Hope everyone's ready for this chapter! Again, sorry for the wait but as I said in the last chapter, with the holidays coming up I had been extremely busy but hope to finish this story before Christmas. Anyways, enjoy!
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"It sounded like it came from over here... Oh! You've fallen down, haven't you? Are you okay? Here, get up... Chara, huh? That's a nice name. My name is..." Frisk woke up on a bed of flowers. As she sat up, she felt sore from her head to her legs. She looked around but couldn't see anyone around. 'Who was that talking? Whose Chara?" She tried to stand up but fell down from the pain. She looked around again and noticed that the area was covered by water. She stuck her arm into the water to see how deep it was, the water went half way up. She slid herself into the water. 'cold...' She swam over to the next room, passing two piles of trash. She saw a save point on top of a little dock. She climbed onto it and saved. *The waterfall here seems to come from the top of the cavern... Occasionally, a piece of trash will fall through, and falls into the bottomless abyss below. Viewing this endless cycle of worthless trash, fills you with determination.* 20/20. She felt a lot better and a lot less sore. she stood up, jumped into the water and continued onto the next room. This room held three piles of trash and a couple of items in the water. The first item in the water was a rusty bike with a broken horn. The second item was a cooler with drinks from a brand she din't recognize. The third was an anime cartridge with desperate claw marks on it. The final item that was by itself was a training dummy. 'Why is it in such an odd place?' She tried to continue onto the next but stopped when she heard something behind her, afraid if the figure was behind her. Eyes appeared on the dummy and it jumped in front of her. "Hahaha... To intimidated to fight me, huh?! I am a ghost that lives inside a DUMMY. My cousin used to live inside a dummy, too. Until... YOU...! you... Shucks! You were really boring! You were annoying them so they flew away like any self-respecting spectre. Well then. Well then! WELL THEN! Boring people are crumbs sticking to the face of this world. Human! I'll wipe you away with the dainty handkerchief of vengeance! 'When the dummy said "human"... it sounded a bit like Papyrus.'
-Boss Battle Begins-
*Mad dummy blocks the way!* Frisk checked the dummy. *Mad Dummy 7 attack 40 defense. Because they're a ghost, physical attacks will fail.* 'Okay... how am I supposed to win?' "futile. futile! FUTILE!" The attack was other dummy's tossing... balls of fluff she guessed. It was pretty hard but she managed to get through without getting hit, barely. While she was dodging one of the attacks, it flew and hit the Mad Dummy. "OWWWWW, you DUMMIES! Watch where your aiming your magic attacks! ...Hey! You! Forget I said anything about magic!" "oh... maybe this is how I beat him?' *Mad Dummy is looking nervous.* She tried to talk to it... it didn't seem like much of a conversation. "I'll defeat you and take your soul!" 'Why do YOU want my soul?' Same attack. This time she had a guess of what she was supposed to do. She waited for dummies to appear behind her and dodged when they got close, throwing them into the Mad Dummy. She got a couple hits in before it ended and tried the same routine again. "I'll use your soul to cross the barrier!" 'And then what? Why would you want to cross the barrier?' Same attack. She was able to harm it twice. It started doing an armless ska dance which was going to make it harder for her to be able to hit it. "I'll stand in the window of a fancy store!" 'Really? That's why you want to cross the barrier?' Same attack. Since it was moving, it was incredibly hard to hit the Mad Dummy, she did, however, manage to hit it a few times. "THEN EVERY THING I WANT WILL BE MINE!" 'And what is it that you want? Fame? Standing in a window won't bring you fame, it'll bring clothes that were put onto you fame!' Same attack, really hard to hit it and dodge. 14/20. She had failed to hit it. "Huh? Yeah, I guess that'll avenge my cousin." 'Wait, what?' Same attack, same difficulty. She managed to get Mad Dummy hit again. "What was their name again...?" 'You don't even know who your talking about?' Same attack. "Whatever. Whatever! WHATEVER!" Same attack. "Foolish. Foolish! FOOLISH!" Same thing over and over again. "Pitiful. Pitiful! PITIFUL!" '...' "Hey guys!" Several dummies appeared all around her. "Dummies. Dummies! DUMMIES! Remember how I told you NOT to shoot at me?" 'yes...?' "Well... FAILURES! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU'RE ALL BEING REPLACED!" All the dummies left. "Hahahah. Hahaha! HAHAHA! Now you'll see my true power: Relying on people that aren't garbage!" *Mechanical whirs fill the room.* "DUMMY BOTS! MAGIC MISSILE!" Bots in the shape of dummies appeared behind her and fire rackets towards Frisk. She thought they'd be like the other attacks but these followed her more than the floofs did. "DUMMY BOTS! TRY AGAIN!" They appeared on three sides of Frisk and shot. She thought that she would die but she managed to dodge the rockets, having one run into Mad Dummy. "DUMMY BOTS! your awful?" Bots started appearing around and around the area, firing and firing their rockets which followed Frisk. By the time the attack was done, she had gotten multiple hits towards him. "DUMMY BOTS! FINAL ATTACK!" The normal dummies formed walls with little opening and flew past Frisk, then bots appeared on three sides and fired. 8/20. 'ow...' "(No way! These guys are worse than the other guys!) Who cares. Who cares! WHO CARES! I DON'T NEED FRIENDS!" A knife had appeared next to the dummy. "I HAVE KNIFES!" It flew towards Frisk but she easily dodged it. "I'm... out of knifes. BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER! YOU CAN'T HURT ME AND I CAN'T HURT YOU! YOU'LL BE STUCK FIGHTING ME... Forever. Forever! FOREVER! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" In the middle of his laughter, tear-like drops came from above them and hurt the dummy. "Wh... What the heck is this!? Erg, Acid rain!? Oh, forget it! I'm outta here!" Mad dummy had run away. Napstablook appeared and Frisk figured out where the "acid rain" was coming from. "...sorry, i interrupted you, didn't i?" 'No, it's okay... we would've been stuck in that forever if it wasn't for you.' "as soon as i came over, you friend immediately left..." 'NOPE! NOT FRIENDS!' "oh no... you guys looked like you were having fun." 'Yeah... no.' "oh no... i just wanted to say hi... oh no..." 'I wonder how much gold I got from this fight... if any...'
-Boss Fight Ends-
The room faded back to its normal colors and the two continued talking. "well... I'm going to head home now... oh... um... feel free to "come with" if you want... but no pressure... i understand if you're busy... it's fine... no worry's..." 'I'll follow you.' Frisk followed Napstablook up the path in front of them. "hey... my house is up there... in case you want to see... or in case... you don't..." Napstablook went up another path. Frisk looked around a bit. The room held four paths and a save point. *You feel a calming tranquility. You're filled with determination.* 'I wonder how many of these are here?' She went up the first path. She found that she was across the disproportionately small gap with the bird. She didn't feel like it was awake so she went back and up the second path. It held a house and a dummy. She walked up to the dummy. "What? What?! WHAT?!" She went up to the door of the house and knocked. No one seemed home. She went back down the path and up the third. There was two houses, one blue and one pink, and another path. She went up to the first house. In their held three CD cases, a fridge, a computer, a TV, and Napstablook. "oh... you really came... sorry... i wasn't expecting that. it's not much, but make yourself at home." The first CD was labeled "spooktunes", the second was labeled "spookwave", the third was labeled "Ghoulday music". She played the first one. "oh... a classic spooktune...they don't make any songs like this anymore..." She looked up to the computer. It was open to a music-sharing forum. She walked up to the TV. "oh... that's my TV... there's one show on it i like to watch... sometimes..." She walked up to the fridge. "Oh... are you hungry..." 'a little.' "i can get you something to eat..." Napstablook walked- floated... over to the fridge. He reached in and grabbed something out of it. "this is a ghost sandwich... do you want to try it?" 'Sure!' Napstablook handed her the sandwich but it phased through her hand. '...' "oh... nevermind..." 'Sorry.' "after a great meal i like to lie on the on the ground and feel like garbage..." 'uh...' "it's a family tradition... do you want... ...to join me..." 'Sure.' "ok... follow my lead..." They moved to the center of the room and lied down. "here we go... you'll lie down as long as you don't move. so... only move around when you want to get up... i guess." As the two lied there, the room seemed to fade to black and then into a 3D picture of the galaxy. After a while Frisk stood back up and Napstablook joined. "well, that was nice... thank you..." 'Yeah.' Frisk would lie there forever but that wouldn't work out in the long one... on progress that is. Frisk went on and left. She went back down and tried to get onto the next path but ran into two monsters.
Woshua listened for a moment. "What the HECK is that music?" Aaron replied in a shaky kind tone: "I-I DUNNO, DUDE BUT IT'S FREAKING ME OUT!" Woshua replied in a harsh manner: "this is worse than Shyren" 'HEY!' Frisk could now tell that they were mocking the music. Aaron said: "No way, Shyren is way less scary ; )" Woshua replied with a questioning tone: "...If you're so scared, why do you keep winking?" '...' Frisk didn't know what to think about what was going on but yelling out at them both... she would've but that never worked in her favor. Aaron replied with: "THESE ARE WINKS OF FEAR ; )" Woshua replied with: "Forget it... this beat is too... filthy." Woshua left. Aaron called out to it: "Wosh! Wait! Don't leave me! Is this creepy music my punishment for being creepy? Please... stop... i'll never creep again. Wahhhhhh..." Both of them had gone and Frisk was relieved. She saw a monster standing in the corner and went up to talk with it. "I'm visiting Waterfall from the city. Synchronicity...? My neighbor's daughter looks about your age. Her name is Suzy. I feel like you two should be friends. You have... A neighbor's blessing!" 'Sure. I think I might like to meet her!' She really wanted to find more monsters around her age... or at least just a kid, instead of running into adults constantly. She went up the third path. This room held four snails inside a small pen. Upon closer inspection she could see Napstablook faded next to the pen. "awkward... i'm working right now... i mean... welcome to the blook family snail farm..." 'Do you work here alone?' "yeah... i'm the only employee. this place used to get a lot of business... but our main customer disappeared one day... now it's just some hairy guy that shows up once a month..." She walked up and examined all the snails in the pen. She went down a path to her left and found another pen with three snails inside it. "do you want to play a game? it's called thundersnail" 'Sure!' "the snails will race, if the yellow one wins, you win. it's ten gold to play." Frisk gave him 10 gold pieces. "okay, press [z] repeatedly to encourage you snail." 'Wait, what?' "ready?" Frisk could here a count down but she couldn't tell where it was coming from. Ignoring the random noise, she encouraged the snail she was assigned. After a bit, the snail crawled into the shell, and then... it caught fire. 'UM...!' "it seem's that you encouraged her too much... all that pressure to win..." 'Okay... But is she okay?' She went down the two paths that lead up there.
This next area held a doorway and a couple other paths. She went through the doorway. "Whoa there. I've got some neat junk to sell." She asked about the guy's life. "I've been around for a long time. Maybe too long. Studying history sure is easy when you've lived through so much of it yourself! Wa ha ha." She asked him about the odd symbol on his shirt. "Eh? You don't know what that is?" Frisk shook her head? "What are they teaching you in school nowadays?" Frisk couldn't answer that, she had lost all time ever since she got down there and she didn't know how long she was out after hitting the ground twice. "That's the Delta Rune, the emblem of our kingdom. The kingdom of monsters. Great name, huh?" 'Uh...' That seemed like such an easy way to name something. "It's as I always say... Ol' King Fluffybuns can't name for beans!" Frisk giggled at that statement. She couldn't think of anything else to buy so she bought some tea and continued on, waving goodbye to the store keeper.
She went down the path in front of her but only found a small patch of land next to a river, so she went back up and down the other path. She saw another sign on the wall and read it. *Hurt, beaten, and fearful for our lives, we surrendered to the humans. Seven of their greatest magicians sealed us underground with a magic spell. Anything can enter through the seal, but only beings with a powerful SOUL can leave.* 'Wait... I recognize this story from school... but... it says that monsters killed people so they could become stronger and they lost several humans... but it's the monsters that were killed... not... humans...' She thought about it for a bit, but as she thought about it, she became upset that she was a human, something that they have reason to fear... and have reason to... k.i.l.l.h.e.r... She went up to the next sign. *There is only one way to reverse this spell. If a huge power, equivalent to seven human souls, attacks the barrier... It will be destroyed.* '...So there really isn't anything I can do... I'm all by myself and it takes SEVEN human souls...' She decided to continue anyway. *But this cursed place has no entrances or exits. There is no way a human could come here. We will remain here forever.* Feeling upset about the fact she couldn't do anything to help the monsters out of this prison of theirs and that she was lied to about why the monsters ended up there for years, she headed to the next area.
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Okay, I'm finally done with this chapter. Sorry this took so long but I've been busy due to the holidays and everything going on. Anyway I hoped you all enjoyed this chapter, please let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions: let me know! Sorry, I don't think I'll be able to finish this by Christmas day, but I'll sure do my best. I've been looking at and working on the secret project so I hope that it plays out well!