What to do Now
*Ding Dong, Bing Bong*
Doleful Detective: "Ahem! Good morning your royal highnesses and welcome to your first official day of the Royal Elimination Project! I hope you're all excited as we are!"
Junko: "However, we're going to give you a little more time before starting the trials. So you can wonder around the island and make yourself at home. But don't get too comfortable."
Doleful Detective: "Yep! But remember, some islands are off limits until further noticed. Anyway, enjoy this beautiful day and good luck!"
'Damn it! I was hoping this was all a bad dream.' Douxie thought to himself as he got up from his bed and put on his jacket. 'Man, I'm having some serious deja vu.'
Suddenly, there was a knock at his door with a female voice soon following. "Doux? It's me, may I come in?"
Douxie smiled as he knew that voice all too well. "Of course, love. Come in."
When the door opened the person behind it was revealed to be Lavender Rose. "Are you doing okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine for now. I mean, I'm still a little worried about our kingdom and Lily of course." Douxie said honestly before taking a deep breath. "But I know, from experience, worrying isn't going to solve anything and that our strongest weapon in a situation like this is hope."
"That's right." Lavender smiled as she gave her boyfriend a kiss on the cheek. "I knew you would let this whole thing get to you."
"Yeah, I've been through worse. But enough about me, how are you and the others doing?" Douxie asked, sencerly. "I know, Percy wasn't taking things that great hence his outburst last night. And you seemed pretty freaked out too."
"I'm fine, just angry about our situation." Lavender explained honestly. "As for the others. . . they're all at the restaurant eating breakfast. Waiting for you so we can figure out a plan."
"Fuzzbuckets!" Douxie said with a face palm. "Wait, the morning announcements just came on. When did everyone get up?"
"I guess none of us could sleep last night." Lavender said honestly. "I woke up around 6, Nora 6:30, and I don't think the De Rolos, or Tarrons slept at all."
"Can you blame them?" Douxie asked with a small chuckle before turning serious again. "Anyway, we should probably get to the restaurant. We don't want to keep them waiting."
"That we don't." Lavender smiled. "Let's go, love."
Soon, the couple made it to the restaurant and just as Lavender said everyone was waiting for them.
"Doux, there you are!" Nora said as she ran up to hug her brother. "I was worried!"
"Why? I was just sleeping." Douxie said, confused. "Not like I died or something."
"I know, but you never know what could happen." Nora said honestly. "We all want to get home and save our kingdoms."
"But that doesn't mean we'd kill each other." Percy said seriously. "We may come from different time periods, realms, and planets, but we're all nobles. We stick together."
"Not only that, but we're allies for life." Cassandra said with a confident smile as she stood by her brother's side. "We're all one big family, and no amount of despair can change that!"
"Lord and Lady De Rolo are right." Douxie said with a smile as he was now feeling much more confident. "We will survive this! Junko and Doleful Detective will fall! And we will save our kingdoms!"
"Yeah!" Everyone shouted in unison as they were now pumped up to fight there way out. Now the only thing that was needed was a plan.
"So, here's what I think we should do." Douxie started. "For now, we'll investigate the island to try and find a way home."
"But what about the trials?" Aka asked. "We don't have long before they start."
"Well, we're just gonna have to go through them and prepare the best we can." Douxie said, a little unsure. "Look, I haven't thought that far ahead. But I'm sure it'll be fine."
"We don't even know what the trials are." Krel pointed out. "How can we possibly prepare?"
"Sparing!" Cassandra blurted out. "We can train by sparing with the people that we'd most likely be paired with."
"That's. . .actually not a bad idea." Krel said honestly. "Although, I'm not much of a fighter."
"I'm not either, usually." Nora explained. "But if I absolutely have too then I can."
"Same here." Lavender added in as she raised her hand. "Which means that it's likely one of us will be paired with the other. If that makes sense."
"No, that makes sense. But I doubt magic users will be paired with magic users." Douxie thought out loud. "That'd be either too difficult or too easy. So a possible pairing could be. . .Krel and Percy."
"Wait, what made you come to that conclusion?" Krel asked, scared of the thought of having to go up against Percy.
"It's just an example." Douxie said honestly. "But I was thinking about how you're both pretty tech savvy and aren't really made for hand to hand combat."
"Ouch, but that is a good point." Percy said. "If we were trialed against each other, it'd probably be a battle of intelligence. Not combat."
"So, what we're going to spend the next few hours training?" Aja asked, a little confused about the situation.
"Not necessarily all of us. Some of you can prepare for trials and the rest of us can explore." Douxie suggested. "Aja and Cassandra, I'm trusting you to train Nora and Krel in combat."
"Lively." Aja smiled in excitement.
"And the rest of us?" Percy asked.
"Percival, Lavender, and I will split up to investigate the island." Douxie explained. "We'll meet back up here in an hour. Got it?"
Everyone just gave a nod as they understood the assignment as they all split up.
Douxie: "This. . .this is our new reality. Once again me and my family are forced into a sick elimination game. Only this time there are a lot less people and the last one standing gets to be the 'one true ruler'. Not that any of us want that, but we have no choice. We have to play along. . .or suffer the consequences."
To be continued. . .
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