Chapter 13
"Come on! Come on! Open! Please open!" Frida was desperately trying force the door open but it did no good. "Oh this is all my fault. Oh Papa what are we going to do?"
"Now, now, we'll think of something." Her father reassured her.
Luckily for them Davi had seen the whole thing and had a plan to get them out. Using his mouth he grabbed a small needle used for fixing clocks and used it to pick the locks on the doors of the cellar.
"Hey need some help?" He asked.
"Oh Davi! Thank goodness!" Frida cried relieved.
She put Davi in her satchel, slipped on her cloak, and hurried off to warn Manny. Meanwhile Django had rallied up all the men together in lynch mob and they had already arrived at the castle but it was locked. They cut down a tree from the forest which they planned to use as a battering ram.
"Take whatever booty you can find but remember the beast is mine!" Django declared to the men.
THUMP!
"What in heavens name?!" Mrs. Chiquita cried startled.
She and rest of the objects went to the window and gasped at the sight of the mob trying to break in.
"Aye caramba! Invaders!" T.J gasped.
"Quick warn Manny!" Jorge ordered. "The rest of you to the door with me! No matter what happens we can't let them get in!"
The objects rushed to the castle doors and blocked them while Mrs. Chiquita hurried into the west wing.
"Pardon me Manny." She said.
"Leave me alone." He sighed sadly.
"But sir we're under attack! What should we do?"
"It doesn't matter."
"Oh dear!"
Downstairs the objects tried in vain to keep the doors from being opened but the men and their battering ram was a lot stronger than them.
"This isn't working!" T.J realized.
"Well we must do something." Andrea said.
"Wait! I know!"
Finally the mob managed to break down the door. The lights were off and all was quiet, they looked around for people but all they could see were furniture and house hold objects.
"Django this place gives me the creeps." Sergio said shaking.
"Shut up!" He the hunter scolded.
"I'm scared I wanna go home!"
"Shut up!"
"Now!" T.J shouted.
Suddenly the lights came on and the men were startled as the objects started to move and surround them, making a position to attack. A battle horn was heard.
"Charge!" T.J shouted and at once the objects began attacking the men. They punched, kicked, smacked, bashed, and mashed them with a great amount of strength and force.
"Get off me you stupid pots!" El Oso demanded as a bunch of pots and pans began banging him on the head.
"Up here you scurvey scum!" Mrs. Chiquita called. Up above him on a shelf stood her and a bunch of other tea cups filled with scolding hot tea. "Now!"
At her word they poured all the tea onto him burning his skin.
"Get back here you coyote! I'll tear you apart with my bear hands!" Sergio said chasing T.J. He finally caught the candle and began straggling him only for Jorge to slide down and get him right in the caboose with a pair of sharp and pointy shears. "Ahhhhhh!"
"Take that you brute!" Jorge laughed.
"Gracias amigo."
"Ahh! Take your filthy hands off of me!"
T.J was enraged to see Chipolte trying to yank out all of Andrea's feathers. Sparking up the hottest flames imaginable, he set Chipolte's pants on fire sending screaming: Swinnnnne!"
He then caught Andrea who planted a big kiss on his waxy cheek. The fight went on for awhile but in the end the village men were no use for the castle servants and they retreated from the castle defeated.
"And stay out!" Jorge shouted flinging a book straight at Sergio's head.
However the servants were celebrating their victory too soon because unknown to them Django had managed to slip upstairs and right into the west wing. He pulled out his bow and arrow and aimed it at Manny. Manny sensed him coming and looked over at him but rather than just attack him he just looked away from him, not caring at all what he did. Django fired his arrow into Manny's arm, he cried in pain and was shoved out the window by Django who began to cruelly beat him without mercy.
"You're even uglier in the flesh!" He laughed while beating. "What's the matter? Scared to fight back?"
Manny just looked at him with sad green eyes. Why should he fight? What exactly did he have to live for? The only woman he ever loved had left him forever and he would eventually die of loneliness so why fight? Django grabbed a club off of the castle and preapred to finish him off when...
"No!" A sad and familiar voice called. Manny looked down to see Frida rushing toward the castle. She was here, she had come back to him, she cared about him.
"Frida." He gasped happily.
"No!" Frida begged as she watched Django prepare to give Manny the killing blow. "Django! Don't!"
As quick as a cat Manny caught the club, stood up, and roared angrily at the hunter. They fought over control of the club which ended with Manny yanking it out of his hand and throwing it to the side. Django swung a punch at him but Manny dodged it and tackled Django sending them both rolling down the castle rooftops. Down below, Frida quickly entered the castle and ran upstairs as fast as she could.
"Oh please!" She prayed. "Please God don't let me be too late!"
Manny and Django fought each other like vicious, ruthless, blood thirsty, wolves. Manny had the strength, speed, and senses of a predatory animal so Django was no match for him. Django kicked him off, grabbed his club, and swung it at Manny only to miss and find him gone.
"Come on out and fight!" Django demanded. But he didn't see him, realizing that he couldn't rely on brute strength alone Django decided to mess with Manny's head and taught him. "Were you in love with her Manny? Did you honestly think she'd want you when she had someone like me?"
Manny was hiding in the shadows, Django's words made him growl and his eyes flash with a great rage.
"A girl like that could never love a monster like you! When I get back to the village she will marry me and if she refuses I'll have her placed in the asylum along with the crazy father of hers! A few nights in there and maybe she'll be more submissive!"
Manny couldn't contain his rage any longer. Hearing that this mad man was going to force himself on to Frida and subject her to a torturous asylum if she resisted made him want to kill the hunter right then and there. He jumped out of the shadows and glared at him, Django grinned wickedly at Manny and raised his club high above his head.
"It's over Manny! Frida is mine!"
Django prepared to kill him, thinking he had won with his cruel taughts but his plan quickly backfired when Manny's extreme rage toward Django and protectiveness over Frida gave him the strength to overpower Django completely, remove the club from his hands, and threw it off the castle. He then sized Django by his throat and held him over the castle ready to drop him or strangle him to death.
"Let me go! Let me go! Please don't hurt me! I'll do anything! Anything!" Django begged pathetically.
Why? Manny wondered. Why on earth should he let this man live? After he brutally attacked him, tried to kill him, and threatened to hurt Frida, why in the name of god should he let him live? Then Frida's frightened face entered his mind. He knew why he had to let him live because if he were to kill this man he would forever be a monster in the eyes of the woman he loved and to him that was a fate worse than death. So he pulled Django to his face and snarled.
"Get out." He growled dropping him on to a nearby ledge.
"Manny!" Frida called from the balcony causing him to turn around.
"Frida." He cried happily when he saw her.
He climbed up toward the balcony reached out to her. He gently took her hand in his and they gazed at each other lovingly.
"You came back." He said.
"Of course I came back." She replied.
But their moment of reuniting was interrupted when suddenly Django fatally stabbed Manny in the side with a knife. He howled in pain causing both him and Django to slip but Frida managed to grab on to Manny's shirt and pull him on to the balcony while Django fell to his death.
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