A/N: Alright, as a quick side note, I may or may not on for a while. Why? Because next week is Thanksgiving and I shall be spending time with my family. And may or not be making a SSB one-shot about a failed Thanksgiving...anyway, time for the disclaimer!

Disclaimer:

The Koopalings and BJ belongs to Nintendo

Melody, Felica, CJ, and the SOD belongs to me.

Hope you guys have a great Thanksgiving and that you aren't trapped in your house due to the horrible snowstorm! (It's not that bad here...)

"I missed this so much!" Wendy basked in the sunlight of Waterland. Following after the escape route of Kyolyn, they had finally made it to the happy world and everybody was so happy to retreat from the ice and cold and run in the sun.

Felica politely brushed her tail, getting out all the snow and ice from her time in her frozen tomb; Lemmy sitting beside her. Melody took off her jacket and dove into the waves, swimming on her back. Everybody deserved a break; even Ludwig; who was reading one of his symphonies and editing it.

Iggy sat on a rock; reading the journal to himself and examining the map of the place. Apparently, the place around the castle was heavily guarded by the airship armada (which he found very impressive) as well as giant plants and Chain-Chomps. He was formulating a plan about how to infiltrate the main airship...when Bowser Jr. sat next to him in the sand.

"So...what do you think is gonna happen?" The little koopa asked his older brother. "Well, what do you think it gonna happen?" Bowser Jr. smiled. "I think there's gonna be an explosion and plants and robots and a wrestling match!" Iggy ruffled up his brother's hair in amusement.

"Interesting..." Iggy looked at the map of Waterland. Bowser Jr. stayed silent, until he reached into his shell and pulled out an apple. "Here," Bowser Jr. held it out. "I...I though you were hungry."

"Thanks," Iggy brushed the apple and took a bite in it. The apple was sweet and crunchy and juicy as well. "This is good! Where did you get it?"

"From the Grasslands on a bush," Bowser Jr smiled sheepishly, before walking away for no clear reason. The green-haired koopa looked out to the horizon, the salty breeze tickling his nose and he sneezed softly.

"You sneeze like a kitten," CJ suddenly appeared beside him and Iggy jumped. "What," asked Iggy, "did you do that for?"

"Don't know," CJ floated in the air next to him, blending in with the scenery. "I just wanted to tell you that there's a way to the airships, but it's somewhat dangerous."

"Really?" Iggy sat up excited. The ghost nodded and pointed to a couple of suspicious bushes. "Gather everyone and I'll show you." CJ smiled and disappeared as the koopa got up and got everyone together.

"Why are we doing this?" Roy was immediately shushed by CJ as they peered through the bushes. She pointed (which was very heard to see where she was pointing) to two soldiers standing in line for something. They looked like British soldiers and they were waiting for something.

"That's weird," Iggy's mouth was quickly covered as the guards looked around, their rifles pointed in every angle. When the group stayed silent, the soldiers began to talk between themselves.

"This is stupid. We should actually be up there instead of waiting for that French lieutenant here," one of them spoke, then was immediately slapped by the other one. "What was that for?!" He asked the other soldier as he rubbed his robotic cheek.

"You must not make fun of mon lieutenant. He will help us with this and you will be être impressionné, you know. Now come, let's wait." The two soldiers saluted and stood still like the guards at the English castle.

CJ looked around to make sure they weren't listening, before whispering to the group. "Okay, listen. They're expecting some lieutenant from France, and so I had this great idea. Since one of us is French, and can speak English as well, one of us can dress up like a French soldier and go up there," the ghost pointed to the tube. "Any questions?"

Roy raised his hand. "Alright, smarty. Where do we get da suit?" CJ looked at him, like he was insane. "I'll show you. Roy, Morton, and Ludwig, come with me. I may or may not need you."

She got up and floated to a road, the older and younger Koopalings following her carefully and silently. CJ turned around and asked, "Can you guys watch BJ? I don't trust him..."

Everyone immediately turned to BJ, who asked, "What?"

"You ready guys?" CJ asked the group as they approached a fancy, horse-drawn carriage, lined with two sets of two guards on each side.

"I'm always ready for a beating!" Roy put his fists together. The ghost smiled and crept up to the two sets of guards. She quickly possessed them; a process Morton didn't always like. He and his siblings quickly walked up the guards and dragged them out of view, taking off all their clothes.

They folded the clothes up as CJ came out with the lieutenant on her back. "This is for someone else," the ghost stripped the lieutenant down to his underwear and placed him next to his soldiers. She grasped one of the outfits and began to put it on.

"This is actually comfortable," CJ brushed herself down and grabbed one of the horse's reins and jerked hard on it. "Come on, let's go to the others," The horses neighed and the carriage started to move, the Koopas following her.

*Time Skip*

Melody POV

When they returned with a carriage and a bunch of clothes, I thought to myself, What the hell were they thinking when they did this?! But I knew this was one of CJ's crazy plans and I was unfortunately part of it when she tossed to me a bunch of clothes.

"Put it on. And fast." I nodded and put on the coat first. It was soft and blue; not like I thought it would be: cold and blue. Carefully, I took off my shoes and for a minute, I dipped my toes in the sand. It felt nice and warm...after I got frozen solid. I shoved a foot into a pant leg and pulled up, putting the other leg into the other pant leg and pulled up.

The pants was two sizes larger than mine, so I picked up a piece of rope and weaved it through those holes of the pants, finally using a tight knot to tie it together.

I put on the hat and tightened the strap under by chin. Then, I put the black boots on one by one and brushed myself off. I went over to the water's edge and looked at myself.

I look like a man, I thought as somebody tugged on my pant leg. I turned around quickly and saw that it was Junior, who looked just like me. "What's up, squirt?" I asked him. Junior allowed only Roy and I to call him that.

"Melody," Junior asked me. "What if this doesn't work? I mean, everything could go wrong." I thought about it for a moment, before answering.

"Junior, it's like a hurricane. It came unexpected and you don't know what to do. But, if you use your wits, then you can see the calm part of everything." I had no idea if that made sense to his little head.

"Oh. Okay. Thanks, Melody," Junior hugged my leg for a moment, before leaving. Nobody saw this, but I smiled.

He reminded me of my sister.

"Is everybody ready?" CJ called as everybody took their places, a blue river of confidence. Everybody nodded as the ghost sat up in a bench and grabbed the reins of the horses.

"Make sure you guys act like proper soldiers and not like you've been put together by Bob the Builder." Some of them snickered, but immediately went silent as CJ gave them a dirty look.

"I was testing you," CJ jerked the reins and the carriage moved, everybody marching beside it with the muskets they found in the back. Since the soldiers and lieutenant were toy robots as well, giant bronze keys stuck it in the back and everybody's faces were carefully painted bronze (by CJ's amazing artistic skills.)

Lemmy sat beside CJ as the carriage moved forward. "Hey, Lemmy," CJ whispered. "Check on our 'special guest' will ya?" The short koopa nodded as he hopped off the carriage and opened the curtains.

*Felica POV*

This is so stressing. They don't understand at what I am about to go through. I don't even know how to act like a lieutenant and even if I have a secret talent of it, then I don't know what he acts like. Is he proud? Selfish? A push-around? I don't even know anymore.

By the tapes of the lieutenant CJ found, I could tell that he was proud and pushed everybody around. But how? Was there some sort of weakness he had secretly that nobody knew about? That he hid from the rest of them? Uh...this is hurting my head.

I play with one of the badges; the golden sheen sparking the inner kitten inside of me. Then, the curtain open and my petit ami hops up in the carriage.

"CJ told me to check on you..." I smiled sheepishly. The ghost had taken a particular liking to me since I've been thawed out somehow with the "power of love," she told me. I was very interested when the ghost told me that Lemmy mourned over me. This proved how much he cared about me.

"Are you okay?" Lemmy asked.

"I'm fine," I told him. "Thanks for asking." Lemmy smiled sheepishly and hugged me. "Please don't die! I love you so much!" I hugged him back and played with his hair.

"I won't. I promise." I hushed him as we came up to the two guards we saw earlier. One of them looked at me as he asked, "Lieutenant Clockers?" I nodded, yelling at him in French.

"Sorry, sir!" He stumbled as he scooted over to the side and let the carriage pass. I could feel some sort of wind as we were carefully parked in some sort of tube. I looked outside and saw that everybody was quickly astounded as I looked at the view. There was pine trees and clouds everywhere, and it was very serene. We were under a shadow and I looked up.

It was the Bronze Dragon, and I was, like everybody else, scared out of my mind.

***Ryder's Castle***

"No, Auburne, no!" Lukase ran as his younger sister was on his heels, shooting fire at his feet. "Why did you mess up, Lukase, why?!" Auburne summoned more fire and shot it at Lukase's feet, which he jumped.

"Just because you can shape-shift, doesn't mean you can transform into a rat and scare the hell out of Kyloyn, which I did enjoy, but she froze me because of you!" She shot another flame at Lukase's feet.

"Calm down, sis," Lukase was tightly backed up into a corner and, he was somewhat cornered. "think rationally about this: don't kill me. I have so much to life for-ouch!" Lukase brought up his foot and quickly patted it down for it was on fire. Auburne's eyes glowed with anger and she was about to set fire to Lukase even more...when Dimioria stepped in.

"Sister," Dimioria spoke calmly. "Your brother requests your counsel, as well as Lukase's." Auburne grumbled and marched down the hallway toward the meeting room, turning around to shoot Lukase dirty looks; which shocked the older spirit by a ton.

When they got there, everyone took their seats in their respective spots and Ryder walked in. He had a cape woven out of roots and leaves and it got caught on a stray foot, making Ryder trip into his chair. Lukase laughed as he got up and sat straight in his seat. "The heroes of the prophecy are coming here, because Kyloyn lost to them."

Kyloyn was changing to the weather, her hair a light shade of purple, her skin more tan, and darker colored eyes. "It wasn't my fault," Kyloyn defended. "I was off guard after Lukase threw up in my bathroom."

"Not my fault," Lukase floated above Kyloyn's head as she swatted at him. "Anyways," Ryder rolled his eyes. "Hermione asked me to review that prophecy again with you guys."

"Yes, yes, I remember," Dimioria conjured a little shadow and played with it, acting out the lines of the prophecy. "11 heroes shall answer the call, to rescue the world that is unfortunately destined to fall, one will be nearly lost in the land of snow, one must overcome fears to save one they love, the villains will finally triumph this day, only to gratefully be trapped into stone again."

Ryder stared at Dimioria as if she was crazy. "Ok...anyways, we are so close to world domination and-oh, hell no!" He got up and shooed Lukase off the chair, where he shape-shifted into a cat and was licking his...what cats lick.

"You are not licking your private parts on my chair!" Lukase-cat hissed as Ryder chased him off. "I thought you were for nature, meow!" Lukase-cat told Ryder as he threw a stick at him.

"Not if it's you!" Ryder picked up the cat and opened the window, throwing Lukase-cat outside. "And go to your world!" Ryder slammed the window close and turned to everybody else, who was staring at him with big eyes.

"Stop looking at me with those eyes!" Ryder averted his eyesight and sat down, his fingers interlocked. Everybody seemed calm and at peace now that Lukase wasn't there. Now, they could really get down to business.

"Dimioria," Ryder began to say. "Do you remember Clocklinggale?"

Hoped you guys enjoy this chapter (because it will be your last!) because I'm updating my older stories. Just telling you guys ahead...and watch out for a Christmas story!