Hello! And welcome to chapter 6! As of publishing this chapter, I have 7 follows and favorites! Honestly, thank you all so much! I didn't expect to have this many people that like my story already! Anyway, this is one of, if not my longest chapter yet, totaling in at 2,411 words! (No longer accurate)

The beginning has some plot progression, but apart from that it's mostly a filler chapter. Nevertheless, I hope that you enjoy it all the same!

Badd and Zenko were starting to get bored. Toriel had been gone a while now, and it was getting boring just sitting in an empty room by themselves.

"Oh, my god you don't need to wait for her! You can just go on ahead, she's just being overprotective!" A voice rang out, sounding rather impatient.

"What the hell? Why do I keep hearing voices in my head?" Badd asked, picking his ear.

"Uh, Badd, I don't think that voice was in your head." Zenko said, a bit nervously.

"Huh, did you hear it this time too Zenko?"

"Oh my god forget it!" The voice said before a figure materialized in front of the two.

They looked to be a female child, no older than twelve, that wore a green and yellow striped sweatshirt. Their brown locks came down to their shoulders, but not past them. The most off putting features about them however were that they were transparent, floating, and had blood red eyes, the same color as Badd's soul.

"Greetings," the being told the stunned siblings. "I am Chara."

"Whoa, are you a ghost?" Zenko asked Chara, who scoffed at the comment.

"No, I'm a spirit. Get it right." She said indignantly.

Badd scratched his head, confused.

"Aren't those two things the same though?"

"No, you idiot! A ghost is a type of monster, a spirit is a deceased being." Chara informed him.

"Hey, I'm not an idiot, how was I supposed to know that?" He asked, offended.

"Oh yeah, then how come you only got a three out of ten on the intelligence portion of the hero exam?"

Zenko burst out laughing while Badd turned red in the face from embarrassment.

"Hey! They didn't even give me a proper IQ test! That score is completely inaccurate! Wait, how did you know that?" Badd asked, suddenly suspicious of their new companion.

"Well, to keep things simple, I can see your memories. It's more complicated than that of course, but I won't bore you with the details."

"Wait, you can see my memories, how far back can you see?" Badd asked, rather nervous.

"Only what you can remember. It would be weird if I knew more about you than you did yourself, of course."

Badd thought on that a moment. "Huh, weird. So, why are you hanging around us anyway? From the looks of things, you used to be a human too. Just wanted to hang out with more of your kind?"

"What? No way, humans are dicks." Chara said plainly.

Badd looked irritated at her use of a swear.

"Hey there's a kid in the room! Watch yer fucking language!" He shouted, before realizing what he said, and proceeded to go over to a wall, and repeatedly smash his head into it, while Zenko just facepalmed at his stupidity.

"So, anyway Chara, why don't you like humans?" She asked, as Badd was still pounding away at the wall, a small dent in it now.

"Well, I would rather not talk about my life on the surface, but I can tell you that humans are the reason all the monsters are trapped under this mountain."

Zenko looked surprised at that, while Badd, done punishing himself, came back over, wanting to hear more.

"Wait humans trapped all these monsters under here? I mean, if they're like anything we have on the surface, I don't blame em, but if they're like Toriel, I have no idea why they'd do something like that!"

"I can assure you, the monsters down here are nothing like those beasts you have up on the surface. Monsters are full of compassion and emotion. As for how they were trapped, well, a war broke out between them and the humans, after a long, seemingly even battle, the humans won, and sealed all the monsters underground."

"Wow, so, why did the humans attack anyway?"

"Well, it happened hundreds of years before I fell down here, so I don't actually know."

"Wait, how long ago were you alive? Toriel said that they were sealed underground thousands of years ago, and you just said hundreds." Badd asked, genuinely curious as to how long ago she lived.

"Well, I've been dead for, let's see here... it's 2015 now, so, I died 1,629 years ago."

"That's... a long time ago. How did you die anyway?" Badd asked, ever the insensitive one.

"It's rude to ask a spirit how they died, but I don't really care. I got buttercup poisoning."

Badd and Zenko winced at that. They had heard that buttercup poisoning was a real painful way to go.

"I'm sorry my big brother asked you something so painful to remember. He can be a real bonehead sometimes." Zenko said while giving Badd the stink eye, making him sweat anxiously.

"I don't really care, it's not like I can go back and undo it anyway. By the way, something I didn't mention before, my spirit is kind of stuck with you Badd, so, that's why I've been following you."

"Huh? How did that happen?

"To be honest, I don't know. I'm not going to question it though. I guess I'll just help you out while I'm here. I can give you any information you need on the monsters that you'll encounter, and I can also estimate their threat level."

Badd grinned at that. "Well, at least you'll be useful. Let's go."

"Badd, wait! Toriel told us to stay here!"

"Come on, Zenko! You know that I can handle anything here! Besides, I was getting way too bored."

"Fine, but if you end up getting us lost, don't blame me!" She said as she started after him.

"Hey, you two, wait."

Badd and Zenko turned around.

"What's up?"

"I, Uh, would appreciate it if you didn't let any monsters know that I exist. I can't say why just yet, but It would only cause problems."

Badd shrugged. "That's fine with me. Now come on, let's go."

As the group entered the next room, Badd's phone started ringing. Recognizing Toriel's number, Badd answered and put the phone on speaker so both he and Zenko could talk.

"Hello, this is Toriel. You have not left the room, have you? There are a few puzzles ahead that I have yet to explain."

Zenko looked at Badd accusingly, but he just smirked.

"Nah, Tori, we're still in the room. No need to worry."

"Ah, that is good. It would be dangerous to go exploring by yourself." She said before hanging up.

"Well, that's that! Let's go!" Badd said enthusiastically, Zenko begrudgingly following behind.

As they were walking, a frog looking monster hopped up to them.

Chara wasted no time in analyzing the monster. "Froggit. Threat level: wolf. This monster is relatively docile. However, it will attack if it feels threatened."

Zenko squealed and knelt down towards the monster.

"Hello froggy! Oh you're just so adorable I could scream!"

The Froggit croaked and started to blush.

"Froggit didn't understand what you said, but is flattered anyway."

Putting the Froggit down, Zenko noticed that is spit something out of its mouth, before hopping away.

"Huh, what's this?" She asked, picking it up. It was a shiny gold coin with a capital G engraved onto it.

"That's One G. The underground's form of currency."

Badd took it out of Zenko's hand, looking at it curiously.

"Hey, Chara, it this real gold?"

"No idea. All I know is that you're gonna need that if you wanna buy anything down here."

Badd shrugged, figuring that when they found a way out of the mountain that he could just get it looked at in a pawn shop or something.

"Hey Look big bro, candy!"

Zenko pulled on Badd's pants, pointing into the room behind the northern wall.

"Can we go get some? Please?"

Badd snickered, before relenting.

"Sure Zenko, let's go."

Approaching the candy bowl, they both picked up a candy.

"Monster Candy." Badd read, before popping the candy into his mouth.

"Huh, not bad. Tastes like a regular hard candy."

"Come on Zenko, you don't need more than one." He told his little sister, who was trying to sneak another piece.

"Aww!" She whined, before sulking out of the room after Badd.

As the group continued on, they came across another monster that Chara had identified as a Whimsum, but it flew away crying as soon as Zenko opened her mouth to greet it.

They entered another room, this one had nothing but a rock, a pressure plate, and a sign in it, as well as a row of spikes preventing them from progressing.

Badd walked up to the sign and read it aloud.

"Three out of four rocks recommend you push them. The hell does that mean?"

"Well, whatever that means aside, this puzzle is really easy to figure out." Zenko said, and moved over to the rock.

She began to push the rock as hard as she could, but only managed to move it a couple of feet before she had to stop to catch her breath.

Badd walked up to her and chuckled.

"You need big bro's help?"

Upon receiving a nod, he shoved the rock with his foot, easily pushing it onto the pressure plate.

Zenko, once again being completely shown up by her big brother in the strength department, just huffed and stood up, before following after him and Chara.

Upon entering the next room, they came across an unstable looking floor. Badd attempted to cross it, but as soon as he turned the corner, the floor gave way, sending him toppling through it.

"Big brother! Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine, it's not a long drop at all! Hop on down!"

Zenko did so, while Chara just phased through the floor.

Zenko took notice of the room, before looking over at the sign, which Chara deciphered for her.

"Stay off of the leaves."

Zenko hummed at that.

"Hey Badd, I think I get it. The path through these leaves mimics the one we have to take above."

"Really? Nice work Zenko!" He said, patting her on the head.

After memorizing the pathway, they went back up the stairs at the front of the room, and got across the floor with no problem.

The next room contained three rocks and pressure plates, the same puzzle as before.

Badd pushed the first two rocks with no problem, but as he went to push the third, the 'rock' spoke, startling him.

"WHOA there, partner!" It spoke in a distinct southern accent. "Who said you could go pushin me around?"

Badd, after regaining his senses, figuring that it was just another weird underground thing, responded.

"Hey, look, we need to retract those spikes over there, and we can't do that unless you move over."

"Oh, you want me to move over? Ok, just for you pumpkin." It spoke again, slightly creeping Badd out with the pumpkin comment.

He then realized that the rock had stopped after moving no more than an inch.

"Hey, look, I'm not in the mood for jokes, pal. Move over to the pressure plate." Badd spoke, a tick mark appearing on his forehead.

"Oh, you want me to move over there? Why didn't you just say so?" It said, serving to irritate Badd even more. He rock then moved over to the pressure plate, making the spikes retract.

As Badd and Zenko made to cross to the next room, the spikes shot back up, barely missing Badd's leg and ripping his pant leg. Swinging his head backward, veins popping and eyes wild with fury, he spotted the rock, off the pressure plate, and laughing wildly.

"O-oh, y-you wanted me to stay there?" It said in between laughs.

Having had enough, Badd rushed over and swung his bat with inhuman speed and power, striking the ground next to the rock, creating a sizable crater.

"You. Stay on the pressure plate, or you're next." He spoke, calmly, but with fury laced in his voice.

Unnerved by the show of power, the rock grumbled before moving back on to the pressure plate.

"Jeez take a joke will ya?"

Badd, having calmed down, moved past Zenko and a shocked Chara, before they wordlessly followed after him.

Wow, I've seen it in his memories, but witnessing his power in real life is different.

Upon entering the next room, the group came across a monster that looked like a ghost straight out of a children's cartoon.

Badd and Zenko stared down at it, not sure what to make of the simplistic being.

"Now that, that is a ghost."

"...Ah." Badd said dumbly.

"Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz(are they gone yet?)zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz" The ghost said, making it even more obvious than it already was that it was awake.

"Hey, buddy, could you, Uh, move over a bit?"

The ghost sighed, before floating up to meet them at eye level. Chara only had one thing to say.

"Here comes Napstablook."

And that's chapter 6. I did not expect to be finishing two chapters today. I still can't believe I managed that! It does help that I know I have people who enjoy my story though. As always reviews are appreciated, and I'll see you in the next chapter.

Edited 3/15/20