FRIEND_INSIDE_MEW [Deltarune]

LURED

It's very late in Hometown right now, able to hear crickets and see the moon straight in the cloud free nightime along with stars. It's the perfect time to get down to whatever shenanigans could happen. You and some people you know decide to hang out in the thick forested parts of Hometown that surround the town to hangout, a non overnight campsite being put up. Instead of a fire, it was a bunch of lanterns and instead of tents it was milk crates you sat on.

Everything was fine as you hung out with your companions, laughing it up and sharing, remembering memories of a better time. Eventually though, you decided you had to go back home for whatever reason. After saying your goodbyes, you started to go back to the actual town yourself. You walk the path you all took to get to that site, the sounds of music and talking fading behind you as you're left with the sounds of the night. And darkness surrounding you, the trees blocking the moonlight in most places, but you can still make out things.

But, at the corner of your eye, you see it. Something moved. You thought of it to be a raccoon or something at first, but as your turn your head further the shape was... odd. It slowly swayed, slithering between trunks like no big deal. Any sensible person would just try and keep going, ignore seeing shadows. But you decide to step off the path to try and get a better look.

When you got closer, it just gets further like it wad avoiding you. You're at the point eventually where you're chasing it down, turning in many directions as you're focused on the pointed shape. It was when you got into a small clearing you can see what it is. It looked like... simple shapes, vantablack making it hard to see even in the moonlight, consisting of spheres and the part you've been chasing looking like a triangler spike.

Your eyes follow the trail of spheres as it had stopped moving. Your gaze falls upon some bushes, some trees and...

You see someone. Barely, but you see someone. Standing there just behind the edge of the shadows. You only was able to make them... No, her out because of two pin points of color next to each other. One pink, one yellow. You think you can see her smiling...?

Before you can question further, a sound. Giggling. Laughter. Faintly.

Bigger, black pupli'd eyes pop up next to the girl, also pink and yellow. Then another.

Another.

And another.

Before you knew it, eyes were staring you down from the shadows around the clearing. You're surrounded.

The pointed tail lifts from the ground, slowly retracting back to where the girl still where she was several feet from you stood, disappearing into the shadows.

You feel you are in great danger.

PROTIEN

It's late. It's late and you can't sleep. And because it's late and you're not sleeping, you're feeling hungry. Very hungry.

It is time for a midnight snack. You stand up from where you previously were, turning on lights on your way to where your kitchen is located. You have plenty of food you can choose from, but even as you are indeed hungry, you don't wanna clean up a lot after yourself. Something small will do.

Eggs. Bacon. A shake. Whichever you had decided, you make it. You don't know why you decided on a high protien meal though unless you regularly work out. Or not, I don't judge.

You're just about done, you're at the counter. Doing the thing, it being second nature, so your eyes drifted a bit before locking back... You look back to where your sight drifted again. Upward, to your window.

You almost jump at the sight, but right outside your window almost pressed up against the glass was... a girl? She's staring right at you with one pink eye and one yellow eye, having an unnaturally wide grin to her. Even despite on what level your kitchen is at, she's seemingly standing outside there even with that knowledge.

Her eyes slowly shift down from her perspective. Your gaze follows, to the food on your counter. You look back to her to see her wide eyes are now continuing to look at you. She raises her hand slowly to the glass.

Tap tap.

BUNKER

Well, this is a situation you got yourself into. As you're sitting in a chair from god knows where, you're currently residing in. Be it you're a resident from Hometown to be a spy like Kris, or vital to The Plan(tm) like The Roaring Knight, you're here because you're in on the secret of Hometown being a simulation. You might not even be real, but Gaster must ask him that himself now and then.

You're distracted for a moment as you see Gaster walk pass, the eccentric old man was putting on a... pirate hat? He eas trying to get others to dress up with him, talking about a "NEW BIT THEY HAD DEVOLPED." Probably that Player thing he obsesses over. Oh well, he's ignoring you so you lay back and JESUS CHRIST!!

You scramble as you see right in the edge of your pov, it was one of the Friends. Mainly, Kikky. You have been seeing her a lot down here, even when you're avoiding her. She creeps you out, out of all the Friends ERAM herds down here. Sure, maybe not as much as Gaster Follower Norm, but wow...

Maybe it's because of her smile. Her piercing eyes. Or just the general vibe she gives off. It's creepy, unsettling, weird, and no one else seems to share your sentiments. Yet, she persistently keeps showing up around you.

"Deeds done and likeness can be one in the same," she speaks, her teeth not parting yet she sounds so clear. "One or two, a spark could you claim?" You take a moment to try and understand what she's getting at... Ah, she probably wants to cater to you. She is the "maid" down here and does that stuff.

Will you endugle?

WONDERLAND

Be it your doing by stabbing into the earth, someone else did it before you, or you merely fell into one... You are now in the Dark World. Be it your first time or not, you look down at yourself to see your change of clothes and color that represents you in this veil beyond darkness. You shouldn't linger long, who knows how the Darkners around here are like?

Actually, pretty alright so far. Sure, some you get into a fight with, but the Darkners here seem chill. But you have to get out of here, or better yet if you're able, seal the Dark Fountain that is creating this distortion in reality. Your mission is set, you declared as you are walking beyond a stretch of path. But as you look up from the ground from your train of thought--

"Salutations."

Face to face, you're met with someone. You take several steps back because of how close you two suddenly were, and she merely laughs at the reaction, a pitched up slightly distorted laugh as she stands there with hands behind her back, leaning slightly.

Her face... You swear, you've seen it before. You cannot exactly pinpoint where. Another Dark World? In Hometown? In your dreams, your nightmares? Well, she's here now, directly in your way.

What's her deal?

IMAGINARY

School is out. You walk out, some other students pouring out from behind you. Seeing MK and Snowy walk off in their bro pair, Cati and Jockington going off to do... things, Berdly dragging Noelle along for study, Temmie is Temmie and Kris n Susie... Well, you don't know where they are, didn't even see them walk out.

But, yet again, you are alone right after school.

You sigh, taking the walk home into the Homwtown Apartments. To your room, using your spare key. You are home alone, told by your parent(s) through a note they left on the fridge. Saying you're old enough to watch the place now. You were about to let out another sigh, until...

"Mhmhmheheh..."

You drift your gaze over to the living room portion of the apartment. Oh, right... How could you forget? Your ONLY Friend you do have, right in que before the dread had settled in. You didn't even get scared because of how used you are to her presence at this point.

Kikky sits on the floor, legs folded under her dress as she greets you with that smile she always has. It's weird that it feels like you've known her for your whole life, yet you can never get her to meet anyone else. When you do, either she isn't there or... no one sees her. You don't know why.

Her hand raises. Holding a controller to your console, out towards you as an offering as the TV was currently on but not the old console yet.

Oh boy, you hope it's Dragon Blazers again.

INSIDE

Another long day of, whatever you do now of days, and you are EXAUGHSTED. You don't pay much attention to anything else besides any pets or other important things you need to do. You just wanna lay down, so you are going to your room, almost feeling the pillow touch your head as you open the door and...

...who is that?

There's someone on your bed. She's sitting there on the edge of it, hands on the sheets, head dipped a bit as she is staring at you with pink yellow eyes that almost glow in the dark room. She's doing long, heavy breathes that is barely audible, seeing her body rise and sink because of how much it is. It's... warm in here, and there an odd scent in the air. Paired with her slightly manic face she has, she seems to be needing something specific. Something none else could properly provide for her. Something... intimate?

Heat. It's heat. She's in heat.

There's silence besides the breaths for a long moment. She inhales. Speaks up, voice low and a bit giggly.

"Do you like deals?"

PACK

Darkness. Darkness everywhere. But you wouldn't know, for you can see in the dark.

You prowl around in a circle, your pinpoints focused on the Egg shaped object before you. It's swaying but an inch off the ground, and you are invested. Your smile widens, puplis shrink. You leap.

That was when ERAM lifted the cat toy upwards, you falling on your face as you were to slow too hit the mark. The nightmare being above you hovers around, laughing and giggling as your pathetic attempt, smiling with orange fangs before moving onto the next. This doesn't feel right. You are suppose to be a genetically created apex predator yet you can't even hit your mark. Can't stalk, can't evade, can't hunt. A hard time putting it together to say the least.

You watch ERAM test your other pack members, which are much more effective. The worst that could happen to you is that you become a lap cat...

"Mmmmmm?"

Someone looms behind you. Turning around, a form you recongize. Your Pack Leader, declared so by being the more effective one out of your batch, the edvience being the special form she devolped. Hands behind her back, she looks at you with the same smile and eyes you have with curiosity. Did she see the performance you put on? Could she be disappointed? Before you could think of excuses, she speaks before you do.

"Lackluster and imperfect at first glance, but something more? Does your memento moris need an extra spice; assistance can be given in tow."

She... wants to help you?

MYOS