Author's Note: Another new chapter is finally here! Sorry for the long wait.
I don't own anything here except for my OCs. All rights belong to Toei/Naoko Takeuchi, Clamp, Pokemon Company, Dreamworks, Blue Sky Studios, 20th Century Fox, Disney, Square Enix, Sega, and Nickelodeon.
Chapter 7: Confession and Geotopia.
Later that night, the Guardians of Light and their allies have fallen asleep with Buck having sung a lullaby to his pumpkin 'daughter' before sleeping himself. Couples slept in each other's embrace, including Zack and Aerith, who after years of being separated, slept peacefully together. Though some of the heroes were sleep-talking while a few others were snoring.
"Gotcha now...Seifer...*snore* Take that...*snore*..." Hayner muttered in his sleep, waving his arm as he was dreaming about fighting Seifer in the Twilight Town Struggle Tournament.
However, little did the group know was that Roger, who was ordered by his father to kidnap Buck while everyone was asleep, quietly peered into one of the wall's holes before the Dino-bird snuck in and quickly snatched the sleeping furry form and then sneaked away with the one-eyed weasel in his clutches!
Yet even the noise of it didn't wake anybody up, not did it alert the only other person wide awake. That was none other than Captain Jack Sparrow, who, feeling like he should at least coordinate on how close they were to the asteriod. The immortal pirate was checking the map before feeling thirsty again and reached for the packed rum supply bottle...only to find that it was empty save for a few pathetic drops.
"Why is the rum always gone?" Jack grumbled to himself, though this was yet another case of deja vu for the drunken pirate. Because as he stood up, he wobbled a bit due to having too much as usual, making him say in realization but no surprise. "Oh...That's why. I always forget that."
Returning to the camp site as he had been studying quietly around the corner to not disrupt anybody's sleep, Jack found that everyone were fast asleep but as he noticed, somehow there was one person missing; Granny apparently was gone as well, though the pirate was unaware of this. Instead, he took notice of how Serena, Ash, Shrek, Sid, Donkey, Crash, Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Gibbs, most of the Black Pearl Crew, Sora, Lea, Roxas, Reno, Hayner and even Pence were all snoring away and surprisingly not waking up anyone else.
The Captain of the Black Pearl gazed around at the snoring group before muttering dismissively. "...As you were, gents and lass."
Letting the group sleep Jack went over to his sack where he carried the few rum bottles for the journey when he caught sight of something next to it. Pausing in his work, the pirate narrowed his eyes in confusion as he peered closer to investigate. Picking up the item, he found that it was red feather.
'Where did this come from?' He thought to himself, before looking up and saw that there was a trail of it with feathers all over the place and...bird-claw like foot prints leading up to further ahead. Suddenly a chill ran down his spine as awareness seeped through his entire body as the realization that they weren't alone filled his senses.
Looking back at everyone who surprisingly were unaware, not even the Pokemon could have heard the noise of a featherly intruder or stalker or perhaps a new enemy that was following them and Pokemon had a much better sense of picking up sounds and/or vibrations, Jack decided to sneak away to investigate and if there really was an enemy lurking, he would have to alert them for more trouble.
But as Jack followed the trail further away from his friends, allies and crew, he suddenly heard a faint scream coming from Granny which made him freeze up before it was cut off by a loud slam of something closing and a faint dreaded sound of someone or perhaps a monster swallowing food followed shortly after. Alarmed and shocked while fearing for the worst, Jack hurried to see what it was as his previous thoughts of why Sid's grandmother was absent, having thought she was sleepwalking were thrown overboard from his brain-ship.
...Yes, that's what Jack calls his own mind due to his love for the see, in case you're wondering.
As it turns out for Roger, instead of capturing Buck like he was supposed to, he accidentally caught Granny instead, much to his shock and his father's disapproval before Gavin promptly swallowed the female elderly sloth whole after she had woken up.
"And that, kids, is how it's done." Gavin declared smugly to his children, licking his lips after having eaten Granny alive.
Unfortunately, that proved to be his fatal mistake, because the moment they were about to walk away, the lead Dino-Bird suddenly felt Granny move inside his stomach...far too lively for an old sloth.
"Hello? Angel? Am I in heaven? It's so dark and squishy in here!" Granny called out, making the trio freeze up in shock and bewilderment...until she said. "Hey, I can see the light!"
'Uh-oh!' Gavin yelped in his mind as he realized that his 'food' was attempting to, er...poop herself out through his butt. He quickly covered it to stop her from escaping even though this was becoming far more embarrassing and frightening than he thought, especially after how this mammal bashed up Gertie.
To make things worse, Granny began to move around so violently inside his stomach that she began to literally have Gavin flown all over the place including right into the wall several times as he screamed in panic and then in pain.
"OW! Ah! Ugh! Wah!" He yelped in agony, wishing for this nightmare to stop.
"Pop! I'll save you!" Gertie exclaimed, racing over to her father and grabbed him, since she was slightly bigger than him and performed the hemlich trick and after a couple of tries, she successfully made him spit Granny out and over the cliff.
"Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" Granny squealed in delight, senile as always as she fell. But her fall was broken by a piece of vine which sling-shot her right back up.
This was heard by Jack who, now pausing as he heard the sloth grandmother squeal, hurried to see what was going on now and he began to think that he was having a weird dream...Or a nightmare.
The moment Gavin thanked his daughter for saving his life and smirked, all of the sudden Granny reappeared to the Dino-Bird family and waved in greeting. "Hello!"
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" Gavin, Gertie and Roger all screamed in terror as they thought at the same time. 'What the!?'
Thinking quickly, Gavin punched Granny comically in the face, making her doopy and comical before she fell once again and vanishing into the darkness below. Just as Jack saw what happened and, seeing this too late, the pirate hurried over and peered over just in time to see the female sloth vanish. He squealed in panic as he knew that something wasn't done soon, Sid would be grandmother-less.
"All right, no need to panic. Why do I always end up rescuing ungrateful women?" Jack sighed, attempting to calm down while annoyed by this.
But as he turned around to try and find a vine or something to climb down and rescue Granny, he stopped short when he and the Dino-Birds, who were surprised to see him, stared at each other for the first time...and given the feathers, the Pirate Captain had just found the answer of the feathers and it wasn't a pretty sight.
"Oh, bugger." He murmured in worry.
An awkward moment of silence filled the night air, save for an owl hooting in the distance as the night bird went out on it's hunt for wandering small prey. Jack then smirked nervously as he reached into his pockets and pulled out...a spare jar of pepper and shakes it onto his shoulders, confusing them even further, the trio sharing dumbfounded glances.
"Needs a bit of spices, ay?" Jack said to them, then quickly decided to get going before things get worse. "Or not!"
Unfortunately, due to fatigue and being drunk, not to mention that it was in the middle of the night, Jack's attempts to jump off to rescue Granny ended badly as he missed his step and tripped onto the rock before falling over despite trying to keep his balance. Gavin, Gertie and Roger, shocked, quickly peered over the cliff just in time to see the, in their opinion, very strange and crazy human vanish after the just as crazy and scary female sloth.
"...Oh well. Probably for the best." Gavin decided, uncomfortably.
"Yeah, probably." Gertie agreed, shifting a little.
"Definitely." Roger concluded nervously.
Down at the cliff, Jack tumbled and stumbled as he fell while screaming and eventually landed on the ground, sliding to a stop. Groaning, the annoyed pirate, alive due to his immortality, glanced to his left and found, to his shock, Granny who not only was still alive herself and having slid to a stop earlier, but she had quickly fallen back asleep softly snoring while dreaming.
But before he could even make a comment as he was dumbfounded over her own survival, he heard approaching footsteps and looked ahead just in time for a shadow to cover them both and his eyes widened in horror to see a seemingly tall and creepy figure approach. Jack cringed nervously.
Boy where they in big trouble now?
Very next morning early, Buck awoke after having a shocking dream that made him open his eye quickly. Something was wrong. He could feel it. Getting up and peering out of his sleeping hole, the Asteroid of Darkness was shockingly closer than it was yesterday.
"Crikey!" He whispered to himself in horror. How did that happen?
Hurrying over to his bag and searched for the tablets, the one-eyed Weasel examined it before a horrified realization dawned onto him!
"Good gravy, Buck! What have you done!?" He softly chastised himself over his mistake, and bumped his face into the tablet, before packing it up and gathered his things, and leaped out back outside to call out to his friends. "Alright, Sailor Team. Time to get moving. Now let's not linger on this but, yes, I read the tablet wrong. The asteroid is a lot closer.
Though when he was taking lead even though the dino-hunter knew that it would take the Guardians and their allies to pack up, he felt something underneath his foot and looked down. As if things couldn't get any worse, there was a series of not just footprints of the dino birds which he had stepped into one before backing up a bit, but also a litter of red feathers.
"Uh oh..." Buck murmured worriedly. His enemies were very close now and must've attempted to kidnap him last night. He could only hope that nobody else was missing.
Unfortunately, that hope was dashed.
"Wait a second. Where's Granny?" Sid walked over, having realized that his grandmother was missing while everybody else quickly got up and packed their things, most being horrified that their time was shorter than they knew.
"And Captain Jack's missin' too." Ragetti added as he and Pintel noticed one of their two captains has also gone missing.
"Granny! Oh, Granny!" The male sloth called out, everyone unaware that Buck was silently panicking.
'Oh gravy, no! Okay, okay! Don't panic...Don't panic!' The Weasel thought to himself, having face-palmed himself and began biting his knuckles while trying to figure out what to do. Though it didn't help that Granny and potentially Jack had been kidnapped in his place.
It was probably Roger's doing since the smallest dino bird was also the clumsiest.
"Where did Sparrow gone off to now?" Barbossa groaned in sheer annoyance over his rival's disappearance. Despite them being immotal, the older captain began to think that his younger rival had run off like a coward again.
"Maybe they both wandered off separately?" Serena guessed with her hands behind her head, concerned but at the moment not overly worried yet unaware of the dangers she and her friends and family were all in. "Especially since Jack was probably drunk with all that rum, and Granny does wander off a lot."
"Maybe they were both sleep walking?" Zack suggested with a shrug, while everyone else gathered with concerns and thoughts of their own, all wondering what just happened as well as fearing that none of them would make it in time.
Oh, lord, there was no getting away from it now. Especially since the Sailor Team would find the feathers and question it, Buck knew that he had no choice but to inform the group that they were all in serious danger despite his attempts to keep them away from his enemies.
"Yes! And maybe they've both been abducted by homicidal thirty-foot dino-birds seeking revenge on me. All good theories. I'm gonna go with the sleep-walking." Buck finally confessed nervously, turning around and caught a feather that floated down before stuffing it into his mouth.
Not that it would help.
"I knew it!" Reno hissed, as the full realization and clues he had picked up began to make sense, glaring at the weasel angrily. "This whole damn time, we've been chased by giant friggin' dino-birds!?"
The rest of the group were shocked by this upon hearing that not only Buck knew what the problem was, but he also kept them all in the dark about the new dangerous enemies that were a new species of dinosaurs none of them has ever heard of before. Except maybe Amy, but that was beside the point.
"Only three! I didn't want to damage the morel." Buck correctly nervously.
"Aye, and before all that, ye' be leading us on a detour to avoid them!" Barbossa shouted in fury, as he too knew that he was right about the one-eyed weasel.
But before the two men could continue to berate Buck for his reckless decisions, Lusie immediately came to the weasel's defense. "Stop it, you guys! It's not Buck's fault he didn't know those giant birds would be coming after him all the way here!"
"Besides that, Buck's always been a hero and I bet the reason he went up against them was because they were causing problems in the dino cave." Rini agreed as she stood by her future-daughter's side, glaring at the two adults.
"And it's all the asteroid's fault that it made a new opening to that place, especially since we agreed it's better off that the dinosaurs are a lot safer from guys like Team Rocket and Organization XIII that could hurt them." Ash added, glaring up at the aforementioned meteor since he knew that none of this would have happened if the asteroid didn't threaten the Realm of Light.
The aforementioned trio of the former criminal organization flinched and glared at their young former enemy since Jessie, James and Meowth hadn't planned on even going into the dinosaur cave in the first place. Let alone got anywhere near the giant reptiles that tried to kill them or eat them.
"And Hojo." Vincent nodded in agreement.
Before everyone could end up getting into a heated argument, Pikachu perked up and sniffed the air. "Pi? Pika!"
Catching a scent, the small yellow Pokemon hurried to investigate while following the trail of what he realized where the trail of the dino birds' feathers as well as the footprints and scents from the female sloth(stinky as she was) and Jack. He was soon followed by Piplup and Chespie who followed him, along with the other Pokemon.
"Pikachu!" Ash cried out in concern and confusion.
"Piplup, where are you going?" Dawn reached out for her partner and best friend.
"Chespie?" Mairin asked, before realization hit her as she quickly announced to everyone. "I think they found Jack and Granny."
Diego sniffed the air and realized that it was true. "You're right...I can pick the scent too."
The male Sabor-Tooth, and the other Pokemon quickly followed along with the rest of the group. The Guardians followed Diego and the Pokemon to the cliff only to stop as the sun continued to rise from behind, to everyone's surprise, a tall mountain...the very same mountain they wanted to reach. Not only that, the light shone onto a massive giant rock about the size of a small island in a canyon below, as though it has been there for millions of years.
Everyone gazed in awe as it looked to be the same size as the current Asteroid calling from the sky was.
"Whoa..." Serena, Sora, Ash, Ven and Jason all murmured in awe.
"Oh wow!" Emily exclaimed in disbelief.
"Is that...what I think it is?" Megan asked breathlessly.
Buck, just as stunned, looked at the tablet before seeing that the Sailor Scout was right and said in sheer relief. "It is! We made it! The crash site. This must be what's left of the second asteroid that split this world from Earth."
"Holy..." Zack whispered. Never in his two lives that he would see anything like this. Well, except for the one that Sephiroth summoned, but not while it wasn't on fire.
"Incredible..." Even Genesis was amazed, because like everybody else who were all stunned, shocked and amazed by the sheer size of it, he never thought he would see this either.
"Uh...Buck?" Eddie suddenly spoke up, pointing at the bag full of the meteorites inside which began to slide and move slowly. "The rocks of darkness!"
Just as the others noticed, the bag was then suddenly pulled by the powerful magnetic field of the previous asteroid where it and the other rocks were then stuck onto the top of it.
"We could definitely divert the asteroid with a magnet that size! I mean that thing's enormous. It's massive. It's..." Buck ranted, believing they still had a chance.
"Going to be impossible to move from the ground." Donald though pointed out, folding his arms and tapped his foot.
"And impossible to move at all." Mina groaned, facepalming herself.
"It's entirely possible! In a way that we don't know yet!" Buck pointed out.
"A real hard way." Pence stated.
"Maybe, but still a way none the less! I say we give a try!" Hayner declared with determination.
Olette gazed at her friend as though he was crazy. "But we don't know how to yet, silly, and we've only got like several hours left before impact."
"We gonna need to think of a way fast, because we're running out of time." Riku nodded, gazing at the asteroid in deep thought.
"If only we had enough time for that." Mickey placed his hand under his chin.
"But what about the dino birds?" Crash asked, worriedly as they all had new problems to worry about.
"What about Granny and Jack?" Donkey added, going back to the other problem.
Realizing this, both Pikachu and Diego sniffed the ground only to realize that the trails ended here. While the small Pokemon sadly shook his head, the sabor gazed up with bad news and a somber feeling. "Nothing."
Shocked and stunned that while Jack would be alright, a horrified realization the Granny was gone began to sink in. The hearts of the Sailor Team and Team Pokepals, as well as their allies all sank, but none was more heart-broken than Sid, who was comforted by Manny who placed his trunk onto his friend's shoulder.
"Oh, Sid...We're so sorry." Serena said, on the verge of tears of her own before Darien gently placed his hands onto her shoulders.
Sid, devastated and distraught, wiped his eyes with Manny's trunk.
"Oh, Granny...My sweet, malicious Granny." The sloth sobbed, before shoving the trunk to the ground as he wailed and cried. "Why does it always have to be the old ones who go first? Why?"
"You know, you lot always jump to conclusions quicker than I expected." A familiar slightly drunk voice remarked from their right.
Startled and shocked, the group turned while Sid, Donkey, Crash and Eddie all screamed in fright with the two possums hugging each other before they and everyone else saw it was Jack, who was leaning against a rock casually as though nothing was wrong.
"Cap'n?" Gibbs asked, bewildered. Even after over 200 years, he still wasn't used to his captain's unusual behavior.
"Jack?" Ash and Sakura both blinked, just as dumbfounded like everyone else.
"Whoa! How'd you get there?" Lea recoiled slightly, wondering how did the pirate manage to get here without anybody hearing him.
"Been here waitin' all morning, mate." Was Jack's answer.
However, this only made Serena, while relieved, to growl furiously that you could see an aura of flames surround her entire, her fists clutched tightly to stop them from shaking. "Ooooh! Jack Sparrow!"
Not only did Darien back away from his irate wife in fright, but even Jack became terrified as the latter held his hands up in defense, fearing for the worst.
"Please, not..." He began nervously...
Fortunately, Serena just stormed up to him and gave him the most scariest glare that in his point of view, she loomed over him which made him shrink back in fright. While most of the group were used to seeing the Moon Princess being irritated with the pirate captain, Zack, Reno, Rude, and even Tseng, Rufus, and Genesis wince in a bit of fear, while Elena giggled.
"That's what he gets for making everyone worry or angry." The female Turk smirked. Elena mentally noted to never get on her bad side.
"Where have you been, you idiotic pirate!? Do you realize how worried sick we were!?" Serena shouted, throwing her arms up in the air while everyone else all sweat dropped. Not even Buck had seen this side of the Sailor Scout before.
"Oh, man. I never saw her get this mad before." Zack whispered, nervously. He was too scared to even speak up to her at the moment.
"Ooh...I have." Mickey remarked, knowingly and just as nervous.
Reno stepped back a little, whispering to Rude who remained silent. "I forgot how friggin' scary that kid is when she's like this."
Mentally gulping while sighing in relief that he wasn't going to be slapped again, Jack attempted to remain calm and told his younger friend. "I could not sleep, and it's a good thing I didn't. But before you all panic, Granny is perfectly fine."
"In the clutches of dino-birds!?" She shouted.
'How did they know that?' Jack thought to himself, before realizing that the monsters he encountered last night were dino-birds, and since Buck is the only one who knew more about the species, it made perfect sense all of the sudden and decided to question the weasel later.
"She was dropped off and is safely inside that asteroid, getting a massage." The Pirate pointed out, only to recoil in fright when Serena leaned up to him with a heated glare while everyone else wondered what he was talking about this time.
"This is no time for jokes!" Serena hissed.
"I'm telling the truth, darlin'. She IS getting a massage." He nervously argued, just before Granny's cries were suddenly heard from the distance. This made the pirate wince in sympathy. "...And quite a painful one at that."
"Aiy, aiy, aiy, aiy, aiy, aiy!" Granny yelped in agony from afar, though the group still didn't believe Jack's words but they did realize one thing.
"It's Granny!" Ash exclaimed worriedly.
"And she's in trouble!" Brock added in alarm.
Jack rolled his eyes as he told the group, getting very annoyed by this. "She is getting a bloody massage, and I will show you to prove it."
Before anyone could question him, the Pirate ran down the hill while gesturing the Guardians and the rest of the group to follow him. While still not sure if he was serious about this or not, the heroes and their allies quickly followed towards the asteroid, while calling out for Granny and hoping that she would respond. As they got closer, the female sloth's cries got louder.
Jack, Ash and Zack, being ahead of everyone along with Pikachu, reached into the tunnel of the giant space rock only to skid to a stop. There was Granny, alive but...well...really getting a massage and it looked quite painful. By the time everybody else caught up, they all gaped bewildered upon that Jack had been telling the truth. Even Buck couldn't believe what he was seeing.
"Huh?" Everyone all echoed, completely speechless.
"Is Granny okay!?" Sid, who had been the last to arrive as usual, pushed through the group and stopped in front of them to see what was going on. What he saw made him just as shocked and worried.
"Uh...I'm not really sure. The massage therapy looks pretty painful." Zack replied hesitantly.
What made it more strange was that the one who was giving Granny the massage was a blue bunny who twirled the female sloth and karate-massaged her back which, unbeknownst to the heroes, it was making her feel better.
He was not only unusually blue, but he was wearing a necklace with a purple gemstone, about the height of Sid, and muscular.
"Unhand my Granny!" Sid demanded angrily as he stormed over.
"You do, and you won't get your tip." Granny however warned the bunny.
"Making this beautiful sloth happy is all the payment I need." He responded charmingly, before he scooped her up and carried her into the chamber of the asteroid, much to everyone else's confusion as they all left wondering if he actually lived here.
"You see? Hunky bunny gets it." Granny smiled at her grandson, despite him calling out to her and hurried to catch up.
"Did he seriously just call the old sloth beautiful?" Isa whispered to Lea.
"Must be blind love or love at first fright, or somethin'." The redhead shrugged, just as clueless.
"That's just as creepy as the Forty Thieves." Roxas cringed, and Xion nodded in agreement.
"I remember that." Kaylie sighed, placing a hand over her face.
Jake groaned, shuddering over the memory. "I wish I didn't."
"Not as creepy as the Island-sized Turtle." Simon pointed out, shrugging before he and everybody else began to follow, too curious on what was going on.
"There's a bunny living inside the asteroid." Shrek murmured, wondering if he was having a really strange dream. "Didn't see that one coming."
"Wait until you see this." Fiona whispered however, with amazement as she gestured of the huge chamber they all walked into.
As the Guardians of Light, the Pirates, and the Turks walked in, all around them was the inside the asteroid. The walls and ceiling were covered with canyons and giant crystals. It was like they had just entered another dimension, and the group marveled at this unusual beauty. It was sparkling.
"Amazing!" Grovyle breathed in awe.
"Incredible!" Sceptile agreed.
"I've never seen anything like it." Dusknoir murmured in awe.
"Look at that!" Future-Piplup pointed to the side.
"Awesome!" Chimchar exclaimed in awe.
Rena clasped her hands together, "It's beautiful."
"You're right. I never knew something like this could exist in an asteroid." Amy agreed in awe.
"Wow!" Mickey and Donald both exclaimed.
"Golly!" Goofy gaped.
"Whoa!" Sora, Ven, Roxas, Hayner, and Pence exclaimed.
While they looked around at their new beautiful surroundings, an Ice Age Yak rode on a crystal platform, flying all around the ramp and fly, wooting as he went.
"Whoa-oh!" Serena exclaimed, wondering if she was having a weird but beautiful dream. "I've seen a lot of beautiful and weird places before, but this takes the cake!"
"This is a Topia like nobody's business!" Donkey remarked.
"This is crazy!" Both Sakura and Manny exclaimed in disbelief.
"They are living inside the asteroid that is about to be destroyed..." Aqua murmured, marveled by the beauty but concerned as the situation was only getting worse.
If these ice age animals were living here, then it was going to be difficult to convince them that their home must be used to prevent the asteroid of darkness from hitting the Fairy Tale World or any other world.
"How can any of this even be possible?" Tseng couldn't believe what he was seeing.
"Welcome to the Fairy-Tale World, Tseng." Diego commented half-sarcastically.
Just then, the group heard an unfamiliar voice call out from above. "I can't believe it!"
When they looked up, they saw a beautiful young, female sloth in light redish pink with her fur going down to her ankles as though she was wearing a dress, long blonde hair with flowers for decoration, blue eyes and quite fit and thin. The women of the group all gazed at awe, even more amazed at just how beautiful this newcomer was, and that she was riding on a magnetic crystal rock flying down towards them and she seemed quite happy to see the group.
"Visitors! We've never had visitors!" She exclaimed in excitement, before going over to Shrek, then Jack while saying. "Somebody want to pinch me? Or should I pinch you?"
She then went over to Goofy and decided. "I know! I'll pinch us both!"
The female young sloth then pinched at her own cheek as well as the goofy Captain's, making him chuckle at this very friendly greeting. "A-yhuck!"
"Did I just hit my head?" Cloud whispered to Tifa, not believing what he was seeing. "What's going on here?"
"Oh, I hope it's not a-whoa!" The female sloth cut herself off when she first saw a brief glance at Sid, which made her surprised and fell off onto the ground. But when she got up and moved her hair out from her eyes, she breathed while finishing in a sing-song tone. "Dream...!"
While others may found this disturbing, her eyes widened as did her smile at the sight of Sid...who was scratching his butt, sniffing at his claws before groaning at the awful smell. But that didn't faze her, because to her, he was handsome. The sloth of her dreams. She then whistled out as she wanted to immediately to get to know him. The mini-corns, named Bubbles and Mist(1), leaped over leaving behind a trail of rainbows as they went over to Sid who looked at them, confused.
"Oh, how cute!" Serena, Rini, Lusie, Amy, Raye, Lita, Mina, Kairi, Xion, Olette, Rena, Misty, May, Dawn, Sakura, Madison, Tiffenie, Amelia, Aqua, Mairin, and Jessie all cooed at the sight of the two cute little horses, their eyes sparkling like stars.
"Minicorns!" Luna exclaimed, finding the two Minicorns, who were named Mist and Bubbles, adorable.
"This guy, for real?" Bubbles asked incredulously as she and her sister Bubbles stood on both sides of the confused and slightly nervous sloth, both wondering if the female sloth was serious and what she saw in this visitor.
Mist stared, before shrugging it off and said. "Whatever."
She then scooped up Sid who yelped before dumping the male sloth in front of the female beautiful sloth, standing up as she greeted him. "Well, hello handsome. I am Brooke."
Seeing the female sloth who calls herself Brooke up close, Sid instantly found himself deeply in love as he laughed wordlessly. She has got to be the most beautiful female sloth in the entire Realm of Light. Her fur down like it was a dress, her long hair, her gorgeous eyes, and her voice! Oh dear Cosmos, she had the most beautiful voice in the Fairy Tale Planet.
"Ohhhh. Such exquisite bone structure. Such a strong jaw. I'm getting butterflies!" Brooke said, rubbing the male sloth's face and flipping her hair as butterflies flew out.
"I'm getting nauseous." James whined uncomfortably as he and everybody else watched the Sloth member of the Sailor Team and Guardians of Light being greeted by the female Sloth of this place, thinking that she must be very desperate.
"Uh, sorry to interrupt your weird first romance, but, we're kinda in a major hurry." Lea apologetically, and awkwardly, spoke up while scratching the back of his head.
"If we don't do something fast," Buck began, getting between the two sloths who had fallen in love with each other, before he pulled them both close to him while gesturing at the falling asteroid in the sky outside of the one they stood in. "That asteroid is gonna blow us all and every other world in existence into smithereens!"
When she saw that unusual light which has appeared a couple of days ago, as she noticed, Brooke had felt it was alarming despite being told it was fine. But now she knew that with the group coming here, it was extremely more serious than she thought and given how there are even humans who were with other creatures and seem to be all friends and allies, she felt that they were all trust worthy.
"Goodness! This sounds urgent." Brooke remarked in alarm, before announcing to the heroes. "I better take you to see him."
Him? Who's him?
"By him, I take you mean your leader?" Rufus questioned politely.
"He is our everything." Brooke answered.
"He sees all!" Both Minicorns added, leaping behind their sloth friends and created a double rainbow.
"He knows all!" She added.
The blue bunny, who's name is Teddy, rowed on a crystal with Granny as his passenger, smiled. "And smells amazing!"
Even though the Guardians of Light were a bit skeptical on this, if this was their chance to set things right, they would take it, so they shared a glance and nodded since it was their only lead they had left.
"He sounds like a great guy." Zack remarked.
"That's great!" Serena exclaimed excitedly, her hands clasped together. "Lead the way, Brooke."
"Brilliant! Right this way." Brooke smiled.
When both Mist and Bubbles tapped the crystal floor twice, all of the sudden it gave way beneath her and Sid who screamed in alarm as they both fell on a newly made platform, with Crash and Eddie peering over the edge to see them glide away into another tunnel below.
While the two Minicorns tapped again, Jessie folded her arms while stating. "I'm not going down the-" She was cut off when she and everybody else all fell unexpectedly with several created platforms, prompting her to scream. "EEREEH!"
Everyone all screamed.
"AAHHHH! Don't drop me!" Meowth screamed as he held onto James who shrieked girlishly.
"Yaaaa-hooee!" Goofy hollared.
"Waaaaaaaaaaaak!" Donald screamed.
On each platform the group were separated into separate groups on each platforms. Buck, Crash and Eddie, who were having a lot of fun, were on one just behind Brooke and Sid, next was Serena, Rini, Lusie and Darien who held on as the blonde-haired Moon Princess and Earth Prince nearly fell off, as did Manny, Shrek, Jack, and Sora, the latter pulled back up by Kairi and Riku.
In either two or four in groups, they were carried while passing by a magnificent crystal tunnel, passing by an orange mouthdigger who was wearing tons of crystals while allowing the magnetic gravity carry him.
"Please keep your arms and legs inside the tram at all times. But let your spirit roam free, in Geotopia." Brooke announced.
"I have a good feeling about this." Rena, who stood with Ash and Pikachu, said in relief and excitement. "Maybe he can help us."
Ash shrugged with a smile, having some hope rise inside him despite there was an amount of doubt at the same time. "Well, maybe, and he probably has the ability to see the future better than I used to."
Once they arrived and floated up with their platforms connection to another floor of what appeared to be a breathtaking throne room of sorts, Brooke lead the group forward a bit.
"Here he is - the master of meditation, the supreme sovereign, the four times heavy thoughts champion of the world..." She announced dramatically.
Above them on a crystal tower was a ball of fur...which then uncurled itself to be...a Llama in different multiple colours and was doing yoga in different forms. He pluckered his lips before spitting with an Ice Age beaver with a pink mustache catching it(EW!).
The Guardians of Light and their allies just stood there, with all hopes and feelings quickly beginning to plummet.
"Is that a llama? I hate llamas! They spit and smell!" Granny complained in annoyance.
"So does she." Lea whispered to himself.
"So do we!" Crash and Eddie both exclaimed and shared a high-five with laughter.
The Llama, not hearing them, bounced down in an rather impressive reflex before his fur was being blow-dried by two blue aardvaks as he then greeted the heroes. "Greetings, mammals, humans, Pokemon, and creatures beyond imagination! The Shangri Llama will see yoooooooooou now."
"Wonderful. Where is he?" Buck asked, hopefully.
The others sweat dropped while Jason pointed out with an raised eyebrow. "Uh, Buck? He's standing right in front of us."
He was then startled when Shangri Llama went up in front of him. "Indeed you are right, young man!"
"...Llama." Jack began, blankly. "Your leader is a Shangri Llama."
"Yes." Brooke nodded.
Another awkward pause.
"Is the great Shangri Llama going to help? Because in my experience, the leader is ventriloquist and Llama are dummies." The Pirate Captain asked, still blankly confused and doubtful.
"No, you're the dummy." Shangri Llama pointed out, going up to the immortal pirate who stared back.
"No, you're the dummy." Jack argued.
"No, you're the dummy."
"Now now, there's no time to argue." Mickey said firmly as he pushed the pirate back to avoid a conflict.
Thankful for the Mouse King's peaceful interference, Diego asked just as skeptical. "This is the guy who's gonna save us?"
"I already have my doubts." Puss murmured.
"Look within you. You're the dummy!" The Llama declared, spitting at Jack who yelped and ducked just in time to avoid in getting hit, much to the disgust of most of the group who tried not to recoil.
"Disgusting! Loved it!" Buck remarked, smirking.
"Thank you." Shangri Llama replied. "Now, since you are all in a group, I need to speak with three leaders; a Princess, a white coat President, and the Expedition leader."
Near by was a drawing(badly designed) which foretold the prophecy of a large group, let by a Princess in a long hair, a figure in white coat(though it was hard to tell if it was a human or an animal), and in the middle was a small figure an eye missing. The group all shared dumbfounded looks before shrugging and Serena, Rufus and Buck stepped forward since they were all what the Llama and the picture described.
"Excellent! Your names?" The Llama praised, pleased with the results.
"Uh...My name is Serena, and I'm Princess of...of Duloc." Serena began, bowing her respects despite her own doubts. Though she did avoid in revealing she was the reincarnation of her past-self from the Moon.
"Rufus Shinra, President of the ShinRa Company." Rufus added in a more professional manner he grew up to be.
"Name's Buck. Short for Buckmister." Buck concluded, before adding. "New topic: We're all about to die."
"Oh, dear. Well, that's no good. Stress is a killer. Let us loosen our limbs and open our minds." The Llama smirked, before he said. "Those who are flexable...downward dog!" He then did the downward dog, much to discomfort of the group.
"You can't be serious." Reno groaned.
"Seriously?" Sora slumped in disbelief.
"I'll wait. I have all the time in the world." Shangri Llama said calmly.
Serena sweat dropped, before pointing out politely. "Actually sir, there really isn't much time at all."
"She's right." Buck added as he went up to him. "You don't have all the time in the world. None of us do. You see, there's this thing in the sky." He pointed up.
"Oh. That blinding light that seems to get larger by the minute?" Shangri Llama asked nonchalantly, as the Asteroid of Darkness was getting closer and closer. "What about it? Seems fine to me."
"With all due respect, Your Twistiness, that's an asteroid. It's magnetically attracted to this place and it's heading straight for us." The one-eyed weasel explained.
The Llama just spat at the crystal wall in response while stating incorrectly. "It must desire our magnetic crystals. Well, who can blame it? They're really quite something. Did you know their power grants eternal youth? I am over four hundred years old."
That caught everyone off-guard by surprise. He was actually a lot older than he looked? And not only that...he was immortal?
"Wot?" Jack gaped, sharing a dumbfounded glance at his crew and the Sailor Team who, all well aware of immortality, did not expect that this asteroid granted those who lived her eternal youth.
Let alone that everyone living in Geotopia were actually really old.
"Are you serious?" Kero asked, incredulously while everyone else shared uneasy glances.
"He sure is! I'm three hundred and twenty-six! Whoo!" Teddy smirked.
"Huh?" Even Granny was surprised, before she stated at her new boyfriend. "You don't look a day over two hundred and seventy-five."
"Well, this just complicates things." Raye muttered uneasily.
"Complicates things? More like making things clearly impossible." Kristen deadpanned, knowing that asking to use this place to stop the Asteroid of Darkness was out of question.
"We are young, happy and safe. And we always will be. Thanks to Geotopia!" Shangri Llama continued calmly.
"Yeah, that's great." Shrek grumbled, getting impatient but was held back genlty by his wife who gave him a look to not start a fight.
"Kudos! It's lovely. Now, let's figure out how to launch it into the sky and destroy the asteroid of darkness with the power of light!" Buck declared hopefully.
Unfortunately, Shangri Llama's mind was not budging. "I'm sorry. You want to destroy our home?"
"It will be destroyed whether it is the asteroid or not." Genesis spoke up firmly. "I'm afraid there's no saving it or even you, and if it is destroyed by the asteroid, everyone will all be destroyed including us."
"But if we propel this magnetic material into the atmosphere, we can direct the asteroid into the sky and use the power of love and friendship to make it disappear and save everyone. What do you say?" The dino-hunting weasel added, trying not to give up hope.
The Llama just grinned, before shouting. "Downward dog!"
Sharing another glance with groans and growing impatience as well as hopelessness, they decided to obey him by doing yoga in hopes that he'll at least agree. So Manny, Sid and Diego, rather uncomfortably, all performed the the downward dog voluntary.
"Caterpillar!" The Llama added, while he laid on the floor with his legs sticking up, and the others copied him...and also cracking Diego's spine and causing the sabor to yelp comically in pain.
"Um...How is this helping?" Amelia asked, uneasily.
"It's not." Gibbs shook his head in defeat.
"Oh, you are storing a lot of hostility in your lower spine. Funky Chicken! Jiggy Jelly! Mashed Potato!" Shangri Llama remarked, and shouted along, he, the poor saber, Manny and Sid doing all of these moves.
"Hey, this is kind of easy." Sid remarked.
By now, Ash was getting really impatient, demanding as all hopes and thought this guy would help now really plummeted. "Oh, come on! Gimme a break here!"
"Ash...!" Fiona whispered in scolding.
"Your flexibility is a sight to behold." Buck remarked, worriedly as he too began to think that it was all a hopeless cause.
"Come on! How can we launch all these crystals!?" Roxas snapped impatiently.
"You can't. It's impossible." The Llama said, clearly not believing in any of the threats and not even interested in helping what so ever, before he curled up into his ball form. "Whoo, I'm bushed! Awesome meeting you guys. Feel free to hang or, you know, whatever."
With that, the Guardians of Light and their allies' hearts all sank as they felt the heavy, dark and crushing defeat. Most of them lowered their gazes disheartened while Brooke was absolutely shocked and disappointed in her leader. She had honestly thought that with these kind strangers' warnings and urgency to save the world, all worlds, that it would get into Shangri Llama's mind that the situation was much more devastating. But now, for the first time in years since she came to live here, that wasn't the case.
If anything, she would've accepted to let go of the eternal youth for the safety and lives of everyone else.
Reno, Roxas, Lea, and Shrek, angered over the dismissal, were about to give the useless Llama a piece of their minds, only to be held back by Rude, Xion, Isa, and Fiona before they would make things even worse, forcing the four to calm down.
"He was our last hope." Amelia sighed, heart-broken.
"Now the Realm of Light is doomed." Dawn felt ready to cry, as did some of her friends.
Sora groaned, furious and very upset with all hope now lost. He grunted sarcastically. "He sure was big help."
"Yeah, all we got was a free yoga class." Donkey emotionally added, just as Sid cried out as he crashed into Granny.
When the group turned to see what happened, the male sloth spoke out awkwardly, all tied up to his grandmother, unaware yet his butt looked a bit purple and near his face. "Could you help me please? My nose is dangerously close to my butt!"
"Uh...Sid?" Diego began, nervously. "Why do you have two tails?"
"I'm in here too!" Granny muffled.
Sharing another glance, it came to the conclusion for the Guardians of Light and their allies: They have ultimately lost and now the Realm of Light is about to be destroyed all because of one selfish and uncaring Llama who only cared about his eternal youth.
But little did the group know was that one last hope would turn the events into their favor...in the most accidental way.
A/N: Is this really the end of our heroes? Or will one last ditch of hope turn the tables? One thing's for sure, the story is not yet finished as we still have at least one, two or maybe three more chapters to go(I think).
So don't give up hope, because where there's a will, there's always a way!
(1) Due to both Pokemon Trainer Misty sharing the same name as the Minicorn, I've kind of shorted the latter's as a nick-name to avoid confusion.
See you in the next chapter!
