Face Your Fear #Ch 3

Heey. Hii. Good Morning. Uhm, Happy Valentines everyone! Here is the third chapter of this story, which is a direct continuation from the last one, so you deffinetly should read that to avoid confusion. I advise you to also read about the Aus featured in order to avoid even more confusion.

Anyways. So I was thinking. Wow. This app is pretty dead, so I guess I'll just...stop updating here ? Yeah its not really getting much traction here.

This does not mean I'm stopping the story, I will be simply ing the Chapters on Ao3 now. So far only the first chapter is up on the site, but I'll soon update it with these two other chapters plus what I have next.

Here is the link to the Ao3 page, and well, I hope you enjoy this read. Annnn

Glitchtale belongs to Camila Cuevas

Horrotale belongs to SourApple

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I moved back towards the house, but Aliza ran past me. I looked back to see her checking up on Toriel's body. "...I don't think she would just carry something that would kill her. She's just unconscious." What the girl did next puzzled me however. "What are you...doing ?"

"We can't just...hnnf!...leave her like this... on the floor...god she's heavy." She was actually trying to lift Toriel back to her home. I watched her pathetic form struggle to do such task for a few moments, before I sighed and gave in. "Alright..." I made my way to Aliza and helped her lift Toriel back to her own bedroom. Despite my figure, I am actually kind of strong apparently, but that has been sort of established already.

I assumed we would be leaving now, but Aliza started to look around the room, attempting to find something it seems. Once she couldn't find anything the girl headed towards the kitchen area. "What do you search ?". I asked from the living room.

"I told you before, I need to find something for the flower." I did a doubletake, not believing she was still insistent about that. "Aliza...it is dead, there is nothing we can do that-Ouh!" I yepped as I lost my balance and fell onto the floor, causing the girl to come back and see what happened. "A hatch. You found it."

"...I did find it, yes..." I stood up as Aliza opened this hatch on the floor. I saw her grabbing a small glass vial with a liquid inside, but before I could try to understand what it was, the girl rushed back to the bedroom. I felt like a mother watching their jumpy little kid...maybe, I don't know. I entered the bedroom to see Aliza pouring the liquid onto the flower.

"..."

"I really thought that would work."

"...You can't expect whatever you grab to do what you-" And then I was proven wrong twice for the day, as the flower shockingly burst into life. He lived ? These little thingies look pretty potent, I feel I should get a few of them just in case.

"Uwaahh...where is this..." He was a bit dazed, but that was still a fast recovery for Flowey. The girl was understandably content with her actions. "I...apologize. You really did find a way to bring him back." I couldn't help but appreciate the girl's insistence.

"Hm ?" But I noticed something, she seemed uncomfortable now. With a hand clutched to her forehead, Aliza got onto her knees and panted. "What's wrong-" She barfed right there and there. "Ah...not on top of the flower..."

After a bit of cleanup, Flowey and I brought the now tired and sleeping girl into the bed. We were in the living room where the incident from earlier happened.

"She looked quite pale. She'll be fine but we should get her something to eat and drink." Flowey spoke in concern, being placed in a pot at the top of the table. "She did actually, just before your ressurection." I interjected. "She ate Toriel's pie before you woke up."

His eyes widened after my answer. Did he realize something about the food ? "Monster food shoudn't cause that...We need to leave. The moment she's up, we actually need to leave."

"That's my plan alright...But I'd like to get back to what we were talking before first. What is with this place Flowey ?"

"Alright... You might not believe it, but this used to be quite the lovely place you know. Sunshines, Rainbows, all that, until the day the King died, and our hope to escape was completely lost."

"Thank you for the summary. I can see how that would have an effect on the people."

"A human caused all that, and the Queen expected the people to just forget that. After that, a new Queen took charge of this sinking ship and things somehow got even worse."

"So...this is a dying world essentially. Who is this new Queen ?"

"That's Undyne, she..." I made sure I heard that correctly. Undyne was the same name that....yes, it's her. Flowey's voice soon became just background noise to me as I my earlier talk with Wen.

"So...why this person specifically..." I questioned, as I didn't recognize this name. Well, I guess I could have just forgotten this too. "Why are they a problem ?"

"Not only will this be a fine test for you, I wouldn't be able to calmly perform with her around."

"I thought I ed the test already. And stop being so cryptic all the time. It doesn't make you look mysterious or cool. What do you really want here. ?"

"Don't worry. You'll see soon enough."

"...."

"I'm here." Hearing footsteps I looked towards the hall and saw Aliza coming back, who was looking better than before. Luckily for her, it looked like she just had a bad reaction. "Well. We can go now."

"Nice. You worried me for a moment there." Flowey commented towards her as I stood up and started heading downstairs.

"I have to say I'm surprised. I...didn't think you'd wait on me." I stopped, realizing that yes, I did wait for her, and I wasn't sure why. "...You just...wouldn't last without me. And your optimistic act will you get you in trouble. That is all."

"It isn't really an act. I mean...I just think these people kind of deserve better. Don't you think so ?" I didn't answer, moving on on ahead.

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"..."

"It's so cold...mmbrr." Aliza hugged herself and shivered as we walked through the snow.

"You could've told her it would be this cold." I wasn't bothered due to my clothing, but wow, the poor girl looked like she was suffering. "And I told you to get something else to wear."

"I didn't think it would be like thisss..."

"I was in a hurry to leave, okay ? I-It happens, we forget these things." Flowey excused himself. "Anyways. I've been meaning to ask, is there anything we could call you by ?"

"...Effra." I was sort of proud of this little name I came up with. I did not know how I had this knowledge, but I wouldn't complain. "You see, this comes from another language. So, terror, scary, which is what this place is, now translating that from-"

"Oh. It's Fear rearranged!"

"...yes it is also fear rearranged..."

We soon saw something in the distance. It looked like a small little station, with someone sleeping nearby. "That's...Sans...I have to leave, I can't be seen by him." Leaving his little pot, Flowey stuck himself into the ground. "I'll still be watching over you both, just...don't even-. Just go, don't think, don't even look, don't even imagine he's there! Go calmly and you can go past him." He really was skeptical about that guy, huh. Aliza and I looked at each other, being speechless as Flowey left us.

"Well. You heard the man."

"The flower."

"Yes, I said that."

"Wait. Watch out!" Aliza warned me and just in the nick of time, I grabbed an flying object that almost hit my face. "This is...an axe..." Aliza yeeped as we both felt a very thin hand at the back of our necks. Someone was chuckling from behind this. I didn't look back, but I stayed calm, I couldn't say the same for my companion however. Safe to say the sneaking plan failed already, that was fast.

"well what do you know...the one time bro's busy, we get not one, but two little visitors." It was a raspy but imposing male voice that spoke to us. The person that I assumed was another monster continued to speak. "i guess since he won't be here, i'll prepare you both with my puzzle instead. how about it."

It was clear that this was our attacker. I spun around ready to give him his own medicine and attack him with his weapon, however no one was there when I turned back.

Even more confusing, was that Aliza and I both appeared at a different location. There was a somewhat broken bridge in front of us, it even looked like it could collapse if a single person attempt to go through. 'Did he teleport us ?'. I noticed even the axe I had just suddenly disappeared too.

"well, i didn't hear a no." His voice spoke from somewhere I couldn't identify. "this is pretty straight forward, right? i'll see you two on the other side." Before we could do anything else, Aliza was pushed forward onto the bridge and thus initiating this little game. Fine, I'll restrain myself and accept this challenge. The girl caught herself as I entered the bridge as well.

"Despite everything, we should be able to clear this easily if we move calmly."

"Right..." The girl agreed with me, but to counter this small plan, bones literally out of nowhere shot from the sky, destroying a few tiles in the bridge and creating small gaps. We couldn't waste time. "Run."

We hurriedly made our way across the bridge, but the monster from earlier was clearly interfering with us, repeatedly destroying specific parts of the bridge to make our progress harder and harder. As if things couldn't get worse, the bridge was then surrounded by a weird but magical blue glow, and it unexplainably started shaking and trembling furiously. Now we really needed to go. Aliza almost fell, knowing I coudn't waste time, I grabbed and carried her in my arms as I raced to the finish. When we reached the end I performed a final leap to escape from this bridge, but just as we were about to land on the snow, I was hit by a wall of bones and lost my balance and composure as a result. Aliza held onto my legs for dear life as we started to fall.

But then we weren't falling anymore, I didn't understand what happened at first.

"You can do that ?" Aliza questioned me, and when I looked up I realized what she meant. With my right hand, I was holding the base of a pink colored scythe that had its pointy tip carved onto the wall. "I can do that....?"

"tsk tsk tsk..." The same voice from earlier caught my attention, as I finally was able to get a good look at the monster that got us in this predicament. It was an eerie looking skeleton. It looked like there was blood on his abdomen, part of his skull was missing, and he had a deranged expression to boot but what caught my attention the most was his bloody red eye. "i didn't expect you to do that. still...magic isn't allowed on your side. you broke the rule champ. you know what i think about cheaters ?"

"That was never a -" I impaled on my stomach area with 3 large bones before I could finish. "E-Effra!" Aliza called out, but I lost my grip on the scythe and we began falling again.

As we were about to hit rock button, our fall was stopped again, but by a bunch of vines this time. "I got you!" It was Flowey's voice, he really was watching over us....well, he could have arrived a little earlier. Because of him, we landed softly on the white snow below.

"Effra. Are you- !?" Silencing the two, I ripped off each of Sans's bones from my body. "That was a bit annoying...ughh."

"Are you...not hurt...at all ?" Aliza showed great concern as she looked at the place where I was wounded. "You're standing just fine, what even are you...?" It was Flowey's turn to comment, but unfortunately, I couldn't answer him.

I could feel the holes of the wounds closing and then, the only evidence that they even happened in the first place was the damage done to my clothing. Just what did this mean for me ? "We can keep going, but...it's going to be a long way up..."

"..." I wanted to try that thing again. "Mhhm..." I extended my hand as I concentrated, trying the immitate what I felt moments before, and soon enough, the same weapon from earlier appeared in my hands. Huh...this wasn't that hard to replicate. I started to move the scythe around in awe, much to the dismay of Flowey and Aliza.

And so, Aliza and I had no more interruptions from now on, I guess the skeleton thought that was the end of us. We relocated ourself and Flowey led us to what I assumed was the main path.

We saw some structures in the distance, so I guessed we entered some sort of town. This little place had a similar vibe to the Ruins. I thought it was abandoned too, but I was proven wrong soon enough. "I can hear...chatter. I want you to stay behind, understood ?"

"Are you...certain ?" Aliza judged my decisions and with good reason too. I tried to reasure her with a smile. "Don't worry, I'll be just fine."

Aliza nodded as she stood behind. Flowey was probably sneaking and searching what the best way around these guys would be, so if he knew what I was going to do, he would he yelling nonstop at me.

Soon enough, I saw a large group of characters in the distance. I felt like what I came would soon begin.

The group of monsters ahead obviously noticed my presence and approach. They stopped speaking and turned to face me. Some were speechless while others seem agitated and wondering what to do in this situation, but one person in particular stepped up to me.

"Guard...Tell me what I see. Does my eye deceive me...?" She clearly didn't believe what she was seeing at first. A one eye'd fish woman, with a spear in hand approached me. A crown made of ribs rested on her forehead, so this must be who I'm looking for.

We both walked towards one another as everyone else quietted down. Slowly we increased the pace of our speed until we were literally running towards one another.

I leaped towards her and she did the same, my elbow connecting with hers. Our meeting created a large impact and formed a crater on the ground below. Let's do this