The skeleton Family chapter four.
A few weeks had passed since Sans and Frisk had managed to pull Gaster back from the void and having moved into their new house, the monsters had celebrated their second year of freedom on the surface and Frisk had her thirteenth Birthday party. Sans had gotten Frisk a Pinkish purple tote bag, Papyrus had gotten Frisk a new pink and blue double pompom beanie, and Gaster had gotten his daughter a golden necklace with an imperial garnet gemstone piece. The little skeleton was over joyed that her family had gotten such meaningful gifts for her. As the guests arrived for the small party the gifts for frisk kept piling up. Mettaton had gotten Frisk a large decorative vinyl player and her latest albums signed, while Napstablook had gotten the young skeleton a new pair of headphones similar to his. Alphys had gotten Frisk a pink wing with Hatsune Miku's hair style, styed into it, while her Girlfriend Undyne had went out of her way and over to Baltimore and had two large daggers/ small swords forged for the teen, they were curved and engraved (Katarina's daggers from league of legends). Frisk was Impressed with them but promised she would use them as decoration and nothing else unless absolutely necessary, sticking to her pacifist routes. Gaster was not really impressed with the choice of weapon but he did admire the intricate engraving on the blades, Sans didn't say anything as he teleported into the kitchen to grab a bottle of ketchup for himself and Papyrus was gobsmacked as his jaw fell off. They should have expect that from Undyne, she had went to the same black smiths and had them make a pair of large intricate broad swords for prince Asriel, as well as helping to teach the young prince how to use them. Toriel had gotten Frisk a sterling silver picture frame with images of (Skeleton) her and Asriel messing around with each other in the first few weeks on monsters having their freedom. Asriel had gotten Frisk a Pandora bracelet with a few best friend charms. Whilst King Asgore had gotten Frisk a beginners set of armour specially made for a skeleton to wear as it was made from a magnesium, silicon carbide alloy, it consisted of a breastplate, shoulder pads and gauntlets, as well as a mannequin to place it on. Everyone had a growing suspicion that both Asgore and Undyne had collaborated on the swords and armour present. Frisk wasn't sure why but she had a strange feeling that she would need the armour for something in future. All in all, it was an amazing thirteenth birthday for the young skeleton, that amazing that she pulled a reload just to enjoy it again much to the dismay of Sans and Gaster. The two weren't too happy about having the reload pulled, but Frisk soon told them that she had checked and the reset button wasn't there anymore when she tried to access it and all that was left was the reload button, she then promised not to use it unless necessary as it drained a lot out of her and required a hell of a lot of magic to use it.
The day after Frisks birthday was a weird one for the family as both Sans and Frisk were awake sitting on the living room sofa before Papyrus and Gaster even woke up. Sans and Frisk were the family's late sleepers and it was impossible to find the pair awake before Gaster, or even Papyrus. When asked why the pair were up they didn't reply, Papyrus and Gaster left it there as there was work to be done around the house as there were party decorations lying around the house. Frisk had placed all her new gifts into her room, before joining Sans back on the sofa. The pair hardly moved from the sofa all day and it worried there dad Gaster. The parent skeleton decided he would stay up and check on his two children tonight, as he remembered Sans saying he had frequent nightmares of the genocide timelines, and the way the pair were huddled on the sofa reminded him of how Sans would act the day after having a nightmare, but he wondered if Frisk too had a nightmare… he'd only find out later in the night if the two have been having nightmares. The day went by very lazily, and passed through really quickly and before they knew it was night time again. Both Sans and Frisk weren't really looking forward to going to bed and tried to stay up, but Wing dings used his magic to lift the two upstairs and into their rooms. It didn't take the two sleep deprived skeletons too long as the pair fell asleep almost instantly once they hopped onto there beds. After reading Papyrus his usual bed time story, a duty he had taken up again from Sans, he went to check on his other two children. He checked in on Sans first to find his suspicions had been correct, Sans must have had a nightmare the night before as he was having another right there and then.
Sans's nightmare.
Sans had fallen asleep at his sentry post again… wait, wasn't he on the surface just Minutes ago? The hoodie wearing skeleton was in complete shock as he fell off his chair in the sentry post. Had the world reset? It couldn't have, Frisk doesn't possess the ability to pull a true reset anymore, heck it took a lot out of her to pull a reload as a skeleton, she could just about pull one. So… how was he back in the underground. As he was thinking this through Papyrus and Frisk, the skeleton version of Frisk walked over to the sentry post.
"SEE FRISK, DEAR SISTER, I TOLD YOU THE LAZY BONES WOULD BE ASLEEP AT HIS POST AGAIN." Papyrus sighed.
"Papyrus leave him alone, here Sans we went to Muffets bakery. I got you a spider doughnut and spider cider, enjoy big brother." Frisk smiled as she handed him the doughnut and cider
"Okay… thanks, sis…" Sans replied putting the cider and doughnut into a container he had under the shelf.
"Sans are you okay, you seem a little out of it?" Frisk asked.
"SANS, ARE YOU DRUNK, HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO LOOK OUT FOR HUMANS IF YOU'RE DRUNK AND ESPECIALLY INFRONT OF FRISK. WE NEED A HUMAN SOUL TO BREAK THE BARRIER AND I NEED TO BE THE ONE TO CAPTURE THE HUMAN SO I CAN BECOME A MEMBER OF THE ROYAL GUARD." Papyrus proclaimed in his eccentric way.
"Papyrus he's not drunk, he just fell asleep. I know I would if I had to sit there and stare at nothing for nine hours straight." Frisk sighed as she hopped up onto the sentry post and swung her legs over the side. Sans smiled slightly at that comment, seems Frisk agreed with him that it was a boring job just sitting around.
"FINE, I'LL LET YOU OFF THIS TIME BROTHER. COME FRISK I NEED TO RECALIBRATE MY PUZZLES FOR THE DAY." Papyrus proclaimed as he lifted Frisk up from the sentry and swung her onto his back, giving her a piggy back.
"Bye Sans, see you later." Frisk giggled as she and Papyrus made their way to the clearings were Papyrus had all his multiple traps. Sans watched the pair of them take off and disappear from there sight. He decided to teleport to their house to check if anything had changed and try to see whether it was a reset or if he was having another dream. The stout skeleton did a quick look around before teleporting to the entrance of their log cabin on the outskirts of Snowdin. The skeleton pulled out his keys from his pocket and inserted them into the key hole. The first thing he noticed when he entered the house was how it was literally the same as always, he made his way around the room slowly taking in how perfectly… represented it was. It was like the barrier wasn't broken and they were still stuck underground… the only change here was that Frisk appeared to be a skeleton her whole life and not since her transformation when she was ten in the timeline he knew. As he looked around the house he spotted a picture of all three of them… when they were literally baby bones? He stared quietly into the picture for a few minutes, Frisk appeared to be about a year old in it, that meant that Papyrus would have been six years old then while he would have been eight years old bordering on nine. He recalled Frisk looking like she was thirteen when Papyrus and her called around to the sentry post only minutes ago, that meant that papyrus would be nineteen and he would be twenty one bordering twenty two years old. Which was his age roughly in monster years, which were a lot longer than human years, and I mean a lot. He was brought out of his train of thought when he heard Frisk enter the house behind him.
"Hey Sans, what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be at your post?" Frisk asked.
"I, um… ran out of Ketchup?" Sans lied, hoping Frisk would believe it. To his relief his little sister did believe it, "So what are you doing home, I thought you were helping Papyrus with his traps?" he then asked.
"I'm heading over to M.K's (monster kid), were gonna practice magic together for a while then watch some Anime later. I'll be home for six, that alright?" Frisk asked as she picked up a tote bag and stuck her purse into it, which was sitting on the sofa. She then walked over to a cabinet in the kitchen and grabbed what appeared to be an Allen key for some of Papyrus's traps.
"Oh, Okay. Enjoy, but don't eat too much before you come home, I plan on going to Grillby's tonight." Sans smiled.
"See you bro, I need to drop this back off with Papyrus first then I'll head on over to M.K's. Bye Sans." Frisk smiled as she left the house and closed the door behind her.
"Phew, that was close." Sans muttered out loud. He then decided to take a trip to see Toriel… well knock on the ruin door and exchange jokes with her. He took a quick look around the house before teleporting off to the large purple door in the cliff side which lead to the ruins beyond. As he landed in the landing in the clearing in front of the door he took a look around and noticed footsteps into the forest having started from the door leading on towards Snowdin. It was really strange, Toriel didn't have leave those kind of prints, her feet are too large and furry to leave those sort of marks… maybe another human had fallen into the underground. As he made his way off towards the door he noticed a slight trail of dust covering the ground, the dust seemed to increase the closer he got to the slightly jarred door… Jarred. Tori never leave the door open, she always had it locked. Feeling curious he took a peak into the hallway beyond, but regretted doing that and felt sick the moment he looked in. there was a large pile of dust, sitting meters from the door and a few smaller piles of dust scattered down the bottom of the corridor, from the other few monsters which lived in the ruins. Sans was in horror… if this was a reset, then there was only two beings which would be able to cause a reset, although one of which had returned to their normal state, from flower to goat prince… he hoped. Well that only left one main person left… Chara… if this was a reset and the barrier hadn't yet been Broken then it was highly likely that Chara had returned. Shit… if Chara returned… oh no… Papyrus, Frisk. He needed to find them fast. Thankfully he knew were Papyrus would be, but he had hoped Frisk had long since made her way on over to hot lands… hopefully she'd be safe there for a while.
He started to run off through the woods the short distance to the clearing were his younger brother had all his multiple traps. He ran as fast as he could but stopped just short of were Papyrus was and hid in the trees looking over the scene unfolding in front of his eye sockets. He was too late… like always, to protect his baby brother. He watched from a distance as Papyrus fell down and fell apart into dust particles in the wind. What's even worse was that Frisk had just stumbled upon the scene as well, within moments Sans heard Frisks theme light up as she was drawn into a battle. He tried to go and help her out against this new human wielding what appeared to be a meat cleaver, but it was like someone was holding his feet to the ground, like quick drying concrete. All he could do was stand and watch as the human landed a blow on Frisk from behind as she teleported out of the way of the attack pulled just seconds before hand. He watched in horror as the light brown haired human twisted the knife deeper into Frisks spinal cord and collar bone. Frisk's H.P was at only 1 point and San could see his little sister starting to fall to dust, as blood stained her clothes as it dripped out of the marrow in her bones, as well as a small trickle of blood making its way down her lower jaw and drop onto her top… but the human wasn't finished, they kicked Frisk over so she was on her back side crawling away from the brunette wielding the dusty, bloody knife. Frisk had managed to crawl her way to the pile of dust mixed on top of Papyrus's scarf, the young skeleton took notice of the pile and scarf sitting beside her, she looked around to try and see if there was anyone around who could save her but she couldn't see anyone. Sans was in tears as he tried to move, but he couldn't it was like he had been frozen solid, he tried to call out for Frisk but felt like something was constricting his non-existent throat, leading to him having lost his voice. The human bent down and looked Frisk in the eyes before shoving the cleaver straight through Frisks ribcage and straight into her soul. Frisks soul shattered upon contact of the knife as she fell into a large pile of dust beside papyrus's dust and scarf. Sans could only look on as the demonic human turned its head around and looked straight towards Sans before taking off towards Snowdin. Sans finally seemed to have broken free of the invisible prison keeping him trapped, unable to help his younger sister, or his younger brother.
He failed them… he failed to protect them yet again. Why was it he could never protect Papyrus, from these genocide timelines… and now Frisk… he couldn't protect her either. Her theme music for when she was using magic in a battle still ringing in his ear ducts. The once lively tunes of "Bonetrusle" and "Determined happiness" (Could be worse, by Avensa… don't ask me why I've renamed the song. I just think it is more fitting), died of into the silence, forever immortalized by the trees. The elder sibling slowly and carefully made his way out from the trees and over to his Baby brother's and sister's dust piles, there final resting place. Sans kneeled beside the long reddish orange scarf, and the double pompom beanie which belonged to the pair of them and placed his hands over then, before jerking them back. He would come back for these later, right now he had to warn the others.
Sans teleported into Hot lands and made his way to his sentry post. What shocked him was that not too far away from it was Undynes melted form and M.K's dust littering the ground. How had the demon made it all the way through Snowdin, to waterfall and into hot lands before him? Chara couldn't teleport, and was certainly not that fast. Sans picked up his pace and made is way to the labs further through hot lands, hoping he had been quick enough. He hadn't, as he walked through the sombre labs he came across huge large gouges in the walls and tables, mechanical parts were scattered everywhere. The skeleton slowly made his way through the lab, as he did he found Mettaton's broken mangled robotically body littered with deep knife marks and not too far away was another pile of Dust and a pair of black glasses. Why was he always too late to save them? He quickly teleported his way up to judgement hall, hoping to meet the demonic human brunette before they slaughtered the rest of the underground and made their way to the surface and destroy all of humanity.
He landed in his usual spot behind one of the pillars in judgement hall, here he'd wait then surprise the demon. Usually Sans wouldn't have to wait too long for the demon to appear to face him in the hall, heck he was getting tired from waiting and felt his eye sockets droop but forced himself to stay awake. As minutes ticked into hours, Sans waited in the hall… looked like Chara was taking her time today for a change, which wasn't usually like her. She was probably just trying to confuse him and take him by surprise, which wouldn't have been the first time as he rubbed his boney fingers over his rib cage. Sans waited another few hours, waiting for Chara to make an appearance, yet there was no sign of her for a change… it's not like any of the other monsters had gotten to her, she would just reset or reload if she had been killed. Just then a thought came into his mind, since Chara had seemingly been taking a long time today… would he have enough time to visit Papyrus and Frisk and to check that no one had messed about with their dust and maybe pick up Pap's scarf and Frisks pompom hat. Yeah… he'd do that. The skeleton took a quick look around the hall before teleporting off to the clearing in Snowdin were his two younger siblings lay dead, there dust having been scattered through the snow now at this stage due to the soft winds blowing through the trees, although the red scarf and pink and blue pompom beanie lay in their original spots. He approached the two piles of dust in the forest and sat down beside them, he allowed tars to fill his sockets as he broke down there and then, apologizing or not being quick enough to protect them.
"Oh, Papyrus, Frisk… I'm so sorry… I shoulda… shoulda… oh boy… I failed… I failed to protect you two. I promised that as your older brother I would always… always look out for you…but…" Sans sighed as he allowed his tears to fall freely from his sockets. What he didn't notice was two figures quietly walk up behind him.
"Hahahahahahah… well, well, well. Look what the cat dragged in. I had hoped to meet you in Judgement hall although my brother wouldn't be able to take part in your death that way." A female demonic voice emanated from behind Sans.
"Look Chara, I think we finally broke the smiley trash can, Surprised, of course you are. See sister I told you this would be fun." Another voice said as it rose from the ground, using its roots and vines to ensnare the skeleton.
"Ghah. Flowey, Chara. What have you done?!" Sans spat venomously at the pair. Now it all made sense, he wasn't trapped in quick sand or concrete earlier, it was Flowey… he had used his vines to ensnare him and make him watch his own siblings deaths. He tried to activate his magic but whatever Flowey was doing to him, prevented the use of his magic even though he managed to glow his left eye.
"Surprised? Heh, you should know something smiley trash bag." Chara smiled as she walked towards the struggling skeleton.
"Yeah, ugh, and what's that?" Sans asked as Flowey tightened his grip on the last remaining skeleton causing cracks to appear in Sans bones due to the stress having been placed on them.
"Hahahahahahah. In this world... it's Kill." Flowey smiled as they tightened there vines around Sans neck vertebra and ribcage, starting to crush the bones to dust to which they were bound, Chara smiled as she hoisted the large meat cleaver she held above her head.
"OR BE KILLED. HAHAHAHAHAHA." Chara laughed as she sliced through Sans, bringing the meat cleaver down onto him, his eye sockets went large and then everything went black.
End of Sans nightmare.
Gaster Sat down on the end of Sans' bed and tried to wake him up. The parental skeleton was worried for his eldest son and was glad he'd stayed awake tonight. Sans had started to activate his magic as he summoned a few bones and started to fire them towards Gaster. W.D Gaster managed to use his blue magic to manipulate gravity to crush the bones before they destroyed anything or hit the pair of them. Within moments of Sans throwing the bones, he woke up screaming as his left eye lit up and was flaring out, the bright electric blue glow filled the room. The skeleton grabbed his head as tears flooded out of his sockets and fell onto the duvet. Gaster quickly got up from where he was sitting on the end of the bed and up to Sans bed and moved so he was right beside him.
"Shush, easy Sans. It's all right. Shush, you're alright." Gaster said as he moved up closer to Sans and put his hands onto his shoulders in an attempt to calm him down. Sans just looked up at him for a second before hugging his dad and crying against his ribcage. Gaster wrapped Sans in a hug and continued to calm him down. After five minutes Sans had calmed down enough to talk to his dad.
"Sans… how bad was it? And don't try to lie to me." He calmly and quietly asked.
"…it…it was her… Chara… and, and Flowey… they… they… stars." Sans cried as he got his breathing under control, even though skeletons don't need to breath.
"Was it another genocide nightmare?" Gaster asked, his sons only response was a gentle nod, yes it was, Gaster simply rubbed sans spinal cord to calm him down, it worked when he was a young monster. As it always, years on it did its job calming the oldest skeleton down. "You don't need to talk about it if you don't want to." The father said.
"No…no… I, I need to get… to get this of my chest." Sans sighed as he wiped away his tears.
"Its, okay. I'll give you a minute to calm down again." Gaster smiled slightly, "I need to check on your sister too, it appeared she had a nightmare last night and I want to make sure that she too isn't having another tonight like you." Gaster sighed as he got up and made his way in to Frisks room. Sans didn't really want to be alone and so wrapped his duvet around himself and followed his dad out of his room and into Frisks room. Gaster peeked in, only to notice that she too like her older brother was having a nightmare, the only difference was that she hadn't woken up yet. Both skeletons rushed to her bed as she started to thrash around.
Frisks nightmare.
Frisk slowly opened her eyes, her head slightly hurt as she raised her hand up to rub her head. What the hell had happened that lead to her waking up with such a sore head ache. She was lying on something sort of soft and well worn. As she got up and looked around she noticed that she was back in Snowdin in the log cabin she, Sans and Papyrus lived in until they moved up to the surface… But why was she here? As she felt across her skull she felt a small crack on her head above her right eye.
"Yo, Frisk… you alright sis?" Sans asked as Frisk looked up.
"Huh, oh. Hi Sans. I think I'm alright, any chance of an aspirin please my head feels like its splitting right now." Frisk sighed as she sat up on the Sofa.
"Heh, that was a good one sis… even if it's not appropriate." Sans smirked as he got her a glass of water and a tablet to sooth her head ache. Within moments he was back at her side.
"Where's Papyrus?" Frisk asked.
"He's out fixing his traps, and he says he's sorry for the one that malfunctioned." Sans sighed,
"Huh, what do you mean?" the little skeleton asked.
"You were out with Papyrus, fixing up his traps for humans. One of his newest traps malfunctioned and part of it flew up and knocked you out. Do you not remember that?" the elder skeleton asked,
"Huh, no. none of that, I could have sworn we were on the surface only minutes ago though." She sighed as she swallowed the tablet and washed it down with a glass of water.
"Heh, must have been some hell of a knock you got to your skull sis. No one has been up on the surface, no one can get through the barrier… well prince Asriel did with that human Chara's soul, but hell he died when he got back into the underground because of what the humans did to him." Sans sighed as he sat down beside her.
"What? But, I could have sworn. Agh." Frisk cried out as the crack in her skull flared up with pain.
"Whoa, easy sis. Take it easy. I don't know what you saw or anything, but I think what ever happened might have allowed you to see into one of the previous timelines. I know there is at least one timeline were we escaped the underground and returned to life on the surface but something reset again, I thought it was you but, hell you can only just pull a reload if anything crazy happens." Sans sighed as he placed his hand on her shoulder.
"Sans if it's alright I'm gonna sleep this over. I don't feel well right now and my skull still hurts." Frisk complained. As she lay back down on the sofa. Sans pulled a blanket over her and got up.
"Heh, alright sis. If you feel better later I'll take you over to grillbys. I've cancelled your magic lessons with Undyne for later in the evening, and Muffets and your baking classes too. Just you stay here and rest, I'll tell pap's you're alright. You can come on over to my sentry station later if you feel up to it." Sans smiled slightly. He picked up a small tool box and checked on her again before leaving the house. Frisk soon felt herself drift off to sleep again for a while. It wasn't until half five in the evening when she woke up again, the house was beginning to get dark as the evenings pseudo sunlight filtered through the windows. The young skeleton got up and quickly made her way around the house looking for both Sans and Papyrus. After five minutes of looking for them in the house she then went out and into Sans lab to see if the pair were out there but still nothing.
"Sans, Papyrus if this is supposed to be a joke… its… it's not funny." Frisk stuttered as she made her way back into the house. Everything had been the same as it was earlier in the day when Sans was with her. She then remembered what San had said earlier in the day about going to his sentry post. Frisk gathered up a few little things which she always took with her when she left the house, her Phone, purse and placed them into her purple tote bag, and grabbed her pompom beanie hat and pulled it down over her skull before looking around the house. She quietly walked out the house building up her confidence and determination as she made her way over to Sans sentry post were she would hopefully find both her brothers.
As she made her way through Snowdin she found it to be very quiet, which was quiet unusual. Even grillbys was abandoned this evening, not a noise was coming from the pub. Frisk picked up her speed as she headed out of the village and off towards Papyrus's labyrinth of traps and Sans sentry post. she walked out into the forest she noticed a set of foot prints coming into the town as well as some large deep knife marks and gouges on some of the trees. Feeling her determination leaving her and her fear levels started to rise, although she would soon be at Sans sentry and hopefully both her brothers would be there. After ten minutes of walking she finally made her way to the first of Papyrus's traps, close to Sans sentry station.
She gently made her way past trap after trap as well as one large broken one sitting off beside the path. It must have been the one which hit hear earlier and gave her the crack on her skull. As she passed more and more traps she found most of them to have been activated but… nothing was caught in them. Maybe papyrus had set them off to insure they still worked properly, he'd probably reset them later. She found more and more gouged and stabbed trees. Fear was starting to build up in the pit of her non-existent stomach as she made her way closer and closer to Sans's sentry post. As she came around the corner to the clearing were both her brothers should be she found multiple blaster marks in the clearing. As she looked around the clearing she found two piles of raised dust, and right beside them were Papyrus's red scarf and sans' large furry blue hoodie.
"Sans, Papyrus if this is some sort of joke, please stop it." Frisk whispered as she looked at the two piles. "Please…" She whispered with tears filling her sockets. She walked over to Sans station to find a note on the desk top.
The note had four simple words, but she knew what had happened. "Frisk, RUN, Chara's around." Frisk panicked at the thought of that… she knew what Chara was capable of doing, and Sans had seen the other timelines so he must have known about the ones were she was human and Chara kicked her out of her own body and possessed her. She decided to pull a reload to see if she could save her brothers but when she tried to, she found that something was blocking her magic, she couldn't activate it. There was nothing she could do now, she'd go and warn Undyne, she needed to… it's not like either Sans or Papyrus were going to be reporting in to the mermaid anytime soon. She decided to teleport, it would be quicker than walking although she couldn't teleport for as long as Sans or as far as he could, but she needed to try. Her first stop would be into Snowdin to check if there was anyone left alive. But before she left she lifted up both Sans jacket and Papyrus's scarf, she shrugged on the large heavy jacket which smelled like ketchup and wrapped the long cape like scarf around her neck. She didn't bother brushing off the dust which was on the scarf and jacket, she looked back at her two brothers piles of dust before taking of.
As she teleported into the small snow covered town all she saw was piles and piles of dust and small destroyed pieces of clothing and personal belongings of literally every monster in the village… not even her friends had been spared. She slowly made her way around the village and took in the destruction. Half of the houses and business on the main street were pock marked and scorched with magical residue from where monsters fought back against Chara but were ultimately defeated. No one could defeat the demon, hell when she kicked Frisk out of her own body she could have sworn that she was an amalgamation and not a human, her determination levels were so, so high, hell Frisks wasn't as high as hers that's the only reason why she had been able to be possessed. Although it was sore to have sans repeatedly stab her with bones. She couldn't look on at the destruction of her home, so teleported out to waterfall were hopefully Undyne would be.
Within moments the young skeleton had landed outside the waterfall sentry post were Undyne would usually be finishing her rounds at this time. Frisk took a quick look around, trying to find her mermaid friend and mentor… now Frisk really wished she brought her swords with her, fear was starting to replace her determination faster than she thought as her finger bones began to rattle with fear. She kept walking along the board walk over the marshy land underneath… until she came to a stop. Two things caught her eye sockets, the first thing was a pile of dust and her best friend's poncho… "No… M.K…" Frisk silently cried. The second thing was the melted remains of Undyne… the mermaid was so determined to protect her people that, her determination became her downfall as she melted into an amalgamation before melting out of reality in front of Frisks own eye sockets. The skeleton teen was in shock and disgust to see what had happened to her mermaid friend and mentor (For self-defence and weapons wielding). She knew she couldn't stay in water fall anymore after seeing that and took off and teleported into hot lands… hopefully Alphys and Mettaton were still alive.
The change from the moist wetlands of waterfall to the dry humid desert like climate of hot lands is one that would always get to frisk. It wasn't as bad as when she had skin and flesh but it was still weird to feel the wet condensation on her bones evaporate off in a matter of seconds. Once the tingling feeling had passed she quickly made her way over to the labs were Alphys would usually be, and since it was a Friday she knew Mettaton would be there too as the pair usually spend the evening watching anime and discussing any further modifications to Mettaton's robotical body. Frisk smiled slightly, hopefully she hadn't been too late to warn the pair, or hopefully Alphys would place the lab on lock down and still be alright.
Within five minutes Frisk had made her way to the entrance of the lab. She pushed open the door and made her way on inside the lab, although started to wish she hadn't. Like everywhere else in the underground the lab was pock marked from blaster fire and magical residue. She slowly and quietly walked into the lab, avoiding all the loose wires and smashed glass, and dust of all the other scientists that work in the lab as she walked through the ruins of the once prosperous lab Alphys ran, were so many breakthroughs had happened and so many great thing were made here. As she went deeper into the lab she found the unkillable amalgamations huddled into a corner away from the light of the lab. It appeared that Chara left them alone, knowing that they could never die. She quickly made her way on to Alphys own lab where she worked. She entered the room were Alphys' private lab was located to find oil and parts ripped and thrown around everywhere, and huddled into the furthest corner of the lab was a small pile of dust with a pair of small black glasses lying on top of them.
"Why… why can't I warn you guys… why am I too late… why… why can I never beat her?" Frisk sighed as a few tears slipped down her cheek bones. She didn't want to stay in the lab any longer and make her way back out of the lab. There was only one place left were Chara could go… Judgement hall. Usually it was Sans' job to judge monsters who wish for an audience with the king, but he was gone. Although something was telling her to go to Judgement hall and face Chara. So after wiping away her few tears she had, she started to walk over to the castle were she would meet the demon. She made her way slowly taking in the hundreds of piles of dust littering the path to the castle. It was a sickening sight and was glad that she didn't have a stomach unlike other monsters otherwise she would have thrown up so many times along the path, literally no monster in the underground survived the onslaught bar herself. After ten minutes of walking she had reached the palace gate, thankfully they were closed. Looks like Chara hadn't been this far yet, heh at least she could take her by surprise. It was an awful thought to have as a pacifist, having to resort to violence… but Chara hurt her family, murdered her friends and showed no mercy to anyone who crossed her path… so why should she show mercy to this demon. Not after all the times she tried to show mercy to her when she had been possessed, she was willing to forgive her then, because she had no one tying her down to anything, no family, no reason to have any friends… but it all changed when she fell into the underground, she finally had the family and friends she had always wanted and she would do anything to protect them and if it meant killing Chara she would do it. Sans couldn't judge the human child who had went on a full genocide anymore… only she could, and for once mercy was off the table.
She had started to climb the marble steps which lead to the palace entrance when something grabbed her by her ankles. The skeleton fell down onto the marble steps and cracked a rib because of it, they looked down at their feet multiple vines and roots were making their way up her legs ensnaring her making it impossible to run. The vines yanked her off the stairs and underground, the vines dragged her all the way underneath hot lands, resurfaced through waterfall, and back underground for a few seconds before pulling her along the ground. As she was being pulled she didn't notice that she had been dragged all the way back to the clearing were Sans' and Papyrus' dust lay, she was far too busy coughing up all the dirt which had gotten lodged in her mouth and knock it out from all the hard to reach crevasse in between her bones.
"Hahahahahahah, look what the cat dragged in, literally. Or should I say flower." A voice said as they approached Frisk.
"C…Chara… what do you, what do you want with me?" Frisk asked building up her determination against the human in a green and yellow striped sweater. She tried to use her magic to form a few blasters and a few bones to impale the demonic human but it failed something was blocking her magic.
"Oh, nothing. It's just me and my brother got bored." The brunette smiled sadistically.
"Yes, and we hate being bored. But we have to admit." A new male voice said as its owner rose out of the ground in front of frisk, whiles encasing her in even more vines. Now her arms, and her chest were wrapped up in vines. Frisk started to thrash around at this point, trying to escape from the vines.
"It was fun to watch you brothers fall apart in front of us. You might as well stop thrashing, you're not going anywhere." Chara sneered.
"Why… why would… why would you do that, you, you psychopaths." Frisk screamed out in anger towards Chara. "TELL ME WHY? WHY KILL EVERYONE?" Flowey tightened the vines on Frisk resulting on her screaming out in pain as they started to crush her.
"That's no way to talk to someone. Didn't daddy teach you any manners?" Flowey demonically smiled as he moved into frisks face.
"Of course he wouldn't, he's stuck in the void." Chara sneered and laughed in Frisks face. "I think we've played with our toy far too long brother, I think it's time we show her how we take care of the trash." Chara smiled, her eyes going black as she and Flowey combined.
"Yes sister. Although it would have been fun if our sabotage attempt had killed you earlier. Shame for you, at least we get to have some fun. " Was all Flowey said as he grew into his omega form, but this time with a difference? Large sharp metallic spines grew out in places, and all the while Frisk struggled with the vines holding her down. Once the transformation was complete, in front of Frisk was omega Flowey with two extra pairs of arms. With large meat cleavers in two of them. In a dual voice of both Flowey's and Chara's the beast spoke to the skeleton it was keeping trapped and bound.
"DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY WE KILLED EVERYONE FRISK?" The demon smiled with its various mouths as it pulled out two large cleavers and hoisted them above itself.
"Sans… Papyrus… please, save me" Frisk whispered under her voice as she looked on at what was about to happen.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA, IN THIS WORLD, IT'S KILL OR BE KILLED." The demon fusion smiled as it burst out laughing evilly, bringing the cleavers down on the last remaining skeleton, Frisk could only scream as the cleavers hit her and she was thrown into darkness.
End of Frisks nightmare
Both Gaster and Sans had entered Frisks room the moment she started to thrash around as her eyes started to glow there bright reddish pink. Sans stood in the door way whilst Gaster made his way over to Frisks bedside. Moments later just like how Sans had, Frisk's magic formed a few blasters and bones. The bones went hurdling towards both her dad and Sans, who quickly used their own magic to disintegrate the bones before they landed a hit on either of them… or the furniture. The two blasters Frisk had somehow summoned just looked at the two skeletons before flying over to a corner in Frisks room and curling up around each other going to sleep. Sans snorted a chuckle as he looked at the sight, even Frisks blasters got lazy too. After about a minute of fending of Frisks attacks, the young skeleton shot up in bed screaming as she woke up. Within moments tears were streaming down her face like a waterfall as she tried to get her breathing under control. Within seconds both Gaster and Sans were by her bed side, helping to calm her down. Frisks eyes were red as her magic essence flared out, the reddish pink glow filled the room with light just like it had in Sans room only a few minutes before hand.
"Shush Frisk, it's alright were here. It was just a bad dream." Gaster calmly told her, while pulling both of his scared children into a hug. "There just nightmares. Everyone is fine, there is nothing to worry about." Gaster continued as he and sans calmed Frisk down. Sans just looked at Gaster waiting for him to ask the question he had asked sans only minutes ago.
"Frisk… did you have a genocide nightmare?" he asked his little girl as he rubbed her spinal cord to calm her down. Frisk was too shaken up to speak so quickly signed a yes in sign language, which she switched to when she was in a panic and frenzy and couldn't speak. Thankfully both Gaster and Sans knew how to read and speak sign language and Papyrus was still learning how to use and read sign language. Sans looked a little shock at what Frisk just signed, that yes she too had a nightmare about one of the past genocide timelines. How it was possible for both of them to have them two nights in a row, at the same time as each other… both based around the genocide timelines.
"Dad how is that possible, we both had nightmares two nights in a row, at the same time about the genocide timelines?" Sans asked as he wrapped his duvet around his shoulders and Frisks.
"I do not know Sans but I may have an idea, you and Frisk sped the most time with each other am I correct?" Gaster asked.
"Yeah, I suppose we have, why?" Sans asked whilst Frisk simply signed
"Yes."
"In some cases siblings who spend a lot of time with each other form a soul link, this means that your souls are linked like its name, this lets you share feelings and thoughts with each other at will. Sans, you already have a link with Papyrus am I correct?" the skeleDad asked.
"Yeah, we just don't use it as I usually annoy him with puns." Sans chuckled.
"Well I think your souls are trying to establish a link now. It would make sense, it takes a few years to establish it but when the connection is completely set up it results in the share of thoughts and dreams. It appears that you're link has been completely set up now at this stage. If you would allow I would like to check it in the morning in the lab to make sure there is no problems." The doctor smiled as he hugged his eldest and youngest children.
"Heh, cool. Looks like I'll be able to read your mind now Frisk. I was wondering when it would happen or even if it would happen, ya know, human gone monster." Sans giggled a little, whilst Frisk burst out into laughter at his pun. The three heard Papyrus shouting down the corridor at Sans' cheesy joke.
"How does he do that?" Frisk asked amazed at how papyrus could tell if Sans had made a pun or not from that distance away
"No idea sis." Sans laughed.
"Well, I'd hate to ask this of you two but… what was your nightmares about." Gaster asked. Both Frisk and Sans looked at each other as it to ask who would tell first, Sans spoke up though and started to explain his nightmare first.
"Well… my uh, my nightmare was, was that we were, were back in the underground. Frisk was still thirteen, and a monster, you were still in the void… and that the barrier had never been shattered. I found myself at my, my sentry post outside Snowdin. I thought the world had reset for a minute, I was probably right as everything was, different." Sans sighed as he wrapped himself up in his duvet. "Frisk had always been a monster in my nightmare I found as I returned home to look for clues as to why the world reset. Sis returned home and found me searching around the house before heading back over to papyrus who was re-calibrating his traps for the day before planning on heading over to M.k's for a while. I decided to teleport over to the ruins to exchange jokes with Toriel, but when I got there…" Sans stopped and took a deep breath before continuing. "The door to the ruins was opened, there was, and there was dust all, all around the place. No one survived, all the creatures inhabiting the ruins were, were turned to dust. The second I realised it was a genocide timeline, or nightmare in this case I ran, I had to find pap's and Frisk, I, I had to, to try protect them from Chara." Sans sighed as tears started to line his sockets again.
"Chara… she was in your nightmare too? How?" Frisk signed, she had lost her voice at this point as she felt her own fear build up when Sans mentioned the dead demonic human.
"Don't know… I had made it, to the clearing were Pap's was, I, I, I watched him… I watched him fall down, Chara… she, she murdered him. I couldn't do anything… something trapped me and wouldn't let me move." Sans cried as the memories of the past genocide timelines flooded back into his mind. Gaster pulled Sans into a hug and started to rub his spinal cord again as Frisk wrapped herself into a ball. Her own horrid memories of those timelines flooding back into her own mind. After a minute Sans had calmed down enough to continue speaking. "What's worse is that, Frisk, sis, you, you stumbled upon the scene. Chara then picked on you. She started to fight you."
"What happened?" Frisk asked her older brother quietly.
"You teleported out of the way, but, Chara… Chara was quicker. She sliced you across your spinal cord and collar bone before plunging it, plunging it into your back." Sans sighed as he told Frisk what had happened his dream. Frisk was in horror and shock at what sans had told her and her mind was going a mile a minute with different scenes plaguing her mind, she looked like she was going to be sick if she had a stomach. "She then proceeded to, to twist the knife deeper into your back and shoulder, before she, she kicked you over onto your back. You started to crawl away from her, but managed to make it over to Papyrus's dust. You, you, you were at only, only one H.P. you were starting to fall to dust as blood from your marrow, started to stain your clothes and the snow underneath you. Chara then pushed you down as she stood above you… she, plunged the knife into, into your soul… killing you instantly, you fell to dust. And I could do nothing." Sans venomously spat, cursing himself for allowing it to happen. Frisk just simply hugged Sans, trying to help comfort him as he was in a right state, and so was she. "I took off trying to catch up with her before heading to judgement hall, to judge her and kill her there… but she didn't show up… nearly a day had passed and she still didn't turn up. I teleported back to the clearing were… were Frisk and Pap's dust was, I sort of had a break down as, as I started crying about it. She, she turned up… right behind me… but Flowey was with her." Sans sighed as he wrapped himself up into a ball on Frisks bed. Gaster didn't say nothing but frisks eye sockets went large, Flowey had been in her nightmare too. "That stupid flower used his vines to bind me and block my magic. Chara and Flowey started to do that whole evil person monologue movie villains do, rubbing it in and all, ugh, if I'd been able to use my magic I would have blasted that smirk off her face. There was still nothing I could do, Flowey started to crush me alive. It was, was at that point in time were, were Chara came over… she lifted the meat cleaver she had… and she, she stabbed me… and that was that, I woke up at that point with pain searing across my chest for a second before it died off into a tingling sensation and then nothing." Sans sighed as he wiped his tears on the edges of his duvet. Gaster hugged him again, and started to rub both Sans and Frisks spinal cords to calm them down.
"Sans, it's alright, that will never happen again ever. No one has that ability anymore, the only monster who would be able to do anything similar to a reset would be Frisks ability to reload." Gaster sighed as he comforted his two children. Sans may be his eldest and most responsible child, but even he needed to be comforted, he didn't have as much free time to be himself as he had to work and raise papyrus after Gaster fell into the void, and Frisk was still a kid, she had been abandoned at an orphanages when she was a really young human and never really had a family, or had the chance to talk to anyone about her nightmares like a normal child in a normal family would.
"Frisk, sweetheart… would you like to talk about your nightmare now?" the skeleDad asked as he looked into his daughters eye sockets.
"Yeah… sure." Frisk quietly said as she wrapped part of Sans' duvet around herself.
"I, I found myself lying down on the green sofa, in the cabin back in Snowdin… with a searing head ache and a crack in my skull. Sans you were there and told me that one of Papyrus' traps malfunctioned and part of it hit me resulting in the crack. You gave me an aspirin to help with the pain. I asked why we were back in the underground and not on the surface you told me that we never made it to the surface and that the barrier had never been broken." Frisk sighed as she quickly wiped away a few tears on her cheek bones. "Sans you told me that I had probably seen one of the past timelines and acted like I had no memory of any of them, I didn't feel too good and went to sleep while you went out again to your post and away to help papyrus fix the trap. I… I woke up a few hours later, neither of you were home and I, I got worried. I checked everywhere around the house and even out in the lab… I, I started to freak out, so I went out and over to your sentry post. As I walked through Snowdin I, I found it to be abandoned… and really eerily silent. As I left the town I found huge knife gouges on the trees and everything." Frisk told them, she had a few tears building up in her sockets at this point but took a deep breath to calm her nerves before she continued with her nightmare. "I… I made my way to, to the clearing were, you old sentry post was hoping, hoping you and Papyrus would be there. As, as I got there… there was blaster marks everywhere… you and papyrus, you, you…" Frisk broke down crying at that point whilst Sans and Gaster hugged her, trying to soothe the distressed little skeleton.
"Shush, it's alright Frisk, me and Pap's are alright." Sans whispered to her as a few tears of his own fell from his sockets. Gaster had never seen any of his children so distressed like this before, but the pair of them had P.T.S.D after all the resets and multiple genocide timelines. He was happy that Papyrus couldn't remember any of the timelines otherwise he'd have three kids with P.T.S.D to look after and comfort. Frisk couldn't speak at this point and just started to sign the rest of her nightmare.
"Sans you and papyrus were piles of dust in the snow, I broke down crying hoping it was some sort of cruel joke. You left a note on your sentry post saying that Chara was round. I make my way into waterfall to warn Undyne about Chara, but she had melted into a pile of goo like Alphys amalgamations and not too far away was M.K's dust, I didn't stay around too long as I teleported off to the labs in hot land to warn Alphys. Mettaton must have tried to protect Alphys as her robot body was destroyed and Alphys was a pile of dust in one of the corners. I didn't stay to long, I decided to go off to judgement hall to try and take her by surprise. I had gotten to the marble steps which lead up to the entrance of the palace when…" Frisk stopped and steadied her hands as her finger bones started to shake and rattle slightly, she couldn't look up at either aster or Sans at this point. "Flowey grabbed me with his vines as I made my way up the steps, I cracked a rib as, as he pulled me under the ground and dragged me all the way back to the clearing were you and papyrus' dust was. Flowey and Chara were there, I, I tried to hit them with my magic but something wasn't allowing me to. Flowey started to tighten his vines around me and crack and crush my bones. The pair combined into a huge metal fleshy version of omega Flowey with a couple of huge meat cleavers. They, they brought them down on me… that's when I woke up." The young skelesister signed as she started to cry again in her brother and dads embrace. It took the pair of them ten minutes straight to calm her down again, but when they did Frisk started to yawn. They young skeleton was starting to get tired again but wasn't likely going to fall asleep after the nightmares.
"Frisk it's alright we will never let anything like that happen ever. It was just a nightmare." Gaster calmly told his daughter. "Nightmares are dreams which show you your deepest, darkest fears but also show you what you are about the most."
"Huh?" Frisk asked.
"I think what dads trying to say sis is that we care too much for the others." Sans smirked slightly.
"Yes, but it also tells me that the pair of you are scared about another reset and what will happen. Frisk no longer has that ability so we need to figure out if it has been destroyed for good or whether some other human has received its power. Hopefully it has been destroyed for ever as that would be my preferred choice, although I think now would be the right time for the pair of you to get some proper sleep now, the pair of you must be knackered after hardly any sleep last night." Gaster sighed. Sans and Frisk looked at each other and were pondering whether they would be able to get to sleep after having such demented and horrid nightmares. After a few minutes silence Sans and Frisk looked back at their dad. Gaster got up and made his way over to the door with Sans following right beside, but Sans stopped when he felt a tug on his duvet.
"Sans… would you stay with me tonight… please." Frisk asked, not wanting to be left alone after her nightmare. San looked at Frisk, the over to his dad in the door way before turning back to frisk.
"Suppose you beds large enough… that alright dad?" Sans asked.
"As long as you two get some sleep, I do not mind, besides this is your house not mine, you kids are old enough to do what. You decorated and paid for this house do what you want." Gaster smirked as he made his way out of the room. Sans made his way back over to frisks bed and slid under the duvet beside his little sister.
"Sure I'll stay sis." Sans smirked as he looked at her. Frisks blasters made a scrapping noise in the corner which sounded like one of them farted resulting in the pair of them laughing. The older skeleton summoned his own blasters and watched as they flew over and landed beside Frisks in the corner. Gaster simply closed the door as Sans and Frisk settled down on her bed, the skeleDad left to check on papyrus to make sure he was sleeping through all the commotion the three had made. Thankfully Papyrus had… well bar having woken up when Sans made that one pun. He made his way over to his room only to notice that the light in Frisks room had been left on so he made his way over to the door and opened it slightly. He was chuckling when he looked at the sight of his youngest and oldest child huddled together, hugging each other do cutely. Frisk had her head in Sans chest, while Sans had his skull placed gently on hers. It mustn't have taken too long for the pair of them to fall asleep, and besides they were the heavy sleepers in the family they could fall asleep nearly everywhere and anywhere. He chuckled slightly and pulled out his mobile phone, he took a quick picture to show papyrus in the morning and quickly sent it to all the others on his newly set up Undernet page, as Undernet had become quite a sensation on the surface and the others still used their accounts nearly daily. Looked like Sans and Frisk would have no problem sleeping now as Gaster used his magic to tuck the pair in under both of their duvets, this resulted in the pair of there sockets glowing as they slept in each other's embrace. After switching of the light Gaster closed the door and made his way down to his room, all the while Sans and Frisk snuggled up closer to each other, not looking to let go of each other encase there nightmares returned. The pair just cuddled up and enjoyed a peaceful night's sleep free of anymore horrid nightmares.
Yeah, finished this chapter. Happy halloween people, i decided to go for a scary chapter for the occasion. enjoy and keep reading.