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Day 27:AU - Jim Lake

What if NotEnrique was late to save Jim after his date. Season 3 Episode 4-5
Jim is about to fall down a black hole made by the Shadowstaff controlled by Morgana. "Claire if you're in there do something, anything!" "Claire is not here!" She says in a creepy voice she then steps on his hand and he falls into the void. Morgana celebrates her victory with the TrollHunter stuck in the Shadow realm with no way back and without missing a beat she gets hit from the back of her head with a frying pan. "That's for grabbing my scruff!" Not-Enrique looks around the room and sees that all the living room furniture is gone and that there was no Jim when he knew that he was with her. "Oh this is not good." Jim doesn't know where he is but he has to get back and soon. He looks around and sees that there is large stones flying around and that it's all darkness doesn't seem good. "Ok I have to find a way out of here and fast." Jim swims forward to find a way out. After tying up "Claire"Not-Enrique calls from Claire's phone (yes he knows her password it's called being a nosey brother) he calls Toby, who calls Blinkey, to help them find Claire and Jim. When Toby arrives he sees that Claire is tied up and was about to untie her until she woke up and rose up from the ground with the chains flying around her. "Release these shackles or I shall wear your spine as my crown." "Woah that is not Claire!" "Yeah I was about to tell you that before you almost released her." She used her power to knock them to the ground and by that point Blinkey was there just in time and put an extra lock on the chains. "What happened?" Not-Enrique answered. "I don't know all I know is that Claire has some weird thing happen, they went on a date and the next thing I know Jim is gone and Big Eyes is possessed by her!"
"Now, now, don't say that I Baba Yaga, The Lady Pale, Eldritch Queen, The Mother of Monsters, Mistress of Shadows, i have slain scores of Merlin's fools and I shall have your TrollHunter as my next victim!" Blinkey gasps as she is lifting off the ground and the wind increases. "This is far worse than I could ever imagine!" Him and Toby goes to get her back to the ground. "I know who this is Morgana, she is the creater of the Shadowstaff, Merlin's apprentice."
"Oh little Lambs, my work here is done Gunmar know how to bring the eternal night, all you can do is sit back and watch as the world burns." "What?!" "That's not possible. With what relics? What magics?" "Ehem, if I may I think we can ask that another day, but I think we have a bigger problem. Where and how are we going to get Jim and Claire back?" Not-Enrique asks. Blinkey knows that she will not answer but he didn't know the answer so he slipped down with disappointment. With that answering Not-Enrique's question. "Well I think I know someone who knows." Jim has been wondering for a while and as he gets farther away from where he was he starts to see Claire's furniture floating around, but then the thing that really freaked him out is seeing Claire's house. "That's got to be something." So he goes toward the house wondering what lies ahead. Strickler arrives at the house and sees that Morgana has taken control of Claire's body so he pulls out the Book of Ga-huel. To try to figure out what has happened to Claire. What do you think?" Not-Enrique asks. "This isn't going to be easy. Dealing with Dark Magic is never easy and it may come with a cost, but we all want to safe Claire and Jim don't we?" They all look at each other. Blinkey answers. "Go on with it." "Morgana is using her as a vessel, a puppet, a toehold into our plane of reality. But where, where is the real Claire?" Strickler shines a magical light at her and Toby notices that she didn't have a shadow. "Of Course the Skathe-hrűn! The Shadow staff! Claire's spirit is trapped in the space between worlds, the shadow realm and there might be a chance she trapped our TrollHunter there too." Toby asks. "How do we get them back?" "There is only one way. Someone must find Jim and find Claire's spirit in the spirit realm and return it to her body. But we must do so quickly the longer Morgana stays in her, the stronger the hold on Claire." Morgana laughs. "You will never find them. You will meet your death first." Toby agrees to go but Not-Enrique trusts him to do it alone so he agrees to go with him.  They get everything that they will need and the incantation with Blinkey and Strickler staying behind to watch the staff and watch Morgana. They both walk through the portal to go find their friends. Jim arrives at the house and walks inside he sees that it's not as light as it is in the real world and no lights can turn on and when he tries the tv it just showed Claire's memories. Jim walks upstairs and starts hearing a baby crying so he walks into Enrique's room and looks into the cradle. "Enrique?" But when he looks inside there is no Enrique but the crying gets louder. "Enrique!" Jim turns around and sees Claire see through and she walks past him like he wasn't there and goes to get the invisible baby. He tries to get her attention but realizes that she doesn't know where she is or what is going on. At that point he hears something down stairs,. He pulls out his sword and starts walking down and was about to fight whatever was down there the sword was at the throat of who was down stairs and the one who was about to be sliced sreamed. "Tobes! What are you doing here? Where are we?" "I'll explain." Not-Enrique comes out from the other room to explain what he knows. "So Claire is stuck here and we have to bring her back to her body?" "Yep." "Well that's going to be tough." "Why?" Toby asks. Jim gestures them to follow him upstairs and they find Claire doing homework and that they couldn't get her attention. "Yeah we can't even drag her out." "Well if we don't get out of here she will be having permanent roommates. That's us Jim!" "Yeah I got it." Jim tries again and gets frustrated then knocks over her books, she sees that her books have fallen. "The books Jim, She saw them Fall!!" She goes to pick them up, Jim kicks one of them she gets scared. "Do it again!" "I'll do one better." He grabs her notebook and pen to write a note and makes her read it and once she reads it everything around her changes and she starts freaking out. They explain what happened and then they try to get themselves back home with the same delema as the episode they were able to get home.