Arana: After the long, long wait trying to find something to inspire me, I decided to just say "Heck with inspiration! I need to post a chapter so that this story's fans don't think I've entirely dropped it!"
Flowey: You never said that.
Chara: Flowey, how many times have we gone over with this? She's just weird… the good kind of weird though.
Frisk: Yeah. But… Are we really going to cross a bridge of spikes?
Toriel: As I said before, I shall hold you hand while Chara carries Flowey across.
Frisk: ...OK then….
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Chapter 4- Battle Tactics and Crossing Bridges
Chara floated into the next room, then changed her tail back into legs. She then pointed at the randomly placed~at least looking randomly place~pathway to Frisk. "That's the key to the puzzle," she said, then walk the way through. "Whenever I needed to cross the bridge on this side, I would walk the path to refresh my memory. But, I don't think we'd really have a reason to come back here unless it's needed."
Frisk, though still looking fearful, nodded slowly.
"Come along, my children," Toriel said softly. "We must not dawdle."
Chara and Frisk nodded, and followed the boss monster through a hallway. However, when coming past a turn, a battle started. And Flowey was pulled in as well, since he was in Frisk's hands. But, he was quickly put on the ground and then became a bystander to the fight.
"It's a Froggit!" Chara stated. "Remember, these guys are easy to spare if you complement them."
Frisk nodded, and looked down at her buttons. "Um… which button do I press?" she asked.
Chara pointed to ACT. "That one is for doing actions, so it's best to press that every so often," she answered.
"OK," Frisk said, pressing the button. She was met with three choices, Check, Compliment, and Intimidate. "Uhm…"
"OK, let me go over these," Chara said. "Check will give you the stats of any and all monsters you meet in a fight. Usually, you'd know instantly, but since I'm here, I'm the one who will relay the stats to you.
"Compliment is the one we want to go with. It's the most friendly way to get to these guys, which you want to do so we get some monsters on our side when we meet King Asgore. It's probably going to be our goal to be the friendliest humans around, since most monsters dislike humans nowadays.
"Intimidate will allow you to spare these guys as well, but it won't really put you on the good side of these guys. I suggest that you don't press it."
"Let her do what she wants, Chara," Flowey hissed behind the two girls. "If she wants to press FIGHT, let her, if she wants to intimidate, let her! You can't just tell her what to do!"
"Um, I actually enjoy that she's suggesting things like this," Frisk said in a slightly louder voice than usual. "I'm a pure pacifist, and I'd like to do things the friendly way."
Flowey looked taken aback for a moment, but then grumbled something that sounded like a half-hearted apology.
Frisk then choose Compliment, and the Froggit blushed. Chara resisted her now habitual urge to say, "Froggit didn't understand what you said, but was flattered anyway," which she usually said to each of the other fallen children. Of course, she was bound to their souls as they journeyed~until they died of course.
Even if she was unseeable, she was always present. If there was a battle, the fallen children would hear her talking, although they thought it was their own thoughts. She also was there to translate any non-attacking Froggits, whispering what they said in the fallen child's ear.
However, before the Froggit even had it's turn, Toriel appeared and gave it what Chara dubbed the "motherly death glare." She usually gave this to anyone who she caught attacking the children she cared for.
It still gave her the chills.
The Froggit hopped away shivering, and the fight dissipated. Frisk, confused about what happened, picked Flowey back up. Then, she and Chara followed Toriel, although Chara got in front when they turned the corner.
Then, both Toriel and Chara stopped, turning around. "Frisk, hand me Flowey," Chara said, taking the potted flower into her hands. She then turned back around, and stepped towards a spike.
Frisk was about to yelp out stop to the green and yellow clad girl, but it only came out a gasp as the spike dropped down. She was caught in a half breathless state after that, watching Chara, with a very unhappy Flowey, crossed the bridge of spikes without getting poked by them once. Once they were at the other side, Chara waved.
Toriel held out her hand to Frisk, who gulped and took it. Then, Toriel started to lead the fearful child across the bridge, but was taking her time so that Frisk could get used to the spikes.
Once they were across, Chara almost thrusted Flowey back into Frisk's arms. Why? Because the darn little flower had bit her when she commented on the memories of when she and Asriel had once marked the spikes with marker, which was eventually got washed off.
So, rubbing at the bite mark, which hadn't broke her skin, she followed Toriel and Frisk into the next room, and then groaned when she remembered the irony of the room being a very, very long hallway in which Toriel was going to make them walk down by themselves, without her.
'Testing independence my butt,' Chara growled in her thoughts, but declined to say it before Toriel even asked the very unneeded test of them.
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Arana: Finally! It's finished!
Flowey: Why did you take so long again…?
Chara: Flowey, she gets writer's block easily. Don't blame her for not writing things. Plus, she did this chapter in Google Docs so that she didn't have to worry about LibreOffice freezing when she right clicks somethings. Yes people, that happens to her often.
Frisk: I tried to type something in LibreOffice, and then I misspelled a word. I tried to fix it, but then it randomly saved and then I couldn't click anything and had to use the task manager to close it. It annoyed the heck out of me!
Toriel: I still don't know how to type like you all do, my fingers are too big! When will the monster scientists make a computer with a larger keyboard for monsters like me?
Arana: I don't really know when that'll happen. It's probably not going to be soon though, Alphys is still trying to figure out how the drone works…
Flowey: Can we please not talk about Alphys?
Arana: Well then, let's end the chapter here.
~Arana and the crew