Ok I hurried. When I hurry I write short chapters… If I have a few days I can get over 2,000 words if I have some stuff to write. But I think doing it in stages is better…

Gregor stared at a passed out Ripred. "Oh god!"

"Is he dead?" Luxa asked.

Gregor cautiously walked over to Ripred and checked his heartbeat. "It's very shallow…"

"ROAR!!" A rat sprang out of its hiding place.

"Ahh!" Luxa hugged Gregor hard. She then looked and blushed, releasing Gregor.

Gregor in turn blushed even deeper, and turning to a fallen Ripred.

"Stay back!" A guard stepped into the room, but the rat just threw him aside."

"Wait that's Lapblood!"

"Why yes Overlander." Lapblood sat down.

"What are you doing here?!" Luxa grabbed the sword from the fallen guard and pointed it at Lapblood.

"Relax Queen, I am but a helper of Ripred. Now if this old fool would just stop playing dead…" Lapblood sniffed Ripred.

"Aww… You spoiled it!" Ripred slowly sprang to his feet and shook the cream sauce from his fur. "More shrimp in cream sauce, table one!" He yelled to the direction of the kitchen door.

"You were pretending someone poisoned you with shrimp in cream sauce!" Gregor yelled.

"Not necessarily… I've had too much… Can barely move… See?" Ripred picked up his tail and suspended it an inch off of the ground, and let it fall to the ground again. "I can do that and get up…"

"Ripred…"

"Ok ok… Coming for training I see? Highly unlikely you risking getting caught by your mother to just come see little Luxa, right?" Ripred groaned as the Underlanders brought more of Ripred's weakness out. "Hmm… Death by shrimp in cream sauce… Not that bad a way of going…" Ripred shoved his face into the bowl, scattering cream everywhere. Luxa stepped back to avoid being blanketed in the cream.

A shrimp flew through the air and landed on Gregor's head. "Whoa…" He swatted it to the ground.

"Oh now you're wasting food boy!" Ripred brought his head out to say, and he stuck it back in when Gregor looked back at him.

"Pig…" Lapblood complained.

"Can we get you anything?" An Underlander walked up to Lapblood.

"No," Lapblood said. "But I appreciate the offer."

"How about you?" The Underlander turned to Gregor and Luxa with a bow.

"Nothing for me, thank you."

"I don't need anything, Cyrus." Luxa dismissed him.

"Anyway we are starting training! Pronto!" Ripred stormed out of the room, a filled bowl on his tail.

"Ripred! Get a sack!" Luxa scolded.

"Oh then I can't open it your majesty." Ripred turned back.

"Have Gregor do it…"

"But then he may decide it's so delectable he'll keep it to himself!"

Cyrus rushed in holding a skinned sack full of shrimp in cream sauce and put it around Ripred's neck.

"But what if I wanted the shrimp in the bowl? Maybe the cream sauce is tainted in the sack!"

Luxa rolled her eyes.

"Your fine Ripred." Gregor walked past the rat. "I'll even test it for you."

"And ruin the taste with your human breathe? Never!" Ripred trudged out. "Tunnel's behind the castle, stat."

"Roger…"

"Who is this 'Roger'?" Luxa asked.

"Uhm.. It's a way of saying.. 'Yes' or 'sure'." Gregor walked off.

Luxa followed, "I'll go with you."

Had to end it here… Trying to update as fast as possible.. Trying not to disappoint… Any ideas you have, it'd be great I'm all ears. PM me or review with one. These are so the story is longer and maybe more enjoyable..

Oh and can someone tell me if I'm capturing Ripred's personality right?! I hope so....