Krika: Hey guys! Welcome to the second chapter of my Undertale story! I hope you guys enjoy it, and refer to the copyright stuff on the first chapter to know who the characters in the story, besides my OCs, belong to. Enjoy!
Soot found himself in a place he didn't recognize, but there was only dark clouds blocking the sun, fire everywhere, ash scattered on the ground everywhere and ash falling from the sky.
"Huh? Where...am I?" Soot asked himself looking around the place, until he saw the mountain and his eyes widen, "No...this place I'm in...it can't be..."
Soot began looking around, panicked. Until he heard someone cry out...
"No...please! Don't!"
"That sounded like Asriel!" Soot ran to the source of the sound before he found it...and was horrified. There, piles of dust littered the area, but remnants of clothes he recognized all too well were on those piles. And beyond...was a dark figure standing over a broken Asriel, the figure holding a bloodied knife before glancing over their shoulder.
"AhhhHH...LoOk WhO we have HerE," the figure spoke, a static-filled, glitched voice speaking, a deep red smile and flashing red eyes aimed directly at Soot.
"Wh...who are you?! What did you do here?! ANSWER ME!" Soot cried out, sweating and his eyes becoming tearful.
"Oh...I jusT KillED everyOnE here...No BIG deal..." the figure said, turning to him, it wasn't really clear on what the figure looked like, but Soot was filled with FEAR.
"Y...you killed them...?" Soot said, tears falling.
"YeSssss...And YOu're nEXT!" the figure said before Asriel weakly grabbed the figure's ankle.
"D...don't...hurt him...ya hear? So...Soot...get out of here...run..." Asriel said weakly to their terrified friend.
"DiE!" the figure yelled, raising the knife before swinging it down.
Soot jolted awake and screamed, his right eye turning to a cyan color as cyan mist flowed from it and mostly everything in his room started floating like they didn't have any weight to them. Sans and Papyrus rushed in just as this was happening.
"Woah! Soot! Calm down!" Sans said, trying to calm the boy down.
Soot was taking deep, quick breaths as he was sweating like crazy, a couple tears going down his face as his right eye returned to normal and all his stuff fell back into place.
"Man, you must have had some nightmare to have caused you to-" Sans was cut short when Soot hugged him and cried softly into his shoulder, to which Sans hugged him back, "Hey...hey it's okay, we're here with you buddy. And if you don't want to talk about it, that's fine"
That...that was...such a horrifying...nightmare...it seemed...so real...
Today went rather...dull for Soot, his mind going back to the nightmare he just had that caused him to use his powers out of sheer fear and panic. It was during school that things got at least a little better...
"Hey dude, you alright? You've been spacing out all day," Monster Kid asked Soot. They, and the others, were hanging out at lunch.
"Yeah...just...had this surreal nightmare last night...scared me so much that I ended up using my powers on accident," Soot said, putting a hand over his right eye.
"Geez, really? No wonder you were on the verge of tears when you met up with us," Asriel said, his eyes narrowed to the point of near closing with a concerned face...meaning Frisk was talking currently. Kinda gets confusing on who's talking...
"Yeah, sorry about that..." Soot apologized.
"Dude, that's the tenth time you've said that. No need to apologize anymore," Monster Kid said.
"Sorry about that. It's just...that nightmare seemed too real...it was hard discerning what was real and what was not when I woke up screaming," Soot said, remembering what happened this morning.
"Well, don't think about it all too much. After all, it was just a nightmare, right? It probably doesn't mean anything," Frisk assured their friend, patting him on the back.
"Yeah...yeah you're right about that. It's probably just nothing. I'm just overreacting is all. I just need something to help get it off my mind," Soot said, feeling a bit better.
"Well, there is that amusement park, we can go there sometime," MK suggested.
"Hey, good idea! That will surely get the whole nightmare thing forgotten," Frisk said smiling.
"Yeah...yeah, sounds like fun," Soot said before the bell rung.
"Well, might as well get to our classes. See ya guys after school!" MK said before running off, tripping, then getting back, and then running again.
"See ya guys after school," Soot said, heading to his next class.
After school, Soot was sitting on a bench at a park, where he looked towards the mountain range, remembering his nightmare in detail. He felt like the park was the place he ended up in his nightmare. The feeling of it was...nostalgic, almost like that dream WAS real.
"I don't normally get nightmares...not after three years ago..." Soot said to himself, remembering the first time that monsters started moving in to the city. That was also the day Sans and Papyrus took him in. Soot doesn't complain about Papy cooking spaghetti a lot, but he enjoys making suggestions to him about other ways to make spaghetti, like baking spaghetti for example. 'Pretty 'cheesy' way to make spaghetti' was what Sans said, which was pretty good, but of course, Papyrus was not amused since he has to hear his puns and jokes on a daily basis.
"Figured I'd find you here. You always come here when something is on your mind," Soot looked and saw Sans standing a foot away from the bench.
Soot sighed, "Yeah. True enough Sans. It's just that nightmare I had...no...I wouldn't even consider it a nightmare. More like a night terror. In it, everyone I loved and cared about are dead...and our home turned to ash..."
"Brutal. No wonder you woke up screaming and tossing your power around like no one's business," Sans said, sitting next to Soot and getting out a bottle of ketchup from his coat pocket and drinks from it.
"Yeah, night terrors ARE known to do that to people. They do tend to scare the living hell out of anyone..." Soot said, sighing.
"Hey, I'm sure it's nothing. I mean, Asriel still dreams about Chara. They really miss them, ya know? Even if they were a complete psycho and nearly killed them"
"Yeah. They really...Chara-bout 'em, eh?" Soot and Sans laughed out loud, getting some looks from the people who were in the park.
Sans sighed and took another drink from the ketchup, "Heh...good one kid. But don't let Asriel and Frisk hear that one"
"Right. Leave the offending jokes to yourself. You taught me that pretty well"
"And all it took was putting hot sauce on your burger when you weren't looking," Sans said with a chuckle, finishing his ketchup and tossing the bottle into a trash can.
"Yeah. That wasn't fun at all man. I wish I took you serious when you said I was going to have a bad time later...you seem to stick to your word, don't you?"
"Pretty much when it comes to making threats. Promises...not so much"
"Except that promise you made Toriel, and things worked out, didn't it? Everyone gets a happy ending after what happened in the Underground," Soot said, putting his hands behind his head.
"Especially you. You were pretty lonely when me and Paps found you. Moping around and all that"
"Yeah...I'm still really grateful for you two for taking me in...if you weren't for you and Papy...I would have died alone...you two mean the world to me. You two, and everyone else. If something happened to you guys...I don't know what I would do. But I do know one thing..." Soot tilted his head down, a shadow going over his eyes, "If anyone hurts my friends..." his right eye ignites into its magic form, "is going to have to deal with me...and I would most certainly show them a bad time"
Sans couldn't help a bead of sweat go down his head, Geez...he gives off the same vibe as me when I'm pissed...
"Anyway..." Soot lifted his head up to look at the sky with a smile, "not like anyone would mess with my friends. Anyone who even tries should be aware who they will be messing with as well in the process"
Sans chuckled, "Yeah, ya got that right"
"Anyway, thanks for chatting with me Sans. Really lifted my spirits," Soot said, getting up and walking off with his hands in his coat pockets.
"Yeah...glad I could help kid" Sans said, getting up and heading home.
The rest of the day went well for Soot, having some comfort in that his nightmare was nothing hut just that...a nightmare. He felt pretty much at ease now and can sleep easy again.
Krika: Hope you guys liked this chapter. And sorry to those that were a bit...disturbed at Soot's ngithmare. Kinda a theme that goes with Undertale in terms of the Genocide Route. And no, for those of you wondering, the mysterious figure in the nightmare is NOT Chara. It's another OC of mine that I will introduce as the story progresses. Next chapter, I'll be introducing another human that has a SOUL more aligned to the Justice quality. Anyways, review and make suggestions on what I should add next.