"What happened here?! Why is she on the floor? Hey, are you okay, lass?"

"She's not breathing, we have to do something! Go, find a doctor!"

"That would take too long!"

"Out of the way!"

"Hey what are you doing with that stone?!"

"Saving her, now shut up!"

Geno slowly began to open her eye, at the sound of music and singing. "Geno!" Fell's voice yelled and a blurry face came into Geno's view. "F-fell?", She stuttered, her vision slowly becoming clear again.

"Thank God, you're okay!" Fell exclaimed, very relieved. The princess began to raise from the bed she was laying on, but flinched when her chest began to hurt. She looked down and sighed at what she saw. Her rips where completely wrapped in bandages, wich were already pretty bloodstained.

She may was in her skeleton form, but that didn't mean that she wasn't able to bleed. Because of their resemblance to Humans, all skeletons were able to bleed. This was also the reason, why they could turn into humans.

"Where are we?" The one-eyed skeleton asked, after inspecting the room. "We're in the captain's cabin." Fell answered. "Do you think you can walk?" Geno nodded and began to get out of the bed, even if it hurt badly.

"Don't you think, you should wear something to cover your rips?" Fell asked, when Geno was about to open the door, only wearing her black trousers. "I think it's fine. It's not like they're seeing something they don't have in their skeletal form. Also, you do realize, that I have bandages around my torso, right?" "Yeah, but-" "No 'buts'" 'She spent to much time with Lust...' were Fells thoughts.

The princess opened the door, making the former royal guard member sigh. They were greeted by the refreshing air of the sea and music. The two looked at each other and smiled. They took a few steps forwards, until they could see the source of it.

Sans, Dust and Cross sat on the stairs, wich lend to the main deck, singing a song and Sans even played a bit guitar. Dust sang the main part while Cross, Sans and the ghostly figures Reaper summoned sang the refrain.
(D=Dust, E=everyone else)

E:
Way hay and up she rises,
Way hay and up she rises,
Way hay and up she rises,
Early in the morning!

D:
Put him in the brig until he's sober,
Put him in the brig until he's sober,
Put him in the brig until he's sober,
Early in the morning!

E:
Way hay and up she rises,
Way hay and up she rises,
Way hay and up she rises,
Early in the morning!
That's what we do with a drunken sailor
That's what we do with a drunken sailor
That's what we do with a drunken sailor
Early in the morning!

After they ended singing, Geno applauded a bit, making Reaper, who was steering the ship and already noticed her and Fell, chuckle. "Nice shanty!" Fell said, leaning onto the banister.

"You're up!" Cross exclaimed, nearly falling down the stairs, when she stood up. "Wow, be easy, lass!" Sans laughed. "We don't want another injured person onboard!"

"How are you feeling?" The adventurer asked, after she quickly rushed to the princess. "I'm fine.", Geno replied. "That's good, because we have some things to talk about, princess." Reaper said, with a slight smirk. Geno stared at him in confusion and dismay.

"Sorry, that's my bad." Cross explained with an apologetic look. "I was very worried when you collapsed, so that I accidentally called you Geno, then me and Fell had to tell them the truth... sorry." Geno inhaled deeply, before speaking "It's... okay..."

"Dust, take the steering wheel, while I'm discussing some things with our little princess! And make haste!" Reaper ordered. "Also, would you mind to put on some clothes, princess?"

Geno looked at him spiteful and spat "No, especially not after you called me little!" The captain and the princess glared at each other, before making their way into Reaper's cabin. "That won't end well..." Fell sighed. "I absolutely agree!" Sans said, nodding.

In the cabin, Reaper sat down onto a chair, that was behind a desk, in the middle of the room, while Geno took the chair in front of it. "So, how comes you're not at the castle, but with some adventurer and a former royal guard member?" Reaper asked, leaning back into his chair.

"... King Asgore is dead..." The princess replied, in a bitter tone. "What?!" "You heard me. I wasn't there when it happened, but my maid told me that a prince called Nightmare killed him." Reaper didn't know what to say, so he kept his mouth shut.

"Did you know him?" The smaller skeleton asked. "Actually, yes. We didn't get along very well, but it's still shocking to hear that the old Fluffybuns is dead." The captain admitted.

"So let me guess, you fled from the castle and teamed up with your companions, to defeat this Nightmare." Reaper said, crossing his arms. "We still need to find other skilled fighters, since our royal guard is under Nightmare's control and in addition he brought some of his people too." Geno explained.

"Hm... that could be difficult, 'cause the place we're sailing to doesn't really has 'fighters'." Reaper chuckled. "Say, were exactly are we going to?" "Kurokami-Island." "What?! Really?!" The princess practically jumped out of her seat in excitement. "Eh... yeah, why are you so excited?" Reaper replied slowly, clearly surprised by the females sudden mood change.

Suddenly Geno stormed out of the room, while Reaper just sat there, not knowing what just happened."Okay..."

~meanwhile at the castle~

"So, is that why you cleaned the little mess the princess made when she didn't feel so well, Horror? Because you wanted to gain their trust?" Nightmare asked coldly. "Y-yes!" Horror stuttered. "Fine. Go to Raspberry and ask him if he finally got that maid to obey him!" The Prince in skeleton form ordered.

"I don't think that's necessary, your majesty." The voice of Raspberry exclaimed. He was in his human form now, his white hair was pretty spiky and his blue eyes, were even colder than before.

Next to him stood a woman, with light purple hair, that was tied into a ponytail, her purple eyes were dull. She wore a maid dress and a collar that covered her neck. It didn't take a genius to guess, that this was Lust in her human form, even if her hair had a strange color.

Nightmare's face expression stayed cold, he only raised an 'eyebrow',while Horror blushed slightly, not only because she was beautiful, but also because her close-fitting maid outfit was showing her big breasts. "When that ain't interesting." Nightmare chuckled. "Horror! Go and get the prisoners, that are kept in the little living room!"

Horror bowed and quickly made his way to said room. To his luck, it wasn't that far away from the throne room, so he arrived soon. The two royal guard members, who were stationed to watch over the prisoners in this room, quickly noticed Horror and gave him all their attention to him.

"Prince Nightmare wants to see the prisoners in the throne room! Now!" Horror exclaimed. The guards, two dogs, saluted and opened the door. In this room the most potent people were held captive, that meant the two princes and the royal judge of this kingdom, princess Ink, princess Dream and her personal servant Killer.

It doesn't sound like it, but personal servants and maids have more power than you might think, since their allowed to give commands to everyone, no matter what their position is, in an emergency case. That is because the lives of important people are in their hands, wich is also why it's not easy to become one.

It all starts with a normal royal guard training, after wich you can chose, if you want to go to the marine, continue the training as a normal soldier or become a personal servant. But you're only allowed to take the last choice, if you graduation is nearly perfect.

Horror felt kinda bad for lying to Killer, since he was his best friend, but as Nightmares personal servant, he had sworn his absolute loyalty to him. The servant watched as the six prisoners were dragged out of the room.

No one really struggled, only prince Error had to be shoved out, but that was because of his haphephobia. Horror had heard that the prince had the strange habit of glitching after he got touched, which is exactly what happened.

Killer gave Horror a spiteful glare, before he got pulled away, by a guard. The group began to move to the throne room, were Nightmare already waited for them.

"Took you long enough!" He barked impatiently. "Bring them to the maid then leave!" The two dogs quickly obeyed and lead them to Lust, who kneeled in front of the throne, her eyes closed.

For some reason, Nightmare had changed into his human form, but Horror could guess why. The only way for skeletons to have another hair color than white, is to be a demon or a star child, even if the chance is 50:50 to have normal hair if you're a star child.

A star child is seen a the embodiment of a star, while a demon child have an inner demon, wich is why they're often treated like a wild animal. Nightmare was a demon child and his parents, especially his father, hated him because of that.

Nearly all of the prisoners were in their skeletal form, only princess Ink was in her human form. Horror had heard that the princess always stayed like that and no one knew why. She all in all was a pretty big mystery, since she also didn't had a personal servant and rumors said that she just appeared out of nowhere.

Horrors thoughts were interrupted by princess Dreams loud voice exclaiming "Why did you do this brother?!" Nightmare glared only glared at her, before commanding "Raspberry, Horror, leave the room."

The two skeletons in human forms did what he said and quickly left. "Do you think he's gonna use 'it'" the leader of our royal guard asked, with a sadistic smile. "Probably." Was all Horror answered, seemingly trying to calm himself.

For some reason he felt nervous about this, but he didn't knew why. He knew that something like this was gonna happen and still he felt like this. It wasn't like he didn't wanted this, he was just uncertain if 'it' was necessary.