Disney Princess Mini's: A Fanfiction
This FanFiction is a spin off from a previous fanfiction, 12 Worlds: A Disney Fanfiction
Once again dedicated to syrensong
World 8: The Race
"This won't be an easy race. Each pair has a track specifically designed to be as challenging as needed to create an equal playing field." Shang explained.
"For example: the more athletic couples have a longer track with physical obstacles. Others have more puzzle oriented obstacles. To further complicate things each pair can only have one runner at a time. Trade off happens at the halfway point. Here are the starting runners." Mulan explained as she put a list of the starting runners.
"Snow White where is Florian?" Shang asked.
"He is ill unfortunately." She said.
"Would you like to sit this one out? Merida and Elsa have decided too, rather than team up." Mulan said.
"I like to think of it as choosing not to run an incredibly long race in the blazing sun." Elsa explained.
"And I second that motion. Besides I like beating Shang in archery." Merida said with a laugh.
"Best thirteen out of fifteen!" Shang shouted.
The race began and the first racers were: Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Eric, Belle, Aladdin, John Smith, Naveen, Eugene, Anna and Alicia.
As they ran Aladdin and John Smith quickly passed Belle, all of whom had a similar route.
"This doesn't seem fair." John Smith observed.
"I agree, Belle doesn't stand much of a cha-" Aladdin was cut off by a falling rock. After he dodged the first another fell and another. It seemed like his personal track was full of traps.
"Good luck Aladdin!" John Smith said progressing further down his personal track. Suddenly the ground under him turned soft and he couldn't move. "Is this… quicksand?"
"Good luck boys." Belle yelled as she passed them completely uninhibited by traps.
A similar occurrence happened between Eric, Alicia and Aurora. While Eric had to swing from ropes to cross a river and Alicia had to destroy obstacles in her way Aurora had to run across a bridge.
"The race is going well." Shang said to Mulan as they observed. "Everything is balanced, as soon as Eric finishes the ropes course Aurora has crossed the bridge."
"Once the change happens we will know for sure if we balanced things correctly." Mulan said hopefully.
Soon enough they all made it to the trade off point and a horse or similar was given to the first runners so they could travel back to the finish line. They were of course forbidden to help. Some people had to double back, Ariel was allowed to swim (as a human) instead of using the ropes. Others however had to take drastically different paths. Instead of obstacle avoidance Jasmine had to defeat opponents to advance. Alex also had a different path than Alicia, in Alex's case he had to solve riddle after riddle. On one occasion Alex noticed an exhausted Snow White, she had to do both her course and Florian's, luckily it was an obstacle free run on both halves of the race.
"Alex lets go help Snow White." Alicia said.
"I suppose we should." Alex said as they went to her.
"Come on Snow White we'll give you a ride." Alex said as he offered to help her up to Alicia's horse.
"Umm Alex, it is a one person horse, and I am pretty tired too so, Beloved would you be willing to..." Alicia ran quiet.
"Carry Snow White the whole way? Are you serious?" Alex asked.
"Alex its Snow White." Alicia said.
A hundred exhausted 'thank yous' later and Alex, Alicia and Snow White made it to the next riddle. However a surprise awaited them. The elderly man set to give Alex the next riddle saw Alex carrying Snow White, and instead revealed a secret passage and advised them to use it. Unfortunately the horse was too tall to get through so Alicia rode along the main path while Alex carried Snow White through. As they continued down the secret path Snow White recovered enough to walk.
"Alex I want to thank you again. I thought I could complete the race on my own but it was just too much." Snow White said kindly.
"It's not a problem Snow White, I was happy to help. That looks like an exit, I'll move the bolder out of the way why don't you take a look at where we are." Alex said.
As he pulled on the bolder he exhausted himself. Snow White beckoned him to come with her but he was too tired to listen.
"It's okay, just go, I'll be along in a minuet. I just need to rest a bit." Seeing Snow White hesitate he continued. "I insist. Go on, please."
Snow White nodded excitedly and went outside.
Alex paused a moment to consider why she would be so excited. As he sat a thought occurred to him and he got up and stepped outside.
"Second Place is Prince Alexander." Mulan shouted.
"Oh Alex thank you so much for the win, I couldn't have done it without you. And to not even take the offer for a tie, you are truly noble." Snow White said to him happily.
Alex nodded in silence and forced a smile.