Blocking the exit from the tower was the ugly statue from out front, only he wasn't a statue anymore.
True Heart narrowed her eyes, "Beastly."
The creature cackled "It won't be long noooooooww." He taunted, eyes on the red light.
"Everyone get away from the carving." True Heart and Noble Heart ushered them to the back of the small room, keeping themselves between their family and the light.
A figure clad in a purple robe slowly began to rise out of the floor. "At last I am free! BEASTLY!"
He stumbled forward, "Right here Lord No Heart. What do you need?
"Bring me the charm." His minion looked at him confused.
"The charm? Which charm? You have 700 of them."
No Hearts eyes glowed red "The newest charm you fur brained idiot!!" Beastly yelped and scurried from the room.
The Care Bears stared at the wizard mouths hanging open. "Who are you?" inquired Love-A-Lot
The wizard laughed sending shivers up their spines, "I see your flimsy memory spell prevented a few unpleasant memories from slipping through Noble Heart. Why don't you introduce us."
The horse glowered at him. "He's No Heart. He took Dark Hearts place trying to defeat us and came a lot closer. He's the reason Harmony disappeared and the one who stole the cousin's tummy symbols. So to protect the rest of you we imprisoned him. However the cost of the spell meant we would be frozen along with him. Before we left we wiped your memories hoping you wouldn't come looking for us."
No Heart laughed again.
"You forgot to mention how you were falling apart after I stole Harmony away. Everyone was fighting all the time, no one could agree on anything, and so much caring was being neglected. It was the perfect plan. With enough hate in the air I was able to suck the caring from the cousins. This strengthened my spell and pushed you two to act."
Beastly came somersaulting into the room having tripped over his own feet. "Here it is No Heart. Your anti-Harmony charm."
In his clutches was a circle of glass bordered in black hearts. Pressed into the glass, frozen and unaware was Harmony Bear.
Brave Heart growled, "Let her go No Heart."
"Don't worry Brave Heart, soon you won't care. Give me the charm Beastly."
He tossed it to No Heart but it never made it that far. Playful Heart jumped forward, leaping into the air and grabbing the charm. He landed on the opposite side of the room following a summersault.
"Throw it here Playful Heart." Swift Heart stood by the door waving her arms.
He chortled and tossed it to her, "I love a good game of monkey in the middle." Beastly charged her trying to get it back, but before she could throw the charm back to Playful Heart, Noble Heart yelled at her.
"Run Swift Heart! Run!" She took off without a second thought, having grown up knowing she had to obey that voice.
"After her Beastly." He ran from the room with Playful Heart and Proud Heart hot on his heels. "We'll help Swift, you take care of him."
Before they had a chance to react, No Heart surrounded them with stinging purple magic.
Swift Heart had dashed down the stairs while Beastly tried to catch her by riding down the banister. Playful Heart leapt for the chandelier, hanging from the bottom of it by his tail.
"Up here Swifty." He laughed again and displayed his empty paws.
Stopping she tossed him the amulet as Beastly slid into her. Recovering, the henchman went for the chandelier lever on the wall and pulled it down with a cackle.
Playful Heart leapt free just in time as the chandelier crashed into the floor. As he flipped through the air he sent the amulet to Proud Heart.
"Purrrrrrrfect toss Playful Heart."
Beastly pulled the lever out of the wall and went to stand in front of Swift Heart. She was crouched behind him and held her paw up.
"Put it right here Proud Heart, strike him out."
Beastly crouched down, wiggling his butt as he prepared to hit the "pitch."
Licking her lips, Proud Heart wound back her arm and let loose the charm.
It thudded into Swift Hearts paw as Beastly swung at only air.
Playful Heart spoke into his tail, "Oh and he is out of there folks. Care Cousins 1 Bad Guys 0.
There celebration was short lived as Beastly snatched the charm out of Swift Hearts paws.
"Ha ha haha ha. I've got the charm. All I need to do is get it back to Lord No Heart."
"Cousins call!" Three beams of light hit him simultaneously causing Beastly to yowl. As the calls hit the charm it started to glow and expand. Dropping it when it got too big
Beastly tried to back away, "Ooooooooooh noooooo am I in trouble now. No Heart isn't going to like this."
"Keep the stares going, it's working! She's almost free." Proud Heart encouraged.
Beastly ran for the stairs, "No Heart help!!!"
Stopping their stares the three cousins turned to face the purple bear standing before them. She smiled kindly at them, "I knew you could do it."
Playful Heart smiled back at her, "Welcome back Harmony."
No Heart cackled as he watched the Care Bears flinch away from his magic; stinging them over and over. They didn't have enough room to spread out and use their Care Bear stare on them and he intended to keep it that way till his fur brained assistant returned with the amulet. Then he could finish the plan he had started all those years ago.
"Boss we have a problem! The Cousins freed Harmony from her charm prison so now you can't use her to make them fight and…"
"WHAT! Beastly you idiot, I should have known better then to put you in charge of something so vital."
"Care Bear stare, Cousins call."
Swift Heart, Harmony, Proud Heart, and Playful Heart stared No Heart from the tower doorway, giving their family members the chance to escape his magic.
"Everyone join in stare!"
"Call!"
The stares were quickly zapping No Hearts energy and soon he was forced to take on his tornado form to get away. "This is not over Care Bears. I will not rest until I have rid the world of your love and caring once and for all. I hate you all."
Sucking up a screaming Beastly he flew over the four in the doorway and retreated to a safer part of his castle.
"Should we follow him?"
"No Tender Heart. Let's go home. We have a lot of catching up to do."
True Heart and Noble Heart led the way out; saving the reunion for when they were safely back in Care-A-Lot.