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!

The islands that were being dragged in were pushed back to their original spots by the balls of light that were created from the newly reformed tree.

The island of Yetera was rejoicing in their newly found freedom and was praising the heroes of light for their hard work and heroic deeds.

They all got treated however by the doctors of the island, including Ralsei. Muffet had sustained the most injuries but her pain tolerance was incredibly high so she was playing it off well. When in reality, since she is so reliant on her Devil Fruit's passive ability to take less physical damage, attacks that do hurt physically caused a massive toll on her body.

The ball move she did hurt every time she bounced off a wall, but she played it off like it hadn't hurt her at all. In reality, she had completely shattered her arms doing that move.

She was on bed rest for her arms after her treatment.

She gave the doctors and Ralsei a scare when under an X-ray, they saw that Muffet was pretty much hollow and her bones were almost unsalvageable. The doctors had seen autopsies that looked more salvageable than her body. However, her will to Persevere pretty much put her on life support.

Also, because of her perseverance, she was able to recover faster from her injuries. At this point in time, she was able to move and speak. Fighting under any circumstance was a no. Lifting anything was a no. She was bummed out but understood.

Undyne was heavily injured, but not too bad to the point where her kindness soul couldn't heal over time.

Ralsei was happy, after every major fight like this, she got to know more about how soul energy works. She was able to see that for a Kindness soul, the user regenerates while in a non-combative period.

Susie was the least injured but seemed to gain a scar on the top of her head that almost reaches her left eye and a scar that spanned from her collar bone to her left hip. She could assume it was when the Chaos King used the rope attack and slammed all three of them, and when he slashed her body with its stomach tongue.

Lancer only was treated with bed rest. Kris didn't get treated. He and Susie were leaning against the wall next to the operating room door.

They had to take it upon themselves to guard the door for anyone trying to go in and berate the injured with unneeded appreciation.

Susie was a tad sad, she had lost her ax down there. She really liked it.

"No means no! No one is allowed in until the other heroes are able to walk and move freely." Kris said warding off the Yetera citizens.

They still insisted on trying to make their way in with Kris and Susie shoving them back.

"...heh! WHAT DID WE JUST SAY!" Susie roared at the people crowding the hospital hallway. The crowd got silent and everyone back off.

Kris coughed in apology.

"Thanks, Susie." Kris then flicked his head to the other side of the hall, to see a man running down the hall in a general uniform. He assumed this was the island's chief of defense.

He got to the door.

"Whatcha need sir?" Kris politely offered.

"I need to see princess Ralsei. I need to know if she is okay with the other two." Darlow was greatly concerned for the wellbeing of Ralsei. He had so many questions.

Susie chuckled.

"Be easy dude, she's in the room tending to the other two freaks!" Susie gestured her head to the room behind her, she knew how much this guy cared just by the disparity in his voice.

Darlow got down on one knee.

"Thank you...heroes of light, for freeing us and the other islands of the darkened curse." Darlow bowed his head as well.

Susie was getting sick of all this hero treatment, she would've just sufficed with just a thanks.

She thought about it more...why wasn't she ready for the hero schtick, she thought this would be the turning point in her redemption. And although she had felt like she had completed her redemption...she felt like her story needed more...she wasn't satisfied with the ending. Or atleast...she didn't want it to end.

Kris noticed her vibe and looked at Darlow.

"You know, if you want to repay the favor, can you keep this door guarded and make sure no one else enters the room?" Kris proposed.

Darlow agreed nobly and stood in front of the door.

Kris grabbed Susie by the hand and walked into the room with the other three heroes of light. Both of them were happy to see that Undyne and Muffet were conversing...well...arguing more like it. They could never tell by the way they talked to each other if they were naturally this competitive and loud or they were always angry at each other.

It made for a good dynamic, seeing as Ralsei was the nicer of the three and the voice of reason, their characters contrasted well.

Undyne was able to stand with gauze around her whole chest and stomach and some around her forehead. Muffet had a weird kind of gauze around her arms and her head and stomach. She was trying to get off the hospital bed but couldn't entirely.

Ralsei greeted them.

"Oh! Hey Kris, hey Susie! I uh, thought you were guarding the door." She spoke quietly.

Susie chuckled a little.

"Your little admirer is taking charge." Susie specifically used her coy voice to incite a reaction of Ralsei.

"D-Darlow?!" Ralsei started rummaging her black fur in a panic. The last memory she had of him was her giving him a goodbye kiss on the forehead. She had completely forgotten about that until now.

Ralsei curled up into a ball and started wallowing.

"I don't wanna leave now..." Ralsei was sounding more gloomy than usual.

Kris saw that Ralsei was occupied with her own turmoil and that Undyne and Muffet were busy still arguing. He knew now was the right time to discuss important matters with Susie.

He brought her to the most secluded corner of the room, he leaned against the wall and gave her an eye of urgency. Susie knew that look, this was a serious matter.

"...You don't want to end our adventure here...do you?" Kris cut straight to the point. Susie gulped.

Kris chuckled.

"Of course you don't, honestly, me neither...but the thing is that there is virtually nothing else for us to embark on. The Tree of Darkness was the heroes of light's only mission..." Kris said looking away from her for a second.

Susie sighed.

"I know dude. But...maybe there's other hero stuff we can do...like...save another town of bandits or-" Susie tries to come up with some excuse to continue being these heroes of some sort.

When away from the tree, their natural coloring had gone back to normal. Instead of blue skin, Kris went back to his regular tan skin. Susie lost her pinkish hair and went back to her unruly black hair. Her skin tone dialed down from a pinkish purple to just an all-around broody purple.

Kris wasn't trying to hear hypotheticals.

"No. I know you wouldn't like that fate, as much as you did this for redemption...you still light the thrill of fighting strong people, you're a fighter at heart...and I'm not." Kris said looking down at the ground.

Although Susie agreed with everything he said, that last statement got her riled.

"What you mean you're not?! We are a team, we fight strong guys together." Susie tried to piece together his thoughts.

He grabbed Susie by the shoulders.

"Look, the fighting life, it's all you. You have refined techniques and your form with Justice is stronger than my form with Determination. I just wanted to do this with you because I wanted you to be able to handle yourself...for when I leave." Kris knew his words would have a negative impact on Susie, but he spoke the truth.

"Dude...are you for real...? That's it? You're going back...?" Susie said a bit heartbroken...she had just begun to really like Kris.

"Not going back home...I could never face my mom the way I am now...I don't think I ever can...but I want us to part ways from here..." Kris started to walk away towards the door.

"I already had made up my mind... your destiny and mine split from here...there's no more stories...we can be...real for once," Kris said with a forced and faint smile.

Susie got angry.

"No! We can still venture together dude! Why do you care about me so much?! Why do you want me to live my dreams while you still suffer?! We are partners-!" Susie was tearing up in rage. Everyone else in the room started to listen.

"Because I love you, Susie..." Kris said with a hand on the door.

Susie froze, everyone tensed.

Kris left the room.

Those words turned her to stone, she couldn't move. She started to let her tears go.

"FUCK!" Susie punched the ground and it made a crater. Susie raised both her hands up and started to repeatedly punch the floor in a rage, not knowing how else to vent it out.

Her knuckles after a while started to bleed, she was numb to the pain because she was experiencing a greater one.

Loss.

She kept punching the ground, screaming in agony. Then her fist was stopped.

She turned around with a face of pure hatred and inner pain. Tears streaming down her cheeks with blood streaming down her knuckles.

Her fist was being held back by Undyne and Muffet, each holding back a fist.

"No matter how pained you are dearie~..." Muffet started and Undyne finished her sentence.

"Let your blood never mix in with your demons...he's Determined Susie...let him go. He's told me that he's doing all this so that you can experience the life you always wanted. A life of running wasn't meant for you either...he wanted a balance for you, one where you can do what you love doing while also living carefree. That's the most Determined self-promise I've heard...the sucker has it bad for you." Undyne enlightened her.

Susie slowly lowered her fist. She planned to keep on adventuring with him until they'd die...deep down she knew that was a fairytale that wouldn't come true, but she tried.

Ralsei slowly shook her head. She knew something would happen so that they had to split...the flag is never wrong. The Soul Parlour Pirate's flag depicted the next member would be one of Justice...but the one afterward was Integrity, and then Monster, it was Determination. So Kris wasn't going to be in the crew...atleast not now.

Muffet crouched down next to Susie who was still looking at the ground.

"Look dearie~ Your story is up to you for a change, not foretold by something else...he didn't want to make a choice for you. He too, wants to make his own choice, but he can't there is still more for him to do." Muffet said while patting her on the back.

Susie absorbed those words. She was right, Kris was always trying to fight an eternal battle that he never felt comfortable telling her about. This was the only objective that she was so focused on following, that now that she accomplished it, she didn't know what was next.

What Kris said stuck with her too, what did she want to do now? What was always her dream...back at home, all she did was lock herself in her read and pass the time with reading. Her dad never bought her anything at all, so toys weren't provided for her. However, the house was old so it provided many old books.

She never told anyone in school, but realistically, she loved reading about history. She followed a path of Justice because of the awe-inspiring societal and moral formats the ancient civilizations had, especially about Retributive Justice.

When she got older she started to sneak after school and read more books about the modern world, she wanted to know about the treasures and monuments the world held. She had looked through the entirety of the town's books and the surrounding town's books. Interested in Earth's history, she even knew how to decipher ancient codes, although that book was only available at her home.

Her old home was old enough to be the last remaining holder of a book of poneglyphs. The World Government eradicated all available access to knowledge like that, because the ones who knew that knowledge, could decipher all of the world's dark and ancient history.

She had read those who could read the poneglyphs could find out the location of the UnderPiece and the ancient weapons. The ancient weapons were capable of destroying archipelagos at a time. She chose to have that talent a secret from everyone, or else the World Government would be after her.

"Uh, dude...you okay? Ready to head back out there?" Undyne said shaking her consciousness. Susie turned around and stood up while dusting herself.

"Uh...yeah." Susie sighed and looked to Muffet.

"Hey...what do you want on your ship...in terms of slots?" Susie said very cold and stern.

Muffet thought about it while repositioning her hat to her head, her arms gauzes were made out of her web.

"We still need a cook, a swordsman, a helmsman, a musician, a shipwright, an archeologist, a navigator, and a sniper," Muffet said trying to remember the roles Frisk told her that she needed for a successful crew.

Susie scoffed.

"Muffet, Frisk probably wanted you to get an archaeologist because back then people who knew how to find the poneglyphs written by W.D. Gaster could lead them to the UnderPiece. The World Government killed off everyone that even knew how to access that and burned all the libraries that had it. They don't want another golden era of pirates." Ralsei said enlightened both Undyne and Muffet.

Susie smiled.

"Why do you guys want to set sail?" Susie said clenching her fist.

Muffet smiled.

"To become Queen of Pirates! And to own enough money to buy a Continent for my friends and the oppressed Spider Kin!"

Undyne Smiled.

"To avenge my mother and complete her ambitions of morally correct action!"

Ralsei smiled.

"To be the world's best leading doctor in Soul Energy!"

Susie let out a chuckle, wiping off the last of her tears.

"You guys are pirates with dreams and good hearts, you fight for what's right while also not associating yourself with heroes. You live your life and happily fight and get stronger to pursue your hopes and dreams. Am I wrong?" Susie was grinning heavily.

The three ladies shook their heads happily.

Kris left the room with these ladies in it for a reason. He knew that she'd be better off venturing with them than with him, she hated him for this but thanked him in her heart. He really did want what was best for her.

Susie sighed happily.

Muffet, Undyne, and Ralsei knew where she was going with this. They gave a toothy smile in anticipation.

"Heh! Since you guys are hopeless without me...I guess you need an archeologist in your group, so uh, I guess I'll join you guys on the seas-!" Muffet, Undyne, and Ralsei tackled her with love and appreciation.

They all started cheerfully laughing. Telling her that she's welcomed to the Soul Parlour Pirates. Susie loved this feeling but wasn't that cool with them yet to show it.

"Alright alright get off me!" Susie tried to shake them off.

Thank you, Kris... Susie thought before they all ceased and got up.

They all dusted themselves off.

"Alright desires~ lets us party! For our new member...Susie...!" They all looked at her for her to say her last name.

"Oh uh, Barnabie...Susie Barnabie." She said shyly, she was ashamed of her last name and was hoping they would make fun of her too much. However, they didn't even mind her last name.

"As Muffet D. Baker, your captain, Undyne Undying, your first commander, and Ralsei Lightner, the ship's doctor, we welcome you. Susie Barnabie, the ship's archeologist!" Muffet swung open the doors at her welcome just to be bombarded by the waiting citizens rushing inside to see their heroes.

It was a hectic couple of minutes.

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The folk had thrown together a party for the heroes, a town-wide celebration. It was mainly centered around the well they had fallen through initially.

Muffet was occupied pigging out at the buffet, making everyone laugh at her appetite and the little kids were stretching her skin because they were just simply fascinated. The older folk were just amazed that a Spider person was still around in this era. They had thought that they'd been extinct.

Susie was just drinking all of the drinks there and was also pigging out, less than Muffet of course, but she was still stuffing herself. It wasn't every day she got to eat. Sadly, she couldn't find Kris anywhere, he had seemed to have left the island completely. He spared no time leaving, she felt a heave in her heart, but she knew this was for the best. She was mostly concerned about what he was going to do now, and where.

Undyne was showing off her scars and muscles to the younger people of the festival. Little kids hanging off her biceps as she posed, she had always loved the adoring attention of the youth. It always gave her a reason to improve, so that the cheers would never end. She challenged a couple of the burly men of the island to an arm-wrestling competition, she won effortlessly.

Lancer had just woken up from his long slumber and was feeding on the same level as Susie. Even helping himself to the cookies Muffet made him for when he would wake. Susie took the initiative to hoist Lancer on her shoulders, he enjoyed the ride. However, before entering the festival, he took a visit back into the gaping hole in the middle of the island to see if anything was left behind. Atleast for the Jester, he was still in the Grand Line working in the King's name. He had found something interesting in there and wanted to share it with his new friends, but the festival occupied his urgency.

Ralsei was picking out food neatly from the buffet, she was a picky eater. Then she happened to bump into Darlow doing the same thing. They both glanced away from each other, Darlow had the guts to tell her to take her into a disclosed part of the festival to talk. As she was approaching one of the shacks, which she could presume be his shack, she could faintly see Muffet and Undyne arm wrestling with a crowd of people surrounding them. Susie and Lancer were instigating the match heavily.

She would yell at Muffet that she should not be taking the time to let her arms heal by arm wrestling, but that was another matter. It was their time, they took most of the beating and won their fight, she'd let them be. It had reached night, they had been in the hospital recovering from their fight ever since last night and until four in the afternoon. She was amazed that they recovered so fast. Maybe it was because of their souls? That was something she'd look into that later.

Ralsei walked into his place and he closed the door behind them gently. He coughed to release some of the tension.

"I see you made it safely back to me princess Ralsei." He said with a humble smile.

She slightly blushed.

"Uh, y-yeah. You didn't lose faith did you?" Ralsei was trying to find a way to incite a certain reaction from him, although she wasn't sure what it would be. She wanted to hear something specific.

"Not once. I'm glad you came back safe in great shape. I wanted you to remain the same beautiful condition you were when you got here." Darlow went up to her and held her hands. She was leagues shorter than him, he was a good 6"3 and she was 4'5.

"Um, I uh...look Darlow, I'm grateful you set me on the right path and I want to thank you but I can't right now. We had to use up the rest of the money for medical fees. We weren't expecting to come here to complete a prophecy and we had little finance, to begin with...I'm sorry." Ralsei said as she tilted her head down in disappointment in herself. Darlow just chuckled.

"Even if you had money, I wouldn't have taken a dime. Your presence and company are more than rewarding." Darlow gave a warm smile.

Ralsei's heart was warmed up immensely, this man had a way with words and he said it so confidently.

"You see princess, in the legend, a new person takes the role of king of the saved island...I was hoping if you would take over-" Darlow said before Ralsei cut him off.

"I had a feeling this would be brought up, and don't worry I signed a petition with the citizens of Yetera and they all agreed on their new leader." Ralsei gave a sweet smile at her brilliance.

"Who would that be?" Darlow questioned.

"Let's just say that the new 'King' will have the whole island singing his theme, hee hee." Ralsei laughed a cute giggle.

She had assigned the role of the new ruler of Yetera to Lancer, technically with the death of his father, he was king. This time, a nice and the king of kindness. She knew he'd be great at the leader, he inspired everyone back in the throne room, so why not an entire island.

Darlow chuckled.

"You cease to amaze me, princess, I guess that solves everything, the end of Deltarune." Darlow looked into Ralsei's eyes with passion.

"Yeah, I guess, this is where the heroes of light's journey end...I just wish there was a way I can pay you back for the patience and faith you had in us. Plus the help of the information you gave us..." Ralsei looked at his feet again in shame.

Darlow lifted her head with his finger.

"Maybe, you can explain to me what you did to my forehead before," Darlow said with a bit of tease in his voice.

Ralsei blushed and started fidgeting in place because she didn't want to leave his hands. They gave her warmth beyond comprehension.

"It...it was a farewell thing...y'know...?" Ralsei tried beating around the bush with her response. This only made Darlow laugh a bit more.

"Maybe, as a reward...may you uh...give me a real one?" This time, Darlow was flustered even after he said it to make her shy.

Both of them were incredibly shocked and embarrassed by his words.

Awkward silence went by, Ralsei then stepped a bit forward towards him.

"S-...Sit down," Ralsei said with her face burning red.

Darlow was confused by her request, he sat on the edge of his bed anyways.

She climbed on the bed with him and positioned herself on his lap, facing him. This way they were face to face.

The position they were in made Darlow's heart race a million times per second. Like the beating of his heart was making a thousand songs at the same time.

Ralsei then leaned in, to only give him a peck on the lips, but once they connected lips, she couldn't find a way to retract herself. The hair all over her body perked upwards. That was her way of showing goosebumps.

Darlow didn't want to pull away either. Slowly, they started to close their eyes and let their lips be the only thing active. They both were surprisingly over-enjoying this.

After a few minutes, Ralsei finally had to pull back for air, she had lost herself in the kiss. Darlow hadn't realized that they had just done all of that until Ralsei decided to pull away.

They both gasped for air to catch their breaths. They looked at each other with passionate and engaged eyes. Ralsei looked down to calm herself down. She had to get on her knees on his thighs to reach him.

She decided to sit on his lap because she felt like her knees were about to give out. However, when she did, she felt a slight...bump that wasn't there before.

Darlow flinched in a weird expression of both pleasure and utter shame.

Ralsei's cool face was flushed again and so was his.

Darlow looked to the side.

"I-I'm sorry princess! I had just lost myself that I-" Darlow tried to cover up his blunder with the fact that he got a tad too excited because of the curse. However, he was hit in the face by her hat.

When he looked back at Ralsei, she had taken off her hat and was already taking off her oversized green coat. Underneath she wore her black tank top and green shorts.

"P-princess?!" Darlow said as his upper half was pushed onto the bed by Ralsei. She slid off his lap and positioned her head alongside his pelvis while stroking his inner thigh. This gave Darlow goosebumps all over his body, his spine tingled and he was stiff...in both senses.

Ralsei worked her way up and got up to the part that mattered.

She was filled with...Courage!

Darlow flinched and awaited her next move.

"I had to do a lot lately, if we are going to do this, then you'll have to do most of the work!" Ralsei said firmly grasping it.

Darlow jumped and started taking off his winter coat.

"Yes ma'am!" Darlow issued.

And just like that, the party was a hitch.

Muffet, Undyne, Susie, and Lancer all slept in the same bed, with positions that compromised each other's personal space, but they were too tired to even argue or make a fuss about it.

Undyne was sprawled out in the middle. Muffet's legs were limply leaned against Susie's face and her head was dangling off the foot side of the bed. Susie slept with her head into the pillow and Lancer was sprawled out on top of Undyne's abs. Susie's arm was in Lancer's mouth as he still effortlessly snored throughout the entire night.

Tomorrow they had other things to worry about.

Lancer would make sure of it.