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Bartok the Magnificent! (Remake) Part 2
The second part of my full scale remake of the Don Bluth movie "Bartok The Magnificent".
Link to part 1: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/19543546/
Link to part 3: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/20222196/
Link to part 4: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/22154183/
Link to part 5: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/25911693/
In this part Bartok does his first trial, and he comes across someone that can join him on his quests for the queen of the kingdom.
All characters in this (Except for Markus, who I created myself.) is made by Don Bluth animation.
As a new day was raising Bartok the bat was wishing that he had just been having a really horrible nightmare. (But he knew that everything that had happen up to this point was all true.)
He had just been doing what he thought was going to be a "normal" performance at the market place in the Parone kingdom, when suddenly a guard had been showing up and telling him to be visiting the royal castle (and the queen) later the same day!
Once there had he then been asked (Or rather forced since there was next to no "no" option for him) to do a quest to retrieve three legendary objects that nobody before him had ever managed to do!
And now here he was. Just about to start climbing the always snow-storming "Sneh Mountains" to retrieve the "Fuar Rose", the first of the three objects.
He was on a journey to become a hero and a legend, but he wasn't so sure if he liked that.
Entering the mountains Bartok's biggest fear wasn't the cold weather (As this bat had been used to performing his show in both rain, hail, and the coldest of winter days.) but more the monstrous storms and winds surrounding them, as they made him forced to walk onto the ground as flying would only make him getting tossed away as a leaf in the winds!
This made his journey a whole lot more gruelling, as the snow level on the ground was so high that it almost made Bartok disappear down into it with every step he took!
This was all a next to impossible mission for someone like him, and he should just turn back and give up! Still the bat knew that if he gave up now then the queen would make sure that his "cowardliness" would be the only thing associated with his name, and that would mean the end of the only way for him to make a living.
So with fully focused (but not fully self-confident) steps Bartok continued his journey up the mountains!
As his snow filled path only kept growing deeper, colder, and steeper to climb, the small bat really had to wonder just if having his career killed would be just as horrible as the possibility of having it instead be his life! (Especially once he reached a part where he started to see actual dead guys!)
It was indeed shocking but not so surprising given that the queen had told Bartok that "Many of those who had failed never came back again!", but to actually see all these fallen men was a completely different thing!
Bartok couldn't see much, but from what he was seeing it seemed like many of these poor folks had died either from starvation or the cold, as they all looked to be relatively "undamaged" by their failed mission.
In a very twisted way Bartok could almost brag that he was better then some of these guys, as once he had walked passed one he had technically managed to go further into the journey then they had.
Still having a lot of reminders of what could eventually be his end was not doing much to make Bartok feel that he could actually make it, and still he had the worst part of this test ahead of him.
The Snowstorm Labyrinth!
This maze was something that had been created by the combination of the close and tall walls of several mountains meeting together, and the never ending snow creating a fog like cover over it all, making it a next to impossible thing to enter without getting completely lost in!
(And of course the legendary Rose that Bartok was looking for could only be found inside that maze.)
So far on his journey the blistering cold winds of snow had been pretty thick so far, but once entering the labyrinth it was getting next to ridiculous!
Thanks to the now much more enclosed environment the winds and snow got a lot more compacted and harder as they passed by him, and the bat felt that it was only one step away from somebody tossing giant snowballs at him constantly.
Point is that it now was next to impossible for Bartok to see anything, and all he could do was to feel blindly on the mountain walls to know where to go next.
Bartok had not been much of a "optimist" so far on this mission, but this was the point where even the slightest hopes he had about surviving this was literally gone with the wind, as he felt that this would most likely be his final resting place.
That's when the snow blind bat heard what sounded like...singing?
Yes, actually that was exactly what it was!
In the middle of the almost deafening roars of the wind a beautiful female voice could be heard riding along it. (Almost like it was trying to search for Bartok.)
This to him felt almost like the singing of a muse tricking him into danger, but given that he would face an almost certain doom if he kept guessing his next moves in the maze Bartok decided to follow the voice.
After (Literally) blindingly putting all his trust into this mystical singing voice Bartok eventually reached an exit through the maze, and to his delight it is a lot less stormy so he can see again.
Once out the sound of the singing sound very close, and after just turning another corner he finds the source to it.
By the foot of one of the mountains there was a what looked like some kind of small pink work like creature (About the same size as Bartok), and it seemed to be stuck under a big boulder that must have been rolling down from the mountain side.
Upon it seeing Bartok the worm creature got really excited and said "Oh, Hey there! My name is Piloff! What is your name?", and by the voice Bartok could tell that the worm was a female.
"I'm Bartok, and are you doing alright there?" The brave bat asked as he got closer, and without breaking her positive spirit Piloff said "I'm very well too! I might have been stuck here for about 10 years, but besides that everything is fine."
"10 years?!" Bartok asked as he couldn't believe what he was hearing, and upon seeing the shocked reaction of the bat Piloff simply said "Yes, I think at least. I simply started counting the time I had been stuck and that seemed to add up to around a nice 10 years.", as if knowing the exact time was what had been hard for him to believe.
"No, but I mean...Food! Water! Company!" Bartok tried to explain, and only picking up the last word he said Piloff answered "I make myself a great company! I always listen to what I have to say, I can tell funny jokes that I always laugh at, and I can entertain myself by singing songs."
"I was thinking more that wouldn't you go a little bit insane by being all alone?" Bartok asked (Even though he already felt that the lady worm was way off into crazy town by now), and Piloff casually said "I have had some company. That man laying there for example." as she pointed behind Bartok, who upon turning back saw another skeleton laying there!
He jumped in horror over not seeing how close by that corpse he had been, and Piloff didn't make the mood any less creepy when she said "He wasn't much for talking though. He just said "EEERRHHH!!!" before his face laid into the snow and he got quiet." without seeming to realise how disturbing what she had just said was.
"Anyway...Do you happen to know where the legendary "Fuar Rose" would be by any chance?" Bartok asked (as he wanted to try and not think about death for a second, despite them both being literally surrounded by it!), and Piloff said "Oh yes. I know exactly where it is." proudly.
Feeling that for once his journey to find it was going to be easy Bartok eagerly asked "And where is it then?" to which Piloff answered "It's in this chamber right behind me...that got blocked completely by the same boulder that trapped me.", breaking all the hopes Bartok had about this going to be "easy" once and for all.
"Of course it is! Why wouldn't it be just there?!" Bartok cried out over his bad luck before he started to try and think out a plan. "I probably could try and see if I could make this big thing roll out of the way by simple leverage principle, but I would still need something long and hard that would work well as a lever."
Wanting to help the puzzled bat Piloff asked "How about using that long sword that the sleeping man is carrying?", to which Bartok asked back "He has? Where?" before trying to look all over the fallen knight without finding it.
"It's over there." She tried to help saying, but her lack of actual directions didn't make it any easier for Bartok, who seemed to be searching blindly after it.
"Where?"
"There!"
"Where?"
"There?"
"Where?"
"Oh for the love off..." Piloff said to herself as she decided to help Bartok in a much more physical way.
As Bartok was starting to search the pockets of the knight in order to find the sword Piloff's head end suddenly showed up next to him to say "It's not there either.", making the bat first say "Oh, okay." before realising that she was suddenly next to him and ended up freaking out.
"ARGH! How are you even doing that?!" He asked as he saw how Piloff's whole body was stretching out from under the boulder to all the way over to where he was standing now. (A length of almost 10 feet!)
"Did I forget to mention that? I have the talent to stretch my body out to incredible length and bend myself in all the way I want to." Piloff said proudly as she did a few impressive tricks with her body to show just how flexible she was for Bartok, who in return was very impressed by it.
"That is pretty unbelievable! It is truly an amazing gift you got there!" He said, to which the bendy worm blushed and said "Thank you."
"But let me now show you just where that sword in question was hiding." Piloff said as she got her head under the long cape that was covering parts of the deceased knight, and got it to flip over to reveal the mighty sword laying under it.
"Well, this looks good. With this thing it might be possible to move that boulder." Bartok said as he started to drag the big thing back to where the stuck end of Piloff was.
"I'm very sure it will work fine Bartok. Someone was smart and strong as you can easily do this." Piloff said, which caught Bartok off guard slightly as he tried to not show her that he was blushing now.
"L-Let's just focus on the task at hand first." Bartok said as he tried to do just that, and nudged the edge of the sword under the big boulder. "Plus, I am not THAT strong, and might need your help to make this work."
"Okay dokey Barty! I will give you so force!" Piloff said as she made several small circles of herself like a spring, and then used the extra force it created to make the sword start bending!
Slowly but surely the two of them was actually able to make this happen, and it was barley they could believe it themselves!
Finally the big boulder started to move on it's own and it rolled down into a harmless corner of the mountain, freeing both Piloff and the Rose at the same time.
"Yay! I'm free!" Piloff said, and used her stretching ability to give Bartok a 12 lap full body hug as thanks!
"Thank you, thank you. But I really need to get that Rose now." Bartok said as he tangled himself free and got into the chamber.
He couldn't believe it, but there it was.
The Fuar Rose!
The thing that had taken so many brave knight lives to try and get, and here he was actually succeeding.
It's funny how easy it all looked now.
Just picking up the flower, and then going back through...the maze...that he had only made it through thanks to Piloff's singing...
"Oh no." He said, to which the worm girl asked "What is it?"
"We can't get back out. We are stuck in here!" Bartok cried out, as if all of his past bravery now was just running off his body and all that was left was just an empty shelter of fear.
Piloff didn't like seeing her new friend be so sad and scared, but pretty soon she found something to smile about. An idea!
"I think I have something." She said as she slithered over towards the entrance to the maze.
"Could you please come over here Bartok?" She asked, and the albino bat did as he was told.
"I have an idea on how to find the way out, and if you want to join me then you need to get a hold of my butt." Piloff said, to which Bartok couldn't help but ask "Pardon?" to be sure he wasn't making stuff up in his head.
"My plan is that I let this end of me travle through the maze, while you hold a grip on my other end so it wont follow. Then when I after some trial and errors find the right way out I will start wiggleing my butt for you, and that's the signal to start walking and follow after where the rest of my body is. If this works then we should both be through the maze in no time." Piloff explained proudly. (And even Bartok had to admit that sounded like a super smart plan.)
Once getting a grip of her behind the front end of Piloff then shoot out like a rocket and started to disappear into the almost blindingly maze.
For Bartok it was all now a very awkward waiting as he was just holding and starring at Piloff's butt, hoping to see some kind of special movement for when he should start walking after her.
Minutes almost felt like hours in this weird situation, but finally Piloff's booty started to shake like mad for him, and that was the signal to grab the rose and start meeting her up.
Once again he got reminded that you truly couldn't see anything in this maze, and therefore it was a really smart thing to let Piloff first stretch herself through the whole thing before having Bartok walk in.
Having her long body to guide him Bartok was through after only about 5 minutes, and knowing that he still had the rose in his hands meant that he had actually managed to get the first item!
"I need to get this to Ludmila now!" Bartok said before turning to Piloff and saying, "And you can follow along, if you want to see how a castle looks like."
"Oh! I love castles! Count me in!" Piloff said very excited.
Both Ludmilla and her trusty servant & lifeguard Markus was understandably more then a little surprised when the very tiny bat actually had managed to return with the legendary rose in his hands!
"Here it is your majesty. The Fuar Rose!" Bartok said as he got on his knees as he handed over the rose to the queen.
"Well aren't you full of surprises?" Ludmilla said as she admired the rose. "I see you actually managed to not only get the first item, but you also seems to have been getting a yourself a girlfriend too."
This made Bartok's mind blank for a second before he shouted out "Wait, girlfriend?!"
Piloff on the other hand seemed to like that idea a lot as she said, "Oh! I haven't thought about that myself, but now when you say it we do look like we could have a cute relationship together." before she took and gave Bartok another full body-sized hug!
Trying to not get to lost onto the romantic side of things Bartok once again got himself free from the coils of Piloff as he said "Let's not loose focus on what was at task here!"
Ludmilla just rolled her eyes over Bartok being such a killjoy and said "Fine. So how did it go for you and your...weird springy thing?", to which he seemed to take some offence for her as he said "I'll let you know that she has a name, and that name is Piloff!" before realising that the queen had tricked him!
"And look at that. Despite saying that there is nothing in-between the two of you, you already know her name." She said, and Bartok could not really say anything to get out of this one.
All he could really do was waiting for Piloff to give him another huge hug to celebrate that their "relationship is only growing stronger!", and then having to get her off of him again.
However this time when he did so Piloff accidentally got herself turned into her spring shape again, and started bouncing off the castle walls at a rapid pace! (Making her disappear down into the hallways.)
"Oh dear." Bartok said as Markus decided to take off and try to find her. (Before she would end up making to great of damages to the castle.)
Having been stuck and restricted under the force of a boulder for so long it was truly a miracle for Piloff to once again fly from wall to wall, and not having a single clue on where she might end up!
Some vases and paintings (And even big sets of armour) would have to accept getting either broken or just knocked off of their pillar as there was nothing stopping the spring worm from bouncing around!
Eventually however a misfired bounce from a corner sent Piloff into a room instead of another hallway, and with the much more limited space her rapid pace of bounces increased over the 1000s!
She was now less of a spring and more like a pinball shooting everywhere inside the room, hitting about 100 objects at minute!
She could barley see during all of this, but from what blurry images she got it seemed to be some kind of bedroom.
Piloff would however stop once she entered the closet of said bedroom, and after ending up making what seemed to be an old toy box fall over her and empty it's content!
Being unable to move now when she was buried like this Piloff just had to wait until Markus showed up to find her.
After a few minutes of waiting Markus finally found her, and he wasn't happy at all when he did.
"What are you doing in there?! This is Queen Ludmila's personal sleeping chamber!" He proclaimed angrily, to which Piloff optimistically said "It is? I should have know given all of these girly toys."
She then got the very strong grip of Markus around her body as she got dragged out of the pile and headed back to the throne room.
"You are not suppose to be in there!" Markus said as he was leading Piloff out, to which the springy worm tried to explain herself by saying "I know, but when my body starts bounce and spring me around I can't really control it at times."
Then she remember something she saw in the toy pile that seemed a bit odd and asked Markus "Why did she have a plush doll of a dragon when she was small?"
When hearing that Markus suddenly got a little bit nervous as he just said "I...She...it's a secret!"
"Oh! I love secrets, cause I never know what they are about!" Piloff said, as she then tried to guess and make Markus tell her what said secret was on the rest of their trip. (To which Markus didn't say a single thing in return.)
Back in the throne room Bartok and Ludmilla was just waiting as Markus came back in with Piloff tight in her grips.
"Hey! Be careful and don't hurt her!" Bartok said, to which he then saw the queen smirking again over him showing some affection for his female partner.
"It's okay Barty. My body can handle any pain it gets." Piloff said calmly as she was put down and released by Markus.
"Barty? So she has also been giving you a cute little nick name already?" Ludmilla said, to which Bartok started to blush and quickly said "What was the second item for us to get for you?!"
"If you really want to risk your lives again so quickly then sure. The next item for you to get is the "Outo Feather", located into the caverns of "Norby"." Ludmilla explained.
"Okay, Feather inside a cave. Got it. Let's go Piloff." Bartok said, to which the worm said "Okie Dokie, Barty!" very loudly. (Making Bartok feel even more embarrassed over the sound of laughter both Ludmilla and Markus was giving him as they walked out.)
Link to part 1: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/19543546/
Link to part 3: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/20222196/
Link to part 4: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/22154183/
Link to part 5: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/25911693/
In this part Bartok does his first trial, and he comes across someone that can join him on his quests for the queen of the kingdom.
All characters in this (Except for Markus, who I created myself.) is made by Don Bluth animation.
As a new day was raising Bartok the bat was wishing that he had just been having a really horrible nightmare. (But he knew that everything that had happen up to this point was all true.)
He had just been doing what he thought was going to be a "normal" performance at the market place in the Parone kingdom, when suddenly a guard had been showing up and telling him to be visiting the royal castle (and the queen) later the same day!
Once there had he then been asked (Or rather forced since there was next to no "no" option for him) to do a quest to retrieve three legendary objects that nobody before him had ever managed to do!
And now here he was. Just about to start climbing the always snow-storming "Sneh Mountains" to retrieve the "Fuar Rose", the first of the three objects.
He was on a journey to become a hero and a legend, but he wasn't so sure if he liked that.
Entering the mountains Bartok's biggest fear wasn't the cold weather (As this bat had been used to performing his show in both rain, hail, and the coldest of winter days.) but more the monstrous storms and winds surrounding them, as they made him forced to walk onto the ground as flying would only make him getting tossed away as a leaf in the winds!
This made his journey a whole lot more gruelling, as the snow level on the ground was so high that it almost made Bartok disappear down into it with every step he took!
This was all a next to impossible mission for someone like him, and he should just turn back and give up! Still the bat knew that if he gave up now then the queen would make sure that his "cowardliness" would be the only thing associated with his name, and that would mean the end of the only way for him to make a living.
So with fully focused (but not fully self-confident) steps Bartok continued his journey up the mountains!
As his snow filled path only kept growing deeper, colder, and steeper to climb, the small bat really had to wonder just if having his career killed would be just as horrible as the possibility of having it instead be his life! (Especially once he reached a part where he started to see actual dead guys!)
It was indeed shocking but not so surprising given that the queen had told Bartok that "Many of those who had failed never came back again!", but to actually see all these fallen men was a completely different thing!
Bartok couldn't see much, but from what he was seeing it seemed like many of these poor folks had died either from starvation or the cold, as they all looked to be relatively "undamaged" by their failed mission.
In a very twisted way Bartok could almost brag that he was better then some of these guys, as once he had walked passed one he had technically managed to go further into the journey then they had.
Still having a lot of reminders of what could eventually be his end was not doing much to make Bartok feel that he could actually make it, and still he had the worst part of this test ahead of him.
The Snowstorm Labyrinth!
This maze was something that had been created by the combination of the close and tall walls of several mountains meeting together, and the never ending snow creating a fog like cover over it all, making it a next to impossible thing to enter without getting completely lost in!
(And of course the legendary Rose that Bartok was looking for could only be found inside that maze.)
So far on his journey the blistering cold winds of snow had been pretty thick so far, but once entering the labyrinth it was getting next to ridiculous!
Thanks to the now much more enclosed environment the winds and snow got a lot more compacted and harder as they passed by him, and the bat felt that it was only one step away from somebody tossing giant snowballs at him constantly.
Point is that it now was next to impossible for Bartok to see anything, and all he could do was to feel blindly on the mountain walls to know where to go next.
Bartok had not been much of a "optimist" so far on this mission, but this was the point where even the slightest hopes he had about surviving this was literally gone with the wind, as he felt that this would most likely be his final resting place.
That's when the snow blind bat heard what sounded like...singing?
Yes, actually that was exactly what it was!
In the middle of the almost deafening roars of the wind a beautiful female voice could be heard riding along it. (Almost like it was trying to search for Bartok.)
This to him felt almost like the singing of a muse tricking him into danger, but given that he would face an almost certain doom if he kept guessing his next moves in the maze Bartok decided to follow the voice.
After (Literally) blindingly putting all his trust into this mystical singing voice Bartok eventually reached an exit through the maze, and to his delight it is a lot less stormy so he can see again.
Once out the sound of the singing sound very close, and after just turning another corner he finds the source to it.
By the foot of one of the mountains there was a what looked like some kind of small pink work like creature (About the same size as Bartok), and it seemed to be stuck under a big boulder that must have been rolling down from the mountain side.
Upon it seeing Bartok the worm creature got really excited and said "Oh, Hey there! My name is Piloff! What is your name?", and by the voice Bartok could tell that the worm was a female.
"I'm Bartok, and are you doing alright there?" The brave bat asked as he got closer, and without breaking her positive spirit Piloff said "I'm very well too! I might have been stuck here for about 10 years, but besides that everything is fine."
"10 years?!" Bartok asked as he couldn't believe what he was hearing, and upon seeing the shocked reaction of the bat Piloff simply said "Yes, I think at least. I simply started counting the time I had been stuck and that seemed to add up to around a nice 10 years.", as if knowing the exact time was what had been hard for him to believe.
"No, but I mean...Food! Water! Company!" Bartok tried to explain, and only picking up the last word he said Piloff answered "I make myself a great company! I always listen to what I have to say, I can tell funny jokes that I always laugh at, and I can entertain myself by singing songs."
"I was thinking more that wouldn't you go a little bit insane by being all alone?" Bartok asked (Even though he already felt that the lady worm was way off into crazy town by now), and Piloff casually said "I have had some company. That man laying there for example." as she pointed behind Bartok, who upon turning back saw another skeleton laying there!
He jumped in horror over not seeing how close by that corpse he had been, and Piloff didn't make the mood any less creepy when she said "He wasn't much for talking though. He just said "EEERRHHH!!!" before his face laid into the snow and he got quiet." without seeming to realise how disturbing what she had just said was.
"Anyway...Do you happen to know where the legendary "Fuar Rose" would be by any chance?" Bartok asked (as he wanted to try and not think about death for a second, despite them both being literally surrounded by it!), and Piloff said "Oh yes. I know exactly where it is." proudly.
Feeling that for once his journey to find it was going to be easy Bartok eagerly asked "And where is it then?" to which Piloff answered "It's in this chamber right behind me...that got blocked completely by the same boulder that trapped me.", breaking all the hopes Bartok had about this going to be "easy" once and for all.
"Of course it is! Why wouldn't it be just there?!" Bartok cried out over his bad luck before he started to try and think out a plan. "I probably could try and see if I could make this big thing roll out of the way by simple leverage principle, but I would still need something long and hard that would work well as a lever."
Wanting to help the puzzled bat Piloff asked "How about using that long sword that the sleeping man is carrying?", to which Bartok asked back "He has? Where?" before trying to look all over the fallen knight without finding it.
"It's over there." She tried to help saying, but her lack of actual directions didn't make it any easier for Bartok, who seemed to be searching blindly after it.
"Where?"
"There!"
"Where?"
"There?"
"Where?"
"Oh for the love off..." Piloff said to herself as she decided to help Bartok in a much more physical way.
As Bartok was starting to search the pockets of the knight in order to find the sword Piloff's head end suddenly showed up next to him to say "It's not there either.", making the bat first say "Oh, okay." before realising that she was suddenly next to him and ended up freaking out.
"ARGH! How are you even doing that?!" He asked as he saw how Piloff's whole body was stretching out from under the boulder to all the way over to where he was standing now. (A length of almost 10 feet!)
"Did I forget to mention that? I have the talent to stretch my body out to incredible length and bend myself in all the way I want to." Piloff said proudly as she did a few impressive tricks with her body to show just how flexible she was for Bartok, who in return was very impressed by it.
"That is pretty unbelievable! It is truly an amazing gift you got there!" He said, to which the bendy worm blushed and said "Thank you."
"But let me now show you just where that sword in question was hiding." Piloff said as she got her head under the long cape that was covering parts of the deceased knight, and got it to flip over to reveal the mighty sword laying under it.
"Well, this looks good. With this thing it might be possible to move that boulder." Bartok said as he started to drag the big thing back to where the stuck end of Piloff was.
"I'm very sure it will work fine Bartok. Someone was smart and strong as you can easily do this." Piloff said, which caught Bartok off guard slightly as he tried to not show her that he was blushing now.
"L-Let's just focus on the task at hand first." Bartok said as he tried to do just that, and nudged the edge of the sword under the big boulder. "Plus, I am not THAT strong, and might need your help to make this work."
"Okay dokey Barty! I will give you so force!" Piloff said as she made several small circles of herself like a spring, and then used the extra force it created to make the sword start bending!
Slowly but surely the two of them was actually able to make this happen, and it was barley they could believe it themselves!
Finally the big boulder started to move on it's own and it rolled down into a harmless corner of the mountain, freeing both Piloff and the Rose at the same time.
"Yay! I'm free!" Piloff said, and used her stretching ability to give Bartok a 12 lap full body hug as thanks!
"Thank you, thank you. But I really need to get that Rose now." Bartok said as he tangled himself free and got into the chamber.
He couldn't believe it, but there it was.
The Fuar Rose!
The thing that had taken so many brave knight lives to try and get, and here he was actually succeeding.
It's funny how easy it all looked now.
Just picking up the flower, and then going back through...the maze...that he had only made it through thanks to Piloff's singing...
"Oh no." He said, to which the worm girl asked "What is it?"
"We can't get back out. We are stuck in here!" Bartok cried out, as if all of his past bravery now was just running off his body and all that was left was just an empty shelter of fear.
Piloff didn't like seeing her new friend be so sad and scared, but pretty soon she found something to smile about. An idea!
"I think I have something." She said as she slithered over towards the entrance to the maze.
"Could you please come over here Bartok?" She asked, and the albino bat did as he was told.
"I have an idea on how to find the way out, and if you want to join me then you need to get a hold of my butt." Piloff said, to which Bartok couldn't help but ask "Pardon?" to be sure he wasn't making stuff up in his head.
"My plan is that I let this end of me travle through the maze, while you hold a grip on my other end so it wont follow. Then when I after some trial and errors find the right way out I will start wiggleing my butt for you, and that's the signal to start walking and follow after where the rest of my body is. If this works then we should both be through the maze in no time." Piloff explained proudly. (And even Bartok had to admit that sounded like a super smart plan.)
Once getting a grip of her behind the front end of Piloff then shoot out like a rocket and started to disappear into the almost blindingly maze.
For Bartok it was all now a very awkward waiting as he was just holding and starring at Piloff's butt, hoping to see some kind of special movement for when he should start walking after her.
Minutes almost felt like hours in this weird situation, but finally Piloff's booty started to shake like mad for him, and that was the signal to grab the rose and start meeting her up.
Once again he got reminded that you truly couldn't see anything in this maze, and therefore it was a really smart thing to let Piloff first stretch herself through the whole thing before having Bartok walk in.
Having her long body to guide him Bartok was through after only about 5 minutes, and knowing that he still had the rose in his hands meant that he had actually managed to get the first item!
"I need to get this to Ludmila now!" Bartok said before turning to Piloff and saying, "And you can follow along, if you want to see how a castle looks like."
"Oh! I love castles! Count me in!" Piloff said very excited.
Both Ludmilla and her trusty servant & lifeguard Markus was understandably more then a little surprised when the very tiny bat actually had managed to return with the legendary rose in his hands!
"Here it is your majesty. The Fuar Rose!" Bartok said as he got on his knees as he handed over the rose to the queen.
"Well aren't you full of surprises?" Ludmilla said as she admired the rose. "I see you actually managed to not only get the first item, but you also seems to have been getting a yourself a girlfriend too."
This made Bartok's mind blank for a second before he shouted out "Wait, girlfriend?!"
Piloff on the other hand seemed to like that idea a lot as she said, "Oh! I haven't thought about that myself, but now when you say it we do look like we could have a cute relationship together." before she took and gave Bartok another full body-sized hug!
Trying to not get to lost onto the romantic side of things Bartok once again got himself free from the coils of Piloff as he said "Let's not loose focus on what was at task here!"
Ludmilla just rolled her eyes over Bartok being such a killjoy and said "Fine. So how did it go for you and your...weird springy thing?", to which he seemed to take some offence for her as he said "I'll let you know that she has a name, and that name is Piloff!" before realising that the queen had tricked him!
"And look at that. Despite saying that there is nothing in-between the two of you, you already know her name." She said, and Bartok could not really say anything to get out of this one.
All he could really do was waiting for Piloff to give him another huge hug to celebrate that their "relationship is only growing stronger!", and then having to get her off of him again.
However this time when he did so Piloff accidentally got herself turned into her spring shape again, and started bouncing off the castle walls at a rapid pace! (Making her disappear down into the hallways.)
"Oh dear." Bartok said as Markus decided to take off and try to find her. (Before she would end up making to great of damages to the castle.)
Having been stuck and restricted under the force of a boulder for so long it was truly a miracle for Piloff to once again fly from wall to wall, and not having a single clue on where she might end up!
Some vases and paintings (And even big sets of armour) would have to accept getting either broken or just knocked off of their pillar as there was nothing stopping the spring worm from bouncing around!
Eventually however a misfired bounce from a corner sent Piloff into a room instead of another hallway, and with the much more limited space her rapid pace of bounces increased over the 1000s!
She was now less of a spring and more like a pinball shooting everywhere inside the room, hitting about 100 objects at minute!
She could barley see during all of this, but from what blurry images she got it seemed to be some kind of bedroom.
Piloff would however stop once she entered the closet of said bedroom, and after ending up making what seemed to be an old toy box fall over her and empty it's content!
Being unable to move now when she was buried like this Piloff just had to wait until Markus showed up to find her.
After a few minutes of waiting Markus finally found her, and he wasn't happy at all when he did.
"What are you doing in there?! This is Queen Ludmila's personal sleeping chamber!" He proclaimed angrily, to which Piloff optimistically said "It is? I should have know given all of these girly toys."
She then got the very strong grip of Markus around her body as she got dragged out of the pile and headed back to the throne room.
"You are not suppose to be in there!" Markus said as he was leading Piloff out, to which the springy worm tried to explain herself by saying "I know, but when my body starts bounce and spring me around I can't really control it at times."
Then she remember something she saw in the toy pile that seemed a bit odd and asked Markus "Why did she have a plush doll of a dragon when she was small?"
When hearing that Markus suddenly got a little bit nervous as he just said "I...She...it's a secret!"
"Oh! I love secrets, cause I never know what they are about!" Piloff said, as she then tried to guess and make Markus tell her what said secret was on the rest of their trip. (To which Markus didn't say a single thing in return.)
Back in the throne room Bartok and Ludmilla was just waiting as Markus came back in with Piloff tight in her grips.
"Hey! Be careful and don't hurt her!" Bartok said, to which he then saw the queen smirking again over him showing some affection for his female partner.
"It's okay Barty. My body can handle any pain it gets." Piloff said calmly as she was put down and released by Markus.
"Barty? So she has also been giving you a cute little nick name already?" Ludmilla said, to which Bartok started to blush and quickly said "What was the second item for us to get for you?!"
"If you really want to risk your lives again so quickly then sure. The next item for you to get is the "Outo Feather", located into the caverns of "Norby"." Ludmilla explained.
"Okay, Feather inside a cave. Got it. Let's go Piloff." Bartok said, to which the worm said "Okie Dokie, Barty!" very loudly. (Making Bartok feel even more embarrassed over the sound of laughter both Ludmilla and Markus was giving him as they walked out.)
Category Story / General Furry Art
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Well so far things are still surpassing the movie, in that even that one-time annoying pink thing has a personality and a reason for her bizarre behaviour.
Spelling and grammar are still iffy in places but so far that remains the biggest complaint against this.
And I see a mention of "something" that may prove relevant in later chapters.
Spelling and grammar are still iffy in places but so far that remains the biggest complaint against this.
And I see a mention of "something" that may prove relevant in later chapters.
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