Chapter 9: Teaching Good
In one of the many houses in Jollywood, the best shoemaker on the village, Cobby, preparing for another day of work as usual. However, this time it would be different. He had a mission, commissioned by the Princess of Jollywood. He would be responsible for monitoring someone to teach you need to know, he would be a mentor, but not from anyone.
"So... Is this what you do?", asked irritably Grumpy, a member of the most formidable team of villains who had existed, observing around the small house, transformed into a shoe store.
"Isn't it great? Is a profession worthy admire", Cobby smiled while his apron to get ready for work stood.
"Yeah right", the burly villain laughed softly as he approached Cobby, "So... what do I do here? ¿Get bored while you work?"
"Of course not!", laughed Cobby while of closet near to him, he pulled another identical apron, "You will work alongside me"
"Well... You might be hard to believe but... Nobody tells me what to do, dude", growled Grumpy, fed up with having to put all these good people and always having to maintain posture.
"Oh, sorry Grumpy...", talked a little nervous the cobbler for the somewhat aggressive behavior that the villain was taking, knowing he could beat him if he were angry, "...but the princess ordered me to be your mentor, so have to abide by what I say... I'm sorry"
Grumpy was so angry at that moment that he just wanted to hit the cobbler in front of him and flee back to the Island of the Lost. What matters rule Jollywood, he just wanted out of there and leave behind all that goodness.
But Doc's words came to mind. He couldn't give up now.
"Agh, all right!", said Grumpy accepting accepting the apron and quickly putting it somewhat frustrated.
Meanwhile, not so far away, in a giant shoe clearly become a house, a somewhat older woman was in the same conditions as her shoemaker friend.
"I will warn you immediately that I'm not good with kids... or with anyone", Sleepy spoke with bitterness, he just saw the house of his mentor, Old Women, she was full of children playing and screaming everywhere.
"Quiet, Sleepy", said Old Women to the white-bearded villain, "They don't require much work, you just have to keep an eye on them"
"Anyway, why am I here?", asked Sleepy already sick the shouting was inside the house, being that he loves peace and tranquility.
"Because I'm going to buy what lack of food for the week to the market, and while you take care of my little ones", Old Woman said as she held her basket to the market.
"Yes of course! Didn't you hear I said I'm not good with kids?", Sleepy complained, clearly annoyed by the spontaneous job of nanny.
"Trust me Sleepy, child care is easier than it seems, and it teaches you patience, kindness and perseverance... something you need to seriously"
Don't know what I'm being persistent at this time for that damn Ruby, said Sleepy mentally as he saw Old Woman leaving the house.
Not far from there, near the forest, was walking Little Red Ridding Hood, who like Cobby and Old Woman, had the same task.
"You can't pay someone to go to let that basket to your grandmother?", Sneezy complained, also as friends, exasperated by the good deeds they had to do.
"What sense does it pay someone to do something that can I do by myself? Besides, if I'm going to give my grandmother a gift I personally leave it her! That is the grace of gifts...", said the girl happy, walking along the villain into the woods to go to the Grandma's house.
"How boring", growled Sneezy, "Why should I go with you? Is your grandmother, not mine!"
"Because as I be your mentor is my duty to teach you to be good, and this is a good action", said Little Red, even with a cheerful smile... A smile that was getting sick to Sneezy.
The villain was about to argue again with Little Red when a tingle in his nose stopped him. Before he knew it, a great sneeze burst to the nose of the young villain. It was so strong that Sneezy got hit the ground and give him a headache.
"Agh, stupid allergies!", complained Sneezy with a scream of exasperation. The villain immediately took out his pocket mirror to look into it and make sure his appearance continue intact.
"My God, Sneezy! Are you okay?", asked Little Red alarmed when she saw the mighty sneeze of Sneezy, approaching him to ensure that he doesn't hurt to fall.
"No, I'm not okay!", said Sneezy looking in the mirror, very exasperated.
"What do you have? What hurts?", asked the worried girl, trying to see with the naked eye the wound of the villain, knowing he wouldn't let her closer to him.
"Don't you see my hair!? It's just awful! How horrible!", shouted Sneezy while with his hands trying to comb his brown and blue hair.
Little Red Ridding Hood was silent for a few seconds before understand what Sneezy meant. She didn't know whether to laugh or maybe get angry, or just ignore him...
"You scared me!", she complained when she finally was able to react, "I thought something bad happened to you"
"But something bad happened to me! My hair is... "
"It's just disheveled!", Little Red said to Sneezy as she helped him to stand up.
Sneezy only groaned to the girl, realizing that she didn't understand his problems. How could she not understand the urgency of his hair.
"Why do you care so much about your appearance?", asked Little Red, a little concerned about the necessity of the villain to always look good.
"Well, I'm too handsome to look bad", admitted Sneezy as a monotony, "It's obviously, don't you think? I mean you have to be blind not to realize how attractive I am"
"Maybe you're a little vain", the girl laughed as she picked up her basket that had been set aside to help the villain.
"It's not vanity...", growled Sneezy, looking for the last time in the mirror to make sure his hair was well before storing it in his pocket, "... It's just good taste"
"If you say so...", Little Red said with a smile before starting to walk again, "Now come on, it's getting late"
Sneezy rolled his eyes just before keep up with Little Red.
Meanwhile, in the shoe house shoe...
Old Woman had come to the market with much food to prepare her children during the week. Once entered her house she was surprised to hear no noise...It wasn't normal. She glanced at the living room and even more surprised to see no one there.
"Children? Sleepy? Where are they?", she asked as she walked into the house, hoping to see someone.
As found no one on the ground floor, she decided to leave the purchases in the kitchen and go upstairs to check her children's rooms.
Once up, Old Woman inspected the rooms of her children. To her surprise, all her children were asleep in one of the rooms. You could tell they were asleep unexpectedly, given that some of the children were sleeping on top of each other, some lay sprawled on the floor, and others slept over their toys.
She was completely surprised and also confused. As she surveyed the room, she found Sleepy equally asleep in a chair.
"Sleepy!", Old Woman tried to wake the villain shaking his shoulder and calling him by name, which worked when Sleepy gradually began to awaken.
"W-What happened?", Sleepy asked, somewhat dazed by just be waking up.
"My children... all are sleeping...", the woman said something worried about her children.
"Oh yes!", Sleepy laughed evilly while stood from his chair and stretched, "I bewitched them to sleep and I could have some peace"
"What!?", exclaimed Old Woman shocked, "Sleepy, that's not right! Wake up my children now!"
"But... they'll start screaming again...", the white-bearded villain complain.
"Sleepy! Awake my children immediately, and then we have a serious talk about enchanted people"
Sleepy agreed to do what his mentor ordered and woke all the kids. However, Old Woman wouldn't be the only one who would have a hard time...
"Help!"
Cobby immediately left to attend to a customer who was buying shoes and ran as fast as he could to the showcaset of shoes, where Grumpy was working.
When Cobby approached to the showcase he saw the burly villain almost choking to a villager. The shoemaker quickly panicked and shouted at Grumpy to leave him alone.
"Let him go Grumpy, let him go now!"
"Agh, all right!"
Grumpy spread his hands of the poor villager neck, dropping sharply down. The villager as he saw he was free to the villain attack, quickly stopped coughing as he could and ran away from the Cobby's shoe store.
"What you think you're doing!?", asked the shoemaker angrily, "How can you think strangle that poor fellow!?"
"He wouldn't stop asking me questions and I couldn't stand it anymore!", fought the villain with brute force.
"You work here! You are supposed to resolve customer queries, that's your job!", shouted altered Cobby.
"Well... Did I mention that I don't have patience?", Grumpy growled as he walked away to the showcase to enter to the shoe store, leaving Cobby alone.
"This will be very difficult", he said to himself the shoemaker as he returned to the shoe store to continue meeting customer had left alone.
The evening was very long for the three mentors. They were totally relieved when it was dark and the villains had to return to the castle. Their own breath to continue the next day were given, but for the moment belonged to rest.
Meanwhile, the three villains gathered in their room, and as they prepared to sleep, they told what had their day as apprentices to good people.
"Well, apparently as my mentor, bewitch people to sleep when I want it's bad", Sleepy scoffed when he remembered what it was Old Woman upset when she realized that he bewitch her children.
"I learned today that apparently the appearance is not what matters, that's my mentor's grandmother told me when she met me... But she's an old woman, wrinkled not even take care of her hair! What does she know?", Sneezy complained, remembering the Granny of Little Red Ridding Hood, who agreed that Sneezy was very attractive, but that would not matter, because the real beauty was inside... which does not fell well to the villain.
"Well, did you know that strangle people when they don't leave you alone with millions of questions it's bad? That I learned today", growled Grumpy remembering how upset was Cobby after the poor villager had fled scared, "But in my defense, it was totally annoying! You know that if something is bothering me i got character to fix it, I'm not shy about my stuff"
"Hey, and speaking of shy... Where's Bashful?", said Sneezy, realizing that the young villain wasn't with them in the room.
The three dwarfs looked at each other, to realize that none of them knew where their blond friend was.
"Sneezy, look for him in the mirror", said Grumpy as the three friends stood up from their beds to approach the wall mirror room.
The villain of brown and blue hair stood in front of the mirror, he closed his eyes and held his hands. Instantly his hands were illuminated by a blue light as his hair.
"Mirror, mirror
On the Wall
Where's Bashful?
You have..."
Before Sneezy could finish the spell, the three villain felt the sound of a door. Everyone turned to see their blond friend enter the room.
Bashful was frowning, his hair burning in green flames, with pink lipstick marks on his cheeks and completely flushed.
"I had the worst day of my life!"
I'm soooooooo sorry guys! but I've been so stressed with school that I had very little time for me! Now I'll try to update more often, as the school is over for me, but now begin the holiday that is also complicated...
I hope you not be upset, but I guarantee you that this fic will not end soon!
See ya, guys!