Chapter 1: Falling down
At first, all the human could see was darkness, not a kind one at that. It was the darkness you see when you sleep, but the one when you couldn't wake up. After a while though, light crept into it and slowly, but surely his eyes would open. The first thing he noticed was his intense headache. Flinching from the pain he brought one of his palm to his head slowly sitting up. Dizzy from the pain, he doesn't really care about his surroundings. Yet somehow the pain vanished faster then he expected it to. So he began looking around, not in any form recognizing the place he was in. There were old pillars around him and carvings of a symbol of sorts on the walls. He looked up only to see , what he had feared. He had fallen down into a hole. But not any hole, no. He fell into a pit on Mt. Ebott, the place where people are said to never return from. Still frowning upon the fact, he just had fallen into the cursed mountain, he also remembered the WHY he was climbing that mountain. He had to find HER.
He stood up from what he only could describe as a flower bed, and slowly began to take in his situation and tried to keep calm about it. And as it slowly settled in he started to ask him self questions about it. Most importantly how he survived that fall and how he would get out of here.
At least one question was answered as the man saw an archway leading somewhere, raising the question who had built it. He steps towards it and peeks into the next room when he reached it. Nothing in there except light falling on a patch of dirt.
Making his way into the room he suddenly had a chilling feeling. Like his sins were crawling up on his back. Then he heard footsteps, muffled by something soft. His heart was beating like crazy and fear crept into him.
Slowly stepping back, the first thing he saw appear was the blue and yellow glowing eye watching him, as it was closing in to him. More and more came into the view as the creature took step after step. It was revealed to be a short skeleton wearing a blue hoodie, black shorts with white stripes and …. pink slippers?
Why pink slippers?And why do I even bother with that question? The man thought to himself.
"heya, you must be new to the underground, pal?" it questioned him.
At first not knowing what to say, he straightened himself, trying to expel the fear out of his system.
"Yeah, so what if I am?" he said trying to sound convincing. More for himself, then for the other party.
"well, there are a few things I have to get out of the way first." he spook to him in a lightly amused tone. "and tibia honest... I hate long explanations, so lets make this short."
The world around the human seemingly faded into black and white and to make things worse he was trapped inside some kind of box. But at the same time... the man also was not and could see a floating heart inside a white box, with four buttons underneath it. Confused he looked up at the skeleton.
"What is all this?" gesturing around him hoping for answers.
"what you see here is a fight between a monster and a human. That thing" he gestured to the heart " is your soul, the culmination of your being. Normally souls are weak on their own, but they are able to get stronger by accumulating lots of LOVE."
"Wait, what love? Is this about having lovers or friends or-" the boney figure interrupted the utterly confused human. "nah, this isn't about love but LOVE or LV for short. It is gained by amassing EXP, by killing people."
Now the human understood not a thing in the world anymore. " So now im inside of a game, or what?" The shorter figure showed a slightly annoyed look.
Impressing how much emotion he can convey with just bones as facial features. And again what with these randoms thoughts? Shrugging he focused back on the other side.
"well, those two things are acronyms. I hope you at least know what that means. LOVE stands for Levels Of ViolencE, while EXP means EXecution Points." Upon hearing that the human frowns, but continues to listen. " basically it doesn't make you stronger but easier to distance yourself from the pain you feel and from the people you slay."
The taller figures eyes widened, because when he looked at his "LOVE" it was …. at …. 17.
"so, mind explaining how that LV of yours came to be or..." the skeletons eyes went completely back "You wanna have bad time?"
The humans expression darkened as he lowered his gaze and seemed to think about something.
"well what's your answer now?" the monster asked.
The human looked up revealing a rather friendly smile. "Let's introduce ourselves first, because I hate not knowing who I'm facing. My name is … Doron." he said with a wide bow.
The monster somewhat confused responded with " the name's sans, sans the skeleton." stretching his hand out, still wary and tense.
Doron grapped his hand and as soon as he did the world around him regained its colours and shades. "Nice to meet you. As for my LV... it's kind of my job to hunt down people. Special people, so yeah it's no suprise for me to have it. I only didn't think it would be that high."
He gestured to his waist revealing two weapons. One a long thin curved blade better known as a katana and the other …. a gun with seemingly no magazine. "And these are my tools for that job."
The skeleton shrugged. "revealing your weapons to a potential enemy isn't a smart move, you know?"
Doron started to laugh at that statement. "We both know that I wouldn't be standing here anymore, if you really wanted to kill me. Isn't that right... judge?" He looked at the skeleton with a smile on his face. But Sans … was more on guard than ever before.
"How do you know that?" He spoke in all seriousness.
Again all the human could do was laugh. "You saw my soul right? It was Yellow wasn't it? How would I not recognize a fellow pursuer of justice?" Then his expression turned somewhat sad.
"Unfortunately I also saw what you have been through. Sorry about peeking."
The monster seemed to relax a tiny bit. " so what? you can't do anything about it so it's pointless to try." he said shrugging again.
"You do know I meant ALL the crap you've been through?" the human said closing his eyes and facing to the ground. The skeleton halted in his position for a moment only to say "nothing you can do about that either. So why dwell on it?"
"What if I had a way?" he said, now facing the short figure once more. " What if I had a way to give you peace?"
Now the skeleton became a bit infuriated. "and what would that solution be? Killing them? Trust me, that won't work. All you can do is stall the inevitable at best." he said, gritting his teeth.
"Well, I did say that my job is to hunt and take down "special" people, right?" Doron spoke with a calm voice. "People that mess with timelines are pretty special, don't you think?"
Now Sans was beginning to wonder. Was there really a chance? Would he really be able to reach the surface again with everyone and be happy for once? "so, what is your plan? Charging right into the fangs of the hungry wolve won't work. I can guarantee you that."
"Well, it's sounds like just the right plan for me then. Just... trust me on this one, please?"
Sighing Sans gave in. "well it's you're death. Come on, I know where they are and a shortcut to get there." He walked through the archway and …. vanished? Doron followed him as fast as he could.
He felt the world warping and distorting around him, when suddenly he stood in a hallway entirely paved in yellow and orange tiles, as well as with pillars and windows which let light in and threw shadows on the opposing wall. Amazed by the scenery he looked around. But Sans interrupted his gazing. "hey, you should get ready because that other human will come soon." Doron glanced at him "Yeah, you're right." and sat down.
"mind telling me what your real plan is?" The human shook his head "You will see soon enough." was all he said before starting to check his 2 weapons. Sans shrugged and goes leaning on a pillar. Soon enough footsteps were heard and both looked up to see a human child in a blue sweater with purple stripes. They looked confused at first, but quickly they had a sadistic smile on their face. The adult human though slowly, got up, his expression not showing any kind of emotion. Just blank focus on his enemy.
"So you are that little psycho running around killing timeline after timeline? Boy, I expected more."
Taunting the enemy, always a bad move... at least when you are weaker than them.
Without a warning the child rushed forward, slashing at their new opponent, who dodged around the stab quickly and kicked the little body across the room.
"Wow, talk about impatient. Anyway I think you had your fun. So let's give that other child his body back. Don't you think so too?" he said in a calm voice, stepping towards his enemy in slow manner.
And it didn't take long for the child to recover from the impact on the wall. But now there was something in their eyes. Not determination, but something dark and lurking. What was reflected were the fear and regret of another person not who Doron battled right here. But it quickly changed back.
"Heh, thinking that I don't know who and what you are is rather naïve you know?" the adult said "Plus I'd rather have you feeling the pain instead of your host."
The child looked at him now showing something different... icy and extreme hatred.
"So what? She is also just a human that deserves to die!" the demon snapped "SHE was the one to start this. SHE was the one kill them. Not ME, I just stole away her "happy ending" and punished her for the crimes she committed."
"And that makes you any better? That makes you the "good" one?" he responded calmly.
"Isn't it more like you both have sins crawling up your back? But from what I saw right now..." he shook his head "... at least one of you shows remorse and regret."
He started walking forward. "You have two choices now. The first is continue down your path..." he unsheathed his blade " … but believe me, when I say that you will die a horrible death over and over again if you do." he unholstered the gun. "Or you reset this mess and I will give you another chance to redeem yourself." he stared at the child with a stare that hid all emotions, that seems to unveil all your sins and dirty secrets.
"AS IF YOU COULD STOP ME." and the child rushed forward knife in hand. "I'M UNSTOPABLE. I'M A DEMON! THE DEMON THAT COMES WHEN YOU CALL IT'S NAME." The man dodged with extreme speed and said.
"No... you are not a demon. You are a confused and scared child... Chara, dear sister." And he swung his sword, emptying the child's HP gauge in one strike. Disbelief ran through their face, checking the stats of Doron.
*Check
Doron LV 17
Atk 50+? Def 40+?
Your Immovable Object... and Brother.
You hit a wall, you can not break.
And back to the reset screen, they were thrown.
Hey you who read this.
I hope you enjoyed this little piece.
I plan on making a few chapters for this.
Leave a review if you like, I will appreciate it.
Sooo yeah, bye then. Until next time
PS: By the way, I'm pretty new to all of this so don't hesitate on pointing out my mistakes.
