The next day, Brad and Nagi continued their search for the town's men's clothing store. Then they saw Schuldich, looking extremely annoyed!

"I'm annoyed." Schuldich stated. "And.. why is that?" Brad asked. "Because! IT WASN'T A BAR!" Schuldich exclaimed irritably. "... Oh?" Brad asked, trying to think of a building that would have a blue-censor-dot over it that Schuldich wouldn't like. He drew up a blank. "It was a men's clothing store! WHO PUTS A CENSOR DOT OVER A MEN'S CLOTHING STORE?!" Schuldich demanded. Nagi stole Schu's money and ran to the dot to go buy some decent clothes. "I do, no da!" Shinigami exclaimed, magically appearing in a puff of corny Disney animation.

"WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?! WHY DID YOU DO THAT?!" Schuldich demanded angrily. "Because, no da. I was feeling evil. Da." Shinigami said, and then cackled evilly. Nagi came back, with some semi-decent clothes. And SHOES. Woo. "You were responsible for this?!" He demanded. "And I.. um.. just noticed that.. um... I left the stove on. Offstage. Yes.. that's it. Oh, and DON'T travel directly West to a big castle. Bye no da!" Shinigami exclaimed and ran off screen. "... Don't travel West?" Brad asked skeptically. "What's she mean by THAT?" Schuldich wondered aloud. "Well, from an intelligent point of view.. it would mean that she's trying to use reverse psychology on us. But seeing as how she's your stereotypical melodramatic bad guy/idiot, I'm going to assume that the castle is her 'secret lair' and that we should go there, thwart her evil plans, and get her to leave us alone." Brad said. "... You over-analyze everything, Crawford." Nagi sighed. "And so.. Westward, we shall go!" Schuldich exclaimed, running off. "What's the hurry?" Brad asked. Nagi pointed behind him, so Brad turned around, and noticed a stamped of angry and vengeful peasants with pitch-forks charging at them. ".... CENSORED SCHULDICH!" Brad yelled, and so he and Nagi ran off after Schuldich.

And thus, our favorite group of psychos traveled onward. Westward... ... wherever. They were traveling. Soon, they came to your stereotypical "Creepy Castle on a Cliff." Woo! Gotta love stereotypes. "... This is so cheesy." Brad sighed. "Cheesy: something containing, resembling or suggesting cheese. You're cheesy, Crawford. You suggested cheese." Schuldich said. Brad arched an eyebrow at you. "You have too much time on your hands." He said bluntly. "Yeah well... you're cheesy." Schuldich said in retort, and the trio traveled in the general direction of the castle.

Soon, after a long walk that made Verie have to pay the blue-censor-dot overtime again, they arrived at the ridiculously huge door! "... Why, oh why, must all stereotypical bad guys have huge doors?! Don't they know that just makes it harder to shut them in case of an attack?!" Brad demanded. "Not if you never open them." Nagi said. "Shut up." Brad glared. "In most fairy tales, don't the doors magically open for you anyway?" Schuldich asked. ".. That's a good point." Brad said, poking the door, which magically opened. "Ha. I was right! I was right and Bradley was WRONG." Schuldich snickered. "I had no opinion on the subject, so I couldn't be wrong." Brad said, walking through. "CENSORED Brad, admit you're wrong!" Schuldich exclaimed, following. "Those with no opinions can never be wrong." Brad stated. "Give it up Schuldich, you won't win." Nagi said. "But.. but... I WAS RIGHT. And Brad was WRONG. W-R-O-N-G! WRONG." Schuldich pouted. "Uh-huh, sure I was, Schu." Brad said, walking around the castle. "Let's do the stereotypical thing to do, and split-up." Nagi suggested. ".. Doesn't that result in death for most supporting characters?" Schuldich asked. "Only the stupid or heroic ones." Nagi said evilly. "... What are you implying by that?!" Schuldich demanded. "Oh... nothing..." Nagi snickered. "I'm going to agree with Nagi on this one.. if we split up, we'll cover more ground." Brad stated. "NO! BRADLEY! DON'T GO INTO THE LIIIIIIIIGHT!!" Schuldich cried, attaching himself to Brad's leg. "What the censored is that supposed to mean? And GET OFF OF ME!" Brad exclaimed. "Don't listen to him, Bradley! He's trying to kill me! Don't leeeaaaaaaave meeeeeeeeee!!" Schuldich whined. "That's it. We're splitting up." Brad glared. "NOOOO!!!!!" Schuldich screamed. "Listen to me, Schuldich, you'll be ok. And I bet that there'll even be some shampoo that makes your hair reeeaally shiny around here somewhere. Because all villains have shiny hair, right?" Brad asked. ".. Her hair didn't seem all that shiny to me..." Schuldich said. "Sure it is!" Brad said, and kicked Schuldich down a flight of stairs. "Was that absolutely necessary?" Nagi asked, a little worried for Schuldich. "It was your idea to split up." Brad said. "... I never said to kick Schuldich down a flight of stairs." Nagi stated. "Hey, I've been waiting to do that for however long it is I've been stuck here! Don't take this away from me!" Brad said, with a maniacal glint in his eye. Nagi backed away slowly. "You know what, Crawford? You're right. And um.. I'm.. going.. to go.. this way.. now..." And Nagi promptly ran off in the opposite-direction, deciding that whatever he could encounter in this castle is much better than what might happen to him if Crawford goes crazy on him. Kinda like in the Shining by Stephen King. Only completely different.

Anyhow, so Brad decided to go look around. So he started walking around. And so he walked around. And stuff. And nothing happened, when suddenly he came to a door, and there was an eerie glow coming from under neath the door, and he could here maniacal laughter. So he opened the door.

"MWAHAHAHAHA!!! IT'S ALIIIIIIIIIIVE!!!" Masafumi cackled evilly. "What the censored?" Brad asked. "GASP! It's a.. um.. TRESPASSER! Yes.. that's the word..." Masafumi twitched psychotically. "... .... I'm starting to regret not listening to that stereotypical villain..." Brad blinked. Then, he noticed a person lying on an operating table. And who was that person? None of than TOTO. Brad twitched. "You dare to disrupt my experiment? I'll turn you into goo! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" Masafumi exclaimed. "You know, I was just leaving..." Brad sweatdropped, as a bottle crashed into the door behind him, dissolving a good portion of the door, not to mention a large hole in the floor. "Censored." Brad sweatdropped, now trapped in the lab with the psychotic evil crazy person. "Toto! Attaaaack!" Masafumi cackled, and Toto jumped up and attempted to maul Brad with her yellow umbrella. And thus, a really cheesy fight-scene commenced. Which mostly had Brad dodging, but that's how cheesy fight-scenes work. Then, Verie appeared! "Bradley! I forgot to give you your next weapon!" She exclaimed. Brad threw a random bottle at Toto, which distracted her long enough for him to glare at Verie. "If you give me another peice of toast, I'll kill you." He said. "Nope! It's not toast! It's a glowstick!" Verie exclaimed happily. ".. Peachy." Brad said, dodging the yellow umbrella of DOOM. Verie magically produced a three-foot-long glowstick out of nowhere, and handed it to Brad. Brad twitched, and started "sword fighting" with Toto. It looked really ridiculous, but hey, what doesn't?

Anyhow, so there was this ridiculously long fight scene, during which a lot of bottles broke, many things dissolved (including a large portion of the floor), Masafumi cackled like a maniac, Verie ate popcorn, and Brad and Toto fought. With a glowstick and an umbrella. Finally, Brad got tired of fighting, and kicking Masafumi through a hole in the floor, because they were on the second story. Toto stopped trying to attack him, and promptly followed through a different hole. "Well, that was easy." Brad said, glancing through a hole in the floor. Schuldich stomped into the room. "OK, CRAWFORD. IT'S ONE THING TO PUSH ME DOWN A FLIGHT OF STAIRS, BUT IT'S ENTIRELY NOT OK TO DROP A TAKATORI ON ME." Schuldich death glared. "... In due fairness, I kicked you, not pushed you." Brad sweatdropped. "GAAAAAAAH!!" Schuldich lunged at Brad, who promptly knocked him out with the glowstick. "This has to be the most useful weapon thus far." Brad commented dryly. Nagi appeared in the door way. "That was cruel, Crawford." He glared. "What? He was attacking me!" Brad exclaimed defensively. "Not that, you dropped HER on me." Nagi pointed to his leg, which Toto was currently latched to. "... Oh..." Brad sweatdropped again, so he beat Toto with the glowstick until she too was knocked out. "There." He said. "Thankyou, but I'm still mad for dropping her on me." Nagi glared again. Brad decided to glare at Verie. "What? What'd I do???" Verie exclaimed. "THERE AREN'T ANY PRINCES IN 'FRANKENSTEIN'!!!!!!!" Brad yelled. "Well, you're not a prince, so it doesn't matter, right?" Verie sweatdropped. Brad lunged at her with the glowstick, so Verie promptly escaped to the off stage area.

"You knocked out Schuldich..." Nagi observed. "... Yes, as I said, he was ATTACKING me." Brad glared. "Yes well, since we'd better get out of here before Masafumi or Toto wake up.. you'll have to carry him." Nagi smirked. "No." Brad glared. "Yep, you've gotta carry him." Nagi snickered. "I refuse to do such a thing!" Brad exclaimed. "But you haave tooo..." Nagi taunted, as Masafumi started to regain consciousness. Brad and Nagi observed this fact through a hole in the floor, sweatdropped, grabbed Schuldich and promptly ran as far away from the castle as possible.

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Verie: o.O; not what I had originally intended.. but ok. o.o; Brad's right, there isn't a prince in Frankenstein. But I've never seen/read Frankenstein anyway, so I guess it doesn't matter, ne? Hmm.. anyhow, here's another chapter! Bwee! ^_^;

Shinigami/Nagi: see? I shamelessly used you as a plot device. Be happy. And um.. for contributing to the "Make this fic longer" fund you get your Dragonhalf DVD back on Tuesday. Because it's a three day weekend. Bwee. Be happy ^_~

Oh, and for the general populous: I order the Weiss filmbook today! ^_^ bwee! I ish happy. Too bad I have to wait until next week to receive confirmation of my order.. and then five days for it to come. ;_;' that takes all the fun out of it >.; Anyone know a good place to buy Doujinshi? Or other Weiss artbooks? ... Or Weiss stuff in general? o.O; anyhow.. yes. Next chapter will be up... eventually. Probably sometime tomorrow, if not sooner. No promises, though.