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Chapter 4: Midnight and the thief

The group finally returned to the castle, they are still really tire, maybe it's because of the side- effect of the sleeping spell. Then they look at each other for while and decided to go back to their own room. Laharl seems like he still pissing off since they have awoken at the picnic. Etna doesn't say anything but the Prinnies behind her look pretty scared, they scared because Etna might pours her anger on their heads. Flonne is… well… sad, since this is the second times their food got stolen. Jill is concerning about Vincent, even though she always shoot him, but in her mind, she thinks Vincent as her family. And for Vincent, he really tired from the trip and the spell, so he doesn't want to make eyes contact or talks to anyone, the only thing in his mind right now is his bed, he is so sleepy that as soon as the group reached the castle, he just walks straight to his room.

-Around midnight—

After slept for a few hours, Vincent finds himself struggling on his bed. He can't go back to his sleep for some reasons. "Ugghh… I can't sleep." He throws his blanket away and gets off his bed. "Maybe I should go for a walk." Then he slowly moves to the door, picked up his jacket on the way there. He opens the door and walks outside.

He decided to go to the balcony, he bets the wind might makes him feels sleepy. But as he approaching there, he noticed that there's someone already stand there. "…a girl…" he thought to himself when he saw the back of that person. She is resting her arm on the balcony, looking up the sky. She is wearing a red pajama have monkey images on it, she has short hair (above her shoulder). The girl heard Vincent foot steps so she turns around.

"Vincent? What are you doing here?" The girl asked.

"Jill? Is that you?" Realized the girl was actually Jill, he relieves. "And I could ask you the same thing. What are you doing here?"

"Well, I couldn't sleep so I went out for a walk and ended up here." Jill smiles. "So I guess that you can't sleep, too?"

"Actually I was stalking you until you spotted me." He grins as he moved out to the balcony and stands next to Jill.

"Haha. Yeah, right. Nice joke." Jill rolls her eyes.

Vincent smiles, then he notices that Jill is not wearing her glasses like she normally does. Jill without her glasses and lets her hair naturally like that is extremely cute. He stares at the ground and starts to blush. Luckily, the night sky of the Netherworld hid his embarrassment.

*Silent moment*

"Hey! Do you want to go for a walk with me?" Jill broke the silence.

Snapped out of his thought, Vincent looks at Jill with a huge question mark above his head. "Huh? Walk? Where?"

"You know… around the castle, I want to explore this place a bit. I mean, we have stayed here for 2 days and we just barely know the way from our room to here, am I right?" Jill put on a lovely smile.

She's right. Vincent thinks about it for a short while. "Ok. I'll go with you."

Then she quickly grabs his hand and drags him out of the room. As they walk around the castle, they saw a Skull is playing a flute, two Prinnies are whining about how Etna treated them.

They also spotted a Succubus is trying to seduce a demon boy. "Get away from me!" The young demon shouts angrily at the Succubus. "Aww, you don't wanna have some fun?" The Succubus sounds a little disappointed. "Uhrrgg… I say GET AWAY FROM ME!" Then he stomps to the Dimension Gate and warps away.

"Did you see that?" Jill talks to Vincent with her eyes wide opened.

"Yeah, he turned that Succubus straight down. If I was him I will…" Vincent stopped when he saw Jill's expression.

"You will WHAT?" She glares at him like she gonna cut him into pieces.

"I mean I will turn her down too! Geezz. My jokes never work on you." *sighed*

They keep walking until they stop in front of the Rosen Queen store.

"That remind me. We've never been to this store before! Hey, Vincent! Maybe should take look at it!" Jill drags Vincent to the store.

The store sells various things, but mostly weapons and armors. There not much to describe about it. Vincent takes a look at Jill and saw that she is yawning and scrubbing her eyes.

"Uhh, Jill. I think we should go back to sleep." Vincent has a concerned look.

"Yeah." *yawn* "Maybe I should go to sleep." Jill looked like she is really tired. "I'm going back to my room, see you tomorrow!"

"See ya." Vincent waves his hand goodbye, then, he also goes back to his room. Closed the door behind him, Vincent slowly walks toward the bed jumps on it. As soon as his back hit the bed, his eyes become really heavy and he sleeps in no time.

-Morning-

Vincent was having a really good sleep until someone voice woke him up. It looks like Laharl is yelling at someone.

"What do… mean that… broke into… last night?" Vincent tries to listen to Laharl yelling.

"Now the fridge… half of the amount of foods...!" Vincent still doesn't understand what is happening.

He decided to go to the bathroom and brush his teeth before go out to finds out what happened. A while later, Vincent done washing himself and started to go out of his room. He goes to the throne room to finds out what happened.

-The throne room—

Vincent spotted Laharl is stomping out of the throne room, and Flonne is standing there with a really sad face. So he decides to ask Flonne what happened.

"Flonne… What happened?" Vincent asked Flonne in a softly voice.

Flonne turned around and as soon as she saw Vincent, she jumped on him and hugged him, then burst out crying.

"WAAAAAAA! Laharl yelled at me! Waaaaa…." Vincent face is now as red as it could because of Flonne's sudden 'attack'.

"W-w-why h-he yelled at y-y-y-you?" His face was too red, he asked Flonne again but he can't even make a clear sentence.

"He… he yelled at me because i told him someone broke into the castle last night and stole the foods in the fridge!" She sobbed.

While Flonne still hugging Vincent, he spotted someone goes into the room. It was Etna. "Oh crap!" He thought and then tries to push Flonne away, but she was too strong.

Saw the "view", Etna smiled in a devilish way. "Oooooo… Our newcomer is trying to take away our prince's princess? This will be interesting."

"W-wait! This is not what you think!" Vincent tries to defend himself but then he sees another person is walking into the throne room. "Jill …" This is what his thoughts when he saw Jill. "Nice job Vincent… nice job…"

"Mornin' Etna! Mornin'…- What the heck?" Well, she saw Flonne is hugging Vincent.

"Apparently, our new 'friend' here has a crush on Flonne and he just finish his confession" Etna lied.

"WHAT! We just come here for 3 days! Vincent! Is this true?" Jill believed Etna and sounded really surprise yet angry about it.

"N-no! That's not it! I just came in here and she started to hug me! Come on! You gotta believe me!" He looked at Jill. Hopefully.

"Oh… Really? So what is exactly happened?" Jill believed Vincent.

*sobbed* "The foods…" *sobbed* "…in the fridge…" *sobbed* "…just got stolen… *sobbed* "…and Laharl yelled at me! Waaaaaa!" Flonne answered and kept on crying.

"Hmm… That makes more senses." Etna rested her chin on 2 fingers.

"What the… she just lied about me and Flonne and now she thinks that make senses? What the hell is wrong with that girl?"

"Wait…. Did you say the food in the fridge got stolen? Then my…. Oh shit!" Etna swore and then ran out of the room.

*An awkward silence*

Flonne still hugging Vincent while Jill really flustered about it.

"Uhh…. Flonne… you can stop hug him now." Jill suddenly spoke.

"Oh… I'm really sorry." Flonne slowly steps away form Vincent, whose face now still really red.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Etna's voice comes from somewhere. "NOOO! My super rare pudding!"

"Oh my…. Miss Etna's super rare pudding seem to be stolen along with the foods." Flonne sounded worry.

"Super rare… pudding?" Vincent gave Flonne a questioned look.

"Yeah, super rare pudding. It's miss Etna favorite snack." Flonne turn back and answered Vincent.

Suddenly, Etna came inside the throne room with Laharl behind her. "You guy…. Go with me to find the thief!" Etna looked like she is trying her best to hold her anger down.

"Yes, Etna!" The trio spoke the same time and they followed behind Etna.

-At the Dimesion Gate—

Laharl asks the Gate Keeper. "Hey! Do you know anyone beside us used the Gate?"

"Oh… actually there's a little girl used the Gate last night." The Gate Keeper answered Laharl.

"So then that girl must have been the thief! Ok. Where did she go?" He asked the Gate Keeper again.

"She used the Gate to warp to some place call Blair Forest." The Gate Keeper answered Laharl with a really calm voice.

"Then hurry up and take us there!" Etna spoke in an annoyed tone.

Then the group all warp to Blair Forest.

-Blair Forest—

The whole group finally reached the Blair Forest. Etna and Laharl still really really pissed. Jill, well, she doesn't say or look at Vincent. Vincent is wondering why Jill doesn't say anything to him, and for Flonne, she still pretty sad.

"When I catch that thief… hohoho… she's gonna pay!" Etna cracked her fist and her neck.

The trio then silently followed Etna and Laharl. The atmosphere is extremely heavy…

Author's note: Chapter 4 done! What do you think? Review please.

**In the previous chapter, the creature in Vincent's dream is actually a squirrel.