Rawr XD I'm going to die of frostbite

by puroleine

Summary:

Meet the Delta players au! All the characters are basically three types of Delta rune players playing corrupted or anomalous versions of the game. They're all based on something(s) but guess which is which and you get a cookie 🍪

Right now we are seeing their childhoods, around when they were all teenagers. Friends help friends get out of a shitty situation.

Notes:

sooo....I've been doing this instead of sleeping. I think the whole thing took like...3 days? I did all the planned stuff for 3 days and then i realized um. I'm going to need a 4th chapter so. Oops!

Chapter 1: So cold.

Summary:

ThatHandsomeDevil plays Roblox with his friends. It's concerning, in a way.

Notes:

So glad to have the will to make something for once, and actually finish it. ThatHandsomeDevil usually talks more like a scene kid but it isn't shown very well in this fic since...well stars kinda going through it.

the chilly air passes by boarded windows, it seems that mom has taken a vacation again. When you check in the fridge all the food is rotting, just your luck.

 

This place is filthy, god you wish you had cleaning supplies. Since you have nothing better to do, you open up Roblox and start on a game for roleplay.

 

Checking in with your friend group, you find that NightmareWolf62 and 🎀meowzers are online, apparently they had been talking

 

NightmareWolf62: @meowzers I will, like, literally DIE if you don't, like, get over here right now.

 

🎀Meowzers: eugh fineee

 

it seems they’re both playing battlegrounds.

 

ThatHandsomeDevil: I'm online.

 

NightmareWolf62: OMG ThatHandsomeDevil if you don't come over here like, right now I’m going to have an aneurysm the friend group feels so incomplete without yooou!!!1!!11!

 

🎀Meowzers: sybau NightmareWolf62

 

you started playing battlegrounds with your friends, you all start playing where your all at the same place in terms of story progression, you were originally way farther past them but it fell behind after your mother came back and reminded you why she left.

 

Good thing you can catch up now.

 

they had left off at the part where kami had confessed to killing Murphy's best friend in a fit of rage, and it caused Murphy and Marsha to team up in rage.

 

They played as kami, while Murphy was played by Meowzers, who just wanted to play a new character, and you’ll never guess who NightmareWolf62 is!

 

They complained about their life the whole time, while Kami used the long range chain, kicking you up into the sky tactic with Murphy 

 

ThatHandsomeDevil: so yeah Mom left me in the cold

ThatHandsomeDevil: and gave me rotting food.

ThatHandsomeDevil: meanwhile I’m over here freezing to death

 

NightmareWolf62: that sounds reall ##### ರ⁠_⁠ರ

 

Marsha gets a one over on you, and uses the, as NightmareWolf62 likes to call it, “hadouken”. 

 

🎀Meowzers: have you considered “not dying?”

 

NightmareWolf62: …🎀Meowzers.

 

ThatHandsomeDevil: wow I would really love that

 

star’s stomach hurts, he felt like he was freezing over

 

ThatHandsomeDevil: my hands hurt. They're freezing

 

ThatHandsomeDevil: I think…I'm actually going to die.

 

🎀Meowzers: WHAT.

 

NightmareWolf62: ThatHandsomeDevil you can't just! @+$+ say that!!!!

 

🎀Meowzers: wait how did you get around the censor.

 

NightmareWolf62: who cares we’re getting this star/stars/he/him OUT OF DERE!!

 

You laugh, your voice comes out breathless and a puff of cold air comes out, your lungs are constricting.

 

ThatHandsomeDevil: hahaha, I think there's a hammer somewhere in the house.

 

ThatHandsomeDevil: every part of the house is boarded up. I’ll pull the boards out and break my fingers if I have to

 

🎀Meowzers: no need

🎀Meowzers: I have an idea.

Notes:

Me when I am totally mentally stable: I'll break my fingers btw.

Chapter 2: Ghost Town - Devils Train.

Summary:

Meowzers finds a way to dox ThatHandsomeDevil and then uses NightmareWolf62 as a way to break into their house and get them out of this crummy situation, but not before beating up the devil and stealing his train.

Notes:

Oliver is adorable and also Evelyn may be a little. Strange. At times.

She has a good heart okay?

　🎀Meowzers: do you have discord.
ThatHandsomeDevil:...I could download it?
🎀Meowzers: good, because the censor will prevent me from asking you this
NightmareWolf62: that's totally not ominous at all!

You type with shaky hands “discord”, you end up chipping your fragile nails in the middle of it, and slowly moving your cursor over to discord, getting closer and closer to screen to feel warmth

Discord - 1%

NightmareWolf62: /whisper @ThatHandsomeDevil btw, I understand your plight, I have no idea what she's doing either. At least I have a discord account

After what was really minutes but felt like hours discord finally opened up,

Entering your birthday (that you totally didn't lie about) and Other stuff, and using the username DevilishStar, and inputting the nickname ThatHandsomeDevil

You bring yourself back to the Roblox window

ThatHandsomeDevil: i did it, I'm DevilishStar. What now?

🎀Meowzers: I sent a friend request.
🎀Meowzers: I think if you fiddle around enough you’ll find the way to accept.

NightmareWolf62: I guess you have discord now?

Back to discord, you see a notif pop up on your screen, “ꗃQueen♡̶ wants to friend you!”

You get into the messages, Meowzers has invited you to a group.

ThatHandsomeDevil: so what's your awesome plan to help me?

ꗃQueen♡̶:...well i don't have a way to find you u legally, and that would damage my reputation as I am rich.
ꗃQueen♡̶: someone here does not have a reputation.

WildWolf: hey that's me! It's me! NightmareWolf62!!! Haiii!

ꗃQueen♡̶: so let me ask you this.can we have your IP address

ThatHandsomeDevil: …isn't that a very bad thing? Giving randoms your IP address

ꗃQueen♡̶: I will not deny that I am a “random” but the reason why we are asking is because IP addresses are for tracking your location, most of the problem is stalkers and swatters.

ThatHandsomeDevil: sure.

ꗃQueen♡̶: alright, putting you into my family's website, and telling WildWolf.

You look out to the window, you seem to be hallucinating because you can see a spindly figure in the distance, beckoning you towards the train tracks, towards it.
And then you see a blur of green…wrestle the shadow creature, climb over its head straight for your direction and then and then KICK DOWN YOUR BOARDED WINDOWS OW OW OW.

Glass really, really hurts now that you’ve felt it,

The green wearing kid glomps you and your getting more confused by the second “hi hellooo! It's so like, nice to meet you! I’m Oliver, and I got stuff 4 you!” They pull back and wave at you

Your still on the floor, reeling from what just happened

Seeing your friend—NightmareWolf62—for the first time is a strangely euphoric experience

Wearing a very soft looking green sweater, a black tank top and a weird looking collar, most really pristine for some reason. They were also wearing a plaid green skirt. They looked like that highschool girl, but their rowdy shirt brown hair and beanie that—you guessed it— is green and covers their eyes, gives them an air of…something a bit more androgynous? The best way to describe them would be “moss flavored looking ass” but you refrain from saying that.

you pull yourself up, and brush yourself off, fixing your sweater.

“Nice to meet...um..you i'm. Uh. Atlas.” you say totally not like a loser

“Nice to meet you too!” they pull stuff out of a giant cheeseburger backpack and you don't know what to believe anymore.

They bring out bento boxes full of none rotting food, extra money and clothes, videogames, drugs? And even more stuff in their endless pit of a backpack.

It's so much atlas would be reeling, unable to choose anything but they knew that for now all they needed was warmth. “I…um. I need to change out of my clothes” you ask them. They just stare, you think. You can't tell. Their eyes are blocked. “You sure do!” They say, not seeming to have enough social interaction to understand that getting undressed in front of other people was fucking weird? Internet friends, you swear to space itself.

“I need privacy.” You demand, coming out a little too harsh “oh. OH! I’m sooo sorry! I didn't realize it's just that-” they go on a long ramble and apologize and tell you that they have a hard time understand social cues and sometimes forget the implications of stuff, and it's good enough an apology as any.

You leave to dress up into something warmer.

“How were you..um? wearing that.” you ask once you come back into the hallway. Royally bungling every social interaction you have with your friend “in the cold” you add hastily to not sound rude.

“Cold immunity! refused to wear anything that went below my waist LOL”
Did they just say “el oh el” out loud?

Zipping up their backpack, they pull up the window and disappear into the snowy landscape, beckoning you to follow behind them.

moving past the corpse of a weird shadow creature that you are now completely unsure whether you were hallucinating that or Oliver really did just beat up a shadow creature you find that Oliver has moved into the train with you

“There was this weirdo stalker person who was sooo rude and asking me about you, and called you a bunch of slurs so I killed him and stole his train!!! His appearance is so weird though, I think he might have multiple degenerative diseases.” They ramble as you learn that you were not, in fact, hallucinating the shadow person, nor that Oliver beat it up. “I’ve always wanted to be a train conductor, I'll be at the front. Have fun!” Oliver ran before you could stop them. Feeling scared and alone you hop onto the train, looking out to the window, and then back at the train

The chairs have designs that can only be described as “a psychopath who loved making little kids cry” made this. Spikes on the chairs, and eyes on the top that may possibly be moving but you don't want to think about that.

There seemed to be some other people on the train, but “people” was a stretch.
Thankfully atlas brought their computer with them for some godforsaken reason

For some reason this train had the Internet? The Wi-Fi was called devils train which was totally not ominous at all. But before they could play Roblox and their avatars face Melted or whatever they got a notification

ꗃQueen♡̶: are you getting home safely?

You type something in, then delete it. Then rethink it, and type it in again

ThatHandsomeDevil: kind of.

Notes:

Oliver's also strange but they do it in a way that turns this into a crackfic.

Chapter 3: Fish sticks & necronomicons

Summary:

Oliver and Atlas are outta the shitty situation and with their amoral friend who is just trying her best but cannot read the room for the life of herself.

Atlas does not have a good time, Evelyn doesn't understand how people work, Marilyn is dying inside.

Notes:

I promise you she's very nice okay? Also she actually already had those occult books they were from when she made an impulsive purchase at 4 years old.

Once the train finally stopped, you found that your at someplace you don't recognize

 

People bustling through the streets, and giant, tall buildings reaching into the sky like the Tower of babel. Oliver typed into their phone “today's stop - tenshi highway city (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠) ” once Oliver came back you clinged onto their arm and put your laptop into their backpack.

 

Following them through winding alleyways and restaurant establishments felt like you were an out of place fish out of water in a big big world. Eventually you saw this insanely expensive, oceanic, frutiger aero looking mansion that made you feel like someone REALLY rich lived here “ this is where meowzers is!” What. You thought she was embellishing.

 

you find a person in a maid dress coming out of the mansion “well greetings, hellooo children, are you here to see the mistress?” The very deadeyed person said with a customer service smile. You back away behind Oliver. People who lie scare you, for some reason.

 

“Well yes I am, BTW this is a friend of mine! he’ll be staying over since stars um. Homeless” Oliver lied by omission.

 

“Well any friend of lady evelyn is a friend of mine” she lied, you flinched.

 

You tap your shoes on the sidewalk. Darting your eyes around incase you find anything interesting.

 

Well, you saw a lot of boats.

 

Seems that meowzers family still loves boats as much as she complains about.

 

What you were not expecting was that meowzers would be on the rooftop, and then hop down into the sidewalk “well, it seems you have made it here safely. Tell me all about what happened on your journey while we go inside”

 

The revolving door absorbs Evelyn, and you follow suit into the house. 

 

The first thing that catches your eyes are the many rooms and staircases, the second one is the room with caution tape on it, and the third is the giant fish chandelier. 

 

What is with this family's obsession with fish? Guess there are more strange things to be interested in but….

 

Evelyn taps your head and you realize you’ve been lost in thought. “You looked disassociated, do you want to come to my room and learn about the occult? Oliver told me about how you got here” you give a shaky thumbs up and she smiles so sweetly.

 

leading you into the caution tape door she shows a bookshelf full of things like “THE OCCULT TECHNOLOGY OF POWER” with “the necronomicon” and “the encyclopedia of demons and demonology” on each shelf, she pulls out a random one and goes to a random page 

 

“there's some stuff about sexual demons, people being brought astray but…nothing about trains” Evelyn huffed, Evelyn then turned to her computer and turned on the screen

 

Bringing her account to “OCCULT FORUMS - STRANGE SIGHTINGS” she typed in something while you played blockblast on your phone.

 

She seems cold but

…It's nice? You read some of the books and it felt less like these people knew something and more that they were trying to tell you what they’ve learned before they died. With a lot. A lot of bias.

 

 

“Ahaha, Atlas! I think I found something.” you jump at the mention of your name, because she really hasn't called you anything and you’ve never told her anything last you checked.

 

“Oops, did I scare you? I didn't mean to do that.” she says bringing down to your level so your eyes meet

 

“Um, no… you didn't scare me! Evelyn.” You said the last part very stilted and she pulled a face that only comes when you eat a sour lemon “please do not lie. It is rude to lie, Atlas.” You flinch again, “is the name bothering you?” Evelyn softly pleaded with you “I just want to know where you got it from!” you yell out. 

 

Evelyn stares at you like your a dumbass, you probably are.

 

“I forgot, I doxxed you. It gave me your name—address—house—creditcardnumber—” you feel like you’ve started having to breathe manually. You stupid idiot didn't know what a basic deal was. It always has a catch doesn't it.

 

You know those aren't good things to give to friends or strangers, stalkers are common and so are murderers. You know what it's like to be mistreated so how. How could you so easily slip up and let it happen again

 

“Do not worry about it, it's mostly fluff to me, Atlas. I already have all the money in the world” she nonchalantly bragged as she does a diva pose.

 

you feel…like you need a nap 

 

“I need to sleep, is there a place I can sleep” you strain to get out, quick and stilted and forced Without any buildup or in-between thinking, you needed to go to sleep now and forget about everything

 

Evelyn furrows her brow, upturned smile slowly loses weight and turns into a thin line. She takes out her heart keychain flip phone and dials a number that you don't really know the significance of.

 

“Yeah…could you help me move a friend into a new room…yeah star was having kind of a panic attack, thanks maid Marilyn” she responds to the other person on the side, who from the garbled noise has the same monotone voice and deadeyed vibe as the maid from outdoors.

 

you are immediately taken by Marilyn to a room that is so extremely blank, because Evelyn wanted to give you a lot of space to decorate.

 

Which is adorable, and would be cute if she didn't dox you and then act completely normal about knowing your first name…wasn't that

weird? It was weird in roblox so…

 

Maybe it's different here?

Notes:

She will apologize soon I promise xc, also if her family loves fish so much why don't they just marry it!?!!?

Chapter 4: Cognitive hazard

Summary:

The paranormal is hard to find information on, this annoys Evelyn and concerns Atlas. Very very much.

burying yourself into the sheets, you fall asleep easily. Once you’ve come to the next day someone's knocking on your door “um…come in.” You ask, pulling yourself out of bed.

Evelyn comes in, apologetic looking. “Hello, Atlas…if you are okay with me calling you that” she fiddles with the hem of her skirt “I did not realize you had not understood the implications of doxxing, sorry.” She lowers her head

“Um, that was a dick move, but at the very least I'm outta there” you responded

You then hug Evelyn” Thank you for ..um. apologizing” you say

“it is basic human decency?” She retorts. Your jaw clenches

“Well I didn't know that.” you say through gritted teeth, rubbing your back Evelyn nods and brings you back to her computer

Burying yourself in her many handmade underverse blankets she takes a small bit to bring herself back to the forums.

“Hello those who have seen the paranormal, do you have any ideas about a train that seems to be in the middle of nowhere, and a conductor who's a shadow monster?”

Most of the replies were very unhelpful, but there was something “LOL I remember this guy, tried to kidnap my child, I didn't come back in one piece but my kid was fine” that's concerning. Evelyn scrolls down “yeah the dude, I remember him, he promised me that I could become God and I was just like …no thanks too much responsibility” the two people had usernames relating to either devils or trains. “Can anyone hear me? I feel so cold, I think he's gone but I can't leave. Your talking about him here right? Please do not take his deal, please.” A person with a Name that related to eyes and seraphims replys.

Creepy. Or someone pranking but. Gotta get what you can take

Atlas has a feeling this will be a very, very long week.

Notes:

Anyways, guess which things ThatHandsomeDevil are inspired by cuz I dunno if people are going to find the inspiration too niche. Or if I copied too closely, because I'm really not trying to do. .⁠·⁠´⁠¯⁠`⁠(⁠>⁠▂⁠<⁠)⁠´⁠¯⁠`⁠·⁠.

Series this work belongs to:

• Part 1 of Devil's train