The end and beginning of something new.

Realm of the storm

Ventress scoffed, while Zilla tried to comfort her,

«Enough of this!» the witch barked, «Go, scatter, get lost.»

But Zilla sighed and just shaked her head,

«I won’t leave you like this, your highness. Even if the other’s do.»

«And why is that?» she was holding her hand over the place where the bullet had hit.

«You’re the only family I got,» Zilla began, «And you never lost faith in me… I want to return the favor.»

Ventress stared at her,

«Really?» she tilted her head, «Are you sure you’re in your right mind? That I haven’t cast a spell on you?»

Zilla furrowed her brow,

«Why would you do that?»

Ventress placed a hand on her shoulder,

«Go and find the others.» she said, «Follow Anakin and Ahsoka back to the their realm.»

Zilla gave her a confused look,

«But I want to follow you,» she protested, «You’re everything I have.»

The Mayor stared her into the eyes,

«If I really mean that much to you, you have to let me go.»

«But…»

«No but… You go now…» pushing her aside, «Hurry, before its to late…»

«I will remember this.» Zilla said, «I will always remember you…»

«I’m not your family,» Ventress tried to end, «They are: Anakin and Ahsoka.»

«That’s not true, because I first knew you.»

«I would keep that in mind.» She nodded, «Goodbye.»

And before Zilla could do anything more, a storm came and swept her away.

Swept everything away.

Dora

The main real realm

Princess Karinne stood still and stared at the unmoving rocks that blocked the entrance of the cave.

She felt even more frustrated with Kylo gone.

Just then, Mother Gothel appeared again, looking more magnificent than ever. But Karinne just stared at her, saying,

«You have caused us a lot of trouble, Dora. I suggest you move away this rocks now.»

Dora tilted her head,

«Rocks? I don’t see any rocks.» she turned away, not facing her, «Do you see them?» but she was not talking to the princess now. It was like if she was talking to ghost’s, «Where?»

Karinne put her hands on her hips,

«I’m right here, your creepyness!» she said, kind of insulted.

Dora slowly turned to face her again, holding a knife in her hand,

«Will you help me take the advantage?» a sinister smile across her face.

Karinne took a step back,

«What are you talking about?»

Just then Kylo came running back from whithin the cave, terrified,

«We have to get out of here!» he screamed, «The cave is haunted!»

He reached his sister, Karinne, who now stood in shock, like a statue, staring wideeyed at the sinister figure of an evil Dora, who smiled with all her teeth, saying,

«No one is more haunting than me!»

Kylo desperately took hold of Karinnes hand,

«If she’s the treath, we need to move! Come on!»

But Karinne wasen’t moving, as she stared into Dora’s eyes. Hardening her gaze,

«You think I’m afraid of you? I am not!»

«Karinne!» Kylo shouted, «What are you doing, we need to run!»

«No!» She moved her hand down to her boot, dragging out a weapon out of it, «We are more powerfull than you!»

Dora frowned,

«What?»

Now Kylo also stepped forward to her, with his sword,

«Yeah! Because we outrank you!»

«No!» Dora’s eyes was like lightning now, but all the sinister about her, seems like it was dissapearing, «You haven’t seen the last of me!» she shouted, «I’ll be back!»

«No you won’t.»

And so Dora was gone again, leaving them alone.

Redemption


Realm of the storm

Things haven’t gotten as expecting in the realm og the storm.

Zilla stared shocked at the Mayor and whitch. She couldn’t believe what had just happened,

«Ventress!» she screamed, running towards her.

Anakin stood still, his weapon going back in his hilt,

«That’s what she get’s.» he mumbled, «For threatening my sister.»

Ahsla stumbled towards him, confused,

«Skyguy?» feeling kind of dizzy,  «I’m awake now, too.»

«Good. It’s time for us to return to our own realm.»

«How?»

«It was all part of her plan.» lifting his gaze toward’s Ventress, «She knew all along how to get back. We just gotta be ourselves.»

Ventress snapped at Zilla who reached her side,

«Get lost!» she snarled, «Don’t trick me into thinking you care!»

«But I do care!» Zilla insisted, «I believe in you, and I know there’s still some good in your heart.»

Anakin put his arm around his sister,

«Let’s go.»

Ahsoka looked back toward’s Zilla and Ventress,

«Will they be fine?»

«Yes.»

Attack

Realm of the storm

 

Zilla walked slowly untill she came to the main roadway where the houses were on each side.

But then she saw her sister standing in the middle of the road with a knife at her throat.

It was Ventress who stood behind her, holding it,

«Don’t come closer if you want her to live!» the Mayor shouted, and Zilla stopped in shock,

«What? But I thought you were my friend!»

«You trust to easily,» Ventress spat, «We have nothing in common.»

Ahsla fixed her gaze at her sister,

«I’m sorry, sister…»

«And I’m sorry too!» Zilla suddenly heard behind her, before she felt a cold blaster in the back of her head, «Let Ahsoka go!» Anakin shouted, «Or Zilla here, dies!»

Ventress turned up a surprised look, her eyes darting between the two of them,

«Do you really think I care about that little brat?»

«I know you do!» Anakin continued, «So let my sister go! Now!»

Ventress tilted her head,

«If Ahsoka is your sister, ain’t Zilla so too? They are twins, after all.»

«No!» his finger were on the trigger of the gun, «Ahsoka is adopted, and I happen to be her brother! Zilla have nothing of this!»

Ventress answered with a wicked grin,

«Complicated!» holding her knife harder against her throat. Ahsla wined in pain and a little blood started dripping,

«This is your last warning!» Anakin came with, «Let my sister go!»

Ventress shaked her head,

«You really gonna shot one of your own? I don’t think you have it in you.»

«Zilla is your pet!» Anakin answered, «She means nothing to me.»

«Go on then,» Ventress went, «Shot her. I don’t care.»

«Fine!» he pulled the trigger. But the one he shot, was Ventress herself.

Gothel

The main Realm

The two children: Kylo and Karinne, stared surprised at the woman who claimed she was Mother Gothel.

And Karinne folded her arms over her chest,

«You don’t scare us, dear.»

And Kylo agreed,

«No. Because we are tough.»

«Actually, we think you are quite cool.» Karinne added on, «Can we have your autograph?»

Mother Gothel gave them a shocked expression,

«What? You’re not afraid?»

Karinne shaked her head,

«No, why should we be?» walking closer to her, «There’s only one of you, and two of us.»

«Yeah!» Kylo barked, «You’re our prisoner!»

Mother Gothel gave them a weird look,

«You seem to forget that you’re only kids, and that I’m an adult.»

«Wrong. We’re quite grown up ourself’s. Raised by the most remarkable villains.»

«Why don’t you join me then?» Gothel asked, «And we can…»

But Kylo held up a sword towards her,

«We don’t join the likes of you, because we are good people!»

«Yeah!» Karinne agreed, «We don’t follow in our parent’s footsteps.»

Gothel stared back at them,

«Suit yourself’s then.» she said in a villainous tone, «But remember, you will regret it!» and she disappeared in front of their eyes.

Anakin and Zilla.

Realm of the storm

 

Zilla turned slowly around and saw Lars standing there, few distances away, looking at her. But it was just that he was no longer Lars: He was Anakin now, because he had gotten his memory back when he touched the lightsaber. But Zilla didn’t knew that, and she stared grimly at him as she reached her hand for the weapon that were attached to her belt,

«What are you doing here?» she shouted at him, «Are you following me?»

«Zilla…»

«I know where this is going,» Zilla continued on with, «If you are here for an assault, I’m gonna have to ask you to leave!»

«Zilla!»

But she took up her weapon and pointed it at him,

«You have hurt me enough! And you don’t get to come any closer!»

Anakin frowned at her,

«I have no idea what you’re talking about!» he shouted back, «I’m not the villain here, you are!»

«What?» she lowered the weapon, «How come you don’t know?»

Anakin sighed,

«You never talk about your feelings… how are we supposed to know what you feel?»

Zilla turned away,

«I shared them with Ventress. She’d understand.»

Anakin stared shocked back at her,

«Ventress!?»

«Goodbye… Lars…» and then she ran away again.

Anakin stood looking after her, shaking his head sadly,

«No…»

Mother Gothel

The main realm

«Look at all that gold!» Karinne remarked once they were inside the cave, «We are rich! Definitely!»

But Kylo just shock his head,

«We’re not here for the gold, princess. We have to find that captain.»

But Karinne just couldn’t take her eyes from all that shining coins and jewels laying all around,

«It wouldn’t hurt to take just a little bit?»

Kylo sighed hard before laying his hands on her shoulders, looking her in the eyes,

«We ain’t that kind of folk’s, sister. Just like my father always says: Riches will fill other pirate’s with glee, but none of that pirate’s is we.»

Karinne scoffed at him,

«Huh! Then I’m afraid I don’t follow you…» walking ahead of him, «I come from a long generation of fine folk’s and…»

«No, you don’t. Because you don’t know your father, but I do.»

Karinne stopped, looking back at him, shock written all over her face,

«How dare you? I only have a mother…»

«And I only have a father…» Kylo continued, «Which means…»

«No… brother. It dosen’t mean anything.»

«My father has been looking for his daughter. He’s been traveling the realms, and he ended up here.»

«Stop it, Kylo.» Karinne snapped, «My mother abandoned me… why should I have a father?»

«Captain Hook is the only one who truly cares.»

«Oh yeah? I dosen’t believe you.»

«You dosen’t have to, but when we find him, you will see for yourself.»

«Guys!» it came from Dora who stood by the exit. She had blocked the entrance with her magic, letting a pile of rocks fall down over the opening, so that neither of them could get out, «It looks like we’re trapped!» she even had some different clothes on now. And with a creepy, little smile, she tilted her head, «Did I tell you who I truly am?» She walked forward to them, taking out a wand from the pocket of her red dress, «I’m Mother Gothel! And this cave is falling down on ya!»

Ventress and Zilla – Short tale

Realm created by a storm

«That was totally scary!» Zilla admitted to herself after running all the way to where she had her little tent under the bridge. Made of a scattered canvas from a ship.

«I’ll never…» gazing to the lake beneath her, «I’ll never do that again.»

It was then she heard the familliar voice of Ventress, coming towards her,

«Out here talking to your self, Apprentice?»

Zilla rose up from where she was sitting,

«Uh.. oh… what are you doing here?»

«Just wanna check on you, friend. How are you doing? Did it work? The lightsaber? Did he get his memories back?»

«I don’t know… but… it was all just totally scary…»

«I guess it worked then.» Ventress smiled, «because if it hadn’t, nothing would have happened.»

Zilla sighed,

«What are you really doing here?» she repeated, «I don’t want to talk to you.»

But Ventress just smiled, as she turned, and saw Lars heading towards them,

«There he comes!» she said in an ugly tone, «Ta-ta, for now.» and she hurried away.

The path

The main realm — A place where people just shows up:

 

The cadaverous Captain Hook and the calculating Captain Blackbeard.

Those two normaly fought against each other, but now fate had placed them together, and they were to stop two children from getting water over their head.

Karinne and Kylo hurried towards the mountain that were on the edge of winterland. They knew they would find what they where looking for there.

Or it was rather someone…

A eponymous pirate… or rather king of the seven seas.

Legend said that a ancient saber, and a giant creature with only one tooth, was the reason for the most fearsome being in the realms, known as…

«I can’t remember his name…» It came from Kylo.

«His name ain’t important.» Karinne reasured him, «Anyhow, I’m glad you don’t do, because we must not mention it.»

«Because he will come for us? Before we can get to him?»

«Yeah. And…»

«What’s the difference?»

Karinne shaked her head,

«If only you would…»

«Toothycat! Toothycat!» it came from Dora who walked ahead of them, «Toothycat, where are you?»

«Toothycat?» The two others repeated in unison, kind of shocked, «Who is that?»

«Its my talking buddy from wonderland, where my sister once lived.»

«And who is your sister?»

Dora turned around to look at them, kind of surprised,

«Why? It’s Alice, of course. I thought you knew that.»

«No… you never told us. But things aren’t what they seem like.»

«Stop right there!» it came from a dark voice further down road.

The children looked up to see two pirate-captains, blocking their way.

Dora vanished just in sight of them, and where nowhere to be seen, when they approched the pirates.

Captain Hook and Blackbeard.

«You will go no further!» Captain Hook continued, «It will only result in heartbreak and misery.»

«Who are you to stop us?» Karinne snapped back, «We are looking for the only one who might know something, how to bring people back from that other dimension…»

«We are also looking for my father…» Kylo cheamed in, «I haven’t seen him since the storm…»

«Then this is your lucky day!» Hook said, looking down at him. He recognized the boy, but because he was in disguise, Kylo couldn’t see who it was.

Captain Hook went by many names: When he was at the academy, he called himself for Captain Youthful, and to people who were close to him, he was Killian Jones. He was Kylos father, and he hadn’t been taken to that other realm. But at this moment, Kylo couldn’t see that it was him, and Killian didn’t want him to.

«This is your lucky day!» he repeated.

Kylo wrinkled his brow,

«What do you mean?»

«Just follow the trail up to the mountain, and the legend and the gold might be there, but watch out for…»

Karinne interrubted him,

«Thank you!» she said in a hurry, «We must be on our way.»

«Wait!» Kylo began, «Your voice, it’s sounds familliar. What’s your name?»

But Hook shook his head in silence,

«I promise you, son. You will find your father. In due time. Bye for now.»

The kids parted ways with them, and when they had walked one quarter of a mile or so, Miss Dora appeared again,

«What was that?» she asked, «The pirates, I mean?»

«How are we supposed to know?» Karinne answered.

«A distraction.» Kylo stated, «They wanted to lead us astray, but we won’t listen to them.»

Dora nodded,

«Right!»

But Karinne looked uncertain,

«Are you hundred procent sure?»

«Trust me, princess. Kylo know’s such things.»

And then they continued on untill they came to the bottom of the mountain where they could see a cave which they where to enter.

But Dora had a creepy smile on her face, as she slowly moved to walk behind them.

At the cave’s opening, she stopped, as the kids walked in.

«It’s the end of the path!» she thought, «This is where some real fun begins!»

Zilla and the curse: Second

Realm of forgotten memories

Zilla had been working at the diner for quite some days now, but she hadn’t seen anything to Ventress or the lightsaber she had been promised.

But as she was washing of tables and cleaning up in the area of the guests, she saw Lars and Ahsla, coming through the door, and making it to a table.

They sat down, taking up the menu.

Zilla watched them carefully as she was doing her job, making sure they didn’t know they was being watched.

But when they laid the menu down on the table again, she made it over to them with a block and a pen.

«Hi. Can I take your order, please?»

Lars looked up at her, and frowned.

«You again?» he crossed his arms over his chest, «Haven’t you anything better to do than to barge into people’s lives?»

«Lars!» Ahsla interrubted him, «You are being rude on purpose!»

«Maybe.» Lars said, «But she got to hear it.»

«No!» Zilla shaked her head in frustration, «I don’t know what your problem is, but I am just trying to be nice. And are you gonna order or not?»

Lars sighed,

«Two burger’s, please.»

«Noted.» writing it down, «Coming right up.» and then she strode back to the kitchen, «Two burger’s for table nine.» she said to the cheff who nodded.

She hung up the page from the block, and went to cut some vegetables, untill she heard:

«Servings to go! Servings to go!»

And she went back around to where the cheff stood, spotting two plates of food. She took them,

«Thank you.» and went back to the the table where Lars and Ahsla sat, chatting with each other, «Here you go.»

But Lars looked back at her with narrowed eyes,

«I hope you are enjoying your day!» he said sarcastically, «I didn’t know that you were working here now.»

Zilla looked back at him,

«But I do.» stepping back, «But you should be careful of what you say to a waitress!» she said, with head held up high, «Because maybe you find your food extra hot now!»

«What?»

«Enjoy! And bye, bye.» she left them, going back to work in the kitchen.

Some time went, and she saw them leave again, and she cleaned of their table.

At the end of the day, she saw Ventress coming through the door. The woman stopped in the middle of the area, looking around her.

«She must be looking for me.» Zilla thought, and made it over to her.

Ventress smiled when she saw her,

«Job done, carry on. Here’s the lightsaber.»

Zilla mumbled a thank you before hiding it under her sleeve.

«You can go home now.» the Mayor continued, «Or if you have any home?»

«Of course I do.» Zilla insisted, «Under the toll-bridge by the train-station.»

«Okay… I guess you’re finished with your day?»

«Yes. Just some cleaning left to do, but then I’m done.»

«Adieus, Zilla.» Ventress said, «Untill we meet again.»

Zilla walked back to the kitchen, doing some final touches before she went to change and make it home. But she was going to check on Lars and Ahsla on the way, to give Lars the lightsaber so that he could become Anakin again.

And when she finaly left the workplace, it was dark outside, and freezing cold.

Zilla hurried away untill she came to their house.

 «This is it.» she thought, before taking the lightsaber in her hand, «Time to get your memory back, Skyguy!»

She hurried towards their door, trying to ignore the cold, and she rang the bell.

The bell produced a sweet sound, which came from inside, before the door swung open.

Zilla looked up to see Lars standing there,

«What do you want?» he barked.

«I just came to give you something…» Zilla answered in an uncertain tone, holding out the lightsaber towards him, «It’s yours. And it will help you remember.»

«Remember what?» he snapped, before taking it from her, «What, Zilla? What?»

Zilla studied his eyes for a moment, but it was no change in them.

«I…» she slowly began, stepping back, «I don’t understand…» as sorrow came up in her face, «It was supposed to work…» sighing, «You should have your memory back by now.»

«I have no idea what you’re talking about.»

«Ventress…» Zilla mumbled, «Ventress…. she tricked me…»

«What have The Mayor to do with you all this?»

«I’m sorry… I’m sorry, Anakin…»

«That’s not my name, kid.»

Ahsla came up by his side in the door,

«What’s going on?» her eyes spotted Zilla, «Sister!»

«She was just leaving.» Lars said, stepping forward, «I warn you to not come here again!»

«But… Anakin… please… You got to remember… you got to…»

«That’s far enough!» he held up the lightsaber she had given him, «This:» pushing her backwards, «This is just some piece of shit!»

«It is your life!» Zilla yelled, looking right into his eyes, did she see something?

«Stop!» Ahsla shouted from where she stood, before walking down to them, «Sister…» eyeing Zilla, «Sister, stop. Please…»

«What?» tears welled up in her eyes.

Ahsla shaked her head,

«This isn’t going anywhere. Just… just leave us alone…please…»

Lars nodded slowly in agreement,

«Yeah! And take this with you!» forcing the lightsaber back into her hand, «Now be on your way.» he turned around, leaving Zilla standing there, «Come along, Ahsla.» he said.

Ahsla sighed, looking at Zilla one last time, before following her brother. But halfway back towards the door, Lars dropped to his knees, his eyes going inside his skull, showing all white.

«Lars!» Ahsla screamed, before glancing back at Zilla, «What did you do to him?»

Zilla took a few steps back, terrified, before she turned and ran away.

«Zilla!» Ahsla yelled after her, «I promise you! You will pay for this!» she then looked back to her brother, Lars, «Look at me, brother, please!» grabbing his shoulders, «Look at me!»

Lars breathed out slowly. Some moments went, and then his eyes turned to a normal state again.

But they had a different sparks to them now, and the way he looked at her, were strange.

«Are you okay, brother?» she asked.

Lars tilted his head before he frowned,

«Ahsoka?»

Ahsla wrinkled her brow,

«What?»

 

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