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I opened my eyes and was immediately greeted by a throbbing pain in my chest...no, not just my chest, my entire body throbbed with pain. The last thing I remember was throwing myself down Mt. Ebbot, so does this mean that I'm...dead?
But I feel pain, so that mean...I'm not..
Painfully tossing over to my back, I discover that I'm laying on a bed of golden flowers, a glowing red heart floating above me, the only source of light being the hole from which I fell in.
"H-Hello?" The heart spoke timidly, nervously darting around the dark chamber, as if panicked. "Can anyone hear me?" It spoke with a feminine tone, despite being a glowing floating heart.
With a groan of pain, I rose up from the bed of flowers to look at the heart more clearly. "I-I can hear you." I weakly spoke up, still in pain from the impact of the fall.
I should be dead...
Why...am I still alive?...
The heart stopped darting around and turned to me, almost curiously. "Y-You can?! Thank God! I thought you were actually dead when I saw you at first. Do you have any idea of where we are?" The heart asked nervously and floated in front of me, as if inspecting me. "Wait...you're human, aren't you?" There was a slight bitter tone to the heart's tone.
Flinching from her question, I nodded reluctantly. "Yeah...I am. Although I wish I wasn't." I muttered equally as bitter. "They're cuel, violent and horrible." I added, crossing my arms, reflecting on how the village pretended that I didn't even exist for twelve years.
The heart bobbed up and down in agreement.
"Humans suck."
"Humans suck."
We both said in unison, and the two of us burst out laughing at how in sync we were.
"I'm Frisk." I introduced myself to the heart.
"I'm Chara." The heart replied, feeling a little more comfortable in my presence.
Suddenly, a crack started to from on the heart.
Acting out of instinct, I reached out and grabbed the heart and held Chara to my chest.
I was determined to not lose my new friend.
Suddenly, a feeling, like liquid fire, coursed through my body and then a red light glowed from Chara and I felt the heart fuse into my own Soul.
"W-What?" Chara stuttered out in confusion. "I felt like I was starting to lose myself, but now I'm stable."
"Dunno what happened. I kinda touched you and you kinda fused into my body. Guess you're now stuck with me for awhile." I replied, still aching from the fall.
"Alright, I'm sure we'll figure out what's going on if we keep moving. Let's go on ahead, Frisk." Chara suggested thoughtfully.
"Yeah, let's go, Partner." Filled of new found determination, we stepped forward down the dimly lit corridor a head.
Towards our new journey.
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"W-Why does the Comedian remember the reset?! Only us and Flowey remember!" Chara frantically tried to grasp the situation in her panic. Her hysteria began to put me on edge as we headed towards the next Save point.
"Chara, calm down. You're panicking isn't helping anything. We haven't earned any EXP so far, so we still don't have anything to worry about." I tried to reassure her while saving. "Besides, we killed the Comedian four times before. Even if we do screw up, we know all his attacks. As long as we have determination on our side, we're unstoppable." I added, flashing her a confident grin.
Chara took a deep breath, trying to calm herself and nodded, giving me an uneasy grin. "Y-Yeah, you're right, Frisk. I don't know why I got so scared. Let's go, Partner." Her grin grew wider as she started to relax.
Suddenly we found ourselves engaged in a battle, surprising me.
"Snowdrake flutters forth." Chara narrated as Snowdrake landed in front of us. "This teen comedian fights to keep a captive audience." She continued as I looked at the monster.
"Ice to meet you." Snowdrake hesitantly, giving us a goofy, unsure grin.
The corner of our mouth twitched in irritation at this.
"...Chara, I hate puns..." I grumbled to her, dodging the line of magic bullets the veered in all directions.
"He's just trying to get by, Frisk. Just try to laugh." Chara replied, crossing her arms. "Just laugh, it doesn't have to be sincere."
Sighing, I let out a nervous forced laugh at Snowdrake's "joke".
At this, Snowdrake's eyes lit up and he grinned widely. "See?! Laughs! Dad was wrong!" He exclaimed excitedly and fluttered off.
"Looks like Snowdrake was pleased with his own cool joke." Chara giggled at me with a sly grin.
"Oh God, not you too..." I groaned in annoyance, causing Chara to grin at victoriously, before putting Toriel's pie into the Box close by and moved on.
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"SO, AS I WAS SAYING ABOUT UNDYNE..." Papyrus said in his usual shouting voice and turned right towards us.
Aw crap...
Papyrus turned to Sans, then back at us...
Then back at Sans...
Then back at us...
"SANS! OH MY GOD! IS THAT..." Papyrus could hardly contain the excitement in his voice. "A HUMAN?!"
"uh...i think that's a rock." Sans replied, causing us to turn back around to see a rock right behind us.
Really, Comedian?
"OH..." Papyrus said in disappointment.
"hey, what's that in front of the rock?" Sans gestured to us with a mischievous grin.
"OH MY GOD! Just like before, Papyrus' voice rang out excitedly. He then turned towards Sans to whisper something. "IS THAT A HUMAN?" His whispering was still rather loud.
"yes." Sans whispered back with a nod,
"OH MY GOD! Papyrus shrieked with almost childish joy. "SANS! I FINALLY DID IT!"
"UNDYNE WILL..."
"I'M GONNA...
"I'LL BE SO..."
Oh god...here it comes...
"POPULAR! POPULAR! POPULAR!" Papyrus exclaimed. He then turned to us and cleared his throat. "HUMAN, YOU SHALL NOT PASS THIS AREA!"
"I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, WILL STOP YOU!"
"I WILL THEN CAPTURE YOU!"
"YOU WILL BE DELIVERED TO THE CAPITAL!"
"THEN...THEN...!" He paused, thinking, and sighed, shaking his head.
"I'M NOT SURE WHAT'S NEXT..." He admitted in defeat.
"IN ANY CASE, CONTINUE ONLY IF YOU DARE! NYEH HEH HEH HEH HEH!" Papyrus rattled with laughter before swaggering off, leaving us with the Comedian.
"well, that went pretty well. don't sweat it kiddos, i'll be keep'n an eyesocket on ya two." Sans gave us a chilling smile before walking after his brother.
That was...unsettling.
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On our way over, we froze as as a white and black dog holding a dog treat in his mouth. "Did something move? Was it my imagination?" The dog's eyes shifted around, scanning around for movement. "I can only see moving things. If something WAS moving...for example, a human...I'll make sure it NEVER moves again!"
At that, we were dragged into a fight.
"Doggo blocks the way!" Chara narrated. "He's easily excited by movement." She continued on. "That means just stay still." She said to me.
"I know what it means, Chara. This isn't our first run here." I rolled my eyes as Doggo's daggers glowed blue.
"Don't move an inch!" Doggo exclaimed, slashing at us with blue magic.
Sighing, I stayed still, letting the blue dagger pass through us.
"I wanna pet the dog!" Chara suddenly said, startling me and causing Doggo to perk up at our slight movement. "Let me take control! I wanna pet him!"
"What are you? Six?! This "fuzzy" dog's trying to kill us!" I exclaimed at her in disbelief.
"Trust me, Frisk. I know what I'm doing." Chara assured me with a grin.
"Fine, but only because I trust you, Partner." I grumbled, emptying my mind to allow Chara take control.
Once in control, Chara waved at Doggo, who slashed a glowing blue dagger at her. She simply stayed still as the dagger passed through her. Chara then reached over and pet the dog.
Doggo let out a yelp of surprise, his eyes quickly darting around in shock. "W-What?! I've been pet!?"
Chara covered our mouth with a hand to hold back a giggle and darted behind Doggo to his other side and once again petted the dog.
"W-Where is this coming from?!" He exclaimed, dumbfounded and shocked.
She then jumped to the other side to pet Doggo a third time.
"There's no end to it!" He said in bewilderment.
"Alright, it looks like he's had enough, Chara." I cut in before she could torment the poor monster any more.
Sighing, Chara stuck our tongue out at me and pressed the SPARE button. "Kill joy." She remarked, causing me to roll my eyes.
"S-S-Something t-t-touched m-me. S-S-Something that i-isn't m-moving." Doggo trembled nervously, hiding behind his sentry post. "I'm gonna need some dog treats for this..." He whimpered to himself, ducking down.
"Alright, I had my fun for now, Frisk. Now get in her before the Comedian sees our red eyes." Chara said as we switched places.
"Yeah, that'd be fun explaining to him, huh?" I replied with a nervous chuckle.
