Tales of the Disneyverse

Brave Spirit

            Having more fun than she could admit in the guise of Merida, Genevieve walked the halls of the merged castles of DunBroch and Sir Ector with Merlin and Wart. As she walked alongside him, Merlin took notice in the particular way she walked in her Merida disguise. "N-No, my dear," he addressed her as they moved. "You're doing it all wrong."

            Genevieve gawked at him in confusion. "What's it I'm doin' wrong, Merlin?" The Scottish twang that came with the disguise still took some getting used to for her.  

            "Your walk," answered Merlin. "It's too...you."  

            Genevieve looked down at herself as she walked: her arms swung calmly down at her sides and her hips swung slightly from left to right – it was the way in which a woman casually walked, but it was not the way a woman like Merida normally did. "Right," she said. "How 'bout this?" She began swinging her arms more briskly and brought them up to chest level, and her hips were kept stiff.  

            "Good, good!" Merlin exclaimed. "She's a very prideful girl, so you must have pride in your step."  

            Wart smiled. "She certainly looks like Merida now."  

            Genevieve smiled herself, now fully getting into character as she, Merlin, and Wart walked into the dining hall that was one-half DunBroch and one-half Ector. Her smile soon faded when she noticed that Fergus and Ector were engaged in a screaming match with each other, arguing over the disappearance of Merida. Elinor tried to stand in between the two men and keep them from tearing each other apart, while Kay, Ector's son, sat idly by at the dining table and gnawed on the bone of a turkey leg like a dog. His table manners made Genevieve sick to her stomach as she noticed the mix of saliva and grease around his mouth.  

            "You're the one who's got to be behind this, Ector!" Fergus yelled, his heavily masculine voice as big as he was, loud enough to shake the walls of the room. "You knew of my daughter's betrothal and how it's happenin' soon!"  

            "I knew of no such thing, DunBroch!" Ector shouted back in defense. "You are wrongfully condemning me, and I will not stand for it!"  

            "Oh, is that so?" Fergus barked, moving in threateningly close to Ector. "What ya gonna do about it?"  

            "Fergus." Elinor calmly said, trying to get an arm in between them as she saw their bellies practically touching.  

            "I'll do this!" Ector bellowed before shoving the bigger and taller Fergus.  

            The two men transitioned from screaming to shoving each other, forcing Elinor to back away in fear of getting caught up in the violence. Fortunately, before things got much worse, Elinor caught sight of Genevieve and cried, "MERIDA!" Hearing her, Fergus and Ector ceased their shoving and also took notice in Genevieve's presence there in the dining hall with Merlin and Wart.  

            Fergus and Elinor immediately went to her and showered her with hugs and kisses. Smiling and laughing, Genevieve was relieved that her presence brought peace over the room. "I'm alright, Mum and Dad. I'm alright."  

            Relief quickly turned into anger with Elinor as she asked Genevieve in a strict tone, "Where have you been, young lady? You've had the entire castle worried sick about you!"  

            Genevieve was about to respond, but she stopped when she realized that she had no reasonable excuse to explain the absence of "Merida." With Fergus and Elinor standing there waiting for an answer, she knew that she had to come up with something quick. That was when she recalled her viewing of the Brave movie when she was Sean Thomas, seeing all that Merida had done in the early parts of it. Putting on a big, confident smile, she told them, "I was out climbin' Crone's Tooth, and I drank from the Fire Falls."