atlaschao

[atlaschao]

Your lips My lips, Apocalypse

Chapter 1: Introductions.

Lanterns dimly lit the corridor, dark colours of the walls and decorations feeding into the darkness. Silent footsteps could barely be heard as I walked through the hallway, peeking through each bedroom or listening in before ending up at the end of the hallway. Into my own bedroom. The dark, eerie set up could creep anyone out, I naturally felt cold, the coldness of my room never bothered me.

We lived out in the forest. With a fence all the way around guarded 24/7. Over the many years we had made and refurnished decorations.

Despite the apocalypse, we had it good. I had done.. sacrificed so much to be here. I walked over to my double bed which I had fixed over a few months when we first made the base, laying down and praying. I could get a few hours of sleep. I was usually putting out fires left right and centre. I barely got much time for myself.

I got under my covers, getting comfortable and shutting my eyes

My crew... My family. They meant so.. so much to me

Error.. Killer... Dust... Horror... And me. Nightmare. Oh cold and cruel nightmare. We were called the exterminators. Known for killing on sight with no mercy. They weren't all wrong. We had little to no mercy, we called it surviving.

The darkness felt like my home, although I had nightmares every night. Its like the darkness was my friend.

I had a twin. His name was… dream.

I remember the last time I saw him.

“Nightmare!” I heard his voice calling out for me as he got dragged out by doctors. As other doctors guided me into their lab.

I didn’t see him since. I got told he left and they couldn’t find him, he.. left me behind.

I got infected, we used to know these scientists… and doctors, we went to them to see if they could by any chance save me, or.. if I could save humanity, hopefully I could contribute myself to the cure. But, something wrong happened. They infused this goop into my soul, and I never became infected… to be exact. Im immune. But negativity felt so… amazing. The darkness felt so nice… like I was the god of death or some shit like that. I don’t know what happened to me. But these tentacle like forms could come out of me, it was weird, I had become this... monster. Like a demon. When it all happened Its like I didn’t have control of myself, I had killed all of the scientists and doctors and ran, I didn’t go to find dream, I didn’t even know where he was. And if he had left, how was I to find him? I didn’t even want him to see me like this anyways… so I found a place to hideout and, regained conscious to my new appearance. The scar that went across my eye to my cheek, despite still being able to see out of it, it looked nasty. My dark hair hid it well.

Nobody knew about, me being.. well a demon I suppose. Minus my new family, after all, those who weren’t family haven’t lived to tell the tale.

All of my family now, they all went through their own problems. I felt this connection with them. So I vowed to never leave one of them behind and took them all in.

Dust. He used to travel with his younger brother papyrus, he protected him with his life, but one day he turned his back for too long and papyrus got bit, he was forced to shoot his own brother since papyrus couldn’t bring himself to do it but… didn’t want to get infected. Every day since, dust has vowed to protect everyone he cares about, putting them before himself. His main purpose was to avenge papyrus but… he learned, he moved on, putting that anger into protecting his loved ones. He became out best sniper, and best at guns overall, he trains almost every two days to make sure he is always on his toes. I had run into him, he covered in blood, he had killed 13 infected without getting bit. It was impressive, most people would get injured but he was fine. The blood was others blood not his own. He was knelt panting, I could see that urge and desperation in his eyes that needed violence to live, he was very smart. I invited him in and he accepted. Ever since I was helping him control his emotions and finding new ways to deal with these urges for violence.

Killer. Hah, the most chaotic, but he was great in hand-to-hand combat, well. After me of course, he is always a handful, very cheeky and flirty to all, but his flirtatious comments barely meant anything, just a hopeful wish to have some fun. His team had left him to defend himself, when I had found him, he was beat up and tired, with bodies of humans around him who had jumped him around him, I took him in, hoping he was a good asset, my intuition was rarely wrong.

Ah,

Error, well its error, who knows. I’ve been friends with him for such a long time now. He’s the most childish when to comes to competition, he’s always in his room, he is a very unsociable person. He watches the cameras around the base and manages the electronics, error is smart. And very capable, he was my first close friend probably ever in my life so far. He never really told me his backstory, he had found me and offered to be teammates. He’s great at listening and not sticking to the plan and just doing his own thing.

Horror. Such a big teddy bear, he was our cook, he hunts down food and manages our gardening, I found him bleeding out with an arrow through his head, he was also good at healing, other than me. So I thought he was great to have. He was threatening but sweet, caring yet deadly. The perfect contrast you need in your life.

We all put effort into our base and each other’s lives, we all needed each other, and we all loved each other, appreciated each other and…

Happy.

[atlaschao]

Your lips My lips, Apocalypse

Prologue/Chapter 0

(for people who saw my content before, i am restarting)

Birds tweet, flying to their chicks to feed them, unaware of the events around them.

Buildings stand with greenery pouring from them like tears, rust crawling at their bones as they slowly deteriorate.

It had been 53 years since the outbreak.

People seek refuge within groups, they outnumber infected. But not all groups were friendly to another. Killing anyone on site that they don’t know. Making them just as feared as infected. Some were caring, known to take in people of need or solo people who had lost their team, to help them on a right path, to join a safe group.

The air always felt thick. Heavy. Full of grief and caution.

It was near to silence, people whispered and croaks and whimpers from infected were all you could hear. It became the norm. Birds chirp, as if warning you, keeping you on your toes as you tread lightly, praying to whoever would answer your prayers.

But the real struggle?

How do you deal with it. When you have to leave a loved one.

Something nobody had gotten used to yet.

…

I yawned, stretching and groaning as my back popped into place. Rolling onto my front and sighing, my eyes adjusting to the light as they slowly opened, “Wake up lazy” I heard a teasing tone behind me, I looked over and spat back “Oh shut up- I couldn’t sleep bro.” I sat up, shuffling out of my sleeping bag and looking over at the laughing man of my best friend. “Shut the fuck up epic.” I ran a hand through my hair, feeling the mess of what had become my hair. “Cmon you lazy old man.” He spoke with a teasing tone “Just cause my hair is white doesn’t mean im old!” …did I mention I get grumpy when I get a bad nights of sleep?

I mean who doesn’t get grumpy?

"Cmon get your stuff packed up, Gaster wants us out in ten" He spoke as he began to pack away his own sleeping bag, I just rolled my eyes, dragging myself out of bed and brushing my hair "whats the plan today bro? Gaster tell you?" I asked with interest, glancing over at epic as he shrugged "don't really care dude, as long as we don't end up dead" he spoke with a small joking tone at the end, I just sighed and rolled my eyes.

Walking out of the tent, watching our.. friends pack up their tents, me and epic began to work on our own. Birds chirped as the sun was high now. Indicating around 9-10am... Or atleast what I guessed.

I felt a small poke in my back, I turned around to look behind me, I looked down at the small 13 year old and gave them a small smile "Hey kid" I bent down to Frisk's height, giving them a pat on their head, but they just.. hugged me? Frisk was selective mute, they struggled with anxiety, even to me, I barely heard their voice, I hugged them back and patted their back, giving them silent comfort, they mumbled a soft and quiet "I love you" into my shoulder "...I love you too frisk. Always.." I pulled back and smiled softly at my younger brother, I ruffled their hair and watched as they fixed it, I stood back up to my full length, looking over to see how the rest of our group was doing, watching them talk and point at some map undyne had.

"I just know this is gonna be a long day." I mumbled over my breath as I walked towards them.

And that was the last trip I had with them.

It's been years.

Ten to be exact.

A whole decade.

I heard humming as my eyes adjusted to the light compared to the darkness I had trapped myself in that people called sleeping. My only relief.

Groaning as I say up, rubbing the back of my neck, feeling small scars on it from all these years.

I climbed out of my tent, putting my jacket on as I sat next to epic "what you making?" I asked curiously as he smiled and said "I hunted down a rabbit, just cooking it now plus I traded some coffee beans so I'm making coffee" I raised an eyebrow and mumbled "since when did you get so good at.. supplies?.. no offence bro"

Epic laughed and said "told you dude! One day I'd get good at this!" I rolled my eyes and added "I'm gonna pack all this up and figure out where we are gonna head next" I patted his back as I stood up and began to take down our tent.

Yknow I never used to like rabbit.

I hated it's texture. But I grew used to it.

"Here. we haven't explored this area yet, what do you think?"

I heard epic sigh, I just down at him, we were almost the same height, me being slightly taller than him. I sighed too and mumbled "I know. It's one of the last ones I promise.. then I'll give up okay?.." epic didn't like that we were still going after XGaster and our family, epic just nodded, I watched him get up and pack, I followed by standing up and folding up the map. "One of the last ones. Then we are done. Okay?" Epic spoke in a more serious tone than ever, I just nodded "yeah. I promise.. it's been years.. it's not worth running after them anymore.. I just.. I guess I want closure okay?" I took a step forward as I spoke, watching him sigh and nod. I just smiled softly and patted his back "now cmon, I wanna get there before sunset" And then we set off.