Cosmo felt his face grow hot and cover itself in layers of tears. Plum looked over at Cosmo's flower which now looked dull and devoid of all good things. Cosmo felt his head ache with pain, a memory faded in and out. Almost liked he was suppose to remember something important but something didn't want him to.
Destiny say in her room as strings hung from the most odd of places. The strings shook and broke at random. Her plan with falling apart and she was doing everything she could to fix it. "Young Destiny, you called for my assistance?" A goddess known as Sense, spoke. Sense had the ability to control the five senses. She's the reason some people are missing a sense or two. She's the reason mortals can feel other gods like Joy and Despair when need be. Destiny sighed relieved before panic resurfaced. "Help me stop this." She pleaded. Sense, as the goddess she was, did as asked. She moved her right hand up stopping every string in the room from doing anything. She felt every bit of magic in her body at the tip of her fingers. She moved her left arm up and her hand right fixing strings before moving her left leg forward pointing her foot down and then behind her. Error, or Cosmo as the mortals called him, fainted on the floor. However, one strings refused to let anything fix it. The last small bit of Error. Not Cosmo, the Forced Destroyer Error. That defenseless string was the only thing holding Error in that kid. Fortunately, it was missed.
Sense calmed herself settling her magic rather than releasing it. She could only imagine the things it would try and do. After all, magic was a matter to be controlled rather than released to destroy.
Destiny sighed and hugged Sense who chuckled. "It's what I do Destiny, I'm here for you, okay?" Sense assured before Destiny pulled away. She nodded still heavily breathing from the panic from before. Destiny always took a long time to calm down. Sense left and, after closing the door, coughed up blood, it covered her hand in hot burning blood that made her hand burn and sizzle. She gasped before shaking her hand and discovering burn marks. It wasn't the first time this happened, but it sure did hurt like hell. She hid her hand in her robes pocket before walking off.
The blood she had shaken off, burnt the floor like acid.
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Outer was called to the council immediately, so much for a nice walk. His bones rattled with cold chills. Something was wrong and it made him very uncomfortable. Yet, he said nothing since it didn't matter to anyone else here besides Underswap Papyrus and he wasn't here. Blue, his brother, was fidgeting in place, his leg tapped so quickly that it probably wasn't even coming off the floor. Or so Outer thought. Ink sat at the end of the table, he looked unhealthy, sleep wise. Dream rubbed his back in a caring manner. Outer knew why he was here, fourteen universes had been destroyed in the last five minutes. Ink had been creating non stop but to do so involved no sleeping. It was heartbreaking.
Outer heard sizzling behind him, a portal was being opened, there were flowers around it whenst seeing it. Plum came through looking both concerned and tired. He had a soaked left sleeve and seemed to be in alert. His brother did not come through, that's weird. Buttercup always came to meetings. Plum sat beside Outer and sighed. "Where's your bro?" He asked. Plums eye sockets went wide and he slowly turned his towards Blueberry. "Cosmo is in our AU, Buttercup found him in the garden. Of course, Cosmo woke up, but when my brother introduced himself he out of no where started crying and fainted. Buttercup noticed he had a panic attack and is taking care of him. I'm not even sure how he got to our AU." Plum explained. Outer turned his head away, his head was filled with what Handy was planning.
He'd have to spy on Cosmo, and for some reason, he despised doing that. He felt hassled and exhausted just thinking about it, why did he feel exhausted? He shook the feeling off and sighed a breath he didn't know he was holding. He licked his teeth and laid back in his seat which no longer felt comfortable. He stared longing at Blue as the meeting passed the time with him not noticing.
The way Blue acted said he was nervous, his teeth moved but nothing came out, he was muttering things. He kept looking at his brother, Carrot, for answers. Carrot was pacing back and forth in the background of Inks loud voice. He had his phone out and was mumbling things into it. He'd look over at his brother with a hopeless expression and a shake of the head. Blueberry didn't seem to be interested in anything but his worried thoughts. Outer and Plum shared a concerned expression. Though they both had no idea what was being planned in their counterparts minds, they knew they were looking for one thing and one thing only:
Cosmo.
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Look what I found.
Handy showed Cosmo a blue Tulip that was opening up its feral petals. Cosmo had woken up twenty minutes after his small nap and came running down the stairs to get his flower and water it. Buttercup hadn't had another incident involving crying, but Cosmo was beyond friendly to him, he kept sitting in his lap and asking to be read books on flower species. Though it made Buttercup happy to see someone was interested in flowers as much as him, he was slightly confused. Why did this small bones come to this AU? More so, how did he get here? He heard whispering 'Look... found...' it didn't sound like Cosmo. As of now, Cosmo was outside in the garden playing with plastic gardening tools. They were Plums when he was little. Buttercup had been pulling weeds out from around his Marigolds.
"Wow Handy, what kind is that?"
He heard Cosmo say, he sounded astonishing. However, who was Handy? Buttercup looked over and noticed a faint static white and black figure floating beside Cosmo. He was holding a blue Tulip and showing Cosmo. Cosmo flinched and the figure said something like 'Flower... Tul...'
"It's a Tulip? It's so pretty."
Cosmo's eye lights would sparkle and change to stars when any flower type was mentioned to him. Never had Buttercup seen such a child so fascinated with flowers. Although, it was a wonder how he got a Cosmo of all species. They were rare and only came up once a year in his garden. "Cosmo, who you talking to?" Buttercup asked. Cosmo looked up at Buttercup, so did the figure but it disappeared and Cosmo sighed seemly sad. Assumingly about the figure leaving. "It's Handy, he likes your Tulips and White Roses." Cosmo stated holding the Tulip.
Cosmo went back to digging a hole, and putting seeds in it labeled Iris.
A portal opened and Outer, Plum, and Ink came through. Buttercup waved and smiled slightly. Cosmo stood up and ran to Outer hugging his legs. "Outer! Hi!" Cosmo said excitedly. Outer chuckled and patted Cosmo's skull. Ink went over to Buttercup having been informed by a Gaster nicknamed 'Handy' that was taking Cosmo to different AUs. Also, that he was straight in dangerous.
Plum looked over the garden.
Outer knelt down to Cosmo's height and noticed he flinched. Buttercup looked over and glared. "Can you see it?" Buttercup asked. Outer looked confused. "See what?" He asked. Cosmo flinched and looked slightly dizzy. "There's a thing beside him, you can't see it?" He asked. Can... can Buttercup see Handy? Plum gasped loudly catching everyone attention. "The Tulips and White Roses are torn up and shredded, some were even dug up!" He exclaimed. Cosmo flinched before passing out for no apparent reason. Outer quickly picked him up before feeling something pulling at Cosmo. A random portal opened and it's contents looked like Waterfall. He wasn't sure which.
GIVE ME HIM RIGHT NOW!
The force pulled harder and harder on Cosmo making him whimper in pain. Eventually start crying. Outer kept a tight grip on Cosmo who was weirdly still asleep. Ink opened up a portal of his own and forced Buttercup and Plum in before pushing Outer and Cosmo into his portal with a lot of struggling. Cosmo eventually screamed in pure agony and woke up and heard the closing of an 'opening'. He sat up in Outer arms and looked around. Where were they? Outer hugged Cosmo close. Cosmo was dreading, his flower was left behind. "Wait, you left my flower." He said trying to get out of Outer grip.
They just had a mental attack from a very dangerous Gaster and he's worried about a flower? "Cosmo, it's too late to go back, you have to leave it there." Outer stated. Cosmo glared at him. "I have to have that flower, mama gave that to me." He retaliated. Outer sighed and rolled his eye lights. "Fine... but you stay here with Ink and Plum."
Outer needed Buttercup because he could see Handy. Ink opened a portal after Cosmo was behind Plum and let the two skeletons through. "Be careful." He stated getting nods. Cosmo watched hopefully as the paintbrush handling skeleton closed it. Ink looked over at Cosmo who looked up at him curiously. Ink felt a faint pull towards this baby bones and he didn't know why. He felt a ping in his nonexistent soul, regret, sorrow, guilt, and death. He heard faint screams, cries for help, and words he couldn't decipher. However, what this kid said made him shake his head mentally.
"You're really short." Cosmo said bluntly. Plum stifled a laugh. Ink sighed having heard it before.
Once upon a time there was a cat and a rat...
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Sorry this one took longer, I have ACT tests coming up in March and school is working us to the bone and saying 'this will get you in a good college' and 'this is SUPER important'. Yeah, get that, however, none of what you are teaching is on the ACT tests.
Anyway, if you still have question for me, Cosmo (Error if you want to call him that), Handy, or anyone else, put them in the comments. Dares are also allowed. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and see you next time peeps!