I'm A Big Bad Tiger

Options Are Shrinking

"Long time no see, Zevon." Jay doesn't sound happy.

"Zevon?" Jane questions.

"Sounds like a laundry detergent, right?" Freddie looks at her. I giggle.

"No doubt you've heard of my mother, Yzma, but today my evil machilitions will bridle her own!" Zevon walks towards us.

"I think you mean 'machinations'." Freddie tells him.

"Don't be so condescendinating!" Zevon points at Freddie.

"Don't you mean smart?" I roll my eyes.

Carlos walks in front of us. "Wait. So, how did you get off the Isle?"

"It was all thanks to Mal." Zevon smirks.

"Audrey was right. Mal was behind all this!" Jane makes me wanna say "exqueese me?"

"Exqueese me?" I slap her back.

"No. I would like to think she came back for me. I always imagined there was a spark between us." Zevon turns around.

Carlos clears his throat. "The island?"

"Oh. Right. So, two days ago, when Mal came to the Isle, she opened the protective dome for a few precious seconds. I was watching-not that I sit around and watch Mal, it's just, uh, anyway-when she finally left the Isle, I boldly slipped out as the dome was opened." Zevon is the best at story telling. Not!

"And you swam all the way here?" Carlos is now an interviewer.

"No, just part of the way. Then I got a ride with a friend." Zevon turns around.

"Ahoy!" CJ swings into the room on a rope.

"CJ?" The others sound surprise in a bad way.

"CJ!" I hug her.

"Hey, girl." She hugs me back. CJ is awesome, just not as awesome as my blood siblings.

"What are you doing here?" Carlos asks.

"Hi, guys. Did I tell you I got my own ship? Well, more of a row boat, actually, but it's a start." She walks over to Jay. "Hey, cutie." She squeezes his bicep. I growl. "I gave Zevon a ride in exchange for a full fifty foot scooner when he takes over Auradon."

"Takes over?! You? Please! Wait! Why?" Carlos asks.

"To fulfill my family's destiny! To rule an empire! Auradon will be mine!" Zevon reveals Jafar's staff.

"Hey, that's my dad's scepter! That should be in the museum!" Jay points to the staff.

"No! It belongs in the hands of the king Zevon!" Zevon jumps on top of a table.

"Not if we can stop you!" Jay leads us into battle.

"Babam!" Zevon throws a potion at us. We run backwards.

"Whoa! Whoa!" We all shout.

"Guess it's time for the potion portion of the show." CJ smirks at me.

"CJ, I thought we were friends." I latch onto papa's cage tighter.

"Not anymore." She slaps me.

"The school's chemistry lab had nearly all the ingredients I desired." Zevon takes out another potion.

"Try running backwards!" Jane suggests. We do that and we run towards them.

"Badoom!" Zevon throws a potion at us, but my friends push me out of the way and I fall backwards to the floor. They start spinning uncontrollably.

"Find Mal and Evie!" Jay tells me.

"I'm not leaving without you guys, babe!" I shoot an angry look at CJ. "We will get revenge!"

"As if." CJ scoffs.

"Stop this madness, Zevon!" I demand. I stay on the floor.

"As fun as this is, I have a kingdom to take over, so...kablam." He shrinks them. He picks them up, crackles and drops them into the lamp CJ is holding. Where did she get that from? I don't know! "Oh, look how little you are."

"Especially Carlos." CJ closes the lid.

"Hey! Those are my friends!" I stand up.

"You're friends with an AK?" CJ glares at me.

"You're friends with Zevon?" I look away.

"You say it like it's a bad thing." Zevon smirks.

"Because it is!" I hug papa's cage.

"What's in the cage?" CJ asks.

"My papa." I smile. CJ grabs the cage. "No!" I push her over and I take papa out of the cage. CJ drags me over to Zevon so I grab his staff and I zap myself so I can run normally. I run away with papa in my hands.