"Okay, so we were near the undead tree that was mentioned by that Straw wielding ghoul," I asked Pazzo from my bed as we were watching a movie.
"Yeah," Pazzo answered as he stuffed a handful of popcorn in his mouth on his bed.
"And you think that the asylum is under the undead tree"
"It would make the most sense when you put the pieces together."
"Well, I have only one question Pazzo."
"What would that be?"
"Why are you in this room?" I asked Pazzo as I sat up on the bed.
"Oh, Vinessa said she couldn't get any sleep with you because you snore like a 30-year-old man who worked a double shift at a construction site with allergies during the springtime," Pazzo answered.
"Huh, you know what, I'll just sabotage her clothes tomorrow," I responded.
"Um, so if you're going to do that, don't sabotage her equipment because you can't dodge for somebody with such a small build," Pazzo said while eating another handful of popcorn.
"I can dodge Pazzo," I said loudly to him. Pazzo responded by throwing a popcorn at me, I tried to get out of the way, but I couldn't respond in time, and the popcorn hit me directly in the shoulder.
"..... Okay, you may be right about that one, but why did they kick you out of that room with Christopher though," I asked while looking over at Escalate who was staring at the t.v., Most likely downloading information he is seeing.
"Oh, Thats because Christopher couldn't get any sleep due to how I look when I go sleep, and that I also sleepwalk which scared the soul of him," Pazzo responded as he gave Roby a pat on the head as Roby was messing with a mechanical cube.
Yeah, it checks out, the first time I've seen Pazzo sleep I nearly blasted him because when he finally goes to sleep both of his eyes go pitch black and his jaw gets dislocated for some reason, He looks like some type of blind Indie horror game villain, don't even get me started on the noises he makes. The only way he doesn't sleepwalk is when Roby sleeps right next to him, but so far, his sleeping doesn't really bother me, possibly because I've already have gotten used to how he looks.
"So where are they taking us tomorrow?" Pazzo asked as he snuggled under his cover and getting ready for bed.
"Most likely to a court room or something and trialing us with trespassing, but we shouldn't be getting sentenced with anything due us being new here unless they just want to prove a point," I responded as I laid back down in my bed and began to fall to sleep.
3 HOURS LATER
I woke up at 12:00 am looking at the dark ceiling, already ready to go back to sleep and rolled to my side trying to get back comfortable only for me to be looking at the back of Pazzo's head. That's when I noticed something, Pazzo has a number dialed out on the back of his neck that resembles the Ghoul troll and the Straw
The Ghoul trolls' number was 50003, and the Straw ghouls' number was 49987, but Pazzo's number was #201, Who was Pazzo before he fell down in the trash hole?
"You know what, not my problem today," I said to myself as I slowly began to drift back to sleep. That was until I felt a sudden sickness, I then fell off the bed and hunched over feeling the little puke quickly form up into my chest, Then I closed my eyes finally puke a little on the carpet. After I got down, I quickly wiped my mouth and quickly stood up to go get some tissue from the bathroom.
That was until I saw the portal that formed from the puke, I pinched myself in the arm just to make sure I wasn't dreaming, then put my hand through the portal just to make sure it was real and sure enough, my hand went right through.
I was going to get up and wake Pazzo until I heard a loud splash come from the portal, I then crouched back down to see what made it but couldn't see anything, so I decided to stick my whole head in the portal.
"Pazzo was right. The asylum is underground," I said to myself as I looked around. This asylum was indeed underground, but I don't think this is just an asylum because I can only see the top of the Asylum's buildings, The rest of it is underwater.
It's like the entire place has been flooded for a long time. Most of the buildings are underwater with only the top floor intact. I then looked up and saw some big roots erupting out of some sort of big slide door, Welp, no wonder weird thing's keep on appearing in this swamp, but my main question is how are there still ghouls down here.
Splash. Crash.
Suddenly the top of a giant tree suddenly burst out of the water in a dim gold light, and before I could even react, the tree then shot out some tentacle like tree limbs, crashed it through the walls of the flooded building, pulled out 3 Farel ghouls, and finally brought them both back under the water. I pulled my head out of the portal, and once I did, the portal immediately began to close.
"Welp, that's not our problem," I said before laying back down and going immediately back to sleep. There is no reason for us to go there, I might report this discovery to the guardsmen.... nah, they're going to ask me how I know, and something tells me saying that I puked up a portal and saw it on the other side wouldn't be at all believable.
11 hours later
Knock Knock Knock
I opened my eyes due to the sound of loud knocking at our hotel door; I let out a yawn as I got up from my bed to open the door. Sure enough, it was Vinessa who was knocking on our door, and for some reason, she was strangely dressed like she's going to go out for an exercise.
"Did you sleep in your mask?" Vinessa asked.
"Yes," I answered.
"Do you ever take that mask off?"
"In private"
"You know that's not healthy, right?"
"I wash my mask often"
"I meant mentally, anyway all of you need to get up and get ready, Me and Christopher managed to get a good deal on getting us free supplies, Directions, and money on a simple job that we don't even have to complete," Vinessa explained as she reached in my hair and grabbed a wood chip it.
"What's the job?" I asked.
"We'll explain it once you all get outside," Vinessa said as she walked out of the door and down the hallway.
"Uh, Pazzo, wake up we have to go," I yelled out to Pazzo.
"Uuh, 2 more.... day's," Pazzo mumbled before rolling over.
"Pazzo, we need to get up now, Vinessa said ghoul town has given us a job that will benefit us, so we got to go," I said as I began to put my owl suit on over my clothes due to laziness.
"I'll just follow your scent and catch up later,"
"There's been a million in this room before us. How will you know the scent your following is even mine?"
"Cause you're the only person I know who baths themselves in flower perfume," Pazzo said as he continued to not move. I then backed up for running distance, then ran full speed, jumped on my bed, jumped off my bed while keeping full velocity, and crashed right into Pazzo causing both Pazzo and Roby to be knocked off their bed.
".... Welp, I'm going to throw you now," Pazzo said before quickly getting up and reaching for my leg, I quickly rolled out of the way onto the floor and bolted to safety. We then goofed around for about 5 minutes and then proceeded to get dressed, grab our things that we were allowed to keep, and finally make our way outside to meet up with Christopher and Vinessa.
"Thank God none of us were dying out here. How long does it take to get dressed in a hotel," Vinessa said while taking out a sheet of paper.
"I mean, Mines grows back on me when I'm a certain distance from it, so I don't know how to answer that one," Pazzo said while ripping the neck part of suit off to get more comfortable, Christopher shivered due to ripping sound it made when Pazzo did that.
"Anyway, you said Ghoul town had a job for us, didn't you guys go there because we're going to get a sentence," I asked while looking back at Escalate who was staring at me awaiting an order.
"Believe it or not, no, the place was restricted due to danger of going there, so the place was put under a enter if you dare type of policy, but during that time I was able to plead us a deal after," Christopher explained.
"Basically, sense were just visitors and have no way of making it on our way without supplies for our journey, there hiring us to go find the source of all these weird ghouls and other beings are showing up from, and If we find the place that these guys are coming from, they will give us enough supplies, information, and a digital map to make our journey," Vinessa explained while showing me the paper.
"But the bad news is that we're going to have to find the place first, which means it could be any were in this swamp, this swamp has so many abandoned shacks and abandoned building's which means it won't be easy," Christopher said while letting out a sigh.
"Well, actually, I know exactly where it is," I said. After I said that, everybody gave me a look of confusion and Suprise.
"But in order to make it there, we first need some type of rope or something like that," I continued.
"How do you even know where this asylum is," Pazzo asked in confusion.
"I puked up another portal last night. It showed me that the Asylum was underground under a bunch of trees that were growing through the ceiling steel doors." I explained.
"That portal fluid is still active in your body, were going to need to check that out as soon as possible, no telling what affects it could have on your body," Vinessa said with worry.
"I mean, I don't feel any different, maybe that was the last bit of portal fluid in my body, this portal was the size of pillow this time so it might have been the last bit," I reassured Vinessa. Vinessa didn't seem convinced in the slightest but didn't seem to ask any questions on the topic, possibly due to not knowing what to do without her equipment.
"Alright, let's get back to the gate and go get our equipment," Christopher said before walking down the sidewalk. We then proceeded to walk down to the gate of the town and show the front gate the paper that showed proof of us getting the job from the city's higher-ups. After we did that, we managed to get most of our equipment back and accept our sleigh for some reason.
"Um, what about our vehicle," Christopher asked the Guardsman near the gate.
"Oh, well, you know how we said we would put it in storage for you until you all get back," the Guardsman said.
"Yeah."
"Well, during its time in the storage, a bunch of guardsmen went home, got drunk at a bar, walked to the storage, saw your sleigh, and just attached something to it."
"What did they attach, a bomb?"
"A harpoon cannon," the Guardsman said while reading his paper.
".... A what," Pazzo asked in confusion.
"A harpoon canon, it's just a long-distance grappling hook that large ships use," the Guardsman answered with a straight face.
"How did they even attach it to the sl-? How did they even do it so fast," Vinessa asked in an appalled voice.
"Girl, Soldiers get really productive when they're bored with nothing to do, but could you not report this to management, I really don't feel like getting another emergency training day because somebody couldn't hold their liquor and wanted to be an idiot," The Guardsman said with a sigh.
".... Do we get to keep the Harpoon canon," I asked.
"Sure, if you want it, take it, we were ordered to get rid of it a month ago anyway," the Guardsman said. We then waited 3 minutes for the sleigh to pull up, and after it did, I was impressed. They somehow managed to fully attach this thing to the back of the cart, The Harpoon canon was enormous, the whole canon was almost as big as my entire body along with the harpoon having a jagged a rusted edge.
After we put everything we had in the cart, we hit the road with Roby at the wheel, with me and Christopher examining the Harpoon canon and checking on how to fire it.
FFCHEW
The Harpoon had shot and hit a tree directly but before we could warn Roby of what we had did, the sleigh somehow pulled the tree effortlessly out of the ground by its roots without losing a bit of speed.
"..... What type of sleigh is this," Christopher asked in confusion.
"Might be one of the sleighs Santa rides on," Vinessa joked while walking up to the Harpoon cannon and pressing a button, which caused the Harpoon to slowly return back to the canon. I then looked forward and saw the giant Dead tree that we were near yesterday and let out a sigh, something tells me this job is going to take forever.