There was a figure watching them. He had a theater mask over his face but he lowered it to reveal a face of hate. The figure was revealed to have been Dr. Faciler. He clenched his teeth and turned his head to see Naveen's body looking anxious about the turn of tonight's events. He then looked and saw Cherry. The two appeared to be going into the gazebo. Naveen's body soon rushed to where the real Naveen was supposed to be. Dr. Facilier then slithered up behind him as Cherry seemed nervous and weary like she was around her friends earlier that night.
"Oh, dear..." Naveen's body said with a different voice as he saw that a jar was open.
Facilier then snuck up behind him.
"Yipe!" Naveen gasped to see the Shadow Man. "You're so quiet..."
"You let him go?!" Dr. Faciler glared.
"The poor guy was gasping so I loosened the lid ever so slightly," Naveen's body whimpered nervously and tripped over the shadow that was behind him which then made him trip. "Now how did I ever get tangled up in all this voodoo madness? I can't go through with it!" he then swiped off the amulet around his neck and was revealed to have been a plump English man in the prince's body all along. "You wear this... This... Ghastly thing!" he then threw the amulet.
"You idiot!" Cherry gasped.
"Careful with that!" Dr. Faciler glared to the man as he grabbed the amulet before it fell. "If anything happens to this, and I'm going to be--"
The man flinched, fearing for his life as the voodoo man looked rather deathly.
"Fun fact about voodoo, Larry," Dr. Faciler then said as he kept the amulet with a small evil smile. "Can't conjure a thing for myself. Besides, you and I both know the real power in this world isn't magic. It's money!" he then pointed to a portrait of Eli above the fireplace as he wrapped an arm around the plump English man.
"Money is such a beautiful word..." Cherry sounded greedy now.
"So true." Dr. Faciler smirked.
"Yes, it is..." the plump man did agree.
"Aren't you tired of living on the margins while those fat cats in their fancy cars don't give you as much as a sideways glance?" Dr. Facilier asked as he looked down at the floor.
"Yes, I am!" the plump man replied.
"And aren't you tired of being pushed around by others just to have only your friends fight for you?" Dr. Faciler then asked Cherry.
"You have no idea." Cherry replied.
"All you gotta do is marry Big Daddy's little princess and we'll be splitting that juicy LaBouff's fortune right down the middle," Dr. Faciler put the amulet around the plump man's neck to make him into Naveen again. "60:40, like I said."
"Yeah." Cherry nodded.
"Yeah..." the plump man smirked in agreement as he looked in the mirror with the prince's body. "But, what about Naveen?"
"Your little slip up will be a minor bump in the road," Dr. Faciler replied as he then smacked the back of the plump man's head. "So as long as we got the prince's and the little brat's blood in this..." he lifted up the skull shaped amulet with a wicked grin and both men chuckled.
Cherry watched them as there were dastardly deeds about to come true.
Meanwhile, it was drizzling outside and getting very late at night. Patch and the others were still floating along with the party balloons. Naveen was explaining everything to them and why he was a frog.
"Wait, the same thing happened to you?" Darla asked before covering her mouth.
"Same thing?" Naveen looked down to the girl.
"Voodoo?" Tiana asked as the lightning flashed. "You mean to tell me this all happened because you were messing with the Shadow Man?!"
"For him it looks like it, but the Shadow Man tricked Cherry into making a deal with him and then he took a sample of my blood!" Darla told Tiana.
"He took my blood too," Naveen said to Darla. "And he was very charismatic!"
"It serves me right for wishing on stars," Tiana groaned. "The only way to get what you want in this world is through hard work."
"Hard work?" Naveen laughed. "Why would a princess need to work?"
"Um, Prince Naveen; you should know that Tiana isn't a princess, she's a waitress." Atticus told him.
"A waitress?" Naveen sounded disappointed. "Well, no wonder the kiss didn't work, she lied to me!"
"No, I never said I was a princess!" Tiana glared.
"You never said that you were a waitress!" Naveen glared back. "You were wearing a crown!"
"It was a costume party, you dingus!" Darla glared in return.
"Yeah!" Patch added.
"Oh, yeah? You think you embarrassed yourself?" Naveen retorted with a smirk. "I don't have any riches!"
"What?!" the others asked as they floated downward.
"I'm completely broke!" Naveen laughed until suddenly, a balloon popped. "Uh-oh..."
"Last stop, everybody out!" Patch said anxiously.
Before anyone could do anything, all of them soon fell into the bayou.
"You said you were fabulously wealthy!" Tiana growled.
"No," Naveen shook his head. "My bloodline is fabulously wealthy. My parents cut me off for being a--" he then lifted an arm and saw a leech sucking his blood. "LEECH! LEECH!"
"Oh, for the love of peat." Atticus sighed before getting the leech off Naveen's arm.
"Wimp." Darla glared to Naveen.
"You're broke and you have the nerve to call Tiana a liar?" Atticus asked as he pulled the leech off of the Maldonian prince with anger.
"Well, it wasn't a lie..." Naveen shrugged as the leech was thrown miles away out of the bayou until it was caught and eaten by a fish.
There was then a growl heard as Patch came over to them.
"Patch, please tell me that was your stomach." Darla begged.
"No." Patch shook his head as Naveen and Tiana were talking.
"Then what was that...?" Darla feared the worst.
"Possibly an alligator." Atticus said.
"Alligator?" Darla gulped.
The others then could see gators coming after them.
"You guys go hide, I'll take care of 'em, you can help, Atticus." Patch snarled to the alligators, not afraid of them.
"You got it, buddy." Atticus said.
The others hopped away and hid away while Atticus and Patch decided to handle the gators. And where for them, it was no problem. Tiana and Naveen hid away with little Darla.
"Well waitress, looks like we're going to be here for a while," Naveen said seductively. "We might as well get comfortable."
There was then a slap heard.
"Keep your slimy self away from me!" Tiana hissed.
"I told you, it's not slime, it's mucus!" Naveen replied.
"Whatever! Just keep away from her." Darla said.
Eventually, Atticus and Patch tired themselves out and sent the gators out. Tiana and Naveen seemed to already fall asleep. Atticus then made up a more comfortable bed for Darla so she could sleep easier.
"Thanks, Atticus." Darla smiled.
"Anything for my little sister." Atticus smiled back.
Darla soon went to sleep. Atticus tucked her in and went to sleep beside her.
Patch was too big to fit in, but he fell asleep on the surface by the cavern and curled up so he could get some sleep himself. "Good night, everyone." he then yawned.
"Night..." the others muttered as they instantly fell asleep.
Patch curled up and fell asleep with them. The next day would come sooner than anyone would think.