Chapter 4: Where's the Royal Ruby?
"This is your room, 7D... Oh, s-sorry... I-I mean... Oh, forget it", spoke nervous Lord Starchbottom, a little scared to be in front of four of the worst villains of all time.
The royal assistant opened the bedroom door to let pass the four villains. A massive room was discovered. With huge windows that illuminated the entire room and four beds. Enormous closets, carpets covered the ground and finally, a huge mirror on the wall.
"Oh, well...", sighed Sneezy fascinated by such amazing room, "It's so..."
"...Horrible!", Bashful said, ending the sentence of his best friend, "Too much light and color! Ugh, I'll have to wear sunscreen... Sneezy, come on and help me", said the blond while he approached to the huge windows to close the curtains. Sneezy just sighed at help his friend with the curtains.
"Much better!", Bashful smiled to see that the room was much darker.
"He really knows", laughed Grumpy giving a friendly little nudge to the young blonde.
Lord Starchbottom, still standing by the door, rolled his eyes before speaking:
"Well, I'm sure it was a long trip here... Surely now you want to relax"
At that moment, the knights came into the room of the villains with the luggage of each. The four dwarves looked askance at the knights to see they didn't try anything against them. Sure, they were knights, they didn't trust them because they fought against villains so they don't lose sight until they left the room.
"Okay... You want something before I go?", asked Lord Starchbottom.
"Well, Starchy", Grumpy began with an amused smile, "You see, we come from the Island of the Lost..."
"...And there is not much food...", continued Sleepy.
"...What if you bring us something to eat?", smiled Sneezy.
"After all, we're invited", to finish Bashful laughed, jumping to one of the beds, which now, he had declared as his.
Starchbottom sighed overwhelmed, but to not provoke the fierce villains...
"Well, what do you want to eat?", growled Starchbottom.
"A sandwich!"
"Chicken wings!"
"A big piece of cheese!"
"Nothing greasy... A salad!"
"Meatballs!"
"Chocolate!"
"Yes, bring us lots of chocolates!
"And potato chips!"
"Ok, that's enough!", exclaimed Starchbottom irritated, but he repented after seeing the indignant expressions of the villains.
"Excuse me?", Bashful growled as his eyes turned green.
"E-Emm...", stammered Starchbottom scared, "I-I mean... I will order to the chef to prepare a buffet for you so you have everything to eat"
"That's better...", Bashful said as his eyes returned to normal. To this shy boy, what he gave more trust on him, it was that the people fear him.
"You better hurry, because we're hungry", threatened Grumpy, sitting beside Bashful on his bed.
Lord Starchbottom nodded and quickly left the room.
Sleepy and Sneezy laughed while Bashful and Grumpy clashed fists, knowing that they scared to the bones the royal assistant.
"Okay, guys, enough fun", Bashful said, rising from his bed next to Grumpy, "Don't forget why we are here"
"Yeah, yeah, the mission... The Ruby... Magic... Blah, blah, blah, Can we wait for the food first?", said Grumpy with disinterest.
"Of course not! We'll deal with this matter quickly... If we're lucky, we could return to the island tomorrow, and the day after, we would be the new rulers of this place", Bashful said with a smile.
"Now you sound like your brother...", said Sneezy without looking at the blond while he approached to his suitcase to unpack his excessive clothes.
Bashful stayed in silent for a few seconds. Although he hated to be compared with Doc, the young villain all his life wanted to be like his older brother, or even better. Feelings of disgust and pride mingled inside him, so he had no choice but to do what he always does... Hide his feelings.
"Doesn't matter...", he spoke in a monotone, "Why don't you just come here and show us where's the Royal Ruby?"
Sneezy looked up from his suitcase to see his three friends staring at him. He was a bit uncomfortable about it.
"Okay", said the chestnut with blue tips while he appoached to the huge mirror hanging on the wall, "But I warn you that years ago that I'm not use a mirror thus"
The young dwarf stood before the mirror, closed his eyes and stretched his arms toward the mirror. His hands suddenly began to glow, a blue light as his hair wrapped his hands. Then he recited the mirror medium enchant...
"Mirror, mirror...
On the wall...
Where's the Royal Ruby?
I want to know..."
Suddenly, the image of the dwarf in the mirror began to deform. Sneezy reverted to a normal posture as he left the spell act. A light radiating from the center of the mirror. Until a clear picture began to form within it.
It was the Royal Ruby...
"There is!", exclaimed Sleepy looking in the mirror.
"Yes, but we only see the Ruby, we don't see where it is", scolded Grumpy.
"I warned you that a long time since I charm a mirror", Sneezy justified as he headed to the mirror, "Mirror, get away a bit"
The image of the Ruby began to expand. One could see a room and the Ruby on a podium in the center of it.
"One second, I recognize these walls...", Sleepy whispered, "It's here, in the castle"
"Get it away a little more, Sneezy", asked Bashful.
"Mirror, stay away just a little more", ordered Sneezy the mirror in front of him.
The image in the mirror was expanded a bit more. The Royal Ruby didn't look more, now in place, two huge wooden doors with glass in the middle were clear in the image. Through those glasses you could see many corridors and hallways, and a security guard watching inside. On one side of the wooden door was a large sign that read; "Relics Room"
"Relics Room?", Grumpy wondered, "Where is that?"
"Well... We know it's inside the castle", Sneezy encouraged.
But for Bashful it wasn't enough. He went to his bag, and in his clothes, found the book of spells that Happy had given him before leaving the island.
"Maybe there's a spell here to tell us where the Relics Room is", Bashful said, flipping through the pages of the book.
Then, just at that moment, someone knocked on the door of the room of the villains. Quickly, Sneezy broke the charm in the mirror and ran to sit on one of the beds, and Bashful hid the book under his pillow before sitting on his bed.
Once he saw that everything seemed normal and harmless in the room, Grumpy went to open the door, hoping that was the food that they commissioned. However, it wasn't what he expected.
"Princess?"
"Hello... 4D!" The princess laughed of her own pun, but calmed down when she saw that none of the villains laughed with her, "Umm... I came to make sure you were good and comfortable"
"Thank you, your highness", Bashful scoffed drawled "His Highness", as he rose from his bed and walked to the princess, "We're fine, actually..."
"Well, I'm glad!", smiled the princess, "Oh! And please, just call me Delightful, I think your highness sounds somewhat formal"
"As you command, Delightful", taunted the young blond again, this time drawled in "Delightful".
"Ok?", the princess smiled a little confused by the attitude of Bashful.
It must be a game of villains, thought Delightful.
"So is everything in order?", asked the princess.
For just a second that seemed like hours inside the mind of the blond, literally a small flame burn up on the green hair of the young dwarf... He had an idea.
"Not really, princess... You know, with the boys wanted to know where we'll live for a while, how about if you give us a tour of the castle?", smiled Bashful.
The princess was so impressed with the request that immediately agreed without question very happy. The other three dwarfs smiled malicious, mentally thanking that the young blonde was pretty clever.
Thus were the four villains launched way to the different corners of the castle, with their guide.
They met the kitchen. It was huge compared to many others, filled with luxurious artifacts and plenty of food. There they met the personal, including the chef, who at that time was preparing the buffet that had commissioned Lord Starchbottom for them. In addition, they met the timetable, in which is specified that the chef stopped working at 10:00 pm, so if the dwarves wanted to eat something after that time, they had to prepare themselves.
They met the ballroom. It was so spacious that all the people of Jollywood could enter without problem, and of course, that was the point. With an impressive ceiling, the ballroom was filled only for shows and parties in which the Jollywodiens should attend.
They met the training room. Full of sports equipment for various sports, including basketball, fencing, croquet, polo, gymnastics, among others. That was where the king used to practice fencing with Lord Starchbottom, and the princess did rhythmic gymnastics.
They met the tailor room. It was where the royal tailor spent hours and hours perfecting different costumes and outfits for all those who inhabited the castle, servants as both the king and the princess. Different fabrics, different colors and textures, mannequins and many mirrors had in that room.
They also went through the bedrooms of the castle. In many of them lived the servants around the castle, including the royal tailor, the chef, the coachman and even Lord Starchbottom.
Among the corridors, there was a very long spiral staircase. The staircase reached the royal bedrooms, in other words, the King's and Princess's bedrooms. They were very exclusive, and only the most trusted servants had access to it.
Finally on the tour, the room that the dwarfs was waiting... The Relics Room.
It was exactly the same as the image that appeared in the mirror that Sneezy enchanted. The huge wooden doors with small glass windows inside, remained the room closed.
"And this is the Relics Room", said the princess, "Where we keep the valuable things of our ancient history... in other words, is like a museum"
"How interesting...", the blond smiled to himself, "And... we can go take a look?"
"Oh, I would love to go... but...", the princess said before being interrupted by the same blond.
"Come on! Only be a few minutes"
Grumpy looked at the guilty expression of the princess and joined together to Bashful appeal.
"Please Delightful! We're curious"
"I'm so sorry, guys", the princess murmured sadly, "But you are forbidden to enter to the Relics Room... King Humidor's orders, I mean, my uncle"
Bashful frowned at the mention of the name of the King Humidor. The eldest of whom had banished years ago and had seized on that damn island. Bashful honestly almost no memory of the days when they ruled Jollywood 'cause he was very young, but he had recorded in his head was that day when his brother lost the war against the king and, with his friends, were taken to the Island of the Lost, to never return.
Always a stupid king interfering in their plans.
"Sorry, guys", the princess apologized again.
"No problem, Delightful", Sneezy realized, "Maybe it's time to return to our room, we're starving and I hope the buffet is ready"
I'm sooooooooo sorry for the delay, guys... But, you know, school and all of that things... And I know this chapter is a little more short than the others, but I'll offset you with the next chapter ;) See ya!