Chapter 2: A Grand Celebration! Part 2

Kuzco fainted. Kronk caught him and tried to revive him. Once he got Kuzco up, he went back to panicking.

"My rings are gone?! Do you know what this means?!" Kuzco said as he began hyperventilating.

"Yes your highness. We'll have to call off the wedding." The lady said.

"But we can't! I'm sure we can find the rings." Kronk said.

"Yeah great idea Kronk, we'll find two teeny tiny little rings in a huge palace like this. Great idea meathead!" Kuzco said sarcastically.

"We'll never know unless we try." Kronk insisted.

"Oh but your highness there is no time. The wedding is in five hours and there is no way we can find these rings in time!" the lady said.

"She's right Kronk. We'll never find them in time. Oh no, what will I tell Malina? She'll be so upset."

"No Kuzco. Where there's a will, there's a way and we are going to find those rings!" Kronk said as he marched away from Kuzco and the lady.

Kronk walked around the hall, made sure no one was there and took out his walkie talkie to call Yatta.

Meanwhile, Yatta was with Malina in the royal greenhouse having tea. Yatta was nervously sipping her tea thinking about how she was going to find the rings and keep Malina distracted.

"Yatta, are you okay? You look tense." Malina said as she saw Yatta shaking her tea cup.

"Oh honey, don't worry about me. All you need to worry about is your big day." Yatta said with a crooked smile.

"Yeah, speaking of which, shouldn't we be getting ready? The wedding starts in five hours." Malina said as she got up from the table.

Yatta got up immediately holding Malina's hands. "No! I mean, five hours is a lot of time. We'll get ready by then. Besides, its tradition for the bride to be late." Yatta said with a smile.

Malina looked at Yatta. She knew that something weird was going on.

"Yatta, is there something you're not telling me?" Malina said as she folded her arms.

"W-what makes you say that darlin'?" Yatta said nervously.

"You're acting pretty strange."

"I can assure you that there's nothing to worry about." Yatta said. As soon as she said that, her walkie talkie went off.

"This is Top chef to Prairie Dog. This is a code red! I repeat code red! Kuzco found out about the missing rings. We need backup over." Kronk said over the walkie talkie. Yatta quickly grabbed her walkie talkie and turned it on to answer Kronk.

"Thanks a lot Top Chef, now Malina knows about the rings over." She said angrily.

"Sorry over." Kronk said in a sheepish tone.

Yatta looked over at Malina with a nervous laugh. "You know Kronk, he's always foolin' around." Yatta said with a smile.

"The rings are missing?!" Malina yelled.

"Malina calm down. We'll find them."

"Calm? Calm?! Oh I'm calm! COMPLETELY CALM! CAN'T YOU SEE HOW CALM I AM?!" Malina yelled as her teeth snarled, her eyes bulged, and her nostrils flared.

"Well, not by the buggy eyes, flaring nostrils, and the chompin' teeth!" Yatta said.

"Why didn't you tell me about this sooner?! Oh, never mind that. If we don't find those rings in the next five hours, I'll make sure that my first decree as empress will be to have your head on a wall, capiche?!" Malina yelled as she crushed a tea cup.

"Capiche, capiche. I totally understand. Let's go find these rings." Yatta said as she and Malina went outside of the greenhouse.

Meanwhile, Kuzco was walking the halls of the palace looking for these rings.

"Here ringy ringy ringy ringy rings!" he called. "This is hopeless. Well, I guess that's it for me and Malina. Oh no! That means, I'll be a bachelor forever! WAAAAAAAAA BACHELOR FACE!" Kuzco said as he cried. As he was crying, he heard some horrible shriek of laughter coming from down the hall. "That terrible laugh sounds familiar." He said to himself. He paused for a moment and thought about it. Then, his face lit up like a Christmas tree.

"Yzma!" he gasped as he followed the echo of laughter. He made it to a small room. The door was cracked open a bit. Kuzco peaked in the crack of the door and saw the same servant lady standing in front of an old mirror in the room. She continued to laugh as she held up the rings. Kuzco's face lit up with shock as he burst into the room.

"AHA! Hand over those rings now!" he commanded.

"Alright, alright you got me. I'll hand over the rings if I become empress." The lady said as she clutched the rings in her fist. Kuzco was extremely confused.

"Empress? Why would a dirty peasant like you want to become empress?" he said as he scratched his head.

The lady began to laugh again. "You fool. I'm not a peasant, I'm YZMA! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" the lady said as she ripped off the disguise to reveal Yzma in an empress outfit. Kuzco's mouth dropped.

"So, what'll it be? The clock is ticking. You want to get married don't you?" Yzma said as she waved the rings in Kuzco's face.

"Hey look, a flying monkey!" Kuzco said as he pointed behind Yzma.

"Ha! You really think I'm going to fall for that trick?" Yzma said.

"She's wearing purple shoes." Kuzco said in a convincing tone.

"Where?" Yzma said as she turned around, not aware that Kuzco took the rings from her and ran out of the room.

"Get back here KUZCO!" Yzma yelled as she ran after him.

Meanwhile, Malina, Yatta, and Kronk were walking around searching for the rings. (Not knowing what was coming their way!) Suddenly, Kuzco and Yzma came rounding the hall and bumping into Malina, Yatta, and Kronk, sending the rings flying into the air.

"I got it!" everyone said at the same time. They all rang to the rings which were bouncing all over the palace. "I got one!" Malina yelled as she caught one of the rings. The other ring landed on the tip of Kuzco's throne. Everyone rushed up the stairs to the throne. Yzma then began to throw some of her potions at the gang turning them into animals. Kronk turned into an octopus, Yatta turned into a chicken, and Kuzco turned into a llama. "Again?!" Kuzco yelled when he realized that he was a llama. It was Malina and Yzma, neck and neck for the ring. As Yzma got closer, Malina would pull her down, and as Malina got closer, Yzma would pull her down. It was a fight to the finish. The both of them reached the throne and grabbed the ring at the same time. "Let go!" Malina yelled.

"No, you let go!" Yzma yelled. They both pulled on the ring as it went flying into the air again. Kronk caught it with one of his tentacles and tossed it to Yatta, who tossed it to Kuzco who caught it with his mouth. Yzma ran to Kuzco while Malina ran right behind her. Malina caught Yzma's dress and pulled her back away from Kuzco. This caused another set of potions to fall out of Yzma's pocket. These potions turned Kronk, Kuzco, and Yatta back to their normal selves.

Yzma was on the ground. Everyone looked at each other and saw that Kuzco had the ring in his hand. Malina took the other one from her pocket and tossed it to Kuzco.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Yzma yelled as she saw that she had lost (again.)

"Oh yeah! Boom Bam Baby! I saved the day. Uh huh uh huh uh huh uh huh uh huh!" Kuzco cheered.

Everyone looked at him in disgust.

"Okay fine. We saved the day." He groaned.

Everyone laughed. Malina called for the guards to get Yzma.

"Just you wait Kuzco, you haven't seen the last of me!" Yzma yelled as the guards dragged her out of the throne room.

The wedding was a marvelous occasion. Kuzco and Malina were finally husband and wife and the whole kingdom rejoiced. At the reception, Kuzco and Malina had their first dance to All of me by John Legend. They ended the night with a kiss on a moonlit beach. "I love you Malina." Kuzco said.

"I love you too Kuzco." Malina said as they shared another kiss. This was only the beginning of the many adventures that they are going to have in parenthood!