Chapter 47: Wedding Crashers
With the pixies now rescued, the group now had to find Brandon and save him from a wedding to a princess against his will. Fortunately, Stella had a good memory of the pathway she took and was very eager to rescue him. Marching so far up ahead of the others she was close to running and Sky and Taren's lights could barely reach the distance if she gets too far.
"Stella, would you just hold up a second for us to catch up." Taren called out to her as he tried to keep up with her.
Sky agreed with Taren and feels she needs to wait for them before she could end up lost somewhere or get separated. "Stella, I'm worried about Brandon too, but marching blindly into the dark isn't going to help anything, you know?"
Their words fell on deaf ears as Stella barely paid attention, the only thing she listened to was the grumbling under her breath.
"Yeah, I don't think you guys are getting through to her." Mushu told them. "That girl has one thing on her mind and may not be pretty."
"Why did Brandon agree to marry that monster princess in the first place?" Chatta asked them.
"They're from two different worlds, forbidden love." Amore sighed and thought to be romantic.
This caught Stella's attention and certainly not wanting to hear more when the princess stole her boyfriend to make him her husband. "Forbidden, yeah right." Growling under her breath and had a clear idea what to do when she finds her.
Taren was able to hear her growling and mentally quivered to see this side of her before. Leans towards Bloom to whisper in her ear. "Hate to be in the princess' shoes right now."
Bloom nodded back and
"I'm sure that Brandon was just playing along to protect Stella." Sky whispered to Chatta, knowing Brandon would never do anything to hurt Stella."
Bloom decided to speak up and reason with Stella to slow down, thinking of a way to get her attention by dropping down her feet to act. "Come on, Stella, I'm getting a cramp. Can't we stop for just one second?" Her plan didn't seem to work when Stella did not slow down or hesitated. "Hey, you think she heard me?"
Mushu didn't think so and shook his head. "Nah, girl, that's the look of a girl ready to kill! I've seen it before, well a little different but same thing."
"Let me handle this." Chatta decided to give it a go and flies up to Stella. "Ummm, Stella?"
"No! we're not stopping! Not even for one second!" Stella screeched and glared at the gossping pixie.
Chatta, in shock flew back to the others than receive more of the princess' anger.
Digit sighs. "Well, Grandpa Fahrenheit always said it's no use changing the oil while the engine's running."
"You should have been to the party I made for the Great Ancestor, he didn't take it so well." Mushu commented.
Having enough of Stella ignoring them, Sky tries to make her see reason and give a statement. "Look, Stella, if you fall in the dark and twist your ankle, I am not going to carry you."
"And you can forget about me or the Digimon when there cave be too narrow for them." Taren stepped in to make her listen but to their surprise, she did indeed stopped. However, he noticed she was shaking and growling ever so louder than before. "Uh, Stella?"
She spun around to glare at the two boys who suddenly backed off by a step and stomps her way towards. Now feeling they should have kept their mouths shut. "In that case, I'll take the flashlight!" Swips the flashlight from Sky's hand and starts walking again.
"Good luck, Amore, you've got the crazy one." Digit teases her with a giggle.
"But it's love, can't you see?"
With the wedding ceremony closer now, Brandon was becoming more nervous than ever, thinking his nightmare could become a reality. Changed into a different set of clothes for the wedding, he was being escorted by two guards. 'I hope that Stella and the other's get here soon.'
They dragged him towards the dressing room where Amentia was in, focusing on looking at herself in the mirror, preparing herself for the royal wedding and singing. While making herself beautiful using make up, the guards that were escorting Brandon arrived and saluted to the princess.
"Your Highness, your fiance is here."
"Hmmm?" She turns to see them through the reflection of the mirror and approved. "Good, leave him with me."
Brandon nervously gulps and not wanting to be in the same room with the love crazed Amentia
"I trust everything is laid out perfectly for the wedding?" She asked them. Wanting to be certain the wedding goes as all planned and be perfect.
"We're doing everything in our power, Your Highness. Uh, but there is a uh slight delay." The guard reported before they released brandon after escorting him to her. But hesitated at first to mention it when they know how she doesn't like the sound of the wedding being delayed.
For Brandon, this was the best news he heard so far and maybe a chance to give his friends time to make it in time. 'Great.'
"Perhaps I have not made myself clear." Stood from her chair and shrieked at the last word, causing the guards to shiver in fear and sweat nervously. "I expect perfection at the very least." Marches her way towar them to make herself perfectly clear. "I cannot begin to explain to you what will happen if anything goes wrong!"
Using her lipstick to draw an X on the guard's face and helmet, glances at the second who flinched by her hard gaze and understood perfectly.
"Yes, Ma'am!"
With the guards making their leave, Brandon feels a little better and tries to sound upset as he can. "I'm so sorry, Your Highness. It really is too bad our wedding has been delayed."
However, Amentia didn't seem to be bothered and danced herway towards Brandon, while he backs away from her as possible.
"No, I didn't mean-"
"Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me." She giggled and chased hm around the room until he accidently fell back on the bed, trapped with Amentia on top of him.
"Why wait for the wedding? Kiss me!" Wanting to lean towards him, puckering her lips for a kiss while Brandon was now more scared of what she had in mind, but tries to hope the others get here fast.
Continueing onwards and so far they noticed how there were so many crystals lighting up the cave, it seems unneccassry to need a flash light/
"Look at these crystals. They're lighting up the whole cave." Sky said in awe.
"Ooh, I would love to take one home for a sourvenir." Mushu rubbed his hands together and could imagine having some to take back.
"Maybe not a good idea at the moment, no clue what they do." Taren cautioned him and figurd it be best to leave them alone.
Bloom would take his advise when she spotted one of them flash for a moment. "Hey, check out this one. It's amazing."
This caught one of the pixies' attention and watched it glow repeatedly.
"Look, there are more up ahead." Sky said.
"You think we could be somewhere close?" Taren pondered. Noticing Agumon looked at the crystals with curiosity as it flashes before him. "Agumon, don't get distacted."
The digimon heard him and caught up to them.
"These are Downland crystals for sure." Stella confirmed upon recognising them. "We've got to be getting closer."
"What do you think, Layla?" Bloom asked Layla who didn't replied back to her for a moment. "Layla?"
Layla found one of the pixies, a young one around Piff's age, playing with the crystals and didn't want to leave her behind. "Stella's right, let's keep going." Gently grabs the pixie to keep going."
Stella reached the exit a cave and have made back to Downland. "Guys, this is it.
"This is Downland?" Bloom asked for the first time seeing an underground city.
Something caught Stella's attention and noticed the city looks a little different until she figured out what it was. "That's funny, last time I arrived on the other side of town. Oh well, at least we're here."
"So if he's in this palace it shouldn't be hard to find-" Taren got cut off when he heard the pixie named Lockette made a startled cry. "What's up?"
"Watch out, someone's coming." Sky told them when he spotted movement from the streets.
Lockette nodded to confirm his statement. "Let's hide."
Everyone took the rocks for cover to hide from the passing Trog soldier who was on patrol. The pixies peaked out to see him leaving, even Mushu who was on top of Chatta to get a look with Gomamon and Agumon from the bottom.
"What unhealthy looking skin." Tune stated as it was all she thought about.
"Forget his skin condition, did you not see his club?" Mushu asked.
Bloom was able to see him at a distance and sighed in relief. "Phew, he's gone. Alright, let's go find Brandon, but stay out of sight."
They snuck through the caves to remain undetected, Mushu was able to use his size to slip through the small gaps and give them the heads up. "All clear guys."
Layla glanced over to the pixies to follow them. "Come on." Following her advice and fle to join them, however, the pixies were a little too high and could be spotted by anyone which concerned the princess. "Get down!" She scolded but not to raise her voice too loud for anyone to hear.
The pixies yelped and drop lower to the ground to continue flying. They continued onwards, moving and sneaking around to find a guard by the corner of the building they were hiding.
Sky noticed he had a club like the other and thought it would not be a good idea to start a fight when there could be more of them in the city. "We'll never get by. We need a distraction."
"Mushu?" Taren asked the small dragon.
Mushu didn't seem to agree with his plan of using him for it. "If I had something to scare him off, maybe. But I don't do any biting, not where he's been. He could squash me like a bug that club! Also we need something else with less witnesses. Something unexpected that he would not see coming."
"Think he's right, and don't think we could use our Titans for this." Sky stated which leaves the Titans out.
Layla looked around and found a rock that could be a good use for his plan. She picks it up and holds it out for Sky. "Is this what you want?" hands Sky a rock and threw it behind the guard. It worked when the guard took noticed of the sound, thinking there was someone there and the direction.
Wasting no time while the guard was distracted, everyone ran through the street, but Stella accidentally tripped on her feet.
"Stella." Bloom whispered and Taren stopped to help pick her up.
Sky found a door open which could be used for them to hide in. "Hurry, everyone inside. Now!" He whispered and gestured them all to get in. The Digimon and Layla run inside first and then the pixies before Bloom and Taren carried Stella inside before the guard would noticed them. Shutting the door and hid themselves from any windows that are open.
Sky listened to the sound of large steps coming closer to them and turned to the others. "Not a sound." He whispered, but Stella fell, groaning in pain.
Bloom looked concerned and worried for Stella. "Stella, what's wrong?"
The blonde looked exhausted and tired out, looks to Bloom to respond and felt the same thing when she came to this place. "I'm starting to get those dizzy spells again."
Sky quietly shushes them to remain silent as he heared footsteps from outside. Feeling they could be in for a fight, Sky pulls out one of his sabers and Taren lifting his hand to summon a keyblade any moment. Layla gestures for them to stop when a shadow under the door passes and the footsteps recede. This could imply that the guard was either unaware of their pressence or didn't care and continued his patrol. Feeling relieved and relaxed but then suddenly a noise came from outside.
Both Sky and Taren backed up and brought out their weapons, Agumon stood by and ready for action. Bloom remained close to Stella to keep her protected when the door opened, only to their surprise was nothing but a small cat walks in.
Everyone was relieved and assumed to be a guard or a passing citizen of Downland, now able to relax with no trouble from a cat.
"We're safe." Bloom sighed in relief.
Mushu looked at the cat. "Man, I thought it be that guard, oh well, coast is clear!"
The pixies look out from where they were hiding under pots and cookware when they heard from Mushu that it was save to come out.
Decided to leave the house before anyone who lives there realises they have uninvited guests and start sneaking through the streets again. Layla was on the look out and found no sign of anyone or the guards, giving the others the heads up and continue. "Okay, the coast is clear."
They ran through the streets with the pixies flying behind still wearing the cookware. However, the pixies made a wrong turn and cut off from the group, inadvertantly flying towards a pair of female Trogs.
"Work, work, and work some more. That's all we ever do." A female Trog complained with her companion sitting on a bench.
"Nothing ever happens around here." The other complained until the first one noticed the flying pots passing them.
"Hey, look! There goes some flying pots!"
The second female didn't seem interested. "Pots and pans, that's all you ever talk about."
But she noticed something about the pots and apears to recognise them. "I think those are your pots."
Hearing this and shocked to recognise them were indeed her's. "Oh dear."
"After them!"
"Thieves! Thieves! Someone is stealing my pots!" Cries out and gave away the pixies' cover.
Chatta realised they were in trouble and took the Trog's pots by mistake. "Every pixies for herself!"
"Get them!"
The pixies scatter, leaving behind their pots except Glim who is stuck in her can. One of the Trogs spotted them and called out the others. "There they are!"
Making an effort to fly and escape, Chatta looked around and noticed Amore was missing. "Where's Amore?"
"I have no idea. I've totally lost her." Lockette said. "Maybe she's with Layla?"
Chatta knew they had to find the others but had to get rid of their purseurs first. "Come on, let's catch up to the others."
"To freedom!" The bumble bee themed pixie, Zin proclaimed. "Come on, let's move!" Changing her face with war make up and let out a battle cry.
The pixies continue on, unaware of one fo them still in a tin but was a little behind. Lockette spotted a blocked path and warned the others. "Watch out, the road's blocked."
"Road?" Zing changed her goggles to a silver glasses. "Where we're gonna go, we don't need roads!" Zing takes the lead and guided the pixies over the wall.
Digit tries to look out for their friends and successfully found Layla. "There they are."
Layla thought they had lost the pixies until she found them, waving to them and smiles in joy to see them not hurt. "The pixies."
The pixies flew towards them, Glim accidenetally hits a wall and falls to the ground, Tun and Lockette found the young pixie kicking to climb out and came to help her..
"There you go." Tune pushed the can to the side for the young pixie to climb out.
"Hey, little guy, what happened to you?" Sky came over to help, holds out the can and gently shakes it gently so Glim slides out.
Chatta smiles for his help when she spotted a large guard snuck up behind him. "Sky! Watch out!"
The guard was ready to club Sky over the head when suddenly Agumon leaps in the air and opens his jaws. "Pepper Breath!" Shoots out a fireball at the startled guard, while he jumped back to avoid catching himself on fire, he was suddenly blasted by a gust of wind. The pixies cheered for them and also Agumon for his help.
Taren summoned his keyblade and was able to save Sky in time. "You okay, Sky?"
The guard landed on the barrels and about to get up when suddenly his club acted on its own and started hitting him in the face until he was knocked out. Taren looked around to find Bloom was behind him after she casted a spell. "Sorry but didn't appreciate bullies."
Sky looked up and smiles at them to give his thanks. "Good timing." However, more trouble came along when they found Stella and Layla being chased by more of the city guards.
"Bloom, there are more over here. Run!" Layal cried out to them and continued to run with Taren, Bloom, Sky, and Agumon joining them with the pixies flying with them.
"Faster! They're gaining on us!" Stella cried out.
Taren looked at them behind and realised someone was missing. "Wait, where's Amore and Mushu?"
"Oh, man! I can't believe I got myself seperated from the team! I gotta find them or I could be stuck here!" Mushu got himself seperated from the others when they got chased by the guards, sneaking past bystanders and guards. He had to find a way to get back to them. Suddenly he spotted a flying pixie and recognised her from earlier. "Hey, pixie girl! Over here! Hey!" Waving his clawed hand out to her and climbed up the wall to get her attention.
Amore heard someone and spotted the dragon who was with them. "What are you doing here? Aren't you with the others?"
"I should be asking you that? Where have you been, girl?" Mushu asked her. "Anyway, we got some bit of trouble, our friends are being chased and the city is filled with guards. I have no idea where they could be!"
"But I don't know where they could be either." Amore said, suddenly she noticed a sad Trog sitting by the corner, sobbing and drinking alone. She decided to go and see to what was wrong with him.
"What are you doing?" Mushu questioned and followed her.
"To see what's wrong with him." Amore said and flew towards the crying Trog.
Sponsus never felt so much pain in his life and felt for sure the princess would fall in love with him as it was said in the crystals. She mean everything to him, the moment he laid eyes on her and many told him he was out of his league with someoen of royalty. Now that she had chosen someone else to be her husband, Sponsus could only down his sorrows with drinks and cry in tears.
"Oh. And who are you?" He looked to see the tiny pixie and too sad to know what she was doing here.
"The saddest Trog ever!" Cries once more and broke down in tears.
"Don't drink grapefruit juice on an empty stomach, you'll get acid reflux." Amore told him.
Mushu picked one up and had a taste to know it was differen't to the fruit he knows. "Whatever it is, it ait' grapefruit. Besides, we got more important things to worr-"
"My love!" He contineud to cry and drink his sorrows down before letting out a belch.
Catching on to what was wrong so Amore decided to help as she was the Pixie of Love. "Love? Well, love should be a happy thing, not a sad one."
"It was even written in the crystals that we would be married."
"Crystals?" Amore asked and uncertain what he was talking about.
Mushu now uderstood and sighed. "Oh boy, let me guess, a girl dumped ya?"
"Worse! She doesn't love me!" Sponsus cried out
"She who?" Amore asked while Mushu looked around to find where the others could be.
"The princess." Sponsus answered and caught both their attention.
"Say what?" Mushu spun around when he heard him. "Princess?"
"Oh!" Amore now realised who he meant, both looked at each other when Mushu came to whisper in her ear for something and nodded. "Great idea!" Hey! I've got just the thing for you." Pulls a flower out of her hair and it grows bigger using her magic.
"There you go." Sponsus takes the flower smells it. "Doesn't it smell nice?
"Either that or we could of gone with plan B." Mushu said.
"And that is?" Amore asked the dragon.
"Get the guys, dress up as bandits to break into the wedding and demand their bud back or kidnap the princess!" Mushu proclaimed, causing Amore to cross her arms of such a silly idea. "What? It would have worked for romantic rescue and also a friend of mine who does this sort of thing." But hoping this idea works or they be trouble. "Now then, lover boy. If you want your princess, you better take us to the palace fast!"
With the wedding ever so closer, Brandon glancers through the window and feels the king he sent a letter to never read it or ignored by the princess.
"One hundred seven. Hundred seven."
He glances to see a yellow parrot-like bird sqawking some numbers he didn't understand and thought it was funny to get some attention. "Aren't you cute? You wouldn't be so chipper if you knew what I was about to go through."
"One hundred seven."
"I didn't get a lawyer, didn't even get a blood test." Brandon said and more annoyed, decided to let out what he thinks of this ceremony. "I can't be sentenced to a marriage like this. But you don't understand that, do you?"
"One hundred seven."
Brandon had no idea why the bird kept repeating the number and paid no attention to what he was saying. "I've gotta find a way to escape from here, but this place is swarming with guards."
"Hundred."
He hears the doors unlocked and opened by one of the guards. "Mr Brandon, I bring you good news."
"Oh, great, they must have read my letter." Brandon thought to himself and could leave.
"You will be led to the altar by Queen Foeda." Sighs and slumps with no chances at all. "Presenting Her Highness!"
Believing to be the queen as announced and likely his future Mother-in-law, however he felt the ground shaking by each step. They grew louder and closer, growing ever so scared that this queen must be a giant until she made herself present in the room and backs up in fear. She was big and obese, had some of Amentia's traits such as her dark purple hair and navy blue eyes.
The queen seems very excited and examined the specialist who would be made to marry her daughter. "Oh! My daughter was right, I like you! You're not a trog, but you're a very good looking son-in-law." Let out a chuckle and patted him on the back, a little too strong to noted when he fell to the floor by her strength. "So, ready for the one hundred and seven steps?"
Tries to ge his bearing straight and heard her said the same number as the bird. "One hundred and what?"
"Seven." The bird answered and started to make sense to him.
"After you leave this room there are one hundred and seven steps to the altar. One for each of the qualities of a good husband." The queen explained upon the tradition of their wedding ceremonies. "Well, why so glum? Cheer up, after all, marriage is forever." Grabs him by the arm and begins the steps towards the ceremony.
The brunette did not seem very eager about this. "But- but- I-"
"Get in gear, honey." She sand and pulls him out of the room.
"One hundred seven." The bird sqawked after they left.
Mushu and Amore were leading Sponsus through the streets, they had to keep him sober and focus for that matter.
"This plan better work, or the blonde will have someone to be angry at." He only saw her mad before and hate to see what happens if they don't.
"Trust me, it will." Amore assures him.
Sponsus tries to keep up with them and held the bottles. "Where are we going? I wanna see her. I wasn't even invited to the wedding. Oh, wait up. Wait!"
Amore found something to solve their answers and shushes the male trog. "Shhh, quiet. Over here." Leads them to an open room and find two servant girls preparing a bouquet. "Look."
"Do you think the Princess will like her bouquet?"
"There's not a stem out of place."
This gave Amore an idea.
"7. 8. 9.. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14"
Counting in his head to keep track when they pass through a series of doors.
Brandon hears a voice coming from behind the doors they are passing.*
"Let me out, let me out, help!"
"Is anyone there?"
Help!"
"17. 18."
More voices join in, calling for help and be released, only for Foeda to ignore them as if it didn't concern to her. "Their turn is coming. They're to be married to ladies of the court." She told him as if they were also grooms either forced into marriages or wanted to get out of it.
Outside the palace, Amentia, all prepared for the wedding and stood by her father, short, chubby like the queen, navy hair and hazelnut eyes. He has a beard, which is also navy blue.
"Ladies and gentlemen, Princess Amentia and King Enervus!"
As the announcer proclaimed, Amentia was being escorted down the aisle by her father while inside the palace, Foeda leads Brandon down the stairs.*
Brandon realised he was doomed and could be spending the rest of his life never to see his friends and Stella again, nor will he ever leave this place. "This is it, I'm doomed, I'll never see the sun again."
In the other part of the city, Taren, Layla, Stella, Bloom, Sky, the Digimon and the pixies were still running from the guards.
"They're still gaining on us!" Taren yelled out.
"Keep moving!" Stella replied and continued running.
"Why don't we just fight them off?" Bloom thought it would be a chance to fight them, Taren was stronger than the rest of them and she was able to use her magic again.
"No time, Brandon's about to get married. Keep running!" Stella told her and also they had other problems of keeping the guards from catching them.
The city guards could not catch up to them as the intruders were too fast for them. "They're too fast, quick call Torito, he should be nearby."
The other guard pulls out a whistle whistle.
Sky looked to notice they stopped. "Huh? What was that?"
Layla had no time to answer, nor think of what they were up to but to escape. "Run!"
Agumon heard something from his ears. "Did you hear that?"
Taren did not know why but he also heard it, it was loud, and very big.
Up ahead, were a series of rumblings, crashes, clouds of dust eropted from the ground and emerging from the surgace blocking their path was a giant worm with strong carapace armor and a pair of pincers around the mandibles.
The group stopped and realised they were trapped, but its arrival caused the rocks from above to fall. Taren saw one coming down above Bloom and feard for her life. "Bloom!" Throwing himself towards the startled fairy who looked up and cried out until she was pushed aside, they were able to avoid the impact but now had the guards coming from behind them.
"We're trapped!" Stella cried out and thought it could not get any worse.
Agumon saw his partner almost hurt and the worm being a threat, he decided to make a stand and charged at the guards since the worm wasn't going to move. "Pepper breath!" Unleashed a large fireball, only to stall them when they stopped and aimed at the Digimon. Agumon runs and tries to tackle them but received a hit of their spears and thrown across.
"Agumon!" Taren cried out for his partner and gets up, only to be surrounded by the guards and saw his girlfriend grabbed by the arm. "Don't you touch her!" Summons his keyblade and lashed out, bashing him across the face with the blunt side of keyblade.
The others were restrained and had trouble with the Keyblade Wielder, Agumon gets up and refused to stand down. He fires another Pepper Breath at the guards, refusing to be limited to his strength.
"Agumon!" Taren yelled out to his partner as he swipes his keyblade across to cut the tip of the spear and threw a roundhouse kick to the Trog's face. "Don't give up yet, we're not going down easy! Show them what your made off for being a partner!"
Agumon took the words of his partner with pride and nodded, unaware of his body beginning to glow as the bond between them grew and the Digiive glowing orange. Let out a roar, much louder than his usual one and now coated in fiery orange that stopped everyone from what they were doing and seeing what was happening to Agumon.
Bloom felt a strong power flowing from the digimon and the connection with Taren that must have triggered something.
"What's happening?" Stella gasped in awe.
Layla recognised that power and new for certain it meant one thing. "Agumon… is digivolving." This is just like how she first felt when Gomamon became Ikkakumon for the first time.
Agumon started to grow, much larger in size and swatted his now large claw at the Trogs. The worm named Torito sensed danger and started backing out. "Agumon, digivolve to…" Growing ever so large, he was now more of a Tyrannosaurus Rex with the cranial skin hardened and covered in a rhinoceros beetle-like shell, his eyes changed from green to red, blue stripes all over his body with sharper claws and talons. "Greym on!"
Greymon
Champion Level
Vaccine Type
Special Attacks: Nova Blast, Great Horns Attack, Fire Wall
Learning about this new level from his digivice, Taren could only look in awe and amaze that this was his digimon that took to the next level and more powerful now. Greymon let out a loud beastial roar and swatted his tail at the guards who were caught by surprise of the monster and now thrown across the street, scaring away those that still stood to flee than fight Greymon. With them dealt with, Greymon turned his attention towards the Torito worm and decided to take care of the last problem. Flames burst within his jaws, arching his head and unleash a powerful attack.
"NOVA BLAST!" Much like the pepper breath, only more powerful than before. The worm barely dodged it and only to feel the effects of the explosion, scorched only on the carapace and dared not confront the new foe when it sensed great danger from the Digimon and crawls away in retreat.
"The giant worm's leaving!" Bloom said.
"Alright! Way to go buddy!" Sky cheered.
Taren grins and couldn't be happier. "You were awesome, those guys had no idea who they were messing with, Agumon!"
"Greymon now." Greymon responded with a deeper voice, kneels down before them.
"Thank you so much for the help, Greymon." Bloom smiles and hugs him by the horn. "I think now we can get to the palace much easier."
"You heard her, get us to the palace and maybe scare the princess to free Brandon!" Stella yelled and can picture the princess in fear of Greymon and begging the grinning Stella to spare her life and with Brandon back in her arms.
Taren mentally groans and not wanting to know what she was thinking. "Alright, we better get going while we have time. Hop on." Climbs on top of greymon's armored head with Bloom eagerly follows to wrap her arms around his waist.
"What was that?" The queen heard a loud echoeing roar and no idea where it came from.
Enervus did not seem concerned about it and believe his guards would handle it. "Nothing we should worry about, let's just get this over with."
Brandon heard it as well and not sure what it was, too bad it only stalled the wedding a little with many guards to block his escape routes.
The priest who was in charge of the ceremony clears his throat to procede with the wedding. "Dearly beloved, the moment has come to bless this union. If anybody opposes this marriage please address King Enervus. The groom has weighed the one hundred and seven virtues, it is now time for the sacred gifts to be offered to the bride."
'Where are you guys?' Brandon became anxious ot know where they were with time running out. But now hears a distant explosiong and another roar which startled everyone once more.
"Yes!"
"Some enthusiasm is expected, but don't forget your manners, young man."
'That explosion was no accident, they're here!' Brandon mentally thought and knew it had to be them.
"The groom has clearly expressed his consent." The priest proclaimed in believe of seeing Brandon's eagered expression.
"But I- I-"
Once again he was cut off as the priest carried on and turned to the princess. "And now we will hear from the Princess. Amentia, do you take Squire Brandon as your husband?"
"Yes, I do!" It was an obvious answer from Amentia who was very eager to marry him.
Brandon was sweating ever more and wished for them to be hear now. 'Hurry up, you guys.'
"Now, the two sacred gifts for Princess Amentia: the flowers of fertility and the wedding ring."
A group of women from the palace brought the gifts down the aisle.
Mushu snuck his way through and found the wedding, he spotted one who was a human and had to be the guy they were looking for. "Man, that has to be him. There can't be any more humans around here, and he looks like he could break down any minute."
He can see by the nervous and scared look on the brunette's face as he was about to be married to the princess. "Now I need to know where the others are, and can't be helped when there's a giant city and a dino running loose." Then suddenly stopped and realised what he just said. "A dinosaur?" He turned and saw a large orange replite running straight towards the palace and there on its head and shoulders were Taren and his friends. "Its them! But where did they get a big lizard to be a cab driver?
Stella was on top of Greymon's head and clutches to his horn. " Step on it! We have to get there! Brandon!"
Brandon knew that voice anywhere and could not be any happier to hear it again. "STELLA!"
"What's going on here?" King Enervus demanded and now hears the large footsteps rumbling getting louder and louder. Until everyone saw Greymon and almost caused a panic by his appearance.
'This is their plan?!' Brandon had no idea how they got a mosnter like that and felt his jaw dropped. If this was Stella's idea, it has to be the craziest scheme she ever came up with to rescue him. "Uh, no need to panic! They're... my relatives and guards!" Brandon quickly spoke out.
Foeda seems to buy it easily and calmed down."Oh! Really? In that case they can watch, but we'll keep an eye on them, one can never trust in-laws."
Enervus find their stunt for almost ruining the ceremony. "Oh, all this commotion for nothing. Proceed."
"Crap! They've started it!" Taren realised they were too late and had little time to spare.
"Brandon! No!" Stella cried out and makes an attempt to jump off Greymon to run at him.
"These rings represent the seal of love between bride and groom." The priest announced and offers them a pair of rings as part of their marriage. "But first, the fertility blessing.
"Stella, please. Please, forgive me." Brandon mumbled and figures she may not make it in time.
"With this gift may you be blessed with many children.
Amentia is handed the flowers and admires them. "They're perfect."
Mushu was able to see Stella and the flowers which was working. "Hey! Wait up!" Mushu jumps on her shoudler. "Wait, look she's smelling the flowers."
"What? What is that got to do with it?" Stella had no time to ask where he's been until she saw something unexpected.
Amentia smiles and takes a wiff of the flowers, unaware of one of them planted by Amore. "Gorgeous, I bet they smell divine."
"That's it, time to crash this wedding. Greymon-" But before they could do anything, they saw the princess dropped the bouquet, almost shocked as everyone not expected to see this coming.
"Your Highness? Princess? What's wrong?" The priest thought if something was to be a concerned if she was not well.
However, Amentia brought her hands together and wore a warm and loving smile. "It's as if the love in my heart multiplied a million times. It's overwhelming. My love. Where's my love?"
Uncertain what had gotten into the princess, thinking she was not herself. "What's wrong with you, girl? Is this a joke?" Her mother called out to her and pointed at Brandon. "Your fiance's right there."
"Him?" Whatever love and admiration, and obsession Amentia had for Brandon suddenly vanished. Now she looked digust of why she wanted to marry him in the first place. "Why just look at him, how could I love such an ugly creature?"
For Brandon, this would be a compliment and now fully relieved she did not want to marry him anymore.
Amore who is watching saw this as her moment with Sponsus beside her, giving him encouragement to make his move. "Come on, don't be shy, she's gotta see you right now."
"My husband, where's my husband?" Amentia cried out
"Yoh, your highness!" Mushu called out to her. "Your real groom is right here! Will the real groom please stand!"
"Mushu?" Taren had wondered where he was and curious of what's been going on.
"Princess! Princess!" Sponsus cried out and jumped out of the crowd for her to see him.
"Sponsus! My love!" Swelled with joy and happiness, Amentia started running towards him, ignoring the fact that she was rushing right at the servants. They tried to get out of the way, but she was too fast and threw them in every direction. The two start to run towards each other's arms.
"Darling!"
"Princess!"
Here I am!
"Princess!"
"Yes, yes, love prevails." Amore cheered to see them happy for each other.
"Sponsus!"
"Amentia!"
The pair embraced each other, or Amentia tackled Sponsus to the ground and smothered him with her kisses while the crowd cheers for them.
"I love this trog!"
Taren had no idea what just happened when the princess suddenly turned her attention to a random stranger and ditched Brandon. Scratched his head to figure it out. "Can someone explain what just happened?"
"I have no idea." Bloom was in the same boat as he was, but had to admit this was somewhat romantic even if the princess tried to steal Brandon from Stella.
"Well, well." So far the queen did not seem to mind it and saw how happy her daughter is with the Trog male. Walks towards the priest to discuss a change of plan for the new groom.
"This is a marriage ceremony, not a sporting event." The priest found their behaviours disapproving and should respect the traditions when the bride should have made up her mind over who to marry.
"Hey, lighten up, haven't you ever been in love?" Foeda laughed and tried to get him to be in a better mood by giving him a pat on the back, only to send him falling to the ground by her surprising strength.
Sponsus who was covered in kisses by his now lover accepted the cheers and have the princess of his dreams. Brandon was relieved and finally out of the whole mess.
"Hey Brandon, you look great! You were born to wear a wedding suit." Amore flew over to him to give a compliment.
However, Brandon became irritated of thinking about weddings didn't take it well for what he's been through. "Don't ever say that! Not even as a joke. And hey, who are you?"
"I'm Amore, the pixie of love." Amore smiles to introduce herself to Brandon.
Mushu reunited with the others and shocked to see Greymon. "Boy have you guys been busy, where'd you find this big guy?"
Taren chuckled and patted on Greymon's leg. "Mushu, this is Agumon, only now as Greymon."
Greymon started to glow and shrunk, reverting back to his rookie-level, much to the shock of the dragon to have witness this. "You mean, that was him?!"
"Yep! I digivolved!" Agumon proclaimed.
"You should have seen him! He was like ROARR! Took on a giant worm and a bunch of guards who went all scared and ran for their lives!" Chatta described it to him and made some fighting sounds.
"I knew he had it in him!" Mushu nods his head and had confidence in the Digimon.
"And did a great job coming to our rescue." Bloom patted his head. "And for that, me and Flora will make you a nice pizza and maybe some egg rolls."
Hearing this as a chance to try out new foods and already felt his stomach growl with drool running down from his jaws. "Mmm, yummy!"
With their mission now over, Timmy and Riven were able to pick them pu and take back to Alfea. They hear about what happened in the caves, especially when Brandon almost got married, much to Riven's amusement. Taren thanked Mushu for his help with Amore send him back to the Land of Dragons, promising to bring him along with other adventures next time if needed for his skills or help.
Brandon and Stella were just happy to be together again and each other's arms with Amore smiling at the couple.
"All's well that ends well. All thanks to you, Amore." Chatta said with Amore smiles to accept her compliment. Then turned her attention to Taren and Bloom for questions. "So gimme a scoop, you actually date two girls and all in a relationship? What's she like? And how many of those keyblades are out there? Will we see any more Digimon and adventures? Are you popular with the girls?"
"Uhh.." Taren was taken by surprise of the pixie's sudden burst of questions and they had no idea how answer so many questions.
Bloom decided to step in and respond to Chatta. "I think maybe you would have to wait when we get back to Alfea. I promise we'll answer all your questions."
Riven could not help but wonder what was with the bottles they brought back with them. "Hey, Brandon, what's with the bottles of juice?"
"A gift from Sponsus. He felt pretty bad about stealing my bride and got me into this mess. Said to be the best in Downland." The squire told him and accepted the gift
Having been told about what the princess was like, Riven did not know how to feel for the Trog. "I feel sorry for him. He'll never survive in the clutches of that monster."
Back at the Downland palace, Sponsus and Amentia were relaxing together in a hot spring. And so far, they were having the time of their lives together and Sponsus couldn't be any happier to be with her.
"This is paradise!"
Darkar's Fortress
Darkar went around to take some thought of his plans, with the Trix taking time to recover from their battle and although they did some efforts against the fairies and the specialist, but the keyblade bearer and those creatures with them were able to handle the Trix even with the Gloomix he gave them.
If the Keyblades still exist, they could interfere with his plans to search for the Codex. "I must find a way to rid myself of those keyblades. Perhaps the Trix are not enough for my plans."
It be more difficult to find the Pixie Village and the whereabouts of the Codex to use the pixies he captured.
"Tsk. Tsk. And to think the great Darkar himself has fallen so low to use kiddies to do the dirty work."
Darkar heard a snickering voice and growls by the insult that made it sound like he was weak. "Who dares speak that way to the Shadow Pheonix?! Answer me or taste my wrath!"
"Have you forgotten? I suppose its been so long, let me give you a hint." A loud chuckle and the taunting voice echoed throughout the throne room, the Prince of Darkness stops and sensed a familiar aura until his eyes caught sight of a flash of light and stood by the door with arms folded was Kefka.
"You! It can't be!" Darkar recognised the jester, unable to believe it was him.
Kefka smiles and let out a chuckle and walks up to Darkar. "That's right, Darkie. Kefka Palazzo, back from the grave. And you're the same bag of bones I saw, or many lost more weight."
The two approach each other until they stopped at a few feet, their eyes locked into one another to prepare for which of them makes the next move. "How are you heard, last time I heard you were defeated in the great war."
"The Gestahlian Empire? Eh, that's ancient history." Kefka waved his right hand as if it was no concern to him but realised what he meant. "Oh, you mean the other? Let's just say I was able to make it back for the grand return. And to find out your back would make this a lot of fun! Just like the old days between two pals."
While Kefka smiles and shot out his hands to receive a compliment, Darkar did not seem satisfied. "We are not allies."
The mage acted hurt and turned to him. "Oh, Darkie! I'm crushed! How could you forget the times we had, although I remember those old hags very well, would have expected them to kick the bucket by now." Gives a wide smile and danced around to surprise the confused Darkar. "But if you think I came here to ruin your little project, it's quite the opposite! I want in."
Darkar thought he misheard and peaked his curiosity. "Are you suggesting an alliance?"
"So there is a brain in there!" Kefka applauds. "With those keybrats, they're much more powerful than those Winx girls, so I got something for those witches you hired to even the score, and I have ideas to keep the others busy for my amusement. What do you say?"
Taking the moment to think of his offer, perhaps it would be ideal to have a powerful ally. But on the other hand, he is aware that Kefka is a master schemer and never know what he will do next.
"If you work alongside the Trix, you speak nothing of my plans?"
"No where's the fun in that? Like I would give spoil a special surprise! You have my word that no secret will come out of these lips." Making a gesture of him closing his lips and throw away an imaginary key with a smile on his face.
Seems to be satisfied and comes to accept his offer. "Very well, then I will accept it for now."
"Splendid! I know we'll have so much fun! But keep this between us for now, I want to see the looks on their faces that we're now partners." Kefka gave out a chuckle and floated around in the air. "Oh, and maybe to make it fair. I like to ask a few things to collect for my end of the bargain."
Conjures a scroll and handed to Darkar, who catches it and unfolds to read it. He looks at the clown and thought if he was serious. "These are what you require?"
Kefka grins at his new ally to show he was indeed serious after he had a look at the basic things he wanted, let out a soft chuckle and rubbing his hands together. "You know me, Darkar. The plans I have in for them would shake the cores of many worlds and this is just the icing on the cake."
Yen Sid's Tower
Within the floating isle, the old and wise keyblade master was reading a book from his studies when he noticed his crystal ball glowing, drawing his attention from his research. "Hmm, curious." Reached out his hands to the orb and find out what it is that it was trying to show him.
The first one was a black phoenix with crimson flames and a malevolent aura radiating from it. Then came a figure with a powerful dark magic surrounding it and unable to identify the potential foe. This indeed troubled him to know what these mean.
Then the crystal ball changed the image, presenting five colours; red, light, blue, green, and purple/black.
Whatever these signs were, Yen Sid could sense these were troubling times and must summon all the available keyblade bearers. He would have to contact the head teachers to share this important notice as it be best to prepare themselves.
Well that's the end of the pixie rescue mission, we now see Agumon digivolved into Greymon and helped his friends. I made some bit of changes tot he episode and made some rethinks of how it happened. I was gonna make it seem like Taren got seperated from the groun and came to their rescue or snuck in to help Brandon. So went with Mushu to help one of them out.
There are some worlds I have in mind for the adventures and some ideas for the next chapter as while the Winx bond with the Pixies, something unepected will happen. Darkar and Kefka meet, making an alliance to help one another which can onyl meen trouble for heroes when Yen Sid found something troubling and will need to call for everyone's attention.
Will work out new ideas for their keyblade abilities and maybe something new for the Winx for an idea I have in mind for new powers and abilities. any you have for suggestions send them over and can discuss ideas. Watching the Digimon 2020 series for ideas on the Digimon, and new shows and movies included while keeping an eye out for something to make the show fun. Not to worry, some elements on Decendant I will add and make differences as that will happen. But wonder how the keyblade heroes will react for Ben's decision?
Anyway, hope you enjoyed it and give some constructed criticsm. any mistakes I've made let me know, I do know there are some spelling and grammer mistakes and sometimes fights are my weakness so need some help on that. I sometimes miss the obvious things and need some extra hand would be nice.
By for now and enjoy the summer everyone!