Red Shoes & the 7 Dwarfs

Chapter 11: Red Shoes' Kiss

Prince Average walked into his office, clearly defeated.

"Ah! What are you doing here!?" Prince Average asked frightfully as Regina stood before him.

"I've come for my shoes." She appeared before him with an outstretched hand.

"Well I had them I mean I saw them, but those, those dwarves-"

"So you failed?" She asked as she placed a hand on her hip and rolled her eyes in disappointment.

"This is just a calculated time out." Prince Average said so defensively.

"Silence! Have a bite." At the latter, Regina offered him an apple.

"Apples, the most suspicious of fruits." Prince Average said as he looked at the apple suspiciously.

"I don't have much time for this. Just remember, what's bad for me will be very bad for you. Lethal even." Regina winked as she disappeared. A moment later, Prince Average shrugged and decided to at least try the apple, thus he and his two guards took a bite of their apples, when suddenly they were transformed as a mysterious black smoke enveloped them.

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The next day, Pino, Nocci, and Cchio were able to get their wooden giant to fly with the use of the magic broom Red Shoes crash landed into their tree when she had first arrived there.

"That's amazing!" Red Shoes was thoroughly impressed as she watched Cchio making copies of the missing person's poster of her father with their invention. Merlin got jealous and pushed Cchio out of the way.

"Here, let me!" Merlin began making copies quickly.

"Let's do this!" Red Shoes jumped into the air as she hugged Pino, Nocci, and Cchio, thanking them for all their hard work. Thus, they loaded the posters into the wooden giant and took off flying

Red Shoes and Merlin decided to fly the magic broomstick on the back of the giant. Red Shoes was thoroughly excited, but Merlin was terrified. He did his best to put on his brave face in order to impress her, though his heart leapt into his throat as he closed his eyes. Then he felt Red Shoes' arms around him as he sighed in relief, imaging what it would be like not to be cursed and for her to be holding him in his princely form. Pino let the flyers go as Merlin whooped for joy.

"You know Merlin; I fell so lucky that I met you." Red Shoes said with a brilliant smile across her face.

"Oh, I feel so lucky that I met you too. I feel like anything is possible." Merlin stood as he once again imagined what it would be like for them to be standing at the front of the broom, Red shoes in front of him as he held her close, they shared a kiss as they then stared into each other's eyes dreamily.

"Merlin! Merlin! Watch out!" Red Shoes shouted as he opened his eyes and realized they were about to hit a tree. The two were able to aim the wooden giant up, but they were struck by the branches and fell off.

"Woah! Ahh!" Red Shoes and Merlin both yelled as they fell out of a tree and Merlin landed on top of Red Shoes.

"Merlin, Merlin, everything ok?" Red Shoes said dreamily as Merlin slowly opened his eyes and realized he was gripping onto her arm.

"Oh, yeah of course." He hopped up and began swinging his arms nervously.

"Nothing to be embarrassed about, so why are we talking about it? When we should be going, this way." Merlin quickly pointed to the direction of the "castle" as Red Shoes got up and began following him.

"Wait!" Red Shoes went after him.

"So, about these magic shoes." Red Shoes began rather nervously.