"... It's because, I'm not the only one inhabiting this body."
That single statement confirmed many of my suspicions. I had suspected that this was the case considering their red eyes earlier. It didn't help that they started to act a little different after the redness had appeared. Now that I knew for certain that Frisk had their… passenger, I could go through with a couple of plans I had been thinking of since my arrival.
I suddenly saw something out of the corner of my eye, making me turn around. When I looked behind me, seeing a translucent figure wearing a green and tan striped shirt, brown shorts and brown boots. My eyes widened, before I quickly summoned my weapon, side stepping and using it to block the spectral entity.
"Hello there, murder ghost," I snarled, narrowing my eyes at them, not exactly trusting them.
They gasped, not expecting me to be able to see them. "Surprised I could see you?" I asked, a cocky grin on my face. "I guess I'm just a little more DETERMINED than most monsters."
They glared at me. "How, I thought monsters couldn't survive with so much determination?"
"Well, I don't really know," I said, frowning a little. "I haven't really asked Alphys yet, but this isn't about me it's about you, murder ghost."
"How do you know who I am, just who are you?"
"Well, that's for me to know and you to never find out," I said, partially enjoying this, grinning. "What matters right now is that I have plans… and one of them is to save a certain small goat,"
"You know about Azzy?"
"Yes," I said, smirking. "I couldn't help him until now, as I didn't have the person I needed to do so… until now." I added, turning to the child behind me.
Frisk looked at me, surprised, until their look switched switched to being pensive, they finally asked "What do you need us to do?"
"Okay, here's the plan," I started, grinning. "What I need you to do, Frisk, is instead of using the SOULs and your own DETERMINATION to break the barrier, is to make a SOUL that can get strong enough to do it on its own, so we can give it to a certain flower," I told them, before turning back to the ghost.
"What I need you to do, murder ghost, is be ready to temporarily possess Frisk if we need to convince the flower to go along with our plan," I told the see-through child. "He's more likely to listen to you, after all."
"How am I supposed to make a SOUL?" asked Frisk.
"Well, considering we even actually get there," I started. "At the moment of you having the six SOULs and your own, you should have the power of a GOD, and I don't think making SOULs was that hard for any GOD I've ever heard of," I said, before grimacing in thought.
"We could always ask Alphys, I guess… she did at least have a hand in making Undynes and my SOUL, and she is making that machine for you to use the other SOULs power," I said, inwardly hoping that Alphys would pull through in making said machine.
"How do we know we can trust you, we've just met, yet you seem to know more about us than we about you."
"I have a better question, what would it take for me to get you to trust me?" I asked, crossing my arms.
"I think he is trust worthy, he was willing to teach us magic when we first met."
"You would trust anyone willing to be nice to you."
"Magic is a very useful tool to teach a person you've just met," I commented.
"...Fine, we'll go along with your plan. But don't think we trust you."
"I trust him," signed Frisk.
"Alright, now do you want to practice using magic, find Alphys, or find Flowey first?" I asked the two, grinning. "We're probably going to need to do all three, but I don't think it really matters what order we do them in,"
"Alphys is probably going to be somewhere in the lab, so I don't think we should worry about finding her until we find Flowey."
"Alright, so where do you two think he might be?" I asked. "I've been looking for him, but for some reason the flower seems to be avoiding me," I told them, sounding a little irritated.
"He can probably sense the weirdness you emanate."
"Whatever," I said, shooting the murder ghost an annoyed look. "Let's just go and try to find him." I added, a little irritated at the murder ghosts childish comment.
"Usually Flowey follows us from a distance as we travel through the underground, we last saw him at the end of the ruins,"
"Did he say anything interesting, anything different?" I asked, wondering what effect I had on what Flowey says in this timeline.
"He did mention something along the lines that more here has changed than what we see…"
"That doesn't help us find him at all," I said, frowning, a thoughtful look on my face. "Think he'll come if you call him, murder ghost?"
"Possibly, although he still might be reluctant to approach us considering what we did last run."
"Well, it's worth a shot," I said, sighing. "Let's at least try… maybe if you say you'll apologise he'll be more likely to come,"
"Well the only place we haven't been to so far is New Home."
"We should probably make sure we're ready before going there," I said.
"Maybe we should start on practicing magic, as part of our preparations."
"Sure, kid," I said, grinning. "Well, I think the best way to practice is doing, so come at me with everything you've got!" I exclaimed, a excited look on my face as I summoned my weapon.
"*Ulfin is letting you make the first attack."
Frisk charged at me, the stick in their grasp glowing with power. They swung low at my legs, me easily dodging the attack by taking a step back, I used the shaft of my weapon to push them back then prepared to strike.
"*Ulfin parries your attack."
I summoned two of the smaller versions of my weapons, sending them flying at Frisk. Frisk dodges the two and moves to strike again. I raised my weapon, grinning at them, swinging it at them swiftly.
"*Ulfin swings down at you."
Frisk raises their weapon to block, their magic empowering. Our weapons meet and we are pushed into a battle of wills. I had more strength, apparently, slowly gaining ground on them. However, their DETERMINATION to win spiked and I was quickly pushed back.
"*Your determination rises to match Ulfin's strength."
This only caused my own to increase, making it a stalemate as we continued to push our weapons against each others. I suddenly took a step back and to the right, sticking my foot out and making them trip from the sudden action.
Frisk started to get up. "You're pretty good at this magic, perhaps you have been unconsciously channeling it while battling before," I commented, grinning. "What color of magic would you like to try next?"
"How about cyan magic next."
"Alright," I said. "For me, I simply focus on making my enemy wait to strike back, though magic works differently for everyone… what do you think when you use yours?"
"So far, I have been focusing on the results I want, DETERMINED to make them happen."
"Hmm… try being determined to wait out my next attack," I told them, summoning a ton of smaller white versions of my weapon. I gave them a couple seconds to prepare, before sending the attack at first Frisk tries to dodge, before realizing that it is to difficult to keep up for long.
"*You can't keep dodging forever."
After a few more dodges they finally are able to turn them self cyan and ethereal. All of my normal attacks phase through them.
"*Your cyan now."
I then send out an orange version of my attack. They return to normal coloration, then move to avoid the attack. I sent more white attacks at them, having fun with this. I sent out a few more I started to notice that their form was flickering. Seeing this, I didn't let up, throwing more of my attacks at them.
"Alright," I said when they looked visibly tired. "That should be enough for today, you look exhausted."
"*Ulfin is sparing you."
I send a stare over at Chara. "Could you please stop that? It's getting annoying."
"What else am I supposed to do while you battle?"
"Watch… help them dodge… anything but be a commenter," I deadpanned, unamused.
"Well I'm pretty sure we would be hard pressed to beat you if it came down to a real battle."
"You have no idea," I told them, smirking, fully confident I could give them a lot of trouble if I wanted to, even with their magic.
Frisk had decided to take a seat on one of the benches near the doorway to the training room. I moved over next to them, handing them a bottle of water.
"So, Alphys or the flower next?" I asked. "Either is fine,"
"We should probably see Alphys next, we don't want to confront Azzy, only to give him false hope."
"Good idea," I said, nodding. "Here, follow me, I know where she goes to work on big projects like this."
We arrived at Alphys's 'workshop' down in the TRUE LAB, walking over to her. "Hey, Alph, what's the deal with what I asked you to make?" I asked.
Alphys jumped at my sudden intrusion, dropping a blueprint she had been looking at."*eeep*, I'm uh sorry I didn't notice you enter," Alphys apologized.
A/N: HEY! I'm talking to you guys, aint this a surprise? ANYWAY I just wanted to thank Brass Cogs for helping me out with the last and this chapter, and probably for a decent few more to come!... also, we were kinda too lazy to edit this, so if anything is iffy, then tell us in a review, and if it's major enough, we'll fix it.