Chapter 2:
Dodging punch after punch, swipe after swipe, I tried to look for an opening to retaliate. He was going crazy, flailing punches and knife slashes everywhere to hit me, but I kept dodging. I couldn't afford to use my magic, so I opted with an easier solution, run until I get an advantage. Mainly, my katana in my room.
Jack threw a punch towards my head which I dodged. With the small opening, I slipped through towards my room, while Jack was chasing after me.
"GET BACK HERE YOU COWARD!", Jack shrieked as he pounced at me. I narrowly avoided a punch to the face, and dove into my room, locking the door. Jack started pounding on the door furiously. I turned to Chara as she looked at me in shock, I swiftly locked the door that linked our rooms together in case Jack attempted to flank us.
"Chara, you need to run. He's gone mad", I told her, in an almost authoritarian voice.
"What about you? You need to come with me"
"Don't worry, I'll catch up to you, but I have the advantage of fighting skills. Pass my katana will ya?". Just as Chara handed me my katana, the door flew off it's hinges as Jack appeared, foot in the air after kicking down the door, along with lumber axe in his hands.
"There you are you little shits, soon, you'll be mine Chara, no more brother to get in MY way!"
"Told ya he's gone mad", I sarcastically retorted, taunting Jack.
"SHUT UP YOU WEAK ASS BITCH, WE'LL SEE WHO GOES MAD WHEN I STAB YOU THROUGH THE THROAT", Jack yelled back in rage.
"Oh, we'll see who is weak old man", I taunted again. Jack lunged at me in fury as I unsheathed my katana and blocked the attack meant for my upper torso. If I hadn't blocked it, he would've probably sliced me clean in the chest.
"Chara, run!", I replied hastily as I blocked yet another attack.
"Oh no you don't you bitch!", Jack stated as he lunged past me towards Chara. He was stopped dead in his tracks though as Chara had pulled a butcher's knife from her pocket. Now that I think about it, she did keep one hidden in her room for dire situations only, such as this one.
"Oh, want to act all though now do we? Ha! You're just a weak piece of shit!", Jack mocked before a large cut appeared on his left cheek, blood began to ooze out of the wound.
"Don't underestimate me bastard, I can defend myself", Chara retorted as she punched him straight in the side of his head, rendering him semi-conscious.
"Damn, you can throw quite a punch, ay sis?"
"Damn right I can, that bastard deserves it"
"Then why didn't you punch him before?"
"BECAUSE HE WASN'T BLINDED BY ANGER YOU IDIOT!", Chara shouted as she stared at me, slightly annoyed. She had never thought of retaliating, perhaps because she was to scared to do anything, in fear of getting abused more.
As we began to leave towards the hallway, I heard a faint noise emanating from the slump of human flesh known as Jack.
"I...If I can't have your bitch of a sister…, NO ONE WILL!", Jack retorted as he threw out a small knife from his pocket straight toward Chara's head.
Time crawl to a snail's pace as I saw the knife getting closer and closer to my sister's head. I could only do one thing to get myself out of this situation. With lightning fast reflexes, I sent out a fireball to intercept and deviate the knife from it's trajectory. After that I aimed a shed ton of fireballs at Jack and unleashed them at him, his corpse engulfed in fire magic. Time returned to it's normal pace as the knife grazed Chara's head, only cutting off a small piece of her hair as she stood, awestruck at the severely burned Jack in the room. She knew what that meant.
"Is he dead?"
"Nope, unconscious, and he should stay like that for about an hour or two", I explained.
Or so I thought.
"You do realize you used your magic right? If he tells anybody else, we're in big trouble", Chara added worryingly.
"Don't worry, he was already half unconscious, it could easily be pulled off as him hallucinating before passing out, besides, he'll get out of the hospital on strong medication to heal, people will think he's just rambling nonsense, I'll be fine", I said, reassuring my worried sister.
"Phew, that's a relief then", Chara let out a sigh.
"It might be, but you still need to run. You can't stay here, things will only get worse"
"That is true, but where will I go? He'll hunt me down!", Chara stated, alarmed. That was true, he would hunt her only to abuse her again.
"Then you'll just have to disappear. Go somewhere he'll never find you" I added, I knew where she could go, but I had a feeling she wouldn't agree.
"Where, there's only one place I think I know where I could do that, and that was auntie's house", that wasn't what I expected her to say, but then again, it was true that she would sometimes run off to our auntie's house to hide from Jack for certain periods of time.
"Nope, somewhere hillier, where things disappear mysteriously"
"The Bermuda Triangle?", Chara asked quizzically.
"Really? The Bermuda Triangle? I was talking about Mt. Ebbott, and besides, how would we get to the Bermuda Triangle?"
"Oh, so you want me to go to Mt. Ebbott, and join the monsters?"
"Pretty much, the King of Monsters already knows who you are, you just need to find him. He'll take care of you. Remember how him and Dad where great friends?", I asked.
"Oh yeah…, I forgot about that", Chara added as we arrived at the backdoor. As we reached for the handle, a knock was heard at the front door.
"Open up the door, where's Jack!"
"Did he just-?"
"Yup, Jack called his corrupted police friends, you know what that means?"
"Run"
"Exactly", that was the last word we shared as we barged through the backdoor and ran towards Mt. Ebbott, Jack's friends tailing behind us by a few hundred meters.
