Everyone was confused, Arabella on where she was and the girls on her sudden change in behavior.
Elsa spoke, "That's actually a good question."
Arabella shook her head to clear it before she recognized the girls, "Hey! I know you girls! You're all in my favorite book! You're my heroes!"
Anna raised an eyebrow, "Then... why did you try to kill us?"
She seemed horrified at the accusation, "I would never! If I squashed a fly once and cried myself to sleep, imagine how I would feel after slaughtering all of you!"
Carefully, Mulan picked up the revolver, "Then why do you have this?"
"Have wha-?" she began before seeing the weapon, "That's not mine! I've never ever touched a weapon! I'm absolutely no good at fighting."
Merida snorted, "Yeah, we figured that out on our own."
Pocahontas asked in a gentle tone, "What's the last thing you remember?"
Arabella closed her eyes in concentration, "I was... driving to meet someone."
Rapunzel was getting anxious, "Who?!"
"He never said his name. He sent me an email... a message saying that he was very interested in my skills with technology and had a project for me. I was going to decline for I was too busy with my other job, but he offered me $100,000. I couldn't pass the opportunity up!"
Tiana drawled out a whistle.
"And you have no idea who this was?" asked Aurora.
"If I met him, I don't remember a thing about him. I can't even remember the email address. What's going on?"
Snow White helped her up, "We were all brought here, seemingly by magic, thanks to you. You had said something about wanting to see how the world would change without us?"
"I didn't change anything, did I?!" Arabella panicked.
Rapunzel put a hand on her shoulder, "Not yet. You were going to get rid of us to do just that."
That's when Belle asked the question on everyone's mind, "You brought us here. Can you get us back?"
Back at the hideout, Arabella typed rapidly on the keyboard, looking for anything that might get the girls back home. Most of the girls passed the time by chatting, or in the case of Anna, Elsa, and Rapunzel, hugging.
"I was so worried about you guys!" admitted Elsa.
Anna pulled back from the hug, "I'm okay. Rapunzel?"
"Better now that I can understand you both!" Rapunzel replied.
Elsa nodded, "Yes, but you know we can't keep these right?"
"Aw!" said Ariel, overhearing the news.
Jasmine stopped scratching the puma behind the ears, "We can't afford to change anything."
"Wow," said Merida, "You're the one who couldn't understand a single person for the last couple of days!"
"Pretty soon, I'll go back to understanding everybody."
"Too bad, I really liked ya!"
Pocahontas looked over Arabella's shoulder, "We need to go back from right when we left. My disappearance could cause my father to be suspicious of the settlers. If there's any hope that we'll be able to live peacefully together, they can't battle."
Arabella bit her tongue. Instead, she gave her full concentration on finding a way to get her heroes back where they belonged.
"So your husband woke you with a kiss too?" asked Aurora.
Snow White answered, "Yep. I knew love was powerful, but not that much!"
"Done!" yelled Arabella as she stood, "Quick, everybody brace yourselves!"
Mulan sighed, "I guess this is goodbye then..."
"No," said Arabella, "I'm going to need you all here again very soon."
She pressed the space bar and all of the girls simultaneously fainted.
A dark figure watched as the girls all disappeared back to their own times. It was very tempted to take the crystal ball and throw it across the room.
Arabella said that she would need the girls to eventually return. It assumed so that they could all track itself down. Like it was going to let that happen.
A bit of an explanation is in order.
I had written this entire story as a sort of prologue, a test run if you will. I had wanted to see if people would read something like this story, so I wrote this to set up the sequel. If I do post a sequel, it will take some time. First, all of the details need to be worked out. Second, I'm busy with school and other stories. Third, I noticed that I've been losing interest in this particular story as time went on and would have to wait until I get inspired to write again.
So far, I have a general idea of where all of the princesses are in their lives when Arabella brings them back. I wanted to post the ideas here to okay them or virtually smack me upside the head from my stupidity.
-Merida hasn't gone back in time for about a year. Not much has changed in her life.
-Ariel now has Melody and it's been a year since The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea.
-Like in history, Pocahontas has a little boy named Thomas. Due to the raging battle between the supporters of John Smith and John Rolfe, his father John will be in England for business.
-Mulan has a little toddler and is pregnant with another child.
-While I've had my suspicions in the past that Anna has fire powers, that probably won't be included. What will is that she is heavily pregnant with a boy.
-Cinderella has yet to have any children.
-Elsa has been courted many times, but has yet to choose a king.
-Rapunzel and Eugene had a twin boy and girl, both with blonde hair.
-Tiana's restaurant is extremely successful, but Naveen and her decide to wait on having a family. Instead they participate in civil rights movements.
-Belle suspects that she may be having a kid.
-Snow White has been queen for five years with no sign of having a child yet.
-Jasmine has a little girl and a toddler boy.
-Aurora has a newborn son.
Although now I know that if I write a sequel, a few changes will have to be made in how I write. There are too many characters for me to use my regular style of writing!
Whether or not I write the sequel, I want to thank you all for supporting me and showing this story love! :)