Been watching through chapter 4 of Deltarune, and it's been giving me some inspiration to write. Hopefully, this time I can come back from the hiatus
ler!jackenstein lee!kris lee!susie lee!ralsei (slight lee!jackenstein)
(This fic is inspired by and takes place during the Jackenstein fight)
SPOILERS AHEAD
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"THE LAIGHT, THE LAIGHT" screamed the figure currently shrouded by darkness.
This was taking longer than you all anticipated. Currently, using the power of your soul to weave through the obstacles placed by Jackenstein in his repetitive mazes was getting a tad bit tedious. Nonetheless, you shall prevail.
You accidentally hit your first Jackstein obstacle, and you swear you hear a little squeak. You can't discern who that was, but you could've sworn it came from beside you. You decide to focus on the battle and not dwell too long; however, you can't help but be worried that Ralsei or Susie might be hurt. So far, so good until you hit two more obstacles. This time, you heard a higher-pitched giggly squeak; you were damn sure this time it was Ralsei, perhaps the first time was Susie, you weren't sure. What the hell could be so damn funny?
Then you hit it again...
You felt a weird ticklish feeling in your belly, one that made you pause and pat yourself to check if something was there. You tell Susie and Ralsei to knock it off and focus on the fight, but neither responds, probably being as confused as you are. You decide to be more careful as you move along.
That's when you heard it...
"YOU'RE TAKING TOO LONG!!" bellowed the large creature.
The lights in the maze turned red, and a giant pumpkin head started chasing your soul. You couldn't help but start making more mistakes as you panicked to get out. You clearly didn't feel as much as what Ralsei was feeling every time you hit an obstacle to make it out fast, because you heard him fall to the floor, and start giggling his little head. What in the damn Deltarune was going on? When you finally made it out of the maze, you reached around in the dark to check on Ralsei and see if he was okay. You managed to find his scarf, startling him in the process. When you asked if he was alright, the goat prince sheepishly murmured a reassuring response. Unbeknownst to you or Susie, Ralsei was blushing with embarrassment.
"LEAVE, GET OUT OF THE DARK," ordered the creature.
You were in too deep to back out now. You tried to make as few mistakes as possible, but your diligence ended up taking too much time. The pumpkin growled, insisting that you were taking too long yet again. You attempted to hurry, but the pumpkin caught you. Instead of feeling the exhaustion of losing health, you heard something far more peculiar. You heard someone double over, and it was silent for a few seconds, too quiet. Then you heard Susie let out the most childish, girlish cackles you've ever heard. When she's laughing at things or other people, she sounds more gruff, but right now, she was letting out bubbly giggles.
"WHA-WHAHAT IHIHIS THIS KRIHISIS FREAKING HAHAHLP," the poor girl let out.
You could hear her hands pound on the floor as you were helpless to do nothing. When it was over, you said nothing. You were sure Susie would like to pretend that never happened. Ralsei did not pick up on that as fast as Kris did.
"Susie, are you oka-"the prince of the dark was cut off immediately.
"Shut up!" the girl ordered
"But you-"
"I SAID SHUT UP, YOU DIDN'T HEAR THAT!"
"Kinda sounds like I did, there's no shame. It was kinda cu-"
"I SAID SHUT UP!" This time, you heard Susie's voice crack; you could tell her cheeks were rosier than Noelle's nose when it lights up. You heard Ralsei snicker, and you knew damn well Susie's pout was longer than the Mississippi River. You were about to avenge Susie by poking Ralsei, but Jackenstein brought you right back into the fight with his moaning and groaning.
After some time, you got better at pacing yourself. You gathered enough TP to let out a burst of light from your soul. You were soon to find that the Pumpkin man couldn't stand it. You attacked him swiftly with your soul, hoping to wear him down. You could swear you heard him let out some muffled giggles as your soul attacked him.
Looks like Jackenstein didn't enjoy his own tricks being used against him. The next maze you went through, the key was weirdly large. When you acquired it, your soul grew in size.
You were sure you were ready for it this time.
"YOU'RE TAKING TOO LONG!!" But instead of a large pumpkin head, it was a bunch of little tiny ones. You hurried to get the soul out, but you forgot the soul was bigger than before, so you kept on bumping into the holes that were too small. When the tiny pumpkins caught your soul, you doubled over.
"Kris?" the other fun gang members asked worriedly.
Susie and Ralsei reached around for you, and when they found you, they felt your body shaking. You were holding back giggles from what felt like multiple fingers jabbing and digging into your flesh. You felt it in every ticklish spot you had, even in places that weren't usually as sensitive. It didn't take long for you to let out frantic, panicked belly laughter. You flopped on the floor and clutched Ralsei's cloak (dress? tunic? Forgive me if I'm wrong). You kicked your legs as you laughed uncontrollably, squirming away from something that you couldn't stop from tickling you. This was the first time Ralsei or Susie had heard you laugh, or at least laugh like this. You could feel them looking down at your laughing form, and Susie was right to feel embarrassed.
"FUHUCKIHING SHIHIT, STOP STOP EAHAHAHAHA," you begged. You hated that you could tell Ralsei wanted to coo at you or Susie wanted to tease you. You were thankful they were nice enough not to do that. Perhaps they didn't because they were tickled before you and felt they had no right.
Sweet rune, this fight was gonna take a while, wasn't it....
About an eternity passed, or so how Susie phrased it. You beat Jackenstein. After Susie was ragebaited by Gerson into healing Jackenstein, the large creature calmed down. The large darkner rejoiced of it's pain being soothed. He then grabbed all three of you.
"YOU THREE MY FRAINDS" Jackenstein announced excitedly.
The creature nuzzled all three of you. Ralsei leaned in, and Susie looked weirded out. You didn't really care until the creature started snickering mischievously, then it tickled all three of you in its grasp. The three of you squirmed and giggled in his arms. After a few minutes, he stopped and let you down. Then he went into his backstory....
