There was no money made during the making of this short chapter either.
Frisk was not quite sure what exactly was going on. Though that was hardly anything new. No one in Underground really understood what was going on at any given time. Kind of hard to when the world was broken.
So she did the same thing she always did when things didn't quite make sense; she followed people around hoping that they would explain things at some point. It was a heavily tested method that had shown positive results in the past.
So when the pink haired girl had asked her to follow her, Frisk did so happily. Though she did almost everything happily.
She had instantly known that it was this girl who had been the one to say 'please', the one who had called her. Frisk was pretty good at recognizing people's voices, so she knew who it was the moment the girl started to talk to the balding man.
Currently, Frisks only clue on what was going on came from that girl saying that she had been summoned to be her familiar.
Thinking back, Frisk could remember some things about the term 'Familiar'. It popped up some times in those shows that Alphys watched.
It was what they called the fuzzy animal friends that the magical girls had. The ones that would show up on episode one to help the magical girls spread the magical friendship and stuff. Then at the end of the show, when all the land in back to being peaceful, the Familiar would return to the Rainbow Castle in the Sky where they came from and everyone would live happily ever after.
This older girl, Louise, sure looked like one of the magical girls from those shows. Her outfit had one of those short skirts and she had a cape with a shiny broch with a magic symbol on it, she even had the wand. Also her long hair was that shade of pink, the one that Frisk could never quite find the words to describe, much deep than the color of any flower she had ever seen, but not as dark as ripe watermelon. She heard of it referred to as strawberry pink, but that didn't make much sense, since strawberries were red. It looked pretty, the way if fell past the Louise's shoulder's in waves.
But while Frisk was not too worried about the situation, she was worried for Chara. The other fallen child was not happy, not one bit.
'I can't believe you got us sent to the Surface. I knew that portal was trouble, but would you listen? Noooo, because someone said 'please'. You would jump off a cliff if someone asked you to do it nicely.' Chara said angrily.
'Just think of it as a new experience.' Frisk thought to her companion. Trying to let her know that she really was sorry. 'Don't worry. The moment things settle down, we can find our way back to Mount Ebott and go home. Alright?'
Chara continued to grumble, but she had to confess that her partner had a point. No use crying over spilt milk, and they could just run back to the Underground at any time. Though that time couldn't be sooner if you asked her. The less time she spent with these humans the better. She still wanted to show that pink haired one where she could store that wand for hurting Frisk. Actually, make that two places that she could store it, though the spirit child was more than willing to make more.
One thing that shocked Chara was just how much DETERMINATION there was in the magic girl. Not as much as Chara herself or Frisk, but still more than she was used to seeing in humans. She also seemed to have some kind of inherent LOVE stat. Not a high one, just a three, but it was still there. And since her MDR level was still a zero, she have never killed anything in her life to achieve that 'Level of Violence'. Strange. She must just naturally not be that pleasant of a person. Not that Chara could really throw stones in that department.
They walked along through the dormitory, moving up several flights of stairs before stopping at one of the doors. There, Louise took out a key and unlocked it before letting Frisk into the room.
All things considered, it was a nice looking room. Not too being as to feel needlessly luxurious, but still large enough to have the needed furniture with some room to move around. There was a queen sized bed in the middle of the room across from a dresser and a book case, with a table and chairs off out of the way. The only thing that seemed strangely out of place was a pill of hay next of the bed, with a ring bolted into the wall connecting to a chain with a dog collar on the end. Did Louise own a pet?
Frisk walked in, turning her head every which way as she observed the room to its fullest. Her usual curious expression on her face. It wasn't until Louise closed the door and gave a heavy sigh that she started to pay attention to the older girl.
Louise herself was not too sure how she was supposed to act at the moment. As a general rule of thumb, nobles didn't normally interact with commoners outside of the professional level. So while Louise was more than confident when it came to dealing with maids, cooks and the like, a child who hadn't any real duties was something completely new to her. She supposed she would just have to take it from the top and try her best to maintain her noble disposition.
"I would be for the best if we tried to lay down how things are going to work right now. Starting with proper introductions. I am Louise Françoise le Blanc de la Vallière, third daughter of the Duke Vallière of Tristian." Louise said in a smooth voice, trying to hold herself with grace and dignity.
Frisk just smiled and responded with the much more simple introduction of, "I'm Frisk!"
Louise was a little taken aback by the high energy response. It was extremely different from what she was used to seeing from the peasantry who stood before the nobility. It seemed as though the child wasn't impressed at all.
Not that Frisk really had a reason to be. After all, her adoptive mother was a queen, and even the rather dopy Azriel was a prince. She had long since learned that people were people, the conditions of birth didn't really matter all that much.
"Well then Frisk, it is a pleasure. Right now we are currently at the Tristian Institute of Magic. Today was the day when second year students like me preformed the summoning ritual, and I summoned you." Louise said trying to take things one step at a time.
"Why?" Frisk asked, giving a simple tilt of the head.
Louise swallowed slightly at the cute look. "Well... I'm not really sure. I've never heard of anyone summoning a human as a familiar before. I suppose it was probably just a mistake."
Frisk shook her head. "No, I meant, why did you want to summon a familiar?"
Louise blinked at the question. "Well... mages summon familiars to act as a sort of... pets really."
"Why?" Frisk repeated.
"Its just part of being a mage."
"Why?"
"I don't know, its tradition. People have been doing it for over 6000 years, okay." Louise said, a little defensively. She had never actually stopped to wonder why exactly mages summoned familiars.
Frisk's mouth opened a little farther and her eyebrows went up into her hairline. "That's a long time."
"Do... do you ever open your eyes?" Louise said, staring at the child as she continued to move about and react without ever once seeming to open her eyes.
"No..." Frisk's reply was short and simple, leaving no room for discussion. Louise had already forgotten where the conversation had started and where it was supposed to have been going. She just stared at the child's closed eyes for a few moments, until Frisk let out a long yawn.
Frisk was sleepy. She had after all been woken up by the summonings, and a growing child needed her sleep. Or at least, that was what Toriel kept saying.
"Oh, your tired?" Louise asked, getting a nodded from the tiny girl. "I guess it is rather late." Louise said nervously as she glanced down at the pile of hay and bit her lip. "The thing is... I didn't exactly expect to summon... I thought that I was going to summon an animal of some kind."
Frisk tilted her head in confuse before remembering the pile of hay. "Oh." She said, sounding a little unhappy about the prospect of it. It was a sad little voice, and one that seemed to drive a steel bar made of pure gilt into Louise.
"I... I guess we will just have to share my bed until I can work something out." Louise said looking away from the pouting face. She was just glad her bed was so big. She could have probably fit three people in it, and both her and the child were rather small...
Frisk immediately brightened up and nodded happily to Louise. "'Kay!" She said in the same energetic voice as before.
A few minute's later, Frisk was in bed and fast asleep. Louise looked at the sleeping face... it looked just the same as before. But the girl's breathing was deeper and more steady, making Louise pretty sure she was asleep.
"So much for being the master here." Louise said with a sigh, but there was nothing to be done. She doubted even a complete monster would have been able to stand up to that pout.
Louise changed into her own nighttime clothes before climbing into bed with the child and falling asleep herself.
Chara was awake a good long while after the others had gone asleep.
The spirit child was more than just peeved that Louise had apparently summoned them to act as slaves. It just went to show how little she thought about others.
If that human tried to do anything to Frisk, Chara would make her pay. She wouldn't let the humans make Frisk endure the same kinds of things Chara herself had in life. If it wasn't for the fact that Frisk wouldn't let her, Chara would have already started on the mages the moment she felt the runes starting to burn underneath their skin.
It was questionable if she would have been able to take them all out without a weapon or Frisk helping, but with her 46 ATK, she was still dangerous, even bare handed. She could use her SOUL to increase the tiny girl body's strength to a point where she could almost match even Undyne's strength. Assuming the fish faced Royal Knight didn't decide to cheat with that 'Undying Mode'. So it was rather fortunate for everyone involved that Frisk had muscled control away from Chara before things could have gotten out of hand. Still, it was satisfying to have broken the bald man's arm and made him piss himself. For a man with such a high MDR level, he scared easy.
That was a man Chara wouldn't let near Frisk for any reason. 13 MDR, just a few more choice kills and the man would earn the fate of meeting a Judge. It would be interesting to see just how much he would piss himself if that ever happened. Even Chara didn't relish the thought of staring down a line of Gaster Blasters, though it would be worth it to silence Sans.
How much she wanted to finally be rid of that Comedian.
Sitting herself up again the windowsill, Chara smiled to herself, imagining shoving a bottle of ketchup so far down Sans' throat that the skeleton's jaw fell off. But as the spirit girl flouted their, her eyes wondered up out the window and her smile fell.
'Frisk... wake up.' Chara said. Her voice was cold, not her usual strangely playful or sarcastic, just dead cold.
The better half of the girls sat up in bed, rubbing sleep from her eyes. "What's the matter?" Frisk asked in a tired voice.
'Just get over here.' Chara said not taking her eyes away from the sky outside of the window.
Frisk nodded slowly as she slide silently out of the bed, being careful not to disturb Louise as she went to see what Chara wanted. But as she started to get closer to the window and noticed the odd pink and blue tint of the light coming down from the sky, she slowed down.
The tiredness left her face as a more worried expression replaced it. Hanging up in the sky wasn't just one, but two moons, one a hot pink the other an azure blue.
'I know its been a long time since I was on the surface but... there is only supposed to be one moon. right?' Chara said, looking towards Frisk, her ruby eyes held a bit more worry in them than Frisk was used to seeing there. The better half could only nodded as she looked up at the sky.
"Parallel world?" Frisk mumbled. She didn't know if such a thing was real, but since alternate time lines could exist, why not worlds that were more than just a few decisions separated.
Chara growled as she turned her head back to glare up at the moons. 'Of course! Why not!? After all, if you kidnap a child from your own world, then they could actually attempt to run home!' She shouted angrily. Frisk could feel the first girl's urge to murder raising a bit.
"We... we are going to be able to get home... right?" Frisk said, she was trembling a little at the thought of never finding her way back to the Underground.
Chara saw the girl trembling. She could feel Frisk's own worries starting to mount up. It was enough to break through her desire to murder. 'Hey, don't tell me you're going to start crying like Azriel.' Chara said, forcing herself to use her usual sarcastic voice. 'You always told mom that you were a big strong girl. What happened to that? You going to just give up without even trying?'
Frisk sniffed a little, but shook her head. "No... we'll get back. I'll find a way." She said with an mount of certainty in her voice. She looked up again at the two moons in the sky. Her chest held out a bit more as she took a deep breath.
Chara didn't bother to suppress her grin as she felt Frisk's DETERMINATION growing with each passing moment. 'Well, since that is out of the way and you're already up. How about we start snooping?' Chara said with her evil grin, glancing towards a book in the dresser. One that held no title and had a pink cover with a simple but cute design. The kind of thing that screamed the word 'diary'.
Frisk frowned at the book, clearly considering the option, but eventually shook her head, moving past it to grab a book that was labeled 'History of Tristian'.
'Oh, come on. I'm sure the other one would be WAY more informative.' Chara said, giving a teasing pull on Frisk's control over the body, but Frisk just shook her head.
"That would be rude." She said with a bit of finality.
'You're no fun.' Chara pouted, though she did hover around behind the girl so she could look down and read along with her.
The two of them spent something around two hours reading the book. Learning all kinds of things about the history of the Royal Families and the so called Founder. He sounded like Chara's type of person, trying to wipe out an entire species; some people referred to as 'Elves'. Though like Chara, something got underneath his feet and he failed.
They read until Frisk felt too tired to continue, the book still being less than a quarter finished. She was so tired, she didn't even notice when Chara momentarily took control of their body as she went to put down the book, slipping it into their INVINTORY instead before giving Frisk back control so that she could go to sleep. It would give them something to do later. And if Louise actually did need the book, then Chara could have a good evil chuckle about it. Evil came in all sizes. You had to learn to enjoy the small mischief as well as the major sabotages.
Finally, the spirit decided to rest a bit herself. No point in her just saying up all night with nothing to do. She would need to relax if she was going to go all day without killing anyone. Even then... no promises.
Louise was the first to wake up in the morning. She sat up in her bed, stretching out her arms a bit before noticing that their was someone in the bed with her. It took her a few seconds for her brain to register the child from the night before and remember that it was the girl she had summoned.
Her baby like face made her look way too innocent. But Louise was perfectly aware that she needed to get to breakfast, and she couldn't leave the child alone. The chance of her wondering off and getting into trouble were a little too high for the noble daughter's liking, and any trouble that was caused would reflect on Louise herself as the girl's master.
She was just about to walk the girl up when Frisk started to mumble a bit in her sleep.
"Mom..." Louise froze, her arm still stretched out, ready to shake the girl awake. "Don't worry mom... I'm strong enough... I'll find a way..."
Louise closed her eyes. She really wished she hadn't heard that. She had barely been able to keep thoughts about just how bad it was to summon another human in the first place. Add in the fact that it was a very impressionable child who she had ripped away from a loving family... she could actually feel her heart straining to keep beating.
Even if Louise's own relationship with her mother and eldest sister weren't really the best, she had still loved them and admired them. She couldn't imagine getting taken away from her second sister.
She shook her head, trying to push the thoughts out of her mind. She wouldn't let herself feel guilty any more. What's done is done and just mopping about it wasn't going to fix anything.
"Louise?" The small child said, almost making the girl jump out of her skin. She had apparently woken up by herself without opening her eyes.
"I... I was just about to wake you up." Louise said, rather hurriedly, wondering just how long the girl was awake staring at Louise as she hovered over the child. The thought was awkward. "Come on. I want you to help me get ready for the day before we go down for breakfast."
"'Kay." Frisk said, pulling herself out of bed and moving on to doing Louise's instructions. The little girl was rather confused as to why she had to help Louise get dressed and brush her hair, but she didn't question it too much. She even kind of enjoyed brushing the girl's soft pink hair.
Louise decided that she would ween Frisk into the role of being a familiar. No need to force it on her all at once, or use punishment. The girl was already fairly willing anyways.
So once they were done the two of them started out together to go for breakfast.