Finally the creature that they were waiting for had arrive, the pale king had made the incantation to summon them several weeks ago, it was somehow lighting a strange torch with the power of soul and it begun to glow a very demonic color of red.

But wherever they came from it took many days for them to arrive...

If bugs were afraid of sleeping because of the sweet dreams with fear of never waking up...

this time they were terrified of falling asleep because this person it seems that his presence would affect the bugs around them to suffer horrible nightmares...

That would explain why she had that strange dream...

The weird thing is that apparently the reason they couldn't get to the palace was because their caravan settled just outside hallownest, in the surrounding area of ​​a surface town called "dirthmouth."

- "What about these insects and their extravagant ways of naming their cities, are they taking classes with Asgore from Undertale to name things?" Alice said quietly.

- "Did you say something dear?" said the pale king who was next to her, they were in the throne room right now waiting for the arrival of their guest.

- "Nothing wyrm, it was nothing" she said while she kept looking expectantly at the door, waiting for the arrival of the "troupe master of the Grimm troupe, called ... Grimm ... wow that unexpected ... such a Grim name for someone who it's a dream expert... (pun intended)

the king was admiring alice gown she have choose to use a white and purple gown... someting about her wearing his color and hers...make him very happy..

The doors were thrown open and the lights of the luma flys went out ... Alice was surprised at this, the magic of the pale king kept the luma flys permanently shining, how was this possible ... the only light was the same pale king who took Alice's hand ...

This was not what she had in mind ... the little vessels were all sitting around her, the babies on her lap with skitter in her place of honor in her arms, the teenagers sitting on the steps of the thrones and the adults were stationed besides the doors ...

Alice looked at wyrm, according to this, Master Grimm was the leader of a nomadic insect caravan, or rather he was the god of dreams of a nomadic insect caravan that presented acts of divination, magic, theater and especially dance, something like a circus or a traveling fair.

She was very excited and since wyrm told her that the Grimm was known to make improvised shows of his troupe skills, she wanted the children to watch... but this was getting a little creepy.

Red flames appeared flying in the room, Alice turned to see the wyrm but did not seem unfazed, the children at least seemed entertained by the flames dancing around, mostly because they were not of a color that they had seen before in the fire...

It was then that three figures appeared in the center ... and a voice was heard introducing them while one of them played the accordion ... one of them began to juggle the flames and the one in the middle began to float...

The lights were turned on even so having a reddish tone and we could see the guests ... many little red ghosts began to float with lanterns juggling and small insects dressed in red began to play on glass balls with red flame inside ... in the center and flying over the runway he finally showed up to who we were waiting for...

- "Let me introduce myself, I am the master of the Grimm troop, it is a pleasure to meet you, please enjoy the show" he said while those who looked like ghosts began to invite the children to play, and Master Grimm made figures with the flames, At the terminal he made a huge fire that destroyed all his servants ending up cleaning their area, leaving only him and the subject of the accordion...

This was an insect with a shell dark like the void but with eyes as red as blood - "Sorry for my late arrival, but my clan prefers to stay above the ground ... as I said before let me introduce myself again, I am the master of the troop and my name is Grimm, I am also the vessel and link between this world with the world of the dream realm of nightmares through my alter ego, the nightmare king "said the ...

Alice looked at him and turned to look at her children ... "vessel?" she whispered, this was what attracted the Grimm's attention to the insect that was sitting next to the pale king ... the clearly feminine insect, wearing a purple gown with a Hood, which framed her mask ...

Grimm's eyes fell on that royal visage ... she was exquisite ... the heat that emanated from her, he had never felt that inner fire before, no insect is capable of having such a temperature ... the Grimm smiled ... Alice was embarrassed at this.

Which caused her temperature to rise, which the Grimm noticed, and the smile he gave her was very sultry, the pale king did not like it at all, who let out a low hissing sound...

In a blink the Grimm had Alice's hand on his giving her a soft kiss, Alice for her part did not move ... oh this guy was hot in the full extent of the word ... (Pun intended), - "and you must be the much acclaimed amethyst lady, a pleasure to meet you, my lady "

But Alice knew how to deal with guys like this, he knew he was attractive and seductive, but she was a femme fatal when it came to these kinds of guys... she let out a giggle and gave him a boop in the middle of the face - "cheeky smooth talker are you... my lord" she said, withdrawing her hand to place it on the pale king's when he had it resting on his arm rest, his claws making rents on it, but after alice touch, the king calm down... at least for now.

The Grimm let out a laugh ... oh this would be interesting he thought ... very interesting...

After so much fanfare, the children started to retire, leaving only a few adult vessels such as hollow, ivy, groot, and thorns.

But it is worth mentioning that several of the adolescents had already molted and were now adults ... (To get to know them better, look at the chapter again, "knowing the family") to be exact of the 12 adolescents, 7 had already become adults, while that the others were still teenagers ... apparently they still had age differences.

Those who were now adults all had something similar, they were those whose horns were not so intricate...

Spikes (looks like hollow but his spikes are longer and has two little ones in the back of the head)

Harp (horns like hollow but more stretched and more straight and pointing to the back a little)

Tourus (two long horns like a bull but with two thinner ones on each side)

Claws (two thin horns in each side of the head)

Rhyno (one single horn)

Elk (has horns like ghost, but has another spike behind each primary horn like spikes)

Hearty (because their horns look like a rounded hearth)

And the ones still in their adolescent state where:

Trident (his head look like one)

Sears (horns like a ram)

Arrow (similar to trident but with a thicker horn in the middle whit small spikes)

Mossen (horns like a moose)

Vines (it has three thin horns in each side of their head)

If you remember this 12 vessels were found inside the abys once the elevator was fixed ... it was hollow, Groot and ivy who went down there to explore to see if there was any survivors...

Also the children who were considered in elementary school, two of them are now adolescent, their names are:

Hassel (two horns pointing two the back of their head)

Winger (horns longs like wings)

We still have Sprout (two little horns on the top of the head two on the left and two on the right)

Who was the smallest of those three, so it's to be expected, and from the hatchlings we have ones wo have molted to be like sprout... those were Wright and Rams...

Wright (has one eye on the right and two small ones on the left)

And Rams (four horns like a ram, two spike ones like cat ears in the top, and four eyes)

this were baby's found not in the abyss but in the ancient basin ... they were all curled up near an old statue ... it was Alice who found them after she fell down a hole in deepnest when she found a vessel and was running after them ... this vessel was Thorns who guided Alice to them ... and also gave Alice a strange ball ... Alice was happy to receive that odd gift so she keep it with her at all times...

So the hatchings: Baby's found in the ancient basin ... they were 5 of them...

Crown (spikes like crown in the head, two big eyes whit two small ones over them)

And Sight (has three eyes, two in each side and one in the middle)

Were a little bigger but not molted yet, and like always we have skitter who is still the baby of the family and the youngest... "Precious murder baby"

sometime later....

A little more into the discussion of the matter for which they were here to me, Alice was able to learn a bit of the history of the radiance itself, how it was that she had survived even when her mortal body had been destroyed ... apparently they used a mortal alter ego on this side of existence and used their spirit form when entering the dream dimension...

Literally it was the mind of radiance which was still alive and as it no longer had a mortal body, it was looking for ways to return to the existential plane through the minds of other beings, thinking if it gets enough insects under its power, to be able to bring its spiritual being to this plane of corporeal life...

That is why Master Grimm calls him self own vessel of the nightmare king, which is his spectral mind form, from the dimension of dreams (as an alter ego).

A very important part of the plan was to be able to enter the realm of dreams ... an important clue had been the talisman they had obtained from the nightmare king which helped to awaken hollow, which had been something like a torch which ended by be consumed after use...

Apparently the torch belonged to the power of the nightmare king, but there was something similar to dreams which was a sword which possibly should still be in the power of the moth clan...

.... Which we already have because apparently ghost already has it ... when listening and seeing how it looked ... I stared at ghost and he looked at me equally surprised ... he remembered that when he was little ...

 he had met a moth who gave him that sword to help him find some little lights which would help him make the sword stronger ... 

but after meeting me ... he just forgot the whole thing ... what would everyone's face be like when ghost took out the sword of dreams ...

The Grimm observed it and told them that it was indeed the sword, but that they would need to restore their strength to be able to use it since if not it would be destroyed as the torch they used in the past did.

They cannot just face the radience in the dream world once they get there they would need the blessing of the nightmare king so that their mind would not be corrupted by the radience...

So the plan returned in the following...

They needed the sword to enter the dream world, so a search for the dream trees should be started to restore the power of the sword...

Then you should enter the dream world using a sleeping insect and with the sword enter your dream using it as a portal to the world of radience ... but this insect had to have a very great mental power so that it could be easily accessed...

- "Don't worry about that, there is already a candidate" Alice said and the pale king was afraid she was talking about herself...

But even so it was risky that only the bearer of the sword entered the world of radience, someone should enter with him and for this to be possible and his mind was not corrupted he must carry the talisman of the nightmare king.

- "Very well that does not seem very difficult to achieve" said the pale king, "would it be possible then that you could provide us with that talisman, Grimm?" the pale king finished saying.

- "I'm sorry but it is not something easy to do, the ritual of my clan must be completed so that the bearer of the charm is blessed with it" the Grimm stared at Alice ... Alice was not liking that look ... and also no one from the vessels present, nor the king ...

- "And what does this ritual consist of?" Alice said ...

- "Oh it is not very difficult, my clan lives on the admiration and emotions of others, so the ritual is a show" he said excitedly

-"a show?" said the king

- "dance" said the Grimm nodding

-"dance?" Alice said.

- "That's right, oh the emotion the applause, the excitement of the audience and the praises, the flames of passion and the burning emotion is just what the ritual needs" said the Grimm very excited.

-"well, it doesn't seem like something difficult to do" dijo alice

"wonderful, wonderful.......LET THE SHOW BEGIN....." said the grimm

The lights went out and suddenly they were all in a kind of tent ...

all the members of the castle were there, from the small vessels, the high knights to the insects that worked in the palace ... even the watcher who was in the king's offices was present and hornet who was playing with his siblings in the garden ... everyone was in the stands ... everyone except Alice ...

The king looked puzzled as Alice was in the middle of what looked like a circus tent looking everywhere ... and her clothing was changed ... from her white and purple dress, it had changed to a red with dark purple ... it was as if the Grimm would have changed their colors for his.... And he didn't like that at all

https://youtu.be/cw48nntk1AI

Alice just stared at him... was this part of the "ritual"?, a...DANCE OFF?, cool she was good at dancing, -"ok, ballet classes don't fail me now" she said under her breath...

(this song is awesome <3)

https://youtu.be/5SG79LFSlH0

And you can imagine when at first if they danced something like a ballet but when the music grew stronger and the song -"join in the nightmare" and he began to laugh chillingly.... That was not a good omen...

-"WHAT THE HECK" Alice yelled, which was barely a whisper being overshadowed by the music and the voice of the Grimm ... Alice began to dodge the attacks ... the knight and the vessels were trying to lower the stands but apparently they couldn't get up of their seats ...

And to the sound of him singing -"I WILL TEACH YOU FEAR" ... everyone could not help but watch in horror as spikes came out of the floor and almost pierced Alice.

Alice was in shock... this is how she would die, her death being a macabre sight for her new family...

Oh no, not that.... She hadn't survived the dance off against mettaton (Undertale) countless times for this imitation of bendy and the ink machine to come now and kill her in front of her babys...

The Grimm flew to the top and with a melodious voice shouted "AUDIENCE SCREAMING" and the little ghosts said "burn the father feed the child" Alice took that opportunity to counterattack...

So Alice began to count the times of the attacks and to avoid them, the Grimm sometimes came down to try to take her in his arms , but she dodged him and pushed or kicked him gracefully away from her ...

The Grimm increased the pace and took as a challenge that Lady Amethyst refused her advances to dance together...

They continued like this for a while playing cat and mouse until the climax came and they began to dance more harmoniously each time getting closer to each other ... the pale king was shining with great intensity ... how this guy dared to take Alice without her permission and force her to do this ...

Skitter was sitting on his lap and drew from inside a small dagger... and King Pat the head of him... the exact thoughts of him... someone was going to be stabbed this day.

And then the Grimm began to sing more sweetly looking directly at Alice's mask until he took her in her arms ... and the song ended "BURN THE FATHER FEED THE CHILD" ...

Something glowed between them and on Alice's chest a pin appeared and this red glow and something came out of it....

Flying in front of her was a floating little thing ... a little thing clearly related to the Grimm ... but it was the most adorable little thing he had ever seen...

- "ah the ritual has been successful, the Grimm charm has been created and the child of flames has been born"

-"this is a baby" said alice watching the little sweet bean flying around near her..

it was more cute that a basket of kittens... so she boop it...

-"oh yes the summoning was a success, the child of flames has come to life thanks to the burning passion of our dance" said the grimm

-"WAIT WHAT THE HECK, THAT WAS NO DANCING, YOU ALMOST KILL ME" screamed alice, by now they were again in the royal palace and in the trone room, the vessels were around alice and the others who were suck for this were slowly leaving the place...

skitter climbed alice gown to be n in her arms... skitter and the flying baby were having a stare down... and suddenly the high five...

the older vessel pointed their nails to the grimm and grumm who was standig beside his master...

the king came to stand beside alice... -"esplain yourself grimm, what was the meaning of this madness" said in an angry voice the king..

-"yes, i want to know why was i almost stabed and burned to death" said alice very anoyed..

-"no you see, you were never in real danger, but the fear and the power of your determination, made a burning light that made the summoning of the child possible" said happyly the grimm

-"so you had to half scare to death to make this baby of yours be born?" said alice

-"ours my lady, it's a child brought to life because of the passion of our dance" said grimm

-"the what of what?, our baby, I never consented to have a baby with you" said alice

-"it's a ritual of passage of my kin, we need the flames of the fear to come to life, and we feed of the flames of the nightmare hearth, with this child you will be able to successfully transverse to the realm of sleep without being affected once you reach that realm " said grimm

-"so he is the blessing?" ask the pale king

-"yes for each charm of my kin too be created a new grimm child is born, but to be born the charm must be feed with the flames of the ritual" said grimm

-"so this flames are made of fear, my fear and you feed the charm with them and the baby was born?" said alice

-"yes" said the grimm happily

-"so you technically feed of fear" said alice

-"if you want to put it simple yes" said grimm

-"ok let me pay you for this wonderful gift" said alice, placing skitter in the pale kings hands and walkin to stan before the grimm..

-"oh my lady you don't need toUGHHH #WACKKKK#" the Grimm was silenced by Alice bitc# slapping him..

Every one of the troupe stared in horror, the little vessel where laughing their little assess off, the older one face palmed, the king was coughing in order to hide his own laughing, and the Grimm just stared at Alice in stupor shock.

-"my lady, why have you assaulted lord Grimm?" said Brumm

-"lady amethyst?" said the pale king trying to hide his joy of the slap behind a admonishing way

-"I was just paying him back" she grabs the Grimm by the collar of his cape "so that you will always fear what I will do to you if you try to play me for a fool again...my lord" she said letting him go...

The Grimm was staring at her with a very surprised look...

The pale king was hiding his smile behind his hand

And Alice.... Lady Amethyst took the little Grimm child in her arms... and skitter from the pale king hands

-"mine now...come baby it's time to show you your new home... oh by the way your name will be Lucifer from now on, luci for short...come children lets show your cousin/sibling around the palace"

She took skitter from hollows arms and carried both the grimmchild and skitter in her arms... leaving the throne room with the rest of the younger vessels...

The older vessels closed the royal door, and waited to see if something bad was going to happen...

-"did she just assaulted me?" said the Grimm

-"im sorry for that she can be a little.... Temperamental about thinks that upset her" said the pale king, al the present vessel were nodding their heads.

-"WHAT A WOMAN, THE PASSION IN HER EYES THE UNCANNY BURNING FLAME OF FIERY CONTAINED ANGER AND THE BURNING PROMISSE OF FEAR PAIN AND SORROW...MARVELOUS" said the Grimm falling in brumms arms after swooning because of Alice...

-"yes, yes she is, a true lady of the royal court" said the pale king, the Grimm stared at him while fanning himself... the pointed look that the king gave him told him very clear what the message behind those word where.

DO: NOT; TOUCH... MINE

-"Interesting truly an interesting pair" whispered the Grimm –"well pale king should we talk about the matters of me staying here to help keep the old essence of the nightmare king pair in control"

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BOOM extra stuff baby... 

the knife was a gift from skitter he is a good brother always sharing...

change ghost for skitter.....

I watched this clip and it's almost as similar to Alice inside monologue

https://youtu.be/4LgLaj4g254

until next time...peace im out