Since it's Sunday and I have nothing better to do, I'll give you another chapter. You all seemed pretty happy that I updated yesterday. So here you go
Harumi starred at herself in the mirror. The dress the oni had given her was pretty, but the color was not much to her liking. Sure, the oni liked the darkness, but purple just wasn't her color. She managed though.
The dress started with a deep purple color at her neck, turning black at the height of her waist, almost reaching the ground. To be precise, it ended at her ankles. The V-neck gave slight access to look at her breasts. Her sleeves looked like black spiderwebs. Small holes all over, the sleeve itself ended at her wrist. She figured that the dress was made to match the crown, but no she had no place to put the hairpin. The crown was in the way.
She looked back at her jacket. The pieces of the realm crystal still hidden inside. How was she supposed to carry them with her? If Lloyd found them then he would either think she stole them from the ninja or brought them to complete it. So instead, she left them in the jacket and hid the hairpin underneath her clothes. Hopefully no one would see it under the dress.
She could only hope the ninja understood. Next thing she had to do was to gain more of Lloyd's trust. If she moved to fast, he would probably get suspicious. And then what? Harumi didn't even know what to do now. Acting around people wasn't hard; she had done it for years. Playing the good, obedient little girl until her moment finally came.
She didn't have years now though. If she waited to long, who knows what will happen to Ninjago. How much time did she even have? And how was she supposed to communicate with the ninja properly? They could hear her, but she couldn't hear them. If only she had asked about that.
Harumi felt lost. Even if she completed the realm crystal, she had to get close enough to him and catch him off guard. Along with that they had to be alone, preferably outside the castle. Not too hard though, she could just ask him to join her on a walk.
The new queen nodded to herself, that was a plan. A knock sounded on the door and Harumi nearly jumped out of her skin.
"Are you almost done in there?" that was Lloyd.
Harumi let go of the breath she was holding. Adjusting her hair one last time, she walked over to the door. Her black heels left noises on the floor. When she opened the door, purple eyes looked back into hers.
Lloyds arms were crossed over his chest as he took in the new look of the girl. He nodded to himself, yes it fitted perfectly. Harumi stepped out of the room, closing the door behind her. She had noticed that there was only one large bed in the room. Big enough for two people. So she would probably sleep in one room with the other.
Her cheeks heated up at the thought. She had never really shared a bed with someone else. Sure, at the bounty she was closer to the others, but in the palace, there was so much more space.
"C'mon" Lloyd offered her an arm, which she gladly accepted. By the way he was acting she didn't know if he was really evil now. He was so kind to her all the time. By now he hadn't even done anything that proved him to be evil at all. Sure, he had burned Morro's arm, but other than that? He seemed more or less normal. Accept for his appearance.
"Where are we going?" she asked, looking up at the shining purple eyes.
"First we're going to eat something, then I'll show you around the castle" he answered.
Harumi froze a bit at that. Eating? Did that mean he would just eat a person in front of him? Surely he didn't really care about the life of a human being anymore, right? She gulped.
He led her down one of the many hallways. At one door he stopped, the oni opening the door. Inside was a large table. Probably enough for the whole ninja group. Stopping at one side of the table, he held back the chair for her. She quietly thanked him, sitting down in it. He sat down at the other end of the table.
Now she was beginning to panic. The table was empty. God damn empty! Nothing!? He did remember that humans didn't feed on blood, right? Hopefully, he did because she sure as hell wasn't going to drink blood. Not like she would survive with it. It would give her iron, if her body were even able to cope with it, but she would starve at some point. Wouldn't even take long.
But her thoughts were interrupted, when one of the oni came and placed a plate food in front of her. It was normal food. Meet and vegetables. Thank the gods. With slight hesitation she began to eat. Lloyd didn't have anything. Wasn't he going to eat? Or drink? Or whatever he called it?
"I know what you're thinking" he folded his arms on the table. "I wont eat in front of you. It gets rather …. Messy" he explained.
Harumi almost choked. Oh god, he really didn't care about humans anymore. Messy meant he was ruthless with them. She was kind of glad that he did that. But the image kind of burned itself into her mind.
She held herself back though and continued to eat. "Do you have a plan to get rid of the ninja?" she suddenly asked. If she wanted to help them, she had to get as much information as possible.
Lloyd narrowed his eyes at her and Harumi felt like a child getting caught when stealing cookies.
"Not yet" he finally said. "I'm pretty sure they want to get the last piece of the realm crystal. So they will come here sooner or later. Probably soon. They wont find it though" he smirked. Harumi touched the necklace around her neck. Finger slowly brushing over the pendant.
"I'll wait for them to come to me. They are outnumbered. But they aren't stupid. They wont just storm in here. So I'll have to be careful."
And now she had two problems. One: he was waiting for them to attack. He was waiting for them to come to their doom, which wouldn't happen. Two: she had the last piece, and if the ninja had really been listening the whole time they already knew where it was. If they came straight to her, her cover would be blown. They didn't even have to come. She had all the pieces with her.
"And if they come? They wont find the crystal-piece. What then?" maybe she was asking to much.
Lloyd shrugged. "I'll probably lock them up in the dungeon and either they join us or not."
Harumi hummed. This was all she needed to know right now. If she asked about his parents, or Wu, it would get to suspicious. Besides, she could imagine what would happen to them. His mother and father, maybe he would show a little mercy on them, but his uncle would get killed. She just knew it. He had no need for him.
After she had finished her food, Lloyd showed her around the castle. The only thing she bothered to remember, was how to get out of the castle the fastest way from every room.
By the end of the day, well if you could call it that since it was always dark outside now, Lloyd brought her back to their room and said he would come when he had eaten. Harumi shivered. It sounded horrible. The thought of him killing someone to survive. Well, she did to the same with meat, but it felt different. God, after this was over, she was going to be a vegetarian.
Her curiosity got the best of her and she began following the former blond oni. He walked down the stairs towards the dungeon. The spiral-stairs led her down to the dungeon. And the closer she got, the more screaming and sobbing she could hear. Her fingers brushed against the cold stone wall to steady herself. It was hard to walk down with those shoes.
Carefully, she looked around the corner at the end of the stairs. Many steel cages held the citizens of Ninjago-City. People were crying and begging to be let out. Desperate to survive. But she didn't see anyone dead.
She saw how Lloyd walked at the edge of every cage, looking at the humans inside. He finally picked one out and ordered the oni soldiers to get her. A young woman, maybe twenty screamed and kicked as the warrior dragged her out, throwing her on the ground in front of Lloyd. Her family was crying and screaming.
"Oh cut it out. I won't even kill her" Lloyd scoffed, rolling his eyes.
Harumi breathed in deeply, brushing back her long hair. She took the hairpin out of her dress, making sure the ninja could hear everything more clearly.
Lloyd grabbed the woman by her arm, forcing her to stand up. He ripped the clothes away from her wrist and bit into it. The woman screamed in pain. She tried to pull away but didn't find the strength to do it. Lloyd was stronger.
Even in the deep darkness of the dungeon Harumi could see the drops of blood falling onto the ground. Soon enough Lloyd pulled away, letting the woman fall back into the cell. She was on the verge of losing consciousness, lying on the ground, and breathing slowly.
Harumi decided she had seen enough. Fast but with care she went back up the stairs and back into the shared bedroom. She decided to play it down for now. Maybe he hadn't even noticed her. She went into the small bathroom that was connected to the bedroom to change.
It didn't really surprise her that there was already lying a nightgown. Of course it was black. She placed the necklace on the nightstand her side her side of the bed and turned out the light. Maybe she could fall asleep before Lloyd came back. The pillow was soft, along with the blanket, luring her to sleep.
But she had no such luck when the door opened, and the light was turned on. She was half-asleep when it happened. So in her annoyance, she pulled the blankets over her head with a light groan. She heard a light chuckle and a silent sorry.
She glared at the intruder, which of course, was only Lloyd. He quickly changed too and layed down beside her. She didn't decide yet if she liked sharing a bed.
She was about to try to sleep again when she felt something cold against her neck. An arm snaked around her shoulders pulling her closer.
"Lloyd" she groaned in annoyance, trying to roll away from him.
"C'mon we've both wanted this for a very long time" he whispered.
Harumi just turned her head to look at him. Trying to look as annoyed as she could.
This was not turning in the right direction. Yes, she loved him, but this wasn't the side she wanted him to love her back. And the suggestive look in his eyes wasn't helping. Should she really just give in? It wasn't even what she entered the castle for. But he was right, she did start to want this some time ago.
Now she was really glad she had left the hairpin with her dress.
Not going to write a Lemon just yet. Maybe sometime later. You all can guess how this goes anyways Next chapter will probably be with the ninja again
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