Voidtale: an undertale AU

Chapter 6: The Journey

Painted Plummet

Jaiden's PoV

Over the next few days (days? weeks? months? years?) I traveled with the group of small children I've seem to come across, although I know that eventually, I will have to tell them about our shared predicament although I don't want to scare them and make them lose hope so I've kept my mouth shut about the whole no way out thing. I don't hope that they find out on their own, because that would lead to a huge mess, that I don't want to clean up! we have sort of a symbiotic relationship. I entertain them with my pencil and my drawings, and they keep me happy while I search for anything I can use to see if James has tried to find me. I also need a weapon. I have my pencil but that doesn't do much damage and anything I make with it, has the same attack power. my magic outside my pencil seems to be malfunctioning and I hope I can figure out why that is. I also found out why the one way out is, dare I say it, 99% impossible to get through. it is blocked by a magic force field, which can only be dispelled if you use magic on it, which requires you even have functioning magic, and you can only do that if you make it through the labyrinth which I assume is a maze, but to get there you have to pass the dungeon known as the 100 trials, which is very finicky as for each of the 100 floors you need a different person to complete. last I checked we don't have that many people. so if we can even get there in this humongous place, we won't be able to get out because we need an item called the orb of phoria, which lets your magic function properly apparently. how did I figure this out? well, remember back to the first chapter, yeah I know I'm in a book, anyways remember that sign that told me I wouldn't be able to get out? well, I drew it again and asked it some more questions while the children were having nap time because they need that apparently. I also asked it if there were any weapons in the place. it said that "that would spoil too much" and "I would find that out on my own" it also told me that currently in the void there were 20 people and that a new portal to the void would open up every month in that AU's time, hoping to consume more characters. if someone can gather up everyone in the void and make the journey to the 100 trials then we could get out. so I have a goal now and I think that every once in a while I should check how many people are in the void. Oh! and I forgot to mention that it said all portals outside of the one way out would close once 100 people were in the void. I just hope we get enough differing skills to get out of here. well, it seems that nap time is over so I guess I gotta go, I hope we find someone new today!