It didn't take long for everyone meet up outside the tavern, prepared for the entrance. There was no doubt in their mind there must be some sort of hidden entrance inside, that was for sure, and the bartender was doing his best to avoid anyone finding out about it. If they could they'd go right in and arrest him but they didn't have that option with a hostage inside.
One false move and the criminal and hostage make a run for it, and they didn't have the time to risk that, if they knew they were onto them who knows if bernard would even make it out unharmed next time. They needed to find him here and now and avoid any future kidnappings from this point forward, they were desperate for a wand and they didn't need them getting anymore desperate then before.
Star was already getting toffee and ludo flashbacks from the mere mention of wanting to get a wand from the princess of mewni.
"So...how we sneaking?", star seemed to be hoping marco or katrina had a plan already planned out what to do by now but they barely had much on the building, though katrina was already looking into it with her own updated spy gear. Trying to get a layout of the building, though knowing the situation they were under it was likely it could be magically expanded and not how it looks.
Which Tom of course knew well enough about.
But they couldn't just stroll in, they got kicked out after all.
And what if the guy was still in there? What then? Were they just supposed to erase their memory or something? Cause that wouldn't help them much if they wanted to question him later.
They were all debating what the next course of action should be as katrina finished getting all the stuff she needed, bringing up a map of the establishment. "Ok, so...maybe we can just sneak through the windows? I mean that doesn't mean he won't be in there, he still could be, but it does mean a good entrance we could start off with, as long as they aren't bugged...maybe.".
"Bugged?".
"He's working with a magic user marco, they'd probably bug the windows for traps in case someone broke in, unless...they're really that dumb.". Star actually seemed to be considering if the masked being was just really stupid and they were just lucky to have gotten this far but marco quickly shook her out of it. "Alright look, let's just take every precaution and get in there before anything bad happens...star...how bout at least checking for traps?"
Star, who tended to like bursting into places at most times they did missions, nodded, pulling herself together as she went around the building. Star was more about the grand entrances and breaking into places, and if they weren't there she would've already have practically blew the place up in her attempts to save the day. In fact maybe the thief was full out expecting her to break in as per usual.
It was her signature move.
Tom was already setting up a barrier around the building, just in case they tried to get out that way, a fire dome riding above them though marco shook their head. "I'm not exactly sure that's..."subtle" tom, not much of a sneak in if there's a giant fire dome outside of the place". But Tom tapped them playfully on the nose, "Oh c'mon marco, if what they said is true, they're underground, not in the bar itself...besides...if they do see it, they can't leave anyway.".
Well that wasn't entirely true but it did remove some options.
Marco sighed before going back to their next plan.
"Ok, so...I'd say our best course of action...is-".
"Break in?", Janna said, unlocking the door , lock pick in hand. She had a smug look on her face as marco and tom looked at her with both annoyance and a less then surprised demeanor. Of course janna lock picked their way in without really talking to the others, they really should've kept a better eye on her. Star had finally come around the corner and she squealed in delight at seeing janna finish her work.
And seeing the establishment empty, they headed inside, before the others could protest further.
Katrina smiled to herself before pushing the other royals inside, the door thankfully hadn't been bugged at all, leaving them easy entrance. The place was empty and dark now outside of whatever light was coming from the windows, and the bartender was not there, though there was no proof he had gone home or was with the masked foe. They'd have the split up and search the place for anything strange.
They had no choice at this point.
Hidden doors and secret entrances in general were something they tended to come by a lot.
As they checked under tables and the bar itself there didn't seem to be much on first glance. Just a lot of wood, glass bottles and more, as it hadn't been cleaned much in the time they were kicked to the time they broke in. The place mostly just seemed like a normal bar, but katrina was already showing them from her own research the place had a cellar somewhere they kept stock.
They needed to find the entrance.
Marco was knocking on the floor and star was resisting just blowing up the floor.
It was several minutes before they hit jackpot, through janna once again. Janna just kicked the wall next to the pig goat head and the doorway opened up, showing some stairs. Marco didn't seem amused, and janna shrugged, "Hey, it's where i would put it...now we going or-?". The rest of the team following her, being careful about not making too much noise as they headed down.
No one was there, it was just...a cellar, full of bottles to b ring up every day for the customers.
But no bernard.
"Spread out, and be careful.", the group looked around, there was had to be something else in here. If there wasn't they went through all this for nothing, trying not to break anything as they passed through the dusty room. The place didn't seem rather well cleaned but then again that seemed to match the rest of the town, maybe these monsters just preferred dust.
"I mean, it's a decent place to hide...", tom mumbled under his breath, "Wouldn't have been the first place I thought of to hide...especially since a bar can be pretty crowded.". Though maybe that worked to her's benefit, no one could hear what they were doing down there if all they could hear was loud and rough customers hanging out above.
"Careful, someone might still be here...".
Marco was looking to janna, expecting her to once again, figure out the entrance, but she seemed more interested in all the dusty bottles of mewni wine and beer more then anything as instead, Star seemed to make a breakthrough. And by breakthrough they mean she accidentally fell through the floor down a hole that had been covered by some floorboards and a rug.
The other panicking for her safety as she fell, hearing noises that might give them away immediately.
"STAR!?".
They all froze in fear till they heard the faint sound of an "I'm ok", from the bottom of the hole. All crowding around it as star brushed herself off down there, "C'mon...let's go...quickly...". she ushered them all down as they followed her orders, entering the dark and dirty entrance, covering their tracks as best they could in case someone came in from the hidden door.
The place was dark, but it didn't seem to be too long either, not to mention the wrappers in it were enough indication someone had been there before.
Perhaps a missing young human boy was one of them?
Star felt a door in front of her quickly enough, feeling around for a handle, shushing the others ironically enough before opening the whole thing. A bright light hitting the room and practically blinding everyone inside of it, though the room itself was only lit by lamps and fire. Old tapestries lined the walls, masks among them, bottles and crystals and anything you could think of was there as well.
They had to have had the place now.
Right?
No one seemed to be home for now, leaving the place empty for the group to look around, all of them spreading out the scene, careful not to trigger any possible traps they may of been wandering into. The place was creepy alright, eclipsa could probably live in a place like this if she really wanted to, though maybe she'd keep it a little more clean then whoever this was.
If bernard was here, they better find him.
Marco was already checking the walls for any other hidden doors, because at this point, there probably was another one.
Tom and Star looking for evidence towards the identity of said masked person, there had to be something right?
Right.
Regardless, at least the person hadn't been here to ambush them and take them out, thank goodness.
Janna actually seemed...impressed with the place? Marco was worried they'd had to keep her from stealing something as katrina looked for fingerprints.
Tom of course was dead on focused on finding the boy, listening out for any noises or signs of life. He was actually worrying that maybe, just maybe, they knew they were coming and took bernard away. But they hadn't been gone too long, were they really not careful enough? Did his shield ruin everything? He was hoping not, because he couldn't face landon without his friend.
He didn't even wanna think about that.
Then he heard a grumbled, from somewhere else, not in the room and he got closer to the far side of the wall, near a bookshelf of potions.
"Star? Marco? I think...he's here...".
They quickly headed over, katrina keeping lookout.
"Bernard? You heard him?".
"I head...something, I hope it's him", but that was enough for the rest of them to start feeling up the wall for an entrance. If bernard was here that was enough for them, but they had to get him out soon, before the person who kidnapped him returned to take them out. Hopefully the human had eaten and wasn't hurt, though there was a chance he could be sick too.
Who knows what you could get staying in this filthy place.
Star was already about ready to blow a hole in the wall before marco stopped her, "Uh...no...let's not injure the captive, ok?". Marco pressed their ears against the wall more, not hearing noises, "Bernard? Can you hear me?". They said it rather gently, unsure if anyone was listening from elsewhere, when no response seemed to happen, marco said it a little louder.
"B-bernard?!".
This time they head a muffled through the wall.
"Mmmm?"
"Bernard? Is that you? It's...Marco, Landon's mom? We're hear to take you home.".
Again, nothing cud really be made out from Bernard's end, but he seemed to be responding to them and what they were saying..
"Can I blast through the wall now?", Star asked, making puppy dog eyes to her friends, her hands glowing and already ready for the shot.
"No", came from everyone except for janna, as expected.
They weren't risking crushing the boy with rubble or something.
Bernard actually might've had an idea of how they could reach him but that didn't mean much if they couldn't even hear him at all from where they were. Though as they leaned in they could hear the boy...coughing? He was more muffled, but he did seemed to sound like he was coughing on the other side. This sparked some serious panic in the adults.
Was he sick?
"Hold on Bernard we're coming for you!", marco told them back through the wall as they looked for the entrance to whatever room was holding him. There was no entrance where the sound was coming from, perhaps there was another room entirely on the other side rather then just a cell? Though before they could resort to star's need to blow stuff up tom had stumbled upon a stone in the wall that did indeed, move.
"It's a passcode...", he said, touching another moving stone, "If we find the right sequence we can probably get in".
"Just like for the archives!", Star said in excitement, "If we can figure out the code then we'll have them". They seemed so excited, but guessing a code with so many combos would take a LONG time, and who knows how long they had until they were caught, star was quick to already get started but marco immediately went to look for any written code somewhere.
They didn't have the hours for this.
"A code, of course It had to be a code.".
"Don't worry marco, i got this!".
Star started rapidly pressing buttons in almost any order ever, honestly she probably wasn't remembering what combos she had already done at this point, she was probably just hoping one of these was accurate enough. But the rest of the group was getting impatient and nervous, tom's ears twitching, expecting to be ambushed from behind. Then Star paused for a moment from her pressing, thinking for a moment before standing up and pressing them in another order again.
The same order that reached the archives.
And quick enough, the door opened, Star smiling at her own work.
"Man, someone just preferred not to change the password, makes it easy to remember.".
The queen was quick to head inside, the others following them, finding themselves inside another room. There was more weapons, discarded clothes, the place smelled damp and moldy, no one seemed to use this place super often by the looks of it. But it looked familiar, that was for sure, and sure enough, there was bernard, chained and coughing in his own cell, his legs and hands cuffed.
His coughing quickly got marco's attention, who ran right over to him, their parental instincts kicking in at seeing the human cough harder and louder, as if they might be sick.
"Bernard?! Bernard! Hey, it's ok...we'll get you out of here and find you a doctor, we'll-".
But he kept up his coughing and shook his head, coughing harder before something seemed to pop from his mouth, a clanging sound as the item hit the floor. Marco was left in complete disbelief, what was happening?
The boy breathed and sputtered out a little more, marco noticing what he spit out in shock.
A key, two in fact.
Bernard had swallowed and spit back up two metal keys.
Bernard's voice was a little rough, but there was a smile on his face he couldn't deny, "I-I finally got it...oh I wish landon could've seen that...". The adults were left in shock as bernard scooted forward enough for them to take the spit covered keys . Tom took them, not nearly as grossed out as the others , "How did you? You...swallowed this? And spit it out?".
"I...might've head butted my captor and ate the keys before they could get them back after they locked me up...", He wiggled his chains, "I kept trying to lockpick my way out of the cage...I think they got tired of it...". He seemed actually almost amused despite being locked in here for so long, and he didn't seem to be injured, though he was quite dirty.
His bounds were quickly unlocked as janna lockpicked the cell door.
"Thank god you came for me...but...how...?", he seemed rather surprised, not that people would save him but the likelyhood they would find him here was still pretty small surprising all things considered.
"Landon...landon helped us find you, we never would've found you so easily if it weren't for landon...".
"Landon?", he paused for a moment at that, "Is he ok? I...they took my phone...I-". The cell door was unlocked and the boy stumbled out, his feet seemed to have fallen asleep for a bit after not being able to really move them for so long. Tom helped him stand up so he could get himself in order as katrina reported back to her teammates on the boy's safety.
"First thing's first, we need to get you out of here...", the Queen of demons quickly took Bernard's other side, ushering the others to leave this room, "Tom, see if you can portal us out of-". Marco then stopped, forcing the others to stop just as much, what was once the entrance to the room in the wall, was now closed. "S-star...ddi you close the door behind us when we went in?", the blonde queen paused, "Uh...nope...".
She was quickly to head over to press the code but the stone wall was solid, nothing moved.
"What the-".
"But that's not possible, they would've needed a way out!".
"Try portalling!".
Tom quickly attempted to portal with those in hand, but his flames quickly dwindled, katrina checking the walls carefully, "Magic blocker...this really was a trap. We can't portal out of here...". The others looked nervous, now what? Though katrina was already starting to throw stuff against the wall, "We must break it through force if we are to get out, c'mon!".
Marco quickly pulled out his regular old human phone, "I'm texting the boys...katrina, call for backup if you can, we can't stay here...we need out...soon.".
Judas was startled by his phone buzzing, quickly pulling out his compact to see who was trying to speak to him. The others were laying about in the office, eating the snacks that nora and angel had brought in and talking amongst each other, however the text had quickly silenced them all. Whoever was texting them at this point in time had a good chance of being important.
And it was.
"Mom and the others...they're trapped!".
"Did they find him?", landon almost shot out of his seat entirely asking that, almost terrified to know the answer.
"He's fine but...they can't get out, it's...a magic blocking room!".
The rest of the room was sending each other glances, nervous ones? Now what were they supposed to do? Stay? Their families were in danger right now and might need serious help on their end? Should they send guards? Go themselves? Were they going to be fine on their own? Everyone was on the verge of panicking right now and weren't sure what they could do.
"Let's save them!", came a sudden burst from landon, "They have bernard! Let's go and get them out, now! The guards will take forever to get there in time!". Everyone was still frozen stiff, knowing well what happened the last time they went out to help and got caught. But Landon was fierce, more fierce then usual, "C'mon! It's our parents out there! And we're just going to sit around!?".
"Well-".
"Well what?! If we don't get there right now they could...they might be...", he was starting to cry, and his cheekmarks were coming back despite the fact he wasn't holding the wand. He was getting really emotional over this, but were his emotions worth getting behind if he wasn't thinking right? Their parents wanted them to stay out of this, they told them not to get involved for their own safety.
But if they needed help-
"Landon, we can't all go-".
"Then we don't all go! Some of us could go and...just make sure they get back safe...we can send some guards or eclipsa too, we don't have to go alone..."., he sounded desperate and it was becoming harder and harder to deny him despite everything. Judas flinched, but stepped forward, "Then i'll go...angel? You can go find eclipsa, in case we need her, sky...find kelly, inform your guards...".
"Jude, you probably should stay here...I mean, your arm, and well...", the boyu flinched, sunny did make him promise to stay entirely out out of this, and he wasn't in the best state to be going out there is his arm was anything to judge. Jude actually seemed to be considering what she was saying, was he really the best to be going out there? Then Landon stepped forward, "I'm going, let me have the wand for protection...me and...well...celeste...we could go...".
"You? But you barely know how to use that thing!".
"He's my best friend! I should go and help him!", the demon was insistent, "Doesn't matter how inexperienced I am! He needs me, I need him...you'd do the same for sky, why can't i do the same for him?!". He seemed to have a point there though judas still bit his lips, "Landon it's...I've fought before, with sky, you don't really fight much, much less with a wand".
"Judas, none of us are that great of fighters...how am I any worse then the rest of you?! I know it was wrong of me to do all that stupid stuff I did on my own, but this is different, This is a personal matter...besides...just in case...someone should go with...a wand...and...none of the girls should go...". Sky seemed highly reluctant about the idea of possibly giving up her wand but he had a point, the girls going might but be worse, if someone were to bring a wand, it should go to someone else.
"Maybe we should vote on it?", nora suggested, "On if landon should go or not, we have to be quick though, we don't have as much time to stick around".
That seemed like something they could agree on, they didn't exactly have the time to debate about this all night.
"Ok, fine, all for letting landon on the rescue team with eclipsa and the guards?", judas said, hands in his pockets.
Angel raised his hand, and of course so did landon, but only them, which actually seemed to leave the demon a little baffled.
Celeste, judas, sky, and nora however, did not, leaving that final. Judas didn't want his brother out there like this, sky was already scared of losing the wand...plus she knew how mad landon was, nora simply agreed with judas and celeste...who landon had probably expected to back him up...still refused to let him do anything stupid or dangerous.
Angry and frustrated, landon left the room in a hurry, the doors shutting behind him.
Celeste, a bit moody, headed out right away as well, no surprise to anyone of course but she'd be back, mostly because she had to be if they were goin through with this.
"We should follow him...", judas said quickly, "Y'know? Just in case?", he turned to nora, "Nora? since I might, well...if I have to...y'know.. to go, how about you keep an eye on him...let me know if he's ok, ok?". Nora nodded before heading out, the demon looking at the spider prince who had agreed with landon. "Angel? I'm not gonna tell you you're wrong it's just...why do you trust my brother on this?", the spider twiddling his thumbs.
"It's just well...y'know...he wants to save those he cares about...I would've wanted that...".
"But with a wand? It's too dangerous".
"Maybe but...who else is any better to go?".
Landon stormed off, huffing and steaming before bumping into someone he barely saw through his frustration. He had been so angry at what just happened he wasn't even paying attention anymore, frustrated at his lack of ability to help someone he cared about. But thankfully whoever he ran into hadn't been hurt by him, though landon nearly stumbled back himself.
"Landon?".
He stepped back to see Eclipsa in front of him, finally here and by the looks of her clothing, back from...hanging out in the woods? Sh looked caked in dirt and leaves, she even seemed a little damp and muddy. She looked shocked to see landon there, granted, he should be more shocked, she didn't normally hang out down in the underworld like this. In fact was this were she was a good portion of the day or did she just arrive here?
"Eclipsa? Wha-", he looked baffled, all this stuff was going on and eclipsa was just hanging out down here?!.
She looked down at herself and her clothing, laughing, "Sorry, date with globgor...came down here to see your parents...is...everything alright?".
No, everything was super duper NOT alright, in fact it was the furthest from alright as it possibly could right about now but what had he expected? Even eclipsa could see it in his face that something was really bothering him, and whatever it was was not good. Her smile was wiped off her face entirely, her concern entirely on the young demon in front of her, she had a motherly demeanor to her that made landon a little more at ease.
"Bernard...they went to save him and...I can go and save them!", landon spat out, not that eclipsa had any idea of what any of that was supposed to mean in the slightest. "Save who? Landon...is there something bad happening? Are you alright?". Landon's cheeks puffed out a little more, and much to his frustration, his cheekmarks began glowing.
Eclipsa stepped back in surprise.
"L-landon? Are those-?".
Gears seemed to be turning in her head," Where are your parents? Do they know about this?". The demon wiped at his face, "Bernard was taken, and my parents went after him and they found him and now they're stuck and it's all my fault because they only took bernard because of me and judas won't let me go help them and-". Landon was talking so fast it was nearly hard to understand what he was saying.
But it was enough.
"They're in danger? Do you know where they are? Is star with them?".
"Janna and Star are both with them, and katrina...musty mountains i think...".
"I have to call globgor...now...you, come with me...ok?", she ushered landon to follow her as she pulls out her compact, "Still not completely sure how these things work, but i think i got it...". Landon didn't even know why he was bothering following her, he might as well just go into his room and be left alone for awhile. But part of him didn't want to be alone right now, and he didn't dare cross eclipsa.
Queen of darkness and all that.
"Globgor dear? Musty mountains, now, we have an emergency, meet us there...the lucitors and butterflies are in danger".
'We?", landon asked, as eclipsa put away her compact, "Well, for now i can't leave you alone till I find your parents, especially not like this, but you stay right behind me and globgor, you understand right?". He nodded before she could change her mind, a portal before them as she took him right inside. Startling some mole men as they stumbled out into the outdoors, landon entirely off guard by the sudden change in scenery.
So much for staying at home and staying out of this mess.
"Ok, let's see where they might of-", her voice drawled quickly as she noticed the obvious giant fire dome over what seemed to be a...bar? Eclipsa almost seemed to chuckle to herself and she quickly transformed and flew landon towards the spot, gripping him tightly.
Well that was a sign if anything as to where they probably were, guards were even starting to surround it, unable to get through the barrier yet. That was probably why his mother wanted eclipsa there in the first place, they could send as many guards as they wanted, but only a magic user could get them through a barrier set up by his father, otherwise they'd burn themselves trying to get through.
So much for his parents being subtle, the whole town was surrounding this thing.
They'd be lucky if the masked person didn't already bail after seeing this.
Eclipsa dropped him, turning back to normal and brushing herself off, "Well, alright, globgor should be here in about-".
"CLIPS!", globgor, giant as ever, pounced in before shifting to a smaller size, tired and sweaty, clearly panicked after he heard what was going on. "They're inside? Of that thing?!", he motioned to the fire dome. He already knew the answer, but he still wasn't ready to hear it, usually he never had to be involved in a mission of theirs, they were usually fine on their own, but they had been completely off guard on this one.
They needed to find them fast.
Then globgor noticed the small demon alongside his wife, looking at her quizzically, "Sorry dear, but i think it's best we keep him close till his parents are safe...don't worry, I'll keep an eye on him...now we better get in there, fast". Globgor in seconds headed over, eclipsa right behind him, brushing past the guards, spies and worried townsfolk to get to the dome.
Globgor already telling the citizens to back off and get out of the way so eclipsa could let the help through, her hands glowing as an opening appeared in the dome, "Go go go...", the knights defending them from the outside as she entered with landon and her husband from the inside. Not that it took long for her to find the hidden door after, "I remember this place as an old hideout for monsters in the war...it's been so long hasn't it?".
"Can't believe it's turned into something gross now...", globgor growled. There seemed to be something so angering to him that a place he recounted being used to help was being used to hurt, and he was quick to lead the way into the cellar, the hole quite easy to find as he made his way in with the others behind him. Landon was with two rather powerful fights and yet he still felt...scared.
Even as eclipsa put him in the middle so he was safer between both of them.
What if they got trapped too?
God he hoped not, they were doomed if that happened.
Globgor didn't even bother to open the next door, breaking it off it's hinges as they entered. The room was still empty, but noises could be heard from the wall on the other side, globgor already trying to speak through the wall to the victims trapped behind it. Eclipsa looked utterly fascinated with what she was seeing, looking over all the items strewn about curiously.
"They're not here...I wonder where they actually are then...?", she questioned, which was a very good question. If they weren't here watching their victim, where exactly had they gone? Wasn't this to get a wand? Why wouldn't they be here to make sure they got their hands on it? Landon seemed to be wondering this as he leaned his head against the wall, hoping to hear bernard's voice.
Then he froze, shuddering.
"Oh no...".
Eclipsa turned, and so did globgor.
"Landon? What's wrong?".
"Look um...this might be well...an assumption and everything but...my parents are here, the butterflies are here, a lot of guards are here, our spies are here, my friends and siblings almost came here...even my grandpa is out...you don't think...maybe...this was, that maybe she...lured us here...and that maybe she might be taking this chance to...".
Eclipsa's eyes widened, "Oh no...".
Judas rubbed at his arm as he walked down the hallway, sky following behind him, "Look, jude...maybe you should stay...no offense but you might need to go back on this one. Your arm isn't looking super well and and maybe it's better you don't put yourself or anyone else at risk for now...". Judas was clearly considering it, especially since otherwise he'd be breaking a promise to sunny.
But his parents-
What if he sat here and did nothing and they got hurt and-
He was doing it again, wasn't he?
"I just don't know who to send if not me...you girls could be hurt since you all have wands and sunny isn't here and ugh...i'm so distressed, I dunno, maybe eclipsa and the others can handle it fine, I'm just...worried..." .He could feel sky trying to comfort him, patting his back as they headed down the hall, "I hope nora has calmed landon down little...i'm worried he's gonna...y'know?".
"Yeah, I get that...".
"We don't have much time, we need to make a choice soon, hopefully angel will find eclipsa and the commission might help out , maybe, but we have guards heading up there so...god...what a mess...". His arm was shaking a little more, making sky more and more anxious, "Judas, like...how about I help work on stuff, maybe you should just...get more sleep...".
"I can't sleep with my family like this...I want to know they're safe, your moms are out there too!".
Yeah, that hit sky a lot, she didn't want to think about her moms never coming back home. The pressure of her being queen was bad enough without losing her mom, forcing her to be in charge. But that also didn't mean she wanted her best friend putting himself in more danger then ever, she didn't need her mom gone AND her best friend gone at the same time!
But their talk ended up cut short soon enough, the sound of screaming making jude's ears flinch and sticking sky in place.
"Was that-?".
"NORA!?".
Almost like lighting the two headed towards the sound, staff and guards running about, as an alarm seemed to have been tripped somewhere. Demon guards already on the move towards the threat that seemed to have started this mess. Nora was leaning against a wall in fear, but she seemed unharmed, just terrified. Tugging on her hair as her friends approached.
Judas looked relived, but still utterly terrified.
"N-nora? What's happening?!".
"She's here! I saw her!", she screamed in fright," You have to go now! Hide your wand!".
They were both frozen in fear, realizing how vulnerable they were when so much of their main protection was trapped somewhere else. Not to mention their grandfather and sunny and luna and...oh boy...this was bad. Where were they to go? Where were they supposed to hide? could they ever come back home ever again after this? There was genuine fear between the two friends.
"We need to go...now.".
"Go where?!".
"Anywhere out of this castle would be a good start...c'mon! Start texting the others, we need to make sure they're all safe...", a roar could be heard throughout the halls, no doubt the roar of the former queen of the underworld, already out on a rampage to attack the current threat and protect her family. The kids on the move to find somewhere away from wherever the danger was.
"Seems instead of going to the danger...the danger came to us...", judas grunted under his breath, "I hope landon's safe...I don't know where he is and he might try and do something stupid if he's not careful...especially with the state he's in.". Nora hugged judas closer as they moved through the crowd, more demon guards heading around to take out the threat.
And judging from the near earthquake, Lucy was out too, bounding around through the halls of the castle. No one could make quite the ruckus like she could, they could even hear her barking in the hallways from all three of her heads.
It was utter chaos.
Some of the guards noticed the prince in front of them, trying to redirect them away though the chaos was making it hard to really focus on them too much. God they really hoped the others were ok, even celeste wandered off somewhere to sulk during all this, and if the enemy really wanted a wand...then celeste was in danger too. Only making them worry more.
"Can't we just teleport?", sky asked.
"We could, but what if we run into landon, or angel, or celeste pass by? We can't leave them!".
He had a point, teleporting sure wouldn't mean their friends come with unless they find them first.
"Ok but let's just...be careful...ok? Not get hurt?", who knew if they might stumble upon a threat as soon as they turned the corner, they weren't prepared for a full on fight here. One of them couldn't do magic, one of them was injured, and one of them definitely could not fight a powerful magic user all on their own. If they ran into them, they were doomed and they knew it.
Unless sky went as deadly as she was when angel had been attacked, the look alone could've killed someone.
"We never should've sent angel or celeste or landon out on their own...", judas mumbled, guilt welting up inside them, "They could get hurt and it could all be entirely my fault...I should've predicated this...I should've seen this coming". Sky patted him on the back, looking around another corner, "Dude, no one could have expected that...even your parents didn't know...it's not your fault...not everything is your fault...".
Sky tugged on his arm, moving them to the next corridor, "You need to accept that not everything is your fault...ok? Bad things happen, and you don't always cause them to happen...they just happen...and right now you need to help make sure we all make it out ok...right?". She needed to pull him together, especially if they wanted to get out of here in a single piece.
Judas trying to pull himself together as he nodded, "Right, you're right...we better keep moving and find the others...they might be hurt out there and...we just need to make sue they're alright".
He needed to focus right now, focus on finding all of them right away.
If he was landon, celeste, or angel, where would he be right now?
Anywhere.
They could be anywhere.
They were able to make their way to the staff break room, knowing well enough there was an exit there if anything, sky trying to text the others to get to that exact location or just to any exit if they could. No replies from any of them, which wasn't exactly very reassuring for the group, though hopefully they made it out of here ok. Some of the regular staff already hidden in there and trying to flee.
"My prince!", one of them called out, "The other kingdoms are coming to help, come, you must leave before-".
"Wait, landon, prince arachford and uh...Celeste who stays in one of our guest rooms, they're around here somewhere, please, we need to make sure they're all ok. They split off from us and-", though one of the butlers spoke up, raising his hand, "Young master, your brother was spotted earlier with Eclipsa Buttterfly, It seems they left the castle a little but before this attack...".
"Landon's with eclipsa?".
"Indeed sir.".
But if his brother was with eclipsa...then there was a good chance.
Judas shook his head out of focus, "Well, if he's safe...good...but there's two others...has anyone seen a spider monster or a grumpy mewman girl running around since the attack started? We need to find them and-". one of the demon maids who was ushering others out the door snorted, "That prince was last seen near the offices, i was sent there to clean and he ducked inside when everything started shaking.".
"He must've come back to meet up with us when it got too dangerous to look for eclipsa...", sky whispered, "And what about celeste? Have any of you spotted her? She kinda walked out on us and we have no idea where she might've went".
But no one seemed to have an answer for any of them.
Where was she?
They all exchanged nervous looks.
"I'll get angel...".
Judas looked bewildered at sky, "Sky, you can't go out there by yourself! What if something happens and-". Sky was quick to put her hand over his mouth, shushing him, "I'll text you if i find anything, you get nora out of here, she and you both need care anyway...i'll make sure i'm safe...i could just...freeze time, use my spells and what i've learned...I'll text you if i had to...and if our parents are almost freed...well i won't be in danger for long...ok?".
"Sky you know it's a bad idea.."
"It's better then leaving angel behind...ok?".
Jude went silent, thinking about the spider prince who was probably terrified and hiding, waiting for his friends to come for him.
"I'll be ok jude...just...I promise, just keep yourself safe...do that for me...".
He was reluctant, but, it was their best bet, wasn't it?
"You think you can make it there and bring him back on your own?", he was on he verge of tears, leaving sky more nervous, but answering with a quick nod. "I have to try, it won't be long, our family will be back soon...just get to safety...ok? ". He nodded, "I'll see you soon sky, take care of yourself out there and just make sure he's safe, he's probably terrified after last time.".
"Trust me, he'll make it out without a new injury if i can help it".
Considering what happened last time, it sounded like a threat to blast someone's face off if anything where to happen to the prince.
Sky pulled judas in for a quick hug before leaving the room, closing the door gently behind her as nora tugged for judas to leave through the exit, he looked longingly at the door his best friend left through before following nora to the exit.
"Stay back against the wall, as far as possible, and maybe to the side...yeah, like that.", marco directed everyone out of the way for globgor to smash his arm through the brick wall, last thing they needed right now was to have flying bricks crush them. Honesty it was great globgor was here, none of them were strong enough to punch through solid brick.
If the magic was being shielded, star would've definitely blasted the wall herself.
But brute force it was, and they had no time to waste.
They left their kids at home, to keep them safe, and now they were the ones in danger because they had been trapped.
Perhaps this was planned or maybe improvised since the thief had gotten lucky enough to have all these threats come here. Either way this whole thing worked out in their favor, and very much so not in the favors of these terrified parents and kids. Bernard, who had been relived to have been saved, now seemed extremely worried, having been used as a diversion for others to be in danger.
He was saved, but who might perish because of that?
"On three!", globogor shouted on the other side.
"One!".
"Two!".
"Three!".
The brick smashed against the walls, nearly missing the group as a large fist that sat in front of them began shrinking down to fit the body of their savior. Globgor looked tired, but relieved to see the group come out uninjured, eclipsa collecting evidence from the rest of the room as landon stood there, still a the sight of bernard. The human tired and freaked.
Well, this was his moment.
Right?
"Bernard?".
The tired boy turned to see the demon on the other side of the wall, just as tired and dirty as he was, Bernard sighed in happiness, relieved at least landon himself wasn't in any danger. Landon froze up the moment he looked at him though, holding his tongue on the confession entirely upon seeing how tired and stressed bernard looked despite what he said before.
Somehow, he couldn't get it out.
The moment he saw him, his voice suddenly couldn't work anymore, only gapping noises coming out.
Maybe it was because bernard looked so...well like the last thing he needed was something else to stress him out. He had been in a cage for days, alone for hours, and now he had to deal with the results of what happened and...what would happen if landon just then told him how he felt on top of all of that? Landon suddenly seemed at loss for words as his confidence drained, he really should've considered bernard's mental state before he considered this.
He couldn't tell him like this, in front of everyone, when the boy was panicking about the situation at hand, it'd be...uncaring. Landon gulped and his shoulders sagged, realizing his confession was just going to have to wait for a little while longer. At least until things were a lot less stressful and his crush hadn't just been locked up in a cell for hours.
So much for the confession he was going to do in case something bad happens.
Bernard himself didn't even have much time to react to landon because the king and queen of the underworld were quick to see their son and run towards him, checking him for any scratches or marks.
Marco pulling them into a tight hug
Frankly they should be mad landon was out here to save them, on the other hand the danger was actually at home, not here, so landon had technically accidentally made the safest option in this situation. Also eclipsa technically was the one to drag him out here anyway, so landon himself didn't exactly entirely make the choice to come,, even if he had wanted to anyway.
Landon hugged his parents tightly, at least they were ok.
"Landon, where's your brothers?".
"Well...mason is with his grandpa on earth and judas...is uh-".
That was enough of an indication for his parents they needed to get back pronto, though eclipsa was already approaching them with a handful of items she had picked up and off the shelves that had intrigued her, or at least she had found suspicious. Which was quite a lot by the looks of it, though they didn't have the time to mess with it when they had kids and people to save at home.
"Thank goodness you're all alright...did you run into her?", eclipsa asked, Putting stuff under her hat.
"No, she was gone before we came in it seems".
Well that was a relief...sorta.
"We better get back, now, as soon as possible, i'll move the kids over to earth, and i'll meet up with you there...", though katrina was right on top of it, already trying to get in contact with the knights back home to help if they weren't already and get updates on the situation. Eclipsa pulling landon away from his parents, bernard with him to get them to safety, tom giving his soon a quick hug before everyone started to portal out.
So much for the reunion.
He hoped his brother was doing ok.
Sky crept along the halls of the castle, carefully on her way back to the office they had met back in not too long ago. The plus side is she knew how to get there, the downside is going back wasn't as easy as it normally was. She was on high alert, who knows what might of been around the corner at this point? The castle was now a lot more empty and she was left with an uneasy feeling.
Did the guards get her? Did they die?
Maybe the masked thief left, and they got what they wanted.
God she hoped that wasn't the case, but it was a possibility that she could not ignore entirely.
Hopefully angel hadn't left the room or anything, because if he wasn't there she had no idea where to go next. They were in a massive castle, angel could literally hide anywhere he wanted around here. This also decreased sky's chances of running into their old foe, but if she was there on the basis of hunting them anyway that really didn't matter much.
God she hoped her parents showed up soon.
Angel better be ok.
The halls of Lucitor Castle never had been more creepy, and they were the halls of the UNDERWORLD. The creepiest kingdom in all of mewni, where they ate things live and participated in torture for fun. Angel could really be anywhere at this point if he wasn't in the office, knowing him he might even attempt to go and hide on the ceiling with his spider abilities.
She found herself tiptoeing through dark red hallways, trampled furniture, and only lit by the torches along the walls. Not a peep could be heard outside of her footsteps, she felt like she was in a horror movie, waiting for the monster to pop out and get her at any second. The guards might be able to allow her more time if they were distracting the foe from her goals.
The door was in her grasp soon enough, hiding behind a pillar.
She'd have to dart out, there was nothing else to hide behind for the time being.
She held her breath, clutching her fists and wand tightly, before making a dash for the door, closing it behind her quickly. She caught her breath, hiding up against the wall, no angel in sight, but that didn't mean he wasn't here. "Angel? It's me sky...are you still in here?", she whispered it at first, not wanting to draw too much attention in case someone might be in the hall behind her.
"Angelus Sebastian Arachford, I swear if you're not here i'm gonna lose my mind", sky muttered, only to hear a squeak as angel's head popped up from behind the desk, he must've had a hard time trying to squeeze his legs in there with him. His hair was a complete mess and he seemed to be panicking and in utter terror. The sight of sky seemed to have made him feel a little better though.
He'd never been more relieved.
"Sky...you came back.".
"You though i was gonna just leave without you?".
"Um...erm...no...uh...".
He was quick to hug the princess, before backing away, embarrassed. Though they didn't have the time to linger on that, they had to get out of there. Though sky had the impression based on angel's behavior he was in the middle of a panic attack, as he should all things considered. He was blasted in the back and nearly killed, he probably had nightmares about this person coming back from him.
This would definitely be a nightmare for anyone, especially since he had been alone, terrified that any moment from now she'd come through and kill him for sure this time. He was getting better with his magic but not enough to fight her, he wasn't physically strong and he got destroyed last time, he nearly considered crawling to the ceiling to hide there but that wouldn't last long if they looked up.
Regardless he looked shook up, but alive.
Thankfully.
"Where's...judas?", he asked carefully, clearly worried about the boy's absence from his best friend. Sky grabbing the boy's arm reassuringly, "He left, with nora, they got out, but we refused to leave you so I came back for you...I heard you were in here, we don't know where celeste is though...we haven't seen her and no one else had either...we don't know if she's ok."
"I haven't seen her either...", angel said, suddenly back to being worried and sad again. "Maybe...Maybe we should go find her first, before we leave...we can't risk her...getting hurt.". Angel was desperate to leave but not so desperate that he'd leave celeste behind, rubbing at his arms and trying to cool down before he went into another panic.
"Maybe we should drop you off first-", the princess's expression was enough to indicate she wasn't sure having angel tag along like this was good for his health, angel was a prime target if something bad were to happen. The guy was already in bad enough shape as is, he was probably better off taking the nearest exit out and she could try and find celeste while waiting for her parents to arrive.
"No! By that point, we might already be too late...I don't want to be the reason she might get hurt".
"Angel, i can't just bring you along either, we have to-".
"I can handle it, for a little longer...ok?", he didn't mean to sound so demanding, or interrupt her like that, but he wasn't taking no for an answer. Celeste was in danger and the only way they might find her is if they left immediately, not by looking for a way out. Sky took a long look but stopped protesting, knowing he wouldn't budge on this one and wasting time trying to make him took time away from finding her sister.
"Fine, just stay behind me...".
She could feel angel clutching her shoulders as she creaked the door open, taking a peek before heading out. They were silent, not a peep coming from either of them as they crept around the halls, listening out for noises to be concerned about. Angel was practically clinging to sky's back in fright, though sky was sure if something popped in he'd shoot webs at it, ask questions later.
But little life could be seen as of yet, no doubt because a ton of people must've evacuated by this point.
Was anyone still left?
"Angel...hey...I have an idea...that might allow us to get around faster and find celeste".
She said it so nervously, as if whatever her idea was, angel wasn't going to like it, but angel couldn't tell her no, they needed to keep going and any ideas they could still come up with at this point was a good idea. "So look, you have a good nose between the two of us, so if celeste was around you could smell her, and you can go faster...if you crawl on walls...right?".
"Sky?".
"Carry me, see if you can track her scent, i'd ask lucy but who knows where she went in this chaos...if something bad happens...I'll fire at them...hopefully", it wasn't a bad idea overall. Having angel here did have an advantage, angel had superior monster senses to her, so he had a better chance of finding out where celeste was then she was. If only landon was here to help her with a spying spell...
Angel didn't put up much of a fight, "Just...let's hope we don't run into a situation where you fly us out of there, no offense, it's just...you kinda need all your strength if we're ever going to have to fight". He had a point, plus angel was a little heavy, so hopefully this time around she didn't have to attempt flying unless well, they were kinda forced into it.
Hopefully.
Sky climbed onto the prince's back, legs wrapped around him so she didn't accidentally fall off his back onto the daggered floor. She might've accidentally kicked at his side a couple of times but she still managed to get on his back successfully for their duel partnership. As long as sky didn't kick the prince in the face on accident they'd probably be just fine.
Eclipsa's training for them really had come in handy, they made a pretty good team like this, sometimes.
The prince needed a second to adjust, but he felt a lot more confident then he had been before with sky helping him out. After making sure she had a tight grip on him his spider legs adjusted to the wall, "Uh...just let me know if you get sick like this..". Sky was turned sideways as he was stuck to the wall, taking a breath before crawling at a faster pace through the dark halls.
Angel was surprisingly more quiet crawling like this then he had been on the floor.
His nose sniffing around for any sign of the girl.
All he could get was the scent of mostly demons, and a big dog, the castle had people come and go often...it was hard to make out one scent over another just as well. But he'd have to try, and he'd have to try soon. Crawling along the walls as sky wrapped her arms tighter around him, still no sign of anyone as they crawled around the castle, searching from head to toe.
And sky was only more and more worried.
"Nothing?".
Angel sniffed the air again, "Nothing".
Sky was getting more and more desperate, trying to think or anywhere they could go that might give them better odds before she went to the worst possibly outcome.
"Wait...have we checked celeste's room?".
It came on like a lightbulb in her head, celeste was staying here wasn't she? And the masked being had no idea where her room was and sure couldn't waste time going through every single one until they found her. It would be a perfect place for the girl to really hide until she was either caught by someone or left entirely. Why hadn't they considered that in the first place?
Even angel seemed to be wondering why that wasn't the first place he tried to look.
"Let's go...fast.".
They carefully crawled through the long hallways, down some stairs and listening out for noises in the dark fiery castle to make their way to the guest rooms. Noises could be heard , but it seemed more likely to be the sounds of animals then anything more humanoid. There did appear to be a few demons hiding in some of the rooms though, peaking through some cracks on closer inspection.
So there was people here, but they were hiding, guess it was safer then being out in the open halls at least.
But why hadn't they tried leaving yet?
There wasn't anyone around as far as they could tell and they never ran into anyone the entire time they've been around, they had every opportunity at this point to find an exit out. This left sky with more unease then she had before, clinging onto angel even together then she had been before, her blue eyes scanning around for any danger that might just pop out and come after them.
Angel should be able to smell them if they're here...right?
Then again, angel couldn't smell them before either, they'd probably hide their scent if they came here, lest lucy tracked them entirely down.
She quickly got back on track, she was overthinking things, she was paranoid. If they wanted to get out of here in one peice they needed to do it fast, and not start panicking about everything.
Besides, if they were here, sky had every intention to blast first, ask questions later.
"I think we're onto something, well...it's her room, so of course it smells like her...but still", angel whispered as they finally found celeste's door, sky nodding before they carefully opened it, heading inside. Angel let sky down off his back, allowing her to get a better look inside of celeste's room, it also appeared to be empty, but they had to try and search it.
"Celeste?"
Nothing...yet.
Sky went off to the bathroom as angel nervously went into the closet, hoping maybe she had hidden herself like angel had done before sky had found him, though they were nervous what they might find if celeste was possibly in here. They had no idea what state they might find her in at this point, she could be just as injured as angel was, if not even worse.
But nothing was in the bathroom either.
Where was she?
Angel sniffed the air more, leading him away from the closet and over to the bed of all things. The smell was at it's more prominent here, but granted, it was were the girl slept, it was bound to have the most of her scent. But he still felt the need to take the lead and his ear twitched as he heard a breath, there seemed to be someone under the bed.
"Celeste? It's um...me, angel, you can come out...I promise it's really us...".
"Shhhh", came a noise from under.
"Celeste!".
"I said SHHHHHHH".
Sky quickly made her way back in, looking under the bed to see celeste's dark brown eyes staring at her, "Celeste? Why didn't you respond? We were worried sick about finding you!". Celeste shushed them further, "There's something sneaking around and you idiots are screaming and yelling about finding me? I'm tryning to be quite, get out and find a place to hide".
"Celeste we're trying to get you out of here, we have an exit".
"An exit?".
"Yes, now do you want to leave or not?".
Celeste quickly crawled out, wand in hand, "You should've said that from the beginning!". She looked stressed out, and like she had gotten herself a bit scratched up throughout...well, whatever had happened. Her hair was a complete mess as well, and she seemed thankful they came to save her, even if she was annoyed they might've almost revealed her hiding place.
But her having one and wanting them to be quiet left a lingering fear in sky's mind.
They were nearby, weren't they?
"Celeste...what...happened?".
The girl brushed herself off, grumbling for them to be more quiet.
"I'll tell you what happened, i went off to find a place to sulk after that fight since i wasn't gonna go with you anyway, and next thing i know the place starts going up in smoke, people sreaming, i got trampled for a bit, there were blasts everywhere. I saw that freak, they even tried to blast me! I zapped them in the face but they were after me, i didn't think i would ever lose them but i guess when y'know...jude's grandmother popped in and punched that thing through a wall they kinda had to give up."
"Through a WALL?".
"You heard me.".
Sky and angel both needed to take a moment to process that information, how was this person not dead at this point?
"Are they...are they still fighting?".
"Last i checked, but that was awhile ago, and i heard them passing nearby recently, i wasn't taking my chances at this point".
Well if grandma lucitor was currently leading the charge that would very much hold them off for awhile. Granted, they probably shouldn't underestimate the scary weirdo with magic powers at all in this situation. They could come back this way any second for all they knew and they were running low on time as is. "Let's get going, quickly, get those other people out too.".
They headed outside, demons from the other rooms sneaking down the halls, bumping each other on their way to get out as finally some guards actually showed up after so long. They looked tired, clearly they had been in quite a bit of a fight, almost trampled by the citizens trying to escape. Sky led the charge for the three to get out and find judas.
Their parents had to be on their way by now right?
As if on cue, noises could be heard nearby, the king and queen of the underworld turning down the hallway, marco almost crying in delight at seeing the kids safe and sound for the time being. They rushed up to them, "Your moms are searching the castle for any other signs of them. they might of given up and left, but we need to evacuate until further notice...".
"Sorry about your castle..." angel said, looking at the mess only for king tom to grin.
"Eh, we can fix it in no time, the important thing is you're ok".
"Judas...he-".
"We saw him outside, with nora, don't worry, but...he looks in rough shape.", marco commented, "But we'll have to worry about that later...c'mon, we can't stay here and chat, we better get a move on if we wanna get to safety." They ushered the kids, one in front and one in back just in case they needed to protect them from either end. There was no telling if the masked being was looking to hurt them at this point.
But it wasn't worth risking.
"Is bernard-?"
"We have him, landon too...apparently eclipsa took him on her little rescue mission when she found out we were missing. They had a whole slew of evidence in their hideout, but we had to get to you guys as soon as possible when we found out what happened. None of you are injured right? If you guys need aid we can take you straight over to the-".
There was silence as something passed by the team, a cloaked something.
Though judging by the pause itself, it was just as surprised to see them as they were surprised to see it.
The cat mask clearly mentioned to the adults was enough to know who this was. They had indeed replaced their mask after what happened, but it was still rather obvious that the person under this mask and the other were one on the same from clothing alone. They were floating in the air as well, like a ghost. Though most likely they were just using some magic then anything.
Marco didn't hesitate to blast right at them, followed immediately by tom, shooting right for the head as the being dodged. But they didn't fight back, in fact they immediately began to make a run for it, tom following them right from behind as marco ushered the kids to follow them. This was their chance, they could catch them and end this right away before anyone else got hurt.
But why were they running? Why didn't they turn around and fight?
Sure they knew how dangerous these two were but-
Tom managed to set the being's dress on fire, startling it even more as it actually and finally shot a spell back, sending tom backwards before continuing to keep running. Send another spell out at the rest of the group in order to stop their attacks, one shooting back and hitting sky's wand right in the middle of her spellcasting. Were they even hear to steal the wand at all at this point? They seemed more then eager to get out of here instead of risking their life to go and take celeste's or sky's wand, of had they finished their task already?
Either way they were clearly looking to get away.
They were pretty outmatched, even if most of these guys were kids.
Though it became even clearer why they ran as the former queen herself, wrathmelior burst through another wall, hand reaching out for the being before missing. She hadn't been as far behind as everyone had assumed after all. They may of cleverly snuck in and trapped the leaders somewhere else but the underworld was ready for another break in this time.
One wrong move and they would be deader then dead before they could even portal out
They must've realized that as well, and they portalled away in a hurry, leaving everyone in their dust as spells were thrown from all angels towards the being. Tom quickly shouted at any remaining guards to go back and search the castle in case they were still here. Everyone scattering as the kids were escorted away as fast as possible, wrathmelior back on the hunt and heading down the next hallway.
What a ride.
They were half expecting it to pop right back in behind them and shoot at them again.
Sky had never seen jude's family so angry and aggressive before, they were usually some of the sweetest people she knew but they felt like they had every intention of destroying this thief the next time they showed their face. Granted, sky nearly did the same thing herself and had technically almost did it already, so she was not one to complain.
She'd happily blast that cat mask right off it's mask when she could.
if she could.
Crashes could be heard throughout the castle, the demon queen clearly still running around after the being. And them they got louder, the group bracing for impact as a large black three headed dog appeared, way too excited in comparison to everyone else. She must've been running around the castle like mad looking for people and for the thief who was running around.
Though her noses couldn't do much more then angel seemed to be able to do.
"Lucy!"
The dog stopped in front of her owners, tom and marco thankful as ever to have found her, "She can take us back, she's faster, c'mere girl!". Everyone was piled onto the large dog who bounded through the castle, everyone struggling to hold onto the beast as they moved up and down on her back. It wasn't exactly all fun though, In fact sky was sure angel was getting a little motion sick.
The dog bursted out of the castle a large audience outside of it before stopped in her tracks, the people on her back eager to get off the rather excitable dog. All of them tired and in a mess, judas running straight forward to hug sky and angel, before pulling celeste in as well, clearly he'd been panicking for their safety. His arm swelling and unsweling with them in his grip.
"God...thank lucifer you're alright...".
Everyone finally together, but tired all around.
It had been one hell of a day.
"I-I'm contacting dad right away...", tom patted marco on the shoulder as he headed off to the side, petting lucy as he went. Star running forward to marco with a pleading look, the queen looking tired and annoyed but they knew what she was asking. "Alright, you can go in blasting, but you're in charge of fixing this castle up as soon as you've checked to make sure it's entirely safe and empty.
Star squealing before running to the castle and blasting a hole inside, janna following her right after.
"Judas...we saw her...", sky mumbled to the boy, who immediately detached from them with worry in his eyes, "Are you hurt?".
"We're not hurt, but...judas she ran from us...she didn't even try to take our wands, they were too busy trying to get away...they didn't get them...but...".
"Sky?".
Sky pulled out her wand, judas blinking at the blue, pink and purple device.
A small crack could be seen within the pink heart gemstone
"I think we have a problem".
