So yeah...
It's been quite a while. Before I begin the chapter, I'll explain a few things.
School started up and started putting some stress on me, and my exams are coming up very soon. Also, I was simply unsure of where to take this story. Anyways, I think we should be back on track now. I apologize for my absence on this website and my other story on ArchiveOfOurOwn.
Anyways, I hope you enjoy!
Chapter 6: An Enemy of Two Worlds(End of Arc 1)
Frank POV
I couldn't believe it.
I simply couldn't.
After all these years, when I get to see my mother again...she's a mindless soldier for some sort of crazy deformed flower.
How cruel this world can be. I placed my faith in Hazel that she can pull me out of the lingering sadness left behind from the loss of my mother, and it was working. Forgetting my troubles was becoming easier by the day. But seeing my mom in front of me now, staring at me with empty, emotionless eyes, my fighting spirit..
Broke.
I collapsed on my knees, staring at my mother with tears streaming out of my eyes. As I bawled my eyes out, Hazel quickly ran up to me and dragged me behind the others, who looked at me with concern, evidently not aware of the identity of the person in front of us yet. Hazel only knew because I told her.
"Yo..Frank...you alright?...
Percy was the first to speak into the silence, his sea green eyes resting on his friend, with concern evident in them. However, I couldn't find it in me to respond. I just continued to stare at the ground.
Hazel gave him a look that said, "Fight now, explain later." Percy nodded his head, and turned once again to face the enemy.
"Just what in the Gods...is that?.."
Nobody else seemed to have an answer.
The thing-whatever it was-gave a sinister cackle which sent chills down our spines.
"Who I am isn't important right now, little human. You'll be dead before you can think about it, anyways!"
Percy glared at the monster before uncapping Riptide, and everyone else except me and Hazel followed suit.
"Heheheh! STUPID HUMANS! YOU CAN'T TELL THAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO FIGHT A LOSING BATTLE CAN YOU?!"
As everyone gets ready for a fight, I notice the monsters we were initially hunting glare at the enemy with the same hostility as us.
"so, you followed us up here...you sneaky little flower." grumbles the skeleton.
"No need to be so grumpy, smiley trashbag! I brought you a little gift!"
The skeleton narrows his eyes a little. The monstrosity then lifts up one of it's horrendous hands, and a little glowing grey heart appears in it's grasp. They then set the heart on the ground, and it begins to glow with magic, before materializing into a figure. It looks like...a tall skeleton.
The shorter skeleton stops dead in his tracks, gazing at his kin. He then utters out a single word.
"papyrus?..."
The tall skeleton, now named as "Papyrus" just stared blankly at the skeleton called "Smiley Trashbag".
"He can't hear you, you stupid bag of bones!" You have a brother who can't even REMEMBER YOU!"
The skeleton falls to his knees.
"Sans? Sans!" One of the human children with a purple and blue striped shirt rushes forwards and checks on the skeleton with a concerned face.
"ENOUGH!"
Jupiter-or rather, Zeus, roared this as he glared at the deformed flower.
The flower merely cackled. "You "Olympians"...you're so prideful and arrogant...too narrow minded to believe that there are more powerful beings then you!"
Zeus gripped his lightning bolt, and glared at him. He then started to charge up his lightning bolt.
The true battle...was about to begin.
Zeus POV
I'm nervous.
I wouldn't admit it to anyone else, but I knew the potential of a soul-the magic that lays within one is tremendous. This..thing, whatever it is, has 6 souls...and it can even materialize those souls into the bodies they used to be possess. How strange.
I threw a thunderbolt at the flower thing, covering the area with smoke from the explosion.
As the smoke cleared, however, the flower still stood there, only now with a slightly annoyed expression and a few burn marks.
"Tch...how troublesome..." The flower than sent a flurry of miniature bombs at me.
Artemis and Apollo sent arrows flying through the air, destroying most of the bombs, but some of them still exploded against the ground, causing commotion.
I turned to the flower again, only to be hit a bunch of ninja star-like things. sending me back into the ground.
"Get off your high horse, ya damn Olympian King. I'm the true god of this world!"
I growled in return. "We'll see, you deformed little monstrosity."
4 Minutes Later...
I'm bruised, tired and weak. Not the best situation.
The flower thing was much more powerful then I thought, and was able to beat me down to my current state, while keeping the other members of the council at bay. While the flower seemed to be getting weaker, we were too. It was only a matter of time before we were beaten, and we couldn't rely on our children either, since they were fighting their own battle with the materialized souls the flower had summoned along with the monsters, who they seemed to have formed a temporary alliance with in light of the new threat. We're in a terrible situation...
"Getting scared, you so-called Olympian King?" the flower taunted.
I glared at the flower in response, which only elicited a smirk.
"Ooohh, getting angry from a few taunts are we? How childish...not the way you'd expect a king to act."
I opened to my mouth to retort, but the flower chose that moment to hurl a ton of bombs at me. I closed my eyes and braced for impact...
But it didn't come.
As I opened my eyes, I saw that a storm of flames had intercepted the bombs, exploding them before they hit me. I looked to the ground to see that one of the monsters-a goat man-had his trident held up, with a smoking tip. It was evident that he had intercepted the bombs.
Seeing my surprised expression, he said: "We're on the same team temporarily until we beat this foe. Unless you find it more wise to have a three way battle?" He asked with raised eyebrows.
I shook my head. "No, that's not it. I was merely...caught off guard. Keep suppressing the enemies on the ground. I shall deal with this."
The goat man shook his head. "No. It's clear that you're fighting a losing battle without help. I shall do my part." His trident begins to smoke again, and he emits a fireball from it, which launches at the flower, causing a considerable explosion. The flower looked slightly angrier...but also a little more beaten down.
"You damn goat...I'll show you who's in control here!" The flower roared as it summoned a huge thicket of weeds out of the ground. They were charging towards the goat man, but he ripped them apart with another barrage of flames.
"Let's charge!" He said to me.
I nodded, and we both surged towards the flower with our respective weapons.
Frisk POV
How cruel of Flowey...to use the soul of Papyrus against us. It was clear Sans wasn't taking it well, since he didn't seem to have his heart in the fight at all(Does he have a heart, though?). He was obviously reluctant to hurt Papyrus, mindless soldier or not.
I was snapped out of my thoughts as "Papyrus" sent a flurry of bones my way, which I only narrowly dodged. It seemed that in this mindless type of form, he was stronger...that, or he was always this strong, but simply never utilized the maximum of his abilities because of his ridiculously kind nature. One of the two. My mind mulled over different possibilities as I dodged bone after bone, which was almost second nature at this point.
I needed to save Papyrus...but how?
During true pacifist runs, I had to remind everyone of who they really were...
"Papyrus! Can you give me cooking lessons?!" I yelled.
* The Lost Soul hesitated.
"ENEMIES...MUST KILL..."
I frowned. That didn't sound like Papyrus at all.
"come on bro...you're the cool guy, right? the coolest of the royal guards...this isn't you. you can get through this...right? remember me? i'm sans...your bro..."
I paused as Sans caught on to what I was doing and gave his own attempt, and "Papyrus" hesitated.
"BRO...?..GUARD?...NO...ALL ENEMIES MUST DIE!"
A pile of blue bones erupted out of the ground, but I made sure to be perfectly still, and I felt no pain. Eventually, the bones receded, leaving the ground blank once again.
"Maybe I should kick things up a bit!" Laughed Flowey maniacally. He then threw another grey soul at the ground, which materialized like Papyrus. As the magic faded away, a familiar fish was revealed...
Alphys choked a little. "U...Undyne?.."
I gazed sadly at "Undyne". How did Flowey find their souls? They both died...we saw them fade. It seems impossible...
"Undyne" raised her spear, which was now a bleak, empty grey colour, and hurled it at Chara, and it pierced her side. Then, Papyrus sent another wave of bones at Asriel and Sans, with the former being dragged out of the way by the latter due to being preoccupied with checking if Chara was ok.
"asriel, take chara away from here! this place isn't safe in the slightest!"
Asriel nodded, and dashed off with Chara in his hands.
I turned to see Undyne hurl a storm of spears towards the other humans, which they barely dodged. Then, one of them, one of them, a boy with sea green eyes, called out to me: "Yo! Temporary truce! This ain't the best time to fight!"
I nodded in response, although Gaster, for whatever reason, looked displeased.
One of our allies-a boy with blond hair and blue eyes, swung a golden blade at "Undyne". She blocked with her spear, but the momentum in the swing was enough to force her back a few steps, and the boy continued to swing, keeping pressure as the other humans attacked with their own weapons. Eventually, "Undyne" was forced onto the ground by overwhelming pressure, and Sans restrained her with blue bones.
"Frank!"
Just as we restrained Undyne, we turned to see an Asian boy(now identified as Frank)being pushed near the edge of the cliff seemingly frozen in shock, and not able to fight.
A girl rushed past us, did a graceful leap through the air and landed right beside the boy, and pulled him out of the way before he got pushed from the cliff.
"FRANK! THAT'S NOT YOUR MOM! AT LEAST NOT THE ONE YOU KNOW! SNAP OUT OF IT!" She yelled.
The boy seemed to stir a little, and the fogginess that was in his eyes seemed to fade a little. He regained a little color in his face, and he swung a bow of his back, along with a few arrows.
So, that soul that Flowey materialized was his mother...I had to admit, that was harsh. Since Flowey only was able to take the souls of the 6 dead children in the Underground to become Omega Flowey, I could only guess that these souls he had now were also from the dead. A dead mother revived as a mindless soldier of a deformed flower...it seems Flowey is even more cruel than I thought.
BOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM!
We all stop upon hearing and feeling a massive explosion of power. We turn to see Flowey pinned on the ground by Asgore and the extremely powerful humans...though I don't think they're humans. Their souls aren't mortal, based on the power I feel coming off of them. All of Flowey's weird extra plant arms were either burnt, battered or torn off.
"Tch...Damnit...How'd I lose?..I'm supposed to be...the god..of this world..."
"I'm afraid," thunders one of the humans(Ha get it) "That you are no god of this world. We are."
With that, the human summons something that seemed to be made of bronze, and he zapped Flowey with a massive charge of electricity. When the light cleared, nothing remained except Flowey, now back in his tiny flower form, lying on the ground with several burn marks and a few torn petals.
"Ughhhh...Damn you!.." He growled.
The human simply glared, then, turning his back on Flowey, he turned to me and the rest of the monsters. Another one of the humans restrained the final soul, and then we heard the first human speak.
"I believe...we need to talk."
There we go! Chapter done. Again, I'm sorry for being inactive on this story for months. I thank those of you who still stuck with story-you're all awesome! Anyways, the next story arc will begin in the next chapter, which should hopefully be out next week or the week after. I wish you all a great day!
Bye!
-Random Potato Kid