Disclaimer: ok it's getting really tedious saying this over and over and over...I don't own evanescence or castlevania cause konami does and stuffs...and I don't own 'walking in a killer's wonderland' cause it's from that comic mah friend Cassidy reads...johnny the homicidal maniac or something like that...it's really funny u should read it
wonder if it's better to have lena be oblivious always or eventually throw a fit about something...
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"WHERE I'VE BECOME SO NUMB WITHOUT A SOUL MY SPIRIT SLEEPING SOMEWHERE COLD!"
Alucard cringed when he heard the awful voice. It was another one of Lena's friends, and this one could not sing, no way in Hell or Heaven.
"I don't suppose your feeble mind has figured out that this castle has an amazing echo effect,"
"Um...I guess not?...Do I know you?"
"No,"
"Oh. OK..." the girl shrugged and kept singing...actually, she was merely screaming the lyrics.
"You must be the butler person. I'm sorry, but that look is totally 700 years ago," another one of Lena's friends appeared in the hallway. "Hey Anne,"
"Hi," answered Anne, before returning to screaming, this time, switching between the background and main parts. "(Wake me up) Wake me up inside (I can't wake up) Wake me up inside (Save me) call my name and save me from the dark (Wake me up) bid my blood to run (I can't wake up) before I come undone (Save me) save me from the nothing I've become!"
"Have any of you seen Fuzz?" a third human entered the hallway.
"No, Brandon. YOU LET THAT THING LOOSE AGAIN?!"
"I didn't even know that it was gone until now. DID YOU STEAL FUZZ?!"
"why would I?!"
"ALL THIS TIME I CAN'T BELIEVE I COULDN'T SEE KEPT IN THE DARK BUT YOU WERE THERE IN FRONT OF ME I'VE BEEN SLEEPING A THOUSAND YEARS IT SEEMS GOT TO OPEN MY EYES TO EVERYTHING WITHOUT A THOUGHT WITHOUT A VOICE WITHOUT A SOUL DON'T LET ME DIE HERE THERE MUST BE SOMETHING MORE BRING ME TO LIFE!"
~What have I done to deserve this...~
"LOOK IT'S FUZZ!"
a giant tarantula fell from the ceiling.
Alucard sliced the spider in 2.
"HEY WHAT'D YOU DO THAT FOR?! YOU OWE ME A NEW SPIDER! AND FUZZ WAS A RARE BREED TOO!!!!!!" Brandon shook his fist, a pathetic gesture.
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"You'd think that a dhampire's castle, out of all places, would be under some sort of spell that prevents it from getting dusty," Lena coughed as she took down the last of the curtains in the main corridor. She felt like she was covered in a web of thick dust...so thick that it even weighed down on her eyelashes. "At least I'm done with this..."
"What are you doing?"
Lena almost fell off the ladder. She most definitely would have if she hadn't gotten used to Alucard appearing out of nowhere and without warning all the time.
"Spring cleaning,"
"What is that?"
"How can you live with all this dust everywhere? *cough* I can *cough* barely *cough* breathe! Oh. Spring cleaning. Right. It's when you clean the house...at the beginning of spring. And evidently, this place is in need of it. Don't you have any zombie maids or something? Guess not. Anyway, I'm just taking these down to get dusted...and besides, now the sunlight can get in and I can finally know the difference between night and day again,"
"This isn't about YOU all the time,"
"I never said it was. So, can you help me with this?"
"I-"
"Wonderful. I'll need you to dust and sweep. It's not that hard, really. Oh, and tell me where the attic is. This place DOES have an attic...right?"
"I WILL NOT-"
"Of course you will. Don't be irresponsible. Everything in this place is dusty, for the exception of my room and your coffin, which somehow always looks...pretty. So how do I get to the attic?"
"Why do you want to go there?"
"That's where most of the useless junk that I should throw out is most likely kept,"
"There is nothing there,"
"Oh, but I'm sure there is. Hey, if you don't want to tell me how to get to the attic then..."
"Don't call Death. You can not trust it,"
"He is not an 'it'. Alright, now...DEATH!!!!!!!!!"
~She is so stupid!~
"Hello, Death. Can you do me a favor and take everything out of the attic?"
"Everything?"
"Yes. Clean it out,"
"Very well, then,"
"Thank you!"
"I would advise you to be careful," said Alucard while grimacing about the sunlight that flooded in.
"Death isn't bad. I admit, that is a bit of an oxymoron. Anyway, I have to go do...something or other,"
Alucard would not dust or sweep if his miserable life depended on it. Besides, he didn't have to care. As soon as Lena and her friends could leave, Alucard would go to eternal sleep again. What did he care for a dusty castle.
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"So...I can't have anything?!"
"Not if you're going to sell it,"
"THAT'S NOT FAIR!"
"Life's not fair, Whitney. Deal with it,"
"HE IS ONE OF THEM!!!!!!!!"
"BUTLER!"
"SHUT UP! BOTH OF YOU!" Lena was getting a migraine. "Don't you think if he was one of THEM, he would be green?!!!!!! And he'd contact the Others and take you all to Their planet?!!!!!"
"I don't know..."
"So I win. He's a butler,"
"Just give up. Lena's never going to tell us who that is or why he's here. Why are we supposed to care anyway? Cause I don't,"
"Serena's right. I'm not going to tell anything since it has no relevance,"
"I swear I've seen this place in a book before..." Katie stared at the castle.
"UM...it must have been some fairy tale with illustrations based on this place," reasoned Lena.
"But what about those skeletons?"
"Uh...I don't...know...just forget about it,"
"How'd you summon the grim reaper?"
"I...uh...am not sure,"
"OK..."
"You know something,"
"NOOOOOOOOOO I don't...do people with pale skin get sunburned easily?"
"Usually,"
"Oh..." ~Adrian is no usual person.~ Lena's mind wandered away from everything and she remembered Alucard looking like he suffered under the sunlight. Lena had felt guilty since she knew he wasn't used to sunlight.
But the Sun's rays had made Alucard look almost...angelic...if that was even possible for a half vampire.
"Are you going to get rid of some of the dust around that place? It's setting off my allergies,"
"I don't think I have the chance to...the place is too big," Lena knew that Alucard would never help with spring cleaning, ever. She told him to only to make herself feel more in control of things. She had always been able to make things go the way she wanted until she moved to that castle. No matter how much she pretended, she knew she couldn't be the control freak that she was anymore. When it came down to it, it was her authority versus one of someone with inhuman powers. She could only anger Alucard to some extent.
"I REMEMBER NOW! IT WAS THAT BOOK!"
"what?"
"I remember what book I saw this castle from. 'A Guide to European Castles'," Katie nodded, sure that she was right.
"Oh..." ~thank god she doesn't know what's really the deal with this place~ "Um...I have to go clean out the attic..."
"Are you going to sell some of the antique junk up there?"
"No, Whitney,"
"Then what're you going to do with it? Just throw it away?!!!!!!!!"
"Maybe. And the rest of you. If you're so anxious to get rid of the dust, there's something you can do for me..."
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"This is way more than I expected..." Lena scanned the piles of...EVERYTHING that Death collected from the attic. "Oy...I hope my friends are doing ok with the jobs I gave them,"
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"Whoever designed this castle was drunk. 'Clean the gargoyles and statues', Lena says. 'It's not that bad,' she says," Whitney scowled. "Why does the castle corridor have to have so many different divisions. And this one I hate the most. What the hell is this thing anyway. What are you supposed to do to get to the main tower? jump up? I don't understand this...whatever happened to continuous stairs?"
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"Why would Lena buy a castle with a chapel in it if she isn't even religious?" Melissa walked up some stairs while wiping the dust from the stained glass windows. "This makes no sense. The stairs go up and then down and then up and then down...and I have to jump across endless-looking pits. It feels like I'm in a video game...how strange,"
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"ooooooooooooooooooooh library..." Katie was in heaven. "I can read these books after I'm done doing the cleaning Lena told me to do...meh read first. Clean later," Katie picked up a random book from the nearest shelf and was about to sit down to read when she saw a demonic-like creature floating towards her. Actually, the whole study was filled with odd...things.
"GAH WHAT ARE YOU?!"
"We are the minotaurs, student witches, arachne, evil butchers, and ectoplasms that haunt the study, and we are going to kill you,"
"You've gotta be kidding me. This is a hallucination, right?"
"Your death will explain itself,"
"Not funny," Katie pulled out her back-edged sword. "KILLING IS FUN!"
"HA YOU THINK YOU CAN DEFEAT US? WE ARE UNDEAD!"
"Student witch, huh? Can you even land your broomstick without crashing?"
"Sometimes!"
"Sometimes, huh? Now THAT is funny,"
"KILL HER!!!!!!!" all of them rushed at Katie.
"Oh, shit...DIE!!!!!!!" Katie pulled out a bastard sword for her other hand and slashed and stabbed spastically. An arachne pinned her down. "This is so not a good day...I'M TOO YOUNG TO DIE! NOOOOO! HEEEEEEEEELP!!!!!!!" she heard a 'thud' and saw the butcher knives of the evil butcher who was about to cut her drop to the floor inches from her head. "Wha-"
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"MAKE THE MUSIC STOP!!!!!!!" Donda crouched in a corner and covered her ears in a bad attempt to block out the inane waltz coming from every inch of the dance hall.
"Would you care for some nice, hot curry?"
"YOU'RE NOT ONE OF THEM!"
"I am a waiter skeleton,"
"...ok this is a little too creepy...AIEE!" Donda barely dodged the curry that the skeleton threw at her. "WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!" more waiters appeared with curry. "GO AWAY!" Donda knocked some over by poking them on their foreheads and started running frantically around the dance hall. "Hmm where am I again and how do I get out of here...hey can you tell me how to get out of here? I have chronic short term memory," the nearest 'person' was a zombie officer, and he wasn't of much help to anything. "Um...ok then,"
"CURRY!"
"NO! NO MORE CURRY!" Donda kept running away from all the waiters and ended up in a wine cellar. "Crap. I'm lost..."
and the waiter skeletons, killer dolls, zombie officers, and other homicidal maniacs weren't lost at all. They followed Donda to the wine cellar.
"DON'T KILL ME! I'M A HOMICIDAL MANIAC TOOOOOOOOO! SEE SEE I EVEN KNOW THE SONG!" Donda started sing 'Walking in a Killer's Wonderland'.
"Victims scream are you listening? On the floor, blood is glistening. A horrible sight, I'm happy tonight, walking in a killer's wonderland...in the basement, we can kill some los-"
"ENOUGH SINGING! GET HER!"
"LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!!!! dammit why can't I turn into a weredragon?!!!!!!!!"
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"Out of all places, the innerquarters. This is so boring...why did I agree to help clean this place. What Lena needs is a good staff of maids...speaking of maids..." Axe noticed a few maids that had appeared out of nowhere. "Maybe she did hire maids...so I guess I don't have to do anything? But...why do the maids act like they know martial arts...and why do they look like they're going to attack me..."
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"I'm not doing this. Hell no," Whitney gave up before even starting and went to find Lena and tell her someone else would have to clean the castle corridor...
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"I wonder how they're doing with the cleaning..." Lena decided to check on her friends, first going to the castle corridor to find Whitney. ~with her work ethic, there's no way she could have gotten far~ "ohmygod. WHITNEY! BATS!!!!!"
"What?"
"BATS! RUN! DUCK! DO SOMETHING!"
"EEEEE WHERE'D THAT THING COME FROM"
"SHUT UP AND RUN!" ~what did Adrian say? About his father's minions coming after the humans in this castle? it just might have been good to pay more attention on that matter...~ "...Adrian?"
Alucard did what he did best: appearing out of nowhere and killing things, 'things' being, fortunately, the bats and not Whitney or Lena.
"IF THAT HAPPENS AGAIN-"
"It will, Whitney. I know it will,"
"If you knew this would happen, why didn't you tell me?!"
"...Minor detail? Actually, I forgot Adrian's warning until now,"
Alucard cut into the pointless conversation. "How many of your friends are wandering around the castle?"
"13, including Whitney,"
"I have already found the ones in the chapel, study, and dance hall,"
"Next, Axe is in the innerquarters!"
"The demon maids..."
"Whitney, go get whoever isn't cleaning back to your part of the castle and don't let anyone wander!"
"What are you going to do?"
"I'm the one who knows where my 'helpers' are, so I have to go with Adrian,"
"ok...don't go and get yourself killed..."
"You're insane. You'll just get in my way. Not only would I have to get to your worthless friends in time and keep them from getting killed or captured for torture, I would also have to worry about protecting you! Your tagging along would slow me down," hypothesized Alucard.
"MY friends, not yours,"
"I'm not going to waste time arguing with you,"
"Then it's settled. I'm going,"
"Fine,"
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So much for cleaning the castle, and there's still all that stuff from the attic...13 minus 4 would leave 9 friends unaccounted for, and that would be around...50 different types of minions to get rid of. This will be a long day...
wonder if it's better to have lena be oblivious always or eventually throw a fit about something...
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"WHERE I'VE BECOME SO NUMB WITHOUT A SOUL MY SPIRIT SLEEPING SOMEWHERE COLD!"
Alucard cringed when he heard the awful voice. It was another one of Lena's friends, and this one could not sing, no way in Hell or Heaven.
"I don't suppose your feeble mind has figured out that this castle has an amazing echo effect,"
"Um...I guess not?...Do I know you?"
"No,"
"Oh. OK..." the girl shrugged and kept singing...actually, she was merely screaming the lyrics.
"You must be the butler person. I'm sorry, but that look is totally 700 years ago," another one of Lena's friends appeared in the hallway. "Hey Anne,"
"Hi," answered Anne, before returning to screaming, this time, switching between the background and main parts. "(Wake me up) Wake me up inside (I can't wake up) Wake me up inside (Save me) call my name and save me from the dark (Wake me up) bid my blood to run (I can't wake up) before I come undone (Save me) save me from the nothing I've become!"
"Have any of you seen Fuzz?" a third human entered the hallway.
"No, Brandon. YOU LET THAT THING LOOSE AGAIN?!"
"I didn't even know that it was gone until now. DID YOU STEAL FUZZ?!"
"why would I?!"
"ALL THIS TIME I CAN'T BELIEVE I COULDN'T SEE KEPT IN THE DARK BUT YOU WERE THERE IN FRONT OF ME I'VE BEEN SLEEPING A THOUSAND YEARS IT SEEMS GOT TO OPEN MY EYES TO EVERYTHING WITHOUT A THOUGHT WITHOUT A VOICE WITHOUT A SOUL DON'T LET ME DIE HERE THERE MUST BE SOMETHING MORE BRING ME TO LIFE!"
~What have I done to deserve this...~
"LOOK IT'S FUZZ!"
a giant tarantula fell from the ceiling.
Alucard sliced the spider in 2.
"HEY WHAT'D YOU DO THAT FOR?! YOU OWE ME A NEW SPIDER! AND FUZZ WAS A RARE BREED TOO!!!!!!" Brandon shook his fist, a pathetic gesture.
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"You'd think that a dhampire's castle, out of all places, would be under some sort of spell that prevents it from getting dusty," Lena coughed as she took down the last of the curtains in the main corridor. She felt like she was covered in a web of thick dust...so thick that it even weighed down on her eyelashes. "At least I'm done with this..."
"What are you doing?"
Lena almost fell off the ladder. She most definitely would have if she hadn't gotten used to Alucard appearing out of nowhere and without warning all the time.
"Spring cleaning,"
"What is that?"
"How can you live with all this dust everywhere? *cough* I can *cough* barely *cough* breathe! Oh. Spring cleaning. Right. It's when you clean the house...at the beginning of spring. And evidently, this place is in need of it. Don't you have any zombie maids or something? Guess not. Anyway, I'm just taking these down to get dusted...and besides, now the sunlight can get in and I can finally know the difference between night and day again,"
"This isn't about YOU all the time,"
"I never said it was. So, can you help me with this?"
"I-"
"Wonderful. I'll need you to dust and sweep. It's not that hard, really. Oh, and tell me where the attic is. This place DOES have an attic...right?"
"I WILL NOT-"
"Of course you will. Don't be irresponsible. Everything in this place is dusty, for the exception of my room and your coffin, which somehow always looks...pretty. So how do I get to the attic?"
"Why do you want to go there?"
"That's where most of the useless junk that I should throw out is most likely kept,"
"There is nothing there,"
"Oh, but I'm sure there is. Hey, if you don't want to tell me how to get to the attic then..."
"Don't call Death. You can not trust it,"
"He is not an 'it'. Alright, now...DEATH!!!!!!!!!"
~She is so stupid!~
"Hello, Death. Can you do me a favor and take everything out of the attic?"
"Everything?"
"Yes. Clean it out,"
"Very well, then,"
"Thank you!"
"I would advise you to be careful," said Alucard while grimacing about the sunlight that flooded in.
"Death isn't bad. I admit, that is a bit of an oxymoron. Anyway, I have to go do...something or other,"
Alucard would not dust or sweep if his miserable life depended on it. Besides, he didn't have to care. As soon as Lena and her friends could leave, Alucard would go to eternal sleep again. What did he care for a dusty castle.
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"So...I can't have anything?!"
"Not if you're going to sell it,"
"THAT'S NOT FAIR!"
"Life's not fair, Whitney. Deal with it,"
"HE IS ONE OF THEM!!!!!!!!"
"BUTLER!"
"SHUT UP! BOTH OF YOU!" Lena was getting a migraine. "Don't you think if he was one of THEM, he would be green?!!!!!! And he'd contact the Others and take you all to Their planet?!!!!!"
"I don't know..."
"So I win. He's a butler,"
"Just give up. Lena's never going to tell us who that is or why he's here. Why are we supposed to care anyway? Cause I don't,"
"Serena's right. I'm not going to tell anything since it has no relevance,"
"I swear I've seen this place in a book before..." Katie stared at the castle.
"UM...it must have been some fairy tale with illustrations based on this place," reasoned Lena.
"But what about those skeletons?"
"Uh...I don't...know...just forget about it,"
"How'd you summon the grim reaper?"
"I...uh...am not sure,"
"OK..."
"You know something,"
"NOOOOOOOOOO I don't...do people with pale skin get sunburned easily?"
"Usually,"
"Oh..." ~Adrian is no usual person.~ Lena's mind wandered away from everything and she remembered Alucard looking like he suffered under the sunlight. Lena had felt guilty since she knew he wasn't used to sunlight.
But the Sun's rays had made Alucard look almost...angelic...if that was even possible for a half vampire.
"Are you going to get rid of some of the dust around that place? It's setting off my allergies,"
"I don't think I have the chance to...the place is too big," Lena knew that Alucard would never help with spring cleaning, ever. She told him to only to make herself feel more in control of things. She had always been able to make things go the way she wanted until she moved to that castle. No matter how much she pretended, she knew she couldn't be the control freak that she was anymore. When it came down to it, it was her authority versus one of someone with inhuman powers. She could only anger Alucard to some extent.
"I REMEMBER NOW! IT WAS THAT BOOK!"
"what?"
"I remember what book I saw this castle from. 'A Guide to European Castles'," Katie nodded, sure that she was right.
"Oh..." ~thank god she doesn't know what's really the deal with this place~ "Um...I have to go clean out the attic..."
"Are you going to sell some of the antique junk up there?"
"No, Whitney,"
"Then what're you going to do with it? Just throw it away?!!!!!!!!"
"Maybe. And the rest of you. If you're so anxious to get rid of the dust, there's something you can do for me..."
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"This is way more than I expected..." Lena scanned the piles of...EVERYTHING that Death collected from the attic. "Oy...I hope my friends are doing ok with the jobs I gave them,"
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"Whoever designed this castle was drunk. 'Clean the gargoyles and statues', Lena says. 'It's not that bad,' she says," Whitney scowled. "Why does the castle corridor have to have so many different divisions. And this one I hate the most. What the hell is this thing anyway. What are you supposed to do to get to the main tower? jump up? I don't understand this...whatever happened to continuous stairs?"
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"Why would Lena buy a castle with a chapel in it if she isn't even religious?" Melissa walked up some stairs while wiping the dust from the stained glass windows. "This makes no sense. The stairs go up and then down and then up and then down...and I have to jump across endless-looking pits. It feels like I'm in a video game...how strange,"
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"ooooooooooooooooooooh library..." Katie was in heaven. "I can read these books after I'm done doing the cleaning Lena told me to do...meh read first. Clean later," Katie picked up a random book from the nearest shelf and was about to sit down to read when she saw a demonic-like creature floating towards her. Actually, the whole study was filled with odd...things.
"GAH WHAT ARE YOU?!"
"We are the minotaurs, student witches, arachne, evil butchers, and ectoplasms that haunt the study, and we are going to kill you,"
"You've gotta be kidding me. This is a hallucination, right?"
"Your death will explain itself,"
"Not funny," Katie pulled out her back-edged sword. "KILLING IS FUN!"
"HA YOU THINK YOU CAN DEFEAT US? WE ARE UNDEAD!"
"Student witch, huh? Can you even land your broomstick without crashing?"
"Sometimes!"
"Sometimes, huh? Now THAT is funny,"
"KILL HER!!!!!!!" all of them rushed at Katie.
"Oh, shit...DIE!!!!!!!" Katie pulled out a bastard sword for her other hand and slashed and stabbed spastically. An arachne pinned her down. "This is so not a good day...I'M TOO YOUNG TO DIE! NOOOOO! HEEEEEEEEELP!!!!!!!" she heard a 'thud' and saw the butcher knives of the evil butcher who was about to cut her drop to the floor inches from her head. "Wha-"
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"MAKE THE MUSIC STOP!!!!!!!" Donda crouched in a corner and covered her ears in a bad attempt to block out the inane waltz coming from every inch of the dance hall.
"Would you care for some nice, hot curry?"
"YOU'RE NOT ONE OF THEM!"
"I am a waiter skeleton,"
"...ok this is a little too creepy...AIEE!" Donda barely dodged the curry that the skeleton threw at her. "WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!" more waiters appeared with curry. "GO AWAY!" Donda knocked some over by poking them on their foreheads and started running frantically around the dance hall. "Hmm where am I again and how do I get out of here...hey can you tell me how to get out of here? I have chronic short term memory," the nearest 'person' was a zombie officer, and he wasn't of much help to anything. "Um...ok then,"
"CURRY!"
"NO! NO MORE CURRY!" Donda kept running away from all the waiters and ended up in a wine cellar. "Crap. I'm lost..."
and the waiter skeletons, killer dolls, zombie officers, and other homicidal maniacs weren't lost at all. They followed Donda to the wine cellar.
"DON'T KILL ME! I'M A HOMICIDAL MANIAC TOOOOOOOOO! SEE SEE I EVEN KNOW THE SONG!" Donda started sing 'Walking in a Killer's Wonderland'.
"Victims scream are you listening? On the floor, blood is glistening. A horrible sight, I'm happy tonight, walking in a killer's wonderland...in the basement, we can kill some los-"
"ENOUGH SINGING! GET HER!"
"LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!!!! dammit why can't I turn into a weredragon?!!!!!!!!"
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"Out of all places, the innerquarters. This is so boring...why did I agree to help clean this place. What Lena needs is a good staff of maids...speaking of maids..." Axe noticed a few maids that had appeared out of nowhere. "Maybe she did hire maids...so I guess I don't have to do anything? But...why do the maids act like they know martial arts...and why do they look like they're going to attack me..."
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"I'm not doing this. Hell no," Whitney gave up before even starting and went to find Lena and tell her someone else would have to clean the castle corridor...
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"I wonder how they're doing with the cleaning..." Lena decided to check on her friends, first going to the castle corridor to find Whitney. ~with her work ethic, there's no way she could have gotten far~ "ohmygod. WHITNEY! BATS!!!!!"
"What?"
"BATS! RUN! DUCK! DO SOMETHING!"
"EEEEE WHERE'D THAT THING COME FROM"
"SHUT UP AND RUN!" ~what did Adrian say? About his father's minions coming after the humans in this castle? it just might have been good to pay more attention on that matter...~ "...Adrian?"
Alucard did what he did best: appearing out of nowhere and killing things, 'things' being, fortunately, the bats and not Whitney or Lena.
"IF THAT HAPPENS AGAIN-"
"It will, Whitney. I know it will,"
"If you knew this would happen, why didn't you tell me?!"
"...Minor detail? Actually, I forgot Adrian's warning until now,"
Alucard cut into the pointless conversation. "How many of your friends are wandering around the castle?"
"13, including Whitney,"
"I have already found the ones in the chapel, study, and dance hall,"
"Next, Axe is in the innerquarters!"
"The demon maids..."
"Whitney, go get whoever isn't cleaning back to your part of the castle and don't let anyone wander!"
"What are you going to do?"
"I'm the one who knows where my 'helpers' are, so I have to go with Adrian,"
"ok...don't go and get yourself killed..."
"You're insane. You'll just get in my way. Not only would I have to get to your worthless friends in time and keep them from getting killed or captured for torture, I would also have to worry about protecting you! Your tagging along would slow me down," hypothesized Alucard.
"MY friends, not yours,"
"I'm not going to waste time arguing with you,"
"Then it's settled. I'm going,"
"Fine,"
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So much for cleaning the castle, and there's still all that stuff from the attic...13 minus 4 would leave 9 friends unaccounted for, and that would be around...50 different types of minions to get rid of. This will be a long day...