Chapter 3
The new group of four had ventured further into the gallery in search of escape. They had come across a room full of dolls.
"I don't like this room" Chara stated.
"What? You're weird, Ib aren't these bunnies cute?" Mary asked smiling, Ib nodded back in agreement.
"...Bunnies? Hey, Partner, what do you see? Are you seeing bunnies?"
Frisk shook their head.
"Good, I don't like this even more, hey! You two, let's just find the key and leave this room."
"Aww," Mary groaned
"Don't complain, we're leaving now."
Frisk had picked up one of the Bunny/doll, and stared right into it's eyes.
"Frisk? What're you doing?" Mary asked
The bunny twitched, sprung to life, jumped out of Frisk's grasp, and ran out of the room.
"What the heck is with this place?" Chara asked.
The group left the room and found two doors. Frisk had walked to the left corridor when suddenly, countless green vines sprouted from the ground separating the group.
"Fisk! Are you okay?" Ib called out.
"Yeah! We're just dandy" Chara replied.
"Mary, can you help me cut these things down?" Ib asked trying to pull on the vines. Mary tried to pull on the vines to but with no effect.
"We can't get through!" Ib alerted
"Ugh, fine, listen! We'll meet back up with you later!"
"Okay! Let's go Mary"
"And we're back alone like before eh partner?" Chara joked.
Frisk, par for the course, said nothing in return. He just continued walking.
"You know, why don't you ever talk? It gets pretty annoying you know."
Frisk simply looked at Chara puzzled. Chara had never asked this before so it came as a surprise to them. It hadn't even been a problem before. Frisk then looked down. Their mouth opened and out came a quiet sound, then another, and soon a word came out:
"I though you wouldn't like it"
Chara had nothing to say in return.
"...sorry..." Frisk muttered.
"I…. I… it's. Okay." Chara replied. "So~ cute!" they thought.
There was a moment of silence as the two stared at one another.
"L-let's keep moving." Chara commanded.
The two came across a room with 7 pedestals. And six spheres on them. Each were different colors, red, green, blue, purple, black, orange.
"I guess we need the seventh one. But where could it be?" Chara asked.
They walked out the room and saw a doll lying on the floor. A small blue colored doll with a pink dress and scraggly black hair with red and black eyes,
"That's the creepiest doll I've ever seen."
Frisk entered a battle with the doll. He first chose ACT and CHECK,
[2 ATK 3 DEF a small doll holding something]
The doll attacked via firing strings and balls at Frisk, but they dodged every attack.
Frisk chose ACT and PLEA
The doll didn't respond and continued to attack.
Over and over Frisk chose ACT until eventually the doll began responding. Soon the doll gave up on fighting and the battle was over.
"That was fun!" the doll said.
"Great, so can you give us what we need," Chara questioned
"Well, I can't but I know who can. If you want it you have to find it in this room!" the doll ran into the room behind it and closed the door.
"Well, let's go I guess."
Frisk and Chara entered the room and saw a massive amount of dolls, just like the other room. The doll from earlier was sitting in front of a ball of color.
"If you want this ball, then you need to find the key to escape!" the doll explained.
"Hey, Frisk, ya ready?" Chara asked
"Yes."
Frisk picked up the paint ball and placed it into the inventory.
"Now! Find the key!" the rows of dolls commanded. As Frisk searched through the dolls via a zipper on their chests something felt wrong. Chara saw a massive painting canvas and frame on the front of the room, and something rising up.
"Frisk! Better hurry."
The creature continued to rise and rise until it had almost completely arisen.
"There it is!"
Frisk grabbed the key and ran as fast as they could and unlocked the door. They ran out of the room and slammed the door behind it. Both Frisk and Chara were panting heavily.
"That… was… too much" Chara said.
After catching their breaths Frisk and Chara SAVED and walked towards the room with the Pedestals. Placing the last ball caused a rainbow bridge to appear behind the pedestals.
"Hey, before we go, there's a room I wanna check out." Chara insisted. "I saw this one room filled with books, I wanna look through them."
The two walked to the room Chara described. There were shelves of books, books of all different sizes. They read through several of the books, the last one caught their eye.
"Let's see…" Chara read aloud. "The last work of Guertena's life. While the gril appears almost lifelike, naturally, she is not based on a real person…" Then Frisk turned the page. It was a picture. An octogonal portrait with a glass-like background. On the bottom half there were vines with three yellow rose buds. And in the middle. Was a young girl with Black socks, a green dress, a blue tie, blue eyes and yellow hair,
"I-it can't be… Frisk go! We gotta hurry!"
Frisk charged towards the door, opening it and running to the rainbow a while they came into a brown hallway. They saw Ib backing up, she looked frightened. Just barely into view came Mary.
"Frisk hurry!" Chara shouted.
Before Mary could get any closer Frisk had just barely been able to get between the two girls.
"What? Frisk? Chara? What are you two doing here?" Mary asked innocently.
"We know who you are Mary. you didn't come here, you came from here!."
Mary fell silent. She simply turned around and walked back into the room she and Ib came out of.
Chara sighed, "Ib, she was a painting, just like the ones that attacked us."
"No way! She can't be, she's a good person."
"Whether or not she is, it doesn't help her situation. Don't forget our objective."
The reunited group marched on through multiple rooms and battling many monsters.
They came across a box, with an open top.
"What's this?" Ib asked
"Wanna find out?" mary's voice said.
Suddenly Fisk and Ib were pushed into the box which led to a massive room.
END