Along the rocky path, the soldiers marched, the captain in front kept a neutral expression. His eyes wavered and wandered with each passing moment, he kept tapping his leg as he anxiously stared at the empty, eerie forest in front of them. A pathway covered with trees.
He threw up his arms signaling the rest to halt all action at once.
"Sir?"
"Shh" He quickly demanded, he waved his hand commanding the three officers that wore different armor.
"Captain?"
"We have been discovered, not sure by what though. If what the commander has informed me of is true. We need to be ready for an attack."
He glanced through the trees, knowing full well what he has sensed thus far is no ordinary threat. His eyes snapped to the ground where he knelt down and felt and caressed it.
"In front now!" He commanded. The moment those words left his mouth, the monsters came out in front, while the fast reacting soldiers obeyed his order and were already creating a defensive position in front of the captain.
"There appears to be three, however," He looked at them carefully to notice the difference.
"These monsters, what on earth..." He readied his weapon, constructed in front of him. His weapon on choice, a claymore.
standing in front of them is four monsters shaped differently from what they have seen, one taller with one eye, all four limbs and wings droopy and disfigured on the back of it. While the same appearance of the wings is seen throughout itself.
Something that looks like a carrot figure with arms and legs and also looks to be falling apart. While the last one is a similar monster to the Chilldrakes, Frisk, fought before. It seemed much beefier and had nothing but an aggressive look on its face. The definition of chill non-existent in this thing. This one also had a falling apart look.
All of them have one other thing in common, and that is, they all have a different color shading to their original counterpart.
"Stand ready!" The captain ordered.
"AghhAAAasgghh" The only noise that escaped them was horrifying. They seemed both angry and malformed. To the point where some of the soldiers were discouraged.
"Do not falter" The captain shouted swinging his claymore to the side he shifted his body and point the blade at the monsters who were angered more by his show of offensive.
"PiiiiiIIiIIcccck Onnnoonnn YOU!" One of them said flying towards the ground in a frenzy.
"Sir! It's not attacking correctly" one of them said
"We aren't dealing with any normal monsters here, expect differences. Do not be caught off guard-"
While he spoke a loud scream pierced his ears...
A hand covered in blood reared back. The giant red looking carrot, looking more a like a strawberry now more.
"CommmMEee" It said, reaching behind its back to reveal several carrots in its hand.
"Contains...vitamin C, and most importantly! DeeATH!" It lunged again
Another scream entered his ears, the previous one dealt a killing blow to another.
"Single hits? This is..." He stepped back, gripping his sword ferociously
"IMMMmmm nOTTT cHIlLLLLL!" It screamed with pressure spreading out from in front.
"fall back!" He yelled ordering his men to gain some distance, as they moved he ordered once more.
"We will not allow them to gain the advantage. Left, right, center get into formation!"
Following his commands, they scattered into three groups. Left, Center and Right.
"Right side, four units, fuse your shields together to block the pressure!"
four of them rushed to combine their efforts to create a barrier big enough to block the wind pressure from the Chilldrake. The others waited
"From a distance!" They nodded in unison and created spears in a pattern all of them pointed forward unleashing a barrage of them over the shield and towards the Chilldrake.
"Right side! Wait annoy it until it uses its tears and then attack its right wing in session, as for the rest of you, attack it when it has miss fired!"
"Center! Wait on my signal, and encase the monster in a forced construct, leaving it's back exposed"
All of this happened in a moment, as the spears landed piercing through the Chilldrake's body it stumbled back screaming in pain.
The attacks continued until Loox's signature attack occurred after having been irradiated enough. It ramped up to splash a beam of watery tears upon them. It's fury added heat within its path, but before it could do anything a spear punctured its wing causing its flight path to arc down aiming its attack point blank into Vegetoid. The blast caused its skin to soften enough and weakened it to the allow the soldiers to encase it afterward.
With having dealt with the Chilldrake and now the Loox after it landed it was prompted slain.
The captain, claymore in hand rushed forward leaping, landing behind the monster with its back exposed. He slashed down like butter cutting Vegetoid in half.
"Uauguh...im not feeling very...chill." It and the rest of them turned to dust on the spot.
...
Frisk was sitting on a bed, staring at the ground. His expression was blank, lifeless. A moment later, he blinked rapidly, startled by the sudden change in scene. He stood up after he regaining control of his body.
His eyes darted around the room trying to see where he was, so, he made his way to the window to look outside. It was packed with monsters roaming the streets. It was clear as to where he was right now.
New Snowdin Town, Chara brought him, but.
Frisk turned around again and examined the room to find three piles of dust on the ground. It was clear to him, exactly what happened here. He stepped forward to get a closer look at the dust and even ran his hand through it.
"Do you like what I've done?" A voice called out, which startled him to his feet. Behind him was, none other than Chara. She had a smile on her face.
"You killed these three..."
"Of course, remember what I said earlier? That you had a promise to keep? Well, now is the time." She looked out the window, as Frisk stood there with his head hung to the ground. He seemed reluctant.
"You are very stubborn, but, so am I." Chara said stepping up to him "We both possess souls of determination. So, this constant battle between each other will probably never end."
Frisk sighed, she was absolutely correct about that.
"You are just going to leave me to kill all those monsters, all by myself."
Chara stretched her arms out as she said
"Pretty much, I'm tired now, so I think I'll rest a bit. Good Luck."
"No, wait, What if I just leave, or stay in this room" He shouted...
"Well...It's too late for that isn't it?" She pointed at the door where the sudden noise came from.
Frisk turned in a panic to the sound of footsteps that approached unwarranted. The noise and voices were startled by something clearly obvious to Frisk at the moment.
The movement slowed, as it was clear they were now investigating something.
Frisk's panicked, his movement wasn't stealthy as he leaned against the wall to the side. The door directly beside him. He knew that if they come through the door, that it would flip over him which would cover him from their sight.
"Good choice," Chara's voice came, "But, remember. If you are ready to kill someone, you have to be ready for death yourself" Chara said
Frisk's eyes were fixed on the door before his eyes suddenly went wide as he heard her finish speaking. His hand swiped forward revealing the menu, which he prompted saved as the door in front of him swung opened immediately afterward.
He gritted his teeth, he had no idea what kind of monster they were, so it was hard to tell if he could surprise or even fight them.
He closed his eyes and remember previously that he had done so before. He has actually killed monsters before, but it seemed so much easier considering they were out for blood.
Frisk carefully moved his body so that he was ready, and reassured himself of something.
"Just like before, I will deal with them, just like before." His eyes were focused completely, yet a part of him still seemed worried.
They stepped around opening other doors of the Inn, eventually, after waiting awhile they stopped in front of the room he was in's door.
His heard pounded and his hands shook, these emotions were absolutely unwarranted as he had fought Papyrus earlier, and prior to that a human of all things.
The door swung open, it's sudden wooden view didn't take him out of his thoughts. It only gave him more panic to the point where he stood there unshaken, his eyes were focused forward in a trance.
He had a sudden realization, everything seemed to be withdrawn in his mind, everything seemed to slow down, time appeared to have stopped but was actually still moving, albeit very slowly. The result of his mind entering into a high state of panic.
His thoughts crept up on him.
"Why am I so scared right now? That's right, didn't I kill another human? and several monsters prior to all this?" Frisk's voice echoed throughout his thoughts. He continued to stand there unmoving as they kept coming.
The door bumped into him and moved forward,
"The journey, I killed two monsters in the beginning, and a couple more - Chara, did some work mostly, but I remember it happening"
His eyes drew to the floor as the door continued to slowly curve forward.
"I sought to escape my imprisonment too, Chara was the only thing I came to rely on the moment I met her."
"I even trained for this," Frisk paused, "For this?" He said once more.
That's not exactly the truth, at least it wasn't the full truth, he wanted to get stronger, produce the same results as Chara had done to him in their battle. It's why he asked Litzy to teach him, but obscured in that truth was that the monsters were dangerous as well. He has seen what they can do, some of this encouraged the decision as well.
"I- I wanted to learn how to fight so that I could defend myself against Chara, and monsters. But not just that! but to prevent ever being trapped in imprisonment again!" Frisk said, within his mind, a version of him manifested feeling enlightenment, the expression that was drawn could only be one of discovery or the realization he suddenly forgot so easily.
The door itched more and more, showing bits of the monster guards that had stumbled in earlier staring at the dust littered in the room, one of those guards began glancing towards him as the door stared revealing his shirt.
It wasn't perfect, but he understood somewhat, one thing he must absolutely do.
Frisk's panic showed slightly on his face as he drew his face up towards the guard who was about to discover him.
"Survive!" He shouted in his mind, placing his hand on the back of the door he pushed forward slamming the door against the Guard to the right, into the wall as he rushed towards the one in front of him.
A guard dog as expected, Frisk slide flat, dodging the right swipe of its sword. In his adrenaline the blade of determined appeared in his hand, he held it with both hands impaling the blade deep in the monster's chest.
He retreated back, seeing the other one getting back to its feet and lunged towards him. He sidestepped out of its reach kicking into the back, into the drawer.
"I refuse to die!" Frisk shouted as he charged towards the monster slashing it across the face, killing it instantly.
He huffed...
"I-"
A slash a sword hit across his side, Frisk, who had dropped his guard suddenly stumbled forward in pain, noticing the other still lived.
"Damn it!" He stepped forward replacing the sword with a knife and stabbing it deep into the skull of the monster.
Both of them turned to dust afterward, revealing his success in the matter before him. Frisk hit the wall and sat down holding the side of his chest.
An echo of something occurred in his mind as he sat there.
"Also remember Frisk, when you are prepared to kill someone or something. You must not make the mistake of forgetting this simple rule. Make sure they or it, are dead" Litzy's voice echoed.
"I guess, I have a long way to go," He said.
He drew a breath before standing to his feet.
"There are still more to take care of, out there" Frisk's looked onward out the window...
"Can I really do this?" He said
'Well, I suppose, I'll have to do something...'