Dreamer Adventures

-Everfree-

Asriel awoke to the sight of a timberwolf in his face, falling backward he started to look for Chara. She was sitting still next to him fully awake but not moving.

“So!” Azure exclaimed, startling Asriel but doing nothing to Chara. “You two uh… feel like exploring? Maybe wanna grab a bite? Say hello to the locals?”

He pouted, going in to werewolf like state as he put his incredibly furry head on Chara.

“I can go for a bite, yeah.” Asriel reluctantly agreed.

Azure looked down at the small child expectantly as he got to his feet, Answer and Veronica now having come up to Chara as well.

“Great… she's moping.” Veronica stated.

All eyes fell upon the bruiser, huffing as she folded her arms. “She may be the most annoying brat there is, but if she's clammed up… just don't take your eyes off her. She'll be safer that way.”

Asriel and Azure simply nodded… looking around frantically as they actually had taken their eyes off of her.

“Wait, where's Answer?” Azure asked.

“He must have followed her, come on!” Asriel shouted as he burst forward in Cloak’s armor.

“Hey jackass! Wrong way!” Veronica shouted, pointing the opposite direction.

The armored mass of rags sped off, now in the right direction and deeper into the forest.

“Coming?” Azure asked of his lover.

“Do you even have to ask?” She replied as she bent over just enough to expose her cleavage, a sly smile on her face.

Without wasting another second, the two were off.

-Harmony’s Edge-

“Miss Chara, please! I know I've been less than cordial but you mustn't run off like this!” Answer called to the speeding bullet that was Chara.

He found no response, but noticed the slight trail of blood and skin that would occasionally trail behind her. “Was I so careless in my wake that you choose to ignore me!? A thousand apologies!” He cried, clasping his hands together as he castrated himself right next her.

“ANSWER!” Azure managed to cry out from just behind the pair. “Get her to stop!”

“I will do no such thing!” He shot back. “I have brought more than enough harm upon her!”

“For the love of… CHAOS!” The world began to slow to a crawl… minus the child who had now outraced Answer.

“Yeah… okay. Yeah, okay!” Azure shouted in mild annoyance. “Can you at least tell me where the hell you're going!?” Azure pleaded. Chara ignored him as she continue to run the damage being a lot more noticeable on her legs as they looked like they were melting.

“GROUP DIVINATION!!” Azure yelled, a brilliant golden light radiating from the child.

[It's Complicated Applied]

“FUCKING HELL!” The Dracopyre exclaimed, though he was at least somewhat happy that he healed her and have her a damage buff.

The two kept moving, one an unstoppable force, the other a slightly nettled caretaker. Through ancient trees, giant boulders, and the occasional manticore, the child tore through obstacle after obstacle while her guardian kept her… somewhat alive.

Soon, the trees of the Everfree had started to thin out, making way for the brilliant light of dusk as Chara immediately went down.

“Oh Hell… don't go to the tree don't go to the tree…” Ignoring the steps, Chara had opted to run along the cliffside as she made her way to the cave entrance of the Tree of Harmony.

“Stop! Don't touch that tree!” Azure cried, wincing as she quite literally barreled through a pair of vizalain guards, scattering their crystal bodies to the winds. Chara not listening to a word he says, crashes into the tree as her eyes have been closed the entire time.

The tree shook, several of its leaves cascading upon the child.

“What!? A human!? A human child!?” The tree cried.

“Oh sweet Christ, I am… so sorry!” Azure said hurriedly, gently cradling the child in his arms. Chara had busted her head open on impact.

“Hero? Is that you? I believe I said I would contact you if necessary?” The tree questioned. “Did she bleed on me?”

“Ohhhh crapbaskets…” Azure thusly began to shuffle in place, unsure of what to do. “Group Divi- agh fucking shit!” Azure spat as he fell to his knees.

“Hero? Is something wrong? Is there still blood on my bark?” The tree asked with slight worry.

“Damn heart's acting up… used too much mana at once…” Biting back another swear, Azure laid Chara down and begun slicing off the excess skin from her wound and licked whatever blood he could.

The wound had begun to visibly glow at this point, blood no longer building up, but the wound no closer to healing.

“Ffffuck… I really wanted to break this one down, but I'll just have to hope I see Zidane again…” Taking out a bottle with a shining green liquid, Azure gave a silent prayer as he uncorked the bottle and emptied the Hi-Potion into Chara's wound; watching as the wound began to glow green and red.

“Ooh… the colors…”

“What colors? Hero? I can feel the blood beginning to dry!” The tree audibly complained.

“Yeah yeah, don't get your roots in a knot…” Azure replied as he began spit into his hands.

“I hope you don't expect to clean me with your bodily fluids, no offense, but I don't know where you've been!” The tree exclaimed.

“Oh come on!” Azure cried, hands in the air in utter despair.

“At last we have found you!” Answer cried out, Asriel and Veronica right behind him.

“More unrequested visitation!? Hero, I expected better of you!” The tree chastised.

As Azure slammed his head into a cave wall, Answer had moved to face the tree.

“Ye elder gods! Fair maiden, you have been marred!” The elemental cried.

“Oh great, you noticed. Come help me out with… Chara.” Answer had completely ignored his biological donor, choosing to kneel before the tree.

“Yea fair sir! A great horror has befallen me!” The tree cried. “My once shining body has been marred by the spilt blood of another! Is there not one who can aid me in my time of woe and desecration!?”

“Oh dear God please don't let this be a thing…” Azure cursed as lo, it was indeed a thing.

“Fair lady,” Answer called out with outstretched arm, now kneeling upon a knee. “Allow for me to right this wrong, and to bring justice to your wicked fate!”

“Guys, bleeding child?” Azure asks rather perturbed.

“Did you check underneath her?” The tree asked, dropping the theatrics as Answer had drawn water from somewhere and had gotten to work on her blood.

“The fuck do you mean-” Azure lifted Chara’s head, noticing a growing patch of glowing green flower petals. Taking one, he sniffed it before applying it's nectar into Chara’s wound… effectively sealing it.

“My hero…” The tree purred, now clean and shining. “Really young Azure, why can't you be more like…”

“Answer, fair lady.”

The two shared a giggle as Asriel had finally come forward. “What the flapjack is that… and where's- CHARA!”

Hurriedly, Asriel knelt before Chara, running his hand along her forehead. “She's alright…” He breathed out.

“You aren't of this world.” The tree called out, startling Asriel.

“Oh… that obvious?” He asked with a chuckle.

“And what of you demon kin? Why do you not approach us?” This startled Veronica, as she only grumbled.

“Mother of the Vizalain. Tree of Harmony,” Azure called out. “Chara’s mind has checked out and it's got us worried. The fuck do we do?”

“Have you tried “turning her off and on again”?” The tree asked.

“Absolutely no one is turning her on!” Asriel shouted defensively. “Uh… you know… because she's just a kid…” He shut his mouth as a mad blush made its way upon his face.

“I don't see what hardware has to do with her emotional state of being.” Azure questioned.

“That is what makes you the hired muscle, Hero. You don't have to see why.” Before Azure could argue to his intelligence, the tree had begun to coil the child in loose shining vines.

“Oh no no no no…” Only to set her back down.

“What? What happened?” Asriel asked with worry.

“She's been touched by Kindness! I can't meddle in the affairs of the Elements! Why, they'd sooner have me dried and used for firewood!” The tree exclaimed.

“What!? But you grew the Elements yourself!” Azure argued.

“No… no you see, I gave them physical form upon the planet. THEY gave birth to ME.” The tree explained.

“But, every bearer took her on,” Asriel stated. “How could she only be affected by Kindness?”

“Only Kindness confronted her… of that I am sure of. Only Kindness can lift her seal.”

“Welp, I'm sold. Let's pick up Fluttershy and get her to work ye ol magic!” Azure exclaimed as he got up to his feet.

“Absolutely not!” The tree cried. “If Kindness ever found out I told you this, it would mean my DOOM for certain!” She yelled, somehow accentuating the word Doom so it actually became visible.

“Well, can you at least tell us what will happen to her if we don't fix her?” Asriel asked.

“Certainly! She'll die and take whatever universe she's in with her!” The tree happily stated. “Oh wait no, that's bad. That's bad, yes?”

“Yes fair lady, it is indeed a terrible fate to befall us.” Answer explained.

“I say we do it, I'm not willing to keep the world from falling apart at the subatomic level.” Azure said, his mind made up.

“Wait, what? What do you mean “subatomic”?” Asriel asked.

Azure had hefted the child upon his shoulders, slowly walking out. “I plead the fifth.”

Grumbling, Asriel simply followed behind as the group made their way out, Answer giving several farewells to the tree of Harmony.

-The Cottage-

Azure and co. sat upon an incredibly large and comfortable couch made from yarn of all things as Fluttershy began to pace around the unconscious child that was Chara.

“Oh no… Oh dear… What if something goes wrong!” Fluttershy… exclaimed as best she could in her quiet riot. “What if I accidentally cause the world to explode… oh…”

“Shy, SHY!” The pegasus ‘eeps’, jumping up and hanging on to the ceiling of her cottage. “The world's not gonna blow up if you mess up…” Azure assured.

This only caused her to hug the ceiling tighter.

“Angel… help…” The Dracopyre pleaded. The Bun-Demon sighed as he pulled out a magazine about yarn.

“Shy, I have the latest catalogue from Cat Scratch Emporium…” He whispered as he waved the magazine about.

With an actually audible gasp, Fluttershy fell upon the magazine. “They have a sale on my favorite bolt of yarn!” The pegasus cried in glee.

Everyone present had clutched at their chests, their hearts in danger of bursting.

“I should have stayed in the Everfree with Answer…” Veronica whined.

“It's too cute I'm gonna die!” Asriel whined.

Azure had simply taken to breathing into a paper bag.

Thankfully a knock at the door took everyone's attention. “Miss Shy, one of your blue jays left a letter!”

“Moonpie!” Azure shouted as he opened the door, quickly ushering Luna inside.

“Oh my, this certainly wasn't how I wanted to see our guests.” Luna muttered as she took in the varying looks of worry.

“Wait, how'd she get past Celestia and her guards?” Asriel asked.

“Easy fuck-wit. I helped her escape.” A shadow had formed behind Luna, loosely shaped like a pony. “Who's the kid? Hooker gone wrong?”

“What the phalanges is that!?” Asriel cried as he pointed at Luna’s “Shadow”.

“Serenity, play nice…” Azure chastised, the shadow actually listening to him.

“Sorry Master…” The shadow went back into Luna, said mare coughing into her hoof.

“Yes well… I'm here for a reason, right?” She asked, wanting to get straight to the point.

“It's Chara…” Asriel said, pointing to the lying child. “She needs something in her mind restored.”

“And I'm here to…” She began to spim her hoof around, letting her question hang.

“We're sending Fluttershy into her brain.” Azure explained as he cupped Luna’s face in a hand. “It's either that or wait for the other hat to drop.”

The two kissed, basking in the moment. “Ah… I do so love it when it's do or die. Let's get to it then! Miss Shy!”

Fluttershy who had just been rolling about, fully engrossed in her magazine, immediately sat up and hid her sin behind her back. A serious burning blush adorning her stoic face.

“To the adventure!” Luna cheered as she got into position around Chara. She was closely followed by Azure, Fluttershy trailing just behind.

“Wait!” Asriel and Veronica yelled, the two looking at each other in confusion. Ever the gentleman, Asriel bowed and motioned Veronica go first.

The vampire walked up to Luna And Azure, giving both rather long drawn out kisses. “You two come back to me…”

The pair, slightly flustered, nodded agreement.

Asriel thusly went up to Fluttershy. “Here, these are the answers to the puzzles. Don't kill anything while you're in there.” The two exchanged a nod and the goat child stepped back.

“Ready Shy? Prepare to dive.”

-Ruined Underground mindscape-

The first thing Fluttershy had noticed upon opening her eyes was how drained and devoid of color her surroundings were.

“We are alone.” A voice echoed in her mind.

“Illyria? But the princess and…” Try as Shy might, she saw neither hide nor hair of her companions within the decrepit, derelict, and destroyed ruins.

“We continue in their stead. Help the helpless.”

Her resolve fortified, Fluttershy looked down at the note Asriel had given to her.

NO SUCH LUCK

The note read, below it was the picture of a smiling flower, it's tongue sticking out and it's left eye closed in a wink.

The flower then came alive as it took on a look of malicious glee, cackling madly as the note burned in her grasp.

Taking a deep breath, the mare simply began her trek forward along a straight path… that never seemed to end despite the other side of the room being but meters away.

“Prepare for battle, a demon has caught our scent.”

Several shining green vines began to break through the already failing infrastructure, locking the mare at both exits.

The same horrid laughter from before returned with a vengeance as golden flowers bloomed along the vines and began firing volley after volley of projectiles.

Thinking quickly, the mare pounded the floor in hopes of upturning a slab of masonry to soak up damage… only to break through the floor completely and fall through an inky black abyss.

Holding back her growing fear, the mare flared her wings as she gently landed upon a wooden ferry.

“You've met with a terrible fate.” A voice echoed as Fluttershy ducked beneath a sweeping scythe. The polearm was redacted, revealing it's wielder to be an empty black cloak.

“Enough of this.”

The boatman swung his blade once more, hooking an armored hand. Pulling back, Illyrishy grasped the boatman and crushed it's formless soul.

“Asriel told us not to kill!” Fluttershy’s voice echoed.

“He'll forgive us…” She replied as she hugged her new armament.

The ferry rocked gently along it's only path… until several vines had shot from beneath them, effectively destroying their ferry and causing the river to convulse.

“Please don't say I told you so.” Illyrishy lamented as she was forced to abandon ship… and land upon a block of solid ice.

Readying herself, the demon queen stood her ground as the vast ocean she found herself floating along had slowly been replaced with volcanic magma.

Her ice block fading fast, she jumped, hooking her blade on a crumbling ledge. Several loose pieces of debris fell into the molten ocean below, tortured screams echoing upon each impact.

Flaring her wings, she rode the updraft just long enough to touch down upon… what used to be a mini mall.

“Do you think there's anything here we can use?” Fluttershy asked.

“We can't trust this place or it's remnants… we mo-”

The vines had returned with a vengeance, carrying with them several pieces of either broken or irreparably folded joints as well as what appeared to be a box and head.

“WELCOME TO DIE!!” The mad voice cried as it threw fist after crumpled fist, missing but causing further structural damage to the world.

Closing her eyes, Illyrishy waited until a fist was once again thrust at her. With a deft cut, the vine holding the arm went limp before turning into dust.

“YOU'RE CHEATING!” The beast cried, wildly flailing it's appendages straight into the awaiting blade of the demon queen.

With one last rebel yell, the beast dug underground and fled, the metal head in its grasp now rolling down.

Retrieving it, Illyrishy was rewarded with a croaking “Oh yes...”

“Hm, quaint.” She walked through the ruins, finding a statue of the box the beast held, holding out a pair of hands.

By the power of age won wisdom, Illyrishy placed her prize in the statue’s palms. Blinking, she backed away until several red and blue wires wrapped around her and dragged her deeper into the ruins.

…

Grunting and groaning, Illyrishy ran a hand through her hair as she took to her feet, scythe still in her grasp.

“What was that?”

“She wants to break free.” Huffing, she found herself in the middle of a beautifully adorned, though drab and dreary, hallway. For all intents and purposes, it was the most intact and stable part of Chara’s mind.

Illyrishy took only a single step before being forcefully torn apart.

“Illyria!” Fluttershy cried as she looked upon the true, unspeakable form of the once demon queen.

“Not as pretty am I?” She asked of her companion.

Fluttershy smiled, finding no fear or disgust as she reached out…

Only to be pulled away and sent flying.

“Lady if you come any closer to the kiddo you're really not going to like what happens next.”a voice rang out as a skeleton with a glowing I stepped out from behind one of the pillars.

“You dare!? I am ruler of this realm!” Illyria boomed out.

“Sorry kiddo, this is why I never make promises. it's a beautiful day outside birds are singing flowers are blooming, on days like these people like you.”sans said before his voice became demonic “should be burning in hell.” Sans said before unleashing his first attack. They both heard megalovania start to play after the first attack.

A series of ghost like dragon heads began to fire beams at Illyria in clockwise procession, she dodged all but one as her mind failed to register the severity of her pain.

Gritting her teeth, she jumped up as four skulls attempted to shoot her down in a cross like pattern, only for four more to create an aerial box.

Latching on to a pillar, she pulled herself out and landed back onto the ground.

“Holy Beast! You will be unable to stop her!” Illyria yelled.

“heh heh heh heh” Sans started laughing as he stopped his attack for a bit.

“You find this humorous!?” She demanded.

“It's funny you find me a holy Beast” the skeleton said still grinning.

In the back of her mind, Fluttershy’s voice still echoed.

“I have done nothing to you, Holy One, why should we fight?” The demon queen asked with sincerity.

“again with the Holy One? I'm a monster lady.” Sans says as he starts getting annoyed and sends more vicious attacks out that he would have saved for after trying to give her ‘mercy’.

Taking a calming breath, Illyria felt the grace and subtlety of the pony she had been living inside of as she spun around several rising bones, darted and weaved through literal mazes, and even escaped a laser grid formed by twenty dragon heads.

“I will not fight you… it is not what she would do.” Illyria proclaimed as she dropped her only weapon. “I am unafraid of the sins I hold.”

Sans was actually stunned speechless at this as this lady had enough LV that it nearly quadrupled that of the kid after a genocide run.

“May I pass? I fear I may need her far more than she needs me.” Illyria asked of the skeleton.

“I can't let you near the kid…” Sans said mistaking who she was talking about.

Illyria looked down, lost in thought… until she looked upon the scythe. Hastily, she retrieved it and looked to the skeleton.

“Monster, give this to her. You'll know her when you see her.” She presented the polearm, hope in her eyes.

“why would you give the kid something in her own mind?” Sans asked before he started to realize she wasn't talking about Chara.

“Chara is who we were sent to free, this blade is for her. For Fluttershy.”

“lady I'm surprised that you actually care for someone considering how high your level of violence is.” Sans said genuinely surprised as his fights usually end with him or his opponent dying.

“I had to watch as the man I loved die in my arms… have you ever felt such a thing? Love?” The demon queen asked, holding the polearm close as a tear fell from her eye. Sans didn't say anything.

The demon queen advanced upon Sans, stopping far enough to present the scythe again. “I don't want to watch someone else die, not someone I love.” a small fluffy white dogs appeared out of nowhere grabbing the scythe before running off with it.

Taking a moment to readjust to the absurdity of the situation, Illyria’s voice echoed mightily forth.

“FOUL BEAST! YOU WOULD DARE IMPEDE ME!?”

She raced forth… only for several chains made from bone to tether her in place.

“Fluttershy!! Resist!!”