It didn't take long for the two to figure out the puzzle, but it did take them a few tries. They left the building together, and proceeded to walk to the giant door. Chara didn't even complain about the vents.
The giant door slowly swung open, and the girls walked in.
The area they walked into was similar to the last one, but it was darker. The carpet on the ground changed from a light red to a to a purple-pink-ish color on the outlines, and black for the walkway. Chara started to walk forward while Frisk looked around, and walked into cobwebs.
"EW!" Chara screamed, swatting away the webs.
Frisk started to laugh.
"Don't laugh at me Frisk!" Chara yelled.
"Lots of spiders live here, Chara, of course there is going to be webs!" Frisk said, still giggling.
"I didn't know that! I would've been more careful!"
Frisk realized that Chara didn't remember everything about the Underground's many areas, as she did. "Hey!" Frisk said, remembering something, "Muffet lives here!"
Chara finished getting the webs off her, and smiled. "Really? Well let's go see her!" She grabbed Frisk's hand and started running towards a purple-pink-ish colored building. They saw that the building entrance had a spider web blocking it. On closer inspection, the web spelled out: NO HUMANS. The girls were confused.
Frisk never ran into this on her last run, and it confused her, but she knew they had to get past this, or they'd never make it out of Hotland.
Chara looked at the writing and assumed that it was old. Maybe this was for humans in the past, that didn't like spiders. She had been super nice to Muffet awhile ago, so she assumed there was no way this message was directed at her or Frisk.
"We have to destroy the web here." Frisk said. "But how?"
Chara pulled a stick out from her inventory, and waved it across the web, catching all the webbing on the stick, and removing it from the door. The girls walked in.
"Smart!" Frisk said, grabbing Chara's hand.
The inside was dark, barely illuminated by a faint, light, reflecting off the hundreds of cobwebs that hung from every direction. The girls walked in, and heard a voice.
"Ahuhuhu..." Laughed a woman's voice from the ceiling.
Chara and Frisk continued to walk, Frisk holding Chara close.
"Did you hear what they just said?" The voice echoed. "They said two humans wearing stripped shirts would come through."
Chara and Frisk noticed a giant web in front of them, and it looked like the only path, so they stepped on it. Walking on it wasn't easy. The giant web stuck to their feet, making them slow.
"I heard they hate spiders. I heard that they love to stomp on them." The voice said. Chara noticed it was Muffet's voice.
The girls tried to traverse the giant web, and became slower and slower, until finally they couldn't move anymore and became trapped in the web. Chara tried to free herself by flailing around, and Frisk remained calm. She squeezed Chara's hand, and looked at her. Chara calmed down, and looked around.
"I heard.." The voice said. Suddenly, a gigantic web, appeared out of nowhere, suddenly illuminated, revealing Muffet sitting in the middle, along with a bunch of much smaller spiders. "That they pretend to be friendly and then stab you in the back." Muffet said, looking directly at Chara.
Chara was shocked by the news. "What? What do you mean Muffet?"
Frisk was confused too, she didn't remember this the last time she fought Muffet.
"Well, my dearies~" Muffet said, pouring a glass of Spider Cider for herself. "I think you will be better off as a tasty treat for my spiders! And your SOULS are exactly what this next batch of goodies needs!" She laughed.
A battle sequence started.
Chara and Frisk were trapped in the web, unable to move away.
Muffet stood up in her web, showing her fangs. She looked mad at the two, but they didn't know why. "Don't look so blue my dearies~" She said. Spider venom dripped from her mouth, a bright purple color.
Frisk felt something hit her shoulder and looked over, and saw a drop of purple. She looked up and saw the roof was full of spiders, baring their teeth, purple venom dripping from their mouths. Frisk gasped and covered her face.
Chara noticed Frisk's gasp and looked up, seeing the venom droplets making their way to them. She copied Frisk and covered her face.
The venom dripped on Chara and Frisk, burning slightly with every droplet hitting their delicate skin. Frisk winced with pain, while Chara stood there, not noticing the pain. She was too focused on wondering why Muffet was doing this to them, after being so nice before.
When all had seemed to calm down and Frisk could no longer feel venom dripping on her, she looked up and uncovered her eyes to see Muffet giggling at them, she looked at Chara, and noticed her SOUL was a shade of purple now. She looked at her own SOUL and saw the purple.
Muffet flashed a smile with her fangs. "I think purple is a much better look on you! Ahuhuhu~"
Chara and Frisk saw three purple webs, and Frisk knew she could move on those. She brought out a toy knife from her inventory, that she only picked up for an emergency, and cut herself from the webs entrapping her. She moved to Chara and cut her out, and the knife disappeared from Frisk using it. "To the purple webs Chara! We can move on them because our SOULS are the same color!" Frisk said, jumping on the webs.
Chara followed, and jumped on the web. She noticed it was in a set of three, but she didn't know why.
Muffet sent a wave of spiders on the web, all about half as big as the girls. They bared their teeth and scuffled towards them quickly.
"Chara! Jump on different webs to avoid the spiders!" Frisk yelled, jumping out the way of one.
Chara looked to see the spider closing in on her, and she instinctively jumped out of the way, landing on the web next to her.
The girls' text box appeared and Frisk selected MERCY, as did Chara, but reluctantly, her hand skimming over the FIGHT option momentarily.
"Muffet! Why are you doing this?" Chara asked, as she sent more spiders towards them.
"Dearie~" Muffet said sweetly. "If you keep evading, you won't be a sweet treat!"
Frisk avoided the spiders coming towards her and yelled, "Who told you we hated spiders?"
"That is none of your concern!" She spat out.
Spiders stopped rushing her, and began to throw Spider Donuts at them, glazed in venom. They were surprisingly bouncy, and sprung from web to web, the girls having to be careful where they jumped. Muffet giggled at their struggling.
"Your SOULS are going to make every spider in the Underground very happy!" She said.
"Muffet, please, tell us why you are mad!" Chara said, not paying attention to the spiders rushing her. One got close and bit her, and scurried away. Chara yelled in pain, her HP was now 16/20.
"Chara!" Frisk yelled, jumping towards Chara's web.
Chara was holding on to her side. It was burning from the spider poison, but Chara decided to deal with the pain.
"Chara, are you okay?" Frisk said, obviously worried.
Chara smiled, happy Frisk was concerned. "I'm fine, focus on the spiders!"
Frisk smiled, she knew Chara was tough.
Chara looked up at Muffet who had a look of worry in her eyes. When Muffet noticed they she was looking, she looked away.
She remembered something and giggled. "Oh my! How rude of me, I forgot to introduce you to my pet!" She giggled more, as a giant spider, twice as big as Chara or Frisk, in the shape of cupcake started rising out from the webs. Mote purple webs began to form on top of the girls.
"Chara! We have to climb, or we'll be dead for sure!" Frisk said, jumping on the first web on top of her.
Chara looked at the giant monster spider below her. It's body looked like the wrapper for a cupcake, and it had sprinkles across its head. It was opening and closing its mouth, as if it was preparing to eat her. She jumped up and grabbed the web, and began to climb. Spiders began to run on the webs trying to knock into the girls. They climbed around them, jumped out of their way. As they reached the top of the webs, the cupcake spider got tired and fell asleep below them.
"Why don't you quit avoiding my dearies~" Muffet said, sounding somewhat sad. "It'll just make it easier on us all."
Chara looked at Muffet questioningly. Noticing Muffet looked away when she tried to look at her.
"Muffet, please." Chara started. "What happened to helping me make that pretty dress?" Chara said, trying to tug at Muffet's heart strings.
Muffet's sad look returned as she gazed into Chara's eyes. "Chara... I'm.." She began to say. "I'm sorry I had to be this way." She continued, as more spiders and donuts rushed towards them.
The cupcake spider woke up beneath the girls and let out a roar, icing, rather than venom, coming from its mouth. It began to climb slowly towards them again, and Frisk looked up to see more purple webs forming. "Chara! Let's move!" She yelled.
Chara followed her and they began to climb again. This time, the spiders didn't run across the webs, but stayed in one place trying to block their passage. They had to climb strategically, as the spiders placed themselves to where only a small gap remained.
Below them, the cupcake spider began to get tired again and fell asleep. The girls stopped climbing up.
Frisk was getting tired and tried to catch her breath, when suddenly a donut hit her. She winced in pain. 18/20. She applied a band-aid and recovered her health.
Chara decided to try to talk with Muffet again. "Muffet, if you told us why you were doing this, we could try to fix this!"
"No! You can't fix this, you spider killers!" Muffet yelled at her, tears starting to form in all her eyes.
Frisk and Chara both looked at her confused. Frisk looked around to notice the spiders stop moving, just staring at them, with anger and judgment in their beady eyes.
Frisk was the first to speak up. "What do you mean? We haven't killed any spiders!"
Muffet's sad expression was replaced by one of anger. "Don't lie!" She snapped at them. "Someone came and told me the truth about you two after you left my stand! You are liars and back stabbers!"
Chara was taken aback by the sudden outburst. The spiders started to make hissing noises at the two.
"What are you talking about? Who told you those things?" Frisk said.
Muffet looked at them, and thought for a moment. "No one that I know, but they said back in the RUINS where some of my spiders live, you two stomped on them and treated them awfully!" Muffet said.
"Muffet please listen!" Chara said. "We never hurt any spider in the RUINS, in fact, we bought a couple of pastries from them!"
A small spider ran up to Muffet and mumbled something that the girls couldn't hear. The spider handed Muffet a folder containing purchases made in the RUINS, and sure enough, Chara and Frisk's name was included. Muffet stared in disbelief.
"But... If you two treated them nicely... What about the things I heard?"
"They were lies!" Frisk said. "We are nice people Muffet, and we want to be your, and all the spiders' friends." Frisk said calmingly.
Muffet started to tear up again. She looked at the girls. "I'm so sorry.." She said, using two of her hands to wipe away some tears.
The battle sequence ended.
Chara and Frisk's SOULS suddenly regained their red color, and Muffet walked over to them. She hugged Chara, making her flinch, from the pain from the poison in her side, but she hugged her back.
"Thank you Muffet.." Chara said.
"My dearie, I should've known. But when I was told that, I became so angry, I couldn't help myself." Muffet still had tears in her eyes. She let go of Chara and wiped them away.
"Who told you those terrible things?" Frisk said.
"Well, as soon as you two left, a small talking flower appeared and told me you two where bad news. He told me about all the things you two do to spiders, and how you were trying to be my friend so you could hurt me, but seeing you against all of my spiders, you didn't hurt a single one, even when they attacked you. You must be good people." Muffet said.
Frisk's eyes widened. "...talking flower.." She said quietly, so only she could hear.
"Must have been an echo flower Sans warned us about, huh Frisk?" Chara said.
"Y-yeah." Frisk said nervously.
Chara began to explain to Muffet about Echo Flowers, and the warming their friend gave them.
"That must be what it was." Muffet said. Chara and Frisk agreed, but Frisk was worried, she knew exactly what Muffet was referring to. Frisk hadn't told Chara about Flowey yet, as she could never find the right time. She knew she'd have to tell eventually.
They said their goodbyes to Muffet. "Please come back any time dearies~" she said. "We'll make that dress too Chara, I promise!" The girls left the spider lair.
Outside they saw a poster of a show Mettaton was going to put on. "Star Crossed Lovers"
According to the poster, the show was just about to start. They walked forward and saw a stage set.
"Ready for a show Darlings?" A familiar robot voice was heard somewhere in the set.
"Not again..." Chara said.
*Making amends with Muffet fills you both with DETERMINATION*
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Determined Love (Charisk)
FanfictionMy first fan-fic about Charisk! I hope you enjoy. ~Little side note- The book cover does not belong to me, but rather hamvitita on DeviantArt. (I added the words with the Cover's app though.)
