Before we start there's something I gotta get out. Okay, so some may ask why Chara isn't portrayed as a bad person in this story, you see, I don't see them as evil at all. that's all, it is explained more later in the story so~ that's why. Now, to the story,
Chapter 7
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*vwoomp
"Don't… move…" Chara's voice whispered.
The tall grass hid them, but not nearly enough to be considered hidden. Utop a steep ledge, the captain of the royal guard. Clad in armor half in complete blackness, almost like there was only half a suit of armor, split down the middle. From the void of a hand to their right, a glowing object manifested within their hand. A spear, pointed at any one of the four frozen kids. Then that spear, that lone weapon that signified death to the defenseless, split into four.
However
Instead of launching the weapons downwards into the vulnerable adolescence, they disappeared, evaporated into space, the Captain, Undyne, faded into the shadows. No longer sensing danger, they were once again aloud to move.
"Who was that?" Ib asked.
"That, would be Undyne, captain of the Royal Guard, magic user, and yet to be Papyrus' boss. By that I mean Papyrus hasn't become part of the guard yet."
"Was she going to kill us?"
"Probably, never figured out why she didn't then and there though. Let's keep going."
A few rooms later they came across a room with lily flowers, a bridge building puzzle. Though, considering it was just lining four pads in a line, it didn't take to long, especially since Frisk and Chara had done so before. Like before, their progress was interrupted. By Aaron, the seahorse centaur man.
The battle began, four highlighted SOULs, the name of the game was dodge and flex, considering two were girls and two were... Frisk and Chara, flexing would be tough. Although the sight of what the hoarse fish man thought were boys each with a girl, and him without a mate, was enough. The battle of, "manliness" was over quickly, noone sure of how to respond or how to comment. Nevertheless they progressed, then:
RING RING RING
"H-Human! Are you there?" Papyrus' voice asked on the other side of the phone. Frisk replied with an "mm-hm", they could make sounds, and talk, they just don't.
"You might ask how I got this number? Well it's simple, I just typed every number until I got yours! But that's besides the point, for my friend's curiosity, what are you and your companions wearing?"
"Undyne must have ordered this, what should we do?" Mary inquired."
"Lie,"
"Okay"
So they each said the opposite of what they had.
"Blue and black school clothes."
"Orange sweater"
"Purple dress"
"Okay, Human, are you by chance wearing a bandana or tootoo of some sort?"
Frisk looked down noticing the bandana around their neck, at some point, one of the others put it on them without them knowing.
"Mm-hm"
"Okay, wink wink I'll be seeing you."
He hung up.
Soon after they finished the bridge puzzle, Fisk's phone rang again.
"Human! So, about Earlier, Undyne asked me about what exactly what clothes you were wearing, the grass hid you well somewhat, so since you told me what you are wearing, instead, I told them you had a red and white clothes, a green sweater and green dress! Fear not! She will never find you guys!"
Everybody silently stood frozen, and facepalmed. A certain someone forgot that papyrus would tell Undyne the opposite thing.
"Darnit Chara, we should've told him the truth," Ib lamented
"Don't remind me,"
"It was your idea to say this." Mary commented.
"Hey, don't antagonize me will ya? It's hard to remember every little detail of this place, if Frisk MAYBE spoke a little, then we could share the load, but I gotta be the narrator since they don't talk. And I KNOW YOU CAN FRISK!"
The last sentence cause frisk to shake slightly. But regardless, they all forgot about it. It wasn't really a problem, and what's done was done. The team of four walked further and further, up to a dark bridged area, wooden walkways standing above large chasms, and blue circles forming on the ground.
"Everybody move! Stay away from the blue!"
On cue, the blue circles turned into spears shooting up from the ground, threatening to skewer anything that dared stand above it. Ib and Mary barely managed to dodge the surprise attack, while Frisk and Chara had no problem.
"What's going on!?" Mary demanded to know
"It's Undyne! She's making her move. Just follow me and frisk, but keep away from blue circles."
Unlike before, Undyne had been summoning many more spears and launching others then ever before. She was DETERMINED to obtain at least the one required soul, but it was also important to get all of them. That was her mission. Hunt and obtain the souls of every human that fell. The volleys of spears and battles happened more often than ever, nevertheless, they pushed on through what was almost an eternity.
"Get to the edge of that bridge."
"Wh-what?" both of the girls of the gallery asked confused, looking at one another then at the bridge's end.
"Just do it! When you reach the side- JUMP!" Chara shouted diving off the side, frisk stood at the edge. They motioned to "hurry!" and they did so, almost hearing something, whether they actually heard anything or not was up to anyone to decide. Though that wasn't important, they needed to speed up or they would get caught. Frisk realized this, as well as the fact that given Undyne's speed, it was likely that Ib and Mary wouldn't be able to escape. Therefore, Frisk ran straight to intercept the chase, entering battle so the two girls could escape.
The room went black, floor to null, boundaries to white, SOUL to red. Undyne stood a ways away from the bullet box of course, brandishing a spear but saying nothing. Though Undyne was silent, she was the first to strike, not by throwing a spear however. She had kept the spear held fast in her hand and lunged forward. If only by the greatest of luck and chance, the shield and Frisk were both able to withstand the head on collision. Though Frisk was knocked off their feet.
The battle ended.
Frisk had to crawl backwards to distance themself away from the approaching Undyne, who summoned another spear. Attempting to impale Frisk, she launched it at them, but it missed. Frisk was able to just barely survive the attack, but lost 7 hop out of 15 they already had before the surprise. The spear lodged itself into the bridge, breaking off the part Frisk was on sending them plummeting down. Right where they wanted to. While falling, they could almost hear Undyne cursing in anger.
Frisk had finally landed, on a patch of yellow flowers, where the others waited.
"What took you so long?" Chara remarked sarcastically.
"So, how did those flowers save us?" Ib asked looking at the relatively small
"..."
"..."
"..."
In fact, nobody knew, didn't really make sense,
"I mean, didn't you say something about falling to the underground Chara?"
"Y-yeah?"
"How did you survive?"
"I landed on a-. Flower patch,"
"..."
"..."
"Frisk? you?"
"...same" Frisk muttered quietly. Frisk started talking little by little, they've been practicing for a while, maybe in a year if they keep it up they'll be able to make something of a sentence. (this is a reference to the spaghetti),
"Let's just forget about it and keep moving."
They left the dump area and came across a door with a dummy, similar to the one in the RUINS.
When they walked past it, the dummy attacked them, and was rather "Pissed the F*ck off!" as it said. Though it's lack of targeting and self damage was what made it rather furious, and it soon ran out of ammo.
"RRG! You know what!? Fine! We'll just be here forever, this battle will never end!"
Considering the dummy's defense was practically impenetrable by any means but it's own attacks.
"So~ what do we do now?" Mary asked.
"umm~ I think we- I think we just wait."
"wait fo-" she was cut off by the dummy's out of nowhere exclaims of pain.
"aag! wh-what the heck? is this acid rain or something!? screw it, I'm out!" and the battle ended, the dummy disappearing from view.
from a hole in the roof, Nappstablook had descended with his usual frown.
"oh... sorry for scaring your friend..." he said sounding depressed, par for the course.
"oh, he wasn't any friend, thanks a lot for helping us actually!" Ib said smiling.
"mh... I didn't do anything really..."
"don't be so hard on yourself. we would've been stuck without your help."
"really?... that's good then... If you want... you can come to my house. it's close by, it's the house on the left of the one that looks the same." and that sad specter left through the door ahead.
"the house on what? what kinda direction was that?" Mary asked aloud.
"doesn't really matter, we know where it is, Frisk! lead the way buddy." Chara said holding their arms to the side like they were inviting an honored guest to a party or helping them out of a limo. Frisk opened the door and held it for the others. there was a crossroad. one was to a few houses, the boat person, and the HOTLANDS. there was also a SAVE point.
"we should start with SAVEing. You're up Partner."
Frisk walked to the SAVE and SAVEd as before. of course, everyone was at lv 1, 0 XP. in fact, the only surprising thing was that instead of the 40-80 G that frisk would usually have around that time, there was at least 250 G. it could have been since there were four people in each battle, it's the only thing that would make sense.
soon would be the chase of a lifetime. now they have to worry about a much larger hitbox and encounter rate.
END