Tales of the Disneyverse

Morphomakeo! (The Gathering - Part Two)

          Genevieve, Adrienne, and Russell arrived within a whole different atmosphere in a flash of golden light. Upon their arrival, however, they nearly lost their footing as they stood in the most unstable piece of construction ever – the tilting tower of Sir Ector's castle. Thankfully, with a little luck by holding very still, the tower maintained balance. Seeing that Merlin was there in the tower with his talking pet owl (Archimedes) and his friend and pupil (Arthur Pendragon – a.k.a. "Wart"), Adrienne voiced her displeasure in standing inside of the unstructured tower: "You really aren't using magic to fix this death trap?"

            "I've been teaching Wart here the fundamentals to using smarts as a solution to problems rather than magic." Merlin remarked.  

            "In other words, the idiot's way." Adrienne reprimanded.  

           Archimedes heartily laughed. "Couldn't have said it better myself."  

            Merlin shot Adrienne a cold stare. "Oh, why am I talking to you? You're the cold-hearted, war-hardened one! I want to talk to the kind, sensible one!"  

            Adrienne smirked over his insult. "Cold-hearted?"  

            "Where did these people come from?" A startled Wart inquired, gesturing to Adrienne, Genevieve, and Russell.  

            "Remember what we told you, boy? About DunBroch arriving here from another land through a form of sorcery?" Archimedes said, opting to use the term "land" over "world" to avoid confusing Wart. "Well, those two women are sorceresses that come from another land themselves. They're fixing the problem."  

            Following on Archimedes' explanation, Merlin said, "Yes, and what a problem it's becoming. We—" He stopped as soon as he spotted Russell – an outsider – there in the tower with them. "W-W-What is he doing here?"  

            Genevieve held her hands up in protest. "Now before you go off, Merlin, just give me a chance to explain..."  

            "You both know what's happening to the universe as we know it!" Merlin yelled – his frustrations now clear. "Worlds are tearing apart from realms that are being crossed, and here you've brought one from another world, putting it in even greater peril?"  

            "I couldn't just leave him back where he was!" Genevieve shouted back.  

            "Well, what about his friends? Hmm?" Merlin queried.  

            Adrienne innocently shook her head. "That's what I tried to tell her."  

            Genevieve groaned over Adrienne's way of placing blame. "We can really do without your instigating."  

            "Alright, alright! We'll worry about the boy later." Merlin said. "Right now, we have more pressing matters to deal with. The daughter of King Fergus and Queen Elinor – Princess Merida – has vanished."  

            "Well, where is she?" Genevieve asked.  

            "No, my dear, I mean she has literally vanished – disappeared out of thin air!" Merlin reiterated. "It happened just a moment before you two – or three, I should say – arrived here in the tower."  

            "Oh, no." Genevieve unsettlingly muttered.  

            "Do her mother and father know?" Adrienne questioned.