DETERMINATION 3 - RUNAWAY QUEEN (Part One)
no coloured lines or background on art, sorry but im feeling lazy today.
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Flowey stares at Frisk, gently wiping their eyes of tears. It’s a few seconds before they answer.
“Don’t worry about it, Flowey.”
A few white ‘friendliness pellets’ are raised into the air, before they dissipate.
“I don’t wanna get burnt again.”
Frisk remembers what happens every time Flowey attempted to just throw even a completely harmless bullet. A white-hot fireball hurled directly at him.
“Toriel will be here any minute. If you don’t go know she’ll probably assume you’re trying to hurt me.”
Flowey nods, still confused as to why Frisk hasn’t immediately gone onto genocide.
“The flower’s probably terrified of us.”
Chara floats around Frisk, relaxed, but still just slightly tense. They know it’s too easy to resort to killing everyone. The two of them hear footsteps. The footsteps can belong to only one caprine monster.
Toriel walks into the room, her eyes widening upon noticing Frisk. Chara stiffens upon seeing their adoptive mother.
“Let’s… just get out of here as quickly as possible. Without hurting anyone, of course.”
It is very obvious they are uncomfortable with the presence of their mother, especially when Toriel is unaware of Chara being there.
Somewhere else, Dust is also wiping his eyes. Papyrus looks at him with concern.
“Is something wrong, brother?”
Dust smiles at hearing his voice.
Papyrus stares at him, his expression showing how unamused he is with Dust not telling him what’s wrong. He sighs and begins to walk out of his older brother’s room.
“I’m off to sentry duty, Sans. Don’t be late.”
The door closes. Dust falls back against his pillow, more tears falling out from his eyes. He only just finishes wiping them before his door slams open, Papyrus’ eyes wide and both confused and excited.
“W-what? Why’d ya slam my door that hard?”
“THERE’S SOMEONE OUTSIDE! WITH THESE TWO BUNDLE THINGS! WITH HEADS! IT DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE AND I’M CONFUSED!”
“Be louder, I’m pretty sure New Home only just heard you. Anyways, I think I know who that is. I’ll… get up.”
In an odd fashion, Dust rolls off his mattress, slowly lifting himself off the floor. He yawns, stretching his arms up. Dust stands up, blinking a few times, before heading out of his room, down the stairs and walking to the front door.
He opens the front door, Cross behind it, his twin daughters securely held in his arms. Celest stares at Dust, not blinking. Luna is still asleep. Dust sighs.
“Welp. Alright, come in. Introduce us to your strange bundle creatures as well.”
“They’re not bundle creatures. They’re kids.”
“Well all I can see is bundles with heads.”
Dust steps back to let Cross inside, shutting the door behind him.
“Pap, you’re gonna be late.”
“Nonsense, brother! I want to at least say hello to our guest… and those bundles. I refuse to be late!”
Meh. The kid’s probably gonna be a little while, anyway.
“Anyways, how about introductions? Between you two, mainly.”
“Greetings! I am The Great Papyrus! Or just Papyrus!”
Cross’ smile shows just a slight hint of bitterness.
“Cross. Pleased to meet you.”
“May I inquire about those… bundle things you have, before I quickly leave?”
Cross’ face darkens just a touch.
“They’re children. Twin daughters, actually. The one that’s awake is Celest, the other Luna.”
Papyrus doesn’t notice how Cross’ mood has changed from being happy to… uncomfortable. He grins widely, waving to the little ones. He does, however, notice Celestial Star’s… eeriness.
“Well, sorry to leave on such short notice, but I have to quickly run to sentry duty! Be back later! Sans! Take care of our guests while I’m gone!”
Papyrus opens the door, closing it behind him before beginning to sprint to his sentry post.
“So… I have no idea what to I’m bad with people.”
“You’re not the only one.”
Wordlessly, they walk up to Dust’s room, Dust going inside first, closing the door behind Cross.
“Your room is a mess, you know that, right?”
“I know. I just haven’t been bothered to clean it.”
“Then I’m gonna clean it.”
Dust stares at him, afraid for his own life.
“Please don’t. Paps will kill me if you do.”
“Put the small bundles down first, at least.”
Cross moves forward, setting Luna and Celest down on Dust’s simple mattress. He begins to wander around the room, picking up all the trash in it.
Dust stares in horror and amazement, knowing Papyrus will be furious with him not helping Cross clean his mess of a room. It doesn’t take long before the room looks substantially better than it did before.
Cross sits down on the mattress, taking Celest and Luna, placing them in his arms.
“That kid is… creepy as all hell.”
Cross nods, his face darkening a little more.
“Yeah, she’s like that. She can be a handful sometimes. Same with Luna… but Celest is worse.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“It’s a bit hard to explain. I’d also have to explain a lot of other things as well.”
“Well, I might have a script to follow, but it’ll be a little while before I have to quickly go check on Frisk.”
Cross shifts uncomfortably.
“Okay. I don’t really know where to start.”
“Let’s start with when Nightmare came back looking not like a goop-demon. I’m guessing you have some idea of what I’m talking about?”
“Yeah, I know what you’re talking about. I have some bad news though.”
“There’s a new octopus in the multiverse.”
Dust’s eyes widen as he stiffens, afraid.
Cross’ expression changes to bear one slightly haunted, his eyes showing a dark light in them.
“That disgustingly precious, innocent little angel.”
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Connections with chess pieces are cool. Also finally some sort of art representation of Celest’s expression. That face is just like “why. just why.” Luna’s gonna wake up any part now, I swear. The smol does deserve sleep, though. She probably gets angry and screechy because she’s a sleep-deprived child. It’d make sense.
(ngl cross be looking like a girl. meh. f*** gender roles and norms, they’re stupid.)
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The DETERMINATION Series is an alternate timeline, separate to canon Dark Cream and Gayfish’s timeline with the twins.