Chapter 13
The two brothers were now sitting inside of Sans post. Papyrus was frowing.
"BROTHER WE SHOULD HAVE STAYED TO HELP THE TINY MONSTER!! WHY WOULD YOU LEAVE HER ALONE TO FIGHT UNDYNE?!" Sans sighed and gave his brother a wanky fake smile.
"she'll be fine paps..."
"SHE ALMOST DIED LAST TIME....SANS...SHE IS GOING TO DIE ALONE AGAINST HER..." Sans dismissed his brother with a wave.
"come on paps. she held her ground quite well last time..!! she save ya twice from undyne!" Papyrus frowned again and fully turned to face his brother. The look on the younger brother's face was stating it all. Worry....
"SHE IS INJURED, BROTHER!! SANS...SHE CAN'T FIGHT IN SUCH STATE...SHE'S VURNERABLE NOW!!" Sans froze. He didn't think about her wound...Her wing. Her back was now her weak spot. She could feel the pain from her wing through her back...he saw it first hand as he walked in on her at Napstablook's house...Oh god...He can't leave her alone.
"papyrus...i-..i can't let you go...i can't risk you getting hurt--"
"THEN GO! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?! I SHALL WAIT HERE!! I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE SHE IS SAFE..." Sans chuckled.
"you're the coolest bro.."
"NYEH HEH HEH!! I KNOW!!"
And so he teleported away.
Meanwhile....Frisk was standing in front of the Head of the Royal guard. The human was sittin ghigh on a stone above her. Immediately as she saw the human taking off their helm she opened her eyes. They started changing color as usual. They settled on green for a brief second before turning to red. The human spoke, as a non existen wind was flowing through her red hair in a ponytail. They weren't even facing Frisk yet.
"Seven. Seven human souls and our King...King ASGORE will become a god..." The human faced her looking down. They paused at the sight of her red eyes, swarming with determination. She will not kill, however...she will show mercy and try to make Undyne understand monsters more. She was DETERMINED to spare the Head of the Royal guard.
"Six. That's how many we have thus far. Through your seventh and final soul, this world will be transformed--"
"In a warzone." Frisk said with spite. Undyne snarled at her. But they both knew she was right. The monster knew about the King's plan of 'taking back' the surface. It would only start an unfair war which would end in the erediction of monsters from Earth. She couldn't possibly let that happen..yet somehow humans were far too nice to do such thing. They danced, sang, made puzzles, laughed and were cherrful. They always saw that 'good part' in everything! How was that even possible?? Frisk has never seen such joyful people in her life!! The monsters on the surface are like walking robots. They forgot how to live! She hopes that if she could maybe make humans understand monsters, then break the barrier, they could restore the ballance of a beautiful joyful world where the two races live in peace. Fuck the racist people and discriminators! They didn't count in her plan. She is sure the other monsters will mostly welcome humans with open arms.
"First however, as it customery to people who make it this far..I shall tell you the tragic story of our people...." Frisk looked at the human with a confused look. She had all the time in the world right now to just flee and avoid her...so why the hell was she trying to buy time?
"It all started long ago..." The human stopped and looked disgusted at herself than at Frisk.
"You know what?? SCREW IT!! WHY SHOULD I TELL THAT STORY...WHEN YOU'RE ABOUT TO DIE?!?!? NGAHHHHHH!!!!" The human said with a loud war cry at the end. Almost the whole cavern shook at that. Well her volume went from 0 to 100 real quick...Frisk covered her ears at the loud sound.
"YOU!! You are standing in the way of everyone's hope and dreams!! Alphy's history books made me think monsters were hella cool!! With their giant robots and flower swordswomen." Frisk froze and started snickering. She covered her mouth but she burst out into laughter. SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT MANGA!!
"THE HELL ARE YOU LAUGHING AT YOU FREAK?!" Undyne asked. Frisk's eyes were back to honey yellow as more bubbly laughter escaped her and she held her stomach.
"I-is..snnrk- Is one of A-alphys books called...Attack on Titan..? Or..Evangelion..? or or...Pffttt-- Noragami?! Naruto?! Pfft-- Guilty crow-- BUAHAHAHAHAH!!" She was howling with laughter at Undyne's surprised face in the way of 'how did she know??'.
"SO WHAT IF IT IS?! HUH?!" Frisk wiped her eyes as she stoped laughing.
"Aw man..." She said as she wiped a tear from her eye. Undyne was gritting her teeth at this point.
"THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!"
"no sorry it's just i didn't expect that...ahhh...i-i'm so sorry...oh god wooo...i haven't had such a good laugh in ages...aw man..." Frisk wheeze one more time before widening her stance and going back to being serious. Her eyes slowly turned back to red. Undyne watched her with fascination then shook her head and summoned an energy spear.
"YOU LAUGHT AT SUCH A STUPID THING AND ALSO ARE A COWARD!! Hiding behind that kid...so you could run away again!!" Frisk scoffed.
"He chose to help me willingly...Don't mistake cowardlyness for kindness.." Undyne scoffed.
"Yeah, like your wimpy-goody-two-shoes-schtick!!" Frisk was taken aback at the way Undyne talked to her about the way she acted. Have they never seen just a random stranger being kind?? What have the monsters before her done down here that made these humans so mad?? No matter, she will take it...Head first. Even if it costed her life! She now knew that she could come back. Suddenly, a memory flashed as she remembered the words of an old friend:
*Frisk, you are determination! You powers are remarkable and your soul is at the base of what used to be monster magic! Humans have stolen it, yes...but YOU are power. Always stay determined! I believe in you...You will do great things in the future...*
"You know what would be more valuable for everyone..? IF YOU WERE DEAD!! That's right! YOUR EXISTANCE!! IT'S A CRIME!! Your life is all that stands between us and our freedom!!" Frisk snarled at her then growled.
"The only ones standing between your freedom..are yourselves!" Undyne froze as she frowned in rage. The grip around the magic spear tightened and Frisk got ready for the fight.
"Let's end this! right here...RIGHT NOW!! I'll show you how determined humans can be! STEP FORWARD WHEN READY!!" Frisk reached one more time for the glimmering star. She felt the adrenaline rush settle and stepped forward. Undyne's eyes lit up dangerously.
"That's it...no more running away..HERE I COME!!" Frisk saw as Undyne approached her head first, spear in hand and everything faded to black. They were in an 'Encounter'.
"EN GUARDE!!" undyne yelled and she could see her red heart turn to green. Frisk looked at her soul and her eyes widened as the red color wavered in a small panic. She shook herself back to reality and frowned. Undyne chuckled.
"Heh...As long as you are GREEN you can't escape...Unless you learn to face danger head-on...." Undyne looked in her eyes.
"You won't last a SECOND against me.." A spear was summoned in her hand as she was trapped in a small box. She couldn't move from her spot. She saw spears approaching her. It's a sparing match. She twisted her spear as she remembered from her classes back when she decided to join the fighting club. She knew karate, boxing, fancing and sparing. She did also try shooting ranges with her teacher. How she wished she could go to college...She would love to persue engineering. She was quite the book sucker. She was a small encyclopedia. Undyne kept making dangerous signs at her. Frisk scurnched up her nose as more attacks started coming. She was growing bored of this and her plea of mercy was being ignored. She decided to break Undyne's magic. She smirked as her eyes turned green and the magic wore off. Undyne's eyes widened and Frisk fleed the fight. Color came back into view and she started running through the caverns. As she was running Undyne started throwing spears after her.
She ran until she saw someone quite familiar teleport in front of her. She froze for a second.
"SANS WHA--" But she was pulled back in an encounter. The human caught up to her quickly. Frisk didn't even notice the spear who was coming from behind her. Sans eyes widened.
"FRISK WATCH OUT!!" But it was too late as Frisk's eyes widened as she fell to her knees with a giant spear sticking out of her. Sans looked at the red headed human who was watching with satisfaction the pain on her face. Blood was dripping down on the spear and from her mouth,hitting the cold ground. Sans scrambled to his feet right next to her. He never felt this hurt seeing the other monsters die, yet Frisk for some reason had that effect on him....
"shit shit shit...SHIT! frisk oh god....i-i'm so sorry...i-i shouldn't have..." Frisk gave him a small smile. Sans could feel his soul break at the sight. Tears started streaming down on his face as, for the first time, his small flattered completely. Frisk put her paw on his cheek and wiped his tears. She looked at him with tired eyes. She was tearing up from the pain.
"it's.........fine....not......your.....fault......i'll....see......you.......later...................." Her head fell as her eyes were staring into the void and her hand slowly fell from his face. One tear slipped from her eye.
"f-frisk..?" He asked, but no answear. He gritted his teeth as Undyne was laughing.
"YOU GREW SOFT, BONEHEAD?? PFFT- What softie...man..a disgusting monster?? Seriously?? We need her soul!!" Sans looked at the Head of the Royal guard and his eye started flaring blue as he wiped the tears properly on the sleeve of his hoodie.
"nah, no worries...i didn't grow soft...beacuse there's people like you." He summoned a set of bones that impaled the human with red hair.
"that should B U R N I N H E L L "Dust started pouring on the ground and her white soul shattered.
"she'll reset anyways...you bitch. you got lucky i didn't use a blaster..touch her again..and i won't hesitate." He kicked her dust and waited for the red heart to finally come out of Frisk's chest. He sighed as he saw it float. It gently gave him a nudge in the hand as he was waiting close to her body.
"see ya later, kiddo..take care..." he flicked the small heart. Finally, everything faded to white.
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Frisk opened her eyes only to see Undyne approaching her. Same story as before. A sparing match. However, Frisk's head and heart were like a steam-hammer. One, because she died. Two, because of the way Sans acted. It gave her a fuzzy feeling in her stomach that it was hard to identify. She'll just ignore it. Now she needed to focus on the task at hand: Undyne.
Sans was back at his station, next to his brother. Tears were slowly rolling on his cheek and he quickly wiped them. Papyrus looked at him in worry.
"BROTHER! ARE YOU ALRIGHT...? YOU MUST BE AS WORRIED AS I AM ABOUT OUR TINY FRIEND!!"
"yes....yes i am papyrus...stay right here." And with a flare of magic he was gone.
She was running. Running on the cold stone as she was trying to get to Hotland. There was one downfall to the human that was head of the Royal guard and that was their armor. She knew that metal was a conductor type of material. What does that mean..? Heat and electricity were their main weakness. Of course she won't shock the poor thing. That would have been cruel! But...Hotland, from what she heard from Papyrus, was a hot place with lava and heat. It would slow down the human on her tail...Almost litteraly on her tail. Suddenly she saw the familiar flare of blue magic in front of her. She knew what that was...SANS!! And he was right in the way of Undyne's prepared spear. God damn it--
Sans bearly got to teleport properly when he saw Frisk get pierced right in front of him. He backed away in horror. No...not again...WHY?! Oh god...FRISK!!
"frisk...oh god pidge....hold on for me buddy.." Sans said as the spear dematerialized and she fell on her knees. She was bloody and had a dull look on her face. But it turned to a small sad smile. She looked at him and her eyes changed back to honey yellow. A pitiful look that he would have wished not to see. He fell on his knees right next to her as he cradled her body.
"next time.....teleport.....a......bit...........to...........the...........left......" Sans girtted his teeth as she fell limp in his arms. He would have loved to see a monster suffer before. He got up and looked at his hand. Bloody...but he didn't feel no satisfaction...he felt remorse...disgust....saddness and most of all......RAGE. Towards the head of the royal guard who was waiting to take her soul. He snarled and growled under his breath. He didn't even look at the human as he summoned his bones and they pierced her. He waited, then the tiny heart popped out. He sighed in relief.
"i'm so sorry kiddo...guess ill...catch ya later..." He chuckled a bit as everything faded.
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She was ready to take her on now....She will get to Hotland and she and the two skeleton brothers can continue their journey. She was DETERMINED.
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This was getting ridiculous...There was always something happening that made her die!! She lost count at the first 5 times! And so did Sans it seemed. She grimmeced as she remembered the saddened pained looks he gave her everytime she died. But this time..? She was tired. She wanted it to stop. So she had..? To make her own rules. One thing that an old friend thought her was:
"You see Frisk, Newton and Einstein are the two giants at the base of all physiscs and understanding of it that we know and use today. However...let us note that these two have made similar progresses: develeoped a type of mechanics and a type of optical physiscs. What i truly find amazing however..is that they played by their own rules! They didn't have enough math to demonstrate their theories..? they created some more! And so, before they were clowns. Now..? They are geniuses. Make your own rules Frisk...you are just like them. Special. Brilliant. Powerful."
She could remember those weird gloves, the mask he always wore, the goggles, the scent of chemicals and oranges on his lab coat, the warm home nd that word that always resonated in her mind. POWERFUL. What a strange word. What was her power..? To change eyes like a freak..? No. Her eyes were the key to her soul. Determination. A brilliant but dangerous weapon she was. She was the last of her kind. Monsters used to have magic..and the only ones that kept it..? Gryphons. Magical beasts only now remembered through stories. She was an anomaly. She kept hidden alogside her brother. Their souls however were strong enough to master magic. She was no fool to this whole deal of magical weapons and magic attacks. She however liked to use the passive side. Fast healing, speed, strenght, energy and her favorite..? Barriers. She couldn't summon weapons like human could. Or magic attacks for that matter. But she could use different traits of souls and different trait based barriers. She would even reinforce her wings and claws as a weapon or a shield. Her mentor and friend thought her everything and unlocked these abilities within her.
As Sans teleported, this time alongside Papyrus she wasn't looking at the humans. Undyne came lounging towards her and Sans was about to grab the human using his magic. Frisk didn't even blink as with one swift move of her claws broke the spear in two and it shattered. Undyne's eyes widened as she passed the monster and looked at her spear pieces. Her eyes were a brilliant crimson red. She summoned her wings. They were fully healed and were now glimmering with a redish hue of white. She started running, propulsating herself using her wings as she grabbed both of the brothers. Her speed was almost unmatchable in normal standarts. But the Head of the royal guard wasn't The head for nothing. Sans looked at her with widened eyes.
"Sans! Buy me some time with bone attacks! slow her down!" He nodded as his eye starting flarring and bones were being thrown at the royal guard. Papyrus started throwing blue and orange bones in Undyne's way. They were losing ground and strenghtening the gap between them. Suddenly the human was gone. Frisk was alert of her surroundings as they were now running in front of a giant billboard with 'Welcome to Hotland' written on it in lights. Undyne jumped from behind but Frisk broke her spear again. Undyne rolled on the ground before starting to run again. They were now passing a place where, underneath the water, she could see cracks with maga in them. The heat was increasing. And so was the heat inside the armor. They were now fully in Hotland, the guard was still on the chase. The rocks were now terracota based and the light from the lava surrounding the huge platform they were on was making everything take on an orange-ish type of hue.
They passed the small sentry station which was clearly Sans thanks to the magical snow on the roof that didn't seem to melt. Theey came close to a bridge that they passed and Frisk finally stopped. The royal guard was making a step every few seconds until they collapsed on the ground wheeing and breathing heavily. Sans and Papyrus sighed in relief and Sans pulled her in a hug. She flushed a bit at the sudden action.
"thank god you are alright...finally...damn it pidge, you are so reckless..." She smiled softly and hugged back the, a tiny bit taller, human. Papyrus then pulled her in a hug as well and lifted her off the ground.
"TINY MONSTER! I AM SO GLAD TO SEE YOU ARE OK! MY DEAR BROTHER WAS SO WORRIED HE STARTED CRYING!! NYEH HEH HEH!!" Sans blushed a bit.
"that ain't cool bro.." He pulled his hood over his head and were about to go forward when Frisk looked back at the still struggling human. She sighed as she saw a water cooler and went over to it. She poured a cup and went over to the human. Sans and Papyrus looked at her in worry and shock.
"uhh bucko...i don't think that's a wi--" But she was already pouring the water on the human. They seemed to cool down after a few cups and they looked dumbfound at the now squinted eyes, small and fluffy monster with a cup almost as big as her, since she was now back in her tiny form, trying to help her. She got up and looked at the two brothers with flaring eyes. They were ready to fight her for the sake of this tiny and dumbly nice human. Undyne backed away and left. Frisk looked at her and smiled.
"jeez bucko..you are either dumb or just really suicidal." Frisk chuckled.
"I'm neither...but i am quite determined soo..Let's go to Undyne's house!!"
"uhhh- to what now..?"