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Level 73: 18 Years and a Month Wish Granted
Frisk waited, trying to hide her trembling from Sans as he showed up.
“Do I need to strike one yet?” He tossed her a box of matches. “I would have just lessened up on the beans, but whatever’s clever, Princess.”
She knew he’d do that. She pushed him slightly. “I need these.”
“Sure do.”
She looked at the box of matches. Cold. “I’m starting to get a little cold. Do I wait until it gets bad?” She read the side label. “Oh, okay, I don’t.” The sooner she used it, the better off she had apparently been. She struck a match that was striped with a blue color and huddled up next to it. It was like her mom’s warmth. “Portable mom, that makes it easier.”
“Royalty in a pocket. That’s good.” So far, Sans hadn’t said anything, but it would happen soon. Probably before the first suitors started to come. “So, hey, how’s your brother?”
There it was. “No word today. Dad says he hasn’t seen him. He hasn’t seen Undyne or Alphys either.”
“No Papyrus either?”
“No.” The four of them were nowhere to be found Underground yet. “Dad said he didn’t send them on any covert missions at all.”
“Well, flat out saying it would kind of ruin the covertness,” Sans teased. “It’s . . .”
“Did they go to the surface again?” Frisk didn’t know why they would. There was nothing beneficial up there. She couldn’t help, she hadn’t seen it in 18 years. Her home up there wasn’t even built this time around. “Are they trying to find a different way of freeing everyone?”
Sans shrugged. “Why hide it?” Then, he shuffled a little closer to her. “Papyrus has left in the past when I kind of drove him a little too crazy. I haven’t done that in awhile, and even last night, he said he was proud of me. I didn’t sense a single thing wrong. He said he’d finish his food and we’d go up and play some pool.”
“Nothing out of the ordinary at all?” Frisk asked.
“Why hide anything from me?” Sans asked too. “Papyrus doesn’t hide anything from me. I didn’t sense a thing wrong, Princess. It’s like he just . . .”
“Alphys is always on social,” Frisk added. “Not a single new post anywhere. I never thought I’d be craving an actual status update from her.”
“I don’t like it.” She felt him touch her hand briefly. “You be careful, okay? Ol’ Sans got a bad feeling around here. Something’s off.”
She knew the feeling. Her mom came out and hugged her.
“You take care. Enjoy yourself. Try to connect,” Toriel said to her. “Find your prince charming. I will be right here when you get back.”
“Are you sure you aren’t going to go on a top secret mission?” Sans joked with her. Her mother just laughed. He waved goodbye and so did Frisk. “Carriage takes forever sometimes. So, what are we doing today?”
“I think we are supposed to try ice breaking?” Frisk said.
“Um. Great? Something doesn’t sit right with me on that monster though,” Sans admitted. “Don’t break your back trying to move ice because of your determination to do it. Let me give you a boost.”
“If I need it,” Frisk said. “If I don’t, then no boost. It’ll make it look like I got super strong or something.”
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Reckoning Tale-An Undertale Fanfiction Novel
Fanfiction(Complete)Eighteen years ago, Frisk left the Underground, but there was another barrier to face before the monsters were freed. When Frisk comes back as an adult though, she must pass tests that 'destroy her human soul' in order to save the monsters...
