Chapter 4
Making a Promise
After they fell asleep Frisk sighed. "I was thinking, what would the monsters outside of the RUINS do when they find out there are three humans down here, would they try to kill all of us or just one?" Chara sat down next to her.
"I never thought about that. They probably would only try to kill one of you because there is no need for two extra souls." Frisk yawned.
" Sounds logical. I'll probably do all the fighting. I have no idea what would happen if one of them died." Chara patted her on the shoulder.
"You should probably get some rest. I have a feeling things will be a lot different now that they are here." Frisk nodded her head in agreement and fell asleep. A few minutes has passed when Ann woke up to both smaller ones passed out on her lap. She looked around the room.
"Hey, Chara? I have no idea if you are here but I have a few things I would like to explain to you." She whispered so she wouldn't wake the kids up. Chara was next to Frisk listening to her. "First off I would like to apologize for all of the hardships we may have caused and I understand if you cannot forgive us. If we knew what we were doing we would have never have done any of that. Zach is a good kid. After our parents left he kind of changed, you know." A frown grew on her face while she was talking. "He started to keep to himself and we began fighting. A lot. After a while he started to play video games more, mostly the violent ones. But he would never hurt anyone on purpose. Heck just a few days ago I saw him buy a teddy bear for a little girl that he never met before." A soft laugh escaped her lips. "When I asked him about it he told me it was because she was crying." Ann shook her head to bring herself back to reality. "I'm getting off track. What I am trying to say is Zach didn't mean to do any of those horrible things to the both of you. And if it comes down to it I will give my life to save him and to set things right if it must come to it. I promise." She paused for a moment. "Just thought you should know." Chara sat there in silence trying to figure out if she was sincere about what she just said. After a few moments, she decided to do what she hasn't done in a long time. She stood up and walked over to stand in front of Ann and pulled her soul out, bathing the room in light blue.
"Patience huh, makes sense, I guess." Startled Ann held back from jumping and gasped at the sight of her own soul. Chara touched her soul causing what little bit of her own to connect to hers through a small thread of red light. She closed her eyes in concentration.
"Can you hear me?" Anns face contorted in confusion at the sudden voice in her head.
"I can, you must be Chara." Chara sat down to steady herself feeling the strain on her soul by connecting the two together.
"I am. I will need to make this quick before the connection breaks. I doubt Frisk would let you give up your own life to save her and your brother. In fact she is determined to make sure neither of you dies. We have no idea if either of you would come back when she loads her own file. But if the time ever comes and there is no way around it I will hold you to your promise and risk your own life to save them." The thread snapped causing Chara to fall backwards. When she looked back at Ann her soul returned to its rightful place in her chest. Ann was staring down at her brother, emotionless. "Crap, did I say something I shouldn't have?" Frisk sat up and rubbed her eyes.
"What time is it?" Ann looked at her watch.
"It's three twenty eight in the morning." Frisk stood up stretching before looking at the trio.
"Did something happen." Ann looked up at her with a smile.
"Nope I was just lost in thought. Why do you ask?" Sensing some tension in the air Frisk shook her head.
"I don't know you just seemed upset or something."
"I'm fine." Ann stood up dropping Zach on the ground before giving him a soft kick in the side. "Wake up buttercup it is time to go." In one quick movement Zach grabbed her ankle and pulled hard, causing her to fall back on to the ground.
"Don't kick me you jerk." Ann tackled him pinning his face to the ground.
"What-chya gunna do about it brat?" Zach reached behind him grabbing her hoodie and pulled her off to side. Freed from her hold he jumped up sticking his tongue out at her.
"That is what I'm gunna do." Frisk cleared her throat grabbing their attention.
"Are you two ready?" Ann stood dusting herself off.
"Whenever you are squirt." Frisk walked out of the room with the rest following behind. When they reached Napstablook Frisk turned around.
"I think it would be best if you two stood near the door. His attacks can't reach that far." Nodding her head Ann grabbed Zach by the sleeve and pulled him over to the door. "Don't worry this shouldn't take too long." Frisk walked up to Napstablook and gave him a gentle nudge with her foot and with a sweet tone. "Excuse me sir, May we please get past you." She backed up preparing for what will happen next. Napstablook floated up looking annoyed. Out of nowhere music started to play, Ann perked up.
"Hey I love this song." Zach snickered.
"I know, you play it all the time on your guitar." Chara glanced over at them curiously while Napstablook looked Frisk over.
"what do you want?" Frisk gave him a patient smile. In response Napstablook let out a small laugh. Above her some words appeared. Ann looked up and read them out loud.
"REALLY NOT FEELING UP TO IT RIGHT NOW. SORRY." The words disappeared making letting Frisk to cheer him up. She decided to tell him a joke this time.
"What is a ghosts favorite dessert?" She waited a few seconds. "Boo Berry pie!" Napstablook gave her a ghost of a smile letting out another small laugh before he started to cry. The tears started to fall from the ceiling in random patterns making it hard for her to dodge them but she did it without getting hit once. Knowing that the battle will end soon she gave him a gentle smile. "Hey Blooky, I was wondering if we could hang out some time." Shocked Napstablook stared at her for a few moments before answering.
"really do you mean that." He sat there thinking about what he should say next. "sure, i guess but only if you want to. Um, there is something i would like to show you." Tears started to float upwards creating a hat on top of his head. "i call it dapper blook. Do you like it?" He sat there waiting for her answer but before Frisk could say anything Zach piped in.
"IT LOOKS AWESOME NAPSTABLOOK!" Napstablook looked behind Frisk realizing that there were other people in the room.
It's a good look for you, you should show it off more often." Ann chimed in almost not being heard by him. Seeing how the newcomers are helping Frisk finally spoke up.
"I agree with them you look great." A slight tint of blue glowed on Napstablooks cheeks not used to so many compliments in one day.
"Aww, He's blushing I never seen him blush before." Chara cooed, knowing that only Frisk could hear her.
"oh gee…. i usually come to the RUINS because there's nobody around... but today i met some nice people... oh i'm rambling again i'll get out of your way." Napstablook quickly floated out of the room hoping nether of them has noticed his blush. Once he was out of sight Frisk walked over to the siblings.
"Thank you for helping me cheer him up. Anyways let us continue, were almost there." Frisk ran off ahead of them into the room with the spider bake sale. Zach and Ann caught up to her while Chara hung back. Frisk just bought some spider cider and three donuts.
"Thank you for your purchases. Please come back any time you want." One of the spider spoke before leaving. Frisk walked up to the siblings handing each of them a donut.
"Put these in your inventory for later. That way if you do get hurt you have something to heal you." The two siblings looked dumbfounded. "Do either of you know how to access your inventories?" Zach shook his head no while Ann gave her an apologetic look.
"Sorry squirt, we have no clue." Frisk sighed not knowing how to explain how she does it. She could hear Zach making strange sounds, his face was all scrunched up in concentration. Seeing what he is trying to do Ann decided to give it a shot, she closed her eyes imagining the inventory box. Chara finally walked in to the room and busted out laughing at Zach.
"What is he doing, it looks like he is having cramps!" Frisk looked at him starting to laugh as well causing Zach to accidently pull Frisk in to a fight.
"Wha, how did you do that?" Zach opened his eyes, the whole room lost color and all he can see is Frisk with her soul floating in front of her. He looked down curios to see his own soul, which is glowing a gentle green. Ann opened her eyes to see what her brother has done this time and was shocked to see his soul.
"Kindness, I would have never guessed with the way we fight." She whispered to herself with a hint of a smile. Frisk hit the spare button.
"Move your hand over the mercy button and then the spare button." Zach nodded his head and did as she instructed. After sparing her words appeared in front of him which he read out loud.
"You won, you have earned zero exp and zero gold." The colors returned to the room. Frisk walked up to him.
"How did you do that?" Zach rubbed the back of his head.
"I don't know, all I did was concentrate on an inventory then you started to laugh, and then the whole room went colorless." Frisk cupped her chin with two of her fingers in thought.
"Interesting, I have never been able to pull someone into a fight, no matter how hard I tried." Ann decided to continue to put the donut into an inventory.
(Ok, concentrate on the donut. Tune everyone out and think of a dimensional box.) After a few moments of concentration Ann opened her eyes, seeing an inventory screen float in front of her. She reached the donut towards an empty slot causing the donut to disappear in her hand. She squealed in excitement catching the others attention.
"I did it!" Zach looked over at her annoyed.
"What did you do this time?" She stuck her tongue out at him and pointed at the air in front of her.
"I was able to put the donut in my inventory. Don't you see it?" Zach shook his head while Frisk beamed at her.
"That's great, and only you can see your inventory." Chara is sitting on the ground trying to figure out why she can see her inventory.
(Why can I see it? Maybe because I'm dead, I can see Frisks as well.) She stood and walked over to Frisk.
"You know, these two will cause me to have a heart attack." Frisk looked over at her with a smile.
"I'm glad you are entertained by them." Char snorted looking back at the two. Ann was explaining to her brother how she was able to bring her inventory up. While everyone was busy Frisk sat down. (I'm glad to see Chara happy, she has been down for the last two resets.) Zach threw his hands in the air in success.
"Hey, Frisk I did it!" She looked over at them. Ann was beaming with pride while Zach was looking at the air in front of him.
"Congratulations, now that we have that squared away we can go to Tori's" Frisk stood up and walked out of the room with the others following closely behind. After solving all of the puzzles and meeting new monsters they have finally reached the tree in front of Toriels house. Toriel walked around the tree.
"Oh my, that took longer than I thought it would. I probably should have given them the cell phone." Toriel looked at the entrance to see the three standing there waving at her. "My children, what are you doing here. Are any of you hurt. I shouldn't have left you alone for so long, that was very irresponsible of me." Frisk grabbed Toriels hand with a smile.
"We're fine mom there is no need to worry." A light blush dusted Toriels cheeks.
"My child, did you just call me mom?" Frisk nodded her head. "Well then, if it makes you happy you can call me mother." She looked up at the other two with a smile. "You may also call me mother if you would like." Zach stood there in shock. He has never had any one be so kind to him, not even his own mother.
"Thank you very much Tori. It would be an honor to have you as a mother." Ann spoke up happy to have someone offer that to at least her brother. He needs a motherly figure in his life, and she has been doing a very poor job of it herself.
"Very well my children, please come in side I have a surprise for you." Toriel walked in to the house. Frisk turned to her new friends possibly even new siblings.
"Are you two really going to call her mom." Chara was curious as well. Ann shrugged her shoulders.
"I don't see why not, it would be nice to have a mother for once, even if it is for a short while." Zach followed Toriel in to the house not wanting to have this conversation right now, Ann followed him leaving Frisk outside with Chara.
"So, how do you think Sans will deal with our new friends, I think him and that bracelet has something to do with their arrival." Frisk shrugged her shoulders before following the others.
"I guess we will have to find out."