OMG IM SO SORRY GUYS! I'VE BEEN SO BUSY SINCE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO WRITE THIS STORY! It's really hard for me to find time to sit down and write when I'm at school and SO MUCH HOMEWORK! I'm sorry if this sounds like an excuse but I'm really sorry. I will try my best to update as much as possible.
My head was swarming with questions.
Who are we really? Why did we lose the memory of our names? Why are we here? Why now? What is our purpose? How were we transported here, and who did? What do they want us to do?
To be honest, I felt like crying. Knowing all of this made me feel like I was merely a tool, something to own and to be used… just like before…
Shush it Frisk, you have to get over the past. The past is the past, so move on.
But how can I move on if it has already scarred me?
Then busy yourself with something to forget about it.
Sigh…
What am I going t-
"Frisk!"
I blinked.
"Huh?"
Has Chara been repeatedly calling my name for the last few minutes?
Yes he has.
"Oh, you're back in reality again…" he rubbed his neck, "soooo… you going to say what's bothering you or...?"
Oh no he noticed.
"Nah... nothing is bothering me, I'm just getting nostalgic memories and I kinda got lost in them."
"Oh…" he seemed uncertain to decide whether he should believe me or not, "ok then… can I borrow your 'new' CELL PHONE? I want to copy down Toriel's number."
"Oh." I reached into my shorts, pulling out the heavy phone out, and then handed it to Chara. Dropping it in his hand was a bad idea. As soon as it touched his hand, it jumped out of his hand, heading straight to the stone floor. In a quick swipe, I barley caught it in my hands, a nervous sweat forming on my forehead.
"I caught it!" I said handing the CELL to him this time. Don't want that to happen again that's for sure.
"Woah! Sorry! I was not expecting that to be so heavy. You have really fast reflexes by the way."
"Heh, thanks."
Chara looked through the PHONE, quickly finding Toriel's number and copied it down.
"I'm going to call her to see if I copied it down right."
"Sounds like a good idea."
"What should I say?"
I shrugged.
"Dialing…"
"This is Toriel."
"Ah… um… hi Toriel… uh… I just wanted to say hi…."
"You only wanted to say hello…? Well then. Hello! I hope that suffices. Hee hee. Click..."
Chara handed the phone back.
"Well that was kind of awkward…"
"Well at least you now know that that number is Toriel's."
"True."
"Should we wait for her or go explore?" he asked.
"Whatever you want to do bro."
"… Why must you throw all the decisions at me?"
"You know how much I hate making decisions. You also know how they make me feel anxious. I'm curious what you would do anyways."
"… Fine… but only because I know how much they bother you… well... um… I guess we can check out the next room and then come back to wait for Toriel…"
"Ok, then. Let's go." I said, strolling to the next room.
"Ring…"
"Hello? This is Toriel. You have not left the room, have you?"
"Err…."
"There are a few puzzles ahead that I have yet to explain. It would be dangerous to try to solve them yourselves. Be good alright?"
"Click…"
"…"
"I think we can go back now…"
"Wait! Hold on a sec, I think I see something in that room over there on the left side."
I grabbed his hand and pulled him to the monster candy room. I guess you can say I'm a bit of a sweet tooth… or maybe that's really obvious…
"What bu—ah! FRISK!"
"Come on! It's adventure time!"
"PLEASE STOP PULLING ME."
Behold upon the pedestal, drenched in heavenly light, truly a gift from the candy gods of monsters, ascended down to the underground.
"What is-"
"Shush, that is the food of the gods."
"What?"
"Monster candy."
"First of all, what is so special about candy? Second of all, how do you know that's candy in that bowl?"
I gulped.
Whoops. That slipped.
"You can tell from the sign like right there on the pedestal."
"Oh."
"And it's monster candy. Candy. It's freakin' Christmas up here bro." I said as I shoved my hands into the bowl, grabbed a bunch and this threw them into the air. The bowl crashed down from the pedestal, sending more candy all over the place.
You took too much too fast. The candy spills onto the floor. Whoops. Look at what you've done Frisk... At least I have five pieces... I wonder if I can take candy off of the floor... or is that really gross...?
The colorful paper wrappers crinkled in my hand, sending a sweet non-licorice smell to my nose. In bold letters in the middle it read: "Monster Candy"
"I know you like candy but I never thought you would go to this extent…" he said with his hands in his pockets, leaning casually against a wall, probably questioning our friendship.
"Here catch."
He fumbled as he tried to catch the candy in one hand, trying to look cool, but then again, notice the word "tried"
The candy fell onto the cold hard ground, and Char bent down to pick it up, his hair covering his embarrassed red face.
"Haha, lol."
"Hey don't laugh!" he pouted.
"Ok ok I won't laugh." I snickered.
He glared at me, hard, but unfortunately, he sucks at glaring and it just looks like a really weird stare. I took his hand and stuck out my tongue playfully, his glare becoming a very derpy frown. Walking back to the room, the SAVE point glistened in the red leaves.
"I still don't get the point of that shiny star."
"Well it has to be there for a reason, everything has a reason. And if it doesn't have a reason to be here, then it means that we just haven't figured its reason in life yet."
"That was very inspirational."
"Thank you dear kind sir." I said taking a bow.
Stepping into the leaf pile, I jumped around, sending leaves everywhere. I guess you can say that I'm pretty childish at times.
Our hands touched the SAVE point, and once again, I felt the spark of warmth travel through my fingertips like static electricity, minus the pain.
Playfully crinkling through the leaves fills you with determination.
*HP fully restored
*Ruins-Leaf Pile File saved
*HP fully restored.
"…Still don't get it."
While I started to walk around in the leaves, picking up the brightest crisp red leaves, Chara walked over to the Froggit.
"Ribbit. Ribbit. (Excuse me, human.)"
Surprised, Chara took a step back, eyes wide open.
"(I have some advice for you about battling monsters. If you ACT a certain way or FIGHT until you almost defeat them… They might not want to battle you anymore. If a monster does not want to hurt you, please… use some MERCY human.) Ribbit."
"Um… thank you for the advice Froggit… it was nice to see you again…"
Froggit blushed a dark green.
"Ribbit."
I smiled to myself. Hopefully we will never have to go through the horrors of the Genocide run. Simply thinking about the dust made shivers run down my spine. I never did the Geno run myself, even though I've seen others do it. I have not done it yet and I never will.
Chara walked back to to me, a neutral expression on his face.
"Why does everybody keep on telling me to not fight? Why would I anyways?"
I patted his shoulder reassuringly.
"Whatever happens bro, I will always…" I dramatically paused, placing the leaf crown that I made on top of my head. "be-leaf in you."
"…..Phhhttttt. A pun?! Seriously?! Hahahaha."
I grinned. Nothing like a ol' pun to cheer things up.
Making the crown was fun, picking the leaves out of my hair however was not. Tangles in my hair caught the red leaves like how Venus flytraps trap bugs, and getting them out of my hair was both painful and exhausting. I was so focused on getting the leaves out that I nearly did not notice the Whimsun that suddenly flewed out from nowhere.
*Whimsun approached meekly! * Whimsun approached meekly!
FIGHT *ACT IDEM MERCY FIGHT ACT IDEM *MERCY
CHARA LV1 HP 20/20 FRISK LV1 HP 20/20
The MERCY button was turquoise as I entered battle...
The color text knows that Whimsun can be automatically SPARED... Could this color text really be my SOUL power?
*CHECK CONSTOLE TERRORIZE *SPARE FLEE
CHARA LV1 HP 20/20 FRISK LV1 HP 20/20
*WHIMSUN – ATK 5 DEF 0 *YOU WON!
*This monster is too sensitive to fight *You earned 0 EXP and 0 GOLD
CHARA LV1 HP 20/20
I felt myself exiting the battle which felt kinda weird, like being light as a feather, or like becoming air. My SOUL disappeared from the box in front of me and Chara. The fighting noise felt distant and muffled, I stood next to Chara, but it already felt like I had left the room. The battle countinued.
"Forgive me…" Whimsun muttered timidly.
I felt so confused, I already spared, so why wasn't anything happening? I suddenly realized that Chara had to spare as well.
Chara's SOUL flew around, dodging the butterflies(?) that Whimsun summoned, and by dodging I mean standing there while the butterflies(?) flew around him.
"SPARE them Chara!" I yelled, cupping my hands around my mouth.
*Whimsun continues to mutter apologies.
FIGHT ACT IDEM *MERCY
CHARA LV1 HP 20/20
*SPARE FLEE
CHARA LV1 HP 20/20
*YOU WON!
*You earned 0 XP and 0 GOLD
I let out a sigh of relief, I was glad that was over. Looks like I could add that to my list of rules of the game that I apparently didn't know.
"So… you want to go back now?"
Chara looked at me and shrugged."
"Eh. We already made a lot of progress, it wouldn't hurt to go off to explore some more."
"Then let's go."
I was falling down… again.
"Chara! Are you okay?!" Frisk called above me from the hole.
"Yeah, I'm okay, I fell on some leaves that caught my fall though. I don't think I twisted my ankle or anything. Be careful of the dark purple spots on the floor."
"Ok, I'm coming down! Catch me!"
"Wait what-!?"
"I'm just kidding, just move aside."
"Oh. Ok."
With a thump, Frisk jumped down and landed in a Spiderman pose, sending the red leaves everywhere.
"I don't think we can go back up through the hole." she remarked.
I turned and gave her an unamused face.
"You just noticed? You could've pulled me back up but now we're stuck in this hole with no way out."
She rolled her eyes.
"Yes. No way out. Definitely no possible way out." she called as she walked through a…. door…
I felt my cheeks warming up as I followed her up the stairs back to the room.
"Ah… we are still stuck how miserable…" she sighed, shacking her head while shrugging.
"Ok ok I get it, I was wrong and now we're out of the hole."
She smirked and walked out the room, hands behind her back.
"Ring…"
Frisk picked up the phone and pushed the answer button.
"Hello? This is Toriel. Are both of you there? For no reason in particular, which do you children prefer? Cinnamon or butterscotch?"
"Butterscotch." Frisk said automatically. I stood next to her, answering over her shoulder.
"I like both equally so I'm fine either way."
"Oh, I see. Thank you very much!"
"Click…"
"I have I feeling she is going to do something with that information."
"Definitely."
We only walked a few steps when Toriel called again.
"Ring…"
"Yes?"
"Hello? This is Toriel. You do not DISLIKE cinnamon, do you? I know what your preference is, but… would you turn up your nose if you found it on your plate?"
"No." We answered at the same time. Frisk giggled.
"Right, right, I understand. Thank you for being patient, by the way."
"Click…"
"… She said 'plate', she's definitely going to make us something isn't she?"
"Something that involves cinnamon and butterscotch."
"So… maybe something sweet, like a dessert."
"Yeah…" she murmured wistfully.
I noticed another sign on a purple wall from the corner of my eye.
Three out of four grey rocks recommend you push them.
Right, the sign was talking about the rock in the middle of the room.
I probably would've fell down down again (For the third time) if Frisk hadn't stopped me with her arm.
"…Wow…uh…thanks…"
"That's a lot of dark spots... and I don't think we will be that lucky to fall in another leaf pile…"
"As much as I would like you tell you that you should be thinking optimistically, you got a point. Still, there still might be a chance if we're lucky."
"Yeah… let's just hope so…"
"What are we going to do?"
"I dunno… walk around until we fall?"
"….. That's a really bad idea…"
"Well do you have a better idea?"
"… No…."
"Then I have proven my point." She smiled smugly.
I sighed looking at the floor, we could fall into who knows what and hurt ourselves.
"You okay?"
"Huh?"
"You're looking into the distance; which is something that I usually do. Something wrong?"
"It's just that I don't really want to fall into … whatever is under this floor…"
She held out her hand.
"Here, take my hand, close your eyes and I'll lead you."
"That doesn't really make me feel better."
"Well at least you wouldn't have to stress about which would make us fall or not."
"… Fine… but that's a really lame excuse so that you can hold my hand."
Her Asian complexion turned rosy as she made a face.
"Nuh uh."
"Yes."
"Nuh uh."
"Yes you like me. Don't deny it. You just can't resist me."
Frisk shook her head sadly as she shrugged.
"Yes… I need to bring a map with me at all times when I'm around you, because I just get so lost in your eyes." She flirted.
That was so cheesy. Gosh that was really cheesy. Mac-and-cheese kind of cheesiness, but despite that, I couldn't help but to blush back.
"Just think of this as an activity like the lame trust fall we did in PE."
"Fine…" I sighed dramatically as I placed my hand onto hers, "But don't expect me to fall for your cheesy flirt next time."
Closing my eyes, I felt myself being pulled forward, slowly advancing. I didn't want to feel the uneasiness in my stomach, I trusted Frisk, she was and has been my best friend ever since we were young, but knowing that any moment, the floor could give away, sending both of us into the pits of the unknown made me a little… anxious… No no… everything will be fine… . . . right?
YEAH! 2610 WORDS!
