All right. I've decided to stop everybody's suffering by actually updating this story all thanks to the Nameless One who has reminded me that perhaps I should update. (Hey didn't he do that for the last chapter too? Come on people! You gotta get onto my case more often!) And then he said something about tacos that poop out ice cream and Sadam but I can't exactly remember... But I was really hungry after talking to him...

So here is the most unluckiest of chapters.

Chapter 13: Stairwells and tea

Darkshin, Chazbone, Alma, Litehawk, the Nameless One, HG, Qaulinesti, Lener, Karma, and RedLady all walked up the stairs of the Evil dude's castle. Darkshin and Chazbone were up front fighting for space as many times Chazbone's sword got stuck between the narrow rusty walls. Many times the two warriors found themselves shoulder to shoulder as they silently fought for the lead.

Alma and HG followed trying not to laugh as any giggles would echo throughout the lower part of the castle. Qaulinesti, Lener, and the Nameless One followed behind them arguing lowly about who was more powerful. While Qaulinesti claimed to have powers that surpassed any sorceress, Lener argued that her bow and quick wits were more effective while the Nameless One claimed that he was sure he was granted the gift of telepathy.

Litehawk meanwhile had found a huge bow hanging on the wall almost as big as his body. He still took it shrugging because it was much better than his old crossbow. RedLady and Karma followed in the back. HG's kitties and the Nameless One's army of chipmunks followed them all.

Everyone walked up the narrow winding stairs to get to the upper level of the castle and hopefully meet the Evil dude himself since this was his castle anyway. All the signs had said so...

RedLady looked a little confused but sad at the same time as she and Karma walked side by side, step by step.

"What's wrong?" Karma asked. RedLady shrugged twirling an amulet around on her finger.

"I just feel strange." She said rubbing her stomach.

"Hmm..." Karma said wondering.

"And I don't understand how all this could be happening. And who is the evil dude? I don't think I've made any enemies."

Karma looked at RedLady sympathetically. "Don't worry Red." Karma said clutching her multi-colored Karma dagger. "Whoever he is, I'll teach him a lesson. I am your right-hand woman, aren't I?" she asked smiling cutely.

"Yes." RedLady sighed. "That you are."

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Suddenly everyone in front of them stopped and they both bumped into those in front of them. Darkshin in the front said something but those in the back couldn't hear him through the narrow winding passageway.

"What did he say?" RedLady whispered to the front.

"He said he heard noises and to be quiet." HG yelled back and then grimaced as his voice echoed throughout the corridors. Chazbone hit his forehead in aggravation and Lener glared at HG.

"Eh hee hee." HG said sheepishly as Darkshin rolled his eyes and Karma and RedLady shared a look.

Meanwhile the benevolent Mr. Platypus, Diablo-2-Freak, and BerserkRage were also traveling through the castle except on the upper levels.

The castle seemed to be quite lavish at one time as many of the old velvet furniture sported elaborate designs and the candle holders covered in cobwebs seemed to be made out of gold. Dusty paintings and torn lady's fans hung on the wall.

But the place was dark as no candles lit the place and Diablo-2-Freak's flashlight and the occasional lightning was the only light available. Various debris lay on the ground from broken furniture to dishware. BerserkRage thought he spotted a rotting piano. He passed by it staring at the rotting instrument and then noises began emanating from the wall...

"Wait!" BerserkRage said.

"What?" Diablo-2-Freak asked.

"I hear voices."

"So do I, but that's no reason to stop." Mr. Platypus said continuing forward.

"No, really. I hear real voices."

"I'm not kidding. So do I..."

"No, I mean outside of my head." BerserkRage continued.

"Oh..." Diablo-2-Freak said because he had been getting very confused.

"Well why didn't you say so?" Mr. Platypus said getting out some sort of laser shooter ray gun thingy.

Just then the wall by the old piano began to shake right by them. "Yikes!" Diablo-2-Freak said and they all stepped back. Mr. Platypus raised his gun while his Platypus army stood ready. BerserkRage raised his mace threateningly and Diablo-2-Freak held his mini key chain flashlight and then realized that maybe it wasn't a very good weapon so he hurriedly searched for one in the room they were. All he managed to find was a broken chair leg. He shrugged and held it above his head and coughed as dust and a piece of cloth flew into his face.

The wall crumbled and they were all ready to attack whoever it was. What they saw was a dark, dark warrior step out of the darkness and into more darkness since the evil dudes house only electricity seemed to be from the constant lightning storm outside.

"The evil dude!" Diablo-2-Freak yelled and rushed after him with a piece of furniture... The warrior easily flipped Diablo-2-Freak onto his back and threw his chair leg to the side. Next BerserkRage was about to attack, but Mr. Platypus began shooting his gun which the warrior easily reflected the blasts with his katana which seemed to appear from no where. The warrior stepped aside and somebody else with a really, really, really long sword stepped out.

"Hey what's going on?" HG's voice echoed from behind them. HG stepped out of the hole with Alma behind him.

"Dari?" Alma said using her nickname for Mr. Platypus.

"Alma?" BerserkRage said squinting. Diablo-2-Freak looked up from the floor. "Are you an android?" He asked the girl. "Are you all androids?" He said a bit fearfully.

"We're not androids!" Qaulinesti said stepping out from the hole.

"Nope, most definitely not Androids." The Nameless One said behind her.

"Then who is he?" Diablo-2-Freak said pointing to the dark warrior.

"It's Darkshin silly." Alma said smiling cutely. Meanwhile everyone else had stepped out of the hole. RedLady was last and upon seeing the three boys ran up to them excitably.

"Platypus!" She said excitably shaking his hand. "And BerserkRage!" She said shaking his hand too. She leaned down to shake Diablo-2-Freak's hand as well. "Diablo-2-Freak!"

"Hi RedLady." He said not bothering to get up from the floor.

RedLady looked happy to see them for a moment. Then her eyes narrowed at the three.

"AND JUST WHERE HAVE YOU THREE BEEN!?" She yelled. And everyone but Darkshin fell backwards in a classic example of Anime.

Currently they were all sitting on the floor drinking tea provided by Alma or maybe it was her android, but no one knows and they probably don't care as long as they got to drink some. HG had provided muffins, somehow, anyway, though RedLady refused to eat some even though everyone could hear her stomach mumble. She joked about rather eating Diablo-2-Freak's chair leg.

HG was currently telling his story. "And then somehow... I still don't know how, we all got captured and ended up here. Then RedLady came..."

"And I would have gotten us out myself..." Qaulinesti added.

"And we were simply following the signs to the Evil dude's castle." RedLady said.

"But I fell down the trap door." Lener mentioned.

"And the kitties were stuck in this goo!" Alma added.

"And Chazbone saved the day." RedLady said hugging the boy.

"But I helped..." Qaulinesti said showing off a floating ball of water for emphasis.

"You know what?" Mr. Platypus interrupted. "I have no idea what you are talking about."

"Did you say something about androids?" BerserkRage asked.

"Yes." RedLady said nodding. "Darkshin's an android."

They all backed away from the silent dark, dark warrior. (Double dark?)

"No not now." RedLady said. "He was an android."

"And he's human now?" BerserkRage asked confused.

"There's only one way too know." HG said mischievously and got out a butter knife. "Darkshin we are gonna need to see some blood..." Darkshin looked at him... well... um... darkly.

"NO!" RedLady said getting between the two. "I mean there was an android made of him..." She continued.

"Oh."

"Why did you say he was an android then?" Lener asked.

"I don't know. Seemed funny..."

"Right..."

"And HG was an android."

"I was?" HG asked.

"Yep." Alma nodded.

"Cool." He said but they all looked at him suspiciously. "I mean not cool but... I feel all important now." He said smiling like this:

"And he turned into a guyver unit but there was a red button and..."

"We ran into an android too." Mr. Platypus interrupted darkly. They all turned to him. "It looked like Alma." He continued.

"Me?" Alma squeaked. HG hugged her. "Aren't we just one big happy android family." He said squishing her.

"I'm beginning to wonder if Dream Eater is an android too..." Mr. Platypus said never taking his eyes off Alma. Alma looked at him shocked.

"D.E. was here?" She asked slowly.

"Yes, and he said RedLady was the evil one." They all turned their attention to RedLady who looked up confused.

"She doesn't have what it takes to be evil." Darkshin said darkly.

"Whoa, is there something we don't know about you Red?" Lener asked. Karma poked RedLady as if too see if she was evil. The Nameless One looked suspiciously at the red Lady.

"Come on!" Chazbone argued. "RedLady can't be evil!" He said defending her. Then he turned toward her. "Can she?"

"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA...cough... cough...choke." RedLady tried to laugh evilly.

They all sighed in relief. "More insane that evil." The Nameless one concluded.

"Well I definitely want to know who the evil one is around here." BerserkRage said.

"Let's see. We have the Nameless One, the Hyper one, and the Dark one..." Diablo-2-Freak began naming them off.

"And the cute one!" Alma added smiling.

"What does that make me? The red one?" RedLady asked. "That must make you the Lite one, Litehawk."

"Uh..."

"As long as I get to be the insane one..." Mr. Platypus joked.

"Uh... people?" Karma said behind them. They all turned to her. "That wasn't there before was it?" She asked pointing to a sign that said, "Evil dude this way."

RedLady's eyes bulged.

"Geeze, you'd think he was some sort of circus exhibit." Nameless One noticed.

"It is kind of like that though, isn't it?" Chazbone wondered.

"As long as nothing explodes." RedLady joked. "I guess tea time is over."

"What?" HG said. "But I just baked a new batch of muffins." He continued holding up a tray of muffins in a frilly apron that had a very controversial sentence on it. (If you want to know what his apron said you'll have to ask Hyper Guyver or read the next chapter, whenever I decide to post it.)

RedLady backed away from the tray and hid behind Darkshin scared. "Protect me Darkshin!" She said melodramatically. "I'm scared of muffins!"

"Um... ok..." Darkshin said confused. o0

"It's his fault!" RedLady said pointing to Mr. Platypus. Mr. Platypus smiled proudly.

"Yep." He nodded then laughed out loud.

RedLady who was still behind Darkshin had her back to the door. Then she felt a poke in the back. She turned around and bumped into Darkshin.

"Um... Chazbone..." She said reaching for the boy with the really long sword. "I think it's for you."

They all looked over to see Yasu, (remember him?) holding an equally long sword which he had used to poke RedLady to get her attention.

"Yasu!" Chazbone whispered.

"All that time of locking me up in a box and now I shall get my revenge!" He said laughing evilly.

"Why does that sound familiar?" RedLady said whispering to Lener. "AND WHY CAN'T WE JUST ALL GET ALONG!?" She wailed and was answered by a sword swipe from Yasu's sword.

"AH!" She jumped back avoiding a fatal wound.

"Hey!" Chazbone yelled. "You're fight is with me!"

"Yes, of course." Yasu said maniacally.

"Don't you have an alternate personality too?" Lener asked RedLady.

"Yes..." RedLady answered still a little shook up from almost getting hit by the long sword.

"And don't you and Instab. fight all the time?" Darkshin asked.

"Um... we've reached an agreement." RedLady said smiling showing off sparkling white teeth.

"Um... Ok..." Darkshin answered.

Meanwhile Chazbone and Yasu were facing each other in the room. Everyone else stood squished by the walls since the two swords put together equaled the entire length of the room and twice the length of the ceiling. After a messy scramble and lots of people avoiding everything from sword swipes to falling debris the room didn't look much like a room anymore.

Then to make matters worse the army of shadow wraiths chose that particular time to flood into the room. The only escape from the crowded room full of confusion was a small stair well leading upstairs.

Qaulinesti used her super powers to zap any creature that came near her. Lener, though with some difficulty, stood by Qaulinesti and shot those that didn't die from Qaulinesti's super powers.

Chazbone focused on Yasu even amongst the chaos around him. And I'm sure Yasu did the same but I was too scared to ask him...

The Nameless One ordered his chipmunks to attack the creatures and they quickly annihilated most of the creatures as their sharp teeth chewed off the heads of the shadow wraiths.

HG's kitties scratched, meowed, and bit at the shadow creatures as HG looked on proudly and managed not to get attacked himself.

BerserkRage attacked with his mace while Diablo-2-Freak resorted to his hands and fought like a true boxer. Mr. Platypus zapped those he could while his Platypus's finished off the work.

And this all happened in the same crowded room...

RedLady had made it to the stairway and had beckoned Darkshin and Alma who fought bravely side by side swinging their katanas almost like a Jedi knight. She also pulled Litehawk with her whose huge bow was almost useless in the crowded room. Karma followed them, managing to stab at a couple wraiths herself before making it to the stair well.

The five of them made it up the stairs leaving the chaos behind. Who knew that the Evil dude waited for them at the top...

Next chapter, will we finally get to figure out who the evil dude is? And are you still wondering why Dream Eater said RedLady was evil? Does Chazbone still have more revenge in store for Darkshin? And will I stop taunting you with questions you won't be able to answer till I finish this story? Nope, that I won't. Ok, maybe I will. For now.

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