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The Stitchpunk of Notre Dame Ch. 4

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Back at Notre Dame, the citizens of Paris all gathered around at the square to see the Festival of Fools as it already began. Inside, a familiar Stitchpunk was watching from a statue wearing a blue hooded cloak that reached down to his ankles. 5 climbed down the statue and looked down at the festival with excitement; he was going to the Festival of Fools, but in disguise so no one, not even Voldemort, would recognize him. He watched as a choir arrived at the square and they all sang out loud for the crowd to hear;

Come one, come all
Leave your loops and milking stools
Coop the hens and pen the mules


5 looked up to see the gargoyles waving and smiling at him to wish him good luck. 5 smiled back at them before jumping to a banner that was tied to a pillar on the cathedral and he slid down it towards a pole that the other end was tied to. 5 watched with excitement as the Festival of Fools was about to begin, but then the ropes loosened and he yelled in alarm as he swung down on the banner and landed feet first on the ground.

Come one, come all
Close the churches and the schools
It's the day for breaking rules
Come and join the Feast...


5 recovered from the fall and lifted his hood a little to see the people smiling in their song, "Of..."

"FOOLS!"

Discord appeared in a flash of magic, still wearing his jester's outfit and magenta mask, and he laughed as confetti rained down and the people behind him unfurled their colorful flags to begin the festival. 5, surprised and recovering from his daze, tried to run off, but he was cut off by some people dancing to the joyous music, and Discord pulled him in to dance with him. He began to sing as he flew over to a pole and hung from it, then he jumped into a puddle that showed his reflection upside down;

Once a year, we throw a party here in town
Once a year, we turn all Paris upside down
Every man's a king and every king's a clown
Once again, it's Topsy Turvy Day!


He and the crowd playfully bowed to a man dressed as a king, who flipped himself over to show his real half dressed as a clown. He saw 5 running off and decided to have a little fun with him.

Discord came over to the Stitchpunk, who was hiding behind a bunch of balloons he was holding, and Discord made a pair of scissors appear and they cut the ropes as they floated in mid-air, making the balloons float away and 5 ran off to hide from the draconequus in a wagon. But it turns out he was in a puppet stage, and a group of children giggled as he was being hit on the head with a piece of wood by a puppet version of Voldemort being played by Discord.

It's the day the Devil in us gets released
It's the day we mock the prig and shock the priest
Everything is topsy turvy at the Feast of Fools


5 ran out of the tent, and he skidded to a halt when he saw three dogs named Pluto, Copper, and Dodger walking on their hind legs as their owners Mickey Mouse, Amos Slade, and Fagin walked on all fours as their dogs held them by leashes and walked them while Fagin held a bone between his teeth and grinned. 5 looked over at another direction and he had a confused look on his face when he saw a boy named Ed sitting on a horse with two rear ends and he chuckled dumbly as he held two signs that pointed in different directions.

Crowd: Topsy turvy!
Discord: Everything is upsy-daisy!
Crowd: Topsy turvy!
Discord: Everybody's acting crazy! Dross is gold and weeds are a bouquet... That's the way on Topsy Turvy Day!


5 walked through the crowd and he got startled by a man wearing a silly mask, and he ran into a tent. But he was carried out by women doing the can-can towards another tent, and Discord wore a frilly skirt while joining in.

"WHOA!!" 5 yelled as he stumbled out of the tent and into another one. He tripped over a stool and grabbed a curtain to stop his fall, but this made the curtain fall and he fell to the ground with a crash while being covered by the curtain. Alexis, who had been behind the tent and wearing nothing but a blue robe and having her hair down, yelled, "Hey!"

She saw 5 on the floor and covered by the curtain, and she asked with concern, "Are you alright?"

5 stammered as he got the curtain off of him and covered his face with his hood, "I-I didn't mean to! I-I'm sorry." He backed away nervously as Alexis came over to him as she tied a knot on her robe, and she said to him, "Oh, you're not hurt, are you? Here, let's see."

She took his hood off and 5 exclaimed, scared she would be repulsed by his face, "No, no, n-no!"

"There." Alexis said, looking at him. Hen-Wen cringed at his face a little, and Alexis assured 5 with a kind smile, "See? No harm done." 5 smiled at her, and she helped him up and said to him with a laugh, "Just try to be a little more careful."

5 nodded, "I will."

After 5 left the tent, Alexis looked back at him and smiled with a wink, "By the way, great mask!" She closed the tent and 5 smiled in relief. He remembered that the Festival of Fools had people wearing masks, and his eye patch was a great cover for him to enjoy the festivities. He looked over and saw Chef Louis in a stew pot and scrubbing himself while Mr. Krabs pushed him in a wheelbarrow and a group of Gypsies consisting of an alligator named Louis playing a trumpet, a young woman with golden blonde hair named Aurora playing a fiddle, and a little red dragon named Mushu played a drum.

A bunch of people popped the balloons acting as their heads as everyone danced around the square and 5 was dragged in by Ursula, and the sea witch danced with him and made the poor Stitchpunk dizzy.

Crowd: Topsy turvy!
Discord: Beat the drums and blow the trumpets!
Crowd: Topsy turvy!
Discord: Join the bums and thieves and strumpets streaming in from Chartes to Calais... Scurvy knaves are extra scurvy, on the sixth of Januervy, all because it's Topsy Turvy Day!


The crowd parted to let a carriage pass by and Randall and a bunch of guards followed on their horses. Randall, who now had a golden colored helmet on his head, ordered the guards to spread out while Discord announced the next act through song as Voldemort exited the carriage and walked up to his throne in a stand just for him;

Come one, come all!
Hurry, hurry, here's your chance
See the mystery and romance


He came up from behind Voldemort and nudged him before teleporting himself near the stage, and the Dark Lord brushed confetti off his robes and watched the festival without any interest. The draconequus Gypsy came over to 5 and nudged him towards the stage where everyone was gathering around and watching in excitement.

Come one, come all!
See the finest girl in France
Make an entrance to entrance
Dance la Alexis


Discord held the last note as he raised his lion paw into the air, and he shouted as he threw some dust onto the stage, "DANCE!"

He disappeared and Alexis came in his place. She was wearing a navy blue dress with an off-the-shoulder neckline, sheer white sleeves that were short, a silver trimming, and a white sash around her waist and she still had her jewelry on, and she even had a circlet around her head and a white tiara in her hair that both had a blue stone in them.

Everyone, including 5, stared at her in astonishment and many others wolf whistled as she smiled at the crowd. Voldemort watched with surprise as Alexis put down her tambourine and brought out a sheer white scarf that had gold patches of the sun, the moon, and stars on it and she started dancing. Voldemort said to Randall as he sat back in his throne, "Look at that disgusting display!"

"Yes sir!" Randall grinned as he lifted the tip of his helmet, clearly enjoying the show.

Alexis skipped across the stage and jumped over to a table and to where Voldemort was sitting. She sat on the edge of his throne and wrapped his scarf around his neck and pulled him closer to her. The Gypsy girl leaned closer to his face and looked like she was going to kiss him, but then she grabbed his hood and pulled it over his face before running back to the stage, leaving her scarf behind. Everyone laughed at Alexis's stunt as Voldemort pulled his hood back and glared at her as he took the scarf in his hands.

Alexis did some twirls for the audience, then a couple of cartwheels and did a split. She looked at 5 and winked at him with a smile, making the Stitchpunk look away and hide his blush. Then she came over to one of Voldemort's guards, an alien that looked like a cross between a spider and a crab named Mr. Scroop who watched her with a dumbfounded grin, and she took his spear, ran to the center of the stage, and pierced the floor with the tip. She twirled around it and the crowd went wild for her as she finished her dance with a smile and a nod.

The crowd applauded and threw gold coins on the stage. Randall threw a gold coin for her and 5 applauded as Discord appeared on the stage and announced, "And now, ladies and gentlemen, the pièce de résistance!" He started singing again and everyone began grinning and muttering to one another about the next event;

Here it is, the moment you've been waiting for
Here it is, you'll know exactly what's in store
Now's the time we laugh until our sides get sore


"Now's the time we crown the King of Fools!" Discord announced. "You all remember last year's king?"

He pointed to a drunken fat man with yellow skin and messy brown hair named Barney Gumble, who was being carried by a couple of people in a chair, and he let out a large belch as he waved to the public and drank from a wine bottle in his hands.

So make a face that's horrible and frightening
Make a face that's gruesome as a gargoyle's wing


Roger, who had been dancing and watching the whole thing, got offended by Discord and whined, "Hey!" He looked behind him and shrugged in realization with a grin, "Oh wait, I don't even have wings. Never mind!"

Discord sang as he helped a bunch of people wearing masks on the stage, "For the face that's ugliest will be the King of Fools! Why?"

A few of the audience members swapped masks with each other while Alexis helped 5 onto the stage and his cloak slipped off, and Ling rowed in a boat suit and pretended to be scared of a giant fish that his friends Yao and Chien-Po were controlling.

Crowd: Topsy turvy!
Discord: Ugly folks, forget your shyness!
Crowd: Topsy turvy!
Discord: You could soon be called 'your highness'!
Crowd: Put your foulest features on display!
Discord: Be the king of Topsy Turvey Day!


5 went into the line-up of other people in masks participating in the event, and Discord did some cartwheels while Alexis started pulling the participants' masks off for the people to judge how silly or ugly their faces are. First she removed a mask off of a man with red hair named Philip J. Fry, who put his lower lips over his upper lips and nose to make himself look like a frog. The crowd booed at him, not seeing him ugly enough or funny-looking, and Hen-Wen head butted him off the stage and he landed in a mud puddle.

Next, Alexis removed a mask off of a bandit named Yosemite Sam, who pulled his lips down with his fingers and groaned, but the crowd didn't see him ugly or funny enough either, and Hen-Wen head butted him off the stage too and he landed on Fry, followed by several other participants. None of them seemed worthy to be the King of Fools, and Hen-Wen knocked the last of the participants off their feet and off the stage, and she squealed in alarm when she looked at 5's face and ran off. Alexis came over to him with a smirk and pulled his face, and she gasped when she realized it wasn't a mask like she thought it was when she first saw him.

The crowd all gasped in shock and disgust, and Grimsby pointed out, "That's no mask!"

"It's his face!" Helen Lovejoy, who was standing with her husband Reverend Lovejoy, cringed in disgust.

"He's hideous!" Anastasia and Drizella Tremaine both gasped.

"It's the bell ringer from Notre Dame!" Chi-Fu added.

Voldemort got out of his chair in shock, realizing that 5 had disobeyed him and snuck out of the cathedral. The crowd gasped at 5, and the Stitchpunk buried his face in his hands in shame and humiliation. Discord teleported onto the stage and announced, "Ladies and gentlemen, don't panic! We asked for the ugliest face in Paris, and here he is..."

He made a crown that looked like a jester's hat appear in his hands and finished as he placed it on 5's head, "Cincomodo, the Stitchpunk of Notre Dame!" The crowd cheered and came over to the stage, and a bunch of people came together to lift 5 up and carry him off as Discord cheered, "Everybody!"

Discord and the crowd began to sing as Discord grabbed a stilt from one of the performers, making the performer lose his balance and fall, and the carriers threw Barney off the chair as he guzzled down his wine and 5 came into his place;

Crowd: Once a year, we throw a party here in town
Discord: Hail to the king!
Crowd: Once a year, we turn all Paris upside down
Discord: Oh what a king!
Crowd: Once a year, the ugliest will wear a crown... Once a year on Topsy Turvy Day!


"Girls, give a kiss!" Discord laughed, and Anna and Elsa both kissed 5 on opposite sides of his face. As he was being carried to a platform, 5 couldn't be happier at the moment and he waved over at Voldemort with a smile, but the Dark Lord glared at him darkly with his arms crossed.

We've never had a king like this
And it's the day we do the things that we deplore
For the other three hundred and sixty four


Discord placed a magenta cape with fur trimmings on 5's shoulders, and the crowd danced around as they cheered for their new King of Fools. Homer Simpson jumped into a vat of ale as two people poured themselves a drink and a few other people drank out of the spigots from the vat, and a short man named Winky and a bunch of weasels toasted their drinks as they sat on liquor barrels. Glen Quagmire popped a bottle of champagne and the cork hit a performer in the groin, and the performer winced in pain as Quagmire drunkenly drank the champagne from the bottle.

Once a year, we love to drop in
Where the beer is never stoppin'
For the chance to pop some popinjay
And take a king who'll put the "top" in Topsy Turvy Day
Mad and crazy, upsy-daisy, Topsy Turvy Day!


Discord handed 5 a scepter and everyone danced and cheered for their new King of Fools. From the bell tower, Miss Kitty threw confetti down while Grim blew a party horn for 5 and Roger drunkenly cheered as he held a bottle of champagne in his hands, "Yeah!! Woot! Way to go, buddy!"

The crowd cheered as they threw flowers and confetti at 5, "Cincomodo! Cincomodo! Cincomodo!" 5 was happy that they were cheering for him, he didn't notice two of Voldemort's guards plotting a trick on him.

Mr. Tweedy and McLeach were watching from the crowd, and Mr. Tweedy whispered to McLeach with a sneaky grin as he tossed a tomato in the air, "You think he's ugly now? Watch this."

5 smiled as he adjusted his crown, but Mr. Tweedy threw the tomato at him and it hit him in the face! His smile disappeared and he gasped when he wiped the tomato off of him, and the crowd gasped in shock. Mr. Tweedy laughed, "Now that's ugly!" 5 panted as he looked around the crowd with tomato juice running down his face.

"Hail to the king!" Razoul sneered as he threw another tomato at 5 and it hit him in the face. Soon the guards all joined in, and they all called out as they threw more food at 5, "Long live the king! Bon appetit!"

5 whimpered as he tried to get away, but he yelled when he slipped on a tomato and fell. The crowd started laughing at him and everyone began joining in with the guards and threw food at poor 5. The Stitchpunk couldn't take it anymore and tried to run, and Dudley Dursley grinned cruelly as he swung a lasso, "Where are you going, freak? The fun's just beginning!" He threw the lasso towards 5 and the looped end caught 5 by the neck.

The Stitchpunk groaned in pain as Dudley pulled him down and his cape came off, and the crowd continued laughing at him as another person threw a rope around his wrist and made him let go of his scepter as it tightened around him. The crowd laughed even harder and crueler at 5 as his shirt got torn, and he tugged hard at the rope around his wrist and sent the person at the other end flying. He tried to keep fighting back at the people trying to throw ropes at him by pulling on the ropes as they kept throwing food at him, but it was no use. When he was on his knees, Kay and his father Sir Ector came over to him with sneers and they tied his wrists together and tied him down to the wheel on the platform.

With cruel grins, they spun the wheel around and 5 yelled as he was being spun around and pelted with vegetables and eggs in his face. From one of the tents, Alexis had changed back into her normal clothes when she heard the commotion from outside. She came out of her tent and watched with shock from what was happening.

"Master!" 5 cried out to Voldemort. The Dark Lord sat in his throne with a sneer as 5 called out to him as he was being pelted with food, "Master, please! Help me!"

Voldemort stayed seated in his throne and turned his head away from the scene with a frown as everyone continued throwing food at 5. Randall turned towards Voldemort and asked him, disgusted by the crowd's treatment of 5, "Sir, request permission to stop this cruelty?"

Voldemort stopped him and said with a cold grin, "In a moment, captain. A lesson needs to be learned here." They turned towards the crowd when they heard everyone stop laughing and grow silent all of a sudden.

So what did you guys think? 5 has a great time at the Festival of Fools, but all of that is ruined when he is suddenly humiliated and tortured by the crowd and Voldemort refuses to help him. But a certain Gypsy girl comes to the rescue. ;)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame and the songs belong to Disney and Victor Hugo, the characters I used belong to their respective owners, and Alexis is me.

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MagicMovieNerd's avatar
OMG I hate the scene after "Topsy Turvy"! If I was in the crowd, I would possess telekinesis, and turn this scene into the prom scene from Carrie! Rage Rage Rage