You are now Jon, and you can't take much more of this church service. You've been here for two books already and you don't think you can survive the boredom. A normal church service is bearable, a guy reads from the book and tells you his interpretation of it, they sing some songs, they ask for donations, but this? This is nothing but reading from one of the longest things ever written. It could be worse, they could be reading that Smash Bros. fanfic that is now the longest document in the English language.

You begin to wonder how long it will take for Nate to save you, or if he has any plan on how to save you in the first place. Suddenly the front door of the Church of the Vadicandy swings open and Nate walks in.

"Hey, I need to borrow Jon for something." He says to your mother, as if this plan might actually work.

"I'm sorry," your mother says, "but he's grounded, so he can't come with you."

"But it's something's very important."

"What does you need his help with?"

"Umm...I need his help...selling...bibles."

"Really? He was going to help you sell bibles?"

"Yeah, he was totally gonna do that!"

"I don't believe you."

"I didn't think you would."

"Really Nate?" You ask, "Of all the things that you could think of you thought she'd believe that?"

"I'm sorry! I didn't think of something to say beforehand!"

Before he can be escorted out by you displeased mother the door slams open again. It's Brandon.

"Everybody needs to get out!" Brandon shouts into the church as he runs in.

"Why is that?" Your mother asks.

"I've been looking into the lore of this world, and this church is currently sitting on top of a portal to hell!"

"What would make you say that?"

"Ancient scrolls and writings that speak of a great evil rising from a pit and destroying all around it, and signs point to that evil rising right here!"

"Well thank you for your time but that frankly just sounds too convenient for you."

"Sure, dismiss what I say now but you will regret not listening to me!"

"Please just lea—" Before she can finish her sentence a giant hole opens in the ground and snake people begin spilling out. As the snakes slithered into the church and terrified the imps and shrews that were there, a humanoid figure with red skin and horns floated up from the pit and stopped feet in the air.

"Ah, it's good to finally escape that he'll hole, ha." It said in a voice that couldn't be described as human, yet could still be understood as the English language.

Immediately your mother's face goes white and she bolts out of the church screaming in fear of the demon.

"Hahahahaha! Dude, that was fucking great!" Brandon says as he falls to his knees and continues to laugh uncontrollably.

"What just happened?" You ask, "And who's the demon?"

"What just happened is I just got you out of church, and don't worry, it's just Alex with a mask and a voice changer."

"Hey, Jon." Alex says in his demonic voice.

"Thank for getting me out of church, fam." You add.

"Well," Nate says, "now I kinda wish I got to help with the demon thing. That looked pretty cool."

"Now," Brandon says, "It's time to settle our debts."

"Settle our debts?" You ask.

"Exactly, you don't owe me anything but you owe Alex for helping you get out of church. Nate owes both of us for helping him salvage his terrible plan."

"What do you guys want us to do?" You say

"We're helping Mark with Echidna."

"Why?"

"Because if we don't he's gonna die tomorrow."

"Sounds like a good reason."

"For now sleep and get acquainted with Cherry's team."

"Wait! Who?"

"Oh, yeah! I haven't told you guys about them yet. They're some other group, from another session, that's going to be coming to our session."

"Wait, what?" Nate interjects, "So you just made this kinda decision to let them come to our game session without telling anybody?"

"Yes!" Brandon replies.

"Even though you could have just been tricked into letting a bunch of evil and/or insane people into our session where our friends, followers, and families are."

"If they prove to be dangerous then we'll kill them."

"So now we've got a group of people we need to get to know in the dream bubbles, and be prepared to have to murder them if necessary."

"Yeah, life's a bitch sometimes, but I don't think it will have to come down to us killing them. I've already made an agreement with, who I assume is, their leader."

"Wait," Alex butts in, "Didn't you break her bracelet and kinda kick her out of our session? Won't she hold a grudge for that?"

"Shit, I did do that! Well now I need to go apologize to their group leader, and also prepare for murdering them if they don't forgive me."

"Can we hold off on the murdering of strangers!" Nate says in an attempt to prevent a god-war on par with that of Norse mythology.

"Fine!" Brandon agrees, "I won't kill them. If it's an order from our leader then I guess there will be no killing today."

"When did I become the leader?"

"When you became the Prince of Mind, also you're probably the most qualified to lead."

"In what way am I just the most qualified to lead?"

"Well, I'm an asshole so I'm a terrible idea as a leader; Alex is an arsonist and we need someone who makes decisions, not infernos; Mark is a self-centered douchebag; Jon can't get his cat to listen to his orders, and Jeremy...just, no! No way in hell would I follow that piece of shit! Just no!"

"I am insulted!" Jon follows the rant.

"Anyway," Brandon continues, "You're a terrible person like the rest of us, but just kinda...not as terrible as us. We're all assholes but if there were a scale then you'd just kinda be on the section that says: "Well...he's not a total piece of shit."

"I'm ok with this." Nate responds.

"Anyway, we need to rest up for tomorrow, I'll convince Mark not to face Echidna without us. We'll meet at his house tomorrow."

With that you all went your separate ways and got prepared for another denizen fight.

END OF CHAPTER 35