Chapter 14
"The Fall of Lady Bane"
Realizing that they had now been tricked by Gruffi and the others, Duke Igthorn and Lady Bane ordered their remaining forces to come to arms and finish off the Gummi Bears and their allies once and for all. Grabbing his swords and pistols, Igthorn charged out of the throne room and into the streets of Ursalia with a lust for blood deep in his eyes. He wanted to go after any Gummi Bear that he could get his hands on and his first victim was Gruffi, who was still in the mechanical knight he used to trick Duke Igthorn and Lady Bane while Princess Calla and the others freed Foxglove from her captivity.
Once the two villains appeared in the streets of Ursalia, many Gummi Bears grabbed their arms and charged towards them, only to be pushed back by Lady Bane's Gummi magic that came from her medallion. Gruffi was fighting several trolls when he saw the Gummi Bears sent flying through the air and began to feel a sense of anger flowing through his veins.
"You don't do that to other Gummi Bears!" shouted Gruffi, turning his attention towards Lady Bane. He drew the mechanical knight's sword and raised it at her. He would never attack a female human, but Gruffi knew that he had to make an exception to the rule for Lady Bane. She was a threat to him and his fellow Gummies, and she had to be stopped at all costs.
"Oh, I beg to differ, Gummi Bear," she said sarcastically. "When I am done with you, all the other Gummi Bears will bow down to me!" Lady Bane then raised a ball of fire at Gruffi and she flung it right at him. But, Gruffi managed to turn the knight away at the last minute and avoid being hit.
Lady Bane raised her hand in frustration and began to chase Gruffi through the streets of Ursalia, firing fireballs at whatever direction he was in. But, with whatever direction he was in for a perfect shot, he got out of the way at the last minute and this only made Lady Bane's anger rise even more. She had dealt with Gruffi and the rest of the Glen Gummies multiple times before in the past, but now her patience with them was running out very quickly and this time she was not going to let them off very easily. Then again, she never did.
Meanwhile, the Spinster was trying to fend off multiple hordes of Gummi Bears led by Captain Blastus and Starbuck who were pointing spears at her in an effort to slay her, but the crafty spider flung her legs at them, sending them flying into the air. She had already been stabbed several times, but her wounds were not as serious. Nevertheless, she had to finish the Gummies off, not just because they were appetizing to her, but they were going to kill her if she didn't do something.
"You pathetic Gummi Bears," she cried. "All you do is stab me with your little spears and that makes my anger rise all the more. When I am done with you, I will have many Gummi Bears to eat for a month."
"Is that so?" asked Captain Blastus. "Well, my dear Spinster, consider your meal ticket denied." He then raised his sword at her heart and taking a giant leap of faith, seemed to be aiming for her heart in a last ditch effort to slay the Spinster. But just as he was about to finish the giant spider off, the Spinster used one of her legs to swat Captain Blastus away and into a Gummi Statue with a sword pointing in the air. But, fortunately, he instead fell into a pool of water right where Cavin was sitting, still recovering from his injuries.
"I can't keep sitting here recovering from my injuries," he thought. "I need to help the Gummies. Igthorn and his cronies have done enough damage to Ursalia."
Grabbing his sword and rising to his feet, Cavin charged towards the Spinster while clearing other cronies of Igthorn's out of his way. Charging towards the Spinster, Cavin saved Starbuck's life by chopping off one of the Spinster's legs, causing the giant spider to howl in pain.
"Who dares cut one of my legs off?" she wailed and then she saw Cavin, remembering the time he and Sir Thornberry saved the Glen Gummies from becoming her dinner.
"You again," she cried. "I'll deal with you like I have done to all the other Gummi Bears!"
"That's what you think, Spinster," cried Cavin and charged towards the Spinster, swinging his sword at her a mile a minute. She fired a string of web at Cavin, but the crafty page dodged every strike she made at him. Finally, he spotted an opportunity to slay her, but the Spinster then saw Calla helping Sunni, Bobo and several others fighting off the Forbidden One, the Dragon that the Glens sent away from Prince Yen-Moon's kingdom. The giant dragon had already killed several Gummi Bears and was now ready to turn his attention towards Calla.
"Calla, Sunni, get out of there now!" shouted Cavin and Calla, Sunni and Bobo did so, but not before catching the Spinster attention and she fired her sharp webbing at them, striking Calla in the face and Sunni in the neck. The two best friends were sent plummeting to the ground and this made Cavin even more determined to finish the Spinster off.
"You don't do that to my girlfriend and her best friend," he growled. "I swear on my life!"
"Oh, so she is your girlfriend?" teased the Spinster. "Then so much for true love!"
She then raised her webbing at Calla and Sunni, who were both struggling to get back on their feet, but Cavin, more protective of them than ever ran to their side and using his sword managed to direct the webbing at the Forbidden One, striking the dragon in the most vulnerable part of his breast and causing the giant dragon to roar loudly in pain. What was worse for the Spinster was that he webbing was now stuck inside the dragon and she couldn't get loose from it. This gave Cavin an opportunity to finish off the beast once and for all.
"You will never harm my friends ever again!" he shouted and charged towards the beast leaping up and stabbing the Spinster deep in her back, causing her to scream in pain and stumble over to the side of Ursalia where she fell over the wall and taking the Forbidden One with her, fell over the wall and into the gorge where the body of the Leviathan Giant was already there from earlier. The giant spider and dragon were killed on impact and their reigns of terror were finally over.
"Are you all right, Cavin?" asked Calla running over to her boyfriend's side. "You're not hurt, are you?"
"Why should I be?" asked Cavin. "Your life was in danger and I had to protect you."
"Cavin, if we weren't fighting like this, I-," stuttered Calla as if she couldn't find the words to describe everything that had happened. But, she began to feel for Cavin and Cavin began to feel the same way towards her.
"I was thinking the same thing," he chuckled and he pulled the princess of Dunwyn in her tattered blue and white gown towards him in his tattered tunic and pants and began to share a passionate kiss. Although Sunni felt like blushing towards them kissing, a loud scream in the distance made her break them up. But, the scream was loud enough for Cavin and Calla to stop what they were doing.
"I hate to break up your moment," she said in her dirtied but not yet tattered dark green holiday dress. "But, I think Gruffi is in trouble!"
The two lovers looked over to see Gruffi out of the mechanical knight and the three friends ran over to aid the brown bear in whatever means necessary.
"Now, that you are out of your precious armor," she said evilly. "The time has come for me to finish you off once and for all."
"You will never get away with this, Lady Bane," coughed Gruffi as a spat of blood came out of his mouth. "I swear it on my life!"
"I beg to differ as all of your secrets will soon be mine!" laughed Lady Bane and was just about to cast a spell on Gruffi when she felt a dark green slipper hit her in the head.
"Who dares strike me?" she demanded and Sunni and Calla pushed her to the ground and Sunni slipped her slipper back on her foot.
"I did, Lady Bane!" cried Cavin as he drew his sword at her and Lady Bane used telepatheic magic to turn him away from her and send him barging into Princess Calla, causing the two lovers to hit the ground.
"Are you two all right?" moaned Gruffi. "I'll help you!"
"No, don't move, Gruffi!" ordered Calla. "That's a royal command."
So, Gruffi didn't move and even though it was a royal command, Calla was very worried about Gruffi's injuries much like a mother would worry about her children. She and Cavin got to their feet and Lady Bane turned her attention towards the both of them, tapping the magic of her Gummi Medallion to launch a deadly blast of magic towards them.
"That my dear," she said evilly. "Was the last royal command you will ever make!" But, just then, Zummi had returned to the Gummiscope with Foxglove and saw Lady Bane about to fire her magic towards Cavin and Calla.
"Oh, my stars!" he cried, taking notice of what was about to happen to Cavin and Calla. "Help me, Foxglove!"
So, the two magician bears rounded the Gummiscope towards Lady Bane and judging the spot Cavin's sword was, fired the Gummiscope at the same time as Lady Bane and the two beams of light came towards the two lovers.
"Cavin," cried Calla. "No matter what happens, I will always love you!"
"I will always love you too Calla!" Cavin cried back and then suddenly, the two beams of light instead of hitting Cavin and Calla instead bounced of off Cavin's sword and Calla's tiara and flung back towards Lady Bane and with a loud scream, struck the evil witch with a full force of power.
"This can't be happening to me!" screamed Lady Bane as she began to see her body disintegrate right before her eyes. She continued to scream in pain and agony as the lights from her own spell and the light from the Gummiscope began to consume her and after several more screams, Lady Bane had disappeared and that all that remained of her was her Gummi Medallion.
It was over for Lady Bane, but there was still one more enemy to defeat and not only he needed to be stopped for attempting to take over both Dunwyn and Ursalia, but the Glen Gummies wanted revenge for the loss of Gummi Glen and for all the times that he spent trying to steal their secrets to fill his own gain.
