A/N; Wow! You guys seem to really enjoy this! So, here's chapter 3! (Also make sure to rate, review, etc. !)

Chapter 3; Back to the Dark World

As the two friends neared the cold-steel doors, everything suddenly became darker, yet darker.

"At least this time we'll be ready..." Susie muttered dryly. She had stopped crying and was trying to steel her nerves once more, but her usual angry self wasn't coming back.

Something Changed

"Here we go...!" Kris cried out suddenly as he and Susie were swept into the Dark World, the papers beneath them vanishing.

"Kris, you okay?" the boy sat up to see his friend Susie standing before him, her Dark World outfit sitting on her rough frame of a body.

"Y... yeah..." Kris yawned a bit as he stood up, noticing that he too was in his Dark World garb. As they sat off, Susie walked right beside Kris instead of behind him like last time.

"Sooo, what do you think has changed?" Susie asked the blue boy, who just simply shrugged. As they got closer to Ralsei's kingdom, they heard a familiar laugh.

"Gotcha Toothpaste boy!" Lancer cackled with playful glee as he was riding around on his bike, holding Ralsei's hat.

"Hey - give ti back please!" the goat-prince said as Susie and Kris finally reached them. Lancer noticed them first and practically flew over to Susie.

"My favorite purple monster!" he said joyfully, hugging her. Deep down, Susie wanted to break down again. No one had ever genuinely hugged her like that. She just smiled to him as Ralsei walked over, picking up his abandoned hat from the ground.

"What brings you guys here?" the fluffy boy asked, a curious smile on his face.

"Well, we figured we'd come see how things were going" Susie just brushed it off as nothing, no matter how badly she wanted to tell them what happened. That's when Lancer noticed the dried tear-streaks on Susie's face.

"Susie..." he suddenly spoke in a careful, worried matter, his tongue not hanging out. "What's wrong?"

"Yeah Susie" Ralsei faced her now. Susie felt numb as she told her Darkner friends what had happened that morning, Kris backing her up on the events that had happened at the school.

"He kinda sounds like my dad" Lancer offered. "After all, they're both sitting in a time-out cell!"

"THAT'S NOT THE POINT!" Susie snapped hard, startling Lancer badly. The boy begun tearing up as he slowly backed away. With realization in her eyes, Susie walked over to him. "I... I'm sorry Lance. I shouldn't take my anger out on you..."

"So what do you plan on doing now?" Ralsei asked, worried for the purple monster. Susie turned to look at Ralsei before taking an uneasy breath.

"I don't know" Susie answered honestly as they all sat there.

"Why not move in with Kris!" Lancer was back to his old boisterous self as he suggested this. Kris slightly perked up at that idea.

"I... I dunno what my mom wants" Kris answered uneasily. "But we can a...always try if Susie wants to"

"Honestly, it sounds better than what I was thinking of" Susie replied to them as the three plopped down. "Wait a minute, where's Ralsei?" Susie spun around to see said-darkner carrying out a large stack of some of the most delicious looking cakes she had ever seen. They ranged from Vanilla to Pineapple, all the way to mint.

"I promised you these, didn't I?" he asked Susie with a kind smile, sitting them all down one by one.

"This is probably the best thing that's happened all day..." Susie smiled weakly as the four friends sat there, enjoying a picnic of cake.