The Broken Observatory - Party Crashers AU

Ready to intervene.

   
Vernias' POV.
Me and Eevee were walking behind Nick, who was leading the way to the castle. I told Sophist about everything I've seen at night, and we both agreed Nick was too careless with himself.

After about four hours of walking, Nick stopped us because the professor called him.
 
 
"Hello, boys." - the professor started. - "I'm calling to remind, as well as warn you three, that soon you'll be in front of king Bowser's castle."

Nick sighed. Seeing him being quite cranky, I decided to answer for him.
"Thank you, professor. We'll be careful."

"Do you know exactly how long it will take us to get there from here?" - Eevee asked, coming closer to the phone.

"Well, if you three will keep that walking pace, you should be there in about thirty minutes." - the old man answered. - "I'm calling earlier, because I don't want to disturb any of you while you're very close or inside the castle."

"That's understandable, thank you again." - I answered, smiling slightly.

"Of course. Good luck." - the professor answered and Nick hung up.
 
"Fucking finally." - Nick said. He seemed... really annoyed and mad.

"You good? Maybe calm down before we continue?" - Eevee suggested, noticing the same emotions from Nick as I did.

"No, the fuck? It's a waste of time. We're going, come on." - Nick replied, not waiting for us to answer and immediately continued the way.

Me and Eevee looked at each other with the same face, and quickly followed Nick again.
 
 
 
After a bit over twenty minutes, we showed up in front of Bowser's castle. We all looked up to see it's huge size, and around to be sort of aware of our surroundings.

I looked at the huge castle again, a bit afraid, but determined too. Then, I heard Nick whisper to himself; "Please, Brent, be okay." or something like this. I looked at him and frowned, seeing him having his hands held together under his jaw. It was really upsetting.

I came thowards him and put my hand on his shoulder to show my support. He just looked at me with a worried frown, and took a heavy breathe in and out, as he looked at the castle again.
 
 
We were about to go inside, but Eevee stopped us.
"Wait. Isn't it better to go through some sort of side entrance?" - he pointed out. - "I mean, going through the front doors? Sounds like a suicide."

Nick frowned at the word "suicide". I figured what he was thinking about, he was worried that Brent was killed there.

I decided to answer;
"I mean, it's not that stupid of an idea, just don't use those kind of words. That doesn't sound good at all."

"Yeah, fine." - Eevee answered.

"I'll run around to see if there are any different ways." - Nick muttered as he used his superspeed power and ran around.

We waited for a little while, as Nick came back with an information.
"There are two other entrances in the back of the castle and one to the left. To put this more simply, two entrances to the left, one to the right."

"Okay, we can go to the back then?" - I asked.

"Yeah, I'd suggest the right back door. There is one back door to the left, but knowing there's also onr entrance to the left of the castle anyway, these two are probably connected in some way." - Eevee said. - "The right door seems the safest."

Me and Nick nodded.
 
Nick and Eevee quickly ran towards that entrance while I just flew really fast there.

"So, the idea is?" - I asked.

"I'd say just walk inside really slowly to be aware of the surroundings in there. We don't know if there are some guards around this entrance or not." - Eevee said, as Nick went towards the door.

"Yeah, what he said." - Nick quickly agreed, paying more attention to the castle in front of us. He placed his hand on the door and looked at us. - "Everyone ready?"

Both me and Eevee nodded. We all took a deep breath and Nick opened the door.
  
  
 
Nick's POV.
We all carefully went inside, me in the front while the duo behind me. I peaked my head around the corner, but it seemed clear. Now the problem to find where Bowser was.

I showed the boys a gesture for them to follow me. We had to take complicated paths in case someone noticed us. We quietly walked around the castle, looking at every door "nameplate".

We walked up to the second floor and looked around there too. I suddently started to feel nauseous again. "Fuck, not now..." - I thought and I covered my mouth with my hand slightly and rubbed it.

After a few seconds of trying to calm myself down as well as stop the feeling of nauseousness, instead of standing and just looking around, we continued our walk through the long halls...