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Their Christmas celebration in the Happy Apple has ended, Shrek, Fiona, and their friends and family had gotten back to their homes to have a good night’s sleep. All is well except Rumpelstiltskin, stuck inside a cage…
The Happy Apple is closed and really dark and he’s all alone. Grumbling, Rumpel pulls on the bars, attempting to escape, his grunts echoing on the quiet room.
And then… An ominous whistles echoes back, forcing Rumpel to freeze. His hairs stood up as he hears footsteps drawing closer to him.
The hooded wolf appeared before Rumpel, who is beyond scared.
“Hello, enano…” said the wolf.
“WHO ARE YOU?!” shouts Rumpel, who is now peeing his pants.
“Oh, I’m a friend to those who made peace with me. A foe to those who feared me.” The wolf simply replies.
Rumpel is slightly unnerved by the creepy aura of the wolf, especially his glowing red eyes.
“I’M LOCKED IN A CAGE BY THAT SILLY OGRE AND HIS DUMMY THICC WIFE! AND I DON’T KNOW WHY?!” Screamed Rumpel.
“Are you blind? You nearly ruined his life….” Another figure said, coming out from the darkness.
It was a man, wearing a dark-coloured sorcerer’s outfit, his cloak is black and adorned with yellow outlines, and what’s worn around his neck is some eye-like ornament. He had a sharp goatee and a cool hairstyle with grey sideburns. His eyes seem to be dark-coloured, as if he’s sleep-deprived and he has noticeable cheekbones. It makes him all the more creepy.
Rumpel’s eyes widen in fear as the man steps closer to the cage.
“…and tampered the reality of space-time…” continues Strange Supreme.
“EH! WHO ARE YOU?!” Rumpel panics.
“Some old friend” the wolf said.
“Now I heard you messed with the Multiverse with these contracts, Rumpee.” Strange Supreme said.
This offended Rumpel, as Rumpee sounds so childish. In the celebration, while in a birdcage, Shrek and the ogres had called him that until it ends. He hated it so much.
“DON’T CALL ME RUMPEE, YOU MOTHER-“ Rumpel yells, banging the cage in an effort of intimidating the two dark figures. The hooded wolf can’t help but snicker in a creepy fashion, watching this midget thrash around because he was called that way.
“- of the Vishanti!!! You think it’s a good idea to mess the Multiverse just to get yourself rich?!” Interrupts Strange.
“How?! I don’t know what’s a multiverse!” Rumpel lies. In response, the wolf draw out his sickle and pointed it to Rumpel’s throat.
“It’s universe, but multi. Are you illiterate?” The hooded wolf growls.
“The wolf said you read forbidden literature to tamper with reality to make contracts?” hisses Strange Supreme.
“Wha? N-No!!” Lies Rumpel. Rumpelstiltskin himself has barged in forbidden sections of a library and had stolen books, reading forbidden spells which can grant him quick power and cash. But at the expense of reality itself.
“Stop lying! I’m the Sorcerer Supreme! I can read your mind, midget! Because your contracts create temporary alternate universes by stealing the energy of other universes, Thus! They destablize the structure of the Multiverse, causing Many. Many. Incursions!”
Rumpel is frozen with fear in front of Strange Supreme’s presence, he’s about to get his karma after all the notorious deals he did.
“I might as well want to take your life here, but I’ll let him do it instead to show how far you’ve crossed the line… It would be wondrous” the hooded wolf declares to Rumpel.
“Haha… If you wanna see what you’ve done, it would be best I’d give you a trip around the multiverse. I’m not sure if you’d survive this…” said Strange Supreme, whose hands start to turn into green eldritch tentacles.
Before Rumpel could react, the hooded wolf slices the bars of the cage, freeing Rumpel from his trap.
Strange Supreme uses the opportunity to grab Rumpel by the waist with his tentacles, utterly frightening the ginger midget. Rumpel tries grabbing on the bars of the cage to keep himself from getting pulled away…
It was to no avail, as Strange Supreme gives another tug, pulling Rumpel many meters away from the cage. The wolf is just watching with sadistic glee, smiling as Rumpel panics against Strange’s grip. Strange Supreme then does a circle gesture with his free hand, opening an orange-outlined portal.
As Rumpel is dragged away, he turns to see Strange Supreme walk into the portal with terror in his eyes. He's bringing him to places that might soon kill him.
Rumpel, out of utter hysteria, claws on the floor in a futile attempt to escape Strange’s grasp. The clawing made a screech which would have been unbearable for mortals like him to hear, but to the hooded wolf and Strange Supreme, it doesn’t deter them.
The hooded wolf follows Strange Supreme through the portal and stares at a hysterical Rumpel with a creepy smile. Rumpel continues to claw on the floor, even as his fingers are profusely bleeding, screaming as he’s being dragged into the portal.
Rumpelstiltskin is gone…. By next morning, the Happy Apple had to be closed for a while, as the villagers investigate the broken cage, and the blood markings made by Rumpel’s fingers on the floor.