Chapter 12: Creating the Dragonwitch
Deceit stood quietly beside Remus and the young Duke stood on a chair so he could watch the stove and the water in the pot boiling. The Snake Halfling had suggested that he be the one to make them food, but Remus had declared that it was ploy for the other boy to run away. He wasn't wrong. Deceit would sink out once free, and into his room. Here in the young Duke's castle was too cold for the Snake boy and all he wanted to do was to go back to sleep. He needed to be somewhere warm. So when his request for freedom was denied he leaned against the stove trying to at least get some of the heat from it to touch his scales.
"Its boiling! Should I need to stick my finger into to test if its hot enough?" Remus asked, already moving said finger into the pot.
"Certainly not." Deceit shook his head. "Its not hot enough. So put the oat meal in." He instructed, standing on his tiptoes a little unsteadily so he could watch the Duke carefully pour in the oats. "Now some cinnamon…..A pinch of salt. Not too much! Ugh! Th-thats good I suppose. Keep stirring." He suppose the oatmeal would be okay if it was a little salty.
"Look how sticky!" Remus giggled, before sneezing again, enjoying how the thickening oats were refusing to give up the spoon willingly.
"Bowls." Deceit said, gauging the thickness of the oats on the spoon. What he could see of it anyway.
Seeing the young Duke following his instruction, the young Snake let himself plop down onto the floor, next to the chair Remus was standing in. A shiver ran through him again, he wanted to go back to sleep now. It was exhausting trying to function in this temperature, but he wasn't going to let his secret out. It was a weakness no one needed to know about. Remus soon joined him on the floor with two bowls in his hands, and practically shoved Deceits bowl toward him recklessly, before submerging his own face in his bowl. The Snake Halfling watched the Creative Side in silence, waiting for the other to remember that he was going to need assistance, less the young Duke take a risk and untie him. "Mmmm! This is good! But it could use something else." Remus said, licking at the drops of oatmeal that his tongue could reach. "I know!" The young Duke exclaimed holding out his hands conjuring a jug of Clorox in his hands and began pouring it in his bowl. "Want some?" He asked, holding the jug of chemical out for Deceit.
"Yes thank you. I am not fine." Deceit said, with a shake of his head. "Is that a mustache drawn on your face?" He asked.
"Your lost! And yup!" Remus shrugged, the Clorox jug vanishing, but instead of going back to his own bowl he scooted himself closer to the Snake Halfling and suddenly there was a spoon in the bowl that wasn't there before and the ropes gone.
Deceit narrowed his eyes at the other Side as he carefully pick up his bowl. "Not appreciated." He said.
"I just chase you anyway!" Remus shrugged, watching as Deceit took careful bites of his food. "So, I can come back now, right?" He asked.
The Snake Halfling sighed, and put his food down. He couldn't eat much anyway until he warmed up. "Surely you wish to stay with your Brother and with the others." He said, trying to sway him subtly.
"But their no fun. They keep correcting me and saying don't do this, don't do that! It annoying! I rather live with you and weezer." Remus insisted. "Besides, if you don't let me move back, I am going to continue to try and kill them." The young Duke said, smiling wider.
"Yes, I haven't heard the rumors." Deceit said with a roll of his eyes.
Remus began cackling. "You should see stupid faces! Haha! Morality was like Aaaahhhh!-"
"Dee"~
Deceit's head jolted up as he felt a pull. One that wasn't intrusive and almost shy. Virgil's summons.
"Light Sides. Dee. I'm with the Light Sides!"
That wasn't good. He had kept Virgil hidden for months if anything for the Anxious Sides own good. The Snake Halfling stood up ready to leave. "Hey!" Remus shouted and grabbed his arm in a tight grip. "Where do you think your going?" The young Duke asked.
"I am not be summoned by Anxiety." Deceit said, wanting to answer the summons.
"Nuh-huh! Your spending time with me!" Remus pouted, and jumped up, eyes glowing green again and the tentacles sprouting from his back again. Deceit took a startle step back at the sight, but did not evade the arms and tentacles that wrapped around him so he could not leave.
"R-REMUS?!" Deceit couldn't help the high pitch that escaped him. The tentacles were squeezing just as hard as the Dukes arms were, if not harder.
"I'm not letting you go!" Remus declared, voice changing to something that would scare a normal side. However, Deceit could recognize that the Creative Side was getting upset, the voice changing in much the some way as Virgil's tempest tongue, if not a little more manic. "Your mine now!"
The Snake Halfling hissed agitated, trying to take deep breaths so not to suffocate in the ever tightening embrace around his body. "Retract!..." He demanded, trying to pull the tentacles off him, with what little movement he had.
"No!" Remus growled, arms and tentacles squeezing tighter, his eyes still glowing green.
"Now!" Deceit hissed, he gasped for air. that one word seeming to take his breath away. Remus was going to squeeze him to death. And the Deceit wasn't in a hurry to find out how that worked. "Virgil-"
"I'm not sharing!" Remus shouted.
The one thing about being squeezed by a literal living heater. Deceit was getting warmer and therefore no longer tired. The downside was that Remus was still basically new and had an animal traits and apparently had no control over them. Deceit was sure the Creative Side didn't even realize his eyes had changed. However, Deceit wasn't going to let himself get hurt just because a side couldn't control their abilities. He didn't let Virgil and he wasn't going to let Remus. Deceit felt his own abilities wanting to kick in. That instinct that made him selfish and the want to get away from the danger the Young Duke was now presenting to his person. But he couldn't hurt the Duke. He couldn't let harm come to the other sides, or functions. Couldn't let anything happen that was going to hurt Thomas. He had to find a way out of this. Had to calm Remus down and then to Anxiety. Had to get everyone safe.
The lights in the castle flickered, although Remus didn't seem to notice. but Deceit did. There was a shift somewhere. Something was being broken. "ENOUGH!-Hissssss..." And the Snake Halfling grabbed one of the tentacles roughfuly remembering how sensitive his own animal trait was when the scales first appeared. He hoped it was the same for Remus. He squeezed and twisted the green slimy thing. causing the young Duke to howl in pain and the tentacle retracted, but did not disappear this time. The green glow in the Creative Sides eyes died out to brown, but Remus did not release the hold his arms had from around Deceit.
"OUCH! Hey?!" Remus grunted, and looked behind him and at the tentacles now moving and squirming behind him, before looking back at the smaller boy still trapped in his arms. "Wonder what it would feel like if you actually chopped them off?" He grinned.
"That is all you have to say?" Deceit huffed. Relieved he was no longer getting squeezed, but something was still wrong in the brain somewhere. But now Deceit didn't feel like he himself was in danger. He did feel a little bothersome that Remus did not seem confused about his extra limbs, like Deceit had been when he first formed. In fact the Creative Side seem fascinated by the green slimy things.
Remus looked back at the tentacles attached to his back. "Do you think I can turn into an actual octopus too?"
"Well, you aren't creativity. " Deceit said, pushing the rest of the other boy away and straightening his clothes. "Now. I must delay further. I am not being summoned by Virgil." Ugh! He really hated his backward talking, but it seemed Remus could understand him just fine.
At the mention of him leaving Remus's eyes glowed green again and all the windows and door around them vanished. Deceit sighed tiredly. Was he still too young to say he was too old for this? He was ten. There was no reason for him to have this sort of headache. He was even starting to sound like Thomas's Mom, wasn't that fantastic. "I have time for whatever this is Remus. But first I mustn't check on Virgil. I don't promise to play with you later." He said, crossing his heart.
Remus's eyes turned back to brown. "Can I come with?" He asked. The windows and doors reappeared around them.
"Not my decision. I am not going," Deceit said, stepping away intending to follow the summons pull. Cackling with glee Remus grabbed hold of the Snake halflings arm and let himself sink down as well.
As soon as they popped to the designated area Deceit was being summoned, he found that he got his answer as to why something felt wrong. Roman's side of the imagination seemed to be under attack by some type of nightmarish goo monsters and the Light sides and Virgil were trying to fight it off. Well, Roman was trying to fight it off, while Logic tried relaying possible plans of attack the Princely Side could try with Morality cowering behind the Logical Side. Deceit spotted Virgil still in the wagon that apparently was their transport, clearly trying to stave off a panic attack if the gathering shadows were anything to go by.
"Oh wow! That came from one little defective apple?!" Remus exclaimed joyously, shaking Deceit in excitement. "What a party!"
"That monster is that silly apple?" The Snake Halfling asked, a little bewildered.
"Remus! Thank Trident your here. I could use the help." Roman said, conjuring a shield to block a glob of goo that had been flung at him.
"Yeah. Nah. I just came because Dee wanted to see Anxy." The young Duke smiled, leaning his head onto the Snake Sides shoulder, despite the other being smaller than him. Hearing his name Virgil's head whipped around with wide eyes to the Snake Halfling.
Deceit angled himself where only his human side was showing and held his free arm out beckoning for Virgil to come to him. Which Virgil happily obliged, running as fast as he could.
"Hold it!" Virgil ran face first into a big floating shield that pushed him back from his escape. "Your not going anywhere until you help fix this. That includes you too Remus." Roman growled.
"Oh, brother, I would like to see you try and make me." Remus goaded.
Deceit waved a hand at the Duke to be quiet. "Come now. Surely you don't need both." Deceit countered.
"Yeah! Keep Sourpatch. I'm a go play with Dee." Remus cackled.
"Actually wouldn't it be better if you helped you twin? You are Creativity are you not?" Deceit asked.
Remus groaned. "Fine." He grouched.
"Join anytime Remus!" Roman called, summoning his witch to blast a big beam of magic at the goo monsters, her magic melting the goo into nothingness.
Deceit watched as Remus tapped his chin in thought. "She yours Roro?" The Duke asked, skipping over to his twin. Virgil took the chance to make another run to Deceit and hid behind the Snake Halfling.
"Yes?"
"I got an idea." The young Duke smiled and snapped his fingers.
The witch and the goo started fusing together. "What are you...?" Roman gasped, watching his brother shaping the goo and witch together, but to the other sides it just looked like a dark whirling tornado. "That's not going to work. Here let me. You pull the defect out and let me handle the shape." Roman said taking over, catching on to what his brother was planning. The sky in the imagination darkening as the two Creative Sides began working. Both twins eyes changing color Roman's to red and Remus's to green.
"What happening?" Patton asked, as the winds in the imagination began picking up.
"They appear to be giving Thomas quite the brainstorm." Logan deduced.
Thunder and lightening began sounding across the sky as their brainstorming got bigger. "Can you get the apple out?" Roman asked Remus.
"No, its not my fruit." The Duke shook his head.
A roar sound within their storm. "Well I can't get it. I'm still putting her together." Roman grunted.
"I busy trying to give this thing some actual interesting features, to get something that belongs to you." Remus argued.
Deceit and Virgil shared a look and nodded. The two running to the storm that the twins were creating. Virgil's eyes glowed purple and the shadows coming to surround him the closer they got. Deceit didn't bother calling forth his abilities, when all he had to do was get the fruit he and Virgil had corrupted for the twins so they could finish their work. How hard could it be to just grab a fruit?
"Hey! What are you two doing?! Stay away from the creation, you Nightmare!" Roman ordered, snapping his fingers in their direction. A large goliath materializing in front of the two boys.
Both Deceit and Virgil hissed at the threat. As the goliath went swing one of its big hands at then.
"Hey! I told you Dee was off limits!" Remus shouted, no longer concentrating on helping separate the bad from the creation, as he tackled Roman
"Remus! The creation!" Roman warned.
"I warned you!" Remus snarled. Not caring that their brainstorm was now getting out of control. That the creation they were making together to fix the defect was going to tear apart.
"Roman! Remus! You two must focus!" Logan informed.
"Yeah or else there the whole imagination will be lost." Patton agreed.
"I'm not attacking him. I'm trying to stop them from ruining my side of the imagination more. And have you seen his face? Its got scales. He probably planned this with the other one!" Roman argue as he and his brother rolled around on the grass. Remus snarling as he and Roman traded blows.
Deceit ducked under the goliath's hand, while Virgil who had tried to copy his movements was just a little slower, got caught. " Dee! " Virgil's panic voice called out. The Snake boy looked over his shoulder to see the Virgil pointing upward.
Deceit looked to see what it was and almost regretted it, when he caught sight of a dragonhead with red eyes peeking from the swirling dark cloud of the brainstorm. But he could see the apple that seemed to be the whole cause of this stupid problem floating closer to the ground. The beast in the clouds seemed more focused on the two fighting Creative twins, than Deceit though so he continued to the ridiculousness that was a simple apple. He was so done with today. He had been kidnapped, tied up, and almost fed something that wasn't eatable. Now Virgil was in trouble again. The Light sides now officially knew about Virgil. The twins were fighting and Logan and Patton were out of their depth in this type of situation. And to top it all off, Deceit was cold and just wanted to stay in his nice warm room. But he wasn't because of this stupid, stupid apple. Taking his frustration on the fruit, he grabbed it from its floating spot and everything froze. Including the twins fighting.
" Dee! "
"Deceit!"
"Kiddo!"
"Noodle!"
"You scaley Fiend! It wasn't ready!"
Everyone exclaimed. Although Deceit didn't know why. He looked and the rotting looking fruit that was now getting sticky gooey juice all over his favorite gloves. He felt the shift in the brain right itself. So maybe this stupid little apple was a defect, but he didn't understand what the problem was. " GROWL!" The patches of scales on his back tingled, as he tilted his head up to the sky where the growl had come from. Coming face to face with a dragon, yet it wasn't a dragon, it had human like features in there topped with a witches hat. "Put it back little snake."It rumbled.
Deceit hissed, his body curling low in on itself as he began backing away. The dragon's eyes following him. He stared the giant fictional reptilian in the eyes with his own mismatched ones. "Not real." He reassured himself.
"Put it back! Let it consume, little Dark one!"The Dragon's voice rumbled. Deceit shook his head as his back hit the goliath that still held Virgil trapped and moved himself behind its legs, like a child would a parent.
"Remus! You made it evil!" Roman's voice practically screeched.
"Just a little bit to spice things up." Remus defended.
The dragons gazed whipped to the twins. "Creativity." She said slowly. "Creators."Smoke blew from her nose at them. The twins coughed at the thick smoke.
"Rude." Roman coughed, sword and shield in hand.
"Cool!" Remus coughed, his own morningstar materializing in his hand.
The rest of the dragon's body soon joined the head as the full body of the beast landed on the grounds of the imagination. "Do you think we can get rid of it now?" Patton asked, hiding behind Logan, who seemed unaffected by the sight of the beast. Merely adjusting his glasses and summoning a book with a cartoon like dragon on it.
"No way!" Remus denied.
"Its going to destroy my side of the imagination!" Roman shouted, lifting the shield higher when said dragon blew fire from its mouth, shielding both himself and Remus, who's hair got singed a little, although he didn't seem to care.
"What if you two worked together again?" Logan asked.
Deceit summoned his other four arms as he grabbed at Virgil's dangling legs to help tug the trapped side from the goliaths hand. He still had to jump a little to get a good grip on the kicking and dangling legs. Thankfully the Snake Halfing's extra weight helped the shadowling slip out of the goliaths grip. The two boys grunting as they hit the ground hard. "Thanks." Virgil huffed trying to calm himself down.
"Just don't breathe." Deceit instructed. Relieved when Virgil followed his instruction and started taking slowly deep breaths to calm himself. "Good." He praised, as they kept themselves behind the goliaths legs. Its movements jerky as it looked for its lost captive that was safely hidden behind it.
Virgil's eyes were blown wide as he looked from the goliath that was their shield to the dragon that was now fighting with the twins. To Morality and Logic who had ran back to the safety of the wagon that sat safely a few yards away. He finally looked at the rotting goo covered apple in Deceits gloved hand. "We got to get rid of it." He said, quickly and quietly.
Deceit agreed but shook his head shrugged his shoulders, wordlessly telling Virgil that didn't even know how they were going to do that. That dragon creature seemed to had wanted it to continue hurting Roman's side of the imagination. The apple really couldn't be called an apple anymore with it seeming to pulse like it was alive and the Snake Halfling made a mental note to get rid of his glove due to the goo staining them. They looked around for something to use, the Shadowling grabbing a close rock and Deceit quickly caught on. Putting the defective fruit on the ground as the anxious side started pounding at it in a disparate attempt to destroy it. It only served to letting the good cover the rock and start spreading again this time closer to the ground. Now panicking with Virgil, Deceit did the only thing that came to mind seeing the ground changing into goo and spreading. He took his hat off his head and placed it on top of the spreading goo and apple, trying to trap it under his hat. A deafening roar had him turning his gaze back to the twins.
"Back you fowl beast! You dragon uh- uh..." Roman stammered at the end as he jabbed the creature with his sword.
"Bitch!" Remus added, trying to help his brother out, jumping so high in the air and bringing his morningstar on top of the beast head. Causing the dragon to crumple to the ground. Deceit could hear Patton gasp mortified by Remus's choice of words from the wagon. Roman waved his hand toward Deceit and Virgil's shield that was the goliath and had it wrestle and grab at the dragons neck and kneel on it to keep the beast down, as he gave his brother a look.
"You Dragonwitch!" The Princely side finally said, finding a better and safer word to use to call the beast.
"Oooo! Mine was better! But that was good." Remus clapped.
Deceit would have loved to continue watching the twins working together if not for the fact that the defect that was the apple was now destroying his favorite hat. His hat began bubbling as it turned into goo. Both he and Virgil shouted in surprise when a few strands lashed out and grabbed onto them. Virgil was quick to scramble away being flight or fight. Deceit was slower and made a disgruntle sound at being covered in goo. "Little help here wouldn't be nicssse, right about now." He hissed.
Roman who had walked right up to the pinned Dragonwitch and had his hand placed right between her eyes trying to finish creating her and fixing whatever Remus had done to here. "I'm busy. You shouldn't be touching things that aren't your anyway. Are literally trying to make my job hard! I just got here. What exactly did I ever do to you?!" Roman complained.
Deceit blinked and rolled his eyes. Maybe Roman resembled King a little more than Remus. But unlike King who Deceit not only did not trust, or like, the Snake Halfling could safely say that he was only mildly annoyed with the Princes attitude. Remus was also annoying but in a different way.
"Dee's mine anyway! So you can't touch him!" Remus shouted, already charging toward the Snake boy who was trying to free himself from the pulsing goo that seemed to be creeping up his body. The Young Duke seem to mind grabbing hold of the icky stuff and puling it off the other boy. Eyes still glowing green as the goo lit on fire in his hands. "Hold still." He instructed as he pulled, sneezing a few times which had Deceit cringing from being sprayed, although he didn't say anything; He would change clothes and burn the ones he had on later. But more and more goo began engulf the Snake Halfling.
"You got to get rid of the defect, stupid!" Roman said, loudly when to Dragonwitch began fighting against him and the giant goliath that was pinning her.
"Oh!" Remus smacked himself on the forehead, before reaching for a lump on the ground that use to be an apple and lit it on fire. He and Deceit stared at it when nothing happened. "That didn't work!" Remus shouted, grabbing Deceit by the shoulders and started pulling when it seemed like that made the goo spread faster, but was unable free the his Snakey from the goo.
"This is ideal!" Deceit hissed, trying his best not to show how scared he really was.
"Then leave him there Remus and help me." Roman huffed. "What did you do to this beast. I can't straighten her out." The Princely side grunted.
"I made her a villain!" Remus grunted with a sneeze, switching from trying to pull Deceit from his trapped position to materializing his morningstar in his hands.
"Whoa! Whoa! Hey! What are you gonna do with that?!" The Lying side asked, unable to control how his voice pitched high a few octaves.
"And you thought, that was good idea?!" Roman growled.
"Well, yeah." Remus nodded, tongue sticking out to the side as he backed up a few paces, weapon held like a baseball bat. "Villages, castle, and a heroic Prince and Duke! What better villain than a Dragon with magic powers! Hold still, my slimy snake." Remus instructed, already doing a few warm up swings.
"No." Deceit shook his head, seeing what the young Duke was planning. He was going to hit Deceit with the morningstar! The horrified realization only served to make Deceit struggle to try and free himself. "Remus, no! Don't!" He yelled the last part as the Duke swung his morningstar at him.
Deceit put his hands in front of his face as he felt something collide with him, pushing him to the ground, with a shout. It took him several long seconds before he realized he being shielded on the ground by Virgil and Remus's morningstar had not hit him into the sky like he thought it would. Virgil must have thought the same thing, as Deceit and had tried to come the snake sides rescue, which entitled to the two boys being curled up into each other forming a tight ball on the ground. Deceit peeked up from where he had his face hidden in Virgil's shoulders, the Anxious Side refusing to let go of the Snake Side. "Are you inssssane?!" He hissed. Not really noticing that the goo was no longer clinging to him and he was free.
But the Duke was not looking at him. Instead the Creative side was looking up at the sky watching something with a satisficed grin on his face and a snot leaked from his nose. Confused Deceit, followed his gaze as he guided himself and Virgil in a sitting position. Remus hadn't aimed for Deceit, he had aim at the bowler hat that had the defective apple under it, sending both into the air. "Okay! Now what do I do?" He asked cheerfully to Roman, who was still messing with the Dragonwitch.
"I don't know." Roman said, irritated eyes still glowing red. "She's not mine and she's not your. What if we used it to make a middle ground to house this." He suggested, waving his hand toward the growling beast.
Remus was nodding his head still watching the flying goo covered objects falling from the sky with his still green glowing eyes and held out his hand stopping them from hitting the imagination again. "That could work."
"If I may." Logan interjected now that everything seemed under control. "Maybe a volcanic environment. My book says that dragon are reptilians and therefore it is only logical that a warm environment be..."
Deceit and Virgil look at the four other sides as they came up with a plan to contain the defect and where they were going to place the newest creation now deemed the dragonwitch, then back at each other tuning the others out. Today had been too much excitement and too many new things that even Deceit never wanted to leave his room. Remus was back with the Light Sides and his brother. And Deceit had Virgil back. And as long as that abomination that use to be an apple wasn't touching the imagination everything was back right in the mind. Deceit's job was done. "We'll go now." He said, to Virgil the two of them sinking out into their respective rooms.
Deceit only had enough time to change his outfit and gloves and conjure another hat to replace the one that had been lost in the imagination, before there was a frantic knocking sound coming from downstairs. Deceit briskly walked to from his room and down the stairs. He caught sight of Virgil peeking out from his room, but had made no move to follow Deceit. The knocking continue all the way to the moment when Deceit opened the door and had to lean back slightly with avoid, Patton's frantic hands that were still making knocking motions. The Heart look relieved to see Deceit. Which was weird.
"Morality. Long time no see." He greeted, even though it wasn't too long that they had just seen each other in the imagination.
"But we just seen-"
"Oh Morality! I got the saw to saw off those chicken wings you call arms!" Remus's voice called out from behind the Moral Side. Deceit blinked, and tilted his head at the Heart.
"Anyway." Patton said, trying and failing to try and not look bothered. The Heart looked scared to death. "We were thinking after everything that has happened and considering how much control you seem to have over him..." Patton rambled dancing around the reason he was there.
"Spit in out, Patty. I don't have anything better to do." Deceit said, with a roll of his eyes. He supposed it wasn't no surprise they would send Remus back. Just proved that the Light Sides were still wary of what was good and bad for Thomas. Even if Thomas needed all of them.
"We were thinking of permanently letting Remus stay with you." Patton said.
"And why dear Heart is that my problem. He is Creativity." Deceit argued. "Therefore, he should be front and center, sharing the limelight with his brother."
"Yeah, but his ideas are a bit too scary for Thomas right now. I mean have you heard his suggestions and the words he's been teaching Thomas?" Patton frowned.
"I have. Isn't that what we want though? For Thomas to grow up? Remus is a part of that cycle. Just like Roman." Deceit said, he already knew he was going to lose this argument, not because Morality had more influence, but because Remus himself, didn't want to live with the Light Sides. The Creative Side really didn't understand what he was going to be giving up. Patton and the others were asking Deceit to be Remus's jailer. To muffle the young Dukes influence.
"We want Thomas to grow up to be a good person. He want be a good person with Remus around." Patton said.
"There you are chicken wing!" Remus crowed, popping up behind Patton causing the Moral Side. "Dee, you left the party early! You didn't see the new landscape me and Roman made. And the dragonwitch she a monster! Your going to love her!"
"Oh there you are, uh, Remus. Me and Deceit were just talking about you moving back in with him." Patton said, putting on a smile, that was obviously forced.
"Whoopi!" Remus cheered and charged past Patton and Deceit, pushing both boys in the process as he bounded up the stairs. They could hear a door slam shut and the muffled cheers of the young Duke.
"Thanks Deceit." Patton smiled.
Deceit frowned. "Sure, whatever." He said, closing the door in the Moral's Side face.
He frowned up at the stairs where he knew that Duke's room had been placed back and would now stay. He slowly may his way up and to the green door and knocked waiting for Remus to open up. When said door opened, tentacles reached out and snatched the Snake Halfling into the room and he was enveloped in a crushing hug from both arms and tentacles. "Dee! We're roomies again! We're going to have so much fun. And no one to tell what we can and not do!"
"Why?" Deceit asked, pushing away from the cheery Duke.
"Why?" Remus repeated, and made a motion as if thinking over the question before he answered. "They didn't like me." He finally answered.
"But Roman-" Deceit started to say.
"Only tolerates me in the imagination enough to get work down. He is good. They are good. I am not." Remus said.
"And me?" Deceit asked. Because he was sure he hadn't shown favoritism to the Duke.
"You are like me. I can feel it. You don't tell me I can't create something. I belong here." The young Duke said, with finality, crushing Deceit in another hug.
"I am basically your jailer." Deceit hissed and pushed away again. "You don't know what you have willingly given up. Your still too new to know what my job is. I am the Snake. I keep things hidden. I make sure nothing breaks! You will no longer be able to whisper clearly in Thomas's ear any more!" Deceit shouted, stomping to the green door.
Remus watched him with a uncharacteristically blank face, listening.
"We don't get the attention the Light sides do! You have to fend for yourself here! And you just happily walked into this pit of darkness like its home!" Deceit continued and sent a menacing look at the Duke. "I hope you find your stay here satisfying as it will be nothing if not miserable!" He said as he slammed the door shut.
Remus stared at where the Snakey boy had once stood in his room. And a big grin spread across his face. "Yeah, he likes me! And I am going to like it here." He nodded to himself. Bring his hand up reveal several knives, and threw them at the door where a painted picture of Roman and the other Light sides were painted, a knife landing on each drawn side in the head making the young Duke cackle with glee.
Deceit who was still out in the cold hallway of the Dark Side shook his head with tired look on his face at the sound of the insane laughter that was Remus, who seem ignorantly happy in his room , despite what Deceit had told him. Maybe the Creative side did belong with Deceit. But it still made Deceit angry that Remus had unknowingly gave up what Deceit and Virgil would never have. A place in the front with Thomas and the others. To be heard. To be warm. To be loved. The Snake Halfling silently went into his room deciding that over time Remus will begin to understand what living in this part of the brain meant. "Fool." he mumbled as he climbed in his bed for warmth, flicking a heating lamp on.
TBC
A/N: Ok my internet went out and that is where i have been. But here's the new chapter. I hope you all like it! Let me know by Favoriting, leaving Kudos, and/or Reviewing.
The next chapter I will age them up a bit.