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Chapter 21: Where it All Began
Marlin's POV:
We were there by the morning and we still had time but we decided to get to the castle as soon as possible. We also wanted to get sleep, we haven't slept most of last night and we had big dark bags under our eyes. We were in front of the castle; we decided to walk once we were a good distance from the castle. We got in without a problem.
"It's nice to see my granddaughter once more, it's so sad they had to take you from us." The Demon King said raising my chin so I can see him face-to-face. After seeing that I wouldn't respond, he let go of me. "I heard you had some problems?" He said looking at my captors. "Yes but we were able to escape in time."
"Excellent. You know where you are suppose to keep her, get her there and watch her. If they come we will take care of them. Red will stall them so we can prepare but do not let her escape." He said Ying and Yang nodded before taking me to another room. The room I ended up in was not much different than my old one in here and the best part of it was that there was a huge comfy looking bed. I ran to it and threw myself at it. Not long after Yang joined me, face dug deep into the mattress. "It's so freaking fluffy!" She muffled but it was still audible.
"You to sleep for now, I'll watch over and call you two if anything happens." Ying said, I was listening but Yang was already snoozing away. "Are you sure? You seem tired." I said getting up to him. "Don't worry I'll be ok, just go to sleep I know you are just as tiered as I am." He said a smile on his face. I don't know why I didn't bother to fight him but I did as he told me to do without retaliating.
It was just white; no forest, no snow, no flames, no smoke, nothing. I felt something cool touch my neck and I turned around to find myself in darkness now. The lifeless branches overlapping each other, not touching the water below, the very low haze that covered everything and the dark sky, the moon couldn't even be seen.
"You know you'll have to choose. You can't leave both of them hanging." I heard a voice say but I knew it was Yang clearly. "So now you crawled into my dreams it seems." I said seeing a pair of icy white eyes getting closer by the second. "Yeah I guess I did." She answered almost casually.
"But you still have to choose." She said once more, now on one of the dead branches. "I'm not choosing anyone, I love Archer and I'll stay with him no matter what." I told her. She started laughing hysterically. "You know how they say 'love is a beautiful thing'? Well, apparently, love is a painful thing too. You chose Archer, and how do you think my brother will feel?" She asked walking around.
"Well I talked to him about that a while ago but I know either way I will still end up hurting him." I said looking down. "Like after you kissed him?" She asked grinning. "Since when do you know about that?" I asked, my face reddening. "He hasn't you just told me." She said grinning even more. "Well at least this is just a dream." I said.
"Time is running, hearts are breaking you can't just keep on forgetting." She chanted as she ran away. Leaving me blank faced like that. I was going to have to choose but I already chose Archer and I won't change my mind.
I woke up and saw that Yang wasn't there anymore, my dreams was like a big movie and a weird one too. I saw Yang in Ying's place. I wondered where he was then. I looked around and saw that he wasn't here. I got up and walked to Yang. "Where's your brother?" I asked and she turned back. He went to shower. He'll be out in a moment but it's my turn to watch, so he can then sleep for a while you know." She told me.
"He suffered the most out of it didn't he?" I asked. "He should have just let me beat one of them, I know he cares about me and he would do anything to protect me but I can take care of myself. I actually like him being there don't get me wrong, I never had anyone actually caring for me as much as he does. Like Archer, I never had someone to care for me like he does to you." She said looking out the window.
"So you are jealous?" I asked her and she slammed her fist on the edge of the window. "I'm not jealous! I'm just, I don't curious or whatever you want to call it." She said trying to find an excuse. "You know I know a guy who's still free." I said trying to cheer her up. "Ok but, you know that guy he called me hot that other day?" She asked me looking at me.
"Yeah." I answered. "Well that, I'm worried that guys just like me for who how I look like. Most of them tell me the same thing that I'm just hot or sexy or something. Never noting else. So basically I'm worried that no one will love me for who I really am other than my looks." She said looking out again, a cool wind of air coming in.
"Well, he isn't like that. He seems nice actually, I might not know him as much as my friend Avery does but he doesn't look or seem like the type of guy that you tell me you always see." I told her. "Hm, well once I meet him I'll know but for now, how about a game of checkers?"
Archer's POV (Still at night or after the end of the last chapter):
"Ying, was your friend?" I asked looking at her and she just nodded and shrugged her shoulders. "Yeah he was, almost like, I don't know 2 years ago?" She told me. "How old were you?" I asked her wanting to know what the hell happened. "I was 14 why?" She asked. "No reason I just want to know but aren't you hunting them too?"
"Yeah but not for the reason you guys are probably thinking of." She told me. "So what are you chasing them for?" I asked her not getting why she was here anyway. "Unlike you guys who want to kill them, I want to help them. Unlike you guys I know their background and what they went through, he told me and now I want to help them." Kira said more serious than ever. "I will give you my help but I guess I'm no use for you since all you want to do is beat them up." Kira soon added. "Why wouldn't I? He took Marlin"
"Oh come one, even if I've only known him for three days, I learned a lot from him and I know he wouldn't take her like that. He isn't like that." She said looking at the ground once more. "I'll be going now. Just know that I'll be close by and that I'm watching. I'll head over to the Night O' Sphere." She said before covering herself in the darkness once more.
"Come on, we have to get there too. But now we have to get ready in the Fire Kingdom." Marshall said. "We have to get her back." I heard Fionna tell Marshall. Eden turned back to a wolf. Fionna was carried by Marshall. I gave Finn a ride and Leo rode on Eden because he wanted to. Avery easily turned herself into what Eden was, a wolf. She had a nice pale gray color I'll give her that much.
We left and got there in about 40 minutes. "What happened, you found anything?" I heard Flame Prince ask once we entered. "We know where the twins are headed to. Now all we have to do is beat The Royals for real this time."
"How did they escape?" I heard Neal ask once he came in the front of the castle. "I don't know but they were able to apparently." I answered. "So are we getting ready for real now?" He asked looking pretty excited. "Yes why?" I heard Leo ask. "I and Dyan made a new type of armor." He said excitedly. "Armor?" I asked.
"Yeah, we made it out of a bunch of stuff we found and made it especially made for Marshall, Marceline, Avery and Eden." He said. "Ok so?" Leo asked. "You don't let me finish, anyway this armor will mold into their new form. Like when Eden turns wolf, the armor will turn with him so it will fit him and cover him." Neal said. "With that they will change and not worry much about bad blows." Dyan added.
"Wow can we try them out?" Avery asked. "Sure, we made sure you guys could choose the color but I suppose it will be two red two gray?" He asked and they all nodded. "Ok then come on, the suits are in the living room. We all followed but I noticed Flame Prince didn't.
Red/ Flame Prince POV:
I went into my office, how could they have find them? And how did they know where they were headed to? I picked up my phone and called to the castle. "Hello?" It was Ash. "Ash, is Marlin there?" I asked. "Yeah, chill out, I always knew you were a hothead type but I wasn't surprised."
"Shut up with that, listen, they know where she is so you better hide her or get ready; it seems they want to finish you off completely. I'll make sure to keep them here as much as possible." I said before hanging up the phone.
Archer's POV:
Once we were in the living room we saw a suit there. "Ok this one we made for Avery and since she wants it gray," He said, he waved his wand and turned it gray. "There it is final stage." He finished. Avery walked up to it and looked at it. "Wow Neal this is amazing you really did it this time. Can I try it on?" She asked and he nodded still looking at his work. But instead of her putting it on, it attached itself to her, like if it was some type of blob and hardened after covering her like it was in the stand. "Oh my glob that's so wicked!" She said after it was fully on. (Imagine it like that character thing in my profile picture, yeah it's like that!)
"Ok now turn into something else." She thought for a moment before turning into some type of monster. The suit was able to morph into her new form perfectly. "This is awesome. Thanks man." She said giving him a hug. "Ok now to the next topic, how do I take it off?" She asked. "Oh right, all you have to do is put your hand to your chest and like pull it and then it will come off on its own." He explained. Avery put a hand on her neck and grabbed the armor from there, it came off with ease.
"Now just repeat the process." He said. The other's are at our room but I'll get go get them." He said. "What about our armor Dyan, did you guys give it some new tricks too?" I asked her. "Well let me think. They all look similar but like Cake and Jake can, all you need to do is call out a weapon and it will form. I'll show you once he gets them here. But I guess we should go get the rest of the stuff now." She said looking up at me.
"Here they are." Nadia said who somehow was able to get them all up here. "Thanks?" I said in a more questioning tone and she left. "Ok here Leo try this on." Dyan said she was helping him put it on and dusted off something that was on his arm and I'm pretty sure I saw him blush just a tiny bit. "Ok now call your weapon of choice." She said looking at him. "Uh, right let's see, sword!" He yelled and with a quick movement Dyan lifted his arm and a sword popped out of nowhere. "Dude, that's awesome!" He said. "Now take it off like Avery did, it's basically the same but since most of us don't turn into anything else then we only did this to it." Dyan said.
"It's still pretty cool." Leo said checking himself out at a nearby mirror. "Well than I guess that we are mostly ready we can leave now. Just then the Flame Prince came back in. "Sorry, there was a message for me. Wait, where is Kira?" He asked. "She took a head start." I answered and he nodded. "It seems you are ready to leave." He said and Marshall Stepped in. "Yes we are so can you get out of our way?" He demanded more than asked. The Prince took a step aside and we all followed Marshall outside.
Marlin's POV:
I don't want to play anymore you always beat me." I whined. "I'll go easy on you." She said wanting to play again. "You've been easy on me all the time we played. I don't even know if there is someone who can actually beat you somewhat." I said getting up. Ying was on the bed getting some well deserved sleep.
"There was this girl who was close to beating me but I forgot her name." She said. "Well then what else are we going to do? It's not like our other hideout where we can go into town." She said shuffling the checker pieces. "I don't know, talk or do something." I suggested. I saw her look through her brothers clothe until she found his deck of cards.
"I thought that wasn't your 'thing'?" I asked she took them out of the box and laid them on the table. "No, I'm just building a house of cards." She said putting two of them into a somewhat like pyramid. Out of nowhere a maid just burst into the door and knocked down her tower that she started. "OH MY…. UGH, WHAT THE HELL DO WANT?" She screamed at the maid. I just looked at her shocked; I guess she really can get in a bad mood if distracted. "I-I'm so-sorry I th-thought this room w-was empty." She said as she bowed and ran away. I looked ant Yang whose lip was quivering before she started laughing.
"Did you see her face? Priceless!" She said obviously amused. She laughed for a while more like it was the funniest thing ever so she either doesn't have fun very often or she is replaying a bunch of other funny things that has happened to her. "This is boring, what do we do?" She asked all serious like after a good five minutes of laughing. "I'm starting to think you might be bipolar. I told her."
"That's not funny." She said in a saddened tone, why the hell was she getting all these mood swings? "I'm tired that's why. I get like this when I'm tired. Don't pay attention to me though." She looked at me with a crazy looking smile her teeth showing and her bags still noticeable.
"You seem like you got high that's what." I mumbled as she attempted to make another tower. "Hey!"
Archer's POV:
Like before we left to go to the Night' O Sphere, we picked a good spot in the forest where we knew no one would be there before Marceline made the spell to get there. Once again we were in the Night O' Sphere, another place yet again covered in more flames.
"What do we do now? I don't think it's safe to just barge in if Marlin said she had a plan." Neal said looking around as if it was new to him. "He's right, and because I did come here earlier I was able to find a nice hiding spot for you guys." I heard someone say but I knew very well who it was by now. "Kira, how do we know that it might be trap?" Neal said with a straight face on. "Fine look for your own hiding spot but I don't think you'll find a bigger than what I found."
"Let's just go with it we have nowhere else to go and we have to wait before anything happens." I told him, I haven't been able to catch up on sleep and I don't think I will be able to anytime soon so I was really off my guard right now. But Kira also doesn't seem like the one that will try to hunt you down if you are looking for the same people.
"Fine but if anything happens I blame you." I heard Avery say popping out of nowhere.
It wasn't so far away and it was pretty roomy, we came into the Night O' Sphere by its outskirts and this place was also in its outskirts so we were as far away as their sight as we could be. It was basically an abandoned house, it looked like a real wreck but as long as it had a roof over it and it was like 80% stable then we were going to be fine.
"Don't worry man we'll get her back before you know it, they say time passes by fast and once she's back you'll see that it's true."
"Why are you so nice to me when I was such a jerk towards you?" I asked him Eden who was leaning against the wall not so far behind me. I was glad the others decided to look around instead of staying with us. "Well, I'm one that forgives, it's like my nature. I will forgive anyone but I don't forget their actions. Forgive but don't forget that's me. And I want to know you more and make an impression so I can stay with your sister." He said with a chuckle; my sister, yeah right.
"If you've forgotten, Avery isn't my sister." I said sadness taking over me at the thought. "Well not biologically but you are still her brother, you grew up together and went through the good and bad of each other. She's still part of your family Archer." He finished patting my back. I couldn't resist not feeling awkward but he was older and wiser than I was so I don't know what exactly to feel.
"When do you think we'll be ready to help her?" I asked bluntly. "Wow the boss that surpasses me asked me to help." He said jokingly. "But I have a feeling we'll see those twins again even if it means them asking us for help." Eden said looking out the window.
Kira's POV:
I was happy for them. They worked so well as a family, they we always so close so united and not even the Demon King can separate them. I on the other hand didn't have a nice family like that; I was always independent so of course I wouldn't know how it would feel like to rely on others.
I knew they all loved one another one way or the other like Avery and Eden and I respected them for that. Now that I think about it, I never felt like that until he left. I wish I could see him, I would see them but then they would run away. They knew what I was doing now and of course them being so "valuable", they wouldn't want to be near me unless they had a reason to. I just wish to see him again. The day before he left I made the decision to help them and hide them from everyone but at that same night, hunters came by and like a flash, they left.
I wasn't at all surprised but I did wish that he had said goodbye. I remembered the second day we spent, he introduced me to his sister, and I almost beat her in checkers. She is an expert at that; she was able to find a way to get back at me. He, on the other hand would always beat me at any card game.
It was those times that made me feel alone once again in this world, when I thought I could depend on someone, they left. Nothing really happened after that. I looked for them but when I knew they were gone for good I just ignored it. Once I heard about the tale of the Great Dragon Twins I knew they were near or they were at least here. I spend most of my time looking for them and hunting many other things.
It was the Flame Prince that took me in the end. He paid me a lot just to stay by his side and protect him, it wasn't really a job I would take but as long as I had enough money and was given the opportunity to look around, I didn't really mind. Now that he teamed up with the Royals, new people were able to take care of him so I was able to have more time for myself.
I saw him once again last night after their fight. I didn't bother to interfere even if it meant not seeing for now. As long as I knew he was alright and doing well on his own right now, it was none of my business.
"What are you doing?" I heard a voice asked, I didn't even move, I knew very well who it was without even knowing him well. "Nothing really, Neal, what are you doing here?"
"Well I saw that your weren't there-"
"I'm almost never there in the first place." I interrupted but that didn't stop him from finishing.
"So I wanted to see if you were ok." He finished off. "Since when did you guys care about me?" I asked him. "Well I don't know about the others but I do." I looked at him, a few days ago he had hair that was even longer than mine but I guess they made him cut it because it was shorter than mine.
"Again since when do care about me?" I asked trying to sound as emotionless as possible but deep inside I knew I felt somewhat happy to know that someone cared about me. "Well since the first day you came." He said sitting down next to me.
"Don't you sleep or anything you look tired." He told me, I knew where this came from, I had dark bags under my eyes from nights without sleep. "No, I'm used to not sleeping but you should rest.
"Then what keeps you going throughout this whole time?" He asked me. "You know, I think it could be rage and anger, I may not show it but for some reason I feel like my body is burning into flames because I'm so…upset."
"At what?" He finally asked trying to get deep into me as much as he possibly could, I saw where he was going and I was afraid of it. "Something that happened long ago." I finished.
He might have left just like that but I know I will see him once more.
Marlin's POV:
I couldn't sleep, I was afraid of those, nightmares now. They told stories I didn't want to happen. I don't want to see them anymore even if it means having to stay up. I will kill those dreams by waking up but I'll also prevent them from stopping them to happen.
I haven't slept yet and now it was getting late, I didn't mind staying up as long as it meant getting away from the Royals; they were the last, of all people that I wanted to see right now. I knew anyway that the wish couldn't happen; I will have to face them once and for all.
"Aren't you tired?" I heard Ying say from in back of me. I heard the footsteps getting closer by the second. "No I'm ok." I said without looking at him, I was looking at the everlasting flames. "But you should rest; you don't know what could happen."
"I'm fine, it's just, I'm not that all tired." It was somewhat of a lie. I haven't slept for a while so I got a bit used to it, but I was tired, I felt like I could collapse but I don't want to sleep at all now. "Well those bags of yours say otherwise." He told me, he was now right by my side. "It's nothing don't worry about it." I told him looking away from him so he wouldn't see how tired I was.
"You miss him don't you?" He asked as if it was something painful for him to say. I looked at him anyway. "Yes I do." I told him giving a very small smile. I don't think I made it convincing enough though and I didn't feel it either. "Really?" He asked me. "Yes really but with everything going on I really can't express everything much right now." I told him looking at the window once more.
"Well I'm sure he's looking for you right now so don't worry." He said as cheerful as he possibly could. "It's not that I'm worried, don't get me wrong I am but I know he could get me. But I'm worried about my parents, think about it the Flame Price basically backstabbed him, and the worst part is that I can't do anything about it." I said actually saying something I meant.
"Don't worry, with time comes justice, his time will soon come to an end I'll assure you of that."
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