Chapter 21: Laughing Into The Void
Duska
Knocking. All I hear is knocking. It sounds like ten hands are all knocking on the door to my hotel door.
"Urgh... EVEN A FLOWER NEEDS SLEEP!"
"Shush Flowey! Your louder then them!"
"HUMAN! FLOWER! WE ARE GOING TO PLAY SOMETHING FRISK CALLS VIDEO GAMES! COME QUICKLY!"
At the words 'video games' I throw off my blanket and run into the bathroom with my day clothes. As I exit I grab Flowey's pot and run into the hotel hallway where Papyrus, Sans, Frisk, Undyne and Alphys are all waiting for me. Undyne points to Flowey with a skeptic look on her face.
"You bringing the flower?"
"Yeah, could be good for him."
The group accepts my decision and we all enter the skeletons room, Sans' bed is easy to guess as it's the messier one of the two beds. Papyrus and Undyne move the beds as Frisk helps Alphys plug the consoles into the TV. After five minutes the bunch of us are leaning against the wall while sitting on the sideways beds, Flowey is leaning against the pillow beside me. Sadly I don't get to choose the first game, Papyrus does.
"What is 'Wheel of Fortune'?"
"Pick that one! It's a word guessing puzzle game!"
Undyne groans loudly at the mention of puzzles as Papyrus quickly selects it. As the player screen comes up I notice a major flaw.
"Oh no. Papyrus, it's only a three player game."
"WE WILL PLAY THIS GAME!"
"I-I don't mind w-watching."
"Me and Frisk wanna watch too."
"My leaves can't reach the remote. You three play."
Sans is first player and named himself, Words. Second player is Papyrus who made his gaming name Papyrus, a little boring. I'm the third player and I decided to name myself Blap.
"Blap? Why Blap?"
"First thing that came to mind."
Sans' first roll of the wheel came up as four hundred dollars which he clapped excitedly at. When he had to guess a letter he guessed 'B' and came up with nothing.
"i tried."
"MY TURN! THE GREAT PAPYRUS WILL-"
As he talks triumphantly the wheel stops on 'lose a turn' which makes everyone in the room laugh until their sides hurt, including me.
"NOT FUNNY!"
"IT TOTALLY IS!"
The yelling contest between Undyne and Papyrus just made me burst into laughter again. I saw Sans and Frisk join in with the laughter which ended up lasting twenty minutes. It was finally my turn to roll.
"This game isn't going to end well..."
"Just spin it!"
It spins and lands on the one hundred dollar part.
"Um... 'S'."
Two S's appear on screen and I instantly know what it is.
"I KNOW IT! I swear if i'm right..."
I spin the wheel again and it lands on the five hundred. I buy a vowel with my hundred to guess the 'E'. Four appear on the screen.
"HOW ARE YOU DOING THIS!?!"
"Like I said, I swear I know this."
Another spin, two hundred this time. This time I pick 'B'. Two pop up which makes Sans burst into laughter, he got it too.
"WHAT!?! WHAT IS IT!?!"
I begin typing in the answer which just makes Sans laugh harder, his breath becomes quick between each laugh.
"Your kidding."
Undyne had figured it out and whispered it to both Alphys and Frisk. Frisk joined in with Sans while Alphys and Undyne shamely stuck their faces into the pillow.
"What am I missing?"
I whisper the answer to Flowey who droops and buries his face into the pillow behind him, yelling into it in frustration.
"WHAT IS IT!?!"
As i'm typing it I try my hardest not to break into manical laughter like Sans and Frisk. The words begin popping up on screen, 'skeletons wont let you be-'.
"NO!!!"
'skeletons wont let you be bonely'. A bone pierces the console and I explode into laughter, I even roll off of the bed and onto the ground. Frisk does the same while Sans dies besides his brother.
"URGH! I AM SO MAD RIGHT NOW!"
Undyne, Alphys and Papyrus watch while the three of us die of laughter. The console is completely destroyed but I really don't care. After a while we begin to calm down just as Toriel and Asgore come to check on us.
"Anything happening in-"
Her voice just sets the three of us off again, Papyrus buries his face into a pillow while Alphys explains to the two of them what had happened. Frisk is the first to recover as the laughing fit made him tired while Sans and I continue laughing.
"Could you SHUT UP ALREADY!?!"
"Ca... can't! Too... f-f-funn-ny!"
Both Undyne and Alphys leaves which makes only Sans, Papyrus, Flowey and I left in the room.
"Uh... are they dead?"
"NO, WORSE!!"
"Shu-shut u-up!"
I'm too busy laughing to even understand myself, I think we've been laughing for hours now.
"THAT'S IT! BEDTIME!"
I'm picked up and thrown over Papyrus' shoulder and I see Sans thrown over the other one. I see the spot Flowey was in gone and i'm carried out of the room and into my own, still laughing my head off with Sans.
"IT WASN'T EVEN THAT FUNNY!"
"For them I guess it was."
I'm thrown onto my bed and I roll up into my blankets, my laughing becomes muffled as my face is behind the blankets. I hear muffled voices but the blankets and my laughing make it unable to hear them. I have now lost all track of time, if asked I would say that it was seven years ago. For no absolute reason. I pull my head out of the blankets and take in deep breaths while I laugh.
"I-I c-can't bre-bre-breathe!"
"THEN STOP LAUGHING!"
"I-I-I c-can't!"
After a few moments of manic laughter I large pressure lands on me, making whatever air I had in my lungs leave and I gasp for breathe.
"THERE! THE GREAT PAPYRUS WINS AGAIN!"
"You crushed her."
"IT WORKED DIDN'T IT?"
As I regain my breath I hear that Sans has stopped laughing too, that or he teleported away so that Papyrus didn't jump on him. Just as i'm able to breathe normally again my left hand numbs and I gasp at the pain it runs up my arm. I roll and land onto the floor, on my arm, and begin trying to hold it as tight as I can.
"Pap... m-my arm..."
I hear him run over and flip me so that he can see me, i'm grabbing my left arm as tight as I can to my chest with my right. Another wave of pain runs through my arm and I scream, it's climbing upwards.
"DUSKA? WHAT IS HAPPENING!?!"
"I DON'T KNOW! IT HURTS!"
The door crashes open to reveal everyone else at the door, Sans had apparently been with them in the next room when they heard my scream.
"Duska! My child what is wrong?"
"My arm is- ARGH!"
A spike of pain runs all the way up to the left side of my neck and down my torso, making me curl up into a ball. I look at my left hand to see it on fire but the fire is a dark aqua.
"kid, sit still. moving will make it worse."
I try to do as Sans says but another blast of pain runs down my left leg and my jaw. Luckily my jaw was already closed or the force may have chipped some teeth.
"How important exactly is it that she stays still!?!"
"it'll keep escalating in pain until she stops."
My arms are suddenly above my head and held down by scaly hands, Undyne must be holding them.
"Pap! Hold her legs!"
Boney hands wrap around my legs and immobilize them as another blast of pain runs through the entire left side of my body. The pain had finally reached my eye and I feel magic pour out of it.
"Asgore, make sure no one comes in here!"
"AH! Okay Toriel!"
The door opens and closes just as Toriel sits beside me and says calming words to me, i'm unable to hear any of it as the pain is horrible.
"Duska? Just sit still."
"come on kid, listen."
"SIT STILL FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!"
I stop wriggling and use all my might to stop moving, I even breathe less to see if it helps. Pain runs through the left side of my body, god I hope that laughing didn't cause this. My wrists and legs hurt from the two holding them so tightly but I do my part and remain still through the pain. I open my eyes only to see blurry pictures of everyone and as another blast of pain ripple through me my vision goes black.
Blood covers my vision, it's all I can see. The crimson color dims slowly into the shade of black, not even my hand lights up the darkness. Apart of the scene in front of me shimmers and a face is revealed to me, an oval face with three black holes in it. One is circular while the other two are crescent shaped. He pulls out two hands from the void and begins moving them, it's sign language. It's incredibly convient that I used that useless foster parents money to give me sign language classes.
"Say. Hi. To. My. Sons. Duska."
"Your sons? This isn't a normal dream is it?"
"No. I. Have. Given. You. Passage. Into. The. Void."
"The void? What happened to you?"
"I. Tried. To. Bring. Back. My. Best. Friend. It. Ended. Up. Ruining. Three. More. Lives."
"Who? Who are you? Your best friend? Your sons!?!"
"I. Am. Gaster. He. Was. Sylin. You. Know. My. Two. Sons."
"Huh?"
The world suddenly begins ripping apart as if i'm being torn out of a book, i'm waking up.
"Bring. Me. Back. For. Them."
"How? How can I help?"
"Not. Now. Will. Tell. Later. Say. Hi. To. Them. Both. Please."
"I'll try! Just... hang in there!"
Gaster smiles just as i'm pulled from the void, white and black revolve around me as i'm being sucked back into consciousness.
"AH!"
"calm down kid, it stopped."
The room around me is surrounded by my friends. Pap and Sans were sitting on my bed, Flowey is in his pot beside me, Undyne and Alphys were sitting together on the chair, Asgore is standing by the door and Frisk is sitting on Toriels lap on the other bed.
"Wha..."
"your magic went nuts there kid."
"It... it wasn't me."
"then who?"
I quickly sit up and rub my face and head, making a mess of my hair.
"ARE YOU ALRIGHT HUMAN?"
"I am confused! Some guy made me go through a very painful experience just so he could ask me to say hi to his kids."
The two skeletons stiffen up at my words, oh my god I am an idiot.
"Oh. Um... sorry."
"are... you sure?"
"His name was Gaster."
Again they stiffen, Papyrus looked close to tears.
"SANS..."
"it's... it's alright pap, it'll be alright."
"Are you two... alright?"
"yeah... yeah kid..."
The brothers jump off my bed and walk slowly out the door. My heart breaks as they walk out, I feel horrible for saying it how I did.
"Flowey."
"Yeah?"
"Call me an idiot."
"Gladly. Your an idiot."
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