Destinies Collide, Part 8/8

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     After Lance's incredible realization, the gang seem to have discovered their second wind.

     "Guys, cover for Lance!" Rapunzel announces to everyone.

Adira goes long, and Lance tosses her the Shadow Blade. She catches it expertly, and destroys another statue as its ghost disappears.

With horror and rage, the spirits realize what the gang are doing. They begin to swarm around Adira, who pitches the Shadow Blade to Maximus and Ruddiger. "Max, heads up!"

The horse catches the sword in his mouth, Ruddiger clinging to his mane, and runs it through one of the statues before its matching ghost can reach him. When another spirit approaches him from behind, Max kicks the sword in Varian's direction. But before Varian can reach the Shadow Blade, a ghost grabs him and growls in his face.

Acting swiftly, Cassandra grabs the Shadow Blade and stabs it into the ghost's statue until it crumbles. The ghost disappears, and Varian drops to the ground. "That's twice you've saved me," he says. "But, ya know, who's counting?"

"Let's just say you owe me," Cassandra says.

     Rapunzel uses her hair to pull the Shadow Blade from the ruins of the crumbled statue and tosses it to Eugene

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Rapunzel uses her hair to pull the Shadow Blade from the ruins of the crumbled statue and tosses it to Eugene. But before Eugene grabs the sword, a ghost attacks him and pins him to the ground. It is just about to strike him with its weapon, when it suddenly evaporates with a puff of smoke. Confused, Eugene glances back at its statue —the last one— and sees that Edmund has the Shadow Blade, and has sliced the statue's head off. The head crashes into the incomplete statue of Edmund, and it topples over on its side in front of the Moon Stone Chamber door.

"Our family is just awful," Edmund remarks, as everyone heave a collective sigh of relief. Rapunzel slides over to Eugene and the two share a kiss.

The battle is over.



Rapunzel, Eugene, Cassandra, and Varian stand back and watch as Lance, Maximus, Edmund, and Adira work together to lift the statue just enough to go underneath it.

     "It's all up to you now," Edmund says to Rapunzel.

     "No," the princess says with a smile. "It's up to us." Her gaze falls upon Eugene, Cass, and Varian, who all return her smile. The four of them duck under the statue, and head into the Moon Stone Chamber as the others set the statue back down.

     With the door shut behind them, the four friends take in their surroundings: The huge, round chamber is completely lined with black rocks. The ceiling towers high above them, and there is a pit below them with no end in view.

     "We made it, guys," Rapunzel says in awe, as they all spot it at the same time... the Moon Stone. It is across the pit, shining within its own encasing. The power it possesses is unmistakable, for they all can sense it surrounding them.

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