Hello there! yes this is indeed a new chapter! took me a while huh? well I mean I did say they were gonna be uploaded at random sooo yea, amma answer a few reviews first!
7sky my dude you ain´t a jerk for giving good constructive criticism, and your reviews are the ones I enjoy the most since they tell me in which parts I suck at to do them better! so I really appreciate your reviews!
The Baz my man I can tell you half of those are intentional (aka sans talking) while the other half its just me sucking at writing.
undershield k tal man gracias por el review! para tus dudas tengo dos respuestas
1 - quien raios es gaster? 👌 👎✡
2 – sans no puede subir de nivel matando Grimm ya que no lastima a nadie al matarlos y aparte no le gusta matarlos en primer lugar, lo hará si es necesario, pero hacerlo le recuerda demasiado a como mueren los monstruos volviĂ©ndose en polvo y eso. tal vez podrĂa subir de nivel matando humanos, pero no creo que vaya a hacer eso.
tldr from undershield review: sans doesn't like killing grimm with them turning to dust and all, but he will do it if he has to and he can´t level up from killing them.
Also this chapter is named after another Rwby crossover fanfic I remember seeing, so why don't you check it out while you are at it?
Cinder was in a very bad mood, and while one could argue that this was her default mood, this was different in the fact that she was angry, unlike other times. Watts wasn´t able to find anything about this 'Sans' person, which meant he must have somehow managed to erase all evidence of his existence from the records of Remnant.
She wanted to have her revenge on the mysterious individual, but sadly she had now other matters to attend to, if she wanted to have the full power of the maiden then she needed to finish off Amber. Thanks to Watts they managed to find out that she now rested on Beacon, but something was wrong. Salem told Cinder that Amber should be on a terrible state, since forcing the powers of the Maiden out of the body of a host, would surely leave her on a damaged state, but Amber seemed fine which left Salem confused. This didn´t really change her plans, but now she had to fight her again, but that on itself wasn´t a bad thing. She already defeated her once and she WILL do it again.
Salem had taken great interest in this mysterious individual the moment mentioned their fight. According to her, what sans used was not a semblance and could be nothing other than magic. This led Cinder to believe that Sans must be working with Ozpin, but Salem shot the idea down once she heard the type of attacks that sans used during their fight.
Salem told her that Ozpin didn´t have any magic like the one she described, but then what could that mean? Salem herself wasn´t sure. She knew for a fact that Ozpin and she were the last people on Remnant that could use magic, apart from the maidens.
Something that did worry Salem, was the fact that his magic had somehow managed to damage the souls of Cinder and mercury, somehow poisoning their souls. Thankfully, the damage was minor, and their auras had taken care of the poison. Emerald managed to avoid damaging her soul since her aura didn´t break.
The ability to damage the soul was a powerful one, and a dangerous one. If he manages to destroy their souls, then they would perish. Salem knew that her curse would still protect her from something that could hurt her soul, but she didn´t want to know how it felt to take said damage. According to Cinder, Sans could create illusions that could damage you, but she didn´t reveal to many details about said illusions. Salem didn´t need more details, the pained look on Cinder´s eyes were enough to understand.
Salem had to get to him before Ozpin, if she manages to get him on her side then she could finally put an end to Ozpin. Unlike her, Ozpin wasn´t immortal, his soul traveled to another host once the previous one expired. So, if she gets her hands-on Sans, she would be able to destroy the soul of Ozpin once and for all.
"Cinder did you send someone to talk to our 'friend'?"
"Yes, since everyone else was busy, I sent the only one available at the moment."
"Good, soon this game the gods forced us to play will come to an end." Salem said with a smile.
"Indeed, once Tyrian finds him, he will belong to you Salem."
"Yes once-" Salem stopped dead in her tracks.
"I'm sorry, I don't think I heard you right, can you repeat that?" Salem asked sweat running down her face.
"I said that once Tyrian finds- "
"You sent Tyrian…"
"Yes? I haven't met him yet, but you told me on how he could always get the job done."
Salem stayed quiet for a while before speaking again "…you sent Tyrian…."
And just like that, her chances of getting him on her side went down drastically.
"Sans! can you please take this seriously for once!"
"i dunno what you mean bro, i've never been more serious in my entire life."
"Then why were you sleeping on your station again instead of recalibrating your puzzles!"
"that's cuz im on my break duh"
"You have been on a break since you've first sat down there!"
"well, that's cuz this is a break for my break, I feel like you don't appreciate how hard it is to do absolutely nothing but sitting and watching out for humans bro."
"Well, the way you make it look, it's more like you are sleeping on the job! and that's not hard at all!"
"i mean, i don't see you sitting and doing nothing bro, so how could you know if it's easy or not?"
"GASP! you are right! I have never even thought about it that way! maybe there is more than sitting and doing nothing to your job… wait no! you can´t fool the great papyrus!"
"heh, guess you can see right through me bro."
"Sans! stop it with the awful puns! now then I must return and attend to my puzzles and I am totally not going to the library to see if doing nothing is actually hard or not." Papyrus storms off.
"and off he goes, heh doing nothing would be pretty hard for you bro… welp guess i'll go check on the old lady." Sans started to walk away from his station and was going to take a shortcut to the door of the ruins, but then he passed a lonely sentry station.
'odd i don't remember whose station this is…' Sans then looked close to the station and found it completely empty, except for a burnt dog treat that laid on the snowy ground.
"one of the royal guards smoke these?" Sans bent down to grab the t̴r̸e̵a̵t̴.
"…huh?" Sans looked to the ground then to his hand "why am I bending down?" he looked around confused for a second before shrugging it off and taking a shortcut away.
He was a bit confused on why he had bent down like that, after all there was nothing on the ground that called his attention that he could recall.
Sans woke up from his slumber with the sound of someone knocking on his door. After Qrow, Cole, Lisa and himself got some nice rooms in a small hotel, they decided to relax for a bit while Qrow went to get seats for a bullhead. Well at least he was trying to relax, but Lisa and Cole kept bugging him for an interview and stuff.
"no one is home!" said Sans loud enough for Qrow to hear.
Qrow opens the door and comes into the room "I thought I told you to not respond to anyone unless I did the secret knock" said Qrow while closing the door.
"yeah, well I forgot the how the secret knock thing went sooo" Qrow had been taking the whole, keeping him safe thing seriously. Amber being attacked probably had a hand in it.
"Look, I understand that you don´t care about me or whatever I have to tell you" said Qrow pitching the bridge on his nose.
"that's true."
"But you have to AT LEAST care a little bit about your own safety, the people you messed with are no joke, and will most likely hunt you for the rest of your life."
"cool" That wasn´t really a big of a problem for someone who can vanish in less than a second.
"No, not 'cool', that's the opposite of cool!" Qrow sighted and sat down on the closest bed "You may have some nifty tricks, but they must have limits, otherwise you would have just teleported to Vale by now." He still didn´t understand how he did that, all he told him about it was that he took a 'shortcut'.
"i mean, that won´t be much of a problem once I get there, and since we are on the topic."
"Right, yeah we are leaving tomorrow all flights for today are gone." Qrow really wanted to leave today but all flights had been taken.
"that's great, now me and lil bud get to sleep even more" Then sans laid back down on the bed next to his feline companion, who was sleeping on a very odd position and tried to sleep once more.
"Is sleeping the only thing you can ever do? Honestly with the things you can do, one wouldn´t expect you to be selling hotdogs."
Sans shrugged "i don´t see me doing much of anything to be honest."
Qrow sighted then turned on the Tv on the room "-dar Cedric efforts, the police managed to find the location of a secret white fang operation on a hangar with a lot of weapons in it, which has now led to a terrible showdown between the white fang and the police."
"Woah wait is that happening right now?" Qrow stared at the Tv with a serious look.
"There have been victims on both sides, and sadly no huntsman is nearby to help, which may lead to the escape of the white fang."
"hey bud isn´t it kinda your job to help those guys?" asked sans looking back at Qrow.
"Yeah but… I can´t just leave you alon-" Suddenly an explosion could be heard coming from the Tv.
"Oh lord I think one of the police cars just exploded." said the reporter.
"…. OK I think I will check it out quickly, don´t leave" Then Qrow opened a window and in a blink of an eye turned into a Crow and left.
"wasn´t planning on it" Then sans went and closed the window just to annoy the bird man and went back to dreamland.
Ollie Olive, a Dog Faunus, was currently on a terrible situation, it was supposed to be as simple as taking some guns from one place to another, but somehow, they had been found out. Apparently, someone had been on their trail for a while, and they had to send an assassin to take care of the guy. Which did not only fail, but only got them found out faster 'Guess we send assassins now…'
And now they are running away from the police, after a showdown at the hangar they had the guns in. They managed to get some guns and get on a Van, but the police were chasing after them.
"I can´t shake them off!" Exclaimed the driver, they managed to distract most officers by taking the guns with them, letting the rest of their brothers escape. Sadly, this meant that they were being chased by most of the officers now.
"Damnit! I think they popped a wheel!"
'Shit this is bad, we have to find a way to escape!' Then he spotted something and told the driver to stop, then told everyone to get out. They might need to take drastic measures to escape.
Sans was once again being pestered by Lisa and Cole for an interview, to which he kept telling them 'no'.
"Just a few questions! nothing too personal… ok maybe just a bit personal" said Lisa trying her best to get an interview with the skeleton.
"again no, and I would appreciate it if you just left and let me sleep."
"Come on don't be like that! I am sure we can come to an agreement! Cole back me up here!"
Cole got startled at the sudden mention of his name, he was playing with the cat while Lisa tried to convince sans.
"Uhh pretty please?" asked Cole sheepishly.
"hmmm, nope but i´ll give ya an A for effort."
"Cole what was that?!"
"I didn't know what else to say!"
Sans chuckled a bit at that. it reminded him of him and his brother's antics. Sans frowned (somehow) at the memory of his brother.
"There has to be some way to convin-" But before Lisa could finish her sentence, a loud sound could be heard through the hotel.
"W-What was that?" asked Cole looking around nervously.
"…That was a gunshot" said Lisa.
Just then someone kicked down the door, startling Cole and Lisa "ALL OF YOU HANDS UP NOW!" standing there pointing a gun at the three of them was a white fang member.
Lisa and Cole complied and putted their hand up in the air "You over there! hands where I can see them!" Lisa and Cole looked at sans, who was still sitting on the bed.
"eh? do I have to? don't get me wrong bud, sounds fun and all, but it also sounds really tiring" said sans while yawning.
"HANDS! UP! NOW!" The white fang then pointed his gun at sans menacingly.
"fine, fine" Sans then pulled hands out of his pockets and kept them up.
"Good, now you three follow me" The three of them obliged and followed the guy to the lobby, where a small group of people were sitting down, tied up and looking scared. The entrance was blocked with a bunch of furniture and there was white fang all round, gathering the hostages.
"Alright everyone listen up! as long as everyone in here follows our orders no one will be hurt!" Said the one who looked to be boss of the group, who did not look to confident at all.
Many quiet and scared murmurs could be heard around, and no one looked reassured at the Faunus words.
Sans and co had been tied up with the rest of the group, Lisa remained calm and collected while Cole was sweating bullets "Psst hey sans" Sans turned to Lisa who was whispering.
"Back in the train I heard that you had aura and a semblance" Sans nodded.
"Then why don´t you do something about this?!" Lisa exclaimed as low as possible.
"meh, i don't really feel like it" Sans said while shrugging.
"What do you mean you don't feel like it?!"
"HEY! keep it down there!" said a white fang grunt before walking away.
"You can´t tell me that you will just sit still and do nothing." said Lisa.
"that is the plan lady, I'll just let the police handle this. i mean, no reason to risk these people's lives." said sans while looking away from Lisa.
Sans was not a hero; he did not jump in and save everyone at any given chance. While he would prefer it if no one got hurt, he also did not care. He knew none of these people, and it was probably safer if he just let the cops do their jobs. The only reason he ever fought the kid was because… there was no one left to do it. He had helped those on the way here, but those were the same thing since no one else was going to help them.
Sans then closed his eye sockets and fell asleep.
"Unbelievable…" Said Lisa while sighting. Guess they had to wait for the cops to do something.
Qrow was not happy for multiple reasons. For one, most of the white fang managed to get away when he got to the scene, and a group managed to grab most of the guns and escape in a car. Then said group managed to take an entire hotel hostage, and not any hotel, but the damned hotel he was staying at! but the worst part was that Sans was there and he was doing nothing about it, playing along with the white fang.
'What the hell is he doing?' He understood that people could be at risk if he did anything, but the guy could use freaking magic! magic strong enough to beat them all in a blink of an eye!
Qrow sighted and got back to the negotiations. The white fang was demanding for a way to get away with the guns they had, and that they wanted no one to follow them. The police were trying to avoid that, but they did not have many choices with the number of hostages the fang got their hands into.
Qrow was trying to find a way in without being spotted, but all windows were closed, even the one he left open! and breaking them would warn the white fang. The police were going to give in to their demands most likely, but the problem with that was the chance of them taking a hostage with them to avoid being followed.
'I swear if he isn't doing anything to help, I am going to kick him so hard.'
meanwhile sans was trying to sleep through the whole 'hostage' situation, but since neither side looked like it was giving in, they were stuck on a weird stalemate. Lil bud managed to sneak out of their room and hide in sans pocket, before falling asleep in it.
'just great, at this rate I am gonna miss my flight' sans then very carefully thought about the advantages and disadvantages of missing said flight 'i mean staying here for a while does sound good… but i also don't feel like waiting for another flight' sans sighed and waited for the guards to stop looking for a second.
Then everything went black for a split second, and sans was free of his bindings standing up.
"Wha-" Lisa was about to say something but was cut short when everything went black again.
"What?!" Lisa and Cole then found themselves outside of the hotel, surrounded by officers.
"Lisa? Cole? how the heck di-? Qrow was cut short when suddenly it all went dark again, only for more people to suddenly to show up.
"ok I think that was all of em" sans said to nobody.
"W-Wait! my child is still in there!" suddenly a woman screamed from the crowd of confused officers and people "I hid him in my room when I heard those gun shots!"
Sans sighed and asked the woman for the number of the room while the officers and Qrow got ready to bust in.
"Ollie! it doesn't look like they are giving in to our demands! we might need to put more pressure to them..." said one of the white fang grunts-
"Gods damnit!" Ollie really did not like how thing were looking at this rate things were going to end up with more blood that he cares to spill.
"Ok... let threaten them with one of the hostages then…" there was not another choice if he wanted his brothers and sisters to get out of this one, they had to do this.
"BOSS! THE HOSTAGES! T-THEY ARE GONE!" screamed one of the white fang grunts.
"WHAT!? HOW?!" That was all Ollie got to say before the police and a freaking huntsman busted through the barricade.
"SHIT! OPEN FIRE!" but he didn´t get to shoot his gun either, after he got a kick to the face from a very pissed huntsman.
Meanwhile back in room 017 sans managed to find the kid trembling in a closet, and he wasn't sure if he was afraid of the white fang or himself "hey there bud, no worries your mother sent me to get ya, the weirdos are gone" well they were on the process of leaving thanks to Qrow and the officers.
"I-Is the bad people really gone?" asked the child.
"sure, they had to go to the bathroom or something like that."
Sans then took the little child´s hand and was about to take a shortcut but was stopped when someone spoke from behind him.
"Oh my! you aren't leaving already are you?" sans then looked behind him to see some weird guy with a scorpion tail, he wasn't sure when he entered the room and he didn't like that. Then frowned when he saw his face, his expression was a very familiar one.
"yep sorry, buut I got a lot of stuff to do sooo." Sans was about to take a shortcut and avoid the psychopath.
"Oh no please" Then quicker than sans thought he was, the Faunus jumped at him and the kid mid shortcut.
"We have a lot to talk abou-" Then everything went dark for a second before sans found himself at a random alley of the city. Sans REALLY did not like when he lost concentration mid shortcut. He looked around to find that he was no longer holding the kid, and that the weirdo got a hold of him somehow, with some weird looking pincer blade.
"Woah that felt really weird! but the good type of weird! I like you already!" said the Faunus while the kid panicked.
"yeah, that's great bud but would you mind letting the kid go? i mean he doesn't look to comfortable there."
"Sure! but first I am going to need you to come with me, you got my Queen´s attention! aren't you lucky!" said the mad Faunus while cackling.
"huh, if that queen of yours sent you to talk to me, she really must be even more crazy than you are" that got a reaction out of him, just not a good one.
"How DARE YOU! She is a goddess! and you dare disrespect her! that wont do at all, I guess I will have to take you with me on little piece-" suddenly a trash can fell from above the Faunus and covered half of his body, making him let go of the child.
The kid the too the chance to kick the guy in the balls and runned towards sans "GAH!" The Faunus exclaimed in muffled pain trough the bin.
"huh, didn't think that would work" sans then sent the child away with a short cut and looked at the Faunus, who got out of the bin and looked at sans with an angry and pained expression.
"wow, you look like trash" Sans didn't have much time to pat himself on the back for his pun, the maniac launched himself at sans, and while hevmanaged to avoid the attack, the Faunus managed to touch him in the arm.
"huh?" sans arm then felt weird… he tried to use the touched arm to summon a bone…. but nothing came out.
"uh oh" suddenly staying here to knock the guy out and giving him to the police didn´t seem like the best idea.
Then sans began to avoid getting touched by the man again, while also avoiding being hit at all by his weird pincer blade gun thing. He tried to shortcut away, but he could concentrate well enough with his magic being somehow messed with by the Faunus. It didn't help that the guy was aiming at the spot he touched.
"suddenly semblances aren't so great." the guy was fast and avoiding all of his attacks proved to be really taxing.
"Come on! just let me hit you a little bit! It will only hurt a lot!" yeah ok sans had enough of this guy.
"Eh?" suddenly sans lifted up the Faunus with his good hand and threw him to the nearby wall "AGH!" then from the wall many blue bones sprang and impaled the Faunus.
"What the heck are these?" sans used this chance to let his magic recover around his arm, but for his surprise the weirdo started to move through the blue attack.
"Hurts like hell! I like it!" He was taking damage, but he was just ignoring it.
"uh, good for you bud" thank goodness the kid was not like this, otherwise he would be the one having the bad time.
Sadly, for the guy, sans magic had fully come back to him and he was still struggling against the bones "welp that was uh well not fun, but it was something all right, cya." and with out another word, he took a shortcut away.
Then the blue bone suddenly disappeared, and the guy dropped to the ground "Shit! Almost had the guy!... oh well guess I´ll have to follow-" Then suddenly he got a call from her goddess.
"MY GODDESS! How can i-"
"Please don't tell me you already 'talked' to the target?" asked Salem on a exasperated voice.
"Why yes!" Then from the other side of the call, he could hear a wall being hit multiple times.
Back at the hotel, they managed to catch all the members without much issues thanks to Qrow and the officers… but mostly Qrow. He got a bad feeling when suddenly a child just popped out of nowhere and ran to his mom but sighed in relief when sans appeared too after a minute.
"What took you so long? I was about to go room to room to look for you." asked Qrow while looking at sans.
"eh, just had to grab Lil bud while I was in there, ain´t that right Lil bud?" The cat in question popped out of sans pocket looking like he was about to throw up.
"…riiight? well I guess it should be safe to go back to our rooms since we got all of the Fang members, tho I want ask some questions to a few of them so i´ll go to the station, so you stay put here."
"sounds good for me." sans turned around and started to walk away.
"…also good job saving the hostages." sans looed back at Qrow and waved off Qrow.
"yeah, yeah don't worry bout it bud."
And so, Sans went back to his room, passing Lisa and Cole who were interviewing the victims and officers.
'ok so that guy had some weird semblance that messed with my magic… or well my aura, guess i´ll have to look out for him.' the idea did not thrill him in the slightest, but he could deal with it, for now its time to visit dream land and try to ignore the weird feeling he got from someone saying thanks to him.
Ozpin was exited, which was really something he rarely felt nowadays, he was waiting outside of the bullhead hosting the strange person known as sans. Qrow had been updating him on all that had transpired while on his travels with the mystery man and while disappointed he didn't manage to make any progress trying to convince him, he was still glad the managed to make it without many issues. He was surprised when James told him about his findings, and a bit concerned about the whole bomb incident, but he managed to calm down James telling him about the train incident.
He was certain he could convince this fellow to follow him to beacon and convince him to join sides, after all he had already shown that he is willing to help others. Amber wanted to come just to say hello, but she had to stay and help Glynda prepare for the new students that will be soon enrolling to beacon. Glynda seemed just happy to have someone helping her with all the paperwork.
Ozpin then saw many familiar figures and a hot dog stand approaching in the distance and he got ready to talk to the mysterious fellow. At first glance he could tell that he took much effort to hide his face, he could only see his eyes, if they counted as eyes since all he could see were two white dots.
'I thought he would be…taller' Not that it mattered, but he really didn't expect the guy to be that short.
Sans, Qrow, Lisa and Cole then finally reached Ozpin, Lisa and Cole looked surprised looking at the headmaster, and Qrow just nodded at him "Ah greetings, you must be Sans, I have heard many good things about you" Ozpin said while holding up his right hand "My name is Ozpin Headmaster of Beacon academy."
"cool" Then sans walked past Ozpin and kept walking.
"…" Ozpin just stood in place while sans walked away, Lisa and Cole had their mouths wide open and Qrow just face palmed.
"Um well that didn't go as I expected" said Ozpin while looking back, only to find that sans and the hot dog stand were gone.
"Huh, well that was quite rude." Ozpin was not sure what to do, this was a first time for him, on the other hand Qrow knew exactly what to do as he pulled out his flask.
"Told you the guy wouldn't listen." Lisa was about to say something but Qrow interrupted her "If you are going to ask Oz for an interview or something then just don't." Lisa the closed her mouth, looking quite annoyed.
"Fine, be like that, we have enough Info to work with anyways. Let's go Cole, once we cover all that happened at argus and at the train, we will start looking for Sans again." Lisa then stormed off.
"Uhh, well it was nice meeting you? uh cya!" Then Cole followed Lisa carrying most of their stuff.
"Yeah, I guess I should start looking for him huh?" Ozpin just nodded at Qrow, still trying to understand what just happened.
Salem was not happy. She might just have lost a very important piece for her to finally end this game, because of the idiocy of two of her other pieces. Cinder punishment was just meeting Tyrian and let her understand how stupid she was, and she was going to punish Tyrian too, but he brought something useful back with him to say sorry.
"While I am displeased at the loss of getting a very useful piece without the use of force, I will let it pass for this present you have brought me, so rejoice Tyrian." And rejoice he did, he panicked when he got called back by her goddess but then found someone who would surely make his life worth for her goddess on the way back, and all he had to do to get him was to kill a couple of cops!
"Thank you, my goddess! you are the most merciful and beautiful being to which I would throw my useless life for!"
Salem just gave him a small smile before looking at her new tied up guest sitting in front of her "Now you will help me with a little project of mine, so rejoice… Ollie." The guest in question just stared back at her scared for his life.
He did not know what was going on, but he was beyond terrified for the being that was Infront of him. All he could do is scream in vain hopes someone would hear him, which was not very effective considering that he had tape on his mouth.
Salem smiled as trembling silver eyes looked at her in fear.
Sans sat on top of a roof with Lil bud sitting on his side, behind him was a telescope he bought in argus before leaving. Today when nighttime came, he started to watch the stars and boy did he enjoy the view.
He was going to stay at another hotel but decided to instead watch the stars for a while, he always wanted to do this back in his world, so it was the best chance to do so. He finally reached Vale and was one step closer to his friends and family. He still had to buy a place to get his little project started, which meant he needed some papers with a fake identity and other boring stuff he needed to make his establishment legal.
Thankfully he heard of a guy that could help with that, tho he had to admit that the name Junior sounded pretty weird. He didn´t think too much about the old guy he saw when he arrived, his expression was one he didn´t really like so he would just ignore him. Surely he would just forget about him right?
After some stargazing, he just sat down on the roof of the random building he took a shortcut to, and Lil bud came out of his pocket and sat beside him looking up at him "nice view amma right?" sans asked Lil bud, to which the cat meowed in agreement "yeah I bet the others would love to see this…" sans had finally decided. He would bring everyone here, even if it meant dealing with the questionable humans that lived on this world. If it meant that they could all be finally free… that they could finally get a true happy ending, then he would for once try his hardest. This was just the beginning Afterall.
Sans and Lil bud kept looking at the stars, and for once in a very long time, he felt real hope.
That's it for now folks! again sorry for taking a bit longer with this chapter but I still hope you enjoyed it! also I have a question for you folks.
Do you think sans can stop time? to be honest I have no clue and since I am trying to stay as close as sans is in canon I am not sure if I should add this ability. don't get me wrong I know he would be pretty broken if he could stop time, but I would nerf it so that he could not attack others while time is stopped or something like that.
But still I am not sure if he can so leave your thoughts in the reviews! Toodles!
ps: if u play undertale on a xbox one don't disconnect your controller on true lab….its scary :c