Once More With Feeling

Shadows

'If that human falls down ever again, I'm gonna kill them with my own hands.', Maya thought, wriggling Lilly around a bit so she got more comfortable and the girl wouldn't snore into her ear anymore.

They left the city behind them days ago, so technically they should be out of danger, but Maya refused to stop for too long.

She was carrying a sleeping Lilly, piggyback style, and kept walking.

She needed to get to the Underground.

As fast as possible.

Frisks words from three days ago, her description of what was going on..

Maya couldn't stop, the desire to see her friends and tell them that everything would be alright too powerful to ignore.

So she kept on walking, one foot in front of the other, soul heavy in her ripcage.

The trail up into the mountains should be close, if Gasters mental map was correct, which it had been up until now.

The whole showing-her-the-way thing was weird and Maya couldn't really describe just how he did it.

It felt like she was blindly following someone who was sitting in her head and whispered the directions whenever they came to a crosswalk.

But she trusted Gaster, so she followed him.

It shouldn't be much longer, about a one day walk- if she could finally find the trail up, that was.

Maya had been looking for the last 30 minutes now, turning this way and that way, running off and pacing back, but she just couldn't seem to find it.

It was frustrating and really started to piss her off.

Especially now that the sun was starting to set.

The girl wanted to be in the woods around the mountain by nightfall, away from the open streets.

And away from the shadows that were following them for a few hours now.

It had been one back in the city, now there were at least five.

And they were good.

No matter where she went, they followed, through the tight alleys in the city, the busy shopping mall and even the forest they crossed yesterday.

They didn't seem to get tired too, which was her biggest problem at the moment.

Because no matter how determined she was to get home, Maya wasn't Frisk- her determination had ends.

She had been walking for at least eight hours- the last three with Lilly on her back- and she was tired.

So incredibly tired.

The nights in the Void didn't go unnoticed by her body and apparently they didn't count as real sleep.

Maya sighed and rubbed her eyes, stifling a yawn.

'Goddamnit Gaster.', she cursed and stopped in the middle of the street, on the verge of giving up. 'Where the hell is the stupid trail?!'

Had Gaster played her?

Was there even a way up the mountain from here?

Then she heard a groan.

And nearly jumped out of her skin, heart rate already quickening.

Her head whipped around, calling up the magic to defend Lilly and her by any means- regardless of his warning.

If she had to kill to get them to safety, so be it- wouldn't be the first time after all.