"That was awesome!" I heard Frisk exclaim. I turned around while turning off my aura, panting a little.
"Yeah, too bad that was only a quarter of what I can do." I said, smiling.
"What do you mean?" Frisk asked.
"I mean that I can only use so much magic before I get worn out too much. I can only use a third of my power before my body needs to physically heal, if I were to use a third of my power, my body will be forced into a type of power save mode, which is where I sleep for a long period of time and only get up for basic needs like food, water, and going to the bathroom." I explained.
"What would happen if you fully used it?" she asked, tilting her head to the right as if to show her curiosity.
"I would die." I said, a little casually.
She gasped a little at that. I don't know why that's surprising. It's part of being a monster-human hybrid, you can't exceed the limits a full monster can.
"Teleportation uses the least amount of magic, so I don't get tired muchfrom that. Besides, I hardly teleport anyway, I have natural speed on my side." I explained.
"Well, that was quite a show you put on." Toriel said, making me jump a little. I forgot she was with us.
"Thank you." I said.
"It's starting to get late." Toriel said. I looked at the sky for confirmation, and sure enough, the sun had already set, leaving a dark blue, star filled sky. I was always amazed with space, it's amazing to see all of the different constellations and stars. I would do a lot more star gazing if the city didn't have so much light pollution.
It has so much light pollution, you can't see a single star, unless it is the sun of course.
"Your parents are probably worried. You should get home." Toriel said. "I can give you a ride if you want."
"No thanks, I can get home myself." I said kindly.
"Are you sure?" Frisk asked.
"You still look a little tired from using your magic." She said.
"Nah, I'm fine." I said.
"Okay. Just be safe." Toriel said.
"I will be, don't worry." I said.
I walked off a few yards and teleported back to the city. My teleportation works like this, as long as I have a clear picture of the location I want to get to in my mind, I can go pretty much anywhere, but the farther the location is, the more tired I get. Luckily the city is only a few miles away, so I can get there without tiring to much. When I got to the city, I went to my roof hide out and layed back to look at the sky.
"hOI." I heard someone say. I already know who said it.
"Hey Temmie." I said
"hOI Vinnie." She said.
"How's the shop business?" I asked.
"Good, sales...up today." She said.
"Sales went up? That's great!" I said.
"Yeah! Temmie's college helped a lot!" She said.
"That's good. Did you get in Gradschool yet?" I asked.
"Almost have enough moneys." She answered.
"That's good." I said.
"Yeah." Temmie said.
"Well Temmie gotta go, bOI Vinnie." She said.
"See ya Temmie." I said.
She took the stairs down into her apartment. I sighed and closed my eyes. Before I could fully go into the depths of sleep, I could sense someone watching me. I opened my right eye to look around. When I didn't see anybody, I opened both of my eyes and got up to look around. I walked to the edge of the roof, but before I could actually look around, I felt a hand on my shoulder that quickly took me away from the edge. I turned around quickly and saw the short skeleton, Sans, with his hood up.
"What the hell were you thinking?!" He said, some concern in his voice.
"Nothing. I was looking around to see who was watching me. And now I know it was you that was watching me." I said.
"Oh really? Then why did you go to the edge of the roof then?" He asked.
Now that I think about it, Why did I go to the edge of the roof? I don't really see the point of going to the edge of a roof, looking for someone watching you.
"That's what I thought." He said.
"By the way, what are you doing sleeping on a roof? Don't you have an actual home to go too?" He asked.
I wanted to say yes, but something told me that would be a bad idea, that I could trust this skeleton and his family.
"No, I don't. I'm an orphan. My mother died of leukemia, and my older twin sister died from some sickness, and the cure cost too much to get." I said truthfully.
He looked at me with his white orbs, scanning me to see if I was telling the truth.
"Follow me, kid." He said.
"Where?" I asked.
"Home. I know a short cut." He said.
I wanted to ask him what he meant by 'home', but I found out soon enough. I found myself in front of their house. I didn't notice much of the details before, but now that I'm actually looking at it, it was pure white on the outside, with black roof tilling and blue trimming. It was fairly big too.
"You coming?" Sans asked, snapping me out of my daze.
"Uh, y-yeah." I said.
"You'll love it here, trust me." He said.
"I'm pretty sure I'll love it either way. It's better than sleeping on a rooftop." I said.
"I'll bet." He said.
As we got inside, the first place we entered in was the living room, which took up most of the house. They had a plasma screen in front of the couch, which was pretty big and blue in color.
"You can crash on the couch." He said.
"Are you sure that this is okay?" I asked.
"Yeah, I'm sure Tori won't mind. She likes to help people in need." Sans explained.
I laid down on the couch and noticed that it was actually pretty comfortable. I curled up and put my tail around my legs, and as I did I could feel my eye lids get heavier and heavier until I asleep.
I woke up a little bit later to people talking.
"I thought he went home last night." Someone said, pretty sure it was Toriel.
"The kid was homeless, and from what I saw on the roof of the apartment building I found him on, he has been for awhile." I heard Sans say.
"What do you mean? He told us he had a home to go to." Toriel said, her voice sounded worried.
That's all I caught in the conversation before I fell back asleep.
FRISK'S P.O.V.
I woke up that morning to the smell of food being cooked. It smelled pretty good, so I knew it wasn't Papyrus cooking. I got up and got dressed. When I got downstairs, I noticed a pair of fox ears sticking up from behind the couch. Seeing them filled me with determination to find out who it was. When I got to the couch I noticed it was Vinnie, the kid that we met yesterday. What was he doing here? I thought he went home. I'll ask mom when I see her, which is now.
"Hey Mom?" I asked.
"Yes, my child?" She answered.
"Why is Vincent here sleeping on the couch?" I asked her.
"Oh. Well, you see, Sans went to keep an eye on him as he went home to make sure he got there safe, only for Sans to find out that he is an orphan, like you used to be before I adopted you. Although he must have gotten kicked out. Sans told me that he must have been there awhile because he seemed to be good friends with Temmie, he also said that Vincent told him about why he is an orphan. His mom died from leukemia and his sister died from some sort of sickness." She explained.
It took a little bit for that information to get into my brain. I heard some one step into the kitchen and turned around to see who it was. It was Vincent, his small red and blue eyes were looking around tiredly. I didn't notice it before, but he's an inch shorter than me. His pale skin color clashed with his long brown hair, which looked messier than it already was, if that was even possible. His ears were flat against his head to match his tiredness, and his tail was swishing lazily back and forth. He looked kinda cute with his round face and small build.
"GOOD MORNING HUMAN AND VINCENT." Papyrus exclaimed as he walked in. Then he stopped for a second and looked back at Vincent.
"WAIT WHY ARE YOU HERE? I THOUGHT YOU WENT HOME LAST NIGHT." Papyrus said, concern in his voice.
"Your brother found out he was homeless." I said.
Vincent looked at me and gave me a sleepy smile to say thank you. Probably because he didn't want to explain any thing.
"OH. WILL YOU BE STAYING WITH US THEN?" Papyrus asked.
"Well, I made arrangements for the guest room to become his room." I heard Mom say from behind me.
"Really?" I asked.
"SO HE WILL BE STAYING WITH US?" Papyrus asked, for confirmation, and some excitement in his voice.
"Yes, he will be. If he wants to." Mom said.
Everyone looked at him. His ears perked up when he noticed that. He looked around at everybody.
"I don't want to be a burden to your family though." He said.
"Nonsense. We'd be happy to have you here." Mom said.
"Well, I guess I could stay here then." Vincent said a bit reluctantly.
I smiled and went to hug him.
"Welcome home, my new brother." I said cheerfully.
Sans appeared behind him and joined the hug as well as Papyrus and Mom.
"Come on, we are going to have eggs for breakfast. Do you like them fried or scrambled?" Mom asked Vinnie.
"Scrambled." He said.
And with that, Mom got cooking.
VINCENT'S P.O.V.
I can't believe it. They accepted me, without knowing almost nothing about me. Is this what a family is like? What being happy is like?
It feels amazing. I went back into the living room to lay back on the couch, but Frisk tapped me on the shoulder. I turned around to answer her and realized that she was about an inch taller than me.
"Yes Frisk?" I asked.
"Mom told me to show you to your new room after we eat breakfast." She said.
"Okay." I said.
I went to sit on the couch and she sat down next to me. She grabbed the remote for the t.v. and started to flip through channels to see if anything good was on.
"Oh yeah, and Mom wants to take you shopping for new clothes after we show you your room." She said.
"Got it." I replied.
"And a couple of friends are going to be visiting today." She said.
She finally stopped switching channels when she saw a show called "GRAVITY FALLS". As soon as she stopped flipping through channels, the door flew open and some fish monster came in wearing black combat boots, a black tank top, and black pants with a lizard like monster wearing a white lab coat and glasses.
"Sup, nerds. Who's the new guy?" She said.
"U-Undyne do you always have to kick the door open?" Said the lizard like monster.
"Of course Alphys. It looks cool." Said the one called Undyne.
"I'm Vincent." I said.
"Wait, are you the kid that took out those boulders last night?" She asked.
"Yeah, why?"
"That was really cool! Do you think we could spar sometime?" She asked.
"We could do that now if you wanted." I suggested.
"Sure, let's go outside. I know the perfect clearing." She said.
"I'll be back." I said to Frisk.
"Good luck." She said.
I followed Undyne to the clearing she was talking about. It was in the middle of the forest and there were plenty of trees that I could evade in if I needed to, although my small frame and speed allow me to dodge quite easily. Undyne stopped and made a blue spear appear in her right hand.
(A/N: play Spear of Justice extended version here.)
"You ready nerd?" She asked.
"As ready as I can be." I said.
I activated my magic, causing my left eye to become a blood red flame and my right eye to become ice. I made flames in my left hand and ice in my right.
"En guarde!" She said.
She thrust her spear forward and I dodged backwards and countered with a flame wave which she dodged to the right to avoid that ended in a tuck and roll for her. I used my speed to dash to the left and put my right hand on the ground to make a trail of ice toward her. When she got up from her roll she fell back down. I saw my opening and took it, I dashed up to her and punched her in her gut and made her recoil a bit. She sliced with her spear from the left and I ducked under it. She then used the staff of the spear and upper-cutted me with it sending me into the air. I looked down to see her throwing her spear toward me. I used my ice to make a shield on my right arm to block it. It shattered when it hit, but she made a new one. I shattered the ice into ice crystals and used my hand to send the ice needle storm at her.
"Is that all you got, pipsqueak!?" She yelled.
She spun her spear to knock the ice needles out of the way and in different directions. I landed back on the ground. Did she just call me a 'pipsqueak'? If that's how you want to play, so be it. I sent a ton of fire balls into the air and watched as she looked up at the fire balls I launched.
"Don't take your eyes off of your opponent!" I yelled.
She looked back at me. Perfect. I used my control of fire and sent them raining back down by pointing my hand to the ground. She noticed this and dodged every which way to get away from the fire balls. she got hit by a few, but not enough to cause permanent damage to her. She sent a ton of spears my way and I had to dodge every where to get out of the way, but more kept on coming. I got a few cuts on my face and arms. I dashed towards her and kneed her in the gut, I then proceeded to back flip kick her in the jaw and sent her in the air. I jumped up and ax kicked her back down. I looked down and teleported back to the ground. She got into a crouch and sweep kicked my legs from under me.I fell and rolled backwards to avoid getting hit by a boulder. I dodged another spear and Realized that I might have to end this quick or fail because I was starting to get tired and my vision was fading, my magic use was starting to take its toll. I dashed as fast as I could towards Undyne and made my right hand completely ice and punched her as hard as I could, which dazed her, I swept her legs out from under her which caused the spear to fly in the air and disipate.
"Heh, your no stranger to fighting are you?" She asked.
"I've had my fair share of fights." I said, breathing heavily.
My ears perked up to a twig snapping, I spun around and saw Frisk come out from behind the tree line. I deactivated my magic and as soon as I did, the full effect came on and I toppled to my hands and knees, panting hard to catch my breath. I heard Frisk and Undyne rushing toward me.
"You alright kid?" Undyne asked.
"Yeah, I'll be fine. But I might need help standing up." I said.
"Frisk, I'll need you to do it, I'm still worn out." She said.
Frisk nodded and helped me get to my feet. She slung my arm around her shoulder and her hand on my waist for support.
"Thanks." I said.
"No problem, this is what a family does. We help each other out. I bet Papyrus could heal you up with his healing magic, he's the best when it comes to healing." Frisk said.
"Nice." I said, out of lack for better words.
Undyne was able to walk just fine without help. My injuries weren't severe, but I did use half of my power in magic, which can take quite a toll on me.
We got home and walked in to the house. Papyrus rushed out and started to heal me.
"No, heal Undyne first, she has burns from my fire that could scar her pretty badly." I said, of course lying. I really don't like to burden others with my problems, I never have. Besides, I'm tired and hungry. I walked into the kitchen to see Toriel still cooking.
"Hey Toriel, when will breakfast be ready?" I asked.
"Right about now, my son." She said
I faltered a bit at the 'my son' part of her sentence. Again, they know next to nothing about me, and yet, they still consider me family, for what reason I do not know.
"A-Alright." I said.
I started to go back into the living room, and Papyrus started to heal my wounds. After that happened we all went into the kitchen and started to eat breakfast, and there was a LOT of food. There was bacon, eggs, sausage, and toast made with different kinds of breads. I felt like I died and went to heaven. The sausage had a nice savory taste to it, with a hint of maple syrup-y taste. After breakfast, Frisk showed me my new room, which ironically was next to her room. It was a decent sized room, with white walls and bed with black sheets and matching black blanket.
"It's a work in progress." We jumped at the voice behind us.
I looked behind me and saw Sans standing there with his brother. Both of them smiling at me. I had that weird feeling in my chest again when I looked to see Frisk smiling at me as well. I felt happy, like I finally found where I belong.
We heard someone coming up the stairs to see Toriel coming up.
"Are you ready to go shopping you two?" She asked.
"Two?" I asked.
"Yeah I'm coming along." Frisk answered.
"Oh, alright." I said.
We walked out the door and got into a red convertible.
"Wow, nice car." I said.
"Well, it's actually Papyrus's." Toriel said.
"Doesn't change the fact that it still looks nice." I said.
"I guess you're right." She said chuckling.
She started up the engine and I sat in the back seat with Frisk. The roof of the car was down so it was blowing my messy brown hair every where.
"So, what do you like to do for fun Vincent?" Toriel asked.
"I don't know, I like to train myself with my magic, although it's pretty exhausting, mentally and physically, to make up new moves and strategies to fight. Although, I've never liked to fight, I'll only fight if I absolutely have to. I also like to play chess, as nerdy as it sounds." I answered.
"You're not too different from Frisk, she never fights, even when there were monsters in the Underground that tried to kill her, she didn't throw a single punch." She said.
"Really? Wow, you've got strong DETERMINATION then." I said, kinda amazed at the fact that I just learned. Frisk shook her head in agreement.
"I don't like fighting, there's just no point in it." Frisk said.
"I agree, but even pacifists have to stand their ground eventually. Trust me, I usually try to run away from fights, but if I'm backed into a corner, even I have to fight." I said.
"You have a point there." She mumbled softly, probably hoping I didn't hear her, but with these fox ears, I can hear a lot of different things that humans can't.
I saw Toriel in the rear view mirror of the car smiling softly, listening quietly to the conversation.
We pulled into the parking lot of the mall. As we got out of the car, I put my hood up to hide my ears, but Frisk put it down.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"You shouldn't be ashamed of what you are." She answered.
We followed Toriel into the store. It was a huge place and it was more like a mall, which is exactly where people would get clothes and other things.
"Let's go get you some new clothes." Toriel said.
And with that, the three of us went shopping.
-Time Skip-
We got done shopping and I was carrying a shit ton of bags and a Y-Wing electric guitar, case and all. The reason for the guitar is because while we were in there, I got curious when we saw a music shop and started playing it, turned out I was a natural at it, and I've never touched a musical instrument in my life... Oh wait, that was a lie, I did play violin when I was in High School. Anyway, we got everything in the car, somehow and started to head home. When we got there, there was another car there that I didn't recognize, but Frisk and Toriel did, they both had a smile on their faces while I looked confused as all hell.
"Who's car is that?" I asked Frisk.
"It's dad's." She said.
"Um..." I said.
"Asgore's." Toriel said.
"I thought you hated him." I said.
"We learned to patch some things up in the few years we've been up here. We've started dating each other again.
We got out of the car and I grabbed my stuff while Frisk and Toriel went inside, although Frisk held the door open for me so I could get inside. When I got inside I saw the former King of Monsters sitting on the couch talking to Sans about something. When Sans saw me he walked toward me.
"Hey Vinnie, I'm guessing the shopping went well." Sans said.
"Yeah, I'm bone-tired." I said.
"OH COME ON, I HAVE TO DEAL WITH ANOTHER ONE!" Papyrus yelled from the kitchen.
Sans and I just chuckled a bit at the pun and Papyrus stomping his foot on the ground in frustration.
"I see you got a guitar. Nice." Sans commented.
"Oh, thanks." I said
"Oh, almost forgot Pap and I got your room finished. I remembered that you liked scientific stuff, so I got ya some books on different subjects in science and stuff." He said.
"You didn't have to do that you know." I mumbled as we went up the stairs.
"Yeah, well a lot of it is Quantum Physics stuff. Maybe you could even help me with my experiments." He said.
"You actually do stuff? From what Frisk told me you're pretty lazy. Although you do sleep a lot, which could be from long, late nights." I said.
"Smarter than you look aren't ya." He complimented me, as we walked into my room.
I was actually amazed by a lot of it. There was a book shelf propped in front of the left hand side wall, filled with books like Sans said. The dresser was right next to the book shelf and my bed was right in the center of the room. The walls were painted the same shade of purple as the zipperless hoodie I always wore.
"You like it?" Sans asked.
"It feels like I belong here." I answered honestly.
"I bet it does." He said.
"Hey, Sans, you said something about helping you with your experiments. What did you mean?" I asked.
"Well, don't tell Pap, but I'm trying to bring back our father, W.D. Gaster from in between the plains of Time and Space." He explained.
"... I'll help you." I said.
"Whoa, you were pretty accepting." He noted.
"Of course, I want to help in any way I can." I said.
Sup, Okay this story might be going on for awhile, I have a lot of ideas on where this will go. Also, if anyone can make some cover art for this, That would be great, drawn preferably in an anime form with Vincent's powers activated, if possible. You can find my e-mail in my bio.
Thank you!