Back with Leaf...
He woke up, trying to look around at where he was at. He had no idea where he was at the moment, as he can only make out Makoto, who was also passed out left of him, a desk, a chair, a couple windows, and a rug on the ground. He tried to figure out where he was even at, before he began to hear other voices outside of this room.
"Are those two idiots here yet?" Esma asked outside of the room. "The workers have no clue where they are!" Preston's voice than was heard by the elf, as he was trying to wake up from being unconscious.
"I already sent them that call seconds ago. Don't worry about them coming in here or not." Preston said. "We already got the gem inside the Nightmare Crown, and it doesn't even matter if James and his girlfriend comes here or not, I'm not waiting for them, knowing full well we have that crown ready for you to take over the world." Steps were heard, passing by the open door. "Not to mention, don't worry about them. They won't be waking up in time to stop us from opening the Nightmare Realm."
"But what about me and my rabbit friends? They are not going to like the idea of scary beasts roaming around the town, ready to scare anyone in sight, including us." Beebee said, frightened in the other room.
"Beebee, dear, you don't need to worry about the monsters getting you or your rabbit friends. As far as my knowledge can go about this situation, the person who wears the crown won't get attacked by said monsters."
"That was hearsay on Esma's part. We don't know if we're going to die or not."
"Just trust me on this, dear. I doubt anything bad is about to happen to us when it comes to the beasts that are inside of that dimension." Preston then walks into the room, looking at the two who were in here. "Don't worry about these two as well, Beebee...Leaf and Makoto here are going to be those giant nightmare beasts next meal, in case we go in there."
"Why would we WANT to go into the Nightmare Realm?" Preston looks over to Beebee, before reaching out to her.
"Me and Esma will explain it a little better as we the Nightmare Realm to open. But as far as I'm concern, these two here are going to be given to the Nightmare Realm in case those monsters are hostile towards us."
It wasn't until Preston was out of the room that Leaf finally gotten himself fully awake. He looks over to Makoto, noticing that she had her battery taken out of her again. Leaf took notice of the battery being on the desk. Leaf was about to use his own magic to try to get the battery over to himself and Makoto, only to realize that his hands were tied up.
'Really? Do these guys forget that I have magic?' Leaf asked in his thoughts.
Leaf's hands glowed purple, causing the ropes on his hands to disappear. The elf then stood up to grab the battery off of the desk to place inside Makoto once again. The elf places the battery back into the robot. Makoto opens her eyes, before looking over to the elf.
"Leaf...where are we?" Makoto asked, looking over to the elf, as he was looking out a nearby wall window, seeing that it was the warehouse again.
"The warehouse." Leaf said. "Preston and Esma must've kidnapped us when we were talking to each other back there in the motel." Leaf shook his head, before looking over to Makoto once again. "Damn it, the instant we walk out of here, we'll be caught by them again."
"Can't we just teleport to James and Jenny?"
Leaf looks out the door, seeing Preston and Esma talking to each other, next to the Nightmare Crown. "With the Nightmare Crown in the ready, I don't think that's an option right now. But we need to stop those two from opening the portal to the Nightmare Realm before it's too late." Leaf looks over to the robot girl, allowing his hand to glow purple. "Just leave Preston and Esma to me."
Leaf stared at Preston and Esma talking to each other, before coming out of the office room to make his way over to the two. He kept the magic in his hands, heading over to those two, attempting to destroy the crown before they do anything else. Sadly, once Leaf finally gotten out into the open, Preston taps the gem on the Nightmare Corwn when Leaf was about to come into his view.
The gem glowed, as Leaf stops himself, feeling pain as he felt the evil coming out of the red gem. He collapses to the ground, groaning at the gem's magic, causing Preston and Esma to notice the elf attempting to come over to them. Preston gave the elf a smirk as he walked over to Leaf.
"Oh, well you're finally awake...are you elf?" Preston asked him, shaking his head. "Thinking you could stop me and Esma now? It seems like the gem of that crown is what makes you weak..." Leaf lifts his head up, glaring at Preston as best as he can.
"Y-You think you can...try to take over the world with that crown...but you can't..." Leaf said, trying to stand up.
"Oh...we already won, elf. Haven't you noticed? Your friends are not here to save your sorry ass from being placed inside the Nightmare Realm." Esma said, holding the crown in front of Leaf. "Considering that this gem is making you weak, you seem to have given us what your weakness is."
"I didn't even know my own weakness, you son of a..." Esma kept the gem glowing, making Leaf be quiet. "...Wait until James and Jenny stop you guys..."
Outside...
Just like Leaf said, James and Jenny were driving their way to the warehouse. They drove up to the gate, seeing that it was locked. All four of them got out of the car, and ran up to the locked gates.
James tries to kick the gates open, only for nothing to happen. Petal then steps in front of James, holding up a hand, causing magic to glow out of her hands. The padlock unlocked because of her magic, and then the gates opened, just like that. Petal lowers her hands, as the four of them walked into the warehouse.
Just as they were entering the warehouse, Pine-Cone started to feel pretty funny about what was in there. "Uh...guys...I'm sensing the same exact evil energy that the king felt back in our kingdom..." Pine-Cone said, weakly. "I...I think we came...just as the portal is opening...because I can..." Petal seems to not be affected by the Nightmare Crown at the moment, unlike Leaf or Pine-Cone.
"Wait...then how am I not getting affected by the..." Petal asked, before the sound of Preston's voice came from inside the warehouse.
"Ah, James, Jenny...you've arrived." Preston said, looking down from the platform of the warehouse's second floor. "...And right on time as well..." James and Jenny walked forward, glaring upward at the second floor, as Esma was holding the crown in his hands, with Leaf on the ground next to him. "I thought you'd never show up, and we found Leaf's weakness too..."
"J-James..." Leaf said, trying to stand up.
"Let him go, Preston!" James shouts, stepping forward.
"Oh please, realize that two of your friends are weak against us at the moment!" Esma shouts, holding the Nightmare Crown again Leaf. She then noticed the other two elves that were with them. "Oh, don't bring two more elves into this little situation! It's pretty clear that this crown is the thing that makes your friends weak!"
It wasn't until that was said that the female elf stepped forward, as Esma taps the Nightmare Crown, making it glow extremely bright. Petal was still not weak from the bright light coming out of the gem, only Pine-Cone and Leaf have been weakened by it. Petal, nor everyone else in the warehouse, knew why she was not getting weakened by the Nightmare Crown.
That wasn't until Petal pulls out the gem that she had in her bag. It was glowing it in her hands, causing Esma and Preston to be shocked by what was happening. The MorcuCorp girl stared at the female elf.
"This...this is impossible..." Esma said, speechlessly. The girl then glared down at them, still keeping the crown in her hands. "But...it doesn't fucking matter! We still won! We have the new Nightmare Crown, and if you haven't noticed, me, Preston, and Beebee outnumber you in this whole battle!"
"Really?!" James shouts, before looking over to Beebee. "Then you might as well say why Beebee shouldn't be on your side on this one anymore!"
"W-What?" Beebee asked.
"Listen, I don't know what happened back then in the past between Esma and Preston, but...before they have decided to go and make this crown, we have heard your boyfriend and Esma talking about something that you really need to hear!"
Esma and Preston were shocked by what they were hearing. James was really doing this. He was really about to explain to Beebee about what had happened in the past. There was really nothing else that James was going to tell her. This made Preston nothing more but angry. Esma stops letting the Nightmare Crown glow, before Preston decided to yell at the geeky goth.
"James! Don't you dare say anything to my girlfriend about what had happened!" Preston yells at him. Beebee looks over to Preston, rather shocked.
"Preston?" Beebee said, rather confused by what is going on. "What is he talking about?"
"N-Nothing...nothing...James is saying nothing but bullshit."
"Oh really, so the conversation that you and Esma had when we arrived here earlier wasn't about something about..." James points at the MorcuCorp girl, who froze when the geeky goth just says his next words. "...You cheating on Beebee with her?!" Beebee's mouth opened in horror at that being said.
"Prezzy-Weezy...w-what is James talking about?" Beebee asked him.
"He's making stuff up! I didn't cheat on you with Esma, if I did, I would've been...I mean...I...I..." Preston looks in horror at the ground, before shaking his head.
"Confess already, Preston! Tell your girlfriend what happened!" James said, pointing at the prep.
Preston stood there, in horror at the fact that James just said that he was cheating on Beebee. He had no idea what to even say now that he was caught by those four, including his own girlfriend. The only thing that Preston could recall is being a restaurant, a year ago, as the song 'Waiting for a Girl Like You' by Foreigner was the only song that he was remembering in his head.
As the music played throughout the entire building, Preston walked into the building, as he was looking around the place. He was wearing a dark brown trench-coat, with his regular outfit underneath. He was wanting to meet up with Esma, as he was told by her to come there.
Preston told the waiter at the front desk that he needed to find Esma around this building. After being told where Esma was, he places his hands in his pockets, and then headed towards the table that the MorcuCorp girl was sitting at. The girl was sitting at one of the tables with a menu blocking her face, so that an SPA Agency wasn't going to notice and arrest her, along with Morcubus and Brandi. Preston stood by the table, looking at the MorcuCorp girl.
"Esma, you can lower that menu now." Preston said.
Esma lowers the menu, looking up at the prep. Unlike her usual outfit, since this was last year, Esma's hair was still messy and dark brown. But her outfit was a black strapless tank-top with dark blue jeans, and a black jacket that was placed on the chair behind her. She looks up at Preston, before giving him a smirk.
"I was wondering where you were." Esma said, looking at the prep. She places the menu aside, before leaning on the table. Preston sat down with Esma, smiling at her.
"I had to come since you did text me." Preston said, smiling at her. "Beebee will be back home, trying to take care of her rabbits. She always tells me that she's the princess or...queen of them, as you can tell." Esma nods her head, as she gave the prep a smirk still.
"Still gets me curious how a guy like you even goes out with a girl like her."
"The same is said in my head, Esma...I think the same thing..." Preston chuckles a bit. "...At least I get to be spending my precious time with a girl who is a lot more smarter than her anyway. Also, prettier." Esma chuckles as well.
"Oh, you are too kind to me, Preston. You really are."
"Yes, yes...well...I always know how to be a gentleman to other people. My parents raised me correctly." Preston then leans on the table, pulling out some flowers from his pocket, handing them over to Esma. "I forgot to give you these before I came in here." Esma looks at the flowers for a couple seconds, before looking at Preston with a frown.
"Thank you for these. However, I do prefer it if you have given me a new pair of shoes or something like that." Esma places the flowers into her purse, before looking at the prep once again. "Anyhow, let's just enjoy this moment to ourselves until you have to go off to help the SPA Agency out after they finally did something about you attempting to get that yeti arrested. Oh...this is going to be so difficult to be living here after you leave tomorrow night." Preston nods, before holding Esma by her hands.
"Of course, Esma. It's going to be difficult, but...after I end up giving the SPA Agency some help...and collect that red gem from their Nightmare Crown...we will continue our little relationship. Just as long as Beebee doesn't end up noticing our relationship." Esma gave him another smirk.
"You think a kiss will be enough of a promise that we keep this to ourselves?"
"Yes, of course."
Suddenly...
Preston was brought out of his imagination of remembering his relationship with Esma starting when Beebee punches him in the arm. The prep fell to the ground, feeling pain that was given to him from his girlfriend, or in this case, his now exgirlfriend. Beebee points at him with tears in her eyes.
"You cheating meanie-face!" Beebee shouts, before running off crying.
The girl in pink ran out of the warehouse, running off to who knows where. Preston's eyes widened as he stood up from the ground, watching Beebee leave the warehouse in tears. He tried to reach out for her, but she was not turning around to come back to him.
He looks down at James, Jenny, Petal, and Pine-Cone, before he grew extremely angry. More angrier than any time before. Preston points at James, extremely furious with him for what he just caused.
"YOU SON OF A BITCH! YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO GO AND SAY THAT!" Preston screams, pretty much pass the point of being furious at the geeky goth. "You just had to go and tell her what I've done a year ago...you honestly had to...if that's the kind of game you want to go do this to me, you left me no other choice now!"
Esma hands Preston the crown, as she went off to the office room to get Makoto. Once the robot girl was out, and was pushed right next to the weakened Leaf, Esma took the crown, placing it onto her own head. The MorcuCorp girl places the crown onto her own head, before Esma glared down at the four on the floor below them.
Esma held onto the sides of the crown, before closing her eyes, allowing a purple portal behind her to open. James, Jenny, Petal, and Pine-Cone stood there in shock, but not before Leaf and Pine-Cone became even more weakened by the portal opening up. Petal still stood there, unharmed by the affects of the Nightmare Crown.
With the portal now open, Esma's eyes opened, as she sends a blast coming out of the crown's gem, something that the first Nightmare Crown didn't do before. This blast was able to break a hole in the roof above, causing a giant force-field to be building itself around the entire town that the group was in. The entire town turns completely dark outside, with the exception of the inside the buildings. James, Jenny, and Petal looks outside of the warehouse in pure terror.
"This can not be good..." James mutters, as he stared outside of the warehouse, looking at the darkness of the town.
