voodoo dolls. Of course that was a bad idea, the dolls were alive and heartless that attacked him. He defends him self with his keyblade, slashing one and the heartless voodoo rips and black smoke spews out. Others jump at him, he slashes one again and throws his weapon to spin in the air, destroying several and it was caught by him as he leaped in the air and kicking a few heartless out of the way (attacking with the blade as well). Dolls surround him, getting backed up. the wall behind him opens up like a curtain, it was the tall top hat man.
"Hahaha, 'wonderin where you been little man! Can't run from ? Yeah right! I'm the shadow man!" Quickly Facilicer reached to grab Talon frog.
The frog dashed on his knees away from the grasp of the hand, to end up closer to the voodoo doll heartless. They look down at him at first, then all were ready to attack. In a quick reaction, he spin with his keyblade, blowing them away. Talon looks up to see a giant fist came down, like a meteor, in his direction, he jumped out of the way. To jump again from another fist. Suddenly Talon froze in the middle of the air from going any further, it felt as if someone had a hold of him.
Falacilier laughed "Ha ha ha, You go gonna' have to try better than that! " Falacilier's shadow showed that it was the culprit that caught him "No need to guess, you were looking for this." He opens his coat to show off the skull head with the empty spaced pie chart. "oh I forgot to tell you boys' future. Well, seeing It's only you. Your future is filled with darkness." He chuckled while his shadow drops Talon in a box, wraps chains around it, and Facilier drops that box in purple bag.
The day was getting dark, the three frogs are still riding the gator to their destination of finding the voodoo lady, but they had to make a pit stop once their bellies started to growl which interrupts Tiana's talk about owning her own restaurant. The 4 splat up.
Rem searched for anything edible, like berries and such. Mostly to find nothing but grass, mud, and water. "-sigh- this was easier back home." She reminisces the food she stole back in Tears of a siren then giggled at the thought of her, Talon, and Josh together, having a feast. That thought vanished when she sees a fly land on a leaf. She stared at it then her tongue started to keep peeking out, shocking her when it seems her hunger had it's frog appetite . Desperately held her mouth shut, having the same fear as Josh of eating a bug. Lucky for her two other pink string like tongues sprang out to tie and frighten that bug away. Especially when she sees her new allies crash into each other from being pulled by the tongues that were theirs.
Rem giggles after seeing the two argue, something else catches her eye and she left the two LOVEBIRDS to investigate, maybe it was food. She unknowingly passes Louis (gator) what she finds was star light reflection, she was amazed at the beauty at the reflection and looking up at the star.
coming out of a faze when she hears Louis rushing back. "Ah! Remmy I need your help! Tiana and Naveen are all tied up! We gotta find a stick! Oooh would that do?!" The jazz gator ran off to go investigate.
Shaking her head with a smile. She hurried back to where she left the two, Rem could tell she was getting close by hearing them argue still. an unfamiliar voice spoke which made Rem slow down . "I ain't no fire cracker. I just got my big butt glowin'! Oooh women like a man with a big fat pouch, you best remember that when you older!" Rem peeked to see it was a firefly.
To her surprise she sees who he was talking to "Okay? Girls like that?" It was a smaller frog with a tail, that voice she recognizes.
Her head jumps out the grass "Josh!?"
"Rem?"
The two friends cheered with excitement and hugged each other, she span him while the firefly unties the two.
After ray introduces himself and Josh (Rem already knew of course) the three frogs explained their predicament. Ray says they've been heading the wrong way and with his family, lighting a path. It was dark out, leading them to the right direction. The four frogs rode Lewis while following the fireflies.
On the gator "What happened to you Josh?" Rem Asking him how he changed into a frog
"Talon and me were looking for you, some guy in a top hat said he could help us, but he lied and changed us!"
Naveen heard that description "Ah the voodoo man got you too eh? Pretty convenient you came with us!" He announced with his arms crossed and relaxing
"Voodoo man?" The boy asked with his Rem's head tilted in confusion
======= same time ==========
Talon was still in the box , in a bag of the shadow man's lair. The bag kept hopping around from Talon jumping inside. In actuality inside the box, Talon was fighting several heartless, as well a shadow that was summoned by shadow man, Facilier. some of the heartless disappear from Talon's blow. But the pesky shadow was the main problem for him, through every inch of that box. Talon stopped himself from chasing the shadow anymore. Took a deep breath, while holding out his keyblade with two hands. Aiming the key out and shut his eye while he then aims it up. At the end of the key, it glew out an orb of light, then beams of light trails span every edge of inside the box. Hitting the shadow, it yelled out a demonic yell as it disintegrated.
Giving out that sort of attack, he still not use to, and it wore him out. Slumping back against the bottom of the box, he looked up to see light from a candle, though an tared hole from the bag. Seeing of course that it's a keyhole, he shoots a ray of light from his keyblade, to the keyhole. It unlocked sure, he had to force the box open, then rip the bag hole wider so he may be able to slip through and land on the ground.
Of course only to be greeted by skull head and voodoo doll heartless. He attacks and make several disappear, getting backed up by the many more heartless spawning. They stopped though and back away themselves by another threat behind him. A human size colored skeleton , it stomps it's foot down to crush him. Doging from each stomp until he is pinned from blocking, with his keyblade. Talon was so focus on the foot from crushing him. Glancing to the side, he sees a door but that vision was blocked by many of the skull heartless approaching. No longer can hold, the skeleton foot fully stomped down.
Lucky for Talon, his whole body was covered in mucus and he slips in between bones of the feet. Hurries to the door, attacking several heartless to dust. Talon dives and lands on the ground, in front of the door. Hurries and squeezes through under the door, yet again. Popping out and tumbles. Looking around if he's in a different place, but no it's the same alleyway. As he got up he saw black steam pouring out of the door he left. His head flings up in surprise, as soon he hears two familiar women voices argue.
The voices were Peg and her daughter Pistol.
"it's been hours, where are those three?"questions Pistol with her hands behind her head and looking off to the side.
Peg sighed and groaned in annoyance "We'd know if you girls hadn't deserted us, to clean up the ship!" She shouts at her daughter while facing her, pinching Pistol's ear as well.
"ahem. Girls?" Said a random male voice.
The two paused from speaking and stared at one another, wondering who spoke.
"Um, down here."
Slowly Peg and Pistol look down to see a frog standing on his two feet and holding a keyblade.
The girls scream.
The 6 new friends halted to break from going any further, Ray telling the family he'll take his friends the rest of the way. He explains to Tiana about his true love, Evangeline the most beautiful firefly. Along the way, Lewis fell over from a prickle bush. He comes back out and fell over, showing a Ray annoyed goes to pull the prickle out his gator.
Away the frogs went ahead of the two, 3 heads of hillbillies pop out of bushes (an old short man, his son a large doof, and a 2 fingered gibberish speaking fellow) the 3 were ready for a frog meal.
As Tiana, Rem, and Josh swatting away leaves to make way. The prince was just walking like he didn't have a care in the world
"Y'know waitress . I think I figured out what is wrong with you. You do not know how to have FUN!" Naveen states and wrapped his arms around Josh and Rem while he shouted at the end, adding that he finds them fun.
After he let them go, Rem and Josh stayed back as the couple argued. "Talon really got us in a weird situation." Said Josh to Rem. Blaming Talon for convincing them to leave.
Rem giggled "Yeah but it's interesting, plus it's better than home..." Mainly she's glad to be out of there, people hating her and the boys being her friend.
"Well you did tell me, he likes to show new places."
-can skip-
"Ah!" The two heard Naveen scream and rush over to see him in net. They run to Tiana as they see a two finger guy. The two hear loud stomping heading for them, they see a big one heading for them, with a club ready. Tiana used her legs to spread out to free herself from the two finger hold. Josh hops on to rem's back and she leapt high to kick the 2 fingered man in the face
Two fingers got irritated and brought up his knives. Threw the knives at the frogs. Tiana and Rem managed to not get hit, but still hang. Josh was separated from Rem again, to dodge the knives. The girls got out, Rem goes for Josh . Only to see him caught in the same net and carried off to rowboat. Rem had to be careful of two fingers, so she didn't have time to save him.
After getting that prickle off Lewis's finger, then the gator jumps in the prickle bush after fear of the sight of guns, Raymond flies to attack the hunter, after seeing Naveen and Josh in the nets. The firefly got into the hunter's nose . Josh and Naveen fall into the water. Rem and Tiana continues to run in fear of two fingers. Ahead comes the doofy man. He slips, lands on a wood block, it flings the girls into a cage. The doof brings the cage and 2 fingers sat on it. Escape now looked impossible for the girls. Naveen helps Josh up the water to cheer then see the girls were in trouble. With quick thought, Naveen uses his tongue to spring out and stick to the boat. After it thuds from Naveen crashing to it. Naveen distracts the three while Josh was sneaking to help the girls out. The three hunters ended up fighting each others because of the frogs, Tiana puts the cherry on top by making fear away with showing frogs can talk.
After Raymond has to take out the tons of prickles off the gator, Tiana makes gumbo. Naveen, Josh, and Rem had no idea of how to cook, Tiana assigned them jobs of mincing food. Once that job was done, the group feasted.
"You think we'll be human again?" Josh asked Rem
"Pfft, of course when meer this lady, then we can change Talon, if we find him." Rem replied
Raymond started to talk about he sees Evangeline "'How can you miss her? She glowin' right up 'dere."
As he talked about his love, Rem slightly gasped "I've seen that star. Thought it was special" she whispered. Only Josh Heard her, unknowing to Rem.
As Louis played his trumpet, Tiana and Naveen danced. The lighted plants were distracting for Josh and Rem, Josh noticed though some movement in shadows. He Jumped back in surprise, once the shadows sprung out creature like silhouettes and grab both Rem and Naveen, Finally it was Josh's time to shine. Leaping out of the way of the debris in the way, so close of grabbing Naveen's hand. Jumps on a leaf and use to kattipolt self to crash into Rem, wraps his arms around and stuck his feet into mud. To hold her from going anywhere. Bad for the tadpole, other shadow hands grab him and yanks him out of the mud and through the air with the other two.
Luckily for them, beams of light fire down and blast the shadows to disintegration. The ow which land in water and look around to see what happened. Them and the rest of the swamp gang sees a large figure in a fog. What that fog turns out was an old lady with a club and flame on it.
"Hehe, not bad for a 179 old blind lady. Now which one of you naughty dearie been messin' with thesh shadow man?" Said the old chubby ebony 's response is pointing at Josh and Naveen, Rem points at both while in the middle of both and her arms crossed.
After calming the mother and daughter down and convincing them who he was, Talon rides on Peg's head. "Rem was one needle in this haystack Now Josh too. We gotta go find them in the bayou before the shadow man does!" He shouts in his mind.
Peg and Pistol sat on a bench, Peg asked Taloin"Going to be hard to get them, even without people noticing the ship. Have any idea?"
Pistol picked Talon up and pets his head after seeing him sigh in frustration. Seeing a
Glimpse, looking up after hearing a street band. There she sees fat man in a suit, passing out flyers to a boat ride in "That'll help!"
The two space girls got tickets and nice white dresses with pink/yellow rope belts, with Talon in a purse. In the ride Peg loves the wind In hair "Ah ~ gotta thank Pistol, love this part in exploring. Hm?"
She was holding the purse and it was moving. Peg opened it and comes out tumbling frog Talon and a few more Peg's objects following. "Phew, have you seen any sign of them? Wait, where's Pistol?"
"Downstairs of course to dance. Silly girl loves to party."
He rolled his eyes "I'm going to look around." Noticing shadow movement. He hurries and leaps after the possible threat. Goes further to an empty spaced part of the boat, near the large red propeller. He carefully walked his keyblade in hand. Shadow heartless and skulls spring out and surround him. He bashes one skull into dust. Stabbed down to disintegrate one shadow. More heartless come to attack. A skull has a hold on him, keyblade by it's teeth. He flicked his attention back when he sees shadows and other skull heartless coming. He disappeared his keyblade and gives a upper kick to that one heartless's jaw before he ran on the propellers, leaping to each coming while swatting each skull. One skull comes in full speed, knocking him back and ready to be snatched into the other heartless. He plummets on the wooden floor, bouncing. As he was getting up, heartless surround again. Only for several to disappear into a cloud of dust, catching Talon's attention to look over to see it was frog Rem was his savior.
Before the boat, the swamp gang get invited to the home of Mam Odi. "Y'all want some candy?" Odi asked the 4 frogs, but they denied, Josh close of taking the offer but Rem had him deny. "well now, that's too bad. It would'a turned you human." She eats it while the frogs freak out, Josh loses his balance and falls to the ground.
Rem dives following to save him. The snake Juju quickly slides up and catches the two with it's tail. The two stood on the ground and Rem hugged the snake "thank you!"
Josh hugged it as well but was stiff and quick, he was nervous to be near the reptile. Josh was a small tadpole and other never faced a giant snake before.
Rem giggled at his nervousness "I faced gator heartless. Glad to meet a nice guy like this."
"Juju! Why you didn't tell me my gumbo is burnin'?!" The voodoo lady shouted to get the snake's attention.
After she stirs and asked Tiana's opinion of taste of the Gumbo in a tub. "Now, figured out what you need?"
"Like what you said mama odie, we need to be human!" Tiana explained while Rem hopped up with Josh on her back, all of the frogs on the rim of the tub.
"Ha! Ya'll want to be human. But ya'll don't know what you need!" She shows them visions through the four's life issues. Naveen's greed, like money. What he needed is something to fill his heart. Tiana was a difficult one. Josh needed to keep growing and was on a correct path. Rem was a hard 0ne as well, was and is on a hard path. "Hmm you two got a same influence." Odie says to Rem and Josh showing human Talon in the Gumbo. "'N lemme tell you, he needs y'all as much he need you!"
"Mama odie." Rem says out to beg for another request
"Oh I know to help you with that key y'all got. Hehehe! But first!" She goes to the tub of gumbo, chants while stirring to have the gumbo give a vision of a blonde girl snoring in bed instead of a princess. "Since the girl's daddy is king of the parade, she a princess. It counts, until midnight! Now hop on when she kiss ya, you be human again!" This was great news for the three frogs. But not for Josh. "Ah child. Just get dat skully trinket from the shadow man!"
Rem winked at him "We can do it!"
The gang had to hurry out. Mama was shoving Lewis to hurry out. The gator had a better idea to get there safer than swimming in the heartless filled bayou . The steamboat.
They were sneaking through the waters, to search for a boat, usually one around for fest day. Finally after an hour of searching, they see steam clouds.
Once they gotten near, Rem spies her a frog skipping on the propellers of the boat and attacking heartless with a familiar keyblade. "Talon!"stood on the gator's nose to have a better look "You guys go ahead!" She dives in the water to go.
After Rem and Talon finished fending off the heartless, " Where's Josh?" Talon asks while catching his breath.
"He's with friends, they might've came along the ship!" Rem reassures Talon as she pointed back with her thumb aiming back.
Talon hops on to a ledge of a window to look inside, spies tadpole josh with two another frog and firefly, near a stage were a band was performing with a gator on trumpet."that's good. There might be more around. so Rem, stay with me as we check around! He's after you too!"
Rem tilted her head in confusion "But what does he want from me? I'm a frog already!"
"Your heart! … Come on, more might be around and gotta tell Peg you're here." he says before hopping down and waits for Rem. She follows him, guessing Pistol is in company as well since her mother is here. The two hopp there down the hall.
the Talon frog was right the two had to fight heartless the whole way until dark, Rem explained to Talon what they need to do to be human again.
More skull heartless spring out to attack, Rem swats two away and Talon grabs her and throws in the air to attack several skulls in the air and he lunged himself to destroy voodoo doll heartless. After many voodoos vanish, Talon gets greeted by large purple fangs that was close of chomping him, a gator heartless. Talon swats his keyblade at the large heartless also avoided the beast chomping. Rem stood on the boat rail after dealing with more skulls .
Talon's trouble caught her eye "These guys again!" With that froggy leg strength, she jumps in the air to dive down to attack the beast in his weak point, a red symbol, this weakened the heartless and Talon gave a final blow.
At last they finished wiping out heartless, They met up with Peg to discuss the plan to return in their bodies human.
Josh left with Raymond to go around the boat and see more sights, until they met up with Naveen looking like he was attempting to proposing to Evangeline star, Josh had to hold the angry firefly back. All was resolved when Naveen explained himself. Naveen and Tiana have there date, Josh and Raymond Go back to see Louis the gator perform .
Josh met with Pistol there "Heya!" She greets while pick him up.
"woah! Oh hey!" He got surprised by her, especially since she accepts him so soon.
"Hehehehe!" Because of Talon frog, she knew.
Josh sat on pistol's shoulder as they watched the gator play his trumpet As the show goes on, Josh looks around at his environment (a well dressed audience, wooden floors, night out through the windows,) Through the window, Josh notices a shadow shaped as a creature. He assumed it was a shadow of a parade balloon. With this thought in his young boy mind, he hops down and hurries out, excited to see,
Pistol didn't notice him off her at first "Great show huh?" She asked Josh while watching the show was going. "Josh?" Pistol looked as soon she felt him hop off "Josh?" Sees him hop away and under a ho; couples' legs who enters "Hey!" Got out of her chair and ran after him. She stepped out and saw him stair at the sky. "H-!' Before she called out to him in a 'hey' a force shut her mouth and swooped her off her feet and away.
Disappointment struck Josh when he looked up to see only to see Evangeline.
"Look out!" Shouted a random female voice
The same force grasps him made him float in the air. He spies the blimp shadow morphed in to a creature with a Heartless shape in the center, the creature was the one holding him by his own shadow. It swipes him away.
Talon and Rem sat on Peg's shoulders as she was heading down and the ship was ready to make port, the walking slowed down once she sees something in the shadow. She ready's herself as she got closer. Rem and Talon got out their keyblades ready for any threat. With her hand out, peg got to the thing in a grey blanket. Things gotten tense as Peg gotten closer, she grabs the tarp and keyblade wielders ready themselves. She yanks it off, to reveal pistol all wrapped in rope.
"Pistol!" Shouts Peg
At the same, Talon and Rem can hear "They got 'em!" They look back from where the voice came from. Snapping back their attention back to help untie Pistol and unmuffle her mouth from the cotton ball in her mouth.
"-gasp- Something just grabbed me and Josh! It took him away!" Pistol shouts as soon her mouth was free. The boat stopped right after at a stone tiled pier. They hurry off after the band playing music. There they met with Tiana and Raymond with news that Naveen wanted to propose to her.
" That's wonderful news but Josh is gone!" Rem shouted in concerned tone The others looked it as well; Talon gripped his fist.
"we'll find him! 'we need to find Naveen too, he might be getting us to be human!"
The gang hurried to the parade, the space crew girls had to stay behind because of the crowd in the way. The frogs and firefly went through the forest of legs in their way. They halted once seen Naveen human again and is about to marry this other girl, Tiana's friend. Emence greff struck Tiana, Rem placed her palm on her shoulder
"Oh Tiana..." said Rem
Seeing th, Talon watch Rem must be when he was taken. Raymond questioned of why the changed didn't haven't the two girls as well.
"wait, Tiana!" Shouted Rem as Tiana got away. The 3 chase after her to a graveyard, there they comfort her
"It's like what my girl would say-" ray was cut off from talking about Evangeline by Tiana.
"It's just a star Ray! Nothin' but some hot air and gas." She left again
Hearing this and seeing Raymond saddened and question to Evangeline if it's not true upsetted Rem. Talon didn't know how to respond to any of this and was kind of amazed how well she communicate with someone, alone with only him and been accused.
"C'mon, we gonna show her the truth!" Announcing his plan to meet with Naveen. The three rush back to Naveen.
Of course they had to fight through heartless that sprang out, not many to Talons surprise.
======================= hours ago======================
Josh is flying through the air over bayou Clearwater like he was being dragged by a force, of course a shadow heartless grasping his shadow. He clonked his head with frog Naveen who was being dragged as well.
They were taken to a house through a lit chimney. Caught then by the shadow man in to his hat. Naveen was taken out to see his old chubby servant ready to chomp; him with the skull necklace.
Josh was about to escape but the shadow man catches him."Oh hoho, where do you think you're goin' little man? Need you to get that girl!"
Finally they made it back, Raymond flew to where they last saw Naveen as a human and is about to marry. Rem and Talon were not as fast as him going through legs and fighting heartless that came up.
There beside the fake Naveen was a chest that held the real Naveen and Josh inside as frogs
They bagged the walls, begging to be let out."I object!" Shouted Naveen as Josh rammed himself to the wall.
"is that you cap'?"
"Ray, get us out!"shouted Naveen when he sees Raymond through the keyhole.
Hearing Raymond was there alerted Josh. "Ray?! Is Rem is here?! Tell her to stay away"
Raymond already unlocked the box, Naveen was going to jump.
"Josh!" Shouted both Talon and Rem.
Seeing them was a relief yes but "Rem! Shouted Talon and Josh as soon Rem was hit by the fake Naveen's foot as he fell from the real Naveen jumping on him. At the bottom the faker grabs Naveen and Rem, before heading into a cathedral, Talon and Josh Chase after them, only to be surrounded by heartless.
Inside the church, Lawrence (the fake) tells why the betrayal to Naveen. Rem worked through to her freedom and leaped in the air, only to be caught in the air by a heartless shadow.
"Ah knew you'd come for that boy!" Announced the shadow man as he came out of the dark. "Get your royal rump back up that wedding cake and finish this deal!" He ordered Lawrence as he brought out that pie chart skull head that turned Josh and Talon, Now ready to bite Rem next; sweat dripping from her as her leg is forced out.
Through the bottom of the bottom of the front door come in Raymond, shadow man bites the skull on Rem's leg
"Ahg!" She screamed as the pie chart filled fully and yellow light sprang out from it's eyes. At the same time Naveen croaked with his neck expanded to grasp that other skull head, gotten from a surprised Lawrence, and threw it to Raymond. Who got that and hurry as well to the other skull out, that was Massive weight but that firefly managed to go.
Outside Talon was slashing more heartless away to dust Josh in the meanwhile is trying to sneak under the door. Only for him to tumble back by Raymond escaping with a skull necklaces behind him ( the skull heads that changed them all)
"Rem be in trouble! I need show Tiana this!" Shouted Raymond as he flew away.
The doors swing open and comes out the shadow man, looking for his pendant, In a hurry he whistles for the shadows to go after him. Talon ran to get Josh and they for Rem. The shadow man stomps the ground to hit the two. Talon was held in midair by the same shadow force. Josh looked back at Talon in air by it seems by the shadow man's shadow. The child was about to go back but wanted to go for Rem also.
The top hat witchdoctor comes up and checks his pocket watch, gritting his teeth and ran out. The shadow that was holding Talon left to follow the shadow man, who didn't want the day to end before his plan. With this opportune moment, Josh ran to Rem, Talon followed after dropping down. Rem herself was released as well and was on the ground (the shadow didn't have any reason to stay since she was bitten.)
"Rem! You okay?!" Josh asked in a panic
"I'm okay..." She answered
Talon helped her up "she's alright. Trust me, she faced worse. C'mon we gotta go stop 'em!"
The three ran in the direction of the graveyard. Raymond already beat them to it passing the skulls to Tiana the three key warriors made it to Louis that made his identity of a gator true, of being a gator. Frightening off people to make way.
"Louis!" Shouted Rem to gain Louis's attention. They hop on the gator's back and they off, along the way heartless come out
"keep going, we'll take care of them!" Announced Talon as he and Rem battle each heartless in there way skulls, voodoo dolls, and those small bug heartless again called shadow.
As they kept fighting, Josh was Louis's nostril to pet it to keep calm "Don't focus on them! Just keep going!" Heartless on louis's back gets destroyed by the two warriors, Talon had to slash several skulls above ground (Louis) and landed on the gator's back with Rem's help, catching hm.
"Look out!" Shouted Josh. Louis skids the ground to a stop, seeing a large gator heartless. Rem and Talon land on ground defending the others.
"go on!" Yelled Rem as she dodges it's hard chomp down at her. Another keyblade spins in the air (like a boomerang) to strike the creature under it's chin (as soon as the gator rose it's head) the belly exposes a blue crystal in replace of a heartless symbol. Mainly there target. Flopping on his back with his legs up, Rem jumps to land her feet on his.
"feels so weird!" She commented as their webbed mucus feet touched.
He kicks her up to fly at the weak spot. She had her key ready to swing. Smashed the crystal to pieces. to fall through the gator as it disappeared, below was a gang of heartless skulls. She halted one from biting her head. Using her blade in it's mouth. Other skulls come up ready to attack. Fortunate for her, frog Talon slashes them all to disappearance, including the one holding her key by the teeth. Rem lands to the stone ground.
"Let's go!" Said Talon and in a rush, the two go.
Josh and Louis made it to the graveyard, calling for Raymond.
"Ray! Ray!" Calls the gator
Same for Josh "Ray!'
The calling slows down once they found Raymond. They went silent. a tall figure caught Josh's attention, Josh hopped following where the shadow went by himself without Louis's attention; gripping his fist.
A large pink cloud surrounds greets Josh in his travel. He stepped back, fear of what's in there.
"Don't be scared! You can do it!" It was that voice again.
Hearing them encouraged Josh to move forward, taking a step forward through. Once he step through the pink fog. Once through the smog, a clear view of his foot, this time not a frog vc leg/foot but human again and in a tux. Everything was looked like it was a fancy party, . Rushes his way to find Tiana, unfortunately he had no idea how she looked as a human.
"Tiana? Tiana? Shadow-man?" Search resulted in his other target. About ready to leap, Josh's mouth was held shut and he felt being pulled back in the air by an invisible force again. Thrown on the ground in another room. Tumbling on the ground to another room, being a tadpole frog again. "Aw man!" He curses. As Being an amphibian again wasn't enough, looks up at shadow creature once more. Without thought he uses his long tongue to latch a chandelier and swing out of there to find Tiana. Of course the shadow was too quick and slick it's way to the doorway smiling, ready to catch Josh. All the fear Josh had changed when large metal key head slams the ground where the shadow for the shadow disappear.
Tadpole Josh is caught by red gloves.
"Got 'ya!" Shouted a female voice. Josh looked up and it was Rem that caught him, was human and in long red dress. Behind her was Talon human as well and he was in a tux as well as Josh was before, but in a blue bow tie. "Aw, you both look so cute!" Exclaimed Rem as she saw Josh in her hands.
"Um Rem." Said Talon with annoyed face under his bangs, can tell by his tone.
Suddenly she put Josh on her shoulder "Ahem. Let's go!" She shouts and head back to the dining area as Josh explained which person Tiana is, also the location to go.
They enter to see Tiana about to smash the skull necklaces to the ground 'Finally!' Thought the three. Of course the pendants stop suddenly and hover above ground, shadow man's shadow caught them. Shadow man laughs as the allusion returns them to frogs and to the graveyard again.
"Y'all should've taken my deal!" The ground rumbled as a giant stone grave with the shadow man on top of it and a giant multi colored skeleton with a top hat. Voodoo heartless spring out of the ground like zombies, as well as other heartless. The two keyblade frogs take action and leap to attack. Talon wacked several voodoo away and Rem took care of the skulls flying down to crush then to dust. Josh stood behind with Tiana, upset he couldn't help. Opportunity came through as Tiana bumps against a tall candelabra where a candle drops in front, in a loud thud.
"It needs to be lit!" Shouted Tiana as she searches for something to use to light the candle. luckally the She grabbed stones to use and make sparks fly out and light the candle.
Finally it was time for Josh's time to rise especially when he finds a root sticking out. With the candle and leaves as ammo. using the root, to fling the candle (and burning leave) over to land on the monster shadows and disintegrate many them away.
The shadow man looks down at them, very displeased. He yells for the giant to attack as shadow man went on top of the skeleton's top hat. The giant pushes the gravestone forward to fall. As the stone fell, the frogs scatter as it crumbled. The giant stomps it's foot down, wanting to crush them. It kept doing it and they scatter each time, Rem and Talon had to slash at heartless that came up (being summoned when the skeleton stomped) Tiana and Josh avoided them. Shadow man laughs while seeing them "Like little scared rats!" Broken debris scatter all over.
Talon makes a quick plan, firing out his tongue to latch on to the skeleton's feet and swings in the air around like a tetherball, spots Rem and takes her hand once he was close. As soon his tongue line was up (as he unlatched) she fired her tongue higher and they continued to swing. Rem seeing Josh, doing the same thing. The swinging speed was faster as he latched his tongue; through ears the three could hear the wind blow. Now they were close, in a hurry Josh caught Tiana, when he saw her and threw her up. Flies in the air up to the top of the skeleton's hat, there she is pinned down by the shadow man.
"Y'all gonna stay being a slimy frog!"
The three others swing up to the top after Tiana. Talon and Rem got out there keyblades and Josh could only curl his fist and look ready to fight. Shadow man gritted his teeth.
" That's it! Friends!"
A smog of shadow and neon surrounds him and morphs his body to all neon blue, purple markings, also yellow teeth and eyes. Shadow man taps the floor with his cane to shoot out a been from the ground and the three scatter to dodge; the giant skeleton was on his knees. Talon see a weak point (guessing, since it's the shape of the skull pendants in his chest) fires his tongue to latch to the head of the cane and pulls himself to zoom towards and attack. The shadow man groans and leaned forward in pain.
That guess was right " Hit him there!" Shouted Talon.
Rem took the opening and fires herself to launch an attack, injuring the enemy to groan worse and the pendants were about to break off. Couldn't use his blade, Josh fired his tongue to yank off the skulls. He tugged so hard, they fling off to the air.
Returning to his original form, shadow-man shouts "No!" In a panic.
Tiana catches them "Have news for you! It's not slime, it's mucus!" she throws the pendants down to the hard ground below to shatter. One survived but the skull that changed Naveen breaks in pieces, the giant skeleton vanishes as they go back to floor level.
Shadow man picks the pieces up as panics "No no!" All around symbols and colored clouds span around as the sounds of Bum bum chanting goes off. "How am I gonna pay back my debt?!" He looks back to see voodoo mask spring off graves. "Friends!" He greets in a fake happy tone and smile, but is in fear.
"Are you ready!?" The faces sang
He freaked, hair goes wild out of top hat. Screams when voodoo hands sprang out of the ground. The four frogs ran for cover behind graves. peaking out to see, of course out of curiosity. "I promise I can pay ya'll back!" A giant skeleton hand grows out of the mouth of a demon mask, made out of stone of a grave. Grasping the shadow-man, pulling him in as he screams. Shadow man's shadow wasn't going anywhere, as it was getting pulled as well to it's demise. Both are Pulled in and flashes to a gravestone of .
Everything was silent. The four looked again, seeing the graveyard all misty.
The gang hurried back in town, Josh was worried for Raymond, leaving him behind and didn't see his health. That tadpole rushed ahead. Talon constantly was throwing the other pendant down to break it and turn them back, but it was a sturdy trinket. Their travel ends, seeing Josh stop and stare out to see the pudgy man being arrested. As well as seeing Naveen speaking with Tiana's friend, about a deal to wed and pay for Tiana's restaurant. Tiana gotten closer to Listen then to confess her true feeling for Naveen. In a hurry her friend kisses him. Because the town bell rings, they were too late,
The two accepted their fate, of being frogs. The trio were behind them.
"What'll we do now?" Said Rem in disappointment
To add to the disappointment, Louis the gator came running up with Raymond in his hands.
They bid farewell the firefly, body in a leaf and sail away into a fog. Everyone rode louis as the firefly family saw Raymond off. Greif was on everyone's face
The sky was cloudy at first, slowly it began to clear. Evangeline is shown first, then next to the star. A second star, lighting the sky.
The keyblades appear in the three warriors' hands, even Josh's and even was heavy to lift. Of course he and Rem have no idea of what's happening. Stared at his blue blade at first.
"Talon, what's going on?"asked Rem
"Just do what I do!" Talon spins his blade at first and aims it to the stars. Rem her friends lead and aims as well. Josh obviously had trouble aiming up, sure he manages to lift the handle end, but the other end was down. Good thing for Josh his friends were there to help out. Both of them grab the blade to lift the other end. Beams of light shoot out from the blade to the stars. A giant white keyhole forms out in between the stars and the beams head for the keyhole, they go in and a loud sound is heard.
As the beams go away "What was that?" Questioned Josh
"Was told it's important." The only answer Talon had.
==================hours later================
The couple frogs later had a wedding, everything was bright and colorful in the outside, the pastor was mama ode. As they kissed, the two returned being human. The three didn't, not even Rem.
The ship was lifted out to clean ground and clean, thanks to Mama-odie, with her magic. Peg was really grateful "Thank you so much!"
"But what about them?" Asked Pistol as she had her three friends on her shoulders.
"Y'all still have that pendant?" Asked the voodoo lady.
Talon hops off Pistol with the skull tied on his back. He unties it to Mama-odie. She takes it and light forms around it to form into a ball of light. The light pops of to sprinkles to expose the skull head necklace morphed into a compass looking trinket with no arrow but had silhouette figures of animals `a red doe, a blue crow, and a green wolf. With a black background. "Be sure to keep this with you!" Odi as she hands it to Peg, since well she and Pistol had pockets at the moment. "oh one more thing! " she raises her hand and shoots out orbs of light, fusing into three frogs. "Just somethin' more for ya'll!" (new skill "Spark fire")
They waved bye as the ship rose, odie waving back. The engines revved up, the jets built up orbs of fire. In a loud boom the ship blasted off into the sky.
"Phew, well that was one heck of a experience!"Shouted Pistol while she wipes her forehead, sitting in the passenger's chair.
Downstairs, the frog key gang was sitting on a couch together. With the compass on a table
"So are what're we gonna be like this forever?" Asked Rem as she her frog hands.
The compass glows and in a bright flash, everyone's eyes shut. Slowly Rem opens, in her vision that frog hand was not there. But her original human hand again. Amazed by what she sees. Her and the two are back in their original bodies.
"We're human again!" Cheered Rem as she wrapped her arms around Josh and Talon. Hearing this, Peg and Pistol ran down to see it true.
"but how?!" Asked Talon, looking at his hands, ignoring that he still is cursed. His attention is now to josh picking up the glowing compass.
The boy examens the recent gift. Turns out the voodoo woman left a message under. With this they can now change their appearances with this tool now to different worlds now. Peg thinks this'll be good for blending in to the other worlds they'll visit soon.
"That woman amazes me." says that voice again, having everyone's attention looking up.
"Who're you?" Josh wondered, even though it encouraged him. He questioned.
"why it's me! Evangeline!" This is one day full of surprises. "got to thank you all again before you leave this section of space. Me n' Raymond will be here n' watch over everyone here! Hope you come back soon!" Evangeline finished her farewell. Everyone had a smile, even Talon.
Outside the ship, the engines rev up and the ship warps out of there
,end