A/N: Heh heh, I had nothing better to do, so yea... I don't own HTF or Mime, Cuddles, Giggles, or Petunia, but I DO own Mint/Minuit, Adora, Babette, Soleil, Briand, Audric, the Sorcerer(who's name has not been revealed) and Amanda. :) I'm also hoping that this will be a pretty long chapter...

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Mime rushed outside and quickly rushed to the park. As he suspected, the people he'd expected to see there were there, taking a midnight stroll. He ran up to them and started jumping and pointing.

"Woah woah woah woah, Mime, slow down, and slowly signal what you're trying to say." Cuddles said.

Upon hearing that, he knew that there would be no time to signal. He only had one option that would save Mint in time; he had to speak. Though Mime didn't want to, he knew he really had no other option; he cared too much about Mint to let her be taken by that maniac.

"Mint's in trouble...!" He spoke for the first time in years, which startled everyone. His voice was kinda squeaky and cracked in places, but that was expected. Not using your voice for years and years had that effect.

"Who cares about her?" Adora asked, scowling. "She won't tell us the truth, so why should we save her?"

"I care! And she has a reason for not telling the truth!"

"There's no logical reason for her to lie!" Adora shot back.

Mime shook his head. She doesn't understand! "If you even care a little bit, right now is the time to show it! If she dies, I'm blaming you because you're the one who turned everyone against her!"

"ME? How did I turn everyone against her?! SHE'S the one who decided to lie to us all!"

"There's a difference in not speaking and lying, you know." Mime pointed out.

There was silence, then Adora spoke again. "But why didn't she tell us? Why?"

Mime hadn't realized how hard it woud be to tell them, but he knew they wouldn't help without the truth. "Because she's... she's... she's a sorceress."

-Meanwhile-

Mint slowly opened her eyes to find herself chained to a stone wall. Wha...? What's this? Oh no... She looked around. This is what the black room looks like without everyhing being black... I'm in the black rom, chained to a wall... Didn't the Sorcerer say that once I was here fully that he'd kill me?

"Ah, my dear, you're awake." the Sorcerer spoke, making Mint jump. "And no, I decided NOT to kill you. You're too valuable to just kill... but I will put you through so much pain that you will have no choice but to change back to your original form." He smirked, though she couldn't see this, and walked towards her. He then lifted a knife. Mint's eyes widened.

You wouldn't...!

"Oh, I would." With that, he put the knife against one of her chained arms and put pressure on it. She took in a sharp intake of breath as the knife easily cut deeply into her skin, and she couldn't help it; she gasped.

Stop that, that hurts!

"Oh, you haven't even felt the REAL pain yet." He laughed cruelly.

He then lifted the knife and put it to her cheek and not-so-gently put pressure on it.

Mint couldn't stop herself from trying to back up, but that caused her to hit her head on the wall and cause herself more pain.

"And you know, that's still minor pain. Now let's get to the REAL torture."

-The Others-

"SHE'S A WHAT?!"

Mime winced. He knew they wouldn't take it lightly, but if he didn't say anything, he'd never be able to convince them to come.

"Just help me save her, please!" Mime started. "She-"

"I'm not helping a sorceress! They're more commonly known as WITCHES you know!" Briand spat.

"Just because she's a sorceress doesn't mean she's not Mint, or Minuit, whoever you wanna call her!"

"She's not mortal either!"

"Yes she is! She feels pain just like the rest of us! She can even die!"

"How would you know that?!"

"Because I've seen her along with thousands of other friends die!"

Silence followed that statement.

Mime turned to Cuddles. "Obviously you all forgot that poem? 'There's no reason to feel pain, When, somehow, we're all the same!' She's still the same person we knew before!"

"But now it's different..."

Mime shook his head. "No it's not, not at all!" with that, he turned around and ran the way he saw the Sorcerer run away in.

I should of known I couldn't count on them!

All of a sudden, a familiar yellow rabbit was at his side. "Hey, c'mon now, if she's that important to you, why should I abandon you and her?" He smiled slightly. "Besides, you're right, she's still Mint."

GIggles came up on his other side. "And besides that, friends don't abandon each other."

Petunia ran up beside Giggles. "And all I have to say is, if she's a sorceress, well, what difference should it make?"

All the difference... Mime thought. He smiled slightly. Then they continued running.

Adora and Briand stayed behind.

-Back with Mint and the Sorcerer-

Mint bit her lower lip to keep from yelling out. Please oh please stop! she thought.

"I don't think I will." He smirked. Then he took the knife away from her arms and flames shot up from his hands, engulfing the knife. Then the fire extinguished and the knife was glowing red with heat. Mint's eyes widened. "Just stay still. If I'm not mistaken, a knife heated at 200,000 degrees fahrenheit should do the trick." He laughed.

It would of melted at that heat, though!

"Wrong, little girl. All my stuff is unbreakable." He laughed as he approached her again. "This will only hurt for the next couple hours, maybe a few days."

Mint tightly closed her eyes and bit her lower lip, but as soon as the knife touched her face, for the first time in months, she yelled out in pain.

-The Others-

"Where are we going?" Cuddles asked. Mime glanced at him, but refused to speak.

I've spoken enough as it is!

Mime suddenly skid to a stop, making Cuddles run into him, Giggles run into Cuddles, and Petunia run into Giggles, thus knocking Mime down. He stood back up and dusted himself off. He silently sighed and turned around and pointed at a building.

Giggles looked at the building and her eyes widened. The building was surrounded by black smoke. "There's no way I'm going in there!"

Mime looked at her for a few seconds before turning around and running towards the building.

Giggles sighed. "If we die, I'm blaming you, Mime!" she quickly followed and Cuddles and Petunia followed her.

--With Mint--

"You're very stubborn, girl." the Sorcerer scowled.

Mint took a few deep breaths and smirked kinda weakly. "Living in Happy Tree Town has taught me to bare pain a little better."

"Oh, so you finally speak, do you?" The Sorcerer laughed slightly. "You're just like your mother, you know. Stubborn, determined, trustworthy... loyal." he smirked. "Very loyal. I wonder what you would do if I hurt one of your friends... You've never been so angry that you'd shout at one of your friends, let's say... that blue deer." he smirked. Mint looked at him with suspicion.

"What are you suggesting?" she asked suspiciously.

"Oh, nothing really, except maybe you'd be extremely angry if I hurt him. And maybe even you'd feel a little hurt that I would hurt your friends just to get to you." he smirked. "Any kind of extreme pain or anger can transform you. And I promise you, girl, I will release that other you."

"You're wrong, you know. This girl here has been a very good girl these past seven years since I saw you last. Without my powers, I've been able to train myself to not be evil. I'm on the good side, I'm the opposite of you and Aunt Papillon. Tell me, how is Aunt Papillon these days? Dead, if I presume correctly, right? You got angry when she refused you, so you killed her. You killed your own best fri-" the Sorcerer slapped her suddenly.

"Don't you ever mention that woman again! She was a disgrace to everyone! Didn't even know her own destiny!"

Just as I thought... it's Jack. I never knew JACK was a sorcerer...

"Of course I'm a sorcerer, girl!" Then the Sorcerer, Jack, pulled his hood back. The cat's eyes were a blood-red color, and his fur darker than the night time sky on a new moon. "Did you REALLY think I was a normal cat?! HA!"

"What do you want with me anyway?!"

"You're a powerful sorceress. What's not to want with you?!"

Mint knew what that meant.

"Aren't you a little old for me?" Mint scoffed. "And I thought you were trying to kill me!"

"Au conraire, Minuit, I am only eighteen, only four years older than you."

"Eighteen?!"

"You didn't really think I aged, did you? I can choose whatever age I want to be! I'm practically a god!"

Mint growled slightly. "You might practically be a god, but you're not the God!"

"SILENCE!" With that, Jack the Sorcerer, someone who Mint had once trusted, grabbed her arms and yanked her to her feet, unfastening her wrists from the chain with his staff. Then he threw her against the wall and laughed cruelly. "You didn't know your step mother and father were working for me, did you? They only want Soleil back!" he laughed. "Your friends don't want anything to do with you either! You have nowhere else to go!" he laughed again. "Besides, my original goal had been to kill you, but then I noticed how much control you had and realized just how powerful you were."

Mint stared up at him. Suddenly, a memory came to mind.

Mime had come running down the stairs with an alarmed look on his face. I had looked a little surprised as he was pointing upstairs and jumping up and down a little. I didn't understand then, but he was gesturing a warning about my step-mother...! Mint stood up with some trouble.

"Yes, I guess you should have seen that. Anyway, I'll give you the honor of killing all of your little friends." he smirked and pointed the staff at her. He muttered something under his breath and Mint fel a familiar burning pain in her body. "If I can't get you to change by using pain or anger, then I'll just change you back using magic!" he laughed menacingly. "Goodbye Mint, hello Minuit!"

Mint's fur changed from grean-and-blue to black-and-cobalt-blue. Her hair, though, was a mixture of cobalt blue and violet. Her eyes turned from mint-green to amber-colored. She gasped and collapsed against the wall.

"I don't know why I didn't think of this before!" he laughed. "Minuit, who is your master?!"

Minuit looked up, her eyes glowing a little bit. She smirked evilly. "You are."

--The Others--

The smoke suddenly got darker, and they heard evil laughter.

"Come on, don't stand there, Minuit has gotta be in there!" They all turned around, startled. Briand and Adora were running up to them.

"What are you two doing here?" Cuddles demanded.

"We thought about what you had said." Adora answered, but said it to Mime as though he were the one who had asked.

Mime stared back, not very happy, but then he turned and ran into the building. The rest quickly followed. They all stopped in the entrance hall, where a black-and-cobalt-blue cat with cobalt-blue-and-violet hair stood. She wore a cloak around her shoulders, and stared at them with cold amber-colored eyes. The cloak covered any other kind of clothing she might have been wearing. She was smirking evily.

"And just where do you think you're going?" she laughed cruelly, but the voice was familiar.

"That's Mint!" Giggles exclaimed, suddenly afraid.

"I'm sorry, chipmunk, but I do not know who 'Mint' is." Mint stated with a laugh.

"Well then, Minuit!" Adora exclaimed.

Mint looked startled. "How do you know my name?"

It became clear that all her memories of them were obscured, gone, missing, not there... deminished.

"What has he done to you?!" Briand exclaimed.

"Minuit, it's us! Your friends!" Adora exclaimed.

Minuit stared at her for a second. "I have no friends." She raised her hand to the side and a black staff appeared in her hand, with a cobalt-blue orb with swirling black energy in the middle. "And I never met any of you in my life!"

(DUN DUN DUN!)

The others stared up at Minuit as she pointed her staff at them. "And I must ask you to leave, because I'm not very fond of killing, but if you go anywhere near the Master, I will kill you!"

"Don't wait for them to come forward, just kill them!" Minuit looked surprised, then turned around. The Sorcerer stood there.

"But Master, they haven't done anything wrong..."

"They're trespassing on our territory! Has being in that other form for so long made you soft girl?! KILL THEM!"

"As you wish, Master." she turned around and stared at them with cold eyes. "Prepare to die!" With that, she pointed the staff back at them, then centered it on Adora. She smirked. "Little arctic fox can say 'bye bye' to ever seeing that annoying little fox pup!" with that, she muttered something under her breath...

But before she could do anything, Briand tackled her. "IF YOU HURT MY SISTER, I'LL NEVER FORGIVE YOU!"

Minuit fell to the ground. "GAH! That's it, NOW you've made me mad!" With that, she kicked Briand off of her and jumped into the air...

...and she was suddenly floating. The others stared up at her. She smirked.

"Being a sorceress gives me some advantages over you!"

"Minuit, please stop!" Petunia called out. Mint looked at her, her cruel eyes seeming to blaze with fire.

"Shut up, you pathetic raccoon!"

"I'm a skunk, not a raccoon!"

"WHATEVER!" And then Minuit cast a spell, and Petunia just barely escaped it. "STAY STILL, YOU LITTLE CREEP!"

"Stop it, Mint!" Cuddles exclaimed.

Minuit scowled. "My. Name. Is. NOT. MINT!" She yelled.

That's when Mime started jumping up and down, pointing towards the Sorcerer, then pretending to die, then quickly jumping back up, then pointing to Mint herself. Mint was confused.

"Why don't you just speak, you stupid deer?"

Mime looked kinda hurt, but he quickly shook his head.

"Cuddles! I think I got a plan!" Briand suddenly exclaimed.

Cuddles looked at him. "What is it?"

"What if we bring up times of her past, so as to bring back memories!"

"That's a great plan!"

"Hey, Minuit, remember the first day of third grade?? When we first met? At recess, you remember? When I accidentally hit you with my paper plane! You remember that?!" Briand suddenly exclaimed. Minuit looked at him with cold eyes, but something seemed to register in her mind.

"Remember when we nicknamed you Mint? In your other form? We nicknamed you Mint because you looked like a mint! Do you remember that. Minuit?" Cuddles asked, making sure to call her Minuit and not Mint.

"Remember the sleepover we had at my house during the second week of you being in Happy Tree Town? After the fifth time you'd died that week? Do you?" Giggles asked, realizing what they were doing.

"Remember when I helped pick out a house for you during your first few days there? Remember how I helped you organize everything, and how I taught you how to use the stove?" Petunia questioned.

"Do you remember when Babette was first born? How we thought she was going to be a huge problem, but she turned out to be the best cousin and friend any two girls could wish for, even though she was only three when you left? Remember?" Adora added.

Mime, though, he'd had enough of speaking, so he pulled his unicycle out of nowhere and jumped on it and started juggling three rubber balls, then he jumped down and made an invisible lasso, then tossed it around Cuddles(pulling him to the ground), then did the whole 'zip the lip' movement. He was refferring back to when he was helping her become a mime.

Suddenly. memories came flooding back to her; The Sorcerer killing her mother, the Sorcerer taking Soleil, her father yelling at her for the first time ever, running away from home, meeting the Happy Tree Towners, asking Mime for help, getting the letter, coming back, the Sorcerer threatening her and her friends, the Sorcerer taking Babette, the Sorcerer changing her back. She remembered everything.

"Be quiet, you pesky children! You'll ruin my plans!" the Sorcerer yelled, not knowing his plans were already ruined.

"No!" Cuddles exclaimed, but just as he said this, Minuit's staff fell from her hand, and the cloak started disappearing in and turning to black sparkling dust that obscured Minuit from everyone's vision for a couple of seconds, then when she was just barely visible, you could see she was back to the way she was when her friends met her.

The staff fell to the floor and the crystal orb shattered, sending crystal pieces everywhere. Everyone shielded their faces from it.

Mime glanced back at Mint and realized she had started to fall.

--To Be Continued--

WOAH, that's a pretty long chapter. ;D Not much more to go now. So, did I make this chapter dramatic enough? XD Too dramatic? Not dramatic enough? lol

Hmm, I guess Adora isn't as bad as you'd think. XD And I'd been fighting a battle with myself whether to make Mime talk or not in the beginning, but I guess you could see what I finally chose. And OMG, Mint is so creepy in her sorceress form. XD Hmm, I wonder what kind of bad luck the broken orb will bring. and OMG MINT IS FALLING! ... Aww, well, it's kinda obvious who saves her, I guess. XD Anyway, tell me what you think! Were you on the edge of your chair, your adrenaline pumping, or were you just laying back and yawning? XD Please tell me. ^^ Reviewers will get ice cream! ^^