Wealth, Fame, and Power! W. D. Gaster, The King of The Pirates, had all those and the rest of what the world had to offer! Through many battles and trials, he had reached the pinnacle of the world's virtues and had nothing left but an illness that plagued him.
He brought himself in and was held at a worldwide public execution. Before he was executed, a man from the crowd asked:
"Where did you hide all your treasure?!"
To which the King of Pirates smiled and said:
"You want my treasure? You can have it! I left the most important treasure in the world on an island! Go and find it! 'For the next pirate that finds the UnderPiece, will be claimed the new King of The Pirates!"
Those were his final words before he was executed. He smiled to his death.
With those words, the world was flipped upside down as he created The Golden Pirate Era! People and already existing pirates from around the works started to sail the seas in search of the treasure that W. D. Gaster claimed to be-
The UnderPiece!
It had been Twenty Years since, and people have yet to find the treasure he was talking about. Except for one girl, who is now going to change the world by storm for the sake of her people.
This is the story of Muffet D. Baker and her way to becoming Queen of the Pirates!
"God my head! Who was that guy?!" Susie said clutching her aching head in the dark. Her and Kris had been traversing the dark for a while, but this was true darkness.
"Say...would the Chaos King happen to have blue gloves?" Muffet used her six hands to feel up the floors and the walls to make sense of where they were in the dark.
"Uhhh, yeah? What about it?" Susie also felt the wall to find where the walls were, she eventually just kept scraping the walls with her ax to create sparks. The sparks helped her see for a split second.
Muffet was able to hear and see where she was and migrated herself towards her.
"Well, I guess that's your answer to who it was!" Muffet laughed with a toothy smile that no one could see.
Susie growled.
"Goddamnit! That fat bastard was right in front of us and we just let him toss us out like we were garbage...it's all your fault!" Susie slammed her foot on the ground. Muffet couldn't see her, but she could tell vaguely, she turned around.
"My fault! You were the one who wanted to fight first!" Muffet slammed her foot on the ground.
"That was you- you moron!" Susie slammed the wall on her right with the side of her right fist.
"You wanna go!" Muffet cocked her right set of arms back while clamping her bicep with her left set of hands.
Susie sighed, seeming to let all the frustration go.
"Look dude, fighting ain't going to get us anywhere...we just have to find someplace with light. That's our best option right now." Susie said as she kept on feeling the wall.
Silence went by as they kept feeling around the room. Then finally, Susie found something along the middle of the room.
It made a metallic sound when lightly tapped by her ax. She gave it a few more knocks before she decided to announce it.
"Hey, spider girl, I found something," Susie announced hoping Muffet would hear her wherever she was at the moment.
Muffet was on the ceiling above her when she had heard her. She dropped down and stood next to her, in front of what seemed like a metal object.
"If only we had a light to see what this was." Muffet pouted.
"If only. Damn, what's this stupid room anyway?!" Susie exclaimed with annoyance at their situation currently.
"STUPID?! SPARE-ETH ME THOU VERNACULAR, WORMS!" An eccentric man was heard behind the box.
A giant beam of light was displayed on top of the box like he was descending from above in a holy light. The room was instantly lit up, it was a room made entirely out of hardened darkness. The only thing that wasn't dark was the box in the middle of the room that was a little push away from a button on the ground.
The man who presented himself boldly seemed to be entirely a Navy blue color, in the skin and clothes. On the right side of his lip, his two lips seemed to be melted together in a strand. His eyes were a regular black and his hair was a blinding silver. He levitated off the ground in seemingly his willpower.
How much did this guy hype himself?
He spoke in a condescending voice as if he was the absolute peak of the evolution chain.
"So the worms have come'th out to play...?" He seemed to slur his words as if he were in a medieval era and spoke ye ol' English. A man not from this time.
Muffet and Susie looked at each other in unsureness.
"I-I guess we-" Susie tried to answer before he cut her off.
"THOUST FOOLS! Behold'eth! Rouxls Kaard! Your greatest adversary...!" The way he spoke irritated both of them, the mannerisms in his speech and the slurring of the last word were enough to make them both mutually agree on two things.
One, they'd have to get this over with quickly.
Two, that he wasn't worth fighting.
"Oh! This guy is Rouxls Kaard? He seemed more menacing in folklore. We don't have to fight him Muffet we just have to solve his puzzle, you think you can handle it?" Susie prompted her.
"I'm no good with puzzles, but I'll try!" Muffet said excitedly.
Rouxls Kaard extended his hands over to the box with the button next to it.
Was he serious? That's the puzzle?!
As they were trying to solve the puzzle, Rouxls Kaard broke out into an eccentric melody. As to both make the scene much more dramatic and install fear into his participants.
THOU CRAWL-EST FROM THE DIRT-
YOU FILL-EST ME WITH MIRTH-E!
WHILE MINE PUZZLE SHALL FILL-EST THEE WITH FEAR...!
YOU STRUGGLE'TH AND TOIL!
YOU'RE FILLED WITH TURMOIL!
BAMBOOZLED'ETH FOR E' ONE THOUSAND YEARS...!
NOW THOU SEE'ST-
THOU POWER OF MEE'ST!
YOUR-E MINE WILL SNAP AS YOU QUIT...!
AND-
*click*
Susie and Muffet easily decided to push the box an inch to the left on top of the button. Solving the puzzle immediately.
They looked at each other calmly and then to Rouxls Kaard with a face that said "that's all?".
Rouxls Kaard began sweating profusely.
"God...DAMNIT!" He said as he flew solemnly into the other room that opened for them.
Susie and Muffet looked at each other again and started laughing.
"Oh man- Haha! Did you hear that guy and the way he spoke! That was crazy, Haha!" Susie said while falling laughing and pounding her fist on the floor.
Muffet gave a hearty laugh too.
"Huehuehue~ Was that his idea of a puzzle?! Oh man, he's much more lucrative than I thought." She was honestly surprised the fight would be that easy.
"Oh man, you know, for a place edgily made out of the darkness and grim figures...it's also really lively and expressive, everyone seems to want to freaking sing!" Susie said as she slowly got up wiping a tear from her eye.
Muffet looked confused.
"Darkness?" She uttered trying to piece together what Susie said.
"Wait...do you not know where you are?" Susie said trying to make sure she and Muffet were on the same page.
The spider girl shook her head.
Susie sighed.
Guess I'll have to explain a lot then... She thought as she approached Muffet ready to tell her about the 'Legend of Deltarune' and how and why everyone is here.
.
.
Muffet nodded as Susie finished her explanation and story behind coming here. It was a lot to take in but, she had to listen to know how to stop whatever was plaguing the newly made archipelago.
What she was able to gather was that Undyne and herself, was not even supposed to be here, Ralsei is. She was able to find out what the tree is, what it symbolizes, its architecture, and what happens if they don't stop it soon. Muffet was also able to piece together that they'd have to destroy the fountain and then defeat the Chaos King. She was super excited about that part.
Two parts interested her the most. The Jester. She heard that The Jester was so strong that it casually was sent to the upper reaches and locations of the Grand Line to cause mayhem. If something could easily cause chaos in the Grand Line knowing there are Admirals, Warlords, and Emperors afoot, then the Jester must be a true beast.
Another thing that interested her, was the story about her and her friend and how they'd known to come here. In more ways than one, Muffet could sympathize with her. For someone who just started their journey and training, she had already grown to be super strong, this girl was a prodigy at combat. And she was only a year younger than herself.
Muffet had heard enough to finally ask the question to Susie. They were still in the room where they had solved the puzzle, they were just sitting on the floor.
"I see the journey we've stumbled in now!" Muffet punched her fist together.
"We just have to kick that guy's ass! Don't think me and my friends plan on leaving because of the situation, we'll fight alongside you." The spider girl smiled at her so warm it pumped the dino girl up.
She brandished her ax and hoisted it over her left shoulder and stretched her back.
"Hey...when this is all over- wanna join our pirate crew!" Muffet tried to subtly push the question forward but ended up forgetting it. Subtle wasn't in her vocabulary.
Susie thought about it.
"Nah, I made a promise to a friend of mine that we'd continue being heroes until our names were cleared-" Susie tried to explain her response but Muffet cut her off.
"I'll just have to add your friend to the crew too, hehe. Don't worry, our crew doesn't plunder or attack innocent people, it's a rule on the ship. The only thing we do is follow our dreams and help each other achieve them! If we were as truly sinister as the rest of the pirates out at sea, then we frankly wouldn't be here talking." Muffet said with an ominous hiss behind the last statement.
Susie froze there, she had a point. This woman had only met her for about an hour and she already decided that she want to embark on a random journey with her for the rest of their lives...reminded her of someone she truly cares for.
"You know what dork? You're not too different from my friend, but atleast he waited a week before proposing something as grand as this Ghaha!" Susie laughed it off and Muffet just stood there smiling, waiting for the counter-response.
"I'm still iffy about it, I'd have to meet the rest of your crew and I'd have to talk it over with my friend Kris, then I'll get back to you. Hey, I'll get back to you faster if you and your crew can handle the Chaos King while we handled the fountain." Susie said baring her sharp and clean set of teeth in a loving and appreciative smile.
Muffet and Susie shook hands, it was a deal.
They both ran side by side into the next room trying to make a break for the power floor, they were on the fourth floor, they only needed to go one more floor down before getting to the fountain. Susie had figured out that even though they needed to destroy the roots connecting to the other islands first, all the roots led back to the fountain. So instead of going through extra work, she had found a way to make their lives easier and do less work, just like how she handled school.
They ran into the room and the door immediately closed behind them, filling the void with darkness, and yet again they were in a pitch-black room.
They both groaned in annoyance and they felt around yet again trying to find something that'll help them escape.
Then they both realized something.
They gulped.
A beam of light engulfed the middle of the room, it was the same set up again, except this time, the block was two inches behind the button.
"SURPRISE'TH! WELCOME BACK WORMS! THOU HAS'ETH NO HOPE NOW AGAINST MY EVEN GREATER PUZZLE! BEHOLD'ETH!"
Susie and Muffet expressed a groan that showed true hatred and annoyance. Similar to a bear's roar.
TOIL-E PAIN!
They groaned louder.
BEHOLD'ETH MY DOMAIN'ETH!
AS I SLOWLY BREAK'ETH THINE MIND...!
NOW ART'ETH FOOLS!
TO CHALLENGE-E THE ROUXLS...!
THE GREATER A FOE THOU'LL NEVER FIND...!
AND-
*Click*
Susie aggressively shoved the box onto the button.
Rouxls Kaard just aggressively sighed and cursed up a storm in a muffle.
A door opened up but Rouxls Kaard still stayed in the room.
"You're very underwhelming you know!" Susie expressed her hatred.
"Oh, on'th thy contrary worm! Each time you solve'eth one'th thine puzzles, the more I stall for'eth thee fountain! Thine Chaos King should be appeased." Rouxls Kaard was just floating around the room.
Muffet and Susie gritted their teeth with rage against this guy.
"Dammit, he plans to stall time by putting us in an infinite loop of puzzles!" Muffet held back everything she could from beating the hell out of this guy.
"However! I wasn't expecting such brilliant-e minds to wander across thine plane of puzzles! As for thee duke of puzzles, I reward thee one passage to move'eth on. One of you may leave and progress, while the other one gets sent to another-e realm of mine!" Rouxls said as he gestured his hand to the newly opened door.
Susie and Muffet looked at each other.
"The fountain is your job and the main priority of the mission, I'll handle this guy, I'll catch up later!" Muffet said with cold and demanding eyes.
Susie didn't waste a single word of rebuttal nor a second thought. She ran towards the exit.
"I better see you again at the end, YOU HEAR ME?!" Susie said as the door slammed behind her as she ran out. A cold silence went by.
Muffet looked back at Rouxls Card and readied her hands.
"Come on! What's this advanced realm you got! I can handle it!" Muffet was getting jittery in anticipation of the upcoming trial.
Rouxls laughed a condescending and triumphant laugh.
"Thou art'eth a fool, behold'eth! See'st my power!" He waved his hands around changing the shape and position of the room. Her mind could barely handle all of the magic in the room, his reality manipulation must've been top-notch.
Then everything turned into pitch-black...then grey. She found herself in contact with a cement floor, the walls were still darkness. There was a light coming from behind her, she turned around.
Rouxls Kaard slammed a jail door on her and locked the key.
"IMPRISONMENT! The ultimate puzzle!" Rouxls said as he swallowed the key. He waved her goodbye as he started cackling.
"YOU JACKASS! THIS ISN'T EVEN A PUZZLE! THERE'S NO PUNISHMENT IF I IGNORE IT!" Muffet said trying to tear the bars off, but the magic it was made out of canceled out her strength, making it impossible for her to get through with brute force.
"Oh but there is! It's e' time puzzle! Escape before..." Rouxls Kaard gave a creepy melty smile of true hatred and fear. "Before the Jester returns Bwahahaha!" Rouxls Kaard left the prison room and slammed the door.
Muffet just sat back down on the cement floor.
There was a slight knock in the jail cell next to her. Muffet knocked back in curiosity.
"I see you got to the fourth floor, hehe, I couldn't get past the first." Said a familiar voice.
Muffet pressed her ear against the wall eagerly.
"Ralsei?! How did you get here?!" She said trying to find out how the hell she got here before her.
Ralsei sighed.
Lancer walked in front of the jail cell that Muffet was in.
"You guys are trying to kill my dad?!" Lancer yelled.
"Hey buddy, you wanna start heading down...I uh, want to say hi to everyone down here!" Ralsei said trying to trick Lancer into taking her into the lower depths of the tree of darkness.
Lancer scratched his chin.
"Got any more of those Spider Cookies? They were the best cookies I've had!" He was trying to bargain with her. Realistically, Muffet had given everyone a bag of twenty cookies each, she had two left since Lancer kept requesting more.
She handed him the cookie.
He ate it immediately.
"Thank you Ralsei...race ya down the steps-!" Lancer said as he started running away from her and to the other set of stairs down the Field of Hopes and Dreams.
Ralsei normally wouldn't race anyone ever, but Undyne had been convincing her to workout, plus, it was a kid she was racing.
She started running and in no time flat she had caught up to him. They both started giggling and laughing like they were school kids during recess.
"You're pretty fast Ms. Ralsei!" Lancer said genuinely impressed. It wasn't hard to impress him.
Ralsei didn't truly believe she had it in her. She was filled with...
Courage!
She looked his way with eyes of orange.
"Oh yeah? Watch this!" Ralsei then proceeded to increase her speed using her courage and completely made it to the staircase entirely, leagues before he could get there.
However, he saw that a book had fallen from her person and went to go examine it.
He picked it up, it was labeled 'The Legend of Deltarune'. He figured that this was the book he used to read as a child and decided to finish it. He wanted to know if the Legend foretold Ralsei and himself to be good friends forever.
As he read on he realized that it wasn't the case...he slowly realized why the people that were in his home were there. They were there to kill his dad and destroy his home.
Ralsei had been tricking him this entire time.
She had noticed that he wasn't following her down the stairs. She walked up the stairs in hopes that he was just taking a long time to get there and didn't get lost. When she poked her head out, Ralsei saw him reading depressingly into the book.
She knew she messed up.
His face was drooped down, he looked at her with the most disappointed of expressions.
"Y...you lied to me...I thought we were gonna be friends..." Lancer said with a voice of suppressed rage.
"I-I..." Ralsei didn't give an excuse, but she thought that the truth would only get him angrier, so she let her silence speak volumes for her.
Lancer turned her back to her.
He took out a whistle.
"This makes you a trespasser, that's punishable by 100 years in the dungeon." He blew into the whistle.
There was silence after the whistle. Nothing happened.
Then a guest of purple and black wind whooshed all over the Fields of Hopes and Dreams. All the trees and grass had decayed instantaneously. The gravity on her felt multiple times heavier than normal making her fall flat on the ground and unable to get up.
The area smelled of bloodlust and parchment, like a spoiled liquid metal if that made any sense. The sound of bell jingles and a cape fluttering filled the quiet air. Her mind was feeling like it was about to break, not because of the gravity, but because she felt like her sanity was draining at the presence of whatever was in the room.
Then, a voice that was so blood-curdling was heard.
"I see...this woman possesses the power to withstand the will of an absolute leader...how are you, Prince Lancer?" This man, no, demon's voice sounded like it was being spoken through static and several loops of his own voice talking at once. He was breathing chaos with each word, that was the best way to describe his aura and voice. Chaotic. True and utter chaos-driven.
This demon's voice was enough to give her goosebumps and shivers down to her bone.
Ralsei, filled with some courage, managed to look up to meet the demon who would most likely kill her any second now.
"Hmm, ah! It seems she bares the soul of courage! My favorite one..." The demon licked lips through the white mask he had.
It was him. The Jester.
She was able to see him in the flesh.
His skin was a grayish purple, like a dead person after a few months of decay. His mask only consisted of white and three slits that made way for his mouth and eyes. It formed a sinister and creepy smiley face. His outfit was purple and black jester clothes, the hat with the two bells on each side. Half of the hat was purple and the other half was black. He wore a ruff around his neck that seemed to perk up in spikes near the edges. He didn't wear a shirt, but flat blackened spikes were trailing from the middle of his collar bone down to the start of his pants. His pants were the same style as his hat. The demon's shoes were the same as the hat's, with bells on the tip of the shoes. His fingers were long and sharp, it had a tail that looked like a capital 'T'.
The most noticeable parts about The Jester Demon were three things. One, is his overwhelming height in relation to his fit and tight muscles. The being was 7"0 with each part of his body showing cut up and refined muscle, it wasn't overly muscular or bodybuilder level, but it complemented its height and seemed to be the maximum amount of muscle the demon could procure.
Two, the giant scythe it carried behind him, the scythe seemed to be as big as he was, if not, bigger. The handle of it was curvy and had a design of purple and yellow horizontal stripes. The blade was jet black, it gleamed a constant white at the tip.
Three, his blinding white eyes that peered through the slits of his mask's eyes. Those eyes brought more dread to her than Muffet's. Which was saying a lot.
She couldn't get an understanding of what his soul might be...if she had to make a guess...
"It seems she's a fighter...although I shouldn't have been called here for just this, not to disrespect you, Prince Lancer, I feel like someone like Rouxls Kaard could've handled her. Plus, I was quite busy before then, I was just about to get to Jariemois and cause some true chaos! I will atleast escort her to the dungeon, she is too strong to be killed now, I want to fight her when she is ripe~" The Jester Devil said as he licked his lips.
Lancer still had his back to her.
"That would...be okay..." He wasn't the happiest at the moment.
"Unless there are more intruders here...then I'll exterminate all of them then head on my way." The demon's voice was already breaking her mind as hard as it was, now he was saying threats.
Lancer finally turned to her, it had a face of spite and anger. He was crying tears away from her the entire time.
"...no...it's just her..." Lancer said before turning around again.
"I'll escort her myself...I just feel safer with you around. Sorry Jester." He looked at the ground before coughing up the dungeon keys.
"It's okay little king, the world is scary, trust me. That's why I'm out on my mission, to make the world less scary for the next king. Rest your little head, I'll be back in a few months. Stay strong!" The Jester Demon proceeded to hug Lancer before turning around to reveal a purple and black cape. He tugged it over himself and disappeared into nothingness.
The overwhelming gravity and air of bloodlust had gone away but still lingered in spurts.
Lancer proceeded to drag her to the dungeon room while she was too discouraged to get up.
"Wow!" Muffet exclaimed after hearing the story Ralsei had said.
"If Lancer didn't save us we'd all be dead..." Ralsei said leaning her head in the direction of Lancer.
"So give it to me straight doc, if all of us fought him at the same time, how would we do?" She was determined to see how strong the Jester guy truly is.
Ralsei chuckled.
"He'd one tap all of us in under two seconds." She said confidently.
Muffet started laughing. She then punched her fist together.
"This world keeps getting more interesting!" The spider girl was excited to fight him later on in her journey.
Lancer was still in quite the shock.
"...I know my father is bad...but you don't have to kill him, we could...talk it our right?" Lancer said trying to propose something to them. He didn't feel like doing this to them.
Both of them stood quiet.
Lancer sighed in disappointment.
Footsteps were heard coming down the hall angrily.
Muffet and Ralsei tensed up, both of them thought it might be one of the floor handlers of the tree. They weren't ready for a major fight yet. Every one of the heroes of light was at half the health they were when they started to enter.
Lancer just stood there and let whoever came through, deal with the mess in the dungeon.
Then, the door slammed open.
"...What. The. Hell. You think you can just keep them here and not expect someone not to provide justice." Said a familiar voice to Muffet.
Ralsei and Muffet peeked through the bars to see who it was. Ralsei was confused.
Muffet was excited.
Lancer flinched.
"W-what are you doing here?" Lancer said with a slightly startled voice.
"You were a villain...I thought you were redeemable Lancer...I had hoped to make you a part of the heroes...I see I misplaced my trust" said Susie as she brandished her ax. She seemed to be covered in slight blue blood.
"The person who fell before me earlier was a real, 'Kaard'. Let's see if you bleed blood or just turn into the light like the rest of these fakes!" She was furious at what she saw.
Lancer had been the one to guide her and Kris to the tree when they got on the island and they had a good bond when he was only able to guide them to the second floor before a trap door appeared and they all got separated. She thought he was forced to be evil and was naturally a good guy that needed a change of position.
Now that was thrown at the window.
"S-Susie! It's not what it looks like, I-I-" Susie didn't give him a chance to speak any further.
She raised her ax over her head.
Susie was filled with...
Retributive Justice!