Donald Duck, court wizard to the King, waddled down the red carpeted halls of
Disney Castle. The duck wore the traditional conical hat and blue robes of a wizard of his stature.
Beside the wizard passed the enchanted broomsticks that acted as servants to the patrons of the
castle, cleaning up whatever messes turned up without complaint.
Donald soon stopped at a set of towering doors marked with the King's vigil, a mouse head.
The duck approached the doors and knocked a steady rhythm against their marble surface.
A small doorway then revealed itself and the wizard passed through without delay.
The hall of the King was enormous, stretching as large as a football field and dominated on both
sides by marble pillars that held against the high ceiling. The duck did not say it to the king's
face, but he felt the hall could do with a bit of construction to make it shorter, after all it could
get tiring day after day to walk up and down the length of the royal hall.
"Good morning, your Majesty" Donald quacked, inclining his head to the large gold ornate
throne at the halls end.
"It is nice to see you this morn --" the duck began greeting the King, until he noticed that the
monarch was absent from his golden seat. Suddenly the King's royal mutt, Pluto, emerged from
behind the throne with a letter bearing the King's seal held in his mouth.
It took the wizard a few moments to catch the dog before he managed to grab the letter the dog
held between its slathering jaws and even then the wizard found that the letter was covered in
the creatures slobber.
Once the duck had dried the letter with the hem of his robes he began to read it, but Donald could
not believe what he read and as he did his eyes began to widen in both shock and fear. The duck
emerged from the hall moments later shouting at the top of his lung, unbelieving of what the
King had done.
The duck then realized that the only other person he could trust with the news was the Captain of
the Disney Castle Guard, but when the duck went to the Captain's quarters he found them empty.
"Where could he have....There he is!" the duck began to ask himself as he wandered the empty
halls before sighting the Captain's armored form lain out in the gardens.
The duck ran through the beautiful garden courtyard of the Disney castle, passing shrubbery that
had been created into varying creatures and shapes by the wishes of the King.
Donald found the Captain slumbering by one of these sculpted pieces of shrubbery with his
armored helm open to allow the overhead to fall onto his snoring face.
"Goofy!" the court wizard shouted, but the Captain was fast asleep. The duck then grumbled to
itself about laziness before raising up his wand toward the heavens.
"Thunder!" the duck quacked, creating a lightning bolt that struck the Captain and awakening
him with a cry of pain.
The Captain then gazed around until his eyes fell upon the flustered wizard.
"Hey there Donald, good morning" Goofy said, raising on emailed fist in greeting to the wizard.
"No time Goofy, we have a serious problem, but you cannot tell anyone....." Donald said in a
whisper, looking out of the corners of his eyes for anyone that might be listening.
Goofy nodded his head slowly in understanding before his eyes suddenly lit up.
"Queen Minnie?" the Captain said, but the duck shook his feathered head vigorously.
"Not even the Queen" the duck said with an upturned bill.
"Daisy?" Goofy asked, but the duck only shouted his refusal at the Captain.
"No, its top secret" Donald said with an expression of annoyance.
"Good morning Ladies" Goofy said, gazing behind the wizard at the two figures who now stood
there with expressions of concern. The duck then slowly turned his head to face the Queen and her hand maiden, Daisy, both of whom were looking at the duck crossly.