"I cannot believe this," Wayne said. "I cannot believe that these parks are now apparently in danger once again!"
Wayne Kresky was the elderly mentor of the Kingdom Keepers. He had trained them in the beginning to fight the Overtakers.
He knew Walt Disney personally, and regrettably he had died in a battle against the Overtakers in their final battle in Disneyland.
But after traveling back in time to stop the Overtakers' creation, he was resurrected, along with a friend of Finn's who had died at the hands of the Overtakers too.
But since he was dead during their adventures in Dream Kingdom, they had to update him on everything that had happened in both the past and now the present.
Everyone had immediately come to Magic Kingdom after leaving Typhoon Lagoon, not caring they were still in wet bathing suits. They had to warn Wayne about this, so they were all gathered in Esther's Keep.
Amanda was lying on Finn's lap, panting heavily. She was still exhausted from her powerful blast on Ocho, but slowly recovering.
"Please Wayne," Finn said. "Tell me you have some kind of little bit of knowledge on anything animated that isn't Disney?"
"No not really," said Wayne. "Walt wanted nothing to do with things like Don Bluth or Dreamworks or anything that wasn't Disney. I bet he would be mad today if he found out his company actually bought half of those things."
"Even though the company bought them, they're still non-Disney," said Philby.
"But there has to be something we can do to just end this quickly," said Maybeck. "We're in Disney after all. Which has more powerful magic than any of those other companies."
"So why don't we just get Mickey?" asked Charlene. "He'll make short work of everyone."
"Sadly, I already tried that," said Wayne. "I heard about the trouble at the park, but didn't know the full extent of it until you told me. But Mickey isn't here, and I can't get ahold of him."
"What do you mean?" asked Finn.
"Mickey left Disney World about a week ago and brought all the characters from every park with him for a big celebration in Disneyland Paris," said Wayne. "I have been unable to get ahold of him and are unable to magically bring him back to the parks for some reason."
"Well, that's not good," Jess said.
"I'm afraid if these DK Overtakers are really planning something evil and big, we are all on our own," said Wayne.
"Well first we need to find out what they truly want," said Maybeck.
"Why do I have a gut feeling that they're not trying to make another Nightmare Kingdom?" asked Philby.
"They can't even do that," said Willa. "Not without their masters of nightmares, whom are both dead."
Finn managed to give a little smile. It was because of him that they were dead.
"Finn...?" Amanda weakly groaned.
"Hey baby," Finn said. "Just rest right now."
"No..." she groaned. "I want...to join..."
But she passed back out in Finn's arms.
"Man, she is drained," said Charlene. "I've never seen her so weak after using her powers like that."
"She's getting older," said Jess. "Fairlie abilities are much stronger when one is a younger age. Especially if you use them to that extent."
"We should avoid having her do that again," said Philby. "But anyway, we need to..."
Suddenly there was a knock at the door. Everyone stared.
"Is that Brad?" Finn asked.
"Or a cast member?" asked Maybeck. "Because not many people are supposed to know how to get here."
Wayne stood up and approached the door, and when he opened it, everyone screamed.
A cold, lifeless, and grey-colored corpse fell out and hit the ground face first.
Willa and Charlene accidentally vomited on the ground while Jess almost fainted. The boys however were just horrified, and Finn did everything he could to keep Amanda from trying to look.
Wayne horrifically looked at the body.
"This...is this...the work of them!?" he exclaimed.
"I'm afraid so," said Philby. "The DKOs are cold-hearted and way more ruthless and eviler than the Disney ones. They have no qualm or problem killing innocent people!"
Wayne slowly bent down and rolled the body over onto its back. It was a cast member dressed like a dapper dan.
Only the boys looked. Finn got off the couch just as Amanda was slowly starting to regain enough energy to sit up, but the girls almost forced her not to look.
The man had an expression of horror and agony frozen on his face. His body felt cold and almost stone-like.
"What Overtaker could've done this?" Maybeck asked frightfully.
"Rasputin maybe?" asked Finn. "Or Grendel's Mother? Maybe even Maliss himself."
"That is if any of those ones are even here or still around," said Charlene, who was using her own beach towel to clean up hers and Willa's vomit, not caring about the filthy mess.
Philby then noticed something. It looked like an X shape cut into the shirt on the stomach. He carefully and fearfully reached over and opened up the shirt and the four men saw two not even deep slashes in the shape of an X across the man's chest.
"Slash marks?" asked Finn. "From a sword?"
"No this isn't a sword," said Wayne. "Look at how wavy these are in the middles. Sword slashes are perfect straight. This looks almost like a hook of some sorts."
"Okay, but do I want to know why those slashes are stitched closed?" asked Maybeck.
The boys realized that they were closed up with stitches, as if they were concealing something.
They all looked at one another, specifically Finn, Philby, and Maybeck.
"Oh god please no," Maybeck said.
"Don't tell me we have to..." Finn said.
"I'm afraid so," said Wayne.
"I'll do it guys," said Philby. "I am the one taking medical classes after all. And I've dissected animals before."
"Yeah, but not a person!" Finn exclaimed.
"I can handle it you wimp," Philby said.
"I don't think it's right to call him a wimp for something like this!" Jess yelled.
Wayne had just come back with a pair of medical gloves and a scalpel. Philby put them on and Finn and Maybeck stepped back.
Philby then proceeded to cut open the stitches and open up the corpse's stomach. Surprisingly, it didn't stink or smell.
"Something is definitely not right," said Wayne. "About the way this person died. It's as if something just touched him with two blades and he died instantly. He obviously died in these clothes, but there is no blood. And no agony or pain either. Just death."
Philby reached into the stomach, and then felt something that shouldn't belong.
He pulled it out, and held it up. It looked like a golden medallion with a red gemstone on it. And it too wasn't covered in blood.
It was like the blood inside the body had frozen or turned to stone like the corpse itself.
Philby took off the gloves and brought for everyone, including Amanda to see. Wayne covered the body with blankets before Amanda could see.
"This was inside him?" asked Charlene. "Just an amulet?"
"I don't think it's just jewelry," said Jess. "The Overtakers wouldn't just send us this if they did in fact kill this person."
Amanda took the amulet, having felt left out and wanted to help, and ended up pressing down on the red gemstone, which turned out to be a button.
The amulet began shaking and glowing and Amanda threw it on the ground and suddenly, a beam was shot from it and everyone was enveloped by it and transported into a holographic dark cavern-looking place.
"What the!?" Finn yelled. "Where are we!?"
"I don't think wherever we are, we're actually there," said Philby. "I think this is some hologram projector."
"Correct you are boy!" said a voice that gave everyone goosebumps. "I was wondering when you were going to accept our call."
"Oh god," said Finn. "We all know that voice.
Everyone looked and saw a dark figure standing in the shadows. And then it slowly walked out to reveal himself.
It was a man with dark black long hair, greyish or turquoise skin with a long two-sided pencil mustache and wore blue wizard robes and a purple cape and carried a brown wooden staff.
It was none other than Lord Maliss himself, the main villain from Happily Ever After, the still-apparent brother of the Evil Queen, and the leader of the DK Overtakers himself.
The Keepers stared in fear as he laughed out menacingly.
"I can tell by the horror and the shock on your faces that you did not expect this," he said. "I guess you thought you had seen the last of me."
"And all of us as well!" said a crooked Russian voice.
From out of the shadows as well came five other too familiar figures.
One was a tall, scary-looking man wearing a brown robe with a hood and black shoes which appeared to be high heeled, with purple attire beneath his robe, and he had black hair tied back into a ponytail and a black mustache that connected to his long black beard going below his waist, with rotting, pale green colored skin and skeletal long fingers and fingernails, and around his waist is a gold rope sash with three beads, that was attached to a golden jeweled vial of magical green liquid or energy. It was Rasputin, Lord Maliss' second-in-command and the main villain from Anastasia.
Next was a slender feminine humanoid with gray skin, yellow eyes with red irises, and long black hair continuously seen undulating as if having a life of its own or as if she is constantly underwater, and she wore a purple dress that had ever-fuming clouds pouring from underneath as if she had no legs. It was Eris, the very goddess of chaos and discord and the villain from Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas. She was one of the so-called, bad babes of the Overtakers, the main head female one.
The next Overtaker was also a female, but unlike the others, she was made out of clay, due to coming from a Claymation film.
They knew right away it was Melisha, or Mrs. Tweedy herself, the villain from Chicken Run. However, she was dressed very differently. She wore a plum purple long-sleeved dress with a swan-neck collar, short black gloves with small openings, black stockings, and form-fitting plum purple knee-length boots with small black heels and soles and she had long teased hair styled into a high bun held by a purple hairband as well as bright sky-blue eyeshadow and thicker eyelashes.
They realized she was wearing or now had donned her new appearance from the sequel, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget. Apparently, they were keeping up with the newer times and movies.
Next would've been Pitch Black, just like back in Dream Kingdom. But instead, out of the shadows came a large demon cat with red fur, yellow eyes and long maroon fingernails and wearing a navy-blue robe with a blue satin lining. Just like his fur color, his name was Red, and he was the evil sorcerer and demon from the movie All Dogs go to Heaven 2.
While Maliss, Rasputin, Eris, and Tweedy, and back when he was still alive Pitch Black, were considered the head honchos or the Big Heads, Red was one of the enforcers of the Overtakers or lower ranking or second in command heads. And he was chosen for that position due to how similar to Jafar he was.
And he wasn't the only was. So was the other figure who came out of the shadows. And one that made Finn more scared than he was of the sight of Maliss.
It was literally Angelina Jolie in CGI form who was basically nude but with golden liquid covering numerous parts of her body including her privates and had her hair in a very long braid, and long enough to wrap around people and carry them if she wanted to.
It was Grendel's Mother, the villain from Beowulf. The Keepers considered her the Tia Dalma of the DKOs, and she had a deep and extreme hatred and vendetta against Finn since he was the one who killed both of her sons, Grendel and the dragon, back in Dream Kingdom.
Everyone stared in fear at the sight of all their old enemies who never died or were defeated now back, and in their own home kingdom. Or at least they thought they were. From where they were now, they could be anywhere. But they were definitely in Florida.
For a minute, everyone just stared in silence. The Overtakers grinned and glared menacingly.
"How the hell did all of you get here!?" Finn yelled.
"We shrank ourselves down and stowed away in your girl's luggage," said Lord Maliss. "And then we snuck off after the plane landed."
"So that's why our luggage was messed up!" exclaimed Amanda
"Oh, look at them all," Eris laughed. "They're so afraid and terrified."
"Who wouldn't be?" Mrs. Tweedy asked. "We are they're greatest enemy ever."
"Actually no," Charlene said. "Our greatest enemies were the Disney Overtakers. Because of course..."
"SILENCE GIRL!" Red roared in a demonic voice, making Charlene whimper and shut up.
"Now, now, Red," Lord Maliss said. "No need to start scaring them yet. This is after all just a reunion."
"Damn right it is," Grendel's Mother said, slowly approaching near Finn. "Yeah, that's right, you honestly didn't think I was going to let you live out the rest of your days after what you did to my sons did you?"
Finn held his breathe while Grendel's Mother lifted her braid magically and it wrapped around Finn's neck. Of course, it couldn't choke him since they were holograms on their end as well.
"Oh, how I wish I could just strangle the life out of you so quickly," she said. "I keep asking myself why I never just went after you back in Dream Kingdom and killed you without hesitation. You have no ideas the years I have spent plotting my revenge, fueled by my burning hatred for you and you alone boy!"
"I would honestly be aroused by this because it's Angelina Jolie half naked, if she was threatening Finn," Maybeck whispered to Philby, who shot him a disgusted look.
"She is not the only one," Lord Maliss said. "Like I said, did you really think we were done? After you ruined our plans for Nightmare Kingdom, did you ever wonder why we simply retreated but never returned any time sooner?"
"Because...you guys realized you were weak and afraid?" Amanda asked, making everyone giggle a little.
"NO STUPID GIRL!" Rasputin roared. "Because when your fearless leader killed Pitch Black and the Nightmare King, what you didn't know was that Pitch somehow sent us a vision of the future before he died, foretelling the possible return of your Overtakers."
"We knew we couldn't get our revenge while there was a possibility those demons could return and interfere with us," Eris said. "So we waited until, as we predicted you would, defeated them for good. And during that time, we spent it getting stronger, and seeing all the new stuff that would come out over the years and building new armies and forces and creating new villains!"
"Just like our two new friends we have here!" yelled Mrs. Tweedy.
"What?" asked Willa.
"Oh yes," said Red. "Why don't you first say hi to Lord Maliss' new second-in-command, and Hexxus' replacement!"
Red whistled and then everyone felt slight booming footsteps, despite being in a hologram, coming from the shadows.
Everyone looked and gasped. Out of the shadows came a villain none of them would've ever expected to see here, and with the head Overtakers.
Part of that was due to the fact that the villain standing before them wasn't even originally a movie villain, but instead a video game villain from a video game that was made into an animated movie.
The villain was a large, yellow, dragon-like and turtle-like being with a green spiked shell, red mane, horns, and spiked cuffs, with large lips with sharp teeth, yellow and green scales, lines on his stomach, sharp claws, and a spiked tail, and he had a small green shades on his shoulders as well. And he was way bigger than any of the Keepers, and even the Overtakers.
It was actually Bowser himself, the king of the Koopas, and the main villain from the recently released The Super Mario Bros. Movie, based off of the Mario Bros video game series.
He stomped around the Keepers, circling them and staring at them, taking an interest in both Charlene and Amanda specifically.
"Hmmm, so these are the world-famous Kingdom Keepers in the flesh, eh?" he said in his roaring voice that sounded almost nothing like Jack Black with emphasis on the voice. "I don't see much though. Ha, ha!"
"Hey!" yelled Finn.
"Although, these two babes do catch my eye," he said, squeezing Charlene and Amanda's heads with his holographic hands. "They do remind me of my beloved Peaches."
"Hey get your holographic mitts off me you reptile!" yelled Amanda. She began smacking away his hand, despite being a hologram still.
"Well look at that," he said. "Her bark's as tough as her bite."
"Stop fooling around with them Bowser," Lord Maliss said.
Bowser snorted and rolled his eyes and walked over next to Maliss.
"So he's the replacement for Hexxus?" Willa asked. "The king of the Koopas is really replacing the spirit of destruction?"
"Almost sounds like the start of a bad joke," laughed Jess.
"How about I give you the punchline when I see you in person!?" Bowser roared cracking his fists.
"Enough!" Lord Maliss said. "So yes, I have personally chosen Bowser to replace Hexxus, after you destroyed him boy."
"Let's not forget he also destroyed Dream Kingdom after destroying Hexxus!" Rasputin laughed.
Finn snorted.
"Bowser has proven himself to be worthy of becoming our leader's second-in-command," said Grendel's Mother. "But now, let us introduce our other newest addition."
"Oh yes, oh yes!" Red said happily. "Let's bring him out."
"Bring who out?" asked Finn.
"Why Pitch Black's replacement of course sonny!" said Mrs. Tweedy. "And trust me, the surprise is to DIE for!"
She put a lot of emphasis on die, and the Keepers would learn enough why.
From deep within the shadows, everyone suddenly heard a haunting whistling tune. Immediately it filled everyone up with fear and made every hair stand up and covered their bodies with goosebumps.
They all looked and saw from deep within the shadows a dark figure slowly step out into the light.
It was wearing a poncho with a hood that was blacker than the darkest night, and it wore brown trousers as well, and had brownish-grey wraps around its wrists and calves.
As it came closer to everyone, whistling louder, it looked up and everyone realized it wasn't a man or a human. It was an anthropomorphic, silvery-white wolf with an elongated snout, gray mask-like markings on his face, sharp teeth, and most terrifyingly of all, glaring and sinister red eyes.
And lastly, attached to his belt on both sides were two razor sharp sickles.
The Keepers knew who it was, but they were so scared shitless that they couldn't even speak. Even Wayne himself was too afraid. They were all frozen with fear.
And they all realized they were as frozen with fear as the dead body still on the floor, and they remembered how the slash marks almost looked like hooks.
Or otherwise, SICKLES!
The wolf laughed menacingly.
"What's wrong?" he asked in a sinister and evil Brazilian voice. "Cat got your tongue? Too afraid to speak my name? I mean, who wouldn't be too scared to speak in the face...of Death?"
"That's...him!" Finn managed to stammer. "It is...DEATH!"
It was in fact Death himself. The very grim reaper himself. Or in this case, his portrayed form from the movie Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. The very wolf who wanted to claim Puss' last life after wasting all 8 of his other ones.
And one of the currently most terrifying Dreamworks villains in existence. Now outranking even Pitch himself.
"I knew they would love it, or be scared," said Lord Maliss as Death walked over to the others. "I mean, why wouldn't Death, the grim reaper, be the perfect replacement for the boogieman?"
"Y...y...you chose...wisely!" Maybeck struggled to stammer with a weak fake smile.
"It was...it was you wasn't it!?" Wayne managed to yell.
"Excuse me?" Death asked.
"You...you killed that man!" Wayne yelled pointing to the covered body. "You killed that innocent cast member!"
Death laughed out loudly, his very laugh almost making the girls scream in fear.
"Well of course I did," he said. "We had to get the device to you guys, and had to show you how serious we are about why we're here."
"So, you killed...an innocent man...to prove a point!?" asked Willa.
"We are not here to play games," Eris said. "Not after what you did to us!"
"You ruined our kingdom, so we're here to ruin yours!" said Lord Maliss.
"And without our spirit of destruction, we will have to resort to alternatives," said Red.
"So, what are you going to do?" yelled Philby. "Turn Disney into Nightmare Kingdom instead?"
"Oh no, we're done with that," said Rasputin. "No. We're here to DESTROY DISNEY!"
"Every single park that is!" yelled Bowser. "All of Disney will be reduce to nothing but dust and rubble!"
They all laughed out loudly while the Keepers stared.
"You know I should've seen that coming," said Amanda.
"But how we're going to do it, you don't know," said Mrs. Tweedy.
"Like they said, we don't have Hexxus," said Death. "But that doesn't mean we can't find, nor have we already found a way, to obliterate Disney so badly that even the magic dies with it!"
"You fool!" Wayne yelled, making the Keepers shocked that he just called the grim reaper a fool. "You and all you goons can never destroy what Walt Disney created! His dream can never truly die!"
"Silence old man!" Death yelled. "How would you like to return to the afterlife? I have no qualms sending you right back in an instant."
Wayne gulped and fearfully stepped back. The KKs had never seen Wayne so afraid.
"We're also here for revenge against you all," said Lord Maliss. "You didn't think we were just going to let you all live."
"You all need to pay for ruining our plans," said Grendel's Mother. "Especially you, leader."
Finn snorted.
"You may have also realized by now that you can't contact that little mousey friend of yours, nor any of the other characters," said Bowser. "That's because we have cut them off from Disney!"
"What!?" everyone yelled.
"That's right," said Rasputin. "Using my magic, combined with several others, we have put a blockade around all the parks that have prevented not only all those Disney characters from returning, but also you are unable to contact any of the original Dream Kingdom heroes back in California."
"Oh god no!" gasped Charlene.
"Yes," said Eris. "We knew sending Mickey and all those heroes to Paris would do the trick, with that fake celebration invitation."
"Oh god you were behind that!?" Wayne yelled. "I knew something was off! There were no celebrations I knew about, and I know everything!"
"Except anything about us!" said Lord Maliss. "Well anyway, we have to go. We've got a kingdom to destroy. And please, we implore you to come and try to stop us. It'll make killing you much easier. And this time, you're up new villains you've never faced."
"Not everyone from Dream Kingdom came here after all," said Bowser. "We left some behind or even killed old ones to make room for new ones!"
"You monsters," growled Finn.
"Better watch yourself kids," Death said gripping his sickles in an X form across his chest. "Death is always watching you. Especially when you don't expect it."
"See you all real soon!" Rasputin yelled, and all the Overtakers laughed out as suddenly, the hologram ended and everyone was back in Esther's Keep.
The Kingdom Keepers and Wayne just stood frozen with fear, staring at one another.
"We're...we're fucked," said Finn. "We are so fucking fucked!"
"Oh, don't say that," Maybeck said. "So, they have got new friends. We can still take them! We have before."
"They didn't have fucking Death before!" yelled Finn. "And we've got no backup from Disney nor Dream Kingdom. We are totally unprepared now! WE...ARE...FUCKED!"
"Stop saying that!" Amanda yelled. "We were unprepared when we travelled through time, but we still pulled through and defeated all the evils we faced in the past! And we were totally unprepared when we faced off against Maleficent for the first time, and Chernabog, and the Evil Queen, and Jafar, and Ursula, and every single other Overtaker!"
"But...aren't you guys scared?" asked Finn.
"Well of course I am," said Jess. "We all are. And not just because we have to fight Death now."
"But we're the Kingdom Keepers," said Charlene. "And we've faced things no one else has nor can before. And we are going to stop these Overtakers once again, and most of all, we are going to spit right in Death's face!"
Finn's face of fear turned into courage and sternness.
"You're right!" he said. "This is our kingdom, and those DKOs are not welcome here! And we are going to stop them just like we did before!"
They all cheered out and Wayne just smiled at them.
"I did raise them and train them well," he said to himself. "And they will save the parks, just like they always have."
Oh boy! We have just been reunited the Overtakers again. And we have new ones. Bowser! And Death!? Bet you didn't see that coming did you?
Who else could there be? How many old and new ones will we see? Stay tuned to find out!
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