And so we begin the pre-finale to Jagar's story.
Chapter 63: A Wicked Deal
KND Moonbase
The main team parted ways with the White Lotus after a while and were headed up to Moonbase on Sector V's S.C.A.M.P.E.R.. After taking land in the hangar, Nigel followed Rachel up to her office, where Bartie and Virginia took immediate notice of them. "NUMBUH 362!" the temporary leader exclaimed, embracing Rachel in a hug. "Oh, thank Christ your back! This means you're staying to be leader again, right?"
"Heh heh, don't get too excited, Bartie. I may need your help again later. But I'm back at the moment."
"Great! You owe me BIG!" he gritted his teeth in anger.
"Yeah, yeah, I'll give you all the Yipper Cards you want. And you can take some time off, if you like."
"Great! Come on, Ginny, let's hit the Goober's!" Bartie grabbed his friend's wrist and dragged her off.
"Ah, feels good to be back in the office, doesn't it?" Nigel asked.
"Heh, compared to everything else, being back here is a breath of fresh air. I need a footbath…" she sighed, rubbing her legs.
"Hm, tired, aren't you?"
"Well, Hama did twist my legs pretty bad when she bloodbent me, so yes. Anyway, let's check and see what's been going on since our leave." The leader said as she typed on her computer. "Oh, look, Kami called. She said they defeated K. Rool."
"All right! So that makes Bowser, Eggman, and now him. We've already taken out three of Gnaa's top allies!"
"Then that only makes three to go, right?"
"Rumpel, Brain, and Ganondorf. Yep. And that Lucinda woman, too. Somehow, I don't think stopping them will be as easy."
"Yeah. Anyway, onto more pressing business. Didn't Dr. Eggman say something about stealing the Master Emerald from a museum protected by kids?"
"My thoughts exactly. We should probably head down there and make sure nothing else got stolen."
"Hm, at the risk of having Matthew bug and beg us for our gold-colored autographs?"
"We went against a giant fear cloud demon, we can brave the annoyingness that is 101."
"Heh heh heh. I'll be ready in a minute. There's something else I wanna look over right quick."
"Okay. See you when you're ready." Nigel waved 'bye' and walked out.
Rachel sat quietly in her office for a few moments before looking around in her desk, finding a folder of laws passed in the KND. Like the one about being decommissioned at age 13, the one where you have to be at least 7 to join the KND… and then the one which she was looking for: saying that benders or metahumans of any type were not allowed in the KND. "Why would we have this law?" she asked herself. "As Supreme Leader, I really should trash this… but I really wanna look into this more." She then removed the paper and began to skim it, and one particular codename got her attention. "Numbuh 23 BBY? Odd. Don't remember an operative like that in the KND files… but then again, there was Numbuh Zero. I think I should look this up." She did so and typed the operative's Numbuh into her computer. But when she clicked 'Enter', it only read, The data is corrupt.
"Corrupt? Hmm…" Rachel already began to feel suspicious. "You know, somebody like Matt would know about operatives like these. I have a feeling we're gonna learn a bit more out of this visit than we intended." And she stood up and walked out of her office, after Nigel.
Zuzu's Valley
The snow continued to pour onto the ice-cold wasteland as the Aurora Borealis glowed colorfully in the starry sky. Rumpel Stiltskin had just arrived at the frosty realm with Yuki Crystal, inhaling the chilly air through his pointy nose. "Ah, Zuzu's Valley. Bitter cold, frozen and lifeless… truly a marvelous place, isn't it?"
"Hmph." Yuki huffed and folded his arms.
"Mother Talzin should be here pretty soon. I'll just go and get ready until she does. Meet you later, okay?" he winked and walked over to climb onto his goose.
"What are we doing here, again?" Yuki asked.
"Oh, just laying another siege upon a certain… workshop." Rumpel smirked. "Hm hm, wait 'til you see it. Until then…" Rumpel waved to the icebender as his goose lifted off and flew toward an icy hill in the distance.
Left to himself, Yuki just slowly walked forward, kicking his feet around in the snow as he looked down in thought. "How in the world did I get stuck with these old hags, anyway? Sigh, what's the point? I've completely lost interest in wanting to stop KND. I oughta just ditch these weirdoes and go back home. After all, I got control of these awesome powers." He smiled evilly. "They really aren't half bad once you get the hang of 'em. Huh?" He suddenly saw a bright, white light glowing above him, looking up as the Northern Star lit up the night sky, and seeing the Ice God, Polaris himself, lowering down.
"So… I see you've returned. You've gotten control of your powers, after all."
"Yeah, no thanks to you or those annoying Ice Climbers. Told ya I didn't need your help."
"But, you mastered your powers by the will of another. A magical being. That is not the true way to gain mastery over an element. To truly master an element, there are two sides which the bender must gain control of. The physical side… and the spiritual. You have mastered your physical side, but completely ignored the spiritual. And mastering the spiritual side is what truly gives you control over the physical side to begin with. It's the entire origins of your powers. When insults are thrown at poisonbenders, it stings, hurts their feelings. They are mentally poisoned, and are able to create physical poison. And airbenders are free-spirited people. They let their minds not be taken by worry, and just keep going with life, like the wind. As such, they are able to control wind. You must understand why you really have these powers, not because of some silly weapon."
"Yeah, yeah, I know. They're because of my 'coldhearted feelings.' But you know what? I'm not 'spiritual', not like those monks or whatever. I just don't have it in me to… 'look inside my heart.' Not everybody does. There're probably thousands of benders in the universe, but there are only so many masters. And not everybody is cut out to be one."
"You claim that you do not know how to 'look inside your heart'… but what you were just saying beforehand, with not wanting to destroy KND anymore. Perhaps your heart is telling you something? And perhaps… you feel there is something else you feel you're missing?" Yuki glanced away in thought. Deep down, the spirit had a point. He was losing interest in destroying the KND… but he felt there was something else he felt guilty about. "If your heart knows best… then so will you." And the god faded back to the heavens.
"Yuki!" the icebender heard somebody cry, looking to his left at Jagar, the timebenders, and the Ice Climbers running over.
"Jagar? How did you find me here?" Yuki asked. "Timebender magic?"
"Actually… I sort of followed my instincts. Somehow, I knew you'd be here. Unless that's where master timebenders get that ability. Hehe. Anyway… what are you doing here?"
"Hm. Rumpel brought me. He ran off just now, but said that they had something planned for me. …Listen, Jagar, I've been thinking… I'm not sure if what I've been doing is working out."
"What do you mean?" Olive asked.
"Well, working on the Dark Side, destroying KND… I thought it's what I wanted, but I feel…I feel like I'm missing something from my life."
"Like…?" Jagar drew out.
"Like… some real friends. 'Cause hangin' out with these witches sure isn't a walk in the park. Hehe." He chuckled. This made smiles appear on the five heroes' faces. Yuki scratched the back of his head and continued sheepishly, "Listen, Jagar… I'm really sorry about this whole mess I've been putting you all through. I may be the most powerful icebender in the world now… er, second to Polaris, at least… but you know, I'm not sure if I want it. I think… I just wanna go home. Hang out with friends. …Well, if I had any friends to hang out with."
Jagar walked over and put a hand on Yuki's shoulder. "I may be dead, technically… but I'm your friend, right?" Yuki looked up at him, and smiled.
"And so are we!" the Ice Climbers cheered, jumping over by his sides.
"So, how about we just put this whole incident behind us?" Olive asked. "Something tells me you'd really like to kick the can out of those witches."
"Heh heh. You know that."
Somewhere else in the North Pole
Rumpel soared over the freezing windy skies of the icecap on his goose, alongside Gruntilda on her broomstick, followed by his army of witches. "I'm getting frostbites, it's so cold. Tell me, Rumpel, what business have we to behold?"
"The dawn of a new era, Grunty. A new era of witches galore. WITCHES! Lay siege upon that waste of a workshop!" The witches swooped down and began throwing spells and pumpkin bombs upon a strange and colorful factory in the middle of the snowy fields. One that belonged to none other than Santa and his elves.
The many little, colorful creatures began screaming and cowering as all of their presents and factory contraptions were blown to smithereens. "I say, what is going on here?!" Santa Claus shouted, walking out in the middle of the destruction. "Is Superman mad that I beat his record time again?"
The roof was suddenly blown off above him, giving him a good view of Rumpel and Gruntilda flying down. "Hey, hey, Sandy! How are those claws lookin' tonight?"
"RUMPEL! You're behind this, you snide little elf. But why attack us now? It's the middle of Summer."
"Maybe, but thi-… Wait, what do you mean the middle of Summer, in some countries, it's actually… never mind, ANYWAY, I didn't HAVE to attack this place, but someplace needed to be wrecked, and this was the closest in mind. So, get ready, Sandy Man, 'cause by the time we're through here, you'll have to make ready for HALLOWEEN." And he and Gruntilda flew around and started attacking.
"Brrroooooo. Elfa Strike! Move out!"
"OH YEAH!" Wintergreen cried, leaping out of nowhere with his Elfa Strike Squad, all ready for battle. "Elfa Strike, send these hags back to their original holiday!"
The candycane-clawed elf leapt up and grabbed one of the witch's robes, clawing and tearing it down as the witch crashed into a wall. Nutcracker rapidly warped to various witches and gnawed down on their heads, making them crash into a present-wrapping machine, where they were then squeezed into colorfully wrapped boxes. Snow Angel flew around, controlling snow from the outside and making it into huge waves that buried a few witches. Coniferous simply let a couple witches crash into him, allowing him to rub them against his prickly armor, afterwards carrying them to their kitchen oven and shoving them inside, brushing his hands off afterward.
"It's over, Rumpus." Wintergreen aimed his claws up at Rumpel. "Your little hag worshippers ain't a match for us REAL elves. Ya shoulda stayed with us when ya had the chance."
"Oh, it would just be a DREAM to go back and work with you all." Rumpel rolled his eyes in sarcasm. "But a word of advice: surrender now. It'll save you A LOT of grief."
"NEVER!" Wintergreen swung his claws and jumped, attempting to scratch the elf's goose until Rumpel zapped a spell that sent him falling back.
"If I can't teach you simple elves a lesson… I'm certain Mother surely will. It's only a matter of time now…" He smirked in the direction of Yuki and the others.
Back with Yuki and the timebenders
The six of them watched from the distance as smoke rose out from behind the hill which Rumpel had flown behind. "Yuki, what did Rumpel say he brought you here for?" Jagar asked.
"I dunno. He said they would be attacking some… workshop or somethin'. Don't know who'd set a workshop up all the way out here."
"A workshop…" Jagar began to think, then gasped in realization. "Santa's Workshop!"
"What?" Yuki asked in disbelief. "Even if Santa WAS real, it's the dead of Summer, why would he-" He was interrupted when a certain witch reapparated out of thin air.
"Sorry I'm late, Yuki."
"LUCINDA!" Jagar yelled as everyone gritted their teeth.
"Oh, look, some uninvited guests. Be off somewhere else, dearies. Reducto!" she cast a spell that made the ground beneath their feet explode, sending them flying far off in the distance.
"YOU!" Yuki yelled and pointed at her in anger. "Listen, I've HAD IT with you! I don't wanna do any of this revenge crap anymore. I wanna go back home with Jagar."
"Jagar is dead now, Yuki. He has been for some time. And besides, why would you wish to? He has abandoned you for exile, just as they all have. And now is the time to show them all your FULL potential!"
"W-What?"
"TRANSFIGURO!"
"AAHHHH!" Yuki felt intense pain as the blast from Lucinda's magically enhanced wand struck his chest, feeling the power surging and a transformation coming on.
Several miles away, the time and icebenders rubbed their heads as they recovered from the crash, looking around where they were. "Where's Yuki?" Jagar asked.
"Over there!" Misty pointed out in the distance, seeing a bright white ray of energy. The heroes could only step back and gape as a colossal figure emerged from the distance: it looked to be a skeleton-type figure, but was completely made out of ice and nearly 50 feet tall, as big as a treehouse. Its feet were merely huge chunks of ice, like icebergs, his fingers looked to be extremely sharp claws, his skeletal-like ribs were exposed, he had icicle-sharp teeth in his open mouth, just below his vicious glowing red eyes. But what really tipped Jagar off was the icicle-spiky hair along its head.
"YUKI! !"
"And now for the final touching!" Talzin cried, looking simply like an ant to the monster's vision. The ancient fairy drew out a Darkness Cannon from under her robe and took aim at the head, launching a ray of darkness straight into the monstrified Yuki's mouth. The colossus roared and cried to the heavens, becoming fueled with the powers of evil. Now totally overcome by his darkness, the demon turned about-face from Lucinda as the witch used Shadow Glide to fly onto its head, pointing the direction ahead. "And now, my Crystal Colossus: to Santa's home!" The demon saw the invaded workshop clearly ahead from his height, proceeding to stomp forward, creating powerful quakes along the ground where his feet stepped and leaving huge chunks of ice wherever he stepped.
"Yuki's turned into a monster!" Olive exclaimed.
"He's going to attack Santa's workshop!" Popo and Nana cried.
"We've got to stop him! Come on!" Jagar ordered, and ran ahead of the others in attempt to catch up with the freezing demon.
Santa's Workshop
It wasn't long until the Elfa Strike defeated most of the witches, and had Rumpel and Gruntilda knocked out on the ground as Wintergreen aimed his candy-cane claws. "It's over now, Rumpel! You and your witches are going straight to the permanent naughty list. Either ya surrender now, or be buried in a thousand pounds of-" The group of elves suddenly heard a great roar in the distance, looking up through the broken ceiling in terror as Rumpel gave a happy smile.
"You might wanna double-check that list!"
"It's a monster!" a girl elf screamed at the Crystal Colossus. All of the elves cowered and panicked about while the Elfa Strike faced the monster with fierce expressions.
"HEY, YUKI!" The ice demon stopped and looked down behind him, seeing the five benders. "How about picking on someone your own size?" Jagar shouted.
"Or maybe someone your own match?" Misty asked.
"How did you five get back here so quickly?" Lucinda asked.
"We slowed time down so we could get here quicker." Misty smirked.
"Our legs are actually sore from running, even though we don't look like it." Olive said.
"And now, you're going down!" the Ice Climbers cheered, aiming their hammers.
"Lucinda, it all ends here." Jagar finished.
"Indeed it will, Jagar, in more ways than you know. Dinner time, Yuki. Show them your power." The witch became a shadow and flew away. The Crystal Colossus roared at the five heroes and proceeded to attack them. (Play "The Deep End" from Kingdom Hearts!)
Boss fight: Crystal Colossus
The five scattered when the Crystal Colossus hurled icicles their way, which the Ice Climbers were able to send back with their hammers, striking the beast's head. The colossus stomped the ground and created quakes that knocked the icebenders over, then turned to where Misty and Olive were, sending icicle missiles their way, but the two froze them in time and simply let them drop on the ground. The Crystal Colossus smashed his hand to the ground and burrowed his fingers beneath, making them pop up from beneath the girls and fling them around.
"Guten tag!" Nutcracker suddenly appeared beside the head of the Crystal Colossus, who tried to chomp down on him, but he teleported behind his head. "Over here!" Yuki tried to bite again, but the elf once again vanished. "Still missed me!" He tried again. "Over here!" The colossus kept trying to snack on him, but he kept warping all over the place. He looked around for the elf, not noticing that he reappeared on his butt. "This will be one chunky bite! But I'll need to brush EXTRA hard tonight!" And the elf chomped his teeth down and bit a huge chunk of the ice.
The Crystal Colossus desperately tried to shake the Nutcracker off, but couldn't, and Jagar took this time to shoot a Blast of Time at his right knee, causing the titan to wobble and topple over, holding himself barely up with one of his hands. His head now close to the ground, the timebenders hurried over and unveiled a barrage of Time Blasts upon it. After a while, the colossus recovered and stood back up. The timebenders hurried away as the demon unleashed a swarm of icicle missiles, which the Ice Climbers rapidly swung their hammers to send them back, but ended up taking a few strikes.
The timebenders evaded the icicles, but the Crystal Colossus then started to cough out huge chunks of ice, bashing the spirits in the head and knocking them over. Popo and Nana sent mini icebergs at the monster's feet, but they did little damage and he sent bigger icebergs their way. They tried to run separate directions to avoid, but Lucinda's curse on them pulled them back together, and they were pushed away. Yuki turned to the timebenders and sent more icicles flying, but they used their power to freeze them in time. That's when the titan decided to hurl BIGGER icicles, which broke through the frozen ones and struck the benders, doing heavy damage.
The Crystal Colossus then found Snow Angel flying around his head, unleashing her own icicles at his eyes. He swat the angel away, but she avoided and started flying around his body. She used her icebending to grab snow from the ground and make it follow her as she circled around his body upward. Once it was nearly wrapped around him, she made the snow close in and tie up the monster, making him fall over again. The Ice Climbers hurried over and dealt a few strikes against the head, but Yuki broke himself free of the binds and stood back up, swatting the children away.
The Crystal Colossus started coughing more ice chunks around the area and unleashing more icicles which the children hurriedly dodged. He spotted Snow Angel fly down beside Nutcracker and blew out some Ice Breath, freezing the two in place. He faced back at the timebenders with anger, charging power in his hands. "Run!" Jagar yelled, and the spirits did so and ran before Yuki released a powerful storm of ice, which froze Misty and Olive's legs as they barely made it away. The monster tossed icicles at the two, but Coniferous jumped in the way and shielded them from the pointed ice chunks, then shot his own pinecones at the monster's eyes.
As Yuki rubbed his eyes from the strike, Wintergreen ran towards the monster and dashed up his right leg, jumping between the two legs and dealing scratches on his body. He grabbed his chest ribs and ripped them out, then leapt onto his back, piercing his claws right into his skin, the beast feeling the pain and screeching. "YEH!" The muscular elf flipped onto the head and stabbed right into his scalp, making the titan fall over once again.
"Now's our chance." Jagar shouted. The girls nodded and hurried over to his head, the ice titan too late to stand up before the spirits used Time Stop and froze him in place. (End song.)
"Hoo…" Jagar tried to catch his breath. "There… that should end it."
As it turned out, it did NOT end it, as the Stop wore off in seconds, and the monster smacked the timebenders away. The colossus stood up and ripped off the rest of Santa's factory's roof, the elves screaming as it was about to tear the whole building. "Oh no! We gotta do something!" Misty yelled. "Can't you guys do that whole '12 Days of Christmas Attack' thing?" she asked Elfa Strike.
"It can only be used once a Christmas, and it's the middle of Summer!" Wintergreen yelled back.
"Actually, in some countries, it's still-" Olive tried to say.
"Forget about that." Jagar interrupted. "We have to stop that thing!"
Santa grabbed a rectangular-shaped present and said, "Sorry, Tommy. I'll make it up to you next year. …Actually, Christmas isn't until months away, so, I have plenty of time." He pulled a missile launcher out of the present and took aim at the titan's chest.
"No, wait!" Santa didn't hear Jagar's cry and fired the missile, coming in contact with the chest and exploding the colossus into tons of pieces, which began raining all around the area. "YUKIIII!"
"What kid wants a missile launcher for Christmas?" Olive asked.
Jagar gasped when Yuki's monstrified head landed several feet from them. He hurried over and studied the severed head, trying to find any signs of life. His eyes and mouth were frozen in place, not seeming to take any notice of Jagar's presence. The young timebender assumed the worst and fell to his knees, rubbing his sleeve against his eyes as tears began to form. The female timebenders looked at him with pity.
"Boohoo, poor, poor Jagar." Rumpel cried mockingly, flying over the weeping boy beside Grunty. "How sad that your poor wittle monster died. Maybe you oughta make better choices on who to hang out with!"
"Over the mountains, the monster blows! Pick your friends. Not your nose! AHH HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Gruntilda cackled to the night sky as she, Rumpel, and all the witches took off.
Jagar glared after the despicable witches and gritted his teeth in pure anger. He looked to his right and noticed Lucinda standing a few feet away. "It's so tragic that things like this happen… It's a good thing I'm always there to make things better." The fairy laughed evilly to herself and disapparated.
Jagar fell to the ground and started to cry some more. Misty and Olive walked beside their friend as Misty kneeled down and put a hand on his shoulder in comfort. "I'm sorry, Jagar. But I guess… there are some things in the world… that just can't be changed."
Jagar looked up, his expression more fierce and serious. "Yes they can…"
Planet Dathomir, Lucinda's Cave
"Oh, Maleficent. Sure is a real shame, the fate of poor Yuki." The old fairy spoke, dumping stuff in her cauldron. Her shadow nodded. "But just look at this!" She observed her wand, still glowing with the powers absorbed from Midna. "That magnificent monster is just the start of all the wonderful things I can do with this wand! So many gifts! Oh, but I still have this curse… but it'll be dealt with soon enough. Imagine how powerful I can become if I find the other three Fused Shadows! And you are certain of their locations?"
Maleficent smiled and nodded, speaking to her master telepathically.
"I see. They are being guarded by Three Families of Shadow. One of them being the Faciliers… and another being the Sommers. And the last one, as I've suspected… lies with-" She stopped herself, hearing her cave door open and seeing none other than Jagar King standing by himself at the entrance. "Oh! Jagar King!" Talzin gasped with glee. "What an unexpected surprise. Come, come right in, it's rude to stand in the doorways, Dear." Jagar did so and walked forward. "To what do I owe this visit?"
Jagar angrily kicked the witch's cauldron. "It's YOUR fault that Yuki's dead! He's gone because of you!"
"Temper, temper, boy." Lucinda wagged her finger. "I'm afraid Yuki was killed of his own actions. His and yours… if you hadn't left him for exile, he probably would've chosen to stay. He wouldn't have gotten mixed in with us… but what do I know? I'm not a timebender… not like you are."
"I know what you're implying, Lucinda, and I'm not changing the past."
"How simply droll. And just why did you make your way all the way out here?"
"…Because… I want to make a deal."
"Oh." Lucinda's expression lit up with interest.
"I know I can't trust Rumpel… but deep down, you do know what's best. Your methods aren't the best… but your intentions, however… you really do mean good."
"Ahh… finally. A child who truly understands me." the fairy smiled. "My child… I would be happy to help you any way that I can." She gently rubbed the boy's hair. "After all, that's what I live for. To help unfortunate children like yourself. Poor souls with no one else to turn to." She turned and walked away as she began to sing.
I admit that in the past I've-
"Okay, okay, can we PLEASE not do 'Little Mermaid'?"
"What? I've rehearsed this song for hours…"
"I-I know, it's just… do we REALLY have to?"
She sighed in depression. "No… anyhow, what is it you would like me to do?"
"To bring Yuki back to life. If Maleficent is your shadow, then you must have connections with the Underworld."
Lucinda looked at her loyal shadow and smiled, and she smiled back. "My boy… I would be honored to bring your friend back from the dead. However, it's just… not in my power. …But with YOUR power-"
"Lady, what did I just say?"
"Come now, Jagar, you must see reason. The only other way to bring your friend back from the dead… is to stop him from dying period. Oh, but don't worry: you'll not need to worry about breaking your promise to Clockwork. Because I will change time for you!"
"What? You're not a timebender."
"Ah… but I have this." The witch reached into her cauldron and pulled out a necklace with a clock on it. "This little charm is what timebenders in training use to help on their way. While it is meant for timebenders, anyone can use them. I seem to recall you having one. But I'm afraid this one has been long since sucked of its power. In order for it to work… a timebender must willingly give up their power. In other words, you must sign your bending over…" she reached into her sleeve and pulled out and unrolled a contract, presenting it to Jagar, "to me."
Jagar felt strongly unsure about this, reading over the contract. He wanted to save Yuki, but… giving up his bending?
"It's all valid, plain and simple. You sign over your bending to me, and I will use it to stop Yuki's unfortunate incident with his curse AND… prevent your SELF from dying. However… I wanted to add a little extra touch of my own."
"What kind of touch?"
"Trust me, Child, you'll love it. All I wanted to do was… tinker a little with poor Yuki's personality. I wish to change him so that he isn't a coldhearted, selfish little child, but rather kind and caring. It's a reasonable change, no? And that way, he will NEVER hate or be hated by anyone. And he will have all the friends in the world."
Jagar took a moment to think about this. Having a nicer Yuki would make things better for both of them… but it didn't feel right changing somebody's personality against their own will. However, if the idea was about changing the past, then it wouldn't really count, would it? …No, it shouldn't. But he didn't quite trust Lucinda… not yet. He nodded and made his decision, "I'll do it. But on one condition: you make the Unbreakable Vow."
"Ooooh. You don't play gently, do you? Very well then… let us begin." The two reached out and took the other's hand. Maleficent breathed some green fire around the interlinking arms, which then formed a green magical chain around them, marking the Vow.
"Do you promise to only use these powers to prevent my death, and prevent Yuki from getting his curse, and to change his personality as stated in the contract, and nothing more?"
"I will."
"Do you promise to stay out of mine, his, and our friends' affairs after doing said changes?"
"I will."
"And… do you promise… after using these timebending powers to establish said changes… that you will bring that necklace, and those powers, to another timebender who so rightfully deserves it?"
Lucinda's smile grew into a wicked grin. She may have had no other choice but to make a deal she couldn't go back on… but she still had this boy right where she wanted. "I will." With the Vow made, the chains sunk into their skin, and their arms released. "The Vow is done. Now… sign the dotted line, and all of your troubles will be gone."
The fairy held the contract, and the pen, in front of the timebender. Jagar hesitantly looked back-and-forth between her and the contract, feeling this whole deal may have been too easily made. But Jagar knew that Lucinda did mean well. Even if what she was doing WAS evil in reality, all she intended was to do good. Plus, the two even made the Unbreakable Vow. Even if she survived it before, she couldn't possibly survive breaking another Unbreakable Vow. He snatched the pen from her hand and signed his name, Jagar King, in gold ink on the dotted line. The name brimmed with light upon the piece of paper, as the magical deal was taking effect. Jagar felt himself covered in light-blue glow, which all shrunk down into his chest and came out in the form of some floating light, with the image of a clock, the symbol for timebending. His timebending power flowed into Lucinda's clock necklace, closing it tight as she embraced the mystical object in her fingers.
"So… what now?"
Lucinda Talzin held the necklace by the string, letting the clock dangle back-and-forth as she waved her other hand. "Have a nice life, Jagar. Hmhmhmhahahahahahaha!" The fairy burst into laughter, vanished as a ghastly-green tornado engulfed the entire cavern. Jagar screamed as the tornado forcibly sucked him to the sky, and everything around him faded and vanished into blackness.
The Crystal Colossus is basically a remake of the Ice Titan from Hercules. He was also in Kingdom Hearts. Next time, we will see the result of this magical deal, and do the finale of Jagar's story.