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The first light of dawn fades in at the horizon, slowly waking up the nature; setting it in motion. Oswald's watch is ending, "Everybody! Wake up! First light is coming up guys." He shouts to his heart content and smiles as he hears groans in all tents and of course, Donald is the one waking up with the wrong foot.

"THIS IS TOO EARLY!!!!!" he screams followed by laughter from Oswald and Goofy.

"It was your choice to wake up early so that we can cover more grounds by daylight dude." Goofy claims while suiting up in his tent.

"Damn right I did, why did I say that?" Donald grumbles.

The group eat their breakfast around a small fire camp, packs their tents and by the time the first rays of sunlight reaches the top of the trees, they are on their way.

"Better now Donald? Full awake now?" Ortensia asks sheepishly, looking for a funny reaction.

"Yeah, yeah, doing better. Why did I open my mouth?" Donald muses a bit. "Geez, this morning was brutal. Brutal to me at least. I never thought that it was that early but yeah, I'm looking forward to arrive in Twilight Town."

"Me too." Ortensia adds "I can't wait to be there either. It's actually great that there is a gate to End Of Sea from there as well. You guys know that I saw Mickey once or twice when he was still here so I don't know much about him but what do you think triggered his interest in magic in the first place?"

"I think it's when he found an old book about arcane in the academy's library. He loved the mystery behind it. He liked being a swordsman which I thought it was insane enough because of his sword of choice. A freaking great sword, close combat no range advantage, I tried to get some answers from him but he kept answering with the same respond 'Trust me bro, I got this.'. I'm sure he did, I would even bet that he had a plan or something." Oswald pauses for a few seconds. "Do you guys think he was hiding something from us? He was a bit reserved after all."

"Maybe. He was quite the introvert and he analyzed a lot of things internally. He Might have had an idea or a plan but is it still in place though?" Goofy asks.

"We might or will never know." Ortensia answers. "However, he showed to be more at ease with magic then with a sword and he was already good with it, so I can get why he moved to another school."

Oswald smiles. "I'll have a big talk with him, going to recruit him hahahahaha."

"Oh honey" Ortensia jabs her shoulder in her husband's side.

Silence...silence...silence...

Everybody enjoys the moment of calmness falling on them. The surrounding landscape is still rocky but flatter and still lacks of other colors but brown. A few dry trees here and there but that's about it...boring.

"This place is dead, absolutely dead here" Donald comments "It never rains here, does it?"

"Almost never actually" Goofy answers, "it's mostly like this all year long."

"Interesting, good thing that we are reaching the Deep Jungle in either tonight or tomorrow. I'm getting bored of this landscape. I hate it now, there's nothing but rocks here and a few dried trees." Donald grumbles.

"Those trees are not as dry as you might think. They carve and form caves with their roots and somehow manage to stock up water from the rare rains as well as some of their roots digging deeper and deeper for more water. Those trees are fascinating." Goofy finishes.

"You sure know a lot about "trivial" things. You have a massive library at home so why am I surprised? I would never spend that much on books." Donald scratches his head looking at Goofy in awe.

"You don't have to if you don't want to. I'm hungry for knowledge and I go for it. I see a book that I don't have, I just buy it on the spot." Goofy admits sheepishly.

"No wonder you were almost broke after the academy. You bought thousands of books, haven't you?" Ossy was dying for an answer.

"Yeah, I lost count a long time ago." Goofy laughed

"You bookworm." Ortensia jokes.

The groups keep on chattering about things they did right after they graduated. They briefly stop to eat and have a drink but since they could see Deep Jungle drawing at the horizon, they decide to keep on walking and see how far they can go before sun sets completely. Once the last ray of the sun disappears completely, they all agree to set up camp for the night.

"We will reach Deep Jungle tomorrow morning easily. It should take us about four days to cross it completely and then three more days to arrive in Twilight Town. We will do it faster then that, seeing how fast we are walking so let's keep this rhythm." Oswald says while reading a traveling map.

"Easy to keep the rhythm for you guys. I have to do two steps for one of your steps." Donald quacks as he is pitching his tent.

"You are not that small Donald. You are walking at our pace and you are doing fine." Ozzy remarks. "You are getting back into shape."

They all settle on the same watch order they did previously before going to bed. The night is rather calm and noises from the Deep Jungle could be heard from here. Ortensia's turn ends and Donald takes his turn.

A swarm of bats flies on the top of him toward the Deep Forest, very close to each other, however, the swarm suddenly changes direction and seems like hovering over the camp. Donald hears the noises created by the wings but cannot find the source until he looks up.

"Uuhh guys? WAKE UP!!!! We might have some company." Donald yell out loud as he reaches for his pistol. The swarm dives in without any warning and Donald barely escapes it. The cloud of bats hovers still above the ground and slowly fuses into a humanoid wearing a long black coat, leather clothes. His face is almost fully covered by long black hair. He stands at a safe distant and reaches his hair with his left hand, moving it to the side revealing his left red glowing eye and his mouth already open showing his fangs. "I'm so thirsty, you'll do fine for tonight.". Donald almost loses all his feathers at the sight.

"VAMPIRE! IT'S A FUCKING VAMPIRE!!!!!" Donald manages to voice loudly before the others storms out of their tents.

"A vampire here already? They travel that fast." Oswald whispers, guns already pointed at the vampire. "mmmm let's be careful here, we know what vampires can do but we never fought one."

"Silver bullets armed, we don't have so many so let's be careful with those." Goofy communicates while aiming his pistol on the foe.

"Pistol is the best weapon knowing how fast they move, they have the less recoil then what we currently have." Ortensia whispers to the other members. "I suggest a back to back formation."

"Good call." Donald and Goofy covers each other's back; same with Oswald and Ortensia.

"Well well," the vampire smirks "Looks like I found some hunters who actually knows something about our kind. This will be interesting." He laughs right before moving toward the group at an astounding speed. Goofy shoots first, hoping that the bloodsucker would either take the bullet straight on or change his direction, giving an opportunity to shoot him down or deal some serious damage. Interestingly, the vampire takes the bullet straight on and barely claws Donald and Oswald if it wasn't for them to dive for safety.

"Flash news little ones, we got cured by Maleficent and The Horned King. They fully knew our weaknesses and they did something about it. We no longer fear crosses or silver bullets, I think now I'm going to play a little bit with you now." The vampire giggles.

"Well, we are fucked in that case." Goofy almost whimpers.

"Oh yes you are." The bloodsucker lifts his right hand, black smokes emanates from it and trails of black fires slithers on the ground at high velocity toward the group.

"Run! Do not let those flames reach you. Once they touch a part of your body, that part is dead." Goofy speeds up and attempts to stagger the foe by shooting more rounds. 'Come on, come on, find a weak spot, find a weak spot.' He empties his magazine with no luck and the flames are visibly getting closer and closer. Ortensia also empties her magazine and sadly, no cigars. Donald however, manages to shoot right in the eyeball of the vampire, making him scream in pain and causing the flames to fade out quickly.

"Arrgghh you idiot, you shot my eye, MY EYE!!!!! You stupid duck, I'm going to gut you alive." His body glows red and the injury visibly closes and heal. "There we go, good as new."

"Flipping hell! He can regenerate?" Donald's eyes become as wide as dinner plates. "This is really bad, we cannot kill him if we don't know his weak points. We are tiering ourselves out, that's what he wants us to do."

"But we cannot flee either" Ortensia notes "He will hunt us down. We are in a bad spot, a terrible spot."

Nobody spots a shadow figure higher in the sky, soaring over the camp. He summons his first spell, the tents and every belonging glow white.

"What is happening to our stuff?" Oswald exclaims

"It's a teleportation spell...wait Oswald, you are glowing as well. Ortensia, Goofy...even I am glowing..." Donald answers, blinded by the light.

Before the vampire could make his next move, the whole camp along with its owners disappears, leaving no trace behind. The shadow figure is gone and the only noise we could hear is the scream of rage from the bloodsucker.