"We should go looking for him."
"You worry too much, Anti. I mean it's Robbie. Kid can't even hurt a fly."
Anti rolled his eyes at his brother. "It's been nearly an hour, Chase. I promised him ten minutes…"
Chase simply shrugged. "He probably got spooked by a rat or something and got lost. It's not like he's in any actual danger or anything."
"Fine, whatever. You two can leave. But I'm going in to look for him."br /Without another word to Chase or Marvin, Anti trudged towards the castle doors.
The two brothers left, but had they stayed they might have noticed the shadows and figures moving in the castle windows at Anti's arrival.
Dust and silence greeted Anti once the doors were shut behind him.
Stepping further inside, he called out to his younger brother, "Robbie?"
When no answer came, Anti moved in further through the castle floor. He looked around for any trace of his brother but found none.
Robbie?" He called out again, now reaching the throne room near the centre of the castle's ground floor.
That was when he heard it. It coming from further in the castle, so soft he nearly missed it. "Anti?"
Anti ran off in the direction he heard his name come from. He found himself in the old castle's dungeon tower. There at near the top, the last cell was Robbie.
The two brothers hugged each other through the cell bars.
"Robbie, I was so worried about you. We have to get you out of here. This wasn't a very nice trick to pull."
The purple haired boy seemed to be in a bit of a panic. "No, no. No trick. Anti leave. He'll get you."
Before Anti could ask what his young brother meant, a harsh ringing sound filled his ears. The sound seemed to reverberated throughout the tower. Anti was surprised he was still able to hear the voice from the figure in the darkness over it.
"Get out!" Anti could have sworn the figure's voice echoed naturally but he wrote it off as just being a side effect of the tower's cramped space.
Before Anti, himself could figure out what he was doing, he was on his feet, baring his teeth at the new comer. "Not without him," the green haired boy pointed at his younger brother.
"He is being made an example of for trespassing. I should do the same with you, but you may leave to pass on the message."
Anti physically snarled at the figure, something he's never done in his life before.
The figure returned the sound, coming closer, but still staying outside Anti's range of visibility. "Do not test me boy. I will make you regret it"
A tug at his pants stopped Anti from passing a snarky remark as he looked down at his younger brother. "Just go. I'll be fine," came the younger's small, weak voice.
It was in that moment that Anti made up his mind. His head snapped up to the figure once more. "Make an example of me. Let him go and be your messenger."
The figure remained silent, caught off guard by the boy's words. Robbie protested next to him, but Anti remained focused on the figure, awaiting his response.
After what felt like eternity to Anti, a simple "Deal" broke the silence in his mind. At the same time, the figure stepped into the light. He'd look much like a walking corpse with his grey skin and dark eyes. However, Anti's eyes were quickly drawn to the two large horns on the figure's head and the devilish tail behind him. It took Anti's mind too long to comprehend what he was looking at was the Demon of the Castle in the flesh.
Fear gripped Anti, numbing him to everything around him. He didn't notice the demon unlocking Robbie's cell and dragging him out nor did he notice when he was shoved inside and the door locked. He only snapped out of it long enough to hear his brother call for him one last time, before the large doors of the castle were shut once more.
A/N: I've finally had the time to update! And Dark's finally arrived and made himself known!
