"Oh…so they have all gathered, like you predicted." The Dark Lord smirked and looked over to Maleficent.
"But of course. I told you the boy would do anything for her. And that other witch wouldn't stop at nothing to find her sister."
Jess tried to hide her gasp. She and her sister were fairlies. Not witches.
Or were they?
"Yes," Voldemort looked directly at the sisters.
"Stubborn."
"My Lord?" Bellatrix stepped out from behind the Snatchers that were in attendance. "Shall I begin?"
"Wait…" Voldemort put a finger up. "Shouldn't we let them see what we have already done?"
Bellatrix giggled and twirled her hair. "What a great idea…"
Before Voldemort could taunt any further, Hermione shot straight up from behind the couch. The sisters threw their hands out and cried out with Hermione.
"Expelliarmus!"
Voldemort was thrown back to behind the crowd of villains. Bellatrix rushed to his side.
All was silent for a little while.
Then Scabior yelled something inaudible.
And the anticipated battle broke out.
What most of the Keepers felt was confusion. The first question that was swirling in their minds was how the dark wizards got on the ship. They also were confused as to why the Disney Villains would need help from villains of a different franchise.
What didn't make sense the most was how they existed.
Hemione beckoned the Keepers to come to her. "I got these from my friends," she explained to the Keepers, "do you know how to use them? I know Jessica and Amanda do, but I'm not sure about the rest of you."
Philby held what Hermione was passing out in his hand. "No way…wands?"
"Oh, so you know what they are, at least."
"I'm on Goblet. Second task. Ep-ic."
"It was. What I saw of it…" she said.
"How do I work this thing?" Maybeck tossed his wand back and forth between his hands.
"Repeat after me, whoever doesn't know how to. Stupefy,"
"Stupefy," Maybeck and Charlene repeated. Maybeck was about to point his wand at Hermione.
"No, not at me!" She exclaimed.
"Whoops…"
"And Reducto,"
"Reducto."
"Very good. I think you should go help your friends out," Hermione pointed behind them. The reason that the Keepers weren't being attacked and were able to talk to Hermione was because other recognizable good Disney characters were holding the villains and dark wizards off. Apparently, they got a wand training session already.
"Go! Go help them! I'll be over there."
It seemed like she directed this statement to only the sisters. "You know how to contact me," she said.
"We do?" Maybeck asked.
A flash of light flew over them.
"Quickly!" Hermione shooed them over to her right while she ran to the left.
The Kingdom Keepers dispersed into couples except for Finn. Philby and Willa sprinted over to Aladdin's side, Maybeck and Charlene helped Tiana and Naveen, and Finn disappeared into the crowd probably to find someone else to help.
Amanda and Jess ducked and jumped as curses, charms, and jinx flew at them. They could here a crying sound behind the chaos. They followed the wail to find yet another unbelievable sight.
"Ginny?" Amanda asked in disbelief. Ginny Weasley was in fact kneeling down, tending to a hurt Minnie Mouse.
"What happened?" Jess knelt down and saw Minnie's injury. There was a deep cut in her left arm that made her writhe in pain. She wailed. Minnie spoke oh so softly.
"It hurts…" She started crying.
"Oh, Minnie, we'll patch it up. Don't worry," Ginny comforted.
Minnie nodded, wiping a tear with her good arm.
"Do you girls know any healing charms? I've tried a few…none have worked. Any one I might have missed?" Ginny asked.
Jess raised her hand reluctantly. "I might…"
"Try it, Jessica. I'm sure it'll work."
Jess wondered if her being a Fairlie affected her ability to cast spells. Maybe it made it more took her temporary wand and lifted it above Minnie's injury.
"Ferula," she said.
Almost miraculously, the arm healed instantly.
"Merlin's beard…" Ginny looked amazed. She turned to the sisters. "You are sure you are not witches, right?"
"I'm very confused as to that," Amanda chuckled.
"Me too, me too. Come on, let's go." Ginny waved them over to fight another villain. "I think Ron came over here…"
Amanda and Jess stopped in their tracks and looked at each other. Jess' face turned red; she's had had a crush on Ron/Rupert Grint for a long while.
"Let's go see your boyfriend," Amanda teased.
"Shut up. We are in the middle of a battle."
Finn rushed through the crowd, searching desperately for someone to help. At the moment, it was insanity and everyone was running in a different direction.
"Looking for Mummy?" that strange woman taunted. Finn turned around and saw that she was standing there. "Or your wittle girlfriend?"
Finn didn't respond.
"Haven't learned how to respond to adults? It's only respectful…"
"You don't deserve respect."
"Why not? Because I can do this?" Bellatrix swirled her wand around.
Suddenly, pain was sent up Finn's spine. He fought to stand up, but whatever made him feel pain forced him to sit down. Bellatrix was cackling uncontrollably
Finn felt a small moment of relief and turned around. He saw Willa standing there, anger in her eyes.
"NOT MY FRIEND, YOU-"
Finn covered his ears. That was a smart move, because Bellatrix was thrown back by some curse. A very loud curse.
Finn looked at Willa. He expected to see her covering her mouth. Instead, she was smiling like a weirdo.
"That went well."
Jess peered behind a duo of fighters. She was bumped on the shoulder. Jess stumbled and spun around.
She landed right in front of Lord Voldemort and put her head down.
"Too afraid to look at me, girl?"
Jess wouldn't respond.
"How about this?"
He twisted his wand in an effortless motion. Jess cried out in pain and she sunk to the floor. She clutched her side and yelled.
"Or this?"
This spell was an attempt to drain every ounce of strength in her body. Jess exclaimed even louder as she willed herself to stand up and fight back. She couldn't.
"Or THIS!"
Voldemort raised his wand as Jess was forced to rise. She grit her teeth as she willed herself now sit down. Again, she was unable to do what she wanted.
Jess then felt a fiery pain all over her body. It wouldn't stop, and it didn't look like it wouldn't.
Voldemort grunted as his spell gave out.
Jess looked up now, not afraid anymore. Her completely red face glared at him, wishing every bad thing on the Earth to him.
She used every feeing of hatred, anger and frustration she had ever had to cast this spell. She screamed this so loud that everyone literally stopped doing what they were doing.
"SECTUMSEMPRA!"
After a deafening blow, everything around them exploded, including the sofas, couches, and tables. Jess could see through the dust that Voldemort was gasping and holding his side. He lifted his hand and there was blood seeping through his cloak.
The other dark wizards gasped too. Apparently, this was something worse than just their leader being injured.
All of the sudden, Voldemort vanished.
Poof!
His Death Eaters followed suit. One by one, they discenergrated instead of vanishing rapidly.
Jess, who was jerking her head around every time she heard a Poof!, heard the laughing women screech as she completely disappeared.
All of the Keeper's eyes were on each other. Some of them didn't know what to think. Most were relieved. Philby was still figuring out how his wand worked.
"NO!" Maleficent yelled. "No! The plan! The plan, it was supposed to work!"
All of the evil characters started to discenergrate.
"No…" Maleficent wailed, as she too started to discenergrate.
Now none of the evil characters were present.
The good Disney characters were headed by Minnie. She lifted her used-to-be bad arm with her wand in her hand.
"Au revior!" she squeaked. With a wave of her arm and a bright smile, they were gone.
The good wizards must have left already. The Keepers were scattered by themselves across the disastrous lobby.
Charlene was first to speak.
"We just won a battle."
The Keepers all came together in a big hug. Willa was crying hysterically, for whatever reason. Philby hugged her, rubbing her shoulder to comfort her. Finn kissed Amanda on the cheek.
They just stodd there for a while. Finn was then struck with a great realization.
"Hey, guys. Guys, guess what?"
Silence. Finn made it linger for a while before he said this.
"We just ended it."
As the Keepers finally realized this, they gasped and hugged each other. Maybeck was trying his best to make jokes, but they were mostly lame. The Keepers laughed at them anyway. Anything was funnier than what just happened.
Maybeck laughed suddenly. "You know what was the funniest part of tonight?"
"What?" the group said (but not in unison, they were all still shaken up from the battle).
"I thought half of those wizards were dead!"
That was Maybeck's best joke. Anyone who had just decided to come down from there staterooms would be very confused to see a bunch of huddled, laughing, and partly crying teenagers in the middle of the ship at 5:30 A.M.
The Keepers completely forgot about all of the bad things that had happened and just enjoyed each other's company. They were all friends at that moment, no matter what had occured. They were still normal sixteen-year olds. Just with massive secrets.
Jess got an idea.
"Hey, Philby."
"Yeah?"
"Come over here," she waved him over.
Philby escaped his hug with Willa, who was still sniffling. She put her head on Finn shoulder, who accepted it.
"Yeah, Jess?"
"I wanna show you something."
Jess reached for Philby's hand. She guided him over to the one thing that was still intact from all of the insanity- the couch that had literally started all of this.
Jess squeezed her eyes shut. Philby wasn't confused anymore, and he smiled as Jess opened her eyes.
"It worked."
