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stargazer-tps · 10 months ago

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[Crossposts from Amino] Alternate Ending Thing

Original Post Date: 7-29-2017

My entry for the #AEChallenge... I've been itching to write some moderately-okay fanfiction for Barbie and the Diamond Castle (because it's my favorite and I'm getting back into it, I've dug myself into that hole again), I did my entry on that.

Of course, the movie ends pretty well and in a short, direct manner, so I'm throwing all of that out the window. I guess this is more of a "what if things went badly and they had to find a different, more roundabout way to end the story?" that's inspired in part by the Photoshop Flowey fight in Undertale (because Undertale has completely corrupted my writing style). So... Here ya go:

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Alexa and Liana watched in awe as the Diamond Castle rose from the lake, the sky brightening and the lake vanishing until it was only a ring surrounding the castle. A stone bridge appeared in front of them in a shower of sparkles. A few seconds of stunned silence passed and the two girls stepped onto the bridge, more sparkles cascading around them and transforming their dresses into sparkly ballgowns.

Liana felt Melody’s broken mirror lift from her hand. She let go, and it floated gently to the ground, emanating a soft glow. From the cracked surface stepped the muse apprentice herself,

“Liana!” she cried, opening her arms to receive her friends. “Alexa!”

The three girls embraced each other, then watched Lily and Sparkles imitating their owners as they were covered in glitter. They laughed at the two dogs and Melody led the others towards the castle. She beamed as she led her friends up the staircase towards the music room, where the Muses’ instruments were. It seemed their journey was finally at an end… but something went wrong.

The color drained from Melody’s face when she glanced inside the room. “No…” she whispered.

Lydia stood at the center of the room, flute in hand. Slyder stood behind her and a pile of rubble sat at her feet as she stepped towards the girls.

"It’s over, little apprentice,” Lydia sneered. “The castle’s power is finally mine, and mine alone!”

The other girls looked at each other in despair as Lydia cackled. The evil Muse lifted her flute, prepared to strike the final blow when an idea struck Liana. The girl rushed forward, snatching away the instrument and throwing it through a window that was in front of her and catching Lydia off guard. Lydia growled and turned to her companion.

“Slyder! Go get my flute back!” she commanded.

Liana grabbed her two friends by the wrists and ran back out of the music room, closing the doors before Lydia could catch them.

“Liana…?” Alexa looked at her friend, confused.

“What are you doing?” Melody asked. “Now that she’s destroyed the Muses’ instruments, we can’t stop her…”

“You can’t just give up!” Liana said. “Melody, you were an apprentice, right? Learning to be a Muse yourself?”

“Well, yes, but…”

“Then maybe she hasn’t destroyed all of the Muses’ instruments?” Liana asked hopefully. “Maybe there’s one more left?”

Melody gasped, finally realizing what her friend was getting at. “B-but I can’t… I can’t just break tradition like that!”

“Melody, please,” Alexa tried, “I’m sure the Muses wouldn’t mind this once.”

“I-I… We don’t even know if--”

Liana grabbed Melody by the shoulders, looking her in the eyes. “This is our last chance. You taught us to believe in the impossible… Now it’s time to believe in yourself.”

Melody hesitated for a moment more, then said, “Okay. I think I know where they kept the instrument for when I was to become a Muse…”

“Great,” Liana replied. “You and Alexa go find that. I’ll stay here and distract Lydia.”

Without a moment’s hesitation, the two groups split up. Melody led Alexa back down the staircase towards her and the Muses’ rooms. The two searched frantically but to no avail.

As the girls were searching through Melody’s room, her eye fell onto the instrument on her nightstand—a small whistle much like the one she’d used to hide herself in the mirror. She grabbed it.

“We don’t have much time,” Melody said, eyeing the instrument in her hand. “I don’t know how much I’ll be able to do with this, but I at least know how to play it… I think. It’s been a long time.”

She played a short, simple tune. Alexa turned to look at her and could have sworn she saw a faint glow surrounding her friend.

“I can work with this,” Melody said, already rushing back to the music room.

Inside, Liana had gotten ahold of Lydia’s flute and was running around the room, keeping it just out of the evil Muse’s reach. The moment the other two girls entered the room, Lydia stopped, causing Liana to bump into her. She snatched her flute back and turned to Melody.

“Do you really think you can defeat me with that?” Lydia sneered.

For a moment, Melody doubted herself. After all, she wasn’t even a Muse yet. But then she heard the voices of her friends, urging her on, telling her to stay determined. She blocked out Lydia’s jeers and began to play. She thought about her friends, the reason she was here right now, and the person Lydia used to be, before she had decided she wanted to be the only Muse, and played a song that reached out to the evil Muse’s very soul.

The villain in question began to play her own song, a dark tune that had imprisoned nearly everyone the three other girls had encountered on their journey and one that nearly overpowered the apprentice’s song.

Liana and Alexa joined Melody, their voices raised in unison, but doing next to little against Lydia’s magic. It was hopeless.

And yet the storyline refused to be broken. Two figures flew through the same window Lydia had infiltrated the castle through, landing next to the apprentice and joining the song. Their presences caught both Lydia and Melody off-guard.

“Impossible!” Lydia cried.

“Keep going,” the Muses urged.

Melody picked the song back up, exactly where she had stopped. Lydia played her own song in retaliation, but her guard had already been let down. Melody’s song continued to call out to the evil Muse, who faltered, recalling for only a moment the life she had before she turned.

In her moment of weakness, the others’ song overpowered Lydia’s dark magic, destroying any trace of the ancient magic that had given the Muse her powers, including her serpent companion, who simply vanished into dust, and her own instrument.

But the other girls didn’t stop. Melody continued to reach out to Lydia, who could feel the younger woman’s message in every note.

‘Come back to us. Forget this notion of being the only Muse.’

“No!” Lydia cried, replying to words that didn’t even exist. “I’m not that person anymore! I won’t let you take victory from me like this!”

Melody persisted. Lydia couldn’t understand. She just couldn’t understand.

She fled.

Melody’s song came to an end as her friends embraced her, some for the first time in many years.

“Will she come back?” Liana asked, looking in the direction Lydia had run.

“Perhaps,” Dori replied, “but for now I would not worry.”

“Even if she does,” Alexa added, “she won’t have any power without her flute. And we’ll be there to help you!”

At that moment, Ian and Jeremy burst through the doors.

“What happened?” they asked, seeing the now dust-covered pieces of the Muses’ instruments in the center of the room, as well as the Muses themselves, who they vaguely recognized from the short period of time they’d spent in Lydia’s cave. “I thought they had been turned to stone?”

“That reminds me,” Melody said, turning to her mentors. “How did you get free? I thought that your instruments would be the only things that could have broken her spells…”

“We heard your music calling to us,” Phaedra replied. “Just because your instrument is not that of a full Muse does not mean it isn’t powerful.” She smiled. “That being said, I believe we have much to discuss.”

With that, Liana, Alexa, and Melody began to recount the tale of how they came to find the castle, and the Storyline was restored.

The End.

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