Under Water 2: The Red Harren [completed]

XVI

Nightmare smiled at me, narrowing his eye sockets, "It will be, trust me."

His pupil's flicked to somewhere behind me for a second, and I glanced over my shoulder, only to see that Sans was being held back.

I inhaled sharply, "Sans!"

"Frisk, wait--!" He shouted as I turned around, and after he had shouted that I felt myself being pulled back.

"Sans!" I called out once again, landing as I was thrown back and the opposite of him.

I charged towards Nightmare, who slide to the side, and I dodged stabbing attacks as they came my way, slowly inching towards Sans, who fought to get out of the glitch's grip.

"Isn't this oh so familiar?" He called out, slightly out of breath due to the movement of the battle, "This game of cat and mouse? Where I'm winning, and you're helpless, and Frisk is dangerously close to losing. Doesn't this just give you deja vu?"

Sans' eye socket's widened as he figured out what he was referencing to.

"You are not going to hurt her ever again!"

"And you're going to stop me? You couldn't the first time; what makes you think you will this time?"

Sans growled and broke free of his grasp, teleporting up into the air, falling with the rain of attacks. I gasped as an attack cut the hair next to my face, gracefully drifting to the ground beside me.

I looked over to Nightmare, my eyes open with surprised and fear.

He chuckled, "That was a close call for a reason, Frisk."

Chara's POV:

"She might have just forgotten, Chara," Asriel suggested.

"Frisk doesn't just forget, Asriel," I paced, "She is the brainiest of the brainiacs I know. She wouldn't just forget to come over and help with editing. Not only is it one of her freakishly therapeutic things, but it's for a friend in need, about a topic she's interested in, and even if she did forget, she wouldn't just ignore my phone calls. Something is wrong. I know it."

He sighed, his ears flicking a little bit, "If you're so sure, why haven't we done anything?"

I scowled, "Because we've been arguing about this for the past three minutes!"

"Well, we're done arguing now! So let's go and find her." Asriel headed out of the room.

I groaned, "Come on, don't get like th--" I stopped talking as someone grabbed my arm.

I could hear him stop walking, "Like what?"

"A-Asriel. . . T-There's someone else h-here. . ."

He ran back around the corner, grabbing the door frame to swing himself into the room, freezing once he saw the person who was aggressively holding my arm.

"Let her go," Asriel said in a low tone. After a few seconds of silence, he shouted, "Let my sister go!"

The person snickered behind me, "W-W-Why would I do that?"

I recognized that voice. It was the same voice that had broken my leg. The same voice that had tortured me before Frisk had found me.

"Error. . ." I whispered.

I yelped a little bit as I was pulled back. Asriel took a step forward, but stopped, seeing something that Error was doing.

"If you're so w-w-worried about F-Frisk," He started, now quite close to me, "She and Sans a-a-are being attacked by Nightmare in the same park w-where you had your pathetic study group. But d-d-don't worry; she isn't going to be h-hurt. At least, not as much as C-C-Chara here."

"Let her g--!" Asriel charged towards us, but he was cut off as he pulled the two of us into a portal, closing it before he could make it.

"Help!"

Frisk's POV:

"What the hell do you want, Nightmare?" Sans exclaimed, quite obviously pissed off.

"Me? I don't want anything, at least, nothing in this park."

I scowled, and Nightmare took notice, "Oh, you thought I was here for you? No. I knew about your little scheme. I know how much stronger you are than little Chara, and how you had the stronger protector. Chara was the weakest link, even the people around her were the weakest link."

I stopped breathing, "You. . ."

"Yes, Error helped me out," Nightmare sounded. . . Proud? "You thought that you and Chara were the targeted, making you divide among yourselves, even when you thought you were protecting everyone. Now, because you always have to be the hero, I have Chara, and you're to blame."

I fell to my knees, my expression as blank as my feelings, my hands shaking at my side.

"You thought you were doing the best for everyone, huh? You really thought that you could win? How amusing." He grinned.

Sans charged him, but the skeleton disappeared before he could even attempt an ambush. His attacks disappeared around him, and he ran over to me, pulling me into an embrace.

"This was not your fault," He whispered to me.

"It's always my fault, Sans."