Not the One in Control (Undertale Fan-Fiction)

Dissolved in Tears

        As the tears flew towards you, you couldn't help but be surprised, from the fact that the ghost's tears, were his attacks. You realized that you should avoid them in that case, and you jumped to the right of the room, dodging all of the tears that were flying towards you. The tears flew for several more seconds before they were too far away from the wind to be carried by it, and thus they splattered onto the ground that was now to the left of you. That attack wasn't as dangerous as you had expected. Out of curiosity, you checked the ghost, and you found out that his name was Napstablook, and he likely didn't have a sense of humor. He then seemed to notice that you figured that out, and he said in response, "I'm real funny! I'm just not feeling up to it right now. Sorry..." While Napstablook stopped crying, his mood didn't seem to get any better. Hence, you decided to give him a patient smile, in the hope that it would help lighten up his mood.
   "Heh..." he said, although seemingly your smile didn't help, as he resumed into his crying state, tears flinging away from his eyes. These tears were flying even faster than the previous ones, but they weren't very accurate, and you were able to dodge them with ease. However Napstablook didn't stop crying, and you felt the ethereal wind become stronger, as a circular air current formed in the room. The stronger wind was able to carry the tears even once they had missed you, and you noticed some tears that had missed you, turn, and start flying near the walls to the left and right of you. Then the tears flew in front of you, before being turned by the wind, to move straight in your direction. The tears were moving slowly but steadily in your direction, at pin-point accuracy, and the quantity of tears in the air was rising steadily. With ease, you dodged the tears, but then more flew towards you. You dodged the next ones too, yet more kept coming, and in half a dozen seconds, the entire room was filled with floating tears.
   While you were able to dodge most of the tears, your legs still hurt from the moldsmals' acidic sludge, and you soon wore out from leaping left and right, while trying to avoid Napstablook's tears. You tried your best to dodge all of the tears, but soon they overwhelmed you. In your next attempt at dodging, one tear grazed the edge of your pink soul lightly. At that touch, your soul faintly vibrated, and for several moments, you felt a minor numbing pain on your skin. Even though the damage was very minor, the numb sensation acted as a distraction. While being distracted by the pain, your next dodge was made a lot less successful. You dodged the tears by leaping to the right, but from doing that, you leapt directly into one of Napstablook's tears. That single tear came in contact with your soul, hitting it dead in the center. You flinched and closed your eyes in pain, and you felt like you could barely continue moving, for the pain was indescribable. You opened your eyes only to see three more tears hit your soul seconds later. The tears felt like acid, they were burning you, and your soul. From that amount of damage, you collapsed onto the floor, and you started bleeding, and crying. Your vision became blurry from your tears, and you felt his tears land on your back, burning it even further. You were being dissolved in his tears.

   You felt so weak, that you weren't able to stand up, even if you tried. Your weakness disabled your ability to even move your hands and legs. You knew you had little chance of survival then, but despite that, you tried to believe that you had some. You couldn't die there, you had unfinished business, you still had curiosity within your soul. You still had hope too.
   As you continued to bleed, you could feel yourself become even weaker, and your skin became paler from blood loss. You looked up towards Napstablook, but you couldn't see much, as your vision was blurry. Despite that, you were able to notice that the air was no longer filled with tears, and the ethereal wind had silenced. You also noticed that colour returned to the room, meaning the battle was finished. The blurry white image, which you had assumed was Napstablook, had disappeared. There was no threat to you now, but there was no chance for you to live either.
   You laid there on the ground, for what felt like hours. Your heart was gradually beating slower every minute. You felt more powerless by the second, and you lost the little hope and determination you had, but, you kept on being curious. Curious on what would happen if you were to live on; curious to see what else there is in the monster world. Curious on things like, what the other pieces of monster candy tasted like, curious on whether Flowey's friendship would last, curious on why Napstablook was pretending to sleep in a place like that. You were curious on every small, unknown, bit of the unexplored world.
   You stared at the ground in front of you, trying to accept what will happen. Your vision became more blurry, for you continued crying, at the thought, of never being able to know the unknown, that you had been so enthusiastically curious on. Suddenly, you heard a voice.
   "This is not good..." it was a voice you could recognize, it was Flowey's voice.
   "Though... I should have expected this to happen." there was silence for several seconds, before Flowey spoke again. "See you soon." he whispered, before popping into the ground. Only moments after, everything started to disappear, and be replaced by darkness. It was the familiar sensation from before. The feeling of falling into darkness, ground disappearing from beneath your feet. Except this time, you felt your feet touch some ground, and then you felt your hands hold onto something. You felt your heart beat faster, and you could feel life return within your grip. However, you could also feel your mind and memories fade away.

   Then, as if you had opened your eyes, colour sprouted everywhere around you. You saw that you were holding a cheese, and it was stuck to a table. You looked around you, and you saw a mouse hole, and two doorways. You remembered where you had come from, but you couldn't remember what was in the next doorway. Then, you could feel sharp pain grow all over your body. You remembered that this pain was inflicted on you by the moldsmals and froggit.
   You looked at the doorway through which you hadn't gone through, and you felt a slight shiver of déjà vu. You couldn't tell why you felt it, and why it beguiled you. This made you curious, curious to see what was on the other side. Then, memories flooded back. You remembered that you were curious before, and that you were able to find out. You remembered that Napstablook was in the next room, and that you had fallen to him in combat. You remembered that this was because of your injuries. Quickly, you took out a random piece of monster candy, and ate it. You felt your injuries heal vaguely, but not nearly to completion.
   You had obtained a second chance in life; you had been given more time to satisfy your curiosities. You weren't eager to give that chance up. You were determined to explore beyond Napstablook. You stood with a heroic posture, and looked at the doorway in front of you. Knowing that you had another chance to fight Napstablook, it filled you with determination. It was a feeling you had never experienced before. As you stood in your heroic posture, you noticed something ominous. You couldn't feel the pain you had earlier, and moreover, the injuries inflicted on you by the froggit and moldsmals, had completely healed. Your injuries had healed unnaturally quickly. Not even a scratch was remaining.

   You moved into the next room, the room where you had found Napstablook. As you were coming towards Napstablook, you felt your determination rapidly decrease. As it did, you felt like you started to think more rationally. Last time, you were quite rude to Napstablook. That time, you had told him that you knew he was only pretending to sleep, and, you saying that, perhaps made Napstablook sad, or even angry. You decided you weren't going to be so rude this time. You approached him, and leaned over him, he was trying his best not to look at you. You looked in his eyes, and smiling, gently told him, "Mr. Ghost, please wake up."
   He looked at you, pretending to wake up. Though while doing so, he quickly started becoming sad, and for what reason, you couldn't quite tell. Then, he floated upright, at eye-level with you, and looked down on the ground, avoiding eye contact. You noticed everything around you was flashing in black and white, and you were slightly filled with dread. The battle was commencing.

   You tried to give Napstablook a patient smile. Though then he looked up at you, and whispered "heh..." while starting to cry uncontrollably. Ethereal wind filled the room, and his tears were being carried by it, in your direction. You slowly walked backwards, away from the tears, but they quickly gained velocity. Dodging them wasn't difficult for you, and you did so with ease. You knew that these tears weren't the difficult ones however.
   Despite the fact that Napstablook was crying, you felt like his mood was just a little bit better. To continue improving his mood, you told Napstablook a little joke.
   "heh heh..." he whispered again. He was sobbing, and trying to catch his breath from crying so intensely. You felt like you could have still improved Napstablook's mood, and you wanted to continue cheering him up. Although, just as you were about to speak, Napstablook interrupted you. "Let me try..." he said, at which moment he started crying again, but this time, the tears weren't going towards you. The ethereal wind had changed direction, and was levitating the tears upwards from Napstablook's eyes. Just above Napstablook, the tears collected, and joined, forming a cloud-like object. After more tears had collected, and the object had grown in size, the object transformed into a hat. "I call it dapper blook. Do you like it..." At the sound of him saying that, you couldn't help but smile and answer in response, "Yes!"
   Hearing that, Napstablook said, "oh gee..." and the colours around you, shifted to normal. The battle was finished, and you didn't even take a scratch this time.
   You watched Napstablook now lying on the pile of red leaves. Even though he was happier than before, he showed no signs of it. His expression was exactly the same as when you had met him. Despite it, you continued to believe that you had improved his mood, if only for the time being. You were also relieved that you were able to succeed in your second try in life.
   "I usually come to The Ruins because there's nobody around... But today I met somebody nice..." At the thought of what he just said, you couldn't help but smile at him. Then, he continued with concern, "Oh I'm rambling again... I'll get out of your way.", and before you could react, he vanished into thin air. The pathway was now unblocked. You didn't want to say goodbye to Napstablook so soon, but then, there was nothing you could do.

   You could only go forward, into the upcoming rooms.

Author's Note: The next chapter should be published in not less than 2 days