Ello folks! Arana here, finally with an idea! And I want to say a few things before we start.

For one, I wish to make a theme for Ariel. In my opinion, it would be a mix of Hopes and Dreams and Megalovania. If anyone is able to do this, it would be great!

I also need help with character designs. If you want to help me design a character, such as the Three Young Angels, Veil, and Ariel's souls, that would be great!

Want to see your OC possibly featured in the story? Check out my profile and send me a PM sharing the info of your character! But remember, I have a ton of characters to look through and possibly find places for in the story.

Gabriel and Arie might not be the next installment to the Gumdrops Series, folks. Why? Because it is rather odd how I started it. So, I made a poll for your choice on my profile!

And now, onto the story!

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Chapter 13- The World Goes Dark

It's been a month since we got lost in the forest, and boy have things changed. Not only have I grown used to my magic (and managed to figure out how to tap into the magic of my other souls,) I have gotten closer to Lucas.

These days, the Three Young Angels (what we are dubbing my fellow Angels) have been joking about our blooming love.

Yes that's right, Lucas and I are in love. And it's a good thing too, since we discovered that I'm Lucas's true love around a week after his eyes suddenly became cat-like. Now he happily is flying about with us (I had discovered how to use my Hope magic to create a flying surfboard to fly about) with bat-like wings. A funny thing that is a common occurrence now is that he tries to scratch his head, a habit he had gained during his "human" years, and bumping his hand on his dragon-like horns. He used to poke himself with them when they were still smaller, but now he just hits them every now and then. His face is always priceless when he remembers that he has horns.

However, our love does come with odd downsides, like the fact that my mom may one day become Destiny's mother-in-law, even though she's obviously younger than the ancient Angel. And the fact that I may one day become Lucia's aunt was a little weird to take in at first, but we got used to it.

Although, other odd things were happening around the Multiverse. No one was allowed in or near the Dark World, and the universes closest to it were evacuated for safety measures. With Veil being back, even though we would be notified if he started anything weird, there was a need to protect people.

Then, the black goop reappeared in the Multiverse. At first, it targeted smaller universes.

But, all was not right.

Veil had found a way to worm into the Omega Timeline.

The world was in chaos. The sky was dark, and the sun was shut out. Many people were frightened, and screams were heard before they were cut off. Goop rained from the sky, collecting in masses to capture folk.

Although the TPU tried to save people, most were captured. But hope was not lost.

We were running away from Magic Town. Mom and the original Four Angels had stayed behind, letting us, with TPU No. 78 leading us towards the dense forest. Dad had stayed with Mom, and so did the rest of the family. Lucia, Lily, Maya, and Lucas were with us.

"Keep running!" Rose cried, Yellow using vines to grab the waste of PJ, who had been caught in a patch of goop, pulling him to safety. "We can't let Veil get you guys!"

Lucas tripped, his foot caught in a patch of goop. I stopped, rushing to him, and started using rainbow fire to try to get him out. Before long, I realized that we had been accidently left behind.

Lucas turned to me, a grim frown on his face. "Go without me, Ariel," he said, pushing me towards the forest. "I can deal with Veil."

"I am not leaving yo-" I was caught off by a loud roar.

We both turned to see the goop transform into a giant beast, which looked at us with dark joy. For a moment, I brought up a shield around us, as a massive paw struck down on it. As the paw darted away, I realized that I would not be able to keep this up.

"Ariel, go!" Lucas said, this time with fear in his voice.

"Nope, not going!" I said, firm on my choice to stay with him.

And then, a red blur rushed into the scene, round house kicking the beast in the face. The beast hissed, clawing at the blur, which darted away. When the blur stopped, there stood a kitsune~or an odd fox morph~clad in red work out gear. Around her neck was a necklace with a green heart pendant.

For a moment, the woman studied the beast, before biting her own arm, making herself bleed. For a moment, I thought she was crazy, but then, as if her blood was the same as my mother's determination, it floated into the shape of a scythe, hardening as the wound closed. Then the woman stood up, her tail swishing back and forth as her ears twitched.

"Minichite, get these two out of here!" the woman called, as a literal miniature Malachite, from the show Steven Universe (it was a cartoon that played from time to time in my universe) rushed up behind us.

"Take down the shield," the Malachite said in a hurried tone. Not wanting to distrust these rescuers, I brought the shield down, to Lucas's displeasure.

We were then picked up, as the Malachite rushed away from the beast and the kitsune. She ran towards the forest, bounding over trees and using them to leap further and further into the overgrowth.

Soon we saw a giant shield, which goop slide down, and saw that a dragon-morph, wrapped in green robes, was keeping it up. It took mere moments before the Malachite dove into the shield, narrowly missing a patch of goop that tried to entangle us. Once we were inside, "Minichite" put us down, and we were soon surrounded by the other Young Angels.

"What happen to you guys?!" Lucia asked. "We thought we had lost you!"

Hastily, we explained what happened, as the kitsune jumped into the shield herself.

"I think we got everyone we could save," she sighed, motioning her arms towards the semi-large group of monsters and humans. Among them was Core!Frisk, Error, Ink, Fresh, PJ, Rose and Yellow, us, Kyle, Dad, Geno, Reaper, Goth, Pallete, Dream, Nightmare, Cross, 'Swap Frisk, Reaper!Chara, G!Sans, Echo (Echotale!Frisk), E.F. (whom I was then introduced to), Blueberry, Orange ('Swap!Papyrus), Edge (Fell!Sans, his brother is known as Fell in this), Toucan, Bins, Comic Papyrus, Flowerfell Frisk and Flowey and Flowerfell Sans.

Dad noticed me, and rushed up to greet me. After a moment, he sighed and told us that when these odd rescuers had rescued him, Mom and the other Four Angels had been captured by the goop, as well a most of the family.

It took me a moment to register, but I had to stay strong. Looking over to the kitsune, who was in a talk with some of the other odd folk that were rescuing people, I noticed that some of them seemed to be from shows or games from my world. One of them was a woman who wore a green Umbreon hoodie, and another was a Pinxi from Petpet Park. Frowning for a moment, I paused.

And realized that the shield was going up into the air as the ground beneath us turned into the shield.

And then, in the very next moment, we were in Arana's world, as I could see the Japanese style village nearby. We landed, and the kitsune burst into green flames.

And when they died out, Arana stood in the kitsune's place.

"OK folk," Arana said. "Welcome to my AU. Here we are safe from Veil so we can plan how we are going to get back at him."