Sans pov
When I opened my sockets we were right where I wanted to be. We were back in the beautiful area in waterfall where the waterfalls in the distance glows to the crystals on the roof of the cave we call home.
I took a huge breath enjoying the calming smell of the water. I knew that Frisk wanted to discuss something important so I thought this might be the most calming thing to do. Last time we were here, we discussed something else important of Frisk. She thought Papyrus, Undyne, And everyone of her friends hated her.
That just made me think of what Pap said before he left. And I couldn't choose weather he was right or wrong.
We went to the edge of the cliff looking over at the glowing water. The grass glowed with the small neon mushrooms and was soft like a cushion. We sat letting our feet dangle off the edge. She seemed a little tense of the situation she was about to explain.
My thoughts started to swim with so many bad thoughts and situations. The worst one was she was starting to get hungrier and she might lose herself in a never ending battle of being herself but dead, or being dead and feeling nothing but hunger and greed for more magic from souls of innocent monsters. I didn't want to think about that. Cause the only way to end it would to...
I grabbed her hand to ease the tension letting her know whatever it is, I'll be here for her.
"Sans...I hav...have not been...t-telling you..." She looked as she stared at my hand on hers. "Whatever it is, I'm not gonna be mad. I'm sure you had a good reason."
I clenched her hand harder, but to hard, to ease her. She smiled as she got ready to explain. "Some...times. When I eat a s-soul...I'll see things and feel them...Like memories."
I was a slightly surprised. I loosed my grip on her hand and tried to process. If she could remember things by things by eating souls, was she even herself at all? I swept the thought. I didn't want to think about the bad things, and I tried to for the rest of the conversation. I don't want her to think i'm upset with her when I'm just upset with myself.
"What do you see?" I asked calmly. She looked over the edge at the streaming water below. "S-some are...nice. I feel...happiness and c-calm. I remember...Monster kid...And how we p-played." I guessed that was the first soul she ate when she saw me back at the village. I wondered who it was...poor kid. She had to kill a close friend, who I'm guessing was in pain.
"Who was the soul back at the village before I woke up." I asked getting more interested. She gave a little bit of a frown. "Sh-Shyren. We were at a b-band...and I s-saw you... Happy." I smiled at that. I'm glad she remembered the good days when I wasn't always down, and I was happy to be with her.
I was about to make a comment before she interrupted. "But...Another...Vision I-I had was of...Me...Turning her t-to dust..." I felt my eye blink. How could she see a memory from another timeline. Everything else was before this happened in this timeline. "What do you mean." Turning my head towards her. "I-I don't know... I s-saw her...Crying...I turned her to d-dust with...A knife. And you..."
She looked at me with pain and fear in her dull eyes. It's amazing how with just looking at walking corpse I knew what she was feeling with her colorless eyes. "Y-you were behind me...And your eye..." She held up her hand and pointed to my left eye. I knew what she saw. It was when I watched her kill everything in the underground. Why I did it? I don't even know. I just knew it wasn't her. I least I thought it wasn't. That's why I glared at her with my eye glowing hot with anger.
"I'm sorry that you saw that. That wasn't you I was glaring at. I don't know why you saw...that. But believe me. I would never use that eye on you." I cupped my hand on her cheek to block the black tear falling down her face. "Why...did I...do that?" She asked looking at me. I wrapped my arms tightly around her holding her head to my chest. "You didn't. That was...something else. We don't need to talk about it. It's gone."
She dug her head into my chest wrapping her hands around me tightly. I rubbed her back in comfort, and let her breathe easy. "Thanks for telling me kid. And don't worry. We'll find a way out of this." She backed away and looked at me once again like she had more to tell me. "I remember...How I died..." I closed mt eyes and stopped her from talking. "It's fine kid. I don't wanna hear it." And I was telling the truth. To much is already on me.
As we had another embrace, I saw something move in the shadows of the wall of rock near the cliff we sat upon. I whispered close in Frisk ears. "Get behind me." She looked up from my chest. "W-why?" I started to push her seeing the shadow get closer. "Do it!"
She moved fast behind me before a rock the size of me hit her. I was able to block us both with a cage of bones to be our shield. "Who's there!?" I demanded.
"Lower your shield and you'll find out. I promise I won't fire considering your willing to protect such filth." He said. His voice sounded sneaky and medium pitched. I never heard it before, so this guy was new.
I was about to shoot back for the comment towards Frisk, but I controlled myself and lowered the cage of bones like told. I still stood in front of Frisk protecting her in case this guy wants to play any games.
I scanned him. He was tall bu skinny with fur all over the body. It was brown with a mix of tan and black with a small pinch of grey. His face was like a tiger and had long whiskers. And the eye's were the most eerie of all. They were big and green with a black diamond as his pupil. He wore a tan trench coat with a brown bag around his body. His pants were black along with his boots.
Yeah...I never saw this guy before.
"The name's Max. I run a survival camp deep in the parts in waterfall. It's safe from...well what your protecting." He eyed Frisk with his big green eyes. I stood in front of her protecting her from his sneaky gaze. "Listen. She's not like the others, and I have no idea who you are. She's no threat so you can run back to your camp." Frisk ducked down as he glared at her. She seemed almost ashamed to be here.
I grabbed the collar of his fancy little coat and pulled him closer to show a threat in my dark sockets. A smile crept along his face making me angrier. "I know you. Your that skeleton who tells puns and visits the bar almost everyday getting drunk and talking nonsense." I let go of his collar but kept my eye's dark. I was ready to blast this guy for bringing up my drinking issue.
"Yeah? So what. Who the hell do you think you are anyway Max. And what are doing here exactly?" I asked getting back to Frisk. She seemed slightly less terrified now that I was closer.
"Well I was just scavenging, looking for anything useful for my camp, in'till I came across the sight of a skeleton getting attacked by a taker. Or at least I thought before I saw what was really going on. Almost made me barf."
I decided to ignore his snarky comment and payed more attention the name her gave her. "A taker? Is that what you call them?" He nodded with a sing song voice of correction. "That's what everyone calls them. Guess you were having to much fun that you never learned the basics." I rolled the lights in my eyes once again ignoring him. Although he had a point. I never paid attention to anyone else or anywhere else. When this all began, the group and I only paid attention to Snowdin. And the lazy skeleton I am, I just called them what they were, Soul eaters. And so did the group. I never really heard what the people of Snowdin called them considering I never really said it in front of them.
"Anyway, who is this monster. I never saw a thing like her before." He closely looked at Frisk examining her. He was about to stroke her hair before I stopped him by grabbing his shoulders. "Her name is Frisk. The human who fell and stayed with the monsters to hopefully one day break free without Asgore ripping her soul from her body. At least that's who she was before..."
I almost laughed at my sentence. If she wasn't this thing, she could probably have Asgore break the barrier right now and leave the dead trapped here forever. But knowing her, she would never abandon anyone. Even if their not worth bringing.
"I see. Well I see why you would want to protect her, but you can't change this. Once your like this, your gone forever. And she may remember some things, but she'll one day be lost and turn into nothing but the taker she is." Max stared blankly at Frisk as he rambled on. I could feel my fist ball with anger just trying to tell me something that wasn't true.
"Your wrong. She's still Frisk. I know she is." He smiled and only shrugged it off. "Whatever you say pal. I should probably get back to my camp. If you want you can join me and stay the night. But I want her far away from the other survivors, which means you gotta hide her."
I looked over at Frisk. She smiled pressing me on to accept the invitation. The kind person she is she probably didn't want to be rude and decline. Another thing to have hope she's still her. "I'll be fine. I know shortcuts." I said with a very fake smile along with a wink.
"Great!" He said grinning. "But another thing. If she tries anything...She's nothing but motionless corpse. Understand?" He said glaring his dark green eyes into my sockets. He was being highly serious. "Understand. But you won't have to worry about that."
He grinned once again and started to walk in a direction of where I'm guessing his camp was set up. "Glad we made an agreement on something. But you really have to keep her hidden. I don't think the Queen would appreciate seeing her lost child turned into..this. She's better off knowing she's as good as dead...well more dead then this."
As we were walking I felt my spine shiver. "The Queen? Toriel?"
Max nodded.
I haven't seen Toriel since all of this started. She came back the day after Frisk vanished and noticed Frisk was gone. Undyne broke the news, and all Toriel wished was for her child to be back. Everyone was in the room comforting her while I was in another room almost having a cry session of my own. We both thought the worse. We never heard from her after that. We figured she was with Asgore in "New home". Who knew she was at a camp staying with some shady cat. But as Toriel would do, she would wanna help out as best she could.
"I think the Queen deserves to know what happened to her daughter. I want Frisk to remember everyone. It might hurt her, but this will show you that she is a good person." I said as we walked. Max snuffed and continued to walk. "Fine. If you wanna break the Queen's heart, be my guest. She'll probably dust you for letting this happen to her."
I looked back at Frisk. She could feel the tense between Max and I starting to rise again. I smiled reassuring her. "I'm an old friend. Trust me. I think she'd be just fine with seeing a friendly face.
