Mollie flew her plane determined to get her acquaintances to safety. "Look out!" Doug Houser yelled as a giant gold watcher loomed over them laughing. It threw giant axes at Mollie's plane intending to strike them all down at once. "Fly higher!" Poe yelled.
"Fly faster!" Baba ordered.
"Fly lower!" Maggie shouted.
"Make up your minds!" the avian lady called out to them. Another axe just missed the planes's right wing.
"AAAAAH!" Icky Licky screamed."
"Did you just sceam like a girl?" Simon Smokes asked.
"SHUT UP!" Icky yelled forgetting for a moment the danger they were in.
Doug noticed the portal. "Can you fly us in there?" He pointed to Mollie.
"I've been barnstorming for quite some time. Of course I can fly through there if it will get us all to safety." Mollie nodded.
"What did she say about barnstorming?" Touille asked not liking her words.
"Hang on!" Mollie flew the plane narrowly missing an axe as she flew throw the portal. The next moment, Mollie found herself flying through a ballroom with a strange women in a black dress right beneath her.
"What on Earth!?" the lady shouted. Mollie managed to land the plane to the ground--then she rammed it into a stone pillar. "Doug! What are you thinking flying that contraption around in here? You could have let Malak in if you rammed the plane into the door up there!" Bierce gestured towards the door with a demonic eye on it.
"It wasn't his fault!" Mollie said. "I was helping this man and his stuffed animals get out of the weird mansion. Who are you?"
"I'm Bierce." the white haired lady said.
"I'm Mollie Macaw, the greatest pilot you ever saw!" Mollie said.
"I see." Bierce said unconvincingly as she looked at the wrecked plain. "What are you going to do with that wreckage and where did you come from?"
"I was a mascot at a place called "Indigo Park". I was replaced by another mascot and I was out of a job. Many of my friends lost their jobs and were replaced so I left and flew my plane looking for a new life and you know how I saved you friends." Mollie said.
"Interesting. So you have friends at Indigo Park and you can fly planes?"
"Yes, ma'am." Mollie said. Mollie walked over to her plane and inspected it. "Just as I thought, it's busted, never to fly again. Fortunately, I know how to sail boats too."
"What do you mean?" Doug asked.
"I'm also the captain of a pirate ship. If I can find Chip, Pip, and Tiki; I can see about leaving." Mollie said.
"Would you like to help Doug during your stay here? Malak and his minions can't get in here." Bierce offered.
"What do you want?" Mollie asked. Bierce told her about the soul shards and portals into other worlds and nightmare realms.
Mollie said, "I can help in the meantime but once I find my crew I really need to leave."
Bierce interjected, "They could help too if we find them."
Mollie looked concerned. "Listen, lady, they are only children and yes, their lives were in danger while fighting enemy pirates but I don't know how they will be able to handle demons."
"We're children and we survived to Nightmare Realms." Raby Baby smiled.
"I had to save you from the previous one." Mollie said.
"And survived your plane crash." Raby Baby added.
Mollie sighed. "Okay, they can help but if I think this is to dangerous, I am taking my crew back."
"Very well." Bierce agreed.

End of Chapter