Donald and the others appared behind on a street that thankfully seemed to be quite empty so no one saw them, Dewey was both a bit shaked but also a little bit excited.
"This day just turned from boring to completely amazing" he said with doe eyes.
And then Huey woke up and immedately realized:
" That wasn't a dream right,with the suitcase that let out all those animals?"
Webby gave him a look and said;" No it wasn't"
Louie didn't say anything he just fell forward and seemed to not be able to stand up so well,but Webby quickly catched him,and gave Donald a pleading look.
" Please,mister you said that you could help him,was that true?"
" Yeah that's true,but I can't do it here in the open".
Then Daisy grabbed his arn and said:
" Well I know a place"
She walked with hom and the children followed towarda a apartement buliding but before they went in she turned around and decided to expain a important thing:
" Before we go in,a accident happen here which lead to that men are not allowed in here"
Donald saw this as a oppunity and trued to leave with the children.
" Okay then I and the kids can sleep somwhere else."
" Nice try"
They walked inside and up some stairs wheb a voice called out:
" Is that you Daisy?"
Daisy stopped and said so calmly she could:
" Yes mrs Esocpito
" Are you alone?"
" Always alone,mrs Esopcito
She quickly opened a door and they all walked in her apartement,which was enlivined with magic,a iron was working away on it's own in a corner,and clothes were floathing in front of the fireplace drying by themselves.
"Daisy you have brought a man home and children too I see.
They all turned towards the voice and saw a female mouse standing in the next room dressed in a blue dress, and smiling brightry at them.
Daisy presented the woman:" Everyone,this is my sister, or step-sister actually"
The female mouse skipped forward and said her name while she shaked Donald's hand:
" Minnie Mouse,nice to meet you Donald Duck"
He looked at her confusedly.
" Wait how can you..."
Then he figured it out.
" You are a Ligemens right?" he asked as he looked out the window very desperate to find his animals.
Minnie giggled a little and answered:
" That's right,but I have problems with Ducks sometimes,it's the quackpeaking".
He got a offended look,while Minnie greeted everyone else,but when she got to Louie she got a little worried:
" Oh poor dear here sit down" she pointed to a couch which Louie quickly sat down in and seemed to finally be stable enough and this time he didn't lean over to try to womit.
She walked over to Daisy for some answers
" What exactly has happened?"
Daisy sighed but expained anyway:
"Mr duck here has committed a serious infraction of the National Stature of Secrecy".
She got a little impressed
" Oh is he's a crimnal?"
Igroneing the question she contiuned
" And the kids,are all no majs,if you didn't already knew that"
Those news surprised her a bit " No that I didn't know"
She suddenly got a playful look at her sister and couldn't help to ask:
" Oh so the perfect Daisy has broken a rule now?"
" Of course not,the kid in the green hoodie will just be cured from his injuries then they will be olivarbated".
Minnie turned to the kids and knew one thing,they needed food and rest.
" Well now I think we all need food right?"
Huey agreed
" Yeah food would be good right now"
" And don't worry I'm brillant at following the cookbook so it doesn't get wrong,because you want a perfectly made meal right?"
He looked surprised,but immedately understood:
" You can read minds!"
She smiled at his quick analysis:
" Smart boy"
She then waved her wand towards some copboards which opened,plates,silverware and glasses flew to the table where they placed themself to the children's amusement.
Ingredients began to cut themselves and went down in pots and pans,which seemed to mostly be potatos and meat,and some bread also baked itself and put in the oven.
This was the perfect distraction,he quickly moved to the door grabbed the handle and was just about to open it when a voice called out:
" Excuse me,Donald what do you prefer,pie or strudel?"
He turned around and answered Minnie with a (what he hoped) nice tone.
" Oh I'm okay with both alternatives"
Minnie turned to the kids who had taken place at the table and asked them the same.
Huey spoke for them all " Well we have never eat strudel,so it would be fun to test right guys?"
Everyone even Louie nodded.
Smiling,Minnie waved her wand making raisis,apples and pastry flying into the air,and the concoction neatly wraps itself into a cylindrical pie,baking on the spot,complete with ornate deceration and sugar,candles were lighted,and the meal was ready.
Donald who still stood by the door looked a bit unsure Daisy decided to try to made his decision easlier.
" Well sit down mr duck,we are not gonna poison you".
And with some looks from the children made him sat down at the table to join them for a good meal.
For a couple of moments nothing was heard expect for the sliverware aganist the plates and small bangs when the glasses were put down on the table.
In the end of the dinner, Webby started a conversation with Minnie right out of knowhere" I like your bow"
" Oh thanks and have you done yours yourself?"
" Oh my granny made it"
" Well then she did a very good job"
But then she saw a question in the girl's mind which she answered:
" No,we are orphans,mom and dad died in our sixth year in school"
She then smiled at Huey and said:
" Oh that's sweet of you dear,but we got each other".
But before they could continue Huey interpruted:
" Sorry to innerupt this conversation,but could someone please expain to us what's going on and how this exactly began?"
Then Dewey asked his question to Donald :And how Mom know you?"
Donald sighed but felt like they had to know so he began to tell but not everything:
"I am here to visit my home town,but the creatures is a big part of my life,I couldn't just leave them and that whole bank meeting was a accident because one of my animals got loose and I had to chase it,and then you two got involved in it"
He pointed to Louie and Webby before continuing:
" And then my case got stolen so we had to get it back which was why we was at your house today" he finished his short expaniation.
The kids wanted answers to the other question about how Della knew him but then Louie leaned forward again,and seemed to be very tired now.
His brothers looked at him at bit worredly
" How is it Lou?" Huey asked as he felt his brother's forehead,and Donald quickly took this moment to be able to get him and the children alone.
" Miss Duck I think that the kids really could use a early night, and by the way you and I need to step up early tomorrow to find my niffler"
" What's a niffler?" Huey and Minnie asked at the same time.
" You don't want to know" Daisy answered to only her sister.
She then looked to Donald who now had Louie in his arms and took him and the children to their bedroom for the night.
" You can bunk in here"
Some moments later the triplets was laid down in three beds beside each other next to the wall,Donald and Webby's beds was in the far end of the room,both facing the double doors which opened revealing Daisy in a blue nightgown carrying a tray with five cups of hot chocolate and a bowl with cookies.
She let out a nervous laugh before saying:
" I...thought you would like something to drink,and maybe a little snack as well"
She walked to the triplets gave them their cups and some cookies and Webby got her cup and cookie, but Donald just laid on the side and ignored the kind gesture, so she just put the cup and the bowl on a table between the two beds.
" The toilet is down the hall to the right" she said a little annoyed at his behaviour.
" Thanks" all the kids said to be friendly towards her despite her hostility towards them earlier,she tried to be nice now and that was something.
She nodded and the doors slowly closed but not before Minnie had waved goodnight to them all.
And when Daisy went to her bedroom,Minnie quickly walked to her's and pulled out a letter that her sister never would see.
Meanwhile as soon the door closed,Donald still in his overcoat immedately left his bed grabbed his suitcase opened it and to the kids shock,climbed down into it!
If they hadn't seen so much strange in their lives and this day they would have screamed in surprise but they only stared as Donald's hand came up and waved them into following him.
" Come on" they heard from the suitcase.
They looked at each other and then with a shugg on their shoulders they put their cups on the bedside tables onto their beds and walked to the opened suitcase,Dewey the constant risk taker climbed down first followed by Webby who had no fear,but the last two were a bit unsure.
" What do you think?" Louie asked,still a bit groggy.
" I think that you really need help,and he said that coulf do that so we must climb down"
Huey carefully climbed down and disappeared,and lastly Louie followed but for some reason, he got stuck halfway in.
" Oh come on!" He muttered as he tried to squeeze himself in,causing the case to bunch up and down a little revealing nothing under it.
And after a last jump,Louie suddenly disappeared into the case,and it snaps shut after he's through.
He crashes down the steps of the case and then finds himself in a wooden shed, which contains a campbed,tropical gear and various tools hung up om the walls. Wooden cupboards contained ropes,nets and collectiong jars,he also saw a typewriter,a pile of manuscripts and a medival bestiary on a desk,potted plants covered a whole shelf, rows of pills,tables syringes and vials form a medicine chest,and tacked up on the walls are notes,maps,drawings and moving photographs of creatures he never seen before.
" Wait,moving photos?" He really started to wonder if he really was dreaming when he heard a voice:
" Maybe you all should sit down a little"
He turned towards the voice and saw Donald standing a front in the desk and his brothers and Webby staring at everything in awe just like he did,
" Good idea" he said as he and the others sat down trying to collect their racing thoughts.
Donald could finally examine the bite and knew that he was right about which that bit him.
" That's definitely the Murtlap"
He quickly began to work, using plants and the contents of various bottles to create a poultice,which he applies to Louie's neck,who winces a little from the pain.
" That should stop the sweat" he hands him some pills and a cup with water.
" And those should stop the twitch".
" Not to be rude but I hope that you have learned not to steal things like that" he said,with some anger in his tone.
Louie didn't answer, he just quickly swallowed the pills and drinks the water,now fully cured.
" Stubborn,just like his mom" he thought.
Huey,Dewey and Webby approached him worriedly,hoping that he was okay now.
" How are you feeling?" Huey asked.
"Better"
They all jumped at the sound of a axe hitting meat,they turned and saw Donald chopping a big chunk of meat, which he put in a bucket and gave to the children who tried to not throw up.
He then began to squeeze a tiny cocoon,which emits a luminous venom, which he pours into a glass of vial which got the children interested.
" What's that?" Huey asked.
For the first time, Donald seemed glad to answer that question:
"Oh This-the locals call it the swooping Evil,not the friendliest of names,it is quite an agile fellow.
He flicks the cocoon which unravels little while he continues to explain:
" I have studying him,and I'm pretty sure that his venom will be useful if properly diluted,just to remove bad memories,you know"
He suddenly throws the Swooping Evil,towards the children,and the cocoon bursts out to a bat-like, spiky and colorful creature,which in their faces before retreating back to it's cocoon form.
Donald smiles a little before saying:
" Shouldn't let him loose,in here though" he then opened the door to the shed and walked out followed by the children and outside awaited a sight they never would forget.
They came out in an area that was big as an AirPort,and it contained what seemed to be a miniature safari park.They could see different environments magical made, and animals seemed to be in all of them.
"Wow!"They all exclaimed.
In front of them was a piece of Arizona desert and down from a cliff flew a majestic golden feathered bird like creature, the big wings slimming with cloud and sun-like patterns,one of his legs is rubbed and bloody,sadly he has been chained before.
His habitat has a constant downpour as he flaps his wings,and lands.
Donald quickly makes his magical umbrella disappear and strokes the creature on it's beak while speaking to it:
" Thank goodness, Frank, if you would have come out, that would have been catastrophic."
Webby gasped in excitement.
" Is that a thunderbird?"
Donald looked at her surprised.
" You know what a thunderbird is?"
" Of course,they are a spirit in North American indigenous peoples history and mythology, but to see one,an animal,is awesome!"
Donald chuckled a bit:
" Nice to see you know your history,kid"
" Where did you find him?"
" I found him in egypt,chained up, I just had to save him,couldn't just leave him, and he is the reason I'm here,to bring Frank,home because that's what you want,right boy,get back to the wilds of Arizona"
He tossed up a piece of meat which Frank chased after up in the air.
" Please tell me you have other animals like this?" Webby asked,with a glim in her eyes.
" Let me show you"
But before they could continue Huey asked for a way to get more information:
" Wait do you have a zoology book about this I really want to know more about well everything here"
" Well I have a notebook and have begun a script ,many people don't write books about these creatures, they just see them as monsters,very sad actually,they are living beings,just like we are and they deserve to be treated like that."
" Can I read the notebook, please I just want to learn more"
He thought about it, then waved his wand,making a notebook come flying from the shed,Donald caught it and gave it to Huey.
" Be careful with it" he Said and thought:
"It's my life's work"
" Don't worry I will be" Huey calmly answered as he took it and started to read at a quick speed.
" So again,where are the other creatures?" Webby asked,and an answer came that Donald began a beast like roar like it was a call,and then after some moments they walked to a habitat that showed a moonlit sandy territory and after a few moments something was approaching,fast.
" Here they come"
" What's coming? The kids asked ( expect Huey who still read the script).
The answer came in form of a large creature charging towards them,it was built like a sabre-toothed tiger but with slimy tentacles under its mouth.
(Ew)" was Louie's reaction to the tentacles.
The creature walked forward to Donald and the tentacles suddenly seemed to embrace him.
" What is this creature?"
" A graphorn"
The answer came not from Donald,but from Huey who still read the script.
" Wait, you came so far already?" Donald Said,a little impressed.
" Yeah,this was very interesting,if I read correctly mountain trolls ride these creatures and I can't stop to read,I want to know more".
But then he read something that's broke his heart:
"Wait, are these the only ones left?"
Donald saddened as he nodded,and explained the situation:
" Yep or at last they are the last breeding pair in existence,and if I hadn't rescued them it would have been the end of graphorns"
But then he noticed something horrible:
" Wait, the child is missing,this isn't good!"
He quickly tossed a bit of food to the creature before continuing with the kids after him and then Dewey asks his First question:
" So are you rescuing these creatures?"
Even in his big feeling of panic,he just had to answer this question:
" Yeah,that's right I rescue,nurture and protect them, I am also trying to educate my fellow wizards about them." He said before muttering:
"Even if that seems a bit impossible"…
He continued to a bamboo wood that seemed to get bigger as soon as they stepped in and the kids' excitement just got bigger and bigger with more they saw,they followed Donald through the Woods as he called out:
" Titus,Finn,Poppy,Marlow,Tom?"
They came to a small tree,covered in sunlight and at their approach some stick-like creatures came out of the leaves,Webby liked them immediately:
" Awww, what are those cuties?"
This time Donald answered:
" They are called bowtruckles,adorable creatures,but they can be dangerous too".
Then a bowstruckle pokes its head out of his vest pocket and he quickly picks it up,and introduces him.
" This is Pickett"
Webby slowly reaches toward him:
" Oh he's so cute!"
Donal was a bit worried "Be careful,he can be a bit defensive…"
But instead of hurring her,Pickett jumped in her open palm and she brought him closer on her face and said:
" Hi little guy,you are just so adorable".
Pickett looks at her a bit then he strokes his fingers against her face, a sign of friendship.
She gave him back to Donald who tried to set him on the tree but he refused.
" Pickett,come on,they are not going to bully you,come on".
But Pickett just kept clinging to his fingers,so he gave up and put him back in his pocket.
" Okay little one,don't worry they will be nice someday".
He walked away a bit and saw a empty nest:
" Great,Dougal is gone too"
And he heard some chirps from a nearby nest and quickly went to it which calmly speaking to the tiny baby snake like creatures in it:
" Don't worry,Mom's here,Mom's here"
He picked one up and it curled around his cupped hands, calming down,while the kids came walking towards him,Huey gave him the script back having finished it.
" Thank you,that was so awesome!"
He smiled a little, but instead of taking it back he took out his wand and it flew back to the shed.
" You're welcome"
Webby and Louie immediately recognized them as the creature from the egg in the bank earlier this day:
" Wait, I know these guys" Webby said.
" Occamys" Donald
Louie really started to realize something:"Mr duck?"
" You know what just call me Donald"
" Donald, I don't think we are dreaming this"
He looked at him a bit amused and asked mostly for fun:
" How did you figure that out?"
Louie smirked and answered:
" Dewey isn't smart enough this out".
" Hey!" The mentioned boy said angrily.
Donald couldn't help but smirk a little himself and decided to distract the brothers from their little argument.
" Hey kids, do you want to help with the animals a little?"
This made everyone really excited ( even Louie who never did hard work if he didn't get something out of it).
" What can we do?" Huey asked desperate to begin helping these amazing creatures,and his question got answered immediately as Donald gave assignments to them,he gave Louie and Dewey a Bucket full of rats.
" Here, this are for the occamys here"
They immediately began to feed the baby occamys very carefully,while Donald continued to give out assignments to the two last kids,Webby got a bucket of pellets and Huey got a bag full of bird seeds, and Donald directed them towards their goals:
He looked at Huey and gave him a whistle. " You need to go to the little forest over there and just whistle and when the snidgets , little ball, like birds come, grab some seeds and hold them out, wait until they are floating and please make sure they eat everything,they need their food".
Huey smiled,saluted and said:
" Don't worry I got this",he walked away.
" And what am I going to do?" Webby asked.
He pointed to a staircase behind them and said:
" Walk up there and when you come to a moonlit rock face and there you will meet the mooncalfs cute creatures with big blue eyes and then you just take out the pellets,they will do the rest".
She gave a thumbs up and walked away,while he took a wheelbarrow and began his work, but then he noticed another animal missing,one he already had to capture before.
" Teddy is gone, why am I not surprised,he never misses the opportunity to get something shiny."
Huey walked to the little forest covered in beautiful gold leafed trees,he put the whistle to the mouth and blowed,some moments passed and then four golden feathered birds come like a missile towards him,but slowed down just near his face and lowered down to his open hand,where they landed and started picking the seeds.
" This is fantastic!" He whispered.
Meanwhile Webby walked up the little staircase which she tried to imagine a conversation with Lena about all this.
" Hey Pink,what did you do today?"
" Oh me I was in a magical suitcase and took care of the awesome creatures inside them"
She laughed to herself as she reached the top and had the rockface in front of her and from it skipped the mooncalfs towards her.
" Hey little ones,Here's your food!"
She reached in the bucket,took some pellets and Held them out and they flew out towards the creatures that began their feast. She continued to feed them,clearly enjoying this just like the boys did.
Donald looked at her from a distance as he creabing a luminescent creature while also feeding it with a bottle,and even if he wouldn't say out loud he very slowly felt a connection with the kids,they actually seemed to see these animals as living beings,not monsters.
" They are actually good kids" he thought as he walked away to leave the creature he just feeded and to see how the others had been doing.
Webby had finished her job when she heard something,a kind of icy cry echoing nearby.
She turned towards the sound and saw a certain billowing open,revealing an icy landscape,where a small oleaginous black mass is suspended in mid-air.
She walked into the snow landscape for a closer look. She just wanted to see what the mass really was. She got closer and then the mass seemed to react. Some tiny tendrils appeared out of the mass and moved towards her and then she had been Captured by them and pulled towards the mass.
She tried to pull herself free but it was impossible,she was trapped.
" HELP!" She screamed so it was heard in the entire case.
She heard steps running towards her,but her focus was totally on the thing before her,she heard something from it,screaming and…. was it begging for help?.
" Just get rid of it,please,get it out of me please!"
She needs to help the person inside, she must….
But then she saw a bright light behind like from a train's headlamp and she got released from the mass who shrunk back to just a moving black ball.
" Everyone back away from it!" Donald said as he pushed them back out while Dewey tried to comfort Webby.
"Everything's all right Webs,don't worry" he said as he put his arm around her shoulders,but it didn't seem to work,she just kept staring at the black mass clearly in shock.
" W,what is that?"
" It's an obscurus,a creature born from trauma".
" Uh,what?" Louie asked,confused
Donald didn't answer,he quickly took out a small bottle with a green liquid and gave it to Webby.
" Drink this it will help"
She swallowed it and the scars she got from the tendrils healed instantly.
"Thank you" she said.
" Are you okay,kid?"
" I don't know that was horrible and I don't get really scared so easily," she said with a shakily voice and a desperate attempt to get some humor in the situation,but it didn't really work.
"Why did it attack me?"
"I don't know,I don't know,but don't worry it won't do that again,you are safe now I promise"
She calmed down at least a bit and decided to switch the conversation to something else rather quickly.
" What will you do about your missing creatures?"
Donald got a serious look and had the answer already:
" I must find them before they get hurt"
" They get hurt?" The kids asked in unison.
" Yeah,kids you see they are all out there in Alien terrain surrounded by millions of the most vicious creatures on the planet:people"
But he continued with:
" But believe me I want to make sure that no one gets hurt,not the creatures,or the people in the city"
He looked at one habitat resembling a large african enclosure and decided he needed to get it first:
" Now I haven't been here in years,so could you tell me where a medium sized creature who likes nice broad open plains,trees,waterholes, those sort of things,where might she go?"
" In Duckburg?" Huey asked
" Yes"
"Plains?,Well that would be Duckburg park"
" Okay,and where is that?"
This question shocked them,wasn't this his hometown?
" Wait haven't you grown up here?" Louie asked,his confusion very High.
" Yeah shouldn't you know this town like the back of your hand?" Webby said.
Donald seemt a bit unsure what he was going to say but he decided with the truth or at least a bit of it.
" I lived here full time under my first ten years but when I was eleven a accident happen and I lost my parents so I never really left my house because of my grief and when I got my letter to my wizarding school I traveled all the way to England to go there and just came here on summer and christmas vacations,so I never really got to know it so much"
" Oh that's so sad,you lost your parents and were forced to leave your home"Webby said,looking very upset at his story.
Donald smiles calmly and comforted her:
" Don't worry it wasn't so bad, I mean, I got to go to an amazing school, which I chose since my dad went there,I learned so much and I found a big goal in my life,protect the innocent magical creatures in this world".
They all smiled at him,proud at how he chose to live his life.
" Okay again, where is the park?"
The kids looked a bit uncertain at their decisions they had,they wanted to help their new friend find his animals since they had the case in the first place,but they didn't want to hurt Daisy,or Minnie,they had taken them in gave them food and had been kind to them (one in her own way),so they decided to first bring that up:
" Believe me we want to help you" Huey began then Webby took over:
" Yeah we want but don't you think that's mean that's mean to our's hosts"
Louie finished with:
" They took us in,made us hot chocolate…"
" Believe me,I understand,that you want to treat them well,but I think it's best if we leave now,because when they notice that you have stop sweating (he pointed at Louie) they will obliterate all of you in an instant".
" What does that mean?"
" It's like you wake up,and all memories of magic is just gone"
" Wait so we won't remmber any of this?" Webby asked,wanted to be sure.
" No"
Hearing the kids knew what they would do,this new world is fantastic,they don't want to forget it,who would?
" Okay,we will help you" Webby said and asked the boys:
" Right guys?"
They nodded with determination,ready to fix this problem.
" Well then follow me"
They went to the shed and they climbed up the ladder,Dewey was the last but then he notice something on a shelf close to the ladder, it seemed like a framed photo.
He picked it up and saw that it was a photo of two kids one dressed as a pilot and the other like a weird emo kid,and behind them stood a duck with a famliar top hat.
He saw the girl and he could rencongize the scarf anywhere:
" Mom?"
" Hey Dewford are you coming?"
So many thoughts filled his mind as he put back the photo and climbed up the ladder but only one thought constantly remained:
" Who is this guy?"
" AN/ I hope you like this chapter it was fun to write, and please tell me what you liked about the changes I showed here,it would be nice to know.
