The Animals Inside

Chapter 11: "You can see me?!"

AN: I have no idea what a shoutout is, but I saw it in a YouTube video, so shoutout to my friend @Moonwolf_230 for helping me with drawing skellies! Even though I'm not good at verbal communication, and they aren't good at verbal understanding, but I think I have a solution. Also, once the grammar is fixed, I won't be editing the chapter unless it's a chapter without a picture, which, as I've stated before, I want one on every chapter, even announcements. Congrats to my friends at school, they broke my record of life crises for a day, going from 4 to 7, and I'm getting a mental breakdown right now! Fun, isn't it? They're all about losing stuff, don't worry, and mental breakdown is about not knowing how to freehand crochet a penguin's foot. I tend to panic over small things that I care a lot about. Extra thing I'm making clear. If the quotation mark ain't Italic, then it ain't the one for yelling, and it's the one for emphasized.

"Hello"- talking | (Hello)- muttering or whispering | "Hello"- yelling | "Hello"- unholy screeching *Hello*- thinking | =Hello= - Flame's telepathy | \Hello/- Frost's telepathy | Hello- emphasized

Farm POV:

*SHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHIT WHAT DO I DO FROST JUST FAINTED AND WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT AND - I should probably stop swearing - AND WHY IS IT FLOATING AND WHY DOES IT SEEMED CONCERNED ABOUT FROST AND AAAAAAAAAAAH*
SN: If you can't tell, Farm is currently having a mental breakdown.
*It's okay, deep breaths, its concern seems genuine, so I can probably trust it* "I won't repeat myself. Who are you. What are you. How do you know Frost." I said, more demanding than questioning. "I'm Flame, a magical companion Frost created me out of their magic. I can turn invisible, semi-invisible, or just not invisible at all. When I'm invisible, nobody, absolutely nobody, can see or sense me. When I'm semi-invisible, only those who Frost permits to, which is currently you and Error, can see and sense me. If people see me while I'm not invisible or semi-invisible, they're gonna be in for a bad burn. If Frost finds out, they'll get a bad chill.
SN: Yes, I just tried to replicate most of the sanses "bad time" and "bad harvest" in Farm's case. Frost's base magic is ice magic, like their name suggests, like Flame, so I thought it fit. If the person has seen Flame while he wasn't semi-invisible or invisible, Frost will be the one to decide whether or not they should let the person see Flame. If yes, they see Flame without the ritual, if no, they forget this happened.
"Error is a forced god, and Frost seemed to know this and seems to be particularly soft with forced gods, so he didn't have to go through the whole thing. I think it's mainly because he gave them a fox plush, which is currently a pendant around their neck. We found out it's a siphon for magic, and Error told us that it would tell him when we were in danger before he left."

I-wow. That is a lot to take in. I sat there, pondering, but I must have zoned out 'cuz I got slapped by a tiny paw, bringing me back to reality, and to Frost moving slightly on the ground. "OMG FROST ARE YOU OKAY?! I DIDN'T KNOW THAT PERFORMING THE RITUAL WOULD MAKE YOU PASS OUT SINCE YOU HAD SOME OTHER WAY TO DO IT WITH PEOPLE WHO HAD ALREADY SEEN ME EITHER SEMI-INVISIBLE OR INVISIBLE!" I covered my nonexistent ears as Flame screeched, but apparently, Frost wasn't affected. They pushed Flame away and focused their attention on me. "Hello Farm. I see you've met Flame. He should have explained everything, yes?" I responded, "No, he didn't say  why you had something moving in your cloak." I also was kind of broken inside, as they seemed so authoritative, demanding respect, so unlike the quivering skeleton I found. "Oh. Well, then, I guess I trust you enough to show you. Wait one moment first." I watched as they sent magic in small pulses through something that I assumed was the fox pendant-plush that Flame mentioned Error gave Frost. "Alright. If Error doesn't understand Morse code via magic, he'll have to come in person. Otherwise, I've sent him a message in Morse code about the rest of my secrets, as I trust him." They then proceeded to take off their cloak, showing me a black-tipped tail.

Flame POV:

I couldn't believe it. Frost told Farm and Error all of their secrets?! Isn't he aware that others could be listening?! "Flame, you're predictable. So, as an answer to your extremely predictable thoughts, I put up a barrier. Yes, you know I can do that. You know most of that was an act." They stated with a monotone voice. It sent chills down me and Farm's spine, quite fitting his ice-themed magic. "Yes, I know that, but we still don't know if we completely trust Error and Farm yet!" I rebuttled. "You mean me. I'm the one with the secrets. You're one of the secrets." "I..." I struggled to find a response to that. "Um, hay partners, ya mind explanin'?"

Right. I forgot Farm was here. We simultaneously turned to look at him, which creeped him out at how in sync we were, before once again asking us what happened here. "I'll explain. Also, I didn't mention all the secrets, Flame." "...That's true..." I gave in. Frost nodded, before continuing, "I'm Frost. My fingertips are extremely sharp, and I call them claws. I wear mittens to avoid hurting both myself and others around me. I have black-tipped fox ears and a black-tipped fox tail. I usually wear my cloak to hide them, which is the reason I got attacked by the Star Shits since I look like Dust when not looked at too closely. I was found by Error in a bush in an abandoned Snowdin where he gave me this fox plush." Frost's pendant turns into its plush form as they speak. "He said it would alert him when Flame and I are in trouble, but I'm unsure how that works." They turn the plush back into pendant form, putting it back around its neck. "I found out while Flame was teaching me how to heal and use my magic that it can siphon magic. That's why I was sending my magic in small bursts, it was Morse code. Flame here instinctively checks every person they meet, and Error's description said he was a forced god and that he knew Morse code and some other stuff I don't remember since it wasn't important. I don't know if he knows what I told him, since I don't know if he knew I was communicating with Morse code. Magic pulses can be used for Morse code, but Morse code is rarely known, and it's mostly used with sounds instead of magic pulses."

Nightmare POV:

Ah, so that's why there were small pulses of magic coming from Error. I wondered why foreign magic was coming from that fox pendant on that necklace of his that he made. I was wondering where it came from, and why he was sending his magic into it.
*Flashback*
I asked him about the magic, but he didn't want to say anything, and I thought he was probably using it as a backup storage for magic. That was yesterday. Today, around lunch, I felt quick pulses of magic run through it and saw Error's eye sockets widen, his vibrant, glitched eyelights shrinking a little. I felt a sudden pulse of shock from him and decided that I was getting answers, whether he gave them or not. If he gave them, good! If not, I'll just follow the magic to its source, and spy on whatever is happening there. "Error." I had said. "Y3@h?" he replied, seemingly back to normal, like he was never shocked and the magic pulses had never happened. "What were those small pulses of magic, why were you sending magic into the pendant of your new necklace, and where did the necklace come from," I demanded, a feeling of unease dripping from my voice. "I-i-i-i- w-w3\\, y-y0u s33...... 0H W0U\D Y0U \00K @T TH@T, INK IS CR3@TING T00 MUCH @GAIN-N-N G0TT@ G0 S33 Y0U L@-@-@-T3R!" He stuttered the phrase out, glitching like he used to before we managed to fix it up a little. He was very nervous. He also didn't give any answers, so I decided to take matters into my own hands.
*Flashback end*
I was glad that I always had an instinct to take small samples of strange magic, since this let me scour the AUs for the source. I found them in Farmtale, waking up on a patch of grass in front of Farm's house. *Bingo* I thought, teleporting into Farmtale, and walking over to the spot, as my magic was detectable, whether I hid my aura or not. "-extremely sharp, and I call them claws." The figure was saying as I walked up, hidden in the shadows. "I wear mittens to avoid hurting both me and others around. *insert rest of Frost's explanation since you probably don't want to reread that*" I quietly hummed, thinking over this. That must be why Error had that new necklace, why Error was sending magic through it, and why small pulses of magic were coming from it, according to this young skeleton. I was puzzled over who Flame was, since there were only two presences in the room, but Farm seemed to know who that was, so I assumed it was just another person they knew. "Ahem, will you come out, or will you keep standing there?"

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This is the most words I've ever written. I should probably mention that the word count includes all SNs and ANs in the chapter, but I don't know if I already mentioned it. Also, I'm planning more stories. I just don't like to start multiple works, because then my writer's block gets worse, and I get more mental breakdowns because of stress, so this is my solution. I don't know why the " is there, but just pretend it's quotation marks.
Title: "You can see me?!"

~Toodles!