A Work In Progress
Chapter 4
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Notes: getting quite a little playlist together, a few suggested songs and just a bunch of songs youtube suggested when I started running down the undertale amvs.
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Frisk wasn't sure how she ended up with this monster kid, but the two of them walked along. The kid talking away.
Frisk was growing more nervous. She felt like someone stalked her. It hadn't been so bad at first, passing through the region she just wandered and looked for her route. Trying to find the right path. They couldn't help getting involved in some of the random things going on, like snail races. It, didn't go well, but it had been fun all the same.
Then the kid just, decided to go with her. She wondered if he didn't have many friends. Although he did have a huge case of hero worship of Undyne.
Frisk and Flowey ended up sharing a touch of annoyance, as they been trying to get the other child to go home.
"yeah, I should go home" the other child agreed but grinned hugely, if he had arms likely they would have been on his hips as he struck a pose, "But I'm not! I'm brave, and I heard that Undyne is currently searching for the human, I want to see when she catches them, I bet it will be awesome."
"Should I tell them? I want to tell them." Flowey said.
*Don't you dare.* Frisk frowned at the flower who snorted and ignored the other child who was going on and on about his hero Undyne and all her apparently hugely heroic exploits in the underground.
The little group had managed to avoid Undyne, who was indeed searching. Frisk sighed, there was something odd though, she had been pretty sure that Undyne had seen them hiding in the taller grass near one of the paths and had decided just to move on instead.
Was this armored titan really looking for them or something else? They were passing the echo flowers, the monster child excitedly showing Frisk how they worked.
'twinkle twinkle little star,
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
When the blazing sun is gone
When there nothing shines upon
Then you show your little light
Twinkle twinkle all the all the night
Then the traveler in the dark
Thanks you for your little spark.'
The monster child was starting to look uncomfortable as they passed more echo flowers and each began humming the tune. Every. Single. Flower. Started picking up the melody, singing back the nursery rhyme in a weird hallow echoing voices that did not sound like any living being.
'He could not see which way to go
If not for your tiny glow
When the blazing sun is gone,
When there nothing shines upon
Though I know not what you are
Twinkle twinkle little star'
The monster boy was leaning up against Frisk as they came out of the flowers, "W-what's that?" he stammered and Frisk looked up at Flowey's gasp.
There was a figure ahead of them, a human shaped shadow that seemed to be slowly pulling itself out of the ground, from the darkness cast by the light of the echo flowers.
It had no features, just an outline that formed blocking the path and slowly took a step towards them. A white blade cutting itself cross the thing's face like an evil smile.
"RUN!" Flowey shouted and they turned a few steps back to the flowers and the monster child tripped up hitting the ground hard.
Frisk skidded to a stop and turned around
"What are you doing? Keep running.. NO NOT BACK TOWARDS THE THING YOU IDIOT!"
Frisk ignored the flower in her backpack and got to the monster kid, grabbing him and pulling him to his feet to run away from the monster closing in on them, stretching from a form vaguely like Frisk's own, almost like some weird twisted dark mirror, but then was quickly becoming something far more monstrous. With limbs stretching out and hallow empty dead white holes for eyes. The mouth split grew wider and long needle like teeth formed.
Just as they reached the edge of the flowers the demon charged at them, only to be met with a spear shoving itself into the ground right before it. The black armored figure dropped down before them and blocked the monster from chasing the children.
"OMG!" the monster child said "it's Undyne!"
"Don't gawk you idiots, just keep running!" Flowey shouted at the two of them. Taking a vine to wack them both in the back of the head.
Frisk grabbed the monster child and ran back towards Snowdin, at least for the moment, away from here.
"There you are kiddo, I was looking for you." Sans' voice sounded and Frisk just ran headlong into the skeleton shaking like a leaf. "Hey hey! What's wrong?"
"There was a monster! Undyne dove down like, POW and was so amazing!" the monster child jumped up excited.
"Wait, hold on, Undyne's doing what now?" Sans said the glow of his eyes going out for a moment in shock.
"She's facing the demon!" Flowey told him.
What Sans said next had the monster child staring in awe and likely taking mental notes.
Even Flowey was a bit impressed. Wasn't much that could get the usually laid back skeleton shouting obscenities instead of puns.
"You kids, get somewhere inside, and I will go see if I can keep Undyne from getting herself killed."
Frisk held onto his jacket though as he took a couple steps away, her gaze scrunched up.
He sighed and hugged the scared child "I am not going to get myself killed, I'm just going to go grab undyne and get her to run like a sensible person." He promised her.
She let go, but only grudgingly.
Then Frisk and the monster child ran off, looking for safety.
Sans watched them go and after a moment turned back towards the way they came from, "Time for someone to get dunked on." He growled his eyes blazing.