It was quite early in the morning, though the group was waiting on a promised video call from Abigail and Daniel, who arrived 9am GMT +8. They were staying at the Duxton hotel in Perth. (Actual place btw). Instead, they decided to answer a couple of e-mails. The first was from Diana.' I'm just curious, how would everyone pop the question 2 their sig other? I need ideas for a fanfic I'm working on.'
Everybody thought in silence. "Well, I would do it the old fashioned way, at a candlelit dinner, y'know..." Chara responded.
"I would flirt, and flirt my way into the question." Frsik responded, causing everyone to deadpan.
"I ... literally have no idea... after all, I grew up knowing that father would arrange my marriage." Utf explained.
"I-i... yknow that end scene in SAO... w-well everyone knows what Kirito was about to d-do a-and w-well, it would be a remake of that scene ... if there was no group photo interruption." Alphys stammered.
"NGAHHHHHHHHHH I would write the message in SPEARS! ... I havent't really thought of how though..." Undyne shouted.
"SPEARS, WHY SPEARS, OBVIOUSLY ALPHABETTI SPAGHETTI IS THE BEST WAY TO ASK A QUESTION OF THAT SORT. NYEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH." Papyrus proudly exclaimed. "SANS... WHAT WOULD YOU DO BROTHER? SANS...? ...SANS!?" Papyrus looked around, but his brother had dissapeared.
Sans came back a few seconds later, with Patricia's boyfriend, holding Sam's child. (Sorry, have to use him for this.) 'heh, i think a demonstration is better." Sans said. " tori, knock knock" he started off.
"Who is there..." Toriel said, she had an eerie feeling.
"william..." Sans answered.
"...William ...who?" Toriel asked, her face was a tomato.
"william, harry, me..." Sans pointed to Will and Harrison respectively, before getting down on one knee, holding a diamond ring. Sans was as blue as a blueberry.
Toriel was at a loss for words...everyone was. "...Oh my goodnes, Sans... what can I say except ...yes!" Toriel gave Sans a big, fat, passionate kiss on the teeth.
"heh, you don't wanna know how long i've been holding onto that...it seems i have diana to thank, though tibia honest, you were unwell for the past week and you didn't feel up to knock knock jokes." Sans explained.
"Sans...I actually have some-" Toriel was cut off, by the fact that they were recieving a video call.
"hey, guys, so how's it going back there, we just arrived this morning and are getting ready for bed." Abigail explained, she then noticed the ring on Toriel's finger. "congrats for you, Tori! So, when'd he ask the big Q?" Abigail asked.
"Oh, just a few seconds ago, we're all fine, I'm three weeks pregnant, Mettaton and Utf seem to only engage in awkward small talk, Cameron seemed to be able to make a plant a sentient being... just the usual..." Toriel rambled on
"just the usual huh...and Cam doing that is actually common woodland elf magic." Abigail explained.
"Wait ... WHAT!?" Everyone exclaimed at the same time.
"how long have you known?" Sans curiously asked.
"Wingdings examined me yesterday." Toriel explained.
"dad! why didn't you tell me ?" Sans asked.
"I was going to... but it was hard for me to grasp the fact that I'm going to be the grandfather of this child ...it makes me feel old." Gaster explained.
" oh god...i'm gonna be a father..." Sans paced around the room.
"THAT YOU ARE, BROTHER, AND I WILL BE THE GREATEST UNCLE!Papyrus exclaimed.
Chara was surprisingly content with the news" Aww, come on, Chara, cheer up, you are going to be a big sibling ... like Frisk!" Asriel exclaimed.
"I should have know, Azzy, Zach taught us to detect life, I had this weird feeling in my gut and I didn't investigate..." Chara said quietly.
After the video call ended, the group read out the next e-mail, whilst waiting for Magic clib to arrive, which was from someone named 'Justice Aberdeen.' 'oh mettatonYou need to get married already I mean I could even be the maid of honor And don't give me that 'well your not married so why should i' Crap cuz I won't buy it Besides I know that if you love me you will Oh and btw to everyone I missed y'all so much I love all of you bye'
Mettaton's face said it all, it was black as soot, with a red and black 9999 over his head. A few seconds later, stopped working. "Uhh, I'm sorry, are we supposed to know you? And why would Mettaton know that you're single?...Actually, I'm glad you're not 'one of those girls'" Utf asked. "...One of those girls , like me ... who can't help but be mesmirised by how hot and goddam sexy he is...which is because of Alphys... trying to hide the fact that I like him, by convicing myself that I hate him..." She ranted under her breath... so nobody else could hear.
A little while later, after rebooted, Zach came with the magic club. Toriel hid the ring, not wating them to know just yet. (Also, Zach wouldn't notice or react until next chapter.) "Hey Gaster, I have my suspicions, but what does Toriel's diagnosis say? Is she sick or something nicer?" Zach asked.
Everyone looked at Zach, a look that said 'if only you were here sooner.' They then looked at each other. Nobody really said anything. "Hey Frisk, how's your little sibling coming along? Ready to be the big sibling?" Zach asked.
"I am as ready as I'll ever be to be a big sibling...Though, I'm pretty sure Chara's not ready to be a big sibling, I don't know how neither of us managed to detect anything." Frisk explained, seeing a window of opportunity to tell them the news.
"To answer your question Mettaton, people have been using that cake trick on me and Chara since we were 13 and 12... I've kinda built up a bit of an immunity to the memory effects... plus werewolves have heat cycles we deal with that do something similar. Both at the same time though, total blackout. All I know about that time is what Chara told me, apparently it was a good time." Zach explained.
"Wait...what 'cake trick'?" Mettaton asked.
"I think I know what Zach's talking about...the cake being blessed with Aphrodite's gift. Someone laced the cake with Aphrodaisics, which, being a drug, and me, being a robot, I feel the effects very severely, but a strong tolerance builds the more I consume it...there's always someone at every elf wedding, and this time, two people tampered with the cake, which my resistance buillt up enough to have control over." Utf expained, her face was somewhat bronze though, having to awkwardly explain all that to Mettaton, whose cheeks still looked like they were covered in soot.
In the meantime, in the Q&AWTG universe, Emma was talking with Sariel. "Hey, did you realize you're birthday is suspiciously close to 9 months after Valentine's day Sariel? Hey Sariel? What should I get Sorial for his birthday? I have some ideas, but I wanna see what you come up with. Also, sharp teeth huh? I wonder how you found that out Sis?" Emma asked.
"Is it ... I never checked" Sariel said as she started counting the months backwards. "Let me see, we all celebrate it when we were due to be born, November 21st, even though, we were either born a week earlier, or a week later, you could probably guess who was born the earliest. Actually, we were born in this order; Scales on November 14th, PJ was a few days later, I was November 28th, before midnight and Sorial was after midnight, so the next morning, and Allie was on December the 1st. We only celebrate it all on the same day, because it is easier on everyone, we just throw a huge party." Sariel exclaimed, forgetting to answer the question.
Back at AOTP, Zach got the magic lesson started. "Alright kids, we're going to learn a pretty simple spell and take care of the plants so their ready for when we learn more botnomancy. Today we will learn a basic light spell, it will create an orb of light that will follow you, or you can cast it on something to make it glow." He explained, he went into a naturally dark room and blocked out any light source. Zach then made a green glowing orb. "The light tends to be you soul color, but with practice you can make it any color. Now you kids try." Zach explained.
Zara and Zacha got it right away, their orbs glowed orange, as did Frisk and Chara, their orbs glowing red. There was a mixture of the seven different human soul colours. "Chara, it's okay, neither of us detected it, though we should have..." Frisk explained, comforting Chara. "You know what's funny, You, me, Zara and Zacha are all getting a new sibling." Frisk exclaimed.
"Good job kids, feel free to practice and water your plants, other than that you guys can hang out and play today, just don't wander too far." Zach explained, after everyone got the hang of it. "Oh, Chara, I just remembered! The triplets' first birthday is almost here!" Zach turned to big Chara.
"That's right, it's their very first birthday as well, sppeaking of which, what are we getting the older kids for their birthday?" Chara asked.
In the meantime, a hooded figure looked into a basin, seeing the ask house. "...Dawn's a traitor, Jack's gone rogue... Again. I need a new pawn..." The hooded figure murmured. They then saw Cameron using magic on his plant, a puple orb following him. Cameron watered his plant, the now sentient snapdragon licked up the water as it poured down, it then growled, burped leaves and went to sleep.
Asriel had transformed into Flowey, cheekily swaping himself for the buttercup one of the kids grew, which happened to be Chara. He chuckled to himself at the prank, despite not liking his flower form. "Very funny, Asriel." Chara stated as they watered the buttercup behind Flowey. "Hey Frisk, wanna animate your flower?" Chara asked as they used the necromancy, just like Cameron the day before to make a copy of Flowey, only this Flowey couldn't speak, or use magic, or be evil, it could just move around and mmake sounds. Frisk decided to play along and animate their golden flower. (Somehow, I always end up having both Asriel and Flowey in these fics, like in Q&AWTG, Flowey was a Determined sentient flower, whose attitude and villany died down over the years, here, Asriel remembers being Flowey, but Flowey is an ordinary sentient buttercup.) "So, how do you like the name, Flowey?" Chara asked, the flower purred and nodded in delight.
Later, Cameron walked back home from magic club, hoping his parents weren't there. A gang of theives appear, kidnapping Cameron." Alright kid, give up the money!" The first theif shouted, gagging the kid.
"Uh dawn haf ane" Cameron replied, his voice muffled by the gag.
" Heh, You've got till" The second theif pointed a real loaded gun at Cameron. "OOF!" They exclaimed, getting punched. The person who punched the theif had black hair and wore a black leather jacket and black jeans. The man beat up all the theives.
All except one who had a gun pointed at the man. "D-Don't make me- " The theif exclaimed. The man took the gun and knocked out the last standing theif.
"You ok kid?" The man asked.
"Yeah I'm okay, how about you?" Cameron asked.
" Yeah, yeah, I'm ok." The man said as he turned to walk away.
"I'm Cameron, what's your name?" Cameron asked.
The man stopped to answer."The name's Reiki." He then walked away.
Cameron arrived home, breathing a sigh of relief, his parents weren't home, luckily the window was still unlocked from when he snuck out earlier, because the front door was locked. Cameron turned on the TV, being careful to not touch the remote or change the channel to cartoons. Last time he did that, his parents beat him up. Cameron remembered covering up his skin, even though it was spring, nearing Summer.
"News has reported that a woman in her mid to late twenties was murdered this afternoon, the killer on the run. Please, if you see a man of this description, don't foorget to call crime stoppers." The television never showed the victim's face, only the fact that there was a lot of blood. Cameron couldn't place his finger on it, but the witness description of the man seemed eerily farmiliar.
Later at night, a hooded figure appeared in Cameron's bedroom."Cameron, are you awake?" The figure asked in a soothing voice.
"Who are you and why are you here?" Cameron asked.
"It's ok child, I'm a friend. I've been watching you for a while and have seen how you suffer, and want to help in any way I can." The figure explained.
"How, you don't know me!" Cameron exclaimed.
"Well, anything you heart desires, I can give you. What would you like? A room full of candy? A puppy? Or maybe a kitten. Speaking of kittens, I saw you lifting that neko girl's skirt, if you wish I can bring you a girl, any kind you want if you ask, even a cat girl." The figure expained.
"Can that really be done?" Cameron asked. The figure knelt down and placed a hand on his cheek, removing the hood with the other, revealing herself to be a young woman with auburn hair. "Of course Cameron, you don't have to pick just one either, I can get you whatever you want. Do you want me to?" She offered.
"I w- I want to stay with Abi- miss Rayna I don't want to live here anymore, she is very caring and a very good teacher, I-i want her to be my mom." Cameron explained.
"Then It shall be done child, now sleep, sweet boy." She stated as she kissed his forehead in a motherly fashion, and tucked him in to bed, before leaving.
After laying awake for some time, Cameron finally figured out who was described as the killer. He rushed downstairs and dialled Zach.
In the meantime, Zach was staring at the blue fur. "What's so important about that? What even is it?" Chara asked.
"It's weird, this fur smells almost like werewolf fur, but not quite... I found it in our yard the day of the wedding, and smelled the same thing in Sariel's room too... and on her but that parts a secret. She said she had a friend over the day before, I'd like to meet him, ask a couple questions. I don't know... There's just something interesting about the scent." Zach explained.
Zach's phone rang and he answered it. "M-mr Benson I-i'm scared, mom is not home yet...there is a killer on the loose... a strange woman promised me whatever I wanted...and worst of all, I recognise the killer, that was on the news...it's my dad. I'm scared, what if he comes home...what if he comes after me next...what if..." The phone abruptly hung up.
