#ic||merciful human

As soon as they’d spotted the familiar large skeleton, Frisk hurried towards him with their lantern lit in hand, actually looking quite excited for once.

“Sans! Sans, I gotta show you something!” They call out as they get closer, coming to a stop in front of him with an eager expression on their face. “But first, you gotta guess what it is! I’ve been working really hard at it for a while now!”

At first it wouldn’t be too obvious just what they might want to show him, they didn’t have anything else on their person, and the only thing they had in their hands was their usual lamp...wait.

The small human had missed their dear friends company, so upon spotting him through the the trees of the darkened forest, his cleaner visage reflecting easily off the light of their lantern, Frisk was quick to rush over to him and hug him around his waist as best as they could.

They didn’t say anything, but something about their expression and overall demeanor seemed more...tired, drained even. Maybe this place was finally starting to get to them...

When they realized how long they’d been hugging him though, Frisk suddenly seemed to grow sheepish and pulled away fiddling with their lantern’s handle a little.

How about a smooch for each one of the three?

“…?”

“Happy holidays!”

Boop on the Nose: You’re adorable / make me happy.

Both the child and the tall skeleton seem a little surprised, but both are quick to react in their own ways.

“He he, thank you!”

It probably hadn’t been the best idea to sneak off again, but Frisk had been stuck sitting around in the labs while the brothers got poked and prodded by Alphys for the first day or so in this strange new place. Something about their magic had really bothered the lizard monster and she’d wanted to get closer readings of it, much to the anger of the two brothers. When they’d hissed and growled in protest though, it was mentioned this testing could help them get returned to their home, and it was then they begrudgingly allowed the tests to take place. With Frisk being human though, there wasn’t anything immediately wrong with them, so they’d been left alone for the most part. Without the company of the brothers, or Sans who’d left to take care of something, the little human soon grew lonely and shy around all these monsters they didn’t know however, and soon crept off so they could at least explore this strange new world they’d all found themselves in.

They’d managed to get outside eventually, and after spending many hours being awed by the sheer amount of people walking around and the gigantic buildings all around them, Frisk actually managed to find some company for them to enjoy. After accidentally wandering into the monster region of the city, they’d found an old friend they didn’t think they’d see again, and quickly the child latched onto his side and happily started talking with him. It was a miraculous turn of fate, but Grillby actually lived in this world, the fire monster they’d rescued from the depths of their Alphy’s lab back home!

It had taken a while for Frisk to build up courage to this point, but finally they felt a bit more ready for what was to come. It wouldn’t be easy to go about this, no doubt, but they felt their dear friend needed this, from what they had seen before...

The little human comes up to the large monster’s side and puts their hand in his, grasping his fingers and looking up at him with a concerned look. They looked very worried and troubled about something, and it wasn’t long before they asked, “...Kanga, are you okay?”

(This is kind’ve based off of spooky stories I’ve been listening to lately, and I thought something akin to this would exist in this world, so I thought it’d be interesting to write Frisk encountering these creatures / spirits.)

The trek through the woods hadn’t been anything out of the ordinary, with Frisk keeping their lantern dim and stepping carefully through the snow, trying to be as quiet as possible. The forest did seem a little too quiet today, the little human hadn’t heard any monsters stirring about or growling, nor had there been anything climbing through the trees above them. Though many would have taken this as a good sign, Frisk knew they weren’t very fortunate in situations like this. Silence could also mean that something was trying to sneak up on them, and not make a sound to alert the small, paranoid human...

So when they heard a voice, instantly they knew something something was wrong.

“c o m e   h e r e . . .”

Frisk gasped and froze the moment this whisper passed through the trees, the child’s head snapping in the direction they though it had come from. It wounded like the voice of a young girl, but the monotone quality of the voice sent chills down Frisk’s spine. This was a spirit of some kind, any human child would have been panicking and shrieking in a place like this. The fact that this spirit was mimicking a child though, didn’t bode well at all.

“c o m e   t h i s   w a y . . .”

Refusing to follow the tempting spirits instructions, Frisk stiffened and slowly started to back away from the voice, keeping their lantern up and their expression in a firm frown. That was, until they head soft giggling from right behind them. Yelping out of fright Frisk instantly whirls around and scrambles away at the sight that greets them, fear spiking through them like ice at the sight of two children, finely dressed in clean clothes, staring at them with pitch black eyes.

The children giggled once more, their grins stretching wider than a normal human’s mouth should, as they said once more in their whispery voices,