Souls of The Kind
By Durai
Summery: When one adventure comes to an end, another always begins, whether or not you know it. Frisk leads a new adventure on to the surface, but first there is one person left to bring with. One she cannot leave without.
Chapter One; Soulfully Missed Prince.
The sounds of a quiet echo rolls through the dark rooms, the echo grows louder and louder as a pair of worn out shoes steps forth, the soles of the shoes blown out, and was barely being held together by strings and fabric. The shoes belonged to a young girl of fifteen, she stood roughly four foot nine inches tall. She wore a blue sweater with three purple stripes on it, followed by a pair of ragged pants. However out of all her clothing the sweater looked slightly tight in the chest region and was nearly untouched by time it seemed. Her golden eyes glistened gently in the low light.
She walks down the path, the sound of water dripping and waterfalls in the distance filled the area. She was brought to a halt by a skeleton standing roughly four feet five inches tall before her. A blue hoodie over a white shirt and black track shorts, complete with pink house slippers.
"Heya Kiddo, trying it again I see?" He says staring her down.
"Sans… please move aside. I need to see him… I nearly can bring him back with us." She says with a weak tone, his eye sockets blank.
"You see, that is the problem. Your runnin yer'self ragged trying to do so. Just accept it, he can't be saved." He replies, the girl's fists tighten.
"I get it! You still don't want him to come with after everything he did! But it's not your choice Sans! It's not fair!" She yells out causing his eye to burst blue.
"Just like how its not fair, for us to suffer at your resets for your attempts to save him? Frisk get it through your head, its over lets go." He replies as sobbing starts to echo forth, his eye reverts to normal white pupils, he looks at her with a questioning look.
"I-Its not fair… how come everyone else can be happy, but me and him can't..." She mumbles, Sans freezes in place.
"You can be, with everyone els-" Her voice cries out over him.
"NO I CAN'T! I COULD NEVER BE HAPPY WITH THAT ENDING!" She screams, before falling to her knees. "I get it! This is your way of punishing me for what I did isn't it Sans?!" He flinches heavily looking away.
"H-Huh? N-No way! I would never do that to you kiddo. You made up for that a thousand times over." He says as her crying continues.
"Then why?! Why can't I save one last soul, and finally be happy?!" She cries out, Sans stood there looking at her with no reply.
'I uh, shit. I got nothing, Is this really all she needs to be happy? A way to save this pathetic prick who nearly killed us all to gain total control over the timeline? Whats to stop him from killing her once she saves him?!' He looks at her form, it hurt him severely, he was making the girl he promised to protect cry. A girl cry, because he wouldn't let her finish this her way. 'Ah shit, I really am a bad sack of bones if I make a young girl cry like this… mother would have your skull for doing this Sans.' He sighs walking towards her.
"I just want to make everyone happy! I don't want to let anyone suffer even if they did wrong!" Sans stops before her with a hurt expression.
'I gave her a chance… to redeem herself and she did, so why do I keep trying to prevent her from giving him a chance? Everyone deserves a second chance, or else we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for her sacrificing her life to reset that time.' His chest pings in pain, he kneels down bringing himself down to face level with her.
"Kiddo, alright. You win. Sorry for making you cry, I guess I am a bad guardian huh?" Frisk's tears continue to flow as he sighs and reaches around her. "Listen Frisk. It was wrong of me to act like that." His arms grip her tightly resting his chin to her head. "I should be more considerate, its your choice after all. So please stop cryin." He says, her sobs lighten up. Her voice cracked and in pain.
"I c-can't do it with out him… S-Sans. A-After all I d-did, I g-grew attached." She cries underneath him.
'Does she…?' He nods with a sigh.
"Alright, I got an idea, but uh… you gotta make me a promise. Don't tell Toriel about what I am about to suggest to you, if you do say it was your idea." He says looking down at her. She looks up and nods.
"O-Okay." Sans smiles gently looking at her standing up, pulling her up with him.
"So, uh tell me. What did you learn in the lab first? I need to know how much you understand of uh, some of the work down there." He says looking away, a look on his face of guilt rested there.
"T-That a lot of work with souls and Determination was worked on there, a-and some stuff that looked like it was to work on making an artificial soul. T-That is what I figure from all I looked at and read down there." Frisk replies wiping her eyes on her sweater, once her arm was moved out of her sight Sans was holding a box of tissues for her, she gently smiles taking one and blowing her nose.
"Yeah, a lot of work on souls… the Determination work was Alphys's thing, however the equipment up top in one of the rooms is just like the downstairs work, the last royal scientist was bent on making artificial souls to break the barrier. He didn't succeed, however he did make an operation to make a 'Vessel' for soul power. It was an idea to use it to grow determination, however it never got tested. In theory, using your soul as a template to make a vessel could be used to help save him." Sans says looking to the waterfall in the distance.
"The issue though is that, for a monster it kills them, but for you… you might live. It would hurt and it definitely could kill and destroy your soul in the process." His voice was uncertain, he turns back to her locking eyes with her with worry.
"Sans..." Frisk says looking into his eyes, seeing the distress and worry. "I will do it. Anything to save Asriel. He should live happily, especially after what happened to..." Her eyes still red and puffy, Sans glares at her but relaxes his expression once more.
"Listen, I will help you. But the kid gotta earn my trust, him and his brother caused a lot of shit for us, for you. I can't just let that go easily, and who knows what plans that brat would have if they were still alive, you could have been killed on the spot by them to free us. To be honest, i'd hate to have that ending, after all you have done. This is a whole lot better than the death of eight children for someone to become a god to save us all… to be honest, it already happened, and you saw the cost and prevented permanent damage. The most is that everyone lost a bit of memory of what happened when our souls were taken and when they were released." He sighs, before looking around.
". . ." Frisk looks down a guilt rising in her from the thought of what could have happened.
"What is with that look kiddo?" He asks with a gentle smile, however her sigh brought a chill to his bones.
"W-Would things have been better if I had just died for everyone's freedom?" Her voice broken sounding as it chilled his entire being.
"N-No way! Jeeze Frisk why are you always a downer in these last moments?" He asks lifting her face to his to see her eyes. The dull look in them, let his soul feel like it froze, she looked so dead inside. "K-Kid, listen… just don't think that alright? Your close to your ending you desire. So come on, lets take a walk to Alphys's place, I got a shortcut. She can help us with this bit, but I need to know if you want to take this route or another first for sure." Her eyes look around, she looks down to her chest as her soul is called forth.
"All I have to do, is let Alphys use my soul to make a template of this vessel?" She asks, Sans nods with a smile.
"And you don't have to die for it to happen, you have a good chance of surviving with how strong you are." His voice gently calling to her reasonable side, his boney hand cups her cheek with a smile on his face. "Kid, no matter what happens though, I want to thank you. You gave me a hope that humans are not all that bad." She rolls her head into his hand cupping it with a weak smile.
"Good… lets go do this Sans. I want to give one last life freedom by any means." Sans stands straight as he slips his hand from her face.
"Alright, lets go for a walk then. I will keep my self busy and distracted while I wait for you to finish with Alph, alright?" She nods, letting Sans take the lead as he marches forth, their footsteps on stone turns to foot steps on to metal, the quiet hum of the core fills the air, then a quiet yelp of surprise calls out.
"S-Sans?! F-Frisk?! W-What are you two doing here?" A yellow lizard monster stood in a lab-coat standing roughly five feet tall and a pair of glasses taped to her face.
"Heya Alphys, I- no We got a request for you. It is uh risky though." He says, Alphys looks at him with worry.
"S-Sans, why so suddenly? Y-You have A-Always gotten onto me f-for risky plans no m-matter who is involved c-cause you were a-afraid it o-of Papyrus g-getting hurt." She stutters out with a surprise look on her face. Sans smiles gently placing his hand on Frisk's shoulder.
"Well, its sorta important to the kid, so I am obligated to help her after all she did for us, so will ya help?" He asks, Alphys looks at him with suspicion before speaking up.
"W-What kind of help?" She asks with a dreadful fear growing in her heart.
"Sans told me there was equipment and studies of making a soul vessel, and suggested you could use my soul as a template." Frisk says with wanting to get to the point Alphys glares at Sans with anger.
"S-Sans?! W-What the heck?! T-That is too risky! W-WAY too risky! N-No way I won't do it! I-It could kill her!" Alphys yells out, Frisk steps forwards with a pleading expression on her face.
"Please Alphys! I need to do this, if it can save Asriel I have to!" The second the name 'Asriel' left her mouth Alphys froze.
"A-Asriel is dead, hes not alive you cannot save a monster wh-" Frisk shook her head, Alphys stared at her in disbelief.
"Hes alive, for the moment… Alphys… do you remember Flowey?" Alphys's eyes widen further.
"A-ARE YOU S-SUGGESTING THAT FLOWER WAS ASRIEL DREEMURR? THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE!" She yells out, Frisk takes a step back in worry as Sans steps in front of her. With a serious expression, Alphys had never acted like this before.
"Calm down Alphys, your scaring Frisk." Alphys's expression calms down.
"S-Sorry, but Frisk, that isn't possible." Alphys replies looking towards Frisk.
"Please Alphys, This is the only time I have ever asked of something like this and the kid needs to do it. As for the Asriel and Flowery thing? Yeah its true, I would know cause of our talks about timeline jumping." Alphys looks to Sans sighing.
"O-Okay… A-Alright. I will do it..." Her expression hurt. "F-Frisk… y-you sure? This is risky, v-very risky." Frisk looks at her and nods, Alphys gives a final sigh before motioning for her to follow. "Sans, I… I don't think you should be here for this, your too attached in case it goes… wrong." Alphys says before walking off with Frisk. Sans gives his own sigh and frown.
'Yeah, I know. Stay strong bud, I gotta talk with someone.' His body vanishes while Frisk and Alphys walk away.
"B-Before we get started is there any l-last minute requests in the worse case?" Frisk looks to Alphys and nods.
"Yes, I uh, want-" Frisk explains to Alphys what she wants in the event of her death does happen.
/ Ruins /
In the gentle light of the sun, shining down upon a golden patch of flowers a young man covered in white fur, in a green and yellow striped shirt stares at the flowers counting the seconds as they go by. He stood roughly four feet eleven inches.
'It is nearly time they left… once they are gone my power will vanish and I will return to a flower...' He sighs, staring at the flowers. He kneels down and plucks one looking at it, a disgusted feeling in his core at his actions and the similarity to the one thing he used to adore. The poisionous golden flower, that was the 'reason' he went to the surface so long ago only to learn they were the same as the ones they had down in the Underground.
"I still don't understand why you lied to me, Chara. You promised me we would help everyone, but you had such hatred and malice..." He talks aloud, a sigh responds to his little vocal outburst.
"So, you don't even understand why your brother did what he did? That is a surprise, and here I thought you and him were planning something dark from the get-go." A familiar voice calls out from the darkness behind the young monster, his small tail sticking out of his blue shorts puffs up some in fear as his fur stands to its fullest.
"W-Who is there?!" The monster calls out, before him walks a Skeleton with a blue jacket.
"Calm down, its just me. Sans, I am sure you remember me from your resets." Sans says with a sigh, the young monster relaxes some.
"Y-You here to kill me for what I have done?" He asks, Sans was caught off guard by this reaction, his expression takes on a friendlier look.
"Nah, Frisk wouldn't be very happy if I did, and that is why I am here, we need to have a little chat. That alright Asriel?" The young monster looks at him.
"Is there something wrong with Frisk?" Asriel's voice asks worriedly, his green eyes widening. Sans shakes his head.
"Nope, but; and your likely going to hate me for this; She is doing something risky I suggested, since she really wanted to save you. It may kill her." Sans says and before he knew it, Asriel was pinning Sans down with a rage in his eyes.
"YOU WHAT?! WHY? WHY WOULD YOU SUGGEST SOMETHING LIKE THAT! AFTER ALL THE CRAP YOU GAVE ME FROM SNEAK ATTACKING HER AS FLOWEY, WHY WOULD YOU HELP HER WITH SOMETHING THAT MAY KILL HER!" His voice filled with an anger than Sans had never seen on someone who was just 'friends' with someone.
'So he has a thing for her too? Jeeze its a match-made in heaven… eh, lets see what happens if they both make it out.' "Cause, I owe it to her, and if I am being honest, I owe it to ya too… you did free us all after all as well. Frisk wants to save you, and honestly the resets will just keep coming, and you along side everyone else will forget and relive the day over and over… want to know how long its been since Frisk really fell down here?" He says, Asriel's eyes and expression calms down climbing off Sans. Sitting up he sighs. "She was so small back then, yet still malnourished, she was roughly ten when she first fell… So that means its been five years of doing the same thing over and over." He says, Asriel's eyes widen with realization.
"She has had numerous good endings, but never once did she not continue past the door afterwards. She reset each time, each time was for one reason only. You, You are her reason here right now, so I had two choices, stop her and drag her to continue and force her to live unhappily, and find a way to destroy her ability to reset, or help her and in the least just witness one more reset. To be honest, I was fixing to do the first, but seeing her cry… for you? Made me realize how much of an ass I would have to be, to force a girl to cry over someone they care about because I wouldn't help her." He looks up to the whole in the ceiling above him.
Asriel stood there, he had no idea what to say, he looks up to the drop from above as well thoughts running through his head.
"Will she make it?" Asriel asks quietly. Fear in his being, for some reason, he couldn't shake a feeling of worry.
"Don't know, but I am banking on the fact she does. After all, shes a strong one, ya'kno?" Sans lies back with his head resting against the flowers, his eyes close with a gentle smile. "I can almost feel her soul resonating, you know? After all these years… I can feel her even here, she left a mark so deep that I doubt anyone would forget her." He says, Asriel looks at him and closes his eyes, he could feel it now, the gentle happiness of a soul flowing around him, all around. It was her determination and he knew she was still alive right now, a smile grew upon his face as his body relaxes from its intense worry.
"This is not all you wanted to talk about is it?" Sans sits up with a smirk looking Asriel directly in the eyes.
"Yeah, I really came here to ask a favor." Asriel looks at him with suspicion. "Now that is a look I have been getting all day, I guess I really have been acting odd huh?" He says chuckling.
"What is the catch?" Sans's expression quickly turns serious as his chuckling stops.
"No catch, I just want an honest promise." He says, Asriel's eye brow raises. "I want you… to promise me, no matter what you'll do good by Frisk, Shes done so much for ya, so could you do this for me?" Asriel flinches slightly. He looks over to the side with a look of deep thought.
'Do good by her? How can I do that, I am just a failure and a crybaby, I couldn't even protect or stop Chara… i-' Sans's hand lands on his shoulder snapping him out of his daze.
"Listen, I wouldn't ask this of you if I didn't believe you could do it, I guess… this is my way of giving you a second chance…" Sans says causing Asriel to look him in the eyes.
"A-Alright, I will try… that is the best I can offer." Sans smiles looking at him, his hand moves from his shoulder to his head ruffling his fur. "Hey!" Sans gives a chuckle, when suddenly his phone goes off, he mentally gives a sigh opening it seeing a text from Alphys.
'Let see…' He reads over the text and mentally gives a sigh of relief. "Hey, come with me, someone wants to have a talk with ya." He says standing up entirely, brushing the dirt and petals off his clothes. Asriel looks up at him a hand offered, taking it in his paw he is pulled up to his feet, and feels a bit light headed as he starts to tumble forwards. "Woah, hey there you alright?" Sans asks.
"Y-Yeah, my magic is starting to wane in this form." San's eyes widen some as he looks to the clock on the phone.
"Well we better get going then huh? This person wants to talk to Asriel, not a flower." He says, he turns around and bends over. "Here climb up, consider this an express trip." Asriel looks at him with a confused look. "Don't need you to expend too much energy come on kiddo, lets go." He says once more with more urgency, Asriel hestiantly climbs onto his back, it was odd being held by someone shorter than him. He starts to move forwards walking out of the ruins, before they find themselves in the waterfall zone, Sans looks up to him.
"So, Before I take us straight there, tell me… what was it like as the flower? You always seemed so full of hatred, and to be honest we never really talked much. You always talked to Paps and he said you would always help him out, he told me you helped him with one of his cooking lessons before as well." Asriel looks away with a hurt expression.
"I… Don't know why I helped Papyrus, he just… his presence made me want to. As for how it was as 'Flowey' it was… terrifying, all I could feel was nothing, hate, and anger. I wanted my emotions back at first, I was scared then… as time went by I lost my self in the madness… every since I got my body back I felt… at peace." He says. Sans continued to walk forth, the sound of the waterfalls covering their conversation from any prying ears.
"Huh, so you were not even really in touch with reality?" Asriel shook his head, "Jeeze, now I feel like a bigger ass… Alright I just wanted to know that. Though I do want to say now, even though I am giving you a second chance, you give me one reason that you may hurt Frisk on purpose, I will make you regret everything." His voice serious enough to make Asriel feel a chill.
"G-Got it." He replies, his stutter made Sans know he got the point. They walk forwards moving past the last, before the sounds of tile and the hum of the core filled Asriel's ears.
"Y-You made it, S-Sans I still w-want to know how you do that, B-But later, i-is this?" She looks to Asriel. Who slowly climbs off, once on his feet he feels the familiar dizziness. Sans holds onto him looking at Alphys.
"Look I don't know what sort of speech you had planned, but we don't really have the time. Hes losing magic fast, so we need to do this if it's ready." He says, Alphy's eyes widen.
"R-Right, This way please." She leads them towards a door labeled 'operations' once inside Frisk was lying down, shallow breathing. "D-Don't worry about Frisk, she needs some rest after the operation, it w-went smoothly. H-However, the s-soul vessel w-while it was made c-came out different. I tried to make it similar to a monster soul, but it would only accept a human f-format. T-the notes said it could be c-converted to m-monster and v-vice versa." Sans looks at her with worry.
"Will it not work then?" Alphys leads them to a jar with a bright glowing outline of a soul in a red color.
"It may still work, but I have no idea what it would do. H-However I would like t see how much time we have left. A-Asriel could you p-project your soul?" Alphys says grabbing the jar, Asriel does as requested, Sans looks at it with wide eyes and gives a gasp. Alphys turns to see the issue, to see his soul or what was left if the magic power that resided where a soul would be, melting away.
"Alphys, NOW." Alphys nods in fear quickly grabbing the soul vessel. Asriel looks at it as its handed towards him.
"Y-You need to use this now, your nearly out of time, I-I have never seen such degradation of magic before, even much less magic held up by will and determination." She says, his soul quickly dripping its magic onto the floor, with no determination left to shield it from doing such it was causing a serious effect of exhaustion. He slowly reaches out and takes it looking at it unsure if he should, Sans reaches forwards and takes his hand with own.
"Come on, Frisk is waiting for ya right? Why not greet her with a smile when she wakes up, and not as a flower." He says. Asriel gently smiles as with Sans help he pulls the soul vessel towards his 'soul's' remnants and starts a merge, the magic flows in as it causes a shock of pain to start to flow through him, he gasps as his lungs feel like the air was crushed out of them. Before he knew what happened it was over, and the pain was gone. The exhaustion was slowly fading, but existing nevertheless. Alphys had him lie down before pulling a pair of goggles from a pocket and slipping them on, His soul no longer visible. A sight of relief exists her, she takes off the goggles with a smile.
"I-It worked. S-Surprisingly, a-anyways y-you should take it easy now and t-try not to use much magic u-until your b-back to a hundred percent." Alphys explains to Asriel, while he tries standing up, He looks over to Frisk with worry. Alphys noticing this give a gentle smile. "F-Frisk will be fine, s-she just needs some rest, w-we could not put her under a-as the anesthetics we have d-don't work on humans. S-So it w-was painful f-for her, b-but s-surprisingly she never o-once screamed in pain, she g-gritted her teeth and bore it..." Alphys looks at Sans who smiles.
"Well as long as she is okay, that is what matters. Right bucko?" Sans asks Asriel who nods.
"Can I… stay here till she wakes up?" He asks, Alphys nods with a smile.
"S-Sure, S-Sans could you go out and d-delay everyone from leaving?" Alphys asks with a sheepish smile, causing the skeleton to give a sigh.
"Jeeze, really going to work me to the bone huh? Fine I got it covered." He sarcastically says smirking some. He walks deeper into the building to vanish in a comical style.
"I-I will get you something to eat, y-you must be h-hungry after not eating for so long." Alphys says rushing out of the room leaving Asriel to pull up a stool and sit next to Frisk looking at her unconscious form.
'I still don't understand, why she would accept such a painful and dangerous risk for me… It don't make much sense.' He sighs with a smile as he goes to say something, his head gives a throb of pain, images flashing in his head. A memory returns that feels like it was not so long ago.
\Flashback\
The gentle silence of the ruins looms overhead, Asriel sits there staring at the flowers with a young girl sitting next to him, he looks over to her with a frown.
"Frisk, don't you have anything better to do? I mean come on, you've loaded twenty times in the past hour, I'm sure everyone is waiting to go to the surface." He says with a hurtful tone, Frisk leans over and wraps her arms around him, standing pulling him up with her. "F-Frisk?" He looks at her with confusion now, as she starts to drag him.
"W-Walk with me please?" She requests, her tone sad, he felt bad and knew there wasn't much time left, so he gives in and walks with her, she leads the way back to the musical statue still playing the tune.
"W-Wowie, it has been a while since I last came here and listened to this." He says, Frisk holds onto his arm tighter, sobbing comes from her catching him offguard. "F-Frisk?" He asks again she looks up to him, her golden eyes staring into his emerald green.
"I...I don't want to let go." She says, his eyes widen, turning away. "I want you to come with me… p-please Asriel. W-What can I do to help you?!" She begs, he sighs not looking into her eyes.
"Frisk… you can't help me. I understand that your hurting from not able to save me, but… I just am too far from saving." He says, her sobs turn into a cry of sadness, that wrecks his emotions, the hurt in the cry was hurting him for letting her do so.
"I-If I can't save you n-normally, I p-promise to find a way to save you by o-other means, E-even if it costs me my life! S-So promise me, y-you will go with me if I save you. Please!" She begs, his heart ached, but only if to make her feel better, he would promise, a promise that would be undone if she True Reset again.
"Alright, I promise..." He says, his heart ached for lying to her as she clung to him, her tears flowing against his shirt. 'I don't want to lie to you Frisk… I never want to lie to you, so please… just forget me next time'
he hopes as his magic fades, and he slowly fades from his form back into a flower, Frisk held on as she cried, and Flowey stayed there to let her get it all out. Slowly a blinding white light covered them as he realized she Reset. "Here we go again… lets see how it goes Right Frisk?" She nods holding Flowey tightly.
\FlashBack End\
He holds his head, a slight chuckle comes through his lips with a smile. A sense of comfort, and enjoyment. He felt a similar feeling, like he felt when he and Chara merged and he took his first step outside. This time however he was going to do so freely, and not bound with someone's desire to destoy.
"Y-You really did it, you saved me… I guess I have to go with you now huh?" He smiles taking her hand into his, he grips it tightly with a few tears forming in his eyes. "You really did it, so thanks Frisk, you really are the friend I wish I had when I was younger..." He says resting his head against the metal table. It was not the most comfortable place to lay your head, but the feeling of Frisk nearby, made it all so worth the cold steel to close his eyes to. 'I wonder, what happens now? What awaits everyone on the surface?' He thinks to himself, his eyes drooping till they close entirely.
Alphys returns with a cup of instant ramen, she sighs seeing Asriel had fallen asleep. She places the cup down on a nearby table before wandering off back to the main room lifting her spare blanket, taking it back to the well insulated room that was quite cold despite its location and lays it on Asriel. She returns to the main room looking at the monitoring system she used, she reaches over and holds down a glowing teal button, as the system shuts down she sighs and starts to pick up things around the desk infront of it. Packing them for the move to the surface.
It was a few hours later, Frisk finally slowly wakes, sitting up to feel her hand rather warm, she looks down and her heart skips a beat, she smiles at sleeping form of Asriel his fur rugged from the rough spot he was sleeping at, but he held a smile on his face nevertheless. She reaches over and nudges his shoulder, his emerald eyes open slightly, looking up to Frisk for a few moments before he realized who he was looking at.
"Frisk! Your okay!" Asriel says snapping out of his sleep induced, Frisk gives a gentle chuckle as she reaches over and wipes a bit of drool from his fur, causing him to blush.
"Yeah, I am fine. Just feeling a bit sore from the operation and sleeping on a steel bed..." She stretches her arms, moving to the side of the 'bed' and climbs off it. Asriel stands up looking at her.
"F-Frisk, I wanted…" He looks away with worry, his emotions feeling off, he felt like he still didn't belong, suddenly there was a gentle press to his cheek knocking him out of his daze, Frisk had just kissed him on the cheek, causing him to fluster up. She gives a girlish giggle for once with a smile.
"Don't worry, a promise is a promise right?" She sticks her hand towards him, he smiles and takes it in his paw. Giving a nod of agreement.
"Yeah." He replies, suddenly the door opens with the sound of slippers flapping against the floor.
"You two up? Jeeze you slept like a pair of skeletons." Asriel looks at him not amused with the joke. "What, did you forgoat your tongue in your sleep?" Asriel gives a him a groan in response, while Frisk chuckles.
"Sans, what is it? I am sure you didn't come here for puns and jokes." Frisk replies, Sans nods with his smile.
"Yeah everyone is waiting for ya, no one but me and Alphys knows about the goatboy right there, so we figured you should be the one to reintroduce him." Sans smiles, Frisk nods excitedly, however Asriel grabs her sweater arm and hides behind her.
"Sounds like a plan, I think Asriel needs a bit more time, so could you take us to the flowerbed deep in the ruins? Where I first met Asriel?" Sans chuckles giving a nod.
"Sure thing, come on." He motions for them to follow, Frisk leads the way for Asriel, him holding onto her sweater, as she slips her hand into his for a firmer grip, His touch was delightful for her, and she had no idea why, it felt safe. The deepest part of her worries and fears melted away with his touch. They walk with Sans before they find themselves alone at the flowerbed, with Sans no where in sight. Frisk pulls him with her onto the flower bed as they take a seat.
"Its almost over, we are almost free… it is exciting don't you think Asriel?" He nods listening to her, his hand still in hers.
"Y-Yeah…" He wanted to ask her why she wanted him to go with her so bad, but another thought came to his mind instead. 'Why… is she even down here in the first place?' He gives a sigh and looks to her. "Hey Frisk? Can I ask you something personal?" He looks into her eyes, she turns to face him their eyes locking, a sense of dread dwells in her eyes with worry.
"U-Uh sure… Go ahead..." She was uncertain that she wanted to even speak of what she thought he was going to ask. She slips her hand from his and leans back.
"You don't have to answer, but I… was wondering why you came to Mount Ebott… when everyone knows what happens when you fall." He asks, She smiles some thought he could tell it was forced. She stares up at the dwindling light from the sky.
"Does it matter? I mean it was my-" His hand finds it's way back to her hand. She looks to him his eyes worried, she smiles genuinely this time before sighing. "Alright, I..." She sighs claming her nerves before looking into his eyes directly, locking them to his while she speaks. "I came to Mount Ebott, because I wanted to vanish. I wanted to die." Asriel's eyes widen. "But then, when I woke up from falling down here, I was confused, I saw you and I didn't know whether to trust your or fear you. However I still urged to die, so I let your attack hit me, it hurt but I didn't care." She says laying back, Asriel joining her as their eyes stay locked.
"Why? Why would you want to die? Humans have everything up on the surface though..." Frisk breaks eye contact to look down, he gently reaches over and lifts her head to look at him.
"Not… everyone. There are others like me who didn't get a good life, I was born in a small town. I lived with my mother till I was seven, then she was ran out of town and she hid me with a friend of hers. That friend took me to a city where she hoped I would be happy, they took care of me till I was nine… I was, mentally broken by then. The bullies and the harsh treatment from school was… taking a toll on me. They tried to help me through the year till I was ten years old… then I don't remember much." She says, her eyes watering some.
"I ran. I was running cause all I remember is being told to 'run, its not safe RUN'. I ran, and when it sounded like someone was gaining on me there was a growl and I dropped down thinking it was my end, then silence, I look behind me… and all I saw was blood everywhere. Then I realized, I had no one, and no one wanted me. I remembered what happen to my mother, and I don't even recall her face, just her voice when she last spoke to me. I wanted it to end. I had lost everything." She curls her legs, Asriel takes his other arm and scoots closer to her wrapping his arm around her for comfort.
"Then… seeing mount Ebott, I headed towards it to let it all end..." She says, her voice cracked and hurt, He pulls her closer, suddenly she realizes how close she was to Asriel as he holds her head to his chest. Her face was a deep red in color, as she started to heat up from the blush.
"Sorry… I didn't mean to make you relive that." He says not realizing the extreme blush Frisk was having. "It seems, things are not always black and white like we want it huh?" He says. Frisk however was conflicted with what she was feeling.
'W-Why is my face so hot?! H-Hes just hugging me for comfort! W-Why do I feel like such a little girl!? I don't think I like this feeling much b-but… i-its so welcoming...' Asriel's loud sigh finally snaps her out of her daze, as she looks up to him, his large ears and bright green eyes, were suddenly more visible to her as she mentally screamed and covered her face with his chest.
"Frisk? You alright?" He asks looking at her, confused why she acted the way she did. She just holds onto him as he sees her phone open with the screen on. It must have slipped out of her back pocket, looking at the screen the time he realizes how long they have kept everyone waiting. He helps her up, with a smile. "Hey, Frisk come Its time we leave." He reaches down and picks up her phone with Frisk still hugging onto him hiding her blush. "Lets get going, I am sure everyone is waiting, did… Sans even say were we were supposed to meet at?" He asks with a sheepish smile.
Frisk takes a few deep breaths, calming her heart down and getting rid of the blush on her face. She slowly removes her self and takes her phone from Asriel putting it away, She shakes her head at his question. She sighs taking Asriel's hand, her face flusters some as she quickly takes lead and leads them away. Practically dragging him with her fast walk.
"F-Frisk slow down!" He calls out, her laughter suddenly bursts out causing him to smile at her and try his best from tripping them both up by sprinting next to her with a smile, giving her incentive to speed up. They charge forth into the ruins, soon coming upon Toriel's home. The sound of chatter loudly comes from the building ahead, and in the window she spots a familiar blue scaled fish monster sitting in the living room, giving a fist pump and laughing loudly. Frisk smiles dragging Asriel to the door, causing him to feel hesitant.
"It is now or never Asriel." She says happily, dragging him forth, his hand slips from her causing her to look. He smiles gently looking at her.
"G-Go ahead, let me calm my nerves a bit more while you get everyone ready for my return. C-cause mom and dad would likely cause a bit of commotion with my return." He says his fear to face his parents apparent. Frisk smiles and nods she gives him a quick hug, and for no other reason than to do so a quick peck on the cheek, she still didn't understand the urge to keep doing so, but went with it either way. Asriel's face lit up causing her to giggle once again with a smile that made him feel happy. She rushes in as a cheer rings out.
Inside Frisk runs in to see Toriel who spots her instantly.
"Ah, my child. How are you? You sure took your time to arrive." She says with a smile. "I hope none of the monsters gave you trouble." She says with slight worry, Frish smiles brightly and shakes her head.
"Not at all, in fact everyone is quite nice! Even a certain someone I met and brought with me." She says happily. Asriel's body stiffens as he hears her say this, He hesitantly begins to make his move. Slowly moving in to the building ready to face his biggest fear yet, his parents.
"Oh really? Who would… . . ." Toriel stops talking as her voice is lost at the sight of the Young male Asriel standing there, Asgore was smiling as he turns around, his eyes widen. The others aside from Alphys and Sans peeked into the entrance room of the home. A few more wide eyes grew.
"I-Is that the young prince?!" Undyne calls out with a surprise, it had been years since she had seen him, the last time was when he was much smaller and had a creepier brother that was recently adopted into their family.
"A-Asriel… is that… Is that really you my baby boy?" Toriel asks, slowly moving forwards towards him with tears forming in her eyes.
"H-Howdy mom… and dad. I-Its been some time, h-hasn't it?" He says with a slight smile and worried expression, He was suddenly wrapped in a hug, the sound of crying in his ear as Toriel hugs him with all her might, Her tears soaking his fur.
"I-It is you! My baby boy, My child!" She cries out, Asgore slowly stands up and walks up, and with out a word kneels down and joins in the hug, His smile was bright, and even Asriel could tell they were so happy to see him again. "H-How… How are you back? We saw you turn to dust… It has been many years since that day..." She cries out pulling back looking Asriel in the eyes, His eyes look to Frisk. Toriel follows his eyes as she walks up and lifts Frisk in a large hug, crying out the words 'Thank you'. Sans smiles looking at the four, it was a family already made whole once more.
'So the soulfully missed Prince returns, and is greeted with tears and open arms. Kiddo you got a lot goin for ya now. You brought a family back together mostly just because you didn't want to give up. I don't think I ever heard Tor be so happy, not even my jokes made her this happy.' Sans smirks as he watches the two parents give their eternal thanks to Frisk and spend a short time with Asriel.
Hours go by, Asriel explains everything that he did, as Flowey. Toriel glared at him at some parts, but in the end Frisk manages to help explain the reasoning without Asriel getting into much trouble, he did get a scolding for 'absorbing' every monster, which was slightly comical from Sans's perspective as he repeated puns involving souls. They checked the time soon after everything had calmed down, and Asgore had agreed that they could leave in the morning, to get a fresh start on a new day, in a new life. Toriel said Frisk and Asriel could stay here in her home for the night. Giving Asgore an uncertain glare, which he could not deny. He wouldn't trust anyone with two children if they had done as he did, he accepted that his actions had consequences, and would accept them with no argument.
Sans opted to sleep on the couch at Toriel's saying it was 'too much trouble to return home.' Frisk chuckles and makes a joke that he just wanted a reason to make puns with Toriel. Sans's face flusters as he caught the deeper meaning in her words, and glares at her with disbelief.
'Stinking brat, making jokes like that… j-jeeze can't I rest someplace other than a cold zone for once.' He mentally sighs, Toriel nevertheless lets him stay the night, still not entirely understanding the joke Frisk said. Papyrus returns to their home to start packing and get some rest, Undyne joining him to make sure neither one gets hurt or over exhausted from staying up the entire 'night' or what classifies as night in the underground. Alphys and Mettaton return to the lab to finish packing, Mettaton offering as a way to apologize for his actions, seeing that he had been rather rude to the person who made his dreams come true, and none the less his friend that he relied upon till they got him the body he uses now.
Frisk and Asriel had climbed into the bed, it was rather snug for two people, however they made it work as Frisk latches onto Asriel and quickly falls asleep, something was off about Frisk in Asriel's eyes, he had never seen these actions before, not even from Chara when they shared a bed, normally Chara would just roll over and face his back to him and slept that way. Frisk was latching on to him, and it was confusing him some. He quickly jotted it down to some 'girl' thing before closing his eyes.
\Dreamscape\
The wind blows gently, the smell of perfume fills Asriel's nose as he looks around, the land looks green and there is a beautiful sea of flowers before him. A girl rushes up to him hugging his arm.
"Hey Asriel! Like it here?" The girl asks, He looks over to her and smiles, there stood in a blue dress was Frisk. She stood hugging onto him with her golden eyes sparkling with joy and happiness.
"Yeah, its really nice here on the surface. Everything is rather nice for a change… and finally everyone can stop worrying about what is going to happen next. Now we make our own lives instead of relying on everyone to make each day a survival." He says getting a girly giggle from Frisk whom hugs onto him tighter, she had grown some and was nearly as tall as him, standing at five foot five, with him at five foot eleven. Her body developed more from her younger body as she rests her head against his arm.
"Yeah, and this place is amazing, who knew such a place existed, it has every flower under the sun… hey do you see that?" She points to a small flower in the middle of an area untouched by flowers in a perfect circle in the middle rested a rose, one half red the other half blue. "Its so beautiful..." She says. Asriel had to agree, he reaches down and touches the flower to pluck it, turning back to Frisk-
\Dreamscape end\
The sound of knocking comes as he sits up, Asriel looks around to see Frisk sprawled somewhat out with her sweater slightly slid up, blushing he carefully fixes her sweater before climbing out of bed and answers his door to see Toriel standing there.
"I was beginning to wonder if you two would ever wake up. Is Frisk up yet? I made breakfast." She says with joy, a sweet smell filled the room, causing Frisk to groan awake. Frisk mumbles something about 'pancakes' as she sits up with messy hair, getting a chuckle out of Toriel. "Breakfast is ready Frisk, you and Asriel come on in the living room to eat." She says with a smile, she walks back towards the kitchen to get their food ready. Meanwhile Frisk climbs out of bed, Asriel looking at her picturing her in a dress, a blush comes onto his face as he looks away. Frisk noticing something up looks to him with a tired look.
"Everything alright Asriel?" She asks, before a yawn forces its way out. He nods walking out of the room in the same clothes he wore yesterday, making his way to the living room to see Sans already munching down on his pancakes, each bite vanishing as it reaches his 'teeth'. Sans looks over to him, his smile turning to a smirk noticing the blush on Asriel.
"Have a nice sleep Asriel?" He teases, Asriel grows picking up a pillow and throwing it at him, Sans casually dodges it with his smirk resuming his meal. He sighs and takes a seat in one of the chairs at the table, there were a few extra chairs it seemed, must have been brought out for all the guests Toriel had last night. Frisk was slowly dragging her feet making her way to the table, taking a seat next to Asriel laying her head down closing her eyes again, Sans chuckles at Frisk's antics. However he knew she must have been tired still from the operation it took a lot of her determination to stay around. A knock comes from the entrance, they all turn to see Asgore walking up from the steps that leads out of the ruins.
"Howdy everyone, Is everyone ready for today's big event?" He asks, looking to Frisk and Asriel whom both look exhausted. Toriel comes walking out with two plates of pancakes placing them on the table, the moment the plate was set infront of Frisk her eyes popped open to see a stack of six pancakes, her eyes sparkle as she sits up.
"Thank you mom!" She cheers out with a smile, Asriel felt a ping of pain that she called Toriel mom, it reminded him of Chara, however he looks to Frisk and remembers her story as the pain quickly fades.
'If she wants to see my mother as a mother, then why deny her? Mom was always very loving of others so she makes a great mother figure!' Asriel digs into his own meals, Toriel waves to Asgore and points to the table walking off, Asgore takes a seat looking at Sans and Asriel.
"So Sans, I hope you don't mind keeping an eye on the kids while we go out and do this, I don't want them to get lost and hurt." Sans shrugs with a smile.
"No problem Asgore, the brats might just get distracted and fall back into the mountain if we are not careful." He chuckles, Asgore glares at him not amused. He sighs and smiles looking to Asriel directly now.
"So, my boy. How was your sleep?" Asriel looks to his father, a blush tries to make its way to his face, he smiles and pushes it back.
"Good! It felt really nice to get some well needed sleep. I… kinda missed being in a bed and everything." He says looking to the table, Asgore gives a hearty laugh with a smile, Toriel bringing two more plates in placing one next to Asgore and one infront of him before taking her seat.
"Well there is quite of bit you may have missed out upon, but I know you will make new memories with Frisk and everyone else. I mean if Frisk will stay with us after all." Everyone went silent looking to Frisk who was digging into her food, before she noticed everyone looking at her.
"Huh? What? Sorry, these pancakes were really good that I got distracted… it has been a while since I have had any." She says. Toriel chuckles, while Asgore smiles.
"It is quite alright, I was asking if you were going to stay with everyone, or go back to your family on the surface." He says with a smile. Asriel's eyes widen as the touchy subject came up. He looks to Frisk who looks down to her plate. Toriel noticed the look in her eyes as a ping of pain in her chest arises.
"I… don't have anywhere else to go… so I was just going to stay." She says sorrowfully, Asgore realizing how touchy the subject was for her quickly retreats from his next question.
"Sorry, I did not know that was such a hard subject, I must apologize. You are welcome to stay with us for as long as you want. You will always be welcome in mine or Toriel's home, definitely Toriel's home. I don't think she would let you leave without letting you know such." Asgore looks over to Toriel who pouts, but with a smile letting everyone know Asgore was right. She smiles to Frisk with a motherly aura radiating off her.
"As my ex has said, I will always allow you to stay in my home if you need a place, and your welcome to stay with me and Asriel till your ready to leave on your own." She says, Asgore frowns realizing that she was not going to let Asriel go. Frisk smiles looking at Toriel and Asgore.
"Thank you, Is this all right with you Asriel?" Frisk asks turning to Asriel who was already nodding profusely. Sans chuckles looking at the two, he looks towards Toriel and Asgore motioning for them to leave the room with him. The three get up causing Frisk to look at the confused.
"Everything alright?" She asks, Sans nods looking at her.
"Yeah, we gotta make some last minute plans before we leave. So you two takes it easy and relax, after all you gotta help us secure a spot on the surface right kiddo?" Frisk nods with a smile letting the three leave, She turns to Asriel and begins to talk with him about all the things they could do once they get situated on the surface. The three walk outside and deeper into the ruins as Asgore looks to Sans.
"So, what is you wanted to talk about? It is not often you walk anywhere like this." Asgore says, Sans looks to Toriel as he nods, she returns a nod with a smile.
"You can't see it can you Asgore?" Asgore tilts his head in confusion at Toriel's question. "Frisk and Asriel, they are unnaturally close for Friends." She says with a gentle smile. Asgore thinks it over and notices how close Asriel was sitting next to Frisk and how quickly he was to accept her.
"Hmm, perhaps… but don't you two think your over analyzing this a bit?" Asgore asks, Sans chuckles looking at him.
"Nope, I had a talk with Frisk before she saved him. She was acting rather odd for someone who was just saving someone for a family. It was like she wanted to be with him too, she was really determined to save him." Sans replies, he looks to Toriel. "Same with Asriel, he had some really strong reactions to what I told him about Frisk… and what she had to do to save him." He says suddenly the aura around him felt cold as his eyes widen. 'Shit, did I just say that?' He looks to Toriel, whom was being stared at by Asgore with fear as well.
"So… how did Frisk save my son?" She asks with a sickly sweet tone. Sans knew the cat was out of the bag.
"J-Just promise me you won't kill me alright? It was the only option I could think of that wouldn't need hours of preparation or other risks that would be more dangerous. It was the quickest and safest of the options for the time we had to save him." He says, Toriel glares at him, he gives a sigh before he starts to explain what he suggested to Frisk. The glare on Toriel was terrifying him very much so by the end.
"Be glad things went well this time Sans, next time I hear something like this and it was your idea. I will leave your bones scorched black." Toriel's voice was deathly terrifying.
'H-Holy shit… I thought she was about to hit me… and I only have one defense while we are in here… that would have sucked.' He sighs collapsing, while Toriel smiles and turns around heading back towards her home.
"I am going to check on Frisk and Asriel. I say we watch this and let this love blooms, if something comes of it then we nurture it, if nothing does then we let their crush die and make sure neither makes a wrong move." She says walking away, Asgore looks to Sans with worry.
"You are very lucky she did not attack you where you stood." He says understanding Sans's predicament.
"Yeah well… your ex is terrifying when angry." Sans replies. Asgore had to agree, after all If he stood in her way hes sure that he would not be here to stand this day when she tried to leave him. Sans looks to the glowing rocks above them, giving the light to see around with a smile. "Ready to finally make a move out of here?" He asks, Asgore looks up and joins in at the final chance they may ever have to see such a natural beauty.
"As ready as I will ever be. The others are waiting at the entrance, so let us take our leav and mark a new day for everyone." Sans nods in agreement walking off, Asgore walking with him as they return to the home to see Frisk and Asriel helping Toriel pack a few things before running off downstairs. Toriel stops to turn at them with a smile, she too had been rushing.
"What are you two still doing standing around? We got a new world to see!" She says excitedly, Sans gives a chuckle as the three of them move downstairs and head out of the ruins, a silence fell as the area was clear of monsters for the first time since the barrier rose.
Everywhere monsters could be seen dancing and cheering. Everyone was excited and had started to pack up their belongings. It seems Asgore made an anouncement earlier that morning letting everyone know that over the next few weeks to a few months Monsters would be attempted to move out onto the surface in waves. Mettaton's station was tuned in everywhere they went, as Mettaton reported in on the great news and did a few musical numbers over the course of travel back to the barrier. The expedition group was ready once everyone had arrived. Everyone was smiling at Frisk, waiting for her to lead the way, Mettaton was now standing in his 'EX' form, courtesy of Alphys for fixing his battery power issue. Undyne and Papyrus were cheering and dancing about, their excitement uncontrollable and well deserved. Papyrus was in his normal 'armor' garb while Undyne had taken to a more casual look of tank top and jeans for this venture. Toriel was spending time with Sans on the phone learning new things and making puns. Alphys and Asgore were discussing things that could happen on the surface, while Asriel just stood next to Frisk in awe of how inspired everyone was from Frisk's actions.
Once everyone was settled down, Frisk smiles and calls out for them to leave. They march out into the morning sunlight, with a view over the forests and a city below. Asgore asks Frisk where they will lead their people with a look back at everyone and at the area around them, she points towards the mountains to the north, saying that there is a city in the mountains. A snowy city that would be the best since it was isolated and rather large. She looks to the City below while Sans looks at her with annoyance muttering about the cold, where she retorts he doesn't have the nerve to complain. He looks at her with a smirk before nearly everyone laughs at the pun.
They begin their travel down the mountain, Frisk leading the way to the best of her memory, a sense of dread as they near a spot she clearly remembers, though the weather and the time has washed away the events. She can clearly imagine it to this day, she pushes them forwards till they get close to a clearing with a young girl with brown hair, she was wearing a white shirt and a pair of brown shorts. Her brown eyes looking at the flowerbed before her looking through each ones as if trying to pick something matching a mood, The girl was bent down into the flowerbed. Frisk asks them to hold back as she walks forwards to greet the girl and likely get directions.
"Hello? I hope I am not bothering you..." Frisk calls out causing the girl to jump, she turns to look at Frisk grabbing her chest.
"Holy! Jeeze way to give me a scare! No your not bothering me, I am surprised to see someone else out here this far from any City. Is there something you need?" She asks standing up, brushing the dirt off her legs, now standing at height of five feet seven inches, Frisk walks up to her and offers her hand. Her eyes wander over the rather tight sweater of Frisk's. 'T-That looks just like… Its no way it could be her, shes gone now.' She smiles not letting her inwardly emotions show the pain she feels deep down.
"Yeah, I was hoping you could point me in the direction of the Vixia city, my name is Frisk" The girl takes her hand, not registering the name right away.
"Frisk hu-" She stops as she repeats the name her eyes widen looking at the shorter girl. Frisk tilts her head in confusion, the older girl's eyes water. "F-Frisk?! I-Is it really you?" Frisk feels more confusion as she is lifted up in a hug. "Frisk… Please don't tell me this is a dream and I passed out in the forest again." She says with a cheerful smile on her crying face.
"Uh sorry do I know you?" Frisk asks confused, The girl frowns some with worry.
"You don't remember me? Its me Penny! We used to go to school together and I was the one who always helped you out when the bullies got to ya!" She exclaims, Frisk looks at her confused before shaking her head sighing.
"Sorry, I don't remember much when I had ran off… my memories have all been really spotty since that day. Even more so since I fell into Mount Ebott." Penny's eyes widen.
"Mount Ebott?! Are you okay? Are you hurt?" She asks with worry getting lower to meet with Frisk's eyes. She notices the familiar gentle and loving glow of the golden eyes of Frisk that made her know for a fact it was her long lost friend.
"I am fine, I am surprised to meet someone who knows me, though I got a favor to ask of you in that case if it wouldn't be too much." She asks hoping this person was really a friend. Penny nods with excitement looking down at Frisk.
"Anything! Oh I missed you Frisk..." She tightly hugs Frisk once more, Frisk turns to the woods and calls out to the monsters, They move forwards as their new adventure begins.
\BREAK\
YEP CLIFF HANGER! I was actually never planning on writing a scene on the surface, but I decided to anyways. Next time we get to the actual day of events starting to kick off. Like in JourneyTale this will be a timeskip. This time to the final year of Highschool for them on the horizon.
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