The Magical Quest

While Mickey and Minnie walked down the long hallway, they started to grow suspicious. Earlier, many guards were on duty, making sure they wouldn't make it to wherever Pluto was being kept. Now it seemed all too quiet. Was the king so overconfident in Jaguar and Bogard that he didn't feel the need to send in other guards or was this a trap?

Minnie turned her gaze toward the opposite direction with a look of worry on her face as Mickey sighed, "Don't worry, Minnie, I'm sure they'll be okay."

The princess wasn't all too confident about this. Sure, they had faced huge monsters in order to make it this far, but they had overcome every challenge together. Now that Donald and Goofy were fighting by themselves, who could say whether or not they would stand a chance?

Either way, the mice had come too far to stop now. Their friends had chosen to stay behind and fight. They knew what they had gotten themselves into.

As the two reached a door at the end of the hall, Mickey slowly opened it, the duo looking back and forth while entering. For all they knew, Pete's subjects could very well have been hiding somewhere within the room. However, it didn't seem to be the case... that was until a large puff of smoke appeared.

Mickey and Minnie covered their eyes, coughing up a bit of smoke they'd inhaled as it soon faded, a wolf dressed in wizard garments standing before them. The wolf proceeded to bow before saying, "Ah, Princess Minnie and her servant boy, I presume. I'm charmed to be in your presence."

"Hey, that's Mickey Mouse to you!" Mickey retorted as the wizard blinked and asked, "Wait, if you two aren't siblings, then why do you have the same last name?"

The two mice turned to one-another and shrugged. That was actually a good question. But that would have to wait as the wizard simply waved his hands in front of his face saying, "Never mind that now. We have other matters to discuss."

With that, the wolf rose his arms into the air, a small explosion forming as a large Chinese dragon emerged from it, the man laughing insanely before explaining, "You may think you stand a chance, but you can't be more wrong!"

Mickey rose his fists as the dragon flew towards him, the wizard adding, "Your false hope and all your faith have been here too long."

The dragon then turned its head to the side, latching its jaws around Mickey's body before sending the peasant into the wall, Minnie staring with shock as the dragon vanished, Mickey sliding down the wall while the wizard continued, "I applaud you both for your work. I bet you could make it here again. That is if you're not destroyed by me, Agan!"

Minnie fumed as Mickey slowly rose to his feet only for Agan to send a torrent of flames toward him, surrounding the mouse's body with cell bars made of fire, the wizard stating, "So this fool, Mickey, is nothing more than a weakling. I must say, I was expecting oh so much more."

The princess watched in horror as the bars turned into a twister made of fire that slowly closed in towards Mickey's body while Agan added, "The fact he dares oppose Pete is more than reason enough to send him on a trip to the afterlife, and you may never see him again! He'll never see the light of day, oh no, and let me tell you, that's fine with me!"

Minnie glared as Agan finished with, "The great Agan!" as the flames came closer, the princess's ring glowing as Minnie took on her fire fighter form, shooting a stream of water toward the flames and putting them out, Mickey blinking before breathing a sigh of relief.

Minnie then turned to Agan with fury in her eyes as she spat, "It's me you want, isn't it! Leave Mickey out of this!"

Agan blinked at the sight of this before a wicked grin crossed his face, the wizard chuckling before saying, "I have to say, princess, that is quite commendable. In fact, you could even say it has touched my heart."

With that, Agan shot a burst of magic towards the door as it opened up, the wizard pointing at it as Mickey turned to Minnie with a look of worry, shaking his head. However, Minnie simply gave the peasant a soothing smile as the mouse took a deep breath, nodded and quickly made his way towards the exit. All the while, he prayed that Minnie make it out alive. After all, she meant the world to him.

"That really is touching, you know," Agan said, "Almost enough to bring a tear to my eye, in fact. It's too bad I'm evil."

Minnie simply turned to the sorcerer and scowled, aiming her hose at the wolf who simply laughed and lifted his arms in the air, a pair of magical hands forming. Minnie shot a blast of water at one of them but to no avail as it made its way towards her, placing its fingers together before flicking her into the wall. The other headed towards the princess and slapped itself hard into her body, the mouse groaning in pain now while Agan broke out in insane laughter. It seemed as if Minnie didn't stand a chance against someone so powerful.

All the while, Mickey ran through the halls with anger and tears in his eyes. In truth, he really was worried about his friends. Donald was going up against a cannon-wielding psycho, Goofy was facing one with the power to control fire and Minnie's opponent was a high-class sorcerer. All three were very dangerous to fight by one's self and that was exactly what the three heroes were doing.

But again, they already knew this. They had chosen to face certain doom head-on. There was nothing Mickey could have done to change their minds. Besides, they had done this for his sake. He couldn't let their sacrifices be in vain. Pluto was still waiting for him.

Back in the dining hall, Goofy fired another pair of corks towards Jaguar who simply leaped to the side, the corks bouncing off the walls behind the weasel and hitting the back of his head. Jaguar gritted his teeth with fury as he once again hurled the wheel of fireballs towards Goofy. The dog rolled to the side in time to dodge the flames, but not fast enough to prevent his cowboy hat from being burnt to a crisp, his entire outfit being replaced by his fencing uniform.

Jaguar's fireballs returned as the weasel blinked, Goofy thrusting his sword forward while shouting, "En guarde!"

"This is even more inconvenient for you than your last form!" the weasel snapped as he sent the fireballs towards Goofy again, the dog twirling it blade in front of him. Jaguar's eyes went, his jaw dropped as surprisingly, Goofy's blade emitted a strong wind current that put out the fireballs.

Jaguar proceeded to fold his sleeves up grunting, "So, you wanna play it that way, do ya?" then proceeded to conjure up a sword of his own, this one made entirely out of fire.

The weasel and the dog proceeded to match blades, each swinging his sword at the other, the sword locking each time. This was it, the moment that could very well decide the outcome of the battle. Whichever one of the two lost his blade first could have very well lost.

Unfortunately, it was heavily in Jaguar's favour, Goofy's eyes going wide as he noticed something dripping off his blade. He soon noticed that this strange liquid was the same colour as the blade.

Putting on a confused look, the jester asked, "Uh, Mr. Jaguar, sir, can metal melt?" as Jaguar grinned wickedly before answering, "As a matter of fact, it can, my silly-looking friend."

And sure enough, Jaguar's words were true as a few seconds later, the fencing blade was now nothing more than a puddle of liquid metal. Goofy gulped before grinning nervously, Jaguar wasting no time in swinging his blade at the jester, Goofy now in panic as he narrowly dodged the first strike, backing up and dodging more. Who knew how long this would keep up?

Meanwhile, Donald was dodging cannonballs by the second, Bogard laughing while taunting, "You were better off with that squeaky toy you called a weapon!"

As another pair of cannonballs flew towards the duck, Donald tried to dodge to the side only to trip over his robe, stumbling and falling flat on his face. Sure, the cannonballs flew over his head thus missing him completely, but Bogard couldn't help laughing at this display.

Then Donald realized it. Bogard's sense of humor could very well be his downfall. Each time the wolf started laughing, he seemed unable to focus on anything other than his own laughter. This was Donald's chance.

As such, he pulled out his rope and whipped it towards the wolf's legs, the rope latching itself around the wolf's ankles. Bogard soon stopped laughing and noticed Donald with a look of confidence and his rope thrown forward. The wolf then proceeded to look down, his eyes going wide when he noticed the rope around him.

"Gotcha!" Donald exclaimed as he gracefully pulled the rope towards him, Bogard's feet sliding forward as the wolf lost his balance, falling on his back. As if this wasn't humiliating enough, his helmet split in two upon hitting the tile floor.

Donald returned his rope to his side as the wolf slowly rose to his feet, a look of frustration on his face as he groaned, "Clever..." before noticed the two halves of his spiked helmet on the floor. His eyes went wide as he picked up the fragments, his look of frustration soon replaced with a look of rage, the wolf letting out a loud, deafening howl.

He then proceeded to turn his gaze back to Donald, the duck gulping as Bogard fumed, steam shooting from his nostrils as he spat, "YOU'RE GOING TO PAY DEARLY FOR THAT!"

With that, he held up his cannons firing in every direction, Donald ducking down for dear life. It seemed the bird had made a terrible mistake. Now Bogard was even more dangerous than before.

All the while, Minnie had taken in quite a lot from Agan's magic hands as the wizard grinned wickedly, saying, "That magic water spitting thing won't save you from this. Why not just give up?"

The princess took in a hard back-hand to the face as she rolled into the wall, her eyes spinning as her fire fighter outfit vanished. However, rather than changing back to her regular clothes, Minnie was instead wearing her mountain climbing gear.

The mouse regained focus as she noticed the grappling hook in her hand asking, "Why did the ring choose this form?" but couldn't dwell on that further as she noticed another hand coming towards her.

However, Minnie was ready for this as she soon realized how she could use the hook to her advantage. As such, she hurled it over the hand, the hook latching itself to the back as Minnie pulled herself up. Agan's eyes went wide, the wizard's jaw dropped and his guard down as the princess proceeded to leap off of the hand, planting her feet hard into the wolf's face, Agan falling hard against the floor on his back, the magic hands finally vanishing.

"Darn it!" the wizard cursed, snapping his fingers as he slowly rose back to his feet, "Now I can't summon another pair for two hours!"

Then regaining his composure and wiping some dust off of his outfit, the sorcerer took a deep breath before saying, "I have to admit, princess, you are quite clever. However, this doesn't mean you've won."

Minnie simply glared at the wizard, but her look of confidence wasn't sincere. The truth was she had no idea how to use her mountain climbing gear against Agan's other spells. Let alone that fact, how was she so sure she would get close enough to hit him again?

That thought would have to wait as the wizard conjured up an army of bats, the bats soaring towards Minnie. Luckily, this didn't seem all too effective as Minnie used her hook to grab one of the bats by the wing. She then proceeded to reel it in, hurling the creature towards it comrades as all of the bats fell to the ground.

Unfortunately, the bats had been a diversion as Agan used that time to conjure up a cage made of fire that surrounded Minnie, the princess's confident look turning to one of fear. She knew what was coming next as she braced herself, the bars changing into a twister, closing in on her body as she flames soon dissipated, revealing that Minnie's outfit had been burned up, her grappling hook now gone and her body covered in burns.

Minnie fell on her knees, her regular clothes returning as Agan laughed wickedly before stating, "You probably should have let your boyfriend help you. I wonder if he's reached the throne room yet. I wouldn't mind taking him down a peg or two."

The princess glared in response to that, fury in her expression as Agan looked with interest, a more juvenile grin forming as he said, "Oh, this is too much."

Minnie gritted her teeth as the wizard laughed before adding, "You know, I was only kidding about the boyfriend remark, but after seeing that face, I'm starting to think otherwise."

Minnie slowly rose to her feet as her ring glowed, the princess now taking on her magician form as Agan's devious grin returned, the wizard saying, "So you still have some fight in you. Good. I was a tad disappointed by your earlier performance."