A/N: I'm thinking about a timeline for these chapters. And I think I could get a chapter out every 3 - 4 days. I've been getting a lot of views. And I loved to think people enjoy just
of these chapters :D. I'm not the best writer out there. But I do like being creative somtimes. Maybe dark too. Anyway. If you want to keep this from being so dark, just..
you know where some pink. Cheers. Enjoy this chapter.
He didn't realise what had happened, suddenly he was opening a door to a house. Two monsters, simply harmless, they did not even pose a threat at all. So why. Frisk laid, knees on the floor as the after traces of millions of pieces scattered in frozen motion. He hadn't realised it before, nor did he have the idea of how it happened.
His brain tried wrapping around the thought, but it escaped him, he had a knife. But how! Did Chara give it to him? Did he always have one? Did he grab one? But where from? The house was empty, it didn't have a second floor, there was no kitchen. The floor was wood, the walls were wood. The door was in the middle also made of wood, there were no windows. these simple and useless facts littered his consciousness so well that he began to lose focus on what really happened. He pictured it in his mind for only a few seconds.
"Who is the Killer now?" Her voice had ringed through his head multiple times as he stared at the ground where only remnants remained. Traces. Suddenly like the voice called out to a memory, if so why didn't he get it earlier.
Entering the house, showing a fake smile, but that was the act, a shutter revealed the truth behind the mask was a creepy smile that mimics Chara's. But that wasn't his face. That was something else entirely, retracing his steps towards the cave, there was something particular odd in his pants at the time, but he didn't know what it was, when the memory flashed within him again, the person that seemed like him took out a knife when the pups were asleep upon him. The knife's location was on him prior.
When did the knife get there? Even if it was in the cave, why did Chara give me the knife, She didn't know I wasn't going to kill anyone which made sense now that he thought about it.
"I gave it to you. Because you are going to need it, Frisk, if you want to continue anymore then you have. You are going to need L.O.V.E. Something I didn't tell you is that this whole trip was to come here. For you to kill these two, and for you reach LV 3. This, restored who you are. No more scars, no more bruises. You are as new. As you were before"
What was she talking about, suddenly appearing in front of me all of a sudden like she always does? With her annoying green striped shirt and brown pants. That ugly smirk and creepy red eyes never made it easy to stare for too long. She held truth, that reason being that when I finally came back to my senses I realised that my pain and aching pressure had gone, my breathing was fine. Parts of me no longer held themselves down. I also felt lighter and my soul felt like a weight had been lifted from it considerably. This began to make more sense.
"What is L.O.V.E" regaining his senses from earlier, he stared at the knife for a second before slipping it back into the area it came from. He had no idea why he is keeping it, but something told him even if he did, it would find its way back to him anyway.
"LV. or L.O.V.E Stands for Level Of Violence. You gain LOVE through EXP. Which stands for Execution points. So you see why you must kill, why it is so relieving to do so. It will make you strong. While doing these two things, you'll increase others as well. Making you more Strong."
Frisk glanced off at the floor when she finished speaking, it would appear that all this was all according to her plan apparently. He was too weak to really be of use so the idea was to level me up. Is that it, so that I could recover using the strength of the two I just killed. What kind of system is this!
"Without those two progressing, you will remain weak, and I don't want to stay here if you care about sparing every single individual that you come into contact with. And if you want to survive yourself you'll need to pay the price. It's a kill...or be killed world partner and sadly you've been living in it for awhile now"
Chara smiled at Frisk who gave no response to her at all, she blinked out of the area assuming she was back talking in his mind. In order to get stronger, you need LOVE. Getting that requires EXP. Which is gained by killing monsters.
"Killing other humans would yield EXP as well." She whispered
"It makes sense I guess. EXP is execution points. So as long as it remains that way it grants EXP. Not hard to understand" He replied
"Seems you are far more clever than I originally thought"
Being complimented by her didn't really feel all that great. So humans and monsters. Both will grant EXP. And assuming humans do too. That means it won't be just monsters that he will be forced to kill. He really has made a deal with the devil. His very soul is probably on the line here.
"Well"
He took that as a sign to leave. He didn't want to remain in this house any longer with what he had done. And he needed time to think about it all.
"I have to ask, though, How did you know that these two were dog monsters? If that's what you would call them."
"Those two are actually called Lesser Dogs, surprisingly there were two of them, which is strange. But the detail is actually pretty obvious. Just look at the house. Does it not just scream it out to you."
He turned around to see what she was referring too, and actually, it did make sense, getting a good look at the place. He didn't even notice earlier, The house looked like a giant Doghouse. That seemed a lot easier than expected. That still doesn't explain how she needed him here and how she knew this place was here.
"I guess we'll need to keep moving won't we." He moved towards the pathway
"Before you do that. There are still 14 left." Chara called out
Huh? What did she even mean by that, 14 left of what?
"14 left Of?" He said confusingly
"Monsters. There are 14 monsters left here you are going to need to kill. And we aren't leaving until we do."
"What. How can you even tell."
She remained silent, didn't speak for a couple of seconds before he tried to see what was going on with that.
"Well?"
"It doesn't matter, you need to kill 14 more monsters. Don't try to speak to me until you complete the task. And also. I won't be helping you either, you are on your own." Chara disappeared from his head.
He could tell that it felt strange being left alone in times like this. 14 monsters? Where exactly would 14 of them even be? This was clearly a test of some kind.
"Kill or be killed world.."
When he was younger he always heard from his parents that life is a difficult place to live in when you get older. But to his surprise and unexpected behaviour, it seemed that they kind of exaggerated that a bit. When he thought difficult, he didn't know it would mean anything like this.
Kill or be killed, though. Was that an expression of manipulation by her clear nature or was she speaking truth? And if both are true or false in the end it came down to which course he was responsible for. Chara wouldn't give him a chance to spare anyone and if he did. There is an unknown amount of pain he will have to endure he was sure.
Although following her is even more foolish because her exact intentions were a mysterious. So he would lose anyway of friending monsters and by clearly knowing that they can be reasoned with because of what he has gathered so far.
This kind of trial was clearly of her kind. The cruel kind. Whatever fate befell such a choice. Kill them all and become enemies with everyone. Or finding a heart to be kind and result in eternal torture with Chara. These routes. They just aren't fair.
But with whatever decision you make comes with the determination to follow. By either or follows destruction and construction of friendships and emotions.
"The problem now is that I have no idea where I'm supposed to go." He thought this forest is pretty big, finding 14 monsters wasn't going to be easy. With how low the number is, maybe it was a lot easier than he thought.
He paced around for hours, jumping at the slightest of sounds. He hadn't really made progress on it yet, he wondered the place for a while, it didn't look like he got very far, the nearest place was still the house. He didn't wander very far from it. He was beginning to get tired and he still needs to sleep at some point. Chara hasn't answered any of his calls and remains to be silent in the matter.
She seemed to be telling the truth, she really wasn't going to help him at all, even if it met life or death. But why would that be enough for her? He could just retry as far as she was concerned. He had some time to learn about this feature on life. With a few attempts, he managed to save. After so often he did so, it didn't really hurt too after all.
The process was simple too, which made it a lot more confusing. With something so easily exploited...expect for some others of course. Raising his palm up in front of him summoned a star of light that shined gold, first forming on the back of his hand and then hovering a short distance above his hand. With a flicker, it disappeared signalling to him that he had saved. Which was actually...odd at first but he got used to it.
"This is hopeless. Does she really expect me to find 14 monsters in this place?" He scratched his head wildly, stressed by his lack of sleep and lack of progress. He really, REALLY didn't want to look forward to what would happen if he couldn't kill them all. Acting like he could kill them given he finds one of course. His morals still lingering around, he was concerned about all this but still wanted to find a monster.
"If I was a monster. Where would I hide?" Frisk did a turnaround a few times on the spot to see if he could possibly answer his own question, but nothing really jumped out. Those other monsters lived in a house, or well there own style of course. So assuming that's really the case with them, then it's probably stupid to think they would be out in the open like this.
He slumped down on his own opinion, If that's true he has been wandering around for no fucking reason at all.
"Open or not, they should be somewhere around here. She said that there were 14 monsters 'left' in this place. Or area. Whichever the case, that means." Frisk looked again for the second time. The path was getting darker as time passed. The sun was going down.
"The Cave is about 1 miles, the prison from there should be...wait, the prison. Were those guards human?"
"Of course they were. I wonder if any monsters hang around that place."
He walked in the direction just to be sure. He thought about it in case he was just making a stupid mistake going back there. But he had a new trick, they could just try again if they like.
'Determined' Frisk continued down the dirt path towards the cave that he recently parted with over a couple of hours ago. He got a kind of strange feeling staring at it. But progressed through, following along the body of water that would probably be where Chara helped him out there didn't she. The irony.
He glared sharing a dull look at he watched the water thin out smooth, no drops, it wasn't rough or anything. It stayed calm. It seems quiet in this area. That is certainly strange for what is up ahead. Staring at this was bugging him with all the madness that has happened. With a little bit of frustration, he left not wanting to bother with it.
"This…"
He didn't stop at all, he walked past the spot that gave him a bad time. There are some things he will be afraid of, but he won't infect the wound by staying to view this.
Finally returning to the place where his life took a turn, where he first met Chara. It honestly wasn't that long ago that he left, but the silence was a little strange, you'd think those who found out he escaped would be frantically searching for him. But the place was as dull as it. Or hold on, he doesn't know that. He passed out when Chara took over.
"What is going on here" He looked to the other side of the place to see a search bizarre creature, with another. He jumped at the discovery. So those must be monsters.
"Seriously, of all places" He muttered, he hid behind a tree not to far off from the entrance, there only seems to be two of them.
They were definitely monsters, though what they were, he didn't know. Now that he stood in front of them he felt just stepping in the shadows and going his own way. But he stood his ground regardless anyway. He summoned the light again, and it dispersed quickly, having just saved. I guess he was ready.
Stepping out from his hiding spot, and towards the two, one looked like a bird of sorts and the other had a sword and shield. For a reason, he didn't know, but the armour it wore. Was similar almost to those greater dogs. Actually, it was a dog! They both noticed him at the same time. The world went black, a slight tapping sound like before with the other two, a heart appeared couple inches in front of him, hovering like a logo. This was very strange to see for the first time.
His first time actually doing it himself, he knows that whatever bullshit that happened before was not him. That was someone ELSE! More likely to have been Chara influencing his emotions or movements. So for him, he thought of this time being his first.
Like before, with what he knows. The world goes black, heart in front. And it feels slightly strange. He looked around to understand it better.
"You want to fight! I'll fight you human! You'll die too!"
"Pant pant..Bark!"
A Lesser Dog and Chilldrake saunters up, with somehow understanding which monsters stood in front of him which was confusing, He held the knife in one hand. He really didn't want to attack them, but he had no other choice. He had his own goals to achieve, and with Chara tormenting him so much. He couldn't afford to risk sparing them if they could truly be spared that is.
He charged the pair, only attacking one because he only had one knife.
"You're first," He said in his mind charging at the Chilldrake, it didn't move, bouncing around on the spot, he stepped into swing his knife. It was difficult to attack it straight with its large size. But he had eyes set towards the underbelly, the knife sliced right through its flesh upon collision with its feathers. The blood spilling from its body. It flinched stepping back. It decided to jump back away from him. A little afraid of him, It didn't flaunter, though, it remained to seen. It definitely didn't like him at all, with the fluttering so wildly.
"Death! No actually! No!"
The lesser dog just pants as usually which really killed the mood, Now the strange part was, flying projectiles appeared from the void space like it was there the entire time, raining down fast. Not only that but large blue and white spears appeared out from the ground. It didn't really take a lot of brains to know that these were how they attacked. It's clear that this shit defied the world's natural logic. Why does the stupid lesser dog even have a sword or shield if it doesn't even use it? The hell. His thoughts erupted in anger, and with negativity, but with respect humanity always got ramped up for something like this, Well course only a few, those who don't usually end up like Frisk perhaps.
He somehow dodged the crescent shaped attack, while avoiding the spears as well. Though not left completely unscathed, that blue spear managed to get him. He felt hurt, looking down at the heart in front of him. It was cracked a little, and the original injury was his leg, cut right through, sliced, but still. The gash made it harder to move.
Dodging the projectiles, while having to get out of the way of the spears is harder. So that Chilldrake will have to go. It looked hurt enough, one more attack should kill it. Frisk charged in, with full force, jumping up and around to its side. Swing with all his might at it. The knife entered in like butter, the large wound on its body clear, blood gushing out like a waterfall before slowly it fell apart, turning to dust in an instant afterwards.
And still, the Lesser dog was panting like nothing happened. Monsters? Okay. With crescent attacks out of the way, the spears were way too easy to dodge, coming in a straight line most of the time. It didn't take much effort to just step out of the way.
He stared at the Lesser dog, with its complete oblivious nature. It really is clueless.
"Pitiful things, it really doesn't understand that it is about to die." Chara echoed throughout his mind. With how much pain she had to endure watching Frisk kill them like an innocent child. Honestly, it really pissed her off the way he handled them. I mean come on, if you can't have a little fun once in awhile.
"I thought- wait you are back. I can hear you again." He said
"Yeah well, I got bored so I'm just popping back in to have some fun myself."
"Frisk, let me show you how it's done." His body began moving on its own like a force was controlling him. This was the first time, he wasn't prepared for it, usually, it was just simple blackout couldn't even tell it happens from time to time.
He slowly walked towards the dog, his expressions changed from serious to smile, his outfit from blue to green, pants from blue to brown. His hair tinted differently. His actual appearance changed. Chara looked at the dog with her eyes glaring with fixation, encased in an insane look, her eyes heaved in small, swinging the knife at its legs,
STAB!
Another swing to its arms, and then its legs!
Cut! Stab! Another STAB, AND ANOTHER AND ANOTHER, until it dropped to the floor, with each attack not enough to kill, she smirked wickedly each cut she made, it's body fell to the floor, blood seeping out of each made stab on its body, the dirt was dyed in red, she walked and stomped on its armor, feeling each and every emotion that developed her being.
"Ah seriously you are one sad thing" She lowered her head, moving over it. Slowly pointing the knife down at its head, she slowly added strength, ripping down onto its forehead, it cried out in pain as the knife entered slowly, more and more. Until a loud high pitched scream, one a dog makes and then...scatter, dust where it laid only remained.
Chara's appearance distorted out. As Frisk's natural colour returned, he was holding his mouth, at what he just witnessed, Chara didn't speak or involve herself in his crap and instead went away once more. He learned that day that fighting monsters is going to be far more painful than it looked.
I mean monsters, were monsters so what, but she made them look like the good guys, he pitied any who even tried to fight back. That was extremely horrible!
"You have 12 more to go, I'll show up from time to time. But the rest is entirely up to you. Goodbye for now" She said once last time, as he wiped the flowing saliva from his mouth, the thoughts were only crowding his mind.
"Fucking, I can't get enough of this"
Frisk looked at the locations of the dust piles, it is truly tragic. But such is their fate I guess. There were more than us in this world, and monsters all over the world were no doubt dying in worse ways. Or probably not, who in this world is like her, she is a demon truly. Somethings can't be matched, and this was one of them.
"12 now. Sheesh, does she seriously expect me to have to kill 12 of them, I barely found 2, like."
A crackling noise was heard from behind, looking to see another monster steadily coming towards him. What? The. It was another Lesser Dog, Panting again. The World shuttered into its black form once again.
"I don't get this at all." The knife he held was again aimed towards these guys. They don't catch much of a break. The spears came, no shortage of mistakes this time. Like before his attacks are just easy to dodge. With a wide run towards him, he dropped the knife to his waist keeping the edge of the blade towards it. The dog just turned to face him. Running right past it, swinging across the face. The Lesser Dog winced in pain before turning to dust.
"Sorry.." Frisk muttered that was a bit sudden, so there was more of them in the area. Which made him feel a little better, if the pace was like this then he wouldn't need to get so frustrated. His burden though has just increased.
He paced himself carefully in the direction opposite to the house he was at earlier since this is where he encountered these recent few, he wanted to continue to find them at a fast pace. So this is as good a plan as any, with any luck he'll find more of them later. Either way, he can't be wondering around here for too long. The sun has been down for awhile. It's probably pretty late. But his eyes have been wired open.
Eventually, he reached a crossroads. The signs were worn out and he couldn't read them.
"What…" He said out loud. He squinted his eyes to see if he could read any of it, but it just wasn't working. The idea that he had to pick which way to go was a little troubling. So instead of thinking about which direction to choose, he decided to see which direction held the most promise. The moon was out, so it wasn't that hard to get a good idea on each. One side had a large mountain in the distance, with a couple of others behind it, it really gave that mountain path vibe too it. Which would be pretty dangerous, The trees in the distance really couldn't be seen either which suggested that the area was far darker. Which could prove difficult to walk through.
On the other hand, the other direction was brighter, so not so many trees blocking the light. That is good. Or not..carefully looking, he noticed a monster coming towards him. Which of them is it this time? He waited for it to get closer until he made a clear distinguish.
"Chilldrake? No..this one is different." He muttered
Frisk stood there as it approached, darkness fell, It stood. There
"Snowdrake. Why do I know it's name." He muttered to himself.
He fluttered towards him slowly. His delay of action caused it to attack, with the same crescent attack as the other drake.
He moved quickly between the stream of attacks that came from each direction. It was a short attack at least. Dodging these things wasn't easy. The end of its attack came.
"Better not Snow 'flake' out"
Frisk stood there trying to understand what it meant by that, the dumbest look appeared on his face. This guy was weirder than the last one.
"What kind of joke was that…" He said
"'Chill' out.."
Another attack came, He hasn't really done anything yet, which is bothering him. The thing is weird.
He stared and remembered its name for a second 'Snowdrake'
"I see. The terrible comedian." Frisk said like he was reading something from a book. He noticed the creatures torture to hear those words. And started wiping out heavier attacks.
"I seriously hate this"
He dodges around the streams again. Doing it so much has gotten him good at doing it. But now it's time to seriously finish this.
"I honestly don't care about your puns guy. You just have to die. Otherwise, I face problems."
Rushing the drake headstrong. He flipped the knife around, and jabbed it dead centred upon its face. Then turning to dust. Frisk held his head for a second trying to get past that little experience.
"Monsters. That title is not very accurate is it."
Well, of course, it is, because of how they look, but honestly, they aren't really monster-like are they. Frisk turned to the direction it came from, it would appear a destination has been found. This better be worth it.
"Frisk...I'd like to ask you something." Chara sounded..desperate for something, but her words were different, a lighter tone almost. But he couldn't make out the reason why.
"Chara...What could you possibly want to ask me…" He glanced in the other direction, he got annoyed already by her.
"What do you make of those who can shape reality."
"Reality? What sort of question is this exactly"
"If you don't answer then I'll ask you in the future."
"It's not that I wouldn't answer, it's that I don't quite get the question."
"Alright. Then how about this. Although shaping reality is cruel. Destroying those by devouring their souls. Is ultimately more terrifying. How would you propose you take down a person? Who is capable of that."
Someone who can shape reality is cruel, but devouring another's soul is more terrifying. Chara's words didn't make any sense. The only thing that really jumps up at him is are the words "Reality" When she says it like that. 'Someone who can shape reality' is no different than another fixing their mistakes. Like what I'm doing.
"I see you understand very little of the question I asked you. It seems you are either incapable of giving a proper answer, or you lack the knowledge that I simply won't provide you."
"You mean to tell me you already know the answer, yet you told me anyway? Which is this, a question or a riddle. I don't like either, especially from you."
"Honestly, I didn't expect you to know, it's that you seek my motive? My goals are none of your immediate concern. So I'd like you to stop thinking about it from now on." She went quiet for a second
"You think I'll follow you easily without knowing what I'm getting myself into? Seriously Chara. I don't actually like you at all. I don't think I would spare you."
"Think of me all you like, If you wish to remain at peace. With your freedom at hand, you'll do exactly as I say, and all will be wiser."
She went dead from there on. Frisk knew he wouldn't even bother with a response. It wouldn't reach her. The idea that she is good? Is far from his mind. He just pressed on down the path. There were monsters that he had to get rid of because of her too. Just another thing he had to 'do' for her.
"I'm going to find out how to stop you Chara. Trust me. I will." He said with a stern look on his face.
"Heh, you foolish boy. You have got no clue." Chara whispered to herself within the black void that she resided in. She did nothing but think in solemn silence.