I know many of you are probably tired of me starting new Undertale stories, but I just can't help myself. Like many of my stories, this takes inspiration from many places. I can't include the list right here, but I will at the footnote. That being said, let's get down to it, eh?
Date: June 21, 201X. Time: 3:30 PM. Location: Mount Ebott Academy; Ebott City, Ebott.
All over campus, students prepared to go to their various afterschool activities. Some went to club meetings, while others went to sports practices or to their dorms to study, including Frisk Gaster.
Frisk was the kind of girl you'd expect to be popular, or at the very least, social. Instead, she was shy, quiet, and stayed away from most people. She was rather short for her age; only four-foot-six, with long, chocolate-brown hair and eyes that were two different colors. In short (no pun intended), she was an attractive young woman, with many admirers. Despite this, she was alone most of the time, in her dorm with her roommates or in the city getting tea to help her stay awake. There was only one boy she was interested in, but he was her opposite: social. He'd been her crush all the six years she'd been at the academy. Asriel Dreemurr… who also happened to be the brother of one of her roommates.
But enough about the girl who's obviously the main character and will probably get into some crazy shit along the way through our story. Let's move on to the main part of our story.
"Hey, Frisk!"
Chara leaned against the doorway, looking at her roommate at her desk.
"The rest of us are heading out, if you want to join…?"
"No, thank you," Frisk mumbled. "I've got reading to do."
"All you do is read!" Chara chuckled.
"I like reading."
"Of course you do. Well, we're heading out. Can I get you anything?"
"Yeah. A vanilla chai and a copy of Project Cain, please."
"You got it. See ya!"
"See ya."
Frisk read through the newspaper for a fifth time. Four mysterious deaths, none of them linked, but all happening in the past week.
I need to read up on serial killers. There might be one on the loose… What am I saying?! I can't take down a serial killer! I can barely order a cup of tea at the café!
She banged her head on the desk before opening up her computer and doing a search.
Famous serial killers
She managed to find several: Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, Albert Fish, Henry Lee Lucas… All of whom killed a certain target. Dahmer murdered 17 different men in Milwaukee. Bundy killed and raped at least 36 women, though he was suspected of at least a hundred. Albert Fish raped, killed, and ate at least eight children, sometimes sending letters describing their deaths to the families of his victims. Lucas supposedly killed hundreds of people, including his own mother. All had something in common besides a love of killing.
They had patterns and certain victims they went after, connections. These murders that had happened in Ebott City, all in the same way, had no connection, except for her parents being murdered the exact same way.
She could feel the memory surging forward, one that had turned her into the shy girl she was today.
It had been a good day. Frisk and her parents had spent it at the park, having fun and just spending time together. Frisk was getting ready for bed when she heard a noise downstairs. She ran downstairs and watched in horror as somebody in a mask stabbed her parents repeatedly. Terrified, the five-year-old girl went back to her room and climbed out the window.
The weeks that followed found Frisk telling the police what she saw, as well as being moved into her godfather's house, where she took on his last name, but the happy-go-lucky girl who had played in the park that fateful day was gone for good, and replaced by a shy girl afraid of getting close to people.
Suddenly, it occurred to Frisk to dig a little deeper. Against her better judgement, she pulled up the article from ten years ago, the one that talked about her parents' murders.
Granger Couple Murdered By Masked Assailant
Yesterday evening, Marissa and Alexander Granger were murdered in their home by a person in a mask. It was witnessed by the couple's five-year-old daughter, who informed police what she saw before being taken to a doctor to check for injuries…
The mystery assailant used a knife to kill both man and woman, and fled the scene before police arrived. The daughter was unable to see the intruder's face.
Blah, blah, blah. You get the idea.
If this is the same person, why wait ten years to kill again? It doesn't make sense…
She continued through the archives of the Ebott City Chronicle, looking over the past ten years for similar cases, but found nothing.
This case is personal. This bastard took down my parents. I love Sans, but I want Mommy and Daddy avenged.
"Whatcha doin'?"
Frisk shrieked and fell backward. She stared up to see Chara holding a steaming cup of tea and Project Cain.
"Chara, you startled me!"
"You're easy to scare." Chara handed over Frisk's requested items before looking at her notes.
"You going after the guy who killed those people downtown?"
"They might've killed my parents, too, ten years ago…"
"Whoa! Slow down. You're seriously doing this?"
"I have to! I'm the only one besides the victims who's seen the killer!"
"What I meant is, are you doing this alone? Because you're not going to get far. You need backup. Let's meet up in the city library tomorrow. I know a guy who can help us out."
"Chara—"
"I need some excitement. Plus, you're my best friend. I want to protect you."
"Thanks, Chara. Not a word to my father, uncle, or half-sister, got it?"
"Got it, as long as you don't tell my parents."
"All right. You and me."
"The dream team."
They shook hands, sealing their fates into the case that would shake Ebott City to the core.
And that wraps up chapter one!
As you can see, this is a mystery. I was inspired after reading Project Cain, which is about a secret government project that made clones of famous serial killers. A lot of my information about the serial killers mentioned in this chapter came from that book and online sources. If you look them up, they're pretty gruesome, so beware.
Also, Frisk's family is made up of five members in this story: Sans, her godfather, Papyrus, who is technically her uncle, W. D. Gaster, who is her grandfather, Frisk herself, and her younger half-sister, Kristen, who also goes to the academy. She'll appear later.
For now, though, so long and thanks for all the fish!
