I had to backtrack ALL the way to that area with the echo flowers to finally find another way to get to my friend. This was close to where that bird was…! This time, instead of taking a left, as I did last time, I continued on straight. As I ran, I passed some dark and really quiet houses. "Huh," I said out loud. "I guess everyone's still afraid of WHATEVER is still happening."
Sometimes I talked to myself so I wouldn't get bored. 'Cause let me tell you, it was a long trip! Especially when I had to stop for a while to catch my breath. Thankfully, there was a water fountain. I was sooooo thirsty! Man, it felt like I had been away from home for HOURS! I can't actually say how long, because I don't have a watch. Not like I could wear one, anyways! Ha ha.
It was so quiet where I was, and kinda dark, too, that it was almost creepy. It'd be a LITTLE hard to ambush someone here, because you could hear their footsteps echoing. Yo, I could hear my own heart BEATING…! Man, I, uh, kinda wished my friend were there. Wait, you can't be scared! I thought. Undyne isn't afraid of ANYTHING, especially not the dark! And besides, she had her spears to light the way for her!
After continuing for a little while, there was a LOT of that tall grass. I slowed down my pace a little, 'cause what if there had been a wall!? Surely enough, there was! Ha ha. Let's see… I turned left. Dead end. When I walked to the right, the grass was still present for a few footsteps, then it ended. WAIT! Someone was coming! I could head someone approaching from the right. I hid my head back in the grass and waited. Hold on, did I hear… Armor…? A smile creeped on my face as I realized who it was. Aw, yeah… I thought.
"Seven," I heard Undyne say. "Seven human souls. With the power of seven human souls, our king… King Asgore Dreemurr… will become a god. With that power, Asgore can finally shatter the barrier." Yesyesyes! I thought. This was it! The FINAL showdown! She was finally going to take down whoever was scaring everyone…!
"He will finally take the surface back from humanity," she continued. "And give them back the suffering and pain that we have endured. Understand human?" So it WAS a human who was doing this! "This is your only chance at redemption. Give up your soul… Or I'll tear it from your body."
This was my chance. NO WAY was I going to miss this fight! I leaped out of the grass.
"Undyne! I'll help you fight!" I yelled. I did a quick survey of the area. Somehow it was brighter out here than where I had come from. YO, look who it was! My friend was okay! "YO!" I exclaimed. "You did it! Undyne is RIGHT in front of you! You've got front row seats to her fight!" But something confused me. Where was the enemy?
"...Wait. Who's she fighting?" Suddenly, Undyne grabbed me on the cheek! "Ack…! H-hey!" I said as she started pulling me away. "You aren't gonna tell my parents about this, are you?" Darn, I'm gonna be in SO much trouble! I thought. "Hey, you never said who you were fighting! Who is it? Or is it invisible? 'Cause that would be AWESOME!"
Undyne dragged me to the place she had come from while I was still in the tall grass. The grass was glowing, but the main source of light were these pinkish crystals on the walls. She let go of my cheek.
"What did you think you were doing back there?! You could have gotten yourself killed!" she said.
"Yo, I knew you wouldn't have hurt me!" I said.
"Not me. THEM. You need to get to the safehouse, now."
"Them? My friend? Nah, c'mon! We traveled across ALL of Waterfall to see you!"
"Kid, you don't understand. That human…" Her voice cracked, a little. "You don't know how many people that human's killed."
While looking into her eyes, she looked… terrified. "But-but it doesn't make sense. Why haven't they hurt ME yet?" I asked.
"I don't know… Just get out of here as soon as possible. You know where Hotland is?"
I nodded. "Good," she replied. "Go there, enter through Dr. Alphys's lab, and there'll be a room on your left near the exit labeled, 'Bathroom'. Knock on the doors twice, wait a moment, and say the code. Do not yell it out. Got all that?" Again, I nodded my head. I could hardly believe all this.
"All right, here's the code:" and she whispered it to me. "Go, and… good luck. Don't worry about me! I've got this," she said with a wink.
I started walking towards Hotland. The easiest way would have been to go back to where Undyne was about to fight, but I figured the human might be waiting for me there. Instead, I went left and took another way. So all that white dust sitting around… That was- I stopped in my thoughts, because my stomach felt like it was all twisted up. I felt sick. I had realized that it was monster dust, the remains of a monster who's been... killed.
But it all still didn't feel REAL. Yo, we had been through a LOT together. If my friend(?) was really so awful, I would have seen SOME sign of it, right? Undyne wouldn't LIE about it, and she wouldn't be wrong about something like that. How can I pick one over the other? I thought. I had to see for myself. I backtracked to the place where Undyne had almost fought with the human. I almost hoped that she was wrong about them.
Author's Note:
The cover art is up! :D Things are getting dark, darker, yet darker...