The Magical Quest

Note: Bill the Lizard is a character who appeared in both Alice in Wonderland and The Great Mouse Detective.

Goofy heard his stomach grumbling again as he looked up at the hawk, folding his arms. After a while, the hawk's stomach started to growl as well as it turned to Goofy, biting the lower section of its beak. After all, it needed Goofy alive as bait to lure the others towards it, knowing they would come. However, hunger was a difficult thing to ignore.

As such, the hawk turned to Goofy and opened its beak, the the dog's eyes going wide as he, in an act of desperation, squeezed his flower, water spraying into the hawk's beak as it swallowed it, glaring at the jester once more. Goofy gulped and nervously quipped, "Ahyuck, guess you weren't thirsty after all."

But just as the hawk opened its beak again, three familiar figures finally made it to the top as Mickey latched his grappling hook to the bird's back, the creature wincing before taking to the sky, dragging the mouse with it. Goofy looked at this and smiled. He knew his friends would come and save him. However, his smile didn't last long. Even he knew when it was time to worry.

Minnie and Donald positioned themselves onto the level as well before looking up at the sight of Mickey being pulled by the large hawk, looks of fear in their eyes. After all, who knew whether or not the peasant could hang on?

"I'll help ya out, old buddy!" Goofy exclaimed as his ring glowed, the jester soon taking on his fencer form as he charged forward, leaping off the cliff hoping to make it to the hawk.

Unfortunately, the hawk flew high enough to dodge the incoming dog as he started to fall while crying, "YAHOOHOOHOOHOY!" before Minnie quickly shot her grappling hook forward and caught the jester in midair.

Goofy noticed he wasn't falling anymore and slowly turned his head, noticing the hook grabbing onto the back of his trousers as he chuckled, "Ahyuck, convenient."

As Minnie started pulling Goofy up, Mickey couldn't hang on anymore as the hawk spun its body around causing the mouse to let go as the peasant flew face-first into the nest. Donald looked at all of this with discontent. Mickey was currently out of commission and couldn't fight the hawk, Minnie was too busy helping Goofy up and Donald didn't even have a grappling hook. However, he did have a rope. Perhaps he could be of some help.

The duck noticed the hawk soaring towards Minnie, who was a few seconds away from rescuing Goofy. If that hawk hit its target, the princess would surely drop Goofy to his death. With that in mind, Donald quickly charged forward, swinging his rope around like a lasso and threw it at the hawk's head, wrapping the rope around it.

The hawk's eyes went wide as Donald positioned himself onto its back and directed it over Minnie's head. At that moment, Minnie finally managed to pull Goofy up to where she was, the jester chuckling and saying, "Thanks," as Minnie looked at Donald, now riding atop the hawk and sighed, "If it hadn't been for Donald, I would have lost you."

Donald noticed that the two were safe and wiped his nervous sweat off of his forehead before realizing he was one the hawk's back. With that in mind, the duck cried out in absolute horror, soon releasing the rope as the hawk spun around again, this time sending Donald falling towards the nest.

Just as he was about to hit, Mickey regained consciousness and quickly caught him, the duck sighing with relief as Mickey asked, "What were you doing up there, pal?"

However, not all was well and good as the hawk flew up to another mountain, picking up a boulder placed atop it with its talons. Minnie looked at this with worry and asked, "How are we going to stop this thing? Nothing we do seems to effect it."

Donald eyes the boulder and put on a serious expression as he held onto both ends of his rope. With determination in his heart, he turned his head towards the others saying, "Leave this to me," before turning back.

Was Donald crazy? How could he take this beast himself? Mickey and Minnie also thought this was nuts, but Goofy had confidence in the duck. Perhaps Donald knew what he was doing.

With that, the hawk flew in front of the group, hurling the boulder at Donald as the duck held his rope in front of his face. As the boulder hit the rope, much to everyone's shock, the rock didn't go through the material. However, it did start to force Donald backwards as he struggled to maintain his footing.

The others nodded at one-another before placing their hands against Donald's back, pushing against it to assist their friend. After a few seconds, Donald screeched to a halt, the boulder still pressing up against the rope, and what good timing this was. Mickey's feet were right up against the edge of the mountain.

The hawk's eyes went wide as it flew upward, Donald grinning and shouting, "I don't think so!" as he shifted the rope so it was now pointed just a few inches above the hawk, pulling on both ends and causing it to whip forward, the boulder now launched as it flew fast and hard into the hawk's chin.

The bird's eyes went wide, soon filled with stars as it fell right next to the nest, the beast coughing up a ghost that resembled Pete. That was that. The hawk had been defeated.

Donald looked at this, his eyes going wide as he asked, "Did I do that?" as Minnie placed a hand against his shoulder saying, "Good thinking, Donald, using the hawk's own weapon against it. But how did you know the rope would be strong enough to send it back?"

Donald shrugged as the others simply patted him on the shoulders. After all, their abilities had just come to them when they first took on their new forms. Maybe that was the case. Nevertheless, Donald had certainly helped much more than they had.

With all said and done, the four climbed down the mountain using their gear, Donald having to carry Goofy due to the fact that the jester's form didn't have climbing gear. How was it that Donald could use a rope to climb these walls anyway? It wasn't as if he had a grappling hook. Oh, but of course, he used the poles sticking out of the sides to do it.

As soon as the group reached the bottom, they returned to normal as everyone's stomachs growled. Mickey chuckled and said, "I guess we still need breakfast," as they all pulled out the fruits they had picked earlier from the forest and had themselves a nice breakfast.

Unfortunately they ended up using all the fruit, but not because of a lack of will power. No, it was because the fruit would have most likely gone rotten if they let it wait any longer. Either way, they were full and ready to go.

Back in Peteland, the king had just woken up from a long night's sleep. Pete grunted and smacked his lips, scratching the back of his neck with one hand before letting out a loud yawn and stretching his other hand out.

Pete then proceeded to clap his hands, a group of loyal bats coming to his side and clutching onto his arms with their tiny feet. The bats wheezed and gasped for air as they barely pulled him up out of bed. After all, Pete was incredibly fat and heavy. At least they didn't have any other painful jobs to attend to.

The king proceeded to clap his hands a second time, a pair of guards carrying his slippers and placing them on his feet. The king proceeded to walk towards the door, the bats sighing and opening it up. Again, at least this job wasn't painful.

Now to be fair, Pete wasn't really this lazy. He would have gladly done this stuff on his own. However, he would always wake up feeling too groggy to perform such simple tasks. It was a problem he'd been born with. He was a cat, after all.

As the king slowly made his way to the dining hall, guards opening the doors for him of course, he sat down at his table, naturally after one of the guards pulled it outward for him, and received his breakfast, courtesy of the kingdom's chef, Bill the lizard. Along with that was his cup of coffee, which Pete took a sip of first. Suddenly, his eyes were wide open, a big smile on his face before the king let out a sigh of relief.

"Nothing gets my heart beating faster than a nice cup of Joe," the cat stated as he proceeded to eat his breakfast, which consisted of sausage, bacon, eggs and toast.

Bill simply smiled and watched the king gorge down his food while the guards were treated to bowls of baked beans and hard-boiled eggs. As mentioned before, King Pete always got the best and biggest meals. As for why Bill was smiling, he'd pretty much come to expect no response from the king. Up until now, Ingo had been the only one to ever receive compliments from Pete.

After finishing his breakfast, the king then looked at his men and stated, "Everyone, I have an announcement to make!" while the guards stared in fear. For all they knew, this was probably a bad thing.

"As you all know, my second-in-command has recently past away," Pete continued to say while the others looked down. Even those who didn't particularly like Ingo were saddened by this.

"Yes, yes, this is very tragic indeed," the king added before smiling and proceeding to explain, "However, this is a shining opportunity for all of you as after breakfast, I'm holding a fighting tournament that all of you must partake in!"

The guards looked at one-another and gulped as the cat stated, "Whoever comes out on top becomes my new general and the ere to the throne!"

Suddenly, the looks of fear on the guards turned to serious looks as each one glared at the other, determined to take that title. After all, there was no bigger honour.

Bill perked up and smiled at Pete, nodding his head while the king sighed, "Fine, Bill, you can participate too," as he conjured up a shield, war helmet and spear, all of which were too big for Bill to handle, but the lizard didn't care. He was just happy to have a shot at this.

However, as the guards all hurried to finish off their breakfasts, ready to begin this chance of a lifetime, Pete's eyes went wide as a puff of smoke appeared before him. The king blinked as a wolf dressed in red wizard clothes stood before him, another wolf and a weasel standing next to him. The other wolf wore a big golden suit of armour with a silver belt and sandals. He also had a spiked helmet. The second weasel was dressed up like a jester with an orange clown outfit and a blue party hat.

"Who are you supposed to be and what are you doing in my castle?" Pete asked as the wizard bowed and said, "Forgive me, but we wish to serve you. I am the Dark Wizard Agan and these are my associates," then pointing at the wolf he explained, "This is my weapons expert, Bogard," then directing the king's attention to the weasel added, "and this is my tactical fighter, Jaguar. Don't be fooled by his outfit. He's very deadly."

With that, Bogard cleared his throat and stated, "Agan here wishes to be your new second-in-command," as Jaguar nodded and added, "You'd be making a mistake not to choose him."

Pete glared and replied, "Well, that is very flattering, but why should I hire you for such a big position?" the other guards adding to the glares and nodding. They didn't want this random nobody taking this chance from them.

Agan bowed again saying, "Of course. I should have backed up my case better," then raising his hands, the wizard conjured up a large explosion as a demonic bats emerged from it, the wizard laughing before explaining, "If you just give me chance, I'll show you something great. Now you will never believe your eyes."

With that, the bats flew in front of the guards who started to tremble at the sight of them, Agan adding, "If you do not choose me as your second-in-command, sire, it would be most unwise."

Pete looked with interest as the wizard proceeded to summon a large serpent dragon made of flames and stated, "Just pick me and claim this opportunity. A chance like this happens once. Just say the word and I will be yours to obey your commands."

With that, the bats moved away from the guards and flew around Agan's head chanting, "We surrender! You are quite the man! We surrender! You're the one with the plan! We all bow down to you!"

Agan laughed and grinned with pride adding, "My power's amazing, you'd have to agree."

Pete stroked his chin with interest while Bogard pulled out two large red canons with stars on them, the guards gasping while the wolf proceeded to fire the canon balls into the air, the balls exploding like fireworks while the wolf laughed and stated, "Before I met him, I had no aim in life. I was nothing but a worthless bum. The people all laughed at me while I was growing up and they called me a no one who's dumb."

The guards gave the wolf a look of sadness as Bogard perked up and stated, "But when I met him, things really turned around. Now look where I am now. On top of the world, I now have respect and we all know how!"

Then shooting more canon balls into the air, forming the face of Agan, Bogard explained, "Thanks to Agan I am no longer weak! Thanks to Agan I can publicly speak! I owe it all to him!"

The wizard smiled and added, "He was hopeless and flimsy until he met me!"

Everyone stared as Jaguar pulled out a series of fireballs, juggling them around without worry. Where they came from no one knew, but the sight of this was truly spectacular. He then proceeded to hurl them towards the guards who screamed in fear only for the spinning wheel of fireballs to stop midway, returning to their owner.

"You see this amazing trick I just used before you, well I couldn't quite do that before," the weasel explained, "In fact, my tricks weren't that great thus I had no support. I was considered a dreadful bore."

While the guards looked at him with interest, he proceeded to say, "But then Agan appeared and offered me so much more. How could I say no? The door to success had appeared to me, and I'd open that door!"

With that, he hurled the wheel of flames into the air as the fireballs separated, spinning around the chandelier as Jaguar exclaimed, "Thanks to Agan, I'm no longer a fool! Thanks to Agan, I'm a more faithful tool! I owe it all to him!"

With that, Agan summoned a large demon as the guards trembled, throwing themselves before him while chanting, "We surrender! You are quite the man! We surrender! You're the one with the plan! We all bow down to you!"

Agan then let out a triumphant laugh before finishing with the statement, "You'd have to be a fool to not hire me!" then grinning at Pete, asked, "So what'll it be?"

The king grinned and shook the wizard's hand and thus it was unanimous. Agan was now the new general, and this was surely a bad thing as he seemed much more threatening than Ingo. As if that wasn't bad enough, he even had his own pair of minions. Sure, Ingo started with minions, but they weren't nearly as dangerous. This spelt bad news for Mickey and his friends.