You can all blame Millie_Astral (Chibi) for the chapters getting much longer XD

Gothica for now puts off how inserting Don is to look around the city some more. Nash eventually finds Gothica and follows him from a distance, being careful not to be seen. He wears a cloak so he won't be seen by the people so they won't make a commotion. Gothica finds a fountain and takes a seat on the side of it and pulls out his guitar. He takes a moment to tune his guitar before playing it. Nash hides near by and listens to Gothica play.

'I wonder who he is? He seems kind of interesting.' Nash thinks to himself.

Gothica plays a dark tune on his guitar, the tune sounds sad yet happy at the same time. Nash moves a bit closer to listen, he hopes that Gothica sees him but doesn't stop playing since he likes the tune. Gothica doesn't even notice Nash and still keeps playing, changing the tune a bit to make the music sound a bit more sadder. Nash finally decides to approach him.

"Hello." Nash says to gets his attention.

Gothica stops playing to look up at him and replies with a "Hi." His voice is smooth yet sweet and soft, he sounds nothing like his original personality Dumon.

"Are you new here?" Nash asks, finding Gothica's voice pleasant to hear.

"I am, I'm just passing by though." Gothica replies smoothly.

"Do you have place to spend the night? I'd be more then willing to help if you don't."

"No I don't have a place to stay, and that's very kind if you to help me."

Nash smiles, "Come with me."

Gothica puts his guitar away and follows Nash, "What's your name if you don't mind me asking?"

"My name is Nash, and yours?" Nash replies as they walk to the palace.

"The name's Gothica, Gothica Seraph."

"It's nice to meet you." Nash says with a smile as he walks into the palace.

Don grains as he feels Gothica and his hidden personality.

"What's with the grin?" Vector asks curiously.

"It's nothing. We just have a guest, that's all." Don replies.

"Wait, you're the king of this place?" Gothica asks a bit surprised.

"I am."

"Cool, I guess there's perks to being royalty."

"There's ups and downs, but I try to look on the bright side of things." Nash says with a small smile and leads Gothica to the room he'll be staying in. "You can say here as long as you want."

"Thanks." Gothica gives Nash a small smile.

Nash smiles back at him then goes to his room for the night. Gothica goes into his room and takes out a big black case from his dark lapis bracelet. Inside the case is his stone gargoyle statue Shadow, which he puts up on the dresses to watch over him as he sleeps. Before calling it a night he takes a quick shower and changes into his gray night clothes. He decides to sleep shirtless so his black rose tattoo can be seen on his chest.

"Good night Shadow." Gothica says softly with a sweet smile to his pet gargoyle before going to sleep.

Eventually everyone else in the palace settles down for the night. Gothica isn't a morning person so he sleeps in a little late. When the morning rolls around everyone goes to breakfast. Well everyone but Don that is, who's gone off to spy on Gothica. Don keeps himself hidden in the shadows. Gothica comes to the waking world with a yawn and says good morning to his gargoyle Shadow as he stretches his arms up over his head. His original personality Dumon, is quite. Still keeping himself hidden from the world by having Gothica in his place. But suddenly speaks up mentally.

"You feel a bit different from before."

"Oh? Well I did find out that I have some new but odd abilities, care to tell me why that is?"

Dumon sighs, "I'm a demon, you must be able to access some of my demon power."

"Really, you're a demon?" Gothica says with a bit of excitement.

"Yes..." Dumon replies then goes silent.

Don comers closer, seeing how warm and kind hearted Gothica seems to be with his gargoyle but is taken aback when Gothica starts suddenly talking to nothing until Don hears another voice coming from the inner depths of Gothica's mind.

'Oh? This might explain the darker energy signature." Don thinks to himself.

When Dumon goes silent Gothica gets up and out of bed to go to the bathroom, his black rose tattoo is clear for Don to see. He's completely unaware of Don's presence still getting use to what he thinks is Dumon's demon power and goes about getting ready to start the day. Don tries to scare him a little by touching his tattoo while being kept hidden in the shadows but Gothica didn't notice that anything had touched him.

Don smirks at how Gothica had no reaction to him, "Inserting." He whispers and disappears, leaving a note for Gothica to go to the dinning room for breakfast.

After getting ready for the day with just a small outfit change he finds the note and heads to the dinning hall. Putting on his black and while skull with red eyes choker collar on as he leaves the room. The emperors are already having breakfast in their usual lovely manner. Gothica just glances at them, not sure what to really say. So he tries to be as unnoticeable as possible, unfortunately Nash spots him.

"Good morning, I trust that you slept well." Nash says.

"I did, though I'm not really use to such fancy places." Gothica replies back.

"How long do you plan on staying?" Nash asks, hoping that Gothica will stay for a little while.

"A week or two, I would like to explore the city some more." Gothica replies, he keeps Dumon blocked off from the outside world for the time being, believing it might upset him in someway to see a different group of Barain emperors so happy.

Don nudges Vector under the table with his foot and talks to him mentally.

"He's a peculiar one, isn't he?"

"What do you mean?" Vector asks glancing over at him.

"He's hiding someone and he has demon abilities." Don replies.

"What do you mean something?"

Don grins a bit but hides it as he eats, "No not something, someone."

"Excellent." Nash says a bit happy, he doesn't want to seem to excited about Gothica staying.

Durbe feels like there's something off about Gothica but can't pinpoint what it is just yet.

"I don't mind helping out if you need an extra hand." Gothica offers.

"If you'd be willing." Nash replies

"We are short on staff right now, but we don't want to burden you." Merag chimes in.

"It's not a problem, I don't really have anything better to do other then to explore the city."

"Thank you." Nash says, appreciating the help

"It's the least I can do for letting me stay here." Gothica replies with a small charming smile.

Nash smiles back a him and Durbe is finally able to pinpoint why Gothica feels off to him.

"Who are you hiding?" Durbe asks a bit suspicious

"Whatever do you mean?" Gothica asks, he's laid back and carefree as ever.

"I can sense you hiding someone, it's almost like you're hiding him on purpose." Durbe says a bit untrusting.

Mizael turns to Gothica with a narrow gaze, mentally searching for the hidden person.

Gothica has no reason to hide Dumon but he doesn't switch with him to show the others who he's hiding. So instead he allows Dumon to see what he sees.

"Oh him, he hasn't comes out in quite some time. It's been almost a year since I've been his "replacement" so to speak." Gothica replies as if this is a casual conversation.

Dumon on the other hand feels terrified and alone. He feels like this is the moment where he would have to face his family and he doesn't want to do that. Even if the people before Gothica aren't really his family. So he hides deeper within himself as a way to say to Gothica that he's not coming out which Gothica is able to pick up on rather quickly.

"And who is "him" and why are you replacing him?" Mizael snaps at him a little.

"That I'm not at liberty to tell you, I'm not going to upset him anymore then he already is." Gothica says a bit defensive, he can feel how upset Dumon is at that moment and doesn't want to make that worse.

Mizael narrows his eyes more at Gothica but shuts his mouth.

"Anyway... let's not spoil the mood shall we?" Nash says trying to lighten the mood, he doesn't want to be rude and ask Gothica about anything personal.

Gothica brushes everything off as if it didn't happen at all and shuts Dumon off from the outside world again to try calming him down. Nash tries to talk to Gothica about the little things while Don grins widely

"Told you." Don mentally says to Vector.

Vector chuckles under his breath while Gothica tells Nash about his trip around Earth.

"Sounds like someone's been busy." Nash says a bit happy that the awkwardness has gone away somewhat.

"I like to explore." Gothica replies casually.

"I see." Nash says, still curious on who Gothica really is.

"Is there any work that I can help you out with today?" Gothica says in that smooth tone of his.

"I'm sure Don has something for you. He's always running experiments and it usually takes up a lot of his time."

"Cool."

"You'll join me after breakfast." Don chimes in

"That's fine with me."

Soon the other emperors go off to do their work, which only leaves Vector and Don with Gothica.

"So what do we do first?"

"Come with me." Don says as he gets up from the table and goes to his room.

Gothica follows close behind him a bit excited while Vector follows Don obediently.

Don picks up on Gothica's excitement. "Quite excitable aren't you?"

"I just like trying new things."

"I see." Don says as he opens the door to his room.

Gothica looks in to see what's there.

Part of the room on the inside looks like a lab with a desk cluttered with some papers and bottles, this makes Gothica's eyes light up.

"I'm experimenting with crystals and I need an extra pair of hands. Care to help?"

"I'd love to, I have a few crystals in my bag from traveling around earth. They're back in my room."

Don's eyes glimmer at the mention of more crystals. "Oh?~"

"I keep some of my souvenirs with my pet gargoyle, I can go and get some of the crystals if you'd like."

"Please do." Don says in a happy tone.

To others Don being happy sounds really scary but not to Gothica. He nods and leaves the room to go to his own room. Vector arranges some of the bottles so they won't get in the way while Gothica is getting his crystals. Once back in his room he takes a seat on the bed to take a moment to talk to Dumon.

"Dumon, are you alright? You seemed pretty upset when the others found out about you."

"I can't face them, I don't want to be a disappointment in their eyes like I am back home."

"You're not a disappointed Dumon."

"Then why do I feel like one?" Dumon sounds as if he's crying.

"Listen, I'm not going to force you to face the world if it makes you feel uncomfortable or upset. You can come out whenever you're ready." Gothica says in a sweet almost motherly tone.

"What's taking him so long?" Don asks noticing that Gothica has been gone awhile.

Vector shrugs, "Beasts me."

"I can't face them, it would be like facing my own family. I can see the looks of disappointment on their faces already." Dumon says, he still sounds like he's crying.

"And you won't have to face them. I'll always be here for you. Now I have to get back to Don with the crystals." Gothica says gently.

At this Dumon goes silent, showing that he's done with the conversation. Gothica opens the black case for his gargoyle and takes out a few crystals. While he was having his little chat with Dumon, Don and Vector go on with their own little experiment which ended up making fireworks.

Gothica leaves his room once he has the crystals and goes back to Don's room.

"Sorry it took me so long, someone wanted to talk to me."

"That's fine, we were making firecrackers." Don replies happily.

"That's nice." He gives Don a small smile.

"So what do you have for us?"

"A few blue, purple and pink crystals." Gothica says as he shows them the crystals.

"You're an interesting one, you know that?" Don says as he inspects the crystals.

"Yeah, a lot of people on earth say the same thing."

"I'm sure you can understand why little one." Don grins.

Gothica looks at him a bit confused, not really seeing what makes him so different from other people aside from his looks, interests and his newfound odd abilities.

"It is because of my interests?" Gothica asks.

"Part of it I suppose."