I'm...at a loss here.
I know that's a weird way to start off a authors note but I kinda just made this fic on a whim and it's already one of my most popular stories on this site. And it is definitely the story i REALLY want to see finished for once; or it will be bugging me forever.
Alright, not gonna be beating around the bush here; this whole story is a clusterfuck at the moment, like i said i made this story on a whim and never really planned it out that well; literally typing down the first thing that pops into my mind. Hopefully i can think of how exactly i want to proceed with the story after i post this chapter.
Also be warned, this was typed on my iphone so it might not look so good if your on a pc, laptop,mac ect.
well thats enough of a ramble from me, hope you guys like this chapter.
Read and review please ^^
They held their breath.
The hallways were coated in a fresh layer of blood by the time they had walked right into this building, bodies parts that they barely recognized were thrown around the room, the constant growls from above them alongside that looming shadow above them through the hole on the ceiling of their current floor.
They could barely make out the details of the creature before their eyes, the rotted flesh from their bodies could be smelled a mile away, their lifeless eyes somehow shining bright in the darkness as if they were a predator searching for their prey, or perhaps that was merely the green glow on their body that practically screamed radiated as all hell.
The sight of it made them stop all movement, in fear that the creature would notice and attack them on sight, sweat poured down their cheeks as the clenched their teeth. They shouldn't have tried to explore the first building they found, it was an idiotic move that the human should have figured out the moment they left home.
The creature finally turned away after what felt like a few minutes of them staring at nothing, their body stumbled around as it practically forced itself to walk, the human let out a small sigh in relief before walking towards the building's front door, intending to get the hell out of there as soon as they could.
The loud footsteps of someone running made them turn around quickly.
They didn't have much time to reaction when they saw that green glowing creature had pounced onto them; growling like a feral animal. The pip-boy attached to their wrist started to click loudly, they could feel the radiation being soaked into them as the creature tried to bite, and claw at them. A hand on both its wrists and pushing back as hard as they could stopped this freak of nature from succeeding in its goal; but it's strength was far past that of a decaying body and it was getting ever so closer to biting them on their neck.
The creature's growls got less and less intense while it tried to bite them and...it started to talk to them; if one could call whispers in their head as talking that is.
'You always were a failure'
'Just die already!'
'Words cannot say how dissapointed i am in you'
"human"
'Go to hell and take your cheap suit with you!'
"human"
'Blech. If my kid looked like that, I'd abandon it too.'
"HUMAN!"
They woke up with a shout and started to pant heavily as they started to feel themselves a bit hoping all their faculties were there.
Flesh? Check. Skin? Heavy breathing? Check. Heart beating so fast they feel like its going to come out of their chest?
….check.
They put both hands on their face for a brief moment before letting out a long exasperated sigh, completely ignoring that furry hand shaking them. The shaking seemed to be getting more and more annoyed at this and started to shake harder, before hey groaned and turned to see the face of a rather irritated Asriel in front of them.
"Finally, your pathetic whining was really starting to get on my nerves human!"
They simply breathed in and breathed out not wanting to give him any kind of pleasure from pissing them off. Asriel frowned at the human, how dare they whine and whimper in their sleep when the prince was still exhausted from yesterday's incident. The stupid human was very lucky that his reluctance to make father angry was stronger then his anger towards them, otherwise they would have been burnt to ashes by now.
"Did I wake you up?" They asked calmly, as they rubbed their eyes. The sight of it made Asriel sick, why would anyone ask such an idiot obvious question to him? The young prince shook his head and stomped out of the room, leaving the human alone to their thoughts for a few minutes before they swiftly got dressed and got off the bed.
The human reached underneath the pillow to pull out the same 10mm pistol they have used for so long now, it almost made them wonder why they didn't dream they had this gun in that weird dream. They quickly shook that thought out of their head before checking the pistol, making sure that the guns was fully loaded and the safety was off before putting on their duster and carefully hiding the gun in it.
Now that they were armed they followed Asriel out the room, choosing to banish that dream from their memory and carry on with their day, feeling determined that today will be a good day.
It had only been a day since the human first fell down, just a day since their little 'fight' with Asgore, two days since Toriel had started to doubt her husband yet again.
It's not like it was anything new to the goat monster, she had constantly thought of leaving her husband at many points in her life. The thought of what had happened in the throne room though made her stomach turn, even a whole two days later. It's no surprise really, Toriel loved her child dearly and would so very willingly destroy anyone whom dared to harm them but she loved her husband just as much as Asriel; in truth a part of her was thankful the human had pushed Asriel out of the way as she really didn't know what she would do without her son, perhaps she would lose her mind if something were to happen to him.
Nobody down here would blame her for that if such a case happened, the world is crazy now and the only way monsters know how to survive these days is the whole 'Kill or be killed' Drabble that had started so very long ago when humanity and monsters went to war .
She still wouldn't thank the human though, she refused to show even the slightest amount of weakness to a potential enemy. The fact they were quick enough to not only push Asriel out of the way, but to do so and just barely dodge the massive trident that was thrown at them was a clear sign that the human could be a danger to them all. Toriel couldn't help but wonder how strong this human really was, but she was more than certain that they were potential threat and needed to be watched less this threat grows to be a bigger problem.
If only Asriel didn't want that human as a pet, not that she could blame him as he was merely a child born underground with no knowledge about humanity from the time monsters were on the surface. Perhaps it was better that Asriel didn't know, her son needed to know what humans could be like first hand; maybe having a human for a pet could build his character in such a way he would be more then a fitting leader for the underground.
Toriel doubted it, but she needed to have some degree of hope.
"Hello" a sudden voice broke her out of her thoughts as the human walked into the kitchen with Asriel right infront of them, she thought it was unusual how the human wasn't in the chains she gave Asriel..before she remembered the human had told them before they went to bed in Asriel's room yesterday that even if they wanted to leave, they had nowhere else to go so the chains were pointless by that point.
"Hello Asriel, I'm afraid that I'm not cooking anything yet" Asriel nodded at her, she had noticed the human still looked around in that childlike wonder she had witnessed a few days ago.
"I know mother, we just came in here for a few drinks" ah, that's right her son always comes in at this time for a drink; she still refuses to give him alcohol though regardless of the 'old enough to kill, old enough to drink' motto her mother taught her so long ago.
"I see, well I do have some tea and a bit of butterscotch pie left"
"What the hell is butterscotch?" The human asked suddenly making Asriel turn his head towards the human, she couldn't help but stare at the human whom shrugged a bit from the stares that were making them uncomfortable. Seemed like the human clearly didn't care much about how rude they were at times, or maybe they were just curious about butterscotch and just came off as rude.
"Since you asked maybe both of you would like some butterscotch pie?"
"I would like some" The human smiled slightly, she recognized that smile instantly, the type of smile you wear when you want to smile but the world has beaten you down so much you've almost forgotten how to smile. The type of smile that she always wore and was thankful Asriel was too young to understand, oh how she wished she was still at least slightly innocent like he was…
"Um, right mind watching the human for me? I'm going to do...things" Asriel said to break the silence in the room before practically running out the room to escape the awkwardness. Toriel knew she was going to have a talk with him later about this, but for now she focused on getting the pie making sure to cut a small piece for the human.
"Thank you" Toriel froze up for a brief moment, those were words she had not heard in a long time.
"You alright?" The human asked in..was that concern? No, it wasn't it had to be confusion no doubt not that she could blame them; those words were probably common on the surface. She shook her head as the human hummed a bit as they took a bite out of the pie.
"Well um, thanks for the delicious pie" The human said while still chewing on the pie as they walked away. Oddly enough for Toriel she didn't feel annoyed that they talked with their mouth full, she felt rather happy someone complimented her cooking; perhaps she would have the human sample more of her food another time.
Though something tells her she didn't even need to ask.
"I can't believe your eating that" Asriel commented to the human. Who simply ignored the goat monster while eating more of the pie, the prince of monsters didn't understand who would dare attempt his mother's cooking when it wasn't that good.
"I never tried butterscotch before, and it taste good; what more reason do I need to eat it?"
Asriel groaned and pinched his forehead, this human has been getting on his nerves since arriving at the castle. Ordinarily he would have simply fried the human with his magic, however his fathers told him that the human was his property,the hidden message in that speech that his punishment was to take care of the human.
The only bright spot in this whole mess is that the human seemed to be as amused as Asriel was, only difference is that the humans attempts at being friendly was irritating Asriel a lot. At least he was capable of speaking to this dirty human without wanting to throw up, still didn't mean he liked this human in the slightest.
Least they are more entertaining than talking to anyone else in the castle.
"Alright so where we going?" Asriel stopped and turned his head too the human, whom was only response was shrugging and still eating the pie. Clearly the human wasn't the type to be scared so easily, he would make sure the human learned to fear him soon enough.
"Father wanted us to 'Learn about each other' but I'm not in the mood and-" Before Asriel could say anything else the strange device on the humans wrist started to make a small clicking noise. The human in question looked at the device in confusion before scowling as they started to push the buttons on the device; that is until the clicking stopped making them sigh with relief.
"Sorry 'bout that, damn Pip-Boy has been going crazy recently"
"What the hell is a Pip-Boy?"
"It's basically a small portable computer"
"Wait seriously?" Asriel said with surprised not exactly expecting that answer, he had remembered that there was only one person in the entire underground that had a computer when he had asked his parents about it after visiting their scientist.
"Gaster is the only one in the underground that actually has a computer, your telling me that this thing on your wrist is common?"
At that the human crossed their arms and hummed a bit lost in their thoughts trying to look back on all their adventures through their years. They remembered all the times they needed to use one of the computers for one reason or another, and what exactly needed to be done for all of them and their functions that their father taught them so long ago.
"Sorta, the Pip-Boys are sort of rare; computers are common but are more limited to holding information kinda like a mailbox with a lock of that makes sense course you can use them for traps"
Now this human has gotten Asriel's attention, certainly beats visiting that old turtle and listening to one of his lectures about the underground. Though he had to admit he much preferred to actually experience these things, but it didn't matter whenever this human died he would simply steal the humans soul and experience the surface world for himself.
"And what of that Pip-Boy is it just for show?"
"Not really, the 3000 model can actually analyze your body's insides to determine which point is the one you need to take care of the most unless you want to die. Also determines how heavy something is once you grab it, pretty useful when your walking long distances and don't know what you want to carry unless you want your bag to rip" the human explained in detail as they brought the 'Pip-Boy' in front of Asriel's face to show the small screen of a cartoonish like human painted in green on the screeen.
"So how is that useful at times? I don't see the use in the whole scanning your body part?"
"It can be useful if you say fall down a small cliff and your legs are screwed up. Cause the Pip-Boy can actually scan your bones as well to determine amount of blood loss, or broken bones if there is such a case"
"Then why was it clicking?" Asriel asked out of pure curiosity, though a part of him wanted to know if whateer was wrng could potentially harm him as well.
"Fucking gigar counter" The human said calmly before flicking through the knobs ont he side of the small computer, the screen showing a small little bar with smaller little spikes in between the larger seperated bars. Each bar had a small number, and one of these numbers had a bar above it with a green arrow on top of it.
"Basically radation exposure calculations, if ya get below 200 your safe, get above 200 you get sick, get to 1000, then your body becomes a disgusting green pile of goop"
Asriel hummed a little slightly now, trying to think of anything else he could add, his curiosity to learn now peeked and wishing to learn more about the human technology on the surface for both curiosity; and a potential tactical advantage if they were to ever get out of here that is.
Asriel suddenly felt a sudden shiver down his spine. There was only one person in the whole underground that could really make him feel like that; slowly, Asriel turned his head to see a large blob of pitch blackness for a few moments before that same blob started to grow a pair of hands and a face.
"He-hello Gaster" Asriel stuttered, barely noticing the loud clicking noise that sounded too mechanical coming from behind him. The humans doing no doubt, he would need to inquire about this later on; but for now he needed to focus on the thing in front of him.
"Hello young prince" the scientist practically purred at him, this disgusting creatures voice sounding so smooth and yet he could detect a bit of insanity behind that voice. The goat monster shivered unintentionally, from Gaster being so damn close to him; he didn't know why but this monster was just not right and it completely unnerved him.
Click
The sudden noise made Gaster shift his attention to the human, the monsters head turned in slight amusement at the human's actions as if they were anticipated. He didn't know why but it always seemed to Asriel that the monster somehow knew what was going to happen just moments before they did.
"I suggest you get away from him before I find you to damn gross to live and kill you anyways"
"Ah a human, quite a rarity down here these days" the human could only respond with a sinister look on their face as their finger wrapped around the trigger ready to fire.
"10 seconds. 10, 9, 8" Gaster chuckled at the humans counting he stepped away from the two of them proceeding to walk out of the room. Asriel could barely make out a faint "tell your father I would like to examine this human later" before leaving the two of them alone for a moment.
"Let's just get the fuck out of here before he comes back" was all that the prince said before Asriel immediately grabbed onto the humans hand and started walking off not really caring about the item they were holding in their other hand, or how hard they were gripping on the humans arm with his spiked fingers. Or how the said human tried too look around carefully as if expecting more intruders from out of nowhere.
Asriel couldn't blame them, Gaster was rather intimidating to anyone especially the prince. He just hoped that Gaster wouldn't just enter the castle again; he wasn't sure if the human killing the scientist would be a benefit or a detriment to monsters. For once he had to pity his father, to work with a screwed up scientist like Gaster for any reason at all and the potential consequences of not working with Gaster could prove rather bad for his father's king stuff anybody could see that.
The mere thoughts of possibilities of what Gaster was going to do now that he was aware a human was in the underground scared Asriel.
Somehow, the prince just knew that the human was aware he was scared.