Okay let's see how this Author's Note thing works. So I would just like to say thank you to everyone that has followed and favorited my fanfic. I would also like to thank everyone that comments their thoughts with each chapter that I post, reading them always makes my day and has given me something to look forward to each week. Anyway I hope that you all enjoy this chapter as well as the ones that will soon follow.
You WON!
You earned 10 EXP and 20 Gold
Your LOVE increased!
Chara had never seen anyone die before, neither human nor monster. The Froggit that Frisk had struck gave a small cry of pain before its body crumpled into dust. She could not believe it, the Froggit was here, it was alive, a thinking living being, and just like that it was gone.
Maybe, maybe it was an accident! she thought. Maybe she panicked and pressed the FIGHT button by mistake. Or maybe the Froggit frightened her and she did it without thinking.
Chara tried to look at Frisk, to see if she had any reaction to what she had just done. But, Frisk was looking down, her hair covering her face, preventing Chara from being able to tell what she was feeling.
Frisk began walking up into the north room, with Chara floating close behind deep in thought. She was brought out of her thinking when she heard the clatter of something metal hitting the floor. Looking up she saw that Frisk had taken four pieces of candy from a metal bowl that had been sitting on a small stone pillar, but apparently in her haste to get more candy she had accidentally knocked the bowl off the pillar, spilling the rest of the candy all over the floor.
Chara shook her head and sighed as she said, "Now look what you've done." She decided that Frisk must have killed the Froggit in the heat of the moment and hadn't meant to do it at all.
Frisk walked out of the room and saved at the save point once again, but no sooner had she taken two steps she was pulled into yet another FIGHT this time by a Whimsun.
Chara could tell right away that this monster was too terrified to actually attack, it was shaking and seemed on the verge of bursting into tears.
"This monster is too sensitive to fight..." she said looking over at Frisk with a small smile. Before she could even react, Frisk pressed the FIGHT button and killed the Whimsun with a single hit.
As Frisk began to walk towards the room's exit, Chara was trying to think of why Frisk had pressed FIGHT again. But before she could get her thoughts in order, Frisk was attacked by yet another Froggit, and Frisk once again pressed FIGHT, killing the Froggit.
Frisk exited the room with Chara behind her. Chara thought, Maybe it was an accident. However she didn't have long to think much further as Frisk had disappeared from her line of sight.
Panicking, she looked desperately to her left and right before finally looking down and noticed a hole in the floor. Worried she wondered if she would be able to find a rope to pull her back up but as she looked up she saw Frisk was pulling herself out of a hole in the wall on the opposite side of the small room. Sighing with relief, she floated over to Frisk and saw that she was perfectly fine. As they continued into the next room Chara realized that even if she had found rope she wouldn't be able to hold it anyway.
As they entered the next room the phone rang and Frisk answered it after the first ring.
"Hello? This is Toriel." Toriel said from the other end. "For no reason in particular... Which do you prefer? Cinnamon or butterscotch?"
Chara gasped as she knew exactly what Toriel was asking that question for. She was going to make her special Butterscotch-cinnamon pie. She remembered that she could never get enough while she was living with the Dreemurrs. She was now a little jealous of Frisk being corporeal and being able to eat.
"Butterscotch." Frisk said without hesitating as if she knew what Toriel was going to ask and had prepared an answer ahead of time.
"Oh, I see. Thank you very much!" Toriel said before hanging up.
Frisk took two steps forward before the phone rang once again.
"Golly, I wonder who that could be." Chara said sarcastically with a smile as Frisk answered it.
"Hello? This is Toriel. You do not dislike cinnamon, do you?" Toriel asked. "I know what your preference is, but... Would you turn up your nose if you found it on your plate?"
"No." Frisk said a little flatly.
"Right, right, I understand. Thank you for being patient, by the way." She said before hanging up once again.
After Toriel hung up Chara surveyed the room and saw that in the middle of the room there was a row of spikes in the floor preventing them from continuing. On their side of the room was a button set in the floor and a rock a couple of feet away from the button. Frisk made her way over to the rock and pushed it forward onto the button, lowering the spikes.
As Frisk made her way across the retracted spikes she was attacked by a Froggit. She quickly killed it without hesitation. Chara wondered if she was irritated by all of the interruptions, but to take it out on living beings...
Chara was startled out of her thoughts when the phone rang for a third time. Frisk answered it again after only the first ring while Chara thought, Good grief Mom, what is it this time?
"Hello?" it was Toriel unsurprisingly. "You do not have any allergies, do you?"
"Why are you asking?" Frisk asked with what sounded like slight sarcasm, though it could've been Chara's imagination.
"Huh? Why am I asking? No reason... No reason at all." Toriel responded before hanging up.
Chara rolled her eyes thinking, Oh sure Mom, that doesn't sound suspicious or anything.
Frisk took a few more steps forward before encountering two monsters, a Froggit and a Whimsun, in a single FIGHT. But, the result was the same, Frisk killed them both. Chara was starting to get worried. Froggits and Whimsuns were to monsters like hamsters are to humans, but they were still alive and Frisk was just killing them seemingly without thinking.
In the next room they moved into, a large part of the floor looked cracked and unstable. Chara wondered how Frisk was going to get through without falling, but Frisk surprised her. Frisk walked on the floor without it crumbling away and she was walking in a pattern as if there were a safe path only she could see. Chara's curiosity of Frisk was getting more and more intense with each room they passed through, as well as something else, but what it was she couldn't say.
The next room was the same as the first rock room, but this one had three rocks and three buttons. As Frisk was pushing the first rock she tripped over a Moldsmal. Moldsmal, Chara recalled, were more or less fungi that could move around and used spores as bullets even though they didn't have any real intelligence. Chara thought that Frisk must not have been happy about being tripped by it as she hit the Moldsmal with her stick, turning it to dust.
When Frisk tried to move the third rock it surprised Chara by speaking.
"WHOA there, pardner! Who said you could push me around?" the rock said.
"Can you please move?' Frisk asked.
"HMM? So you're ASKIN' me to move over? Okay, just for you, pumpkin."
The rock slide two inches towards the button and stopped.
"Can you move more?" Frisk asked again.
"HMM? You want me to move some more? Alrighty, how's this?"
The rock then moved two more inches, but in the wrong direction.
Frisk sighed and said, "The other way."
"HMM? That was the wrong direction? Okay, I think I got it."
The rock slide over and stopped on top of the button, clearing the way. But right as Frisk was about to cross the spikes shot back up out of the floor. Chara looked behind her and saw that the rock had moved off of the button.
Frisk walked over to the rock and said, "Would you please stay on the button?"
"HMM? You wanted me to STAY there? You're giving me a real workout."
But, the rock complied. As Frisk was approaching the exit she was attacked by another Froggit and Whimsun. The results were the same as all the previous FIGHTs had been. Chara was wondering if Frisk thought she was in danger and needed to defend herself with Toriel not being here to scare them off. She hoped that was the case as Frisk closed the FIGHT's results which read:
You WON!
You earned 5 EXP and 4 Gold
Your LOVE increased!
The next room had another save point as well as a short coffee table with a chunk of cheese that was stuck to it. On the opposite wall there was a tiny mouse hole, inside Chara could just make out a mouse waiting inside the entrance.
As Frisk saved at the save point Chara said more to her self, "Knowing the mouse might one day leave its hole and get the cheese... It fills you with determination."
The next room was blocked not by spikes but by what looked like a ghost laying on its back. As Frisk approached the ghost Chara could hear him saying, "ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ... ZZZZZZZZZZZZ..." repeatedly before whispering, "are they gone yet" and proceeding to say ZZZZZZZZZZZZ... a few more times.
Chara knew who he was. His name was Napstablook, a ghost monster that wasn't what she would call a social butterfly. She and Asriel would occasionally visit his house in Waterfall to listen to his latest chiptunes. She wondered if, seeing as how they were both technically ghosts, she could talk to him or if he wouldn't be able to hear her at all like everyone else, but before she tried to "wake" him up, Frisk entered a FIGHT with him.
Frisk swung her stick at Napstablook who flinched and groaned. Chara was confused when Frisk actually lowered his HP a little bit. That's weird I didn't think ghosts could get hurt she thought.
Napstablook began crying bullets that started to snake around Frisk, who was able to just barely dodge them before they touched her soul. Frisk swung her stick at him again, lowering his HP a little more.
"I'm fine, thanks." he said. But instead of attacking back he just put the words, "Really not feeling up to it right now, sorry." In front of her before ending his turn.
Chara was bewildered, she didn't know it was even possible to do nothing when it was one's turn. Frisk swung her stick again and lowered his HP down past the halfway point. Napstablook retaliated with another round of tears that fell down in random arcs. Frisk swing her stick a little bit harder this time, lowering his HP down even further. At this point Chara wasn't sure what would happen, or if he could even be killed.
His HP is lowering, but if he's a ghost, can he really be killed again? she thought as Napstablook sent another round of tears raining down on Frisk, trying, but failing to hit her soul. With a final swing of her stick, Frisk hit Napstablook, bringing his HP down to zero, but surprisingly he didn't disappear or crumble into dust.
"um... you do know you can't kill ghosts, right?" he said in a slow far off voice. "we're sorta incorporeal and all. i was just lowering my hp because i didn't want to be rude."
Chara was utterly baffled. "Lowering your own HP?! How is that even possible?!" she said but, Napstablook apparently wasn't able to hear her either.
"sorry... i just made this more awkward... pretend you beat me..." he said before giving a little moan and disappearing.
You WON!
You lost 1 experience point.
Chara could only stare at the FIGHT results in complete disbelief.
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