Blue, Orange, and Green

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Chapter 11: Green

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"I was born Scorchia the Dragon, taking my father's name." She began. "My parents were children during the Human Wars, orphaned during the carnage. My father, Scorch, grew up to be a strong soldier in the Royal Guard, and admired the King. My mother, Lillia, though promiscuous and needed sex in order to survive, loved my father. They married and had me, and we lived happily in the city. They were great and loved me, but they had one vice…"

"humans?" Sans already knew.

"Humans." She nodded. "They hated them, for a good reason, I guess, and their hatred was rubbing off on me, telling me to never trust them. I wasn't allowed to watch any human-made movies, TV shows, or read any human fiction books, especially ones about dragon slayers and the like. But I was allowed to read of human history, just for educational purposes. My father gave me an astronomy book, and told me someday the King would set us all free, and we'd be able to see the stars with our own eyes.

"Then, one day, dad was getting ready for work quickly and seriously. He kissed my mom and I goodbye, and when I asked him what was wrong, he said 'Don't worry, I'll be home soon.' The next day, soldiers came to our door, and told us that my father was killed by a human with a blue soul. The human was then killed by the King." She paused, swallowing tears.

"i'm sorry." Said Sans.

"Thank you." She could speak again. "My mother… didn't do so well after he died. Her hatred was deeper, and she was barely holding on for me, aging quicker… she died about four years later. By that time, my hatred became full-fledged. Undyne – the two of us were childhood friends because our moms knew each other - suggested I join the Royal Guard with her. I accepted, yet I wasn't sure if I'd make it in since I didn't really know much about fighting. Turns out, I was a natural, even kicking some veterans' asses! With training and practice, I became stronger than everybody, even Undyne who was super jealous. I would destroy the bad punks in the city when I went on patrol, gaining a lot of EXP and LV. No one could touch me; I even got Asgore to his knees, and he said I was better than my father."

"yes, you were an amazing figure, back then." Sans remembered her golden armor and whip.

"Yeah, I was on top, but I wasn't happy. I had so much anger towards humans, and I was letting it out on my own people. I just wanted to get out of the Underground, and kill each human with my bare hands. I wished for a human to fall down here, and then, make them suffer." Her nostrils flared before taking a deep breath. "Asgore would also tell me how much he hated humans, too, and how he would save us all. The way he fought definitely showed that, but when I would see him watering his flowers, or drinking tea with us, he showed a different, softer side. It confused me; how could someone so nice be so strong? After all, what fueled my strength was my hatred.

"And then finally, finally… word spread of a human that had fallen. I was so excited, ready to tear this human down, ready to show the King and everyone what I was made of. The human had already gotten pretty far, all the way to Hotland. I flew there, meeting them on the platforms.

"The human was male. He must have been in his teens. He had blonde hair, green eyes and light skin. He was as tall as me and a little bulky, wearing sweatpants and a polo shirt, and an orange apron with a heart on it. He held a frying pan in his hand. I snarled at him, taking out my whip. He smiled and waved at me. 'Hello, I'm-…'

"'How many?' I asked, interrupting him.

"'How many what?' He asked back.

"'How many monsters have you killed to get all the way here?!' I growled, cracking my whip behind me. His shoulders jumped when I did.

"'Me? I didn't kill anybody.' The boy said, upset that I would suggest such a thing.

"'Then why do you hold that weapon in your hand?'

"'Oh, this? Well, the goat lady gave it to me for good luck, since I told her I love cooking, so I'd just been carrying it!'

"'LIAR!' I cracked the whip again. 'You're all liars, thieves, and murderers!'

"'Please, calm down…'

"'Do you know how long I've been waiting for this day? Today, I will avenge my parents, my grandparents, and all of monster-kind! I will give the King your soul, human!' I held up the vessel that would hold the human's soul, putting it on the ground, and taking up a fighting stance.

"'May we just talk?' Says the boy, holding up his hands. 'I don't want to fight you, ma'am.' I didn't listen and began my attacks, attempting to thrust the point of my whip into vital organs. His soul and weapon allowed him to dodge and block my attacks, but he never once raised the weapon to fight. He just kept talking, trying to calm me down, but nothing worked. I had whipped off his apron at some point, it blowing away somewhere. Eventually, I tired of using my weapon and tossed it aside, taking off my hand, wrist and head armor, readying my dragon skills. 'You are very beautiful.' He complimented me.

"'Stop flirting with me and fight!' I growled, charging at him.

"'I don't understand. Why do you hate me so much?' He dodged, never raising his voice to me.

"'I hate ALL humans! You all are the reason we're trapped down here!'

"'Wh-What?' He suddenly looked really sad.

"'You must be joking.' I ceased attacking him. 'You don't know the story of how humans trapped monster-kind under this God-forsaken mountain a whole millennium ago? What do they teach you in school?'

"'I never even knew monsters truly existed until I fell down here, and that goes for most humans.' The boy explained. 'I merely climbed the mountain to find a special spice that I heard only grows here.'

"'And today I learn that humans are not only killers, but they are ignorant too. They have forgotten about us, which is the worst crime of them all.' I said calmly, before fire shot out my mouth, nose, and ears. 'This won't go unpunished! When I get out of here, I'll gladly remind humans of our existence! We only need two souls left to leave this fucking place, and yours will be one of them!'

"'So, there really is no way out of here without people having to die?' He asked.

"'You think we haven't tried everything? Yes, this is the only way, so it's either you or me, but I can assure you…' I shot fire from my hands towards him. He blocked it, and the pan became burnt beyond repair. 'It will most definitely be YOU!' I attacked him with my flames, and he dodged, but slower this time; At first I thought it was because he was tired, but the truth was he just… didn't have any more determination. I had him trapped by walls of fire. He had nowhere to go. I roared, lunging toward him, and with my strength I thrust my clawed hand right through his chest…

"And then, the strangest thing happened, Sans. It is so hard to explain, but I saw… I was looking into his mind, his soul." She looked down at her hand, the hand she stabbed the boy with.

"wait, what?" Sans asked. "you mean you saw his memories?"

"Yes." She shook her head incredulously. "I still to this day have no explanation of how that occurred without me becoming a godlike creature. Maybe because his soul was still inside his body? I don't fucking know." Tears welled in her eyes again. "But when that happened, I learned who the boy was, everything he was. 'Henry.' I said after the visions stopped and I could see him again. 'Your name is Henry, isn't it?'

"'Y-Yeah… how did you know?' He asked, coughing up blood.

"'I don't know, I…' I remembered what I had done. I thought maybe I had absorbed his soul by accident, but when I looked down at myself, I didn't look any different. I was just covered in blood… his blood. 'Oh God… Henry…'

"'Please… tell me… your name.' His voice was weak.

"'… Scorchia.'

"'That's… a cool name. It's like, 'scorch ya,' heh…'

"'I'm… I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I didn't know…' I began to cry.

"'It's okay. I'm glad… that my soul can be used… to help all of you.' He wheezed. 'Be seeing you, I guess.' He exhaled one last time before he went limp and died. I pulled my arm out of his body, and his soul appeared. It was a shining bright green. I almost reached out and touched it, but I stopped myself, not wanting to turn into an even greater beast than I already was or see his life flash before my eyes again. I took the canister and opened it, allowing the soul to enter it and I closed the lid. I stared at it, and the dead boy, hugging the vessel to my chest and crying into it. 'God, what have I done?' I kept repeating to myself until the flames died down." She needed to stop, wiping tears from her cheeks.

"here." Sans pulled a tissue out of his pocket and gave it to her. "i'm not sure if it's used."

"It's okay, thanks." She wiped the tears away. "I stopped crying eventually, remembering I still had a duty to complete, after careful consideration of my options. I took the canister and the human's – Henry's – body in each arm and began my walk of shame through Hotland, the Core elevator and the city, walking through the street to show the people what I had done on purpose. I wanted them to see the look on my face. I marched up to the palace and into King Asgore's garden, where he was watering his flowers. 'Hold on, I'm almost finished.' He said.

"'So am I.' I retorted. He turned around, gasping.

"'My goodness, you've done it.' He came up to me and took the canister. 'Excellent. Now we only need one more. Scorchia, you have done wonderfully. Your father would be very proud. You will be rewarded, of course, and you shall become Captain of the Royal Guard.'

"'No. I quit.' I stated simply.

"'Wh-What?' Asgore couldn't believe what he just heard.

"'I. Quit.' I repeated.

"'Scorchia, you're back!' Undyne shows up, bursting through the door. 'And you got the soul! That's great!' She started reading the tense situation. 'Um, what's going on?'

"'Scorchia's quitting the Royal Guard.' The King replied.

"'What?! But why?!'

"'Yes, why?'

"'Because you lied to me!' I said through gritted teeth. 'I don't know about my parents; they might not have known any better, but you do. You said that all humans were evil! That's a LIE!' I took the boy's body from off my shoulder and into my arms, holding him up for the King to see. 'This boy's name is Henry. Do you know when I found that out? After I killed him!'

"'Wha… I don't understand.' Said the King.

"'I saw into this boy's soul.' I said, and he and Undyne went wide-eyed. 'Do not ask me how, cuz I have no idea. But I did, and I saw Henry's life. He was a good kid. He loved his family, friends, and his dog, and boy did he love to cook. He would bake his own birthday cakes! He was so good at it. And he would get bullied. The boys at his school would call him names because he was so nice and liked cooking. And do you know what he did about that? He fucking made pizza rolls for them from scratch. And they liked them! And they stopped bullying him. There was zero evil or hatred in this boy. All there was… was kindness. And do you know the last thing he said to me? He was happy his soul would be used to help us.' I was crying again. 'This innocent kid didn't deserve to die!'

"'That's… quite a tale.' Asgore probably either didn't get it, didn't believe me, or didn't know what to say to me. I walked past him, putting Henry's body on the throne.

"'Just know this.' I turned and walked up to him, taking my bloodied armor off. 'I will not work for a lying tyrant, and I will never murder another innocent person again. I fulfilled my duty to you, and now I'm done. Good riddance.' I stormed past him and Undyne.

"'Scorchia, wait!' Undyne came after me, trying to keep up with my pace. 'You can't just quit! After all you've achieved, after all we've been through?'

"'I guess you didn't hear a damn word I said, did you?' I kept walking, not looking at her. 'Leave me alone.'

"'How can you throw your career out like this? Did you ever consider that it was a trick? That what you saw wasn't real? We could have Gaster check you out.' She grabbed my shoulder, trying to turn me around.

"'How dare you?' I threw her hand off me. 'You know what, it doesn't matter. I know what I saw, and I'm not making you believe me. You get to be captain now, anyway, so congratulations.'

"'How can I be the captain when I know there's someone out there stronger than me?'

"'Easy. Just pretend I don't exist. In fact, that's what I want you to actually do.' I almost reached the door at the end of the Final Hallway, but Undyne came and stood in my way, a blue spear in her hand, her spiky teeth bared. 'So you're going to kill me instead?'

"'I'm going to make you see that what you're doing is wrong.' She replied. 'I can't let you leave, not when we're so close to getting out of this mountain! So fight me, Scorchia. Fight me and win if you want to leave!'

"'Undyne, you always had a bad habit of picking fights with people that are stronger than you.' I put my hands up in defense. 'Don't, you'll regret it.'

"'NGAAAAAAH!' She didn't listen and charged at me, wildly throwing spears in every direction. I dodged her and her weapons easily, flying up to dodge the spears jutting up from the floor. I tried flying to the door, but more damn spears came out of it, blocking the way. I was cornered and she threw a line of weapons at me. I roared, angry that she was going through all this trouble when I had already made up my mind. I smashed my foot on the ground and created my infamous Firewall, her spears ricocheted off and scattered everywhere, except for one… 'AAAANNNGH!' I heard Undyne scream.

"'Huh?' I put the wall down, seeing a spear sticking out of her left eye, bleeding horribly. The spear disappeared, leaving a huge hole in its place. She put her hands over it and cried and screamed in agony. 'No, Undyne… I didn't mean to…' I was walking toward her.

"'What happened?! Who's screaming?!' Shouted Asgore from his room. I couldn't stay. I had already made things bad enough. I looked at her, her remaining eye filled with anger and pain.

"'I'm sorry, Undyne.' I said before running out the door and flying away. But I couldn't fly home… so I just flew, crying so much folks below would think it was raining. I flew to the edge of town, where the mountainside is. God, I just wanted to fly out of this place, wanting to see the stars, wanting to… fly into the stars, and never come back. I fucked up twice that day, two things that I couldn't fix or erase no matter what I did. I roared, and punched the mountainside, a huge chunk of it crumbling off. I sat in the rubble that I made, wondering what I was going to do.

"Then, after thinking a long time – and sleeping – I finally decided to change the things that I could. I changed my name, my look, moved into a different apartment, and got a new job. I liked singing and dancing, and the theatre was having auditions, so why not? Once again, I was a natural, and became a main cast member. I started learning more about humans as a hobby: their inventions, discoveries, the animals on the surface, and watching movies, TV shows, anime, playing videogames and listening to human music. I ended up loving humans, kicking myself for being so hateful of them my whole life, never giving them a chance. Of course there are bad ones, but there are bad monsters too, and we all have flaws. At our cores, we are alike, monsters and humans." She sniffed and took another deep breath, giving a 'that's all' smile to Sans.

"so that's how undyne lost her eye." Sans said.

"Yeah, I felt so guilty. A couple years ago I reconnected with her, begging profusely for her forgiveness, and was so happy that I got it." Venus blew her nose and wiped her eyes before dropping the tissue in the small trash can.

"wow, babe. just wow." Sans rubbed his head. "that's quite a load. but it all turned out okay, right? you became a better person by going through all that." He looked down. "i hadn't even thought about what i'm gonna do when a human shows up at my station."

"Good question." She said. "It depends on what kind of human they are: good or evil."

"yeah." He looked at her again. "but how you saw that human's – henry's – life in your mind… that's the better question. with everything i know about souls, i never knew that could happen."

"I narrowed it down to three possibilities," Venus held up her fingers. "One, I had that power all along yet don't know how to use it. Two, something weird happens when you touch a soul before the person is completely dead, i.e. it shows you their life instead of turning you into a god, or three… I'm related to the Grim Reaper."

"heh, well i think we can rule out number three, since the prospects of that being the case are 'grim.'" Sans joked, and Venus coughed out a laugh. "undyne suggested gaster giving you a check-up but you didn't get it… probably for the best…"

"You said you were Gaster's assistant, right? I'd let you give me a check-up… if you know what I mean." She rolled her shoulders and winked. "It could be like Doctor/Experiment roleplay."

"never thought of that being sexy before…" He blushed, clearing his throat. "but it would probably be better if alphys did it; she's more qualified."

"Hmph, I don't want her nervously poking and prodding me. Besides, she works for the King. He could find out about me." She pouted. "And it's strange, I don't remember much about Gaster. I only met him a few times, and I didn't remember his face until I saw that picture. And he's your father…"

"well, technically he's not…" Sans said, while Venus gave him a confused look. "and a lot of people have forgotten him. only until they see his face do they remember."

"Huh?" She didn't get it. He sighed.

"welp, it's only fair… you told me your story, so i should tell you mine."

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A/N: Uwah, did this take long to write or what? I wanted to get it perfect. The next chapter's gonna be hard, too. I'll be taking random theory ideas from a lot of people and mashing them up. Again, thanks for the reviews, but I need more if you want the next chapter!