Chapter 7: Gambling Jester
Notes: DAMMIT! It's been so long since I updated this. First I was on vacation to Florida with my family to visit my grandmother and now It's been about a month since I started and I'm only half finished with this so expect this chapter to be updated to it's full length in a couple days so please read and enjoy what I've created right now. Thanks!
Edit: Finally It's about time I fully finish this chapter thanks for enjoying this story and expect more updates.
P.S For Sleepwear Junko is wearing a Blank tank top with iconic red eye plus black/red mini shorts and barefoot. While Mukuro was in her Fenrir vest worn out green camouflage shorts, also barefoot.
Hope's Peak Academy - Girls dorm- 3:17 am:
Uh-oh, looks like Junko is walking in her sleep again, Mukuro (who knew this would happen again, especially in this boarding school. It's only a miracle that most of their classmates were in their rooms tucked in and asleep for the night, not seeing Junko in this condition.) as usual is on her tail yet again, It's bad enough that there is no way of understanding what her younger twin got planned when she's wide awake. But while still asleep she's 60% worse since she's not even aware of everything she's done in the dead of night come late morning when finally awake.
Anyways, we follow the sleep-walking fashionista roaming the halls until she stops and turns towards the cafeteria doors. Upon pushing them open she makes her way around the other tables and enters into the back kitchen (weird that her sister seems to be having a pattern of going into the kitchen first during her dream-like hazy state, a consequence of midnight snacking perhaps long ago?).
Apparently the food has been freshly stocked since last week yet the question still remains for Mukuro: What does Junko plan to do with the school cafeteria food? Make another 'bread crown' for her like last time? Mukuro couldn't figure out but she would still like answers.
"Junko, are you hungry again, or perhaps in need of water?" She says casually since her sister is such a heavy sleeper, no need to worry about waking her so easily. A few moments of silence before she goes and opens the fridge.
"...Chocolate…I really...like chocolate..." Junko slurs out before pulling out what seems to be a fanciful looking chocolate cake. She places it on the table before pulling out the cake from it's box though it did take her a couple tries since she was still asleep. It didn't take the older sister long to look at the cursive writing on the cake box: this belongs sincerely to Celestia Ludenburg.
Now with the cake out in the open, it appears that Junko is searching about the kitchen till she finds two large forks and gives one to Mukuro like she still knew that she's in the kitchen with her and somewhat forcing her into eating food that's not really theirs, Celestia would probably throw a raging fit if she saw them starting to eat away at her imported dessert ( she probably won it from a high stakes card game), not that she cares on what kind of punishment Celes would have for those who messes with her stuff.
Then again it's not the worst mischief Junko's pulled on their classmates even if she wasn't fully awake about it. So deciding not stopping her Mukuro watches as her sister stabs her fork into Ludenburg's cake and pulling off a piece, but shows it to her instead.
" Mmm...Big sister likes chocolate...just like me…" Junko mumbles before putting it into her mouth upon she reacts with a pleasing "hmmm" from her. Mukuro was hoping that she could put Celes's cake and take her sister to bed again but Junko already stabs her fork into the cake again and taking a bigger cake piece. But instead of eating it she taps it on Mukuro's mouth wanting to feed her.
"M-Mukuro...chocolate ...favorite…" says Junko as she's still tapping the fork with the cake piece on Mukuro's lips, so deciding to just go along with it she opens her mouth and eats it. It really was pretty good, though she was a bit messy with getting chocolate frosting on her lips that she simply licked off. She looked to see Junko now eating away at the cake, one forked piece after another all the while enjoying the late dessert. And so Mukuro decides to dig in as well since there's no turning back, both of them fully enjoying Celestia's chocolate cake even though one of them's asleep while doing so.
"Zzz...yummy chocolate...great work ...Witch " Junko mumbles out while sleep-eating. And Mukuro lets a giggle slip out, whatever her twin was still dreaming about involves her favorite stuffed bear.
"I'm only glad you're enjoying it sister even if you are still asleep" Mukuro thought
Five minutes later they stopped, mostly cause Junko puts her fork down first then stands still for a few moments, apparently deep in thought. It was easy to say Celes's cake wasn't the same, about a quarter of it was roughly eaten away by the twins, it's golden layers partly exposed and pastry artwork of thorn roses ruined. Mukuro watches her sister in curiosity, wondering what she's going to do next.
She didn't need to take long when Junko turns the opposite direction to the fridge and heads back to pull out a half gallon of orange juice she starts gulping down by the bottle, Mukuro watches with only a raised eyebrow and straight face when Junko stops after a few gulps, puts it back and closes the fridge. Before Ikusaba could get near her Junko starts heading towards the back door she entered, but not before taking a fresh tomato from the boxed pack displayed in the center of the kitchen and goes back to her sister crown it on top of Mukuro's head, nodding with approval and a smile in her sleepy trance before leaving the cafeteria-kitchen the same way she entered. The soldier rolled her eyes and sighed as she still remembered the sliced bread Junko crowned on her head back home, which greatly confused her then as it does now on why Junko (asleep) is always happy about crowning things on her head but decides to just throw away those thoughts for another time, starts her clean up by putting Celes's imported (partly eaten) chocolate cake back in the fridge at a different angle, wiped the milk spills on the floor, and cake crumbs before leaving to catch up with the sleepwalker tiptoeing from behind.
" Zzz...that was.. such…. delicious chocolate~… the witch deserves praise ...by the queen... herself" says Junko as she saunters her way around the halls again with a real crown on her head she pulls out of nowhere (she can pull out the crown while asleep?) as she saunters back upstairs to the third floor.
Now as Enoshima had just made it to the 3rd floor she starts going down the halls until she stares at a door with a pix-elated image of Celes. Mukuro catches up with her sister in an instant next to her.
"..…the demon witch...resides here..." Junko mumbles, while she stares at the Ultimate Gamblers dorm room and went to knock on her door, with her forehead. No one answered from the few bangs,
"Zzz… come out at...once witch..your queen demands... it. So she kept on banging her head on her door(still asleep through it somehow) until footsteps were heard and the grumbling of death threats for waking her this early.
"Alright I hope whichever dumb monkey fucker wakes me up at this hour is ready to- wha?"
Surprise occurs when Celes ( wearing a black doily nightgown that goes to her knees) opens the door, ready with a verbal load of death threats at the ready when she witnesses something truly baffling. Junko was at her door in her pajamas or rather lack thereof if her black tank top and dark blue mini shorts count as pajamas.
"Uhh Junko-San? As predictable as this question is, why are you bothering me at this hour?" Celes asked but she received a rather strange response, quite in character for the eccentric strawberry blonde actually.
"Mp...ah, demon witch...you've arrived.." Junko mumbles, still asleep.
What-Demon witch?! Why is she- well actually it's rather suites me quite well" thought Celes surprise at hearing the words from the fashion model.
Strangely enough the blonde fashion diva doesn't seem like herself, or at least the Junko she's familiar with. For starters, why does she have a royal crown on her head that she's never seen her wear before? She's also tilting back and forth like she's gonna fall over any second. Plus her blue eyes are barely open, like she's not even really looking at Celes normally. It didn't take long for the young gambler to realize that Junko was sleep-walking.
"Oh my, this is just delicious, I've had no idea miss Junko was a sleepwalker!" This would be a perfect chance to get her phone and start recording for future blackmail" Celes deviously thought, giggling at the sight. Not too long Mukuro was next to Junko and apologized to Celesta for her sister disturbing her so late but Celestia decided after seeing this side of Junko it was certainly no worries.
Or so she thought until Junko barges through into her dorm room leaving Celes baffled at the sudden brute force.
" The hell? Ikusaba would you mind kindly getting your sister to wake up from her sleep state before she starts wrecking my room? Celes asked though it was more of a demand hidden in her voice.
Mukuro went inside but before she does, she glanced at the irritated gambler "I promise to get Junko out before she causes more trouble than she already has (even though she's unaware of it) although I'll admit my sister has been getting rather... challenging to wake with each night she does this. But I'll do my best that's all I can promise.
And so with Celes by her side, they went inside to find Junko (still under a sleepwalking state) pulling down Celes curtains to reach the black window rod on top that was keeping them up, both girls looked in confusion to this though for Celes it was more rising anger than confusion.
" Oh, this is...brilliant. I've found (yawns).. a scepter, one worthy for...the Queen of Des~pair as myself" Junko says in her sleep as she continues her grip on pulling off Celes window rod above with her bare hands.
Celes raised an eyebrow and probably face-palmed at the sight. She's well aware that most sleepwalkers will say and do really bizarre or borderline dangerous things since while they're never fully aware of what their actions are in reality, but seeing it in person was pure lunacy right now, yet strangely hilarious on Mukuro's end. But for Celes all she could think about was how she wished she had her I-phone with her right now to video Junko at her most embarrassing (it's in her desk drawer anyways wouldn't be far) but she'd rather have Mukuro wake her sister before she starts destroying her room any further.
So Mukuro slowly approaches her sister still pulling at the window rod mistaking it's a scepter, grabs her shoulders and start shaking her.
Junko you have to wake up please, you're not really dreaming this so rise and shine! she says to the still slumbering twin, secretly aware that it'll take more than physical force alone anymore, leaving for more creative methods. As if proving her point, Junko looks her way with glazed tired eyes and responds
"Hmm...Hey Muki...I'm busy with getting the witch's treasure...aid me...later..." Junko says under her dreamy haze, slowly and very lazily. At this point Mukuro knew that her sister had become accumulated to her shaking that she won't respond with signs of waking up for real.
"CREAK! CREAK! SNAP!
NOOO! (Celes)
Mukuro's thoughts were rudely interrupted by the sounds breaking metal tearing and Celestia's shouting as she looks in mild shock to see Junko actually managed to pull off Celes's window rod from it's bolted position above, holding up the black curtains previously held above her window, the black curtains were down on the floor and her little sister was now holding the rod she pulled off in her hands now.
She may not look it since being a fashionista focuses more on outer beauty and modeling than muscle work but Junko does possess above-average physical strength, it's nowhere near close to Oogami's, and even less compared to herself but her little sister is certainly no scrawny slouch. All those daily workout sessions Mukuro helps her with the past few months since reuniting with her again weren't for nothing. especially when she literally just proved in her sleep. Anyways after her twin has pulled off the rod like pulling off a tree branch.
"Hurrah~...the witch's... scepter and all it's magic is...all mine now. (rubbing her eyes). Bow... before me witch, you're powerless before me now!"
Junko says drowsily, while pointing the broken rod at Celes face with an expression both sleepy and strangely confident, even in her dreams she controls everything with a tenacious force. Though from an outside perspective she looked more like a drunk lunatic which makes this all the more hilarious.
At this point, it was almost no surprise that Celes suggested the rather harsh method of pouring a kettle full of boiling hot water on Junko's head to wake her, though it seems she'd rather torture her in revenge for destroying her curtains but Mukuro wouldn't have it, not for her own sake and certainly not for Junko's sake.
She adamantly refuses to resort to violent methods to wake her little sister when she's sleep-walking. Even though she knew Junko would (probably?) enjoy the surprise despair of waking up with boiling water being poured on her head and body, stumble in actual confusion at where she is and what's going on, a sudden few seconds of genuine shock for Junko.
suddenly, Junko totters around them with the window rod in her hands before
(BONK!) randomly whacks Celes on her head with said rod. Celes glares angrily at Junko before wisely backing away slowly from the blonde sleepwalker now holding a potential weapon..
"...Upupupu...kneel to me... now Demon witch...you're...zzz...powerless now without...your scepter" Junko muttered under her breath, pointing the rod at the gambler again, Junko sure is an active sleepwalker
"Alright I've just about had enough of this, it stopped being funny after the violence. In an Instant, Celes started getting pissed and considered her boiling water idea when made an announcement that she and Mukuro enjoyed her chocolate treasure, saying it was a delicious 'tribute' to the "Almighty Despair Queen and her royal Bodyguard" and they enjoyed it immensely.
When Celes quickly puts two and two together on what Junko meant by her 'delicious tribute' she haphazard a guess that it connects to her imported cake she won off an underground poker game about 5 days ago. She knew stored it in the cafeteria fridge since her mini fridge in the dorms are much too small for something like a whole cake so it was the only fridge she could put it in. If Junko saying about her delicious tribute in her dreams mean...
"No it couldn't be true, after all sleepwalkers will say any random thoughts in their heads and do all kinds of unorthodox shit, even Junko is no exception. So it's not possible. Then again I could check the fourth floor camera room in the main school next morning to be sure so forget this then".
Celes rationalized this process, trying to push the idea of her hard won cake being desecrated. But she just started getting more furious at the implication.
She turns to Mukuro
"Ikusaba-san, I can't deduce if what your sister is saying either just her babbling about in her dreamland or if there's a mix of truth in her babbling and she got involved with my prize? she questioned the soldier with a hint of true anger in her tone.
Mukuro didn't really finish that question with a straight answer.
Now, her sister wasn't finished as Junko moves to Celes's bathroom to " loot more valuable treasures from the witch's lair". After flicking the bathroom lights on Junko scrounges around until she opens her glass shower door and grab a red bar of soap on a counter, along with a half empty shampoo bottle before stepping out of her shower which was only partly wet (no surprise Celes must've used it before bed but it doesn't affect Junko fortunately) and grabs a small washcloth to wrap around the soap bars and totters out to the middle of the room, back to Mukuro.
"Zzz~...Muki-chan I've successfully looted all the witch's valuables, We are...victorious now let's leave" Junko mutters as she saunters her way towards the exit with her new "scepter" (pulled off window rod) in one hand and Celes treasures or loot in her right before tottering herself out the room.
Mukuro followed right behind her as usual, not before injecting another memory erasing drug into a near unconscious Celes neck in order to make her forget the past night hopefully. She places her back in her own bed with the covers over her body.
"I was hoping to use this on you at least when you opened the door and allowed my sister inside. I'm sorry Ludenburg but I'm determined to keep my sister safe from harm, awake or sleep-walking and that includes keeping this a deep secret from everyone, even Junko herself if I can help it". Mukuro finishes with a huff before exiting to catch up with Junko.
TO BE CONTINUED...