A/N: Hello there readers! I 'm finally able to present to you, chapter 30. It's here! Yay! Sorry it took so long, i had like some of the worst writers block I've ever had during this chapter and I have to say the ideas that finally allowed me to finish this chap were not completely my own. The base for some of them in this chapter and the next were given to me by a friend. Let me give credit where credit is due. I could not have written this chapter if it weren't for my best friend spaztastic417. If you like Hunger Games, check out her stories. Anyway, without further ado I present, CHAPTER 30!
"What are we gonna do?" Willa said, pacing Wanda's living room. The other keepers were scattered around the room.
"We'll find a way to solve this problem, just like we always do." said Philby. "We can do this. Together, we're strong."
"I don't know" said Willa. "I'm just so scared. We've never seen anything like this. Wanda. Wanda! Of all people to have a green eye spell put on them…" she sighed and slunk down into an armchair, burying her face in her hands.
"I just don't know what to do anymore."
"Don't worry Wills. We'll find a way." said Amanda.
"Love was always able to break through the green eye curse before" said Jess. "A lot of times actually. Finn's mom on the cruise ship, me with Amanda at the Tower of Terror and Olivia with Charlene at Typhoon Lagoon."
"Ya" said Willa. "That's good and all, but that also means to break the curse we would need to put someone's life in danger."
"Not necessarily" said Amanda, standing up from where she was sitting, obviously realizing something. "There needs to be a lot of love and pain which usually means that the green eye sees a person they love in fatal danger. I think you guys might be on to something."
"What do you mean?" said Willa. "We're not putting anyone in real danger if that's what you're implying. We can't risk that."
"Of course not" said Amanda. "But here's the thing. We can pretend that someone is dead or in danger. We'll know it's fake, but the green eye's won't."
"That's genius!" said Philby.
"Thanks!" said Amanda.
"I don't know." said Willa. "It still sounds too dangerous. Something could go wrong."
"Not if we plan it out." said Finn.
"Wait a minute." said Maybeck. "There's one thing we all know, but we're just too afraid to bring it up. This is going to take a big plan and we all know who we need for a big plan…" all of the keepers turned their heads towards the floor. Maybeck was right.
"Wayne" said Charlene. "We need Wayne." It was the first time she had spoken since the keepers arrived at the apartment. She had spent her entire time by Olivia's side and was still clutching her hand.
"But how do we find him?" said Finn. "He could be anywhere and even if we do find him, how do we free him?"
"Well…" said Willa. "When I was looking for you guys, I saw him twice. Once as a hologram and once in person. When I saw him for real, I wasn't even able to talk to him before Maleficent stepped in front of me and tried to take me to the cell in Everest."
"Where did you see him?" said Finn.
"It was in this little room. The one that was at the end of the tunnel in that tree at Animal Kingdom. The one Amanda got captured in."
"So let's go there!" said Charlene.
"One problem with that" said Philby. "He's probably been moved by now. And, if he has, we have no idea where he could be."
"It can't hurt to go there and look!" said Finn.
"Yes it could" said Willa. "We can't go look there. Once you're down in that place, the door seals and traps you in completely, with no hope of escape."
"So one of holds the door open." said Finn.
"I don't think it's that simple." said Amanda. "You don't get it. You haven't had it happen to you. That door shuts faster than you can imagine and there's no way of opening it once it seals. We can't go look for Wayne there. We'd be dooming ourselves."
"But what if that's where he is?" said Charlene. "We have to find him!"
"I don't think he'll be there." said Willa. "The OTs know that I saw him. They HAVE to have moved him by now."
"Great." said Maybeck. "So we're back to square one. That's just wonderful."
"Not necessarily" said Philby. They all looked at him quizzically. He pulled out a disc.
"I took the footage out of the surveillance camera at Expedition Everest before we left just in case." he said. "We can watch it and see if there are any clues that might tell us where Wayne is."
"Well why didn't you say anything sooner?!" said Willa. "Put it in!"
Philby put the disc in Wanda's DVD player and hit play. The keepers had been watching the surveillance footage for about 10 minutes and still had not found anything useful.
"Let's just give this up." said Maybeck. "There's nothing here. I told you, we're back to square one and there's nothing we can do about it."
"Wait!" said Willa, noticing something on the screen. "Look! Over there! It's Cruella and she's talking to Sally and Luowski."
"Oh children" Cruella said.
"Yes your grace?" said Sally "Tell all of your fellow followers to meet by the Magic Kingdom Rail Road tonight at midnight. We have some matters to take care of."
"Matters, your grace?"
"The white haired old man." Cruella said with an evil smirk on her face. "His time has come."
The keepers sat with their jaws on the floor and their eyes wide.
"What are we gonna do?!" said Charlene. "Wayne is doomed!"
"Maybe not" said Willa. "I have a plan. We go to that train tonight and we can not only save Wayne, but also get our loved ones back"
"But how?" said Charlene. "How would that work?"
"Finn, you can still go all clear for a significant amount of time right?" said Willa.
"Ya of course" said Finn.
"Good" said Willa. "Cause you and I, we're gonna need it"
"I'm still confused." said Maybeck. "You're not making any sense right now Willa"
"Let me explain" she said. The formed a huddle and Willa explained her plan.
"That might just work." said Amanda. "In fact, it's brilliant!"
"I don't know" said Philby. "It seems too risky. You guys could die!"
"We'll be fine." said Willa. "Sure it's risky, but if it means saving the people I love from a horrible curse, it's a risk that I'm willing to take."
"So what do we do now?" said Jess.
"Now" said Willa. "We wait until a little bit before midnight and then we cross over."
While the keepers were waiting until they had to begin the rescue, Charlene still refused to leave Olivia alone.
"She's okay you know" said Willa, kneeling next to Charlene. "She's just asleep."
"Then why hasn't she woken up?" said Charlene, crying. "What if we accidentally put the wrong thing in the water? What if it wasn't sedative? What if it killed her?"
"Trust me she's asleep. It was just a really strong sedative."
"Please." said Charlene. "I really just want to stay with her until she wakes up, or at least until we have to go to sleep."
"Okay." said Willa. "I get it. I'll leave." Willa got up and began to turn around.
"Actually, Wills?" said Charlene. Willa turned around. "Could you stay with me?" Willa smiled.
"Sure" she said. The two girls sat there for a while, not saying anything, just leaning on each other for comfort. Then, Charlene broke the silence.
"You know what. We should really go get ready. Get dressed in black clothes, eat dinner, you know, all that stuff." Willa could hear the regret in her voice.
"No Charlie, don't worry." she said. "Seriously it'll be fine. You can stay a little longer. I know you want to"
"No really it's okay." Charlene got up and started to walk away.
Willa, not knowing what to do, followed her. Charlene held her head down, still wiping tears away. What if Olivia as dead? The chances were good because she still hadn't woken up. Suddenly she heard a yawn.
"Ch- Charlie?" a voice said. Charlene turned around and began to cry even harder.
"Olivia!" Charlene said, half laughing, half crying. "You're okay!"
She ran to Olivia, and hugged her more tightly than she ever had.
"Charlie" said Olivia, now about to start crying herself. "I-I thought you hated me"
"Well here's the thing" said Charlene. "I thought I hated you. I was blinded by anger and hurt. I knew you had been under a spell, but I couldn't rationalize it. But then, you accidentally drank that sedative and you were asleep for a long time, out cold. There was nothing I could do about it and I didn't know if you were ever gonna wake up."
"But I'm awake now." said Olivia. "Aren't you mad at me again?"
"Olivia I thought you were dead. I could not stay mad at you no matter the circumstances. You're one of my best friends. I could not loose you. Besides, I know now that you were completely controlled by the spell when you were a green eye because from what I saw after you fell asleep, the people they've got as green eyes now, there's no way they could ever be green eyes."
Olivia pulled away from Charlene, suddenly concerned.
"New green eyes?" she said. "Charlie what are you talking about? What happened? Who's a green eye?"
Charlene took a deep breath still unable to completely fathom the situation herself.
"After you fell asleep, we were able to free the prisoners" she began slowly. "We were so happy, but there were some people we couldn't find. The only ones we saw were the characters and cast members. Finn couldn't find his sister, Willa couldn't find her mom and none of us could find Wanda, Wayne's daughter."
Olivia gasped, realizing what Charlene was getting at.
"You can't be serious!" she said.
"I am" said Charlene her voice now completely serious and full of worry. "Finn's mom and Willa's cousin were already green eyes before we tried to free the prisoners. Willa's mom was at one point, but then the Overtakers just put her in the cell. Nothing could have prepared us for Finn's little sister though and we never expected it to happen to Wanda in a million years."
"So what are we gonna do?" said Olivia.
"Well…" said Charlene. "The OTs are planning to kill Wayne using the WDW railroad at midnight tonight. Willa has this brilliant plan to free him, Finn's mom and sister and her mom and cousin."
"And for Wanda?" asked Olivia.
"Well we figure that seeing her father seriously about to be murdered will do the trick. Love can break through the spell in a heartbeat. You know that from experience."
"Ya" said Olivia. "It's even kinda scary when you break through. So what's the plan?"
Charlene explained Willa's plan and when she finished, Olivia nodded.
"That should work, but it's risky."
"Ya we know." said Charlene. "We discussed that already. We're all used to taking huge risks here."
"And once you've freed the green eyes, how do you plan to save Wayne?"
"For that part" said Charlene. "We're gonna have to do what we usually end up doing anyway. We're gonna have to play it by year."
Just before midnight that night, the kids arrived in the magic kingdom as their DHIs. Because she couldn't cross over, Olivia had stayed behind to man the controls. The keepers stood just below the main street railroad. Willa looked up at the tracks and was horrified. There in a cluster stood all of the green eyes, including Wanda. That wasn't all. There were Overtakers everywhere, from Green Army Men and CTDs to the terrible threesome. They were all there. Finally, there was the Walt Disney World Railroad, all of the doors shut tight with padlocks, bolts and chains. Wayne was quite obviously in there. Willa nearly fainted, she wanted to throw up.
"This might be a bit harder than we expected" she said to the other keepers.
Philby, seeing the fear in her eyes, walked over and grabbed her hand. She gave him a weak smile and he did the same. Together, all of the keepers snuck t the train platform, hoping that their plan would work.
Once they reached the platform, they snuck across as quietly as possible through the back. Luckily they were able to find a large bunch of bushes to hide behind right near the front of the train. Philby looked at his watch
"It's midnight guys." he said. "Looks like they're about to start." Willa took a deep breath and turned to Finn.
"Ready?" she said.
"Ya" Finn replied. "Let's do this"
Willa gave Philby one last hug and then released her hand. Philby reached for her, not wanting to let go.
"I'm gonna be fine" she said, crying from nerves.
"Wills" said Charlene. "Maybe we shouldn't do this. It's too dangerous."
"It'll work" said Willa. "Don't worry."
Willa looked at Finn and grabbed his hand. Together they walked to the front of their hiding spot.
"Okay" said Finn. "On go. Ready?"
"Here we go" she said. Willa's stomach churned as Maleficent spoke.
"My friends!" she screamed. "The time has come! Soon, Wayne Kresky will dead! The kingdom keepers won't stand a chance and at long last the kingdom will be ours!"
There was a lot of laughing, cheering, hooting and hollering. Willa nearly threw up. There was no backing out now. She had to this; for everyone. The train started up and the wheels started to turn. As it started to move a forward it sped up. Just then, Finn and Willa ran out onto the tracks. The train hit them, and suddenly they were no longer visible.
Wanda was smiling along with the others as midnight approached. Finally, her grace Maleficent began her speech. Wanda smiled as she talked, clapping and cheering along with everyone. This was the moment, they were about to begin the climb to victory.
"Soon Wayne Kresky will be dead"
Wanda brought up her hands and was about to start clapping again when, why was she getting that feeling in her stomach. The leader of the Kingdom Keepers was going to die, this was a good thing. Still, she couldn't shake the butterflies and nausea from the pit of her stomach.
Suddenly, she began to tremble and she continued to feel more and more sick to her stomach. Why was she feeling like this? What did this man matter to her? Little pieces of memories began to float back into her mind. Her nausea became worse and worse. She was going to faint she was sure of it.
She looked over at the train. Its doors were padlocked shut. Why did she want to break them and get the white haired man out of there? More and more memories started to flood back and she gasped heavily. Suddenly, she was aware of her surroundings again noticing everything. Overtakers were surrounding her and locked in the train over there was…. she almost hurled.
"Daddy!" she gasped.
Mrs. Whitman was laughing and cheering with the others. The train was carrying the old man to his doom. The Overtakers were going to win. She was laughing hysterically. She was cheering. And then she saw her son step out onto the train tracks.
All the air drew from chest as the train continued on by. She felt like her world had ended. She felt frozen, about to fall to her knees. She looked to her left and saw her daughter crying. Had the Overtakers put a spell on her own daughter too? She was still ashamed for letting herself get cursed. She couldn't stand the fact of working against her son.
She looked to the other side of her and saw a brunette woman about her age, breaking down in tears. There was also a girl about Finn's age, maybe a year or so older, looking shell shocked. Both of them had brown eyes. She looked to her daughter, whose eyes were fading from green to blue. The spell had been broken. The other woman and the teenage girl must have been the family of the other girl Finn had been with. Willa she thought her name was.
"Finn?" she heard her daughter choke out. Suddenly, she found herself on her knees, screaming. Her daughter ran up to her crying and threw her arms around her. She looked up and saw that the train was almost finished passing by. She hugged her daughter tighter, making her that she wasn't looking at the tracks when the train passed. She shut her eyes. She didn't want to see what would be there either.
She looked to her right and saw that Willa's family was hugging as well. All there was left to do now was cry and comfort each other. Maleficent was laughing manically and she could still do nothing but scream. She cried and screamed and cried even more. She couldn't bear it. Suddenly she heard Maleficent scream
"NO! IT'S NOT POSSIBLE!"
She was confused, suddenly she looked up, but she couldn't see anything through the blur of tears. Then, she thought she heard Finn's voice calling her. No it couldn't be.
"MOM!" he called. She was sure of it this time.
She looked up, wiped her tears away and screamed. There he was. Before she could think, she was on her feet running to him and he was in her arms. She found herself crying.
"You're okay!" she said.
"Ya" he said. "And you're okay." He pulled away from his mother and hugged his sister tightly.
"How did you do it?" she asked him.
"Yes Finn how did you do it?" asked his mother. "How are you alive I mean."
"We went all clear Mom" he said. "Me and my friend Willa I mean. We focused on being purely light and became our full DHIs. That way, we were light and the train passed right through us."
"That's so cool!" said his little sister.
"Welcome to my kingdom keeper life Katie" he said. He looked back to his mother.
"Why did you do that Finn?" she said. "You scared me half to death. I thought you were dead!"
"That was kinda the point mom" he said. "I didn't want to scare you, but love is the only way to break the green eye spell and we needed to figure out a way to free you guys without anyone actually getting hurt."
"It was too dangerous." she said. "If you had failed at going all clear, you would have died."
"But I didn't" he said.
"Just…come here." she said pulling him into another tight hug.
At the same time, Willa was having a reunion of her own. Her mother was hugging her, crying and refusing to let go. When she finally released, Willa hugged Meaghan.
"I'm just so glad you're both okay." she said. "When the Overtakers put the spell on you, and mom when they were going to kill you…" Willa found herself crying.
"I couldn't take it. I needed you both to be okay. I just, I was all alone and I didn't know what would happen to you…" Willa broke down in tears. Meaghan hugged her again.
"Thanks" said Willa, wiping her tears away.
"Willa…" said Meaghan. "I am so sorry I didn't believe you when you told me about all of this."
"It's okay." said Willa. "I shouldn't have expected you to believe it at first. It's a lot to take in I know."
"No, I should've known you wouldn't lie to me. You're my cousin and I should have believed you. I just feel so bad. I can't believe they had me try to kill you."
"Megs, seriously it's fine."
"No it's not! I cannot forgive myself. Maybe if I had believed you and we had gone home together I never would have gotten cursed and you wouldn't have been so alone. Maybe we could've prevented your mom from getting captured too. I just…" Meaghan started crying again. Willa put a hand on her shoulder.
"It's okay."
"I'm still confused. How did you survive that?"said her mother
"Well…" said Willa. "You see, um… it's kinda a long story. Can I explain later?"
"Yes, of course" said her mother.
Willa's mother put her arm around her and they walked over to Finn and his family, smiling.
"You're okay?" she said to him.
"Ya" he replied. "You?"
"I'm fine."
Just then, the other keepers came bursting out of the bushes. Philby immediately ran to Willa.
"Are you okay?" he said, practically shouting. "No cuts, bruises, head trauma…"
"I'm fine" Willa replied, laughing.
"Just making sure." he said. Willa indicated her mom.
"Philby, this is my mom. Mom this is Philby my…" she took a second before saying the next word because she still could hardly believe it herself.
"My boyfriend." Philby shook Mrs. Angelo's hand.
"Nice to meet you." he said.
Just then, Charlene came over.
"Um guys," she said. "I don't mean to break up this beautiful reunion, but in case you haven't noticed, the train's already moved on and the Overtakers followed it. We didn't just come here to free your families remember. There's a second part to the mission."
"Right" said Willa. "Wayne" she looked at Finn and Philby.
"We gotta go." she said. "Before it's too late."
"If it's not already too late."
None of the keepers enjoyed Maybeck's morbidity, and normally they would say something about it, but today they knew that he could very well be right. The keepers took off at a run in the direction of the train track.
Halfway to the current place of the train, they found Wanda, crying.
Oh no. thought Willa. I hope this doesn't mean… She shook the thought from her mind. She had to focus.
"Wanda what happened?" said Amanda.
"The train" said Wanda. "It kept going faster and…I couldn't keep up with it anymore and my father… he's in there. They're gonna kill him."
"We know" said Finn. "We're trying to save him. We've gotta keep going."
"Finn?" she said. She looked behind him. "Willa? I thought you two were…"
"Long story" said Willa, cutting her off. "No time for that. We have to go. Like NOW"
Jess and Amanda helped Wanda up and they all continued to run, following the tracks.
A/N: Well that's it! Did you like it? I was going to end this chap in a hugely bad cliffie, but I decided not to for the sake of future chapter organization, oh and don't worry I have a basic idea of what will happen next so the next chap should be coming soon. here are the discussion items for this time.
1. Okay, so I only got two votes for my audio recording and had to choose between the two of them and I am happy to say that I will be reading chapter 29. It is not uploaded yet, but will be soon. So keep your eye out for that my youtube channel is theatregirl1018. I hope everyone enjoys that.
2. Another thing that I have decided to do with my youtube fanfiction videos is a Q&A to be uploaded after the last chapter of WGA. We're approaching the end now, seriously, these are gonna be the next few chapters. After this, maybe there will be 2 or 3 more plus an epilogue. So, i'm going to ask you all to submit questions. In a review or PM, I dont care which, leave 1 or a few questions you have for me. Whether they're about the fanfic, about me as a writer, about my writing process in general or especially for the writing of this fanfic, I will answer all of them! I can not show my face but it will still be enjoyable. I'm asking everyone to try and suibmit at least one question because the more questions we have the more fun this is for all of us.
THIS CHAPS SNEAK PEEK TRIVIA: What color are Finn's eyes. (HINT: The answer may shock you. When i reread the line I freaked)
As always, the first three to get it correct receive a sneak peek from chapter 31. See ya!
Keep calm and eliminate the Overtakers!
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