A/N Just a reminder: though there are characters from other stories, I still concider this a non-crossover. This is my story, and I say it belongs in little nightmares. Also, I'm gonna upload another chapter to make up for missing last week. Again, I have to apologize for my latency. I've been going through a lot and today was a particularly hard day. Enjoy the chapter!

Chapter 24: Eyes that wander

Mike continued to stare at the eye that nearly turned him to stone. It periodically opened its evil eye and scanned the area before closing again. "Seems like its running in a pattern..." He mumbled while rubbing his arm.

"You hurt?" Frisk asked. Mike shook his head.

"Just sore... anyway, I think if we time it right and go one at a time, we should be able to make it through. See those pillars and statues? We can use them as cover in between stares."

"That doesn't sound safe..." Chara mumbled.

"If anyone has a better idea I'd love to hear it." Mike said with a frown. Nobody spoke up. He then sighed and waited for the eye to close. "Okay... Here I go again. Wish me luck. " He waited a few moments longer and as soon as the eye shut, he bolted towards the nearest statue. He got their just in time for the eye to open and send its blinding gaze upon the ground, but the statue protected him. When the eye closed again, he ran towards the next cover. Then the next, until he was safely on the other side. He called towards the others to come. The rest of the group gave each other uneasy looks, but it had to be done, and there was no other way to-

"Hey guys, look!" Mono said as he pointed towards the wall that held the eye. "Its not able to look directly below itself. We can just walk right by." Mike blinked at this realization and got a bit frustrated.

"Are you freaking kidding me?" He grumbled as they all slipped past the eye and made their way to him.

"Hey... at least we didn't get tuned to stone. right?" Mono replied. Mike continued to grumble about how he nearly lost his life for no reason, but he eventually calmed down and they all pushed onward.

"I'll be glad if we never have to do that again." Mike complained.

"I hope we don't... I doubt we'll get that lucky again." Mike shrugged.

"Oh well. It doesn't matter now..." They stopped once they came across a door. "Well, help me out with this real quick." Mike knelt down and allowed his sibling to stand on him to get the door.

Later

They had just squeezed through a few pipes and stubborn doors only to end up in... a bedroom? What was a bedroom doing on a submarine...? Quizzically, a few of them tried to peek up to see who was lying on the beds, but then the door opened, and in walked a gangly beast with arms way to long for its body and a folded over head die to a strange hat on its head. The kids quickly ducked under one of the beds.

"What the heck is that?" Mono asked, looking at Six, but she shook her head.

"I don't know... Too fuzzy. But he's not nice. We need to avoid him." He whispered. They watched as the lumbering figure looked at each bed to make sure their occupants were still there, then moved on. Well, 'looked' was a bit of an exaggeration. This creature seemed to use its hands to see. Molestation of the beds achieved, the being slowly moved on into the next room, leaving the others behind.

"We shouldn't stay here. He might come back." Frisk mumbled. The others nodded and quickly traversed the room, but they made sure to stay on the carpet to avoid making any unneeded noise. They eventually made it to the other end of the room and they tried to open the door, but upon succeeding, something fell from the top of the door, coming down hard and causing a loud clattering sound.

"That hasn't happened before!" Six exclaimed. At the same time, the figure, who looked eerily similar to a janitor, burst in and yelled in alert. The kids screamed in surorise and made a run for it with the janitor close on their heels. He was a bit slower than them, but he had long arms, and he used them well, nearly nabbing them more than a few times before they found a small burst pipe which they then quickly crawled inside of. All but one of them made it inside cleanly. Chara was the last to enter the pipe and as such, was the one who got caught in the janitor's grasp. She screamed and kicked as he wrapped his long fingers around her, but she growled angrily and chomped down on his hand hard, drawing a but of gross black blood. The janitor yelled in shock and let her go just long enough to get away. She scrambled deeper into the pipe, deep enough that not even the janitor could reach if he tried again. Chara took several deep breaths, recovering from the shock, before pressing her back to the pipe and slowly sliding down until she was in a sitting position. She rubbed her eyes and groaned.

"Ugh... I'm going to go into adrenaline-induced toxic shock if this keeps up... I need to rest guys..." She said softly before her eyelids got heavy and she dozed off, letting the dark hold of sleep take her to dreamland. The others decided it was a good idea to follow her example, they weren't in any hurry and they were save in there anyway, so getting some rest would do all of them good. Each of them picked out a spot and spent the next few minutes getting comfortable before letting sleep take them as well. The last to go unconcious was Mike, because he had seen something disturbing while Chara was struggling to get out of the janitor's grasp. He saw an anger in her he hadn't seen before and her eyes... her eyed almost seemed to turn a tinge of red... but he rationalized that this must have been because of the stress and how fast things moved and left it at that. He then sat back, closed his weary eyes, and almost immediately passed out.