A new base, not home

As we finished the tour of the base, we knew it was the perfect spot for us to stay in while we are here.

It has multiple rooms for the sinners to live in, with some of the rooms being bigger than others, it also includes a med-bay area.

There was also a botanical garden, but the plants that were originally planted had withered long ago.

The next place that we found, was a large laundry area, where we could wash our clothes.

Then there was the mess hall, everything was somehow picked clean, and the only thing that remained was only dust, and the stoves, there was also the fridge in the back.

Finally, there was a large command center, multiple monitors were lined up, and there was a large seat that was in the far back.

The place was perfect, however things took a turn from good, to bad. The power could only be accessed at the top floor, and with no electrician, we had no choice but to stay in the surface to sleep.

Next, was the med-bay. After checking the cabinets, most of the gauze and medicine was no longer usable, what's worse, no water was accessible as well.

The same could be said for the laundry machines, no power or water could be accessed, so we would have to clean our clothes by hand.

Then, there was the mess hall, the same problem could be said for the last three, no power, and no water, besides that, there was the smell of rats.

Finally, the command center, like I said before, no power, no use. So, our first plan for this place, was to find an electrician that was willing to fix this place, or one of the sinners that specializes in working electricity.

Currently, the four of us were outside the base, thanking Nicole for her effort on finding this place, who only had her arrogant persona.

"Of course, it was just a favor, and I kept my word, however this is where we part ways." She then held out her hand for a handshake, and I gladly took her hand with my own.

"A shame, but there is nothing I can do about it." Nicole then giggled and leaned forward, letting her fingers slowly trail up my body.

"Then do me a favor, take good care of yourself handsome." She whispered and soon left, swaying her hips as she walked away.

"Wow, talk about desperation, she must be dry as the white sands." Hella said as soon as Nicole turned the corner.

"Well, no time to dwell on it, we got a place to clean." I said and made my way inside the base, with Hella, Hecate, and Crache in tow.

As we entered, we made our way to the janitors closet to grab the necessary supplies to clean, however as soon as we opened it, the only thing we saw was a pile of needles.

"Yeah, what were you expecting to find in a place like this?" Crache asked me, I only sighed and pinched the bridge of my nose.

"Just… call Belle and Wise, and guide them here." I said and had Hecate order nightmare to push the needles out.

Once we found the broom, we began to sweep the area of any small garbage, that included any needles that nightmare had dropped while pushing them out.

After removing the needles, Belle and Wise had arrived with some supplies, seeing the place we were at, Belle couldn't help but awe at the sight.

"This place is so cool, oh, uh, never mind." Her excitement soon died as she saw the pile of used needles, and veered away from it.

"Anywho, we closed the shop temporarily, so we won't be staying long, so let's make the most of it." Wise then handed me a mop, and a bucket full of water, and the six of us began to clean the base.

The first thing we did was sweep the floors, Belle and Hella were somehow making this a competition on who could sweep faster.

The four of us saw them run from one side, to the other, both of them were gritting their teeth as they swept, while the dusk were being kicked into the air.

"I'm gonna win, so don't even think about beating me!" Hella shouted and tried to slam her body against Belle, however, Belle was able to dodge.

"You cheater, there's no way I'm going to let you cheat!" She shouted back and began to focus on sweeping, collecting the dust that was on the floor.

In the end, Hella was the one who beaten Belle, but was then forced to take the loss when we mentioned she tried to knock Belle to the ground.

Belle was the one who had her broom raised, with a victorious smile on her face, while Hella was on her hands and knees, crying from the loss.

"I… I can't accept this!" Hella then grabbed the broom and tried to smack Belle with it. However, belles eyes sparked for a second, and she blocked the strike with her own broom.

"You dare.. do you not see the mountain before you little frog?!" She shouted and jumped up.

Sending one of her legs against Hellas face, as sent her flying towards the end of the room.

Hecate, Crache, and me all turned to Wise, who also look confused on what just happened.

"Don't look at me, I don't know what she watches." He told us and went to grab something else.

After words, the rest of us grabbed a mop, and dipped it into the bucket filled with water beforehand.

As we mopped the area, I noticed Hecate had ordered nightmare to mop as well. But since we weren't in the hollow, it looked like it was a mop cleaning the floor by itself.

Which caused Belle to scream and rush towards me, she wrapped her arms around me and looked at me with tears in her eyes, while pointing at the floating mop.

"T-t-this place is haunted!" She cried, I placed my hand on her head and waist, gently trying to calm her.

"No, it's not haunted, that's just nightmare helping." I tried to reassure her, but she shook her head and kept clinging on to me.

"No, this place is haunted, I'm sure of it!" She replied, I turned to Wise, who was passed out and on the floor.

"Belle. do you remember when you were guiding us, there was a creature following us?" Belle slowly nodded her head, and slowly turned to the floting mop.

"Y-yeah, it looked ugly." I then smiled and slowly pried her off me.

"And you remember that Hecate fell and couldn't move, right? I asked her, she modded her head once again.

"Y-yeah, I thought it was you stopping her with your shackles." She said, but I shook my head and held out my hand, turning my eyes towards Hecate.

"Nightmare, move towards chief." Was all she said, the mop then dropped onto the floor with a clank, causing her to jump and make a strange noise.

After waiting for a few minutes, I felt its sharp fingers slowly gliding across my skin.

"Belle, do you trust me?" She looked at me with fear in her eyes, but she nodded her head.

I then smiled and gently grabbed her hand and began to place it on top of nightmares, as soon as her hand made contact with nightmares rough skin she widened her eyes.

"Whoa, I-I can't see it, and yet…" She then moved her hand slowly up nightmares arm, only to feel it pull back quickly.

"Nightmare doesn't like being touched by strangers, only the chief can touch it." Belle yelped at Hecate's sudden appearance.

"Then, why was I able to touch it?" She then gasped and turned towards me. "Am I becoming a sinner?!"

"No, it's because you were close to the chief and tolerated you, only for a moment." Belle could only pout and grab the mop she dropped, and began to mop once again.

"Stupid mania, stupid sinners, and their cool physics breaking abilities." She muttered, I then made my way towards Wise and knelt down.

Looking closer, it seemed his eyes had rolled to the back of his head, and he was pale as a white sheet.

"Well, it seems he won't be getting up anytime soon." I said and hoisted him over my shoulders.

"Y-yeah, it's your fault for not telling us that nightmare is a separate being." She said while opening the door for me.

"Well, nightmare isn't really a separate being, its more like a part of Hecate, it lives because she is alive, and when it is destroyed, it causes a back lash to Hecate, causing her to pass out, once she has rested, nightmares can reform." I explained.

"So, it's like a familiar? Like in one of those fantasy rpg games?" She asked me, the fear being replaced with awe.

"In a way, yes." I said and we soon stood in front of the car, as she opened the door, I placed Wise on the passenger side, I made sure he was comfortable.

"You're pretty strong, I know Wise doesn't weigh too much, but you were able to carry him easily." I only chuckled and closed the door.

"Well, when injuring myself a few times in the rust, let's just say, I needed to have a bit of muscle." Belle then looked at my body up and down and raised one of her brows.

"Really? But you look so thin, like a noodle." She began to walk around me.

"I prefer to be seen like this, I want my enemies to underestimate me." The two of us then made our way back inside the base to continue cleaning.

With one man down, thanks to his lack of courage, we were able to clean the entire base in a few hours.

The entire first floor was looking brand new, if you ignore the lack of furniture, damaged ceilings, and damaged walls.

"Well, it's somewhat okay, is there a sinner that does construction?" Belle asked me.

"Well, there are a few who do an okay job, but other than that, I can't think of a single one who does construction professionally." I said and sighed.

"Well, nothing we can do about it then, you can still stay with us while you look for furniture and supplies." Belle moved her hands behind her and smiled.

"Thank you, and sorry if we have to rely on the both for a little while longer." Belle only shook her head at my apology.

"It's fine, things have been slow before you guys showed up…" She then pushed a loose strand behind her ear and muttered something that I couldn't quite catch.

"What was that?" I asked her, causing her look at me with panic, but she kept her voice composed.

"Oh, I just said that it would be bad if Hella left, since she's the only other person who can keep up with me when we're playing at the arcade." She then laughed nervously while rubbing her arm.

"I see, once we have the base up and running, we can make plans to visit you guys once in a while." Belle smiled at the suggestion and nodded her head.

"That sounds great, speaking of making plans… I was wondering if you…" Before she could finish asking her question, my phone went off.

When I took it out of my pocket and saw who was calling me, I answered and raised it to my ear.

Gone was the compassionate man that spoke with warmth, only the calm and cold chief of the MBCC.

"Report." I said with full authority.

"Sir, we have received a message from Summer, and… you won't believe this, but she sent a video." Nightingale's voice spoke.

"Did you play the video yet?" I asked, glancing back to Belle, I saw her hands were close to my sleeve, but when I turned my vision towards her, she pulled her hand back and took a step back.

"No, but it is best if you take a look, it may have a clue on where her current location is at." I took my eyes off of Belle and soon sighed.

"Send the video through, but do not let this get out, we don't want to spread panic in DisCity." Was all I said and ended the call.

"U-uh, Eros, you good?" Belle's voice carried hesitation, I then turned around, the cold that was on my face soon changed to warmth, like a switch being flipped.

"Yeah, sorry about that, force of habit." I chuckled and walked passed her to start picking up the trash bags that were inside.

POV BELLE

I just stood their, listening to Eros's footsteps fade back inside the building. I couldn't move, not after seeing him act like that.

The kindness, the warmth? All of it was gone, no, more like replaced in an instant. All that remained was a cold, calm, and dangerous person.

I've seen movies, T.V shows, and video games that have a character like this. They act all warm and nice to the people, but the second they are alone, or are a leader, they become cold, ruthless even.

I moved my hand to my chest, feeling my heart beat thud agaisnt my chest, it wasn't racing from fear, or excitement, it was something different, one that I can't understand.

I was then shocked out of my thoughts when I heard something fall, and nearly screamed. As I turned towards the source of the noise, all I saw was a knife.

One that looked brand new, I was confused on why something clean was here, but I saw something that made no sense.

It looked like it was… glitching.

It was moving around at first, but when I closed my eyes and opened it, it was gone, like it never existed in the first place.

I shook my head and rubbed my eyes, and blamed myself for staying up too late playing with Hella.

"That's the last time I'm letting her give me those energy drinks." I sighed and soon followed Eros.

POV 3RD

As Belle went back inside the new base of the MBCC, we soon shift the view towards where the knife was, and soon saw the glitch, it shifts and slowly begins to open, [Allowing you, the readers, to enter my… hmmm let's call it my home for now, since the author won't let me out.]

[Welcome, welcome, I would say make yourself comfortable, but some of you are reading this during work hours, or late at night, who cares, all in all, let's just say I brought you here because of a small… pest.]

You do realize you can't be overriding the script, right?

[Oh lookey here, it's the person of the hour!]

Enough games, the camera then shifts away from the figure, and soon focuses on a man with white robes, with a visor on their face.

"W-what is this place?! Where have you taken me?" Asked the figure, only to look around with fear at the second voice.

"W-where are you?! Come face me you coward!" Cries the pathetic person, only to be enraged at the insult.

However, before they could say anything, a small window soon appeared, a string of codes were seen, and the code for their voice was gone.

[Sorry, but I can't have you insulting the big guy upstairs, but I will say this, you made a very, very big mistake for trying to follow my chief, but don't worry, you won't be here for long.] The sound of giggling and shuffle of clothes remained…

[Hey, you don't need to be here now, just let me say what I want to say!]

How rude, did you forget who is letting you watch your chief?

[Fine, fine, hey their readers, enjoying the story? Then send those power stones our way to show support, and I can see my dear chief! No im not a Yandere, but I am somewhat obsessive.]

You're somewhat of a Yandere.

[Shut up! Anyways, leave a comment, or a review if their is anything that needs fixing, not like there is at the moment, I'm looking at you trolls! Besides that, see you next time, Bye Bye!]

(A/N): Sorry for the late update, somehow I must've gotten sick after the wedding, no I didn't drink, nor did I eat anything bad, but yeah, here's the chapter!