Author's Notes- Once again, I mention the challenge. pleaseignoreme9 and I are both still taking participants. That's all I'm going to say about it.

Thanks to MetaKnightRoxMySox for editing. Excellent work.

Chapter 10

There is a dimension far away from the dark realm Castle Bleck sits in. The inhabitants had an expected visitor.

…

"Has anyone seen Fawful?" Count Bleck questions his minions. Three of his five minions sit in front of the television.

Mimi contains a giggle, trying her very hardest not to show a hint of amusement. "Haven't seen him."

Dimentio is surprised that Mimi is able to keep a straight face. He is actually slightly proud. He shakes his head in response to Count Bleck.

"'Ave yeh tried teh lad's room?" O'Chunks suggests.

Count Bleck tried to avoid entering Fawful's room, but he may not have a choice. He thanks O'Chunks and exits to check Fawful's room.

Dimentio snaps, teleporting away.

O'Chunks looks at the now empty space on the couch. "Wonder where 'e's goin'."

Mimi bursts out laughing. Once she composes herself, she says, "For tricking me and kissing me unexpectedly, I asked Dimentio to help me punish Fawful. Fawful spent the night in one of the most hostile dimensions Dimentio has ever visited. Dimentio said there is a tribe of aliens there that don't hesitate to do painful dissections on new species they see. Dimentio says that anybody who isn't used to the struggle may go insane."

"Izzat how 'e went loopy?" O'Chunks asks. What troubles him most is the fact that Fawful kissed Mimi like that. He only knows the basics of the story, but it still doesn't sound ethical by any means. He is concerned for little Mimi.

Mimi shrugs. "Dimentio is just naturally strange and a little bit crazy."

"Only a little?"

There is an awkward silence.

Dimentio reappears and sits back down.

"So, what's Fawful's case?" Mimi is excited to hear what horrible conditions Fawful is in.

Dimentio chuckles a little and asks, "Can you contain your horror if I tell you?"

Mimi loses her smile. "He's not dead, is he?"

Dimentio shakes his head with his usual smirk. "No, Mimi."

After a few moments of silence, Mimi clears her throat. "Are you going to tell me or what?"

"Well, if you insist," Dimentio replies. "I found Fawful in the clutches of the most ruthless king of the realm. They were in the middle of a conversation concerning Fawful's torture. Fawful was lucky I came when I did; I think they came to an agreement on something I cannot quite tell you. To sum it up, Fawful looked like a hobo who had been there for years and had possibly had some fights with evil things."

Mimi contains her excitement and manages to say without squealing, "Thank you, Dimentio." She happily skips off to her room.

She happily swings open her door. However, she hears two doors opening. She looks down the hallway. Fawful cautiously steps out of his room. Dimentio was right; Fawful does look like a hobo. His small twig of hair is frizzy, and his cape is torn in up near his chest, as if something had clawed at him. His face is covered in dirt and ash, as if he had plunged into a one hundred-year-old chimney that had been used frequently but never cleaned.

Inside, Mimi smirks. It looks like Fawful got what he deserved. She watches as Fawful takes a step forward, but stumbles because he is so weak. Mimi flinches in surprise. He didn't look so weak that he would just collapse, but apparently, he was. Mimi closes her door and walks over to the bean.

"UM… what happened to you?" I only know the basis. What actually happened?

Fawful looks up at Mimi and attempts to push himself up. When he falls back down, Mimi rolls her eyes and helps him onto his feet. Fawful says, "I have tiredness. Fawful had the running from the bad things and the people of cruelness."

Mimi looks down at his clothes. "Something big?"

"Very big! Lions of hugeness in a pack saw Fawful as prey." He starts to tremble at the thought of it.

Mimi's eyes widen. "You escaped a pack of hungry lions?"

Fawful nods. "It had bad."

"Well, what about the people?"

"No nice people; only people of cruelness," Fawful explains. "A king of ruthlessness almost had chopping of Fawful's... um…"

Mimi doesn't need to hear the rest. "Ok, that's enough."

After coughing, Fawful asks, "Can you have helping of me to bed?"

Mimi puts Fawful's arm over her shoulder and helps him into his room. It is the least she could do after asking Dimentio to send Fawful to that horrible place. She is surprised to see that Fawful hasn't personalized his room yet. She personalized her room within her first two days here. The default look of the room was too dark and depressing for her, so she painted her room pink to brighten the mood. Her bedspread has rubees on it, and her lamp can shine several different colors. Fawful still has the default look- black walls, plain gray bedspread, dark wood nightstand, so on and so forth. Maybe he doesn't feel at home yet.

Once Fawful gets into the bed, Mimi starts walking towards the door. "Fawful thanks you, Mimi. You have been sweet to Fawful, even if you do the running after landing in his arms."

Mimi stops at the doorway and looks back over her shoulder. "Why did you do it?"

"Do what?"

"At the musical, you tricked me, and then… why?"

Fawful just smiles. "Fawful thinks you're cute."

Mimi can feel herself blushing. Nobody has ever told her that before. "Th-thank you." She can't help but smile. She walks out, closing the door behind her.

The rest of that day is pretty uneventful. Mimi, though thinking about it, never mentions it to her fellow minions. It put a lot on her mind.