My Little Princess

Chapter 6: Slumber

After a month of repairing the school, Eric and I have talked about a new class in the club that we could do. Not like a study class, but like a new club within another.
At first I thought the idea was pointless and a complete waste of time and money, but he managed to convince me otherwise.
He said that on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays, there'll be a special thing we do in the club.
We are called the maiden club, so we started a new service, we've became true maidens to it's name, we now not only serve our guests with a valid request, but now, we serve them... As maids...
"Yo, Kylie! We have an order for table five!" "Got it!" Yes, we're... That club.
"AHH!" The sound of plates falling to the floor, clashing with one another and breaking the plates into tiny white pieces becomes a sound of screams  and terror. I turn over before I hand the order to the table, and notice one of the customers assaulting Emerald.
"C'mon baby~ Why not ditch work and come with us for while, yeah?" "No please stop! I don't-- AHH! What is your hand doing down there?! Please stop!!!" "Now now, don't be like that, all we want is a little fun, right boys?" "Heh, yeah~~" "So be a good girl and--" Before it could get any worse, I take his left arm away from her and twist it into a pretzel.
"Excuse me sir, I think you should be kind to our Maidens here, cause you see. As long as I'm alive, you're not going to touch one girl." I say in a sinister tone.
"HEY WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?! WHY YOU LITTLE PU--" I grab his face before he could finish. "Ah, you must be the leader of these goons, I'm sorry, but you and your people are no longer allowed here, you can no longer request the girls and you can longer see them. Please, leave before it gets nasty."
"WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE YOU LITTLE SHIT! I GIRL TRYING TO TAKE ME OUT?! HA! I LIKE TO SEE YOU TRY! BOYS NOW!" Next thing I know, all four men that were sitting at the table grab each limb on my body, while the fifth one, who I had holding his face. Was below me, I was terrified what he was going to see. I didn't care less what they DID to me, but what they saw... I couldn't bare it.
"Now, then, I bet you're new to this whole "Maiden Club" business. You see, I know the guy who use to be the KING of this club! And we were THE KINGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE AT THAT--" "Excuse me, ex-sir knight, I need to remove your group's filthy paw off of my princes.
"What did you just sa--" "I said... remove your filthy paws off my princess.... I don't think you know who I am, you see, I'm the king of this place, and these maidens here, they treat me like a god, so I must ask you again, remove your hands from here, if anyone is going to touch her, it's me." What... what did he just say? "W-ha? You must be kidding me you can't be the king! You're Eric Cartman! The fat ass of the school! And the pervious king was much more fair than you!"
"Is that so? Let me think about what your king did. He lacked the will to be the king of this school, he lacked charm and he lacked maidens within the club. The reason why he joined the club and became it's king is because he only wanted one girl to join him in it. But she refused."
"Not to mention after being over whelmed with power, he became more of a demon of greed than a King of light, as he so claimed. So I had to take him out, despite that, I was what the school needed, if you deny all of these, the  I'll happily make Mousie come and take you away and show you the truth. Considering how blind you truly are, it'll be days before you'll be able to leave this place unharmed. What a pitiful soul. So, I'll ask you again, remove your hands away from my princess."
The men stood still, all eyes were on Eric, the fifth was shaking, his hands turned place and his face was blue. It was obvious he knew the truth, be denied all of it. He wasn't the type of man to back down, however, he ended up doing so.
"A-Alright... You win, just please, don't send out Mousie, the Undyne!" Eric nods, and the men ran off, dropping me on the floor. "Ouch... man, why did they do that?" "They were in a hurry, now, I know I shouldn't be saying this, but, what were you doing fighting with those boys?" "Well I had to do something, they were messing with Emerald, and I couldn't let that happen and just watch..." "I know where you're coming from, but Emerald can take care of herself, no matter what the situation... I think these men know... "
"What are you talking about?" Eric turns to me. "Come with me." He grabs my arm and takes me down a what seems like a wine cellar, but with no wine. He locks the door and takes me down further to the point there are nothing but chains. "Where are we going? What is this place?" Eric doesn't say anything.
We stop and he points towards a dark hallway with a door with small flashing white lights that only appeared every five seconds. "In there, go, I'll be right behind you." I gulp, I fear what I might see in there. Without thinking, my legs start to move on their own and I head towards the dark empty hallway, into the door. I stop and look around, and that's when I noticed, there was a body on the wall...
"AHHHH!!!!" I scream and jump back into Eric, who wasn't shocked at all. Well, why would he, he obviously knew this was here... 'W-What happened?" "This is Emerald's doing..." "She did this?" "Yes..." The girl hanging there was nailed to the wall with a noose around her neck. There were hundreds of burn marks on her body, not to mention it looked like her eyes were taken out by a pair of rusty scissors.
"This girl was once one of the Maidens here at this club..." What? She was part of the club? "Her name was Sapphire Green. She was one of the most hard working girls in the club, she always came to me once she has completed something and constantly asked for another task. Little did I know, it was her way to take over the club and make everyone here slave."
"Why would she want that?" "Well you see, she had ESP, she knew what everyone was thinking, even I knew she had ESP, however, as useful as it was in battle. She was still someone with a horrible past, who wished to eliminate anyone who reminded her of that past, and that, was the entire school." "What happened?" "Her past, well, she was in the military as an eight year old girl, she was fighting against the Japanese. Her home, and the Americans, her father's home. She was part of the resistance called  'A bas le monde' Which is French for 'Down with the world.' She was the leader of the group after the headmaster died, which was her brother."
"She then took the name Undyne." Why is that?" "Because no matter who she fought, no matter how bad of a shape she gotten into, she never died. She started to fight the Japanese while the Americans were awaiting for them, however, as impatient they are, they decided to take the war to them." I see where this is going... "They were caught in the middle of it, the Americans thought they were on their side, but after they noticed the flag, they knew that they weren't with anybody but their own."
"She was the only who survived, cannons went off and people went flying, her best friend Jason, died within the fire, who was the son of one of them men of the Military, so of course, the man took his own life after killing his own son." "That's horrible..." "Yeah it is.... Like I said before, she was the only who survived. She fractured her skull in her left eye, but, she still kept moving. That's how she met Emerald."
"Wait, Emerald met Undyne?" "Yes, that is correct, not even Undyne remembered her own name... It turns out she even gotten a bit of brain damage when she took that hit to head by that gun... So, Emerald healed her by to health." I see... "They became best friends after that, Undyne was thankful for everything that Emerald did for her, and was ready to take on the war once more. Emerald however, refused that she left. She told Undyne that the war is over, but no one knew who one, but in the end, it looks like she did."
"Undyne was glad she said those words, but despite that, she felt that she had to go back out there, in hopes to find her men. Emerald shook her head and told her that they're all dead, there is nothing lefts but empty corpses. Of course Undyne was not happy about this, and realized that her memory is gone, as for her real home, she couldn't go back after what she has done."
"So they left the area and came here to Ireland, which I was already there. I met Emerald and Undyne first hand, and I knew who Undyne was, but I still accepted her. I asked them to join me in a club called the Maidens Club. It's a place where girls can remove all of their worries of troubling pasts and can reform a new bond with others."
"At this time, her ESP kicked in, and repeated the words I was thinking. 'However, I need to fight the king who already has the club, he isn't a good king, so I need these two to help me, and maybe one more...' I was surprised that she knew what I was thinking... despite that, I knew I could put good use to that power she has." 'So you used her." "Basically."
"After that, I met Violet and Ruby, I was the one who took Violet in and Ruby, well, she kinda forced her way in..." Forced her way in? I don't think I heard her story yet... "Later on, All of us and Undyne, we took on the king and created a peaceful place for everyone, we won thanks to her. However after a month, Undyne was acting strange... Sure she was working harder and harder, but it wasn't for me, it was for Emerald."
"She loved Emerald, but Emerald had a different interest, and whatever that was, she wasn't happy about it. She then tried to use her ESP for evil, for her own good. She crated an army of men and women, most of them fought because she told them what everyone really thinks about them. It was horrible sight, a blood bath... So, Emerald had to take her down, she was the only one who could, so, she asked Undyne to meet her in the basement of the club, and she did."
"Undyne blindly followed Emerald, with a happy grin on her face, thinking that she finally got through Emerald, that she finally knows how much she loved her. Because of those emotions filling her head, she didn't know what Emerald was thinking. The entire time, Emerald was thinking about how horrible this was to do to her friend, but she didn't have a choice, she had to stop Undyne once and for all, just like she should have a long time ago..."
"A long time ago?! You mean--" "Yes, Emerald was part of that group... 'Down with the world" "How can that be?!" "She was able to live because she healed herself every time she gotten badly injured, and managed to maneuver through the crowd unnoticed. She was just a little girl, despite her age, she was very small."
"Emerald told Undyne to sit on this very bed, however, it wasn't a bed, it was a koniology  table. She tied Undyne to it, and still, Undyne was thinking: This is the best confession ever! However, as soon as Emerald took out the scissors, Undyne was unsure. She tried reading her mind, but Emerald knew, she had to keep her mind blank if she was going to kill someone."
"She took them and dug them into her eyes, until it turned into mush, then it was the right eye. She didn't want her friend to see the horrible things that were to happen to her, so she was pretty much sparing her from the horrible torment that awaited her."
"Undyne screamed with pain, but no one could hear, she stuck nails into her body, chest, and arms, it was horrible, she kept her alive as much as she could, but she knew her friend was in dire pain, and she couldn't bare it. She said she was sorry hundreds of times, but her voice was too weak for Undyne to hear her."
"Once the nail torment was over, she felt a cold knife crush against her face, this is when she knew it was, it wasn't Emerald, no, it was someone else, it was... Her dear younger sister, Hyila Under. Her sister was known for tormenting men and many other victims, her older sister Undyne once caught her killing Undyne's best friend Alex, but, she knew why, so she left them...'
"Never did she think she would experience the same pain they did back in the days when they were kids, their parents were always away, so it was easy. The police tried to arrest them, but they had no proof, she always removed the evidence that any of the murders in that house ever happened.
"So, that means..." "Yeah, Emerald is the serial killer known as Mischief Tormentor. No one knows the truth... until now.."
"Undyne tried hanging herself, to end her torment, some how she managed to break herself free... When Emerald came back, she found her sister just in time to finish the torture. She took her sister to this wall, and used nails to hammer her down to this wall, she cut out her tongue so no one could know what happened to her, not even me, but I did find out a week later..."
"It was a sad tale for both of them, after that, Undyne was left to rot down here, alone in this cellar, she is forever... in slumber... She is still alive, yes, but she is unable to move, for she, is no more than a mere puppet..."
"How can that be? How could she still be alive?!" "She died many times you know? That's why she's called Undyne, she can't die, she can't hear us either, she can't do anything until the day she finally dies... Which will never come." "So, you're saying... she's immortal?" "That's exactly what I'm saying Kylie, she is not dead, but she is a puppet..." "How?"
"Emerald used one of Undyne's spells and made her into a puppet after three months... Every time she went down there, Undyne would always repeat the word 'WHY?! WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME DEAR SISTER?!!' She may not have a tongue, but you could tell what she meant. I felt bad for her when I first saw her like this, so I asked Emerald to make her something she likes, and so, she made her into a puppet."
"How Ironic..." "Huh?" "She was the one who healed Undyne, but in the end, she was also the one who took her life... ironic... That's what you call it, it was ironic..." "I see, so that's how you use it..." "Eric, let's go back, I think we've been down here long enough..." "You're right, let's go." We left the room, and the cellar, everyone greeted us back happily, even Emerald.
I will never forget what I saw down there, and what I've heard. It looks like to me, that I still need to learn more about this group than ever, perhaps maybe even the reason behind this place. All I know is, is that everyone, has a dark secret, even the kindest ones.