The Magical Quest

While Ingo continued to shoot fire balls and caused bits of the ground to rise up from the ground, Mickey and the others were in a state of panic. How could they hurt this guy? He was clearly too crazy right now to approach.

The worst part was that currently, the rings didn't seem to be working. Why weren't they doing anything? It would have really helped right now.

After dodging another fireball, Mickey put on a look of anger as he shouted, "That's it! We don't need the rings to win this!"

The others stared at the mouse as he continued, "We came all this way to save Pluto! We recently faced a giant spider! Are we really going to let this guy ruin everything?"

Minnie blushed in response to this while Donald and Goofy looked at one-another, shrugged and nodded their heads at Mickey. Perhaps the peasant was right. Maybe all they needed to do was try.

As the next fireball closed in, Goofy placed his fingers against his squirt flower, spraying a small bit of water at it and putting it out, Ingo's eyes going wide with shock. While the demon remained spellbound, the jester proceeded to pull out a rope made of handkerchiefs, wrapping it around Ingo's body before reeling him in while Donald held his fist back. As the imp closed in, the duck threw his fist forward, ramming it into the demon's face while stars filled Ingo's eyes.

Mickey and Minnie nodded at one-another and proceeded to plant their feet hard into Ingo's face, the demon's eyes now twitching. He couldn't believe this. Even with his new incredible power, he was still losing to them, and they hadn't even used the power of their rings yet.

With that, the demon fumed as his entire body burst into flame, burning the handkerchief rope as he swung his hammer around, knocking the others away from him. Mickey and Minnie slid across the ground before coming to a complete stop, Donald flying into the wall above the entrance while Goofy's face almost ended up touching the lava.

"Now I have you right where I want you!" Ingo exclaimed, a psychotic grin on his face while he rose his hammer high above his head shouting, "NOW FOR YOU TO BURN LIKE THE PARASITES YOU ARE!"

However, just as he lowered the hammer, his eyes went wide when he saw a section of the wall next to the lava pool cracking. The others regained focus and noticed it as well. Soon enough, the entire section crumbled into big chunks as everyone stared in horror at the sight of a big red stone creature that resembled some kind of lizard head.

The head proceeded to glare at the group asking in a booming voice, "WHO DARES DISTURB THE GREAT MOLDOR'S SLEEP!"

Ingo blinked, his jaw dropped as he grinned nervously, pointing towards the others saying, "They were trying to vandalize your lair and I was simply trying to stop them."

Noticing the hammer, the stone head's eyes narrowed as he retorted, "I BLAME ALL OF YOU!"

"I was afraid of that," Ingo groaned as the Moldor shot fire all around the area. Everyone was in panic now as this guy was not only powerful, he was out of their reach.

However, luck seemed to finally be on their side as Donald and Goofy's rings glowed, Goofy chuckling, "Ahyuck, timing."

With that, he and Donald changed form. Once again, Donald was wearing his barrel armour while Goofy wore his Arabian entertainer outfit. Mickey and Minnie's rings also started to glow, the two smiling while their outfits changed as well, but rather than becoming their magician forms, they instead took on a couple of new ones. Now the two were wearing fire fighter gear and carrying a pair of water hoses.

Everyone froze when they saw the new forms and stared at this, Donald tilting his head to the side asking, "What kind of outfits are those?" as Ingo stroked his chin adding, "I'm more curious about those strange green things they're holding," while Goofy quipped, "Something tells me those shouldn't have been invented yet."

The two of them were also confused by this. After all, fire fighters didn't exist in medieval times.

However, Moldor went from interested to unimpressed in a heartbeat as he started to shooting flames everywhere, Mickey and Minnie shrugging and pressing what looked like a button on the metal part of their hoses, water shooting out and dousing the incoming flames. The mice both smiled at one-another as Minnie stated, "We'll take care of old rock face here! You deal with Ingo!"

"Oh no you don't!" the demon spat, but just as he was about to interfere, Donald swung his mallet hard into the imp's rear end, Ingo crying out in pain before glaring at him.

This was a problem. Now that the duck was suited up with armour, he couldn't move as quickly. Luckily, Goofy was also in the battle as he pulled out his flaming batons, juggling them as he quickly lost his grip on them, the batons flying into Ingo's face. The dog then proceeded to shove one of the batons down his throat, shooting a burst of flame at the demon. However, Ingo seemed unfazed by it.

"Oh, this is too perfect!" the demon exclaimed, laughing wickedly, "It seems my new form makes me immune to fire!"

All the while, Mickey and Minnie were busy shooting water from their hoses at the large stone head, Moldor scowling as steam started to emanate from his body, the monster slowly losing his red colour in favour of a gray one. Luckily for them, Moldor was just a face stuck to a wall, so he couldn't avoid this if he tried.

Moldor tried to sent flames at the two only for them to douse it seconds later, hitting the monster in the face. It was only a matter of time until he lost all power to shoot fire.

Ingo shot a fireball towards Donald who simply ducked down into his barrel. However, this didn't prove quite as effective as when the fireball hit, the barrel burst into flame as it burned into ashes. Donald noticed he was now naked with the exception of his cooking pot helmet as he quickly covered the area where one would expect his private parts to be but couldn't really see due to the fact that he was, after all, a duck.

Luckily, his sailor outfit soon returned, but now his power was gone. All the while, Goofy was pretty much helpless with his entertainer outfit. Ingo had them right where he wanted as he sent both reeling across the floor with the help of his hammer.

"Well, that was just too easy," the demon said with a grin, "But I do have to thank your friends Mickey and Minnie. Had it not been for them, that stupid Moldor would have interfered."

Upon hearing that remark, Moldor's look of pain turned to extreme anger as the demon let out a loud roar, letting out a large flame that was even too big for the water from Mickey and Minnie's hoses to possibly put out. The two leaped to the side while Ingo saw the incoming flame, sighing and shrugging as he knew it would just pass through him.

However, much to his surprise, this flame actually damaged him as it covered his entire body. When the flame finally stopped coming at him, the demon was covered in soot while he coughed up a bit of smoke, passing out.

"Well, that takes care of one threat," Mickey said as he and Minnie turned back to Moldor, hitting the rock demon with more water as the creature roared in pain, his body now completely turned gray.

The others stared at this sight, their powers leaving them as Moldor moaned, "You have defeated the great Moldor..." before his body cracked open and fell into the lava, a ghost that resembled a fat cat flying out of the wall.

However, now was not the time to rejoice as the four felt a rumbling against the ground. When Mickey saw the lava start to rise up, her realized what had happened. They had just killed the one thing preventing the lava from rising up.

"Oh no..." Mickey quipped as Donald started to panic, Minnie shouting, "Come on! We need to get out of here now!"

But just as the others were about to leave, Mickey turned towards Ingo, who couldn't move right now, and ran towards him. Minnie held out her hand shouting, "MICKEY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" as Mickey turned to Donald and Goofy, signalling them towards the princess as the two looked at each other, their jaws dropping. Was the peasant serious about this?"

There was no time to think about this as the lava continued to rise, now touching the ground a few feet from them as Goofy and Donald nodded, grabbing Minnie by the shoulders and carrying her out while she cried out, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING! MICKEY'S STILL BACK THERE!"

The mouse ran over to the crippled demon and knelt down, placing his hands under Ingo's body and attempted to lift him up while the imp asked weakly, "What are you doing?"

"I'm getting you out of here!" Mickey grunted as Ingo's jaw dropped, tears filling his eyes as he said, "Even after I tried to capture you three times, you're trying to save me. But why?"

"Because I know deep down inside, you have a soul," the mouse replied, trying his hard to lift the demon up, "Nothing with a soul deserves to die."

Ingo sniffed and noticed the lava getting closer as he sighed, "Perhaps I'd chosen the wrong side. Maybe being evil wasn't the right path," then coughing a bit, he said, "Mickey, leave me here. You won't be able to carry me out before the lava reaches you."

"I can't let you die!" the mouse retorted as the demon shook his head and said, "No, you need to rescue the princess's dog. Just leave me. I have no one to go back to after all the things I did."

Mickey let down a tear as the demon quipped, "I just now realized the mistake that I made. Serving the king was not the best thing I could choose," then letting out another light cough, the demon added, "But even though I die, your mission shall be done."

Then letting down one last tear, the demon slowly held up his hammer finishing with, "If you stay, you are very sure to lose."

With that, he used his last ounce to strength to strike Mickey in the gut, the mouse flying into the next room. The mouse grunted, quickly getting up. Luckily for him, Ingo hadn't used enough force to injure the mouse too badly, however, Mickey still had a look of sadness on his face while he watched Ingo's body being consumed by the hot liquid.

However, now was not the time to stand around feeling sorry for him. That lava was going to keep rising, and it was like Ingo had said. The mouse had come all this way to save his best friend. He couldn't throw that away now. With that in mind, Mickey put on a serious expression and took off, the lava making its way towards the next room.

All the while, Minnie, Donald and Goofy had finally escaped as Minnie had a look of concern on her face. What if Mickey didn't make it?

"We should have helped him," Minnie sniffed as Donald placed a hand on the princess's shoulder saying, "There, there, I'm sure he's okay."

At that very moment, Mickey emerged from the cave while the lava stopped rising right in front of the exit. The others breathed a sigh of relief as Goofy chuckled, "See? Everything's okay!"

"Not everything," Minnie replied, seeing Mickey's look of sadness as she placed a hand on his shoulder, a smile on her face while she said, "It's okay, Mickey. Maybe the gods will look past his previous actions and realize he did it for the right reasons."

"Yeah," Mickey replied, wiping his tears and putting on a weak smile. This was no time to mope around anyway. The four needed to continue their journey. Thus they carried on, eventually finding a Pete statue and entering it. Who knew what awaited them in the next area? Perhaps they'd finally found the statue leading them to Peteland.