There was nothing quite like running away from a homicidal fish first thing in the morning.
The beautiful weather, the cool fresh air as the snow turned into water, the lovely glowing blue flowers that acted like records, the gems in the ceiling that looked like stars. Oh and who could forget the glowing blue spears attempting to serve you up like a Shish kabob while a disembodied voice- with a horrible sense of direction- attempted to guide you to safety...
LeFt... Or MaYbE iT wAs RiGhT? yEs, DiFfEnTlY rIgHt.
Following the voice directions, Harry quickly spun right, barely avoiding the blue spears protruding from where he once stood only to meet a dead end. The same dead end, the brit was quite certain his nibbling fell to their death from.
NoW, jUmP.
...Yes, nothing quite like it.
"I'm not jumping. "
The voice must of thought he was crazy... Then again, he was running from a armored fish and following the questionable directions of a disembodied voice... Okay, maybe he was a bit crazy but he sure as hell wasn't suicidal.
His shadow seemed to sigh.
YoU cAn ThAnK mE lAtEr.
A moment later, there was a stern push and the wooden boards where no longer beneath his feet. The raven haired teen barely had time to glare at his shadow- that was still somehow on the bridge- before he fell into the abyss.
Deep within a hidden lab in Snowdin, a machine beeped once more causing the skeleton's frown to deepen.
Something was wrong.
Then again, everything in this timeline was wrong:
Grillby was most likely dust in the wind.
There where two anomalies.
The Freak had a sibling.
He could not see Harry's stats, let alone soul. Not even when the elder human had been pulled into a confrontation had the teens soul appeared.
Gaster was stalking the elder.
And then there was this:
Someone was attempting to get through the barrier. That itself was nothing strange, every so often a few overconfident- coughdrunkcough- monsters felt a little brave and attempted to break the damn thing but this...
It wasn't a monster trying to leave but rather something attempting to break in. Something the magic of the barrier kept rejecting.
That alone caused the skeleton to worry. The barrier had never denied any entering access before; so why now?
The machine beeped once more but the skeleton chose to ignore it for now- Unless whatever it was got through or the barrier broke, he couldn't do anything about it either way- instead choosing to focus upon the file on top of the desk.
There was another mystery in the Underground after all.
One, the skeleton had a feeling, was responsible for this twisted timeline instead of the Freak.
Now if only he could prove it, maybe then he could figure out what went wrong and how to fix it.
Waterfall was beautiful but in all honestly, Harry fount he might have enjoyed it more had his shadow not clung to him like a second skin.
Though on the bright side at least the rain wasn't hitting him. Still, the ebony haired teen was tired and sore- in more then one way- from being pushed off a bridge.
We'Re AlMoSt ThErE.
Sighing softly, the emerald eyed teen kept walking- hoping eventually to reach wherever there actually was but took a brief moment when he reached another of those strange stars on the ground.
Harry Potter LV 2 Waterfall
*Save Return
"Seven souls...Seven Souls and Asgore will become a god..."
AnD wE'rE hErE. NoW rEmEmBerR hOlD tHe ShIeLd TiGhTlY aNd TrY tO aVoId RuNnInG iNtO LaVa.
"You are standing in the way of everyone's hopes and dreams!"
For a brief moment, emerald eyes glanced upwards at the shadow looming over their owner a blunt 'Have I ever told you how much I hate you' gleam to them. If he made it out of this, Harry swore he would find a way of solidifying just so he could burn it to a corpse himself.
Sans heard them long before he saw them. It was hard not to considering the constant clanking of Undyne's amour as the Captain of the royal guard chased the human across the bridge- screaming at their backs for all she was worth. Honestly, the small skeleton had to admit he was impressed that Harry had made it so close on his first attempt- even the Freak didn't quite manage that.
He saw Harry first. The teen looked tired yet he carried the shield like it weighted nothing as he raced over the wooden planks and oh so closer to his stand and in turn Hotland. Undyne appeared a few moments later, looking worn down- no doubt cooking inside her armor once more. One would think she would have learned after going through this already with the Freak.
For a brief moment Sans actually thought the human would make it, until that damn loose board no one ever seemed to get around to fixing split beneath Harry's feet. There was a startled noise as one of human's legs went all the way through causing the teenager to fall.
Honestly, Sans expected screaming. Humans where frail things and lava would eat them alive in seconds yet there where no screams. Instead the Ebony haired human attempted to pull himself out of the hole and for a moment, Sans could have sworn the youngers leg was nothing but flames before blue spears pierced through the human.
He expected the blood- even the Freak bleed- but right before the world went black, the Skeleton would swear he saw what looked to be starlight leaving the body.
He was back in the room with the strange star, his chest feeling tight as though something had reached through him only to squeeze his heart like a lemon. For a moment, Harry just allowed himself to stay there, hunched over while gasping ever so softly for breath until the pain faded into noting more then the faint echoe of a dream...
Had it been a dream? It wouldn't be the first strange one he's had over the years nor would it be the first one he died within.
There's Only OnE wAy To KnOw. YoU mUsT KeEp GoInG.
That's right, Frisk was ahead- in God only knows how much trouble. He couldn't stay here and going back would only place more distance between them.
Forward was the only true option he had left.
Straightening, The teen headed for the cave.
"Seven Souls... Seven Souls and Asgore will become a god..."
Strangely enough, the speech was exactly as it had been within his dream though now Harry couldn't help but wonder had it truly been a dream or was something more going on here?
