This chapter is dedicated to ivanyeh for the wonder fan art they did of geno! Their art style is really amazing!♡ anyway hope you like this chapter♡

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Geno slowly started to wake up but kept his eye closed. He felt extremely warm and didn't want to get up and away from the warmth.
He moved and pushed himself deeper where he felt where the warmth was coming from.
He felt the warm blanket slightly move, geno grabbed onto it and pulled it closer. Kinda surprised at how heavy it felt.

Geno moved his arm a bit to get comfortable but felt something around his hand. Geno raised an non existent eyebrow in confusion but kept his eye closed. Soon he began to fall asleep again, the warmth making him feel drowsy.

It wasn't till he flinched a bit, getting out of his warm trance, when he felt some arms wrap around his Waist.

"Huh?" Geno said confused, finally opening his eye.

Geno came face to face with the color black and raised an 'eyebrow'.
"What the...?" Geno whispered and looked up.
Geno screamed at the hooded figure and kicked them off the bed. Causing them to shriek in horror as their body fell to the ground.
The force of the kick managed to knock geno down as well since he was close to the edge. Geno fell on his back to the ground as the blanket landed on him.

"Who the hell are you!?" Geno yelled trying to get up.

"What do you mean!?" The voice called from the other side of the bed, "what we're you doing in my bed?"

"This - isn't - your - bed." Geno huffed taking the blanket off him.

"What?" Death said and got up from the other side but he tripped over a pillow on the ground and landed on the floor.

Geno finally got the blanket off and looked around for whoever was in the bed with him.
It wasn't till a few seconds later death popped up from the floor gasping and gripping the bed. He finally got himself untangled from the bed sheets that fell to the ground.

Geno screamed a bit in surprise and hit the bed, "don't. Do that!" Geno said clutching his chest wheezing.

"Sorry sorry!" Death apologized carefully getting up.

Geno got up as well and put the blanket on the bed and stared at death. Death stared back in silence.

"How'd you get here?" Geno asked and slowly walked over to his backpack to get clothes out, "I thought you were in the other room?"

"So did eye" death said rubbing his eye socket. Geno held in a laugh, "I think I came in here?"

"Why?" Geno asked suspiciously as he took out a green turtle neck from his backpack.

"Oh!" Death said remembering, "I heard some yelling and I was worried, so I came here to help. When I saw there was nothing wrong I was too tired to go back to my room."

"So, you decided to sleep in my bed?" Geno said slightly confused that this vampire was already worried for a stranger that appeared almost three days ago.

"More like forced," death chuckled to himself, "Greson wouldn't let me sleep on the chair."

Geno stayed quiet, he remembered Dr. Kim running in saying that death woke up screaming, so he asked, "are you okay?"

"Huh?" Death asked confused, he fixed the hood on his robe that greson brought for him since geno hogged the blanket at night.

Geno looked away from deaths stare and continued, "Dr. Kim said you woke up screaming. A name, August?  Right?"

Death gave a nervous smile and looked away rubbing his neck. "Jeez kid," death gave a small laugh.

"I'm not a kid, and we're basically the same age" geno said frowning, determination always comes at random, and he took off his bloody shirt.

Death quickly looked away, only catching a glimpse of geno's chest. The wound was enough to make death qweez up a bit. The chest wound went all the way up to geno's clavicle all the way across his ribs. He saw his ribs were all missing a few pieces of bone, leaving his ribs like an unfinished puzzle piece.

"Does it hurt?" death asked shyly.

Geno finished putting the turtle neck on and looked at his chest. "No," geno lied, but then felt guilty and told the truth, "Well, I get a few pains here and there but other then that I'll be fine, I've gotten used to some of it. It still hurts a bit."

"Do you take medicine for it?" Death said feeling a bit more worried.

Geno raised an 'eyebrow',  "no..? Where I lived they don't have much Medicine, most of our land was taken by...vampires. so there's not much Medicine we could have made. So it's saved up in storage."

We didn't take any land, we just went into hiding, death thought for a second, was from one of the districts? We have no contact with blue, green had been found and destroyed so it can't be them. Yellow is close so there's no way they have more land than my red district.

Death sighed, "That makes more work for me to do." He looked at geno and waved at him in a come here motion as he walked to the door. Geno walked closer but kept a comfortable distance between him and death.
"There's been things I've been wanting to ask you," death said as he opened the door, "ever since you arrived, but I didn't want to scare or make you uncomfortable of me."

They both walked out the room and geno looked away in a bit of shame, "I'm sorry for the way I acted the first day I came here." Geno blurted out, "it must have scared the kids and made you think i was going to hurt someone."

They both started to walk down the right hallway, it was empty of life other then geno and death. Death walked in front of his leading the way, "I can't deny that I thought you were a possible threat to us," death talked in a hushed voice as If someone could hear them, "due to things we'll have to talk about in my office to keep from other ears."

Geno nodded, but realized that death couldn't see him and whispered an "okay".

Death turned his head and smiled, "It's alright though, apologie accepted."

They started to walk down a hallway that was wide enough for six people to stand in a straight line across. The walls had windows that looked over the entire land.

Geno walked closer to the windows glancing In awe as he saw the blue rocks twinkle with light over the land. He could spot the rubble of the orphanage being rebuilt by some vampires.

Death turned his head sideways to look, "nice isn't it?"

Geno got out of his trance and looked at death.

"Besides the things that were destroyed a few days ago, it always looks pretty at night. I just wonder what actual stars look like." Death said and continued walking.

"Yeah," geno agreed silently, "its does look pretty."

The whole land lit up in a blue light,  making it look so calm and peaceful.

They finally made it to some stairs that looped around a tower.
"All the way up there?" Geno asked in surprise.

"Yeah," death smiled and started to walk up, "I have my office in the tower because it has a opening that let's me see all over the land. Just in case I need help with things."

Geno gulped a bit, "How high up is this thing?"

"50 feet or more I believe." Death answered, "why? Are you afraid of heights? We can find a different place to talk." Death suggested.

Geno shook his head, "no, I've just never been up that high before."

Death smiled to himself, "I think you'll like it."

It wasn't until a couple of minutes later they reached the top of the tower. Death took a key out from his pocket and unlocked a wooden door.

When it opened it was filled with the blue light that shined all over the land. The room was mostly made of wood unlike the outside of the castle that was made of stone. There was one desk but it sat in the corner of the room filled with untouched papers.

The room wasn't as big as the bedroom geno was in, it was roughly half the size.

Death walked in and geno followed, death turned around and pointed to an opening on the side of the tower.
"Take a look."

Geno walked over to where the blue light was shining through and gasped.

He could see over the entire land, more details were given to him as he looked through the opening. He could see what everyone was doing, some vampires were talking, walking and even a few children were playing a game of soccer. He even saw the medical center.

"Pretty neat isn't it?" Death commented.

Geno could only nod as he took in more of the view.

Death let him stare for a few minutes before calling out to him.

"So geno," death called and geno snapped away from the view.
"Let's talk shall we?"

Death leaned his shoulder against the wall and crossed his arms, he looked at geno a bit suspiciously.
"So, you were in the scouts right?" Death asked seriously.

Geno decided it wasn't a good idea to try to lie, he couldn't even do it if he tried, "Yes."

"Who was your general?" Death asked, "and don't try making up names."

Geno nodded, "Scouts aren't really aware of who's leading them honestly. They have different conditions of skill so they are lead by different generals for each group."

"What was your generals name?" Death asked in a cautious tone.

"Sule," geno answered fiddling with his sleeve wishing greson was here.
"She's a skeleton like me, except her eye color is yellow and she has a crack on her skull that leads down to her eye socket. I'm pretty sure she can still see through it."

Death nodded taking mental notes of this information, "and what category where you in?"

Geno stayed quiet, the category he was in was war strategies. Even if they were looking for missing monsters sule still worked him down to the bone on mastering all of the strategies while teaching a few others.

"Geno" Death said seriously, "what category where you in?"

Geno remained silent, even saying war strategies could give away sensitive information.

Death sighed, "geno, come on. Work with me here."

Silence was all that came from geno.

"Fine," death growled quietly and looked away, "Let's try another question, what's your relation with the X's?"

"X's?" Geno asked confused, "I don't know what they are. All I know from then was when your soldiers yelled at that creature calling it an X."

Death frowned and looked a bit frustrated, "this doesn't make sense."

"What exactly is an X?" Geno asked slightly nervous about the similarities between the creature's soul and his.

"Were not completely sure, the one that attacked us was only the second one to come around. The first, was more nicer then this one." Death said and stood up straight, "when the first one appeared I was talking with greson outside the orphanage. And this X came in. It was much smaller then the second one. And it was bleeding like you, the doctors rushed to help it but it was completely fine. It looked like it was melting but It didn't seem to feel pain. After a while we befriended the dog-looking creature and it stayed with us for a few days."

"Then what happend?" Geno said and listed closely

"After three days of living with us, it started to get disturbed..." death slightly shivers at the word, "it was going crazy, scratching at one of its legs biting it near to the bone. Then on the sixth day it attacked us."

"What? Why?" Geno asked.

"After I killed it, the doctors quickly examined the body before it melted. But they were too late." Death explained, "what little traces they found were like tiny little holes I'm the body that were most likely cause by needles. And thus came the name, X for experiment."

Geno looked down before looking at death, "and you.....you think I'm one of those things?"

"Yes and no." Death said honestly, "you're different, the X we found didn't have anyway to speak. It was also melting a bit. It it acted like a complete animal."

"So what?" Geno asked a bit loudly, he was feeling a bit mad that he was being accused if being one of those things. "What are you saying here?

"I'm not saying anything" death said, "all is that I just find it suspicious that you appear here like that and a few days later the X comes."

"You think I brought it here!?" Geno said getting a bit madder.

"No." Death answered sternly, "look, I'll just say it. I don't trust you to leave, you were in the scouts so you should know what monsters do to protect their kind."

Death started to inch closer to geno and continued to talk, "a few days ago when the X appeared you proved to me that you could he a huge threat to us with all the magic and abilities you have."

Death was almost right in front of geno who backed up, his body slightly stumbled when he hit the opening but he re balanced himself.

"What if you leave geno?" Death asked, his tone was smooth and serious, "what if you bring back an army of soldiers and destroy our hiding place just like how green district went down?"

Death was so close to geno that their foreheads almost touched.

"Plus some questions I have for you, you won't answer." Death said.

Geno took took a chance and spoke, "if you think I honestly want to hurt anyone you s-seriously have N-no idea who I am. I was forced to join the scouts. And I got here because of a landslide that hit me!"

Death pulled away from geno with a smile, "Now was that all that hard?~" Death asked.

"Huh?" Geno questioned.

"Sorry," death apologized,  "you wouldn't have told anymore information or at least something unless I did that."

"What- you were trying to get on my nerves!?" Geno asked appalled.

"You could say that," death said in an apologetic voice.

"Whatever," geno said walking to the door, "I'm going back and going to bed,"

"The kids will drag you out of the room if you do~" Death laughed and followed geno, "I heard them whispering about it."

Geno sighed, "shush, your voice is starting to get on my nerves now."

"Is it not humerus?" Death chimed.

"Snrk-" geno covered his mouth before the laughed and grabbed the door handle.

"Were you trying not to laugh? how a-door-able" death said as geno opened the door.

"Pff- stop n-now." Geno whimpered a bit holding back a laugh and started to walk faster.

"Why are you so cruel to my puns?" Death said clutching his robe dramatically,  "its like you don't carrot at all."

That was the last straw for geno and he broke down in a laughing fit.
Death continued to say more puns that made geno laugh harder.

"Stop," geno gasped laughing, "I can't t-take anymore, death!"

Death immediately stopped at hearing his name, everyone called him the leader and he only heard his name from greson and sometimes dr. Kim.

Death smiled and said, "I see you drop dead for them so I'll stop."

Geno broke out in more fits of laughter.

Heya guys how was this chapter? Did you like the drawings in them to give you like a visual of what's going on?
Tell me if you want me to keep adding them in there♡ or if you like the story without them in it!♡ just tell me okay♡

Anyway I always thought death would try and say a few puns and joke around when things get a bit too tense so ya.

Anywho hope you like this chapter ♡

Pepe! Out!