Reckoning Tale-An Undertale Fanfiction Novel

Chapter 32: Looping

We are visiting temporarily the parallels. It doesn't matter which is which, since it's in a loop, but I decided to go ahead and address the fun levels involved. Just not anything else yet. Not needed yet.

fun level 74 Original MC Sans and Frisk

Behind Chuckney's . . . 

"You sure you wanna be the one to check this out?" Sans asked Asriel again. After a day of driving, everyone ate and then checked into a hotel. Sans with Frisk and Undyne with Asriel. They didn't get around to new clothes yet, but Asriel said he wanted to check out his kingdom first. His simple shirt and jeans were also a lot less conspicuous. 

"You won't leave my sister's side for very long, and Undyne has great fighting power if anything happens," Asriel said. "Besides, I've always been fairly good at finding out things." 

 "Just be careful, Prince Asriel," Sans warned him. "See if you can dig up something else that'll help. So far all I know is they are trapped in a barrier. Call me when you're ready. I'll be back at the hotel." 

"Risk for a kingdom is royalty's job too, you know," Asriel insisted. "Get going already." He watched Sans take off and started to walk. The barrier really wasn't that far at all, and it was like a thick fog. He went through it easily to the other side. It enveloped a great deal of the mountain. 

'Monsters' seemed to still be walking around in their human forms and monster forms. And considering monster-humans were most at risk, some of them could have actually been just regular humans with some monster in them. "Howdy, ma'am," Asriel said to a young woman. "I'm new to this barrier. Do you know where we get all established?" 

"I don't know," she said. "Basically, find a home, and take it as yours before someone else moves in. All the pure humans got scared off long ago. News covers it as mass hysteria." 

"Oh, okay," Asriel said. "Sounds about what I would expect then. Say, do you know what happened to the ones who created this mess?" 

"Oh. Yes," she said. "They are dead." 

What?! "They're . . . dead? Gosh, that's horrible. It wasn't their fault it happened."  

"Well, they aren't dead dead," she insisted, "but sort of. They are soul-trapped." 

"Soul-what?" 

"Soul-trapped," she said. "It's the newest kind of barrier defense amongst enemies. They are standing. They can even be possessed to walk and talk, which is kind of creepy, but their souls are inside the barrier form itself. If they leave, the magic stops and they die." 

"That's . . . horrible," Asriel said, piecing it together. "Their soul is inside the actual barrier holding them, not in their own bodies? But. I mean, they are technically dead, but not. I see. Well, can their souls be recovered?" 

"Oh. I don't know. I don't know enough about it," she said. "I'm sorry. I don't know why they would even bother with such a thing. Once they lose their souls, they are technically dead. Why keep them standing?" 

To trick Sans into believing they are fine when he comes back. Those liars! "Gosh, thanks for all the friendly new gossip," Asriel said, being polite and kind to not give away how horrified he'd been. "Hope we end up being neighbors!" 

Asriel talked to three more random monsters on his way up, each with a different excuse or means to greet them. And he found out more disturbing facts. The 'trapped-soul' barrier was a torture chamber more than a barrier. If one went close to the barrier, they could actually hear several different screaming souls.