Near the shore, the settlers were preparing to leave for London.
"Is he going to make it Thomas?" Ben asked.
John was near them lying on a stretcher. He fortunately hadn't been killed by the bullet, but he was badly wounded.
"The sooner he gets back to London the better." Thomas replied.
"Well, lets hope the wind is with him." Lon said.
"Is the ship ready yet?"
"Any minute now, just loading the last bit of 'cargo'." Ben smirked, thumbing at the bounded and gagged Ratcliffe as he said that.
"Ha! Demoted from Governor to cargo!" Kevin laughed.
Everyone else laughed too as Ratcliffe yelled angrily through his gag. Everyone except for Higgins that is.
"And he came so highly recommended." Higgins said sadly before sniffing a shuddering sigh.
"Say Chester, how about showing Ratcliffe what we think of him?" Wanda grinned
Chester grinned back, and pressed on his braces. A clock then popped out of Chester's braces and a bird popped in and out of the door with a couple of 'coo-coos'. This caused most of the team to stare at Chester, so he explained that he was tired have having to wear braces and had AJ modify his braces so that they could do gags like that. Ratcliffe glared at Chester and his coo-coo clock as the rowboat he was in rowed out of our sight.
"The ship's almost ready," Thomas said to John. "We better get you on board or we'll lose the tide."
Ben grabbed one end of the stretcher.
"Not yet." John said. "She said she'd be here."
"Look." Thomas said.
Pocahontas appeared with the rest of the tribe, carrying baskets of food. The settlers took their hats off, and Thomas approached Pocahontas.
"Going back is his only chance," He said. "He'll die if he stays here."
I wished the team or other Superwolves or I were allowed to heal John, but Boss contacted me earlier and forbid us from doing it without telling us why – he sometimes does that.
Pocahontas approached John, holding a pouch.
"Here," She said, handing him the pouch. "It's from Grandmother Willow's bark, it'll help with the pain."
"What pain?" John joked. "I've had worse pain than this." He winced. "I can't think of any right now." He added.
Powhatan approached John.
"You are always welcome among my people." He smiled, covering John with his cloak. "Thank you my brother."
Flit flew towards John and gently landed on his finger.
"I though you didn't like strangers." John said, half-teasing.
Flit chirped a shrug and flew to where Percy – wearing Native American attire – and Meeko – wearing Percy's collar – were. The three of them held up a familiar and fixed necklace.
"My mother's necklace." Pocahontas smiled before putting it on.
"See you Percy." John said, ruffling his fur again.
This time Percy actually seemed to like it.
Meeko brought out a biscuit, brushed it off, and handed it to John as a parting gift.
"Come with me?" John asked Pocahontas.
Pocahontas looked at her father.
"You must choose your own path." Powhatan said.
Pocahontas looked: on one side of her was her tribe, on the other side were settlers.
"I'm needed here." Pocahontas said.
"Then I'll stay with you." John said.
"No, you have to go back."
"But I can't leave you."
"You never will." Pocahontas replied gently. "No matter what happens I'll always be with you, forever."
John and Pocahontas kissed. Nakoma sighed back a cry as tears streamed down her face.
Ben and Lon carried John to a rowboat. The team and other Superwolves and I would have gone with the settlers but we had Voldemort to deal with first. We also would've had to deal with the Death Eaters who were posing as wolf tribe members, but they too had disappeared during Ratcliffe's capture.
"Good luck lad." Lon said.
"God speed John." Thomas said.
After all the rowboats reached the ship, the ship took off. Pocahontas and the rest of us ran to a nearby cliff. We all waved good-bye in Pocahontas's language, and John waved back from the ship. Then we all went back down and my friends and I separated ourselves from Pocahontas before heading back to the battlefield.
Suddenly, Harry intercepted an attacking wolf: Voldemort.
"Give it up Voldemort we know it's you and we'll defeat you like we defeated your clones!" Harry said.
Voldemort laughed.
"Actually, I'm a clone too," He said. "And this time I'll defeat you!"
He and Harry fought and fought. Unexpectedly, Voldemort whammed Harry into a tree! He then ran to Harry in order to finish him off, but then a deer knocked him out of the way: James!
"You leave my son alone!" James ordered.
Voldemort did, but only in order to fight James, and Sirius too since he joined in. Harry, not that badly hurt, got up after a few moments.
Suddenly, Voldemort knocked Sirius out of the way and whammed James into a tree!
"I'm going to get rid of you once and for all!" Voldemort said determinedly to James.
"NOOO!" Harry cried, head-butting Voldemort.
Voldemort sailed through the air and crashed into some trees out of our sight!
"Apparently you inherited your dad's 'deer abilities'." Ron W said, amazed.
Harry was too amazed to reply. A few minutes later, we heard the sound of disapparating: Voldemort had left.
"How long have you and James been able to transform into animals?" Carl asked Sirius.
"Ever since we were in school," Sirius replied. "We had to because our friend Lupin is a werewolf and it was the only way we could be safe and keep him company at the same time."
"Safe?" Kit repeated.
"Werewolves are only dangerous to people." Hermione explained.
I healed James during this, but for some reason he didn't get up!
"James?" Lily said, worried.
We were all confused, until I thought of the only reason why he couldn't get up. In order to confirm it, I brought out my magic bag and reached into it. When I lifted my arm out of the bag, my friends saw that I had a crystal ball. After I turned it on, the crystal ball soon revealed and image...of the Disney Fates about to cut James's life string! I was shocked, this wasn't like the Fates at all!
Harry immediately disappeared magically, until we saw him in the crystal ball rescuing his dad's life string! When he came back, he flew into the air. The Fates also appeared in the air on a cloud...but they appeared by apparating! Mickey and I frowned suspiciously at this.
"Give us back that string or we'll cut yours!" The Fates threatened.
"NO!" Harry snapped back.
The rest of us started to run to Harry.
"One more step and we'll cut your life strings too!" The Fates threatened.
"You're bluffing!" Mickey said, half-shocked/half-defiant.
"No we're not!"
They weren't bluffing all right, the Fates had poofed all of our life strings into appearance above the Fates' heads...with scissors hovering dangerously near each one! Well, actually Casper was the only one without one since he's a ghost, but we were all so shocked – and more than a little nervous – that we all forgot that fact.
"Now what?" Lizzie asked me nervously through her teeth as we stood still and stiff.
"Back away...sloowly...back awaaay." I answered through my teeth.
We ended up backing away so far that a few of our friends were behind the Fates...which gave Sam and her fellow spies an idea. They leapt into the air, and used their rocket packs to somersault over the Fates' heads! When they landed back on the ground, we saw that they had some of the life strings in their hands! We cheered as they started to figure out which of us they had saved. Even though they were hard to identify at first glance upon closer inspection one could see tiny names written on them.
"Let see," Sam said, going through the strings in her hand. "I think I got Fu-Fu's, Sagwa's, Mickey's..."
"And I got Dongwa's and Sheegwa's." Clover added. "Oh, and I got yours and mine..."
"And I got..." Alex froze. "Hey guys, look!"
One of the strings in her hand glowed white!
"Well I know the Fates' system a little bit," Mickey said. "And they do have glowing strings which means immortality. However immortality strings are gold, not white."
None of us could figure it out, though two of us had an idea what a glowing white life string meant. Those two were I and...someone with a secret.
"Uh guys," Clover said, a little frozen with fear. "We missed Alex..."
The Fates were about to cut Alex's life string! Alex shut her eyes in fright, but then suddenly someone somersaulted over the Fates and grabbed Alex's life string just in time! That someone tumbled a little once he hit the ground, and when he stopped we saw that it was Danny!
"Looks like I owe you one." Alex smiled as Danny handed her life string to her.
"Actually I was repaying you." Danny smiled back.
"What?"
"When you and your fellow spies grabbed some of the strings I noticed you grabbing mine." Danny explained, still smiling.
Sam looked thoughtful – suspicious thoughtful – at that until she noticed me giving her a stern look. I knew she was thinking about that glowing white string and was trying to connect it with Danny.
"Say what's Harry doing?" Ed unexpectedly asked stupidly.
Harry was about to put a spell on his dad's life string, but unfortunately Ed's question not only directed our attention to Harry but the Fates attention as well!
"You did not just do that... YOU DID NOT JUST DO THAT!" Sarah yelled angrily, grabbing Ed by the throat and shaking his head roughly.
Don't worry everyone from the Eds' world are almost indestructible, they can even get hit with a house and not get killed. You see we were angry because earlier I sent a telepathic message to everyone saying that we were supposed to distract the Fates away from Harry.
The Fates had noticed that Harry was putting a spell on his dad's life string...and they prepared to cut Harry's!
"NO!" We cried.
Fu-Fu suddenly flew towards them in a desperate attempt to save Harry. He did grab it, but the Fates had cut the life string anyway! Harry suddenly died and started to fall! At that moment, James's string, glowing yellow now, immediately went into James's body and melted into it! The Fates disapparated as Fu-Fu, with Harry's life string in feet tumbled through the air...and smashed into a tree. He landed dazed on the ground.
"Clifford, catch Harry!" I ordered, holding my wand in the air.
Clifford leapt over the point of my wand and started to grow. Fortunately, Clifford did catch Harry on his back. The rest of us rushed over to Fu-Fu, and saw that he had half a life string in each foot.
"Are you all right Fu-Fu?" Sagwa asked, concerned.
Even though Fu-Fu was dazed he was able to recollect what happened.
"I almost saved him...I wasn't fast enough..." Fu-Fu whimpered.
"Hey at least you have his string, maybe one of the Superwolves can reattach the pieces." Dongwa said. "We're glad you're all right though, that was one of your worst crashes."
"I don't need confirmation on that one." Fu-Fu muttered, rubbing his nose.
We then quickly went over to Harry, who had landed safely on the ground thanks to Clifford. Almost everyone was shocked about how large Clifford was, he was as big as a house!
"Er...interesting growth spell." Jade said.
"Actually it was more of a 'return to normal' spell." Cleo grinned.
Everyone except for T-Bone and I froze.
"He isn't really that size...is he?" Molly said.
"Yup." T-Bone and I grinned.
Everyone else was speechless, but the Potters, Sirius, Ron W, and Hermione didn't remain that way as long as the others. They ran over to Harry and sobbed.
"Oh Harry no." Ron W sobbed.
Mickey and I exchanged knowing glances.
"Okay everyone into Rip we've got to get moving." I ordered, shrinking Clifford again. "Jenny put Harry into his compartment I'll be there in a few seconds."
Jenny obeyed and left.
"You seem calm about this." Hermione said bitterly.
"I am upset about this but we still have Voldemort to take care of," I argued gently. "Don't worry everything will be fine."
"Where're we going?" Patrick asked.
"To Ancient Greece." I answered.
"ANCIENT GREECE?" Everyone except for Mickey echoed.
"That's where the Fates live and we have to save them!" Mickey said determinedly.
"Save those rotten...?" Billy started to say.
"Guys those weren't the real Fates at all!" Mickey said angrily.
"WHAT?" Everyone echoed.
"Those Fates belong in the Disney Universe remember? Mickey and I both know them really well." I explained. "And I'll tell you one thing about them, they can't apparate or disapparate! I also noticed through x-ray vision that they weren't floating on a cloud, they were riding broomsticks and the Fates don't need to use them either!"
"That's right!" Mickey agreed. "Since we know that the Death Eaters were here you can bet that they were the Fates the whole time! They put on those disguises after they disappeared earlier, and Voldemort has the real ones tied up and held captive!"
"Well then lets go!" James ordered.
"Wait a minute," Sirius said. "Miranda you never explained what Harry did to James's life string."
"Oh right," I agreed. "What Harry did was a spell so that the Fates can never cut his string again. Your string is now in your body, James. Boss taught us that spell for an emergency but not even I though it'd apply to this."
"Does that mean he's immortal?" Double-Dee asked.
Everyone either rolled his or her eyes or facepalmed.
"Of course not." I said almost exasperatedly. "He can still die of old age, or get hit by a car or a bullet or…."
"Uh Miranda," Lily interrupted. "We get it."
"Sorry."
I put a freezing charm on Harry as we reached Rip. We didn't have to re-explain what was happening to Jenny since she overheard us with her radar. We quickly got into our compartments, and Rip started to rise into the air as a portal opened, but Pocahontas suddenly came by.
"Hi!" She said to me. "I was wondering if you and your friends wanted to spend the night at the village."
"Sorry not right away." I apologized. "We have a little business to deal with."
Pocahontas looked disappointed. Fortunately I got an idea.
"Although…." I continued. "We might not finish until late so we can sleep over here when we get back, we'll need a very good rest before moving on to the next Adventure."
Pocahontas smiled.
"Gotta go," I smiled. "Bye Pocahontas!"
Hermione, Ron W, and the rest of the team said bye back as Pocahontas waved bye to us.