End Of Our Worlds? Not today Chapter 08
#8 of EOOW? NT
Oswald, Goofy and Donald are checking their inventory. They are in a large room with a long, round, wooden table in the middle completely buried under different types of ammos, weapon parts and books. The trio are cleaning up their weapons, deconstructing and taking them apart, making sure everything is in good shape and then rebuild them. Nobody's talking, the only noises that you can hear are the cleaning tools used and the ticking of the clock. Oswald focuses as much as possible but his mind often is interrupted by questions he is dying to ask to Mickey. 'What did it felt like to be in the crystal?', 'How was your studies, how intense was it?". So many questions that needs answers but it has to wait; it does not help that vibrations caused by the duo training can still be felt. The lucky rabbit looks at the clock while still working on his guns robotically 'four hours already? This is nuts, how long are they going to keep training? What kind of test are they doing?' he wonders. He stands up, stretches his body and walks out of the room.
"Be right back, I'm going for a little walk to stretch out." He informs Donald and Goofy. He walks down the stairs of the tower to the training room where Yen Sid and Mickey were training. He peeks at the door, looking at what is going on inside and why there's so much ruckus.
"Good Mickey, good, keep on channeling your energy." Yen Sid walks around his student in a bubble shield, protecting himself from the surges of electricity coming from Mickey. Mickey comply and concentrates and his energy rises again and intensifies.
'holy moly, that would fry a freaking rhino on the spot.' Oswald gasps at the sheer amount of energy being released. 'All that energy is coming from a freaking bird?'
"alright, let's see what happens if I keep on feeding you with mana." Yen Sid strokes his beard.
"Again? Isn't that enough sir? I have yet to get use to what I have." Mickey replies sounding exhausted and lost. "What are you trying to do? I don't understand."
"You will understand in due time. Now, be quiet, will you? I'm concentrating." Yen Sid closes his eyes and raises his hands toward Mickey. A ball of mana forms a few inches from his hands and is release at high speed toward Mickey. The mouse flinches slightly as the ball disappears at the contact of his clothes. He feels his energy coming back to him.
"Woah, I feel weird." The mouse comments.
"It's normal, you will get use to it the more you do it." Yen Sid nods.
"No no, I mean...I feel weird...I feel sick." Mickey collapses without warning on the floor, bending forward spitting blood.
"Mickey!" Yen Sid runs to his apprentice side and examines his body. "I don't see anything amiss nor sensing anything weird. Where does it hurt? Tell me!" The mage holds Mickey gently, his voice stern but this time, he is scared.
"i...i...move back...please...move back..." Mickey whispers as his body convulses inward. Before Yen Sid can stand up, a shockwave sends him flying but he is quick to catch himself. A cyan aura engulfs Mickey's body and two huge wings burst out of the back of Mickey with a sickening noise of bones growing very fast. The wings' color scheme is the exact opposite of the swords; the right wing is near pitch black and the right wing is pure white; the wings are big enough to fully shield Mickey if they are wrapped in front of him. "It's hurts! It hurts so much, what is happening to me Yen Sid?" he pants, completely exhausted "Yen Sid?"
The sorcerer's look is a mix of awe and WTF. 'I've never thought that THIS would happen. What in the name of...' his thoughts are interrupted by his student's voice calling his name.
"Yen Sid? What is happening? What did you do? What did I do?" Mickey asks, nearly panicking, walking slowly toward his mentor.
"You fused, you fused with that creature. The mana I gave to you caused that, no doubt about that but what happened inside of you? More mysteries, more questions...this is interesting but at the same time, it's getting out of hand. Last thing we will do today, learn how to fly and tomorrow, we'll do more as well as your friends, I'll teach them some useful things."
Oswald, who watched the whole event, backs off and walks off back to Donald and Goofy. His mind still processing what he saw. 'Keep holding those questions for tomorrow buddy and what about us training? Magic is not our field at all, he knows that.' He arrives in the room and finds the table all cleaned up, except at his spot. Goofy is reading his book about monsters and Donald is stretching his body.
"Going to exercise today Donald?"
"Yeah, I need to move a bit, I have to much energy right now."
"Alrighty then." Oswald responds before going back to his guns to finish cleaning them up.
Two more hours flies by and no one speak during that time, no one dares to break the silence on the room until finally footsteps can be heard in the corridor. Ortensia appears at the door.
"Hey boys, how is it going here?" she asks in a monotonous voice.
"Pretty nice actually, checking our stuffs and just doing our own stuffs in silence. How about you?" Goofy asks while adding a bookmark to the page before closing his book.
"I'm worried, worried about what I heard, I don't know if it's good news or bad news. The latest report is that the gate releases other creatures that were forgotten or some shits, demons and more creatures. Also, it was reported by a dozen of scouts that The Horned King and Maleficent are not on good terms. They saw both of their armies attacking each other. A lot of people want to take this time to attack while they are killing each other." Ortensia informs them.
"That's a great call I must say." Oswald comments.
"Yeah, especially that the two baddies somehow don't know or hasn't notice that we are getting ready. We might have the element of surprise, if we do, we want to take this chance. So, they are organizing something very big. A three thousand army composed of Mages, Swordsmen and Gunners are going tomorrow. They want to act now and surprise, Scrooge is financing everything."
"UNCLE SCROOGE?" Donald nearly screams instantly before covering his mouth with both hands as realizing he goofed big time. "I wonder what deal has been made for him to finance something that does not make him win any money in return."
"Probably something like 'if you don't help us financing, we are all doomed', or in this sort OR like 'if you don't help, they will steal your money and your belongings.' Hahaha." Goofy jokes but still, there was a serious tone in his voice.
"Yeah, the latter sentence would work pretty well I must say." Donald admits.
"Also, honey, you are making the news as well. ' The great Oswald going back to his roots.' As a title in a small section of the newspaper." Ortensia smiles.
"Well, news spreads fast." Oswald gently smiles. "I'm going to talk with Mickey today and see if he is willing to join us."
"Oh, I think he will join you guys." Yen Sid speaks, nearly giving everyone a heart attack. "We trained quite a lot today but he is fine. He is just cleaning up right now but I asked him to meet here."
"He must be exhausted though." Ortensia comments.
"Not as much as you think, he is really happy with what we discovered today and...you'll see for yourselves." Yen Sid smiles.
About twenty minutes and bringing up Yen Sid to speed, footsteps can be heard in the corridor and Mickey is greeted with eyes as big as dinner plate when they see the set of wings.
"What the hell happened to you?" Donald quacks in surprise.
"Ehhhhh, still trying to figure it out." He scratches behind his head. "Oh boy this will take a while to get used to it." He moves his right wing over his body. "Cozy though."
Goofy walks to Mickey and touches his wings. "That's amazing, simply amazing. You can fly with them."
Mickey nods "We spent the last two hours training on that. It's quite an exercise but with more training, I should do fine. I will keep on training tomorrow and I think I'll be able to fight while flying in the next few days."
"I want to teach you a few useful things as well tomorrow as well." Yen Sid looks at the Oswald, Ortensia, Donald and Goofy. "You can aim but I want to sharpen your aim and senses. It will be useful. Mickey? Will you able to enchant their weapons?"
"Hell, yeah I will be able to do that. What do you have in mind?"
"Magazine enchantment and damage improvement enchantment." The sorcerer answers back. "I want those weapons to be as deadly as possible. Enchanting the magazine will change the bullet type. Perfect against any monsters, it will adapt. So that's what I have in mind. You take care of that and I'll do the rest."
"Ok, that sounds like a lot of fun." Oswald grins.
"Oh, believe me, it is. Now will you excuse me, I have some things I have to take care of. See you tomorrow for some training." Yen Sid walks off and waves goodbye to the group.
Mickey walks to one of the enchanted books on one of the book-shelf, grabs a massive book of at least four thousand pages and opens it on the table.
"Hey Mickey, got a few minutes? I really want to speak with you bro."
"Of course, it's been so long since we saw each other. So, what's up?"
"Well you might have heard what is happening and such. One of the reasons we wanted to stop in Twilight Town was to ask you if you wanted to travel with us. You know, forming a nice squad." Oswald watches the writings in the book, obviously not understanding a single sentence.
Mickey takes a few second to think and for him, the answer is more than obvious. "Of course; I will join you guys."
Oswald grins widely and can only grab his brother in a tight hug, his bunny tail wagging.
"I missed you Mickey" he whispers in his brother's ear.
"I missed you too Oswald, even if I was sleeping." Oswald pulls from the hug.
"I'm so happy you are joining us, this is going to be intense and I wanted to live this adventure with my brother and my best friends."
"We will stop them, it's a promise, bro." Mickey smiles back at his brother.