The Blood Countess
Chapter 12: Chapter 12: New Guild
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New Guild
(Knight’s Guild, Morning)
“So what’s it like being a princess of this kingdom?” Veronica asked as Charlotte walked over to her with a plate of eggs, bacon, and jelly covered toast.
“Not so bad. I can get a lot of free stuff around here from time to. But it’s mostly candy that I get for free here.”
“Sounds like a sweet deal.”
“Would be if I didn’t have to worry about getting a cavity or two.”
“Charlotte, you know you can’t survive off of sweets for the rest of your life.” Blueblood said as he enter the room wearing a blue shirt and black pants.
“A girl can dream can’t she?”
“And dream you shall until you’re old enough to be on your own or until you’re ruler of this kingdom.” Blueblood said as he patted Charlotte on the head before sitting down next to her. “So how are you holding up Veronica?”
“Everything is a bit weird, but I’m starting to get use to being here a bit.”
“Well that’s good to hear. If you need any help with anything, just come by here and I’ll assist you in whatever it is that you need....well within my powers of course.”
“I’ll be sure to ask for your help when I need it. Thanks for offering to help me Blueblood.”
“It’s my job to help out citizens of Dokapon Kingdom. I am the king of this place after all.”
“Yeah...a king who has the tendency of getting drunk during the holidays and special events.” Charlotte comment.
“Still not gonna let me live that one down huh?”
“Will you let me eat all the candy I want?”
“Have pigs learned how to fly?”
“No….”
“Then the answer is no.” Blueblood said as Charlotte pouted in defeat. “When you’re old enough, you can eat as much candy as you want. But for now you’ll just have to enjoy eating the food that we give you to keep you healthy.”
“Whatever…” The girl said as she looks away and takes a bite out of her piece of bacon.
“Cheer up kid, at least when you grow up you can live on your own.” Just the the unicorn was about to pat Charlotte on the head, Peppita quickly entered the room causing a gust of cold wind to send a chill down their necks...well all but Veronica. “Nice to see you’re up Peppita. What’s up?”
“Well I was up a few hours ago before any of you guys woke up. But on my trip around town, Jill happen to come across me to inform me that our guild is finally done...well repaired, but not upgraded.”
“Well that’s good to hear. Guess you two will be heading back to your guild then huh?” Blueblood asked as she and Veronica nodded. “Well as I say to Peppita, I’ll also say this to you. If you ever need a place to stay, feel free to come by here if you need a place to stay. You know, just in case Peppita accidentally burns her guild down again.”
“I’m right here you know!?” Peppita said as she had a pouty expression on her face.
“Doesn’t make it less true, or did you forget what happen at Dokapon Kingdom’s cook off?”
“How was I supposed to know that you can mix water and oil together?”
“Everyone, everyone knew that.” Blueblood said as it caused Peppita’s face to blush red in embarrassment.
“Whatever, come along Veronica. It’s time to have a look at our new home.” The harpy said as she started to fly off towards the exit of the Knight Guild. Veronica finish eater at least most of her breakfast before running off after the harpy.
“Thanks again for the meal, and thanks again for the lesson the yesterday Charlotte!” Veronica said as she waved good-bye to both her and Blueblood.
“Seeya Veronica! Drop by anytime you want if you want a sparring buddy, or just to chat!”
(Dokapon Guild)
“Um….Jill?”
“Yeah chicken legs?” Jill said as she looked over at Peppita with grin of confident on her face. Peppita on the other hand had a dumbfounded expression as she looked down the the dwarf.
“When you said that you were going to fix the place, I didn’t think it would be something like this!?”
“I know, hence the reason why I didn’t tell you about it.”
“But...we didn’t have the money to even upgrade this place seeing how we only have enough to patch it up.”
“You can thank King Blueblood for that. While you guys were busy with whatever it is that you were doing, the king came by and paid us extra for upgrading your brand spanking new home/guild.” Jill said as she smiled innocently.
“.....Why do I get the odd feeling that this might be something of a way for me to owe him on?”
“I don’t know about you, but I would take it and don’t question it.” The dwarf said as she notice Veronica going inside. “Plus I think your student or students if you get anymore would love it.”
“Well she’s not lying about that.” Veronica said as she popped her head out of the window. “I mean look at this place? It looks and smells new.” Peppita was a bit hesitant at first in going inside. But with a pat to her leg by Jill, she began to make her way inside to their new home. Upon entering the building, the harpy’s eyes widen upon seeing the inside. The room was patched up, the floors didn’t have holes or loose floor boards sticking out of the floor or missing, no dust collecting over the tables, walls, floors, or windows, and the colors of the room was bright and lively then dark, old, and depressing.
“Okay….I have to admit. You really outdone yourself with this Jill.”
“Ha! You know I’m the best carpenter in all of Dokapon. I like to see anyone else in town beat me at my own work.” Jill said as she walked passed the harpy and hopped on the front desk. “Now then, here are the things that you should know about your new home. You new guild will have classroom to the left side of the building so you can teach any monsters, humans, or ponies that was to join. Upstairs are the rooms for just you two seeing how I only had enough money to make it that way so feel free to claim whichever or just share a room. The backyard I made into a training field if you want to train at home if you’re not interested in going to the gym. Downstairs you have a indoor pool, a mini lounge, a small game room for if you want to play games in there, and sana room for relaxing as well. And last but not least is the kitchen which you can walk into behind the front desk through this door.” Jill said as she pointed behind herself.
“Wow, you really went all out on this place huh?” Veronica asked as she floated around the building while exploring.
“I take pride in my work kid. Okay, now that I told you about the changes is there anything you want to know about?” Jill asked as Veronica and Peppita shook their heads
“Not that I can think of at the top of my head.”
“Nope, this place is amazing! Thanks Jill.”
“Alrighty then,” Jill said as she hops off the desk and started making her way towards the door way. “Feel free to stop by my work place when you want to upgrade this place again.”
“We’ll do, thanks again for fixing and upgrading this place Jill.”
“Don’t mention it. We are friends after all.” The dwarf girl said as she waved good-bye to the harpy and vampire.
“I’m gonna have a look around before heading into town.” Peppita said as she heads downstair. “What are you going to do?”
“Possibly to on a few quests and stuff. I want to be a bit stronger before going on main quest to the crimson kingdom.” Veronica said as Peppita gave her a smile.
“Well be sure to drop by before you do go on your main quest. Till then have fun and be safe on whatever you do around town and stuff.” Peppita said as she walk off downstairs.
“Nice to finally see that you’re taking this serious.” Shalltear mentally said as Veronica rolls her eyes and begins to head out.
“I have been taking this seriously. Maybe you should stop being rude towards me and pay more attention to what I’ve been doing.”
“Only because you’re still a faker and don’t know that much about this place...but seeing how I’m stuck with you until we can get the lich gem, I’ll try to be...less mean towards you.”
“Thank you, isn’t being nice good?”
“Don’t push your luck kid. Just go the Knight’s guild and get started on leveling yourself up with a quest or two.”
“Yeah, yeah, I know what to do. That’s what I’ve been planning on doing after breakfast...speaking of that. I need to head into town to get something to eat seeing how I had to rush breakfast.”
“Alright, fine. Get something to eat and then go to the knight’s guild to start your quest leveling and stuff.”
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Sorry for the long wait for this story to be updated. Work and dealing with getting ready to go back to college had to be taken care of before anything else. But I should have some time to spare to work on my stories. Anyway here's a chapter for yeah.