Destinie Calling - Chapter 1

Destinie Falls Into The Underground (Chapter 1)
''"​how long has she been...?" asks a voice. It trails away, unable to say anything more.''

'' "ALMOST A WEEK. MAYBE MORE." says another.''

''"Good thing we came down here!" shouts a third. "This punk..."''

''"W-wait!" stutters one more still. "She's w-waking up! Look!"''

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My eyes slowly flutter open. I squint, trying to figure out where in the world I am at the very moment. I see four figures standing above me. My eyes then shoot wide open, staring at them in awe and confusion. They look like monsters, ones that I'd heard had been sealed in the Underground long ago. Is that where I am now?

"she looks confused..." says one of them, a short skeleton with his hands in his pockets, staring at me. For some reason I feel really uncomfortable looking at him, and try to shift my attention to the other three.

"WELL, OBVIOUSLY, SANS!" proclaims an even taller skeleton. He looks a little concerned. "SHE MUST BE HURT!"

The third monster, a giant fish person, looks confused and suspicious of me already. Slowly, she raises a spear to me and starts to point it at me. "Should we kill her? I have my spear right here..."

"N-no!" the last monster stutters. She looks like a giant lizard, maybe a scientist with her lab coat. "D-don't do that, Undyne!"

I am barely listening to what they are saying about me until they mentioned killing. Alarmed, I sit straight up, screaming, "No, please! Don't kill me!"

All four monsters looked at me in alarm. The taller skeleton steps forward and sticks out a gloved hand towards me. I hesitate for a slight second, then take it as he helps me up. He turns to the others. "GUYS, DON'T SCARE HER!" he says to them.

"Who are you all?" I asked tenatively, unsure if they would even respond to such a question. The tall skeleton draws himself up to his full height (which is about a head or two taller than myself) and says, "WELL, I, HUMAN, AM THE GREAT PAPYRUS!" Then he gestures behind him. "AND THESE ARE ALPHYS, SANS, AND UNDYNE!"

From what I picked up already, Papyrus referred to the smaller skeleton as Sans, and the lizard referred to the fish woman as Undyne, so I assume that she herself is Alphys. I slowly raise a hand to them. "Nice to meet you all."

Undyne crosses her arms. "Papyrus! You can't go blurting out our names anyhow, especially not to a human!"

"she's right, you know, papyrus," Sans adds.  "we don't know anything about her. maybe she's pacifist. maybe she's genocidal. you may have doomed us for all we know."

Genocidal?? I've only heard that word once before and it was used to describe one of my old friends. They say they've seen her do it. They say she only looks for trouble when her name is called...

"...like Chara," I mutter to myself, but all the monsters overhear me, and exclaim "WHAT?!", looking at me in surprise.

"How do you even know Chara?" comes a voice from behind them. That voice, I think, it seems so familiar, but I can't place it...

"kid? what are you doing here?" Sans turns to face the person standing in the doorway of the room. Cautiously, I peek around them all to see who has spoken.

"Frisk?!" I say the name of the person out loud, louder than intended. Sans turns back to face me again, and Frisk draws near. "I had a feeling you were all down here, so I followed," she said to Sans. Then she takes sight of me and says, suddenly, "But I want to know why this girl knows Chara's name, and even knows mine at all."

I'm not sure how to explain myself out of this one. "You probably won't remember me anyway..." I glance around the room, attempting to not look anyone else in the eye. No one notices my hand stretch out slightly towards Frisk, and as soon as it does, I flick my index finger up. "Hey!" Frisk shouts, as she is suddenly lifted off the ground. "What's going on here?! What did you do?!" she screams, pointing at me. Undyne points her spear at me again, but it's at neck proximity. "Whatever you did to Frisk, stop it now!"

Why won't she remember?! I think in frustration. I worriedly look at Frisk. She doesn't look confused or even scared anymore, but thoughtful. Her look is confusing me, which shows on my face. Frisk still looks at me, as if she is trying to remember something. Without hesitation, I gaze right back at Frisk...

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*Frisk's POV*

''I'm not sure where I am; my surroundings have become dark. But I want to get to the mystery of why the girl knew me. I at least want to know her name, but don't want to ask while the others are still skeptical...''

Suddenly I am on a hilltop, looking out to the green valley in front of me. To my right, I see Mount Ebott. But why am I here?

"Hey, Frisk!" someone calls. It is the girl calls that calls out to me. She seems much younger now. "Do you want to see something cool?"

Then I glance a little way over and see a younger version of myself come up to the girl. Eager, she nods her head. "Sure!" I realize I am projecting a memory from long ago, in a field west of Mt. Ebott. ''But how long ago? Why were we so far from anyone else? And did I even know this girl all that well?''

The girl takes her hands and spins in them a tornado-like shape. Within seconds I am hovering in the air, or at least my younger self is, feeling as light as a feather.

"Wow, Destinie!" the younger me says with a grin as she slowly descends to the grass. "Your tricks just keep improving so much!"

Then it turns blank all around me.

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My eyes open slightly. I am back in reality, out of my head. Then I process the info that I had seen. I knew her?! I thought. And it seemed so well, too! But what happened? Why did she disappear?! I am going to have to make sure my friends don't kill her before I find out. "Destinie?!" My eyes widen at her as I scratch her head. "How... ?! And why...?!"

"So you DO remember!" she exclaims to me.

"You know her?!" Undyne says, lowering her spear from Destinie's neck. So they WERE going to try and kill her! I can't believe them...

I nod, my eyes closed in tight concentration. "Yes. It's... been a while, but I remember her. Something from my past resurfaced. It was about me and her. We were playing in a field, not too far from Mt. Ebott. She was trying to show me a new power she'd unlocked..."

"NEW POWER?" Papyrus asks. "YOU MEAN... LIKE MAGIC?"

"Exactly," I say. "I think it was telekinesis, but I wasn't too sure."

"Telekinesis?" Alphys responds. "You mean the power that lets you move things with your mind?"

"Yes, that one," I respond, "though it seems it was more on levitation, I only went up." Then I glance over and suddenly find myself stifling laughs down. "And it seems that she is up to her old tricks again," I say, pointing behind Undyne and Alphys.

When they look back, they see Destinie's hands waving in the air, but not in a crazy manner, as if she is controlling something smoothly. And that something (or someone, in this case) just happens to be Sans, whose hands are still in his pockets and not flailing like anyone else would do when they are lifted in the air in such unexpected time. He is not shocked, and he is definitely not amused.

"kid, i'm going to ask you very nicely to put me down right now." Sans's tone is serious, since his voice is lowered significantly.

"Okay, okay," Destinie says, and snaps her fingers once. Immediately he is lowered to the ground in front of Papyrus, who is just standing and watching with great fascination.

"WOWIE!" Papyrus cries out after Sans is completely on the ground without a scratch. "I WISH I COULD CO COOL TRICKS LIKE THAT!"

Sans shakes his head right away. "no way, pap; if you learn to do stuff like that, i'm going to get my bones trousled, and i don't want that."

"Why are you worried if Papyrus may do that?" Destinie asks curiously. "Why aren't you worried if I pulled something like that?"

Sans turns around to face her, and his left pupil is glowing a fiery blue. His right pupil disappears. He then extends an arm towards her, and then, out of nowhere, lifts it up with force, causing Destinie to rocket toward the ceiling, screaming all the way up.

"you WANT to have a bad time? i suggest you don't make stupid comments like that."

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*Destinie's POV*

My eyes are nearly bulging out of their sockets and I have a hard time breathing... and something on my hand is tingling. I glance over at it just to see metal start to show. ''Oh no! My handplate! ''I thought in horror, as I immediately cover it up. No one needs to know what happened to me...

"P-please!" I say, low on breath still. "Le-let... me... go...!"

Frisk runs up to Sans, whose hand is still extended in the air towards me. "Sans, please!" Frisk screams and cries. "Don't hurt her! Just... put her down."

Sans gives in to her pleas and lowers me to the ground - not forcefully, but not exactly peacefully, either.

"kid, i have no idea why you made me put her down just now." Sans shakes his head and then points at me. "what if she is a threat? she seems sketchy to everyone here, and now you're making us give her mercy."

Tears silently roll down my cheeks. I brush them away before moving my eyepatch to the top of my head so I can really look around. It's dark, not much to see except for Frisk and the four monsters. ''Can I ever get out of here? Will they get my SOULs before it is too late?''

"DESTINIE, YOUR EYES ARE TWO DIFFERENT COLORS!" Papyrus exclaims, suddenly noticing me. "HOW DO YOU DO THAT? CAN YOU TEACH ME?"

I chuckled. "It's not something that can be taught, Papyrus. I inherited these eye colors because of my SOULs."

Undyne's mouth drops open, and Alphys asks, "Y-you have two SOULs??" in utter confusion.

I nod my head slowly. "I'm not just any simple, normal human - I come from a long line of magic users on the Surface. They are called the Rainquest people, and our soul color is Pyan - it's the guidance soul. With this soul, I have many unique powers, like saving my memories in physical tape for playbacks and being able to incept people from other universes if I wanted to - but some of those powers have sort of put themselves on lockdown since I fell here." I point to my right eye. "I get my rainbow color eye from my people."

"where do you get the black-and-white one from?" Sans asks, pointing at my left eye, which is black except for a white flame posing as my pupil glowing in the middle of it.

"It's from my ethereal soul, the stealth soul. With it, I can teleport and use my telekinesis." I say. Then I lower my eyes. "I technically get this from my people too."

"TECHNICALLY?" Papyrus asks. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN? DO THESE RAINQUESTER PEOPLE CARRY THIS SOUL WITHIN THEM TOO?"

I slowly shake my head, sighing. "No, Papyrus. The Ethereals are a different magic race entirely. They shed their skin with age, so most of them end up looking like skeletons sometimes." And then my head drops down entirely. "I'm a hybrid. That's why I have two SOULs. Pyan and ethereal are too incompatible to fuse together, so instead I get them both. It's not something I'm very proud of."

"Why?" asks Undyne, who seems intrigued in my backstory. I'm glad I'm warming up to her, I think, even if it's with my tragic backstory. "Anyone in the Underground would kill to be in your place! Well, except Alphys, Pap and Frisk here, they'd probably settle it with mercy."

"Hybrids are very disregarded in my village," I say. "No one wanted me once they figured out what I was. Of course, that was only weeks ago, but it feels like years to me." I hold up my eyepatch, which is glowing dimly then. "My mom gave me this eyepatch to cover my ethereal eye so I could stay with my half sister Reina, and learn the ways of the Rainquesters. But the ethereals caught me doing some of their tricks when I was hanging with Frisk one day. Of course, that mean the Rainquesters had to get involved, and within seconds everyone was at West Field in about 4 seconds flat!"

Sans, who has long calmed down, walks up and sits in front of me. Papyrus and Alphys do the same, and Frisk and Undyne kneel on the ground.

"where is west field?" Sans asks, intrigued.

"Oh, it's not that far from here, Sans," I say. "It's West of Mt. Ebott."

"Really? Wow!" says Alphys.

I stand up. "Well, that's enough of a story - at least for now anyway." I glance toward to the doorway that Frisk had come from earlier. "What do I do now? Do I just stay down here?"

Frisk rubs her chin. Then she says, "You might as well. You know that your family doesn't want you on the Surface. No use in making yourself suffer, right?"

I nod. "Yeah, but where should I go then?"

Undyne looks at me. "I think I know where you can go."

And with that, she takes my hand and leads me on to the doorway. Alphys follows right behind me, with Frisk in tow.

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* Sans's POV*

As Undyne leads Destinie away from Papyrus and me, I turn to him. "pap?" I ask. "did something seem off about destinie to you?"

"OFF?" Papyrus responds. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN, BROTHER?"

"remember when i lifted her off the ground? there was something on her hand. it looked... metallic. of course, i couldn't place it then, but..." My voice trails off, and I stare into pap's eyes before continuing. "i think she was... there".

Pap's eyes suddenly widen. "YOU MEAN... THE EXPERIMENTS?"

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', 'comic sans';">I nod. "mm hmm. i think that metal item on her hand she didn't want to reveal?" I pull my right hand out of my pocket, where my own metallic item was drilled into my hand. "i think she's hiding her own handplate. she's the secret experiment gaster worked on that third day we weren't speaking. he was probably running experiments to extract her SOULs and hand them off to asgore! don't you see?!" i say frenetically while gesturing with my hand. "she might have the answers we're looking for."

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