Chapter 11: Confessions/Sanctuary/The Battle

Natalie's POV

When we got back to the bell tower, The soldiers had us chained up together. After that happened, one of them said that I would be hanged the day after the bonfire for treason and assaulting Frollo. But I didn't care, I was too busy trying to getting out of those chains to care about what that old bastard would try to do to me. Me and Quasi tried to get out of those chains for hours, but when the next day came, Quasi finally gave up while I kept going.

When that evening came, I saw Esmeralda being tied to the stake and I kept trying to break free from the chains. I also saw Phoebus trying to get out of his cage while the archdeacon tried to intervene, but he was immediately blocked off by the guards. I then watched as Frollo said to Esmeralda,

"The time has come gypsy, you stand upon the brink of the abyss. Yet even now it is not too late. I can save you from the flames of this world and the next. Choose me, or the fire."

All she did was spit in his face and glare at him. I nodded in response. I knew she would never choose that blockhead. Then Frollo preceded to say,

"The gypsy Esmeralda has refused to recant, this evil witch has put the sole of every citizen in Paris-"

While he kept talking, I was struggling to break free from the chains as the gargoyles were trying to help.

Hugo said to Quasi, "Come on Quasi, snap out of it!"

Victor added, "Your friends are down there and one is struggling now."

Quasi said, "It's all my fault."

Laverne shouted, "You gotta break these chains!"

Quasi said, "I cant! I tried, what difference would it make?"

Victor said, "But you can't let Frollo win."

Quasi said, "He already has."

Hugo asked in disbelief, "Say, you're giving up, that's it?"

Laverne argued, "These chains aren't what's holding you back Quasimodo."

Quasi finally snapped, "Leave me alone!"

Hugo said, "Alright Quasi, we'll leave you alone."

Victor added, "After all, we are only made out of stone."

Laverne finally said, "We just thought that you were made of something stronger." And they all turned back into stone.

Shocked at what I was hearing, I asked,

"So you're going to give up on them? And me?"

Quasi sighed and said, "Natalie, you don't understand."

I said,

"Yes I do, Quasimodo this isn't your fault, it's Frollo's, he's the one that wants me and Esmeralda dead. He planned this whole thing, and now he feels like he's finally gonna get what he wants."

Quasi said, "He already got what he wanted."

I said, "No he hasn't, Quasi you can still save her."

He then snapped, "How?! How can I save her Natalie? She's about to die and I'm all chained up, face it, I'm not her hero!"

I tried to say, "But Quasi, I-"

But he cut me off and snapped,

"And she doesn't love me. It's like I've said before, no one has loved a face like mine and no one ever will! Don't you get it?!"

I finally shouted at the top of my lungs,

"I LOVE YOU!"

I quickly gasped as Quasi looked at me stunned and turned away. I couldn't believe it. I had just confessed my love to Quasimodo! I couldn't help myself. With everything he was saying about himself, it just came out. Now he knew.

Quasimodo's POV

Did she just say what I think she said? She loved me? I couldn't believe it, she actually said it. I was too shocked by her words to fully grasp what just happened. As she looked away from me, I asked her,

"W-What? What did you say?"

She finally let out a breathe and said,

"Quasimodo, I love you. I know I sound crazy, I know we just met. But Quasi, you're my everything. You light up my world, you took away my sadness. I never met anyone like you before in my life. And I've looked up to you for a long time. You made me smile like nobody else."

I grew touched by her words, I didn't know that she felt those things about me. She continued to say,

"Please Quasimodo, just go out there and, and be the hero and man I know you are."

I heard her struggling for a second and then she looked away from me and wept. I felt bad for her as I saw her tears fall to the ground.

Since we were chained close to each other, I reached out and said as I gently squeezed her hand,

"I-I'm sorry, but it's too late."

She said as she continued to cry,

"It can't be too late, It's never too late to do what's right."

Then she finally said looking into my eyes,

"Listen to your heart Quasimodo, listen!" And she continued to cry.

I started to get angry and I looked over the balcony as Frollo said,

"For injustice, and for her own salvation, it is my sacred duty, to send this unholy demon back where she belongs!"

Then he lit the fire to burn Esmeralda.

Natalie screamed, "NO!" And cried even louder.

I shouted in anger, "NO!" and I started to try to break free from the chains.

Natalie tried to help me by leaning to the left. As the cathedral began to shake, a second later, the chains broke and we both fell to the ground because of how strong the impact was. I got up from the ground as the chains slid off of me and fury filled my eyes. I said to Natalie as she was still getting up,

"You stay here, I'll go save Esmeralda!"

I quickly grabbed a rope, lassoed it to a gargoyle, and swung down to the side of Notre Dame. I watched for a minute and then I ran on the side of the building and swung all the way down to the gallows. I freed Esmeralda from the flaming stake and hit three guards with it when they tried to intervene.

Then I grabbed the rope and swung towards Notre Dame with Esmeralda in one arm. I heard Frollo shout angrily,

"Quasimodo!"

But I didn't care about what he said anymore, I wasn't going to listen to him this time. Once I reached the cathedral, I began to climb back up. I climbed up to where Natalie was as she stood by the painted glass.

I looked at the crowd for a brief second, and then ran to Natalie as she waved at me and dropped down to the balcony. I then lifted up Esmeralda's unconscious body above my head and shouted,

"Sanctuary! Sanctuary! Sanctuary!"

Natalie shouted, "Yes!" in response.

Enough was enough, I wasn't going to let anybody hurt my friends while I was still around. We went into another room and laid Esmeralda down on a long bench. I said to her,

"Don't worry, you will be safe here."

Then me and Natalie both looked outside and we realized that Frollo's men were going to try to break into the cathedral.

I quickly looked at Natalie and she said, "I'm with you all the way."

I said to her with a confident smile as I picked her up,

"Let's do it, together."

She nodded with a smile in response. And with that, I ran to the balcony carrying her and we both slid down a pillar. Once I set her down, we got ready to battle!

Natalie's POV

Once he set me down, we got ready to battle! I saw Quasi pick up a wooden beam and throw it down towards the guards. They picked it up and started to try to break the door down. I saw a few guards using ladders to try to get to us. I grabbed a slingshot and a brick and I shot it down at the guard climbing it, instantly knocking him out. I saw another ladder and two guards climbing it, so I ran over and pushed the ladder down, sending the guards down with it.

Then we saw Phoebus out of his cage as he said,

"Citizens of Paris, Frollo has persecuted our people, ransacked our our city, and now, he has declared war on Notre Dame herself. Will we allow it?!"

All of the citizens shouted, "NO!"

And they all pushed away the guards, freed all of the gypsies, and they all began to battle.

Phoebus joined the battle as the gargoyles asked,

"Hey, isn't that Phoebal? Doferd!"

Me and Quasi shouted with joy,

"Phoebus!"

And he punched a guards teeth out, knocking him out. The guards continued to pursue us and Quasi threw a cement stone down at them, making them fall. I saw one of them on the railing and I ran over, gave him a dropkick, and he fell off.

The gargoyles began to help as Victor dropped a brick down at one of the guards, Hugo chomped on some stone and acted like a shotgun and shot at the guards. Victor and Hugo even made a cat-a-pult and threw it down at the guards, and it flipped on top of them. Laverne also helped out by using her pigeons to attack the guards, Wizard of Oz stile.

Then me and Quasi saw a grappling hook come up on the railing, Quasi rushed over, pulled it up and the two guards on the other end hit the railing and fell into the river seine. I saw another guard coming at Quasi from behind, so I speared him and I put him in Bret Hart's famous sharpshooter. The guard was tapping and screaming,

"Uncle! Uncle!"

Then I saw Quasi clothesline another guard when he tried to come at me from behind. I said to him,

"Whoa, nice clothesline."

He said, "Thank you. Nice um, whatever your doing."

I said with a chuckle,

"Thanks, it's called a sharpshooter, I'll show it to you sometime."

He nodded in response. Then I released the guard from the sharpshooter, and me and Quasi threw both of the guards over the balcony onto some more, who were trying to climb a ladder, causing them to fall.

Then Quasi looked at the crowd and said,

"They're still going after us, we need molten lead."

We turned our attention to Hugo when he said, "Way ahead of ya!"

The molten lead was ready as Hugo finished blowing on the fire. Me, Quasi, and the gargoyles pulled with all of our might and all of a sudden, the whole town square was full of molten lead and everybody was scattering and running from Notre Dame.