The Angel of Darkness, And the Demon of Light

Chapter 20: Oh, This Thing... Again

(DEM LEGS, THO! Mettaton, be jealous.)

In a matter of twenty minutes, the group had made it back to the castle. "OK, can we actually STOP with the backtracking, PLEASE? Its starting to get annoying..." Susie stated, as they answered. "As long as we can stay on track, yes." Chara replied. "Good. Honestly, I'm gonna need some chalk after this..." Susie remarked, as they went up to the second floor again.

The guards left them alone, as they had been befriended by now. Vixen waved at a few Hathies, making them wave back at her. Chara looked at up at her older sister. "Hey, sis." She said, getting Vixen's attention. "hm?" Said girl responded, as she looked at the red-eyed child. "I just thought of something..." Chara stated. "And that is... What?" Vixen questioned, not noticing the others looking back at her and Chara.

"Its about Jevil... The door to his cell is still there... And it isn't locked... What do we do if he leaves the cell?" Chara asked, a bit worriedly. Ralsei and Kris tensed up from the name, as Susie just became angry at the mention of the cynical jester. "That's... I'm not sure, actually..." Vixen replied, unsure.

"Well, I think I know. We beat his ass!" Susie remarked, cracking her knuckles. "Honestly, that doesn't sound like a bad idea." Chara commented, agreeing with the dino. Hesitantly, Ralsei spoke up too. "I-I don't know, you two... Isn't that a little... Much?" He asked nervously, causing Susie and Chara to look at him.

"After hurting Vixen as bad as he did, I think its well justified." Chara stated.
"Yeah, no kidding. I mean, come on, Ralsei... You can't tell me that after everything he did, you're not even the slightest bit pissed!" Susie added, set on hurting the jester, should they reencounter him.

"Well, I was rather upset, but..." Ralsei paused, glancing up at Vixen for a moment. "That doesn't mean that violence has to be the answer." He finished, clearly not wanting to hurt anyone. "Jesus Christ, and people say I'M gonna get myself hurt by being nice...!" Vixen mumbled to herself. Chara had heard it as well and quietly responded, "I know, right?" As they made their way to the third floor, which was surprisingly empty.

"Huh... No guards up here?" Susie questioned, immediately taking notice of the vacant corridor. "I guess their just too intimidated by my awesomeness, heh." She commented, smirking cockily. "Pfft... Yeah right." Chara remarked, jokingly. "I'm gonna be honest, I wasn't expecting the third floor to be so... Unguarded..." Vixen stated, looking around.

"Well, you have a point there, Vixen. Given how much of a threat those Rudinn guards are, and how we're so close to reaching the king, you'd think there'd be more guards..." Ralsei remarked. "Yeah, not to mention how gullible they can be... I mean, what prison guard ACCEPTS an "invitation" to visit the trash can inside a PRISONERS' cell?!" Susie asked, exasperated.

"And of course, let's not forget the fact that there's literally NO ONE guarding Jevil's cell... Like seriously, he's CLEARLY a threat to this place. So why doesn't anyone keep an eye on him?" Chara pointed out. "Well, to be fair, a lot of people would probably either A, get too freaked out, B, end up getting killed, or C, go as insane as Jevil did." Vixen replied. "OK, touché." Chara remarked, as they went to the next floor.

The first thing that Vixen noticed when they walked up the stairs was a shop standing in the center of the corridor. Interested, she pointed it out to her friends. "Hey, guys. Check it out. There's a shop up here too." She said, pointing at it. Chara tilted her head at it curiously. "What kind of castle has it's own STORE? What, is the king too prideful to go buy from his subjects?" She asked, a snarky tone evident in her voice.

"Heh, nice." Susie commented, smirking as she gave Chara a fist bump. "That's... a pretty good question, actually. I'm not entirely sure." Ralsei remarked, unsure as well. 'We can question that later. Right now, we need to continue on.' Kris signed, which Chara translated for Vixen. "Oh, alright then! Maybe before we face the king, we can get some healing items from the store." Vixen suggested. "Good thinking. Anyways, let's go." Susie remarked, as they went to the fifth floor.