Ch.6 Time is of the Essence
Okay so I'm supposed to be grounded for two weeks from internet activities buuuuuuuut I can't resist.
I am by no means encouraging anyone to disobey their parents, it's not a good thing.
So I don't accidentally argue with my last sentence I'm just not going to make an excuse.
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Y/N's POV (You guys asked for it :D)
It's strange.
I've never met them before.
Not even once.
Ha! And I thought there was nothing else that could surprise me.
Guess I was wrong.
Guess the universe decided to gift me something new for a change.
Hmph.
If they wanted to 'grant' me anything, they should've switched me and my sister's places.
No. I wouldn't want her to be like me.
Heck, it's not like she would be anyways.
But it would crush her.
If they wanted to 'grant' me anything.
It should've been my sister.
But I guess the universe has other plans for her, huh?
So predictable it makes me sick.
...
Heh. He called me 'kid'.
Funny... I wasn't expecting that label. Or anything that happened today, to be honest.
Here I am sitting in this bar with this skeleton named Sans and my sister, Sierra.
Something else strange?
For a second while trying to say my name, introducing myself as my sister and vise versa, it was as if I...didn't know it.
*Flashback*
"hey I haven't caught your names yet," he says. And I was about to tell him.
I got this pounding headache when trying to think of it. It wasn't worse than what I usually get, but it was pretty bad.
Did I flinch? Nope.
Poker face.
I'm used to getting headaches, but this one is different.
I tried to think of my name but without a warning hundreds of names flashed through my mind at lightning speed, and I was able to comprehend each one. Maybe that's what caused the headache.
Because I needed a moment to find my name, I fired back a joke.
"I didn't throw them yet." Cliche, but it bought me a moment or two.
There was this 'pop' like feeling in my head and the names merged...forming one simple name.
"I'm Sierra and my sister's name is-"
Was this my name? It doesn't seem familiar. This isn-
There's a sudden ringing in my ears.
This is my name.
My name is...
"-Y/N."
*Flashback over*
That was definitely something.
Y/N.
Y/N...
Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N Y/N
No matter how many times I say it, it still doesn't sound quite right.
BAM!
A loud noise snaps me out of my thoughts.
The door is bust open.
I think my sister just shit her pants.
"welp, there's Undyne." Sans says, gesturing behind him.
"Who?" Me and Sierra both ask. We all turn around to be faced with a tall, badass looking fish woman with fiery red hair thrown in a pony-tail, an eye patch, a blue tank top, black jeans, and red combat boots with a single yellow stripe toward the top of both. Behind her is a yellow....dinosaur? Lizard? A yellow...monster woman...she has glasses, a white t-shirt and black sweat pants with white polka-dots, she's also bare-foot, and next to her is a little human child...I can't tell the gender... with short, messy brown hair, bangs, a blue and magenta striped jumper, black shorts, and brown boots. Their eyes look closed. Are they...?
Yep they're definitely blinking. They're probably just squinting.
The fish woman is sending a big cheesy smile Sans' way. I don't think she's noticed us yet.
"Heya punk!" She looks at me and my sister, "Uh...punks!!"
All of a sudden, Sierra is off the stool looking at the trio with an expression that only means trouble.
"Oh...My...." I gotta stop her before she gets us kicked out of Grillby's. He did warn us after the last ordeal. Let's just say the poor Whimsum didn't appreciate being chased around the diner. I sent Sierra home and bought the traumatized monster a meal. They mumbled many times to them-self about moving back underground.
Whoops.
"Sis..." I put a warning tone behind it, trying my best to remind her without having to embarrass her. She looks at me confused. My voice may have been a bit harsh but my expression was my usual small, lazy smile, and bored eyes. Seeming to catch on, she huffs in disappointment but calms herself. She walks over to the fish monster, right hand outstretched.
"Where are my manners?"
I decide to lighten the mood by making a bad come-back joke.
"Probably at home, where else would they be?"
I realized it wasn't just me who decided to crack a joke when I heard a deeper voice in sync with my own. Together we kind of sounded demonic. Sans and I lock eyes for a moment then look towards Sierra who, while we made our joke, tried to shake the woman's hand. Our voices surprised her to the point of a firm hand shake...much to the fish's delight apparently. There was a second of silence before everyone except Sierra laughed. Except the kid, they just smiled.
Fishy shook Sierra's hand while laughing. "You've got a good grip, punk! I like you already."
Not sure if we made her day better or worse....judging by the fact that she's holding back a glare...probably both.
Ms. Gills storms my way and juts out her hand, I shake it with little to no effort at all.
"Pffft, that's all you've got?" I just shrug, my small smile still intact. Undyne scoffs, "What a wimp. I'm Undyne, this is Alphys," she gestures towards the dino-zard monster who blushes and waves slightly, "and this little punk is Frisk." She flicks her head down in the child's direction. At first, the kid looks at Sans, then turns towards me and smiles. I smile a bit bigger in response. Then they turn to Sierra, who immediately greets them with giddy hi's and waves.
Frisk then lifts their hands and does the unexpected. They sign.
"Uh..." I look at Undyne then Sans.
"oh, uh Frisk is mute." I nod and smile apologetically towards Frisk.
"Sorry kid, I don't know sign language." they nod in understanding.
"guys, this is Y/N and Sierra." Sans points to my sister first, then me. I almost forgot I was pulling a name swap prank. Sierra looks puzzled and I can't help the snort that escapes me.
"hm? what's so funny?" I face Sans but keep silent, I want to see how this plays out.
"Sans, did you just call me Y/N? You must be mistaken. My sister's name is Y/N, I'm Sierra." Sierra raises her chin in a pose filled with pride and places a hand on her chest as she introduces herself. She may have a big ego, but her ego can never match the size of her heart.
"huh...? but she said..." Sans face twists in confusion, much to my surprise, since he's a skeleton. Then again he's a monster skeleton, not a human skeleton. Heh, I wonder how many confuse the two.
He faces me, I can hardly hold my laughter which results in uncontrollable snorts and snickers. I bet my face is red now. from struggling so hard to keep quiet.
"you tricked me good, kid." There he goes calling me "kid" again. But his face, oh god, his face. I can't hold in the laughs anymore. I practically explode in laughter
"Your face...hahaha...your face was priceless." Tears cloud my eye-sight but for a moment I could've sworn I saw Sans eye-sockets widen in shock.
And not the good kind.
I'm hunched over clutching my stomach when I see my arm glitch and turn multiple colors before returning to 'normal'. I could've sworn I heard my voice glitch slightly as well. The same thing that happened with my name happened when I tried to see and think about my skin color...or any of my features for that matter.
My skin is S/C, my eyes are E/C my hair is H/L and H/C, although, my wardrobe is clear as day.
I'm wearing a hoodie with green, white, and blue stripes, a gray tank top underneath, black sweat pants, and simple black chuck taylors. I don't really care about my appearance but my sister and her friend managed to get me to wear this. They're pretty proud of themselves.
My eyes finally clear and I calm myself.
Looking around the room, I wonder whether anyone else saw my arm glitch. I glance at Sans who now has his skull in his hands. I lean closer to him a bit.
Annoying mode activated!
I put one elbow on the counter, place my chin in my hand, and with my right hand I begin repeatedly poking him. The others seemed to have noticed him too because they come a bit closer.
Undyne McSushi Warrior is the first to speak, "Woah hey, you okay there punk?" Noticing her very muscular figure I realize that I probably shouldn't call her this out loud...
"S-Sans?" Alphys actually speaks for the first time since I've met her.
He's got a sense of humor right? So I decide to throw in a meme.
"Dude...you need to chill out, it's just a prank bro."
"NOT THE MEMES TOO!" Worth it. I know she loves my jokes. She just doesn't want to admit it.
He lifts his head and opens his eyes, smiling.
I'm still poking.
"jeez guys relax. i'm fine, just a skull-ache." He pushes my finger away.
"That was ter-terrible Sans! You h-had us w-worried." I agree with the shy monster on this one, but I got to admit, it's the bad jokes that are humerus.
"nah, don't worry doc," he knocks on his skull, "this thing's made of pure, bonefied material." He says, winking. Looks like I have competition. Time to step up my game.
"Huh? What was that I heard?" I slide off my stool and step in front of him. "An echo? Hm...guess they forgot to add...," I push his head lightly with my index finger, "brainified material." I add a smirk to add effect.
"hehehe, okay meat sack ya got me." I looks at him a bit surprised at the sudden name. I think I liked 'kid' better.
"Okay bone bag, we might as well start heading back home." I look at my sister, she nods in understanding and starts to walk over. I decide to play one last trick and hold my arms out for a hug. Sierra happily accepts the offer wrapping her arms around me. She won't be happy for too long once she realizes my lazy stunt. I let myself go limp, and automatically sense the panicked tension in the air.
"Y/N..?" She hasn't quite caught on yet...she sounds worried.
"Hm?"
"What are you doing?"
"He said I was a meat sack, I'm just playing my part." I answer honestly. I hear an unfamiliar almost silent snicker nearby.
"Well how are we supposed to get home if you're like this?!" Ah she's slowly catching on.
"..." I decide silence would add more heat to the fire. No Grillby pun intended...
"Y/N?"
"......"
"Y/N?!" This time she sounds panicked. I probably shouldn't make her think I'm dead.
"Meat sacks don't talk."
"well if she's a meat sack, i'm a bag of bones." I hear Sans say.
A moment passes before I hear a panicked grunt and a loud THUD!
"ow.."
Everyone explodes in laughter including Sierra shockingly. Suddenly the arms wrapped around me leave and before I even have time to react I hit the floor, landing on my butt. Traitor. Ha, I can't stay mad at her. I join in on the laughter.
Taking a look in the short skeleton's direction, I see him laying flat on his back. This only makes me laugh harder imagining how he fell.
Soon everyone had tears in their eyes from laughing so much and we stopped. Time for us to head home, I don't want my sister out at a certain time today.
"Alright, we're gonna go." I stand up.
"We were just looking for Sans so, I guess we'll start heading home too." Undyne says.
Everyone said their goodbyes. Sans' lazy bones finally decided to get off the floor. Me and Sierra head out the door. Alphys walks a few feet in our direction.
"Y/N, Sierra, we're headed t-that way, we'll walk with you! I-I mean if th-that's alr-right with y-you...?" Alphys fiddles with her fingers nervously. (*cringe*...I'm trying to portray the characters somewhat correctly...it's not going too well)
"Sure." I shrug casually, still keeping a smile on my face.
Always keeping a smile on my face...
"Yes! We'd love to walk with you!" Sierra says excitedly. Everyone except for Frisk and Sans are heading out the door now, I decide to be nice and hold it open for them. Looking at the two, I see Frisk tug on Sans hoodie, then they start to sign.
And I can understand none of it. I feel bad...
Sans sighs and puts his hands in his pockets.
"i was gonna take a short...cut...oh no..." The kid seems to be...pouting. "oh no...oh no no no...don-"
Their lip-quivers. This is going to be interesting.
"aw, c'mon Frisk, not the face."
Their face sinks into Ultimate Pout Mode. Turns out I was right about the squinting thing, their eyes are now fully open, they're too far away and turned at an angle so that I can't really make out the color of them.
"alright, kid, alright, alright, I'm comin'!" They walk towards the door, Frisk is smiling triumphantly and I find myself smiling a bit bigger.
Me and Sans lock eyes for a second, I shoot him a knowing look. He's a big softy for kids...or maybe it's just Frisk...I don't know.
We all begin to walk, Undyne is up front with Alphys and Sierra. Frisk walked with me and Sans in the back for a minute before joining the trio. My smile went back to it's usual size.
Keep smiling.
Never frown.
Keep smiling.
We pass a few buildings before I feel it.
Eyes.
Eyes boring into my back. It makes the hairs on my neck rise.
For a second I don't recognize this feeling, and then it hits me.
"Sans do you have a watch?" We were silent for so long, my sudden question seemed to have startled him a bit, but he regained his composure.
"sorry, I keep meaning to get one, but I never have the time."
"Pffft, okay good one."
"NO NO STOP ENCOURAGING IT!"
"i'm sorry, are we ticking you off, sis?"
She sends a nasty glare my way, Sans chuckles. I smile almost nervously and raise my arms as if to say 'this was unavoidable and you know it.' She huffs and faces forward again.
Tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock
"Okay seriously though, do you have a watch? Or something to check the time with?"
"nope. i do have a phone though, lemme check." He reaches in his pocket and pulls out an old, beat up looking flip phone. He opens it and his face falters a second.
"uh..." he turns it towards me, "i'm...too lazy to charge it." The screen is blank. It's dead.
Tick-tock tick-tock tick-tock tick-tock
"hey Alph! you have a phone, can you check what time it is? Y/N wants to know."
"H-huh? Oh! Yes, one second." She pulls out a really nice phone I don't recognize.
"so, you got a date or somethin'?" Sans raises a...brow bone...in question.
I snort. "What?"
"i asked if you have a date? you seem really anxious about what time it is all of a sudden."
"Haha, no I don't have a date. It's- I just need to get Sierra home." He looks at me a second.
"why, is something wrong?"
"Nah don't worry about it, k?" I wave him off.
"hm... k."
"It's 4:34, Y-Y/N."
Tick-Tick-Tick-Tick-Tick-Tick-Tick- tock -Tick-Tick-Tick-Tick-Tick-Tick-Tick- tock
"Oh." I feel my smile twitching. I begin walking a little faster, keeping pace with Sierra.
Tick-Tick-Tick-Tick-Tick-Tick-Tick-Tick
My heart is pounding in my ears.
The eyes burn hotter as if it's drilling a hole straight through me.
The sounds and scenery around me begin to fade into darkness.
No no no no NO!
All I hear is my heart pounding in my ears and breathing.
Not my breathing.
This sounds short, weak, and ragged.
Then a sound so quiet it could only be thought of as ringing in the ears surrounded me. It got louder and louder at a steady pace. Soon to notice, it's not ringing, but screaming. By now it's so loud my ears have begun to throb in pain.
"Y/N?" I blink a few times and realize I'd stopped walking. Alphys was in front of me with a serious expression. "Are you alright? You've been standing there for the past 5 minutes.?"
"I...must've spaced out, it happens a lot with me. You can even ask Sierra." Wait.
5 minutes...
It's 4:39 then.
This was a diversion.
Tiktiktiktiktiktiktiktiktiktiktiktiktiktiktiktiktiktiktiktiktiktiktiktiktiktiktiktiktiktik
"I just need to get some rest is all, this happens a lot when I'm tired." Noticing my smile was gone I quickly put it back and stuff my hands in the pockets of my hoodie. Undyne, and Sierra have a mixture of concerned and annoyed expressions, Alphys is watching me with concern in her eyes as well, Frisks' expression is unreadable, Sans is eyeing me; his expression is masked as well. The smile he always seems to have isn't as big."Well unless you guys want to grab some popcorn and watch me space out some more, I think we better get moving. Our stop's comin' up soon so it's not that far." I shrug and resume walking just far enough that I still have Sierra in front of and in my sights.
The set of eyes that were on me before have been replaced with three sets of new ones.
Tiktiktiktik
That's all I hear in my head. A constant ticking, it's become an all too familiar warning sound.
A warning that says,
T i m e s u p Y / N .
I look in the shadowy spaces and alleyways in between each building.
One makes me catch my breath and trip over absolutely nothing.
Doesn't help that my hands are in my pockets.
Luckily I was quick enough to push a foot far enough in front of me to catch myself. I hear a couple snickers.
Glancing at the alley that made me embarrass myself as we grew closer and closer to passing it, I saw that they were still there.
Two.
Red.
Glowing.
Eyes.
Sans walks next to me. I see he's trying to follow my gaze so I quickly cast my eyes in front of me and onto the red ribbon in my sister's hair
"ya know...it's a beautiful day outside..." He keeps pace with me, talking just loud enough for me to hear. "...birds are singing...flowers are blooming...on days like these..." he sighs, "...nevermind." Looking back at him I see that he's glaring in the direction of where the red eyes were. They're gone now. I'm not sure whether he was talking to me or not...
And the eyes?
They may not be visible but they're still there somewhere. I know it.
Watching me, burning holes into my back. Thank god for the hoodie, otherwise you'd be able to see the goosebumps on my arms.
I know what they are.
I know who they belong to.
I know what they do and what they're capable of.
What they want, I'm still not completely sure.
They sure seem to take a liking to my sisters' blood. Haha...ha...
I know their moves upside down and inside out.
They're predictable.
I can beat that demon this time.
This time. Ha...
Time is what I need.
Not what I have.
And unfortunately...
H e l l w a i t s f o r n o o n e .
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You do not understand how much I love those last few lines.
Okay, Word Count(without A/Ns): 3353 (!!!)
This took forever but it was worth it!
Okay to be fair though, most of this is just last chapter in Y/Ns POV. Either way this was interesting to write, actually not what I had planned for it but this is much better.
Also..
OMG I HAVE 1K REEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDDDSSSSS
1009 to be precise LOL
I'm SO happy! I never thought I'd reach 1K so quickly! I guess consistency is key :)
Hope you enjoyed this as much as I enjoyed writing it.
PS I can't further the plot too much without breaking the 4th wall. Unfortunately You can only talk to Sans and a couple others (soon to be revealed) until the 4th wall is completely broken or the whole in it is wide enough. Basically we have to injure The Mysterious Unnamed Stranger.... :/
Now onto other matters.
Choice making.
Since you are Y/N, some chapters will have choice options and will be finished according to how many votes are on each choice by the end of the given time. The time limit varies.
I would make alternate chapters revealing what would happen with each choice but that would make my story a tree of branches with all sorts of different leaves. It's really confusing on the writers end and so you guys will have to vote.
This will play a big part in the plot along with everyone slowly picking away at the wall.
QOTC( Question of the Chapter):
What are your theories surrounding this story and/or its characters so far?
Vote, Comment, Share, and all that internet stuff.
SEE YA GUBBLERS!
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~ Bub :)
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