Spells and Louds
Chapter 235: Happy B-Day, Neil A. Spellman
Get to the Authors notes at the very bottom to figure out who else is birthday today. Enjoy!
(Spellman Estate, March 6: 5:59 am)
Neil is in the backyard enjoying the brisk early morning breeze, all while drinking a cup of coffee. All of a sudden he feels a shift in the wind. "Oh boy." He sips his coffee.
Then he gets hugged from behind by Leni and Sunset. "Good morning dad!"
Neil chuckles. "Good morning Leni, Sunset."
Then two more figures hug him from behind. It was Luna and Duchess. "Morning dad!"
"And a good morning to you as well Luna, Duchess" chuckled Neil.
Then he gets hugged from his waist down by Lincoln, Linka and Timmy. "Good morning dad!"
Neil pats their heads. "And good morning as well to you three."
Then someone hugs his right leg. It was Lily in morning clothes and a jacket. "Papa! Mowning!"
Neil then boops her nose making her giggle. "And a good morning to you as well my early morning lily. Odd your awake this early though."
Then they all spoke in unison. "Happy Birthday dad!"
Neil chuckles. "Yeah, I knew you guys would say that. That's the whole reason why your mom wanted me to come out here."
Gwen comes from behind and kisses his cheek. "Good morning and Happy Birthday Neil."
"Yup, it's my birthday. Not really new to me, since I have been doing this for the past twenty four years. In which I am now twenty four" said Neil.
They all head back inside, Neil then sees Courage and the Pokemon have finished making pancakes. "Okay, so this is breakfast for us."
Each of them have pancakes, but for Neil's plate Courage gave him twenty four pancakes. "Courage, I have no clue if I can even finish this. But I will give it my all."
"So, what are you planning today pops?" asked Luna.
"Well, I still have to go and tend to whatever services Ever After High requires of me, also the upcoming Spring Fairest Festival which is on Sunday" said Neil.
"Oh yeah, and I know the rest of you are going to love it. Let's just hope the Cheshire cat isn't gonna be there, we didn't have quite the fairest festival last year" said Duchess.
"Yeah, Giles and Raven told me" said Neil.
"And the rest of us will be at school. And when we all get home, we're gonna be setting up the party for you" said Lincoln.
"We know surprise parties aren't much your style dad. Also you'll figure it out by now anyway" said Leni.
"Well, thanks for the heads up. I appreciate it" said Neil.
"We're going to have lots of guests coming to the party, some of them are from other worlds of course. And which we have to ask, are some of your Zerg allies coming as well?" asked Sunset.
"Probably, Stukov is one of my closest generals next to Zagara and Dehaka" said Neil.
"And we'll be sure to make as much room for any extra guests as well" said Gwen.
"Same goes for Leon, Sergei and Loona" said Leni.
"And I got a text last night from Hugh. They're going to come as well, so I sent them one of our Dropships to pick them up" said Lincoln.
"Grandma is also coming, I heard it from Martin's call last night. And Auntie Sabrina and Great Aunt's Hilda and Zelda will be here as well" said Linka.
"Some of my pals from Canterlot are coming, and I think Princess Twilight as well" said Sunset.
"My mom and Cosmo and Wanda and Chloe are gonna attend as well" said Timmy.
"Obviously some of the students and staff of Ever After High will be coming" said Duchess.
"We are gonna have so many guests coming to the birthday party guys" said Luna.
Neil chuckles. "Wow! And I thought my beach side party last year was gonna be this exciting."
"Wait, you had what now last year?" asked Duchess.
After breakfast they all head to the living room and finally they can see the younglings of Washington and Victoria with their eyes now open and looking at their environment.
"Aww! They're so cute!" said Leni.
Linka picks up one of kittens. "Hey there little guy, my names Linka!"
"Welcome to the world around you little fellas" said Lincoln.
"I am so going to post this!" Sunset takes a picture and then shares it with the rest of her friends. It was posted with the words. "Little ones wide awake and on our dad's birthday!"
Neil pats the head of Washington and Victoria. "You two have got to be the proudest pet parents ever!"
Washington and Victoria snuggle close to each other and watch as their little ones go around getting to know the rest of the family, especially the Pokemon.
Courage giggles as the kit-tten crawls onto his body. It seems George already likes him.
(Later)
Neil and Duchess come out of the house, fully dressed for the day and they head to the great gate and into ever After.
The others get into their vehicles and head for school.
While Gwen and Courage went to work into setting up some of the things for the birthday early. Gwen also calls if the cake she ordered is inbound, the cake that was made by Carlo Bakery.
Afterwards she checks on all the names of the people who are coming to the party, and confirm if they are inbound as well.
And pretty soon, Gwen sees the Mercado van that belongs to the Casagrandes. "Looks like some of the food has arrived." Then she sees a Dropship arrive and land, coming out is Buddy and his brother-in-law Mauro and with them is the large box with the cake inside. "Yup, the foods here!"
(Ever After)
Neil passes by the hallways and is greeted by everyone on a Happy Birthday, and even though it is his birthday, he still wanted to see what he can do to help out.
But for the whole freaking day, it seems like there wasn't much for him to do there.
Apple White, Maddie Hatter and Raven Queen did most of the student situations, and the progress to the construction of the ancient library is still underway.
So Neil decides to just take a nice stroll across the village of Bookend.
But as he's gone Hunter Huntsman shoots an arrow towards the sky and it is caught by Evil Queen on her dragon, which means that was the signal.
Giles then orders the students to move some of the pastries through the portal, this was going to be the first time some of these Ever After High students to enter another realm.
Ginger Breadhouse was the one who made all of the pastries, along with the help of her living ginger bread men.
(Spellman Estate)
The great gate opens and Daring, Darling, Hunter, Sparrow and Alistair come out with the large carts of pastries.
They were fascinated by the world where their headmaster came from, but they needed to focus on getting all of the pastries to the Spellman Estate.
There they are met by Leon and Sergei who help them haul the food to the back.
Ginger also follows and Gwen guides her into the Spellman kitchen, when she arrives she sees Rosa Casagrande, Courage and Peter Sharp already cooking some extra meals.
Rosa Casagrande decides to teach this fairy tale teen on how to make Churros and Tamales. Which could be quite delicious to serve in the Ever After High Castleteria.
At the back Loona has a clipboard and is checking on all of the food being placed there.
"Looks like we have all the food that we ordered. But did we order from Lynn's table?" asked Loona.
Gwen also sees Lynn Sr, Grant and Kotaro bringing some food that they made from the restaurant and into the backyard.
"Lynn, what are you guys doing?" asked Gwen.
"Look, we know that my family and I weren't invited to this birthday and we know why. But we wanna show that we can handle the birthday of the man who made things change for all us, we're not gonna sit by and watch as you all spend this as family. We're all family too" said Lynn Sr.
Gwen sighs. "Alright, just make sure the rest of your kids don't get too uneasy when they get here okay?"
"Alrighty then" replied Lynn Sr as he goes back to his van to get more of the food.
Gwen and Loona did not expect any of this to even happen.
"Let's hope things don't go wrong" said Gwen.
"Same here Gwen" replied Loona. "Oh, Blitzo, Moxxie and Millie are also coming here."
"Well they are family friends and they can act as the best and violent security when things go wrong in this party" said Gwen.
Leon passed by with a pot of food. "We're all dangerous in security, also the Leviathan is airborne."
They all look up to see the zerg Leviathan is above the atmosphere, then they spot Lord Dominator's World Eater ship also arriving.
"And here comes Lord Dominator. Why is she here?" asked Loona.
"Well, she and Wander are friends of ours, and she is a villainess. Well former villainess like my husband" said Gwen.
"Okay, so I guess she's also in the guests list as well, and we just have to wait for the rest of the Royal Defenders" said Loona.
Then they spot the Imperial Star Destroyer. "And here comes Hollow, Musa must be with him." said Gwen.
Then they also spot the Mothership of the Tal'Darim. "And why is the guy with the red blades here?" asked Loona.
"He's Alarak. And I have no clue as to why he's here, maybe it's because he's a friend of Hollow's and also a villain" said Loona.
"Are there going to be tons of bad guys coming to this party?" asked Gwen.
Loona checks the list. "Well, we're expecting Malthael, Diablo, King Leoric, Kel'Thuzad and Anub'Arak."
Gwen sighs. "Okay, so Neil has an odd group of pals, but I have seen weirded pals of his" said Gwen.
Then they spot a dropship and it lands, coming out is Neil, Leon and Sergei's mom, Diana Spellman.
"Now we just have to wait for the rest of the team to show up. Which will be after class hours" said Gwen. "And I'm sure Lincoln must've invited his friends to come along as well."
Gyro and Pyrrha come out of the portal with the Archlich and the Crypt Lord. "Sorry for our sudden arrival, we were just at a meeting with Anduin" said Gyro.
"He wasn't pleased to see Kel'Thuzad at first, but he eventually softened up to them" replied Pyrrha.
"So, where is the man of the hour?" asked Kel'Thuzad.
"Not yet here, still at work. But I assure you he will arrive" said Gwen. "Soon."
"Oh and I hope you don't mind, but someone else is here to celebrate his birthday" said Anub'Arak.
"Really? Who?" asked Gwen.
Then a large red dragon comes out of the portal, it then lands in front of them and transforms into Alexstrasza, the Dragon Queen.
Gwen is shocked by this. "You've gotta be kidding me!"
"Greetings Spellman, I believe you have heard of me" said Alexstrasza.
"Yeah, I have and I'm glad you're wearing pants and not making things a bit revealing in this party, I know how you World of Warcraft characters tend to wear things at the most less moments" said Gwen.
"I decided to change my attire to that from the Nexus, just to keep things in line with many of the mortals here. I am in fact a defender and bringer of life" said Alexstrasza.
"Oh barf" complained Kel'Thuzad.
"This is turning to shit real fast" said Loona.
A few hours later and Sunset, Leni and Luna finally arrive, along with Lori with the rest of the loud siblings and Rita.
"Hey mom! Why are they here?" asked Leni.
"They said they can handle things, I have no clue what else to make of this" said Gwen.
The Louds could see just how big the party was getting, and they can see just how stressful it was looking. But then they notice Loona was making sure everyone had a part to play in setting up this whole event.
"I think it was a mistake coming here, seems more chaotic than our home" said Lucy.
"We just have to try and pull through this, and no one go after the cake" said Lori.
"Fine" replied Lola and Lana.
Luna, Sam and Chunk head on to set up the stage, and with Martin's help they set up the large screen for the back of the stage.
Then Lincoln, Linka, Timmy, Jordan and their friends arrive.
"Whoa! Now this is gonna be one big party" said Rusty.
"It's the second time, or third time. I have seen so many strange guests" said Liam.
"This is one heck of a party mates" said Tabby.
"Umm, why are the louds here?" asked Lincoln.
"Leni and the others will explain" said Gwen.
The portal opens and coming out is Sabrina and her aunties. "So, where's Neil at?" asked Sabrina.
"Hey Sabrina, your brother is still at work. We're gonna have to wait" said Gwen.
"Well, if he's still busy. Should we help out?" asked Hilda.
Gwen knows these witches only use their magic for work, and it doesn't seem suitable for the moment. And she doesn't want them to cook food either. She then drags Hilda and Zelda to stand near Kel'Thuzad, he does have a magic nullifying zone. "Just stay here!"
Gwen then rushes off to see if everyone is doing well. "Sabrina, I need you to help with decorations and who is that?"
She sees a blonde kid who also looks like a witch. "Oh, Gwen this is my cousin Ambrose, Neil met him once when he came to visit the witch world" said Sabrina.
"Hello, it's so good to meet you and I have never been this far away from witch world. The human realm is so amazing and a bit scary now" said Ambrose.
Gwen sighs. "You know what? Never mind, Sabrina keep an eye on your cousin and make sure he doesn't break anything."
"Umm, okay" replied Sabrina.
Then the rest of the Royal Defenders arrive, Dana, Becky, Carol and their teen friends as well.
The portal opens once more and coming out is Chloe Carmichael, Cosmo, Wanda and Timmy's mom (Sasha). Also it opens once more to let Loni through.
"This is getting a bit too much, way too much than the birthday of Lincoln and Linka" said Gyro.
"Is Steven Universe and the gems coming here?" asked Pyrrha.
"Nope, I heard Steven is busy making things right with little homeschool for new gems" said Gyro.
(Ever After High)
All of the students have finished moving all of the food and were all meeting up to get ready to head there.
"Alright everyone, I have rung the bell which means school is out for the day and the staff and faculty and all the students are here, oh and Sally Whitemane of course" said Giles. "Now, are you all ready to celebrate the head masters birthday in his world?" said Giles.
"Yeah!" they all cheered.
"Yeah, let's go to my world and celebrate my own birthday" they all stop cheering and turn around to see Neil snickering. "You all really thought it was a sneaky idea to come up with this plan? Leon can't even throw me a surprise."
They were all shocked by this. "Come on, let's go" said Neil. They all just followed him through the portal.
(Spellman Estate)
They all come through and see that they have finished setting it all up. "Hey!" yelled Neil.
They all stop and look at him. "I beat you all, I know about this surprise party."
Lincoln and Linka sigh. "Dang it!"
Neil chuckles and he's greeted by his wife kissing him. "So sorry it came out in a chaotic way at first, but we were able to set everything up and turning out well."
"It's okay, our whole life is now chaotic with other worldly visitors" said Neil.
"Some part of me thinks that was an alien racist joke" Alarak whispers to Hollow.
"Well, let's get this hell of a shindig started!" said Neil. They all cheered and Harv activates the pool underneath the backyard.
"Just like when we had our first house party here" said Lincoln.
"I did not know we had a pool!" said Linka.
"Oh yeah, you weren't here for that one sis" said Luna.
They all enjoy the music, the food and interacting with each other.
Neil was surprised to see tons of guests and ones that Deathwing knows.
Many of them were able to bring their bathing suits to enjoy the pool, Neil was most shocked to see a lot of bad guys in the zone.
In the living room, all of the Pokemon are ensuring that none of Washington and Victoria's little ones stray away and get hurt, they are given some food to enjoy themselves.
Neil is surprised to see Abathur out of the Leviathan and on ground level net to Stukov, though Abathur is just there for support. He doesn't eat at all. I think.
"Happy birthday Neil! Oh look at you, now becoming twenty four!" said Diana.
"Thanks mom" said Neil.
"You're really stepping it up bro" said Sabrina.
"Hey, soon you're gonna be stepping up as well" said Neil.
Just then they all hear the microphone go on and they all look to the stage, Leon, Sergei, Victor, Martin and Peter looked like they were gonna sing.
They looked to Luna who was on her axe. "This song, is for the memories dad made, when he first became the hero of freedom! Let's rock it dudes!"
Luna shreds on her guitar to start it off.
Leon: The Battlefield's real, they're the ones who are on it.
Taking care of business when the duty is calling.
We gotta thank em every day, we ain't forgetting' the fallen.
For representing the country, that all the others are following.
We can do what we want, cause every woman and man.
Who's standing on the front lines is making sure that we can.
So take a break from the games, time to give a salute.
To the troops who make it possible to do what we do.
Martin: We all heard that you needed supplies, we're just regular guys.
Got together, hope you're feeling the vibe.
The beats banging doing this for your tribe.
Something to bump in the ride.
Showing respect to how you getting on. (Getting on)
Threats are locked in and the best do not miss.
While the rest are scrambling for a vest and options.
So grab some R and R on the Atari or the Xbox.
Cause we're getting close, about to hit you with the next drop.
All: Operation to Supply!
Our mission is to multiply!
Support the troops as they protect!
Our military is the best!
Victor: Holding it down, for the red white and blue.
Back up and let the military do what they do.
Unrelenting, until the mission is done.
I'd like to thank all of you, each and every one.
We're protected, and our freedoms legit.
We remember the fallen and we'll never forget.
So lift a cup for the active and the ones that we've lost.
Here's to you, thanks for being a boss!
Sergei: This one's for the fallen, let the military show you how they work.
Picture perfect world is all they try to save, protect and serve.
They deserve so much more, than what they get back in return.
And when they get home to their families, than its all in a day's work.
For the ones who know they didn't, let's say they're missions finished.
Every glimmer in my heart is out to families always missing members.
Broken hearts to make it better, save this world for freedom.
Never give up peace for treasure, hope to god they get this letter!
All: Operation to Supply!
Our mission is to multiply!
Support the troops as they protect!
Our military is the best!
Peter: Let's do it for elite that are representing the nation.
Let's give em to cheer about, this is the situation.
Let's come together collectively, for the best friends of integrity.
Operation Supply! Dropping in unexpectedly.
This is how I'm showing my gratitude for your services.
We may not know the plan, but we always know what the purpose it.
Hold a controller, I throw a sign of salute.
No one's better than these veterans, just arrive for the troops.
All: Operation to Supply!
Our mission is to multiply! (Operate!)
Support the troops as they protect!
Our military is the best! (This the glory!)
They then see an image of Neil, Leon, Sergei and Peter and behind them are the marines who fought with them during an excursion in Pakistan.
Everyone claps and cheers for this heartfelt and honorable song.
Neil wipes away some of his tears and smiles. 'Thanks for getting me home guys.'
He then gets on stage and hugs them, and his daughters Luna and Sunset. "This song was awesome!"
"Happy birthday dad!" said Sunset and Luna.
Then Neil decides to begin cutting the cake and he was surprised to see what it looked like. It was a tower of all the things he has done and it all comes to the top where he is with his family. "Wow! Twenty four years old now and this has got to be the most amazing cake I have ever seen."
They all get a share of the chocolate, vanilla and caramel cake.
Then Leni goes to him and hands him his gift. "This is for you dad, so you can have a different style when you have free time, or when you want to spend the night with mom."
Neil was impressed by the clothes Leni made for him. "How long have you been making these?"
"Since December" replied Leni. She then hugs him. "Happy Birthday daddy!"
Next Duchess shows him something. "Dad, I have been noticing you at Book End village, and you're always looking at the dragon statue in one of the stores, I wasn't able to get it because it was already sold. But the person who ran the place said he could make a custom obsidian statue and this is for you."
It was a small obsidian statue of Deathwing on top of Stormwind castle. "Oh wow! This is way better than the dragon statue I saw, thank you Duchess my black swan princess."
Duchess chuckles. "You welcome and happy birthday dad" she then hugs him.
Timmy and Poof come up to him. "Hey dad, we had a hard time trying to find something you might like." said Timmy nervously.
"But thankfully, we found one in fairy world!" said Poof.
They then show him, a magical cloak. "Umm, what is it?" asked Neil.
"This cloak was designed and specially made in one of Jorgen's boutique. Which is starnge as to why he has one" said Timmy.
Then Gyro yelled. "He lost a bet with me and now he has to own a boutique! Hahahaha!"
"Okay, so now we know why. He said that this cloak can be able to deflect the most deadly of magic's including superstitious magic's, can render you invisible and allow you to fade into the shadows" said Poof.
"We have no clue as to what it's called. Jorgen just made it and placed it on display for no reason at all" said Timmy.
"Well, I think it's pretty useful. I think I'll call it shadow veil. Sounds perfect for it" said Neil. Timmy and Poof hug his legs. "Happy birthday dad!" said Timmy.
Lily waddles to Neil while holding Gwen's hand, Neil picks her up and she speaks to him. "Papa, Happy …. Birthday ….. Lily …. Love you!"
Everyone just awes at this, Rita and Lynn Sr shed some tears at this sight that they could've had, and Gwen is shocked at what she just said. "Looks like she really wanted to give you this cute moment."
Neil kisses her forehead. "I love you too my Lily flower."
Jordan arrives with her gift. "Neil, if it wasn't for you. Then none of this that has happened to us could have ever happened. And my family and I are truly greatful that we are family friend's way before all of this. So this is for you from us."
The gift was a portrait of the day he got Rick and Jesse together at the coffee shop, Neil was in the background giving them a thumbs up. "Wow! This is amazing! Thanks guys."
"Happy Birthday Neil" replied the Rosato's.
Then Lincoln and Linka come forward.
Neil smiles. He knows that they have something that could be memorable. "And to the twins of the family, the ones I went all out, to save."
Lincoln and Linka looked at each other and nodded, they then handed Neil the book shaped gift.
Neil opens it and sees it was an album that said, the life and time of Neil A. Spellman. "Whoa, what?"
When he opens it, he sees his eleven year old self when he was adopted by the Spellman family.
The next picture was him when he first held his baby sister,
Then was the picture of the day he was on a ship on his own journey.
Next was a picture of when he first encountered Leon and then Sergei and then the crew of FutureTech and Peter in Pakistan.
After that was the picture of when he met Gwen, their first date and their wedding.
Then was a picture of when he took control of CPS, and then were pictures that would be etched into him for a long time.
The day he visited Lincoln from the hospital. When he saw how much Luna cares for her brother.
When they won in the court and took in Lincoln, Luna, Leni and Lily.
And then when Sunset was in the family, followed by Linka, Timmy and Duchess.
Their Pokemon partners, Courage, Washington, Victoria and their little ones.
Their first dimensional encounter and meeting Gyro and the full truth of his secrets.
The many battles they fought, the many villains they have beaten and the many heroes they have befriended.
His powers of Deathwing and the might of the Zerg swarm.
The good times, the bad times and last but not least. The forging of the team that would be known as, The Royal Defenders.
Neil wipes away a tear and he hugs Lincoln and Linka. "Thank you, both of you. I will always treasures this and whatever adventures to come."
Lincoln and Linka also hug their dad and shed some tears. "Happy Birthday dad! We love you so much!"
"And I love you two guys" said Neil. "Always!"
Soon, the rest of the family joins in the hug, Gwen does whisper to him. "Your gift is tonight, with me, in bed."
Neil chuckles at this and he kisses her.
Eevryone cheers for this family moment, a moment Neil will never forget and for whatever more adventures they will all come across, together.
To be continued …..
A/N: And a Happy Birthday to the man who helped forge the path for Lincoln and his sisters and friends. And coming soon will be another dimensional cross over, which could involve the mysterious crystal from the previous chapter. Anyway, Leave a review and tell me what you all think.
The song is called "Operation Supply Drop" by JT Musics, Defmatch, TeamHeadKick, Zach Boucher, and NemRaps. For the troops who fight for our freedom! I salute you!
Have any of you figured out who else's Birthday it is? Hint: Who made this Story?