Candy and Blitz enter inside the 2nd floor of the castle, they are at the main hallway where there are a few doors to enter in, statues and antiques.
Candy : "Looks like the coast is clear mate."
She paused and looks at blitz
Candy : "Let's hope your other mateys keep everyone out of sight while we go search"
Blitzo "they'll be fine! *whispers* hope Moxxie doesn't screw up...again."
Both of them begin the search, Moxxie and Millie walked down the hallway with the guards following them, they opened the curtains for them to enter, the two imps will greeted in front by the Princess, as she sits in her throne, licks a lollipop, besides her was another slime demon, but this one was pink and is smaller than the Princess, she wears a fancy dress and smiles, she looks just like her, this was her daughter, sitting next to her mother in a more smaller throne, when Moxxie and Millie got up front, the Princess stands up joyfully and walks down the steps.
??? : "Oh, Hello!~ You must be the critics! Welcome to the Gluttony Ring, and in my palace! I am honored that you wanted to review my food! I'll have you know I am the best sweets maker there is here!"
Moxxie : "Greetings ma'am! And yes, we are happy to be going through with our..uhh.."critiques" on your cakes and stuff."
Millie : "We heard that your food is divine here, so we had to umm..take our business to give you our opinions!"
??? : "Well that's wonderful, I'm Anise, Princess and perhaps ruler of this part of the Ring"
Moxxie : "Why I'm Sir Estefan, and Madam Gabrielle, Pleasure to be-"
??? : "Mom! Can we please show them our bake goods! I'm starving!"
The other royal demon jumps up and down from her throne as she was excitedly impatient from waiting, Anise turns back to look at her daughter, paused after she interrupted their conversation.
Anise: "Taffy darling, due calm down, we are going to get to that part"
She turns back to the two imps with an embarrassed little smile.
Anise: "Hehe, I apologize, that's my beloved daughter, Taffy, anyways! Let's head to the dinning room! Let's hope the chefs baked us some goods for you to try!"
The Princess leads Moxxie and Millie to another door, then her daughter Taffy proceeds to follow them, skipping ahead to the doorway.
They all went to the other room, inside was the dinning room, the chefs were preparing the dishes, baking and setting them on the table for the special quests, Moxxie and Millie looked around and sees all the desserts, waiting for them.
Moxxie : "..ooooh crumbs."
They all make their way to the dinner table, the waiters set up the chairs for each to sit down in, Moxxie and Millie go to each of their seats and sat down, Anise walks over to the far opposite side of the table and sat down too, Taffy runs and skips over to the dinner table, leaps over to her seat and lands down to sit, she looks at both Moxxie and Millie as Anise orders one of the waiters to get the desserts ready, she turns her head to Moxxie and Millie.
Anise: "Now, before we start, why don't you tell me more about yourselves, like I want to hear more about you!"
Moxxie fixes up his collar and was started to get puzzled to answer her question, he's having a hard time to figure out what to say more about them, Millie saw it and held his hand to calm him down, it works and Moxxie started to gain small confidence.
Moxxie : "Well, we own a big mansion, at the main part of our ring, and we have a successful track record for being Hell's best reviewers, I mean, you just heard that, but it's true though, we aren't know world wide because we like to...keep our business to ourselves ya know."
He nervously laughs, Millie smiles a little and kinda laughs too.
Millie : "Yes, We will own a very nice rich business back home."
Anise : "Well I'm interested! I can't wait to hear how you think when we start digging in!"
The waiters then came in with handfuls of dishes of pastries, cakes and candy, as they set them down to the table, Moxxie was stunned and Millie was amazed to see all these delicious treats in front.
Anise: "Well don't just stand there, enjoy the meal!
Blitz opens one of the rooms to search for any activity, Candy does the same, nothing seems to be catching their eye and still kept trying, Blitz then spots a pink door right by the corner, he runs over to it, the door has candy stickers on it and a sign says "Keep out! Or else!" Blitz turns the knob and the door opens, inside was a small bedroom, it was a little messy with clothes, Candy wrappers and hair products, he avoids stepping onto anything, he can smell the strawberry perfume inside too, which made him sneeze a little, he covers his nose with his hand.
Blitzo : "Jeez, does this dummy need to have this much in there?.."
He looks through the closet, nothing but clothes and lingerie, he looks through the drawers, nothing but useless things inside, last try he saw another shelf, there's a drawer with a lock slot on it, which he probably knew there's something secret inside, he goes to it and grabs a clip from his pocket, he bends it straight and uses it to unlock the drawers, it work like a charm and he opens the drawer, he saw a key, a full sized golden lock key.
Blitzo : "Hah! Bingo!"
He grabs it happily and exited out of the room, Candy still remains in the halls, she had looked through most of the room, until she found on last door at the end of the hallway, opens it, to reveal the master's lounge room, it had a luxurious design inside, sofas, a balcony, and an indoor fountain with juice pouring out, Blitz catches up with candy while still holding the key.
Blitz : "Hey, I got something, I think this maybe unlocks something here."
Candy turns to blitz and saw the key.
Candy : "Oh great! That maybe means something! Let's go find where the key goes to!"
They both entered inside and wandering around the lounge room, Candy looks around inside and under the sofas, Blitz digs through the shelves, both tried to find something that could lead into something, like a secret door, or a safe, anything, they didn't find much, they both groaned.
Candy : "There's got to be something in there we're just missing on."
Blitzo : "Yeah but, we looked everywhere, there's nothing to find in here or the other rooms."
Candy : "But wait, there's one thing we may have not checked on, and that is.."
They slowly turned their heads to the fountain, of course, the last thing they haven't check yet, so both of them go to it and they search around the fountain, less than a second, Candy saw something inside the fountain, she saw a lock, just on the bottom inside the juice.
Candy : "Ah! I found something! Give me the key!"
Blitz throws her the key, she puts her arm inside the juice and puts the key into the lock, she turns it and then suddenly, the fountain turns off by itself, both of them started to stand back to wait what happens, but, nothing's happening.
Blitzo : "...Wait? It's just a fountain key?"
Candy : "What, it can't be, I thought this could be it."
Blitzo : "Well, I did found the key in the other bedroom, and it was in one of the locked drawers, but now that I think about, why would someone even keep a fountain key inside of a drawer locked? But whatever, this is starting to be a waste of time, let's just keep looking."
But before they leave, Candy smells something, she senses in the air, she turns her head to the fountain, when the scent became more clearer, Candy realizes the scent, play energeticly goes over to the other side of the room.
Candy : "Wait! Hold on there mate!"
Then Candy grabs a statue, carries and aims it to the fountain, Blitz saw her with it and alertly backs up.
Blitzo : "Woah woah what are you doing!?"
Without warning, she threw the statue at fountain, it breaks it in shambles, juice pours out to the floor and dust fog the room, the sounds echoed far when Moxxie and Millie stopped and looked around, Anise and Taffy paused too and heard the noise.
Anise : "What's that noise?"
Moxxie and Millie knew what that noise was, and knew Blitz and Candy are upstairs, they quickly stall the princesses before they get into any conclusions of what the noise was.
Blitz coughs and waves his arm around to clear the dust, Candy then looks around in the now damaged fountain, throwing the pieces away to find something, then she found something on the floor, she hustled her way and moves everything aside, what she saw was a trap-door on the bottom, Blitz looks down to her.
Blitz : "What was that for? Aren't we suppose to keep quiet here?"
Candy : "Well I just found ourselves a secret gateway to search more around!"
She opens the trap door, inside was a hollow pit that seems to look like a long fall, Candy looks down to the pit, she looks at Blitz.
Candy : "Alright Blitz, get on my back"
Blitz : "Why? I'm not a child."
Candy didn't respond to answer his question, rather she picks him up and puts him behind her back to hang on, Blitz was concerned and didn't like where this is going at the moment,she then cracks her neck and finger, spins her tail and gets ready to jump in.
Blitz : "H-hey what are you-"
Candy : "Hang tight back there, this is gonna be a long drop!"
Blitzo : "Wait wait wait!-"
She leaps inside the hole, Blitz screams as they fall and echoes could be heard as they fall inside the pit.
Candy and Blitz kept falling what seems to be eternity, Blitz holds tight onto Candy as hard as he could, Candy's hair flows in the air and then finally, they both landed down to the ground, Candy lands onto her boots as Blitz shakes a little and slightly opens his eyes as they finally stopped.
Candy : "Alrighty, you may walk"
Blitz jumps off of her and looks around, inside they seem to be inside some sort of underground area, it was a little dark but their eyes light up in order to see better.
Blitzo : "Oh what you look at that, a secret underground cave, really out of the ordinary."
Candy : "So I believe the treasure is close by, I can smell it!"
Blitzo : "But, how did he even know it's going to be in here? Did you see something that I didn't?"
Candy : "No, just caught its scent, whenever something is close, you can track it easier and know it's there."
Blitzo : "Ah I see, you have the ability to smell certain things?"
Candy : "Yep! It's a lot stronger than other imps like you"
As they walked through the rocky trail, they then happened to see upfront a path inside the cave, they run towards it.
Blitz : "You think this is it?"
Candy : "I hope so!"
They run passed their way inside, the other part of the cave what's a beautiful landscape where they are treasure inside, waterfalls in each walls, pointed rock candy rocks, cotton candy and at the bottom w-where water is, They both walked down to the thin trail as they look everywhere around the cave, then what catches their eye was in the further side, there was a pink and red treasure chest, as the sunlight flashes it through the roof.
Candy : "Sugar cubes! There it is, Me own precious treasure! We found it!"
Blitzo : "Oh wow, they did, that's surprising"
Candy : "Alright, let's go and get it!"
they ran down the rocky steps to the stoned planks to retrieve their goal, Candy was so happy that she found her treasure and was finally gonna get it back after all the hard work of just trying to get it back.
Meanwhile, Moxxie and Millie enjoyed the sweets as the waiter served them each plate, Anise watches greatly and wipes her mouth with a towel, however, her daughter, Taffy was making a mess as she eats the cakes like a wolf, frosting and cake batter were all over her face, Anise saw her and shakes her head as she forcefully presses the towel onto her mouth.
Anise : "Darling, remember what they discussed about? Eat like a lady, you're acting like an animal."
Taffy : "*gulps* Sorry Mom, i can't control it, I can't help if I'm in a sugar rush!"
Anise : "Well why don't you go entertain yourself, away from supper for a little bit, it'll help die off the sugar from your blood, and wipe off the icing from your face too."
Taffy : "Okay!"
She runs away in a heartbeat, Moxxie and Millie looked back and then looked at Anise.
Millie : "Gee, your daughter sure is..something."
Anise : "Yes don't worry, my child is always like this, it's just her normal behavior, now, how are you enjoying this supper so far?"
Moxxie : "Oh, well, I do have to say, it's absolutely divining, the flavors of each of the pastries are very bursting and the candy is both sweet and sour, in a good way"
Millie : "What he meant was that your food is really good."
Anise : "*Chuckles* Why thank you! I'm happy that you think so, it is wonderful to be acquainted by you two, supporting and giving out positivity for those who make such mouth watering things you can eat!"
Moxxie : "Well, we love to stay a little longer, but uhh..we have to get back to our town to..uhh..give out a good review for you and your dishes."
Anise : "Oh of course, I almost forgot you have a busy schedule, since you guys are so famous in your ring, but actually, I do have one more thing before you leave, it's not something to try or anything like that, its...more of a question."
Moxxie and Millie looked at each other in confusion, but they still play their character and listened.
Moxxie : "Oh, what would you like to ask?"
Anise : "Well...my question to you is.."
Then all of the sudden, she takes out a sword from her dress, has a wide grin onto her face.
Anise : "Are you two..ready to the grand finale?"
Both the imps were shocked, they didn't know why she suddenly has a sword in her hand, and why she's looking at them like that, she was fine before but when was that Sudden Change of mood? What had happened to her charming and calm expression, and how did it come to this, Moxxie and Millie backed up while still in their seats.
Moxxie : "Uhh..y-yeah, we are, but..what's with that sword ma'am?"
Anise : "Oh nothing too serious, just wondering."
She chuckles as the waiter imps comes to the dinner table, all gathered up, as Moxxie and Millie looked around, wondering what's happening.
Millie : "Ehh..."
But then, Anise then came closer to Moxxie, she aims her sword to the little imp as she narrows down to take a long look at him, suddenly, she snaps her fingers and the waiters then grabs them both, they pulled him down from their seats, Moxxie and Millie tried to escape from what was happening, the waiters begin the tear both of their disguises apart by ripping the fabric off, tearing them up to shreds until finally, their identities are revealed, they pulled them back up and tied them down with some rope, Anise begins the laugh, as she still stared at them.
Anise : "Hehehe...you two are so stupid, if you think you can get away by fooling me or my crew to believe your tricks ya tricksters!"
The waiters and chefs begin to remove their clothes, revealing them to actually be waiters or chef, rather they're wearing what looks like pirate clothes, they grab each of their weapons and two of them tightens the ropes onto both Moxxie and Millie, not letting them loose.
Moxxie : "W-wait! what's going on! how did you know we-"
Anise : "about your costumes? it's obvious that those are fake, with no fancy fabric and nothing, You're probably confused on what's really going on, here's the truth."
She rips off her dress and wears her real clothes inside, she removes the crown from her head and puts on her hat, her colorful grin never leaving her side and still aims the sword towards Moxxie.
Anise : "We actually knew from the moment you walked in, we smell your scents and knew exactly who you really are, we just pretend to lure you into our trap until the perfect time."
Millie : "W-wait hold on, so..you guys..are Pirates?"
Anise : "Oh yes, indeed we are, clever plan ain't it? now, you came all the way here and trespassing my territory! So, the real question is...why are you really here?"
The sword was under Moxxie's neck, Millie tries to leave the chair, but one of the pirate imp held onto her still.
Moxxie : "I..uhhh.."
Anise : "What's wrong? Got nothing to say? You have about three seconds before I cut your throat out!"
Millie heard that line and she pushes herself backwards and knocks off the imp behind her, she grabs a knife and cuts through the rope, jumps out and kicks Anise away from Moxxie.
Anise : "AGH!"
She fell to the ground, Millie goes to Moxxie and cuts the rope to release her husband, Anise gets up and glared at them, her greedy grin still remains and rubs her face.
Anise : "Well, look it here, we got a fighter! this is gonna be fun!
she then calls out to her imps.
Anise : "Gentlemen! Kill them!"
The pirate imps did what she said and all charged to attack.
Moxxie and Millie prepared themselves and begin the fight, Taffy was upstairs, going to her room, until she notices that her door was wide open, she walks inside and notices that the drawer for the key is stolen, she looked around and rush around to find who took it, then she spots another door open, she goes to the lounge room and notices the trap door, she ran to it and knew someone has broken through the secret room, she then jumps in the air and goes inside the pit.
Candy and Blitz finally made it to the end of their goal, they saw the treasure at the other part of the cave, but the stop to see there's no trail to it, but only a long drop to the bottom.
Blitzo : "Dead end, looks like we may need to equip something to get there."
Candy : "Well, there surely has to something we could use."
Then the walkie-talkie from blitz's pocket turns on, revealing Millie's voice, Blitz picks up.
Millie : "Blitz! Ya here! We got some bad news!"
Blitz : "Yes here, what happened?"
Millie : "Well, things didn't work out in the end, it turns out everyone were not fooled all the way from our disguise plan, so now we are fighting them in the meantime, you better get that chest now before it gets worse!"
The walkie-talkie cuts off, both of them shocked that part of their plan didn't work, so now they need to hurry up with their mission.
Blitzo : "Crap, they're on to us!"
Candy : "we need to hurry up before someone find us!"
She then looks up to see the roof, on it was a rock, curled in a sharp angle like a hook, she then got an idea.
Candy : "Blitz, use your grabbing hook! So we can spin over in the air to make it over there!"
Blitzo : "Oh! Good idea!"
He takes out his grappling hook and shoots it to the rock, the hook spins around on it and stays on, Candy grabs the grappling hook and picks Blitzo up.
Candy : "Here we go!"
She ran and jumps off from the ground, they swing over in the air and both made it over as Candy lets go of the grappling hook and lands to the edge, the grappling hook drops off from the pointed rock and lands onto blitz's hand, he grabs it and puts it away, they looked over to see the treasure chest, finally close to them, they both ran to it, Candy jumps up and down with excitement, to finally getting to her goal, she picks it up and looks at it.
Candy : "Ahh, at last I got it back! after all these long days of trying to get it finally!"
She looks at Blitz.
Candy : "And also thanks with some help of a good friend who assist me to find it!"
Blitzo : "Oh, I couldn't really take a lot of credit, but yeah we got what belongs to you and now all we need to to do is to get outta here!"
In the background, something landed onto the ground with a big thump sound, making both Blitz and Candy jump, they turn back to see they weren't alone, they saw a figure, coming back up to its feet, the eyes glow pink and the unseen figure started to laugh and walked over to them, it was Taffy, as she stares at the imps.
Taffy : "Wow! You managed to find my mom's secret underground cave and also got to the treasure too, that seems very impressive, but I won't let you two steal anything by the hands of my mom!"
Blitz : "Hey, look kid, sorry to break it down to you, but this chest belongs to her, so if you could just step aside and we'll be on our way."
Candy goes in front of him and takes out her sword.
Candy : "You heard the little guy, walk away, or face some real ugly bloodshed"
Taffy laughs and she grabs a cutlass, she jumps in the air and pounces onto Candy, the treasure chest was thrown in the air until it lands onto blitz, to have him carry it, both the girls roughhoused for a bit, then Candy kicks her off with both of her legs, she jumps back up and brushes off the hair off her face, she now face against the pink slimy monster girl as she aims her sword at her, Taffy twitches a little and her eyes still glow, she still laughs and charges to the pirate, both of them have a sword fight, as they defend themselves and uses their athletic skills to spice and cut, Blitz in the background watches the girls as he still carries the treasure.
Candy jumps over Taffy as she kicks her down, but taffy turns around while laying down and grabs her with her sticky hand, she pulls her to her and punches her, she does this a couple of times, then candy chops off the melted sticky icing off of her and then taffy gets up again, the girls still battled until Taffy saw Blitz with the chest, she punches Candy away from her, causing her to crash the back of her head to the wall, she fell down to the floor, Taffy quickly ran to get the chest from Blitz herself.
Taffy : "GIVE ME THAT!"
she yells as Blitz started to run away from her while still carrying the chest, Candy was on the ground and lifts her head up to see that Blitz was in trouble, Blitz uses his pistol and shoots at Taffy, but the bullets either missed or that she is not immune to them since her skin is made of protected stickiness.
Blitzo : "GRR! why isn't this working!"
Taffy screeches and then grew wings and her eyes were in multiple colors of pink red and yellow, she flies quickly to him and grab him, the chest drops to the ground as Taffy flew up with blitz, her wings flapped rapidly as she proceeds to try and maul him with her claws and teeth, blitz tries to fight back with his fists but the grip on her was too hard to punch through, he screams for help as he felt the claws digging through his skin.
Candy was laying there, feeling the pain from her head, she heard voices in the distance, she slowly looks up to see Taffy, attacking Blitz as he cries out to her, Candy was alarmed and hurries herself back up, she saw her sword next to her, she grabs it and ran to the cliff and bounces off from the edge, she narrows to the slime monster and slices off one of her wings, Taffy screams in pain and then loss her control of flying, Candy lands and hangs onto one of the stone plates, she bounces off of it and then drop kicks her, catching blitz before he falls, both Candy and BLitz land back down to where they were, but taffy was holding on tightly to the cliff with her claws, she tries to climb back up, but it was too slippery for her, Candy puts Blitz down and then walks over to where taffy is, almost close to her, but far from her too, her eyes glow and she raises her boot up and stomps forcefully once to the stoned floor, the cliff begins to crack, as little pieces of rocks fall down, the cliff slowly breaks down as taffy still tries to climb up quickly, she then paused and realizes she wasn't gonna make it, she looks over to Blitz and Candy as she smiles with her wicked crazy look on her face.
Taffy : "..Mom will end you for this.."
she laughs a little and then the end of the cliff breaks free as Taffy falls down to the bottom, her echos of laughing still could be heard as they ended when the sounds of splashing entered, candy and Blitz looked down as they stared at the reddish water.
Blitz : "Welp, she's dead."
Blitz and Candy high-five each other and got the treasure back, they then went to the other way of the cave to find an exit, Blitz compliments Candy about her skills as they leave the place.
Back at the dining room, Moxxie and Millie still fight off the imp pirates as almost a few of the pirates were killed, Millie defends her husband during the battle, Anise was getting fed up by them killing off her men, she then enters in once more and fights off Millie, as for Moxxie had to still take care of the others, Anise attacks Millie with her sword but Millie blocks and douches every move she made.
Anise : "You're not gonna make it out alive!"
Millie : "Bite me!"
She punches her away, Anise blocks her attack and kept fighting her, the two imps still battled for their lives on all the pirates in the room until Blitz and Candy get what they were searching for, hopefully quicker since this is not going good.
Blitz and Candy traveled down another way through the cave they entered, Blitz still carried Candy's Treasure as we make their way to find an exit, they wander around and then saw something, a light over, almost close to where they are.
Candy : "There's something over! Come on!"
They ran to the light and as they got there, there really was a way out, Candy grabs the chest and threw it up in the air, it landed outside of the hole, Candy and Blitz climbed out too, they got out quickly and Candy grabs her treasure and they made a run for, Blitz signals his walkie-talkie to Millie.
Millie's walkie-talkie turns on again and she picks it up.
Millie : "Anything good Blitz?"
Blitz : "Yes! We got that treasure and we're getting out of here, tell Moxxie that we're leaving now!"
Millie : "On it!"
she puts it away back into her pocket and comes out of her hiding spot, she ran to Moxxie as he still fights off the pirates.
Millie : "Moxxie! they got it! let's get outta here!
Moxxie : "About time!"
both ran off away from the window, Millie and Moxxie crash through the glass and both land down to the sand, she ran as fast as they could, away from the pirates, Anise ran to the broken window and saw them leave, she commands the others to get them, they all ran out of the castle to chase Moxxie and Millie, they head out of the island and meet up with Blitz and Candy.
Blitz : "Ah, here you two are, so, you handle those fancy-pansy peeps good?
Moxxie : "Well uhh..."
Anise : There they are, get them!
the voice screams out from the distance, all four looked over to see a mad crowd of a few pirate imps and anise as they chased them down.
Blitz : "Oh Crap!"
Candy : "Hang on mates!"
Candy quickly pulls the lever for the three imps to get in, they hurry their way inside and Candy gets inside too, they ran up to the top of the ship and Candy looks down to them.
Anise : "So Long ya sourheads! thanks for keeping my treasure safe!"
she laughs as she turns the ship away from the island and to the ocean, Anise growls, enrage that they are getting away, she ran to the other side of the island, as she passes by the guards, the guards saw the princess, but now the captain, they took off their armored suits and wears their two sailor clothes.
Anise : Those trespassers are escaping with what belongs to me, get the ship ready! we are going to be having..quite an appetite!