Chapter Fifty-Five: Ray the Firefly
"Now this restaurant of yours will it have a buffet?" Louis asked.
"Jambalaya, gumbo, it's going to have is all!" Tiana said.
"I always want to try red beans and rice lettuce-"
"Stop stop, Louis your making me so very hungry" Naveen said as mosquitos flew by and on instinct the frogs tounges stuck out of a second, "interesting."
"That was odd" Jason said sticking out his tongue to look at it as Naveen jumped into the water.
"What are you doing?" Tiana asked.
"Shhh! You are frightening the food" Naveen said as his tongue stuck out in the swarm of mosquitos but missed and his tongue came back to wrap around his head, "this is harder than it looks."
"You're really going to eat bugs?" Jason said as Naveen tried again but only to catch a branch and make it come back to hit himself in the face.
"I would rather eat my own arm then-" Jason said as a firefly flew past them and Jason Max and Tiana stuck their tongues out again.
"What?" Tiana said as her eyes widen, "Oh no! No! No! No! There is no way I am kissing a frog and eating a bug on the same day!" Tiana said as her tongue began to stick out at the bug like it has a mind of its own.
"No!" Jason said as the four began to circle around the dandelion that the firefly sat on.
"Must resist urge!" Max said.
All four tongues then shot out and hit the dandelion at the same time and their tongues ended up tied together as the four ended up colliding.
"Hello" Naveen said.
"Ugh!" Get ya tongues off!" Jason said sounding like his mouth was full.
"OW!" Max yelled.
"Stop moving! You are making this difficult!" Naveen said.
"You find anything to eat yet?" Louis asked walking in to see the scene, "oh my hang on" Louis said picking them up and smashed the four together and began mashing them around in his hand and turning them like he was solving a Rubic Cube, "how's that?" he said setting the four tied together even worse by their own tongues.
"This could be a little better" Tiana said.
"You know what this needs? A sharp stick! Be right back!" Louis said walking away.
"Hurry before he comes back!" Jason said.
"This is all your fault!" Tiana said to Naveen.
"My fault? Let me tell you something! I was having a wonderful time!"
"Will you two stop arguing!" Max yelled.
"Well look it here!" the firefly said flying over, "oh girl I guess you and your boyfriend like it freaky with others am I right?"
"Don't be ridicules!"
"Why I never!"
"He's not my boyfriend!"
"I would never with these people!"
"Uh huh let me shine a little light on the situation" the bug said grunting as he made a fart noise "excuse me one more time now" he said shaking his thorax as it glowed then shut of then he turned his bottom as it glowed, "oh that's more better, now don't worry baby I ain't going to explode I ain't no firecracker! I just got my big butt glowing! That's right oh! Women like a man be a big back porch!"
"What?" Jason said.
"Oh you got this one good for sure now where this go to? Now hold on" he said getting into the middle of them as fight came from cracks in the four tied up frogs as hammer noises were heard followed by a saw as the bug sang and came out with a tongue and pulled as the four spun around in circle and fell apart with their tongues retracting back into their mouths.
"Thank god!" Jason said.
"About time I introduced myself my name Raymond!" he said spelling his name fast in a glowing light, "but everybody call me Ray."
"Pardon me but your accent it's funny no?" Naveen said.
"Naveen! Don't be rude!" Jason said.
"I'm a kagen bra, only breed in the bayou, you must ne new around here huh?"
"Actually we are from a place far far away from this world" Naveen said.
"Go to bed! Yal from Sweetport?"
"Uh eh no no no we are people" Naveen said.
"Prince charming here got himself turned into a frog by a voodoo witchdoctor" Tiana said.
"Well there ya go!" Ray said.
"And we were on our way to Mama Odie's we think maybe she can-"
"Whoa whoa whoa! Mama Odie?" Ray said.
"Uh huh."
"Yal heading in the wrong direction, now what kind of chubby head dork told ya to go this away?"
"I FOUND A STICK!" Louis yelled running in.
"Dose that answer your question?" Jason said looking to Ray.
"Louis, Ray say you been taking us in the wrong direction" Tiana said.
"Uh huh I was-uh I was confused by the typography and the geography and the chorography."
"First of all two of those things you listed has nothing to do with why were lost" Jason said.
"Rules of the bayou, never take directions from a gator" Ray said as he whistled as the swamp above them began to glow with gold light, "why me and my relationers can help ya find the way."
"Wow! Just like..." Jason began as he remembered something from his past.
~Flash Back~
A young Jason sat at the hill looking up to all the stars in the sky at the Land of Departure as Master Eraqus approached.
"What are you doing Jason?" Eraqus asked.
"Just looking up at the stars master" Jason said.
"Do you know what they are Jason? The stars in the sky?" Eraqus asked sitting next to him.
"No master I don't" Jsaon said.
"They say, that every star up there is another world."
"Really?" Jason said.
"Each other those worlds lights is from their hearts, and it's shinning down on us like a million lanterns."
"So you're the one" Jason said looking to his master.
"What?"
"You the one that Terra got that line from" Jason said as his master chuckled, "still there so many, it will be impossible seeing every world."
"If anyone can it's you Jason" Eraqus said.
~End of Flashback~
Later that day they followed the fireflies down the bayou where Ray lead them the rest of the way.
"I'll take them the rest of the way!"
"Nice meeting yal!" Tiana said.
"Thanks again!" Jason said.
"Bye bye Pookie!" Louis said.
"And don't forget to tell Angela Ray Ray said bonjur!"
"That's your girl?" Tiana asked.
"Oh no no no! My girl oh ho ho that be Evangeline" Ray said dreamily.
"Evangeline?" Tiana said.
"Tell us more Ray" Max said as they hopped
"She the most prettiest firefly that ever did glow, you know I talk to Evangeline most every night."
"How sweet" Jason said.
"She got a side, don't say much and I know in my heart, someday we going to be together" Ray said.
"Awww that's so sweet" Tiana said.
"Yes that's so sweet just don't settle down so quickly my friend, there are plenty of fireflies in the swamp" Naveen said.
"Oh shut up, don't listen to him Ray you do what your heart says!" Jason said summoning his keyblades to cut through a sticker bush.
"What?" Naveen said as Louis tried to brush the bush aside and got a sticker in his finger.
"OWWWW! Prickle Bush has got me! Gator down! Gator down!" Louis yelled as the frog and Ray sweat dropped.
"Good thing were taking directions from Ray now" Max sighed.
"The darkness is closing in! I'm so cold!"
"Would you hold still you big baby?!" Ray yelled.
"AHHHHH!"
"I ain't touched it yet."
"Man these sticker bushes are thick!" Jason said swinging again.
"You know waitress I finally figured out what is wrong with you" Naveen said.
"Have you now?" Tiana said swinging a branch.
"You do not know how to have fun, there, somebody had to say it" Naveen said.
"Thank you because I figured out that what your problem is too" Tiana said.
"Too wonderful?" Naveen said as Tiana released a branch as it smacked Naveen in the face.
"No, you're a low count plundering lazy bump on a log" Tiana said.
"Kill joy!" Naveen said while trying to cover it with a cough.
"What did you say?"
"Nothing, stick in the mud!" he sneezed.
"Listen here mister this 'stick in the mud' had to work two jobs her whole life while you've been sucking on a silver spoon, chasing chamber maids around your ivory tower!" Tiana said.
"Actually it's polished marble."
"Who cares!" Jason said as the two got snatched into a net as Tiana and Max gasped.
"Oh I got me two boys! Get them other ones over there!" a man said as a man with two finger snatched Max and Tiana.
Tiana and Max then spilt the man two finger apart with a loud crack as the man yelped out and the two hopped away as the man threw knives.
"GAHHH!" Tiana and Max screamed and the knives pinned them to a tree as they slipped through and hopped.
"A bug got to do what a bug got to do!" Ray yelled lying at the man at the boat with Jason and Naveen as he flew up the man nose and made the two frog fly into the water.
The man then blew out Ray from his nose and hit a rock with some mucus.
"I think I done chipped my favorite tooth" he said falling into the water.
"Hop! Hop! Hop!" Max yelled as he and Tiana hopped as a large man knocked them into a cage.
"Oh pa! Got them!" the man said setting the cage on the boat as a man sat on the lid to it.
"What happened to yours?"
"Shut you trap O'Neil!"
"They got Tiana and Max!" Jason said popping his head from the water.
Naveen then shot out his tongue to grab the pull and pulled him and Jason in as they hit the side of the boat with a thud.
"Pa, did you hear that suspicious thud?"
"Yeah" Papa said removing his hat where Jason and Naveen stood on it, "I sure did" he said scratching Naveen as he scratched the man head.
"Shhhh!" Naveen said to Tiana and Max as quietly as he could as the two other men held up a club.
"What you two gawking at?" Pa asked as O'Neil began to swing down on Pa head as Jason and Naveen jumped to dodge each swing.
"Now go!" Naveen whispered as the other man stepped off the cage to stop the large man and pointed the gun at Pa face.
"No you idiot not there!" Pa yelled as Max and Tiana jumped down on the gun making it hit the floor and blew off Pa overalls revealing his heart underwear.
"Watch this" Naveen said as he crocked and the large man swung as they dodged making the club hit Two Finger foot.
"AHHHH!"
"Missed it!" he yelled with the four frogs on his head as Tiana shoot out her tongue into Two Finger eye making him slam the gun on O'Neal head as the frogs hopped around making the men hit each other till the men were all lying on the boat.
"These four aren't like any frog I've ever seen they smart" Pa said as the frogs landed in front of them
"Oh really?" Jason said.
"And we talk too!" Tiana said as the three men eyes widen and they screamed quickly rowing away down the swamp with the frog watching them disappear into the distance.
"And we talk too oh I like that! You're secretly funny" Naveen said s they walked into a pumpkin patch.
"Not a stick in the mud?" Tiana smirked.
"Well..."
"Say it" Tiana said poking him.
"Say it" Jason said poking him too.
"Go on and say it" Max said pocking him.
"Alright! You're not exactly..."
"I can't hear ya I'm sorry, what?" Tiana said putting her hand to her ear.
"Completely stick deep in the mud."
"AHHHH!" Louis yelled as they looked over to see Ray removing stickers out of Louis rear "EASY!"
"This one in there!" Ray said pulling out a deep one.
"GAHHH!" Louis grunted.
"Cher I know we got to get to Mama Odies nicety split but this particular extractafication will take a while, yeah" Ray said.
"Ahhh poor Louis" Tiana said.
"You know what would make me feel better? GAHHHH! OH! Crawfish smother in ramoline suce MERCY! And some Banana foster sprinkled with coli-AHHHH! OH MAMA!"
"How about some swamp gumbo?" Tiana asked knocking on a pumpkin.
"That will do AHHHH!"
"Sounds delicious I will start with a pre-dinner cocktail and something to nibble on while I wait, thanks" Naveen said leaning on a tree and propping his feet on a mushroom.
"No, no, no, no" Tiana said putting a leaf around her like an apron, "your royal highness, you are going to mince these mushrooms" she said handing him a sharp rock.
"Do what?"
"Mince the mushrooms hop to it!" Tiana said.
"Let's find some ingredients for the gumbo" Jason said as he and Max split up.
"A little ridiculous" Naveensaid.
"Are you mincing?!" Tiana called.
"Alright! Relax" Naveen said as he poked the mushroom.
"Hey Tiana I found some berries! Not nightshade this time" Jason said saying the last part to himself.
"Oh! Jason you get to juicing those for drinks!" Tiana said.
"Okay chef!" Jason said.
"Here you go Tiana!" Max said from inside the pumpkin as he tossed out the last of the seeds insdie as he hopped out and Tiana lit the fire under the pumpkin.
"Okay one!" Naveen said cutting a slice of the mushroom.
"Step aside, watch and learn" Tiana said chopping the mushroom fast into many slices in mere seconds and those slice into mini slices as she spun their makeshift knife and handed it back to Naveen.
"Oh right um" Naveen said pulling out another mushroom as Tiana got behind him and took his hand and began to help him cut the mushroom.
"There you go.
"You know I've never done anything like this before."
"Really?" Tiana said sarcastically.
"Alright, but when you live in a castle everything is done for you, all the time, they dress you, they feed you, drive you! Brush your teeth."
"Oh poor baby" Tiana said stirring the gumbo with a large stick.
"Let see some of this!" Max said putting in two drops of honeydew.
"I admit it was a charmed life until the day my parents cut me off and suddenly I realized I don't know how to do anything."
"I got this" Jason said taking the stick as Tiana went to Naveen.
"Well hey you got the makings of a decent mushroom mincer" Tiana said taking his slices.
"Oh you think so?" Naveen said as she headed back to their makeshift pot.
"Keep practicing and I just might higher you" Tiana said taking the stick from Jason as picked up some of the spices they made to toss them in.
"Really?"
"No."
"Ahhh! Come on what was that? That was low!"
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