DarkFoxKit: Wake up, Fyyyyyre~ Come on, rise and shine!
Donfyre: *is curled up on a bed next to Fox* Urgh… F-five more minutes… *turns his back to Fox*
DarkFoxKit: Okay~ *takes the camera and have it focused on the sleeping Fyre* Hee, hee, hee, doesn't he look adorable, readers? Anyways, this next chapter is quite a doozy for our little Frisk and his friend Snowy. They're in the castle of the city and they only have less than an hour to get back to the shelter, will they make it in time? *pets Fyre's head*
Donfyre: *smiles when Fox petted him… until he realized the camera that was right in front of him* GAH! F-Fox, what do are you doing!? *covers himself with the blankets*
DarkFoxKit: Well I tried to wake you up when it was time to do the AN, but you wanted to sleep five more minutes. c: Say hi to all the lovely readers reading this story. :3
Donfyre: Nnngh… I-I don't wanna! DX Did you already talk about the story?
DarkFoxKit: I said what I needed to say about it. The rest is just the cuteness of a sleeping Wooper boy~
Donfyre: Y-you don't have to show this to the readers, n-nor do they care. *pouts, still staying in the blankets*
DarkFoxKit: If they don't care, then you have nothing to worry about~ Alright readers, time to get on with the chapter!
Chapter 10: The Escape
Snowy and I have about 44 minutes to make it out of the castle and get to the shelter before Chara RESET the day. The clock is ticking and the road is against us. How could a hallway this big not have any windows? Is it because we're in the center of the castle? Whatever the reason, we had to find a window and fast.
Because it was so dark, we had to use our flashlights to see. But we also had to be mindful of night guards patrolling the place. At this rate, we'll be lucky to even get out, let alone make it to the shelter in time. This is another reason why humans must stick with monster buddies; they can sense when another monster is nearby. Other humans, unfortunately, not so much. Thankfully I doubt a lot of humans would be out at this hour.
I stayed close to Snowdrake as he turned a corner. Whenever he shuts off his flashlight, I immediately do the same. Waiting for the guard to pass us by. So far, so good, we were navigating through the castle without getting caught…
It felt kind of suffocating trying to navigate in a large castle in the dark, with nothing but a flashlight and one other person as your companion. But I tried to keep down the paranoia trying to bubble up my chest. We'll be fine, everything will be okay… we won't end up like Mary… we won't end up like… Papyrus…
We travelled into different rooms, careful not to wake anyone if there was someone in there sleeping. I just hope we don't run into Chara, she might not ever sleep, and running into her now would probably cause me to have a panic attack… because red glowing eyes in the dark never sits well with me.
I stopped when I heard footsteps that wasn't mine or Snowy's. Someone was coming. Since Snowy looked surprise, it must be a human. Both of us dived around the corner and shut off our flashlights, hoping we weren't seen or heard.
The footsteps got louder and louder as they got nearer… then they stopped. I froze up, tensed. Then a light shined in my face without warning, causing me to jump back and hit my head on the wall. "Ow!"
"Hey! What are you kids doing out here at this hour?"
"W-we uh… we…" I heard Snowy shaking.
I tried to force my eyes open to see who was flashing their light on us. I think they're human, but it was hard to see them with that light in my eyes.
"Wait… you…" The guard seem to be studying me for some reason.
It was then I realized my hat was crooked from when I hit my head on the wall. Oh… oh no…
Before I could react, the guard snatched my hat off. "I knew it! You're with the resistance!" He took some kind of device out of his pocket and shouted. "ALERT! ALERT! RESISTANT TEAM LOCATED IN THE CASTLE!"
"RUN!" I shouted to my partner.
We grabbed our bags and made a run for it down the hall.
This is it, if we don't find a way out of here soon, we're RESET meat. I looked down at my watch while we were running.
"It's already 11:29. We only have 31 minutes left until midnight," I hissed urgently.
"We have more problems than that right now, Frisk!" Snowy yelled.
I looked up and gasped as I stopped running. All the soldiers were coming out of their room and charging at us in a large mob.
"Crap! This way!" I grabbed Snowy's wing and dragged him down the stairs.
The longer we ran, the more soldiers were chasing us. They were starting to surround us as more soldiers came out of their rooms and joined the chase. They were forming their own mobs, forcing us to take another route, but at this rate we'll be surrounded.
"There they are!"
"GET THEM!"
"How'd they get into the castle?"
"They're over here!"
"Don't let them get away!"
"Frisk! We have nowhere left to go!" Snowdrake yelled from behind me as we were coming up to another mob of soldiers.
A spear just flew past our heads.
"NYYGAAAAAAAARGH! I was in the middle of a good dream, and you punks RUINED IT!" I heard Undyne's voice not too far away yell from in the mob somewhere.
I looked around frantically, using my flashlight to try and blind some of the soldiers while looking for a way out. Another spear from Undyne flew by, and I heard a loud glass CRASH sound. I didn't hesitate to move my flashlight to where I heard the crash and was relieved to see it was a window, already opened for us courtesy of Undyne. The problem now is getting to the exit with all these soldiers surrounding us.
"Give up and we'll take you quietly, or we'll force you into soul dive after soul dive until you pass out," One of the soldiers threatened us.
"Snowy, we can escape through that window, but you'll have to fly over this mob of soldiers to get there. Think you can do it?" I asked my partner.
Snowdrake gulped, "I-I don't know, the soldiers would jump or hit us with their weapons before I can make it out the window."
The mobs backed us up against the wall, I could already feel the tingling sensation of my SOUL trying to be pulled out and forced to engage in a soul dive. I put my hand over my chest, trying to keep my SOUL in.
"We'll have to take that chance, Snowy! If we stay here, we'll be caught for sure! Now fly!" I yelled over to my partner.
Snowdrake didn't argue with me this time. He spread out his wings and flew above the mob. I jumped and grabbed onto his talons, making sure my bag was still strapped around me. I set my flashlight to its brightest setting before flashing it at the mob, blinding them. I was trying to keep them from hitting us while Snowdrake flew towards our escape route. I saw Undyne, she had several spears around her, ready to hit us, but my flashlight blinded her at the last second. She let out an angry screech as the spears went flying in every direction. One of them hit my hand that was holding the flashlight.
"Gah!" I hissed in pain and forced to drop the flashlight.
"Frisk!"
"I'm okay, just focus on flying!"
Snowdrake managed to get us through the window and outside of that castle. Thank goodness… I could hear the soldiers screaming at us and still tossing their weapons, but thankfully they either missed or lightly grazed our skin/feathers. By the time they snapped out of their daze from the flashlight, we'd be out of their range.
"Whew… I can't believe we got out of there alive…" Snowy said in relief.
"We're not out of the woods yet, Snowy. We still have to make it into the shelter before midnight," I said.
"Oh, right… how much time do we have left?"
I looked down at my watch. It was already 11:45. We should still have enough time to make it to the shelter.
Before I could tell Snowy however, he suddenly curved through the sky, narrowly avoiding an incoming boomerang shaped projectile. It looked like an attack Snowy himself uses during a soul dive.
"What the-!?" I gasped.
"Well, well, well, look at that. My long lost son finally made it ta the city," A deeper voice said as a bigger and older looking Snowdrake flew beside us. It was Snowy's father.
"Hey bro, looks like I finally found the perpetrator who stole all that food in the Character's Meal restaurant!" And flying on the other side was a green version of Snowy, with sunglasses, this was the real Chilldrake.
"When we heard ya were in the castle, we just had ta come and see if it really was you," Snowy's father said. "Lo and behold, you are. Why don't we have a nice family reunion now?"
"Yeah, I missed you, friend," Chilldrake smirked.
"Fly Snowy!" I yelled.
Snowy gave a gasp as if snapping out of something. He then made a dive towards the ground. I held on to his talons, not wanting to fall. Snowy's father ganged up on him pretty quickly. Chilldrake flew over him, trying to grab his back with his talons. I knew I had to do something or we're both going to get caught.
When Snowy's father got in close, I began kicking my feet, trying to keep him away from me. Chilldrake was a different story; he was above Snowy and was trying to grab him. I could feel Snowy struggling against Chilldrake. Snowy tried flying up towards the sky to try and avoid them, but they followed closely. Because of the two half full bags and me onboard, Snowy couldn't fly as fast as he would like to.
Chilldrake fired more of those boomerang projectiles at him, hitting Snowy. I bit my lip, what should I do? I'm pretty much useless in an aerial battle! At this rate, the RESET- … They're stalling us, they're trying to keep us outside the shelter so we'd get caught in the RESET! No… I can't allow them to do this to us. I looked at my bag… I hated wasting food, but this is an emergency. Snowdrake's father came in close, pecking at his son's tail.
I grabbed a tomato and said, "Hey comedian! Your jokes stink!"
As soon as I said those words, I threw the tomato at the bigger Snowdrake's face with a SPLAT! Causing the bird monster to squawk loudly and shaking his head to try and get the tomato juice out of his eyes, and he soon crashed into a tree.
I saw we were closing in on the shelter, but we'll never be able to make it inside if we're still being attacked.
"Hey Snowy, why don't you chill out?" Chilldrake mocked as he grabbed Snowy's back.
"Let me go, and that joke was stupid!" Snowy snapped, fluttering his wings as hard as he could to get out of Chilldrake's hold.
"No way! And that joke was awesome!" Chilldrake snapped.
My watch began to beep loudly, making my heart stop for a second.
"WARNING! ONE MINUTE TILL RESET. WARNING! GET TO THE SHELTER NOW."
Crap! We don't have time for this!
"Hee, hee, hee, in just less than a minute I'll finally have my friend back!" Chilldrake smiled.
"Please let me go!" Snowy begged. "This is awfully cold of you to do!"
"You can work on your ice puns when we're friends again!" Chilldrake said.
"30 seconds till RESET."
I had to think fast. We were over the shelter, but we can't get to it as long as Chilldrake had us in his grasp. Snowy's father will be coming to help once he gets that tomato juice out of his eyes.
I grabbed for something, anything, in my bag that can help us. Then I turned and grabbed onto Snowy's stomach, trying to climb up. Snowy hissed as he was still struggling against Chilldrake's hold.
"20 seconds till RESET."
Come on, I don't have much time. I struggled to climb onto Snowy's back, before grabbing a hard block of frozen cheese.
"Here, have a chill cheese!" I said as I slammed the hard frozen cheese into Chilldrake's head.
Chilldrake yelp at the sudden assault and let go of Snowy.
"10… 9… 8…"
"Dive, dive, dive, divedivedive!" I screamed at Snowy as the ten second countdown began.
Snowy immediately dove for the shelter below us. I hung on tight to him and our bags.
"7… 6… 5…"
"WE'RE NOT GOING TO MAKE IT!" Snowy yelled.
"WE'RE GOING TO MAKE IT! JUST DON'T STOP!" I yelled back.
"4… 3… 2…"
"BUT WE'LL CRA-"
"JUST DO IT!"
"RRRAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!"
"1… 0."
CRASH! BANG! THUD! Was all I heard after '0' was uttered from the watch, and all I felt was pain from hitting a very hard surface. I had already shut my eyes when Snowy dived right through the roof.
Ugh… my head… I'm going to be feeling all this in the morning…
"Frisk! Snowy!? Oh my gosh, get the paramedics now!" I heard… someone yelling frantically.
I couldn't move… I was in too much pain. When I tried to open my eyes, the bright lights hurt, and so did the debris and dust.
"Snowy, are you okay? Don't worry, help is coming."
"Frisk dear, try not to move, you'll be okay."
I heard voices, but couldn't tell who they were. They sounded familiar. Did we make it…?
I felt someone or something gently lifting me onto something.
"It's a miracle they managed to smash through the roof like that."
"It's also a miracle they even made it in through before the RESET."
"Just hurry and get them some medical attention!"
"Frisk… sweetie… just relax, Toriel is here. You're safe now…"
I felt something warm and furry touching my chest, and I could feel something going through my aching body. It felt really good whatever that was, but I was still in a lot of pain. Toriel was here…? I… I think… that means we… made it…
I struggled to remain conscious. I wanted to know what the damage was… for our team and my body. And I was also worried for Snowy, was he okay? He must be in as much pain as I was right now. It must've took a lot of courage to crash through the roof like that.
I tried to open my eyes again, but the bright lights and my own pain was too much, and I groaned as I had to keep them closed.
"Easy there, Frisk. Don't try to open your eyes right now… it's okay… just relax. Rest your head and sleep now."
"S… Sn… ow...y…" I barely managed to utter from my throat.
"Don't worry about Snowy, Frisk, he's being taken care of too. Both of you took heavy hits from crashing through the roof like that. But I know why you did, you didn't have any time to go through the door. You and Snowy just rest now, you can report what happened after you recover, okay?"
I gave a small nod. Sleeping sounded like heaven right now. Knowing we were safe and being well cared for, I allowed my consciousness to slowly drift away. I wanted to sleep in these arms that protected me, the arms I'm assuming is Toriel. Everything… will be… fine… … … …
DarkFoxKit: This was one of my favorite chapters. I hope you guys liked it too, and it was fun having the Snowdrake family duking it out with each other. Anyways, I'll get to the review and hope you guys have a wonderful day!
JadeKnight: I'm glad your computer's working again, even if it deleted everything. ^^' And I'm glad you liked the last chapter, I hope this one was great too!
penguinfan28: Flowey's in this story, but you won't see for a little while. ^^'
The Moonfox Collective: Ah, that's what you meant. I like Snowy, though when I first saw him in the game I thought he was a dragon. ^^' Hey, you're right, maybe Snowy should talk to Mettaton about a career when this war is over.
Consider-Me-A-Hooman: I hope this chapter did no disappoint!
ScarkitTheMadaNeko: Thanks, and I see your avatar's changed to Papyrus. :)
AnimeGirl: Comic Sans!
vivi05: Yes, a cliffhanger! XP