Author's note: Thanks for the review Pokeball645 and sorry that I haven't posted this story sooner or having updated "Life WON'T be Normal" in a long while. I will try my best with this story and hopefully update the other one soon. In meantime, here's a new chapter.
I do not own anything here. All rights belong to Disney, Nickelodeon, Toei/Naoko Takeuchi, Square Enix, Dreamworks, CLAMP, Nintendo/Pokemon Company and 20th Century Fox/Blue Skies.
Chapter two: Beans, anyone?
As it was getting late, Mickey, Donald, Goofy and Aunt Moo had bought what they could afford and were making their way home. Though the three farmers couldn't help but take notice that Aunt Moo looked strained and exhausted, more than ever lately and it began to greatly worry them.
"Are you okay, Aunt Moo?" Mickey asked, concerned.
"I'm alright, Mickey darling." Aunt Moo replied, smiling at the young farmer's concern. "Just a bit hungry."
"Oh, we all are." Mickey shrugged, before saying optimistically, "But this can't last forever, right? One of these days, we'll have plenty of food, just like rich people. We'll have Turkey, and Ham, and Vegetables."
"And Grass." Aunt Moo added, dreamily.
"And Chicken." Donald added, his mouth starting to water at the mention of food.
Goofy thought then added, "Oh! And Ice Cream, and Cookies and Pie."
"Fruit tarts and cobblers piled this high." Mickey added, measuring the height of the latter with his hands, before he and the others stopped at the red light at the crossing road, allowing an Onion Carriage drawn by two horses wearing sunglasses and a married Orge couple(Shrek and Fiona) pass by before the light went green and the group moved along while still daydreaming of food and a better lifestyle.
Later that night, everyone was fast asleep. Though sometimes it was a bit annoying when you only had two beds. Mickey and Aunt Moo shared one, the former snoring, while Donald and Goofy shared the other, and the blanket wasn't big enough for both of them to share and in their sleep, they kept on fighting over it.
When Donald grabbed the blanket from Goofy, the latter spun really fast before stopping and then he grabbed the blanket it back while the same thing happened to him happened to Donald. Soon both of them pulled hard and began to fight even more. However, both of them ended up spinning and tied up together in the blanket it before spinning to get untangled. But when they pulled hard, the force ripped the blanket in half and both Donald and Goofy ended up spinning at the same time before stopping while lying on their backs on the bed, both tied up in the two halves of the blanket.
"Ooh! Goofy!" Donald groaned aloud, which unfortunately awoke Mickey and Aunt Moo up and the two saw what had happened.
Rolling their eyes, the two still tired peasents got out of their bed and moved to help free Donald and Goofy from their tangled situation. Again.
"Even though they tried to remain optimistic, things haven't been gone well and it was steadily getting worse. To think that it used to be a Happy Valley." Mickey read on.
"Yeah, now it's Gruesome Gluch." Donkey piped up.
"Donkey!" Serena and Shrek scolded.
Mickey ignored that comment and instead continued reading on, "Days pass, weeks pass..."
"I pass. You deal." Crash spoke up, though he and Eddie were both playing cards while listening to the story at the same time. The two of them bursted out laughing and high-fived but stopped when Manny snatched the cards away from them.
"You want to hear the story or not?" The Mammoth asked in annoyance.
Even though they wanted to, they haven't even heard of the best part yet. So the Possum Twins slumped to pay attention again.
"Oh, okay." Crash muttered, one hand under his chin.
"Party-pooper." Eddie critized to Manny. The rest of the Sailor Team, Angelica, Cloud, Riku, Sora and Donald shook their heads while Goofy shrugged at the babies and Susie who shrugged back, and Minnie, Daisy, Kairi, Aerith, Yuffie and Tifa giggled.
"Uh, anyway..." Mickey continued, clearing his throat and continued to read along, "Days pass, weeks pass, and yet nothing changed for the better. Not yet, at least."
A month has passed and the sales of the milk as gotten worse and Aunt Moo has become slightly weaker due to the lack of food and everything in the valley had began to gradually dry up so bad that the crops didn't grow properly and the water had began to dry out due to the lack of rain. Today they only managed to get two gold coins and Aunt Moo didn't even bother challenging anyone this time.
But that wasn't even half of it, as when Mickey, Donald, Goofy and Aunt Moo returned home for the day, their refridgerator only had an empty bottle left, less than a half of bread and no beans.
"Gosh...there's almost nothin' left." Mickey commented, shocked.
"Can ya still give out milk, Aunt Moo?" Goofy asked, while his stomach growled and grumbled painfully.
The Cow blinked, before trying her luck in pouring Milk in. But the more she strained to do so, the more she began to feel increasingly dizzy until she nearly collasped from exhaustion and when she held up the bottle...it was still empty.
"...I'm so sorry to say but...I'm empty. There's no more milk left." She announced, guiltily and apologetically.
Mickey gasped in shock, and Goofy exclaimed in horror, "GAWRSH!"
"WAAAAAAK!" Donald screamed in a mixture of despair and anger. He then collasped onto the floor and sobbed pathetically with tears pouring out like water-works. "We're gonna starve! WAAAHAAAHAAAHAAAAAA!"
"We're gonna go hungry and die!" Goofy sobbed, his tears pouring out like rain while he fell onto his knees.
Mickey and Aunt Moo didn't know what to do or what to say. With the latter no longer being able to be a milker, they couldn't even sell milk anymore and that meant no more costumers and no more milk in Happy Valley. The former felt even more guilty. He didn't know how to solve this crisis...until he noticed a guitar that once belonged to his father hanging on the wall above the fireplace.
That's when an idea hit him and he smiled.
"Fellas...I think I have a salution." Mickey spoke up, which caught the attention of Aunt Moo, and Donald and Goofy who both stopped crying.
The next day, the four of them entered a dinner theatre for a new job and were preforming a song of the Wild West, with an elf helping with the set, and they all dressed up like Cowboys, with Mickey playing the guitar.
Though once they finished with the act, the only auidence they had in the entire dinner-theatre were a snoring Sleeping Beauty(Princess Fiona's friend), a Cricket couple with one of them doing the chirping silence effect sound until his girlfriend nudged him to stop and applaud, which he did, and a young teenage looking cleaner with blonde hair(Serena) who paused in her cleaning.
"So um...w-what do you think?" Mickey asked the cleaner who was the only one awake.
The cleaner paused, before shrugging and pulled a small sack of what seemed to be coins out of her dress pocket and tossed it towards the group. It landed perfectly in Aunt Moo's front pocket of clothes. Aunt Moo, Mickey, Donald and Goofy smiled happily before they made their exit.
"Thanks for seeing the show!" Mickey farewelled as he and his friends waved a goodbye to the cleaner who waved a goodbye to them with a smile on her face.
'Wow, things couldn't get interesting than this. Maybe they're the ones who can solve this.' The cleaner thought to herself while she distractedly grabbed a cloth that was hanging and began to wipe the tables until she realised she just grabbed part of Sleeping Beauty's dress, the Princess unaware as she was still sleeping and snoring.
"Oops!" The cleaner flinched, her face turning bright red in embarrassment.
Not long after Mickey, Donald, Goofy and Aunt Moo returned home with their new sack, the four of them gathered around excitedly as things were starting to look up for them.
"Oh boy! Wonder what we'll be able to buy with all of this?" Mickey asked, eagerly as he began to open up the sack.
"Turkey?" Goofy asked, day-dreaming again.
"Lobster?" Donald added.
"Sweet Potato Pie?" Aunt Moo added.
"Maybe even Pancakes?" Mickey added while still opening the bag up.
"Lots of starches, lots of greens, fancy cho-co-late covered..." Goofy trailled off as he, Donald and Aunt Moo froze when Mickey said the one thing they didn't think it would happen.
"Beans?" Mickey asked when he looked inside and there they were, inside the bag were not gold coins they were expecting, but green, hard looking beans.
"What do you mean beans?" Goofy asked, disgusted as he and the others looked inside when Mickey showed it to them. True to their friend's words, it was indeed beans.
"Beans!?" Donald exclaimed, before his face turned bright red as he then jumped right up towards the ceiling while pulling the feathers off his head and throwing a major temper tantrum.
"There's something else in this sack." Aunt Moo realised when she and then Mickey and Goofy noticed a small square like object inside. When Mickey pulled it out, it was a small slip of folded paper which he unfolded.
"It's some kinda message." Mickey realised.
"What does it say?" Aunt Moo asked.
Mickey read it carefully, and then read it outloud, ""To those who obtain these Magic Beans which are no ordinary beans are to listen carefully. These magical beans will change your life. If you plant these beans on the night of a full moon, do you know what'll happen?""
By then, Donald landed back on the ground and sarcastically answered the question before Mickey could finish reading the slip, "Yeah! We get MORE beans!"
Before anyone could stop him, Donald snatched the paper, ripped it into shreds and then grabbed the sack of beans and tossed them out of the opened window where the beans flew out and landed on the ground just next to the house despite Mickey telling him to stop.
"Magic Beans! Phooey!" Donald scoffed.
"...We could've hard those for dinner." Aunt Moo sighed, which while Mickey sighed in disappointment and despair and Goofy grumbled while sadly rubbing his sore and empty tummy, Donald scoffed again and folded his arms in anger.
"Looks like that idea didn't work after all." Mickey muttered in defeat.
Later that night, the group had gone to bed much more hungry than ever and were having trouble in falling asleep due to hunger pains. Except for Mickey who felt the guilt and despair more than the hunger pains, his heart heavy in guilt. Unable to sleep and needing time to think, Mickey silently slipped out of bed and headed outside where he took a seat not too far from the house and sat on a small boulder with his chin sitting on the palms of his hands and his elbows resting on his knees.
He sighed in sadness.
"Why so glum, son?" A voice asked, and when Mickey looked behind him, a small cricket dressed as a fine gentlemen and holding an umbrella(Jiminy Cricket), approached.
"Well, I tried to me and my pals a new job to get money to buy food by workin' at a dinner theatre. But all we got is these beans which a note said are said to be magical, but my good pal Donald has thrown them out." Mickey explained, deciding to honest. "At this rate, I don't think the four of us are gonna last much longer."
Jiminy shook his head, "Don't think like that. You can still make a difference as long as you and your friends are still around and keep trying. Besides, everyone else in the Valley are keeping their hopes up, and the one who still has the biggest hope, is you."
"Gee, I-I guess you're right. All I wish is for everyone to be happy again in Happy Valley. Huh, especially Aunt Moo, Goofy and Donald." Mickey smiled a little, feeling better thanks to this kind stranger of a cricket.
"Well, haven't you ever wished upon a star?" Jiminy asked, and when Mickey shook his head, the former gestured up at the sky where the brightest star shined in the sky. "Your dream just might come true."
Even Mickey didn't know if the beans were magical or if wishing upon the Wishing Star, with some faith that he had left, he decided to try it out. "Gosh, maybe I should give it a try."
Fully unaware to him, not only was Aunt Moo mentally wishing for the similiar thing while closing the window that Donald had thrown the beans out earlier, but the beans themselves began to glow and glitter in light as they sank into the soil before something amazing happened.
"Star light, star bright, First star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, Have this wish I wish tonight." Mickey spoke while his hands were clamped together, wishing very hard. "I wish for Happy Valley to be a happy place again and something amazing to happen."
While Mickey prayed for his wish, the beans magically grew and become a beanstalk which continued to grow.
"While everybody was unaware of this, the beans were indeed magical as a Beanstalk was born." Mickey continued reading to everyone. "And all through the night, it grew onward and upward."
"That thing just turned itself into a giant vine problem." Diego sarcastically commented to himself.
"But vines come in handy in climbing steep walls." Yuffie pointed out, grinning.
Sora nodded in agreement, "She's right." and then allowed the King to continue reading.
After wishing upon the star and bidding Jiminy Cricket who'd introduced himself a goodnight, Mickey headed back into the house, fully unaware of the unusual turn of events and saw that Aunt Moo was up, sitting on the bed. Smiling in sadness, yet happy to at least have her, Donald and Goofy as friends, Mickey joined her and gave the cow an embrace which she returned.
Donald and Goofy, who'd seen this after having trouble sleeping, decided to join them and soon all four of them hugged warmly. Even though they were going through tough times, they were all together.
The next morning, after the four of them finally managed to get some sleep, Mickey got up tiredly to get a glass of water which was also just a couple drops from the tap. Yawning and somewhat on auto-pilot, Mickey didn't notice that the kitchen was somehow in an upward angle until the slope of the wood made him slip and he yelped and fell backwards.
"Say, what's this?" Mickey wondered, finally taking notice that something unusual happened. The window as blocked by a very large green vine which blocked out the sky. Whatever it was, it was huge and it pushed the entire house up a little. Even damaging it.
Immediately, Mickey rushed towards the bed that he and his three friends were sharing together and shook Aunt Moo's shoulder, saying urgently, "Aunt Moo! Wake up!"
"...Five more minutes..." Aunt Moo grumbled, sleepily.
"But there's something you gotta see! Right now!" Mickey told her. "A giant vine has grown right next to our house!"
"...A giant vine?" Aunt Moo asked, sitting up awake as did Donald and Goofy.
As soon as the four of them got dressed and raced outside, they saw that it was more than a giant vine. It was so big it reached up all the way into the clouds and it seemed pretty good for climbing too.
"It happened in the very same spot Donald threw those beans." Mickey realised.
"Gawrsh, those beans really ARE magical." Goofy thought, amazed.
"Wow! Oh boy!" Donald exclaimed.
"I've never seen anything like it." Aunt Moo shook her head in awe.
Suddenly feeling the urge to go on an adventure up this beanstalk, Mickey excitedly urged his friends, "C'mon, fellas! Let's go see where this Beanstalk will take us!" before racing towards the Beanstalk, with Donald and Goofy following him a second later.
"Wait for me, darlings!" Aunt Moo called out as she followed them.
It was an adventure of a lifetime that these four peasents never would have dreamed. Thankfully the Beanstalk was so large that Mickey and his friends had no trouble in climbing as they walked up the smallerish vine which acted like a climbing ramp.
After what seemed like a long time, Mickey, Donald, Goofy and Aunt Moo finally emerged from the bottom of the clouds and found that it was solid and thick yet soft and cusiony at the same time that they wouldn't be at risk of falling through all the way back down thousands of feet to the ground.
As the four of them looked around the amazing sights, Donald was the first to notice something in the distance and cried out, "Oh boy! Look at that!"
When Mickey and the others looked to see, there stood a land where the trail of clouds ended and on more clouds floated a large land, with a field that seemed giant to them, a village close by and far ahead was a very, very, VERY large castle made of cold stone. On another cloud trail connecting to it like a flight of stairs was another large, but darker castle with it's stones almost completely black.
"Gosh, I never thought there'd be anybody living up here." Mickey commeted in amazement.
All of the sudden, something bursted out of the clouds which startled the group who screamed in alarm as...a young human-sized fairy appeared in a pink dress, long boots, pink-almost-see-through wings, a magic wand with a Cresent Moon and blonde hair.
"Hi there, guys. Sorry for scaring you." She greeted.
"Oh, um, h-hiya, ma'am." Mickey greeted awkwardly, attempting to recover from the unexpected scare attack. "Who're you?"
"I'm Fairy Moon. Pleased to meet you." Fairy Moon replied.
The peasents shared their awkward hellos before Donald narrowed his eyes as something was familiar with this fairy, before he muttered in realization, "Hey, I know you."
"Yeah. You're that cleaning lady who gave us those beans." Goofy realised as well.
Fairy Moon(Serena) flinched before sheepishly rubbed the back of her head, "Well, those beans did bring you guys up here, right? I couldn't tell you who I was without suspicion. Besides, I was undercover." and laughed nervously.
Donald and Goofy shared a glance, before they understood what she said and muttered in unison, "Oh."
"Gee, it was sorta nice of ya. But um, why did ya give use those beans that brought us up here?" Mickey asked, now confused.
"Well...it's kinda like this." Fairy Moon began while flipping in the air, but she suddenly lost control and wobbled and her wings sent her on a wild ride as she screamed comically while clumsily tried to regain her balance but began to plummet. The group raced out of the way to avoid in getting crash landed on before Fairy Moon finally landed face first into the clouds and became stuck half-way.
"Are you okay!?" Mickey cried out as he and his friends hurried to see if Fairy Moon was alright.
"...I'm stuck." Fairy Moon replied, her voice muffled in the clouds.
Fortunately, Mickey and his friends grabbed hold of the fairy and successfully pulled her out, but the impact caused everyone to tumble over and Fairy Moon landed on top of Goofy.
"Ay-hyuck! Cusiony." Goofy remarked about the soft landing of the fluffy clouds.
"I'm so sorry! Didn't mean to land on you." Fairy Moon apologised while hovering up in the air again.
"That's okay. I fall all over the place all the time." Goofy replied with an one shoulder shrug while pushing himself up in a sitting position.
"So um, what's the story behind all this?" Mickey asked again.
Fairy Moon sighed before saying, "You guys better get comfortable. It's a bit of a long story and what I'm about to tell you is quite risky."
Mickey, Donald, Goofy and Aunt Moo shared sudden concerned glances before they each took a seat on the clouds to hear the reason behind Fairy Moon giving them the magic beans.
What she is about to tell them is the start of their big adventure; both literally and figuretively.
A/N: And so the big adventure has began. The next chapter will mark the beginning of the dangerous quest. See you in the next chapter when I'm able to post again!
