GASTER's House of Horrors

[DizzyKnight]

Half-intentionally caressing and squeezing Clara's aching thighs, Asuka was entirely overloaded with adrenaline at the sound of Alaina's heavy footsteps thumping down the hallway behind them, and so barely able to actually focus on any one thing at a time. Both Alaina's attempt to taunt them into a head-on fight, and Gaster's suggestion to change direction just seemed like distant, unrelated fuzz to Asuka's ears.

Normally, the effort of carrying Clara like this would've burned Asuka out in barely half a minute, but the excitement of being chased let her ignore the complaints from her overwhelmed muscles. As the two lightly-clad lightweight ladies darted along seemingly endless hallways, through small and large rooms, and eventually up to a previously-unexplored third floor, Asuka's exhaustion started to catch up to her.

Running through a doorway into a large room furnished like an old 19th century lounge, complete with huge hanging paintings, bear-skin rug, and various hunting trophies, Asuka's legs gave way and the duo toppled over, Clara being thrown forwards to almost land inside the fireplace, while the blonde Japanese lady desperately panted for air on her hands and knees.

It would take her a moment to regain enough composure to notice, but Alaina's footsteps were very distant now, and not nearly as frequent, giving Asuka the impression that she had lost track of the two youths. She rocked back onto her butt, her legs folded under her, and then looked at Clara with a smirk, "You are a totally useless partner!" she teased in a childish whisper-yell, only half sincere.

[Highfly]

Alaina started off behind and tried her best to catch up, figuring that carrying GASTER would slow down Asuka. However the two rounded a corner and once Alaina did the same they were gone. No swinging door, no noise to follow. She had to begin searching for the two room by room. This was going to take quite some time, and it annoyed the hell out of Alaina! Why couldn't this have been a simple one on two match in a ring?

Alaina swung a door open, beginning her search of the first room....which of course ended up being empty!

[Vc0m]

Clara would purr as she felt Asuka lightly caressing her exposed thigh...but would also notice that the blonde couldn't hear her, as she wouldn't follow her advice for a little while, rather going in a straight line and taking turns fully visible to the Amazon, making the Shadow Lord's heart pump with fear...

...until Asuka decided to climb up the stairs, and GASTER hearing their opponent's footsteps disappearing. Did they finally lose Alaina off their tail?

Once upstairs, Asuka entered the biggest door she could find, before finally, her legs gave way, and she dropped GASTER forward near a fire place, right on to her sore back!

"OOOOW!"

The impact wasn't as bad as it could've been...but after being thrown around like a ragdoll by Alaina, even the smallest impact to her spine reignited the pains caused by the Amazon.

She attempted to sit up, rubbing the small of her back, as Asuka did the same...as she would smirk at the masked girl, half-jokingly saying a rather familiar sentence to Clara:

"S-sorry...", even if she felt that her crush wasn't being sincere, the slight note of sadness was present in her voice as she sat, looking into the streamer's eyes.

"We need to rest for a moment. I imagine the key on this floor would be the easiest one to find...and then the last key is likely on the second floor, since this seems to be as far as the building goes...", she would explain to her partner.

[DizzyKnight]

With both ladies soaked in sweat, trembling, and panting for air, while also being clad in glorified beach volleyball uniforms and surrounded by a monolithic air of sexual tension, it was no surprise that the two lightweights took up almost all of the screen time, with only occasional checks in on Alaina's progress to remind the audience that she existed.

Asuka's eyes barely met Clara's at all, instead very obviously looking up and down the young Brit's slim and smooth frame as she sat up and rubbed at her spine. "Well, hmm, this is a big and obvious and conspicuous room. Maybe we should look around in here?" the superstar suggested, pushing up to her feet and adjusting her bottoms as she looked around at the various bookshelves and paintings and strange decorations.

The room itself was the most stereotypical, cliche "old-timey mansion lounge" you can imagine, complete with suits of armor, stuffed deer heads, and so much dust that Asuka's boots quickly turned more grey than blue or yellow. Besides the large, heavy door the teen had burst through, there was one more smaller (or, regular sized) door in the far back. Asuka drifted over to one tall suit of armor, and tried to stand up on her toes to peer through the closed visor.

[Vc0m]

Getting lost in her partner's beautiful blue eyes, Clara couldn't even tell that Asuka was lustily eyeing her slim figure, snapping out as she answered her question, the Brit replying with a slight nod of her head.

Clara carefully got back up to her feet, rubbing her sore spine...

...seeing a shine within the corner of her eye.

As Asuka went towards a suit of armor in the large room, Clara would, instead, peer inside the fireplace to her right.

Underneath the fresh, unburnt logs, she could definitely tell there was something metallic underneath there!

As she tried to move the logs away however:

"Hmph...grrrrrrrrr..."

They weren't budging. Not even a little bit...

[DizzyKnight]

Even standing up on her toes, Asuka couldn't see through the visor, with the statue standing easily at 6 feet tall. She grumbled a little to herself, and then looked around the room for something to boost herself up onto. A moment and some very, er, 'clever', engineering later and Asuka had put together a set of steps about a foot high, made out of two stools, twelve books (that turned out to just be painted bricks), and a few large cushions from the nearest couch.

Now able to see into the visor, Asuka was startled by the revelation that she still couldn't see anything, because it was very dark. Instead of looking, Asuka just pushed the helmet open, and began to fish around inside blindly with her left hand. With something cold and metallic touching her hand, Asuka let out a yelp of excitement, and pulled the object out of the helmet, loudly declaring "I've found the key!-" before looking at it, and correcting herself "Er, a lighter! I said I found a lighter!"

She looked at the object for a moment, puzzled as to what the event staff actually thought they would need a lighter for, her initial thoughts going to burning a hole in the mansion for them to run through, or using it to ward off Alaina as if the big woman was some sort of wild animal.

[Vc0m]

"Lighter?!", she would turn towards Asuka, hearing that the blonde found the thing that could help them get the key!

Quickly approaching her, she would snatch the lighter from the streamer standing on makeshift stairs: "Thank you!", she would chirply say, and approach the fireplace once more...

...and realized that there was a fuse leading into the fireplace, likely to make lighting the logs easier.

With that, she carefully got the flame out of the lighter, and lit the fuse...

"..."

The fuse would quickly burn through...but the fire at the bottom of the logs would take a minute to be visible, before slowly starting to engulf the logs in the fire place. Clara slowly realized with dread in her heart that, to fully burn, the logs would need at least half-an-hour...if not an hour outright. Alaina was sure to find them in this long a time frame:

"Grrrhhhhm...", she would let out with worry, looking around, desperately trying to find a way to burn the barely movable logs out of the way to get the key...

[DizzyKnight]

Right as the masked Brit stole away the lighter, Asuka's set of flawlessly constructed stairs collapsed spectacularly, throwing the streamer backwards, arms flailing, to land with a loud *thump* on the padded floor. With the tiny outfits both lightweights had been instructed to wear, Asuka was quite looking forward to the heat from a burning log fire.

She pushed herself up and brushed away the thin coating of dust that had been thrown up and stuck to her, and glanced across the room just in time to witness her partner bending over to light the fuse, giving the perverted streamer another look at Gaster's famous backside in those little wrestling briefs. It didn't last too long though, as Clara straightened back up and waited.

The blonde quickly got up to her feet and almost ran for the fire, sliding in front of it to warm herself up. Her yellow & blue knee-high boots and pads again became covered in dust, but the streamer didn't seem to mind. She failed even to notice Gaster's worried pacing about the room, letting out a shuddering moan of delight.

[Vc0m]

Clara wouldn't realize that her stealing the lighter accidentally dropped the poor blonde off her makeshift stairs towards the lighter. The Brit approached the streamer, about to help her up...

...but it seemed that the drop onto the padded mats wasn't so painful. She muttered: "Sorry about that...", before her attention shifted back to the fireplace.

While she paced around the fireplace, Asuka adorably tried to warm herself up at the flame. Weirdly, the raven-haired Brit barely felt the cold...the adrenaline from her fight with Alaina likely dulling out the feeling of numbness that came with the autumn cold...

Still. The logs burnt...quite slowly, from what Clara was seeing. At some point, Alaina was bound to come here and attack the two of them...they needed to hurry the process somehow...

But there wasn't anything that could help them in sight...only the tools to shift logs around to make sure fire could breath easily...

...

"Hmmm...", she would hum as the gears starting turning in her head...and a risky plan was made in her mind...

With the fires burning, the logs seemed to have burried the key, meaning whatever stopped them from moving to make getting the key easier was gone...and the nearby poker would catch her attention.

She would quickly take the metal stick, and attempt to move logs around, looking for the key in the burning pile of logs...

...as well as a sizable metal ring attached to it.

This meant that what she had in mind was indeed the intended way of retrieving the key.

However, piercing the lying ring through to get the key was more difficult than she intended. It would take a couple of attempts (and minutes) before she finally did so, slowly lifting it off the bottom of the fireplace, and got the key out of there, granting the lightweight duo their second key!

[DizzyKnight]

Asuka slipped her hands into her pockets and stood almost uncomfortably close behind her partner, peering over the Brit's shoulder and watching curiously as she pushed around the still-smouldering charcoal and ash that now filled the fireplace where previously there had been small logs. With her hips now actually touching Clara's from behind, the young streamer let her eyes flash down into her partner's tight-fitting sports bra, and then back at the fireplace.

Once Clara found what she thought she was looking for, and held it up, Asuka let out a squeal of delight and threw herself up at the Brit from behind, catching her arms around the taller lightweight's neck and legs around her waist, with soft blue hoodie meeting cold bare skin, and proudly declaring "One more left! Great job!", before looking into Clara's eyes with a smirk and pointing towards the doorway. The little blonde would continue with "Onward, my steed!", before snatching the key from her partner, and tucking it snugly into her pocket.