It was quite an amusing to see three people stuck inside a very compact Mini Copper going up a hill. Kronk was a large person enough himself so Malina judged that the only reason they all managed to fit in was because she was quite small and Kuzco simply lacked muscle.
"Hey!" Kuzco yelled when Malina voiced out this opinion "I have muscles! It's just that they're usually incognito"
The girl rolled her eyes "You still didn't tell me what the heck happened in there"
Right after Kuzco managed to stop Kronk from killing a police officer they were quickly brought to a police station nearby where Kuzco took out a pocket of white stuff from his pocket and gave it to one of the officers and after that they left.
"Malina, innocence is bliss" he smiled.
She glared at him "Do you want me to kick you off this car"
"Come on Malina we already had a pretty hard time getting everyone in" Kronk went back to knitting apparently as he had half a sweater in his hands.
"This is my car and I'm driving" Malina pointed at herself "So you better spill out or . . ."
"Fine drop me off in here!" Kuzco raised his hands which proved to be a bad idea because there was no space to do so.
"So you're really not gonna say anything about it!" Malina had stopped the car which made her male companions suddenly move forward with Kronk hitting the car window and Kuzco Malina's seat.
Kronk twitched against the glass "I think I lost my needle"
"Ok I'm out" Kuzco tried to open the door without looking and eventually fell of the car.
"Well close the door!" Malina yelled.
The man was still on the ground when he kicked the door close with his foot and as soon as the door was closed Malina had sped off.
"So are we still gonna go to their Christmas party?" Kronk asked face still against the glass.
This made the girl scoff "Well do you wanna go?"
/
So a few days had passed and Malina decided to ignore Kuzco for the rest of the week and before she knew it Christmas was over, but there was still New Year's Eve parties that were going to be planned everywhere so she still had her guard up.
"I can't believe that insensitive jerk" Malina said as she tried to cook herself some pancakes for breakfast "I go there in what seems to be the most dangerous pueblos just to see if he was alright and he treats me like that" she flipped the pancake a little too strongly in her rage and it had ended up being stuck to the ceiling.
"Darling that's the third time you placed food into the ceiling" Malina's mother Orabella came into the kitchen "It took me a hard time to clean those scrambled eggs you know"
Malina placed the pan on the counter "Sorry mom, don't worry I'll . . ." it was in here when the pancake chose to drop from the ceiling and into her face.
"Hmm, you seemed to have overcooked one side dear" Orabella smiled before she decided to make a set of pancakes herself "You seem to be on the edge with your friend Kuzco"
Malina ripped the pancake off her face "There is nothing to talk about if it concerns me and him"
Orabella mixed the batter "Oh, so it's dramatic"
"He's the one who's dramatic" Malina removed the remnants of the pancake on her face "It's like he has this total different side of him that I hardly see and it seems that he wasn't show it to me, which is wrong because we're supposed to be friends and friends don't really hide secrets"
Her mother nodded "I see, so you think Kuzco doesn't trust you?"
Malina frowned "Something like that"
"Honey maybe you should consider talking to him about it" she got the pan from the counter and poured the pancake mix "I mean like a real talk not those yelling matches or diplomatic discussions you're so fond of using"
The young girl sighed "Ok I guess"
"I know it's hard for you to be honest without being to judgmental" Orabella flipped the pancake and it landed nicely on her pan "But you two know each other for so long I'm sure pride isn't worth ruining it"
"Fine, I'll talk to him during the New Year's Eve party" Malina sat on a stool "But till then I won't be talking to him until he apologizes for blowing me off"
"Hmm . . . from knowing you it's the total opposite" Orabella flipped the pancake again.
"Mom stop being so judgmental!" Malina groaned before leaving the kitchen.
/
"So Kuzco when are you gonna tell Malina that you actually work as an informant for the police" Kronk was pouring himself a glass of ice cold tea, they were currently sunbathing by the pool in Kuzco's place.
Kuzco lifted his shades "You do realize you're gonna be dragged in as well"
"Well yeah but she has the right to know" Kronk sipped on his drink "She's already mad as it is"
He put down his shades "She always does that when we don't tell her what we do yet she's always the one hiding some ploy from us, she's been like that as long as we've known her"
"But it's usually not big as this" Kronk placed the glass on a table and laid back "Still would tell Gustafo from scaring me with that gun of his, he knows I have issues"
"Issues of dwarfs with guns" Kuzco shivered "Yeah that is kinda creepy"
"Still Kuzco you almost died that one time when you tried to go for that Chinese Kingpin" Kronk removed his shades "If backup didn't come quickly you would have lost a limb"
"Oh yeah forgot to tell Wart that Yu Yu's in London" Kuzco recalled "Wonder what day it is in England right now"
Kronk checked his smartwatch "Let's see it should be two in the afternoon for them right now"
"Happy!" Kuzco snapped and one of his servants came to him "Go get my phone I need to make an important call!"
The small servant enthusiastically nodded and rushed to get his master's phone and quickly the man gave it to him.
Kuzco lazily got it and after one glance gave it back "I mean AN INTERNATIONAL CALL!" he yelled at his servant.
Happy nodded again with the same enthusiasm and quickly came back with a corded phone.
Kronk sat up "Are you sure the line isn't broken?"
Kuzco took the receiver "There's no beep beep . . ." he slammed the receiver back "FIX THE DAMN LINE!"
Happy saluted and quickly rushed back to fix the cord.
/
"Why isn't Kuzco answering the phone . . ."Arthur hung up the phone, it was past ten when he called and it was probably four in the morning for Kuzco during this time.
"Wee dez me end peel plummy" Kay had almost fell into the hallway if Ector didn't catch his son's collar.
The former officer sniffed his son "Have you been drinking hard last night?"
His son replied with a loud burp before saying "Naaaw, curse blooooot"
"Then go back to bed then!" Ector said kicking his son back to his room "That dyke"
"When's the reading?" Arthur asked placing his phone on his pocket.
"Why it's still at three in the afternoon" Ector checked the clock on the living room "Still a good few hours, shouldn't you be asleep as well? We've had quite a rough evening last night"
The Pendragon heir shrugged "I don't see why not, but I'll be sure to keep grandfather's gun on my bedside to be sure"
"Are you sure that old thing still works?" Ector asked as the young man went up the stairs "You could borrow my old Ballester"
Arthur waved his hand "Thank you, but I don't think I'll be needing that" he said before heading to his bedroom and finally crashing into his bed.
Ever since finding out that Chernobog might have an assassin sent for him as well both Arthur and Ector had been spending the entire evening locking windows, blocking alternative routes the killer might enter and several bobby traps throughout the apartment building (though there were a couple that were set off by a drunk Kaye who drank all the Brandy while they were away).
In order to ensure everyone's safety Ector had sent almost every one of his boarders out on a holiday house in Liverpool. The only one who hadn't left was Carl Fredericksen who was quite stubborn and said he would rather have a fight before letting that Chinese flesh eater destroy his deceased wife's plate collection.
So after making sure everything was in place the only thing could do was stand in alert and wait. Sir Ector could stay awake for as long as three days and still be able to fight 20 men if he were attacked as he did so when he was in the army, so it was him who was doing the rounds.
So it seemed that Arthur was pretty much safe enough for him to get a few hours of sleep before the will reading came by. It was indeed a long time for the man's possessions to be equally distributed by according to the Pendragon's executioner, Mr. Hautecourt, there were just so many revisions to the will that it almost filled an entire cabinet and just authenticating it was a problem.
Curse Uther for not making up his mind on how to distribute his property between the aunts, uncles, cousins, the extended family and the people who names were just there for some reason like being a shoe shiner or something.
As soon as he crashed into bed Arthur was already snoring that he didn't hear the loud ringing of his phone.
Igraine Pendragon lay lifeless on the floor with several bullet shots to her head and chest, Arthur could only stare at her mother in shock.
Chernobog cocked his gun and pointed the weapon at the young man's head "Would you want to join your mother a father?" the man smirked.
"ARTHUR!" Anna suddenly tumbled into the bedroom "Wha . . . wha happened to . . ."
"What is this girl doing in . . ." Chernobog was cut off when Arthur tried to snatch the gun from him "You pesky brat" the man threw the boy with ease.
Arthur had landed next to Anna "What is he doing?" Anna shivered.
"Go get Elsa and run to the nursery!" Arthur pushed the girl out the door and closed it shut "Don't wait for me! Run!"
"But . . . but . . ."
"RUN ANNA!" Arthur yelled before Chernobog fired another shot.
Anna quickly ran as soon as she heard the bang, but she still didn't know where she was going, the house was so big it was hard for her to comprehend. The girl just ran up the stairs screaming her sister's name hoping she could hear her.
While back in Arthur's bedroom the boy had managed to dodge the bullet as the gun had ran out of bullets.
"Well aren't you a lucky boy" Chernobog threw the gun aside "Well then I have other methods to keep you down" the man approached the boy.
By adrenaline rush Arthur quickly took the bedside lamp and threw the thing into Chernobog's face before quickly bolting out the door and running towards his father's room on the floor above. When he reached the third floor of the house he found Elsa trying to console a crying Anna.
"What's going on?" the older Vinterdotter asked.
Arthur quickly grabbed both sisters by the hand and dragged them down the corridors into the library, he closed the door then quickly placed the several locks and bolts on the door.
Anna was still sobbing and Elsa was starting to tremble in fear "Arthur . . ."
"Someone . . . dead" Arthur panted he then ran to his father's desk and tried to use his phone to call the police only to find no dial tone.
There was knocking on the door "Come on children, all this running around is getting quite tiring"
Arthur slammed the receiver "Elsa" he called the girl as he tried to shuffle through the several papers on the floor.
Chernobog started banging the door and Arthur was sure he would break it down any minute now. He then found a knob on the floor and quickly lifted it up revealing a small passage "Get something to write on" he ordered the girl.
Elsa then took out a picture of them she found on the floor and flipped it around then took a pen from the table and quickly wrote the directions that Arthur told him.
"Aren't you coming with us?" Elsa asked after she wrote it all.
That was when an axe was thrown at the door.
"No one will close this go!" he quickly pushed the girls into the passage and pull the door down and tossed several papers to cover it so Chernobog wouldn't see. He then braced himself for what could be his death.
/
By the time Merida had reached London it was already lunch time and the Scot had been starving hours earlier. After she managed to convince her mother that Eilonwy was indeed a girl and that she would be staying with her other female friend for the time period Elinor finally let her daughter go. Even though technically Merida left while her mother was asleep.
She was happily eating at a pastry shop near the bus station when Jane found her.
"How much did you eat?" the brunette asked as she sat down.
Merida counted the plates "Three scones, five cinnamon bread, four slices of raisin bread and 3 pieces of blueberry cake"
"And you're still hungry?" Jane looked at the plates in disbelief.
"No I'm actually thirstier" she then raised her hand "Hey can I have some coffee in here!"
After Merida had finished her lunch the two girls left the shop and boarded the Bentley "Oh Merida I almost forgot to tell you something"
The redhead had just placed her seatbelt "What?"
Jane closed the car door and started the engine "I wouldn't exactly be staying at home over the weekend"
"Where is this going?" Merida gave her a look.
Jane twisted her hair "Well I sort of . . . I'm not staying but you have to stay because I could stay but then there's something I need to go to but my father doesn't seem to be in the right mind and . . ."
"Jane you're babbling" Merida glowered.
The girl took a deep breath "Could you take care of my father while I go to Exeter and look for my mother?"
The Scot raised a brow "Why do you have to look for your mother in Exeter?"
"You see my mother apparently checked herself in in some asylum and according to some of my relatives it's in Exeter" Jane sighed "And my father can't come with me because who knows what state mother will be and my aunt Isabelle says it was daddy who made her that way in the first place"
"Is this Aunt Isabelle staying in the same house?" Merida asked after a few moments "And how about your sisters?"
"Gwendoline has her own family to bother with and I don't know where the other one went" Jane waved her hand "Probably somewhere prowling with some sugar daddy"
"You really hate this certain 'other one'" Merida air quoted "Don't you?"
Jane snorted "Oh if you only knew, she was always mother's favourite"
"You're daddy's little girl" Merida rebutted.
They had finally reached Jane's place in Bostall Hill, the Porter's lived on a loft that was above a shoe store owned by Widow Tweed and a small insurance firm.
As soon as they entered Merida quickly headed for the guest room down the hall and collapsed on the bed, a ten hour bus ride was never an easy feat. She would have taken her Ford Expedition but her father had actually used the thing during the storm and the engine got fried in the process.
"Aren't making yourself feel at home" Jane threw her overnight bag at the girl only to miss the bed all together.
"You're basically making me become your father's caretaker and if he's as hyper as he was then that would be a big problem for me" Merida placed an arm over her head.
Jane leaned against the door frame "He isn't exactly as hyper as before . . ."
Merida sat up "Oh right he's blaming himself, the wonders of self-pity" she sighed "Well then do you I have to spoon feed him as well? I maybe good with animals but taking care of the elderly is taking it up a notch"
"Daddy is not a senior citizen" the brunette placed her hands on her hips clearly insulted before she thought "Well . . . ok he maybe . . . who am I kidding he is"
"Speaking of which, where is the Professor?" Merida stood up from the bed.
"I absolutely have no clue" Jane then brought out her phone and tried to call him "Come on . . . number cannot be reached?" she stared at the screen in irritation "OOOOOOooooh, he forgot to charge the damn thing again"
Merida went over to her bags "Boy I could use a shower right now"
Jane left the room "You know where the bathroom is by now don't you?"
The Scot waved her hand "I'll find it on my own"
The brunette was going to prepare herself a cup of gingerbread loose leaf black tea when her phone started to ring "Hello" she answered before she reached the kitchen.
"Ah Jane" it was her father "I'm sorry but I don't think I'll be joining you an Merida for dinner"
At once the youngest Potter child went mad "Daddy! Where are you? Who told you to leave without telling me? And what's holding you up for dinner?!"
"Now don't panic dear" the professor said in a calm tone "I'm only meeting up with a friend of mine whom I haven't seen since the war"
Jane's eyes widened "The WAR? Daddy remember the last time you met that German officer when we were in Switzerland?"
"Oh it'll be nothing like that" Archimedes laughed "We were in the same regiment"
In here Merida came in wearing nothing but her pants "Jane you've run out of shampoo"
Said person turned around and replied with a scream "Merida! Goodness put a shirt on!"
The redhead covered her exposed chest with her arms but still bore the same passive face "You've run out of shampoo"
"I heard you the first time!" Jane spun around "I'm sorry daddy but Meri . . . hello . . . DADDY!"
"You know it's starting to get quite chilly in here" Merida hugged herself tighter "Are you sure you put the heater on?"
"You could have just walked out with a towel!" Jane yelled almost throwing her phone away in frustration.
"Hey at least I'm still wearing by pants" she lifted her leg showing her brown cargo pants "And it's not like anyone's gonna start . . ."
The brunette placed her palm forward "DON'T EVEN SAY IT! It might actually happen and I'm not in the mood to explain it to Mrs. Tweed anytime soon"
Merida rolled her eyes "Fine I'll just use soap to wash my hair sheesh" the girl turned around and marched back into the bathroom.
Jane took a deep breath she didn't know why she was getting so freaked out as of the late, ever since Aunt Isabelle told her the news she's been getting more paranoid by the minute that it wasn't getting healthy at all.
"I just need some tea and maybe it'll calm me down" she told herself and went for the kitchen but as soon as she stepped foot on the place there was something that she realized.
"MERIDA WHY ARE YOU TAKING A SHOWER IN THE MASTER'S BEDROOM!" the girl ran charging for the door.
/
"Father you called for me" Hans went to meet his father before the said man was about to go out.
Vlad Chernobog focused on his son "I want you to take very good care of our guest tonight, if your mother asks who he is tell her he's a drug lord from Mongolia"
Hans had heard from the previous evening that a man who could eat their entire family including the servants was staying with them "And what's the difference between a drug lord and a psycho killer?"
"She could intimidate him to the point where he'll skin her like those foxes and turn her into a coat" Chernobog took his coat.
"What if he isn't convincing?" Hans added.
"I told him not to converse with your mother" he took his hat from the butler "And besides he hardly speaks unless necessary"
The young man frowned "So you hired him to kill the girls?"
This made his father smirk "Oh, don't worry the Vinterdotter siblings are at your disposal . . . for Shan Yu on the other hand . . ."
"May I ask as to why it took you this long before you decided to lay a hand on Pendragon again" Hans asked "I know he escaped because he managed to break your leg but . . ."
"What's between me and the young boy remains between me and him" Vlad took his cane "Now excuse me I have one final negotiation to make with him"
Hans stood quiet as his father took his leave, the man stood there for a few moments before running up the stairs and jogging into his father's office. He quickly closed the door behind him and made sure it was locked before he decided to scan the contents of the room.
It took a couple of drinks, truffles, cooing and a nice ring made of a Gooty Tarantula before Hans managed to get his mother's duplicate key of the office. He knew that his father would have his head if he found out about this but curiosity had gotten the best of him. He had always wondered what that pipsqueak Wart did that made his father rile up all the time.
Hans quickly went for the desk, he expected his father's leather chair to be painful and stuffy as he was but surprisingly it was quite soft and comfortable. The desk was fixed up with papers on the left side and three journals on the right. On the centre of the table was a black screen which Hans tapped his fingers unto.
He took the first pile of the ledgers and saw that it was just the company's financial report for the last quarter, he didn't need to read the entire thing to know that it wasn't looking good for Chernobog Inc.
"Well that explains his sour mood over dinner" Hans closed the ledger and looked at the others, all were documents and records of the company.
He leaned back against the chair "Wonder where father keeps that blasted candle of his" he then looked over the papers, mostly contracts and resignation letters, there was even one warning about a few employees who were planning on starting a union.
Hans sighed, so it wasn't for something recent he then checked the drawers only to find them locked. He stood up from the chair and went over to the books, most of them where either books on law or philosophy, as went down the shelf he found a certain row that seemed quite peculiar for Vlad Chernobog to keep.
He crouched down on the floor and picked up a book entitled The Mythical Qabalah by Dion Fortune and browsed it over "Now what would father do with this?" he looked over the row where he picked it from and noted that they were all occult books.
As he looked over the pages of the Qabalah something had fallen off and he immediately picked it up only to be more confused once he saw what it was.
That was when he heard his mother's voice "Hans where are you? I need help with my placenta facial"
Hans quickly placed what fell off back in the book and back to the shelf before he locked the office and dashed towards his mother.
The whole time Hans wondered why a picture of their cat Scar was there.
/
Ector was tapping his foot furiously while they were waiting for Hautecourt outside the man's office. Kay was seated on one of the sofas dressed in the most formal attire he could muster: a red shirt and black cargo pants, to complete his look he had his right leg was bandaged (he fell into more than two booby traps) and his crutches were on his right.
Arthur was seated next to the crutches wearing a suit by Ermenegildo Zegna with his coat placed on his lap. Ector had managed to make him have his blonde hair slicked back and quickly Arthur was reminded of those Wall Street people from the way he looked.
The boy was currently texting Taran, who had decided to take temporary residence in the hospital.
"Hey Pop, how long is this gonna take?" Kay spoke "My leg started to itch"
The former officer looked at his son "This might take the entire afternoon and evening if that old man follows this pace" he grunted.
"I told you to ask Canola oil from Mr. Fredericksen" Arthur placed his phone back in his pocket.
Kay crossed his arms "You know that man ain't ever nice to me" he frowned "And I didn't do anything wrong"
"You knocked over the jar that held his wife's ashes" Arthur shook his head "Yeah you should have asked me to get it"
"Or you could have gotten the initiative to go get it anyway" the young Cynyr challenged.
Arthur leaned back against the sofa "I can't get it now can't I?"
"Boys . . ." Ector solded, he knew they wouldn't get in a squabble like they used to but the man just wanted to say something cause he was that bored.
It was in here that a thin old man was climbing up the stairs "Hoo! What an exercise!"
"There you are!" Ector pointed and marched to the attorney "We've been waiting for ages!"
Attorney Hautecourt waved his finger "No I believe you've got that all wrong, it is we" he gestured to himself "Who have been waiting for you for ages"
"Don't start turning the tables on me!" Ector yelled "And what do you mean by we? You're only one person! And you said three o'clock and we've been here since two-fifty!"
The old man rubbed his chin "Yes you are correct, but I don't remember saying my office"
At this Ector dropped his finger "Eh?"
"Yes I did say that I shall be reading the will at around three o'clock, but it was not in my office" the Attorney's eyes were twinkling "I specifically said the Governor's Hall on the fourth floor. I don't believe all the benefactors would be able to fit in my tiny office"
Kay did a nice loud yawn "Can we go now?" he asked.
"WE ARE NOT GOING!" Ector took a deep breath and composed himself as he went for the elevator "Fourth floor you say?"
Arthur stood up took his coat from the armrest and followed his guardian "Mr. Hautecourt where are you going?"
"Why down" the lawyer was going for the stairs again "I absolutely hate elevators"
Ector snorted as he pressed the button "Oh don't mind the old geezer he just doesn't accept the fact that he's old"
The old man laughed "Well at least I'm fit, I'm sure you'd be panting like a dog on a hot summer's day from just going up one flight of stairs"
"Why you dare challenge me!" the former officer raised his fist "Why so be it!" he and Mr. Hautecourt then started running down the stairs to see who was faster, it should be noted that they were currently on the tenth floor of the building.
The elevator doors had opened and Arthur sighed going in.
Apparently everyone had forgotten about Kay who was still seated on the couch.
Arthur closed his eyes as he leaned against the wall of the elevator. He knew Anna and Elsa would have arrived by now and he was hoping Taran was enough to secure their safety, he was pretty tired having to go in and out of the hospital, and he swore if Anna was sent again for the third time he would actually scold this girl cause it was just plain ridiculous.
He was cut off by his thoughts when he heard a very familiar chuckle.
The boy opened his eyes and saw a certain Scot with thick unruly red hair with a slightly pale face covered in freckles who was right now snickering at his appearance.
"I'm glad to have entertained you" Arthur deadpanned.
In this Merida turned into an uncontrollable laughter "Oh my . . . ye look so . . ." she looked at him again and laughed even louder holding unto her stomach.
Arthur just shook his head "You should take my foster father for that, told me I needed to look older"
"I'm fair pucked!" she waved her hand in the air calming down on her laughter "Sorry, I can't let ye live thon down could I?"
Arthur snorted "Like you look any better"
She frowned at her appearance, her coat was splashed by a can of purple paint and there was a star sticker on her hair "It's a long story"
/
After Jane had convinced Merida to just use soap as an alternative for shampoo the two have left the loft and started hunting down a certain Archimedes Porter.
"You don't even know where to look" the redhead said keeping her hair off her face as the car sped.
The Brit grit her teeth "Oh, I know very well where daddy goes with his friends from the war"
"So you want me to grab him from a Vietnam war or whatever war veteran?" Merida closed the window to keep the wind from blowing her face, it would have been ok if she was in the midst of the cool and gentle breeze of DunBroch, but this was the stuffed and polluted dump called London.
Jane drove madly amidst the buzzling traffic and didn't mind any of the Scot's retorts. It took a while until they stopped at a building named Knight's Spur, Merida noticed that there were several gargoyle statues placed around the infrastructure.
Jane quickly got off her car not waiting for her friend to catch up to her, she opened the doors shocking the security guard standing by and the receptionist, in which she ignored their surprised expressions and quickly stood in front of the elevator pressing the buttons hard.
Merida came dashing to the young lady "Jane would ya mind telling me again why we should extract your father from his personal affairs? He is a friend after all you don't get to meet your buddies from the war that much."
The young Porter tapped her foot furiously "Oh you may not be totally aware of this but my daddy has the tendency to hallucinate"
"Hallucinate? . . . Oh don't tell me he's one of those shell shocked soldiers who start shooting imaginary guns in public?" Merida shook her head "My, your family is quite . . . no offence but they're all looney"
The elevator dinged and both girls entered the elevator, Jane pressed the sixth floor and they spent the ride up in silence.
Except for that one girl from the second floor who seemed to be late for her own birthday party and was now complaining about everything.
It took a lot for Merida to stop herself from ripping the very very pointy tiara and use it to tear the fluffy purple gown as the girl started fussing about her appearance using the mirrored elevator doors.
By the time the brat got off the fifth floor Merida let out the breath she was holding "That almost reminded me of the time I met Charlotte Le Bouff"
"She can't be that vain" Jane was also annoyed by the birthday girl "She blamed her mother for giving her the wrong eye colour to match her dress"
"That's why I said almost, Charlotte's a saint compared to her" Merida shivered.
They had finally reached their floor and Jane quickly scanned the area for her father "Where was that place again?" Jane did a 360° spin.
"Exactly what place are you looking for?" Merida asked.
"There's a restaurant called Harryhausen around here" Jane scanned the shops again "There are just too many shops placed in here"
"Yeah it looked like some law building from the outside" stared up at the high ceilings "It looks like a mall in here"
Jane closed her eyes and held her head "Ok . . . shoe store over there . . . gift shop down there . . ." she pointed at the shops.
Merida then went for the large podium in the centre "Why not look in the directory?"
Jane opened her eyes and was about to say something when "That's because he's already loose!" she yelled pointing at her father who was running around with his pants missing.
Both girls quickly ran after the man as he entered the office of an architectural firm "Where is he?" Merida asked.
The brunette pointed "Daddy! Put that ruler down!"
Archimedes Porter stood up on a table raising the T-square as though it were his rifle "No one leaves until you tell me where the Corporate is!"
"And you tell me its yer mum whose off der head" Merida squinted.
"Are you gonna help me or criticize my family?" Jane yelled.
The Scot groaned then ran after the Professor like a line-backer tackling him off the table, she then pinned his arms and tried to stop the old man's furious kicking.
"Get off me you filthy bear!" the professor managed to get one arm loose and hit her face with the T-square.
"Hahahaha!" a chuckle was heard nearby.
Jane turned around to see a woman dressed in a purple dress showing off her figure, had long black hair that reached her shoulders and a distinctive mouth that almost looked like the beak of a duck.
The girl marched over to the woman and pushed her to the floor "What have you done with my daddy!?"
"Why that was rude for a lady to act" the woman stood up dusting herself "It was he who questioned my skills in the art of hypnotism"
Jane's cheeks got red "Hypnotism?" she pointed at her father without looking "You hypnotized my FATHER!?"
"He wanted me to bring back the good old days" the woman flipped her hair "Here's my card" she placed the thing between her fingers and gave it to Jane.
The girl snatched the card from her "Magica De Spell – Medium" Jane looked up only to find the woman gone "Why . . . that little . . ."
"Jane grab your dad!" Merida yelled as her father bolted out the door.
"Daddy get back here!" she discarded the card and ran after the mad man.
The girls scanned the entire floor looking for the Professor to no avail.
"You check below I'll check upstairs" Jane then quickly ran up the staircase.
Merida was supposed to take the stairs going down only to find it closed, she would have just kicked the wet floor sign away but after wrestling with a surprisingly strong man she was just too lazy and decided to take the elevator.
/
"So you're telling me that there's a mad man going around here half naked after being hypnotized by a shady fortune teller" Arthur said after Merida told what happened "Can't you do anything normal like throwing stones at pigeons?"
"Have you forgotten I'm taking veterinary?" Merida raised a brow.
"No I just don't see you as a caring person" he replied back.
The girl snorted "So you're saying that time I brought you home after Kida whooped your ass was torturous? Was I too rough? Should I have taken a riding crop and worn a nurse outfit?"
Arthur just stared at her "Imagine yourself in a nurse outfit"
"Fine a maid . . . oh never mind" it was then that the elevator dinged "Well it was nice seeing you here but I have to go"
"You do realize you went down more than one floor" Arthur deadpanned.
"Well a larger scope then" Merida then saw the professor entering a room "There he is!" she ran out of the elevator.
"Wait . . . that's . . . "Arthur's eyes widened as he ran after Merida.
The Scot opened the double doors and at once everyone in the room was looking at her. Without missing a beat she yelled "Have any of you seen a half-naked old man?"
An old man wearing a monocle pointed "He's over there playing with the mop"
Both Merida and Arthur turned to see Mr. Porter marching in place and using the mop as a baton "God bless our native land! May heaven's protecting hand" he sang the first line of God Save the Queen.
"Smee call security!" a certain Mr. Hook yelled at his portly assistant.
The man saluted "Oh . . . yes sir" he quickly bolted for the door despite stumbling a few moments.
"That's Jane's dad?" Arthur blinked "He was even loonier from the last time I saw him"
That was when two people busted through the door and fell to the ground panting.
"You lost . . . old man . . ." Sir Ector was on his back.
Mr. Hautecourt's face was on the floor "I believe you have that wrong it was I who was first" he said raising a finger.
" . . . And Britain's rights depend. On war no more." Mr. Porter continued singing.
"Would someone just hold that man" a loud booming voice from Calliope Mnemosyne, one of the five Mnemosyne sisters.
"Now let me hold that man!" Thalia the shortest and the roundest of the five rolled up her sleeves "He needs to understand some good ol' discipline"
Arthur groaned "This is gonna take a while"
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The sisters have just arrived in London City airport after an uneventful flight.
Anna was looking around for their chaperone "Taran should be in here right now"
"I remember he wasn't really keen on time then" Elsa adjusted her sunglasses and scarf.
"What's with the get up?" Anna told her sister "You look absolutely ridiculous!"
"This is for protection Anna" Elsa said in a stern voice "Right now they're reading the Pendragon will"
"Exactly, won't our dear uncle Vlad be busy by then?" Anna said rolling her eyes.
Elsa still remained serious "He can hire people you know"
"Then why did Arthur ask Taran to pick us up" Anna said quickly hiding her face with her tablet.
"Cause he knows how to drive mad" Elsa said "And Eilonwy isn't capable of driving at the moment"
"He had no choice didn't he?" Anna sighed "And I thought I would have a relaxing first day"
"Starting now things won't ever get relaxing" Elsa stared at the view of the dusty industrialized part of the city.
A/N: Yes very very late chapter. But my accounting subjects are forgiving to me, and I have a test on Sunday so yay. Thanks to blue2dolphin2 for reviewing last time, made me remember to upload something.