This is the longest chapter that has ever been written! 4,000 WORDS! Please review for not only this personal record of mine, but for the story itself, this being the 10th chapter... Yes, I know it says there's 11, but the one thingy in here doesn't count XD Boo-bye! :3
I told her everything... We we're just in silence. DJ sat down after I started talking and when I got halfway through, I sat down next to her... We both didn't say anything. I looked back at DJ and she was just curled in a lose ball. "... I... I don't know what else to say..." I tried to break the silence. There was nothing else to say... except. "...I'm sorry... for what happened.." I heard DJ give a shakey sigh as she looked up, brown tears staining her face.
"You didn't do anything..." I just stayed silent before I sighed. "...I wanna get mad... but she's trapped in another freakin' dimension so... what's the point?" She sniffled as she just buried her head in her knees again, making her glasses fall of.
"Hmm... I hear ya..." She looked up at me and just shook her head, probably thinking the same thing I was. "I... I never even knew human children could have an LV... or any EXP for that matter..."
"... I had no clue what LV or EXP was until the barrier was broken... Sans taught me all about that stuff." I nodded as she got up and scratched her skull. "...So... Nothing like... learning about the past... But, we need to see if there's a way to bring you back." I got up and sighed, already knowing the answer.
"There isn't a way to bring me ba-"
"Aw, shut up. 'Don't lose hope'." She started walking into on of the cottages as she wiped the tears of her face. I picked up her glasses and started to follow her, whatever she was planning to do.
"Where's that quote from?" I asked, having nothing else to do but follow.
"My mom taught me that... I never forgot it and made a promise not to and follow it." We we're both in the cottage and there was a small gem lying on the floor. "Ok, here's the plan. You we're alive on the surface, right?" I just nodded as she reached for the gem as it glowed with contact. "I was there too. Maybe something happened in the back round of my memories that can help us." I could tell she planned this sometime before she came here, or thought if it really fast. Probably the latter, because to me, this was just plain ridiculous.
"But, where I am isn't even heard of! I'm erased from existence!"
"Then how the hell are we talking?" I was going to give a rebuttal... but I didn't have one for that... "If you we're erased, you'd be dead. Besides being a skeleton, you don't look dead to me." The gem grew into a pillar and formed a door handle.
"...O-Ok, I'll go through with... whatever you have planed, at least elaborate a little bit..." DJ nodded as she opened the door. I didn't see anything inside. I was tempted to use her glasses until she took them from my hand and placed them back on.
"Thanks, I forgot these. This, apparently, leads to my memories. I don't want to explain the long story, but Sans and Papyrus went in there... and basically saved my sanity." I looked back at her in confusion and she just sighed. "I just said I didn't want to explain right now. ANYWAY, they said they found a way to look in my memories in a first person point of view. I think that maybe while that happens, things can be seen going on around my memory at that point of time... emphasis on 'I think'." I nodded as I tried to see anything through the door, but it was just blackness.
"...Why haven't you tried?" I asked.
"It wont let me!" I look at her quizzically as she walked towards the door, but gem shards blocked her way. "If I could go in and help, I would. But the only way I can help right now is let you in and try to find something yourself."
"If your hypothesis is correct, hopefully." She nodded in agreement as I walked in. "...But I don't see anything."
"Sans and Papyrus said they just kept walking before they saw this... thing with a bunch of wisp like things around it... I guess you cant miss it? I never seen it myself." I just sighed as I started walking. "Good luck, doc! Oh wait! If I wake up I think you'll wake up too! If that happens, we'll try and talk again!" I nodded and waved as I started running into the darkness.
I was running, looking at my surrounding for something similar to what DJ explained. My surrounding reminded me of the Void, but everything stayed it's normal shade of black. Nothing was getting darker. I was running for a little while and I was starting to run out of breath...I haven't ran for a purpose in a long while... It felt... good- no GREAT. I started to laugh as I ran more and more, not really sure of where my destination was! I was just enjoying the feeling of the air flying past me, making my coat flap in the wind I was making with my speed. "WOO! SECOND WIND, BABY! AHAHAAA!" I kept running and running until I saw something that brought me to a stop. I saw a small green light far a way left of me. I walked to it and it looked like a glowing ball with wings. "... are you a wisp like the one DJ was speaking of?" I didn't get a response as I held my hand out for it to land on it. "Your so fluffy!" It started to glow more and warp into a screen of sorts. I stood back, unsure of what it was doing until I heard voices coming from it.
"DejaVu, stay with me!"
"Coming Dad!" I saw a human male wearing clothes like the humans I saw before the war. Behind him was a little skeleton child with a much too big cloak on her head and shoulders.
"...DJ?" I asked myself. They seemed to be walking in a small market with various merchants for food and clothes... Everyone one was at peace... this was before the humans began to fear our magic. They kept walking before they walked past a human boy wearing rags holding a stein with a few coins in it. DJ stopped and looked at him before she reached into her pocket and put 6 gold coins in it. The boy looked at the stein and back at DJ before growing a warm and thankful smile. Someone with a white dress walked up behind DJ-...
"Aw, that was very sweet of you, baby." ... I saw Tourmaline walk up behind DJ and put 3 coins in the stein for the human child and took DJ's hand and walked away. "Don't scare daddy like that though, we almost lost you in the crowd." She softly scolded DJ as she walked with her back to the human father.
"Sorry!" DJ's giggle was the last thing I heard before the screen reshaped back into a wisp as it floated back into my hand.
"...So I'm close then... Um, can you show me how to see memories in person?" The wisp flicked it's wings before it started to fly away. "Hey!" I ran after it until I came to a large pillar that looked like the one that brought me here, except there was no door. There was different colored wisps everywhere I looked. I looked at the pillar, seeing a lot more shards coming out of it while the wisp I chased was flying up and down in front of them. I walked up to it and it looked at one of the shards, then it flew away. I touched one of the shards, and it fell into my hands.
I heard someone giggle behind me and when I turned around, I saw a gray wisp. "Did you laugh?" The wisp was looking at the shard I was holding. I handed it to the wisp and it took the shard and warped like the green wisp that lead me here. I thought it was going to form a screen, but it shaped into a door much like the one I walked in to come here. I looked at it in silence for a few minutes debating if I should enter until the green wisp I saw poked me in the head and spun around the door, then landed on the door knob. "...You want me to enter... This is how I can see memories in person?" It flapped it's wing faster than a hummingbird then flew off. I couldn't think of anything else other then walking through the door.
When I walked through, I was on the surface... It looked like I was in Ebott. It was very late and the moon was right above me. I turned around, seeing I was in front of a scrap and dump site. "Glad I can't actually smell anything then..." I suddenly heard dogs barking as I saw a hooded figure climb over the fence and jump over to my side as 3 guard dogs chased them out. The figure tripped and was laughing as they had a bag full of intact items.
"TAKE THAT! 'Trained since they we're puppies' my rear!" I recognized that voice. When the figure stood up, I was right about it being DJ. She looked like a little child!
"...If this is Ebott, then I guess her father passed away many years back... If I'm seeing this in person, let's see if DJ's theory was correct." I looked back at the younger DJ as she was looking through her bag, then I walked out into the street. Everything was still moving and a few cars even drove by. I saw a rat ran behind me, but I thought I accidentally stepped on it when my foot phased through it as it continued to run. I heard a man scream and when I turned around, DJ ran right through me with a scared face. When she ran out of sight I saw a man with a beer bottle run out. He looked both ways from the streets then rubbed is face as he dropped his bottle that was half empty.
"I'm going nuts..." Then he walked back into the alley and through a door that led into one of the buildings. *DJ's theory was correct... Now how do I leave?* As I was thinking to myself, the same door that brought me here appeared in front of me. I opened the door and entered back into the room with all of the wisps. The wisp that showed me that memory was shaking. I looked back at it then it flew off faster than a bullet. "Skittish little one, aren't you?" I looked around and noticed how many wisps that we're around. There we're a lot around in the air and resting on the pillar and the floor... I sighed thinking I would have to look through them all.
The green wisp came back to me and it simply floated there. "Thanks for the help earlier."
"You'Re wELcomE!" It's voice sounded like a man in a large crowd...
"...Are you talking with the voices in DJ's memory?"
"YeS!" Then it sounded like a happy child.
"O-Ok! Then you are sentient and aware of all that was happening in your memory! I need your help again, friend. Please, it's my only hope to come back."
"WHat wouLd yOU liKE, siR?"
"I need to see if there's a way for me to come back, or anything there is to know about the Void if anyone knows about it!"
"oK!" Then it flew around to the other wisps, making various sounds with it's wings. It kept doing so until it came back with a cyan colored wisp. "SHe can Do it!" The cyan wisp went to the pillar and grabbed a shard, then warped into a door like the white one had.
"Thank you, so much. this mean a lot." I opened the door and found myself in a small room with stone walls and floor with a hole in the corner of the ceiling. I turned around and saw DJ looking out a sewer grate, looking at the pink sky with a spider in the corner. "What is she doing?" I looked out the grate, seeing nothing there. The spider twitched and crawled down into DJ's shoulder.
"Just be patient and wait a little longer, Phil. I'm not risking getting caught again. Good thing the guy was drunk." I guess that this memory was a day or two after the one I previously witnessed. I looked around the room, not seeing anything to keep in mind... except for a strange... see through mass in the corner next to DJ. I went to look at it, and I couldn't tell what it was... It was strange, just sitting there. It looked like a very faint orange cloud. I turned around and saw the cyan wisp.
"Hello again... What is that?"
"-You DOn't neEd iT, JIimY!" I guess that with the time here, phrases to replay we're limited.
"Where do I have to go, and how long will this memory last?"
"FOllow Me! We neEd tO Go to tHE MounTAin!" The wisp landed on my shoulder and I was suddenly in a new area. I looked at my new surroundings and it looked like my old lab, except there was a few boxes everywhere and my original equipment wasn't in the room. I heard a door open and I saw a tall man walk in hidden behind the boxes.
"W-WHERE DO I SET THIS STUFF?" I heard that voice before, it sounding a lot younger when I last...
"Just set it in the corner. Thank you so much Papyrus, this means a lot!" When he set the boxes down, all I could do was smile.
"He's grown so much..." I recognized the small lizard women... same round glasses.. "Lizzie Alphys? She took my place?"
"DON'T WORRY! JUST MAKE SURE YOU TELL UNDYNE WHY I COULDN'T MAKE IT TO TRAINING TODAY AND WE CAN CALL IT EVEN!" He even started training in the guard like he wanted...
"Aw Papyrus... your mother would be so proud..." I put my hand on his shoulder, but it phased right through it. I sighed as I heard someone else walk in with a few boxes.
"that's the last of it!" I saw Sans set the boxes next to the door way as he pulled a book out. "hey liz, where did you get this book? 'the theory of realms'?" I looked over Sans' shoulder and never seen the book before.
"Oh, I found it a while ago. It's so cool! It talks about other things called multiverses and pocket realms and possible ways to connect with them... The thing is, humans only hypothesize this stuff and never really test it, so I want to see if I can be the first! Maybe find a way to get to the surface... or use the pocket realms to store important items." Sans just nodded with a sad look after he turned as he set the book down. The cyan wisp flew to the book and jumped up and down above it.
"This book holds answers to get me out of the Void?" It flickered and flew in circles around me. "I-I'll take that as a yes! All we need is this book! Thank you so much!" It was going to form into a door before things around us was getting brighter and brighter, I had to cover my sockets because the light was starting to hurt. When I opened my socket's, I was back in the void. I sighed as I looked around in the nothingness... I woke up lying on the floor and tried to see if I could see anything outside. I focused my magic on attempting to make a window in the outside world. When it formed I saw DJ rubbing her face in a room, I assumed it was her bedroom.
"...Gaster, If you know about the dream thing, I-I'm gonna assume that you found out by looking in the void. We'll talk later, ok?" I just sighed and nodded, already knowing she wasn't seeing anything I was doing. I was happy that I finally had a lead to getting out, after all these years.
"Thank God..." I was already drained from the power I've just gained from actually sleeping and had to close the screen, having nothing else to look at except for the never ending space around me that always got darker.
DJ P.O.V
I sighed and scratched my head as I got up and changed my clothes. I just changed into a white ting top with a pair of green basketball shorts, not really caring about what I was wearing. It matched, so screw it. I just hoped that Gaster found out something and that my guess was right about my memories. I put my flats on my feet as I walked out of my room to look for something to eat when my door knocked.
"Apples!" I loved saying something random when someone knocked on the door, it never got old hearing their reactions.
"H-Hey DJ..." I heard Undyne on the other side and I opened the door with her fins on her head a little down as she had sweat beads on her forehead. "Um... C-Can we talk? I need to confess something..." I just nodded with a confused look as I let her in and shut the door. "...Aw jeez, how do I put this..?" She was really worked up about something... I've never seen Undyne nervous like this before... or ever for that matter. "Promise me- Shit don't promise anything, uh..."
"What's eating ya? You can tell me... Have a sit." I jumped on the couch and patted the set next to me for her to sit. She just shook her head and continued to pace in a small space back and forth.
"...Y-You know how your birthday is coming up?" I just looked at her, very confused...
"...Um... Oh, w-wow... Heh..." I was really stumped on that question... I haven't celebrated my birthday... Since the year my Dad passed away. I just completely lost interest in it after that... not having anyone to celebrate it with...
"...D-DJ are you crying?!" I was shook from my thoughts when I felt warm tears on my face.
"U-Uh nah, I-I'm good..." I just sniffed as I wiped my face with my cloak.
"...I... I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend-" I looked back up at her... why would I be offended? "...Fuck it, the way I say it isn't gonna change the outcome... I-I know, okay!" I just stared at Undyne as she stopped pacing, waiting for an outcome.
"W-... Know what?" She just grunted as she scratched her head. "...You're not teasing me about Clyde again, righ-?"
"Sans told me your birthday was coming up, so I thought 'Hey, let's do the thing I do with any celebration to get this person a gift they really want!' So I did what I usually did!" She started pacing again, I guess that was something she did when she was tense... I was just happy it wasn't about her shipping me and Clyde... *...N-Not that I'm complaining, it's just annoying...* "What I do is head into my friends houses to see what they need! L-Like when it was Sans' and Pap's birthday last year! I know they like puns and puzzles and they're low on ketchup and pasta, what do I get!?"
"...Puzzles and pun books with ketchup and pasta?" I assumed.
"RIGHT!" I had to stifle a laugh with how she answered. "SO I-... I-I thought that... since you had your birthday coming up... I-I should see what ya needed and... and junk." I nodded, sorta getting to what she was at. So, she saw something of mine she wasn't suppose to. I just nodded as I waited for her to go on. "...W-Well, you know how I was looking... A-And I made my way into your room... I... Saw a-an AWESOME knife... A-and a cool sketch... a-a-a diary-"
"Diary?" She froze as she stopped pacing. "I put that in my end table that has a lock on it."
"...I-It was on the bed..." She rubbed the back of her neck as I got what she was trying to say... She read it...
"...You know... About me." I felt my heart freeze for a moment... no one else knows... W-What will-
"I am so fucking sorry!" She suddenly yelled. "I-I thought it was going to be a simple thing that you put your desires in or shit like that! I-I flipped and skimmed through random pages a-and the things I read added up to a bunch of random shit!" I couldn't really think of anything to say as she went on. "T-The things you went through, the shit you put up with, the promise you made... I-I had no right.. looking through that a-and I understand why you wouldn't want people to know what you been through- I haven't even told anyone!" I calmed a little at that... but I was still on edge... S-She knows... "I-I just... I-I wouldn't be... a real friend. if I didn-... W-Well I guess I'm already a bad friend by l-looking through your diary-but... I-I thought that I should at least tell you... and I'm sorry..." She sighed when I didn't say anything and rubbed her head again. "I... I-I can just leave-"
"W-Wait! Don't leave, just. G-Gimme a few minutes, alright?" She sighed as I started to pace the room like she had a few moments ago. "...How much do you know, exactly?" She just sighed as she rubbed her arm.
"...You... we're born before the war... Your old man was a human... You we're up here this whole time... You survived all these years on your own for a few thousand years... Your basically the most badass monster on this planet." I couldn't help myself but snicker at that comment, it caught me off guard. "...I can understand if your mad-"
"Yeah..."
"...You seem kinda zoned out..." I just sighed as I rubbed my face.
"...It's just... So much has happened and... A lot has made me remember my past... It's just..."
"Exhausting?" I just nodded in response. "...A-Again... I'm sorry..." I just sighed and punched her shoulder playfully, getting a shocked look as if she was expecting a real hit.
"Just don't tell anyone... I can't really get made at ya... But, say a word and you can kiss that cool 10ft sword goodbye." I pointed a finger in front of her face as she snickered and nodded.
"... So, how was your date with Clyd-"
"Oh no not you too!" Then she started laughing as she finally sat on the couch and patted the seat next to hear, obviously wanting to hear how it went. I bet she still talked with the other guard and they keep tabs on me and other peop0le she ships to learn if she'll win the bet between her and Alph-... Lizzie. I just groaned and sat next to her, showing her the game we played. "...Wanna play as a Xenomorph while I talk and kick your ass?"
I liked this chapter... It was sweet, had a nice trip on the feels train... YO GUSTA!
Review what you think... and what's with the orange soda cloud in this chapter? Will it be MIST?!
YOU'RE HORRIBLE!
Oh my god your worse than Sans himself...
What's up?
...I need to head to the store.
If you drank all the malt vinegar again-
It's freakin' delicious, okay!? Sans drinks the ketchup!
*sell out!
Sans, I already know you do that.
BEAR HUGS!