As the battle between Shalltear and the double ended, so did the tension that they had brought. Aura scanned the battlefield in case the vampire brought another of her old colleges. When she determined that no one else was coming she picked up the unconscious body of Frisk and held them over her right shoulder.

She then walked to Zaryusu, who was still recovering from the madness aura. She offered the downed lizardman her left hand with a smile, though he hesitated a bit. "Are you okay? We're so sorry for bringing a lot of trouble here."

When he gazed into Aura's multicolored eyes, he sensed only compassion. "Yeah just a little disorented." He accepted the helping hand which lead to the elf pulling him back on his feet. "I'm surprised someone like you would work with a true monster like that." He gave an angry glare at the fallen vampire. His eyes widened in slight shock as Aura walked over to Shalltear and hauled her up onto the elf left shoulder. "What are you doing?"

Aura only smiled at the lizardman. "While she wanted to kill all of us, I wanted to belive we were friends once." Though Aura strained from the new weight she began to walk back into the swamp. "Frisk would hate me if I did that to an old friend." To her surprise, Zaryusu assisted the elf by grabbing both the vampire and a limp Flowey. "Hey, I had it taken care of!"

"Your friend, as much as some lizardmen would hate to admit, saved us all." Zaryusu gave her a smile of kindness, which she replied with the same gesture. "And I did promise to let bygones be bygones if we lived." She gave him a blank stare, but shrug and allowed the nice act. "Come, I'm sure my village would let you stay the night."

"I don-!?" Her belly grumbled before she realized that she hadn't had a decent meal in a while. "Well, maybe just for a bite." She gave a cheeky smile before looking at Frisk to make sure they are alright. "I'm sure Frisk would love some as well."

"Well as long as they don't feast on our bodies and souls, sure." He joked, causing Aura to stick her tounge out at him. "Haha, just a joke."

She gave a small playful jab to his back with her free hand. "Well then tell me a 'newt' one." He laughed at the pun as they began to walk to the lizardmen encampment. "C'mon, mine was marsh more worse!" The elf continued which Zaryusu replied with a light whip of his tail against her legs. "Hey, what did I do!?" She wiggled her legs in irritation while regaining back her lost balance.

He chuckled at how easy it was to annoy her. "A bit too much, rather not have my brother be angred by your many lizard puns." It was a joke though it actually made Aura dead silent. He flinched as he then realized he just might have hit a very sensitive nerve. "Sorry, di-"

"It's okay I get it perfectly. family is...important." She sounded more hollow and monotone with her response. "I'm sure you two care for each other very much."

They made it to the camp as Zaryusu spotted his brother and mate. "Yeah, but possibly not at this moment." He laughed slightly as his brother walked towards them, annoyed was an understatement. "Hey...brother." There was a heavy glare spoke everything from the chieftain's mind. "I have a favor that you and Zenberu may or may not find completely ludicrous."

In a rather large tent, Aura took several bites off some roasted fish and moaned to it's delectable taste. She looked at the lizardman traveler who sat next to her.

The brothers had a 'small' argument that lasted for an entire hour before the cheiftain agreed to let the outsiders rest for the night. "Dear brother, I still can't tell if you're crazy or if a hammer just gave you a skull check." Zaryusu's brother commented as he was elbowed by the albino lizard sitting next to him.

"Behave, you forget that it's the duty of a chief to take care of thoose in need." Crusch reminded the lizard chieftan. "They may be outsiders, but without their aid we would have moved on to the next life." Her red eyes gazed to an unconscious Frisk, laying by a newly lit bonfire.

Shasuryu sighed, he knew that was exactly the case if his brother didn't daydream the event. "Yes, but what if..." There was a pause as he was trying to find the right words for the insane 'monster' inside of Frisk. "What if they changed their mind in the middle of the night, nobody would survive."

"They won't attack you and I'm sure of it." Aura declared as she finished her third fish. "They don't want to hurt anyone, who you saw was someone else." She then stopped eating to look at Frisk's sleeping form.

Shasuryu sighed as he was going to take a huge gamble. "Okay, but at dawn you must leave immediately." The elf's sad eyes seemd to ask why he was so antagonizing to her friend. "They did some unforgivable and possibly irreversible damage to our home. While I speak for most of the lizardmen that we're glad that they saved our lives, but one more night might lead to a lot more trouble then it's worth."

Aura smiled since the reason wasn't personal, but rational. "Thank you, my friends would be grateful."

"Speaking of...what should we do with the invader?" Zaryusu asked the question on everyone's mind.

"Dump her in the southern swamps." Aura stated flatly, but not cold and emotionless. "Ains values her too much to leave her behind enemy lines. Beacuse of that he would most likely attack again with a larger force unless he happens to find her in the middle of nowhere."

"That also brings up another question of mine, who exactly is Ains? If the question's not too personal that is." The traveler handed her another fish which she gladly took with glee.

She took a bite out of the roasted fish. "To you he would be an absolute nightmare, a reaper bringing your inevitable doom." The lizardmen felt a dreadful chill as she stated that fact. "The force you fought was only a practice test for one of his guardians."

Shasuryu gazed downwards, feeling a little insignificant in the grand scheme of things. "Was the guardian Iguva by any chance?"

Aura choked on her fish a little bit. "If I was still within Nazzereck I would have taken that as a stupid joke." She gave the lizardmen sad and sympatetic eyes. "If you had fought the actual guardian, Cocytus, you would have died very quickly."

Shasuryu grit his teeth at the premonition of death that Aura gave them. "So, our alliance was useless afterall?" As he said that the other two lizardmen looked down in depressed sorrow.

"No." Aura stated with defiance, causing the lizardfolk to look back up at her. "You were able to unite against an impossible threat, to Frisk that might have been the most important thing you've ever done." The sleeping Frisk's right hand twitched at her words.

Zaryusu patted the elf on the back. "Well your friend must have faced some impossible feats on their own to think like that." He smiled before he stood back up. "I'm going to check on your flower friend's health." He left the tent and his footsteps faded away.

Crusch also stood up and smiled at the elf. "It seems the human keeps good company. I hope they recover soon." She left the tent leaving only Shasuryu and Aura alone.

The crackling of the fire soften and the awkardness of silence had risen between them. "I'm sorry." The chiftain muttered quietly, but Aura heard him.

"For what, if anything we-"

"Zaryusu told me that you might have had a family member that you miss dearly." Aura went into a dead and depressed silence, confirming the brothers' suspicions. "I'm guessing they're in Ains' command?" Aura nodded slowey, a tear escpaing her right eye. "I get how you feel, my brother was the same way."

Aura looked up at him with a dead face, a slight stream of tears running down her face. "Really?"

He nodded, handing her the last fish but she refused his offering. "Indeed, when we were mere childern when he was branded a traveler, an outcast. He was unsure of what to do or where to go now that his purpose is now unknown to him." He gave a soft chuckle at the memory. "He then lived near the pond where he had made a hatchery for fish. Confused and mildy heartbroken by his sudden banishment." Aura looked down and found the ground suddenly interesting. "So I was ordered to enforce his banishment from the elder council and the cheiftain at the time. When I got there we skipped some thin rocks across the water, he always did beat me at that game."

Aura slightly smiled, still having her eyes on the ground. "Sounds like you two were best friends rather then brothers."

Shasuryu chuckled with mild agreement. "To some yes, to others we seemed like a contrast that shouldn't really get along." Her ears perked, wanting to hear more. "Cheiftain to traveler, order to chaos, and power to knowledge." He sighed as he flipped through his family past. "After the game I told him, for once in your life don't plan every detail. Just follow your heart and let it guide you." He genuinely laughed at the memory. "He told me that it was a dumb idea, but he'll keep it in mind."

Aura smiled from Shasuryu's story. "So he was gone for a long time and yet you still treat him like a close friend."

"Indeed, but today I wish I had said common sense instead." They both chuckled at the small joke. "I bet you feel the same about your sibling, eh?"

Aura frowned because deep down she wished that she could have been a better sister. "No, you couldn't be farther from the truth and I'm to blame..." Tears started to fall from her face. "I was like a tyrant to them and I can see that now!" She grit her teeth in self-loathing anger and anguish. "I was literally controlling his every movement with my words! The only times when I couldn't is when Ains was involved and-!?"

She was suddenly hugged from behind by familiar arms. Shasuryu directed his attention to the bonfire, Frisk was now missing from their spot. Aura allowed the surprise hug from behind and slowly stopped her crying, calmed by the friendly presence.

"Please stop crying Aura, it breaks my heart." Frisk muttered as they tightened their hold on the elf. "I'm here...I won't leave."

Aura smiled at Frisk's comforting words. "Thank you, I'm glad you're back Frisk." She slowey removed the hug to face them. "I really and truly am." Both of them smiled at each other.

"Now I see what you mean by different." Shasuryu commented on the sudden change in Frisk's personality. "You two being friends now makes a whole lot more sense."

Aura looked back at him with a grumpy face. "You ruined the moment, dumb lizard." Shasuryu laughed and left the tent to give them privacy. "That was just rude."

"Soooo..." Frisk trailed on as they looked around the tent. "Where am I?"

Aura opened her mouth then paused. How would Frisk react to the reveal of an insane personality that they unknowingly had? Would they break and revert back to it, killing everyone in stride. "We are in a lizardman encampment, you passed out after we did the quest." Frisk frowned at the memory that felt like yesterday. "We had gotten lost while carrying you and then we were ambushed by a vampire. Flowey was injured in the fight but we won and the vampire is now in prison!" Aura smiled, hoping Frisk bought her lie.

"Oookay..." Frisk reached out to her and poked at her face. "When did you get the tattoo though? It looks pretty cool on you." Aura froze in fear as she had forgotten all about that.

"Oh, um...woke up with it." She gave a cheezy smile, no way were they going to buy that. She froze further, weren't they able to see through lies according to Ains? "Crazy right? I thought Flowey pranked me or something?" She screamed in her mind about digging deeper into her grave.

Frisk smiled as the lie had been bought. "Lucky, usually he draws a mustache and a monocole on my face." Aura praised her lucky stars that Ains was incorrect. "Still it's a super cool tattoo! But, I wonder what really caused it to appear on your face?" Frisk smiled as Aura frowned from a crazy idea that was coming her way. "We should go on an ad-"

"No! Flowey's still hurt, we should go back to the city as soon as possible!" Aura argued as Frisk was shocked by that fact. "Did you even listen to me?"

Frisk gave an awkward chuckle. "My head was still ringing, sorry."

Aura sighed in annoyance. "What am I going to do with you?" Frisk just smiled as Aura took their hand. "Well, want to go see Flowey?" Frisk couldn't nod their head fast enough. "Works for me!"

As Aura lead Frisk out of the tent the human looked around it once again and was surprised that Chara was nowhere in sight.

Zaryusu had checked up on Flowey near some healthy soil and he was doing well. He actually does grow petals back, but at a very slow pace. When he left, Aura and a normal Frisk dashed passed him with smiles on their faces.

Zaryusu grinned as the elf and human checked on the sleeping flower. It reminded him of himself and his brother, more of best friends till the end then a blood relative relationship. "They seem happy." He commented as he had one more task at hand. "Wonder how our vampire guest is?" He reached his destination and saw Shalltear within a pitch black tent.

The vampire's eyes were opened, but empty and hollow as if she's in another world. "If you were anyone else I would pray for your life, but you're not." He commented as he picked her limp body up, but when he turned back he saw Aura. "Thought you were with Frisk?"

She shrugged. "I was, but then I thought they needed alone time with the weed." After the joke subsided her face turned deadly serious. "However the real reason is that I still have one last thing to do." She approched him and the limp Shalltear. "Put this inside her dress, I don't need it anymore." Aura held out an expensive looking ring with intricate designs.

The lizardman took the ring and inspected it closely. "I can tell it has powerful magic, you sure it isn't the least bit important to you?"

She let out dry laugh, clearly hesitante on giving the ring away. "Yeah, it's not a useful enchantment to me anymore."

He sighed, catching her lie but understands the turmoil that giving this ring away has on her. "Okay, I promise." Zaryusu placed the ring in shalltear's false bosem, since there was not a single pocket in sight. He looked confused for a second before pushing the unrelated thought away.

Aura turned around with a thankful smile. "I appriciate what you've done for me." She looked back at him before she left the tent. "I think this is what Frisk would call a growing friendship." She grinned and left the tent with the thought in mind.

As soon as she left, Zaryusu pulled out a bottle of anti-venom from Shalltear's chest. "I thought the undead can't be posioned?" He thought about it for a few moments before putting it back. It was probably a reason completely unknown to him, if it's not meant for toxin removal.

Hey guys, I'm baaack! Seems like some people like the battle I had posted and to be completly honest with you all, I thought all you guys would hate it. But apparently you liked it, my reasoning for Frisk winning, and why I wanted to do it.

Also to a reviewer who liked it so much, Nightmaster000. To awnser your question about a relationship between Aura and Frisk is possible (No guarantees when I write, trust me.), but if it does happen it would be more cute then sexual. They are still technically childern afterall, so it would be more of a crush love then the full blown lust of Albedo and Shalltear.

Thank you everybody, hope you enjoyed this chapter despite my possible errors.