Chapter eight ~ false accusations
"Hanami?" A beautiful girl with white hair and golden eyes asked.
"What is it my friend?" Hanami, a woman with shining green hair replied. Her eyes were in a lovely shade of green as well.
"Where are you going? It's late!"
"I am meeting someone, don't worry! Everything is going to be just fine!"
"Are you sure?"
"Of course! If I don't come back until tomorrow morning, you can open the mystery box."
"What? Don't say something like that! You told me that I'm only supposed to open it when you're dead!"
The green-haired woman walked to the door with a sad smile. "Don't worry, I doubt that it will come that far."
"I don't trust that! Hanami, don't leave me!" The white haired-girl hugged Hanami from behind.
"Hey, I just wanted to tease you a bit! Sorry, if that went a bit too far."
"You better be..."
"Hey Ink? Promise, that you won't be so paranoid anymore when I'm alone!"
"... fine... I promise that I won't worry about your safety anymore!"
"Thank you Ink." Hanami chuckled at the slight sarcastic tone of the others voice.
"Then promise me that you won't let down your guard! Don't forget the threats we got over the last few weeks!"
"Don't worry, I'll always be aware of my surroundings."
The two hugged each other, before Hanami left the building.
Suddenly the whole scenery changed. Instead of a little house, the white-haired girl or Ink was now in the middle of her village, wich was burning down. But instead of fleeing, Ink kneeled in front of a corpse, crying. Hanami's corpse.
The woman's dress was covered in blood, but for some reason the face was still smiling and her eyes were closed, as if she was just sleeping.
~dream end~
Ink shot up, her eyes wide and filled with tears. "Ink? Are you okay?" Dream asked. She was sitting next to her friend, who laid on the couch. "You seemed like you had a nightmare..."
The princess with white hair nodded slowly. "Do you what to talk about it?" "Okay... it started rather peaceful... I saw myself and a woman with green hair... her name was Hanami... I think... and-"
"Wait, did you say Hanami?" Dream interrupted, her eyes were filled with shock. "Uh... yeah?" "Do you know who she is?" Ink shook his head.
"Hanami was a powerful sorceress, that lived 200 years ago in the Sky Kingdom! Legends say, that after the prince of the Sky Kingdom, Kazuhi, rejected the proposal of the Dream Kingdoms princess, Traum, he fell in love with Hanami, wich led to Traum declare war..."
"Dream kingdom? Is Traum one of your ancestors?" Ink asked. "Yeah... but the whole war wasn't her fault! Her older brother tricked her into it, because he was envy that Traum inherited the throne!" The princess argued.
"Could you two please be quiet? Tryin' ta think over here!" Fresh complained from the chair he sat on. Some time had passed since the talk with Lust. It ended when Raspberry came back, saying that he needed her for something. Dream also believed that she saw Killer waiting outside, with an emotionless expression, but wasn't sure if it was real, since she was a bit tired back then.
"Wait, you were awake the whole time?" Dream exclaimed surprised. "Yep, thought 'bout what Lust's other side might be." The prince answered, looking at the princesses.
"Uhm... Fresh? Can I ask you something?" The female skeleton in human form, with golden hair questioned. "Ya already did anyways, but ok." The male skeleton replied. "Did you always have this monster soul shaped pupil in one of your eyes?"
"Uh What...?"
~meanwhile in another part of the castle~
"Prince Nightmare, we have good news from Edge!" A royal guard yelled, while storming into the throne room. Nightmare was talking to Error, Honey and a few other people, all of them hypnotized.
The royal guard bowed down as he proclaimed "Edge is on his way to capture the princess! One of the guards that is on his team reported that they have already found the traitor, so it won't take long until they find the princess!"
"Good... What is your name?" Nightmare replied. The royal guard, a catlike monster with white fur and red eyes, was a bit confused when he answered "My name is Haku Hamilton, your highness!"
"Haku... it just happened that my personal servant is pretty busy at the moment and you seem like a trustworthy person, would you like to be my personal ambassador?" Haku looked at him even more confused, but answered immediately "It would be an honor, my prince!"
"Good. We have to tell the public, the tragedy that happened here. I want you to take this scroll and announce what is standing on it, through an illusion. You should know how that works right?" The skeleton ordered, giving the cat monster the scroll he talked about.
"Of course my prince! King Asgore always did that when he had to say something to the the masses! I just have to go into a special chamber for this and an illusion of me will be projected to all the cities that belong to our kingdom!" Haku exclaimed. "Good, now go!"
The albino nodded and bowed, before leaving the room, running towards the chamber he just talked about. In front of it stood two scientists. "Are you the one Nightmare chose to do the job?" One of them asked.
"Yes! I'm Haku Hamilton, Prince Nightmare's Personal ambassador!" He declared rather loudly. "Yeah, yer don't hav' tae yell at us." The other half chuckled, half complained. Both were foxlike monsters, the only difference between them was that one of them was smoking a cigarette.
The smoker opened the chamber, while the other went into the room next to it, wich was the control room. "Knock yerself out, lad." The scientist said, before Haku entered the room.
"Transmission starts in, one, two, three!" While the Fox monster in the control room counted down, The catlike monster prepares his speach a bit.
~meanwhile~
Geno had introduced Blue and Cross to Toriel, the owner of the orphanage the princess lived in, before being adopted by King Asgore. The boss monster was very nice and invited them to tea and cookies. The group agreed and accompanied the old monster on her way back to the orphanage, wich was located in the forest of the island.
After arriving, the group met the children that lived there. Frisk, a thirteen year old human girl, Kris, a twelve year old human boy, Ruby, a very young fish monster, she was about four or five and Ren, a baby plant monster. Toriel also mentioned that there were two other human children that lived here, twins called Gin and Kin, but they weren't here at the moment.
"So how have things been here?" Geno asked "Also, how are Cara and Asriel?" "They're just fine! These sweeties often help me out here, even if Asriel is in a rather 'edgy' Phase. And Cara... she got a bit lazier since you've last been here." Toriel answered.
"Say Geno, What brings you here anyways? I'm pretty sure that the ol' Fluffybuns wouldn't let you go anywhere." The goat monster laughed. "H-he..." before the princess could say something, a small illusion of a catlike monster appeared on a plate that was placed on the table, the group sat on.
The children looked at it confused and Ruby even said "Where's that big goat?"
"Citizens of the Earth Kingdom!" The cat began "This is an important message from the castle! I know, you might ask yourself why King Asgore isn't telling this to you himself, I can tell you why... last night King Asgore was murdered by a former member of the royal guard."
Geno shook her head. "That's a lie" she muttered, making everyone look at her for a short amount of time, before quickly looking back when the royal guard continued.
"Her name is Fell Red! And as if killing our beloved king wasn't enough, she injured Prince Error and Prince Fresh badly and kidnapped the poor Princess Geno!"
"All lies..." Geno hissed, she might have not witnessed anything, but she was sure that her brothers were okay.
"But do not be scared! The new captain of the royal, Edge is already on his way to free the princess and capture that traitor so she can get what she deserves!"
Suddenly two other figures appeared next to the cat. Nightmare and Edge.
"My friend here is right. I, Nightmare prince of the Dream Kingdom, witnessed everything!" The royal skeleton spoke.
Edge nodded and added "I can testify that all of this happened and I regret the actions of my sister deeply, so I immediately began to search for her and was successful with finding her! What I'm going to say now is especially important for the citizens of Kurokami Island. If you see Fell or the princess please report it immediately to me or one of my royal guards. My sister probably also has allies, that help her to hide! Also, those people that show us loyalty will be rewarded not only money, but also a good status. I hope for a good cooperation." With that Edge disappeared from the plate-like communicator.
The catlike monster began to talk again "As long as the princess isn't home and the two princes are heavily wounded, Prince Nightmare agreed to take care of the kingdom and he's been a big help until now! So I hope, even if it's a bit uncommon for you citizens, to return this kindness, by trusting him with this! Thank you for your attention!"
After the hologram disappeared completely, Geno was outraged. "Lies! All lies!" "Geno!" Toriel began but was interrupted by the princess "Fell never would kill father! Nor would she kidnap me or injure my brothers! This is ridiculous!" "Geno calm down!" Toriel exclaimed, scaring the children around her a bit, since she normally stayed calm.
"It's clear to me too, that Fell wouldn't do something like that. But how about you tell us what exactly happened back then, so we can help you!" Goat mom said calming her voice.
"To be honest... I wasn't there when it happened but... my maid told me that Asgore was killed by Prince Nightmare... so I fled, with wich Fell helped me after that I met Cross and Chara who agreed to help as well..."
"Chara?" Toriel questioned. "That is me." The little smile declared jumping out of Cross' pocket. "It's a cute ball of snot!" Ruby exclaimed poking Chara a bit. "Sot! Sot!" Ren, the baby plant monster, laughed trying to say snot. Frisk smiled a bit, while Kris stayed emotionless.Toriel laughed at the small baby that sat in her lap.
"Moooooom! We're home!" A male voice shouted after the door got kicked open. Four people entered the room three humans and a boss monster. Asriel, the boss monster, was the one who yelled, next to him stood a girl with orange-brown hair, red eyes and slightly pink cheeks, Cara. Then there were the two younger humans, a girl with silver hair and golden eyes and a golden-haired boy with silver eyes, Gin and Kin.
Asriel was shocked when he saw the three guests, especially one in particular. "GENO?! NO WAIT, PRINCESS GENO?! WHA?!" He wasn't really able to get out any word after that, so he bowed down. "Don't tell me that what was just announced is true." Cara asked.
"Of course not." Toriel said and began to explain everything. Geno wanted to help her at first but someone plucked her sleeve. It was the little fish monster.
"Are you really the princess?" She spoke innocently. "Actually yes." The skeleton said slightly embarrassed. "And what are you two?" Ruby asked Blue and Cross. "Oh I'm an adventurer" the skeleton with mismatched eyes answered. "And I'm a pirate, but a nice one so don't worry, I won't harm you!" The smallest of the skeletons replied. "Cool!" The fishlike monster exclaimed exited.
"Uh... goat mom? Why's there a slime on the table?" The golden-haired boy asked. "Oh that's my friend Chara!" Cross answered quickly. "Hello." The slime greeted "I assume, you are Asriel, Cara, Gin and Kin, Nice to meet ya."
"The snot can talk!" Ruby exclaimed, making the silver-haired girl laugh loudly. "I'm a slime not snot! And that's not the only thing I can do!" "Really?! Show us!" The fish monster said excited.
"Chara wait-" Cross cut herself off when the white slime jumped off the table transforming into something.
~meanwhile~
Running. That's all she did, after hearing her brothers voice. She began to run. But when she hid in a dark corner, the message was showed to the people and Fell knew, that she wasn't save anywhere anymore.
'Unless...' she thought 'Toriel might be smart enough figure out that it was a lie' so she hurried into the forest.
She nearly reached the orphanage, when she saw something in the thicket. Something orange, it seemed like a human, but more ghostlike.
Now, curiosity took over and she made her way over to the orange something, but always when she came too close, the thing would float away.
"Hey, who or what are you?" Fell exclaimed, still following it. "If you want to find out, keep following. I could also offer you something that might help you."A voice spoke in the female's head. The skeleton in human form was confused at first, but still followed the strange beings lead.
The orange creature didn't stop until they reached a deep canyon. "If you go forward you'll gain something that will help you defeat your brother." The voice declared. "And if you do, remember this sentence the whole time: keep running!"
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