It was a fairly normal afternoon, as all days should be. Lopin was roaming the hall, checking to make sure no intruding poltergeist had caused havoc in the rooms. Sure it was the seventeenth time he had done so today, but with all the spare time he had, why waste it on doing nothing? Mr. Nostradamus would be fine with it, especially since he can't fall asleep.
Because he's dead.
All the inhabitants of the Chateau, as Lopin liked to call it, were dead. Diego and Carmen, the two lovers, were dead. William, the executed Pirate, was dead. Even he, the butler, was dead. Everyone was dead in the Chateau. Except Nancy. Nobody knows what Nancy is.
Sure, it
was sad that they were all dead, but now they had all the time in the world to do whatever they wanted, and Lopin and the others took it seriously. But the others took the
"newfound freedom" as a meaning to cause trouble. Sure it wasn't
major trouble, but it just annoyed Lopin the most.
Lopin sighed as heard a commotion involving the others downstairs in the main hallway. Floating through the walls, he made his way towards the entrance, only to see William and Diego currently fighting over something, something that Nancy was holding in their arms.
An
egg was that something, to be exact.
"It's not yours!" William cried out, yelling in Diego's face.
"I know that!" Diego yelled back with equal intensity.
Lopin floated down next to Carmen, a fellow Skydancer, and asked, "What's going on here?"
"Nancy found an egg," Carmen answered, rolling her eyes.
Lopin then stared at Carmen, completely dumbfounded, then looked back at Nancy, thinking about what he considered was the impossible. "They couldn't have, could they?" he whispered back to Carmen.
"Nope," Carmen replied, still in an annoyed tone. "Nancy found it directly outside our doorstep."
Lopin sighed, then looked back at Diego and William, who were still bickering.
"It's an egg!" Diego said. "It needs to be taken care of!"
"And we're all dead!" William said back. "We can't take care off a living dragon!"
Realizing he should take control of the situation, Lopin cried out, "ENOUGH!", making everyone snap their attention to him.
"Cease your prattle!" Lopin said to Diego and William, who both gulped. "Nancy may have found it first, but we need to bring it to a proper home, since we're all,
well, dead."
The whole house then shook. Everyone eyed Nancy, whose blank expression looked a little bit more angry than usual.
"FineWe'reKeepingIt," Lopin said quickly, not wanting to incur the wrath of Nancy.
The whole house then stopped shaking, and everyone sighed in relief.
"Well, whose going to take care of it?" William said, upset about the whole situation despite the fact he could face Nancy's wrath.
"I will, since I don't trust you all with it," Lopin said. "If Nancy allows it, of course," he said while eying Nancy nervously.
Nancy slowly nodded.
"Very well then," Lopin sighed in relief. "All in favor?"
Diego and Carmen nodded yes, while William said lazily, "Aye,"
After that, Nancy handed the egg over to Lopin, while everyone started to discuss what to do next. Lopin, with the egg, headed back to his main haunting room, the one where he "lived". He then muttered under his nonexistent breath while looking at the egg, "What have I gotten myself into?"
