It's Not Easy Being Sneezy: A 7D Fanfic (Ch. 10)

Clutching the spell book, Sneezy ran screaming as the Glooms took to the skies and gave chase. Peaches stumbled out of the destroyed cart's remains, Crystal Ball rolling out and coming to a rest at her hooves.

"Hey! Where do you think you're going? You can't just leave me here!" he shouted after his owners, watching them disappear into the distance. "How do you like that? Absolutely zero respect. There's just no appreciation for good comedy these days." Peaches squealed. "Yo, pork chop, think I can hitch a ride home with you?" The pig gave an oink in response.

Sneezy zig-zagged along the trail, narrowly dodging the onslaught of magical energy his pursuers hurled down around him. His little legs could only move so quickly, and the Glooms were soon hot on his heels. Grim reached out and nabbed the diminutive do-gooder by the back of his scarf.

"Ha! I gotcha!" After a sizable sneeze from his captured quarry, Grim was left holding nothing but a scarf. "I don't gotcha."

"Do not let him get away, Grim!" Hildy bellowed, stabbing her finger into the direction their target had taken off in.

"On it, my cantankerous cream puff!" Brandishing his wand, Grim began to produce a prestidigitation:
"With a knot that cannot come undone
Tie him up so he can't run!"

A long rope snaked from the wand's tip, slithering along the ground and tangling itself around Sneezy's legs. As the dwarf tripped, landing face first in the dirt, the tome he'd been toting slipped his grip. The enchanted twine coiled itself tightly around his entire body, tying itself off in a large bow. Sneezy gazed upward to see the book be blasted with magic, instantly igniting into flames. Jollywood's last hope was now a pile of ashes.

"It's the end of the line, Sniffles," Hildy sneered as she and Grim loomed over the defeated dwarf. "Without the counter spell, you have no chance of saving your precious village!" The witch threw her head back to cackle gleefully. "Now, suffer from our horrible stink!" Hildy's devilish grin gradually subsided as Sneezy showed no signs of agony from the odor. "Why aren't you suffering!?"

"Yeah, the rank ripeness we cast on Jollywood's flowers should be enough to make anyone ill," Grim declared. "Why isn't it working on you?"

"The flowers?" Sneezy began to devise a plan. "Your smelly spell has no effect on me, Glooms!" he taunted triumphantly.

"You rotten runt," Hildy growled. With a wave of her wand, the sorceress uprooted a handful of flowers and thrust them into Sneezy's face. "How's that grab you?"

As expected, Sneezy's nose began to tickle furiously. "C-can't smell ah-a thing!" he continued to jeer, struggling to stall the oncoming sneeze.

"Well, then how about this?" Grim obtained a second patch of flowers, shoving them towards the dwarf as well.

"Thah-that all you g-gah-got?"

"Oh, enough of this!" Hildy raised her wand towards the heavens:
"Flowers, heed the words I speak to thee
Gather yourselves here in front of me
And do so immediately!"

A storm cloud began to conjure overhead as every single flower in town was pulled from the ground and magically levitated towards Hildy, converging into a colorful sphere of stink above her head. Lightning crashed and thunder roared as she howled with laughter. "There's no possible way you can't smell this malodorous mass!" The potency of the abundant blossoms was enough to peel the bark off the nearby trees.

Sneezy couldn't delay the incredible expulsion of air that had built up in his sinuses any longer, but he luckily didn't have to. By the time it dawned on them what was coming, the Glooms had no time to escape it. A monstrous sneeze, perhaps the biggest he'd ever released, exploded from the dwarf's mouth and nose. The gigantic gust swept up the calamitous couple along with the flowers and the dark clouds, sending them sailing back towards their lair.

Sneezy sat up, his bonds having broken during his massive buildup. Two gas masks fell before him, his scarf gently floating down to rest over them. He sniffled as he rubbed a finger under his nose. "Bless me."