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21 - Trip

It had been four months since Killer had started to join me on my excursions; he hadn't killed anyone else, thankfully. Unfortunately, Horror was going to have to start joining us as well in roughly a month, and he wasn't looking forward to that point. He had improved his fighting style with his axe, but he was still inexperienced. I had been having him and Killer fight eachother to improve both of their skills, and it had been working so far; Killer could now take on most adult monsters with less difficulty, and Horror could last for a while in a fight with him. As for the rest of my boys, they were still learning. Dust had been accustomed to holding a knife properly, but he still held back; he didn't want to hurt anyone, and while I could understand that, I had to try to get him to actually use the weapon. Cross had taken an interest in knives as well, and I had started him out with some simple training. Error didn't really enjoy any of the weapons I had showed him, but that was fine; he had time. Today, I was going to take my boys on a small shopping trip; they needed to get outside our universe every once in a while, and a shopping trip was a good way to get out...and we needed more crayons..my boys went through crayons like a swarm of locusts would with a garden. 

"Dad, do you think they'll have action figures?" Killer wondered. 

"Perhaps." I replied. "Why do you ask?"

"Just wondering.."

"All right." I was going to allow them a few minutes in a toy store, but I hadn't told them that yet. "Is everyone ready?"

"I'm ready!" Error jumped.

"Ready." Horror nodded.

"I'm prepared." Cross stated. 

"Ready for action!" Killer exclaimed. 

"I'm ready to stay home and hide." Dust didn't exactly want to leave the house.

"Dust, you can't stay home alone." I shook my skull. "Remember last time?"

"That was an accident.." Dust hadn't meant to hide under his bed when he heard the house settling; it had taken a couple days to find him, though.

"You can hold on to me the entire time; I'll keep you safe."

"All right.." Dust grabbed one of my appendages and held on tightly; I wouldn't have been losing him with his grip.

"Stay close to me, boys." 

I created a portal to a neutral AU, and my boys followed me through it. Each one of them held an appendage, which meant that I would have known if one of them let go. When we were through, we found ourselves in a well-known neutral AU; many monsters from different AUs chose to shop here, since it was essentially a ridiculously large shopping center. There were a lot of crazy AUs, but some of them were useful. We began walking through the shopping center, and my boys pointed out interesting things that we probably weren't going to buy, but they were interesting anyway. We eventually reached a children's store, and we began to look for crayons; those were at the top of our shopping list. When we entered the store, we immediately found ourselves faced with toys, games, and decorations, but we were on a mission; there was an entire section of the store dedicated to coloring, and there were enough crayon boxes to last my boys...a year..if they didn't draw much. That was good enough for me. I grabbed about ten boxes of crayons, and I was done in that store. Of course, the cashier had to be difficult.

"Dude, why are you buying, like, over a thousand crayons?" The man scoffed.

"May I just make my purchase in peace?" I had every right to buy over one thousand crayons if I so wished.