Fonttale

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Hope In Horrible Places

Chara kicked a rock into the lava near the entrance to Hotland. They were as confused as they were upset. They had so many questions, and no one to ask.

How did this dead girl become a Horror?

Can anyone become Horrors?

Can their race be brought back?

Looking back at Stranger Danger, they waited until she caught up.

They couldn't believe they didn't figure it out. Did they really think zombies were a thing? She was obviously a skeleton, her skin just hadn't rotted off yet.

The dead don't walk, that's stupid.

"Where are we going?"

"To see the king."

The king would be able to explain all of this. Asgore fought Fonts in the war, so he must know a lot about them that Chara didn't...at least they hoped so.

Jumping on a spring platform, they made their way over to where they knew the frying pan was. They had walked by it last time while they were thinking, but now they remembered it. Normally they would just pick up the pan and keep going, but this time things were different.

The pan was the best weapon in the Underground in Chara's opinion. It healed their HP and they would need their HP more than ever, but did it belong to a human that was now a Font?

Would that Font want the pan back like the little girl in Waterfall wanted her shoes?

I need this weapon.

I won't survive without it.

Picking up the pan, they equipped it and continued on towards the stained apron they had also accidently passed up.

Stranger Danger was silently reading behind them. Chara had to constantly check to make she wasn't about to walk off a ledge and it was annoying. Apparently whatever was in that book was worth more than her life.

"What's in the notebook?" asked Chara knowing full well what was in the notebook. They had checked it out before, but they wanted Stranger Danger to pay attention to where she was going.

"Notes on plants...I don't remember writing them."

"Doesn't sound too exciting."

"My name's not in here...*sniff*" Stranger began to cry. She wiped her eyes taking off a bit of skin with her hand.

"You're name is Stranger Danger now. You're a Horror Font with magical powers and the strength of a human, AND you're at the top of the food chain! Why are you crying?"

"I don't need power, I want my mom..."

Chara looked at her like she was dumb.

Don't need power?

That's stupid.

"I don't have a family anymore...I don't have my friends...*sob*"

What a crybaby...

"I don't have my house or my toys...I don't even have my name..."