A/N: Hey guys here's chapter 20! Sorry it took so long, but I've been busy and was kind of stuck at one point about what to say next, but I got it eventually so, ya, here it is. Enjoy!
Willa turned around. There was no one there. She continued walking, but then she heard them again. When she turned around, there was still no one there, so she continued walking. Then she stopped and chills rushed through her spine as she heard the voice speaking behind her.
"Well, well, well lookie who we have here." Willa turned around. Her face was red with rage.
"Did you just see that? You probably wanna save the old man don't you? Too bad you don't know where he is. I would tell you but… oh that's right. I wouldn't." Willa's hands were clenched in fists. Did this girl who she knew to be so sweet really have no heart? Did the green eye spell really do that to someone? Willa did everything she could to stop herself from punching this girl.
"Shut up Olivia."
"It must be so hard for you, knowing that your friends are in trouble and not being able to do anything about it. I guess it doesn't matter that we didn't capture you, because honestly honey look at you. You're a hot mess of emotions. You really don't stand a chance do you? Tell me. What does it feel like to be a failure?" Willa couldn't contain herself any longer. She charged at Olivia and swung her arm to punch her in the face, but Olivia grabbed her hand before she could.
"My, my, my. No need to get violent. Why are you so angry? Because I helped to capture your best friend? Did you think that it wasn't fair? Well, let me tell you something Honey. Life isn't fair." Willa was still filled with fury.
"Might I remind you that that girl who you helped capture was your friend too." Olivia completely ignored what Willa was saying and continued to taunt her.
"Why did you even come down here in the first place? Were you looking for your mommy?" Willa was so angry, that she was able to break free of Olivia's grasp. She grabbed her by the neckline of her shirt. She was so angry and worried that she had gained strength that she normally didn't have.
"Where is she?" she shouted. Olivia was just laughing.
"Now now now, you wouldn't want your mommy seeing you this way would you?" Willa dropped Olivia. Her mother was here? Olivia reached behind her and pulled out a projector. She clicked a button. Willa's mother, along with the other keepers, appeared.
"Oh that's right" Olivia said. "She can't see you. You can see her though."
Willa's mother was crying. Charlene and Amanda were attempting to comfort her.
"It's okay." Amanda said. "I'm sure Willa is fine. If she wasn't, she'd be in here by now." Willa's mom continued to cry. Then she looked up.
"Hey" she said. "Why is there a camera over there?" Then, Willa heard a pirate's voice say
"We're projecting yee to the girl. We're…" but he was soon interrupted by another.
"Don't tell them that yee bucket o' barnacles. They'll just tell her where they are."
Suddenly, there was a frenzy in the prison cell. Philby soon came running up closer.
"Willa! We're at…" but before he could finish, Olivia shut off the projector. Immediately after that, she continued to taunt.
"Did you like seeing your mommy Willa? It was nice wasn't it?" Olivia turned to leave, but then stopped and turned the other way. "Oh, and I almost forgot to tell you. The master wanted me to deliver this message to you. Turn yourself in, or when the time comes, your mother will be the first to die. You have until midnight." With that, Olivia walked away, leaving Willa alone in shock.
Willa was speechless.
I have to turn myself in she thought. It's the only way to save my mom.
Tears started to stream out of her eyes again. Then, Willa remembered her conversation with Wayne, right after Wanda had been captured. The Overtakers were not ones to keep promises. If Willa turned herself in, they wouldn't let her mother go. Then they would all be captured, and that would be the end of all hope for the parks, and the world. Still, Willa couldn't help, but want to give in.
She could still hear Olivia's taunting voice. It burned a hole in her heart. It was then that she really thought about Olivia's words and what they meant. Olivia had said that her mother would "be the first to die"; the first to die. If her mother was going to be the first to die, that meant that there were going to be others following. Willa's heart sunk. What she had feared this whole time was true. She had better find Philby's clues and locate the flash drive soon, or her friends were going to die.
Willa was on her way to the Haunted Mansion. She had to find the clues as quickly as possible. She knew that the keepers had been in the Haunted Mansion at one point. She had seen the empty cells. The only problem was, she had no idea where the room she had been in was. The best that she could do was try to find the door that she had come out of that night. Even that was hard, because she was running so fast, she hadn't stopped to smell the roses and look at details. She closed her eyes and tried to remember as much as she could.
She remembered running for her life, running from the haunted mansion ghosts. She remembered bursting out of the door and not looking back for anything, trying to get somewhere safe fast. Just as she was about to give up, she realized something. She smiled because in fact, she had looked back straight at the door. There was a berry bush right next to the door. When Willa arrived at the haunted mansion, she searched the premises slowly. She passed about five doors, and none of them were the door that she had come out of.
How am I ever going to find them now? she thought. Willa saw a bench and sat down. She buried her head in her hands.
"I'm such a failure." She whispered. "I don't know why I ever thought I could succeed." Willa looked up. Through the blur of tears, she spotted something in the distance. She couldn't make it out, so she wiped the tears from her eyes. Then, she smiled and ran towards it. It was a berry bush. Willa walked over and opened the door. The hallways behind it were dark. She guessed they weren't used that often.
"I can't see a thing!" Willa said aloud. Then, she turned to her right and saw a flashlight. She followed the hallways until she reached a large room. There, a few feet away from her, were the empty cells she had come across a few days earlier. They were dustier than they had been. Willa looked around to make sure no one was coming. When she was sure that the coast was clear, she walked up to the first cell. She searched it three times over with the flashlight, but she found nothing. She moved on to the next cell, but she still found nothing. She continued searching , cell after cell, but she came up with the same result every time.
Finally she reached the last cell, and searched it with the flashlight. Lying in the corner was a folded piece of paper. She opened the door of the cell, and walked inside. She instantly coughed. The air inside of it was cold and dusty. Was this really how her friends, her second family, had been living for the past few days? It was no wonder Wayne was so sick. She felt sick, and she had only been in the cell a few seconds and was much younger than Wayne. At thought of Wayne, Willa thought of the night in the cell, when she saw him, coughing and rasping. The thought suddenly hit her that he could die. Tears began to form in her eyes and she shook the thought from her mind. She had to find her friends, fast. She walked to the corner and picked up the piece of paper. It read…
You'll find the next clue at the place where our team nearly fell apart.
Where the team had nearly fallen apart? What did that mean? Whatever, she could figure it out later.
"What have you got there?" a voice behind her said. Willa turned around and jumped. She was sure that no one was here. Where had they come from? Willa shoved the paper into her pocket. She was preparing to run, when she realized who was in front of her; Olivia Cheng. Willa sighed.
"Really?" she said. "Out of all the overtakers, they chose to send you? You know, your little taunting words are getting kind of old, don't you think? I'm not scared of you." Olivia smiled an evil smile.
"I thought you might say that. That's why I'm not the only one here."Another foot stepped out behind Olivia. Willa was filled with fear. It could be anyone; Maleficent, the evil queen, but Willa knew that she couldn't let Olivia see her fear. When she saw who was with Olivia, she realized she had nothing to be scared about.
"Are you scared of me?" said Cruella Deville.
"No." said Willa. "I mean, Maleficent can kill me with a fire ball, the evil queen can torture me with a spell, but I mean, come on. What are you gonna do? Fur coat me to death?" Cruella was shocked, but Olivia still smiled her creepy smile.
"Wait."she said. "There's someone else here." Willa didn't expect much. She had no idea how terribly wrong she was.
Willa heard the "click clack" of kitten heels on the floor. She was filled with some anxiety. The person could be Maleficent, the Evil Queen, or even another Disney Villain that she had never encountered. She instantly thought of Mother Gothel. No matter how nervous she was though, she didn't let it show. She knew that her fear, would only make the overtakers stronger.
So, she stood there strong and determined with a straight face. She withheld her calm demeanor quite well, that was, until the woman stepped out behind Olivia, revealing her identity. At that moment, she lost her calm face and her clenched fists. She lost every ounce of calm and strength in her body. Because no battle, no villain, no nightmare, no dream of Jess' could have prepared her for what she saw next.
Willa fell onto the floor. She choked on tears as Olivia smiled cruelly and Cruella laughed, well more like snorted.
Annoying Neuscencse. Willa thought. Willa looked up to the other woman again and wiped tears from her eyes. Willa's mother held out her arms and Willa ran into them, sobbing all the way.
"Mom" she said. Her mother held her tight and spoke to her gently.
"It's okay sweetheart, I'm here. Now listen to me. I want you safe and that's all that matters to me in this world. That can only happen if you give up. If you join them, you will be safe."
"No Mom" Willa cried. "That's not the only way. If I can find my friends, which I know I can, everything will be fine again. Trust me mom, I can do this. I've done it so far."
"No honey listen to me. You have to surrender. You have to join them."
Something wasn't right. Willa's mother always encouraged her to never give up and work hard for her goals. She would never tell her to give up. Something had to be wrong, and Willa thought she knew what. She thought back to the time at fantasmic when the overtakers had tried to trick the keepers with a hologram of Wayne telling them to give up. Except, Willa was hugging her mother, she wasn't a hologram. Willa started crying again and looked up, hoping to see her mother's deep brown eyes, expecting to see something else. Willa choked.
Turns out you don't always get what you hope for. She thought. Sometimes you just get what you expect. Willa shook her head, unable to believe what she saw. She wanted to think that those green eyes staring down at her were just part of some crazy, messed up dream. She wanted to think that this was all part of some crazy, messed up dream, that in a moment, she would open her eyes and she would be lying next to all of the keepers in Wanda's apartment. She wanted to think that way, but she couldn't.
A/N: DUH DUH DUH! So that's it for now. If you're on instagram, follow my kingdom keepers fan page kingdomkeepers365 and if you want my personal account theatregirl98. Bye guys!
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