So, this took a bit longer than I had expected (although not as long as the last one, sorry about that again) but I think I had an excusable reason to take some time off of writing this time, seeing as I ate a Carolina Reaper about a week ago. And I only regretted it for about ten minutes, which was the amount of time my body felt like it was on fire.
Fun!
Anyway, hope you enjoy this chapter. It was meant to be more angsty than it turned out, but I guess I'll just spring all of it on everyone when you least expect it.
What in the world are you doing? The Hunger asked as Frisk dragged a piece of paper and a pencil onto Chara's desk.
Shh, I'm concentrating.
As the night wore on, with Frisk doing whatever the hell they were doing with the paper and pencil, they got increasingly hungry. They occasionally shot a look over at Chara, who was sleeping obliviously. Over time, the occasional glances turned into long stares at the part of Chara's neck that had been revealed when they'd shifted a bit. Eventually, they realized that they were focusing more on recalling the delicious taste of the only blood they'd ever drank than on their secret project. It didn't help that they'd technically never eaten because of all the time stuff, which meant they were still ravenous.
Suddenly, they were sitting next to Chara's exposed neck. This time it was Frisk who was drooling. Just as they were about to sink their sharp vampire bat teeth into their delicious piece of meat, the aforementioned meal started stirring in their sleep. Frisk froze.
Chara started twisting around restlessly and Frisk was forced to hastily move out of the way. They watched from a safe distance as Chara started whimpering in their sleep and muttering "No!" over and over, steadily increasing in volume.
Correctly assuming it was entirely their fault, Frisk flew back over to Chara. Their hunger had seemingly vanished for the time being, probably due to the guilt. They cuddled up close to Chara, which seemed to calm them down. A hand came down to stroke Frisk's head and they purred (which I've heard bats can actually do, #batfacts) at the sensation.
After a while Chara calmed down completely and stopped stroking Frisk. By this point Frisk was tired as well, but they remembered that they still had a task to complete, and hopped out of the warm arms that they'd been lying in to finish what they'd started earlier, this time without getting distracted by the prospect of warm and juicy blood.
…Hopefully.
When Chara woke up, they had a horrible headache and their neck felt quite sore for some reason. They also saw a piece of paper with weird things drawn all over it on their desk. Strangely, their bat was nowhere to be seen, and it also seemed as if their door had been left open during the night. Either that or one of their siblings had come in and stole something while they were sleeping. They bet it was the second option.
As they crossed their room to close the door, they groaned and staggered a bit. They really didn't feel well. Maybe they'd caught something. After they'd shut the door, they moved back over to their desk, where they were about to take a better look at the drawing when they rubbed the bit of their neck where it was sore, and found that it was also… sticky? And there were some scabs that they hadn't noticed before? They were very confused, and then embarrassed as they started to recall the night before.
Maybe that's the reason my bat isn't around currently. As soon as they had the thought, they dismissed it as crazy, and started worrying about the fact that they seemed to be doing some very strange things recently. To get their mind off of everything, they picked up the weird paper from their desk.
It did not help them relax at all.
It was some sort of diagram, with "CONTROL" written in capital letters at the top. Right underneath it, "FULL" was written. There was a badly drawn stick figure on one side of the paper, and on the other… a drawing of the beast. Despite the fact that it was badly drawn as well, it still sent shivers down Chara's spine.
There was one word written under each picture. Under the stick figure "YES" was written and under the beast "SOMETIMES" was written. With an increasing feeling of dread, Chara looked lower down the paper.
"HUNGRY" was written down there. Under it were more bad pictures. Under the second stick figure it said "SOMETIMES," and under the second beast it said "NO."
They stood there staring at the paper for a long time.
The first thought that came to them after they'd unfrozen was; How did they hear what I said last night? I didn't even hear what I said last night!
They then spent the next five minutes pacing in their room and running their hands through their hair, before grabbing the paper up again and staring at it for another minute. While doing so, they noticed that there was something on the other side.
What's this…? Chara thought as they turned the paper around.
Frisk was almost sobbing with guilt and horror at their own actions as they hurried away from the Royal Family's house. They had no idea where they were going; they just wanted to get away from what they'd done.
They couldn't believe they'd given in to their desires and done something so horrible to the human who'd looked after them while they were a bat! Chara didn't deserve that, especially after what had happened in the Last Corridor!
Although… their blood had tasted just as great as Frisk had remembered…
No! No more thoughts like that! I'll just go… uh, go… Frisk realised that they had nowhere to go as they too were stuck in the underground until either the barrier broke or they starved to death. However if it went the same way as the last (and only, so far) time they'd died, they'd just be automatically wound back in time. As such, they would inevitably meet Chara again.
As Frisk glumly realised that they had pretty much no options, they also realised that they'd wandered to the last place they wanted to be; the Judgement Hall.
If they hadn't already frozen just in front of where the big windows started, they would have when they heard a voice come from behind one of the pillars, and saw Sans step out while he was talking.
"i gotta admit, this is the last place i'd expect to find you, kid." He shrugged and added, "i guess there isn't any light in here at the moment, though. so that's good for you."
He was right. The hall was very dark, as it seemed the light only came in through the windows in the afternoon.
"I didn't mean to be here." Frisk replied warily. "I was just… going for a walk."
"right. but don't you need legs to walk?" Sans replied amusedly.
"I have legs, what are you-" Frisk stopped and looked down at their very much human-like body, then repeated, "I have legs. I… I can talk. What the fuck?"
"woah. language, kiddo." Frisk paid him no attention and was instead trying to figure out how they'd managed to turn back to normal without noticing. "anyway, why are you here?"
They stopped inspecting themselves to answer the question. "I don't know, I was thinking a lot and I ended up here. Why are you here?"
"bud, it's my job to be here."
Frisk let out a confused "What?" and Sans shook his head disappointedly.
"you aren't really the brightest person, are you?" He told them, with the Hunger agreeing in Frisk's head. They glared at him indignantly.
"I thought you were a sentry. Do you also guard this hall?" They replied stiffly.
"i'm not a sentry. that's just a cover up for my real jobs, which are being the judge and also being a part time scientist." Sans bluntly told them. Frisk blinked in shock.
"Why would you just tell me that?" They questioned him.
"why not? you're practically harmless." Frisk spluttered as they tried to answer him.
"No, I am most definitely NOT! I'm probably the most dangerous person in the underground! And I can't even control myself half the time!" Their outburst subsided and they looked away embarrassedly. After a couple seconds they looked back at Sans and asked, "Is that why you left me with Chara? Because you thought I was harmless? Believe me when I say that didn't work out well."
Sans suddenly lost his carefree demeanour. "shit. what did you do? i promised the king 'n queen they'd be okay."
"Well, you certainly did a fine job with that, didn't you?" Frisk said with scathing sarcasm. "I fucking ate them while they were sleeping last night."
"Yeah, and now my neck hurts like hell." Came an angry voice from behind them.
On the back of the paper, Chara had found a bad drawing of a bat, with "FULL" and "HUNGRY" written down near it. Underneath full it said "YES," but it was the bit underneath "HUNGRY" that sent chills down their spine. There was a half-finished question mark written with a pencil like the rest of it, but crudely written over that was "NO." Oh, and it was written in blood. Their blood. (How did they know it was their blood, you ask? Magic.)
As Chara had stood there, at the entrance to the Judgement hall where they'd felt they had to go to find the new human, they stared at the back of the aforementioned human, listening in on their conversation with Sans. Sans had yet to look in Chara's direction, with his attention entirely focused on the beast.
The longer they stood there unnoticed, the angrier they got, at Sans for just letting everything happen, and at themselves for not noticing any of the weird behaviour, but mostly at the beast human for killing and eating them. Eventually it overrode their common sense and they interrupted the conversation. Sans looked over the beast's shoulder as the human swirled around in a panicked fashion.
"Shit." They both chorused. Almost immediately after, the beast dashed for the exit on the other side of the hall. They were almost home free, but then…
"C̛̯̘̦O̶M̗̤̖̠ͥ̆̚̚Ę̗͉̯̈͊̐ ̫̮̞͇̤̳̒͌̌̔͝B̝̜̭͚ͯ̚A̠͚̬̬͖͈̥̔́C̲̰̦̥͙̹̙͛ͦ́͗̇̐̽Ḳ̫̀ ̛̣̙̜̝̲͎͑̄̊H̜̩̝͉͇E͔̝̖͇̹̝̙͊͠Ŕ̴̤͖̥̰͈̐ͭͯ͂ͦĒ̛̪̼̣̯̑̀͗̒͋ͅ!̜̘̏̎̄̅͊́͊" Chara yelled.
Everyone froze. Chara clapped a hand over their mouth.
Well, I guess that worked…? They thought as the beast walked back over to where Sans was still standing, frozen in shock. Poor guy, he's never had to deal with anything like this whole mess before.
Suddenly remembering that they were supposed to be angry, and also that the beast/human/person/thing that they totally didn't have a crush on was standing in front of them, they turned bright red and had no idea what to do next.
"Uhhhh…" Both the human and Chara blushed and looked away after as they tried to start talking at the same time.
"So, um, you probably want to know pretty much everything, right?" The beast asked.
"Yeah, that… that would be good. Let's start on why you can turn into a bat."
"Oh… I don't actually know how I did that. Or how I turned back." The human replied, scratching the back of their head sheepishly.
"Oh. Okay." There was an awkward silence. "So, what's your name?"
"Oh my god, finally. I've been through the entire underground and no one has asked my name until now." The human sounded quite exasperated. "It's Frisk, by the way."
"Frisk. That's a nice name." Frisk turned as red as Chara thought they probably were themselves. The full impact of how surreal the whole conversation was hit them in that moment and they were rendered speechless alongside Sans for a couple moments while Frisk freaked out at the compliment.
After everyone had calmed down (except for Sans, he'd fallen asleep standing up by then) Chara apologised for their demonic yelling earlier.
"That's alright. You're entitled to a bit of yelling after all of the… stuff… that happened." Frisk then murmured something that Chara wouldn't have been able to pick up were it not for their very good hearing. It was something along the lines of "It was kind of hot anyway."
Chara spluttered and felt blood rush to their cheeks.
"Shit, you heard that?" Frisk asked, once again turning red. "I'll… just… leave then. Alphys is supposed to be working on something that stops me from eating people, anyway. It'll be good to get that sooner than later."
"O-oh. Okay. See you around… I guess?" Chara was too embarrassed to try and stop them from leaving, although when they thought Frisk was out of earshot they quietly added "Not that I mind you eating me."
Frisk wasn't out of earshot.
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Kinky.