D.E.M.O.N.S: Getting Summoned Weekly isn't so Bad

Chapter 1202 1202 Meeting The Objectives

Kress Chapter

The Competitors: Kress, Borgick, Midnight, Stan, Ellenell 

The Assistants: Blue, Marigold, Carl, Gareth, Burgandy

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Kress took a few shaky steps backwards until his legs hit the bucket behind him. Kress froze in place for a few seconds before letting out a long breath of air into his shoulder. A few careful steps later and he was taking in the entire castle. It was still missing some details. He hadnʼt put in the trees yet, the brickwork lines needed to be done, probably with Timmyʼs help. There was a spot for a pond that he planned to fill up with blue sand… but it was done. 

Kress admired the castle. It had a large central tower set slightly towards the back and four smaller ones set around it. They werenʼt quite on the corners, they were all slightly offset as well and it gave the whole castle a slightly unique feel that Kress found himself loving. The base of the castle was boxy with windows lovingly carved into the sides and two large doors on the front. 

The gardens off to the left were rather nice, as was his small guard barracks on the right. They were last minute editions and arguably not quite up to the standards heʼd set for the castle itself but he was happier to have them there then not. Timmy had just recently finished up the trees. The little guy hadnʼt done anything fancy. Just the ones Kress himself had suggested, as well as two others. One had a square top instead of a circular one, and the other was… well it was basically a hedge segment. 

Kress thought that was a bit of a poor showing from the little guy, but was willing to accept those trees as they were. In fact, Kress had asked Timmy to double the number of trees for each type to keep him busy while Kress finished up the castle… and then asked Timmy to gather more sand. 

It took Kress a bit over an hour to finish up the castle, so they were somewhat past the hour and a half mark overall. Kress wasnʼt entirely happy with the amount of time itʼd taken so far, but he wasnʼt going to complain too much. They still had plenty of time to fill in the townscape, perhaps more than they really needed. Kress moved over to Timmy and explained his instructions. ”Ok Timmy, Iʼm going to hold you near the castle I just made and I want you to quickly fill in the brick patterns to match how Iʼve started it already. Is that ok?” 

Timmy gave Kress a salute, and the pair got to work. As they did that, Kress thought about Blueʼs progress with the houses. They turned out to be a bigger issue then the pair had originally thought. Blue had ʼperfectedʼ the design, and then gone to Thyme for a copy… and it all fell apart rather quickly. They hadnʼt considered how the hinge would move properly. The plan was for it to fan out sideways but that messed with the house too much as the hinge messed with the bottom wall. 

So Blue went back to the drawing board. Hinge on top. It was a lot better… but not perfect. The problem with the hinge on top is that it left the point of the house really awkward looking from the bits of sand that managed to partially make it through the gap in the plastic. It also made packing sand in a bit of a pain because if you put in too much itʼd start to seriously leak into the hinges. 

So Blue asked Thyme to do away with the hinges entirely… and Thymeʼs response was to hold up two fingers. It took longer than Blue would ever admit to figure out that Thyme was trying to insist that meant it was actually two buckets not one. Blue, not knowing if that was acceptable and not wanting to bother Kress about it… went back to the drawing board AGAIN to try and figure something out. 

In the end, Blue came up with a rather complicated design that worked… in her mind at least. It had a bunch of overlapping pieces around the top that, in an ideal world, wouldʼve removed the problem the hinges had. When she finally got Thyme to test it? It did not. In the end she asked for a long shovel that matched the curve for the top of the house, then a bucket with a hinge on top that matched the house sheʼd mocked up perfectly, windows and brick markings included. 

When it finally worked, Blue started giggling… and giggling, and giggling until she was struggling to breathe… and then she just passed out. Kress stopped carving the castle for a bit to move her away from the ocean so she wasnʼt at risk of being washed away or drowning and then got back to work. Clearly dealing with the houses was a lot more work then heʼd intended to give Blue. Still, sheʼd done a good job and he was thankful for that. 

Back at the castle, it took a surprisingly short time for the pair to finish up. Timmy moved swiftly, and efficiently. Kress was almost ʼpaintingʼ on the correct brick indents just by moving Timmy around. Kress felt like he could just wave Timmy in a direction and have it brick patterned, but he refrained. No sense rushing things and causing a problem. Still didnʼt take long for ʼeverythingʼ to be done. 

Once it was, Kress made his way over to Thyme and asked for the dimensions he needed on the walls. Thyme was happy to help. Kressʼ design was a basic wall with a tower at one end. He didnʼt trust himself to flip it, but that was what Timmy was hanging around for. So new bucket in hand, technically Timmyʼs bucket, he went back and did the walls in no time flat. Timmyʼs help, the saved sand mix, and the wonderful new bucket of times, and it was done in less then five minutes. 

In the time Timmy was putting up the walls, Kress had placed down the trees and used Timmyʼs shovel to transport the blue sand for the pond. Then it was all done. The castle. The walls, the scenery. It was ALL DONE. 

”Hahahaha,” laughed Kress aloud as a tear formed in his eye. Just the one though, and he suppressed his laughter quickly as well. Wouldnʼt want to pass out like Blue. Sheʼd clearly worked too hard today and he hadnʼt properly accounted for that. *Still. She got the houses done so I can assign Timmy to making those. Iʼll need to mark out where I want the streets and stuff to go first, then get Timmy to throw up little housing areas around them with different colours while I work on carving out the houses in the ravines or something.* 

Kress scratched at his chin as he thought, but not wanting to waste time with Timmy gave the little guy and order. ”Timmy, Iʼd like you to make one house using the bucket Blue made, out of every sand colour. Place those houses in front of the sand piles. Then, I want you to make a mix of two colours either side in the middle of those houses. This is just to test them out for viability, theyʼll probably be destroyed later so you can be a bit rough with them if necessary,” 

Timmy saluted, as Kress knew the little guy would. Such a reliable little guy. Wish I could take him on adventures more often. *Ok. Thatʼs given Timmy something to do, even if itʼs really just killing time. Iʼm not sure how I want to do this honestly… the town and the ravine. It really needs one person working on each with Timmy helping the person doing the town but Blueʼs out of commission… possibly till the end of the event. 

Do I wake her up? Itʼs a bit rude and weʼre not going to be short on time. So I donʼt feel the NEED to wake her up, even if I do feel the WANT. She deserves some rest, especially after she helped Gareth tie for second in that volleyball tournament. I certainly donʼt want her to feel like Iʼm forcing her to do more work then sheʼs capable of. Even if the bucket solution isnʼt perfect, itʼs nearly perfect and she spent way too much mental energy getting it there.

Still… thereʼs potentially a lot of time for her to be sleeping through. I donʼt want to lose because my partner slept for over half the time. Then again, the judges arenʼt here and Thyme has been insisting they arenʼt a judge this round. Unless they report back to the judges about how well we worked together. That would be a massive pain in the ass.

Hmm… I could get Timmy to make a fancy bed out of sand perhaps? Put her on that and make her part of the exhibit? A bit mean… but very amusing. Hmm… Iʼll need to give that idea some serious consideration.*