Sorry, I was on vacation for some days. Sorry again…
OMG 155 reviews?! Thank you guys so much for your support! You've all made my day so much better… I can't thank you enough… Welp, here's the new chapter! They take me a really long time because I copy everything that is said in the game and write it here to make the story more accurate. This chapter is the longest one yet.
Sorry for taking so long XP! Anyways enjoy!
Edit: I had to add some really important things in here cuz apparently i forgot to add it in the first time
*You encountered the Dummy. *You encountered the Dummy.
FIGHT *ACT IDEM MERCY FIGHT *ACT IDEM MERCY
CHARA LV1 HP 20/20 FRISK LV1 HP 20/20
T-This is new…
Normally the ACT button had the usual goldish yellow glow to it but this time it was glowing a turquoise color like the color of my soul…
Putting my hand onto the ACT button it immediately takes me to the ACT options and again the turquoise color replaces the normal text color, but this time with the "TALK" option.
CHECK *TALK CHECK *TALK
CHARA LV1 HP 20/20 FRISK LV1 HP 20/20
"Uh…hi…how are you doing today?" "Sooo…. you're a dummy…. tell me about it."
*You talked to the dummy… *You talked to the dummy…
"…"
*It doesn't seem much for a conversation…
*Toriel seems happy with you.
*You won! You earned 0 XP 0 GOLD *You won! You earned 0 XP 0 GOLD
Could this be something that has to do with my SOUL? Could it be my SOUL power?
"Ah, very good! You are very good!"
Chara and I looked at each other… he smiled and I giggled… and then we burst out laughing.
"Hahaha! W-what was that?"
"A battle apparently."
"Phftt! What? Seriously?"
"Yes."
"Wow…hey um Frisk? …What happens if we fight monsters?"
I looked away, my smile deflating back into its neutral form. Chara, sensing my discomfort, awkwardly rubbed the back of his neck.
"I… don't know…" just imagining the dust of my friends' blowing into the wind made me slightly sick.
Silence. The loudest noise of all.
"Hey Char…?"
"Yeah…"
"Promise me," I gulped nervously, the words stuck in the back of my throat, "promise me that you won't fight anyone...please."
He gave me a stiff smile, but I could almost see the hurt in his eyes. I immediately regretted saying anything.
Stupid. I mentally slapped myself.
"What makes you think that I would want to fight anyone?"
"Curiosity…" I breathed quietly under my breath, hardly even using my vocal cords.
With guilt still churning on my stomach, we advanced to the next room.
Ah…the blueprint puzzle…
"There is another puzzle in this room… I wonder if you can solve it?"
Chara roamed around, curious. Seeing that there wasn't anything in that particular room, he advanced into the path with the sign. I followed behind.
"Croak!" Froggit leaps in front of us.
Our surrounding flickers and once again, we were in a battle.
*Froggit attacks you! *Froggit attacks you!
FIGHT *ACT IDEM MERCY FIGHT *ACT IDEM MERCY
CHARA LV1 HP 20/20 FRISK LV1 HP 20/20
*CHECK COMPLEMENT THREATEN CHECK *COMPLEMENT THREATEN
CHARA LV1 HP 20/20 FRISK LV1 HP 20/20
*FROGGIT – ATK 4 DEF 5 "Don't you look nice today?"
*Life is difficult for this enemy * Froggit didn't understand what you said, but it was scared anyways
Mom enters the battle and glowers down at Froggit. I almost laughed, Froggit was trying to look away, but every time they glanced at Toriel, they shrank under her glare and continued to leave the battle. When they were out of sight, Toriel glared harder. Chara snickered behind his hand when he saw her face. I always wondered what her "evil eye" would look like in real life, and now I can definitely tell you that it's pretty scary (don't ever make her mad omg). I honestly don't blame the poor Froggit for feeling scared.
"The western room is the eastern room's blueprint." Chara read out loud. "Whhhhaaaatt?! Is that some kind of cryptic monster language?"
Before Char could continue to the next puzzle, I grabbed his shirt sleeve.
"Chara, I'm sorry for what happened before… I shouldn't have doubted you… It was wrong of me to ever doubt that you would ever do something like that…"
"Hey… it's okay… I shouldn't have asked what would happen if we fought monsters in the first place…"
"Still my bro?"
"Still your bro."
"Even with my occasional pun?"
"Sigh… yes, even with those terrible puns." He teased.
I grinned, "Oh come on! They're not that bad."
"They're just not my kind of style."
"Well then, I guess you're just not a very punny person."
Chara faked a very frustrated sigh, complete with a dramatic shake of their head and a "tsk" sound, all while smiling.
Toriel covered her mouth with her furry white paw, trying (but failing) to silence her guffaws.
"My child! I did not know that you too like puns!"
"Yeah I do… I had always loved them… but I wasn't really inspired to actually make any until recently."
Toriel simply nodded her head in understanding.
"Let's get back to the puzzle shall we?"
Chara gulped, I could see why. The spike maze was a lot scarier from this perspective, really. The points so sharp, we could just already feel the pain as it digs into- ah shut up Frisk you're not making this any easier.
Sensing our discomfort, Toriel turn toward us and gently smiled.
"This is the puzzle… but… here," she said, holding out her furry white paw (?), "take my hand for a moment. Take each other's hand and hold on tight alright?"
"Ok mom."
Whoops, at least I didn't call her goat mom…"
Mom froze and her eyes widened like saucers, eyes glassy on the verge of tears.
"Did you call me… 'Mom'?"
I rubbed my arm nervously; I was not expecting that kind of response. "Uhhh… sorry, I won't call you that if you don't want me-"
"Oh my child!" she shook her head and smiled, kneeing on the floor so she was eye level with me. Her motherly hands on my shoulders. "If it makes you happy to call me mother, then you can call me whatever you like!"
I beamed back at her. Wow… goat mom as my actual mother from now on, the …. would all be so jealous!… Wait… who was I talking about?
"Now my children, hold on tight alright?"
Hand in hand, Char and I griped each other's hands, and followed behind Toriel as she led us through the spike maze.
"Puzzles seem a little too dangerous for now…"
Ah… the independent puzzle is next… great, hello unnecessary tension.
"You have done excellently thus far, my children. However… I have a difficult request to ask of you… I would like you to walk to the end of the room by yourselves. Forgive me for this."
With this said, she turned around and strides to the end of the room and quickly hides behind the big cream colored pillar. It's a lot funnier in this angle since you can actually see her going behind the pillar, and then peeking at us.
What just happened? That was really awkward.
"Wait what?"
"She wants us to walk to the end of the room by ourselves."
"What?"
"She wants us to walk to the end of the room by ourselves."
"No, I mean like why does she want us to do that?"
"I dunno."
"…Ok….?"
It was a really really really long room. Seriously long. When we finally reached the end, the female goat monster called Toriel was nowhere in sight.
"Huh, she's not here anymore… should we-"
"Greetings, my children. Do not worry, I did not leave you." interrupted Toriel, as she came out of hiding. "I was merely behind this pillar the whole time. Thank you for trusting me. However, there was an important reason for this exercise…to test your independence."
What? Why?
"I must attend to some business, and you two must stay together here for a while. Please remain here. It is dangerous to explore by yourselves."
"I have an idea." Toriel reached into her robes and brought out a really old and battered looking gray box. But then I noticed that it was a cell phone. A really old cell phone. I am almost sure that it was made before I was even born. It was just that ancient.
"I will give you a CELL PHONE. If you have a need for anything just call. Unfortunately, I do not have another one with me so I cannot give you each a CELL PHONE, so you will have to share my children."
That suddenly reminded me of something important.
I can't believe I forgot about it! Wow Chara, great memory you have there. You deserve a pat on the back.
"Umm… actually… I have a phone already…"
Frisk looked at me with her eyes wide open. A look of shock shone on her face.
"What?!"
"Oh… well then my child, it looks like you wouldn't need to share after all."
"But I don't have your phone number."
"My number is on the CELL PHONE, you can copy it down while you wait for me. Be good alright?"
"…"
"…"
"…Did you just notice that you still had your phone?"
"…Yeah…"
"…Wow…"
I fished my touchscreen phone out from my pants pocket and turned it on. The background picture appeared on the screen, showing a picture of me, Frisk, and a few of our friends in a group photo. Everybody was making a funny face and if you look closely, you could see a blur in the background from an attempted photobomb. Those were the good days…
Looking over my shoulder, Frisk smiled as well.
"Heh, you still have that photo as your background picture?"
"Yeah… good old elementary days…"
I swiped the screen and entered in my passcode, which took me to the last app I was on, that happened to be my photo album. Looks like I was looking at one of my birthday party pictures taken this year. Huh...looks like I only have 60% of my battery left. Better use it carefully then.
"What were you looking at before we fell?"
"Oh um…" I showed her the screen, "I was looking at my photos, like this one at my birthday party."
"Isn't that the one where we almost started a big food fight when you accidently pushed me and got my face covered in cake? Then you took that picture while roaring with laughter and I threw my leftover cake at your face."
We started to snicker.
"Oh yeah! And then everybody was looking at us and some person randomly yelled 'FOOD FIGHT!', but my mom stopped us before it got too out of hand."
"Hahaha! Oh man, I get to blow my nose to get the frosting out, and everything smelled like chocolate for a week!"
I swiped to the next picture, showing a slightly blurry picture of a computer.
"Oh! Remember this?"
"Is that the time we played that sandbox game? You know, the one we were pretty serious at first and made a really awesome house with contraptions and stuff?"
"Yeah! And then you started to mess around and accidently set the whole house on fire and I chased you screaming murder because you destroyed TWO hours and a half of hard work."
"And it eventually became a full war complete with explosives and traps?"
"We must've died at least seventeen times each."
By the time I was getting to the third picture, we were both laughing our heads off.
"Speaking of video games, remember that time your mom made you cut your hair short even though you didn't want to? But you decided that at least you could be one of your favorite characters in your favorite game for Halloween? I remember taking this photo outside your house."
"…" Frisk's smile shrank at a very fast rate. Her normal blank face came back, and an uncomfortable silence hanged in the air. I stopped smiling as well. Something was definitely bothering Frisk.
When I saw the third picture, it was like it slapped me across my face and told me everything that I knew right now was a lie. Everything came flooding back. All the blanks in my mind were filled; the pieces that I didn't even know that I was missing came back. I felt like I was finally whole, yet my shoulders were sagging under the weight of the new information, I could almost feel the bags under my eyes deepen.
The picture was indeed taken on Halloween. I knew that even before it hit me. Chara wore a skeleton costume like the one last Halloween; white face paint covered his face as he made a very derpy awkward smile. I stood beside him, grinning from ear to ear, my brown hair all over the place, bandage on my left cheek, wearing a purple and magenta shirt with a bright red heart sewn right where my heart was located. I held a stick while doing bunny ears above Chara.
I remember now. Chara. Frisk. The first and eighth human to fall into the underground. Their story. DETERMINATION. They are the real main characters of the game.
Our names are not Chara and Frisk, they are.
But if that's their names…
Then who are we?
Thanks for reading!
