Ghost Buddy

Summary: In your defense, the scary movies you used to watch made it seem like possession was much easier.

Disclaimer: Undertale belongs to Toby Fox

You aren't certain, but you think you were laughing all throughout Frisk's, "date," with Papyrus; from the return of the thieving dog, Sans' pet rock, Fluffy Bunny Pop-up Books, and Papyrus' race car bed, the whole thing was more bizarre than you could have ever imagined. You really lost it though when Frisk found the spaghetti under the skeleton's hat. They took a small bite of it, and made just the funniest reaction you had ever seen in your life.

"THE GREAT PAPYRUS WILL TRY TO HELP YOU SETTLE FOR SECOND BEST, BY BEING YOUR COOL FRIEND!" Papyrus crowed, doing his best to let Frisk down gently.

Frisk just giggled and replied, "Aw thanks Papyrus, you're a great friend."

You and Frisk got up to leave when Papyrus looked at the clock. "HUMAN, IT IS VERY LATE IN THE EVENING! WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEND THE NIGHT ON MY COUCH BEFORE LEAVING?! YOU SHALL STAY THERE, NOT IN MY BED, AS THERE WILL BE NO PLATONIC CUDDLING."

You did your best not to die again from this statement. Frisk chuckled too and agreed to spend the night on the couch. Papyrus grabbed some blankets and a pillow and laid them out across the couch.

"I SHALL TRY NOT TO WAKE YOU UP AT FOUR WHEN I GET UP FOR MY PRE-SENTRY TRAINING REGIMEN!"

Frisk's eyes widened. "Training regimen? That's really early."

Papyrus beamed with pride. "YES, I USED TO TRAIN WITH CAPTAIN UNDYNE, BUT SHE HAS DECIDED SHE TRUSTS ME TO PERFORM THE FOUR HOUR JOG ON MY OWN! GOODNIGHT HUMAN!"

"Goodnight Papyrus," Frisk replied with their usual magnetic smile, "thanks for everything!"

Frisk snuggled under the blankets and looked at you, over by the television. They pointed to the other end of the couch. "Lay with me?" Their tone wasn't the usual flirty kind, so you took it as an innocent request. You laid on the other end of the large sofa.

"So," Frisk whispered, "what did you think of my first date?"

You snorted. "You saw me laughing, Frisk come on. What a nutjob. Still, he seems like a nice enough monster. I never knew him when I was alive."

"Sans either?"

You shook your head. "Nope. There was a skeleton, but….I can't really remember anything about him. He was the Royal Scientist though. I'm sure you'll run in to him."

Frisk nodded. But you could tell something was on their mind. "Chara, do you remember when Papyrus said he wanted to experience driving down the road in a car with the wind in his hair?"

"Of course," You answer, "and he's got such a luxurious mane of it."

Frisk didn't laugh at your joke, but continued, "could we...could we free the monsters?"

Uh oh. You were hoping this wouldn't come up. You stalled though, "when we go to Waterfall tomorrow, there are some plaques that teach about the barrier that you could re – that I could read to you." You were glad you caught yourself.

Frisk's smile returned. "I'd like that Chara," they whisper, "you're such a good friend."

"Friend?" You blurt out before you can process.

"Well of course," Frisk's whisper got even quieter, "after all we've been through? Of course we're…friends."

You weren't sure why they paused, and they almost sounded sad, but you had never had a human friend before. But, you don't remember liking someone this much before either, and Frisk had really changed your opinion on things. "Yeah," you reply, "Of course. Friends." You smile back.

Frisk yawns and rolls over, "good. I'm sleepy though. Night, Chara."

"Sweet dreams, Frisk."

Frisk fell asleep fairly quickly, but you always had trouble falling asleep. More thoughts of what ifs flew through your mind. To break the barrier, Dad would need Frisk to give up their Soul to join the six others, and the thought scared you. How disappointed would Frisk be? You were dreading that for tomorrow, but you would just cross that bridge when you got there.

You actually had some dreams that night, but it was more of just memories of your first death.

"Chara! Stay determined!" Dad's voice yelled to you as your insides were falling apart. But to no avail, as you were determined…determined to die. Determined to give your soul to your brother.

"hey kiddo, rise and shine," came a familiar voice, pulling you awake.

Sans was nudging Frisk at the other end of the couch, and your partner yawned and stretch. "Good morning Sans," Frisk yawned.

"hey. you probably need to get going if you want tibia on your way." Sans replied.

Frisk half-grinned at the joke as they rubbed sleep out of their eyes. "Okay. We'll be on our way."

Sans demeanor changed for a brief second as he asked, "we?"

You felt the panic crawl on your back from yesterday, when you thought Sans looked at you. But Frisk, ever the clever one, replied, "Me. Sorry, had a dream about a friend."

"ok, no problem. just take care of yourself." Sans said, going back to his lax attitude.

Frisk left soon after with yourself in tow. They headed through the dense fog that surrounded the entrance to Waterfall. "Yikes it warms up quick," They say, as the snow melts down in to muddy gravel with every step they take.

"The Underground is naturally cold," you state, "but the closer to the CORE, the higher the temperature's towards the center of the earth create different climates."

Frisk looked at you with admiration, and it felt good when you were able to teach them. Mom had always wanted to be a teacher, and you had thought it would always be fun too.

As you got to the entrance, you were surprised to see another sentry station, manned by none other than Sans. Frisk waved to them.

"hey kid, i'm thinking of going on a break to grillby's." Sans stepped out from behind the station, "want to come with? i know a shortcut."

Frisk nodded and followed Sans. You began to as well, but before your eyes Frisk and Sans disappeared.

"F-Frisk?" You call out, a bit panicked. You began to feel that hazy, sluggish feeling that kicked in whenever Frisk got too far away from you, but it was much more intense than before. You immediately felt everything go dark.

You had to blink a few times to orient yourself to your surroundings as you realize you were in Grillby's. To your left was Sans, and to his left Frisk sat next to him, giggling as Sans downed a bottle of ketchup. Frisk looked over Sans and gave you a discreet smile as they noticed your presence.

"…so anyway kid, i wanted to ask you," Sans leaned a bit closer to Frisk and his voice lowered, "you know anything about a flower that talks to people?"

Frisk took a very uncomfortable face and nodded. "Yeah…I have."

"yeah, the echo flowers," Sans replied nonchalantly, turning back to face the bar, "think someone's trying to prank papyrus with them. anyway, keep an eye out for me, ok? i should get going. can't believe you kept me away for so long!"

As Sans turned in his seat, he swung the swivel stool away from Frisk and towards you. He paused – very briefly, but noticeable – right in front of you. For a split second he looked right at you before turning and walking out, saying something to Frisk, which you didn't catch since you had chills running down your spine.

Frisk motioned for you to follow, realizing they couldn't talk to you in the middle of the bar. You nodded and wordlessly followed them, trying to calm your nerves.

"Hey," Frisk asked, voice dripping with concern. Two days ago you'd feel mad because this would make you feel weak, but now Frisk's concern made you feel warm inside. "What happened? You missed most of what Sans was saying."

You shrugged and said, "you guys just kind of disappeared. I got all dizzy and blacked out, next thing I know I'm with you guys at the bar. What did I miss?"

Frisk frowned, "I'm sorry. I didn't think he'd teleport us. At least now we know how he's been getting around." Frisk looked around before continuing. "First, he clearly really cares about his brother. It's sweet! But," Frisk whispered, "I think Flowey has been messing with Papyrus. Whispering stuff to him."

You frown as well. "That's no good. We'll just have to be careful."

You were both back to the entrance of Waterfall. Frisk stopped and took a big whiff of the rush water. A SAVE point was spawned, and Frisk touched it.

You pointed to a blue flower with a seahorse type monster standing by it. "That's one of those Echo flowers that Sans was telling you about."

Frisk walked over to the flower, and it said, "All that gives my life meaning is explaining the Echo Flower."

You and Frisk both look at the seahorse monster with raised eyebrows. "Don't uh….Don't believe everything you hear from a flower," he said before running off, embarrassed.

"YO!" A voice yelled out from behind you, and you both turn to see Monster Kid charging towards Frisk. They had spoken a bit the day before. He came to a stop in front of Frisk when he fell face first, and pulled himself back up. You snickered a bit, but Frisk gave you a small glare for being rude, so you stopped.

"Are you here to see Undyne too?" Monster Kid was beside himself with excitement.

"That's the captain of the guard, right?" Frisk asked, "No, but she's down this way?"

"Yeah, yo, she's supposed to be hunting a human. I want to see her fight it!" Monster Kid clearly didn't realize Frisk was a human, which seemed astonishingly dense to you, but you kept your mouth shut as they said, "Come on dude, let's go."

Frisk shrugged and followed Monster kid as they charged ahead. You leaned in and whispered, "Be careful. I don't think the Captain of the guard is going to be as easy to get past as Papyrus."

Frisk nodded back, "I know. Maybe the Monster Kid could help me out."

As the three of you trod deeper into Waterfall, Monster Kid rushing far ahead of you, he stopped and made a motion with his head for you to sneak into some tall grass with him. Frisk quietly crawls into the grass with him. You, of course, don't bother since you just float through it and are invisible anyway.

"C-CAPTAIN UNDYNE!"

You recognize the tall skeleton's voice. They were coming up from a ledge above the grass patch. Frisk and Monster Kid both froze and looked toward it. You float up to the ledge and look over to see a very menacing person in full plate armor being approached by Papyrus. They said something inaudible to Papyrus, who answered, "OF COURSE I FOUGHT THE HUMAN! I FOUGHT VALIANTLY."

Captain Undyne asked something else, "DID I CAPTURE THEM? WELL, I…NO. BUT UNDYNE! YOU DON'T HAVE TO FIGHT THEM, THEY'RE – "

But Undyne gave him a look, and Papyrus stopped. "OF COURSE. I'LL HELP YOU ANYWAY I CAN."

You looked down to Frisk, who heard the whole conversation. They looked concerned, although Monster Kid was beside himself with excitement. Frisk tried to sneak through the rest of the grass, but it rustled loudly. You look over to see Undyne clanging loudly over to the ledge. You hiss, "Frisk, stop!"

They heard you and stopped before the edge of the grass, and laid as flatly as possible against the ground. Undyne stared into the grass, scanning for life. But she backed away after a few moments. You breathed a sigh of relief.

You gave Frisk a thumbs up and they emerged from the grass, followed by Monster Kid.

"Yo," the kid hollered, "Did you see how she was looking almost right at you?! That's so amazing! I'm jealous. Come on, let's go see her fight the human!"

He turned and ran off, but not before face planting once more.

You floated down next to Frisk as they followed the eager boy. "You think he really has no idea?"

Frisk shrugged, "I don't know, but it's kind of funny."

As you walked through Waterfall, you kept your promise and read the plaques on the wall, that detailed the war of monsters and humans. The tale made Frisk incredibly sad. "The monsters are so nice though," Frisk moaned, "it's always some nasty people that have to ruin it for everyone else."

You scoffed, "I think most people are nasty."

"Even me?" Frisk actually seemed a bit hurt when they asked.

You thought carefully before you answered. "You…I've never met anyone like you, Frisk. "

"Maybe you were just hanging out with the wrong people, Chara." Frisk replied, looking at their feet.

You say nothing. You never hung out with anyone outside of your father and older siblings, who all told you that you were a mistake. So maybe Frisk was right.

You were interrupted by Frisk's phone ringing. They barely managed to answer with the, "h," in hello when a voice came screaming from the receiver, "YES, HELLO HUMAN, THIS IS YOUR BEST FRIEND PAPYRUS. WHAT ARE YOU WEARING? I'M ASKING FOR A FRIEND!"

Frisk looked at you and you shrugged. "He's probably telling Undyne," you answer, "make something up."

"I'm wearing a tutu!" Frisk blurted out. You slapped your forehead as they hung up, and they told you, "I'm not good at lying."

"Clearly," you snicker back, as you both continued.

Frisk, meanwhile, was marveling at the glittering stones that covered the caverns. "It's so beautiful," they breathed. They made an attempt to hold your hand, but forgot that their hand went right though yours. You pretended not to notice, but you blushed a bit.

Frisk listened to the echo flowers, and became sad once more to hear how many of the monsters were wishing for freedom. It made you sad too, but if you and Asriel failed, you didn't think that Frisk could hope to match your plan.

You read more of the plaques, and they explained how monsters could absorb human souls, and what monstrous power would come from such a creature. By now, you were on one of the docks.

"Has that ever happened?" Frisk asked.

You paused. You knew damn well what they were asking, but you played it dumb, "has what?"

"A human or monster absorbing the other's soul," Frisk answered, "it sounds scary."

You didn't want to lie to Frisk, but you wondered if they'd still like you if they knew what you had done. However, you were pulled from the dilemma by the sound of clomping metal . You look to the left of you to see Undyne across the river, preparing some magical spears. "Frisk, run!" You shout, pointing to the assailant.

They didn't need to be told twice. Frisk took off down the dock, narrowly avoiding being skewered by the captain of the guard. You chased after them of course, yelling, "duck," or, "swerve to the left," depending on how Undyne was attacking. Frisk's reactions were perfectly in tune with your observations, and managed to escape past Undyne's reach, diving in to a patch of tall grass. "Is it safe?" They whispered.

You peered down the path where you had both come from, but could hear clomping in the distance. "I think she's coming," you advised, "stay put."

Your heart was racing though as Undyne came stomping towards the grass, and began to search through it. "THERE YOU ARE!" She growled, making you jump as she reached down to grab something.

"Frisk, no!" You cried out, worried. Their last save had been awhile ago, and you knew they'd be okay, but you were still concerned about them getting hurt.

But to your surprise, Undyne pulled Monster Kid up from the patch of grass. Wordlessly, but annoyed, Undyne put the kid down and walked away. You let out a sigh of relief.

"UNDYNE TOUCHED MY FACE!" Monster Kid was gushing as they burst forth from the tall grass. Frisk giggled as they followed. The Kid took off, leaving you two alone once again.

"hey kiddo," came the familiar voice of Sans once again, standing by a telescope in one of the caverns, "take a look through the telescope. no charge just this once," he added with a wink.

Frisk grinned and looked through the telescope, but said, "I don't see anything."

As they pulled back you burst into laughter; Sans had put ink on the lens, surrounding Frisk's eye with an orange color.

"huh. well i'll give you a full refund." Sans replied, straight faced.

You had pulled the same joke on Asriel long ago, so you couldn't help but crack up. Once out of ear shot, Frisk gave you an annoyed look. "What's so funny?"

You snicker and point to a puddle. Frisk goes and looks and giggles themselves. "That goofball!" They splash water onto their face and clean off the ink and ask, "did I get it all?"

You got a bit closer and nodded, "yeah. Come on, let's get moving."

More plaques came up. You swallowed hard and went over the monster history, how not a single soul was taken, and that seven human souls would be needed to break the barrier.

"Doesn't sound like much of a war," Frisk replied to you, sadly. "Is…is that why you hated or hate humanity, Chara?"

You purposely ignore this question. "So you would be the last soul, Frisk."

Frisk was good at picking up on hints that you didn't want to talk about it, so they dropped it. These feelings were new to you; you never had friends, and now you were worried about what would happen if Frisk knew that you had come so close to murdering your father and five of his friends. Maybe more, if the situation had called for it. You told Asriel six, but if war broke out, or more people attacked, you weren't too concerned about numbers.

You had been murderous. You came right to the edge of killing, and were stopped by Asriel. How would Frisk look at you? You could tell they were a little disappointed by you blowing off their question, but that would be nothing compared to the truth of your past.

Without warning, you could feel yourselves being pulled into a battle, but there were no monsters around. Frisk looked at you, confused. You shrugged, but then nodded to the corner of the room. "That's Shyren," you explain, "she's hiding in the corner, but somehow we encountered her."

"Why are we battling her when she's hiding from us?" Frisk asks.

"Well," you strain to remember Shyren, she kept to herself mostly, "last I remember Shyren was trying to make it big with some other monsters, but maybe she's still shy about her voice."

Frisk nods, and begins humming a little melody. You raise your eyebrows at them, curiously. Shyren picks up on their tune and begins singing in a dialect you didn't understand. Dad had once told you that Monsters used to use a different language, but adapted to human languages in an attempt to prevent a war.

Shyren's singing manifested into magic bullets, which charged at Frisk. To your astonishment, they kept humming without breaking tune, and danced around the magic. Shyren seemed more excited about this, and began to sway and sing in tune with Frisk as well. Monsters began to hear the commotion and come to see. Aaron,Woshua, and other types of monster families you recognized all began to crowd the room.

"You guys are really good," you tell Frisk as they dance and hum, "I think Sans is in the back selling tickets made of toilet paper."

Frisk just smiled as they twirled and hummed. You felt a weird feeling in the pit of your stomach. You didn't know why, but you couldn't take your eyes off Frisk.

More and more monsters came in to see the show. Frisk and Shyren looked at each other and laughed after awhile.

"The tours. The groupies. It's all so tempting. You could live in Waterfall and be rockstars," you joked to Frisk, as they waved goodbye to Shyren.

"I just have my own journey to go on." Frisk replied with a giggle, "I saw you watching."

"That was something else," you said, blushing.

As you approached what you had always called the, "rainy room," you point out the umbrella's off to the side of the room, "you'll want one of those."

Frisk nods and grabs one, and smiles at the rain that begins falling down on them. "I love the rain. If I lived down here, I'd never want to leave this place."

"Hey yo, you've got an umbrella!" Monster Kid yelled, running up and getting under the umbrella with Frisk. Frisk nodded and walked with Monster Kid. Their patience baffled you, as you found Monster Kid a bit annoying, but Frisk smiled and chatted with them. But Frisk seemed to get along with everyone.

Then again, you got along with most of the monsters when you fell, hadn't you? They all heralded you as the future of humans and monsters though, so perhaps it was different.

"So this one time, the king, Asgore, came to my school," Kid rambled, "and he gave us all a flower to take care of. Something about responsibility."

"I had to do something like that once, it was with an egg though," Frisk replied, "had to make sure it didn't crack and things like that. It was weird."

Monster Kid laughed, "Wouldn't it be cool if Undyne came to the class and beat up the teacher?!"

Frisk laughed a bit but didn't say anything, either because they were nervous about fighting Undyne or because they didn't find the thought of Undyne fighting a teacher to be all that great.

"I guess Undyne would never hurt an innocent person." Monster Kid added.

The three of you walked past the view of the castle, and you smiled. You were going to New Home, even if Dad couldn't see you. It would be nice to see it again.

At the end of the long path, Monster Kid helped Frisk up a high ledge before running off. You, or course, just floated up after them. You continued on across a dock, silently. Frisk seemed distracted.

"What's on your mind?" You ask.

"For someone so secretive," Frisk answered, "you're awfully nosy. And just…these monsters are all such good people, you know? It's not fair. It's terrible that they were treated so poorly by people, however long ago. I wish they could be happy. I just wonder if maybe they'd be better off if I…"

You float alongside them, patiently. They're clearly struggling with the words.

"I wonder if it would be better off for me to just give up my soul. Then Papyrus and Sans and your parents could be free."

You raised your eyebrows at Frisk. "Whoa. Frisk, that's not like you. What happened to getting to the surface no matter what?"

Frisk shook their head and gave you a sad smile. "You're right. I'm being silly. I have to make it back! And maybe I can help them that way. Find six people to come though the barrier with me to break it."

You're still concerned, but there is a glowing that's coming from the dock under the two of you. It's a faint, blue color, just like…

"Frisk, run! It's Undyne again!" You shout.

Frisk took off at the sound of your voice, just in time to avoid the magic spears that were bursting through the floor where you had both been. The winding path had numerous dead ends that tripped Frisk up, but they kept going until finally, they hit the end of the dock. It was pitch black all around them and neither of them could see where the water rushing down the walls stopped below. The spears had stopped as well.

"Dead end," Frisk mumbled, turning around cautiously.

But Undyne was there behind you. Frisk froze up but timidly raised their hand to wave. "Hey, listen, can we just talk for a minute?"

Undyne wasn't in a talking mood. She conjured up some spears and sent them crashing through the dock Frisk was on, causing it to crack and send them plummeting into the abyss below.

"FRISK, NO!" You screamed, but it was too late. You were too far away from them, and your vision was beginning to blur. Everything went dark.

You could hear Dad telling you to stay determined. You could hear mom promising you that chocolate bar if you got better.

You could hear your brother.

"Oh, you've fallen down, haven't you? What's your name? Chara? That's a nice name! My name is…"

You catapulted into a sitting position and looked around. You were in the Waterfall garbage dump, on an odd patch of buttercups. Frisk lay next to you, stirring themselves. "Frisk, are you okay?"

Frisk slowly pulled themselves to a sitting position and nodded.

"Thank God, you haven't saved in awhile and the way you were talking about your soul I was worried about your determination," you rambled, but Frisk wasn't really listening.

"Chara," they whispered, "whose voice was that?"

You locked up, chest tightening. How could Frisk have heard that? "W-what?"

"That was a memory from when you fell down, right?" Frisk asked, still quietly.

You weren't ready to tell Frisk about Asriel. Because then they'd want to know what happened to him. You stood up and advised, "Come on, let's get going."

You pretended not to notice the hurt expression on Frisk's face as you ignored them. But the curious kid began checking out the piles of garbage, surprised to see what managed to make it's way down from the human world.

"Some brands you recognize?" You ask, and they nod.

Seeing the garbage flow down from the ceiling down into the abyss, you were surprised to see a SAVE point spawn. Frisk touched it and said to you, "Don't worry about my determination, Chara."

You could tell they were a little upset with you. Part of it made you mad that they were being so nosy, but the rest of you just felt guilty. You cared about Frisk, and it sucked to hurt their feelings by being so closed off to them.

As they waded through the wet pools of trash, you both passed another training dummy.

"Take a whack at it?" You offer to them, trying to lighten the mood.

Frisk looked at the dummy, shook their head and walked away. As they got to dry ground, however, the dummy called out to you, causing you both to jump.

"Hold it, HOLD IT, HOLD IT!"

The dummy flew over to Frisk in a rage, startling them.

"Chicken, huh?! Well let me tell you something, I had a ghost relative who haunted a dummy like this in the Ruins. They had a pretty good life until YOU CAME ALONG!"

Frisk looked around and pointed to themselves. "Me?"

"YES YOU!" The dummy screeched, shaking and floating about, "THE THINGS YOU SAID! YOU'RE A MONSTER!"

"What, did you flirt with the dummy too?" You sneered.

"I'M TAKING YOUR SOUL, BUDDY!"

You felt yourself get sucked into a battle with Frisk.

Frisk attempted to talk to the mad dummy, but it wasn't listening. It just kept attacking, causing Frisk to dodge.

"It's not one for conversation, it seems," you deadpan.

Frisk managed to trick the dummy's bullets into hitting the dummy, causing him to freak out and replace them with robotic missiles. Frisk, being crafty, just did the same thing with these. As the dummy screamed and shook, you pointed out it looked like an armless ska dance. Frisk was more annoyed than anything though.

"dummies, DUMMIES, DUMMIES!" Yelled the Mad Dummy, "You're all fired. WHO NEEDS FRIENDS WHEN I HAVE KNIVES!"

The dummy threw a knife at Frisk, who dodged to the side, alarmed. The knife splashed into the water.

"I'M OUT OF KNIVES!" Yelled the dummy, "But since you can't hurt me, and I can't hurt you, I'll just trap you in this battle…forev-OW!"

You saw magic tears falling down onto the dummy, causing it to flee. Frisk excitedly realized Napstablook had come to say hi. You had forgotten they had, "fought earlier." You were a lot more stand-off-ish in the Ruins and had ignored that battle. But Frisk had liked them, and they had showed him that Spider Bake Sale.

As soon as Frisk greeted Napstablook, they got shy and replied, "oh…I'm sorry your friend left. Oh…."

The floated off, but Frisk gave chase. "Oh…would you like to hang out with me?"

Frisk nodded, "Sure thing Naps!"

You chuckled. "Cute nickname, Frisk."

They ignored you, and you frowned. They followed Napstablook to his house, and went inside. You hung around and watched them listen to some music that the ghost had mixed (it wasn't bad), watched Frisk try to each a ghost sandwich, and then they played a game called, "lay on the floor and feel like garbage," for awhile. Frisk seemed to enjoy it, so you laid down with them for awhile. You glanced over at Frisk. They seemed deep in thought, and you knew they were still concerned about the shared dream the two of you had. But things got a little fuzzy as you laid there, and Frisk seemed to space out too. After awhile, they finally got up.

"Oh…it was nice to have company for all that. Thanks," Napstablook said.

Frisk smiled and waved as they left. They continued down the path that you directed them to the Core, but didn't talk to you. They were clearly angry with you and it was starting to get on your nerves. They knew you weren't ready to talk about that stuff.

They stopped by a shop and you were surprised to see Gerson running it. Frisk asked them about the Delta Rune, and Gerson explained all about the symbol or monsters, and the prophecy. Frisk was fascinated by the story and bought a Sea Tea for the road.

"Gerson knew my Dad for a long time," You explained to Frisk. "He'd come over and tell stories about his adventuring days. He never talked about the war though."

"That sounds like a lot of fun," Frisk answered, "did he tell them to whoever I heard in that dream?"

You sighed. Frisk's sassy response may have been warranted, but it still hurt. "Frisk, look…I know I told you I'd tell you about when I came here, but I'm just not ready yet. It's hard, okay?"

Their expression softened. "That's all you had to say Chara." They beamed at you once more and you let out a sigh of relief.

"hOI!" A voice shouted out. "SPECIAL ENEMY TEMMIE HERE TO DEFEAT YOU!"

Frisk sneezed and marveled at the Temmie that had popped up in front of us. The Temmie tried to pet Frisk, but they kept sneezing. "What' this cutie?"

"Oh!" You answer, "that's a Temmie. It loves to pet cute humans, but it looks like you're allergic."

Frisk began blushing pretty hard and giggled at you.

"What's so funny?" You ask, before it hit you. You had called Frisk cute. You went red.

"I knew you liked me," Frisk winked when they saw the color of your face.

"HOI!" yelled the Temmie.

"HOI!" Yelled Frisk back.

"HOI!" Temmie replied.

"Um…BOI!" Frisk shouted, waving.

"K, bOI!" Temmie said, turning and running off. Frisk was beside themselves with laughter, and followed after the Temmie.

"Frisk," you call to them, giving chase, "come on, the CORE is this way!"

Frisk just laughed and said, "Let's see if there are more."

You rolled your eyes and replied, "Temmie's are rare Frisk I doubt you'll find," you pause though as you round a corner you had never seen before, stumbling onto a corridor filled with Temmie's, "…more."

Frisk gave you a sly grin. "Maybe to find all the Temmie's you just needed more…"

You leaned forward as they paused.

"…de-temmie-nation." Frisk finished, very proud of their joke.

You groaned, but couldn't keep yourself from smiling. "Painful, Frisk. Painful."

Maybe you were better off when they weren't talking to you.