A/N: Hello! Its beeeen a whileee! :D hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving! Sooo i hope this chapter doesn't have too much errors but well its me and I usually miss alot! I hope you enjoy it! And tell me what you like or dont like! And has anyone seen Dumb and Dumber Too? Haha that movie was just awesome pretty funny for being like 20 years later! Anyways! Thank You guys so much for taking the time to keep up with this!
[Bodega Bay Inn]
Blade watched as the others stood outside of the hotel feeling the cool night air across their faces, he sat inside perched on the window ledge of his third floor room. He felt like being alone, he no longer knew how to act or to behave since becoming human once more. At times he felt weak and vulnerable like the humans he had murdered before in this very hotel. And other times he felt like he had not changed much deep inside, like he was still hard on the outside and inside made of plaster and cement.
"You've been quite pensive lately, what troubles you?"
Blade turned to look at the intruding voice and found Leech Woman standing before him wearing her usual fuchsia colored dress and made her way across his room towards where he sat on the window sill.
"No concern of yours, Leech."
He replied back coolly, he had no desire to be bothered right now, especially by her, she had been staring at him oddly now that they had become human and he didn't know what it meant but it unnerved him.
"I'm only trying to help Blade, if you'll ju-"
"Leave"
He commanded her as his voice took an authoritative tone that left no room for insubordination, he was becoming agitated by her mere presence while he was in a mood.
She let out a frustrated huff and turned on her heels, slamming the door to his room behind her loudly.
"What is it my dear friend, that troubles you so?"
Andre's voice came from behind Blade, and as the former puppet turned around he came face to face with a severely younger looking Toulon.
"It is me, do not be frightened, my friend"
Toulon came up beside Blade and touched his shoulder briefly before removing his hand. Smiling, he looked out the window to see his other fellow friends outside enjoying their new found bodies.
"It is her that bothers you is it not? My heir to the proverbial puppet master throne."
Blade tensed at his words he had been growing more and more worried about this new heir, she had yet to come or send word that she would in fact be arriving and how were they sure that they could trust her?
She had been sheltered away from Andre and knew nothing of her familial ties to him; all she knew was the life she had been leading for the past years away from the ugly world that they all lived in. A world where to survive you must kill, to disobey was to die and to live you must serve.
"How can we trust someone we do not know?"
Andre nodded his head in agreement; of course Blade would feel that he was always thinking of the others safety first. That was why he was leader he was always thinking one step ahead of things for them all not just himself. He wasn't thrust into the responsibility of being leader or caring for their safety and them, he took it upon himself. He would fight to the death to protect his master and his brothers and sister.
"She is a Toulon, though she may not react well initially she will come into her birthright just the same, I have faith in this."
"But I do not!"
For the first time Blade felt like a petulant child who was being told to go to bed because it was late but refused and argued. He did not have faith that this new heir would turn out just as they wanted her to be. She was a loose cannon and there was usually only one way they dealt with loose cannons and that was death.
But she was a Toulon so death was no option but that still didn't mean that he was going to pretend that he felt everything would fall into place because that was wishful thinking and he had no room for wishful thinking if he wanted them all to survive this new age.
"Now Blade you must trust my judgment"
Blade nodded his head solemnly but couldn't help but inwardly snicker; he remembered the last time his judgment served them well when he wanted to kidnap the paranormal researcher that was the reincarnation of his beloved Elsa.
Where had he thought that? It was absolute disloyalty to say such things about the master!
But it's true, he did let you down and use you to his own purposes and abused his power.
No! Enough treacherous thoughts!
I am but a servant to my master's whim, and I shall obey orders to my last breath!
You are no longer the puppet, you are human, and you no longer must obey orders.
The internal conflict raged war with the two sides of mixed emotions he was feeling at the moment: Loyalty and Disobedience.
"Blade, I trust you"
Was the last thing Toulon said before he disappeared once more into thin air leaving the lost puppet with his confusion and internal warring with two sides of his consciousness.
"I am but a puppet, a mere servant to my master"
But even as he chanted the words over and over again trying to make himself believe them he knew they held no truth for him, not anymore.
He no longer believed that he was but a vessel for the master's use: he was now a human with a mind of his own and feelings of his own. And he no longer felt like he took orders from anyone but himself. With a new sense of self-worth he got up from the ledge where he sat in isolation and decided to keep his newfound discovery to himself and play the part for now.
Lilly Toulon stared out at the long stretched road ahead of her; it would be nightfall by the time she arrived at the Bodega Bay Inn where the letter instructed her to go.
It had arrived just in time to save her; her life was hectic at the moment she had just flunked out of her sophomore year in university because she let her boyfriend correction ex boyfriend run her life and it just gave her more of a headache than anything.
She reached to the right of her to grab the letter that held instructions to get to where the hotel was located at and she frowned down at the paper. Whoever wrote this must have been a bloody pirate!
She looked up at the sign saying that the hotel was a few miles up the road and let out a sigh of relief, she was close so she was on the right path.
A few minutes later with a few twists and turns she was parked outside of the massive old rotting hotel, she was surprised to find it this large. She was rather expecting a little run down shack in the middle of nowhere but it was a pretty nice spot in her opinion.
She grabbed her bag and popped the hood of her '92 Oldsmobile, she closed her driver's side door and opened the trunk to retrieve her large duffle bag; it contained everything that was important to her.
She slammed the trunk down and walked towards the hotel, it was pretty dark and the atmosphere around the hotel was eerie. Her letter said that people, the staff workers would be here waiting for her to arrive and from there she could decide what to do.
Leech Woman made her way down the stairs towards the others who were sitting in the main lobby of the hotel just standing around talking amongst themselves about their new bodies.
"Where's Blade?"
Pinhead asked as he gave Leech a curious glance and saw no one else behind her, they had sent her to check on him but it seems he may have turned her away. He had been keeping to himself more so than when he was a puppet and it was starting to worry them all.
"He's in a mood; I wouldn't go see him for at least a few days"
She snickered a bit angrily as she flipped her hair to the side and stuck her nose up and walked towards the desk in the front and sat down next to Tunneler.
A knock sounded on the main entrance door and all pair of eyes wandered towards it, after a minute of non-reacting on the puppets' part it was Six-Shooter who drifted towards the door and opened it.
"Hello, I'm Lily…."
The girl at the door pushed the strap of her bag more up as it began to sleep off her shoulders, and watched as the man before her stared at her blankly.
After a few more unnerving minutes of silence she cleared her throat awkwardly and pressed her lips together, a frown forming on her forehead.
"Well, I-"
"Miss Toulon, pleasure to have you. We have been waiting for your arrival for quite some time"
The cool voice of their leader came from the hallway as he appeared for the first time that day to them all.
"Uh…Thank you, uhm?"
"Call me Blade, I'm the…caretaker of this establishment, and these are my fellow comrades…errr…co-workers"
The others looked at one another wondering where their broody, normally quiet leader had gone and when this new and talkative person in front of them came to be.
"This is Six to my right he is the concierge, if you need anything at all talk to him and he will make appropriate arrangements, beside him is Tunneler he is the doorkeeper. Elsa who is behind me is the Night Auditor and in charge of housekeeping. To her left is Pinhead he is our Security and Jester to the far left is the cook"
"I –Hello I'm Lilly Toulon and I got this letter from a deceased uncle of mine, A-Andre? Uhm I haven't decided yet what to do with the hotel but uhm I was hoping to stay for a while"
"We understand, your room is ready for you, would you like Elsa to show you the way?"
She nodded silently and grabbed her bag back up from the floor but the weight of it was taken from her hands as a smiling brown haired boy Six, she recalled, helped her with her luggage.
She felt her phone vibrate in her jacket pocket and as she retrieved her cell phone she swiped it to the left and unlocked the screen. A little message icon was at the top of her phone and she clicked it open.
Douchebag : WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?!
She took a deep breath and placed the black phone back inside her pocket, she followed Six and Elsa as they made their way towards the large staircase and with each step they took her heart rate increased. This felt so unreal to her, the arrival of the letter and the deed claiming she had full ownership of the hotel and all aspects of its funding was certainly so surreal.
"Your room is the one to the left, it's already been prepared"
Elsa's voice cut in through her musings and she gave her a smile and quick nod of understanding, the girl before her rolled her eyes but gave a tight smile and motioned her head for Six to enter the room and leave the baggage there.
"Th-Thank you"
She stuttered out weakly to the obviously unpleased girl before her, and then went in after Six and gasped at the sheer size of the room. It was big! Bigger than she could honestly say she had ever seen in her life! She had only always had the one room apartment with her mother up until she met him. But even then it was still a cramped studio but at the time she called it home and didn't complain too much about the lack of space. But coming back to the present she eyed the large king sized bed that had a beautifully decorated crimson interior, the room was large and spacious and it was all hers!
"If you need anything else, let us know"
Six replied as he swiftly left the room shutting the door behind him without as much as a glance towards her.
Lilly walked towards the large bed to the right of her and abruptly launched herself onto the gigantic heap of fluffy heaven that was a bed. She had driven for six hours to get where she was now at, and she was completely exhausted.
"Night night"
She muttered to no one in particular and let her eyes drift shut as the tiredness and stress of the past week took its toll on the young woman.
Blade leaned against the wall with his arms crossed and eyes shut as Elsa or Leech Woman, droned on and on about their new puppet master.
"- She's like a child! Frightened by anything that gives even the slightest bit of hostility towards her! How can she lead us? How can she be Toulon's heir? There is no comparison; even the boy Rick had more sense than this child!"
"Silence Elsa, it is not wise to speak in such a manner concerning the heir of Toulon"
Jester warned, his voice was low but it was laced with an underlying hint of anger at the words she spoke. He would be loyal to their master regardless if she had the strength to lead them.
The raven haired girl turned her dark ebony eyes to the boy who wore a wild whacky shirt and had his hair spiked, she stalked closer to him and clenched her fist.
"How dare you presume to tell me what to do? I have been with Andre the longest! I have seen the very essence of evil in its most basic form, and I have seen strength when all is lost!"
Blade had heard enough to last him a lifetime, never had he thought about the consequences of being able to speak now and clearly he was in no way prepared to deal with the annoyance he felt towards Leech woman lately.
"It is not your place; do not forget you are but a mere puppet. You may have Elsa's essence but make no mistake you are not her embodiment. You must, as we all do fall in line and obey"
Perhaps he could have worded himself more carefully he knew what he said was harsh but she had begun to get on his nerves. And being in this mortal body he was more susceptible to the human emotions that had come with it.
Leech woman stared at Blade in shock and anger, who the hell was he to talk to her like this? Of course she is Elsa! Andre always kept her close and even brought her back from the dead before, why would he do that unless she was in fact his wife.
"You may think you are still in charge of this group but you soon won't be! The way you've been acting strangely and pushing us away! We have no need for a leader anymore now that she is here!"