Guiltale

Chapter Seventeen: Call the Fireman!

"Do we have to fight, Papyrus? I'm not here to do that..."

Papyrus sighed. "SO YOU WON'T FIGHT... THEN, LET'S SEE IF YOU CAN HANDLE MY FABLED 'BLUE ATTACK!"

Suddenly, I was surrounded by blue bones. They spun, coming for me at even intervals.

"Remember what Sans said! Don't move!" Chara danced around me, pointing out bones as they flew towards me so I knew when to stay still.

"Uh, yeah, I'm staying still. I'm not a-"

Suddenly, the blue bones stopped - my SOUL was back to yellow, too. I sighed in relief and turned back to Papyrus.

"I'm not an idio-" Before I could finish, a white bone no higher than my shin came barrelling at me, sweeping my leg and breaking the skin. Papyrus winced, but recovered.

"YOU'RE BLUE NOW. TH-THAT'S MY ATTACK!" Papyrus laughed nervously before sending out some more non-blue bones."BEHOLD!"

I dodged these just fine, but the next ones... not so much. "HOW HIGH CAN YOU JUMP?" Papy asked... it wasn't very high.

As I jumped, I kept catching my feet on the tops of the bones – losing HP in the process.

"It's not like I can hold an arrow key to make my jumps higher! Jeez, Pap!" I complained as more bones hurled at head height. I dodged some by going to the side, but still got hit by one. At a not-so-chill 08/28 HP, I began to cry a little to myself.

"Grace? The assaisonnement words say he is... 'trying to keep it cool'? What does that mean??" Chara said, peering at the invisible text as I swerved away from a bone attack.

"YEAH! DON'T MAKE ME USE MY SPECIAL ATTACK!"

I whispered under my breath what Chara'd read as I held my side. Chara's eyes went wide as she continued. "OHH. He is trying to stay calm? Does that mean he doesn't really WANT to hurt you?". I gasped, turning my head towards her abruptly - but immediately got hit with almost four attacks in succession. Bruised and with a bleeding nose, I looked up at the sweet face of this young skeleton with pleading. I didn't want to die again. To go to that dark place, with that unidentifiable but somehow familiar voice waiting for me. Wait what was I thinking of? With a grimace, Papyrus walked up to me and chopped me in the neck. Before I blacked out, I saw him smile sadly - and beyond my closed eyelids, I heard him say,

"YOU'RE TOO WEAK. I WAS EASILY ABLE TO CAPTURE YOU.. I WILL NOW SEND YOU TO THE CAPTURE ZONE. OR AS SANS CALLS IT... OUR GARAGE??? YOU'RE IN-"

I didn't really hear anything else after that. Other than maybe laughter?

Rustling. A pair of boney arms? Green light, and then... relief.

Darkness. Calming, and serene... for once. A building appeared. We were going in it. All the way up to the-

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!"

I screamed, scaring the dog sleeping nearby, who dashed out. I gasped for air, holding the back of my neck as I did so. Blinking, I willed my eyes to refocus, and once they were almost clear, I shifted to a kneeling position. "Okay, deep breaths." I breathed a slow singer's breath, letting the air deep into my belly, and held it for a couple seconds, letting it out slowly. After doing this three times, I finally looked up at Chara...