Two Worlds, Two Souls
Chapter 2: Don't Leave Me
Frisk's Point of View:
The first thing I noticed was that it was cold.
I quickly sat up from where I was lying to look around. It was a cold, dark place. Only the light of the moon filtered down to the bed of flowers I seemed to be resting on. They were soft under me. It was a bed of buttercups. I remembered their bright hue from when I was little. My sister used to pick a lot of them and we'd give them to our mother in a bouquet of sorts.
She was so happy when she saw them…
I blinked at the area around, looking as I saw the worn walls of stone. Carvings were etched into the stone pillars and broken rocks that lay scattered around me. It seemed I'd lucked out when I'd landed from the fall.
I gasped. "Angel?"
The memories of my sister being with me flooded back. She had grabbed onto me when I'd fallen. She was under me when we were in the air. I didn't see her conveniently next to me in the darkened area. I twisted around, climbing to my feet before the barren area to find any evidence of her.
Fear twisted in my gut as every second passed that I didn't see her.
I was so mean to her… she was just trying to keep me safe! I cursed at myself while I stepped around, eager to find her. Ever after calling out her name, there was not a sound other than the light wind against the rocks.
"Sis?" I called out to her again. "Angel? Where are you?"
I could only assume while I fretted that she was looking for help. Maybe that was the reason she wasn't with me?
As I scouted the area, something caught my eye that seemed off. It was a flower that had some small bits of blood on it. I blinked at it before I walked to another flower patch twenty or so feet away, hidden in the dark.
My breathing hitched at the sight. I quickly felt all over my body for anything that hurt or that was bleeding. But… there were no wounds on me. At least, not enough for the amount of blood I saw on the flowers. I had small scrapes on my body. It looked like I had been tossed from somewhere, perhaps when I landed down here.
Which meant…
I rushed forward, following the blood to a second patch of flowers that were a short distance away, more blood appeared until I made it to the center. My eyes widened. I couldn't help but reel back from the sight before me.
My sister lay out on the bed of flowers. She looked peaceful, other than the wounds to her arms and head that leaked the blood I saw from before. Her worst wound being from her head the peaked through her braided brown hair. A trickle of blood made its way down the front of her face and soaked her rag like clothes.
"Angel!" The scream that launched itself from my mouth I couldn't hold back before I ran to her, no hesitation in my step then. I landed on my knees beside her and started looking over her for any signs of life to keep me from thinking her dead.
I watched for her breathing, felt for it by putting a hand before her nose. I felt over for a pulse in her neck and wrist like she'd showed me how. Once I found both of those, I calmed a bit, but I knew her condition wasn't good from the blood she'd lost. I needed help for her.
I dared to step away from my sister for a moment to look for any means of way out of the cavern we were in. Above us was the mountain we'd fallen into, I could see the slightly larger hole after we broke open part of it earlier in the night. It was too high up and something… glittering seemed to be in the way. Was that the barrier that kept monsters from coming into the surface?
My sister had often read about the monsters who were trapped here. Many humans had depicted them as violent beings who tried to take over the surface. Others deemed them innocent victims that were segregated from us as a means of keeping other humans in line. Using them as an example of what could happen. Angel always believed that they were innocent until proven guilty. She liked to believe that with how terrible humans could be, especially ones in power, that monsters were most likely the victims from that war that took place all those years ago. I knew Mom and Dad felt that way too about them…
With the barrier in place, and how high it was, there was no way I could get back out that way. I gazed around the area for another location that I could use for escape to get help for my sister. Only one path seemed to be visible, and it led deeper into the mountain. The path was covered in a thick layer of darkness that prevented me from traveling it.
I was scared… what was beyond it? Would my sister be okay if I left?
I looked back down to my sister, while she wasn't withering in pain, it looked like she was struggling to breath. How I could I leave her alone? I knew she'd fret once she woke. I couldn't leave her…
"Angel… I'm so sorry…" Tears pricked at my eyes while I kneeled before her, tried to shake her awake. "Please… wake up! I need your help so I can help you!"
No response came from her.
"Sis… please…" I tried to shake her again, but my sister still didn't stir.
My heart stung as every attempt I used to wake her never worked and she still kept her eyes closed to me. Never had she been hurt so much… she always had kept us both out of harms way and safe. She was so protective… I… could see why then…
She was right like she always was, and I was so stupid and cruel to her…
"Please don't go…" I begged as I laid over her. "Please Angel… I can't lose you too! I'm so sorry! I was wrong! I shouldn't have yelled at you over some stupid toy! You were right! Please… just… please don't leave me! I don't wanna be alone!"
My sobs echoed throughout the room. I couldn't stop them as my tears cascaded onto my sister's silent body below me. I had hoped in the middle of my wailing that she would come to. She was always so attentive and hardly ever left me… it was strange to see just how far she was from me, even though I held her under my hands.
"Well howdy there!" I jumped when I heard a new voice echo into the room. I frightfully looked around until I noticed the flower bed I'd fallen into looked slightly different. A single flower seemed to be swaying side to side among the others, but this one had a cute little face and a smile to match, showing off its pearly white teeth. It had no legs with its roots being in the ground, but I saw that there were two leaf like arms at its sides.
Was that a monster? I blinked at it for a moment while it watched us.
"I'm Flowey! Flowey the flower. You two are new to the underground, aren'tcha?" The flower stopped for a moment before its leaf like arm rubbed the back of its flower head. "Golly, you must be so confused."
"Please Mr. Flowey!" I cried out to him. "I need help for my sister! She's hurt! Can you help me please?"
The look on his face contorted into a thinking face. The leaf touched the space just below its petal covered chin before it clapped its leaves together. "Sure kid! I can help her! Come over here and I can give you some magical petals of mine!"
I blinked at him. "Magical… petals?"
"That's right!" The flower chimed. "You can use those petals to heal your sister with!"
Just to show proof to his words, a petal he pulled out from behind his head. I saw that it glimmered with magic like I'd never seen before. The small little petals attracted me with their glittering color.
"Come on, come get as many as you can for her!"
Not thinking of the consequences for trusting a complete and utter stranger, I hurried toward him in hopes of saving my sister. I left her side to approach the flower, cupping my hands, ready to take the petals from his hands. He pulled out a few and threw them up into the air.
I reached to grab them, but as soon as one touched my skin, my hand filled with pain and blood escape the wounded flesh. I screamed out and dropped to the ground. Looking upward, I was only a few feet from the flower as its face contorted from the sweet and friendly one I knew to a demented one full of ill intentions.
"You idiot!" The flower laughed with glee. "In this world, its kill or be killed! Why would anyone pass up an opportunity like this?"
I screeched and tried to move away as fast as I could and get back to my sister, but something pulled on my ankle. The flower's roots had emerged from the ground and taken hold of my appendage. I no longer could escape.
The ear-piercing scream that left me was enough to wake the dead with its sound. I was pulled back toward the flower as more of those petals were pulled from his body and floated in the air, waiting to rain down upon me. I dared look back at my sister only to see her on her stomach then. I was stunned that she was awake, trying to move her way toward me… even in her wounded state.
"Angel!" I cried out to her while she lifted her head so I could see her eyes focus in on me. "Help!"
She tried, so hard. With what strength she could muster, my sister got to her feet and dragged her body over to us. The flower continued to look at us with his evil grin while my sister dove down for me. In the same second, she covered me with her body and ripped apart the flower's root holding me in place. Flowey screamed while I was pushed back, my own startled cry ringing out before my sister was left in my place. Flowey's roots and vines wrapping around her entire body to keep her trapped.
"Angel!" I tried to run back, but the fear of what I was watching kept my in place.
"If your so eager to die before her, be my guest!" the flower cackled. "DIE!"
"That's enough!" Light suddenly flooded into the cavern and fire over took the deadly flower. He screamed out and ducked away, burrowing into the ground for safety. He didn't come back up after that and the light in the cavern dimmed.
I breathed heavily before I climbed over to my sister and held onto her body. She was barely awake as it was. Her chocolate colored eyes were unfocused as she curled into me, holding me close.
"Angel…. I'm so sorry…"
She giggled softly under her weakened breath. "Don't worry… Sissy loves you…"
My sister held me as tightly as she could in her state before she turned her head to look at what had attacked the flower that harmed us. Only a few feet away stood another monster, but one with a much more caring look about them. It seemed female as well from the shape of its body.
A tall goat looking monster stared at us with wide eyes. Even in the darkened cavern, I could see that they were of a soft strawberry color. Her fur that covered her body was white and she stood on her hind legs with a rich purple dress covering her body with a white symbol on the front. Tiny horns seemed to appear through her fun on her head while long ears draped down to her shoulders. Her feet were bare as well as her hands, but they fiddled with each other as they kept their distance, worried she may frighten us.
"Are you two alright?" The voice was soothing to listen to and often reminded me of my own mother's when she had been alive. She cautiously approached, a single step before halting, making sure we wouldn't bolt at a moment's notice. I carefully stayed planted with my sister. The monster's eyes finally caught the sight of our wounds and gasped at us. "Oh my! Your wounds! Please, my children, let me heal them."
I flinched, not so ready to trust another who offered to heal us and be betrayed once more. I dared to look over at my sister who leaned against me to try and stay upright. She narrowed her eyes at the goat monster, but didn't send her away.
My sister always seemed to have a sixth sense when it came to certain people. Just through watching them or feeling them through her magic she could tell their intentions besides just their physical features and actions. If my sister had been awake when Flowey had first arrived, I probably would have never approached him.
If my sister wasn't pushing her away as quickly as she did the flower, then she was less hesitant with this woman.
"I won't hurt you, my children," the goat monster tried again. "I just wish to help you. I can't bear to see you hurt."
My sister read at her magic another moment before her eyes fell and she leaned against me, hiding her face in my shoulder. She had given up against the woman in this little fight. My sister trusted her enough to heal our wounds.
"Sis?" I questioned her in surprise. My sister hardly ever trusted anyone, but I could only guess it was this situation that we were facing that made her change her mind. We both had open wounds from the fight with that demon flower and our fall. My sister was hurt too much to even talk…
"May I?" the monster approached slowly, and when neither of us fought her, she stepped up to us. "Just bear with me a moment, I'll do my best so that it doesn't hurt."
The woman's hands surrounded around the front of my sister first and her crumpled form on top of me. I watched with fasciation that a red heart seemed to float out of my sister's chest for only a few moments, landing safely in the woman's hands. A soft golden glow appeared around her hands and I watched the heart she held.
The heart, I didn't notice it until this moment, but it was wounded; cracks were evident all over its form. The monster's healing magic seeped into the wounded red heart and I watched them slowly merge back together, the cracks becoming less visible. As the red heart healed, so did my sister's wounds. The blood faded from where it spilled from her body and the scars in her skin did the same. Soon it was smooth like porcelain like it had been before, only a few marks left behind that were already marred into her skin.
"Wow…" I gasped at the sight.
The monster smiled at me. "I pride myself on being able to heal. Now, child, let me heal you as well."
The monster returned my sister's heart to her body before turning to me. She pulled my own red heart as well and began to heal it. In comparison, my heart barely had any cracks in it compared to my sister. I could only notice a chip in the top left hand corner of it. She had been hurt so much more to keep me safe. It made me feel even more terrible for what I'd done and gotten us into this mess.
"Come child, don't be so sad." I glanced up at the kind monster who healed us. "Come with me, I can get you girls into a bath and get you both some food. You must be hungry."
At that very moment, my stomach argued against me when I went to deny the woman. I blushed at the angry sounds my body made, but it seemed to make the monster's face light up. My sister struggled still to sit up and move, still holding onto me protectively.
"Come here children, I can carry you back." In a second, my sister was in the arms of the goat monster. I crawled on top of my sister's lap while she was being carried to make it easier for the woman. She moved from where we were to deeper in the tunnels that I didn't dare to travel before. With someone guiding us through, I finally felt safe enough to relax and slept with my head leaning against my sister and the friendly monster who saved us.
Witch's Note:
And here's chapter two! The girls have met Toriel and Flowey before being taking away! I hope you all enjoyed that little chapter before we get to the next one and learn a bit more about our leading ladies!
Hope you all are enjoying the new story! Please don't forget to review! Love to hear your comments about the story! See you next Saturday!
Halloween Witch
