Pickle for your thoughts? (Dungeon meshi x reader)

A worthy hero's death

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“Woah!” the ground under your feet shook, forcing you to stop in your tracks and dodge a huge rock from smashing your head. What the hell is happening!? Your heard a deafening cracking noise filling your ears, followed by your friends’ footsteps shouting your name “It’s cracking apart!” Chilchuck yelled in clear distress at the sight of the tower slowly breaking apart. “Look over there, too!” Izustumi called out, pointing at the portico underneath you guys. You watched in horror as water poured out from the walls like a fountains as cracks threatened to make everything collapse and plumb you guys into a freefall. “What is all this? Something weird is going on” the half-foot muttered out in disbelief before it downed on him.

They were on a fucking ton of trouble.

“Oh crap”

Grabbing Marcille’s shirt the brunette started dragging her “We gotta run Marcille!” to which the elf hesitantly followed him “But Laios. . .and Falin. . .” she weakly argued, earning an angry shout “Getting somewhere safe comes first!” Chilchuck didn’t want to hear ANY type of excuse or dumb act of heroism. They will get out of here and they will get out of here ALIVE. However he should have known better than hoping to convince everyone to think of themselves and abandon everything else. Especially when in the party there is an unhinged knight.

“No way! You guys go, I will get them back and see you all back on the surface” you stubbornly said, making your way down the tower, locked in finding the two Touden siblings. Out of nowhere a hand grasped the back of your chestplate, dragging you away just in time to dodge a falling brick “I’m tired of your idiocy, knight. You are coming with us, end of the story. I will NOT stay here another second to save your sorry ass” Izustumi hissed, throwing you over her shoulder and rushing down the tower, following the others.

“The whole dungeon is falling apart!?” Senshi shouted as you guys ran through falling debris and huge waves of water “We are gonna be caught up in it if we don’t do something! We’ve got to get to the surface!” arriving near the entrance of the portico you guys were forced to stop in your tracks, the whole place splitting up in numerous paths. Marcille started sweating, anxiously biting her nails in distress “But which way should we go!?” with Chilchuck by her side, panicked as much “Let’s see. . .”

Before any of you could make a decision a shrill voice made all of you jump “Hold on a minute!” the party snapped their heads toward Izutsumi with wide and confused eyes “What is it, Izutsumi, _____?” Chilchuck asked you two as the voice unmistakably came from one of you. The cat-girl under you tsked, shaking her head as her fingers wrapped around the doll tied to her neck “That wasn’t me. It was Yaad.” The familiar name immediately made you straight up your back and you tried to turn around as much as possible “YAAD!?” out of all the names you could have expected, the young royal was the last one.

“It’s me!” Yaad-doll confirmed, lifting his stick arms in the air “What-what-what-what!? What happen?! Why are you a. . .” a shiver runs down your back “. . .a doll?” Izustumi passed you Yaad-doll so that you could take him in your hands “Thistle trapped me inside this doll, my soul I mean. But my body should still be inside the house” he explained with a sad tone. Lifting your eyes you let them land on your party in search for an explanation, still clueless on everything that happened to them in the period you were separated.