A Killer Life

Chapter 7*

I dusted all the monsters in the underground.

I beat my fastest record by 4 hours, and I was very happy. Suck on that demon!

I waited for it to RESET the world like it always did when I finished a run... but it never did. I was left confused.

Did I miss a monster?

I went to check every biome again, but nothing.

Did I forget to do something?

I went back again, even to the Ruins, but still nothing.

Did I mess something up?

I tried calling for it– tried to yell– but no sound came out from my mouth.

Panicked, I brought a hand to my neck and tried to speak. The only sound that I heard was the clicks of my teeth hitting each other.

I gave up after a few minutes with no signs of my voice. I felt blank for a few days after that. No noises from other beings, or myself. Completely silent.

..H.lp .E...

It was lonely for a long time. 

When you speed run everything and you have to wait for something to happen to continue, you kind of have extra time to yourself. So I used it. I trained, ate, and slept.

A routine you can say, but the demon was nowhere to be found.

My hope decreased every year with no one else to talk to. Alone in the underground only hearing the whispers at the back of my skull. Silently yelling. Taunting me to kill more when there was no one else.

Who else do I have to kill to be satisfied? Who else is left?

Time passed by in a flash, and on the verge of my second insanity, I met someone familiar. A very familiar monster.

"Oh dear. What happened here to make it look so gloomy?"

It was Papyrus.

I stared in shock at his ghostly figure; transparent with dust like particles floating around him as if he was dusting again.

He looks exactly the same as the day I killed him.

A slash at his spine under his skull and the red scarf that has red spots that seem darker than the fabrics original color. His head was half dusted, with the majority of his body faded out like a drop of ink in water.

I took a shuddering breath as I looked at Papyrus panicked. I felt my eye lights flickering.

"Brother?"

I took a step back from him.

"Sans? Wait, don't go please! What's happening?!"

As Papyrus reached out to me, I ran back the way I came from.

That's not Papyrus. I killed Papyrus. I KILLED MY BROTHER!!

I ran through the snow even when my breathing started to get heavy.

Papyrus is dead. Papyrus is DEAD!

When I was finally about to get to my old sentry post, I tripped. I groaned as I tried to sit up, but my limbs were too weak for me to support myself.

I have to get away. Papyrus isn't, I can't, I have to-

"Sans? Where did you go?"

My head turned to where the voice came from. Papyrus came closer and closer every second, but I was stuck on the ground.

"Brother? Oh no, what do I do?"

I blacked out hearing the voice of Papyrus.