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Chapter 10: Discovered, Captured and Reveled
2 days earlier (A few hours after Seth and Marlin plus everyone else left)…
Marshall Lee's POV:
We were about to lose hope, Archer and his sister haven't returned, Marlin has been missing for nearly a month now and the search wasn't so well either. "Are we ever going to find her Marshall?" Fionna asked she was lying on my shoulder. It was noon. So I had to be in a cave. Leo was with us drawing something in the dirt with a stick, Finn and Marceline decided that we should be together for now and let the search party keep searching, Jake and Cake decided to keep searching.
"We will don't worry." I told her hugging her tighter.
"Hey dad didn't you ever told us stories of the Night O' Sphere? What if she went there?" He asked casually. All of our heads shot up once he finished. "What?" He asked. Marceline did what she had to get us to the Night O' Sphere.
"Where are we?" Asked Leo. "At the Night O' Sphere." Marceline answered.
We went past the castle beating up the guards and to the throne room.
"Where is she Demon King? I know you have her here!" I yelled at my father. "Who Marshall Lee?" He asked with that evil grin on his face.
"I know Marlin is here let her go!" I yelled.
"Long time no see Marshall Lee, Marceline." I heard someone say in unison. Me and Marceline looked back to see Ash and Ashley.
"She isn't here Marshall, but we are, how about that family reunion?" He asked I saw our mother sitting next to him, quiet as always. "Just give me Marlin back and we'll go!"
"I'm afraid I can't do that since she isn't here but I'll gladly take you to a special place where I know not even you two can escape. Ash, Ashley!"
"Capta et mitte omnia lacu!" (Latin for Capture all and send to the dungeon!) Shadows came out of their hands and circling all of us. After that everything grew dark.
2 Days later (After their return)…
Ashley's POV:
I rushed to the throne room after I heard the boy scream at the girl. I was there in no time and I saw only the Demon King there. "Sire that is not the prince it's an imposter!" I blurted out. "Hold on Ashley slow down what is it?" He asked.
"Well you know Nixon, that isn't him, it's just the boy we saw the day we scared Marlin, Archer is playing off as Nixon, him and the others are obviously imposters sire!" I explained.
"Well I knew that already Ashley, I can't believe it took you that long to find out but I don't blame you, you have lots to learn still. But like I told Ash, don't worry this is all part of my plan." I wanted to ask what his plan was but I know he won't tell me but I know I'll find out soon.
Marlin's POV (During Dinner):
Dinner wasn't so bad; we were quiet most of the time like always. Nadia went to do something else since she wasn't like royalty to sit in the table. They asked how was our trip all we said was that it was fun but that wasn't a lie. Soon enough dinner was over and I could get out of there even though I like being here because I was just relaxing, The Royals still creeped me out.
"Nixon, Marlin, please see me in an hour in the throne room." The Demon King said looking at both of us. "The others that are here with Nixon please follow Ash and Ashley." He added looking at the other 3. "Yes sir." They said and followed both of the wizards. "Your two are dismissed." He said getting up not long later The Demon Queen got up as well.
The Demon King's POV:
After I left the dining room, my wife and I went to follow Ash and Ashley. I was planning a big surprise for them 3, Avery, Neal and Dyan. We got to the dungeon to see them lined up in cuffs already. I made sure to lock them in a separate room than Marshall's, he will see them later. Not where they could see them or hear them I know they know each other. With one look of the person's eyes, I can tell who they are and what their pasts are.
"So who 4 think you can fool me?" I started walking around them.
"Um, well… there are only 3 of us." The girl, Avery said. "That's co clearly obvious but I'll get your brother later." I informed her. "He's my cousin you dimwit." I turned to face her and lifted her head with my finger forcing her to make eye contact with me.
"Lie all you want Avery but you can never fool me." I hissed letting her head drop. "Seems that my new prisoners are a half vampire, a forager and his assistant isn't that right Aver, Neal and Dyan?" They didn't answer, all of them never do.
"Ash ,Ashley you know what to do." I said starting to walk away.
"Normalnost!" (Czech for: Normality) I heard them command in unison. I walked out to the sound of screaming and flames.
Marlin's POV:
It's been an hour. Seth and I went to our rooms after The Demon King dismissed us. We were wearing the same clothe we used when we first met, black and gold. We didn't say anything but I was worried for the others. I didn't hear them or see them come out. I was also able to tell that Seth was also getting worried. I guess him and his cousin Caitlin are close.
The hour came faster than I imagined. I stepped out of my room and headed for the throne room. Nadia wasn't here which a surprise it was; she was always here with me. I met Seth on the way but we didn't say a thing to each other. We made it to the throne room to see 3 out of the 4 Royals. The only one that was missing was The Demon Queen but she never was visible to me. She was barely there.
"So how was your two days off Marlin?" He started which was already alarming me. "Um, ok thanks for asking." I said casually. "What about you Nixon?" He said I looked at Seth and he gulped. "It was very um, fun? I had a great time." He said simply.
"Mhm, so did you visit your parents?" He asked. "No sir I didn't want to disturb them." He told him. "Are they aware that you are even in Aaa?" He asked. I didn't think he would keep a secret from his parents so I looked at him as well. "I'm sure I told them about my plan." He said gulping again.
"Oh really? I called your parents and they had no idea what I was talking about. See, hear for yourselves." He said (DK means Demon King, Q means queen of Eee, SN means Seth Nixon, the real one)
DK: Hello madam, how are you and your husband doing without the presence of Seth Nixon?
Q: What do you mean our boy is here with his fiancée?
DK: He has been here for the past week. My lady."
Q: No he wasn't, here, you talk to him.
SN: Hello who is this?
I heard that he had a different accent or voice than the Seth that was next to me.
DK: It's one of The Royals of Aaa, how are you?
SN: Oh I'm sorry I didn't know it was you sir, sorry for not introducing myself properly.
DK: It's no worries, say I hear you're engaged, may I know your futures wife name?
SN: Why yes, her name Lena.
DK: Well what did you think of my granddaughter?
SN: I'm sorry sir but I don't recall on ever meeting her but I could make an arrangement.
DK: Please don't worry yourself, I'll talk to you some other time Prince Seth.
SN: Yes sir goodbye.
I looked at who I thought was Seth and I saw that he was staring somewhere blankly. "So you see; Nixon is at home while you are here. But just by the look of your eyes I knew you weren't real. Now why don't we see who you really are? Ash, Ashley!" I saw both of them emerge from the darkest corner of the room and walked to the center of the room. Seth started running to the exit but I guess they knew this would happen, Ash ran faster towards the door and Ashley stayed in front of the king. Making Seth stand like a helpless dear in the middle of a road in the middle of the room.
"NORMALNOST!" They both cried. I stood out of the way running to one of the walls of the room. I saw flames literally come out of their hands circling Seth burning him.
"AAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!" I heard him yell.
"SETH!" I yelled. The flames covered him completely and then faded a bit so I could see what happened in there. His hands that were turned into fists to run away opened up immediately. His skin seemed to be boiling away, his once pale skin turned a slight bit more tan. I couldn't see what I was seeing; I thought they were going to kill him.
The next thing I saw was his eyes that were tightly closed shooting up to open, as if his pain was finally over but it wasn't. The color that was dark hazel started burning away; I kept looking even if it looked disgusting. It seemed his eyes where melting away but then his eyes turned to a forest green. It can't be…
The last thing that happened was that his perfect shade of blond hair was burned by the flames. Then more hair started growing quick. The hair was a rusty brown color and it ended longer than Seth's hair. It is.
The flames completely stopped, he was in the ground, knees and hands to support him. His hair was covering his forest green eyes but he raised his head slightly, his hair covering the left part of his face.
"So tell me Archer, are you going to keep telling me that you are Seth Nixon?" The Demon King said. I didn't care that he was talking, I ran straight up to him.
"Archer!" I ran to the middle of the throne room and hugged him tightly, I didn't care if he was Seth Nixon or some other guy, and if he was Archer Hunter I'll be great. He is and always will be my prince in shining armor.
"Marlin. We have to get out of here. Now." He said holding me close, not looking at me in the eye. "Oh how touching but I don't think it will be so touching for Avery, Neal and Dyan now would it? Nor would it be for Marshall Lee, Marceline, Fionna, Leo or Finn." He said evilly. Avery and those other two with him all this time? And my family was here too?
"You traders! You promised me you wouldn't hurt my family if I came along!" I screeched.
"Oh we did promise you that princess, but the Demon King never did now did he?" They said in unison walking towards me slowly. But it was all true; the king never did promise anything only they did.
"Let all of them go! Do whatever you want with me but leave them out of it!" I yelled to the king. "Well I'm sorry to inform you but I don't need you, all of this was my plan all along. All I ever wanted was revenge, nothing more nothing less. Now didn't that work great? To the dungeon!" He screamed.
"DE LACU SECUM!" (Latin for: The dungeon with them!) Ash and Ashley called out. Dark shadows surrounded us and sent us to a room in the dungeon. I started screaming for the others, maybe they were close by.
"Don't bother Marlin, they can't hear or see us." He said sitting by one of the corners of the cell. "How do you know?" I asked stopping my screaming and looking at him for an answer. "Your echoes, they're quiet, dim which means this isn't the only place in the dungeon, it is bigger and this room in which our cell is in may be soundproof or else they'll do the same." He said looking at not me but the ground.
"Archer, so was that you, all this week?" I said kneeling closer to him. He kept looking at who knows where, his eyes trying not to be one inch to where I was. "Yes it was. I'm sorry I had to lie to you Marlin; I thought my plan was foolproof but it wasn't. Ugh! I'm such an idiot!" He yelled punching the wall in back of him making a small dent.
"The park, the walk, the mall and the necklace, the movies, star gazing?" I asked at once. Holding on to the necklace he gave me a few days before. I tried to look for his eyes but they would keep on avoiding me. "Yes all of it." He said biting his lower lip. I knew this wasn't easy for him to say everything, nor was it for me to take it in.
"T-th-the kiss? Did it even mean anything?" I stuttered. That kiss we shared not too long ago, at the top of the Ferris wheel on the night of the full moon. I felt the tears starting to well up inside and I bet he noticed by the sound of my voice cracking since he quickly shot his head up, making eye contact with me. He then placed on of his cold hands on my cheek.
"Whatever you felt in that Ferris wheel, so did I. It was the realest thing I ever felt Marlin. It did mean something." He said, sincerity in his eyes but not only that a hint of… love? "I can't believe it took me this long to tell you but, I love you Marlin. Even if I have to say it in this dungeon, even if I had to play as someone else and even if we just met a few weeks ago. I know what I'm feeling isn't puppy love Marlin. I've never felt like this towards anyone." He told me. That's when my Niagara Falls burst and I hugged him as tight as possible I couldn't let go. He is my savior.
"I love you too Archer and you know what's the worst part of it is?" I asked him still holding on to him. "What is it princess?" He said. I was glad he wasn't looking at me because I was blushing again. "Today is my birthday." I told him. How would my parents feel about this?
"Wow, you never told me that, guess you two are 16 now aren't you?" He asked. "I guess it does."
"Hey you two get up, we're moving you two to another cell." We saw two guards and we obeyed. We could have just escaped but maybe Archer had a plan. .
We walked with them past many halls and stairs until we got to a room where we heard. "Hey I'm starving! Get me something to eat or I'll die!" Then a "Please Avery, can you be quiet? They might not give us anything until later or maybe they'll let us rot here." I couldn't believe my ears, it was Avery and Leo, I may hate him right now but I was glad to see they were ok. We were then shoved into a huge cell.
"Leo! Avery!" I yelled. "Oh my glob Marlin!" They said. We rushed into a hug, well just me and Avery. I noticed Leo backing away and running to the darkness of the cell. "Where is he going?" I asked Avery after she hugged her brother. "He's going to tell the others come on!" She said grabbing both our hands and dragging us into the darkness.
"Hey guy's they're here!" She exclaimed. They looked up, my family was there and the other two that I guessed helped Archer and Avery. "Marlin?" I heard my mom say. "Mom?" I asked. It may be dark but we didn't care, the light that was given by a nearby torch was all we needed to see each other.
"Marlin! I'm so glad to see you! I'm sorry for what I did." She said hugging me. I was confused I thought they didn't want me. "Why are you acting like you want me back all of a sudden?" I asked.
"What are you talking about Marlin? We've been looking you for the past few weeks!" She said, I noticed the tears in her eyes. She wasn't lying. "But Leo gave me a letter signed by you two" I started pointing at my dad also, "Saying you guys didn't want me anymore!" I finished. In the corner of my eye I saw Leo backing away but was stop by aunt Marceline.
"What why would we say that?" She shrieked.
"Talk boy." I heard my aunt Marceline say. Then I heard Leo sigh.
"You guys were always more cautious about Marlin. She would get into trouble and you will always be there to talk to her. You worry about her but not me because you two think I'm a perfect child who needs no one to take care of him. The point is I got carried away by my jealousy, seeing you all work to find Marlin made my jealousy fume more so I decided to write that letter and give it to her. So she will stop waiting for someone to find her and just forget you guys and I was hoping you two would have done the same."
"Leo, hear me and hear me well, we love both of you no matter what. Maybe we are more cautious about Marlin because, well you know how she is and can be but we love you both, more than anything." Our mom assured us. "So you do want me?" I asked.
"We want both of you." My dad said which got me to my next question.
"Why didn't you ever tell me I was a princess or that you and aunt Marceline were the Vampire Queen of Ooo and Vampire King of Aaa?"
"We didn't want you to know because we know no good was going to come from it. They might have treated you like a queen when you were here but that was most likely a trick. Being here with them is the worst thing you will ever experience, the beatings, the insults, I never wanted you to find out but the truth always comes out doesn't it?" He asked hugging me. "It does."
"Well how are we going to get out of here?" They asked. "I have an idea!" I went into my pockets of the pair of shorts I had, I took the dress out since I was wearing a shirt and shorts underneath, and got this button like item.
"Nadia gave this to me and told me to use it when I need help; she says it can also help her find me." I said pressing it. "Who's Nadia?" They all asked.
"My uh, servant?" I said sheepishly and they all faced palm. We had to wait now which wasn't so bad. "You got a servant! We never got one!" Aunt Marceline said. "Marceline." My dad scolded. "What it's true. Well what is she, how old is she?" Aunt Marceline asked.
"Well she is 20 and she's human." I said quickly.
"WHAT?" My mom, Leo and Uncle Finn asked. "What's its true when she comes go ask her." I told them.
"Well shouldn't we make an escape plan about now?" Archer asked. I looked at him, he was still in back of me, and not too far I was about to bump into him actually. "Well we should. Ok, when Nadia comes we should have everything planned out." Dad said thoughtfully.
"How are we going to defeat The Royals?" Avery asked.
"I have no idea, I'm sorry. We weren't exactly close with our parents so the best thing to do is try to fight them." My dad said. I could feel the tension between all of us.
Archer Hunter's POV:
"Won't they play tricks on us?" I asked him. If they knew it was us as imposters and if they were able to trick Marlin into letting them take her they must be able to do something else also. "You're right, you three have to be careful." He said pointing at me, Marlin and Avery.
"Why dad? You know we can defend ourselves!" She yelled. She had a point but so did Marshall. "Ash and Ashley are powerful, not as much as The Demon King and Queen but they have an immense number of spells; one of them is to turn any half monster, human. Like you three, you three are half vampire; they can turn you into complete human. You have to be careful." He told us.
"But what's so bad about being turned back to normal?" Marlin asked. She was always full of curiosity in my eyes, never getting all the answers. "A lot." I heard Neal say. He came out of the shadows and then he started talking once more.
"I've done research and it says that some half humans can't live without the other half. In other words, if you can't survive without your vampire or human side, either side they take away from you, you're dead. The name's Neal your majesty." Neal said. I couldn't believe either one of us could die like that.
"Well it's nice to meet you but I'm not royalty anymore, I'm just some girl in the dungeon." Marlin said.
"Wait, but how can we tell if we are able to survive or not?" Avery asked but I think I already knew the answer to that question.
"Well, you are special Avery, you are able to eat foods and not just reds, that gives you an advantage to half vampires since you will be able to get whatever food you want with or without fangs. Unlike the other types of vampires that rely on red food, when their fangs are taken after their transformation they might not like the taste and could die of starvation. But other things can also happen. I'm Dyan, Neal's cousin." Dyan said. I knew it; it was just like the animal kingdom for crying out loud.
"We're going to have to be careful the-" Marshal try to say but was interrupted.
"Marlin are you here? I'm getting bad signal in this thing." We heard Nadia say. "Nadia! We're here in this cell!" I saw Marlin run into the bars and held on to them crying for Nadia. "Jeez Marlin quiet down. There you're all free." She came and just simply opened the door. No key no nothing to open it.
"How did you?" Marlin started.
"Psh, come on they lost their keys ages ago! Why do you think its dark here? So prisoners think they are locked up, like those guys over there." She said pointing to a corner that we haven't notice seeing two skeletons lying there.
"Ok, let's just get out of here." Marlin said.
A/N: Stuff is about to get real intresting! OMG can't wait for you guys to read the next chapter! Please, especially for people who don't review, REVIEW that's all I want so I can continue this story! OMG I have like 20 reviews and not 10 chapters yet XD. I hope you guys can get me more for this chapter plz? I beg you!