As Woona got ready to leave Muffet's parlor - once more clad in Cartographer's Cap, Faded Ribbon, and Chilled Apron - Woona paused as Muffet handed her her satchel. "I'm still terribly sorry, deary," Muffet offered warmly. "You must have had such a terrible fright when I attacked you, especially when you were trying to do something good for me and my family." She gently stroked the Star Spiders that came comfortingly to her.
Woona shrugged. "Not as scary as when I first met Chara," she replied. "Or as scary as Gaster." She paused as she thought back. "Or that not-quite-nightmare with the Tough Gloves...or being hunted by Undyne...or when Sans first walked up behind me acting spooky..." Her voice trailed off as she realized just how many scary experiences she'd had in the Underground. "Wow. This whole time down here's been really traumafying."
And somehow I'm the one changing from the experience, Chara murmured, amusement dripping from his mental voice.
Muffet smiled warmly. "You're truly generous to be so forgiving, dear Woona," she offered. "I'm afraid the donuts and cider you brought with you was lost when I kicked your saddlebags...though the snowman's just fine."
"That's a relief," Woona admitted. "I never thought my inventory could be a dangerous place."
Me neither, Chara agreed.
"So I restocked you," Muffet replied. "We put a bit of extra magic into the donuts and cider bottles, since you have more HP than the humans who have passed through here. Any one donut or cider bottle ought to fully restore you."
Smiling, Woona examined the items in the pouches.
Muffet Donuts, Chara described. Made with real spider cider for an extra boost for a special friend. Restores 50 HP and halves the damage of the next three hits. ...Muffet Cider. A boosted version of Spider Cider that restores 50 HP and increases SPD and INV. Just like the classic flavor, made by spiders, for spiders, of spiders-
"Of spiders?" Woona gasped out, eyes wide, a whimper in her voice.
Muffet burst into laughter. "Oh, deary, it's not like that!" she insisted. "It's just our magic in liquid form, in the same way we use it for construction and combat." She giggled impishly. "But, as you can imagine, when we advertised it as such, it didn't sell so well."
Woona blinked at the bottle for a minute. "...cobweb juice?" she asked incredulously.
"And now you see why it didn't sell well," Muffet confirmed. "Odd how customers are happy to imagine they're drinking liquefied spiders, but the idea of cobweb juice freaks them out. Where do they think the cobwebs come from?"
Woona shrugged as she put the bottle away. "Eh, it's tasty, and Mom fed me snails," she offered, letting that settle the subject. "But...what about when you poured me a cup of spiders during tea?"
Muffet tittered happily. "Oh, that's just a prank I play. The faces of those who actually dine with me when they see that is priceless...especially when they actually try to drink it to be polite and the little ones leap out of the cup to crawl all over them."
Woona giggled wickedly with Muffet. "Take good care of yourself!" she called as she turned to go. "I'm gonna go get my family back together, and break the barrier so everyone can be free!"
"You take care of yourself too, Woona," Muffet called back. "There's so many who would be crushed if anything happened to you."
Woona winced playfully. "So my bro's been reminding me."
Indeed I have, Chara insisted as they moved on.
In the chamber beyond Muffet's parlor was a poster with Mettaton on it, but Woona didn't really pay attention to it. Something else had captured her interest. "Chara?" she asked softly.
Smiling, Chara manifested himself, walking beside Woona, though with no more substance than a Blook. "Did you need something, Woona?" he asked softly.
Woona blinked, not used to having him walking beside her instead of inside her. However, it wasn't entirely unpleasant. "What did you mean when you said you were the one changing?" she asked curiously.
Chara chuckled softly. "You remember what I was like when you first met me. Do you even have to ask?"
"But...you were talking as though it was a big surprise," Woona clarified. "What does that mean?"
Chara opened his spectral mouth to explain normally, but the magic that was changing him pushed out a different urge. As such, with a lift of his hands, he called forth a tune. As the music played, he began to sing his message. "When a child's an empty shell," he sang softly, swaying along like a ghost, before making his 'creepy face', "and he should be a spawn from hell..." He paused, spreading his arms. "What's up with my role...?"
Woona couldn't help but sway along with him as he sang and danced.
"While your character should worsen," Chara sang, pointing to her. He then gestured to himself. "I'm becoming a better person. I'm regaining my old soul..."
He slumped to the ground, as though berating himself. "I've grown soft, aloft, and I've not so much as scoffed, regarding your goal..." He smiled softly at Woona as he floated back upward. "I might be friends with skelebros..."
In the distance, two bonily familiar laughs could be heard.
"...the fish that writes out loving prose..."
Elsewhere, Undyne stuffed a piece of paper into her pocket, glancing around suspiciously.
"I'm regaining my old soul..." Chara sang out, his hands on his chest as he stared down in disbelief, where the line of magic that connected him to Woona pulsed the Red of Determination, the color his Soul had once been. He then raised his face to the sky. "Picture me...a balcony...a voice like that of tuna..."
On a stone balcony above them, Mettaton - for some obscure reason wearing a blue ball gown - called out, "WHEREFOR ART THOU, WOONA-"
A blue spear of magic emblazoned with the mark of the moon embedded itself in the stone wall just above Mettaton's head, tearing off his bonnet. "No scene stealing!" Woona snapped out.
"...SORRY..."
Chara blinked as the spear twanged rhythmically. "...er...I hear a beat! ...how...neat?" He cleared his throat - despite the absence of physical throat or blockage - as the flow of the music reclaimed him. He proceeded to stroll along to in front of the balcony, with Woona right beside him.
"Just to register emotion," they sang out together, "empathy, devotion, without it feeling droll..."
Chara once more sang alone, his voice swelling to a crescendo. "I can grow old and give a crap, as people loudly clap! I'm regaining my old soul!"
As the music continued to fill the chamber, Chara and Woona proceeded to tap dance together, Chara's hand gently holding the tip of Woona's outstretched wing as the two siblings expressed their shared joy and DETERMINATION, dancing right off the stage they hadn't even realized they were on.
Up on the balcony, Mettaton looked down at his stolen scene. "NORMALLY I'D BE MORE UPSET ABOUT BEING UPSTAGED...BUT THAT WAS THE MOST CHARMING LITTLE DANCE IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNDERGROUND..." He then turned to look up at the spear still embedded in the stone above him. "...WHEN DID WOONA LEARN UNDYNE'S SPEAR MAGIC?" he mused to no one in particular.
Man I love this story, also I love the parody. Very beautiful. Where did Woona learn that magic *staring intestifies*
STAY D E T E R M I N E D, and keep writing this story! ヽ(*≧ω≦)ノ
Well that's one way to skip another confrontation with Metaton.
Don't know, but if you want, I can ... Look it UP for you.
Oh, don't mind them Mettaton, they are just ... Strolling along.
I did not ... Scene that before.
I did not know that spiders ... silk their webs as tea
If Muffet pored me spiders, I'd be ... Teed off
Why, I ... Scarely believe it ... Chara is no longer BONELY
Good night everyone, the exit is ... Upstaged
And suddenly she can use undyne's spears... and she can take sans shortcuts...
Are you sure this isn't Pwnyverse?
I kid you. if you say it ain't, then it ain't, but its starting to resemble one.
I wonder what other powers she might inherit.
I look forward with baited breath.
Hahahaha! Now, did Mettaton just get upstaged by a scene that nobody saw? Or does everyone in the underground now know of Chara's involvement with Woona?
also...
Is that supposed to be 'pulled'? 'pooled' or 'spooled' maybe? I'm imagining some sort of red thread connecting the two.
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"pulsed", actually.
*Muffled laughter*
Mmmmmm....I'm too mature to laugh, I'm too mature to laugh, I'm too mature to laugh, I'm too mature to laugh, I'm too mature to laugh....too....mature...to laugh...
............F#%k it
AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH HAAAA HAAA HAAA HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH OH MY HA HA HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA
Ha haaa~ I'm going to hell.
The day Woona grows to her adult form and meets PWNYverse Twilight and Pinkie will be the day the universe implodes into singularity.
I think how it works is that Chara is not "thee" thing that he claims to be in-game. That, hm.... he IS the Joker, but not what the Joker represents. Like more that that 'evil made flesh' you occasionally run into at the end of videogames. More like the loss and hate that the true Dark Genie at the end of Dark Cloud/Chronicle, or the concept of darkness that the Heartless come from in the Kingdom Hearts series. Demise's hatred that begat Ganondorf. THAT'S the 'true enemy' - concepts that will be around as long as there are beings who can hold such concepts in their minds. Chara and the others are just incidental manifestations.
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I SAW THAT!
Huh, who knew talking about tea could gather cobwebs.
I'd say Metaton was attempting to... ad-dress the scene there.
If I didn't know any better I'd say that Chara sounded a little... tin-ny in that song.
At least Woona managed to... throw the point of scene stealing.
7172583 :And on the day of prophecy, when the one of the moon, of the stars, and of the pie should meet, doth the universe cry out and all shall cease to be. Prophecy written by Starswirl The Bearded.
And thus a creepy joke became significantly less creepy.
*Insert joke where I pretend someone else did this here* See you later.
7172574 I suppose she truly does have a cat, after all.
7172681 I'm certain you did.
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Hold on...I'll get the joke soon enough.....
*A few hours later*
Yeah I know idea what that's suppose to mean.
7172765 It involves a commonly used phrase involving Muffet, often posed as a question in broken English. "Cat" is synonymous with another term, incidentally.
7172688 and the puns are on point with this chapter , oh god were almost at the end
Now they need to do a duo of Opposites Attract.
Charming indeed. And so nice to see Chara get redemed. I swear, ASSgore, if you touch them, I will unleash my fury upon you, and any who side with you against little Woona!
*Cheers of a thousand Displaced warriors*
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*No clue*
Tick tock tick tock tick tock...DING!
*Gets it*
OOOOOOHHHHHHH!!!!
Ok.
Please tell me the dance between Chara and Woona is more of a sibling bond...
7172836 ..Have you missed every time Woona refers to Chara as her brother? Including the second to last paragraph from this chapter?
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Does spider have kittycat?
does spider have kttycat?
I can imagine Woona not even acknowledging Mettaton's show-stealing, Chara still singing, and Woona, without even looking, flings that spear above Mettaton.
Hmm...I'm curious if Woona is headed down a True Pacifist path to learn the history behind DETERMINATION at Alphys's True Lab and ultimately save Asriel, or if she'll head down a modified Neutral path, talk to Asgore, and then deal with the consequences of Flowey stealing the Human souls and becoming Omega Flowey.
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Sorry...
I don't know if I've told you this, but every time I see a "Moon In The Dark" update in my mail, I just get the most goofy of grins knowing that I'm about to have some good laughs. I don't know if your even going to read this, but if you do please know that I love your work and you bring a smile to my face every time a read a chapter, thank you for making this book and I hope for the best for you.
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Thank you. Comments like this never fail to bring a smile to my face, and give me the encouragement I need to keep writing.
Okay, this story got 1000x better when Woona got moon spear powers.
When DID that happen, anyway?
Heh. Didn't expect Chara to sing a song to explain why he is slowly changing. I definitely enjoyed it, especially while I was scrolling through the page while listening to the song playing in the background.
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No pun rage this time due to Chara's song.
The fabulousness is about to arrive...
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maybe she's a 'blue' mage?
I thought It would fit woona
Edit: it actually fits Canon luna
7173143 I feel the same way about the majority of your PWNY stories... I'm just too much of a lazy bastard to actually type it all out...
That spear magic detail seems like it might be highly significant in the future.
7173237 Aye, it's a calming song if I can classify correctly.
I love this. No complaints. This is the good stuff. Nothing even remotely resembling a waste of time. :D
7172688 What does your third pun mean, I don't get it. By the way, I can't believe I didn't think to use the last pun that you did.
7173591 Google the word Tinny, it's a more recent word that I also encountered when reading another story. I can't explain because my memory retention is actually quite bad nowadays.
I keep seeing people referencing the PWNYverse. What exactly is that?
7173681 Stories by Tatsurou in a similar style to this one, where different ponies are sent to different movies/video games/works of fiction and de-aged like in My Little Dashie they are raised by the main character of that story and either subvert the normal plot or make things better after the story is done with. Like NMM being rasied by Raplh from Wreck-It Ralph of Pinkie Pie being adopted by Kratos and driving the entire plot of God of war off the rails. The "PWN" is a joke because by the time they get back, they will be overpowered in their own universe. A CRISIS event is coming here they all meet up.
7173798 Ah, gotcha. Thanks!
7173681 it's a series of stories written by tatsurou that have only three things in common.
1: character X from show will be transported to a world from show/game/story Y and start life there as a baby.
2: as character X grows up in world Y, they become very powerful in a way that makes it seem like they earned all that power.
3: eventually, tatsurou will write a story with all of his PWNYverse characters together and it will be called something to the effect of "PWNYverse" because the characters are so powerful.
I highly recommend that you read them. Start with games and stories you know. I suggest "technological technicolor technomare"
7172569 Ahhh, didn't even think of that. Makes sense.
Glorious! Hahaha, love that little song and dance they did, cute af man, good job!
7173670 Made of metal? I think a better term for it would be ... Made of Mettaton!
A wonderful chapter. Great job.