Chapter Fifty-Seven: A Princess is Made
Later that day Louis lead them to a steamboat fairy where they snuck on as they saw some shadows approaching with what looked to be guns.
"THEY GOT GUNS!" Louis said as they all quickly hid as men in costumes walked past with instruments.
"Man! That is one killer diller costume!" a man is a lion suit said to Louis.
"Hey gator can you blow that horn?" a man in a armadillo suit said as Louis played a little.
"Come sit in with us! We're playing Mardi Gras!" he said as they walked away as Louis followed playing his sword as Jason and Max glanced to Naveen hugging Tiana as they both quickly separated laughing nervously.
"We can't miss this! Little Louis is finally going to play with the big boys!" Ray said.
"Oh yeah!" Jason said as they were following and saw Naveen behind.
"Naveen? You coming?" Tiana asked.
"Oh uh I'll catch up with you later" Naveen said.
Tiana then hopped off with Max as Jason looked back as Naveen picked up some Mardi Gras beads and some metal wires as Jason smiled.
"Let me help Naveen" Jason said.
Later that day Naveen held a ring in his hand as he put it in a walnut case.
"Oh Evangeline why can't I look Tiana in the eye and say 'I will do whatever it takes to make all your dreams come true cause I love you'." He said looking at the star.
"Oh whoa whoa captain!" Ray growled turning red, "you making goo goo eyes at my girl!"
"No no Ray!" Naveen said holding him away.
"Ray that wasn't for Evangeline" Jason said.
"I'm in love with Tiana!" Naveen said.
"WHOA!" Ray said as he stopped biting Naveen finger, "I knew! I knew it! I knew it! You come here you!"
"No no no I can't marry Charlotte La Bouff I will find another way to get Tiana her restaurant, Maybe I'll get a job? Maybe two?! Maybe three?!"
"Oh I can't wait to tell cher!" Ray said.
"Hold it!" Jason said grabbing him before he flew off.
"No no! I must tell her, alone!" Naveen said.
"Right you rascal!" Ray said.
"Hey Naveen you better take care of her if she accept you! Because if you hurt her this keyblade" Jason said summoning it, "is going up somewhere it shouldn't! Catch my drift?!"
"Crystal!" Naveen said nodding his head nervously.
"Good, I know you really love her, I can see it in your heart now comes the part of getting her to open up her heart she can't believe that hard work will make all her dreams come true she needs one more thing to give her that boost" Jason said.
Later night fell Naveen lead Tiana to the top of the boat as Jason and Max spied from a safe distance.
"Where are you taking me?" Tiana asked.
"Oh I just wanted to show you something to celebrate our last night together as frogs" Naveen said as Tiana gasped and saw the table setting Naveen made with a candle light, some champagne and a rose.
"All my years no one has ever done anything like this for me" Tiana said as she looked over and giggled at the oversized tie Naveen wore.
"Is it too much? Thank you bow?" Naveen said as the butterfly move off.
"I thought it was a nice touch" he said flying off as Tiana giggled.
"Pretend you did not see that, please please sit down" Naveen said pushing her seat in as he picked up the mini food tray.
"What's this?" Tiana asked as he pulled off the lid.
"Tada!" he said revealing a multiple colored dish.
"You made mince!" Tiana said.
"I did! You've had quite an influence on me" Naveen said sitting down, "which is amazing because I have dated thousands of women" he began as he saw Jason standing a little ways behind Tiana making a cut throat 'no!' gesture as Tiana frowned at Naveen, "no uh two or three women uh anyway! Listen you could not be more different" he said trying to reach for the walnut as Tiana looked under to see him trying to get it.
"You are practically one of the guys...uh no! No no! Your not a guy! Let me begin again" he said leaning on the table as it fell over and knocked the food on him.
"He's dying out there man!" Max said to Jason.
"I can see that! He's been on many dates! You'd think he would know what to say!" Jason said.
"Ah ha I am not myself tonight TIANA! oh sorry that was loud" he said hugging the walnut to his chest, "this is a disaster."
"No, it's cute" Tiana said picking a parsley leaf off his head
"Tiana I..."
"There it is!" Tiana said running to the edge to take a seat to the factory that would be Tiana restaurant.
"Your restaurant?" Naveen said sitting next to her."
"Oh can't you just picture it?! All lit up like the Fourth of July!"
"Yes! Jazz pouring out of every window!"
"It should be elegant."
"But with elegance you got to let it swing!"
"I could use a good ole ukulele player."
"Really? You'd let me preform?"
"I will talk to the owner...owner says yes!"
"Ah ha Shedanza!"
"Folks are gonna be coming from all walks of life just to get a taste of our food" Tiana said leaning on Naveen.
"Our food?"
"Oh no no my daddy, he always wanted to open this restaurant, he died before he could see it happen but tomorrow with your help, our dream is finally coming true."
"Tomorrow?"
"If I don't deliver that money first thing tomorrow I lose this place forever."
"Tiana I love…the way you light up talking about your dream a dream that is so beautiful I...I promise I will do whatever it takes to make it come true."
"Oh no! He's going to marry Charlotte so that can happen! Naveen!" Jason yelled as they heard the boat horn blow.
"I'll go round up the boys" Naveen said picking up the walnut and walking off as Jason saw Tiana sad expression.
"Tiana?" Jason said hopping down next to her with Max.
"Oh Jason, Max hey" Tiana said as she saw Evangeline in the sky, "Evangeline I always been so sure about what I wanted but now I...what do I do? Please tell me."
"Well I may not be a star but I am your friend I this is what you need to do, follow your heart not your head, listen to what your heart saying" Jason said.
Later that night when the boat landed they saw that Naveen was missing.
"Ray! Have you seen Naveen?" Tiana asked.
"Look at you! Where the ring at?" Ray asked.
"What are you talking about?"
"Well if captain didn't say nothing I ain't saying nothing ole Ray sealed up tight, you ain't getting nothing out of me no more" Ray said.
"Ray!"
"Okay! Captain not going to marry Charlotte he gonna marry you as soon as he gets La Bouff to kiss him he gonna find a job! Get you that restaurant oh!" Ray said covering his mouth.
"BIG MOUTH!" Jason growled.
"I said too much didn't I?" Ray said.
"You said just enough Ray!" Tiana said hugging him, "thank you Evangeline!"
"So you do love him! Come on!" Jason said as they hopped down the road to where the parade was.
"He was trying to purpose! That what all the fumbling was about and here I thought and here I thought all he wanted to do was marry a rich girl!"
"Hey yo cher! What are we looking for here?!" Ray yelled as the three frogs climbed a lightpole.
"You just keep your eyes out! For the biggest gardist float a princess about to kiss herself...a frog" Tiana said as they saw on top of a large wedding cake float was human form Prince Naveen with Charlotte.
"Dearly beloved we are gathered here tonight in this fine celebration to join together this prince and this young woman in holy matrimony" a priest said.
"Oh no this can't be right darling and how can you still be a frog Mama Odie-" Ray said as they saw Tiana gone.
"Tiana?!" Jason said looking around.
"We need to find here!" Max said.
Later that night Ray, Max and Jason found Tiana in a cemetery sitting by herself hugging herself.
"I know what we seen with our eyes but if we just go back there we go find your fairytale come true."
"Just because you wish for something doesn't make it true" Tiana said.
"Oh but it's like my Evangeline always said to me-"
"Evangeline is nothing but a star Ray! A big ball of hot air million miles from here! Open your eyes now before you get hurt" she said hopping away.
"Tiana!" Jason said as he looked to Ray who lip was quivering.
"She just speaking out of broken heart that all that is, come on Evangeline we gonna go show cher the truth!"
"Max find Tiana!" Jason said activating his Keyblade glider and flew off with Ray.
At the parade!
"If any of you object to the union of these two people speak now or forever hold your peace" the priest said as the Naveen watched from a locked box on float.
"YES ME I OBJECT!" Naveen yelled as he used his tongue to begin to move the box from the keyhole.
"Do you Prince Naveen take Charlotte to be your wife?"
"What you doing son!" Ray whispered in fake Naveen ear as the man shooed Ray away and saw Naveen tongue and stepped on it.
"As you both shall live?"
"What? Oh! I do! I'm for it!" Lawrence said.
"Ray!" Jason yelled next to the box as he looked into the box.
"Is that you captain?" Ray asked.
"Ray! Jason! Get me out of this box!" Naveen said.
"Move!" Jason said summoning his keyblade.
"-As long as you both shall live?" the priest asked Charlotte.
"Oh I do!"
"So with the power invested in me by the state of Louisiana I now pronounce you man and-" suddenly Jason and Naveen jumped on Lawrence pulling at the voodoo man necklace as they fell off the float as Lawrence grabbed Jason and Naveen.
"Oh goodness gracious! Are you alright?" Charlotte asked.
"I just need a moment to compose myself!" Lawrence said running into a building.
"Lawrence! Why are you doing this?!" Naveen said.
"This is wrong! What are you and that Shadow Man up too?!" Jason growled.
"It's pay back! For all those years of humiliation!" Lawrence growled.
"Get your royal rump back on that wedding cake!" The Shadow Man Dr. Facilier yelled entering the room and finish this deal!"
"Thundaga!" Jason yelled electrocuting Lawrence hand as they broke free and Naveen ripped off the necklace.
"What he doing?! Stop him!" Facilier yelled.
"No!" Jason yelled throwing the charm.
"I got it!" Ray yelled catching it and getting pulled down, "it got me too!" he said as it landed on the ground.
"Let go of that!" Lawrence yelled.
"Jason run!" Naveen yelled as Jason picked up the charm and ran out the door with Ray with Facilier after them as he whistled as they flew past Louis on a float and he saw they head into the cemetery with shadows after them.
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"Come Tiana cheer up" Max said.
"CHER! CHER!" Ray yelled flying in.
"They're after us!" Jason yelled.
"Ray? Jason?" Tiana said.
"Who after you?" Max asked.
"This is proof what we saw ain't what we saw!" Ray said as Jason handed her the charm.
"What is this?"
"It's a voodoo toy! The Shadow Man! He been using it too-" Ray began as they saw the shadows coming.
"You can't let Shadow Man get this no matter what! Now run girl! Run!" Ray yelled.
"Come on Tiana!" Jason yelled taking her hand as they ran.
"Don't make me light my butt!" Ray yelled at the five shadows forming on large tombstone, "HIYA!" Ray yelled bashing each one with his glowing rear, "come here you! You! Ha ha! Who next?!"
The Shadow Man then smacked Ray into the ground as the shadow reformed as he brought his foot down on Ray with a crack as Louis entered the cemetery as the Shadow Man walked away.
"RAY! Ray?" Louis said approaching.
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"Keep moving!" Jason yelled as they continued to hop.
"Use a spell or something!" Max yelled.
"Now of my spells are working! When I'm small my powerful spells are just pokes to them!" Jason yelled.
They then ended up cornered as the Shadow Man shadow came near.
"BACK OFF! Or I will break this thing into a million pieces!" Tiana yelled.
The shadow man then blew pink dust that hit the three and transformed them into their human forms only in part clothes as the graveyard glowed and turned into Tiana Dream restaurant as she saw a man playing his ukulele by the pinao.
"Naveen?" she said as he turned and it was a man with glasses and a mustache.
"Nice isn't it? Much better than hunting around a bayou for the rest of your life" Shadow Man said leaning on a chair with his feet on a table and drinking champagne.
"Shadow Man?!" Tiana said as the man laughed and got up as he began to shuffle cards.
"Got to hand it to you Tiana when you dream you dream big, just look at this place! Only the crown jewel of the Crescent City and all you got to do to make this a reality is handing over that ole talisment of mine" he said holding out his hand.
"No! This, this is not right!"
"Come on now darling think of everything you sacrificed" he said making a pink cloud appear with memoires.
"Girl all you ever do is work!"
"I told yal she wouldn't come."
"Think of all those naysayers who doubted you."
"You ain't never gonna get enough for the down payment!"
"A woman of your background, you're better off where you're at."
"And don't forget you poor daddy" Shadow Man said pulling open a curtain as outside a window was her old home as her father car pulled in, "now that was one hard working man, double sometimes triple shift, never letting on how bone tired deep down he really was."
"Daddy!"
"Hey baby cakes!"
"Shame all that hard work amounted up to a busted up ole gumbo pot and a dream that never got off the back porch, but you, you can give your poor daddy everything he ever wanted, come on Tiana your almost there."
"DON'T LISTEN TO HIM!" Jason yelled as a shadow wrapped around him and Max and kept them bound as they tried to break free.
"My daddy never did get what he wanted but he had what he needed! He had love! He never lost sight of what was really important!"
"YA!" Jason yelled slicing his keyblade through the shadow and Max sliced his as they approached the backing away Shadow Man.
"Easy with that! Careful!"
"And neither will I!" Tiana yelled throwing the charm to the ground as the Shadow Man shadow caught it as it moved on the wall and handed it the Shadow Man as he laughed as the illusion faded and the three turned back into frogs.
"Yal should have taken my deal!" he growled stepping on Jason and Max with one foor and pocking Tiana in the chest with his cane.
"Now you will spend the rest of your life being a slimy little frog."
"Jokes on you buddy!" Jason growled.
"I got news for you Shadow Man! It's not slime! It's mucus!" Tiana yelled shooting out her tongue to snatch the charm out of his hand before taking it in her hand and smashing it on the floor as it glowed.
"NO! NO! HOW WILL I EVER PAY BACK MY DEBT!?" he yelled as tiki masks began to emerge," friends!"
"Are ya ready?!" the masks sang with sharp teeth.
"No! I'm not ready at all! YOU!" He growled looking to Jason, Max and Tiana.
(Vim and Vigor battle theme begins now!)
"Tiana hide!" Jason yelled summoning his keyblades.
"If I have to go I will take your lives!" Shadow Man yelled as a massive tiki mask emerged behind him with its mouth opening with a green vortex inside.
(Information: Stop the Shadow Man and send him where he belong! Use his Shadow!)
"TAKE THIS!" Shadow Man yelled stomping his foot as Jason and Max dodged as the shadow grabbed Max and restrained him.
"Jason!" Max yelled.
"Let's go!" Jason yelled grabbing the shadow and spun it around making the Shadow Man fly in the air and in circle as Jason threw the shadow into a tombstone.
"GAH!" Shadow Man grunted as a Shadow grabbed onto his shadow and began to drag him to the vortex.
"Now!" Jason yelled as he and Max charged at the Shadow Man and slammed their weapons onto his hands making him get pulled into the green vortex as all the tiki masks around them got sucked in and the mask closed it's mouth causing a bright green light and when it cleared they was Facilier face in a tomstone.
"A fitting end for him!" Jason said as they heard a clock towering ringing, "HURRY!" they three then rushed back to see Lawrence being arrested as they saw Charlotte with Naveen at the step of the church.
"Oh goodness gracious this is so much to absorb okay let me see if I got this right, if I kiss you before midnight you, Tiana Jason and Max will turn human again?"
"One minute!" Max said looking at the clock.
"And then were gonna get ourselves married and live happily ever after? The end?"
"More or less but remember you must give Tiana all the money she requires for her restaurant because Tiana…she is my Evangeline."
"Anything you want sugar" Charlotte said putting on lipstick, "pucker up buttercup!"
Naveen then made a small pucker unlike before and with less enjoyment as Charlotte leaned in.
"WAIT!" Tiana yelled.
"Tiana?" Naveen said.
"Tiana?!" Charlotte said as she hopped in with Jason and Max.
"Don't do this!"
"I have to do this! We are running out of time!" Naveen said.
"I won't let you!"
"It's the only way to get you your dream!"
"My dream? My dream wouldn't be complete without you in it" Tiana said as Naveen looked back at her, "I love you Naveen.
"Warts and all?" Naveen said standing p and took her hands.
"Warts and all" Tiana said.
"All my life I read about true love and fairytales and Tia you found it! I'll kiss him! For you honey!" Charlotte said picking Naveen up, "no marriage required."
She was about to kiss his as they heard the clock ring for midnight as they all looked at the clock.
"Oh my lord! Maybe that old clock a little fast!" Charlotte said as she kissed Naveen as nothing happened but leave a kiss mark on his lips as she tried again and again and again but still nothing.
"Oh man" Max sighed.
"I'm so sorry" Charlotte said putting Naveen down.
"Tiana! Naveen! Jason! Max!" Louis yelled running in as they rushed to him.
"Louis what is it?" Naveen asked.
"Shadow Man done lay Ray low he hurt awful bad" Louis said holding out his hand where Ray was.
"Ray!" Jason said as they saw Ray light flickering.
"Hey cher how come yal still-?"
"Were staying frogs Ray" Tiana said.
"And were staying together" Naveen said taking her hand.
"Oh I like that very much, Evangeline like that too" Ray said as his light died out and rain began to pour down.
"No" Jason said with tears in his eyes like his friends as Tiana cried into Naveen chest.
Back at the bayou all the fireflies had Ray funeral as Jason and the other grogs held white tulips and road on Louis back as the leaf with Ray body was placed with the flowers before sailing off into the mist.
"Hmm?" Jason said looking up when a light began to glow from the clouds as all looked up with wide eyes to see a new star just as bright as Evangeline was now directly next to her.
"The second star to the right! Ray!" Jason smiled as all the fireflies cheered.
"Soo when the wedding?" Max asked.
The next day in the morning all the animals of the bayou gathered for Tiana and Naveen wedding as Mama Odie wed the two.
"So by the power vested in me I now pronounce yal frog and wife! Get to it hotballoon! Give your lovely bride some sugar!" Mama Odie said as Jason and Max smiled as the Naveen and Tiana kissed and began to glow as they also glowed as the water shot up around them spinning around the four.
"This gonna be good!" Mama Odie said with the bright light engulfing them as Naveen and Tiana emerged in a green wedding dress and suit and both human as Jason and Max saw they were also in green suits as they smiled and clapped as Naveen and Tiana opened their eyes and gasped to see they were human.
"Like I told yal kissin a princess breaks the spell" Mama Odie said.
"Once you became my wife that made you-!"
"A princess, you just kissed yourself a princess" Tiana said.
"And I'm about to do it again" Naveen said kissing her again as all the swamp creatures cheered.
"Actually she was a princess right up until the point she told Naveen she loved him, they just didn't kiss" Jason whispered.
"I like this way better" Max smiled.
Soon a second wedding was held for all the human friends and family as Tiana blew a kiss to her mother, Charlotte and Big Daddy and Naveen smiled to his parents, then the two ran out of the church and got onto a royal carriage as Tiana tossed her bouquet as Charlotte caught it laughing as the two road off. Later that day Jason, Max, Tiana, Naveen and Loius were at the Fenner Bros. Realty as Tiana pushed all the cans of money she saved to the two brothers as they glanced at Louis who has his arms crossed and glared at them as he growled and the two men held onto each other before handing over the key as Tiana took it and hugged Naveen.
Soon they all stood in front of the building as Jason smiled.
"You two got a lot of work ahead of you" Jason said.
"Yep but we got all the tools we need!" Tiana said holding up a hammer.
"What is that?" Naveen asked as they saw a light form as a keyhole formed on the building.
Jaso then summoned his keyblade and pointed to the keyhole sending a light and sealing it as the light engulfed the area.
"What was that?" Tiana asked.
"That is our que to go on and help others" Jason said.
"Already?" Tiana said.
"We wish we can stay and help you build this place but there people were looking for" Max said.
"Well don't you worry when yal come back I will have two seat reserved for ya!" Tiana said hugging Jason and Max.
"You two be good now, we'll meet again!" Jason smiled.
Back in the lane between Jason sat in Max gummi ship as Max flew them.
"A new princess?" Max said.
"Yeah, ten gates what does that mean?" Jason said thinking.
"I wouldn't think about it too hard man I mean if this is something that will happen in ten years! You have nothing to worry about" Max said.
"Good point, still a princess with the power to stop the darkness can that really exist? Is this the answer we've been looking for?" Jason said.
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