Chapter 11: INTENTS Battles.

Moon awoke early the next morning with a splitting headache once again. "Yep, every damn morning." he muttered. He had noticed that the pain was significantly stronger than usual. It felt horrible, he felt like his head might split in two. "I...just don't...ergh!" his head throbbed. He shook his head, the pain didn't vanish, if anything it got worse. It just never stopped, his head began to spin for a bit.

Suddenly the image of circus tent in the middle of...somewhere flashed through his head. It wasn't the Zombie Relief Corps but it was definitely in Threed. He wasn't sure what the deal was, but all of a sudden, he knew where they were supposed to go.

He glanced over at Erick who was sleeping soundly in the bed opposite to him and Sarah, no PSI powers still felt strange to him but if that's what faith intended so be it.

"So, new kid seems pretty smart Eh? How long do you think Sarah will wanna stay with you before switching gears with him? I give it maybe two days..she didn't seem to fond of me!"

The pain in his head increased drastically as Dark Moon spoke to him. He hoped more than anything that Sarah wouldn't leave him like that. If that were to happen, her authority would be gone and she'd be in massive danger, Dark Moon wouldn't be required to listen her, to make matters worse, he'd be allowed to hurt her!

Moon knew that his darker side hurt people. Sometimes, he'd found himself regaining his control in front of people on the ground, severely hurt, and sometimes barely able to move. Usually it was the school bullies or anyone who ticked him off...but it didn't stop him from worrying.

Sarah suddenly began to stir, she awoke with a jump feeling Moon's arm no longer around her. She quickly glanced to her side and saw him sitting up holding his head, he seemed completely oblivious to the fact that she had just woken up. Then she sensed an excessive amount of dark energy emitting off him yet again. She gasped, which made Moon jump a little. She quickly got up and grasped his hand.

"Moon stop please!" she said. She had been completely unaware that he could just pop up at random, she was worried she had missed something. While she wasn't fully aware as to just what Dark Moon was capable of she didn't want anything else to go wrong because of it.

Moon attempted to give her a sweet smile but with the amount of pain he was in it was next to impossible. "It's alright Sarah…" he said calmly. "He's not in control...you don't have to be afraid." Sarah drew back from him, she could still feel an excessive amount of dark energy around him so she was almost certain that he was lying.

"I don't believe you!" She said firmly.

Moon groaned to himself, this was something he was hoping to avoid. He had no way to prove to Sarah that he was in control at the moment and he had a feeling that he wasn't going to be able to get close to her.

"Well isn't this a sight to behold, she doesn't understand that I emit Dark Energy from you all the time...especially when we talk...you always get so much...better...when we do!"

Moon tried to clear his thoughts from him so he couldn't remember him. This time, instead of making him vanish, the pain got much worse.

"Nice try...but I've been through this multiple times, I only listened to you then since I had no purpose to be there at the moment. But, oh how I do enjoy this, your suffering, pain, misery. It's beautiful, not even your own girlfriend, the only person in existence to sense that I exist, can't understand just how much hell your going through. The best part is, your frustration with her for not believing you is making this so much more enjoyable."

"Sarah...please." Moon groaned as he started to feel dizzy and his head began to spin. Sarah grew a bit worried that she had done something wrong by mistake. She watched nervously as he stood up, he walked a few uneasy steps away from her...then he collapsed.

"MOON!" she screamed. Her scream jolted Erick awake.

"Where's the fire Sarah?" he asked sleepily.

"It's Moon...he just...passed out." she said with a shaky voice.

Erick shook himself awake at these words. "Why didn't you say something earlier?" he asked as he got up. He moved over Moon and felt around for his pulse. His heartbeat was indescribably slow. When he turned towards Sarah he noticed that she looked severely pale and on the brink of crying. He felt a little helpless, he wasn't familiar with either of their powers having none himself...if he was going to try and help he was going to need to learn more about them.

"Your powers Sarah...do they typically give you low physical energy...make you feel uneasy?" he asked. Sarah didn't say anything back to him, all she did was stare at Moon nervously. "Sarah, I'm trying to help but I can't do anything if you won't talk!" he snapped.

He watched as she shook her head. "I'm sorry," she said shakily, "We share a deeper connection, I'm able to feel his PSI energy...he's able to feel mine...the monsters that we fight emit PSI energy too, only it's dark and evil. As for our powers...if we unleash a giant burst attack we'll typically feel uneasy afterwards...our bodies aren't used to it quite yet...also his um...preconvision""Precognition." Erick corrected.

"Yeah, that, whenever he gets a new vision he'll sometimes be wobbly...he's never collapsed before." she said. This was a lie, unlike Moon she didn't have precognition, she had no idea if that was true or not. She knew the real reason he collapsed was because of Dark Moon, but she wasn't going to tell Erick about that.

"Well is there anything you could do about that?" Erick asked.

"Well...it seems like his powers went into overload." Sarah said hesitantly. "Maybe if I were to use PSI Magnet I could get his energy back to normal."

As if something bad happened Moon bolted awake and immiediatly grabbed her arm. Erick jumped back in surprise. "Dude...you almost gave me a heart attack!"

Moon sighed. "Yeah sorry about that, I think I just...fell back asleep we did sleep on a rough rocky floor for two days after all." he glanced at Sarah who was looking at him with concern. "I'm fine Sarah don't worry." he said as he took her hand.

Erick looked at both of them skeptically, "Moon are you sure you're feeling alright...Sarah said your powers may have overloaded...maybe you should lie still for a while." he said.

Moon glanced at Sarah who was giving him a nervous look. He concentrated his thoughts on her trying to contact her telepathically.

"Does he know about...him?"

Sarah blinked for a bit...confused as to where the voice came from before understanding.

"No...he can't sense Dark Energy...I didn't tell him...should we though?"

"Absolutely not, it's already dangerous enough that you know, I'd rather not have him be terrified"

Erick was just looking at them as they stared at each other in complete silence. "Is this natural?" he wondered. "Perhaps their bond is stronger than I first thought...fascinating...I wonder just what else they're capable of." Moon eventually shook his head. "Anyways...yes Erick, I'm fine...I did get a vision...we need to be looking for some tent...not the Zombie Relief Corps Tent...but some other tent here in Threed." Sarah nodded. "Yes of course...but before we do anything...I think we should take care of Erick's items...we don't need him lugging around everything." She responded.

"I'll be fine, I can carry quite a bit in here." Erick said rummaging through his backpack. "I just need to keep the broken inventions...but we could probably sell all the other junk I have in here. I fixed this defense spray...it sells for quite a bit!" he continued pulling out what looked like a can of spray paint.

"Fantastic, maybe we'll find that arms dealer as well." Moon continued. "They said he should be somewhere around here.

The trio exited the hotel and walked down towards the department store. Along the way Erick noticed a sketchy looking person leaning against the behind of the building. He was wearing pale green, looked bald, and was wearing black sunglasses. "Moon...I think that's the arms dealer." he said tapping him on the shoulder and pointing.

"One thing at a time Erick, you need to sort out your items...just sell whatever you don't need." Sarah replied as they entered the department store. "Moon and I will look around for anything else."

"Actually I'm going to call Escargo Express, Erick hand me anything you don't think we'll need but probably can't sell." Moon said stretching his hand out. Erick nodded and took out the Pack of bubble gum, it seemed pointless to keep it since Bubble Monkey was no longer around. He also took out the Bad Key Machine, despite probably coming in handy if they needed to get out of a prison cell again, he didn't want the greedy thoughts just floating around their heads.

"Sarah you stay with Erick make sure everything goes smoothly here, I'll wait outside for Escargo Express...also here." he said hand both of them a bit of money. "Buy a copper bracelet for yourself Erick."

Erick turned to Sarah once Moon had left. "So...I guess I'll just start selling then." he turned towards the counter where a man was sitting down.

"Hello there...may I help you?" the man asked.

"Uh yeah, I have a few things I'd like to sell," Erick replied putting the Defense spray, Insecticide Spray, and plastic bracelet on the table. The man examined each one carefully before taking the lot and handing Erick a generous amount of cash.

"Here you go kiddo, three hundred and forty nine dollars for the...Is there anything else?"

"Yes," Sarah said walking over holding a copper bracelet. "He'd like one of these."

"Okie dokie then I'll just keep the money then, that's how much it is for the bracelet." Erick felt his jaw hit the ground, if that was how much it was for a copper bracelet, how on earth did Moon and Sarah have enough money for two? Sarah nodded and handed the bracelet to Erick.

"Let's go Erick, Moon's waiting on us." she said.

"Sarah...how do you expect us to pay for food when we just threw all that money away on this?" Erick asked. To his surprise she laughed.

"Oh yeah, I totally forgot, Moon's dad is sending us a bunch of money for our adventure, apparently he's working at a place that pays quite a hefty chunk." she said. "He's depositing money overtime, it seems like we won't have to worry about that." Erick honestly didn't know how to feel about this. "Well come on now Erick." she said happily, "We've got another day of kicking monster butt!"

"Strange," Erick said to himself. "She seems to be enjoying this whole thing way too much, I wouldn't blame her, I'm sure Moon treats her like royalty."

The two walked outside where they saw Moon sitting on a bench. He jumped up and walked over to them when they caught his eye. "You want to talk to the arms dealer?" he asked. Erick nodded eagerly.

"Good cause he's right behind the building."

"SHH!" the man said with a low voice. The three of them turned towards him, he made a motion with hand for them to come to him. "Don't talk to loud." he said. "What'd you kids want, I can take stuff off your hands or sell you some bottle rockets...or maybe even a laser gun."

Erick immediately took control of the conversation, "How much for my pop and stun gun?" he asked showing them to the man. He looked through his glasses.

"Fascinating condition." he said. "Quite a sight to behold kid, I'll give you a hundred thirty for the two of them." Erick nodded and handed him both weapons.

"Now, how much for those bottle rockets?" Erick asked.

"Twenty nine dollars a pop!" the man replied.

Moon and Sarah watched with confused expressions as Erick put multiple bottle rockets in his backpack. "Maybe...I shouldn't have given you so much money." Moon said quietly.

"Erick...wouldn't a bomb be better?" Sarah asked. Erick chuckled, he figured that neither of them would know how to use a bottle rocket.

"Actually the bottle rocket, if used correctly, can hurt a lot more than a bomb." he replied. "I can set one up pretty quickly so if we ever get stuck in a situation, I'll be sure to fire one..they come in many sizes, I happen to actually have a larger one with me as well. But I'll save that for some real trouble."

"Just try not to blow us up." Moon responded.

The three continued southwards past the Zombie Relief Corps and finally they arrived on the southern outskirts of town, there was a bunch of Circus cages typically used for holding animals and another tent in the center.

"I think this is the tent I saw in my vision." Moon said as they approached the front. "When I was here, a voice was speaking to me, it told me that if we go here, we'll find something important...maybe it'll help us get past those Zombie guards in the north!"

Sarah flipped one flap of the tent up, they were met with a dark empty nothingness void. She made a motion to go inside when Moon held her back. "What's wrong?" She asked. Moon stayed silent for a bit, he was in yet another daze. "Moon?" no response.

Moon looked at at the dark void inside of the tent. It just didn't seem right, out of nowhere a flash vision saw the tent sprouting into a mouth and closing both of them.

DANGER! RUN!

What he had thought was a tent was actually a demon. Sharp teeth formed around him and Sarah. "RUN!" He shouted grabbing Sarah and moving out of the mouth just as the tent bit down on both of them.

"IS NOW REALLY THE TIME FOR THIS?" Sarah shouted "IT NEARLY ATE US!"

Moon looked at the tent, it now had devilish looking eyes and sharp pointed shark teeth. A massive amount of dark energy was emitting off of it. It was still a tent though, what could it possibly do?

Suddenly the ground below their feet began to crack, several zombies rose out of the ground in front of the tent they groaned and began to move forward swiping at them. "PSI FIRE α!" Sarah shouted. All of the zombies in the front were set on fire their pale skin burned and sizzled until they fell apart into nothingness. Erick fired his laser at several more of them shooting somes heads off being so loosely pieced together. As they continued to take down several waves of Zombies more kept coming up to the earth's surface, almost immediately after one wave fell. The three backed away further from them. However, quite strangely, the zombies never moved far from the tent."The tent seems to function as the control center for the Zombies." Erick said. "We need a way to shut down whatever is calling them."

"Erick you don't understand." Moon responded as he whacked a zombie with his bat. "The tent is the one calling for help...we have to destroy it."

"It's a tent how do you do that?"

"WE BURN IT EINSTEIN!" Sarah shouted as she smacked a Zombie aside with frying pan.

"Sarah save your pyrokinesis, we just need to get you close enough...if only the Zombies couldn't see us." Erick said.

An idea struck Moon, "PSI Flash!" he shouted. A blast of white light flashed in front the zombies instead of putting a drunken effect on them like the mole...they instead started to cry uncontrollably. "PSI Rollin α!" Moon shouted. Each of the zombies were knocked to floor by the bright multicolored beams of light. The tents devilish eyes flashed and immediately several shadowy hands appeared around the tent.

DANGER!"Erick, Sarah get behind me!" Moon shouted. They both quickly ran behind him.

"Shield α!"

A bright wall of light shone in front of them blocking the shadow punches the tent was attempting to give. Moon could still feel impact from them however. The hands rapidly increased the speed of their punches each blow felt worse on him. "One of you...better think of something quick." he grunted, "I...don't know how much longer I can…" A hand punched the shield with immense power causing it to shatter and knocked Moon aside.

"Moon!" Sarah cried. She turned back to the tent. "PSI Fire α!" she shouted. The fire shot out of her hand setting the tent on fire however the shadow hands move around and smacked the fire out. She looked quickly to her side at Moon, he had gotten back up but he was quite hesitant on movement.

"SARAH, MOON! DUCK!" Erick shouted.

They quickly turned around and noticed that one of Erick had purchased was set up and lit. They quickly ducked out of the way as it shot off its base and straight at the tent.

KA-BOOM!

An explosion went off around the tent's base, sparks and shockwaves went all over the place when the smoke had cleared the tent was still standing firm. Then the hands made a movement and grabbed Sarah. "SARAH!" Moon shouted. The tent made movements and drew Sarah closer towards its mouth. Moon's eyes flashed red.

"NO!" he shouted. Erick flinched at that, Moon's voice had suddenly turned cold and evil. He watched as he made a quick movement towards the tent whacking the hand holding Sarah making the hand let go of her. What he found stranger was that Sarah's expression turned to shock and horror as she looked at Moon instead of being grateful that she was rescued. Moon turned towards the tent. His hand flashed brightly and…

"PSI ROLLIN β!"

Several bigger, brighter, stronger, multi-colored beams of light shot out of his hand enveloping the tent entirely. The outline of the tent slowly started to disintegrate into thin air. When the beams had stopped all that remained were two zombies and a trash can.

The zombies made a charge at Moon who was just standing there in a daze.

"PSI FREEZE β!" Sarah screamed. A huge beam of ice shot out of her hand hitting both zombies. Their pale skinned bodies became encapsulated in ice, Sarah then whacked both statues with her frying pan causing the statues to crack then shatter into hundreds of pieces.

"Interesting." Erick said as he watched Sarah grasp Moon's hand and say something that he couldn't quite hear. "In the face of immediate danger between the two of them, they both tapped into a higher level of PSI...perhaps their powers get stronger based on their emotions?" he was both fascinated and concerned by their weird powers. His fascination came from so much to explore and learn about them. His concern however, came from Moon and how cold and heartless he had sounded. "Perhaps I shouldn't worry about that." he said to himself. "It's only natural that he'd want to protect Sarah, probably nothing more than a drastic adrenaline boost."

He walked over to both of them. "Are you two okay?" he asked.

"Yeah we're fine." Moon grunted, "Just a little...beat up." Erick watched as his hand flashed green he placed it over his face where a few bruises were, instantly the bruises faded away. "Anyways, hopefully whatever is in this trash can will help us take care of those guard Zombies." He moved over to the trash can and opened it before gagging.

The inside of the trash can smelled horrible, almost like a mixture of rotten mayonnaise and skunk spray. "What the hell is that smell?" Sarah gagged, Moon fished through the trash can for a bit before withdrawing a small jar of honey.

"I...think it's this." Moon said examining in the jar. "It says here that this is Fly Honey, made from one hundred percent fly juices."

"That has got to be the most disgusting thing I've ever heard of!" Erick said. "Plus, flies don't even make honey!"

"Unless our plan is to make the zombies runaway by it's smell...there's no way we are ever getting past those guards." Sarah said. "Moon for god's sake put that damn thing away!"

Moon opened a separate section of his backpack and tossed the fly honey in there. The smell got somewhat more tolerable. "Well...I guess we'll have to figure something else out." he said. "In the meantime...I'm starving...let's go get some burgers and stuff."

The three sat down outside of a burger joint and ate their food. Erick watched in silence as Moon dipped a french fry into his chocolate milkshake only for Sarah to take a bite out of it.

"Hey that was my fry." he complained in a not so serious tone.

Sarah giggled. "Well it's my fry now." she said playfully. "What are you gonna do about it?"

Moon grinned and began tickling her. Sarah laughed uncontrollably, "Oh come on Moon that's not fair." she said through her continuous laughing.

"It's totally fair Sarah...you ate my fry...I tickle you."

"Do you two mind?" Erick snapped. "Some of us would like to actually eat our food in peace!"

"Erick's right Sarah," Moon said in a more playful tone. "We shouldn't be fighting about who eats whose fry. I'm sorry." he continued kissing her on the forehead." Erick buried his face in his hands.

"You two...just...why?" he asked as they continued to poke each other playfully.

Suddenly, the receiver phone began to ring. Moon picked it up. "Hello this is Apple Kid!" Apple kid said through the phone

"Oh hey Apple kid...what's up?" Moon asked.

"Just wanted to let you know that I finished a pretty unique invention. I'm not sure if it will help you or not...but...I learned that zombies are attracted to a certain smell something really gross but still. Anyways, using this discovery, I invented Zombie Paper, it can be used to trap zombies, it works kind of like fly paper! All you gotta do is place it on the floor of a tent."

"TENTS DON'T HAVE FLOORS!" Erick shouted.

"Is the ground not considered a floor?" Sarah asked.

"Quiet!" Moon hissed.

"Anyways, I'm sure you've seen a tent around, right? You can use the zombie paper to get the zombies to stick to the paper when they move around the tent. I've created enough to probably stop a whole zombie army, you'd be able to clear the area of zombies in no time!" Apple kid continued.

"Thanks Apple kid, that actually helps us a lot." Moon responded.

"Yeah"

"Good good, you should get it any minute now. I've never actually seen a zombie in real life, but if there really are any, Zombie Paper would be very useful. I'll be calling you if I come with anything else." with that he hung up the phone.

"Well what's the deal?" Erick asked once Moon had put the phone away.

"Apple kid is sending us Zombie Paper via the Mach Pizza guy, if we put it in the tent of the Zombie Relief Corps, we could get rid of the two guard zombies!" Moon responded.

"Excellent." Sarah said. "We can get to that underground passage and see what's up. Maybe it's another sanctuary!"

"Excuse me sir!" a man with a black top hat and striped shirt approached them. "While I was delivering pizzas, this weird guy asked me to help him out. He wanted me deliver this thing to someone named Moon who is wandering around Threed. No one else knows about this right?" the three looked at the man with a blank stare.

"But I am Moon."

"Just go along with me on this one okay. I made the decision that you're Moon no matter what."

"Hush girlie." the man snapped. "Here take this Zombie Paper." he gave Moon a package full of smelly fly paper. "That's right Moon...I've done my duty and given you Apple kids, thingamajig. Well goodbye." the man said winking twice before running off.

"Welp...that was...incredibly pointless." Erick said watching the man run off. "Also incredibly lucky, could you imagine if he had picked anyone other than us?"

"Never mind that let's just get to the Zombie Relief Corps Tent." Sarah said taking Moon's hand.

The Trio made their way over to the giant circus tent in the middle of town and entered the tent, there were a handful of people inside. Including the man Moon and Sarah had talked to the day before. He walked over to them.

"You two snobs again?" he asked. "What other "brilliant" ideas have you come up with?"

"A friend of ours invented this thing called Zombie Paper." Sarah replied. "We were hoping to set it up in your tent to lure all the zombies here and capture them all.

All the people in the tent looked at her. "That idea is so goddamn insane...that it just might actually work!" a woman said. "You can totally use our tent!"

The trio set down the paper on the floor of the tent then exited. "Well with that out of the way." Erick said glancing around, "maybe we should just call it a day?"

Moon's head was still in a bit of pain, Dark Moon's unfortunate takeover during the tent and learning Rollin beta had left him in significant pain. "Yeah, I think it's for the better." he said.

(Later that night)

Sarah awoke in the middle of the night. She had been thinking about what had happened today. There was still dark energy all around Moon, she had been sensing it there all day. The tent was by far the greatest amount she had felt. She paused, despite what had happened, she still couldn't believe that Dark Moon had saved her, the way he had described himself, she would've thought he'd fire off Rollin without a care in the world for her safety. So what caused him to save her?

She turned to see Moon awake rubbing his head. She quietly stayed put and watched him. "I just don't understand...everyday it's getting worse." Moon said. "You've never hurt this much before." she was met with a severely long silence, she assumed that Dark Moon was talking to him. Out of nowhere his eyes flashed red.

"Too easy." Dark Moon's cold voice hissed. He turned towards Sarah who quickly shut her eyes to avoid getting caught by his emotionless stare. Her heart rate tripled trying her best not to make any indication to him that she was awake. She could feel his breath and she had a suspicion that he was face to face with her.

"Wake up Sarah." he said using a softer tone. She stayed put, he was trying to imitate Moon's voice enough so she'd talk to him. He started to run a finger along her forehead which made her shiver. "How adorable." he whispered into her ear. "Thinking that by staying put you'll hear something important...nice try Sarah." Sarah silently told herself not to panic.

"How about you open those eyes of yours, I miss seeing your loving gaze." he said coldly. Sarah opened her eyes. Upon seeing his cold stare and feeling an truckload of dark energy around him she opened her mouth only to have Dark Moon cover it with his hand. Then, quite forcefully, he snaked his other arm around her and drew her into a tight hug.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you!" he hissed into her ear. "The pain will only get so much worse for him." Sarah attempted to lower his hand but that didn't work. "I'll cut straight to the point, I'll let you go, if you promise you'll listen to what I have to say." then to Sarah's great surprise, he let go of her anyways. He smiled evilly at her look of terror.

"It really is cute...I watch him try to protect you from the dangers of Giygas and at the same damn time, trying to protect you from me...when what he doesn't realize, is that you are responsible for all his pain...you're what's making him suffer." Sarah felt her body freeze up as she looked at him, she couldn't remember a time every being so scared. Then he outstretched his hand to hers and took it with a semi-gentle grip.

"Come along Sarah, this is no place for us to talk." Sarah shuddered she had to do something other than stand there.

"I'm not letting you leave this room." she said shakily, Dark Moon laughed then guided her outside to the balcony. Sarah began to shiver and chatter uncontrollably in the cold air in Threed. She made a motion to sit down on one of the chairs, only for Dark Moon to grab her and bring her back inside.

"Damn you." Dark Moon said. "You really thought of everything." he sat Sarah down on the sofa and wrapped her in blanket.

"Why are you acting nice?" she questioned.

He frowned. "I have no choice, I'm under his rules."

Sarah gave him a look of doubt.

"Since I am Moon...partially. I'm bound by his own functioning brain and heart, because of that, I am incapable of harming "my girlfriend." I can only do so much to you Sarah...hell, it's the only reason I saved you from that damn tent."

Sarah seized her opportunity before he could keep talking "You said I'm the one giving Moon so much pain...tell me why."

Dark Moon crackled. "It works a little something like this. First, he has to spend a ton of time keeping me out of control, as you know I take over when he's too angry, problem is, he can't control his anger, he's always angry about something and even if he wasn't angry, I can just simply talk to him and tick him off myself. He had a good system going on up until he met you, hadn't heard from me in nearly six months."

Sarah looked into his heartless eyes, "I'm...the reason your back?" she asked nervously.

"Well yes, but actually no!" Dark Moon grunted. "I was always there Sarah just never did anything. But I'm glad to be back putting my old friend through more hell than you could ever imagine!"

"Is there any way I can make the pain stop?" Sarah asked as she tried to fight back tears.

"Well there is one way, you could relieve him of his worries, break up with him, and he has nothing to worry about." Dark Moon said slyly. "Other than that, there is nothing you can do."

"Moon...stop." Sarah said still fighting back her tears.

Dark Moon blinked, then shook his head. Once the dark energy had vanished Sarah saw him give her a look of deep concern. She gathered up her nerve, if this was what she had to do to get him out of his pain, then that was exactly what she was going to do.

"Moon, I think we should…"

"SARAH NO!" Moon shouted covering her mouth. "Don't!" he said removing his hand from her.

"Moon I have to." she cried. "All your pain is being caused by me, I can't bear to see you like this, I don't want to but I have to…" Moon covered her mouth again.

"He's lying." Moon said. "Sarah he's lying to you! Asking about the pain and suffering I go through isn't something he has to answer honestly."

"But why would he lie about that...he seems to love watching you suffer."

"Sarah's he's just trying to make you to lose your authority. If you end things with me, your authority breaks. You have control over him, you end your relationship with me and he doesn't have to listen to you...much worse Sarah...he can actually hurt you!"

"But your pain...your suffering...it comes from…"

"It doesn't come from you Sarah, I'm in pain all the time because of him, you have nothing to do with the amount of pain I receive. Even if you ended things with me, I'd still be in pain. The pain I'm taking comes from keeping him in. The only time I don't receive pain is when he's in control or not talking to me. Sarah you have to understand, he's going to do everything in his power to whittle you down so you'll give up your control."

Sarah looked at him with despair, to think that all that was said was nothing more than a trick was devious, Dark Moon had nearly succeeded just like that. However, when she heard a sniff she saw that Moon was in tears.

"I'm sorry." he said through tears. "I knew you wouldn't be ready for something like this, but I still told you anyways...I just thought that maybe...just maybe...that'd make him stop."

Sarah drew him into a hug. "It's alright," she whispered softly. "Calm down Moon, everything will be okay...now that I know this...I won't ever leave your side, no matter what he says."

"Sarah, you can't do that forever...I can't force you too nor would I ever want you to. He's sneaky, he's dangerous, most importantly, he's a nightmare, my nightmare."

Sarah hugged him tighter. "I know...but I want to help you, help you stop the pain, the suffering, the torture you go through...I'll stand by your side. No matter what happens."

Moon rubbed his eyes, "Thanks Sarah, you are the greatest thing to ever happen to me!"

Sarah blushed, "Thanks Moon."

Their were loud shouts in the distance, the two walked back outside on the balcony into Threed's cold weather to see multiple people around the Zombie Relief Corps tent.

"I can't believe it worked, those kids actually did it!" a man shouted. "They captured the Zombies, even those two crazy ones that always hang out to North of the cemetery!"

Sarah looked at Moon with joy, "It worked, we can get to that northern outlet now!" she said. "Let's wake Erick up and get going!" Moon nodded.

"You do that, I just wanna...think for a bit." Sarah nodded and left him outside.

Moon made sure the glass door had slid shut before speaking to himself.

"That was low Dark, even for you!" he said quietly

"Hey, you knew what a battle this was gonna be Moon, too bad all your thoughts go straight to me, I've seen how much you care about her...it'd be a damn shame if something...happened...to her."

Moon shook his head, despite what he was hearing from Dark Moon, he wasn't at all concerned, Sarah was never leaving his side. He stared up into the sky, the dark clouds moved past a sluggish rate.

"You know, this whole thing reminds of a certain time long ago...so very long ago! With a certain someone...what was her name again?"

Moon flinched.

"You wouldn't dare." he muttered.

"Heh, of course not, compared to Sarah, Olive is a..."

Moon cleared his thoughts of everything. "Dirty little piece of crap." he muttered. He pushed thoughts of that away for a reason. He sighed to himself, "I know eventually we'll visit my family in Onett...once there they'll probably find out I'm friendless, but that...they can't ever learn about that...not ever."

"Moon...you good buddy?"

He turned around to see Erick next to him.

"You've been staring into space for quite some time."Moon shook his head. "Yeah I'm good...let's get going." he said.

Well that was eventful, this chapter honestly took me a bit longer than I would've liked to finished but I'm proud of the way it turned out. Also probably caught all of you off guard with Rollin Beta most people save it for Belch, but I felt like this was more appropriate.

As for giving the tent shadow hands, my inspiration was kind of my imagination from when I was younger. I thought the tent also grew arms when it transformed but it doesn't, silly me.

Anyways, I hope you've enjoyed this chapter, if you have any suggestions or want to tell me what you liked I'd be happy to hear it. Next up on my to write list everybody's favorite cute little shield breakers from smash the Mr. Saturns!