Chapter 4
"Stories"
"Anger?" Morrigan asked. "You mean he's also angry at Jedah?" she added. "Yup! Like me he too has anger at Jedah," Ronald replied. "How come?" the two asked. "Jedah imprisoned him in the dungeon because he gave Daniel more powers than I have. He fears that Daniel might use it against him" Ronald explained. "Time is running out. We must stop Jedah in his plans before the human world will be destroyed," he added. "Alright we're coming with you," Donovan and Morrigan agreed.
March 8, 2011
"Another incident happened in Bella Coola. It is the same incident that just happened in Louisiana, New Orleans, USA. This unexplainable phenomenon is still happening in the different parts of the world. What could be the next spot it will happen again?" announced the TV reporter. All of sudden Lilith and Daniel felt the power again. "Could it be…?" Daniel asked. "Yes, it is Jedah…" Lilith replied. "And where do you think the two of you should be going?" John protested. "To Bella Coola," the two replied. "Maybe you can come with if you want to," Daniel suggested. "Okay then…" John agreed. So, Lilith and Daniel carried John with them to Tiree, Scotland. As they arrived to the place where the incident happened, they found someone standing beside the tree. "Hi, we're sorry if we disturb you what ever you are doing but may I ask you about what happened?" Daniel said. "Oh, really? My name is Michael Vulpine Harrison but you can call me Mickey. Come and tell me everything you know about yourselves," Mickey invited. At Mickey's hut, "I'm Daniel, this is Lilith and that is John over there." Daniel introduced. "Hmm…what are you guys doing here? Didn't you guys know that it's dangerous to stick around here since there is a big hole in there," Mickey said. "May I ask, other than I felt something suspicious around here, I also felt that someone around here was a Darkstalker. Tell me who was it?" Daniel asked. "I guess you guys don't know much about me. I admit I am a Darkstalker but many years ago even though I was a Darkstalker, everyone still accepts me, and I don't think you guys like my story aren't you guys?" Mickey said. "No, c'mon just continue to your story," Lilith demanded. "Okay, I'll start," Mickey laughed. And he did begin:
It's been a long time ago when this has happened. You wouldn't believe me because I heard that it's just a fairy tale and I experienced this five hundred years ago and no ordinary human can live *this* long. Maybe some time, when I was born or not, there was a beautiful princess with black hair like the wooden window sill; lips are red like roses, and skin as white as snow. She was named as Snow White. Her mother died by the time she was born so her father got another wife and she became her stepmother. Well, this brute lady was told to be the most beautiful woman of all the land. She has a magic mirror that always tells her "You're the fairest of them all," whenever the queen says "Magic mirror on the wall; who is the fairest of them all?" One day, she asked the mirror the same question but the mirror replied "Snow White was the fairest of them all," The queen became furious, she tried to kill Snow White upon hearing this. Unfortunately, Snow White did escape out of the castle and deep into the woods. A few hours later, I and the dwarves found her in the middle of the forest. We kept her in the cottage I used to live with the dwarves. At first, she got scared by the wolves we consider as pets but later on she became friendly to them. Since then, she replaces me in doing house chores while I go with them to get some gold and gems from the mines. One day, the dwarves decided to make a room for the two of us. As a surprise, they sent us out with the youngest dwarf to gather some berries. On our way home a bear attacked us to get our berries in the basket. Snow White and the dwarf climbed up to the nearest tree while I tried to tame the bear. Well, the bear became friendly and it ate all of the berries we gathered. "Now I know why the bear did try to attack us. It just wants our berries," the dwarf said. As we went home Snow White and I were surprised as we saw each of our rooms. Snow White was very delighted while I was very worried. "Why, Mickey, didn't you like it?" one of the dwarves asked. "Yes, I liked the room itself but I don't know how can I thank you for all of this," I replied. "Well that's not a problem," the dwarf replied. All of us were happy and at ease until I found of that I was under a curse of a Darkstalker. I went out to the woods and the dwarves fooled me until they saw me in my monstrous form. Everyone was shocked including Snow White. I had nothing to do except for covering my head and trembling in fear. "Mickey, is that you?" Snow White asked. "Yeah, I didn't know that I would be like this. This bite put me into a horrible curse. If you want to kill me now, I can accept it. It's my fate anyway," I replied. Snow White hugged me tightly. "It doesn't matter if you are a man or a monster, what matters most is you became our friend," she said. "Yeah! You don't seem as harmful as you look aren't you?" one of the dwarves said. "Really? Thanks!" I excitedly replied. So we cam back home to the cottage and we live peacefully there. Until one day, while we were at the mines, Snow White was left alone at home. She heard a cry from the distance. It was an old lady that sells laces in her basket. Snow White went out to see the old lady. "Good gracious, child," the old lady "how badly your dress is laced. Let me do it for you with this scarlet silk," Snow White agreed, she didn't know that the old lady was her stepmother, the wicked queen. She quickly threaded the lace, but she pulled the laced until Snow White can no longer breathe and collapsed on the road. As I and the dwarves arrived home, we searched for her until I found her lying unconscious. I took out my knife and cut the laces to let her breathe. When she finally gained consciousness, she gazed at me, crying and she hugged me tightly. "Please, help me! I-I'm scared! I'm so scared," she cried. "Now, now… don't cry. As long as we are here, you won't able to be harmed by that wicked lady," I told her, trying to keep her calm. Next day, I came up to her room to give her breakfast but she doesn't seem to eat the food because she was crying in her bed. "I know that your stepmother came here in the forest to kill you and you got really scared with that incident but please try to cheer up a little bit, Snow White. You made me and the dwarves worried about you," I told her. Then, I came again with the dwarves to the mines. She had a dream about a friend of her wandering in the woods along with a prince. As we went home from work, we celebrated to cheer ourselves up and as we came home, Snow White told us about her dream. She was overjoyed when she told us about it. The following morning, I and the dwarves talked about her dream. Then, one of the dwarves suggested that Snow White needs someone to be with her for the rest of her life. "I guess the celebration she has been waiting for is a wedding," one of the dwarves said. I felt bad about it so I went to the balcony to think. The leader of the dwarves followed me. "What's your problem, young lad?" he asked. "I don't know this feeling inside me. By the time I heard all about the wedding, I started to feel bad about it," I said. "Oh, I know what is that feeling, its called love," the dwarf said. "In these days you found yourself in love with Snow White aren't you?" he added. I nodded my head. "Leader, we decided that all of us will give a gift for Snow White and whosever gift she likes the most will have a privilege to marry her," a dwarf came in. The leader agreed. He asked me "Would you want to join in?" "Okay… that's fine with me," I replied. And everyone did made special gifts for Snow White. As for me who still stayed in the balcony but over there I was writing a song not just for her but for everyone in the cottage. When we are all finished, we presented each of our gifts but a bear came in to eat the cake one of the dwarves prepared. All of the gifts were ruined except for mine for I didn't make a material gift but a song. Everyone was delighted when I sang the song. As we all went outside, the leader told us that one of our wolves found a young boy wandering in the forest along with a prince. We went out to look for them but first we warned Snow White not to open doors and talk to strangers. As we found the two men, one of them introduced himself as Clause. We told the two of them that Snow White was living at our cottage. Upon arriving at the cottage, we saw Snow White lying still on the front yard. I took the apple she was holding and smelled it. I knew that this apple is poisoned. I flew into terrible rage and raced the old lady who gave her the apple. Clause and the prince followed me as well. As I became a monster, the two backed off watching me kill the old hag. "Look, the old hag wasn't ugly a t all. Maybe she was in disguise," Clause said, quite alarmed. I was clamed down and return back to my human form. "Maybe she was the wicked queen who killed Snow White," I told them. We headed back at the cottage and we found Snow White inside the coffin. I was really sad during that moment. But a bear came in and shake the coffin. This made Snow White jolt out the apple bite out of her mouth. We were all overjoyed as we knew that Snow White was alive. Snow White decided to marry the prince and live with him in the castle. I was sad a little bit. "Don't worry, Mickey, you can still find a girl who will be with you for the rest of your life," the dwarf leader. By hearing it, I was relieved. The prince invited me to their wedding as the ring bearer. I was also invited to spend a few nights in the castle. After that, I decided to leave the castle and to start a new life on my own. "Are you sure about this Mickey? I don't know much about you and I wanted to be your friend," Clause said. "That'll be fine with me Clause. Besides, I wanted to find the girl of my dreams which I thought that it was Snow White. And I also want to live without depending on others." I replied. So I bid farewell with Clause, Snow White and he prince. "I'll never forget the good times we had," I yelled happily as I went away.
"Wow, that was a wonderful story," Lilith said. "It is so wonderful that I couldn't forget. Even five hundred years has passed since it happened," Mickey replied. "But how did you get to this time?" John asked. "When I was traveling the world to find my future wife, I went aboard a ship but during the voyage, a storm broke the ship. I was washed away to the sea and I was frozen in an iceberg. It took five hundred years of sleeping before it melted and I became conscious again," Mickey replied. "Okay, I see…" John replied. "And above that I also met someone who really made my heart beat." Mickey said. "I was sitting on the apple tree branch and when I fell down to the ground, I saw a beautiful girl right next to me. When I saw her, I thought that she was Snow White. I apologized if I scared her and asked her name. And she told me that she is Michelle Colbert," he added. As Daniel glanced to the window, he saw someone running to the house they were in. She came into the house and they found out that it was Michelle. She looked for Mickey and hugged him tight. "Please, help me, I'm so scared. Everyone in the village including father, they're all gone," she cried. "By the way, who are they?" she asked. "Oh they are the one who want to investigate what happened in the village. This is Lilith, Daniel and John," Mickey replied. "Nice to meet you, Michelle." Lilith greeted. "Nice to meet you too. Quick, we must see this army of anthropomorphic ants. They came here to destroy the town when everyone mysteriously disappeared," Michelle said. "Daniel, could it be…?" Lilith said. "Yes, they're here for Mickey," Daniel replied. "What! Why? What do they want from me?" Mickey asked. "Your soul and all we have to do is to stop them before they can get it," Daniel replied. "Since I won't let that happen, I'll come with you guys to stop them. Michelle, stay here so that you won't get harmed, okay?" Mickey said. Michelle nodded in agreement. As they went out they fought the soldier ants. The battle became tense and Daniel can stand it anymore. "Mickey, get out of there!" Daniel shouted. Mickey did get out of the crowd and Daniel made his most powerful attack. He put his hand to the ground and a giant hand of blood, engulfing the army and killing them all. "Finally, it ended!" Mickey said. "All I have to do is accept the challenge. I must fight him for I'm not a coward," he added. "Are you sure about this, Mickey?" Daniel asked. "Yes, and I'm entrusting you to take care of Michelle while I'm gone," Mickey replied. "Michelle, listen to me, when I come back here alive, would you marry me?" he told Michelle handing her a golden ring. "With all of my heart, yes," Michelle answered. Afterwards, Mickey kissed Michelle on her lips and bid farewell. "You'll be coming back, aren't you?" Michelle asked. "I'm not sure about that but promise me, you must stay strong even though I won't be able to come back as soon as expected," Mickey called back as he fade away.
As he entered the Dark Dimension, "Humph! Looks like you received my invitation. Welcome to the Dark Dimension, young boy." Jedah said as he warmly welcomed Mickey. "Now time is running and the moment I've been waiting for is about to come nearer. I assure you Ronald, you will fail whatever you plan against me," he said to himself.