Chapter 5 Plans Unveiled
Back at Noheart's castle, all of Noheart's guests had arrived and were about to begin there summit. Sour Sam, Professor Cold Heart, Dr. Fright, Antifreeze, Frostbite, Vizior, former wizard of Wonderland, and all of there henchmen were present in the room.
"What are they all doing here?" Whispered Tenderheart to Grumpy Bear.
"SHHH." Snapped Grumpy Bear. "Let's listen in and find out what they are up to."
"Now that everyone is present," Said Noheart. "Let's begin the meeting."
"Where is your apprentice," Asked Professor Coldheart looking around the room. " Is he out on vacation?"
"My apprentice will be here shortly. He was just out doing some depth defying training in order to help us on our all out attack on Carelot."
"You mean slowing us down?" Replied Professor Coldheart snydly.
"Shut up ice cream man," Yelled Noheart. "He's alot more powerful than you'll ever be. And If the prophecy holds true about him being the chosen one, he'll bring the force into a advantageous position to destroy this world of all heart power and caring forever! Oh yes, the force is getting stronger rising each moment, tipping the scale of power in our favor! And soon we will also be able to get rid of those wretched caring guardians who have stopped us time time again!" Everyone laughed evilly. Tenderheart and Grumpy both shuttered in fear of this.
"So what's his name," Asked Dr. Fright. "Is it All knowing Heart?" He said with sarcasm.
"Another remark like that and back to the dungeon you go," Dr. Fright shuttered in terror sinking deeper into his seat as Noheart stared right at him directly into his eyes. After what seemed like an eternity, Noheart finally looked away from Fright. "His name is Darkage."
"Where and when did you find him?" Asked Sour Sam who was dressed in a white apron covering his yellw shirt underneath.
"Eleven years ago, I had found him homeless, thirsting for revenge on the one's who had set his home on fire with his parent's burned alive in it." Everyone focused in now on Noheart's story with great intrigue.
"So you took him underneath your wing and trained him in the way's of the dark side," Said the Vizior. "Very clever taking advantage of the situation Noheart."
"I didn't have to train him at all," Laughed Noheart softly. "He was filled with so much anger, hatred, vengeance, and bitterness, that all of his humanity had disappeared diminishing all caring inside his heart which I could see had completely turn as hard as stone! So all I had to do was make him a false promise." He laughed slightly louder than before.
"What promise?" Said the evil wizard from Wonderland.
"A promise to help him avenge his parents death by helping him find the one's who had put the forest on fire," Announced Noheart. "The deal was if he were to join the dark side and become my servant, I would help him find the one's who did this to his parents and let him take his revenge."
"A promise which you never planned on keeping," Said Professor Cold Heart. Noheart nodded in agreement. "That was so cold of you. I like your style."
"Yesss." Said Noheart evilly in a snake like manner. Seething with anger, Tenderheart dug his right paw into his leg while forcefully clinching his teeth together.
"But what are you are going to do once he finds out the truth of your intent on this matter?" Asked the Vizior.
"It doesn't matter," Said Noheart unconcerned. "Since he is the chosen one, even if he find's out and turns against me as long as he remains on the darkside and keeps his heat covered in hate, he will fulfill the prophecy and evil will rain supreme in this world." Everyone applauded with shouts of joy and evil laughter at this comment except for Tendreheart and Grumpy Bear who both looked very grim, angry, and distraught at the way Noheart was just taking advantage of this person's unfortunate situation.
"Is he powerful?" Said Shreeky.
"Oh you'll see. I didn't take him in because him I felt sorry for him. I took him in as my apprentice because I felt the potential within him was very strong making him the perfect apprentice to fulfill the Prophecy. Never have I felt the force so strong with anyone resulting from his hateful heart. With my training and evil influence, he will reach his potential to cause and spread malice in this world. And oh, also, I'll let you all in on a little secret," Noheart grinned underneath his dusty cowl as he leaned in closer with his head while everyone else followed suit. "I was the one who had put the forest on fire burning his home and his parents in the process." Noheart said softly before he cackled along with all of his guests.
'How could you be so cruel?' Whispered Tenderheart softly with a tear that rolled down from his right eye down to his cheek.
"Noheart, that's even lower than any of us would have ever done." Said Beastly with a slight sound of compassion in his voice remembering the time that Noheart had blamed him for wrecking his thunder pit and kicked him out of his lair being forced to live with the carebears.
"If you don't like it Beastly, you could always quit and move in with the carebear family." Noheart gloated looking right at beastly. "And you know how much I hate those furry gaurdians of caring."
"Long live Noheart!" Said Beastly shaking nervously with a raised hand.
"Here here." Said Shreeky raising a mug glass of root beer and reached across the table clanking it with the other villians glasses and drank to that.
"Now moving on to other things," Said Noheart. " We are all gathered here for the final moments of the carebear family! Here is my plan."
Back in Carelot inside the hall of hearts meeting room, Wishbear and Brightheart both returned to Carelot and are now talking with Trueheart and Nobleheart.
"This is all that we found out," Said Wishbear sadly hanging her head down. "We don't know where to find him or even where to look."
"I was hoping you two would get much further along than this," Replied Trueheart disappointed. "But you both did everything you could." She said patting Wish bear on the back.
"So I guess we failed." Said Wishbear sadly looking down to the orange wooden floor.
"No," Wish bear looked up and saw Nobleheart. "This would have been a failure if you didn't investigate this at all."
"That's right," Agreed Trueheart swinging her arm across her chest. "Don't give up! Who know's, maybe something might turn up."
Back at Noheart's castle, Noheart is in the middle of his meeting delegating responsibilities.
"Now Professor Coldheart, that is your job to do. Now that everyone knows what to do, we will presume our coordinated attack on Carelot early tomorrow morning at 500 hours."
"But we didn't get to meet your apprentice." Protested Dr. Fright with disappointment.
"Looking for me?" Everyone turned to the door and there stood a lanky built skinny human with a good upside showing through his black shirt. He also had his face hidden inside his black cowl. "Sorry I'm late, I was just completing the last part of my training session." He said as he entered the room and stood next to Noheart with his cowl still hiding his face. "Did I miss anything?"
"Not a thing," Said Noheart eying his apprentice as he stood to Noheart's left. "We will attack Carelot tomorrow as planned and soon the Carebears will fall forever and evil will once again rain supreme!" The room came to life with applause and cackled laughter except for Noheart's apprentice, who remained standing still there silently as if he was expecting something unexpected to happen. Tenderheart tried to get a better look, but he feared getting caught and felt it was time to leave. He stood and looked at Darkage one last time, but he didn't move an inch. He remained as still as a statue. Tenderheart shook a little in fear at this but luckily, Grumpy didn't notice it.
"Come on Grumpy, we have to go tell the others." Tenderheart whispered as he crawled the other way from where he came with grumpy following him from behind.