I took a shortcut to the center of the last corridor. I make sure to stand visibly in the center. Whatever was coming would be here shortly. For its first time . . .
I could hear the savage taking slow steps down the staircase that led to this corridor. I could see it when it reached the bottom. It took a breath and stretched. Knife already in hand. It savored every second they rode its blood-frenzy high. It let its buzz carry itself close to me.
"Heya. You've been busy, huh?"
It's looking at me like it'd already eaten the meat off my bones and wants to lick the rest for any remaining flavor. Gross.
". . . So, I've got a question for ya. Do you think even the worst person can change . . . ? That everybody can be a good person, if they just try?"
Its expression confirmed that my brother was wrong to believe so.
"Heh heh heh . . . All right. Well, here's another question." My brother's memory stung.
I unmasked my power's presence. "Do you wanna have a bad time?"
A glimmer of fear whisked over the punk.
"Cause if you take another step forward . . . you are REALLY not going to like what happens next."
The fear transitioned into excitement. It advanced.
"Welp. Sorry old lady. This is why I never make promises." I close my eyelids. Focus my energy. "It's a beautiful day outside. Birds are singing. Flowers are blooming . . . on days like these, kids like you . . ." My power cracks open.
"Should be burning in Hell."
It's petrified to the spot. Overwhelmed with fear.
It stays that way until I throw it against the wall. An otherwise golden wall until I summon bones out of it to slap the fallen creature. What a retching sound it made from its throat on contact. What an echo its thud made when it collapsed to the floor.
I uplift a wave of bones from the ground that swallow it. It drowns in the flurry of hits. Before it can conceive a plan to surface, I sink the bones back down. All the better to aim the Gaster blasters. Four, eight, twelve blasts that engulf it in light. Then my two most powerful to top it off. All direct hits. What a satisfying combo attack.
The blasts' lights dim faster than the lights in its eyes.
I teleport up close to get a nice look as they fade.
"Huh. Always wondered why people never use their strongest attacks first."