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Chapter 7 Secrets
"I am a super badass farter!" Yelled Chara.
Sans stood shocked.
"You said the secret code, tell me what ya got."
"A note from Gaster."
Sans deactivated his blue magic.
"Show it to me."
Chara gave him the note.
"Hmmm… interesting. This is surely G's note. Looks like shorty and I are goin' to be busy these days."
Tempest was so tired that he missed the word "shorty".
"What does it read? It looks like some sort of unknown alien language to me." Asked Tempest.
"It's called WingDing, and it's a kind of font," Sans explained. "Sans repair the machine, I will teach Tempest how to do it, and help this girl, G. Weird, how is he goin' to teach you? He was lost in the void."
"That's not a problem. When a living creature sleeps, its conscious will dive in the land of dreams. No matter where the creature is. I met Gaster there sometimes. He's a good monster and we have some nice chats."
"It seems that he's gonna teach ya there."
Tempest's face went green.
"I don't want our casual chit-chats to become machinery teaching! Though I'm good in computer software, it doesn't lead that I can fix or make machines, well, except making and modifying weapons."
Sans left eye glowed.
"Learn it. Or you are going to have a bad time."
"Wo, easy bro. I'm willing to help Gaster. What are you mad about?"
Sans said nothing with his eye turning back normal.
"Alright, this is settled. Now let's work on Chara."
"Before I start, I have to let you know one thing. Do you allow me to alter your SPIRIT status?"
"What the hell is a SPIRIT?"
"It's an abstract concept, I'll explain it someday. It's kind of your conscious and memory."
"Is this the only way to help me?"
"Yes."
"Then do it."
"OK."
Tempest open the "command panel".
== a=open("SPIRIT:/ controller of the SOUL", "w")
==b= ()
==print(b)
After typing in these, the result come out.
==controller of the SOUL:The lord of corruption
Tempest frowned. He changed the text.
==c= ("The lord of corruption", "Chara")
==print(c)
Another text came out.
==controller of the SOUL:Chara
"Good." Tempest thought.
== (c)
== ()
After that a red warning came out.
==warning! need to reboot to set changes
"Chara, I'm going to reboot your SPIRIT, you will lose conscious for 3 seconds"
"Just do what you have to do!"
"Got it."
==reboot=yes
When Tempest hit "enter" on his digital keyboard, Chara fainted, then she woke up.
"How do you feel now?"
"As for myself. Nothing special. Are you sure this would work?"
"We shall know when the machine goes on cooldown."
"So…"
"Yes, you are the first subject… I've no idea whether this will work or not."
"Shit, I'm not your god damn lab rat!"
"Or do you have another option?" Tempest retort her.
"…"
-After five minutes-
The three waited, waiting for Chara to do something.
But nothing happened.
"Looks like it worked!" Tempest claimed with joy. "But…"
"I know you what you want to say, my SOUL is still corrupted, so I still can't feel positive emotions, which makes me Flowey 2.0."
"Yeah, but a better version of Flowey, you can regret. That will stop you from slaughtering everyone."
Chara suddenly asked a question.
"Tempest, Sans can you do me a favor? Please don't tell anyone about me.
And Tempest no word games!"
"OK, I'll keep this a secret!"
"Fine, dirty brother killer. For the sake of your helping G."
-Around 22:00-
Sans and Tempest placed Chara in Tempest's siblings house as a temporary solution to where she should live for now.
Apparently, Chara couldn't stay with Tempest because he shared room with Asriel.
Sans was worried she would kill Papyrus again, so he refused to let her live in his house.
But, this was only for a while.
Chara had to face her family soon.
"What a day, Sans."
"Yeah."
"Now, how are we going to tell Undyne this? Clearly, Chara was the "murderer", but she is not a problem anymore. And we promised her not to tell anyone her appearance."
"I dunno. How 'bout usin' your magic to make everyone forget it?"
"You mean wiping out everything, including the victims? NO. I don't like to wipe out others existence. I have an alternative, let me make a call."
Tempest took out his smartphone and dialed.
"Yes... It's me. Bring that guy to me in my house tomorrow morning."
"Who are you callin'?"
"A dragon friend."
"Sans, all the monsters killed recently were not all murdered by Chara. A young punk was caught "white"-handed by my friend yesterday, so I'm going to frame him up for all the murders Chara committed, that will end the case."
"Are ya sure this will work?"
"Well, I need to work out a sensible script and then implant it into that punk's head.
After that, I will deal with people and surveillance footage that can be his alibi.
I don't need to take care of witnesses, there weren't any, or how come this case was so hard to solve?
Then comes evidence, I have the weapon that Chara used these days."
Tempest took out a screwdriver.
"I immersed it in bleach and wiped it thoroughly, that should kill any collectible DNA or fingerprints, but we all know monster dust wasn't a kind of DNA, it won't be erased like that. The victim's family will know this was the murder weapon since they can feel the essence of it. So, all I have to do is make that punk hold this weapon and BANG! A perfect frame!"
"WOW! How do ya know all of this?"
"I have a complicated past which I want to keep as a secret. That is all."
Tempest was reluctant to give more details.
Sans changed the topic.
"Looks like tomorrow is goin' to be a busy day for ya."
"Sure…"
-Beeb Beeb-
Sans's watch rang, it's time for the skeleton and dragon to shift.
"OK! Let's go shift with Greater dog and Lesser dog."
"Hope your plan will work, I want to be lazy "bones" on the couch."
"This plan has a downside, Sans. The Dreemurrs will be busy in calming down monsters since this horrible random murder was committed by "one" human. So you can't be "lazy" bones. We have to help them."
"I hate ya say that."
-Meanwhile in Asriel's room-
Something woke him up.
A feeling.
"What is this kind of feeling?"
Suddenly, he figured it out.
He took a look at Tempest's bed, or… his mat.
Tempest never sleeps on a bed; he always sits on a mat to sleep.
He wasn't there.
In fact, he wasn't in the room.
"So, this wasn't Tempest's prank."
Deep inside him, he hoped that this was a prank because only one human can make him feel like this.
That human started all of it. Asriel's death, Asgore declared war against humans, Toriel left Asgore… all of it.
Asriel had already forgiven her, but he worried that she might mess up his life, again.
"Chara." He said quietly in case someone was overhearing. "You are back."
-At the same time in Frisk's room-
Frisk also woke up.
"No, it can't be."
She was surprised. She could sense that the first child, who caused everyone suffered, is back.
"I must warn Sans and Asriel!"
She jumped out of bed and rushed to Asriel's room.
When running, she bumped into Tempest, who was going toward Asriel's room to rest.
"Ouch! Watch where you are going, 8 7!" (8 and 7 together sound like "idiot" when pronounced in Taiwanese.)
"Sorry! Are you hurt?"
"I'm OK. What's the hurry? Your highness."
"Tempest, do you know Chara, who was the first human fell underground?"
"You mean that kid who possessed you?"
"Exactly."
Tempest made a frighten face.
"OMG, that's big news."
"Tempest, do me a favor. Bring Sans in Asriel's room. I'm going to tell Azzy about this."
"OK."
Tempest went downstairs and left; then he dialed Sans's phone.
Frisk opened the door without knocking.
"Azzy I…" She blushed. Asriel was wearing nothing, she can see his…
"Sorry, I will come in later…"
Frisk closed the door.
"Oh golly. This is not happening."
"What's up, dude? Feeling nervous about your girlfriend seeing you naked?"
"Tempest! Sans! How did you come in? Our house should be anti-teleport."
"Ya left the window open. We took a "shortcut" in."
"Aren't you supposed to be dressing up? Or you want to meet Frisk like this?"
Tempest smiled widely.
"Oh! Are you going to…"
Asriel stopped Tempest from continuing with his face red.
"STOP! For heaven's sake!"
"As you wish, my lord."
Asriel dressed and opened the door.
"Come in please."
Frisk came in with a flushing face.
"Azzy, why are you not wearing anything?"
"You know, this fur is fuzzy and warm in the winter, but in the summer. It's like wearing a heavy coat under the sun and you can't take it off. It's too hot tonight."
"Then why don't you turn the AC?"
"AC? What is that?"
"Azzy, you have been living on the surface for a year and you don't what an AC is?"
"I really don't know."
"AC is an abbreviation which stands for "air conditioner". Weird, I didn't see one underground."
"Your highness, the temperature underground is always around 22 to 24°C, there was no need to place an AC. Even in MTT resort."
"Meebe your family need one, kiddo. I'm pretty sure most of the royal family must have a bad time fightin' the "heat", especially the prince.
"No, I'm not!"
"Asriel! Stop arguing. Your "buddy" just rat you out!"
Ariel looked down, his "buddy" really betrayed him, and then he looked at Frisk.
Frisk already turned away her head.
"…"
"Can you boys be more mature? Guys, we are here not to talk about this. Chara is back!"
"What?! That little dirty brother killer?" Sans said with "surprised".
"Nice acting skills, such a shame that Sans didn't go to drama school." Tempest thought.
"What do you have as proof? Your highness."
"I can feel her."
"Feel? I can't believe that. Give me something more real."
"I trust you, kiddo, you won't be crazy like this if it's not IMP."
"Tempest, I can feel her, too. My SOUL fused with hers before I died, so it is possible that I have some "special" connections wit
h her."
"I can accept that. So why do you what us here? Just telling us this?"
"I want to you to be alarmed. Among all my friends, only Sans have the chance to defeat Chara and you are Azzy's bodyguard."
"Then why don't ya tell all?"
"No one will believe this except you two."
"Nothin' else to say?"
"That is all, sorry to bother you resting, Sans. I know you have a poor sleeping quality."
"It's OK, kiddo. Just call when ya need help."
Sans crawled out the open window and teleported.
"Now, I should go to sleep now. Good night."
Tempest sat on the mat and feel asleep in a split second.
That leaves Frisk, Asriel, and an awkward atmosphere.
After that "serious" talk, they always feel nervous when they are with each other.
"Good night, Azzy."
"Sleep tight, Frisk."
Frisk left the room.
After Frisk closed the door, Asriel sighted.
"When can we have a normal talk as usual?"
Tempest's eyes opened.
"Asriel, you have to be more aggressive."
"Tempest, why are you awake?"
"I'm never totally "asleep", part of my mind is still working and alarmed, in case of an emergency. And bro, you are too shy. The problem wasn't Frisk, it was you."
"I have "that" feeling to her, Tempest. It always makes me anxious every time I want to talk to Frisk."
"Relax! It's normal to be sexual appealed by your girlfriend. Just remember to contain it when dating with Frisk, or we are all in trouble."
"Tempest, sometimes I think you really acted like my bigger brother."
"I always wished I have a little brother like you since I was the "smallest" in my family. Go to sleep now, my friend, you have classes tomorrow. Or you need some help? Holy elements, I'm infected with puns by Sans!"
Asriel ignored his last sentence.
"Help me please."
"OK."
After concentrating for 3 minutes, Tempest pressed the "Sleep" button on his window.
"Good night, young prince."
-The next day at 4:00-
Tempest got up very early to "fix" some stuff.
"OK, last night I hacked the surveillance system, altered some data and wiped out some people's memory. Let's see what we got left… Oh! the fake evidence."
He took out the screwdriver and took a look at it.
"There's one final fix. Fingerprints."
He left the house to make the "adjustment".
-Later-
Tempest was assigned scouting duty again this morning, but instead of scouting, he was placing the screwdriver.
"OK. The fake evidence goes here."
Tempest placed the screwdriver in a pile of grass while wearing latex gloves.
"Perfect, now…"
He activated his telecom.
Tempest faked a frightened sound.
"Madam, we have a situation here! I found a tool which is coated with monster dust! It might be the murder weapon! Over."
"Stay where you are and keep the weapon safe! Here I come! Over."
Tempest took off the gloves and burned them.
"Now the show begins…"
Everything just went like Tempest said to Sans, with the fingerprints on the weapon and some footages that Tempest faked. The young punk was arrested.
-The same day 6:00 p.m.-
After a day of hard work, the Dreemurr family sat on the sofa.
They fetch some news on the TV.
Toriel gasped upon watching the news.
-News-
Random Murder Case Solved
This morning, one of the royal guards, Tempest. Found a suspicious screwdriver in the bushes near the town park.
After matching, the screwdriver was confirmed to be the murder weapon.
The screwdriver was a breakthrough to the mass murder case.
Investigators looked into surveillances nearby the park and spotted a suspect.
According to the police, when the suspect was brought in for questioning, he immediately told officers that he was responsible for the crime and laughed.
Tune in for more details after the break.
-End-
"I can't believe it! How can someone kill that many monsters without feeling guilty?"
"I don't know, Tori."
"Because they view us as ants."
Everyone turned back.
It was Tempest.
"Some humans are getting more and more self-centered these days. That's not a good sign. Do you guys know that is not the end of the event?"
Asriel's eyes went wide open.
"What? Tempest are you serious? This is not the end?"
"This is the first monster murder case, so this is will be a chance for the authorities to choose sides.
Whether support monster rights or not.
Because if a human judge, who represent as the justice, didn't sentence the human guilty for murder with "clear" evidence like this. That means the government didn't support monster rights. That will be a huge setback to the peace between monsters and humans."
"Tempest, you are too arbitrary. One case can't decide everything."
"Oh? I don't think so. Because I saw this too many times. Sometimes, judging system can't work on its own; it has politics involved."
"So, this is not the end of the job."
"Exactly, the hard part is starting now. Brace for it."
-At 22:00 in Asriel's room-
"Good night, your highness."
Asriel didn't say goodnight back; he cast a meaningful look at Tempest instead.
"What's the matter?"
"Tempest, what are you hiding?"
"Why do you ask that?"
"I heard you talking to yourself this morning, you were planning to frame someone."
"HOLY ELEMENTS. Why he was awake?" Tempest thought.
Tempest managed to control his facial expressions and didn't say anything.
Asriel wanted to believe that Tempest did nothing and forget what he had heard. But this was too severe; he needs to know why Tempest did this.
"Are you trying to start a war? Why did you try to frame a human?"
Tempest remained silence.
"If you don't answer, I have no options but to hand you to Mom and Dad."
Tempest's mind ran through all of his available options and chose the best one.
Tell Asriel everything.
"FINE! YOU WIN! I DID FRAME THE HUMAN."
"Then why do you frame the innocent human?"
"Innocent? I don't think so. Call Frisk here, she has the right to know what's going on."
-Outside Frisk's room-
Asriel knocked on Frisk's door.
"Come in!"
"Frisk, Tempest had something to say, come with me!"
"Azzy, what is it?"
"I don't know. This morning I found Tempest framing a human. After some asking, he said he had something to tell us."
"Framing a human of what?"
"Monster murder."
"OMG, Azzy. Why did he do that? He clearly knows that will end up chaos. We must tell Mom and Dad right away!"
"No, Frisk. Let's listen to him first. Thought Tempest has a crime background; I believe that he won't frame someone unless he has a good reason."
"A CRIME BACKGROUND?! AZZY, HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT?"
"Oh golly. I forget that I promise Tempest to keep this a secret. Every time I stay around Frisk, I can't think thoroughly."
"We can talk about this later, Frisk. What's more important now is why Tempest framed the human."
"Sure, Let's go."
They entered Asriel's room; Tempest was waiting.
"I was wondering what was taking you guys that long. I thought you might be busy in "doing" something."
Frisk ignore Tempest and asked.
"Tempest why did you frame the human?"
"For one person, Chara."
"Really? That Chara?"
"Yes."
"Tempest, you lied to us that you said you had not met her, you better have a good reason."
"Chara made me swear to keep her appearance a secret."
"Who else knows?"
"Sans."
"You are lying; Sans will kill Chara on sight."
"Well, it's a long story. Why don't we sit down and talk?"
Tempest told the whole story, the Dreemurr kids were shocked of the truth.
Frisk came back to reality first.
"Let me get this straight."
"She was controlled, and forced to go on a killing spree."
"Yes."
"You put her in your sibling's house."
"Yes."
"And you are sure she will not kill monster or humans anymore."
"Yes."
"And the human on TV actually did kill a monster, you just "added" the quantity."
"Yes."
"Well then, I think Asriel and I can understand and forgive you."
"Thank you!"
"But next time, tell us, please."
"OK, your highness. Next time when I need to take some "actions" you two will be the first to know."
"One last thing. Tempest, can you tell us your "suspicious" background?"
Tempest glared at Asriel.
"I've only done assassination, framing, and robbery. I did those was all for the Dragon race, not for my own good."
"Why? Aren't many dragons in a high social state? Why don't your kind solve problems by using the law?"
"There are some problems in the world that you can't deal with by the legal way. Especially when you need the problem to be solved quietly. That is all I can say.
And about Chara, keep a secret, you two. The news that all this murder was mostly done by a SOUL will surely cause more panic to monsters."
"When can we meet Chara?"
"She needs time, young prince. Wait for her."
Coming chapter: Magic!
Author's notes
OK, Ch7 done.
There was a Chinese saying.
"Arrows from the dark are the hardest to defend."
Someone has to keep an eye on those dark places and watch out for our royal couples.
The person has to stay in the dark, and observe every underworld force inside, sometimes even destroy them.
So sorry if I made the story too "dark" for the ending.
Oh! There's some good news. I upgraded Ch1.
The computer language part, some of the commands are REAL to make it clear that Tempest is really good at software.
Finally, I can slow down the storyline because the Chara event was settled down by now.
I've got a hard time thinking of chapter titles.
Or maybe I should pick a word or sentence in the chapter, and make it the title if I have no ideas? Many Chinese novels do that.
Yeah, I will do that next time if I have a "title" block. I don't want to delay the updates because of this.
Busy, Busy, and busy. I barely complete the chapter before Friday.
I need to slow down my upload rate because college work was crawling on my back.
But that doesn't mean that I'm giving up.
If I want to quit, I will surely let you know.
Again, sorry for poor language and making you all having a hard time to read.
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