Rescuing Patch, Mushu, Cri-Kee, Chirithy, and the Dream Eater Pets from Tamatoa/Shiny Part 2

*(After making it to the top of the clamshell, Kayley's group saw Tamatoa fast asleep and snoring loudly. Using some rope, they climbed down cautiously and once inside, they looked around for Patch, Mushu, Cri-Kee, and the Dream Eater pets when they noticed the concerned and frightened animals/creatures locked in a cage made from a literal rib cage next to a giant rib cage. They noticed and got happy and Patch, Mushu, Cri-Kee, and Chirithy turned happily to the rest of the Dream Eater pets)*

Patch: (Whispering) Told you they’d come back for us!

Mushu and Chirithy: (Whispering while Cri-Kee quietly and happily chirps a bit in agreement) Never doubt them!

Dream Eater pets except Chirithy: (Whispering) Cool!

*(They run up to the rib cage and Kayley, Garrett, Rika, Renamon, and Kairi's group kneeled down to it)*

Kayley: (Whispering) So how do we open that cage?

Kairi: (Whispering) I’m sure there’s a mechanism somewhere.

Garrett: (Whispering) Let's look.

Rika and Renamon: (Whispering) And hurry.

*(Aqua noticed a bone latch and lifted it up, and opening the cage, ushered Patch, Mushu, Cri-Kee, and the Dream Eater pets out, much to their happiness of being freed. Just when they hurried out, a familiar crab leg blocked the way and closed it, shocking Kayley's group. They looked up and saw Tamatoa smirking evilly at them)*

Tamatoa: I knew you’d return. I pretended to be asleep.

Ray: (Calmly shocked) Clever giant crab, he is.

Mushu: (Flatly) How were Patchy, Cri-Kee, the Dream Eater pets, and I supposed to know?

*(Kairi's group went up to him in anger)*

Xion: Prepare to eat some blasts!

Kairi's group except Xion: And suffer the consequences!

Tamatoa: Hold up, you’re Kairi's group, aren’t you? Splatter Phoenix’s fountain of youths?

*(Kairi's group got surprised)*

Kairi's group: You heard of us?

Tamatoa: I know the outside world from within my lair.

*(A short pause)*

Kairi's group: Enough talk!

*(Then Kairi's group fired blasts at his shell, but to their and Kayley's group’s shock and surprise, the blasts didn’t faze him. Tamatoa then began singing as he approached Kayley's group, who backed away up to the wall)*

Tamatoa: **Well, well, well**

**Little Kairi's group are having trouble with their magic**

**You little semi-little witchlings**

**Ouch, what a terrible performance**

**Get the brooms, get it?**

**You don’t sweep it like you used to, girls**

*(Before anyone reacted, Tamatoa snatched Kairi's group up with his claw and danced slowly)*

Tamatoa: **Yet, I have to give you credit**

**For my start**

**And your mediocre beauty on the outside**

**For just like you, I made myself a work of art**

**I’ll never hide, I can’t**

*(He then danced quickly again after throwing Kairi's group into the air and then catching them)*

Tamatoa: **I’m too shiny**

**Watch me dazzle like a diamond in the rough**

**Strut my stuff**

**My stuff is so shiny**

*(He then kicked Kayley’s group inside the giant rib cage and locked them in with his foot, although Patch, Renamon, Mushu, Cri-Kee, the Dream Eater pets, Ray, Spike, and Ember hid near it)*

Tamatoa: **Send your buddies, but they’ll never be enough**

*(He points at his shell)*

Tamatoa: **My shell’s too tough**

*(He then resumed his dancing)*

Tamatoa: **Kairi, girls**

**You can try, try, try**

**But you can’t expect**

**Five little witchlings**

**To beat a decapod**

**Look it up**

**You should’ve listened, listened, listened**

**Now it’s time for me to take apart**

**Your confused hearts**

*(He then kicked the small clamshell again and this time, the top of the giant clamshell slowly closed, exposing in the darkness his blue and purple streaks and spots of bioluminescent lights all over his body as he continued his torturous singing and dancing towards Kairi's group as Kayley's group got concerned and began pulling at the rib cage to break it open)*

Tamatoa: **Far from the ones who really raised you**

**Chasing the heritage of your past**

**That made you feel confident**

**You try to be brave**

**But your courage is not strong enough**

**Kairi's group, now it’s time to pack your baggies**

**Ever seen someone so shiny?**

**Soak it in, because it’s the last you’ll ever see**

***C’est* *la* *vie*, *mon* *amis***

**I’m so shiny**

**Now I’ll send you home**

**So prepare your final pleas**

**Just for me**

*(Patch, Renamon, Mushu, Cri-Kee, Ray, the Dream Eater pets, Spike, and Ember quickly then unlocked the rib cage and freed Kayley's group. Noticing glowing colorful bioluminescent algae, among them red, blue, and orange, scattered on the ground, Pinocchio and the rest of Kayley's group got an idea. With Tamatoa, he prepares to put Kairi's group in a geyser chute as he flickered his lights on his body)*

Tamatoa: **You’ll never be quite as shiny**

**You’d wish you were nice and shiny**

*(Just when Kairi's group was stuffed in there as the song ended, Kayley, Garrett, and Rika called out to him, getting his attention)*

Kayley, Garrett, and Rika: Wait!

*(Noticing them, Tamatoa got confused)*

Tamatoa: How did you escape?

Rika: Does it matter?

Garrett: We got something better and shiny!

Kayley: All for you!

*(He suddenly noticed them holding out the glowing Ruby Slippers, glowing Topaz Bracelet, and glowing Sapphire Hat and went up to them)*

Tamatoa: Hand them over!

Kayley, Garrett, and Rika: Okay!

Garrett: But we’ll trade them for Kairi's group!

Kayley: Please?

Ray: (Agreeing) They *did* say "Please," Cap.

Tamatoa: Done!

*(Kayley, Garrett, and Rika handed the items to Tamatoa while Tamatoa puts Kairi's group down next to them. While Tamatoa looked at them with a crazed greedy look, Kayley's group ran out of the clamshell quickly after opening the door again)*

Tamatoa: Oh, look at you, you gorgeous…!

*(Suddenly he stopped and looked closely)*

Tamatoa: Hold up! These look like….

*(He realized)*

Tamatoa: Pieces of coral covered in bioluminescent algae.

*(He got angry)*

Tamatoa: I’ve been duped!

*(He charged ahead to the door. Outside as Kayley's group continued running, Kairi's group turned to Kayley, Garrett, and Rika in confusion)*

Kairi: Why did you give the items to Tamatoa for me and my sisters?

Namine: You could've fought h....

*(Kayley, Garrett, and Rika made everyone stop running by stopping which then made Namine stop talking, and showed in their backpacks the real Ruby Slippers, real Topaz Bracelet, and real Sapphire Hat)*

Kairi's group: Well, I’ll be darned!

Pinocchio: Yep! Tricked him!

*(Then they heard Tamatoa call out to them)*

Tamatoa: But not for long, you pests!

*(They see Tamatoa charging at them from behind in a fury. They nod and hurry ahead. As they ran, Wes tripped and cut his elbow. Quickly helping him up, Kayley's group resumed their run. Suddenly, Sora's group noticed a sign next to a staircase up ahead)*

Sora: Hey! It says “This way to Emerald City!”

*(They almost get to the staircase, only for Tamatoa to block the way)*

Tamatoa: Any last words?

*(Pinocchio secretly noticed a giant geyser chute and spoke up)*

Pinocchio: Yeah! Come and get me first!

*(He hurried over to the giant geyser chute and Tamatoa followed him and lunged at him right towards the geyser. Pinocchio jumped out of the way back to the others and Tamatoa got stuck in the geyser. Then the pressure built beneath Tamatoa and shot him out like a cannonball into the air and right onto his shell on the ground, trapping him in that position, and spilling some treasure beneath him. Noticing a blue, red, green, and yellow sword within a dark blue, dark red, dark green, and dark yellow scabbard and belt, a blue, red, green, and yellow metal bo stick, and a blue, red, green, and yellow bow and dark blue, dark red, dark green, and dark yellow quiver full of colorful arrows among the spilled treasure, Kayley, Garrett, and Rika ran up to them, grabbed them, and looked at them, for the sword, bo stick, and bow and arrows all looked like water, fire, earth, and wind combined. Then Renamon called out to them as the others ran up the stairs)*

Renamon: Garrett, girls, come on!

*(Kayley, Garrett, and Rika nodded and ran up the stairs with the others, carrying the sword, bo stick, and bow and arrows respectively. Upon reaching the outside of the trench, Kayley's group panted in exhaustion and then they looked down at the darkness of the trench and laughed a bit, all except Yuffie, Wes, and the Fearsome Four, that is)*

Bushroot: What’s so funny?

Megavolt: Wes is hurt!

Yuffie: Look!

*(They stopped laughing a bit upon hearing them and noticed Wes clutching his injured elbow)*

Patch: Are you okay?

Wes: Does it look like I’m okay, palsy?

*(He removed his hand off his elbow to expose a cut on it with the part of his sleeve ripped from where he was cut and some blood on it and his hand as well)*

Kayley: (Gasps) He’s bleeding terribly!

Renamon: That looks bad!

Mane Eight's group: I'll say!

*(They run into the forest to take shelter and recover since it’s now night. Up in the sky, Makuramon saw this with a glare and flew away on his jetpack. Back at Arukenimon’s castle, Makuramon flew into her upper tower room and, upon landing in there and deactivating his jetpack, and whispered to her and Mummymon in their ears. After he finished, Arukenimon and Mummymon calmly got shocked)*

Arukenimon and Mummymon: What?

Arukenimon: They’re almost to Emerald City?!

Mummymon: And Kairi's group is with them?!

*(Then he got confused)*

Mummymon: How was that possible?

Makuramon: I have no idea how they managed to get out of the tower.

*(Arukenimon glared and used her magic on her wand to communicate with Splatter Phoenix. Elsewhere, Splatter Phoenix, who is still heading her way to get the color-making shells, sensed the magic from Arukenimon. She then answered)*

Splatter Phoenix: What is it, Arukenimon?

*(Silence, then….)*

Splatter Phoenix: What?! Those other worldly meddlers and their friends are almost to Emerald City?! And who’s with them?

*(She listened, then she got shocked)*

Splatter Phoenix: What?! Kairi's group is out of the tower?!

*(She got angry)*

Splatter Phoenix: All right! I’ll meet up with you!

*(She snapped out of the magic in a fury and teleported back to the castle. Upon her arrival, Arukenimon, Mummymon, and Makuramon then noticed her in calm anger and spoke up)*

Arukenimon, Mummymon, and Makuramon: Shocking, is it?

Splatter Phoenix: Indeed! I cannot believe Kairi's group would deceive me like that!

Mummymon: What do you mean, “Deceive you?”

Makuramon: You deceived them into remaining in the tower.

Splatter Phoenix: They wanted to see those stupid lanterns in Emerald City! But now I am extremely livid and concerned that if they do, they might eventually find out the truth about themselves!

Arukenimon: So she tricked you into leaving the tower, right?

Makuramon: (Scoffs) That's karma for you!

Splatter Phoenix: Yes. They claimed that they wanted more paint, but that, I now realize, was bogus!

Arukenimon: Have patience. If they refuse to return to the tower, then we’ll think of something to stop them and their new friends, and make them return.

Mummymon: Through a deceit of your own.

Splatter Phoenix: (Thinks it over) Deceit of my own, huh?

*(She smirked evilly)*

Splatter Phoenix: I like that idea.

*(Then she changed the subject)*

Splatter Phoenix: Anyway, where are they now?

Arukenimon: In the forest past the trench, according to Makuramon.

Mummymon: And to recap, if they refuse, then we’ll come up with something to make them return to you and take care of their friends.

Makuramon: Exactly.

Splatter Phoenix: (Nods with an evil smirk) Got it.

*(Then with that, they head out after Kayley's group)*

***Coming up: Kayley’s group rest for the night and learn more of Kairi's group’s healing powers, as well as Yuffie, Wes, and the Fearsome Four's talents. Then later, Kairi's group and Splatter Phoenix reunite for a brief moment and when Splatter Phoenix tries to persuade Kairi's group into returning to the tower, Kairi's group bravely stand their ground and make their mother leave them and their friends alone. Then afterwards when that worked, despite Splatter Phoenix grudgingly agreeing with a hint of blackmail, Kayley's group is then introduced by Ray to Evangeline.***