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Blood flew through the air. It splattered up my cheek and over my left eye.
Everything seemed to move in slow motion as Frisk stared at me with that wide right eye, my pen pushed deep into their left. Their teeth ground together, blood spraying over my pen and the hand that held it. Crimson ran in streams down their face.
Time seemed to speed back up as I yanked up my foot, planting it in Frisk's chest and kicking them back through the air, pulling back my pen as I did so, sending yet another spray of red through the air and onto the snow.
Frisk hit the ground, reaching up and grabbing their left eye, or lack there of, growling and snarling with pain, writhing for a moment.
Chest heaving and heart racing with adrenaline, the red that I was seeing slowly began to fade away. I felt my teeth stop gritting, and reached up slowly, feeling my face.
Why was I smiling..?
My mouth uncurved from that gleeful smile as I pulled my hand away, inspecting my red stained finger tips, having touched some of the blood that had splattered on my face.
My vision focused in and out as my eyes darted to my pen, the red soul slowly disappearing from my chest.
My eyes widened, pupils shrinking in horror. My heart skipped a beat.
On the end of my pen, bleeding and oozing, was Frisk's left eye ball.
"Agh!" I cried out in surprise quickly flicking my pen to the side and sending the eye flinging from it, plopping onto the ground and rolling to a stop in the snow.
"Ha... Hahaha..."
The sound of laughter caught my attention, and I quickly turned my head to look at Frisk, who was slowly sitting up, hand over the left side of their face, blood seeping through their fingers.
"You're not as pathetic as I thought." Shadows blocked out their face as they spoke, pouring over their features like a sickly liquid, leaving only a burning smile and eye. "In fact..."
And though they were missing an eye, I recognized that face immediately.
=)
"You're just like me, aren't you?"
Chapter 3: Oh, The Humanity!
"Get out of my way."
"Make. Me."
The air felt different. It felt as if there was... Something wrong. Something unnatural in the air.
My eyes narrowed at them as they got their feet under themself, pushing themself up. That blackness faded from their face, and they kept a hand over their eye.
But, still... Something about that smirk. That red gleam in their right eye...
"... You're not Frisk." My eyes narrowed, my hand gripping that pen tighter, even though it was slick with Frisk's eye blood.
"And you're not a good guy." They tilted their head to the side, blood dripping from their face as they began to walk closer. "You are perceptive, though, I'll give you that."
"You trying to lose another eye?" I threatened, pointing at them with my pen, crimson dripping from it's point. "Keep your distance."
"Ooh, suddenly you're so scary after getting the drop on that idiot Frisk." They held up their hands, mockingly feigning fright. In doing so, they uncovered their left eye. It was closed, blood running from the crack between lids.
"Pretty underhanded move stabbing someone in the eye like that." They walked to one side, and I walked to the other. Like sharks, we circled one another. "And yelling 'kill' while you do it... Why, it's almost like you really wanted to see me die!"
"So what if I did?" I watched their every move closely. "You killed Papyrus."
"Oh boo hoo." They rolled their eye. "You didn't really care about him. You know what I think?"
"According to that haircut, that it's the 1930's." I struck with venom and a smirk. Said smirk widened when they frowned, narrowing their eye at me.
"... You get that one for free." The stated in a low growl, before continuing.
"I think that you let someone else down."
My eyes narrowed.
"Other people have gotten hurt, right?" Their smirk returned, growing slowly. "Maybe even died because you screwed up, right?"
"That's a pretty bold accusation on somebody you don't even know." I frowned, clenching that Tough Glove covered fist.
"Every human that falls down this mountain fell because they were running from something. Like how you tried to run from the fight. And it got Papyrus killed. An indirect back stabbing, and you did it so easily." They were grinning now, that right eye shining crimson. "Like you've done it before. Like it was, dare I say, second nature?"
I stopped circling. They stopped as well.
An icy wind blew between us, lifting their hair and momentarily covering that bloody, closed eye.
"You're way off base." I smirked lightly, convincingly. They frowned. "You've got no concept of who I am."
"Then would you mind introducing yourself?" They tilted their head to the side, extending one blood stained hand for a handshake. "I'll even be nice enough to start."
"..." My eyes darted to their hand, before I boldly reached out with my own blood stained hand, firmly gripping and shaking their hand.
They smiled in a less than friendly way. I noted that the blood oozing from their empty eye socket was tainted black.
"Chara Dreemurr."
"..." I paused for a moment, staring into the eye of the beast without flinching.
"... Cter. Cter the Hacker."
"You didn't answer my first question." Sans' pupils disappeared from his skull. "Who are you? N' while you're at it, what're you planning?"
Anarchy didn't answer. Snow crunched as he walked ever closer, smiling gently.
"Y'know, down here, it's considered polite to answer when somebody asks ya a question." Sans narrowed his sockets at Anarchy, jaw clenching.
Anarchy's fingers twitched, grasping at the air, straightening and unstraightening, clawing at nothing but air.
It itched. The skeleton talked too much. He had to scratch it. It itched.
Sans' jaw clenched as he stared into those cold, crimson eyes. That caring smile on Anarchy's face was trembling, trying not to grow into a grin or fall into a frown.
Anarchy was getting closer. Could he break a skull with one punch? He knew he could do it with his crowbar, he'd done that before.
Sans' pupils darted to that left fist that Anarchy clenched. It's shadow on the snow almost seemed to pulsate and writhe. He could feel that sickness deep in his core. He could feel Anarchy's intentions.
"Because they are made of magic, monster's bodies are attuned to their SOUL."
"If a monster doesn't want to fight, its defenses will weaken."
"And the crueler the intentions of our enemies, the more their attacks will hurt us."
"Therefore, if a being with a powerful SOUL struck with the desire to kill..."
It itched. Anarchy had to scratch it. It itched. He was losing his mind. His fist clenched so tight that his long, untrimmed finger nails sliced through the skin of his palm, blood dripping down through his fingers and onto the snow.
Would his skull break easier than a human's? Would it be sturdier? Would it give that same satisfying crunch?
His smile twitched and cracked up his face. Those crimson eyes darted rapidly around the area, looking in different directions, searching for things he could use to scratch that itch.
Sans grimaced. He couldn't fight this... Thing in human skin. He had to run. He had to get Papyrus and get as far from this beast as possible.
Anarchy bent at the knees. Both of those crimson eyes snapped from the separate directions they were looking in to lock on to Sans. His grin tore across his face, reaching up to his ears and barring those fangs. He cocked back that fist, and snow burst from under his feet as he launched forward, sprinting towards Sans as fast as he could, laughter exploding past his lips and crashing through the forest.
Sans took a step back, those white pupils disappearing just before he vanished, Anarchy's fist swinging through thin air and slamming into the earth, Anarchy falling onto his hands and knees.
His head snapped from side to side, wide eyes looking for his victim. His laughter had stopped, his grin replaced with an enraged frown.
Sans was gone.
Anarchy needed to kill something. His ears ached for a scream. His mouth ached for the taste of blood.
He remained there, entirely motionless. His ears listened intently.
Distant laughter. People playing in the snow. Talking. Existing.
Life.
*Bring death.
Creation.
*Cause destruction.
Order.
*ANARCHY.
"Cter..?" Chara's eye narrowed at me as we let go of each other's hand. "The Hacker..?"
They paused for a moment, before brushing off their confusion with a smirk. They began walking backwards away from me.
"Well, 'Cter'," They turned around, glancing at me over their shoulder. "I look forward to the next time we get to talk. I'm sure the circumstances will be... Different."
I watched them go. Though I played my best confident act, they were right. They could slaughter me, it wouldn't even be close.
"..." Slowly, my eyes drifted down to that scarf, left there in the snow.
"... What am I gonna do, Papyrus?" I knelt down, picking up that scarf.
*A reminder that someone is rooting for you.
"..." I took a deep breath, nodding. Looking ahead, I tucked the scarf away into my inventory.
"I'm late! I'm late!"
Cocking a brow, I looked over my shoulder, before my green eyes widened.
"Out of the way- ahh!"
The shorter lizard monster in the yellow striped shirt tripped on his own feet just as he got close, successfully launching himself head first into my chest, knocking me off my feet and sending us both tumbling to the ground.
"Eugh..." I placed a hand on my head, eyes winced shut as I felt the weight on my chest quickly pull itself off me, and I opened one eye to look up at my assailant(?).
"Hey, you must be out to see her too, right?!" Monster Kid ran in place as I slowly climbed to my feet, groaning.
"Wait, wha-"
I was cut off as I felt his tail wrap around my wrist, my eyes widening as I was yanked forward, being forced to run towards Waterfall.
"Come on! We can still catch her if we run!"
Footsteps echoed through the blackness.
Tiny, monochromatic feet stomped through the dark, their little hands clenched into tight fists.
He stood, skeletal hands behind his back as he looked out at a wall of twitching, flickering screens.
"Wing Ding Gaster!"
He cocked a brow as he looked over his lab coat covered shoulder, revealing the crack in his skull running up from his eyebrow.
"Did you just full name me, Frisk?" He turned away from the screens to face the monochromatic child.
"Yes! I! Did!" They stomped their way right up to him, narrowing their black, void eyes up at him. "Do you have ANY IDEA what you've done?!"
"Hopefully, saved my home." Gaster turned his back on CORE Frisk, looking up to the screens once more.
"Think bigger, wing dork!" C Frisk threw their hands into the air. "You can't just... Pull people into our reality from a completely separate one!"
Gaster frowned, static glitching over one of his eyes for but a moment.
"I'm having this conversation with twenty other Gasters right now, and this has got to be the DUMBEST thing ANYONE has EVER done!"
"I did what I had to do." Gaster spoke in a low growl. "You have an entire timeline full of those who could have helped me, but you left me to my own devices. So I, and twenty of my counter parts, apparently, did what we had to do."
"I am NOT a military dispatcher!" C Frisk stomped to express their frustrations. "The Omega Timeline is a safe haven for damaged souls, not a barracks full of soldiers ready to just go 'fix' anybody's timeline!"
"So I was just supposed to do what you do?" Gaster looked over his shoulder, narrowing his eyes down at the child. "Nothing?"
"Gaster, these kids you dragged into this completely willy nilly are incredibly volatile!" C Frisk threw their tiny hands into the air. "Each with different personalities and opinions on things like, for example, murder!"
"Not to mention that their bodies and souls don't entirely play by the rules of our reality! If some of them were to reach their full potential, they'd be on an entire other level of power! They could be stronger than anything this multiverse has ever seen before!"
Gaster's sockets narrowed sourly, but he kept his back to C Frisk.
"With every decision the original twenty one make, another multiverse splits from them. With every 'what if', another reality containing another incredibly powerful human from outside the code is formed. They're completely impossible to contain or dispose of! Don't you see what you've done?!"
"... Yes." Gaster looked over his shoulder at C Frisk slowly, his mouth curving upwards in that trademark crescent smile. "Welcome, CORE Frisk, to a new beginning."
C Frisk's jaw clenched, their eyes narrowing up at Gaster, who's eyes almost seemed to glow blue and orange.
"The era of DoubleTale has begun!"
"Come on, come on!" Monster Kid jumped impatiently as I quickly jogged up to the SAVE point next to Sans' post, right at the entrance to Waterfall. "We're gonna miss her! What are you doing?"
"Uhh..." Figuring he couldn't see the SAVE point, I reached out and touched it. As I had hoped, the blood disappeared from my clothes, skin, and pen. I felt a little less mentally exhausted, as well. So that was nice.
"Sorry! Had to make sure I look presentable!" I turned around to face Monster Kid, grinning innocently.
"Whoa! I've never seen a monster with magic like that! How'd you do that?" Monster Kid asked as I walked back up to him. "Actually, why'd you have that red stuff on you in the first place?"
"No time!" I assured, this time grabbing him by the shoulder and quickly pulling him into the next room.
We quickly trudged through the water of the waterfall before making our way into the next room.
The room was empty. No Undyne standing on the ridge over us, and no Frisk crouching in the grass in front of us.
Thank god, we missed them...
"Aw, man! We must have just missed her!" Monster Kid frowned, stamping his foot.
"Well, hey man, lets keep moving so we don't miss her again." I tapped Monster Kid on the shoulder with the back of my hand, smiling in a reassuring way and nodding towards the path ahead.
*Great idea. With Monster Kid around, it will deter Undyne and Frisk from attacking you.
I made a single finger gun at my text box when Monster Kid wasn't looking, winking to confirm to it that I was in fact the genius virtuoso it was praising me for being.
As we continued on the path, We made our way to the bridge of flowers, and Monster Kid 'huh'ed with interest.
"Who else would be out this late?" Monster Kid asked, arching a brow over at me.
"Maybe it's a bad guuuyyyy!" I made a spooky hand motion, making Monster Kid laugh, playfully shoving me with his tail as we stepped over the flower bridge.
"Yeah right! If there was a bad guy that close, we'd hear Undyne giving them a butt kicking!" Monster Kid grinned confidently, making me chuckle.
"Yeah, I guess you're right." I smiled along as we walked.
*Undyne will die all the same. You know that.
"Do you have to be such a downer?!" I whispered angrily.
"What?" Monster Kid glanced over at me, and I smiled nervously, waving a hand dismissively.
"Nothing!"
"Stupid things!" Anarchy snarled, cracking down through Icecap's hat and cleaving the icy monster's body in half, sending silver ash and chunks of ice bursting into the air.
Snowdrake panted heavily, running as fast as his legs would carry him, eyes wide, cold tears streaming down his cheeks.
"Dumb monsters," Anarchy pulled back his crowbar, throwing it and sending it sailing through the air. "Most'a you don't even bleed!"
The crowbar crashed through Snowdrake's body with incredible force, sending him bursting into chunks of snow and dust.
"Ahh..." Anarchy sighed, shoulders sinking. His intense expression slowly calmed down into a light frown as he walked over to the pile of dust that his crowbar had embedded itself in. As he walked, he crushed a Christmas tree bulb that lay atop a pair of dusting antlers, which were also crushed under his mud covered, barely tied sneakers.
"Ah well, guess they scream the same." Anarchy shrugged as he leaned down, yanking his crowbar from the corpse and spinning it in his hand before stuffing it into his back pocket, where it fit only enough to keep from falling out, the majority of the metal still sticking out, reaching straight up.
"Still no skeletons though..." Anarchy muttered, slouching forward and stuffing his hands into his pockets as he walked, passing by a sign.
"WELCOME TO SNOWDIN!"
"That is just so disappointing..."
"Howdy!"
Anarchy looked down, frowning and cocking a brow at the little yellow flower that smiled happily under him, looking up at him with innocent eyes.
"You're new down here, aren'tcha?"
Anarchy knelt down, falling onto his hands and knees to lean in closer to Flowey, opening one red eye wide to inspect him up close, making Flowey lean back, a sweat drop rolling down the back of his head, though he smiled to cover his nervousness.
"How'd you get down here, pal?" Flowey winked to emphasis his friendliness, smiling brightly.
"... You're a freaky lil' fucker, aren't cha?" Anarchy's lips curved up into a light grin, making Flowey's teeth clench, that smile faltering for a moment.
"E-excuse me, friend?" Flowey feigned confusion, tilting his head. "I'm just a friendly flower!"
"What do you think I'm an idiot?!" The sudden intensity in Anarchy's voice made Flowey flinch, that red eye widening and going bloodshot in it's examination of Flowey's being.
It was like it could see him. All that he was. Flowey felt naked under that glare.
"You're a liar. A cheater. A coward." Anarchy smiled maliciously, body swaying and shifting unnaturally as he climbed to his feet. "I can see it all in your pathetic, beady little eyes."
Flowey's teeth grit, those beady eyes Anarchy mentioned narrowing as Anarchy's pitch black shadow stretched over his form. The inky blackness that The Anarchist cast made Flowey's body scream for escape.
"You... What are you?" Flowey popped back into the ground, before reemerging about ten feet back from Anarchy. "What is a CREATURE like YOU doing down here? You're not supposed to be here!"
"That's what that other killer was on about..." Anarchy looked up in thought, his fingers wrapping around that crowbar and gently pulling it from his pocket. "To be honest, I've been wondering a lot about that too."
"It's like," Anarchy's head snapped down to look at Flowey, psychotic grin eclipsing his features. "One second my entire fuckin' life is crumbling all over again and the next I'm waking up on a bed'a stupid flowers that look a lot like YOU!"
Flowey's pupils shrunk with fear as that blood and dust stained crowbar was pointed at him.
"Did you bring me down here, little man?" Anarchy's blood shot eyes locked onto the flower, that crescent of a smile still clear on his face as he began to saunter forward. "If I bash your skull in, do I get to go back?"
"H-hey!" Petals appeared throughout the air around Flowey, and he tried his best to muster his courage. "Y-you stay back!"
"I've got a score to settle, flower!" Anarchy's knuckles went white around that crowbar. "Where's Hacky, flower?!"
Flowey popped back into the ground, which Anarchy's crowbar crashed into milliseconds later, snow and dirt exploding into the air.
"Come on!" Anarchy threw his head back, his laughter echoing through the dead and empty town. "Don't run away!"
"I thought you wanted to be pals! Accept my LOVE!"
So this is how he gets around so quick in the game. I thought, pushing aside a patch of tall grass, watching as Monster Kid hopped up onto a ledge on the tall wall in front of us.
"When I was younger, I used to live in Waterfall. I like to explore a lot, 'cause adventuring's rad, haha!" Monster Kid explained as he hopped to another edge with surprising ease. Weird, he always seemed so clumsy in game.
"So that's why you," I grunted, pulling myself up onto another ledge, one hand above me to hold onto the next ledge and my feet resting on the one I had just climbed onto. "Know your way around here so well?"
"You know it!" Monster Kid grinned down at me, before jumping up to the top of the wall. But as he landed, his foot slipped forward in the mud, and he yelped, falling backwards and plummeting past me towards the not too far down to kill but just enough far down to hurt ground, his eyes widening in shock as his legs and tail flung around rapidly to find something to latch onto.
"Whoa!" I was quick to reach out, grabbing Monster Kid by the shirt just in time, entire body bracing for his sudden weight.
But, my eyes widened slightly as I came to realize he was... Pretty light. Not a feather light by a long shot, but definitely about fifty, sixty pounds lighter than he looked. I was able to catch him without tumbling from the wall with him, arms straining to both support his weight and mine on the wall, my feet threatening to slide forward.
"... Yooo..!" Monster Kid stared up at me, stars appearing in his eyes as he hung there by his shirt.
"Uh..?" I cocked a brow at him, confused by his excitement despite his situation.
"You look totally awesome right now! Haha!" Monster Kid said, not seeming to notice he was in peril.
"... Pff." I began to laugh, slowly and carefully setting Monster Kid on one of the ledges below me. "Thanks, dude."
After another few moments, we had made our way to the top of the wall, now standing in a part of Waterfall that looked a bit more familiar.
"I'm Monster Kid, by the way!" Monster Kid introduced as we made our way into the long patch of tall, seaweed like grass that was covering the path forward. "Just realized I never even introduced myself before draggin' you along, haha."
I laughed along with him, the back of my mind trying to piece together where we were as we made our way through the grass.
"I'm Cter." I responded, looking over to Monster Kid with a smile.
*Sticking with that alias now? I suppose it's more subtle than Hacker.
Just as I looked to my text box and prepared to scold it, blue spears made from some kind of energy soared over our heads, and Monster Kid quickly pushed my head down with his tail.
"Get down! Undyne's coming!"
Ah, fuck, that's where we are!
"Get back here you little freak!"
Frisk sprinted into the grass, and my eyes widened with theirs as they burst through the grass in front of me, looking up to me in shock just before they slammed right into my chest, sending the both of us falling back onto the ground.
"You-!" The looked up at me and snarled, pushing themself to their hands and knees, on top of me. As they heard the grass shift, however, they stopped themself, choosing instead to just glare at me with murder in their eyes as those heavy metal boots stomped into the grass.
I glanced over, watching Monster Kid be lifted off his feet, presumably by Undyne's hand grabbing him by the face.
Frisk glare continued to burn into me, the both of us remaining completely still as Monster Kid was set back down, and Undyne's boots thumped back the other way. Unsurprisingly, they'd healed their left eye back at some point.
"... Stay out of my way." They whispered harshly, before beginning to climb to their feet.
"How's your eye feel?" I smiled cockily, and I could see in their eyes how bad they wanted to stab me as they stood, stepping over me. I took note of the dusty tutu they were wearing as they continued through the grass.
I was half tempted to make fun of them for wearing a tutu as well, but I didn't need Monster Kid hearing me being mean.
*Might mess up this meat shield thing we're doing with him.
"YOOO!" Monster Kid burst from the grass, and I was quick to step out after him, seeing Frisk was just about to make their way out of ear shot and into the next 'room'.
"Did you guys see that?!" Monster Kid looked between Frisk and I quickly. "Undyne... She just... TOUCHED ME!"
I laughed in a friendly way, putting an arm around Monster Kid, watching Frisk narrow their eyes at my friendliness and the fact that I was staying right by him.
"You ever gonna wash your face again?" I winked an eye shut as I smiled with him, watching him shake his head furiously.
"Not a chance! Haha!"
Frisk's frown deepened, catching on quickly to my Stay Right Next To Monster Kid Power Play before they turned their backs on us, continuing ahead.
"Yo, what's their deal?" Monster Kid arched a brow over at me. "They seem kinda grumpy."
"Guess they're just jealous Undyne grabbed you and not them." I shrugged, stepping away from Monster Kid and continuing ahead, Monster Kid laughing as he walked after me.
"Well maybe they woulda gotten grabbed if they hadn't run head first into you!" Monster Kid joked, playfully shoving me. "You went down like a ton a' bricks, haha!"
"Oh like you down that ledge a few minutes ago?" I laughed as well, playfully shoving him in return.
"Hey, I'm top heavy, what can I say?" Monster Kid said, the both of us laughing even harder as we continued forward.
It was... Weird. Everything going on, and yet... Hanging out with Monster Kid, having a friend to talk to and pal around with...
It... Didn't feel too bad.
*Friendship is fleeting. Keep moving.
"Whoa..." My eyes lit up at the glittering waters around us, Monster Kid and I making our way through the path surrounded by that bright blue water.
"What, you never been to Waterfall before?" Monster Kid arched a brow at me, looking confused. "Actually... I don't think I've ever seen you around before."
*Uh oh. You blew your cover.
"O-oh, yeah, I just haven't explored much! Heh!" I grinned sheepishly, scratching the back of my head. "G-guess I'm just not as cool and adventurous as you!"
"Aw, what? But there's so much cool stuff down in the Underground!" Monster Kid stomped his foot. "You gotta go exploring!"
"I just haven't felt too adventurous until today, what can I say?" I shrugged, and Monster Kid shook his head.
"Well that's no good!" Monster Kid looked to be thinking, before his face lit up with an idea. "We'll just have to go adventuring around a bunch after this! I can show you all the cool stuff in the Underground!"
*If only he knew how dangerous the Underground was right now.
"Wait, seriously?" I actually felt kind of excited, but why? "That'd be awesome!"
I was just playing along, right..?
"Yeah, really!" Monster Kid assured with a big grin as we made our way out of the glowy water area.
Monster Kid seemed to pause then, slowing down as he glanced around the room.
"Uh... Something wrong?" I cocked a brow, titling my head to look at Monster Kid.
"Shyren's usually around here..." Monster Kid almost muttered, before turning to look at me.
"Hey man, isn't it kinda weird that we haven't seen anyone around?" Monster Kid arched a brow. "We're, like, halfway through all of Waterfall and the only people we've seen are Undyne and that other moody person."
*Be convincing.
"Uh... Come to think of it..." I pretended to be thinking. "Yeah, that is kinda weird."
As we walked, the ceiling began to leak water.
"Even Snowdin was... Kinda empty too, huh?" Monster Kid frowned, eyes glossing over the floor and the walls. "And... Is it... Dusty in here, or is it just me..?"
"Hey, hey, Monster Kid, relax." I was quick to say, reaching over to the bucket of umbrellas at my side and pulling one free, holding it over both our heads to protect us from the rain.
"If there was someone hurting monsters, Undyne woulda pounded them by now, right?" I smiled reassuringly, and Monster Kid smiled lightly in response.
"Yeah... Yeah, you're right!" Monster Kid's confidence returned, that excited smile bursting up his face. "Undyne would totally whoop a monster killer's butt in like two seconds flat! Haha!"
"That's right!" I grinned, nodding along as the rain picked up over us.
*If only you could believe that.
The two of us were quiet for a bit then. Monster Kid almost seemed to be thinking really hard about something.
"... Yo, wait, something funky is goin' on."
We stopped, and I arched a brow over at him.
*He's more perceptive than you thought.
"People not being around... Undyne looking for a bad guy... That ruckus outside of Snowdin that made me late for seeing Undyne..." Monster Kid's eyes narrowed at the ground, just as we made our way into the room alight with glowing stones, the castle looming a way's behind us. "You not having seen Waterfall, and me never having seen you before..."
"Yo!" Monster Kid jumped back away from me, smirking lightly. "You're a human, aren't you?!"
My eyes widened, and I gulped, eyes darting around.
"Yeah! That explains everything! Everyone evacuated because they heard about a human! Undyne is looking for you!" Monster Kid nodded quickly.
"Uh..."
*Lie.
"Hey, you uh... You caught me." Once again I smiled sheepishly, reaching up and scratching the back of my head. "I'm human."
*That is not what I told you to do.
Shit, why did I admit to that?! It would have been so much easier to lie! I can think of ten ways to convince him I'm not human right off the top of my head!
Did I... Want to be honest with him?
"Man, I knew it!" Monster Kid said, before looking confused. "... Wait, then, why are you nice? You've been super cool the whole time we've been around each other! I thought humans were supposed to be mean?"
"Not all humans are mean, Monster Kid." I smiled lightly. "I mean, a lot of them are, but there's still plenty of nice ones too."
"Whoa... Seriously?" Monster Kid tilted his head to the side. "Yo, wait, then is that grumpy dude a human too? They kinda look similar to you in a species kinda way."
"..." I frowned, looking to the side. "... To be honest, Monster Kid, I don't know what they are."
"What?" Monster Kid seemed confused, making his way back under the umbrella.
"You see, Monster Kid,"
"HAHAHAHA!" Anarchy lunged forward, cracking a Woshua through the sternum with that crowbar, splitting him in two in an instant.
"... Humans aren't like monsters. Monsters are all made up of hope and love and magic and all this good stuff. In that way all monsters are similar."
"Ahh..." Anarchy tilted his head back, opening his mouth and letting the plume of dust settle on his tongue.
"But humans are made of a lot of different stuff. And, depending on the human, that stuff... Might not be so good."
Spinning his crowbar in his hand, Anarchy sauntered forward towards the cowering Aaron, that malicious grin twisting his expression.
"Humans are impressionable. And though they're physically sturdier than monsters, emotionally, they can be very fragile."
A horse like whiny of terror rang out as Anarchy sent that crowbar crashing down, blood splattering up the side of his face.
"So, if a human grows up around mean people who hurt them, that human will become mean and want to hurt others, too."
Anarchy felt nostalgic, looking at the slowly dusting blood that was on his crowbar, feeling the red liquid turn to a dry ash on his face.
"And, when that happens, if it gets too bad... Well, someone will look human, they'll sound human, but..."
Anarchy slowly turned his head, looking to the little bird that was struggling away from Woshua's corpse. He smiled.
"They aren't human."
"They're just... A creature. Something that only feels pain and only wants to inflict pain on others." I frowned, staring ahead with narrowed eyes.
*You're reminded of a former friend.
"... Whoa..." Monster Kid looked down. "That's, like, really heavy..."
"Yeah, uh..." I took a deep breath, shaking away my memories. "Kinda, yeah."
"So... That other human is like that?" Monster Kid arched a brow over at me as I put our umbrella back. "They're hurting and that makes them wanna hurt others?"
"That's my guess." I shrugged as we made our way to the end of the path. It looked like someone had clawed their way up the side of the wall to get to the top.
"Yo, is that why you came down here?! To stop them?!" Monster Kid suddenly asked, stars appearing in his eyes. "Are you like some kinda destiny hero guy?!"
"Uh, well-?" I started to object, but he was too giddy to listen and cut me right off.
"Well, quick, get up there!" Monster Kid knelt down in front of the ledge, looking over his shoulder at me. "You gotta go convince them to stop being mean!"
"What? Wait, Monster Kid, I don't think you-" I waved my hands frantically while I stammered.
"Come on, it's up to you!" MK interrupted again, the absolute belief in me that got Papyrus killed an hour ago shining bright in his eyes.
*He's not wrong.
"I-... Ah, damn it..." I muttered, quickly making my way to Monster Kid and carefully using him as a step onto the ledge above him.
"There you go!" Monster Kid grinned up at me.
"But what about you?" I arched a brow down at Monster Kid. "You need to get to the evacuation zone!"
"I'll be alright, I know my way around here!" Monster Kid assured. "I've gotta go find Undyne and tell her that you're good and the other human is bad, so that she doesn't beat you into a red paste by mistake!"
"That uh... That would be unfortunate." I glanced to the side, making Monster Kid laugh lightly.
"Well, I'll see you later, okay? Good luck! I believe in you!" He told me without hesitation. And, jolted by his words, I watched Monster Kid run urgently in the other direction.
*Another person relying on you. When will they learn?
"Shut up." I told the text box, glaring at it before turning around, walking towards the next room, where a SAVE POINT was waiting for me. I stopped, sighing as I reached out towards the glowing star.
*The belief your friend has in you fills you with DETERMINATION.
I nodded, feeling mentally and physically revitalized. Also, the mud and water in my shoes was gone, so that was a plus.
I made my way onto the wooden bridge like-area ahead, looking from side to side to make sure there was no fish woman to try to stab me with spears or any murder child to try to stab me with a plastic knife. Luckily, there didn't seem to be any threats to my health nearby.
That was, until I made my way to the end of the bridge, where it looked as though spears had ripped through the wood and brought the other half crashing down to the waters below.
I buried my face in my hands to mourn myself at this sight, muffling my next words. Realization set in pretty quick: there was only one way down. "... Ah fuck I gotta jump."
*Stop wasting time.
"Okay... Okay, DETERMINATION." I nodded quickly, trying to hype myself up as I paced in a circle before the drop.
"Do it for Monster Kid. Do it for Papyrus!" I hopped up and down, clenching my hands into fists.
"You ain't shit drop into the abyss!" I pointed forward, that glowing red soul appearing on my chest before I bent at the knees, bursting off the ground and getting a running start. "You're a bum, I can handle you!"
And I jumped.
"aaaaaAAAAAAAHHHHH!"
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