malificient made her way through the corridor of darkness. even though her plan to take yen cids tower as her new castle failed, she had proved the shades were a vailable asset. she stepped out of the shadows into a room engulfed with shadows. the little sliver of light that was present shined down on a round table in the center of the room, with eight figures sitting around waiting for malificient to take her seat. "I see your plan worked with flying colors. the clown within the shadows chuckled sarcastiaclly with a shrill, girlish laugh.

"indeed" malificient said as green flames burned around her displeased by the garish clown. "the shades worked better than I could of dreamed, we must thank HIM for giving them to us".

" Okay, fine, fine. eye patch was right on the money with this one. can. he. BE TRUSTED THOUGH." hades said being illuminated by his blue flickering flames.

just then from across the table a man in purple pushed his glasses over the bridge of his nose. "his words are no lie, soon our research will bear fruit." Resting his hands on his grimroire.

"yes thanks to old eye patchy, my new toy has far surpassed my old broken one" said the clown agreeing with the young scholar as he bounced in his seat.

"that puppet of yours is unstable, it'll be her undoing and yours" rebuttled the woman with long silver hair that splayed out around her in tendrils even in the darkened room.

"silence!" yelled malificient as she had grown tired of her cohorts bickering. they all stopped and starred as she proclaimed nothing could stop there plans as the light flickers out in the room.

the station at twilight town was deadly silent as no trains where running at that hour, however a sound started to build. the sound of a train engine slowly rose as a purple train with a magic hat pulled into the station. as the doors opened three figures came out relieved to finally be home. lave lifted her arms in the air taking in the fresh air as she stretched. "alright break time, I'm beat" gale and snow both sighed, it was typical for lave and they were glad to finally get some time to relax. as they made their way out of the station a trio of children ran up to them jumping with joy. the children were a group of kids who fonded over them everytime they came home their names were hayner, pence, and olette. olette and pence had always admired lave, asking about her adventures. gale watched as they sat patiently listening in awe as lave waved her hands as she excitingly played out the scenes as she talked. however hayner was a different matter, he always tried so hard to show off to snow and gale trying to prove he was tough. this time was no different as he pulled out two skateboards.
snow looked down at the little hayner's eager face. he was pumped "lets ride" as hayners face glowed with glee as lept on his skateboard. snow had other plans though as he pushed gale forward. "cool'em off alittle would ya" snow said as he gave him a thumbs up. lave and the kids came over cheering him on as gale refused demanding to know why he had to. After a boost of confidence from the kids and lave snow watched as gale jumped on the skateboard speeding off to join the fray. needless to say, gale lost as hayner danced circles around him. gale and hayner both laid sprawled out on the ground laughing as the sun started to set.

"hayner we have school tomorrow lets go" yelled pence. the kids jumped up and began to run home to prepare for their big day tomorrow ollette turned back waving goodbye to the trio not knowing this would be the last time they would ever meet.

"we don't have much time either lets go..." gale muttered, exhausted he wasn't use to this thing called fun. lave giggled as snow patted the poor man on the back. they began to walk to laves home the keepers manor hidden within twilights depths. just as they left a young man came out of the station, his dirty blonde hair covered his face under a dark blue hoodie. he removed the hood and began to comb his hair into a mullet as individual bangs fell over his face revealing cyan eyes. he smiled as he caught a glimpse of lave rounding the corner looking forward to being home once more.