Chapter 6:
A New Groove in AdventureLand
Blurry and Merlin arrived in the jungle-like area of AdventureLand to find the next Crystal Piece, however, their trip was soon interrupted when undead soldiers from the Underworld ambushed them and Merlin and Blurry were having a hard time fighting them off.
"Listen, Blurry!" Merlin said before blasting more magic at a solider. "Go on ahead, Emperor Kuzco can advise you in my absence!"
"Merlin! Are you-"
"There's no time, Blurry!" Merlin interrupted the teenage boy. "Be careful!" And with that, Merlin teleported Blurry to Kuzco's palace and landed in front of the obnoxious emperor himself.
"Whoa! Hello there!" Kuzco greeted with a small wave.
"Emperor Kuzco, I'm-"
"Yeah, yeah, the old blue dude informed of you. So, here's the deal." Kuzco began. "Yzma's got another evil plan, and it's up to us to stop her." Kuzco then pointed to the wall with hieroglyphics on them that started to move as Kuzco continued explained. "Okay. So the not-so-nice blue guy is helping Yzma. Evil villain team-up." The hieroglyphics then high-fived each other. "Why is that important? Oh, right. It might affect...ME!" Kuzco emphasized. Blurry rubbed his temples and was getting a heachache from the hieroglyphics moving. Blurry, using Time and Space Magic, made a vortex appear on the wall showing Yzma and her henchman, Kronk.
"Kronk!" Yzma called out. "Lazuli, Lord of the Underworld, has offered me another chance at power." Then Hades, dressed up as some Inca clothing to make himself look like a different God, but he still had the flaming hair. Anyways, Yzma continued, "If I find the Crystal of the Magic Kingdom, he'll make me...Empress of AdventureLand!" She cheered.
"So, what about the whole poison souffle plan?" Kronk wondered.
"We'll kill Kuzco later." Yzma assured him. "Get me the leftover animal transformation potions! We're going to steal that crystal...by turning everyone into...Alpacas!" Yzma laughed and then thought, "And make some nice sweaters too."
"OK. You hear that?" Kuzco asked as the images ended. "Killing...and sweaters? That's not good."
"Yeah...I'm not a big fan of wool sweaters or alpacas." Blurry mumbled.
"So, you're going have, y'know, take care of them." Kuzco said, shooing off Blurry. The dirty blonde teenage raised a brow and asked the emperor, "And what are YOU going to do?"
"Uh, hello? Supervise. That's an important and tiring job, y'know?" Kuzco answered while taking a sip of some juice a servant got for him. Blurry groaned and put his hand to his face. He stormed up Kuzco, grabbing him by his arm, and pulling him out his lounge chair of a throne.
"Heyheyhey! No touchy! What are you-"
"You can supervise on the way, your highness. You're coming with." Before Kuzco could protest, Blurry opened another portal that led him and his annoying superviser to the next destination. They soon arrived in Yzma's not-so-secret lab and saw one of the guards testing one of the potions, which was disguised as tea.
"Huh, looks like Yzma's her potion a trial run." Kuzco whispered. "So, ah, you're gonna have to deal with this guy." Blurry rolled his eyes and snuck around the corner, getting closer to the guard.
"Go ahead." Yzma urged the guard on. The guard looked at the tea and hesitated to drink it because it looked and smelled funny.
"Yeah, there's nothing in it." Kronk said, but the quickly added, "It, meaning tea. Not anything bad." Finally, the guard to a sip of the "tea" and immediately transformed into a llama. Yzma triumphantly laughed.
"It still works!" She cheered as she and Kronk left the lair, leaving the guard to his thoughts when Blurry jumped out of hiding as soon as they left. The llama guard growled at him and put his hand-uh...hooves up and got ready to fight. Blurry summoned his Space Bow and created a Space Arrow. He quickly fired the arrow and the magic of it caused the llama guard to be pushed back with great force and crash through the nearby wall and fall. As soon as the guard hit the ground, though, there was a POOF sound and he shouted up, "I'm human again!" Then something from below sounded like it fell on him and there was another POOF.
"Yeah...Not so much anymore." Blurry commented.
"Great work," Kuzco said, coming out of hiding, "let's see if you can stop Kronk from using Yzma's potion now. And I'm just...still going to supervise." Kuzco was then dragged by Blurry again into another portal that lead to the village where the Crystal Shard was suppose to be. Surprisingly, Kronk was already there with his food stand set up with a potion bottle in hand.
"Hey just it time!" Kuzco said before Blurry dragged him over quickly, hiding behind a house. "So, you're going have to stop Sweater Man from peddling with his suspicious snacks."
"Alright…" Blurry mumbled. "I'll be right back." And then ran off to do something. Meanwhile, Kronk was facing a dilemma.
"Seems a shame." Said the Angel Kronk on the real Kronk's left shoulder.
"Yeah, the potion could really spoil that wonderful tartness in the mango chipotle dipping sauce." The real Kronk said. Suddenly, Hades, smaller than normal, appeared on Kronk's right shoulder and said, "What, are you kidding me? Pour the potion of the skewer already. Then find my crystal, or your boss doesn't get the Empress gig! Capise? It'll taste fine." Then he disappeared. Kronk smiled and then was about to pour the potion on the first skewer but hesitated again. Meanwhile, again, Kuzco was panicking.
"Aaaahhh! Oh, no! Kronk's going to turn everyone into alpacas!" He worried and looked around frantically. "Where's that weird kid? He's gotta save the children, and all the baby animals, and the pineapples from this terrible, horrible tragedy!" He cried out. Meanwhile, for the third time, a young man, garbed in traveling robes approached Yzma's assistant.
"Excuse me?" He asked Kronk, getting his attention. "Are these...uh, snacks...for sale?"
"Oh, yeah. They are, but they're not ready quite yet, I'm, uh, facing a moral food dilemma, ya know?"
"Oh, I completely understand-OH MY GODS! IS THAT WALT DISNEY COME BACK FROM THE DEAD?!" The traveler nearly screeched with a slight voice crack when he said "Disney". However, Kronk turned around excited, distracted from the snack stand. This gave the "traveler" the chance to sneak in a small item and hide it behind one of the skewers and dash off. Kronk couldn't find "Walt Disney" and turned back around to see that the "traveler" had left. He shrugged and went back to his potion-ruining-the-food dilemma. Just then, the traveler came back to Kuzco and took of the robes, revealing that is was Blurry all along!
"Nice acting, kid." Kuzco complimented.
"Thanks," Blurry replied, but then added, "And don't call me kid, I'm pretty sure I'm older than you."
"Alright then, so what did you put-"
Just then, a small explosion happened that came from the food cart. Blurry then answered, "Extra-Small Magic Bomb." Kronk, who was by the stand still, got into a defensive stance and looked all around.
"No doubt a devious sorcerer attack...Probably after my recipe." Kronk said. He then looked at the kabob he was holding, and took a bit out of it and smiled. "Blackheaded Fruit Kabobs! This could be a whole new direction." He said as he walked off. Blurry and Kuzco, being dragged along, followed the man out of the village, through the jungle a little, and arrived back at Kuzco's palace where, in the kitchen, Kronk was making more snack soaked in Yzma's potion.
"Ah, a Pupu Platter with a lovely alpaca potion glaze. This outta be popular with Yzma's victims." Kronk thought out loud. Blurry then stepped into the kitchen, bravely, and stated, "Not if we-I mean...I have anything to say about it!" Blurry had to correct himself because he knew that Kuzco wasn't gonna do anything to help him.
"Hey, how'd you get in here?" Kronk asked with his hands on his hips.
"Following you the entire way from the village-I'm REALLY surprised you didn't notice." Blurry answered. That stopped Kronk there before he said, "Oh. Well, Sorry but, uh, Yzma really wants to stop anyone who tries to interfere with her evil plans. No hard feelings, I hope." Then Kronk threw a hot, literally flaming piece of food at Blurry. Blurry jumped out of the way, but unfortunately, he still go hit. And not only did the food burned and hurt a lot, it left a nasty stain on his sweatshirt.
Blurry glared at Kronk, "Dude! Seriously?! This is ONE of my favorite sweatshirts!" Blurry then fired a Space Arrow at Kronk. The man covered himself but then he realized that he was unharmed.
"Ha! You missed!" He said.
"Was I really aiming for you?" Blurry questioned raising one eyebrow. As if on cue, pots and pans that were hanging above Kronk fell on top of him. LOTS of them. Just then, as Blurry and Kuzco walked towards the pile of pots and pans, a timer on a oven went off, and Kronk shouted out, "Another batch Pupus are done!"
"I think he's done." Kuzco chuckled, but Blurry didn't even crack a smile. He just walked out of the kitchen, followed by the annoying emperor, when suddenly, a trap door opened from underneath them and the two boys fell down. Luckily, Blurry landed on his feet, but Kuzco landed on his face. Blurry looked around and saw that he and his supervisor were now down in what seemed to be a laboratory with millions of potions.
"Is this…?" Blurry began to the think out loud.
"That's right, boy!" Blurry jumped back a little when Yzma appeared from behind the bookcases full of bottles and potions. "My lair is full of potions that can drain you of your magic powers...and other potions that transform you into harmless animals!" Yzma laughed and got ready to throw a potion at Blurry. The teenager jumped out the way just in time. But bumped into a set of the potion bottles by mistake. But that's when it hit him! He may not have been good at his home studies for Chemistry, but he sure knew how to blow things up. Blurry, quickly grabbing every potion bottle he could, started mixing them together.
Yzma screamed, "What are you doing?!" Blurry responded by throwing the potion bottle at the wanna-be empress. It blew up right in her face! "OK...We'll call this a draw…" Yzma said before fainting onto the ground.
"Hey! You beat her! Kuzco cheered but then screamed like a little girl and hid behind Blurry when Yzma suddenly got back up on her feet, holding another potion. "Aaaagh! She's back! The ancient, nightmarish, unspeakable force of evil!" Blurry rolled his eyes at Kuzco being so overdramatic.
"This is my most powerful potion yet." Yzma informed the two boys. "I will be empress-" Blurry then suddenly snatched the bottle from Yzma's hand and undid the bottle top. "Yea-No." He then splashed the potion all over Yzma. She then began to transform from woman into...a sweater?
"You know, when I imagined you as empress, you were lot less itchy." Kuzco laughed, earning a growl from Yzma, who glared at Blurry.
"Yzma! How's my favorite Empress-to-be?" Blurry looked to his left and saw it was Hades knocking on the room door and coming on in. "So, where's my crystal?" He asked, when he just realized that Yzma had become a sweater. Hades stared at her dumbfounded.
"Whoa!" Kuzco exclaimed, earning Hades' attention. The Underworld god was going to erupt in flames when he saw Blurry as Kuzco continued, "Why don't we give this guy a little privacy while he tries on his new turtleneck?" Blurry grabbed Kuzco, opened a portal out of the room, and left before Hades could fry them into ash.
After that close encounter, Blurry reunited with Merlin and finally, they were able to find the crystal piece that they needed. Once returning to Merlin's tower, Blurry collapsed on the couch and fell right to sleep. But once he did, he started to dream. He had dream that he hasn't thought of in a very long time…
"Blurry...Blurry…"
"Huh…? Carol, is that you?"
"You promised, Blurry...You promised you'd stay by my side…"
"What? No! Carol! I am! I'm still by your side! I promise! I'll always be-"
"Blurry...Why? Why couldn't you save me?"
"Carol! I can't break the rules of time! I'm sorry! But I still-"
"Why Blurry? Why can't you…?"
"Carol...Carol, wait! Please don't go! Carol, Carol! CAROL!"
Blurry shot up from his makeshift bed and was sweating like mad. He felt like his heart was pounding out of his chest. His eyes were shaking along with his breathing. Blurry quickly looked up at the clock, it read 3:04am. Blurry finally calmed down and sighed.
10 years…
It has been 10 years...since Carol had passed away.
Disclaimer:
This FanFiction is based of the "Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom" Game in Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida.
Merlin, Hades, Kuzco, Yzma, and Kronk © Disney
Blurry Temputus © Me(GodWriting)