Chapter 50:

Gyft?

Sans took me back toward Snowdin just before the bridge to enter the town. He held me close and spoke gently to me, as though not wanting to spike a Chara incident, to explain his findings.

"Okay, so really it was Papyrus who got the lead. He said that while he and Tori were heading to the house he thought he saw Gyftrot with one or Arial's socks. Gyftrot only hangs around this area, so I have a hunch the weed is keeping her around here."

I tried not to get too excited and processed the information. It all seemed logical, and hopefully it meant we would find her in the next few minutes. I'd been without her for almost a full twenty- four hours and I'm sure she slept as little as I did during the time. We needed each other right this moment, and I was going to find her.

Trudging through the snow we rounded the bend to where Gyftrot resided, indeed with her sock on its head. I snatched it up and held it to my heart.

"Where did you get that sock?" Sans asked the monster, who explained there was a door near here that the sock was laying outside of.

I thought back to see if I remembered a door nearby. My mind was fuzzy, but I faintly remembered a locked door with the Dreemur seal on it. When the memory came to me and I knew the location and I took off in a full sprint.

"Yeah, run to the pansy. Be ready to give him what he deserves." Chara hissed throughout me.

The snow let up to ice and I used my momentum to skate forward. Ahead was the door. It was a dark purple-ish blue, both from ice and its paint, with a lighter blue crest at its center. Its once sealed edges were now broken free of frost and indicated someone was inside.

Sans caught up to me, pausing to take in the scene. When he did he spoke, his voice thick with anger. "Shit. This door is sealed by royal magic... Tori might be able to open it, but it seems stronger than what she's capable of."

"Royal magic?" I looked at Sans. Did this mean there was no hope?

"Yeah. Only someone of the Dreemur family can pass through. Asgore, Toriel, or...Asriel," He trailed off, balling his fists. "No wonder we couldn't find him. We'll need Tori's magic to open the door"

"Like hell we do." Came the voice in my head.