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Falling Falling
Falling
*THUD*
You blink awake. Your in woods. The foliage surrounding you.
‘What’s going on.”
Caution drives you forward. You know the woods where you lived, but this didn’t feel right, something in the atmosphere just screamed wrong. You head up the soggy, waterlogged path to the driveway, just to see…. A skeleton.
‘Wait no not just a skeleton, but a breathing, LIVING and animated skeleton. Something isn’t right.’
The skeleton is tall and wearing a red scarf, a workout jacket and leggings. For some reason he’s taking out the garbage on your property. Something is still of though, not just the fact that there’s a skeleton, but you can’t place itUntil the skeleton turns around looks at you. That is when you anxiety and panic kicks in and you have a total breakdown. Your full fight or flight kicks in and your standing in shock and fear of what’s in front of you. Even your mind is stuttering to comprehend.‘I-i-I-i-t’s-’ “Papyrus.”“Um, yes human, that is my name, how do you know it? I don’t think I’ve met you before.”You’re full on panicking, your chest is starting to go tight. You start to take a breath, only to find out, it’s a panicky, quick and shallow breath. You start to lean for a tree only to realize that you are in the middle of the path, not close enough to the treeline. So you fall.“Human are you O.K.? you seem to be freaking out.”Papyrus seems to have caught you in your panicked daze. The sudden feeling of being touched makes you freak out even more, so much so that you fall from Papyrus’s grasps and flee back into the woods. In the back of your mind you're glad you wearing your waterproof boots, because it must of just rained.You run through the underbrush, not caring about the raspberry bushes marking your skin. You find the tangled brush of where you and you brother had made a fort outside, and you hid underneath it all.The thud of the skeleton sloping through the mud comes close to you. Out of instinct you open your mouth to quiet and slow down your breathing. Something in you recognizes this and you pay no attention to a shifting feeling in your body, in favor of listening in to papyrus’ footsteps stop in front of the entrance to the fort.You ready to take flight again. All at once the brush lifts up, and you dart out of there into the air.‘ Wait the air?’ You look down, sure enough you're somehow flying. So you look back to realize, you a bird, a little titmouse to be exact. The panic attack that had subsided in the fort is now back with a vengeance.Your wings stop flapping and snap to your side. Your in a full on death spiral, no getting out of it, especially when your in a panic.
‘Welp i’ll be swimming with the fishes.’
Your spiral happened right over the edge of the pond, not deep, but definitely enough to drown a panicked bird. You close your eyes and brace for impact. But it didn’t come.You look around, but all you see is something red,and fuzzy. You start to squirm, but the fuzzy red thing increases the pressure around you enough to startle you. By the tim you start to squirm again, something pleasant invade your being. For some odd reason all you can think of is how it’s color is a pleasant light green.You feel sleepy despite the adrenaline running in your system. Movement starts outside the red fuzzy thing that you now describe as your “safe zone.” you startle again, but it was met with a stronger force of that warm pleasant feeling. After another wave, you succumb to sleep.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~You startle awake. Sitting up straight in bed. Only to realize it was the downstairs guest bedroom of your house.‘How’d I end up here, the last thing I remember was I was taking the long way back to the house from fishing at the pond. Why do I feel like I could sleep more, and what with this atmosphere, something isn’t right. That feel like I've thought that before.’A soft voice accompanied by a tall being comes through the door.“Ah, human your awake, I brought you some echo flower tea to help you relax. It is alright to drink nothing harmful to humans I assure you, just something to calm your nerves.”You take the tea, and a tentative sip. Your nerves instantly relax when the kind voice ofPapyrus come into your mind; ‘ it’s okay human. you are safe. There is no danger when the great Papyrus is around! Stay strong. Don’t give up! When Papyrus sees that you’re calm he starts to talk; “Human I believe your are very scared of monsters, but I have a few questions for you.”You are still catching up to the fact that Papyrus is real, and is next to you. When you don’t speak he continues on.“You said my name, I don’t believe I’ve met you, let alone someone who can turn into a bird.”You sit and process the information, and stare ahead as you memory returns. You take another sip of tea to calm the nerves that are panicking again.“I uh don’t know how I did that.”“Well the great Papyrus thinks it’s your first time coming unto a magic being is it not, a lot of other people have similar reactions, when confronting monsters for the first time,except I've never seen anyone turn into another animal, do you think you can try again?”“Uhh, sure I guess.”You concentrate on wanting to be an animal, you feel a weird sensation through your whole body. You look down and see you’ve become a marbled fox, with unnatural henna designs in black fur, the designs the change to a splotched ink type of patterned. Your fur pattern changes a few more times until you decide to change back to your human form.“Great job, we’ll have to teach you how to hold the patterns, but that was great for you first time in control, by the way don't avoid this question, but how do you know my name?”“Uhhh…..” you stare suddenly to the closet, when Papyrus follows you gaze you quickly change to a bluebird and scatter out the open door behind Papyrus. You turn the corner, to dart up the stairs, to the front door so you can escape, but something glowing underneath you catches your eye.“This is my special attack.”Your being has been pulled out, and has made an encounter box in order to keep the surrounding areas from damage, you look down at your soul still not quite grasping the world your in.You change back to your human form having been caught. The meek smile you give is one of acceptance, that your stuck here, until you answer him. But because of you past, you have a hard time opening up to people, even your closest trusted friends.“So human will you answer my questions?”You shake your head unable to speak, you start to physically shut down, you shift into a cat and curl into a fetal positions having still being held in the skeletons blue attack. You hang your head and flatten your ears.“OK. I will trust that you will tell me in time, but I think you need some rest.”You nod your head. Papyrus makes a motion, and his magic reacts, propelling you towards him. When he gets a hold of you he shifts you to a cradle position where you shove your head into his scarf, in the crook of his arm. Seeing the red fuzzy thing again makes you sleepy.when papyrus sees you calming he starts to pet you.“It’s okay little one, I’m not mad.”With that final statement you drift off to sleep. happy you've met Papyrus.
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You wake up in the morning, looking around in the dark of your room, you think to yourself and battle about getting up, even though a look at your clock suggested it was eleven in the morning.‘Uuuggg, im soo comfy, also what a weird dream I had, it was sooo life-like.’*KNOCK-KNOCK-KNOCK*You groan, your dad thinks you slept in to long again. And proceeds to open the door, which baths your room in light. You can hear him approach your bed, but doesn’t shake you awake, which you appreciate because you hate being literally shaken awake, but something's off.“Ah, Miss I think you’ve slept in long enough to replenish your body’s energy for the day.”That familiar voice makes you sit boltright in your twin sized bed. You are starting to have a panic attack as to why your dream was real and Papyrus is standing on the side of your bed.He looks like he wants to help, so he bends down to confort, and hug you. But seeing as he’s the reason of the panic attack, you flip out even more, and before either of you know it, you had shifted again and ended up under the bed in the farthest corner of the room to avoid confrontation from the tall skeleton.Papyrus audibly sighs and reaches under the bed to grab the scruff of your neck, and because you being a small grey cat sees a giant hand reach for you in a panicked state you scratch at the “intruder,” immediately feeling bad since it was Papyrus, but also still in a panic attack, so you couldn’t be helped, and couldn't say sorry for the scratch. Papyrus immediately retracts his hand to inspect the damage, with you hissing in blind panic under the bed. You then watch him stomp off out of the door. After the “threat” leaves you start to calm down feeling really bad for the skeli you scratched. After a few minutes you have stopped your panic attack and come out from underneath the bed.You felt really guilty. So you padded across the short carpet, to out of your room to find papyrus, then you realized it was your room. Not a random room that the brothers had built, but your actual room, complete with your school bag that was left there. You stopped and sat down, and contemplated what had happened to get you here in the first place.‘Should probably talk to sans, he would know more.’You were about to walk out the door again, when papyrus comes in with something in his hands, he kneels down and shows his hands.‘IT’S A CINNABUNNY!!!!!’“It’s a-” before Papyrus could even start on the word you had shifted again out of delight and immediately grabbed it out of his hand and gulped it down in one bite. It wasn’t anything different than an actual cinnamon bun, except it had magic in it, and it looked like a bunny.*Purrr* “-Cinnabunny.” Papyrus finishes. “Well, I guess that answers my question, if you liked them, but now I have another.”“Crrrooo?”“Well you look like, well if one of our gaster blasters had a body.”You proceed to look down after that comment and poke yourself with one boney paw. No surprize when it felt like bone, but what did surprise you is you felt like there was skin and muscles on top of the bones. Your paw felt the bone, but your body felt the “skin” that was on top of it. ‘Weird, I'll have to test some random experiences later including what this is even.’“Now hum..an… huh I guess I’ll have to ask your name…”“Crraaa?”“Why don’t you shift back to answer my questions, before I go upstairs.”You shake your head, already knowing you didn’t care what these skellies called you, you were kinda at peace in this world, wherever this is. ‘Hmmm, go find sans. Quest one is now active!’‘Hehe, you funny.” your brain supplies funny messages sometimes…You get up from the sitting position on the floor and trod around the basement, which weirdly enough looks almost exactly like your worlds basement, except there was no kitchen,you trod back to where the guest bedroom is. You take a peek inside the closet, expecting it to be open like your younger brothers room was in your world.———————————————‘Well enough dilly dallying time to get some answers!’You pad back around to the stairs and head up. When you get to the top of the stairs you feel a weird tug in your chest. ‘Huh, that’s strange I wonder what that means.’You pad around the top of the stairs and go into the kitchen seeing that the kitchen looks a lot larger than your grandma's kitchen in your world. The countertop is much the same on the outer edge with the fridge just to the left when you first enter Ali with a corner counter with lazy susans for the cupboards above and below next is the sink, which is shockingly not as tall as the game's sink in the bone bros house. Actually you kinda wish it was like that just to see if these guys are as cannon as the game in your world Next to the sink is a dishwasher, and then a stove, which is huge, bigger than an average stove. ‘I don’t think I’ve ever seen a stove this big!!’Somehow they manage to make the whole house just slightly larger as well because they have a nice bar top with stools in the middle, and space to put cooking ingredients, as an island!On the right side wall is a giant cupboard/closet where you presume that most of the baking sheets and other necessities of the kitchen were.As you pad along the kitchen tile to the dining/living room area you see the tall skelli cooking, what you hope to be good spaghetti, and not as cannon as the undertale game… you hope.You finally get to the small living area where you realize why the tugging sensation is happening… before you is a Gaster Blaster!‘Oh My Word!!! It’s sooo much more cuter that the game’‘Tongue's out on its own, sniffing, sniffing, I LOVE IT!! Nipping, running, jumping, tearing, play with it!! NO ITS MINE, ooh pretty yellow paper!’So it turns out when you like something in animal form, you let your instincts take over.‘Oooops.’ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Papyrus!”“Yes brother?”“Is this your…. Uh… Gaster blaster?”Papyrus emerges from the kitchen to the living room, to see an encounter has turned the living room into a tornado of disaster, literally. Sans made another trash tornado, but at least it looks like it's picking up all the trash.The tall skeleton looks to find you playing as a full gaster blaster skeleton, with what looks to be Sans’s Gaster Blaster.“ No, I’m afraid not, but do not be alarmed for that is the new friend that has come to stay with us. Because I believe you were messing with the machine again yesterday, were you not?”San’s is visibly sweating “ Um….”“That’s what I thought, even if it was a human I encountered yesterday, but nonetheless till you can learn to control the fluctuations of the machine, you should probably stop testing it so often.”“Ok bro.” Papyrus then stomps off to the kitchen to no doubt prepare spaghetti. Sans seems to calm down a little before looking to you. “Ok now that i know your one of us why don't you explain yourself.”You cock your skull to one side as you sit down, not wanting to answer questions till you get answers first.“Come on now, I know your me so why don't we have a nice conversation about the timeline your from.”`Oh he thinks I'm from a different universe, well he’s not wrong, but I think the mistake he’s made (probably cuz im a whole GB dragon) is that I’m him from a different timeline, or world.’You start to shift out of the bone dragon to your resting form ( a human). Sans of course is visibly freaking out, while you are now sitting cross legged, with Sans’s blaster snuggling you for pets.“Hi.” you start meekly, with a weak smile to accompany it.“Well this is different.” he states matter of factly. “well then why don’t I start with; is it a genocide timeline?”“Heh, umm great question Sans, but i’m not from an alternate world, at least I don’t think I am.”Sans is looking through you at the moment, and you wonder what your stats are. After a little bit he catches up to your wording.“H o w d o y o u k n o w m y n a m e ?”“uh ,even better question.” the fact the no-eyelights thing is intimidating enough in video game form, has nothing on the real thing, and it's freaking you out more than any horror story from r/nosleep.” Well Sans in my world, you guys are from a video game that someone named Toby Fox who is speculated to be the Annoying dog in your world…. None of you guys are real where I come from…..” your getting unusually uncomfortable as Sans is using his judgment powers on you.
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Huh.
’ You’re sitting very stiffly on the floor of the living room, with a gaster blaster in your lap, and a trash tornado picking up strips of yellow paper. ‘
How do I get into these messes
?’
Sitting on the farthest end of the couch, with a spine as stiff as the oak trees outside, was Sans. His hollow eyes staring at you with a depth that isn’t fathomable.
“Do you know where I am?” you ask on the verge of yet another panic attack. Trembling faintly, the Blaster nuzzles your stomach for pets. You start to glide your hand up the cool bone forehead realizing that the blasters were in fact just bone, unlike whatever you were a moment ago.
“Yea, you are in my house.” Sans hinted he didn’t like this particular predicament.
“Huh, couldn’t have guessed. But the weird thing is that this is my grandma's house from my world.” You giggle out. Nervous as all get out. ‘
Man I’m just going to panic my way out of these situations as always again ain’t I.’
“your grandma's house?” he spoke with a harsh erie calm,
and that was the straw that broke the camel's back…
*you flee*
You stood up calmly, walked five steps backwards to the sliding glass door on the porch, opened it, stepped a few more feet back, took off …...and jumped over the railing.
‘
Man, I really need to stop this mess. that I conclude is me, in my life right here right now… naaa you know that ain’t going to happen, well at least talking to oneself seems to be doing something.’
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Sans hadn't realized what you were doing in time to stop you. You had jumped and fell off the porch… he froze for a second, then got up and rushed to the balcony expecting to see you limping away.
As he got to the ledge and looked, he didn’t see you, or a body at all, it was like you had vanished, a ghost, something that wasn’t here at all.
“Brother! Was that our guest!?” Papyrus romped over to where Sans stood.
“ I think so….” he petered out.
“ She can't just go jumping off of stuff, She might break something! Also what did you say to startle her? She was frightened of me when we met! I can't believe you did something to upset her!” Papyrus is basically yelling from the rooftops at this point. “ she just got out of her room too!! I can't believe you!”
“Uhhhhh sorry bro she musta been such a scaredy-cat.” Que shrugs of shoulders while an imaginary drum kit is played.
“Brother was that a joke?” Papyrus narrows his eyes at Sans
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‘Huh wonder why he said a really bad and over used……’
*glances down* ‘Huh and I still wonder why I'm Like this.’
Turns out you couldn’t hold the beetle form you became to fly to the tree.
‘Oh for the love of all things holey it just had to be a cat.’
You still giggle a tiny bit, but it basically sounds like chuffing for a cat.
You look over at the brothers arguing about how your sorry hide got scared into a tree. Glancing around to look at your escape routes, you just decide that they're going to try and hunt you down anyway, so might as well leave with style.
‘Might as well make it a game while I quell the stupid tears of anxiety. Where's a good hiding spot I know the brothers won't find me for a while…. The Glen! Perfect!!!
You try and imagine a little titmouse to turn into, you feel weird knowing your shifting. Looking down you see an almost normal looking titmouse body.
Why the fudge do I look so blue!? You know what screw it, they'll find me eventually, right now I just need to calm down, the Glen is a perfect place for that.
With that thought in mind you took off, a little shaky at first but out of the magic range of the brothers you hoped.
From the tulip tree in the back you flew behind the house into the thinning woods up north, where the shop was, to take a long ways around because a) you've always had dreams of flying like a bird someday, as stupid as that may seem, and b) so the brothers couldn’t see where you were headed
As you flew through the treetops you glided over the road that's a few hundred feet from the house. You made a wide banking turn over the neighbor's house and promptly flew the opposite direction, back south, you flew those short minutes going past the brothers house and behind the other neighbors house, it was a relative in your world, you have no idea whose it is now.
Behind the light blue house is the other part of the forest where it's denser at the edge but the middle of it is where deer grazed from time to time. The creek that runs behind the houses is also given a boost from the ponds runoff, so it makes the creek clearer in the back of the neighbors property. The thing you don’t know is if the plants would be there. Someone and you don’t know who, used to have a small garden in the back of the neighbors house. Well long story short it grew out of hand in the forest so now there were huge daffodil plants, and some other plants that you couldn’t quite identify, but were pretty none the lees. ‘
man I wanna see these daffodils bloom, but I need to separate them, and I don’t want to, but it would probably feel better to them though. Who knows, just right now I need to calm down.
Looking down you realized you had almost missed it, so you start your descent. As you head through the crowns of trees you spot the stream, so you land down on the grassy floor and change back to human. You wade through the grass going right to the stream. You look around, and it doesn’t actually look that different to your world's glen, there's a huge flat topped rock around the one daffodil plant, and across the stream between the other two plants is a tall, hollowed tree stump.
Calming down your racing heart, you decide to sit on the stone. The afternoon sun heated the rock perfectly, so you shift into a little red fox, and lie down. Starting to take very exaggerated breaths to calm down from the panic attack, you start getting sleepy after all the excitement of today.
Realizing it's not safe to sleep out in the open, you get down off the rock. You wander over to the stream, take a few drinks of the cool, refreshing water. You get up from the crouch and look around. ‘
Nothing out of the ordinary.
’ hoping the stream you wander over and duck into the hole in the stump. Turning around and curling up, you look through the foliage. ‘
Ah so pretty back here.
’ And with that thought in mind you promptly dozed off.
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Wellllllll turns out you have weird cravings as well when you turn into animals… quickie version, who knew mice and moles tasted good…… even though they were raw…..
After that uh, light snack, you get out of the stump and drink again from the creek. While looking around at the evening’s fading light, you hear something, coming, almost like a storm in the distance, and you got to tie down everything that could get blown away, cause otherwise the next day you going to have a mess on your hands, yea its sounds something like that, except it's not a thunderstorm, its Sans. Is he looking for me? Cute but I aint being found anytime soon, I'm not ready to have constant panic attacks. No thank you!
You turn around and shift into a little grey field mouse, with an unfortunately unusually black spot pattern. Need to get the hang of the stupid patterns… UGH!!! The pattern has now shifted to black splotches. Running back to the stump you get on top of it, so you can jump to the low hanging lilac branch from there to get up, away, and hidden from Sans.
“Hey lady! I’m sorry! I didn’t know I was gonna scare ya!” Sans is actually looking for you, huh, the lazy bones wants something doesn't he?
“Who am I kidding? I knew I was scaring her, but I gotta protect Pap if it's an anomaly, which I guess it is since. I've never seen a “shifter” that’s what all those searches said it was. Maybe for once I should actually make a friend like Paps says, but why!? Everyone always dumps me anyway, might as well dump my “friends” before they get too close to my issues…..”
During San's rambles of self hate you had turned back into a more muscled version of the bone creature and slinked out of the tree having eyes on him, and only for him. Is it creepy, or I guess scary would be a better term for it. Am I scary right now? I hope not. I just want him to stop talking to himself like that, I can feel his saddened, angry intent from back here. Your friends back home had been the same, and they were going down a destructive path that you didn't want them going down, but with no way to stop their pain, or physically help them, it was like I was stuck in friend limbo wanting to help, but not a clue to how. All I could do was sit and support them.
By the time you stopped the inner monologuing you were looking directly into San’s eye lights, about the height of him in your boned form, probably looking like you were about to bite his throat out, which I might if he keeps talking like that. He not knowing what to do stood frozen still as you slowly stalked straight up to him, and boobed your nose to his forehead,
“rrrNOrrr” is all you can manage to say in the form, such a boom causing a small shudder through both of you and slight tremors to the trees closest to you.
That jolts Sans into moving, which invokes him to touch your nose in what looks to be awestruck wonder. Not wanting to be caught yet, you back up hesitantly, turning tail and running off,
Sans shocked couldn’t bring himself to follow instead he spoke in a futile attempt to get you to stop and listen.
“Wait! What..do....you…….. Mean?”
Already vanished without a trace he took a shortcut back to his room to ponder existence for a while.
___________________________________________________________________ You had somehow ended up across the east road in the neighboring fields and forest. Not sure how, but you ended up here. Oh well might as well make use of the berries.
A While later after filling up on the raspberries you feel something, a ping if you will. Having no idea what it is you sniff, something that feels natural, and weird at the same time, at least in the form you're in. wind rushing through you, but nowhere to really go, Strange.
It smells weird, electrical, but not electricity. How do I even know what electricity smells like? Who knows, forever a mystery of the world or I guess the universe?
Scuttling around the briars and brambles you end up at your grandparents old house. Just northeast of the current property. A lot of things are different, for one it's definitely not a cattle farm, second is the giant greenhouse where the feeder barn shoulda been. Nothing different with the farmhouse, sitting how it was when your grandparents moved houses down the road.
The grey-blue farmhouse stood tall and proud with two stories to it, the front porch looked new, and a bunch of flowers and ferns lined the railing, looking just as proud and beautiful as a summer's day.
Ping. You turn your head toward the greenhouse, locked up by the looks of it. Trotting across the road you make your way towards the giant plastic arched building. Sniffing around you realized the ‘ping’ was coming from inside, shifting to a grey marbled fox with shifting black patterns, you slowly sniff your way around the perimeter, looking for an easy way to get in.
You find a hole closed off with large stones, it seems like a gopher was trying to eat whatever plants were in here before, and instead of filling it in with dirt, they blocked it off with rocks. How stupid, a varmint will get back in with much more ease than the previous, then again I don't think they were suspecting a fox to try and gaining access to a greenhouse…
Digging a bit under the rocks helped them dislodge from their resting place. After a little bit of a struggle you manage to move the rocks even more to make a hole just big enough to allow the fox body through.
Ping. That one was stronger than back by the road. Squeezing through the hole you end up underneath a gardening bench. Looking around, the whole greenhouse was filled to the brim with plants. Plants of all sizes, from tiny cacti to entire trees, well not that tall, at least to a human, but to a fox, great heights indeed!
Trotting through sniffing at every leaf you can reach, you realize most of the middle of the greenhouse was dedicated to ferns, lots of different types. Not that I could name many, i couldn't keep ferns for very long, cats would always eat them.
*Huff*
As you walk to the back corner of the greenhouse you realize what all that pinging was about. You sit down in awe as you stare at the Aloe Vera in front of you. Not only is it big, its the exact same one from your collection at home, Home, not now stupid brain, there's a mystery a foot!.
Getting up from your haunches, you check the exact plant you left in your world, nothing is different, same state, same bent leaf, Same. Exact. Pot. What the HECK is going on!
Sniffing around you comes across MORE of your plant collection, in someone's random greenhouse.... Why specifically my succulents!? Why here? How do I get back home? Not NOW brain! Who is this person who is one; after my own heart and two; got my plant babies!
Realization doesn't hit you, a plant pot does, as you had backed into a plant stand. The pot done giving you a brain concussion, falls to the ground and shatters everywhere, because ceramic pot versus cement floor end horribly for the pot.
The shattered pot does nothing but put you more in a shocked trance, a trance that's quickly broken by the sound of the greenhouse door opening. Jumping up you turn completely to face the exit, that you can’t see from your angle. Startling into moving on the farthest side of the greenhouse, as you hear footfalls on the cement, trying to remain quiet, as they stalk their prey, what they probably think is a varmint, but what is actually you…~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
After a short game of ring around the rosy the marbled fox slipped back out into the night. The only reason I saw was I looked at just the right time when I tried to find that gopher that keeps coming back. Looks like I have something else to look forward to.
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You woke up back in the glen. The sun streaming through the trees. the water slowly streaming past. Getting up and stretching in your fox form you're still in, the pelt still becoming a kaleidoscope of grays, blacks, and whites, as you tried to figure out why your pattern was changing so much you realized something, the birds are silent.
Something was wrong. Something big was in the woods. Something you couldn't figure out, but could definitely feel, raw power, pouring from something cold, dark, and unfathomable. You could feel this… magic roaring through the undergrowth. Earth Shattering sounds coming from your grandmother’s house.
Freaking out you run back through the little bit of forest and book it over the flats, the fields between the houses, and run to the basement door, intending to go figure out how to stop the noise, or your panic whichever it was just to make the panic stop. When you open the door you run to the storage room where it was emanating. Running to the storage room about to turn the knob it opens to three pairs of eye lights.
‘OHHHHHHHH STTAARRSSS NOOOOOO’
Your heart starts pounding, releasing a fight or flight response. You turn tail and run into your room smacking your back paws into the door to close it. Shifting to yourself you lock the door, knowing full well it was an illusion of safety. You morph back into the giant bone creature aggressive stance at the ready, you wait for the others. Unknown to you you were glowing aqua blue in the low light of your room.
“She's o’er ‘ere Boss”
“Alright stand back you sniveling coward”
“K”
Splintering echoed in your ears. The door slowly gave way to the foot kicking it down. The adrenaline rushing through your body as you're about to confront a nightmare. The door finally gives out. Slamming open, the stare down starts as you stand there waiting for someone to make a move. Sans was in the back trying desperately to tell the two not to hurt, or scare you. But it fell on deaf ears as the two Underfell brothers stared you down like a cat staring at a mouse.
Smiling ear to ear, Red went to grab you like a mother cat grabs a reluctant kitten. Then all hell broke loose. You strike your claws going down his ribcage before he could touch you. All of them tried desperately to pull you into an encounter before you escaped, but it was too late. Edge caught his brother before he fell, and you ran to the corner of your room and hid in the old fruit cellar. Barricading the door with whatever boxes were in here. Which looked to be Christmas things
Starting to realize there’s nowhere else to go and the fell brothers are going to be pissed you start having a panic attack… It never helps to have it in a situation like this. Trying desperately not to curl up in a ball and cry your eyes out. you turn to the floor. The boards here are much worse than the ones back home. Rotted through completely down to the dirt floor.
‘The chipmunk holes!!’
You focus as best you can and shift down to a mouse as black as night and start searching the floor for the tunnels, you try to quell the tiny sniffle, not wanting to alert the others. The door opens and there's Edge, pissed being the understatement of the century. You thankfully are hidden underneath the boxes as he tries to move the boxes out of the way to find you
Something behind you makes a sound. You turn around and see a chipmunk fleeing to the corner and disappear. Following suit you trail it through the tunnels and out the other side just inside the forest line next to the house. Crashing sounds, screaming and breaking glass of some ornaments, comes from the cement room jutting out the side of the house.
You decide it's no longer safe near the house, like at all. and take to the skies as a blackbird. Doing the same thing so they can’t track you. Looping back and ending at the Glen.Perching in the tree you are acutely aware of your surroundings. Not wanting to get on the fell brothers' bad side more. You just stay aware and keep watch. Fearing for the worst to come as you feel more sins crawling on your back.
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“Dude why you keep trying to put a blanket on me.’”
“Because you're in shock.”
“That doesn't mean I need a blanket, it means I need booze!”
Sans about to speak something when Edge comes back in the bedroom barely restrained malice radiating off of him in waves.
“You're bleeding.”
“What? No that t’ing barely left a scratch.”
“SANS!”
“What Boss”
“CATS LEAVE SCRATCHES,THAT THING WHATEVER IT WAS LEFT GASHES!”
“Hehe, that rhymed.”
“And you're getting loopy get over here before you lose conscious… There he goes, The bonehead!.
You have adequate bandages I assume?”
Sans actually being acknowledged by his brother's edgy counterpart, startles.
“Uhh, yea they are upstairs in the cabinet over the washing machine.”
“Good, can’t have this fool dusting from that thing now can we.”
Before Sans could respond, Edge had already walked halfway up the staircase. His footsteps were replaced by someone more bouncy, followed to where the commotion had come from.
Sans dreaded the conversation that hasn't started yet.
“Sans! Was that the Fells?”
Sighing he turns around to see a pissed off Papyrus, surprised he answers.
“Yes.”
“Sans you said you weren't going to bring anymore of those guests back, you know how dangerous some of them are!”
He shivered knowing full well which ones he was referencing, but Sans knew more that lever got let out of the basement, those he never wanted to risk letting out to see daylight, all dark maniacs from the most bottom pits of their own underground hell.
“ Yes I know Pap, but I needed help catching our, uh newest… uhh… issue.”
“Sans you realize you're scaring her even more, she's never going to come close to us, because she was scared enough from how she got here, but with the Fells she's probably terrified outta her mind! What were you thinking Sans! Also she's not an issue, she's a friend that you're scaring away.” sighing Papyrus turns to leave.
“Paps wait!”
Turning Papyrus looks down at his brother,
“What is it Sans?”
“ I was only wanting to catch her, and who knows traps better than the Fells?”
Sans said as he spread out his hands in front of him like the brilliant idea didn't just fail completely.
Sigh, “Sans you know i'm just as good as them with trapping and tracking, and you shoulda known better than to get scarier versions of ourselves to catch her anyway, shell come back with time, and that time might be longer now that the fells have reason to, honestly, seek her out and pay eye for an eye.”
“She’s now in danger because of your actions. I'm going to look for her, I doubt she'll come out, but it's worth a shot.”
With that Papyrus left, Leaving Sans to ponder the “brilliant” idea he had.