Sup, I'm finally back! I know, it's unfair, releasing several longer than usual chapters of Sick of It before this one. But now, Sick of it is finished. Also, just for reference, this story will most likely be 15 chapters plus an epilogue, I at least have that planned. I don't have anything else to write, so here we go,
Chapter Four, Rise, Rapture, Rise/Legend of the Ink Demon (not BATIM).
3rd P.O.V.
Rose and Chara made little talk while they walked through Hotland, for Chara, she had nothing to say. For Rose, she was focused on conserving energy through the hot environment that was Hotland. Rose looked at all the lava around her as she walked towards the large lab, stopping when two armored monsters stood in her way.
"Stop! You may go no further!" The first said.
"Ok," she shrugged, turning back.
"What are you doing?!" Chara exclaimed.
"Going around the other way," Rose replied, making the thirty minute walk back to Waterfall, going the extra hour back to Snowdin. Chara wasn't exactly thrilled but made no further comments. After entering Snowdin again, she walked over to a dock, where a cloaked stranger on a boat waited.
"Where would you like to go?" his mysterious voice sent slight chills up her spine.
"Hotland please," she replied, fishing out some G to pay him, or her, she couldn't really tell…
"How a boat can go through lava unharmed, I won't try to answer," Rose remarked as they went the other route to the lab.
"We should've went that way in the first place," Chara grumbled. Rose rolled her eyes.
"I forgot about it," she shrugged.
Rose stood before the great metal doors of the large metal building. Watching as they opened before her. She then walked in…
Alphys was…an interesting character, Rose listened as she rambled on, switching between topics. Mentally, she sighed. Everything turned around when something burst into the building, the following explosion knocking her away. She groaned, trying to get up, but found she couldn't, black was the next thing she saw.
When Rose woke up, she found herself in some kind of elevator. She groaned, clutching her head, finding a red liquid dripping down her head, Chara was nowhere to be found…she groaned again, but walked out of the elevator doors. She then found herself in a separate lab area, thankfully, she saw some kind of kitchen ahead. Wait, she didn't need to go there, she had a first aid kit…
After cleaning up her wound, and making sure the bandage was all good, she decided to take a further look around. As she walked, she felt something continuously watching her, but paid it no mind.
"That's not creepy at all," She mumbled, after reading log entries, she found this, some dragon skull themed machine. She looked at it, and it looked back. She stared into the darkness below, the darkness stared back. She trembled a little, but shook herself out of it.
For the next two hours, Rose walked around the lab, and for the most part found nothing but lurking amalgamations, a fun dog amalgamation (which Rose spent a good 25 minutes playing with), and a couple disturbing log entries labeled W.D.G. Rose was still thinking about the logs when she found a concealed staircase. She went up it and found herself a little ways from Alphys' lab. She could clearly see something going on through the hole in the lab. She crept towards it, wary. When she looked inside, she nearly gasped. Inside was another large goat monster, wearing very king like clothing. She came to a quick decision. Leave. However, a hand pulled her inside the lab.
Turns out, a talking metal box on a wheel was the thing that spelt her doom. She was thrown onto the floor, she groaned.
"That wasn't very nice…" Rose grumbled. She spotted Chara wide eyed staring at her.
"Human, I was wondering where you went," a deep voice interrupted her thoughts.
"Oh, you know, places," she shrugged, standing up and straightening her long hair. She spoke again before he could say more.
"Darker…darker still…darker yet darker…those ring a bell?" Rose smirked at the king. Asgore, as she figured he was, seemed incredibly confused.
"Of course they wouldn't," she interrupted, "sorry, by the way," she grinned, chucking a rock at the king, and dashing off before she could see if it hit it's mark or not. She vaulted over and out the hole in the lab and found herself on the run, fireballs chasing after her.
After a five minute chase, she found herself in a tight spot, she went down the wring path and had nowhere to go, gulping she backed up slowly as Asgore advanced, soon she'd be locked into a soul battle, she didn't want that to happen. She found herself at the edge. She remembered the book she read in Snowdin, about SOULs.
"It's a chance-chance situation I guess," she mumbled. She took a deep breath, and did a backflip off the edge into the lava.
"Can't kill me now," she thought, heading straight into the lava. A bright silver light engulfed her, and she blacked out.
Rose woke up to the smell of grass and flowers, groaning she sat up, freezing when she opened her eyes. She was back where she started.
"Did I…teleport, or go back in time?" she wondered aloud. She stood up, checking her bag, finding her coat and the pie.
"I guess I teleported, I wonder how that happened…" She mumbled, shaking it off and walking towards where she first met the flower. Finding it once more.
"Oh no! Fruit you!" She shouted, raising her pack.
"Gah!?" the flower screamed as Rose slammed her pack into the flower, causing it to go flinging off into the darkness.
"That's what you get, you stupid flower!" Rose screamed, shaking her fist in his direction.
"Oh my," Rose heard a familiar voice.
"Toriel?!" Rose exclaimed, turning around. Tears found their way in both their eyes.
"My child, what happened?" Toriel asked. Rose frowned.
"I…can't say I know what you mean, one minute I'm being backed off a cliff into lava, and the next I'm here, in the ruins," Rose replied.
"My child, it's been several years, and five other humans have come down and not back," Toriel replied, Rose hadn't aged a day.
"Another just left…" she remarked sadly.
"Toriel…do you know anything about a silver soul?" Rose cautiously asked.
"Silver? Why silver?" Toriel asked, both of them were sitting on chairs around a fire, Rose sipped on some tea.
"I remember a silver light as I fell towards the lava, after backflipping off into it, afraid I wouldn't survive against Asgore. It was a risk-risk situation," Rose explained. Toriel nodded.
"The silver SOUL is a SOUL able to rewind time, or jump further into it, though usually only at max by an hour or so, and only in special circumstances, the fact you were able to jump years ahead in time is remarkable, and unheard of…" Toriel responded. Rose thought long and hard about this.
"What if another soul helped out? Like, boosted it, in a way," Rose awkwardly asked.
"My child, what do you mean?" Toriel cautiously asked.
"What if it's possible, say, a ghost, that was a friend, may've done just that," Rose replied.
"I met a ghost and we became friends during my travels, she was still in a human form…" Rose added.
"I suppose it would be possible, but only something…like…" Toriel's eyes widened, she jumped out of her chair, scaring Rose, and rushed off towards her room. Rose looked at where she just went.
"It may be best if I just leave…" Rose whispered to herself, getting up and leaving a note.
Rose fiddled with the little metal ball with the letters on it as she walked through the snow. It started to glow brightly, curious, she followed where the light was brightest. A door, in the middle of the woods was what she found, feeling a little stupid, she opened it, to not find the snow she expected to find. Instead a cloaked figure staring in surprise at her. He looked vaguely like someone she had seen in Sans' photo.
"Who…are you?" She asked, standing in the doorway.
Gaster was surprised to say the least, when while thinking of how to get out of his little void, a beautiful young human lady holding one of his inventions found a way into his void. She emanated strong SOUL energy, she had a silver SOUL. Slowly, Gaster walked over to her. She made no effort to move forward, but didn't leave. Good. He tried talking, but she tilted her head to the side. Gaster frowned. The girl took out a note pad and pen, handing it to the scientist. He smiled and sketched a house on it, then a little backdoor, and a four digit number: 1987. He handed the paper back to the lady after also sketching a machine on the paper. The lady nodded her head and smiled, giving a thumbs-up. She waved and left, closing the door behind her. Gaster was pondering…perhaps he'd get out sooner rather than even later…perhaps he could be in the timeline again…
I think I'll leave it here, I would've liked to do 2,000 words, but it most likely would feel like cramming too much into one chapter, that's already kind of short anyway. But hey, baby steps, right? Oh, hey, I have a discord server up for all my stories (questions, clarifications, etc.), as well as a separate section for talking and asking questions about me and fanfic. Here's the link, /zPWV3wX
Well, I'll see you next time, bye!