A/N - This story has been delayed for a long time. The reason being, I'm wasn't quite sure how to continue it, however, after a lot of consideration, I have returned to post Chapter 9, the latest chapter I wrote. Now, no promises. I will post chapters freely, and when I get time. So enjoy them, as they are released.

The wind blew through the trees and across the rocky snowy pathway, along with smelling like death on Frisk's end, the atmosphere had gotten depressing. Anyone close could easily sense the danger or disgust just by walking along.

Frisk frowned, while idly standing in front of Papyrus, one of the skeletons he had met in his time in New Snowdin, at first glance, he seemed like an oddball of a guy, and now he stood in his way.

"To Protect them from you." Frisk's mind wavered a bit here those words, he tried turning his head a bit, the words continued to repeat themselves, the feeling, and heart that went into securing those words brought a sudden stop to Frisk's reactions he did not make any moves, nor did he take his eyes off Papyrus. His current behavioral pattern showed attention, the attention he wanted Papyrus to know he still had. In truth, however, he was unfocused and had lowered his guard to the annoying echo of his words.

A monster showing the notion of feeling as his was not found, or rather it wasn't that it hadn't been, it's that it's the opposite of what most people would expect. It goes to show that they aren't entirely what we make them out to be.

Nevertheless. With the words deafening as each passing minute went by, Frisk slowly dropped his head showing his concern.

"It seems we both have something to protect," Frisk spoke, one is personal and another as a family.

"THEN WE WON'T HAVE TO FIGHT! COME BACK INTO TOWN AND WE COULD FIX THIS ISSUE TOGETHER. I'M AMAZING AT TALKING TRUST ME!"

"Not to sound threatening, but if I 'were' to do that. You would be in a far worse position than you are now, and that goes for everyone else as well."

"WHY!"

"Because evil has no patience." He spoke in riddle but didn't want to come off as obvious, Papyrus, however, was confused by his speech and didn't know what to make of it. He crooked his head.

"WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAAAAN!"

"Listen, I'm trying to save you from this. Just-"

Chara's chilling presence stopped him dead, her ethereal form wrapping around him.

"You aren't thinking of letting him live are you…"

He didn't speak.

Papyrus stepped forward a bit to regain his attention, his motions stopped once Frisk seemed to be on full alert.

"IM AWARE OF WHAT YOU DID, YOU KILLED A BUNCH OF MONSTERS HAVEN'T YOU. AND AFTER TORIEL SHOWED YOU HER KINDNESS AND GAVE YOU A PLACE TO STAY."

Papyrus moved his bones, his arms, shoulders just one side, he turned, Frisk did not know it, but Papyrus was deeply concerned, almost as if the words were trying to prevent themselves from coming out.

"IF THIS WERE BEFORE, IN THE TIMES OF OUR IMPRISONMENT, ID HAVE TRIED TO PERSUADE YOU, AND EVEN THOUGH I HAVE. I MEAN, I WOULD DEFINITELY HAVE CONTINUED, BUT I KNOW HOW STUPID IT IS NOW. SO FOR YOUR SAKE FRISK. I WANT YOU TO TURN AROUND RIGHT NOW OR...THIS MAY GET UGLY"

Papyrus sounded serious this time, even though he was wacky, with his wacky clothes, his non-sense made Frisk fear the upcoming battle. Papyrus's surroundings were covered by bones.

To Frisk, he knew, if he were anything like sans then, what he referred to as facts, he has no idea what Papyrus has planned.

"I'm sorry, I cannot back away. There are things, that are terrifying than dying, Papyrus. I cannot allow you to live any longer."

Even though he sounded serious, it's almost like he wasn't himself, He hated to say.

"YOU ARE MAKING A HUGE MISTAKE, YOU SHOULD HAVE JUST LEFT WHILE YOU STILL HAD THE CHANCE."

Frisk didn't answer, he looked on, idly, Papyrus frowned, the kid in front of him..Frisk closed his eyes as a knife appeared in his hand. He didn't seem to be wielding the power of determination.

Monsters are weak, so it's not necessary to use any, a regular toy could probably be enough. However, they can still be difficult to deal with. Frisk knew their fragile bodies were so, but he knew even more how dangerous they could be in battle. Dying, however, was not his problem.

He has gotten a taste of that by now.

He stood there, knife in hand.

"FRISK, I WON'T STOP NOW, I SHALL HAVE TO KILL YOU FOR EVERYONE'S SAKES!" Papyrus attempted to reason with Frisk, it was a last indirect attempt, even though he has already prepared to fight. The background had already shifted black,

Frisk took the time to view his surroundings thoroughly, the trees were still there, but everything else seemed gone. Even the ground he was on.

"This place is still weird to me."

"YOU WON'T BE ALLOWED THROUGH!" Papyrus cried, he stood there, eying down Frisk, who finally returned his gaze to him. As time ticked away, the echo of silence ended with several of bones shot up from the ground towards Frisk at increasingly quick speed.

Frisk had been prepared for this, he dodged from left to right, also having to jump to avoid some of the more areas of effect ones, while trying to gain distance on Papyrus, every time he lashed out, he would mutter a few words. Frisk, on the other hand, did not respond.

Another attack thrown, he evaded backward, his back hit a tree, however, luckily the attack stopped, instead several bones were launched like bullets towards him. He stepped to the left and sprinted around until he gained a clear advantage. He stepped forward and bolted with speed.

He prepared his swing, but, his body twitched to a stop, his mouth spewed out blood. He looked at his chest, something sticking through his chest…

He looked up..at Papyrus as his vision got blurry, it dissipated into the air, before he collapsed onto the ground.

The world went black, after some time once more. He returned to his position. Papyrus once again stood there. The events occurred exactly as they happened before. Each time he tried, to get near him, but he ended up being skewered and having to make his way back once again.

He saved this time, right after their talk. So that he didn't have to waste his time walking back.

This time, he played mostly defensive, reading, and getting an understanding of his attacks. He needed to understand it, unlike before when he recklessly attacked. At the start, he always starts with several attacks from below, by dodging, this attack is easily avoided, but once more come, jumping seems to be the most effective thing to do.

When he shoots them at you, it's quick, too difficult to dodge while going in head-on. Finally, after getting the hang of it. He needed to find an opening. Papyrus always creates one each time he attacks. He will always speak something, usually, attacks are constant at this point.

The bone bullets stopped, at that time, when the last one had missed and shot past him, he made a break for him. Sprinting towards him quickly, Papyrus was already caught on the first word. Before he frowned…

"NICE TRY"

1, 2, 3, 10, 15, 20, 40...suddenly, the second attack tripled, and kept going up suddenly, it seemed impossible to get any closer. Frisk back up immediately but they kept, this was weird. Something like this was like Sans.

"How are there so many!" He thought Frisk turned to sprint jumping towards a tree and back-stepping out over them, each time they appeared the others that were disappeared behind. He landed as the attack stopped.

"I NOW SEE THERE IS NO POINT IN SPEAKING ANYTHING IF YOU ARE GOING TO DO THAT. IT'S TIME YOU PERISHED"

Frisk gritted his teeth and clenched the knife harder. His only weakness was now just taken from him. How would he deal with this..his determination faltered. Papyrus threw his hand out, the same attack came out. But, now the bullets followed along as well.

"..." Frisk stumbled back, he tried dodging while also managing to keep ahead of the other attack. He did the same thing with the tree, to fly over them all, his landing, however, was incredibly sloppy, he hit the ground tumbling across it to a halt, he tried quickly to get up. But his leg was pierced, making him drop back to the ground, his other leg was pierced as well.

Papyrus frowned as he walked over…Frisk winced in pain, as the skeleton slowly paced over to him.

"IT'S OVER FRISK!"

Frisk struggled on the ground, not looking at Papyrus before a straight attack was launched at him. A smile quickly erupted across Frisk's face.

"Got you…" the voice said, it was sudden, but the blade swiped quickly right across the armor Papyrus wore, cutting through it like butter, slashing him directly.

"I-I-I" Papyrus tried to speak…

Frisk sluggishly stood to his feet forcefully removing his legs from the bones that remained in his legs. He stood as if the pain didn't exist, his appearance felt odd, he turned towards him. The person in front of him.

That wicked smile, the face of slaughter…

"FRIS-" His voice came to a halt, as the cut was heard. Papyrus's vision fell to hit the ground, unknown as to what just happened. The feet of a different set of feet walked up to him…

"I'm now going to slaughter, every, single, monster. In that village...haha."

"So this is the place she resides in from time to time," Frisk said, it wasn't as though he was speaking himself, it all seemed to be thought controlled like he wasn't physically talking. He tried to look around, but nothing seemed to be seen.

He tried to walk, it was odd, it felt like he was standing upon a pathway or some type of surface, it wasn't entirely avoided, nothing like what you would expect, but very much like the one, he battles in from time to time.

While processing this finding, he turned to see that a place had somehow engraved itself into this black world. He immediately turned to see that the world behind him, and around him, was still the same. But over there, a link cut right through the middle, as if the world before had been cut, and just slapped on a new one.

However, it was familiar, it's the prison. The same one he had been living it not too long ago, however, the form and shape it was in, seemed slightly different. It had markings and symbols he did not know of,

Before, when he arrived as a kid, it had been more lightening up, the lights and flags along the side of it, were unfamiliar yes, but it didn't seem to beat up and cracked. That was the first and last time he remembered seeing the place from the outside, however, when he left, the place was dark, depressing, skeletons had littered the outside of its walls, the flags torn down and worn in the dirt, and the building had several cracks and debris that weren't there before.

He kept staring, what he saw was completely different from what he saw both times, this was an event he hadn't seen before. Before knowing it, he found himself at the entrance of the place, having not realized he had got so curious as to find himself opening the door.

The place was in a panic, the guards around the place seemed to be following weird orders, taking monsters from one location to the next. Each struggling to keep their sanity in check. There were so many of them, so many he never encountered when escaping.

He thought it over before, knowing that there wasn't that many, like it seemed too easy, even if Chara took him over.

What exactly was her intention? Why didn't she ever say anything, she killed a lot to get out or something.

Still Trying to keep out of the way, but he knew this place was some sort of illusion, he still tried to keep out of the way.

The thoughts were on point, she probably never said anything, because she really wanted to teach him a lesson afterward, but he just couldn't accept a cruel method like that, and after what happened his plan to kill Chara at some point still remained.

Walking along, he had been following some of the soldiers towards a room, it was quite lively in one of them, and he had actually remembered the appearance of the said door, it was the leaders - the commander's room. He got closer to identify who it was. It was so long since he saw the man's face, As he stepped closer though, he noticed something weird, whoever it was, wasn't supposed to be there. It was hard to make out with all the people and monsters in the way, but whoever sat the chair, was far smaller than the man he met.

Flakes of hair waved across as he saw,

"Is that, no it couldn't be…" He tried to get closer, but suddenly he had a hand grip him, and tossed him around, back into the void. There stood his other self, the same version of him he saw last time. Within his dreams…

"You again…"

"What part of you, bleeds...Frisk. Do you still believe that the world you are in is so different from the one you have lived in.'

"...What does that mean!" He spoke, he had no idea why he was talking to this sketchy version of himself, however, it did not respond, it paused and continued.

"Remember what I said,"

"What…" Frisk squinted his eyes while thinking those words carefully, he had a chill sent down his spine as the ugly face of his other self-drew extremely close to his own, slipping past him.

"Litzy!" the manager called, "I've received word from one of our sources that Tetra's armies are going to arrive here in a few hours."

"Then, we shall prepare for their arrival." She replied.

"Yes. but there is a small force coming here in a few minutes. Litzy, the captain is coming.."

She turned, finally understanding the weight.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, should we inform him?"

Litzy thought for a few minutes. "Let me do the talking, I'll prepare for his arrival. Please make sure the boy is here." she left in a hurry, the captain seemed very important somehow.

With the recent news of newer more aggressive monster attacks, the army had sent out a squad of highly trained elites, the first time that had sightings and even altercations with said monsters was the human town, Litzy, and Frisk had stayed at.

As time passed

The manager of the inn had been preparing for a long visit from the captain, as such several other unfamiliar maids were present to carefully prepare the town. Their welcome is extremely important.

Even though this is just an Inn, it was referred to as more than "Just" an inn. Most towns on the outer edges of Tetra are very underpopulated, as it is with this town, however, this town shares more history. The Inns in each town are centered directly in the middle of each town.

Be it by some miracle, or just by coincidence, either way, this design in each town made it the best place to set up encampments around, because the middle area is usually the best place to be in case of a monster attack, however, the design of the place wasn't the only reason for it.

The Inn was also the only place visitors could rest up, and like any town, visitors were very rare. So to avoid having to set up camps and to waste effort doing so, the inn was used as a place for the soldiers to rest in, of course even with all that, the place would be heavily cramped, so to make up for it. It was officially discussed, that the overhaul of all inns in each town would receive an upgrade, However, the mistake was that the inns were all centered, so adjusting the size would be too difficult with the houses around, so instead they built underground. The normal residence could remain above like usual, and the soldiers had the downstairs, along with specialized armory, beds, and kitchen. As well as certified army nurses and maids to keep the place up.

This is how the towns have managed to keep a secure lock on the monsters around the area while maintaining morale. It's hard to adjust to life while always having to move locations, while always having to live in tents. So living was more comfortable, the only difference would be the scene.

Litzy had been up and about preparing on her own, to make sure everything seemed ready. While trying to get in contact with Frisk, however, he hadn't made his way back into town since she saw him suddenly stroll out of town earlier this day. She didn't press on it though, his immediate concern wasn't necessary. The captain that was coming down here, is an old friend of hers, so it was extremely important that this was handled carefully.

"Litzy, How are you doing." The manager said

"Fine, it seems I've done everything that is needed, all that is left is to welcome them here. Has the town been informed?"

"Yes, I've informed the soldiers and they have told them. It seems they are all relieved to hear that this issue about the monsters has been taken into consideration."

"Agreed…"

She had been half-heartedly been taking things in while fixing a few things.

"Is something the matter?" She asked

"Davis, I've sent him letters before. Yet never wrote back." She had a pondering face on her.

"Don't let that confidence I see so often die down now of all times." She said Litzy smiled at the lady's concern.

"Noted, but that's not it. I'm not concerned about his loyalty, I'm concerned about the both of us...If I tell him about Frisk, His oath as a soldier will put him in danger, and I know very well how dangerous that commander of his is."

"Who wouldn't be, treason, is by most accounts in Tetra punishable by death. In some instances though-"

"Do not finish that sentence. I know already...I'm trying to remain confident that this plays out, as such I've made this place here, soundproof, and specifically designed for him only. Captains quarters."

She smiled at her handy work, she needed a proper place to stop, and a soundproof room was the best.

"So I take you found Frisk then?" She said

"Nope, he left town earlier, and I've been waiting for his return…"

"You don't think…"

Litzy turned to her annoyed.

"He wants me to train him, and then runs off, no way, He'll be back, and also. I'd never forgiven him…if he did.." She recounted the little issue they had while training. The thought had her crossing her arms for no apparent reason while glancing in a different direction.

"So I see you two had fun then…"

"Don't put it in those words...I'm just not a woman who is open to arguments about which parts you have to hide, training is training." Litzy fell into that one.

"A boy managed to get the slip on you, I'm impressed."

"..." Litzy didn't respond, the manager just laughed while exiting the room.

Slamming her butt against the desk, Litzy uncrossed her arms and leaned back onto it a little bit, thinking of where he could be…

Back in New Snowdin Town the Inn Keeper had been minding her business. The door opened, from it, walked a girl in a green shirt.

The Innkeeper looked at the person who entered and spoke a few words as they stepped up towards her.

"Hey, you look like another human I met not too long ago," She said

"Is it common to meet humans that look the same?" She said looking at her with a peculiar smile.

"Not really, we don't really get a lot of humans in town anyway. So you are the second one we have seen in awhile."

"I see.." She said, "Hey. Can I ask you a question?"

"Sure"

"Do you take it from the lower region, or are you a top region kind of person?" She stopped for a moment, "Whoops, I mean monster."

"I don't really understand the question." She said confused.

"Do you take it from the bottom, or do you take it from the top?" She said once more, still with a smile on her face.

"Huh?...you are saying the silliest things."

"Just answer the question." She said

"Well, I suppose, I would choose top, if I must say."

She smiled and said

"Me too" Chara moved her hand, which revealed a knife. The Innkeeper was too slow, no, rather not even aware of what happened. Chara slashed her across the neck in that brief moment, the only thing on her face was the smile she had after answering Chara's question. Her head flopped to the table, after a second, it turned to dust.

Chara heard the voices of more monsters in one of the rooms nearby. She turned her head slowly towards the door where the voices came from.