Chapter 14: The surprise
This will be switching between perspectives, so sorry if it gets a bit confusing after a while. I will do my best to not make it like that
(Lucy's P.O.V)
"I'm going to be busted as soon as my big bro wakes up" I kept telling myself over and over again as I walked through the waterfall area. Just a few minutes after I fell asleep I woke up again and saw big bro passed out, so I used that chance to sneak out of his grip and walk out of the cave. I wanted to prove to him that I could take care of myself, without him helping me. I looked around, seeing more of the blue flowers, the echo flowers as he told me they were. I put my finger on each and every one of them, but for some reason they were all silent. Not a sound or a breath at all.
"W-what is going on?" I asked myself as I kept walking, listening closely for anything or anyone else. In the distance I could see someone standing by a bucket full of umbrellas, but he had no arms to hold any of them. I felt sorry for him, having no arms must be really difficult for him. I looked at the umbrellas one more time and ran up towards him. He turned towards me and that's when I noticed that he had a tail. "So he's a monster too? He looks really cool Hihi" I said to myself as I stopped right in front of him and from instinct I stretched out my hand.
"Hello! My name is Lucy! You look u-um, really cool" I said as the monster looked at me and smiled, but then I realized I might have done it wrongs as I was holding out my hand. I slowly pulled it back, but he just smiled more and grabbed my hand with his tail and shook it.
"YO! I'm MK, or monster kid! You're really cool!" He said to me as he moved his tail away behind his back and I put my hand down back to my side. "Have you seen Undyne?! She's just the coolest!" I thought back to what papyrus told me and I felt like I've heard that name before, but I wasn't completely sure. I shook my head slowly and looked at him
"Sorry, but I haven't seen them, but what are you doing here?" I told him as I picked up a umbrella from the bucket and opened it, holding it over my head as I could the water fall down on it. Monster kid smiled and walked up beside me, standing under the umbrella too.
"I was going to look for Undyne, and you looking for someone too? Maybe we can look together?" He asked as he just started to move forward. I laughed quietly and walked up beside him, holding the umbrella over both of our heads, to protect us from the water. I shook my head again and looked down at him, realizing he was just reaching to under my shoulders.
"Not really, but I'm just curious on where to go." I told him as he nodded and started to talk about how cool Undyne. I wanted to pay attention to it, but a different sound was catching my ear. A sharp sound, like someone was dragging something sharp against the rock, echoed through the cave. I quickly looked behind me, but I couldn't see anyone behind me. I shivered as the noise dimed down, and slowly reappearing. I looked down at MK, but he was still talking about Undyne, not even seeming to notice what was going on around him. I smiled and just focused on the path in front of us. As we kept walking, long away in the distance I could see a castle. I stooped and looked over it.
"Hey MK, do you know what that is?" I asked him as I looked at him. He was smiling from ear to ear as his eyes was just staring at the castle, not giving me an answer. I laughed quietly, and kept walking along the path, wondering where it all would lead me.
(Lucas P.O.V)
"D-damn, where am I?" I said as I slowly opened my eyes, putting one hand on my head and looked around. All I could see was darkness, and what looked like cell bars in front of me. "W-what?!" I tried to get out, but no matter how hard I shook it or tried to tear it away, it stayed still. I looked in front of me, and there It seemed like I was watching out of my own eyes, but something was really off. I was standing still in this so called cell, but from the perspective I saw, I could feel myself moving, and a sharp sound hearing out. What is that sharp sound? I thought to myself as I looked to my side, and saw a knife slowly tracing against the rocks. I gulped as I looked back and saw the hint of red glowing eyes slowly getting closer to me, and a sound of metal meeting rock, getting louder and closer. From the shadows, the familiar figure of Chara stepped out, with her red eyes and her weird smile towards me.
"Well look at that, you're finally awake" Chara said as she drew her blade against the cell bars. "It seems our places has been switched Lucas =)" I shook the cell bars one more time, but it still stayed in place. She smiled at me and moves her knife away from the cell and walked to the spot, where it looked like I was looking at the world around me. She slowly raised her hand with the knife in, and I could see myself doing the exact same thing.
"What you want Chara?! Stop this!" I screamed at her, but all I got back was just laughter. "What's so funny?!" She turned towards me, and for a second, her once creepy smile was replaced with the one of an innocent child. But it disappeared as quickly as it appeared.
"Well seeing your reaction is best. But I want to show you something =)" She said as she pointed her hand forward towards something, and I looked closer. IN the distance I could see Lucy and Monster Kid talking. I widen my eyes and shook the bars one last time.
"Don't you dare touch her!" I screamed at her, wanting to get control over my body once more, but nothing worked. She laughed again and turned towards me. "Sorry, but I'm the one in control now" Then I felt my world go black once more.
(Lucy's P.O.V)
Me and monster kid kept walking past the area where we saw the castle, and even though how far we got away from the noise, it still felt like it was getting closer and closer. I looked behind me, and I could see a shadow, with red glowing eyes coming closer and closer. Monster kid ran up towards a small ledge and tried to jump up it, but couldn't make it. I turned back towards monster kid and walked up to him.
"YO! I can help you up here to move on! I'll find another way around!" He said as he crouched down and tilted his head towards me. I smiled and carefully walked onto his shoulders, and he jumped up, making it possible for me to grab the ledge and pull myself up. He smiled and ran away, flopping onto his face, before getting up and continue running. I giggled quietly and turned around, continuing to walk around waterfall. Looking around me now, all I could see was purple and brown rock, and some echo flowers. I gently traced my finger over the flowers, but every flower I touched made sound so. Like it wasn't anyone here to tell the flower some dreams or anything. I tilted my head as I followed the path, and saw a small mountain at the end, with a small cave entrance.
"W-wow! So cool! I wonder where that leads" I said out loud as I saw another echo flower to the side of it. I giggled quietly and walked up to it, and traced my finger over the flower one last time. "Behind you =)" I tilted my head and turned around, and there I saw the red glowing eyes staring straight at me. The person slowly walked towards me, with a shining blade in their hands that they traces against the rocks.
"So, this is where it all ends huh?" the person said, but the voice was both familiar and echo. The person slowly walked out from the shadow, and I saw it was Lucas, but his eyes were still red and his face showed no emotion.
"B-big bro?! I'm sorry I ran away!" I said, while stepping closer to the flower. He just smiled back at me and twirled the knife around in his hand, stepping closer to me, holding the sharp end of the knife towards me.
"Oh, sweet naïve Lucy, you never learn, do you? Time to show you your place" He said, but I knew something was off, not only from the red eyes. But his voice had a small gently and girly echo in it, like he wasn't talking but something or someone else. I reached out my hand towards him, but he just kept on smiling and sliced the knife quickly across my hand, leaving a scar on it.
"O-ow! Big bro! stop it" I said, taking a step back and felt that the back of my foot was off the edge of the path. "n-no! please!" I felt tears slowly growing in my eyes as they stood there and kept on smiling, raising his knife for another attack.
"Sorry Lucy, but your big bro is no longer in control! =)" He said as he sliced the knife down at me one more time, hitting more of my arm, making me scream out in pain.
(Lucas P.O.V)
"Stop it! Stop hurting her!" I screamed at Chara, as I watched her use my own body, my own hands, to hurt the one person I wanted to keep out of harm. Chara just kept on smiling and laughing, moving her hand around, and I could see in the corner of my eye, that my real-life arm did the exact same thing. And with each slice, another scar appeared on Lucy's body. Above her, a small health bar appeared, and I think it was the first time I saw her HP and LV
Lucy LV 1 3/15 HP
I widened my eyes, as I saw she was close to dying. B-but why only 15 HP? H-has something happened to make her lose h-hope? I looked at her once more, and I could see her laying on the ground, crying and blood coming out from her arms. I grabbed the cellbars one last time, and tried to break out of it, and I heard a small crack as I dragged the bars from each other. H-huh? I thought and looked down at the bars I had in my hands, and at the bottom I could see it starting to crack.
"But why should I stop? This Is fun! You will see your sister die! The one you love! Now you understand the real meaning of…" Chara looked at me, and her once red softening eyes were now completely black, with black like slime dripping from her eyes and mouth. "Kill or be killed! =)" I felt tears starting to form into my eyes as I could only watch Lucy laying there, and watching how helpless she looked. I closed my eyes and clenched my hands.
"Fight back! Why won't you fight back Lucy!?" I screamed, and I could hear myself in echo. I opened my eyes, and saw her having a shocked expression on her face, and in the corner of my eye I could see that Chara had changed back to her red eyes and they were filled with fear and confusion. I looked back at Lucy and saw her just keep on crying as she closed her eyes, as if waiting for the last hit.
"B-because…. n-now y-you have left me n-nothing to fight for…b-big bro" She said, with a small and side smile on her face. I clenched my hands as she said it and pressed my body against the bars, because that was the same thing I told her. Three years ago, when everything changed for us.
…you use my own words against me…. I'm sorry sis….
So deeply sorry for using almost three god damn months on this chapter! I never meant for it too take that long on this one chapter! But almost all summer i was either working, or busy with other stuff, and with own problems, and new school, i just haven't found the inspiration, nor the desire to work on this story. But now, thanks to being able to have creative writing as a subject at my new school, i will be able to spend more time working with this. I said it before, and i say it again, i will NOT give up on this story! Also, as a heads up, the next chapter will be another one that brings you a bit to the past. Thank you for reading this and sorry again for the long wait.
Dark Chara out!