Hilda and Stitch! Chapter 23: Hilda and Stitch: S2-EP7 Laughing Merman, a Lilo & Stitch + Hilda Crossover fanfic

Hey, guys! Welcome to the next chapter of Hilda and Stitch. I hope that you guys will enjoy the new chapter. Also, for the Guest Viewer in Chapter 22, here is my answer to your review since I can't PM you:

Here's my answer for Guest Viewer in Chapter 22:

I figured going into a dimension filled with demons and magic also classifies it in the realm of fantasy. So what I like to do with my OCs and concepts is called worldbuilding, expanding this world, and such. If you don't like what I'm doing, it's fine. You can simply stop reading, and I will continue my story just like how I like it. I don't have characters overshadowing other characters, as I made sure that each one does something in each chapter. For example, the last chapter was more of a Daemon and Hilda-centric chapter. I could've excluded Jumba and Pleakley and the rest of the family, but I included them since they are a part of Hilda's family. It's unfair for them to not come. Also, I'm not really sure what you mean about putting things from High School DXD and Black Buttler because I haven't seen either Anime whatsoever. If anything, the elements that I used were more inspired by Dragon Ball.

That's about it...anyway, I don't own anything, except for my OCs, and the OCs Roland Trenton and Amun belong entirely to drakin6345, the OCs Logan, Edward, Robin, Astrid, and Ivy belong to 9655, and the OC Daemon belong to Travis Moon/Messiah of authors.

NOW LET'S GET ON WITH THE STORY!

{Hilda and Stitch-Season 2-Episode 7: The Laughing Merman}

It was a beautiful day in Trollberg as we cue over to the Trollberg Woods, and we see a school bus driving over to park on a clearing as the doors were opened, and we see the Sparrow Scouts making their way out of the vehicle with Raven Leader Debbie ushering the kids outside and allowed them to mingle around as she walked off to talk with the driver and we see a little girl making her way over to take some pictures of the landscape with the help of her camera, which included taking a picture of a bunny, the river, and even her fellow Sparrow Scouts as she got a good look of Hilda and the others, who were talking to each other cheerfully while wearing their Sparrow Scout Uniforms as the little girl stared at them curiously, but was unable to talk to them due to her shyness as she walked away and continued taking pictures of the land.

Standing before them is a 4'6-feet-tall, 12-year-old 'Human' Girl with black eyes, long dark brown hair that reaches down to her waist, thick dark brown eyebrows, pointed ears, a big pointed nose, a sharp chin, Tan Skin, a slender build, and she was currently wearing her New Sparrow Scout Uniform, which consists of her wearing a pale yellow beanie, a long-sleeved yellow shirt with a brown rhombus-shaped insignia planted on the left side of her chest, a red neckerchief that was fastened with a white toggle and wrapped around her neck, a long brown skirt, and a pair of pale yellow thigh-high boots. Her name is Louise, a new girl who has recently moved into the city of Trollberg and recently joined the Sparrow Scouts.

"...so we decided to sleep together in one bed, right, and Stitch rolled around in his sleep and accidentally landed on Twig's head and his horns stabbed his butt, causing him to scream so loud that it woke me up and I spent the next ten minutes laughing my butt off because Stitch was whining about Twig's horns being 'too sharp'. And, I was like, 'Stitch, you can survive bullets, lasers, lava, fire, electricity, but two little Deerfox Horns are your mortal weakness?!'," Hilda says while she, Frida, Marcus, and David laughed as Stitch grumbled and his face flushed in embarrassment as Raven Leader Debbie appeared and clapped her hands to get everyone's attention.

"Attention, Sparrow Scouts. Today, you will have the opportunity to earn the, 'Fish Finder River Badge',"

"Ooh, today is a good day to be a Sparrow Scout." An excited Frida squealed as Hilda and the others looked amused by her reaction.

"To earn it, you must identify as many fish as possible during your journey. I'll need everyone to form groups of five." Raven Leader Debbie says as everyone perks up and goes over to team up with their friends as a smiling Hilda turns to her friends.

"Well, I guess that we are already settled because there are five of us already."

"Errr, actually, Hilda, sorry but Stitch doesn't count as your teammate." An apologetic Raven Leader Debbie says to Hilda before walking away as Stitch's ears lowered in sadness.

"Soka, guys."

"Hey, it's okay, Stitch, don't worry, none of us blame you for what just happened. It's just what it is," Hilda says with a reassuring and warm smile as she patted his head lightly.

"But now we have a big problem. There's only-," David says while sounding weirdly older and more mature than usual as he then coughs a bit. "Ah, sorry about that. I had something in my throat." David says as he now sounds like his normal self. "Anyway, as I was saying, there's only four of us, and to earn this badge, it requires us to be in a five person team. Have we ever had a fifth before?"

"Outside of Sparrow Scouts? Yes. Inside of Sparrow Scouts? No." Hilda says with a small pout as she had tried to ask Damien if he could join the Sparrow Scouts so they could spend more time together, but sadly, her boyfriend said that he had too many Prince Duties to take up a hobby.

"Yeah, we always worked quite well just by ourselves. This is new territory." A worried Frida says as Marcus shrugs lazily.

"Eh, I'm sure that we will be able to find someone to join our little group."

"Yeah, Marcus is right. I'm sure we will find someone, and who knows? Maybe we will make a new friend today." An excited Hilda says as an equally excited Stitch nods lightly.

"Ih, won't hurt to broaden our horizon."

"Exactly, let's make haste, gang. Time's a wasting." Hilda says with a grin as she and the others walk forward as the gang spends the next 20 minutes talking with each kid in the Sparrow Scouts, but each time they try to offer their new potential friend to join their little group, the person either stares at them in fear and runs away, awkwardly backed away from them slowly, or even bluntly denied them and made haste to join another group as we then see a dejected Hilda, Stitch, Frida, David, and Marcus riding around in a large white boat while wearing life preserver jackets as, for Experiment 626's case, he was also wearing floaties. "I don't understand. There isn't a single person available to join us?"

"Oh, please, that's because nobody wants to get stuck with the Freaky Friends." Eliza says with a smug tone while riding around in her own boat with four other people as Hilda and the others look bewildered by the strange name.

"The Freaky Friends? Who are they?" Hilda asked cluelessly with Eliza giving her a deadpanned look as Stitch walked over to his sister on all fours and reached up to tug on her skirt, causing her to lower down and allow her 'pet' to whisper into her ear as the blue-haired girl then gasped in shock and anger. "Wait, that's us?!"

"What's so freaky about us?" An offended Frida asked as Eliza laughed in disbelief and shook her head.

"Are you serious? Is that a genuine question? You lot are always getting up into some weird, crazy stuff."

"Oh, yeah? Name one time that happened." Marcus challenged as Eliza briefly blushed at the sight of him but composed herself as she grinned cockily.

"Welllllll, first, the whole disaster at the PTA Meeting with what I believe was some kind of baby magical creature that Hilda surely snuck in. Second, when Hilda was acting like a Witch and seemed to summon those weird rat things and attacked everyone. Third, when Hilda's ugly dog went rabid and began attacking everyone and when Hilda brought the Blackhound into the Sparrow Scout Main Hall. Need I go on?" Eliza challenged with crossed arms as she raised an eyebrow arrogantly. "I mean, come on, it's like you guys are allergic to normal."

"Okay, yeah, I will admit, those moments were definitely...a bit weird, but it's not like we have adventures all of the time. We had plenty of normal trips with the Sparrow Scout. Right, Frida?" Hilda asked as Frida nodded with a big smirk on her face.

"Yeah, of course we have. There was that one time when we explored the forest and found a Bear Cave,"

"Ih...errr, they were Bear Demons," Stitch whispered to Frida, who winced as she realized that the Bear Cave they found that one time was filled with Demonic Bears that they had to fight and seal inside of the cave to make sure that they didn't hurt anyone.

"Oh...uh...wait, there was that one time that we traveled up to the snowy mountains and-,"

"Encountered a whole village of Living Snow Creatures." David pointed out as Frida flinched again.

"Uh...okay...oh, what about the time that we went on a trip to the woods and found a wide clearing filled with those multi-colored plants?"

"Those were sentient, though, and tried to eat us," Marcus says as Frida winced once again and defeated as she groaned.

"Ugh, sorry, Hilda. I hate to say this, but...Eliza has a point."

"Our number of Normal Scout Trips is currently at zero," David says as Eliza laughs and lays down in her boat as her teammate begins pushing it into the lake.

"Maybe you four should leave scouting and join the circus." Eliza says with a mocking tone as her boat reaches the river and 'accidentally' splashes the gang as they ride off.

"Grrrrrr..." A growling Stitch says while flexing his claws as he was planning to pop Eliza's boat but was stopped by Hilda as she shakes her head.

"No, Stitch, she's not worth it."

"Oh, man, I guess our year-long wild reputation catch up to us, huh?" David asked with a pout as Marcus shrugged and leaned back against the boat casually.

"Hey, I don't know about you, guys, but I had only been in the Sparrow Scouts for a few months, so my reputation is safe," Marcus says with a smirk before grunting in pain as an annoyed Frida tosses their bag of supplies on top of him.

"...This is all our fault..." A guilty Hilda says somberly with Stitch nodding in agreement as the others turn to her in surprise. "You guys weren't the least bit freaky before meeting us."

"Ih, our fault," Stitch says sadly as Frida and the others stare at them as if they were crazy.

"What? Don't be ridiculous, guys. We CHOSE to be your friends, remember?" Frida asked with a smirk as David nodded.

"Yeah, I mean, we don't regret becoming friends with you guys. We love you guys, magic and aliens and all." David says while the group shares a hug as Hilda and Stitch smile warmly and nod.

"Besides, cus, we're not exactly normal now. I'm a Shapeshifter, you and Frida are Witches, David is a Mystical Warrior, and Stitch is an illegal genetic alien experiment with demonic energy powering his soul." Marcus says with a sly grin as he and the others didn't notice that Louise could be seen spying on them while standing behind a nearby tree placed too far away for her to possibly and humanly eavesdrop on them as she gasped sharply at what Marcus said.

"Yeah, true, but still, we will show Eliza and her friends what's what," Hilda says with a determined tone as she then turns to face the others. "As the unofficial leader of this group, I hereby decree that we will have the most ordinary, boring river trip that you can imagine," Hilda says as the others gasped overdramatically.

"Wait, Hilda wants to do something...that's normal?" A shocked Frida asked while covering her mouth as Marcus's jaw dropped.

"And not do any crazy magical adventures?"

"I never thought that the day would come," David says with teary eyes and a smile as Hilda rolls her eyes goodnaturedly but grows serious as she places her hands on her hips.

"Alright, alright, calm down, guys. Anyway, yes, I am dead serious with what I said. I promise to you all that today we won't do any awesome or fun adventures. Today, we are just going to be normal and boring kids, which means that Frida and I will do no magic, Stitch will do no aliening nor transform into his Demonic Form, David will not use his Mystical Weapons, Marcus won't shapeshift, and I promise to restrain myself if an opportunity for an awesome adventure occurs. If adventure calls, we'll hang up the phone and throw it overboard." Hilda stated firmly with the gang being shocked by this but smiling as they all couldn't help but agree that having a normal, relaxing day would be a bit of a breath of fresh air from their usual crazy hijinks.

"Oh, thank goodness, there's still a spot." Raven Leader Debbie says with a smile while walking over to the kids as Hilda and the others turn to her curiously. "Hilda, Frida, David, and Marcus? You're going to be teamed up with our new Sparrow Scout Member, Louise." Raven Leader Debbie says with a smile before walking away as the gang shares an odd look.

"Who's Louise?"

"Hi." A shy Louise greeted awkwardly while suddenly appearing behind them and wearing her own live preserver jacket as Hilda and the others yelped in surprise and turned to her, wondering how in the hell she was able to sneak up on them like that, including Stitch as he had superhuman hearing.

"Oh, uh, hello, I guess judging by what Raven Leader Debbie said, you are new around here. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance. I'm Frida, and these are my friends Hilda and Marcus, my boyfriend David, and this is Hilda's Dog, Stitch. Don't worry, he doesn't bite...hopefully." Frida says with an awkward smile as Stitch gives Louise his trademark wide and sharp smile as she doesn't seem one bit fazed by that. "Welcome to the Sparrow Scouts. Did your parents or guardian just dropped you off here?"

"Oh, I live with my Parents and sometimes with my Drago-I mean...with a family friend of ours, and no, I was with you guys the whole time. I just...keep to myself." Louise says with a sheepish smile while rubbing her hands a bit as David smiles and chuckles.

"Ah, a quiet type. I can relate."

"So, are you worried about taking a trip with the Freaky Friends?" Hilda asked nervously as Louise pretended to look confused and tilted her head.

"The what?"

"Perfect." A smug-faced Hilda says while discretely sharing a fistbump with Stitch and a high five with the others as we then fast forward in time and we see the gang traveling across the river in their boat with Stitch staying in the middle and curled up into a ball (But not his Ball Form after giving a stern reminder by Hilda) as he looked around angrily, still not liking being around water but didn't want to ruin his friends' fun as Marcus and David were paddling the boat while Hilda, Frida, and Louise took pictures of all of the fish around them. "Ah, what a wonderfully unremarkable day," Hilda says before yelping in surprise as she was splashed on by Eliza and her group as they rode near them.

"Don't get so close. We don't want to get sucked into a whirlpool or eaten by a Sea Serpent."

"Uh, hello, everyone knows that Sea Serpants live in the sea, not in lakes." An annoyed Hilda says with Stitch going over to help dry her hair again as he and the others glare at Eliza.

"Doesn't matter. I'm sure that you and the rest of these losers will find one anyway." Eliza says with a taunting laugh as she and the others paddled away, and a growling Stitch was planning to launch himself over to their boat to beat them but was restrained by Hilda as she rubbed his head to calm him down.

"I'm sorry about that, Louise. I promise that this will be a completely normal outing." Hilda says to Louise with an awkward laugh before going over to group up with the others as they didn't seem to notice that Louise looked disappointed. "Remember, no unexpected detours that will undoubtedly lead us into an epic and possibly traumatizing adventure, and no mentions of aliens, magic, mystical warriors, or shapeshifting boys. We follow the map. Stitch, do you still have it?"

"Ih," Stitch says while reaching into his shirt to pull out the map as a nervous David reaches over to grab it.

"Ah, I will be taking that. No offense, Stitch, but it isn't exactly normal to have dogs carry around the map."

"That's a good point. David, you will be in charge of the map from now on." Hilda says as David mentally sighs in relief, knowing that if Stitch kept the map, it would most likely get destroyed somehow as he then scoots away from the group and places the map on the edge of the boat as David reaches into his backpack to get a snack and briefly turned his head to glance over at the map, only to gasp in shock upon realizing that it was missing as he looked around concernedly, earning a fake confused raised eyebrow as David smiled at her anxiously and scooted back over to the others.

"Uh, guys? I lost the map..."

"What?! How you could've lost the map?! You had it for like ten seconds!" An incredulous Marcus yelled with a glare as David raised his hands defensively.

"It's not my fault! I didn't lose it on purpose!"

"Is something wrong?" A worried Louise asked as, immediately, everyone turned to smile at her nervously.

"No, everything is completely normal," Hilda says with a shaky smile as Stitch nods vigorously, and Louise raises an eyebrow oddly before shrugging as she turns around to continue taking pictures.

"Okay, we better hurry, we're losing the other rafts," Frida says urgently as the others nod and quickly paddle the boat to chase after the others, only to end up at a fork in the river as there were two paths placed before them.

"Oh, great, for the first time in my whole life, I hate being lost," Hilda says with an irritated glare as Marcus turns to others anxiously.

"So, do any of you have any idea on which path leads back to the others?"

"Don't worry, my lucky coin will help us decide," David says with a smirk while reaching into his pocket to pull out his lucky coin and trying to flip it as he loses his grip on it, and it falls down into the river below. "Ah, man, I've been practicing holding onto things as well..."

"Oh, David..." Frida says with a groan while facepalming as she then comes up with an idea. "Wait, I got it, I can create a low-level tracking spell that should lead us back to the others."

"Or I can shapeshift into a ballerina and jump up to the trees to locate the other rafts," Marcus added as Stitch shook his head.

"Naga, Stitch will use X-Ray Vision, Microscopic Vision, and Superhuman Hearing and Smell to track down others."

"No, no, no, no, no, no. We promised each other that we wouldn't use our superpowers on this trip. We will just have to find our own way back to the others the old-fashioned and normal way." Hilda says with a stern tone and a glare as the others groaned but nodded as they began paddling the boat over to the left path in the river.

"Where are we?" Frida asked nervously as Hilda sighed heavily.

"If this was back home, I could easily tell where we are but I never really explored the Trollberg Woods that much, so I'm not sure."

"Let's just keep paddling, gang. I'm sure that we will end up back with the others soon." Marcus says reassuringly just as Hilda feels something tug on her paddle as she grunts.

"What's wrong?" David asked curiously as Hilda continued pulling on the paddle.

"I think it's stuck." Hilda says with a frown as Stitch goes over to grab her by her waist and yanks her backwards, allowing the blue-haired girl to finally be able to pull her paddle out of the lake as she and the others are stunned to see a Merman sitting on Hilda's paddle as he took off his hat and bowed his head playfully as he winked.

Siting before them is a 3-feet-tall, 500-year-old Male Merman who resembled a humanoid aquatic creature with sapphire blue eyes, a bald head with a glowing esca like that of an anglerfish planted on his head, thick turquoise eyebrows, pale turquoise fins planted on the sides of his head, a small black nose, a wide mouth with white sharp fangs, a sharp chin, a pair of dark turquoise slim arms with pale turquoise four-fingered arms, Dark Turquoise Skin, a short slim build, a pair of dark turquoise slim legs with pale turquoise four-toed feet, and his outfit consists of a jaunty black top hat, a black bow tie, a long-sleeved black jacket, and no pants/shoes. His real name is too hard to pronounce for humans but he is known as Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerynchwyrndrob AKA Eugene, a Merman who used to live in the sea where he used to perform for the King of the Sea, the King's court and other VIPs.

"Hello~,"

"NOPE!" Hilda screamed with a glare while tossing her paddle and Eugene away as they crashed down into the lake.

"Uh, is everything alright in here? Why did you toss one of our paddles into the lake?" A confused Louise asked as the gang turned to smile at her nervously.

"Oh, uh, I toss our paddle away because...I got scared by a fish. Sorry." Hilda says with an apologetic look as Louise gives her a deadpanned look, but then she and the others' eyes widen in surprise as Eugene suddenly shoots out of the lake and lands on the boat as he tosses Hilda's paddle back at her.

"Well, tossing me back into the lake was pretty rude, but I'm willing to let that slide if you guys let me stay here in your boat. Oh, and good news, I have something marvelous that I love to show you."

"Wow, a Merman." An intrigued Louise says as Hilda and the others were a bit surprised that she was able to accurately figure out who Eugene was, but decided to ignore it for now as Hilda turned to Eugene with a glare on her face.

"Look, dude, normally, I would've LOVED to see what sort of wacky and crazy adventure that you will lead us too, but today I want to have a normal day with my friends, so you can just go back into the river and we will be on our way," Hilda says urgently while gesturing at him to go back into the river as Stitch nods and went over to bite into the back of Eugene's jacket and lead him over to the edge of the boat, planning to drop him back into the river as the Merman panicked and gave him and the others a pleading look.

"Wait, wait, wait! Look, okay, I wasn't planning to show you something marvelous! I just really need your help!"

"Help? Help with what?" Louise asked seriously after taking a quick picture of Eugene as the gang shared a tense look and sighed heavily as Stitch reluctantly placed the Merman back in the boat and let go of him.

"There's a vicious Sea Serpent chasing after me," Eugene says as David scoffs and rolls his eyes.

"Okay, now I know you're lying. Hilda told me that there was no way that we run into a-,"

"Sea Serpent!" A worried Frida screamed while pointing behind them as the gang was shocked to see a roaring Sea Serpent swimming after them.

"A Sea Serpent? In a river? But that's impossible." A shocked Louise says while taking a picture of the Sea Serpent as Marcus hurriedly reaches over to grab his paddle.

"Impossible or not, we are out of this bitch!"

"Everyone paddle!" Hilda screamed panickedly while she and the others, including Stitch, grabbed the spare paddles lying on the ground and began paddling the boat forward to try and get away from the Sea Serpent as Eugene began laughing a bit.

"Chubaka! Walaka's os gaga fuka?! (Hey! What's so goddamn funny?!)," Stitch asked Eugene angrily as Hilda nodded with an irritated glare on her face.

"Yeah, I'm not so sure I find the humor in being eaten by a Sea Serpent!"

"Ooh! Ooh! That way!" A beaming Eugene says randomly while pointing over at another fork in the river as the Merman was pointing to the left path. "It won't be able to follow us into the shallower water!"

"That does not look safe at all!" David yelled nervously as Louise frantically glanced back and forth at the Sea Serpent and her new friends, struggling to make a decision as Marcus suddenly paddled the boat over to the left.

"Safe or not, I'd rather risk rowing down that path than being eaten by a damn Sea Serpent, so let's go!" Marcus yelled as the others grumbled but nodded as they paddled over to the left path of the river leading to some rocky waters with the Sea Serpent being unable to follow after them as the gang frantically paddled away from any incoming giant rocks and nearly hit a few of them as, thankfully, they were able to arrive at a safer section of the river and everyone sighed in relief.

"Great, we are rescuing a Merman on our day off." An annoyed Frida says with a scoff as Hilda turns to give Louise an apologetic look.

"I'm sorry about this, Louise. Don't worry, we will be back to the main river soon." Hilda says to Louise reassuringly as her friends glance ahead, and they are shocked by what they see.

"Uh-oh," Frida says with a nervous gulp.

"Don't tell me. We're about to go over a huge waterfall." A deadpanned Hilda says as she doesn't even need to turn around to see what kind of danger they are in right now.

"Yep," David stated, equally as deadpannedly.

"Sharp rocks at the bottom?"

"Most likely," Marcus says with a casual shrug as Hilda takes a deep breath and narrows her eyes in determination as she nods.

"...Bring it on."

"BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-YAH! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Hilda and the others screamed in unison as they all fell down the waterfall and crashed down into the river below as the boat crashed down into the water, and Hilda, Marcus, and David fell down on top of it as the others ended up falling overboard with Stitch reacting quickly and reached over to grab Frida and took the full brunt of the landing as they crashed against the rock-covered waters and Louise ended up falling down near them as well as they swiftly resurfaced with Stitch clinging onto Frida nervously as Hilda, David, and Marcus worked together on paddling over to grab them as they pulled their friends into the boat.

"Are you guys okay?" Hilda asked worriedly as the trio nodded, and a wet Stitch grumbled angrily.

"Guna hablagaba."

"What does that mean exactly?" Marcus asked curiously as he and the others never heard Stitch say that phrase before.

"Stitch don't like water," Stitch says while shaking himself like a dog to dry off his fur as everyone yelped in surprise at getting drenched with river water.

"Hey, say it don't spray it." An annoyed Frida says before pausing a bit as she turns to Louise, who was being dried off by David with the help of a blanket that he had supplied to everyone. "Wait, hold on, Louise, how were you able to survive crash landing into the river? It was filled with sharp large rocks."

"Oh...uh...how did you two survive?" A nervous Louise pointed out, changing the subject as Frida and the others flinched as they shared awkward looks just as Eugene appeared as he shot out of the river and landed back in the boat with a cheerful smile on his face.

"Ah, that was rather fun, don't you think so?" Eugene asked with a grin as Hilda and her friends glared at him while Louise glanced down at her camera to make sure that it wasn't broken and began going through all of the photos that she had taken today as she found it extremely weird that the Sea Serpent hasn't appeared in any of her pictures. "Let me express my gratitude to you heroes for saving my life."

"I don't think we have the time. We have to get back to the other Scouts as soon as possible." Frida says as she and the others glance up at the waterfall as they notice how tall it is.

"Um, how are we gonna get back up?" David asked worriedly as Hilda sighed heavily.

"We will have to carry the raft through these woods."

"Nonsense. I won't let my rescuers go through such misery." Eugene says with a grin as Marcus scoffed and rolled his eyes.

"Oh, yeah, because the last time we used your advice, we nearly died. I know what I said earlier, but I take it back. I prefer being eaten by a Sea Serpent than nearly falling down a waterfall to my death."

"Yeah, sorry, but I don't think we need any more ideas from you," Frida says with crossed arms and a scowl on her face as Eugene grins cockily.

"Are you sure~?" Eugene asked while spreading out his arms as, much to the amazement of the others, the waterfall split apart to reveal a cave planted on the side of the mountain. "Tada! Within these caves are a series of tunnels! I know them like the back of my fin! I can lead you all straight back to the main river!"

"...Team huddle," Hilda says while turning to face the others as she gives him a blank look. "Okay, so this is easily a trap, right?"

"I mean, yeah, a random Sea Serpent showed up out of nowhere when this guy appeared, he intentionally led us to a path that leads to a waterfall, which just so happens to have a cave that could lead us back to the main river. This is so obviously a trap." Frida says with a small glare as David nods.

"Yeah, there is something really fishy about that guy."

"Are you making a joke?" A curious and smiling Eugene asked while suddenly appearing in their team huddle as they shrank back in surprise. "Look, I'm not trying to eavesdrop, but this is a rather small raft."

"It's true," Louise says as everyone turns to her in surprise.

"Wait, so earlier, you could hear..." Hilda asked nervously as Louise nodded sheepishly.

"Oh, this is all my fault. I lost the map." David says somberly as Eugene laughs a bit, causing everyone to turn and glare at him as he grins cheekily.

"Sorry, still listening,"

"Okay, so let's look at our options, if we try to go through the woods, we might get lost in there too, and if we try to continue paddling through the path of this river, we will still get lost, and the sun will be setting soon," Frida says as Hilda sighed heavily, knowing that they can easily fix this situation if they used their superpowers, but she was still persistent on trying to have a normal day as possible as the blue-haired girl reluctantly turned back to a smirking Eugene.

"Alright, Merman, show us the way."

"Perfect. You won't be disappointed or my name isn't Eugene." A beaming Eugene says as the gang shares odd looks.

"Wait, your name is Eugene?" A curious Louise asked as Eugene shrugged.

"Well, that's my surface name. You can't pronounce my true name without gills. It's Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerynchwyrndrob." Eugene says while speaking with his gills as he then laughs, and the gang once again shares odd looks before awkwardly paddling their boat into the cave as the Merman continues laughing.

"Okay, Eugene, what's so damn funny?" An annoyed Marcus asked while turning his head as he and the others were surprised to see that Eugene had disappeared from sight.

"Well, that's not encouraging," Hilda says with a nervous gulp as David groans.

"Great, we have fallen into a trap. He's going to eat us any second now." David says anxiously as Louise narrows her eyes at this seriously and is planning to stand up, but stops as a spotlight shined down on a small rocky stage with some seaweed acting as curtains as a smirking Eugene warps onto the scene with a small poof of pink smoke as Frida moaned loudly and facepalmed.

"Oh, god, it's even worse, he's putting on a show..."

~[Bottom of the Sea Song]~

You can probably tell,

For it's quite a no-brainer!

I happen to be the world's best entertainer!

I used to perform all the time for the King of the Sea!

Eugene sang elegantly while dancing around as the seaweed curtains were then pulled back, and his angular glowed brightly as he joined his hands together to begin making shadowy puppets and showed an image of himself dancing and singing to entertain the King of the Sea as Hilda and Frida shared bored and annoyed looks, David looked confused, and Louise and Stitch were bobbing a bit to the admittedly catchy music as Marcus looked intrigued.

I was practicing one day for a most important show,

To entertain the court and other VIPs below!

Next thing I knew, a fishing net was scooping up this triple threat!

I was caught! Now, I'm not where I ought to be!

Entertaining the crowds at the bottom of the sea!

Eugene then made shadow puppets of himself practicing for his next show, only for a random fishing net to appear and trap the shocked Merman and yank him out of the ocean as he was launched up into the air and crashed down into a Fishing Boat with a pained groan as Eugene glanced up to see the Fisherman glaring down at him venomously.

The Fisherman asked me to grant him a wish,

I protested, saying, 'I'm not that kind of fish!'

'Return me to the sea', I implored,

But my heartfelt pleas were, alas, ignored!

He held me captive while I pleaded,

And eventually dropped me here instead!

Left all alone to ponder my cruel fate!

Eugene then made more shadowy puppets, showing the Fisherman angrily demanding the Merman to grant him a wish, only for Eugene to refuse, stating that he's not that kind of Merman and begging him to throw him back into the ocean, but the Fisherman instead traps him in a cage and spent the next year trying to convince him to grant him his wish before getting annoyed by Eugene's antics and decided to free him and drop him down into the river, much to his sadness as there was no one around for the Merman to entertain.

A performer with no audience,

Is a true fish out of water!

For many a year,

I've been stranded here,

With nothing to do but wait, and wait, and wait, and wait, and wait-

"Excuse me, Eugene, will this be going on for much longer?" A bored Frida asked, surprising Eugene as he turned to them with a shaky smile on his face.

"Are you guys not enjoying the show?"

"I am," Louise answered truthfully as Stitch and Marcus nodded in agreement as David huffed.

"Well, we're not."

"Yeah, of course, we, except for a selected few, are not enjoying the show. I mean, what happened to this being the shortcut to the main river?" Hilda asked with a small glare on her face as Eugene laughed awkwardly.

"Audience feedback is important, and I'm hearing you. I will take your notes into consideration for my next performance." Eugene says while poofing in a watch as he pretends to glance at it. "Which is scheduled for...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!" Eugene screamed with a sinister grin on his face, shocking the others as his stage was poofed away to reveal another tunnel, and Hilda's boat began suddenly moving forward as she and the others struggled to paddle away their boat.

But now I have the six of you,

Want to see what I can do?!

You can't fathom the depths of my skills!

My comedy always kills!

You'll get dizzy switching gears,

From laughing your head off!

Choking with tears,

And I'll take your breath away,

With a single well-placed...

Pause!

Growing worried, Hilda, Stitch, and the others screamed panickedly as they tried to row away to safety just as a massive head of Eugene appeared at the end of the tunnel and ate them up as they spotted a bunch of multi-colored fish appearing onto the scene and we then see several bubbles floating down onto the scene as one of them morphed into the face of the Merman and opened up his mouth as he shoots out a big stream of water and we see Hilda's raft flying out of it as they all began sliding down on a huge waterslide with Hilda and Stitch holding onto each other for dear life, a worried David was patting Frida's back as her face turned green and was close to vomiting, and Marcus and Louise got splashed with water as they then arrived at a small cave and Eugene's face appeared on the water as he then fired out a giant stream of water out of his mouth that collided against Hilda's boat, sending them flying out of the cave and appeared in the air before falling down through an entrance that will lead back to the cave tunnels as, unknown to them, Eliza and the others were able to spot them as they looked surprised by what they see.

I'll show you exotical nautical fun,

My aquatic dramatics are second to none!

I'll give you everything if you just give me your applause!

You're in luck, chums,

Cause you're stuck in the muck with meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

The most talented fish from the bottom...of...the...seaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Falling down a huge cave tunnel that was pitch black and glowed with multi-colored lights as we see Eugene teleporting to the front of the boat and reaching over to grab Hilda's face and force her to smile as he then reached up to grab his hat, and took it off as a bunch of multi-colored glowing fishes flew out of it, including the Sea Serpent from before as it splashed in front of him, causing everyone to scream fearfully, as they went through it and suddenly arrived at a huge cave with a giant rock platform as Hilda's boat splashed in the river and floated around as Eugene poofed onto the scene and began bowing to them with multiple glowing multi-colored energy hands appeared and began clapping for him as Hilda looks stunned with her hair frazzled as Stitch clings onto her nervously, Frida and David were hugging each other in fear and trembled as Marcus was lying down on the floor of the boat and groaned as a freaked out Louise held onto the edge of the boat tightly.

~[Bottom of the Sea Song Over]~

"So what do you think? Be honest. Do you like the adjustments I made per your notes?"

"No!" An angry Hilda screamed as she and the others got out of their boat.

"No? Well, that's a little reductive. Alright, what part exactly needs tweaking?"

"All of it! Especially the part where you said that you helped us get back to our troop, but instead, you nearly killed us by having us drop down from a waterfall, trapped us in this cave, and scaring poor Louise half to death!" A furious Hilda yelled while gesturing over at Louise as Eugene smirked cockily.

"Is that how you feel, Louise?" Eugene asked while snapping his fingers as a spotlight shined down on Louise, who sweated nervously as she looked around.

"Well, I...I feel like if that Serpent was an illusion, then the earlier one was too." Louise says with a glare while showing her camera to everyone as it showed the river from before, which was weirdly empty as everyone turned to Eugene suspiciously. "Did we even save your life?"

"Hey, a showman never reveals his secrets." A glaring Eugene says as he places his hands on his hips with a small huff. "I just wanted to show you all a good time, and in return, get a laugh. Is that so much to ask?"

"Do you really care about entertaining us?" David pointed out with his arms crossed as a grinning Eugene nodded and poofed in a glowing pink energy violin to begin playing some small music.

"You have no idea. Thespians like myself are natural givers. We give and we give, and you...you have no appreciation for the arts."

"You consider this art?" A disbelieving Frida asked with a raised eyebrow as Hilda groaned.

"Ugh, if only Logan came with us on our Sparrow Scout Trip. He could've really helped us out against this Merman."

"Ih, too bad he's too busy travelling to possible sightings of Graves," Stitch says with a shrug as David rubs his chin thoughtfully and comes up with an idea on how to free themselves without using their powers as he snaps his fingers.

"I got it. Okay, Eugene, if you can make us laugh in the next five minutes, we will stay and happily watch your show."

"Forever?" Eugene asked hopefully with starry eyes as the gang glanced at each other and nodded.

"Fine, but if you fail, you have to let us go," David stated sternly as Eugene hummed a bit and crossed his arms.

"Well, I do love a good game...alright, let's do it," Eugene says while warping himself over to the top of the rocky platform with a poof of pink smoke as a spotlight shined down on him. "Okay, here's one to warm you up. What did one ocean say to the other ocean?"

"Nothing, they just waved," Hilda answered dryly as Eugene did a double take.

"Wait a minute, how did you-,"

"My Aunt Pleakely told me that joke a week ago after finding a book about jokes, and trust me, I didn't laugh at all when he told me," Hilda says with a bored tone as Stitch nods in agreement, and Eugene narrows his eyes angrily as he huffs in irritation.

"Okay, fine, I guess that I have to pull out my a-material," Eugene says while clapping his hands as the gang is suddenly covered with multiple poofs of pink smoke as, once they die down, the group is surprised by their new appearances.

"Whoa, I have long arms, wicked," Hilda says with a small grin while admiring her long arms as a huffing David turns to her after being turned into a big bouncing ball.

"Well, lucky for you, I've been turned into a ball."

"Looks like we are keeping it together so far...oh no, is that my voice?" A shocked and distraught Frida asked as she had been magically transformed into Daisy Duck.

"I don't think this is funny..." A deadpan Louise says while wearing a costume that resembled a bunch of butts as she even wore fart shoes.

"Really? Fart humor? What are we five?" An annoyed Marcus asked while wearing a ballerina outfit as he didn't seem to be embarrassed by this since he transformed into a girl on a regular basis. "You have to try better than that to make us laugh-,"

"Wait, where's Stitch?" A worried Hilda asked as she and the others heard a small groan nearby and turned their heads to see Stitch lying before them on all fours with his fur being turned from blue to pink as Hilda, Frida, David, and Marcus paused a bit...before they began laughing loudly as Stitch growled at them angrily.

"Hey, not funny...okay, kind of funny," Stitch says with a small laugh as Eugene perked up and grinned widely as he pointed down at them.

"Aha! Gotcha!"

"Oh, no! We laughed!" A concerned Hilda says as Frida nods anxiously.

"And at such a childish thing too!"

"Well, not all of us laughed," David says while trying to gesture over at Louise, but fails since he has no arms as Marcus strikes a ballerina pose and points over at her.

"Yeah, Louise didn't even chuckle."

"Ugh, fine, you've beaten me." A pouting Eugene says while snapping his fingers as Hilda and the others turn back to normal with multiple poofs of pink smoke. "You're free to go...Louise." Eugene says, shocking everyone as they gasp sharply.

"Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!"

"He's right. Semantics are very important in deals like this." Frida says as Hilda sighs heavily.

"I guess fair is fair. Louise shouldn't have to be stuck watching mediocre musical numbers just because she chose to hang out with the 'Freaky Friends'," Hilda says as Eugene snorts and begins laughing as an annoyed Marcus turns to glare at him.

"Are you finally going to tell us what's so funny?"

"You think Louise is so innocent. It's hilarious. Just like you all, she's hiding her very own secret that she doesn't want to tell you all. It's so dumb that you guys haven't even noticed yet." Eugene says while laughing harder as Louise narrows her eyes angrily and steps forward bravely.

"Give my friends one more chance to win their freedom."

"And?"

"And if we fail, you can have all of us," Louise says, shocking Hilda and the others as they couldn't believe that she was willing to give away her freedom to try and save them. "And I will laugh at your jokes even if I don't think they are funny."

"Seriously? You risk your freedom for these five?" Eugene asked as Louise smirked cockily and nodded

"Well, as my friends from America once told me, while this kind of situation can be scary and all, a Drag-I mean, a hero always steps up to the challenge, no matter how dangerous the threat is or how low their chances are of winning. We all have to look after each other. If we can't face a Merman with illusion powers right now, then what chance do we have of surviving in the real world." Louise says with a wise and serious tone, causing Eugene to hum thoughtfully as he grins slyly.

"Hmmm...okay, fair enough," Eugene says while snapping his fingers as the area around them went pitch black before a show of multi-color fireworks rang out as Hilda and the others were surprised to see multiple possible exits placed before them as one of them was a giant green skull, the second was a giant squid that had its mouth opened, the third was a giant piranha that had its mouth opened, and a multitude of other exist of various objects and animals. "Choose your exit wisely, kiddos. One leads to your way out, the others lead to an eternity as my captive audience."

"How are we ever going to pick the right one?" A concerned Hilda asked as Louise glared over at a laughing Eugene and turned back to the others.

"Team huddle," Louise says while gesturing at Hilda and the others to go to her as they did so curiously. "Okay, so look, the Merman laughs when someone's about to do something he thinks is stupid or wrong. All we have to do is to pretend we're choosing an exit and watch his reaction subtly and closely."

"Wow, how did you notice that?" A surprised Marcus as Louise shrugged with a small shy frown on her face.

"When you are quiet like me, it's easy to stand back and notice the things others miss."

"Well, okay, Louise, we'll follow your lead. Ready?" Hilda asked as Louise nodded with a grin, and the gang went over to their boat and began rowing it forward and arrived at the green skull exit as Eugene began laughing, and the group was quick to change course to head towards the giant squid that had its mouth opened, and the Merman laughed harder as Hilda and the others swiftly changed course yet again as the Former Performer for the King of the Sea spotted this and gasped in realization as he slapped his face.

"Ah, they are onto me. Damn my charming expressive face. What do I do now?" Eugene asked himself curiously as a devious smirk appeared on his face and chuckled evilly as a pink poof covered his body, and we cue back over to the others as we see them rowing over to a giant whirlpool and the giant piranha that had its mouth opened as they glanced between them anxiously.

"Alright, last two," Hilda says as Stitch looks around suspiciously, and David gulped nervously.

"Maybe not the one with the teeth?"

"Keep an eye out, Lu," Marcus says to Louise, who beams at the cute nickname that he gave her as she nods and looks around skeptically as the Sparrow Scout notices that Eugene is staring at them stoically.

"No smile."

"This one might be the one then," Frida says while she and the others begin rowing towards the whirlpool as Louise then pauses a bit and realizes how weird it is that the Merman has virtually no reaction to what is going on, even if it means that they could escape as she glances down at her photos from before and quickly turned around to pull out her camera to take a picture of Eugene and noticed that he had a big smirk on his face.

"Oh, no! It's a trap!" A worried Louise yelled as everyone turned to her in surprise just as the boat got into the whirlpool as they began whirling around rapidly, and everyone screamed fearfully as Louise gritted her teeth, realizing that she had no choice but to reveal herself to the others as she turned to them. "Guys, can you keep a secret?!"

"What?!"

"Can you guys keep a secret?!" Louise asked anxiously as Hilda and the others shared a confused look, but nodded as they all continued struggling to row their boat out of the whirlpool, only to fail as the dark brown-haired girl took a deep breath and stood up on the raft as she gained a determined glare and clenched her fists tightly as Louise began concentrating and everyone flinched in surprise and awe as a circle of cyan icy wind appeared below her and slowly lifted the young child up into the air as she opened her eyes, revealing them to be dragon-like as the dark brown-haired 12-year-old girl growled furiously.

"DRAGON...UP!" Louise roared out as the circle around her formed into a large cyan icy windy tornado that swallowed her up completely and hid her transformation sequence from view as a bunch of cyan icy crystals shot out of it repeatedly, and we then see Louise leaping out of the elemental tornado while fully transformed into her Dragon Form as she landed down on the raft, shaking it a bit as Louise roared savagely.

Standing before them is Louise in her Dragon Form, which consists of her being an 8-foot-tall Norwegian Dragon with black pupilless eyes, long dark brown hair that reaches down to her waist, thick dark brown eyebrows, a small dragon-like pale yellow nose, a long cyan snout with a long pink forked tongue underneath, four large cyan wings with pale yellow undersides, a pair of muscularly slender cyan five-clawed arms with said claws being pale yellow, cyan scales with pale yellow spikes that trails down from the back of her head to her tail, a pale yellow underbelly, a tall muscularly slender build, a long cyan tail with a trail of pale yellow spikes on it, and a pair of cyan four-clawed feet with said claws being pale yellow.

"I'm sorry, but...WHAT?!" A shocked David exclaimed as he and the others stared at Louise with stunned looks on their faces as she ignored them and flapped her wings to take off into the air as the Human/Dragon Magical Hybrid Child then dropped down into the whirlpool and appeared below their raft as she grabbed it and used her superhuman strength to lift them up into the air as Louise flew them out of the whirlpool and dropped the boat back down into the river as Eugene laughed harder.

"Oh, I see that you finally had transformed, huh?"

"Yes, and I have something to say to you! As the Norway Dragon, I command that you let us leave in peace!" Louise growled out while flapping her wings to keep herself floating in the air as Eugene laughed mockingly and snapped his fingers as a bunch of illusions of various sea monsters appeared before them.

"If you all want to leave, you have to beat my creations first, and I promise you that while they are still illusions, it doesn't mean that they don't pack a punch!" Eugene yelled with another laugh as Louise huffed and whirled around to glance down at her friends as they continued staring up at her in shock and amazement.

"Hey, if you guys are willing, do you mind giving the Norway Dragon some help?"

"B-But,"

"Do you want to ask questions or do you want to kick butt?" Louise asked with a smug grin while cracking her knuckles as the gang shared a look, and Hilda's concerned and confused frown was replaced with a determined one as she then grinned.

"Alright, gang, as your unofficial leader, I hereby decree that our day off is officially over!" Hilda screamed as the others perked up and smirked cockily as Hilda and Frida snapped their fingers as dual flashes of blue/pink lights covered their bodies, and we see the girls transforming themselves into their Witch Forms as Frida then snapped her fingers again and a poof of pink smoke covered David's body as we see him wearing his Warrior's Outfit and reached behind him to pull out his Magic Shield as Stitch took off his Sparrow Scout Uniform and placed it down on the boat safely before standing up on his two legs to summon his alien appendages as Marcus morphed into his Buff Male Form.

Jumping off their boat, Hilda and Frida landed on a large rocky platform as they stood back to back and glared over at Eugene's Monstrous Illusions as Louise floated above them, and the gang shared a smirk as Frida raised her glowing pink hands and chanted, 'Vortress Nebulae!', as she is able to create a big energy crystal bubble shield around Five of Eugene's Monstrous Illusions and Louise flew over to breathe a big blast of cyan icy wind that collided against them, freezing them in their place and Frida lowered her shield as a smirking Hilda rushed forward while raising her glowing blue hands as she chanted, 'Edgebonoutoosis!', and her whole body glowing a mystic blue as said energy separated from her body and floated beside her as Hilda created a perfect replica of herself, and the duo ran over to jump up and kick through the iced-up illusions as they got shattered apart.

Leaping over to stand on a rocky platform as well, the boys got into a fighting stance as a bunch of Eugene's Monstrous Illusions surrounded them, and after sharing a smirk, they then ran forward, and Stitch jumped up to punch through one of Eugene's Monstrous Illusions' bodies while David used his Magic Shield to block a punch from another one of Eugene's Monstrous Illusions and a grunting Marcus rushed over to grab the third of Eugene's Monstrous Illusions as he hoisted him up into the air and tossed him over to the other illusions to knock them down as if they were boiling pins and a striking noise even rang out as Stitch, David, and Marcus shared a grin and a thumbs up.

Flying through the air, Louise spread out her wings and began spinning around in mid-air while firing a big blast of cyan icy wind that whirled around her body and made her resemble a cyan icy tornado as the Norway Dragon collided against various of Eugene's Monstrous Illusions, whacking them away with a big burst of cyan icy frost energy as Hilda and her Clone ran over to then leap up high into the air and tackled one of Eugene's Monstrous Illusions into the ground to attack him as a glaring Frida raised her glowing pink hand and fired dual bolts of pink electricity that collided against two Eugene's Monstrous Illusions to blow them up into billion pieces.

Rolling up into his Ball Form, Marcus then walked over to grab onto Stitch and raised him up high into the air before tossing forward to collide against several of Eugene's Monstrous Illusions, knocking them down as a glaring David rushed forward and raised his Magic Shield as he then tossed it forward and it flew through the air to collide against various of Eugene's Monstrous Illusions, either knocking them out or sending them crashing down into the river as the Magic Shield flew over to land back in Frida's Boyfriend's outstretched hand.

Raising their glowing blue arms, Hilda and her Clone then zoomed for and slammed their hands into one of Eugene's Monstrous Illusions' chest, sending him flying away with a big beam of blue electricity as we see Louise flying through the air with Frida riding around on her back as she raised her glowing pink hands and began firing multiple volts of pink electricity while the Norway Dragon fired out several blasts of cyan icy wind as their attacks collided against multiple Eugene's Monstrous Illusions and either blasted them away or froze them in places in big blocks of ice.

Unrolling from his Ball Form, Stitch then reared back his head and barfed out a big stream of acid that collided against several of Eugene's Monstrous Illusions, melting them in place as Marcus then morphed into a teenage girl rollerskater and rolled forward before morphing into a male ballerina and twirled around to kick away two of Eugene's Monstrous Illusions away as David rushed over to bash away two of Eugene's Monstrous Illusions with the help of his Magic Shield as the gang then turned around and made their way over to leap back into the boat as Louise flew over to hover behind their boat and gave the Merman a mocking salute as he grew worried.

"NO, WAIT! DON'T LEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVE!" Eugene screamed in dismay and horror as a grunting Louise pushed the boat over to the exit and quickly boarded it as they rode down the tunnel and finally arrived outside of the cave as they splashed down into the river, and everyone groaned as Louise slowly morphed back into her Human Form with a burst of cyan icy wind and crystals.

"We did it." A beaming Frida says with the others cheering a bit as Louise chuckled a bit and got up from the boat as she noticed that everyone quieted down and stared at her curiously.

"What?"

"What do you mean what, girl?! You literally transformed into a freaking Dragon?! How is that possible?!" Marcus asked before yelping in pain as an annoyed Frida elbowed him.

"Marcus, don't be rude."

"Although, we are curious about your story. I mean, I can't get over that you are a Dragon. I mean, I've seen a dragon before and you look nothing like her." Hilda says as Louise blinks in surprise.

"Wait, really? Which one?"

"Her name is Linda the Lindworm," Hilda says as Louise tilts her head curiously.

"Really? Huh, interesting, my Dragon Master told me to visit her every so often to give her flowers." Louise says before shaking her head as she sighs heavily. "Anyway, in order for my backstory to make sense, I need to explain a little bit about Dragons. You see, unlike in media, Dragons are a race of magical beings that are able to shape-shift from their Dragon Form to their Human Form. These beings possess two kinds of chi; a Human Chi and a Dragon Chi, which is the source of our powers."

"Wait, hold on, so are you guys Humans who can transform into Dragons or Dragons that can transform into Humans."

"Dragons that can transform into Humans. Although, we are born as Humans with our Dragon Chi remaining dormant until the age of 16, which is when their powers begin to emerge. Although, I'm one of the rare Human/Dragon Magical Hybrids who gained their Dragon Chi earlier than usual. It runs in my family. Although, occasionally, some of us are locked in our Human Form as access to dragon powers skipped them. Like my Dragon Master."

"Dragon Master?" Stitch asked curiously as Louise nodded.

"I will explain what that is real quick. So, Dragons have existed since pre-history. We have been designated as the Protectors of the Magical World and its magical inhabitants like Unicorns, Trolls, Ogres, etc, for several centuries or so. We keep law and order and protect weak magical creatures from being harmed by other magical creatures or even Humans. The ones who are in charge of us are the World Dragon Council, the ruling body of the Dragons, and The Order of The Dragon, and one of the most influential organizations of the magical community. The Dragon Council chooses the Dragons that will defend a nation. For instance, they named me as the Official First Magical Guardian of Norway, which means that as the Norway Dragon, I protect all of Norway...plus, Sweden and Finland."

"Wait, the Dragon Council or whatever allows a 12-year-old girl to protect all of Norway by herself?!" A shocked Hilda asked as Louise nodded sheepishly.

"Yeah, I mean, yes, I have only gained my Dragon Form for a few months or so, but I did get help from a couple of friends I made who are the American Dragons, and from my Dragon Master. Oh, right, forgot to tell you guys but Dragon Masters are fellow Dragons who teach Younglings how to perform their Dragon Duties and how to master their Dragon Powers."

"Who is your Dragon Master by the way? Is he or she someone who lives in Trollberg?" David asked curiously as Louise nodded.

"Yep, I have been training under him for the past two weeks. His name is Drake. He is in charge of manning one of the many bell towers that are built into the wall around Trolberg. He is a bit mean, blunt, and harsh, but I know that my Dragon Master means well."

"Wait, wait, wait, I just realized something, you said something about being forced to become the First Norway Dragon, which means that you didn't have any predecessors before, right?" Frida asked as Louise nodded.

"Yep, there haven't been any Dragons protecting Norway until now."

"Why is that?" Marcus asked as Louise sighed heavily.

"Well, the Dragon Council has been noticing that there has been a lot of Magical Commotion lately than usual. When my family and I moved to Trollberg, my Dragon Master told me that I needed to temporarily join the Sparrow Scouts to handle a magical creature who has been a nuisance around these woods. I guess that they were talking about Eugene, but when I was living here, I kept hearing about you guys always going on these wild and amazing adventures and ever since I joined the Sparrow Scouts, I was really excited to have an adventure with you guys because I knew that you guys would somehow lead me to the Merman, so when I eavesdropped on you guys and realize that you were all committed to making our day normal, I decided to try and stop that."

~[Flashback #1]~

"Ears of a Dragon," Louise says while shifting her Human Ears into her Dragon Ears as she goes over to stand behind a tree placed far away from the group, and she begins eavesdropping on them.

"Wait, Hilda wants to do something...that's normal?" A shocked Frida asked while covering her mouth as Marcus's jaw dropped.

"And not do any crazy magical adventures?"

"I never thought that the day would come," David says with teary eyes and a smile as Hilda rolls her eyes goodnaturedly but grows serious as she places her hands on her hips.

~[Flashback Over]~

"So I decided to take a big risk...although it left me feeling really guilty," Louise says with a regretful look as she looks away.

~[Flashback #2]~

"That's a good point. David, you will be in charge of the map from now on." Hilda says as David mentally sighs in relief, knowing that if Stitch kept the map, it would most likely get destroyed somehow as he then scoots away from the group and places the map on the edge of the boat as David reaches into his backpack to get a snack, not knowing that Louise turned her head towards him as she narrowed her eyes.

"Tail of a Dragon." Louise says while summoning her Dragon Tail as it stretched over to wrap around the map and pulled it over to her as she quickly grabbed it and hid the map in her backpack as Louise quickly desummoned her Dragon Tail just as David turned his head to glance over at the map, only to gasp in shock upon realizing that it was missing as he looked around concernedly, earning a fake confused raised eyebrow as David smiled at her anxiously and scooted back over to the others.

"Uh, guys? I lost the map..."

~[Flashback Over]~

"Wait a minute, you took the map this whole time?" Hilda asked with a surprised tone as Louise looked away sadly and reached over to grab her backpack to pull out the map as everyone looked shocked by the sight of it.

"Yeah, I did, but I only did it because I wanted us to go on an adventure."

"Wait, so when we fell down the waterfall, did you use your Dragon Powers to-,"

"Protect myself? Yes." Louise says with a nod.

~[Flashback #3]~

"Great, we are rescuing a Merman on our day off." An annoyed Frida says with a scoff as Hilda turns to give Louise an apologetic look.

"I'm sorry about this, Louise. Don't worry, we will be back to the main river soon." Hilda says to Louise reassuringly as her friends glance ahead, and they are shocked by what they see.

"Uh-oh," Frida says with a nervous gulp.

"Don't tell me. We're about to go over a huge waterfall." A deadpanned Hilda says as she doesn't even need to turn around to see what kind of danger they are in right now.

"Yep," David stated, equally as deadpannedly.

"Sharp rocks at the bottom?"

"Most likely," Marcus says with a casual shrug as Hilda takes a deep breath and narrows her eyes in determination as she nods.

"...Bring it on."

"BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-YAH! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Hilda and the others screamed in unison as they all fell down the waterfall and crashed down into the river below as the boat crashed down into the water, and Hilda, Marcus, and David fell down on top of it as the others ended up falling overboard with Stitch reacting quickly and reached over to grab Frida and took the full brunt of the landing as they crashed against the rock-covered waters and a panicking Louise quickly chanted, 'Armor of a Dragon', in her mind as she gained her Dragon Armor and crashed into the rock-covered waters as well as she was able to protect herself from the fall and quickly de-summoned her Dragon Form as Louise quickly swam up to resurface with the others before they get too suspicious.

~[Flashback Over]~

"So you did know that we were the Freaky Friends," Marcus says as Louise nods shamefully.

"Yeah, I was trying to play it cool. I didn't expect things to get so out of hand. I'm sorry everyone. This is my fault. I was assigned to protect all of Norway, but instead, all I did was endanger all of you because of my selfish actions of wanting to make new friends who were just as amazing as me and can truly understand what I'm going through. I'm so sorry." Louise says while tearing up and sniffling as everyone shares a look and smiles warmly as they turn back to her.

"Don't worry, ever since we met Hilda and Stitch, things always get out of hand. It's what we do best." David says with a reassuring smirk as Louise looks surprised.

"Wait, you guys aren't angry? But I lied and used you all, and nearly let us get trapped by the Merman."

"Maybe, but youga did try to own up to your mistake and nearly risk your freedom to save all of us. We are even in Stitch's book." Stitch says as Hilda nods with a smile.

"Yeah, it's just nice to know that someone appreciates our tendency to be abnormal."

"If you want, you can join our little group and be a part of the Freaky Friends. I'm sure that we would all love that." Frida suggested as Marcus nodded.

"Plus you don't have to burden yourself with protecting all of Norway plus a few others by yourself. We are more than welcome to help you out."

"Seriously? You are?" A stunned and hopeful Louise asked as Hilda nodded with a proud smirk on her face.

"Yeah, in case you didn't hear, we are kind of the heroes around these parts. If there is a magical problem in Trollberg and beyond, we will always be there to help protect both magical creatures and humanity. Speaking off, is there any other problem that your Dragon Master warned you about?" Hilda asked as Louise hummed thoughtfully and perked up as she snapped her fingers.

"Oh, yeah, he told me that the Dragon Council informed him that there is a potential Magical War brewing around these parts. It's why the Dragon Council were insistent on having me gain my Official Dragon Guardian Status and Training early as they wanted me to investigate what is going on and stop the potential war."

"Wait, really? Oh, this is great." An excited Hilda says as she beamed. "I'm so happy that someone is noticing this too. Okay, look, my friends and I have recently found out that Erik Ahlberg, the chief ranger of the Trolberg Safety Patrol, has been planning to find a way to wipe away the Trolls for good, which means that he has been planning to go to war with them eventually."

"Seriously? Oh, man, this is serious. I'm not sure if I will be able to handle this by myself." A worried Louise says with a nervous gulp as Hilda goes over to place her hand on her shoulder reassuringly.

"Don't worry about it, Louise,"

"How can I not? I'm destined to be the Magical Guardian of Norway," Louise says as Hilda grinned slyly and gestured at herself and the others.

"So are we. Trust me, if you stick with us, every magical bad guy won't know what's coming." Hilda says with a determined tone as she then smiles at Louise softly. "Anyway, I want to say that we will be here to help support you the whole way. Plus, we were already planning on stopping the Human/Troll War anyway, so when the time comes, we will be there for you, both as a friend and fellow magical guardian."

"Really?" A relieved and hopeful Louise asked with teary eyes as everyone nodded.

"Yep, you have my survival skills and magic."

"And yougga have Stitch's alien and demonic powers."

"And you have my book smarts and magic."

"And you have my bravery and shield."

"And you have my impressive shapeshifting and charisma." Hilda, Stitch, Frida, David, and Marcus said in unison as Louise smiled warmly, feeling touched by her new friends' actions as she then wiped away her tears.

"Well, you guys have my Dragon Powers and Magical Knowhow," Louise says with a beaming smile as she then pulled out her camera. "Anyway, picture to mark the occasion?" Louise suggested as everyone nodded and went over to stand beside her as Stitch leaped up to land on Hilda's back, and said person giggled as they waved, David and Frida wrapped their arms around each other, and Louise smiled warmly while Marcus threw out bunny ears behind the back of her head as the Norway Dragon took the picture of them and everyone beamed happily but then noticed that a nervous Eugene leaped out of the water and landed on the edge of their boat as they all glared at him.

"Uh, hi, gang, so I was wondering, none of you really wanted to watch one of my other shows?"

"No!" Hilda and the others screamed in unison as Eugene rolled his eyes with a scoff.

"If this is about trying to imprison you for an eternity, I am sorry, but you ever try to get a rise out of a river carp? The most boring audience in the world. In the sea, I had devoted fans. Now, the only response I get is..." Eugene trailed off while briefly poofing his head to resemble a fish and flopped around boredly as he then poofed his head back to normal.

"Well, why not just go back out into the sea?" Louise suggested as Eugene once again rolled his eyes dryly and scoffed.

"You heard my story, Norway Dragon. I'm stuck here in this cursed maze of waterways." Eugene says as Louise blinks in surprise before snorting and laughing as he raises an eyebrow at this confusedly. "I never thought I say this, but what's so funny?"

"This 'Cursed Maze' is just a river, dude, and all rivers lead to the sea."

"Wait, really?" A surprised Eugene asked as everyone nodded, and Louise pulled out the map and she showed it to him.

"If you want to head back out into the sea, just head south. You should be home by tomorrow. Oh, and before you go..." Louise says while going over to whisper into his ear as Eugene perks up and winks at her as he then jumps backwards to land in the river and pops his head out as the Merman waves at them ecstatically.

"Sorry again, kids, and farewell! I hope you think of me fondly!" Eugene says while diving back down into the river as he swam away.

"We won't!" David yelled as Frida grinned and reached behind her to pull out her Sparrow Scout Badge Book.

"But, thanks to Louise taking a picture of you, we will use you to earn our Golden Wings Version of the Fish Finder Badge as a merman is a rare find," Frida says with a smug tone as the others share high fives.

"Welp, I guess that wrapped up our little adventure quite nicely. I guess that we should probably start heading back." Hilda says with a disappointed tone as Louise smirks slyly.

"Welllllllllll, the sun isn't setting yet. I bet that we will have at least an hour of more random adventures before we have to head back. Plus, you guys still haven't told me your side of the story yet and I'm really interested in finding out about your backstories and powers." Louise says as everyone perks up and shares a grin.

"Oh, hell yeah, let's do this. Let's go on a Sparrow Scout Adventure, superpowered style." Hilda said as everyone beamed and nodded as the blue-haired girl then reached over to grab the map from Louise's hands and hummed thoughtfully. "Okay, the main river is surprisingly close to us, but there is a small pond by the west side where we could rest for a bit and tell you our story. Deal?"

"Deal," Louise says with a grin as she stands up on the raft and grunts as she leaps up high into the air. "Dragon Up!" Louise exclaimed as cyan icy wind and crystals burst out of her body as she slowly transformed into her Dragon Form and took flight as she roared out a big blast of cyan icy wind.

"I still can't get over the fact that you are an Ice Dragon." An impressed Hilda says as an amazed David nods.

"How rare."

"Trust me, it's not as rare as you think, but thanks," Louise says with a chuckle as a curious Stitch points over at her wings.

"And youga have four wings." Stitch pointed out as Louise nodded.

"Yep, I inherited it from my Dad's side of the family. I got my Ice Breath from my Mom's side of the family." Louise says while flexing her wings as she then grinned cockily. "Anyway, race you!" A laughing Louise yelled as the Human/Dragon Magical Hybrid then flew off.

"Oh, you are on, sister!" Frida says with a determined look while she and Hilda reach up to grab their necklaces and earrings as the girls proceed to rip them out of their ears and necks, causing them to magically transform into their true forms as Hilda and Frida mounted their magical broomsticks and took off into the air as Stitch grunted and a dark purple demonic cloud covered his body as he transforms into his Demon Form and flew after them as David and Marcus, with the latter transforming into his Buff Form, grabbed the paddles and began rowing their boat as they all cheered and laughed as we cue over to Eliza and the others as we see them traveling through the river.

"No sign of the Freaky Friends. What do you think happened to them?" Eliza asked as one of her friends grinned cheekily.

"I bet that they were turned into frogs by a hungry Kelp Witch." Eliza's friend said as they all shared a laugh before flinching in surprise as a giant Sea Serpent appeared and glared down at them fiercely as he then roared savagely, scaring the crap out of the kids as they frantically began rowing away, not knowing that a poof of pink smoke covered the Sea Serpent's body, revealing himself to be a smiling Eugene as he began swimming away.

"The most talented fish at the bottom of the sea~," Eugene sang elegantly as we then cut to the next day, early in the morning as we see the Merman reaching the edge of the river that leads out into the ocean as he beamed. "Alright, home here I come."

"Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, not so fast, my little aquatic friend. You and I have some unfinished business before you go back home." A familiar voice rang out as Eugene flinched in surprise and whirled around to see Logan suddenly appearing out of the woods as he glared at him angrily and cracked his knuckles.

"So, you're the punk that I've heard about who messed with my family and friends and threatened to trap them in a cave, so that they can watch your mediocre shows for all of eternity, huh?" Logan asked with a cold tone while tensing for the upcoming beat down as Eugene laughed nervously and tried to turn around to swim away, only to be caught by Hilda's Cousin, who began beating him up comically as the Merman screamed in pain the whole time.

And done. I hope you guys enjoyed the new chapter, and I can't wait to write the next chapter.

Anyway, as always, I will catch you all later.