The Restaurant

**The Restaurant** is the third area Zarah passes through in *Blue's Journey: Quest of Zarah*. The Waitor & The Animals will be the primarily antagonists found here.

## Area

The architecture of The Restaurant is highly reminiscent of mediaeval restaurants. It is mainly a large dining area that connects to the main entrance of the Castle. It has several floors all lined with tables and stools to accommodate the Animals that crowd this area in large numbers. Kane is noticeably being forced to work by The Waitor. The two kids are even strapped in chains. Theres even a mediaeval kitchen themed area once you pass through the dinning hall.

## Inhabitants

* The Waitor
* The Animals
* Kane (Captured, Worker)

## Solution

As Blue and Zarah walk down a long hallway, The Protector teleports in front of them. Zarah, at first, is a bit upset with her for leaving her alone.

**Zarah**: "Oh...you again?!"

**Blue**: "Zarah, you KNOW this girl?!"

**Zarah**: "Yeah, she left me behind. What do you want?"

**The Protector**: "I'm here to apologise for leaving you. I just wanted you to defend for yourself. Hey, who's your friend."

**Zarah**: "Him? This is Blue!"

**Blue**: "Hi! I'm Blue!"

**The Protector**: "Your name is the color of your clothes?"

**Blue**: "Yeah! I love it!"

**Zarah**: "By the way, she's not a rat, Blue, don't hit her."

**Blue**: "But why would I- Oh!"

Blue is of course embarrassed as she knows what she's referencing. Zarah giggles at him.

**The Protector**: "I'm on my way to The Queen right now. You wanna come with?"

**Zarah**: "Yeah, sure! She may have my two friends with her."

The Protector then shrinks and hides in Zarah's pocket with The Kitten Paw

**The Protector**: "I'll just stay in here and test how good you are when you're on your own. Hey, you got a Paw with you?"

**Zarah**: "A what?"

**The Protector**: "Yeah, a "Paw" are these cute little animal creatures."

**Zarah**: "Oh! That's a cute name for them! I found a whole family of them in the basement."

**The Protector**: "Oh, these things are children by the way turned into this by The Queen"

**Zarah**: "I knew that already. Kitty told me."

**The Protector**: "Oh..."

**Blue**: "Okay, I won't lie. That's kinda cute how she can just- Hey, look at this!"

The Protector will now act as a guide or a second life if Zarah dies. Blue finds an the entrance of The Queen's Castle, but are unable to leave.

**Blue**: "Drat! Now, what?"

Blue and Zarah hear giant thumping sounds coming nearby.

**Zarah**: "Blue, what was that?!"

The 2 kids hide around the corner. They see the long line of Animals, chanting a strange noise as they march into the dining area. **The Queen** & **Troels** can be seen observing them from atop a balcony.

The Animals appear as massively obese humanoid/animal hybrid creatures with stumpy limbs and fat, misshapen heads. Their bloated faces appear to be almost deflated or melting, with bulging cheeks, flabby jowls, and/or sagging neck-folds, and many of their eyes appear to be extremally large and the same goes to their mouths. Their eyes are a white milky white. Their teeth are huge and are mostly square shaped or are missing. They lack clothes altogether, exposing their stitches on their stomachs and backs.

They watch as they sit at their tables, pounding it for meat and food. They have large bowls that are commonly seen at farms. The 2 children see Kane drag a basket of meat toward the Animals. Kane is in a chain also with a shock collar on his throat. Blue growls as he doesn't like see Kane being forced like this.

**Blue**: "Kane! What did they do to him?"

**The Protector**: "That's your friend, huh?"

**Zarah**: "Yeah, they must be using him as a slave."

The Waiter comes out and demands Kane to fetch more food. Kane does so.

The Waitor is a long tall lanky distorted monster. He wears a fancy white/gray outfit with a red bow. His outfit is a little damaged and has black buttons. His outfit has stitches seen across it. His arms are extremally long and lanky. He holds a fork and a knife. His face has large teeth, small blue eyes in large eye sockets. and purple bags around his eyes. His gums are also visible. His skin is a dark pale peach color.

Blue and Zarah sneak past The Animals as they violently chew the big sacks of children meat. Upon moving to the next room, a male pig will spot the little ones and throw his table to the side before standing to run after them. Blue and Zarah will get out of the way of the thrown table and move quickly to the next room by climbing a shelf before the Pig can catch them. Fortunately, the Pig's oversized body will tilt the shelf and cause it to crush the Pig. Blue and Zarah jump and grab onto a chandelier. The 2 kids swing on it and jump to a balcony. Unfortunately, they miss and land on a table filled with Animals.

**Blue**: "Ow! Ugh!"

**Zarah**: "Uhh...Blue?"

Blue and Zarah are forced to run to the other side as The Animals will attempt to grab them. They are even attacked by knifes and large butcher knifes. Blue and Zarah then climb a wall using metal bars and get onto a balcony.

**Blue**: "Phew! Zarah? Are you alright?"

**Zarah**: "Yeah, I'm alright"

They open a huge door and walk inside the next hallway. They walk and find a large line of Animals ready to attack and they chase them down the medieval themed hallways. They run through double doors and quickly barricade it, preventing The Animals from getting inside.

**Blue**: "You know, am I the only one who finds it weird we were able to push a giant shelf filled with metal pots?

**Zarah**: "Yeah, maybe due to our adrenaline."

**The Protector:** "Speaking of metal pots, we're in the kitchen

They are inside the castle's kitchen and see The Waiter for the first time. He is shocking Kane with the shock collar and is forcing him to cook. Kane squirms and cries. He falls on the ground. The Waiter slams Kane back on the table, turning up the shock higher. The 2 kids sneak past and Blue and Zarah force a nearby refrigerator to crash. The Waiter goes over to inspect and Blue and Zarah quickly cut off Kane's chain using a knife.

**Kane**: "You guys came for me!"

**Zarah**: "Duh, why wouldn't we?"

The Waiter notices the kids. The kids are chased throughout the kitchen and slide into the vents, stopping The Waiter.

They end up in a freezer with a giant meat grinder. The Waiter enters the freezer, looking for frozen meat. The kids find a hiding spot while The Waiter searches for food. The Kids leave, but slam the door behind the Waiter, trapping him inside the freezer.

**Blue**: "Have fun freezing to death, asshole!"

**The Protector**: "Blue, potty mouth!"

**Kane**: "No, no, I think- Wait, who the heck are you?!"

**Zarah**: "That's just The Protector."

The Waiter bangs on the door and eventually smashes right through it to see the kids running away. The Kids run through a room filled with dirty dishes and The Waiter stretches his arms to try to grab them, while accidentally knocking dishes over in the process. The Kids find another vent and crawl through it. The Waiter sticks his hands through the vent, trying to grab Zarah.

**Zarah**: "Ew! Get lost!"

Once, they exit the vent, Zarah picks up a nearby sharp object and jam it into The Waiter's hand.

**Zarah**: "Violency! Hiyah!"

The Waiter retracts his hand soon after. They end up in another dinning hall with Animals.

**Kane**: "Oh...I hope Stellar is okay..."

**Zarah**: "I hope she is to..."

The Kids are noticed halfway through the room. All of the animals stop eating and climb over each other to chase the 3 children. The Animals run down the hallway and come across a fork in the road. The kids all go down the wrong path and reach a dead end.

**The Protector**: "Oh, no! What now?!"

Kitty wakes up and jumps out of her pocket.

**Kane**: "What the heck?!"

**Blue**: "Oh, Kitty? You were asleep for some time!"

**Zarah**: "Kitty?! No! Get back here! Those Animals will eat you!"

Kitty frowns and gives Zarah a hug before she attracts the attention of The Animals. The Kitten Paw diverts The Animals into the other pathway.

**Blue**: "Woah! Woah! Woah! Kitty!"

**Zarah**: "What is she doing?!"

Zarah runs after them, only to find they had already gotten away. Zarah frowns and tears up.

**Zarah**: "Kitty..."

**Blue**: "Hey, are you okay?"

**Zarah**: "..."

The kids move forward. They enter dark empty dinning hall. They go to the center, confused on where to go. The Kids look up and see The Waiter standing in front of them looking down at them.

**Zarah**: "You again?!"

The Kids are then chased around in the dark for a while until The Waiter gets tired and eventually gives up. The Kids then make it to a giant door that powered and lowered by gears. The Waiter hears them and rushes to their location.

**Zarah**: "Oh, no you don't! You like to hurt children with those arms, huh?!"

**Kane**: "Zarah, come on!"

**Zarah**: "IN A MINUTE!!!"

Unfortunately, being too persistent, gets his arms slammed by the door, which get chopped off completly by Zarah slamming the door by ripping the gears out. The Waiter's arms are ripped off, exposing blood and bones. The Waiter falls back, screams loudly, and runs away crashing into various tables.

**Zarah**: "That...felt...good..."

**The Protector**: "Zarah...are you feeling okay?!"

**Zarah**: "Perfect...never been better..."

The 3 kids find a long hallway afterwards, which is damaged as if it was raided by a stampede. They then find Kitty, injured, crushed, and half eaten. Zarah runs and hugs her dead friend. Zarah than reads a wall written in blood. "I'm happy you are safe, Zarah. I'm glad I could help you. By the way, my name is Bella. The Queen is one floor away from you. She has plenty of our kind captured and plans to devour them all. My last wish is for you to save them all. Goodbye. I hope to see you again soon"

**Zarah**: "I'm gonna commit genocide against those animals..."

Zarah then gets determined to kill every last of The Animals. Zarah grows angrier and starts to breath heavily.

**Kane**: "...Zarah?"

Zarah then finds The Animals chewing on some meat in a large room. They turn to see Zarah and her friends enter the room. Zarah is now holding a long pointy knife. She kills and cuts and stabs each one of them to death, slicing their stomachs, stabbing them in the eyes, and cutting their heads off. The Protector falls out of her pocket and runs to Blue's pocket.

**The Protector**: "Is she normally like this?!?"

**Blue**: "No! Not at all. In fact, I am scared of her! I rather be killed by The Waitor than face her..."

After the last one dies, she climbs up a long flight of stairs and finds herself and her friends in ***The Great Chambers***.