Sorry for the long wait but I am back, I have had a busy time (a bad time) and I have stayed determined.
Chapter 10: Laughter
I opened my eyes, claws were lodged in by side, but I wasn't getting torn up, intact the monster wasn't moving at all. I opened my eyes to cold, glassy eyes looking back at me, I looked at my weapon, the dagger may have been blunt but the weight of the monster was enough. The dagger went into the monster's neck and was protruding out the other side, he was dead. No blood was coming out the wounds, I… I felt sick, he had tried to kill or capture me but I had never taken a life before. I went to shove the cold corpse off me, however it then crumbled, it turned into white dust that went into my clothes. I shoved the monsters garments off and stood up holding the wound that seeped blood, but then it suddenly stopped. I felt better all of a sudden, I felt stronger all of a sudden, I… I felt more powerful than I ever had before. I liked it. I looked back at the small dust pile to see an upside-down heart split, then fracture, the pieces flew towards me and I absorbed them into my chest.
"You did it." I turned to see Flowey smiling at me, I couldn't help but smile back, actually I had to smile back. I just had to.
"Yes, Yes I did Flowey." I was shivering, not from fear or cold, but from something I couldn't put my finger on, dust was on my hands.
"Your soul has gained LOVE, you have called their name." He continued to smile deviously, I started to laugh at his joke, it had such good humour.
"Who… who will come." I fell on my knees laughing, Flowey was such a comedian, then I stopped what was I laughing at and what was funny?
"She will… And by the way, don't mention anything about me to anyone." Flowey disappeared, I got up and continued to creep through the maze of halls that all looked the same, only with different numbers. What happened? After turning a corner, I went back to reality as I heard footsteps nearing, I got ready to fight or flight, but I did near as I saw the two skeletons.
"Hello again human, the rest of the monsters were sent running with their tales between th… what's that dust on you?" The dust was showing on my very well, Sans got off his brother and took a couple specs off me.
"You have killed someone haven't you." Sans looked up at me, his white pupils had disappeared and his low tone voice was now a robotic dead serious.
"It-it was an accident, I swear." I backed away, my voice was unstable and I stuttered, was this a form of post traumatic stress disorder?
"What happened?" Papyrus said, breaking the death stare Sans was giving me, I stopped and took some deep breaths to calm myself.
"IwasonthegroundandhejumpedsoI." Sans stopped me and I knew why, I was talking too fast so I tried again with the stress relief.
"I was on the ground, a monster pounced on me and I held up my dagger in desperation." Sans's pupils came back, and nodded, I think he was still a bit sceptical.
"Eh…ok sport, are you hurt?" He looked and noticed the blood on my hoodie, usually a wound hurts when it is touched, but this one didn't.
"Well, let's keep going, the capital is up ahead." Papyrus, then led the way I went to follow when Sans stopped me and got me to kneel to his height, his pupils disappeared.
"Listen kid I have seen people go mad after murdering a monster, if you have sudden urges… Warn me." His pupils returned and we were off with Papyrus, again Sans's laziness got to him and Papyrus was carrying him. However Sans fell asleep upon his brother's shoulder, we crossed a large dark room lit with Neon light and found an elevator. When we exited a small dark hallway, the capital was revealed. The pictures on the way hear showed a grand city, with clean, bustling streets and white paving stone with happy citizens. I was looking at an Abandoned City Square, the streets were cold and the only sounds were the whistling wind, rustling rubbish and swinging door. The sound was broken with a screech of PA announcer.
"Attention citizens of the Capital, when the siren sounds, the dusk to dawn curfew will be in effect, it will not end until the siren sounds in the morning, eight hours later. Anyone caught out in the street in that time frame will be killed on sight, no questions asked, it is for your safety. The queen watches over you and you will look out for her. If you see anything suspicious call the night watch hotline. The survival of the underground depends upon you." The PA ended and a siren sounded, Papyrus looked around worried.
"Our house isn't far, wake up Sans." Sans woke up, but stayed on his brother's shoulder as we crept threw lanes and alleyways. On the roofs of the buildings I could see shadowy figures watching the street, I guessed that they were enforcing the curfew. After a while we walked up to a house and Sans held out a rusted key for his brother, the house was tall like all the others, it was dirty and leaning over. It looked exactly the same as all the other houses. Papyrus ushered me inside and turned on the lights and put Sans on the floor. The room was mostly composed of bare bricks, rotten wood and creaky floorboards, it had a torn up couch in the middle with a flat screen TV.
"Human, welcome to our home, we originally had a better one in Snowdin but since Undyne took it over, we had to move here. So make yourself at home. I will sleep on the couch if you want my bed. Because I, the great Papyrus am a great friend." I had a look around, a couple pictures of the brothers were on the walls, a couple of the other characters I have met. One was of the skelebros with a human child, another was of a scene which looked important, it was the most well polished and clean. It showed a large hall golden hall, it had banners hanging off pillars, large windows and a long purple rug in the middle. People filled the room on either side and Papyrus was kneeling with Sans at his side and a robed monster was placing a white furry hand on his shoulder.
"Heh heh, that's the pic of my bro being inducted into the Royal Guard, he was later promoted to Captain, partly because no one else wanted to. The queen is so cool, not a cool as Pap but she loves bad puns, we will meet her tomorrow, I think she will like you. See you in the morning." Sans then walked up a set of wooden stairs, Papyrus then gestured me to come with him up the stairs. We then walked to a wooden door that had the words "Captain" with the same purple heraldry I have been seeing everywhere in the Royalists section of the Underground. He opened the door.
"Here is my room human, you should give me your hoodie so I can clean the dust out of it." I took my hoodie off and undid the straps for my armour and placed it on the ground. The room was small, it had a bookshelf stuffed with comic books fighting books and cook books, mostly for pasta. A desk was set up with action figures set up as if it was a battle, at the centre was one that looked like Papyrus.
"As you see here human, I the great Papyrus has got his own action figure." I had a closer look, it appeared to be made out of bone, with metal armour made for it. I then looked at the armour stand in the room, it had an armour costume with a red scarf at the top, it looked the same as the one Papyrus had on.
"This, human, is my battle body, I originally wore this when I was a sentry in Snowdin, but now I have the whole cape and have actual metal, it can stop one of Undyne's spears." I finally stopped at looking at the costume and went to the bed, it was in the shape of a race car.
"I shall leave human, see you in the morning." Papyrus then left me alone in his bedroom, I took off some of my other clothes as the temperature was warm, and slowly got into bed.
It wasn't as comfy as it looked, but I suppose when you're a skeleton, you don't really feel much in the way of comfort. As I lay there, I felt secure for once, every time I had gone to sleep it was somewhere I could be attacked. I would be alone except Flowey. I finally switched off the light and closed my eyes, I then as if instantly felt I had woken up again, the room was dark.
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