A/N: I celebration of the fact that tonight Finn saw and acknowledged me at NXT, I'm updating early. Enjoy and excuse me while I fangirl on. Lol :)
"You want to do what?" Kelly asks me, her eyes the size of golfballs. So I'd convinced Finn to let me bring Kelly for the weekend to his castle on the other side of the portal, because he was going to be busy during the day and I told him I didn't want to be lonely. Really, I just needed a partner in crime. You should never do bad things alone.
"I want to know." I insist. Finn walks into the bedroom about that time and we both get quiet, which didn't go unnoticed.
"Did I walk in on a girly conversation?" He chuckles, walking over and kissing me.
"Maybe." I smirk at him.
"I'll be gone until dinner time." He informs me, "Don't leave our land." He tells me, I took a mental note of the fact that this was the first time he'd referred to it as 'our' land. "Perhaps Kelly would like to go on a ride?" he suggests, glancing at her.
"Maybe." I repeat with a shrug. "See you later" I pull him down to kiss me one more time.
"Later." He agrees before walking back out the door.
"Ugh, this is a bad idea." Kelly shakes her head.
"I want to know if there's another side to this castle and I'm going to fucking find out. Are you going to help me or not?" I ask her, crossing my arms over my chest.
"Of course I am." She replies as if it was a dumb question. "Where do we even start?" She questions.
"I have no idea." I chuckle. "I'm going to take a wild guess though and say that we need to look around outside, because I don't think he'd tell me to help myself to anything in the castle if there was the chance I'd find something bad." I shrug.
"That's a valid point." She agrees. "Ok, so lets go outside then. How are we going to not look suspicious?" She wonders.
"We're going to go grab Gannicus out of the nursery, and Dillon out of the stables and walk around the grounds. No one will say anything, they'll just assume we're goofing around." I tell her. I'd already thought about that earlier. Now it was time to put my not so master plan into action.
"He's beautiful." She comments, running a hand over Dillon's back. He was plotting along next to us while Gannicus was running ahead of us in zigzags. Every once in a while he'd glance back, to make sure we were still there. "He's funny." She chuckles.
"Isn't he fuckin' cute?" I grin at her.
"Where'd he go?" She questions, looking up into the woods.
"We can't go in there... Finn will legit freak out." I murmur. "Gannicus!" I call out to him. I could hear him rustling around in there, "Wait here." I say to Kelly, taking a couple steps into the woods. "Gannicus, get your butt over here." I grumble at the little dragon, pointing to the ground in front of me. He was standing in front of what I would call an out house, looking curiously at it.
"Are you ok?" Kelly whispers.
"Yeah, I'll be out in a second." I assure her, pulling open the door to the little shack slowly. I pick up Gannicus before peering inside. It was pretty empty with the exception of the stair case that lead down into the ground. "There's like this weird little shack in there, and a stair case leading down." I say to kelly, emerging from the trees.
"And you want to know where it goes..." She says unsurely.
"I do. Really bad." I nod agreement. You know the saying curiosity killed the cat? Generally, I was that cat.
"You're about to go break his rules, is that a bad idea?" She questions.
"Only if we get caught." I tell her. "Then yeah, it was probably a really bad idea." I agree, glancing down at Gannicus. He was looking up at me with those big hazel eyes before glancing back into the woods. "Who loves you?" I ask him, and he snuggles up under my chin. "Yes, yes I do." I agree.
"Oh god..." She mumbles as we walked to take Dillon and Gannicus back to their homes.
"So I feel like we should hop into the woods right here, so no one sees us. I feel like if we walk in back over there someone could see and rat me out. Finn would be pissed." I comment. She only nods, and pushes me forwards into the trees. "We've got a good four or five hours before Finn gets back, so lets only take a couple just to be safe." I whisper, pulling open the door.
"You first." She states, looking uneasily at the stairs. We take them step by step until we were at the bottom, it really wasn't that far down only two stories probably. "Should we be worried that it's not like, guarded?" She questions. We both jump to the side behind a couple barrels when a big guy, that I recognize from the castle, walks down the steps and through the arch. "Scratch that." She grumbles and I nod.
"Come on." I whisper, pulling her through the arch behind me. It was just a hallway, it looked like what a secured area of a jail would look like, just metal rods and wood. The doors were heavy, wooden with a sliding door opening where I supposed you'd slide food in or something. I wasn't convinced just yet, because every place needs a jail and if that's all this is then that's fine. I push open another door when I hear foot steps walking up on us, and quietly shut it behind us. It was a big open room, there was nothing in it with the exception of two hanging noose like ropes.
"That's creepy." She comments, shoving me at another door that we basically fell through. "That one was close." She says as feet walked past where we had fallen. "If I tell you we should turn around now, would you? I hate the dark..." She mutters.
"We're not turning around yet. I don't like dark either." I grumble. It was nearly pitch black around us right now, and I pulled out my phone hitting the flash light button to guide us down the really narrow hallway. "We're never going to make it out of here without getting lost." I tell her.
"We're going to get in trouble." She chuckles nervously.
"Shut up." I tell her, pushing open a sliding door. I'm immediately met with the metallic smell of blood, followed by a dripping sound.
"Oh shit..." She whispers, pushing herself up against the door we'd just shut and pinching her nose. "That's bad." She says. I take a few steps forward. The room was dimly lit with a couple candles. There was a whip hanging from one of the walls, with blood stains trailing from it.
"There's someone sitting there." Kelly whispers, pointing to the back wall of the room. There was a man, his hands were bind by the two noses from the ceiling much like the other room had, his feet shackled to the wall and he was on his knees. "Don't get that close, what if he's dangerous?" She hisses at me as I walked closer to the guy. In the process I passed a table lined with odd shaped sharp objects, all stained with crusted dry blood.
"Are you ok...?" I ask the man, or I think it was a man. I couldn't see his face, his head was hanging and his body was slumped. I only knew he wasn't dead because I could hear his labored and difficult breathing. He was wheezing like crazy. "Hey." I try to get his attention. I reached out to brush away some of the black hair in front of his face and I let out a yelp, falling backwards onto the floor when his head shot up and a pair of glowing red eyes looked at me. Kelly grabbed me and pulled me to my feet and I shoved her back through the door.
"Wait! I'm sorry." His gruff voice called back to us through the door. My chest was heaving and I was leaning my back against it trying to catch my breath. I bit my bottom lip and against better judgement looked through the sliding hole in the door, he was staring back at me. This time though there was no red, just pained blue eyes. "You must be his new pretty little girlfriend... Please come back." He pleads. His first comment scared me a little bit, then he said to come back and my heart about bled for him.
"We need to go." Kelly pulls at my arm. "There's people coming." She adds, looking nervously down the hallway.
"I'm sorry..." I murmured to the guy, letting her pull me back down that narrow hallway. I pull her to a stop when a couple men rip open the guy's door.
"What's all the racket in here?!" He shouts at him.
"You're hearin' shit." He growled back, making my furrow my brows. Why didn't he say anything about Kelly and I?
"What a horrible place..." Kelly says, when we popped out of the woods a few minutes later.
"I want to know what that guy did." I tell her.
"No. No. No." She shakes her head. "His eyes were red. Red is always bad, it always means something bad." She states. I bit my lip and nodded at her. I pushed open the castle doors and was met with a very angry Finn. I tried not to jump and let my fear show, but seriously, he was pretty scary when he was pissed off.
"Where have you been?" He asks me, his jaw twitching slightly. He glances at Kelly, who shrunk herself behind me.
"We were out walking." I shrug. "Is that a problem?" I ask him, narrowing my eyes.
"I've been home for an hour looking for you. If you were just out walking you'd have been easy to find." He states. His lips were set in a thin line.
"Well then you weren't looking very hard." I shrug off his accusation, and pull Kelly along behind me up the steps. "You should shower, because you stink." I smirk at her, leaving her at one of the guest bedrooms. I knew that Finn would be up in the bedroom with me shortly and she didn't need to be there for that.
"Yeah." She shoots me a grateful glance.
"You're lying to me." Finn states, shutting the bedroom door behind me.
"I'm not." I shake my head.
"We can go on forever arguing about this." He sighs, falling into the chair by the bed.
"We can if you want." I smirk at him.
"You must have been being really naughty if you're refusing to tell me what you were actually doing." He raises his eyebrows at me.
"I guess you'll never know." I hold my smirk. That makes him glower at me, like really glower, "Oh did I hit a nerve? Dont like me with an attitude do you?" I chuckle, glancing at the door then back at him.
"It just took me off guard." He comments. "So besides doing whatever you clearly weren't supposed to be doing... What else did you do today?" He questions, changing the subject.
"Kelly and I took out Gannicus and Dillon and messaged around with them. How fast do dragons grow and can I keep him small and adorable forever?" I question trying to be serious.
"He'll be full grown in a year." he chuckle, "And no, I will not stunt his growth for you." He shakes his head with a smile. I pout my lips at him, "Not even with you pouting at me like that." He pushes himself up from the chair and pulls me down onto the bed to lay with him.
"Do you have a jail here?" I ask him curiously.
"I do." He nods.
"Where is it?" I press.
"If I don't tell you are you going to go looking for it?" He questions and I laugh. He knew me too well sometimes. He pulls me up off the bed and takes us out to the back patio. "See that long 'L' shaped building out by the river past the walls?" He asks me and I nod. "That's the jail." He states, "And I promise there's nothing out there that would interest you." He adds. So what was the place that was in the woods? Not like I could just ask...
"Ok." I agree simply.
"Ok." He nods.
"What's for dinner? I'm kind of hungry." I tell him.
"Lets go check, shall we?" He chuckles, motioning me back inside. Thankfully he didn't bring it up anymore that night. Unfortunately though, I knew that he'd probably have his soldiers watching me closer now.
A/N: So the guy with the red eyes is the new character I've been teasing y'all with, who I'll introduce his name in the next chapter.