Isiah: What up? Isiah and Tom here.

Tom: What up?!

Isiah: And welcome back to Avalor's Continued Nightmare. Things are starting to heat up and we're only 3 chapters in the story.

Tom: Yeah, we're making some good progress here.

Isiah: Now let's say we keep that progress going?

Tom: Alright, let's roll.

Worse News

"That's impossible," Elena exclaimed in complete worry. "Mateo can't just end up missing all of the sudden!"

"I wish it were a joke as much as you do, Princess Elena," Marlena said in front of the Grand Council. "But the doctor inform my mother that when he went to give Mateo his breakfast, he was missing."

"Do you have any clue on what could've happened to him," Naomi asked.

"All they had as clues was the window in his hospital room was left open when they came in," Marlena explained. "And when the authorities came, they scented dark magic from one of the corners of the room."

"Dark magic," Elena thought to herself for a moment.

"That either sounds like," Naomi started but Esteban cut her off.

"That Goddamned Shuriki or that motherlover Fiero," he answered getting up. "One of them must've found out that Mateo was hospitalized and snuck over there to finish him off!"

Elena got up herself and said, "If that's the case, then we better hurry up and find them before it's too late. Naomi, tell your parents to gather up a search party with their employees at the docks."

"On it," Naomi said leaving the courtroom immediately.

Esteban turned to Gabe and said, "Captain Nunez. Send any and every available royal guard out looking for Shuriki and Fiero at once!"

"Yes Chancellor," Gabe said rushing out of the courtroom as well.

"Guess we better spread the word out to Avalor ourselves," Francisco stated out making everyone else agree to it.

Meanwhile at the front entrance of the palace, Darkness was hiding in the bushes spying on the people that were in the palace. He soon saw Naomi leaving the palace and smirked knowing who he wanted to get first.

Hours later

Naomi was looking for Mateo in the woods. While she was looking, she heard screams of death from the distance and gasped in horror.

"What was that," she asked walking towards the direction she heard the scream from. A few minutes of walking later, she saw a trail of dead bodies on the ground and gasped in horror again.

"D- Dead bodies," Naomi stuttered as she continued to follow the trail of bodies. "Who could've done this?"

Meanwhile from afar, Darkness was watching Naomi observe the dead bodies. "Well, I guess I know which victim I'm going to start with first," he said before silently casting a spell transforming himself into a fake Mateo.

After roughly a few more minutes of walking, Naomi finally found someone that wasn't a dead body. She took a closer look at the fake Mateo on its knees and immediately knew who it was.

"Mateo," Naomi gotten the fake Mateo's attention. "Thank God I finally found you!"

"Y- Yeah," Darkness said trying to play along as Mateo.

"What are you doing all the way in the woods? And what's with all the dead bodies that are laying around," Naomi asked with many more questions in her head.

"It was all because of Fiero," Darkness lied. "He knew about my condition and reported it to Shuriki and the Delgados. Then they somehow snuck into the hospital and kidnapped me, bringing me all the way to the woods."

Naomi helped Darkness get up and said, "That's crazy. Let's get you out of here." When Naomi started walking, Darkness stopped her and she turned around to face him.

"Um, Naomi old friend. You think that...you can go on without me and I'll catch up," Darkness asked.

"Mateo what for," Naomi asked curiously.

"I must get a hold of Fiero's tamborita," Darkness said. "You see, he left it in the cabin to the south. I must have it,"

"Are you sure you don't want me to go with you," Naomi asked.

Darkness thought for a moment and said, "Actually now that you mentioned it, I do need you with me." Naomi smiled at Darkness's response and began following him to south.

A Game of Hide and Seek

After many failed attempts to catch up with Darkness, Naomi stopped to take a breather. As she was taking a break, Darkness finally came into her sights with his drum wand.

Naomi stood straight again and said, "I see you found your tamborita Mateo." She didn't receive an answer from him. Instead he summoned blades to surround his tamborita making Naomi back away and asked, "Mateo? What are you doing?"

Darkness just let out a smirk of evil before raising his bladed drum wand to strike. Naomi saw this and quick made an attempt to run away with Darkness quick being on her trail.

While she was running, Naomi found a cave to her left and dashed for the entrance. She then found a rock that she could hide herself under. It wasn't long before Darkness made his way inside the cave. Having a smirk on his face as he spoke.

"So...you wanna play hide and seek, eh Naomi? This should be fun," he said starting his search.

Naomi just stayed hidden behind the rocks, keeping as quiet as she could. She didn't even think about doing an attempt to look up to see if Darkness was anywhere in sight.

Minutes which felt like hours past as Naomi finally had the guts to look for Darkness. She was lucky that he wasn't around. She then took a deep breath and started for the cave exit. Not even thinking of looking back as she escaped the cave.

When she finally got out of the cave, Naomi kept running to make sure she was as far away from Darkness as possible. But as she was running, she started to feel a little dizzy. It had only gotten worse as her dizziness made her slow down and finally put her running to a stop. Getting on her knees as tears started coming from her eyes.

"Who are you," Naomi sobbed loudly. "What do you want from me?"

She didn't have too long to get an answer as Darkness appeared in front of her. Naomi looked up and through her tears managed to hear his words he did something unexpected to her.

"I want your heart."

Not a moment past before Darkness grabbed Naomi by the sides of her face and collided his lips with hers. Pulling her into a kiss. Naomi lifted up her eyes in shock as she was pulled into the kiss. Finding herself falling onto the grass as her eyes closed slowly.

Knowing that he did his part, Darkness finally broke the kiss and looked at the brain-dead Naomi. "Such an easy target. I want a more difficult challenge," he said dragging Naomi to a cliff. He then took a look at the view to see what he could do next. He didn't have too long to look when he saw Gabe and a few of the royal guard at an abandoned factory.

"Hope you're ready to die Gabe," Darkness said keeping his evil smirk.

To be continued...

Isiah: Damn. Naomi's dead.

Tom: Yeah. She was a real great girl.

Isiah: Let's hope Gabe won't suffer the same fate in the next chapter. But with that being said, hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. There'll be more to this story coming soon. If you haven't seen the sequel to 3 Month Anniversary called Ready for Round 2, please check that out and show some support to it.

Tom: On that note, please give this chapter a nice review. No hateful or rude comments please. Again, we hope you enjoyed this chapter. We love you guys. Thanks for supporting us everyday. See y'all later. Holla at your boys! Yeah!

Isiah: As always, until next time.

And now for a quick random moment.

*we all have that one person that does this*

*Armando's phone rings*

Esteban: Uh, you're phone's ringing Armando.

Armando: Can you answer it for me, Chancellor?

*Esteban answers Armando's phone*

Esteban: Eat your heart, you motherlover. *hangs up the phone*