Chapters are coming... How do you guys like these GOT references? Hmmm? What is that you say? Please don't kill Bran as you love him and don't want him to die! How quaint. Maybe he will. Maybe not? All I can say is that everyone dies sometime. On a side note, if you haven't heard of the new page for Questions, Queries, and Theories then what are you doing here! It should come out before this! Again if you love to draw, even if you "suck" I don't care! Draw Bran and the top three will have won the grand prize of naming a character in the story! Send the art to [email protected] Also of note is reviews! I only have one, and if you enjoyed the story send one my way to help others find it. Because SpartanLoki told me so I guess I need to put a line here

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[Bran's POV]

   Seriously? What the everliving HELL! Who punches a god damn wall? More importantly who does that and cracks the wall? I can see why the dungeon shades were no match for them. From what I can glean of their conversation, dungeon shades float through the labyrinth or dungeon they inhabit. They then upon seeing an intruder react in one of two ways. The first way, and the way most act are to violently try to attack anyone who intrudes into their area. The second way is way more terrifying. The dungeon shade will mimic what a person imagines as an ideal spouse and then proceed to enchant and knock out the intruder, taking them to the floors boss and leaving them there.

   There is no way in hell Blondie or Red are my ideal spouse. They act like they are from some bad anime. Heh. That is a pretty great idea so far. Bran the meager young lad steps up to his apple senpai and nervously reaches for his hand. But wait, two evil yanderes attack and carry him away before his love of senpai can be confessed! Oh the tragedy! While I solemnly mourned apple senpai I looked at the rope wrapped tight around my waist. The dragon-lady held it. She was scary. She looked mostly human except for a few scales here and there along with a tail. Yes I stared at the tail. What was I gonna do? Social justice warriors may pounce upon me should I ever find them but holy shit. A lizards tail is way weirder seeing it in real life than in fiction. I may or may not have "accidentally" touched it... once or twice. Hey, I had to know if it was real. When I did however reach out for the... third time I got bitch-slapped plain and simple. Thankfully it wasn't Popeye with her iron gloves. It was Silent Bob the non-speaking elf. She was blushing when she did it so I'm assuming touching the tail is a big no-no. The worst part was seeing the uncomfortable faces of Gingy the dwarf and Scales. Gingy looked plain horrified at me, Scales looked really flustered and was almost crying.

   When they started walking again I stared at my filthy hands. Why? Why didn't I just resist? We continued walking the corridors and I decided two things. One: I hate walking. Two: Labyrinths suck. I couldn't try to escape because while the monsters all preferred to attack the girls, they were freaking scary. Giant snakes, zombies, even what looked like a murderous and sentient apple tree all attacked us. The girls destroyed them, Popeye punched a snake so hard her fist came out the other side. I vomited after and when they saw this they laughed and continued to casually slaughter everything. One time as we were travelling we came across a goblin, he was tiny, barely half my height and he held in his hand a sharpened stick. When he saw us he ran, unfortunately the fireball that Silent Bob shot off caught him in the back. This led to him falling and rolling around to put out the fire. When he looked up at me I nearly started to cry. He stared deep into my eyes, almost as if to my very soul and mouthed some words before Popeye walked up. She picked him up by the head and started to squeeze until his head burst. I had to escape. I don't know when but anyone who could kill such a clearly intelligent species is obviously insane. I remembered a quote from a book I read along time ago - "No mercy for monsters".

   I don't know when but as soon as they fall asleep, or I get the chance I am leaving for good. At least goblins won't smile as they kill. Even if I die I  won't die in the no doubt horrible way these people would have me.

   My chance came when they were distracted. The  bats were attacking them and to protect me Silent Bob bravely threw me behind her, causing Scales to let go of the rope in the process. I then took this time to stealthily run back the way we had come. As far from those monsters as possible.

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[Blanche's POV]

   I was starting to get less and less attracted to this guy the more time we spent with him. I may not know much about Daisy but one of the things I did know was that her tail was a... sensitive spot. So when I turned around to see Daisy extremely flushed, slightly panting, and extremely uncomfortable I was a little disgusted at him. He was looking like a beaten puppy. Meanwhile me and Wimly stood there horrified as Jade rubbed her hand. That was a nice shot though. Really go him good.

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   Another off-putting thing about him was he threw up constantly as if being able to punch through a snake wasn't a great feat. Not to mention he never laughed when I did something funny like crushing a goblins head. I was seriously debating leaving him to find some better treasure when we were attacked. Bats came out of everywhere, as if they were sent to destroy us. Thinking about it, they probably were. When we finally finished with the bats, I made two explode I punched them so hard we all laughed at the dead bats. Something was missing however, our captive. Our treasure.

"He must have ran like scared dog. I am sure we will find him soon." Wimly said, with worry evident in her eyes.

"Ee's probably somewhere just out of sight." Daisy blushed as she said this. No way. How could she consider him violating her personal space charming?

   Daisy's words did nothing to allay m fears however as I had almost mapped out this floor. I knew where all the monsters were and if he ran into ANY of them he was going to die. From the basilisks, shades, and giant bats, all of these were no "easy" monsters. Even if he was a seasoned adventurer going in here alone would be suicide. He must've been brainwashed after all. There is no way a sane person would leave us after seeing how capable we are. I turned towards the party and sighed. We didn't have enough provisions to last long, and eating the monsters meat would poison us. We had to choose to leave him, or possibly starve.

"Alright ladies we got a choice to make. We don't have many provisions right now and if we search for him we may run out of food. Now, he is obviously a 'treasure' to the labyrinth so maybe it'll keep him alive until he reaches his master. Either way, we need to decide. Come back later with more provisions, or stay and search for him."

"I think he is tougher than we give credit, let us go and gain provisions to slay this scaly beast." Wimly brashly replied.

"We should stay and search, maybe 'e was just the dragon's pet." Daisy shyly answered.

   I looked at Jade to see a myriad of emotions pass through her face. When she finished her thought she looked at me and shrugged. She obviously didn't care which.

"Looks like my vote is the deciding factor then. I vote we leave and return, he isn't that handsome."

    Though Daisy seemed like she was about to say something, she stopped herself and nodded to me. Wimly looked over and did the same, while Jade kept her neutral expression. I looked around one last time as we set off for the upper floors.

"Good luck kid, you'll need it."

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[Bran's POV]

   As it turns out, goblins can smile while killing. As I was back-tracking I came across the corpse of the recently deceased goblin. Around said goblin's remains were two others, these one had very threatening looks on their faces and some wickedly curved swords. They were obviously mourning their comrade. Unfortunately I think I spoiled the moment when I saw the corpse again and vomited. They were quite shocked at the display to say the least. so for a moment we stood there. Two goblins, and one very frightened youth, just watching each other. Unfortunately when I wiped my mouth off and averted my eyes from their comrade they jumped at me.

   What happened next was... odd. As the goblins jumped at me I shrieked and held my arms in front of my face in vain. Then they suddenly passed through me. Like they went through me. I was a little shocked and turned around to see them pounce on the giant snake behind me. While flabbergasted I didn't want this magic spell, or whatever to wear off before I got back to Astarte. So I did the only logical thing. I ran like a bat out off hell.

   I don't know how long I have been wandering the labyrinth now but I'm so tired. It feels like forever. I'm so bored. At least the monsters would give me some excitement if they could see me. I had been walking so long my feet felt like lead. If I didn't find Astarte's room soon I'm gonna lay down and sleep somewhere...

   I'm done. This is it. My tragic end. Oh how fate doth be a cruel mistress! I had to sleep, staring at the same walls for hours had made me realize that I was probably better off with the kidnappers. I was so lost so maybe when I wake up my mind will be a bit clearer.

   I woke up to two familiar faces. Red and Blondie! Both alive and kicking! Unfortunately the kick was straight to my face. All I could think of when I was sinking into unconsciousness was, not again...