Pain… all Frisk could think about was the pain… That fall doesn't get any easier…
Slowly Frisk attempted to get up only to feel a great deal of pain from their left hip Dear lord… not even 20 seconds in and I feel like I'm dying… lucky me…
Now holding their supposedly injured hip, Frisk stood up.
* Looks like someone woke up on the wrong side of the flower bed
Frisk ignored Chara as they looked around for their stick, if they were hurt now and it's going to be a Pacifist Run may as well use it as a walking stick.
Not seeing it Frisk groaned and looked up the hole they didn't fall down. What they saw made them contemplate doing a No-Mercy Run just to spite whatever god there was…
Their stick, now their only means of walking with minimal pain, was stuck on some roots at the end of the fall, way out of arms reach.
They could throw something to knock it down… there were no rocks here, Toriel once said she cleaned the grave every time she visited it, which was every other day. Flowers wouldn't get that far nor would they pack the punch needed to disturb it. Flowey WAS a possibility but they doubted he'd agree to it and Chara was also out of the question for several reasons.
* You're looking peachy as ever
Chara looked down at Frisk's leg, their knee was swollen and starting to bleed. The bottom of their shorts leg also had blood on it. The side of Frisks sweater was also bloody, not as much as their leg but it probably hurt just the same.
Following Frisks eyes they saw the stick… they now realized why they were in such a bad mood.
* Oh…
Frisk started to hobble away, trying their best to keep on a neutral expression despite the pain It shouldn't be this bad they though running their fingers over their side I've been impaled by spears, vines and bones, multiple times! This should be easy!
Frisk tried to think of ways to dull the pain until they got to Toriel's home. Monster Candy was the first thing to come to mind, but it would only stop the bleeding and maybe heal the wound a bit… Monster food and magic and SAVE stars could only do so much in the way of healing.
They can heal wounds and such but it can't repair broken bones if they had any. They hoped not.
They knew of one way to heal a broken bone, sticking the broken appendage inside a SAVE star would repair it. Problem with that is, the limb would depend how fast it would repair, a leg once took them an hour, while their skull… that took a week… of constantly sitting in the star… Papyrus brought spaghetti though, when he left they would just throw it into the star and that would very slightly speed up the process.
Throwing those memories aside for now Frisk looked back to Chara who was looking at their hip, the blood stain had gotten larger.
* Are… are you okay?
Frisk scoffed "Does it look like I'm okay? I'm bleeding onto my favorite sweater and there is a high chance I have internal bleeding" they turned back around slowly walking the path "And if by okay you mean 'if I don't get this fixed soon than I'll bleed to death' than, yes, I'm okay"
Chara sighed and followed Frisk, after a few steps Chara was walked past Frisk.
Frowning Chara walked back down the path, once at Frisk they lifted Frisk's arm and put it over their shoulder, they then propped them up by putting their arm around Frisks back.
"I don't need your help" Frisk glared at Chara who suppressed a shiver and continued walking.
* You say you don't need my help because you don't, you want my help
"What…? That makes… absolutely zero sense" Chara just smiled and looked forward.
Eventually they duo got to Flowey who was bouncing in place with a smile that the most trustful of people distrustful.
"Howdy, I'm Flowey, Flowey the Flower!" Frisk, who was semi-ignoring the flower gave a lazy wave.
"You're new to the U- Oh…" Flowey looked at Frisk's leg and hip, a drop of blood hit ground. The sight made him want to gag, but, being a plant, he couldn't. "Looks like that fall did quite a number of ya buddy! Don't worry!" He gave a big grin "Your new friend Flowy will heal that right up! Ready? Here we go!"
A beep later and the world was in black and white. Frisk looked to their right, Chara was in black and white also making it difficult to see them as they are already a transparent ghost.
"See that heart? That's your soul! The very culmination of your being! Now I would tell you about LV, or LOVE but…" he spared another glance at the wounds "Those wounds seem pretty bad… Oh! I got an idea!"
Several white 'friendliness pellets' appeared around Flowey "See these? These are my special… 'healing pellets'" His eyes shifted left to right.
"Move around! Get as many… as… you can… um…" Frisk glared at the flower. "You… can't walk well… can you…" Frisk shook their head, still glaring "Um… ok! Stay there, they'll come to you!"
The 'healing pellets' moved towards Frisk, knowing they couldn't dodge well in this state they let the pellets connect.
Vicious pain shot threw their entire body making Chara drop Frisk by accident.
* Frisk!
Chara bent down and put a hand on their shoulder, all the while they glared at Flowey. They knew Flowey was their brother, was. In their mind Flowey was nothing more than a soulless husk with their brother's memories. That didn't make it any easier to kill him last run though…
"You IDIOT! Down here, it's KILL or BE killed! Who would possibly pass up an opportunity like this?! A weak and injured human falls down? Easy picking for me!" He started to laugh as more pellets surrounded the two of them. "DIE."
The pellets that were closing in on them disappeared, Flowey was also flung… somewhere bad hopefully.
"Oh my… what a horrible creature, torturing such a poor and- oh my!" Toriel ran over to Frisk who was still crouched on the ground in pain.
"Can you walk my child?" Toriel placed her paw on the wound Flowey had inflicted and started to heal it.
Frisk nodded and, for some reason, to their relief, Chara helped them up. Frisk looked up at Toriel and gave a brave smile making her chuckle.
"Oh you are quite strong now, aren't you?" Frisk nodded and pointed a head to the door Toriel came out of. "Oh yes, follow me young one- oh! I have not even introduced myself! I am Toriel, caretaker of the RUINS, follow me my child"
Toriel turned and walked through the door, leaving Frisk and Chara in the room.
"Remind me…next time I see that flower to tear him out of the ground and stick him in a book!" They growled holding their hip still.
Chara rolled their eyes.
* You can't do that Frisk, you promised me a Pacifist Run and I'm holding you to that!
Frisk turned to face Chara "And where do you come from telling me what I can and cannot do!" Chara was eyes wide, obviously not expecting that kind of reaction.
* Sorry…
Chara said in a quite voice while looking down at the ground.
Frisk looked forward, away from Chara "Whatever, let's go"
Frisk had SAVED at the star ahead and was now in the East and West room. They followed Toriel down the path when a Froggit hopped out of nowhere in front of Frisk.
Chara watched the battle as Frisk brushed their fingers over all of the options.
FIGHT ACT ITEM MERCY
Frisk spent a few extra second looking at the FIGHT button but that was just out of… habit…
Pressing ACT Frisk selected Compliment.
Glancing to Chara they took their arm off of their shoulder and walked over to the Froggit. When in a close range they looked around again before gesturing the Froggit over, they whispered into Froggit's… ear?
"You are the most disgusting thing I have ever seen… besides Flowey… but you're a close second you revolting Monster" Backing away they turned to Chara with a smile.
* Froggit didn't seem to understand what you said, but was flattered anyways!
Toriel walked over and gave the Froggit a nasty glare, causing it to slink away in fear.
0 EXP and 0 Gold later, they crossed spike 'maze' and walked to the end of the hall where Toriel had left them.
~ Le time skip
Frisk was in the room with the three switches.
Taking a step into the last rotation of the room a two Vegitoids popped up out of the ground, starting a battle.
Frisk chose ACT and Pat, the Vegitoids perked up and sent out a wave of bullets, the occasional green one.
Catching a green one of their mouth Frisk's face scrunched up and their eyes started to water.
* W- what's wrong Frisk?
Chara looked over at them, tears were forming in their eyes.
"It tastes like… sour rotten bananas!" Frisk wiped at their tongue to get the taste of, in vain.
"That's because…" "It is rotten…" "Bananas" The Vegitoids finished.
Frisk's eyes widened and they held their hands over their mouth as they ran behind a pillar, throwing up.
A few minutes later Frisk walked back wiping at their mouth, the Vegitoids had left and dropped some extra gold as an apology.
"There goes the Monster Candy I ate last fight…" They sighed and they sat by a different pillar, away from the vomit one.
* You don't lose Monster food dingus, it's magic, you just lost the last of the Human food you ate before you fell
Frisk shivered at the memories of before they fell, looking back up to Chara they frowned "Well it's good to know the next time I throw up, which will probably be soon, I'll just be dry heaving…" Sarcasm was very present.
Chara rolled their eyes as they spoke.
* Yeah well I think mom has some Human chocolate in the fridge
Standing up Frisk walked over to Chara and grabbed their hand, they then proceeded to walked out of the room.
Just as they were walking into the dead tree room Frisk's phone rang, stopping they put the phone to their ear, which they instantly regretted. A bunch of random noises spew out of the phone along with some words they picked up "It… work… fail… try… -EST!"
Blinking Frisk hung up and put the phone away.
* What was that? I heard a bunch of noise…
Frisk turned to Chara in confusion "Huh…? Oh, I don't know… let's keep going" Frisk walked away towards the house.
Their phone rung again but they left it alone, knowing it would be Toriel, a second later she noticed them and walked over to Frisk.
"Oh, my child, how did you get here? Are you hurt?" She set a paw of Frisks still injured hip "Hmm… I believe I have something to help with that" With that she turned around and walked away, Frisk followed her inside, but not before saving.
* Seeing such a cute, tidy house in the RUINS… Fills you two with DETERMINATION
* File SAVED
Upon entering both Frisk and Chara smelt the Butterscotch-Cinnamon Pie in the oven, it was starting to burn though the smell was barely noticeable.
"Um… Miss Toriel, I think I smell-" Frisk was interrupted by Toriel walking down the hall. Sighing Frisk followed, Chara snickering behind them.
"Here my child, a room for yourself" She ruffed Frisks hair "Oh my…" She sniffed the air "Is something burning? Um… make yourself at home!" She turned on her heel and ran out of the hall into the living room.
Frisk turned and followed her.
* Not going to sleep?
The human shrugged "Nah, going to ask Toriel to patch my leg up and stuff, don't want to… bloody…? The bed" Chara nodded in agreement, they wouldn't want to sleep a blood filled bed either.
Entering the living room, they saw Toriel leaving the kitchen "Oh hello my child! Are you not going to sleep? The pie will take a little while to cool down… unless you wish to chat that is!"
Frisk tapped their knee only to wince "Oh, the wound!" Toriel reached into a pocket on her chair and pulled out some medical supplies "Please, allow me to treat the wound"
Frisk walked over, jumped up and sat on Toriel's lap causing her to giggle. A few seconds later she started to wrap their knee.
Chara sat down on the ground next to the chair and looked around the room. They decided to use now to think. So Frisk said this is one of their last runs... and it's a TP, which means a happy ending… They tapped their chin Though something's about this and the last run still have me confused… for as long as I can remember Frisk would insult me or something every chance they got, but at the end of last time they started being nice They put a hand to their cheek where Frisk had kissed them Then theirs that… why had they…
"There we go, all fixed up! Would you like me to do something about that hip?" Frisk shook their head and hopped down.
Frisk walked over to Chara, seeing them not respond they waved a hand over their face, nothing. They then flicked Chara on the forehead causing them to snap back.
* What? Oh, you're done?
Frisk nodded while rubbing their eyes. Looking between them and Toriel, Frisk turned towards the hallway, with a wave they walked away.
Chara followed, still thinking.
Upon reaching the bedroom door Frisk opened it and walked in but closed it before Chara could enter.
* Well that's rude!
Chara tried to open the door but found it was locked? "Don't come in"
Why did mom even have a lock on this door again? Privacy? They shooed the question away as they asked Frisk why.
"Because I'm changing my shorts, these ones are bloody, remember?" They sounded annoyed.
* We're going to Waterfall; can't you clean them there?
Frisk sighed "No, I can't, I have to get through Snowdin and the blood will freeze by the spaghetti" Foot steps came towards the door and it was unlocked with a click.
Opening the door Chara saw Frisk was in different clothing. They still had their regular blue and purple sweater but instead of their blue shorts they were wearing a pair of brown ones.
Yawning they turned around towards the bed, Chara walked in and closed the door. "I'm going to bed, you do… whatever stuff you do…" Climbing into the bed they continued "But for god's sake whatever your going to do, do it quietly, I want a good sleep… unlike last timeline…" They muttered the last part to themselves.
Turning off the lights they sat down on the ground next to the bed only to feel something beneath them. Grabbing whatever it was they saw it was Frisks old shorts, they shook their head with a small smile Slob…
Wait… why are they smiling? Was it because of the clothing? The humor in it? Ugh… This is going to be one confusing Run…
Frisk woke up the next morning from a dreamless sleep. Looking around the room they spotted the slice of Pie of the floor and Chara on the end of the bed, they seemed cold. Hoping off the bed they grabbed the blanket and pulled it over Chara's sleep form, they then grabbed the plate, put it in their inventory and walked out of the door.
Stepping into the living room they saw Toriel… sitting at the table eating? Walking over to her they saw she was eating Temmie Flakes, how she got them back here was beyond them.
Toriel, who had a spoon in her hand dropped it when she saw Frisk "Oh hello my child, how was your sleep, well I hope" Frisk smile and nodded "That is good, have you by chance eaten the pie already?" She looked back to the kitchen and her bowl of cereal. Shaking their head Frisk patted their pocket where the phone was, they moved it over when they changed.
She smiled and stood up, walking over to the kitchen she grabbed another bowl and filled it with Temmie Flakes as well. After putter in milk and a spoon she handed it to Frisk.
"I see you have changed, that is good, staying in that other pair is unsanitary" Tears formed in her eyes, sitting back down she wiped them away "I am sorry, you just look like someone I knew"
Frisk frowned slightly and looked back down the hall, I already look like Chara, wearing their old clothing isn't helping that fact… They felt themselves getting angry with Chara.
Turning to Toriel they sat down and ate. When Frisk was nearly done the food Chara walked in, they waved to Frisk, Frisk ignored them.
After breakfast Frisk walked up to Toriel and asked how to go home.
"But, this IS your home, w- would you like to hear some snai-"
Frisk asked again how to leave the RUINS.
"D- did you know that snails can flip it's-"
Frisk asked AGAIN how to leave.
"S- stay here, I must do something" She stood up and walked down the stairs. Frisk followed her and Chara followed the two of them wondering why Frisk was so impatient as to interrupt her, twice.
Down is the basement Toriel did her regular shpel about leaving and Asgore. Now at the door she turned around. "Prove to me, prove to me you are strong enough to survive" She narrowed her eyes "Wait… why are you looking at me like that? You look… bored? Could you know… no, that is impossible"
The surrounding area turned black and their soul appeared in front of them.
Frisk turned around and saw Chara, grinning they turned back to Toriel. They grabbed something out of their pocket, it was… a fork? A metal fork.
Gripping it they pressed FIGHT and stabbed at Toriel.
~73 DMG~
Chara gasped, eyes wide They're… they're going to kill her… Toriel attacked with an arch of fire of which Frisk easily dodged. Pressing FIGHT again they made another stabbing motion to Toriel.
~80 DMG~
They're going to kill her! They said this was a Pacifist run! NO KILLING! THEY LIED! Anger filled their body as they ran to Frisk, jumping they tacked them to the ground knocking the fork away.
Chara pinned them to the ground, Frisk was looking confused.
* WHY! YOU SAID PACIFIST AND YOU'RE FIGHTING!
* Chara, listen I-
* NO! YOU SAID THIS…
They looked around them.
* W- was going to be a pacifist run! You lied!
* It is I-
Frisk was silenced by Chara slapping them. All the anger that was in them left a they stared in horror at their hand. Frisk was looking at Chara in shock.
Toriel was… confused, to say the least.
Frisk narrowed their eyes at Chara before shifting their weight and pushing Chara off of them. They then pinned Chara to the ground in the same manner they had them.
"Now you listen here! I said this was going to be a pacifist run and this is going to be a damn pacifist run! I can see why you're angry at me, I attacked Toriel, yeah big whoop! You can and will keep your anger to yourself because I'm already sick of your shit!"
After a short breath Frisk spoke again "Things were going well until now, not just being slapped, which I have to admit you have a good swing that you'll regret down the walk but being tackled! Tackled of all things doesn't help with the pain already in affect and is not appreciated" Chara started to tear up but Frisk didn't stop "I'm going to get up now, you just… stand against a wall or whatever the hell you want because frankly I don't give a damn right now"
Frisk rolled to the side and stood up. Looking down at Chara they huffed and turned to face Toriel who jumped a bit.
"I- I do not know what…" She pointed to where the two were arguing, though she could only see Frisk "… t- that was about but, you seem capable of surviving… all I ask is… please, do not kill anybody"
Frisk nodded and while she was walking Frisk handed her a piece of paper, when she read it her eyes started to water and she walked away quickly.
Walking towards the RUINS door Frisk spoke as they opened it "Come on"
The two completely ignored Flowey and walked passed him, he could see Frisk was very angry and didn't bother to stop them.
Walking down the path snow crunched beneath Frisks shoes as Chara floated some little ways behind them.
A stick snap and snow crunch later they were at the bridge. Sans did his normal shtick as the same went for Papyrus.
Now in battle with a Snowdrake Frisk spared it until it made a joke "You need to chill out dude!" Frisk laughed and contorted "You jokes are a little cold there" The Snowdrake frowned and walked away dropping 7 gold coins.
Frisk was petting Lesser Dog who kept growing higher and higher, though the attempts were appreciated.
After a while L.D.'s head came back down, Frisk walked up to it and whispered into it's ear "Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy? Not you, that's who~" L.D. whimpered and walked away dropping some more gold.
The more they walked the more Monsters Frisk encountered the more Frisk did them good only to insult them later. All of the dogs they rolled around, pat, threw a stick but a second they scolded them for no reason. All of them walked away sad and confused.
Chara was very concerned about how Frisk was acting now, they did see that Frisk and them were getting along better, Frisk had put a blanket on them that morning but seemed distasteful to them when they were eating. They never could figure Frisk out, whenever they thought they were close they always did something to destroy their theory's. But now… they really did seem like they hated them…
It made them feel sad.
Walking on the final bridge before Snowdin they ran into Papyrus, literally. Thankfully he caught them before the fell.
"MY APOLOGIES HUMAN, I DID NOT MEAN TO BUMP INTO YOU THERE!" He looked behind him to Sans "I AM SORRY TO SAY BUTT HERE WAS A JAPE HERE BUT… IT WOULD BE TOO EASY TO CAPTURE YOU WITH IT SO I DISMANTED IT A LITTLE WHILE AGO! I LET NOTHING GO TO WASTE SO I GAVE MY GOOD FRIEND UNDYNE EVERYTHING!"
Frisk stared up at Papyrus shocked and shaking, Undyne was already difficult but now she has giant axes, MORE spears, a dog and a flame thrower!
Papyrus looked down at Frisk in concern "HUMAN! YOU ARE COLD, ALLOW ME TO EXTEND A BRANCH OF FREINDSHIP AND ALLOW YOU STAY AT THE GREAT PAPYRUS'S… AND SANS'S… HOME FOR THE NIGHT!"
Looking up Frisk saw it was getting dark, they nodded and Papyrus ran off.
Looking back to Chara they sighed "Come on, Papyrus is letting me-… us, stay at his house" Frisk turned around and walked away, Chara floating behind. They only floated when they got too far from Frisk, they would stay in a range but not have to walk, that was how they preferred to travel when tired of thinking, right now they were both.
Inside of the house Frisk was set up on the bed and Chara was on a mound of blankets and pillows Frisk had asked Papyrus to get.
"Goodnight Chara…" they said glancing at them, they already seemed to be asleep.
Closing their eyes, they fell asleep too.
Frisk woke up due to a headache. They looked down at their chest and than to Chara a few times before getting out of bed.
Standing on the floor they put both hands to their chest. A soft red light filled the room, their soul.
Frisk walked over to the dresser of their guest room, they put a piece of paper in front of them and set the soul over it, floating.
With a small frown Frisk turned and walked to the door. As they opened the door and walked out they felt a pang in the chest, where their soul would be.
Frisk knew Humans and Monsters couldn't live long without their souls in them and even less away from them. They knew that well. Closing the door, they walked down the staircase towards the front door, leaving Chara and their soul behind.
The ache in the head and chest got worse as they walked away.
Opening the door, they felt the cold nip at them, walking out they closed the door behind them and stepped into the snow.
Walking forward they suddenly felt extremely weak, falling to the ground they dared not to look back. Frisk crawled to the nearest tree and sat up against it.
"Please…" They whispered into the cold…
Their vision was getting blurry…
"Please…"
A loud crack and shattering sound was heard from the house, everyone in Snowdin probably heard it, everyone but one person… Frisk.
Frisk woke up in the bed at Sans and Papyrus's house. Warily they looked over at the dresser, nothing, to Chara, still sleep, down at themselves, trembling.
They choked a sob as they held their face in their hands. Curling in on themselves they cried to themselves, quietly so not to wake Chara or anyone else.
Frisk cried, silently to themselves, they cried and cried…
It didn't stop… It would never stop…