A/N: I had this chapter done a while back in the beginning of December. Unfortunately, I finished it right before I was going to bed one night and I could've sworn that I had saved it in my file before going to bed. But sadly, when I woke up the next day to finish it and upload it before coming home for Winter Break, I saw that it had not saved, so I was like "Forget it, I'll scrap it." because Atticus and I planned to have this story or saga whatever you call it finished before Christmas or New Year's, we're still going to be delayed because of my laziness, but up next is The Hunter episode followed by a subplot of Cherry, Atticus, Mo, and Forte trying to find out what's up with Vincent. Anyways, read & review!
Vincent was now practicing with each of the rings of pollution one by one.
'If this doesn't get you attention from your parents, nothing will...' the voice mentored him still.
Snow White was sleeping on the window sill for about the twentieth time today. Vincent then picked her up, held her in his arm, and started to stroke her like a Bond villain.
'What are you doing?' The voice asked.
"What, too cliche?" Vincent asked.
Snow White hissed at the hold, not liking it, she then jumped down from his arms, climbed back up, and went back to her nap, purring.
'Yes, that was too cliche, we want them to have your attention, not to let them think you're doing a James Bond villain impression.' The voice told him.
Vincent chuckled sheepishly. Snow White was fast asleep and unaware of what was going on with her young master. Vincent paid attention to the mysterious voice's words and he was really looking forward to this. Watch out, Akito, your big brother is back and better than ever.
'Until all five are activated at one and at the right time, I shall give you the powers I have and will still have when I appear.' The voice told him.
"Don't be long..." Vincent mumbled.
'Don't worry, you'll love this surprise, I'm sure of it...' the voice insisted.
"Well, alright then, so when can I have the same powers as yours?" Vincent asked.
'Right now, dude.' The voice smiled evilly.
Vincent's eyes widened as he was about to dramatically change.
'But don't worry, you won't change completely, I'm just going to give you the powers you'll need for now until I come, dude.' The voice assured him.
Vincent nodded.
Mo shook a chill down her spine.
"Mo, you don't need to worry about anything," Atticus soothed his wife. "Why don't we watch a movie?"
"I suppose..." Mo sighed as she decided to put on her sweater since she suddenly felt cold and disturbed.
"Hmm, let's see, what should we watch?" Atticus asked.
"You pick..." Mo smiled once she got comfortable.
Atticus took out one of their DVD boxes and skimmed through the various titles.
At the Forte home...
Forte was looking out the window. "I sense a disturbance..."
"You should look for it..." Cherry said as she was sword-fighting with Simon of all people.
Forte took out the enchanted mirror from Prince Adam's castle. "Show me the Fudo family." he demanded to the mirror that still had its window to other worlds power involved with it.
The mirror showed the composer what was going on at the Fudo house. Forte flinched from the flash of the light, but watched, he was being shown Vincent's bedroom. Simon sat on the floor and slashed his mother's sword out of her hand and knocked her down, he then crawled onto her stomach and nearly held the blade against her throat.
"I've got you now, Mama." Simon smiled.
"Impressive..." Cherry folded her arms, not alarmed at the blade, knowing Simon wouldn't kill her. "Now put it down..."
Simon put the blade down and wrapped his arms around her neck, though in a near strangling way.
"Okay, not so tight..." Cherry grunted slightly, slowly standing up and holding him in her arms. "Simon, that's TOO tight!"
Simon let go of her, knowing that even if he wanted to, he couldn't kill his own mother.
Cherry gasped for air, rubbing her throat and looked to her husband. "What's wrong?" she asked, nearly panting since Simon nearly choked her.
"There's blackness entering Vincent's heart..." Forte said as he focused on the mirror's visions.
"I told you you'd be a bad influence." Cherry mumbled, not getting what he really meant by that.
"Not by me! By something or someone else." Forte told her.
Cherry gave Simon his baby bottle and came closer to Forte's side. "What is it?" she asked as the mirror's image faded back to their reflections.
"I'm not sure what, but I need to find out what or how..." Forte replied softly.
Cherry shrugged and walked off with Simon, not seeming to really care, as was her nature.
"He is your nephew as well, remember?" Forte reminded.
"Yes..." Cherry said lowly. "I have a baby at home though..." she then cooed to Simon, she seemed to have favor him over Felicity!
"We'll call a caregiver..." Forte suggested. "I'm sure Belle wouldn't mind..."
"Belle's dense nowadays..." Cherry shrugged. "Fine... What do you suggest we do then?"
"We call for a caretaker, so then he or she can watch over Simon while we find out what's going on with Vincent." Forte said.
"Alright, just don't tell your daughter, she'll freak out..." Cherry suggested.
"Don't worry, I won't tell our daughter." Forte assured her.
"Your daughter..." Cherry said to him. "You put her there."
"You carried her for six months."
Cherry narrowed her eyes, but stayed silent after that comeback.
"Now, shall we?" Forte asked.
"Find someone..." Cherry said to him, putting Simon down in his crib to let him take a nap.
Forte did a bird call and summoned Belle and Adam's carrying pigeon. He then wrote a note down on a paper and gave it to the trained servant bird. "Merci, Witherspoon."
The pigeon saluted and flew off with the note.
"Now, all we have to do is wait." Forte said.
"Wait for what?" Felicity's voice crept behind him.
"Oh, well, Felicity, we just sent out word a caretaker so then your mother and I may go and check on your cousin, Vincent." Forte said.
"Is something wrong?" Felicity panicked.
"Um, no, we just want to see of how he's doing." Forte lied.
"He might be possessed..." Cherry mumbled.
"CERISE!" Forte whipped his head at his wife.
"Hey, it could happen..." Cherry shrugged.
Felicity's eyes widened and she ran off.
"Why would you tell her that?" Forte folded his arms.
"She needs to grow up..." Cherry folded her arms.
"But she's merely a child!" Forte told her.
"When I was her age, I was exposed to all sorts of dark things..." Cherry explained innocently. "Children used to work in factories... Some people who you are close to can want to kill you... Gods and Goddesses can be a pain, unless you befriend them."
"You are just so confusing sometimes." Forte groaned.
"I know!" Cherry grinned with a childish laugh.
Forte sighed and shook his head. "Simon, make me a promise and never marry..."
Simon placed his right hand over his heart, telling his father he would never get married. Forte ruffled up his hair then. Simon then leaned back and went back to sleep.
"We should be expecting a reply any minute now." Forte smiled.
Witherspoon flew back and landed on the perch.
Cherry took the note and opened it up. "They agree... Of course they would... Now, to tell Flick..."
Felicity was in the backyard, she had her best friends over, Belle and Adam's daughter Gabrielle and Mrs. Potts's son, Chip.
"I'm sure that he'll be alright as soon as your father gets there." Chip assured her.
"Maestro is very wise and helpful." Gabrielle added in admiration.
"Merci for your help, guys..." Felicity sighed. "I just really needed a friend right now, what with my cousins in Acmetropolis."
"I'm sure this won't be forever." Chip smiled.
Felicity blushed to his smile.
Chip then gave her a hug, surprising her, though in a good way. "I believe in them... I always believed in your mother, even if I don't know her as well as Belle..."
"Merci, Chip." Felicity smiled, hugging him back.
Gabrielle smiled and hugged them all, laughing a little with them. "Let's play a game!"
"Yeah!" Chip agreed.
Felicity giggled.
Cherry was washing dishes and she looked out the window as the three children played, she then let out a small sigh.
"She seems happy now that her friends are with her." Forte smiled.
"Yeah... Lucky her..." Cherry sounded distant. "I sometimes miss my old days... Before I found out who I really was... Frank took me away from the parents I believed were mine for a long time, he used to let me see them once in a while, but then he made me never see them again..."
"I know and that was a terrible thing for him to do." Forte comforted her.
Cherry put her hands to her eyes. "He made you go away... As soon as our baby was born, he made me come to you and never come back!"
Cherry did have him there.
"It's okay..." Forte soothed. "The nightmare is over..."
"Until the Queen and Frank die and they need an heir..." Cherry groaned.
"We'll think of something..." Forte held her.
Cherry nodded, knowing that they would think of something, but right now, they needed to find out what was going on with Vincent, but of course, they had to wait. Forte stroked her hair to comfort her as he watched their daughter play with the friends that she did have and she was happy and innocent... Just like how Cherry used to be. After a short while, there was a knocking at the front door.
Cherry took a deep breath and went to get the door. "I hope they sign the waiver first..." she mumbled before opening the door.
The moment she opened the door, she saw Belle and Adam and where this was a good sign.
"Thanks for letting us come over..." Belle smiled. "We knew there had to be something when Felicity demanded to see Gabrielle and Chip."
Cherry let them into her home. "Excuse the mess... Charles was up all night last night with a new sonata... We don't know how long we'll be gone, but we'll get back to you as soon as possible."
"It's no trouble at all." Adam said.
"It's our pleasure." Belle added.
Forte looked to Adam and gave him a small nod, they were still slowly becoming friends again, but they had improved, especially after Adam saw Forte's dedication and devotion to Cherry when they were first becoming an item together.
"Looks like my mama and papa are here." Gabrielle said, seeing her parents through the window.
Chip took a look too.
"Ooh... What are they doing here?" Felicity wondered.
Forte and Cherry came to the backyard to see the kids with Belle and Adam.
"Hey, Mama," Gabrielle smiled. "Hey, Papa."
Adam and Belle smiled and hugged their daughter.
"Flick, for a while, you and Simon will be staying with Adam and Belle," Cherry told her daughter. "We have to take care of our own missions... But no worries... You can still go on missions if they come up, I'll inform Zadavia of your coordinates."
"Merci, Maman." Felicity said.
Cherry gently stroked the top of her head. "Go gather your things..."
Felicity nodded and ran off into her room.
"Well, that was easy." Forte said.
Cherry picked up Simon as he was sleeping, he looked to be sweating and whimpering in his sleep.
"Is he okay?" Adam asked in concern.
"He's fine..." Cherry replied stoically. "Keep him out of the sun, don't pick him up if he's playing, and be very careful..."
"Why?" Gabrielle asked.
"Because." Cherry glared down at her to make her stop asking 'why' over and over like a normal little kid would.
Felicity grunted and struggled, pulling her stuff that was in a large bag.
"Wow, Felicity, how much stuff did you pack?" Adam asked.
"Uhh..." Felicity stammered.
Cherry sighed. "Would you like some help?"
"Oui sil vous plait..." Felicity blinked.
Cherry handed Simon to Belle and went to help her daughter pack the essentials.
It took a while, but they were finally able to pack the essentials Felicity needed.
"Alright, Flick, you're all set..." Cherry said.
Forte handed Simon's bag to Adam and the kids were all set to go.
"Me and Simon will miss you and Maman, Papa." Felicity said.
"We'll miss you too, now be good for Belle and Adam..." Cherry said to them.
"Thank you... Master..." Forte told Adam, but kept his distance away from the former beast.
"You're welcome, old friend." Adam smiled.
Forte had a small smile back. Felicity and Simon were going to the castle now with Belle, Adam, Chip, and Gabrielle. Forte then took out his pocket watch and put his arm around Cherry as they had work to do to save Vincent.
"Are you ready?" Forte asked.
"Might as well..." Cherry sighed. "Fire when ready."
Forte set his watch and pushed a button, making them disappear in a flash of bright light.
Vincent was now training with his new powers he had acquired from the voice.
'Are you ready?' the voice asked.
"Yes, sir..." Vincent replied respectively. "Let's get down to business."
'Good, start with a tree lift one up.' The voice said.
Vincent looked around, he then looked out his window and decided to open it.
"Something feels wrong..." Snow White whispered, she then yawned and stretched, but curled back up. "Maybe after my milk bath..."
'Good, that tree will do nicely, now fly off to it and break it.' The voice told him.
Vincent looked to the tree and deeply focused on his personal mission.
Snow White continued to nap as Vincent climbed out the window to see to the tree.
Mo knocked on Vincent's bedroom door and opened it, not finding Vincent. "Snow White, where's Vincent?"
"Mmm... I do declare, Mr. Pussycat~..." Snow White purred lustfully in her sleep.
"She must still be asleep." Angel said.
Mo sighed. "That kitten sleeps all day long, I swear..."
"Maybe I should wake her then." Angel said before about to bark.
"Bark and I'll scratch your muzzle." Snow White threatened.
Angel bit her lip then.
"What's so important that you had to interrupt my nap?" Snow White asked, stretching.
"Snow White, have you seen Vincent?" Mo asked.
"No, I haven't ever since I took my nap." Snow white told her.
They then heard a tree being destroyed.
"What the heck was that?!" Angel asked out of shock.
They all then rushed to the nearest window, including Snow White. They looked out to see Vincent was looking rather menacing as a tree was now destroyed in their yard. He had a rather sadistic grin on his face like he wanted that to happen.
"Yes, I did it." Vincent smiled sadistically.
"Vincent James Fudo!" Mo scolded.
"What?" Vincent tilted his head. "You got a problem with this, Mother?"
"Yes, I do! How could you destroy that innocent tree?!" Mo asked.
Vincent looked rather evil again. "Because I felt like it..." he grumbled, sounding bitterly and rebelliously snarky.
Mo grabbed her elder son's arm. "This is unlike you!"
Vincent actually slapped his mother's hand off of him. "You can't control me, you know."
'That's it, dude, give in to the hatred, now how's about we go to the future for some private lessons where your family won't get in the way?' The dark voice said.
Vincent nodded, agreeing with the voice. "I'm leaving."
"No, you're not, we're having a word about your behavior!" Mo scolded.
"I'm leaving and you can't stop me!" Vincent growled as he grabbed his futuristic bracelet, there was no time for a mission, but he didn't care, he was going to Acmetropolis uninvited. Why should Akito and Estelle be able to stay there and have all the fun while he just stays with their parents?
"Vincent, what is going on with you?!" Snow White asked.
"None of your business..." Vincent sneered, he then turned on his bracelet to make his own portal and was about to go through it.
Angel growled and bit on her mistress's son's pant leg, glaring firmly at him, she did not like this attitude or sudden behavior change from him.
"Get off, you stupid mutt!" Vincent glared before kicking her away from him.
Angel whimpered from the kick.
Mo bent down and held her dog in concern, but glared to her son. "Vincent, stop!"
"I don't think so!" Vincent sneered. "Smell ya later!" he then went through the portal and it closed up after he left.
"This can't be a phase..." Mo slowly shut her eyes, she was angry with her son, but very worried about him now. "What's happened to my little boy?"
"I-I noticed while I was pulling on his leg, he seemed to have five rings on his fingers, they didn't seem to be normal rings." Angel said.
That caught Mo's attention instantly. "Rings?"
"Yeah, I've never seen him wear rings before." Angel informed.
Mo thought back to something she was told once, but looked to her Pomeranian mutt to make sure. "What did they look like?"
"Each one looked like the same rings as the Planeteers' power rings, but different." Angel said.
"Oh, no..." Mo deeply frowned. "I was afraid of this..."
"What's wrong, Mo?" Atticus asked his wife.
"Captain Pollution..." Mo whispered in fear. "He's controlling Vincent!"
"What?! But how?" Atticus asked.
"I-I don't know or understand why..." Mo had tears in her eyes now. "That's why he's been acting differently!"
"We better find out how this is possible then." Atticus said.
Another portal opened up. Cherry poked her head out to the Fudo couple.
"Cherry!" Atticus and Mo called in surprise.
Cherry leaned back and pointed her pointer finger in a 'come hither' gesture.
"I have a feeling this might tell us something very important." Atticus said.
Mo looked concerned, but she went first, still holding onto Atticus's hand. Atticus took her hand and followed her into the portal. Angel and Snow White stayed behind, looking to each other with deep concern and watched as the portal closed behind them.
"Maybe we should have gone with them." Snow white said.
"Too late now..." Angel pouted, hoping Mo would be all right.
Jenny was brushing her hair down in her bedroom, wearing her nightgown. When she finished, she set her hairbrush down and went to crawl into bed as Oliver was already fast asleep. "Good night..." she whispered, kissing her kitten on the tip of his nose and went to get some sleep.
Oliver replied with a tried and yet sincere mew. Jenny smiled, she looked to her framed photograph of Vincent and gently stroked her hand across the face as she started to fall asleep herself. What she didn't know was that the boy that she knew and was in love with wasn't himself. Vincent came through a portal and ended up in Jenny's bedroom. He wondered if he should include her in this or not. He wasn't precisely not told against it. Jenny flinched from the light, but she did not wake up, she was still fast asleep.
"Well, he didn't exactly told me that I couldn't include Jenny." Vincent whispered.
Jenny was fast asleep. Vincent wanted to get her right then and there, but decided to maybe wait so she wouldn't be disturbed from her slumber. He then left out the portal and would come back for Jenny at another time and the portal closed after him. While that was going on, Akito and Estelle woke up from their sleep.