Hello, it is I, the person who doesn't update often enough for you guys…. Hey guys! So I've gotten some DETERMINATION back, and am continuing the story! That and I'm on spring break right now, so I've had some time to type. Anywho, as you can see, chapter 17 is out and- Oh never mind, you can read already!

Chapter 17: Something's Wrong

I'd been mindlessly walking for hours. No destination in mind, nothing in my mind, really. When I came out of my state of… shock? Well, whatever I came out of, I realized I was just a few miles out of my hometown, so I was really far from Ebott City. I slowly shuffled off the side of the road, and into the ditch right beside it, sitting down on the cold snow. I took my phone out of my pocket, fumbling a few times because my fingers were numb, and checked my notifications. I had 25 missed calls and too many text messages to count, all from my family. I felt a bit guilty for worrying them, but other than that I didn't really feel any emotions right now, they'd probably come back later. Probably. But because everyone was no doubt worried sick about me, I dialed Sans' number and waited for him to pick up.

It took him only three seconds to pick up, "Frisk, where the hell are you?! We've been waiting for you for hours, trying to get a hold of you, fuckin', worrying when you don't respond at all. You know we're all worried sick, so why didn't you pick up the goddamn phone when we tried to contact you?!" My breath caught in my throat, I actually really worried them… "Frisk! Answer me!"

I cleared my throat, "I'm sorry, Sans, this won't happen again…. Look, I'm just a few miles away from Clemons, it's several miles East of Ebott City. I'll be standing on the side of the road, waiting for you. When you pick me up, I'll explain-" I was cut off by that nauseating smell that I used to live with and never got used to. My heart was pounding in my chest, the speed of my breathing picking up, and when I started to turn, a rough hand clamped over my mouth. My grip tightened on my phone as I was dragged off into a wooded area, and I was kicking and flailing and screaming and trying to get away. But of course, I couldn't because I was absolutely useless and the damsel in distress in every situation.

I was pinned to the ground and the man on top of me whispered things to me. Bad things. I was terrified, and Sans was right on the other end of the line, most likely hearing everything. "Frisk? Frisk! What's happening, what's wrong?!" Yeah, he's hearing everything. "Frisk, hang tight, I'll be there in just a moment. Just hang on for me, okay?" The man on top of me started to fiddle with my pants and try to pull them down with one hand, the other obviously over my mouth, so I bit his hand as hard as possible. He swore and yanked his hand away and cradled it with the other hand.

I wriggled free and grabbed my phone and ran. I brought my phone up to my ear, "Sans, please hurry! I don't know if there are others out here and I don't-" It sounded as if an explosion just went off, and I fell to the ground. I was now staring up at the dark night sky, something warm and wet coming from my chest and onto the snow below. My breath came as short pained gasps, my vision was blurred with tears, and the pain was indescribable. "s-sah…. s-sahn…. s-sahns…" I turned my head to look at the phone, I could hear him panicking, and tried to grab the phone so I could respond with something… reassuring, I guess. I had the phone in my hands when something came crashing down on it and my hand, probably breaking both.

"Stupid bitch, you never did know what was best for you." I had closed my eyes when I had the phone in my hands, but opened them to hear a sort of clicking sound. Now I was staring right at a gun. "It's a shame you had to pull that little stunt, we know how much you love your sister. You'll see her soon enough though." I looked around as best I could, searching for someone, anyone, to help me. But nobody came. I faced the gun again and closed my eyes, waiting for it to be over. I briefly heard someone calling out for me, and then the trigger of the gun being pulled before it was silent and still.

Something was wrong. Usually I would have gone back to the last save point which was in my closet this morning, or everything would have automatically reset, but this time nothing happened. I was just in a black void of nothingness, all alone. I looked around, looking for something, someone, anything really. But there was nothing. Just, nothing. Well, that's a lie. There was something, there was a small window. From where I was it looked just white, but I could see some very faint movements. So naturally, I went up to it to see what was going on.

Sans was cradling me- I mean, my body, in his arms. Sky blue tears were streaming down his cheeks, his expression more pained than any I've ever seen before. And Chara….. she was there too, but instead of letting Sans see that she was in despair, she appeared furious and stabbed the man more times than I could count; even though he was already dead. I sank to my knees, hands coming up to my mouth, tears of my own welling up and spilling over. I was dead. I was actually, really dead. No resets, no save points.

Because I was trying to process this all, I didn't notice the figure coming up behind me, and jumped when a hand pat my back. I spun around, and was met with someone who seemed somewhat familiar. The figure was a skeleton, with a distorted, cracked face who was wearing all black. He looked sorta... melted or goopy, I guess? I quickly got up and backed away.

He put his hands up to show he didn't want any trouble, and spoke a bit slowly. His voice was a deep baritone, slightly distorted voice. "Frisk, child, you can trust me. Now, are you okay? You're not hurt, are you?"

I cleared my throat and tried to wipe away any sign that I'd been crying, "Yeah, I'm fine, besides being dead... But who are you? And where are we? Can I get back home? I need to get back home. My sister, my family, my friends, they won't make it without me. And when someone finds Sans and Chara with that body, along with-" I took a shaky breath, "When they find them with his body, along with mine…. I just need to get home, please, can you help me?" He had a sad expression on his face, and I knew the answer would probably be no.

"Frisk, I doubt I could send you back with the little power I have, it may as well be impossible." I turned away from him and hugged myself tightly, finger nails digging into my skin. "It may not work, but I'm willing to try. I will try for you and your sister, and my sons." He came up and placed an arm around me, pulling me close.

I took another shaky breath, "Thank you, so very much- er, I didn't catch your name…"

"Gaster, W.D. Gaster. Now, I'll need you unconscious for these next moments. And I can promise you, it shouldn't hurt and you'll be home soon." Gaster brought his boney hand up to my eyes, and before I knew it, it was pitch black again. I could faintly hear his last words to me before I was fully unconscious, "Stay safe, child. And take care of our family."

I slowly woke up to a bright light shining down on me. I slowly sat up, taking in my surroundings, again….. I was back to the start of my journey in the underground, sitting on a bed of golden buttercups. I let out a small sigh of relief, Gaster had done what he promised. Though, it's going to be such a pain going through everything all over again.

I slowly stood up, expecting to feel the same kind of pain as the first time I fell, but everything seemed fine. I walked down the same corridor, and went into the room where Asriel- Flowey, would be. Something was wrong though. Flowey was facing the opposite direction of me, slumped down and hurt from what I could see.

I ran to him and dropped to my knees, "As- Flowey, are you okay? Who would do this to you? Who was it, 'cause I will have a serious talk with whoever hurt my little brother-"

Flowey opped into the ground and popped back up beside me, "I'm sorry, but I don't know who you are. One thing I do know though, is that you're not my sister…. she's long gone." He shook his head once and seemed to blink back some tears before continuing, "Anyways, we need to go, now."

"I'm sorry, go?" Serious confusion has now hit me upside the head.

Flowey disappeared again and popped up at the doorway leading to the rest of the ruins, "Yes, go. I'll be your guide through the underground from here on out. Now we need to get moving, before she finds out your here and…. and kills you too…. Come on, lets get a move on!" Flowey disappeared again, probably in the other room already.

I stood where I was, "Chara, do you know what's going on? Because I am really confused, and somewhat frightened right now."

She materialized in front of me, looking the same as I last saw her, but more fragile and beaten up. She was looking at me with curiosity and fear in her eyes, "….How do you know my name, and how did you know I was here?" Oh god, what is going on right now?!

"You're one of my closest friends, you know almost everything about my past that nobody else knows, you're my sister…. You know what, I'll have to tell you and Asriel later, okay? We should get going like he says…" I continued into the next room with Chara trailing behind.

Flowey was waiting by the first little puzzle, "You took way too long, at this rate, she'll get us! See those buttons?" I nodded, I've been through this before. "Well if you step on the wrong one, you either die, or you'll be seriously injured. So step on the ones-"

I went ahead and stepped on each of the buttons I saw Toriel step on the first time I fell down here. "Flowey, I've been through this all before with Toriel. Y'know, before I di- ended up here, at the beginning, again. The only things that are off are you're nice and scared of someone and don't remember me, Chara's basically the same, and this time around I'm guessing the puzzles are extremely deadly. But there'll be more time for that later, we need to get a move on since you're afraid of whoever it is your afraid of. Okay?" Flowey's eyes widened and he only nodded, "Okay, let's go then."

I was leaning up against the tree just outside of mom's house, out of breath and bleeding. Flowey and Chara were standing with me, looking terrified to death. "Okay…. so, if everyone down here *deep breath* is as merciless and deadly as those monsters back there, then mom- Toriel, Asgore, Sans, Papyrus, all of my friends and my parents will try and probably succeed, in killing me." They nodded in response, "Okay. But if it's Toriel I'll be going up against, she'll be at least somewhat motherly or nice. I mean, she's our mother you guys….. Oh god." My heart began to race, my palms were sweaty, I was getting dizzy, and I felt like I couldn't breathe.

"Frisk, are you okay?" Flowey looked up at me, concerned.

"Frisk, what's wrong?" Chara placed her hand on my shoulder.

My voice was barely a whisper, "Melody…. My sister, my little sister…." I don't know how long I stood there like that. It was probably around 5-10 minutes, but it felt like hours to me.

When I had finally calmed down, I took a few deep breaths, and asked Flowey a question, "Flowey, was there any other human that you saw down here? A little girl, with…." I couldn't even remember what she looked like…. something was definitely wrong. "With…. blonde hair, and blue eyes. And she was… small, and probably pretty thin." Right?

Flowey shook his head, "No, you're the only one I've seen in years. Are you okay enough to keep moving, Frisk?" I nodded, though I was sick to my stomach right now. "Okay, then we should get going. Toriel should be asleep right now, she usually takes her nap at this time everyday." We slowly made our way to the house, trying to be as quiet as possible so as to not wake Toriel up.

When we made it to the door, Chara went ahead to make sure Toriel was asleep. She came back a minute later, giving us the okay. Flowey went ahead first, and then I went in; after saving at the save point real quick. The house looked exactly the same as the last time I saw it. While Flowey and Chara made their way to the stairs though, I went ahead to the room Melody and I stayed in when we were down here, just to make sure she wasn't there.

I popped my head in quick, and saw nothing but the bed and various other furniture. But when I popped my head back out, someone was standing to my right, staring at me. It was Toriel. But this didn't look like the kind, motherly Toriel with her beautiful white and purple dress that I knew. This Toriel had a black and blood red dress that was frayed at the bottom. Her eyes were open wide with bright red irises instead of warm brown, and she had red splotches in various places on her usually snow white fur.

She smiled the warmest smile she could, "Hello my child, are you okay?" She looked me over and her eyes landed on a wound on my arm, "Oh my, you seem to be hurt," She put a motherly arm around me and led me to the family/dining room, "Here my child, let me look at that nasty wound." She carefully examined my arm, and made sure to try not to hurt me. She then placed a paw over it, and there was a soft green glow, and my arm was warm and tingly for a few moments. When she pulled her paw away, the wound was gone. "There you go, all fixed up! Now then, would you like some pie? I have some in the oven that should be just about done." I nodded. "Okay, give me a moment and then I'll be right out!" She got up and went into the kitchen, leaving me alone by the fireplace. What were Flowey and Chara so afraid of? Mom was still… well, she seemed like herself. Besides the appearance, she seemed just the same. Though, appearances can't be trusted down here, I guess.

I cleared my throat a little bit and called out to her, "Hey mom, do you think I could use the restroom? I need to tidy up a bit before I eat."

Toriel popped her head out of the kitchen, "Sure, my child! It's the very last door at the end of the hall, you can't miss it!" I nodded and headed that way.

Instead of going to the end of the hall though, I went down the stairs to go meet up with Chara and Flowey. I was at the bottom of the stairs when I heard Toriel call out for me. Instead of pretending to be in the restroom and replying though, I went into a full out sprint and raced down the corridors to get to the door.

Toriel was close behind though, and really wasn't happy with me. "My child, get back here, right now! It's dangerous out there, you won't last a second!" I ran on, "Get back here right now you little brat! Or else I'll cook you up and serve you to the monsters!" I stumbled and almost fell when I heard that, letting her gain on me. Where did my Toriel go?

I almost made it to the door with Flowey and Chara waiting for me, when there was suddenly a searing heat, and then nothing.

(Well that escalated quickly…)

I was outside of the house again. But this time instead of going in, Flowey and Chara were staring at me in horror, while I felt like I was going to throw up. But there was also something else that was different. You know how sometime if your bangs get a little too long, they'll fall into your eyes? Well imagine that instead of bangs, there were this pesky little golden petal falling into your left eye.

I quietly cleared my throat, "Flowey, what is falling into my eye?"

Flowey stared at it, "A buttercup... It's just a buttercup Frisk, you can just pull it out."

I had a bad feeling in my stomach, "Okay, you're probably right. I'll just, pull it out." I pinched the little buttercup between my fingers, and gave it a little tug. I hissed in pain, and quickly let go of the buttercup. "Nope, bad idea, really bad idea. Ow…"

Chara and Flowey both looked really concerned now. Chara spoke first, "Frisk, don't die again, okay? We don't need another little buttercup sprouting, okay?" I nodded in agreement. "Okay, we should head down now, before she wakes up.

"Yeah, let's go." I headed in first this time, and made my way down the steps, to the basement. It was completely silent as we walked to the door to the rest of the underground. And I almost screamed when I saw who was waiting for us at the door.

Toriel was inspecting the door at first, and then she turned around and saw me and Flowey. "Well well well, if it isn't the weed and a little friend of his." This didn't happen last time, why was it happening this time?! "I guess I'll have to get my hand dirty today, after all." We entered a fight with Toriel, and I was not happy about it at all.

"M-mom, please, don't do this. We can work things out, y'know? Maybe, if you let us go, we can-" She started throwing her fireballs, with me dodging some of them, but getting burnt and having some of my hair singed off. I felt like I might've been getting somewhere with Toriel, when I died. Again.

~Le skip to quite a few deaths later~

I was on one knee taking big, heaving breaths, finally getting a break from Toriel's onslaught of attacks. I don't know how many times I've died to her, but there were a few buttercups making their way down my arm and to my left hand. I glanced up at Toriel and saw that she was breathing quite heavily as well. But she broke down in tears in just seconds. The fight ended, and she was just on her knees, sobbing.

I stood up, slowly made my way to her not quite trusting her as much anymore, and hesitantly put my hand on her paw. She pulled me into a crushingly tight hug as she cried, "I'm so sorry my child, I should never have done this to you. I've just been lonely for so long, and I only want a child to love once again…. but that's no excuse for my behavior." She pulled back and looked at me with tears streaming down her face and a small smile, "I'll let you go, my child. But promise me, promise me you'll come back, someday. Please?" I promised. She pulled me into a quick hug and gave me a kiss on my forehead, "Thank you... Now go my child, before I change my mind."

Me, Flowey and Chara quickly made our way out of the ruins and shut the door behind us. We could hear mom's wails from behind the door, and listened as they grew fainter and fainter.

All three of us had tears streaming down our faces. I was the first to speak though, "Come on, we just need to head down this final corridor, and then we'll be in the Snowdin Forest. I can tell you guys my story while we make our way there, okay?" They both nodded, and we made our way down the corridor, while I told my story.

Well that's done for now. Sorry it's like, so so so short. But I'm tired right now, but will hopefully be updating the next chapter soon after this is posted. So yeah, hope you enjoyed!