Marshall awoke the next morning to a knocking on his door, he groaned and rolled over but woke up when he smelled food. Luna opened the door and pushed a cart into his room that had a large plate on it. On the plate was an assortment of red foods. Luna took the plate and set it on Marshall's lap. "Enjoy your breakfast." She smiled at him and turned to leave when he called out to her.
" Wait. Why are you still so nice to me after I not only nearly killed you, but I punched you and yelled at you and flipped you off. Why are you still...Here?"
He could not for the undead life of him figure out why she didn't just give up on him, like so many others had. She walked back to him and kissed his head, causing him to blush a little.
"You're my friend and I don't abandon my friends. As I said to you when we first met. Sometime we all need to be shown a little kindness." She smiled and went back to her cart. "You can leave the plate on the nightstand and I'll get it later."
With that she turned the cart around and went to serve Kyle his breakfast. Marshall sat there for some time just staring at all the food on his plate, then picked up an apple and sucked the red from it. When Luna knocked on Kyle's door it swung open and the room was empty. She stepped into the room and breathed in deeply. When she had his scent she followed it after putting his breakfast back in the kitchen.
The scent trail lead to a door at the end of the west corridor and she opened it and walked down the steps into complete darkness. The stairs wound down in a spiral to a deep dark and dank dungeon, Kyles scent wafted through the dungeon and Luna followed it till she came to another door at the very end. She paused, her hand raised to knock instead she placed her hand on the door then turned and left the way she came, leaving her Master to his thoughts in the tombs.
Down in the tombs Kyle stood by a clear crystal lidded coffin-which contained a gel that he created that would keep a body from decomposing-looking down on the body of an elderly man that in his youth had caught Kyle's eye and lit his heart on fire. The man in the gel was named David and he had been good friends with Kyle-who fell in love with with-, David never gave up on Kyle or abandoned him when he was turned.
Kyle loved him deeply but he had seen David grow up and get married and have children. Kyle was happy for his friend but his deep and true love for the other never died even after David passed away. Kyle's heart ached for his lost love and he hoped that Marshall would never have to suffer as he did. He ran a hand gently over the crystal lid, lost deep in thought, he only stopped and lifted his hand when he sensed the shifters presence, he turned and walked back to the door and opened it, walking out he closed the door behind him, he found Luna waiting for him, ears drooped.
He sighed and walked over to her and hugged her. Luna hugged him back and rubbed his back, he let her go and petted her head. "Your breakfast is ready Master Kyle." The shifters voice was somber as she moved to let her Master pass by, she followed him back through the dungeon and up the stairs. "Will you bring it to my bedroom my dear?" He continued to walk to his room as he heard her reply. "Yes, of course Master Kyle."
While Luna went to the kitchen, Kyle had entered his room and shut the door. The King of the Vampires room was decorated with beautiful hand carved furniture. There was a marble fireplace set in the left wall and on the mantle sat several picture of his highness, each taken from a different period of time. In the far left corner near the four poster bed was an ornate vanity table with a beautiful mirror set in carved cherry wood.
A wardrobe in the top left corner near the doors, one of it's doors was left open and a full length mirror was seen on the inside of the door. A chandelier hung from the ceiling with six electric lights-the only electricity in the castle was in the Master bedroom- that bathed the room in a warm pale yellow light. Kyle strode over to the mantle and picked up a picture frame, in the picture stood Kyle holding a parasol and though there wasn't a smile on his face you could see one in his eyes; next to him was a man in his mid twenty's with hair the color of sun dried earth, a smile graced this young mans features as his picture was taken with his friend. The young man was named David.
He and Kyle had spent the day at a world fair, enjoying the sights and sounds. David had paid for the picture and was quite surprised to find his Vampire friend showed up in the photo, he had given it to Kyle as a way to remember him when he went off to college. Kyle held the picture to his chest and took in a shaking breath-going down to the tombs deepened his despair and loneliness that he wished would end- "David...Why..." Kyle was snapped out of his thoughts by a soft knocking on the door, he replaced the picture and went and opened the door, Luna walked in carrying a tray with a tea cup, saucer and small teapot filled with blood.
Luna turned the tea cup over and carefully poured the blood into the cup, she set the teapot down and gave the cup and saucer to Kyle. She moved and set the tray down on a table on the right side of the room by the door. Kyle sighed deeply and went over and sat on the bed as he drank slowly.
Luna began cleaning and tidying up the room. She straightened up his wardrobe, put the dirty clothes in a hamper and set the hamper outside the door. She came back in and walked to the vanity, putting any left out jewelery into a box carved to look like a vampire bat. She straightened the pillows on the bed then the bed clothes when Kyle moved to set his teacup down on the tray.
She walked over and placed a hand on his shoulder, he looked at her and gave her a sad smile. "Thank you my dear friend." Luna smiled at him and reached up and wiped away the tears that escaped. "You're welcome my dear friend." She excused herself after giving him one last hug and took the hamper to the laundry room.
After doing laundry, she went to the library and picked up a book of spells and began studying. Sometime in the late afternoon Marshall could be found wondering the garden, scaring and playing tricks on any monsters that tried to ruin it. Growing board once more he wondered back into the castle and found Luna in the library sitting at a table her nose in a worn out spell book.
He floated over to her and looked at the spell she was currently reading. "Isn't that necromancy? Who do you want to bring back from the dead?" She marked her place and wrote some notes on some parchment paper with a quill pen. "It's not really necromancy. Necromancy brings back the dead without their souls. This spell brings back a person's soul as long as the soul still has unfinished business. If they don't then the spell won't work but for my Master's sake I hope it does." The vampire raised an eyebrow.
"Are there any story books here?" Luna smiled and got up and stretched then showed Marshall to a large bookshelf at the back of the room that was filled till the shelf boards sagged with story books. Marshall hugged her in thanks then picked up the first book he found then began to read.
That evening around six o clock, the residents of the castle gathered in the foyer to say good bye to Marshall who had learned quite a bit from the books in the library as well as from Kyle. Though Marshall was the one leaving he took out his electric axe bass and played a rock song for them all. Kyle said he would keep in touch with Marshall. The older Vampire walked over to the stone wall and spoke a few words then ran his hand over it creating a portal that led directly to the Candy Kingdom palace.
More specifically the balcony to Gumball's room. Marshall saw this and his eyes widened, he hugged Luna one last time said good bye to Kyle and Damian and Miranda then zipped through the portal, opened the balcony doors and was lucky to find Gumball in his room. Marshall flew fast and ran right into Gumball knocking him over. Gumball let out a surprised gasp and gripped Marshall tightly and kissed him deeply, Marshall kissed back just as deeply and Kyle closed the portal on the lovers and sent everyone back to what they were supposed to be doing.
