Toriel was doing some shopping, she didn't really plan to buy anything but she did want to look at the teen romance section at the local book store, she kinda got a little guilty pleasure looking at the covers of the books and guessing what the story was about, so far she had almost gotten it right once!
She pulled a book off the shelf and looked at it, it had an almost completely undressed woman on the cover. She quickly slammed it back onto the shelf, she hated when the book surprised her like that, she pulled another one off the shelf, it had a young couple on the cover one in a small boat caught in a a storm with his lover trapped in a lighthouse reaching out to him and crying, there appeared to be a man of some kind holding her hostage there.
Hmm, thought the boss monster. It's about a young couple held apart by a group of angry pirates and this book is about him saving her.
She flipped the book over.
High school isn't fun when your one true love is torn apart from you, Emily learned this the hard way when her boyfriend Bret got transferred to a cross-country skiing team and is to busy to spend time with her until the summer break! Can you imagine the heartbreak! The intrigue! How will it all end?!
Toriel sighed, she wasn't to far from the truth, was she?
After another hour she still didn't get any right and decided to give up and decided to head back home, on the way she spotted one of her co-workers, certainly not the nicest of them but Toriel still thought of her as a friend, maybe not a close friend, or a nice friend, but a friend nevertheless. "Hey, Linda!" Toriel said picking up her stride to catch up with the strict teacher.
"Hello Toriel." Linda said with a strained tone to her voice. "It's, ni- *cough* nice to see you."
"Are you alright Linda?" Toriel asked concernedly. "You sound sick!" "I'm fine you-! I mean thank you, but I'm fine."
Toriel didn't miss the strained and hateful tone in her voice. "Are you sure? You sound angry about somethin-" I'm fine!" Linda snapped. "Now leave me alone or I'll report you to the school board for stalking me!" And with that she stormed off angrily.
Poor Linda, Toriel thought. Poor, poor Linda, she doesn't realize that by trying to hate monsterkind she holding back her own potential?
She continued walking home, not noticing that the people around her seemed to be totally unaware of her presence. She only noticed it when she noticed Helen -also from the school- and said. "Hello." To her, Helen didn't even acknowledge that Toriel existed. "Um, Helen, hi?"
She kept on walking.
That's when Toriel noticed that no one seemed to notice her, she held out hand in front of someone's face and they just walked, through? Her hand, that's when she felt some kind of presence.
"Hello?! Who's there? I have fire magic! I'm warning you!"
"Toriel, teacher at the local school, ex-queen of monsters. Perhaps one of the strongest monsters from the Underground, when your not holding back that is." The voice rang out from above her.
Looking up she saw what appeared to be a human male standing in midair, he obviously had some kind of air magic.
"And you just happen to be my current target." With that he tossed some kind of knife towards her, fortunately she had plenty of training with catching sharp things without being cought (thanks to Undyne) and cought it out of the air without so much as touching the air.
"So, I was right about you." Said the man lowering himself down to the ground and dodging a fireball Toriel threw at him as if it were a tennis ball thrown by a small child. "You are rather fierce, I'll take note of that."
"What is it that you want?" Toriel said readying a magic attack
"Oh, we just want to know how the famous Dreemurr couple not only survived all of the years spent sealed away under Mt. Ebbot but also managed to maintain they're youthful complexion all the while."
"How did you know about that?! I though that the humans of the time wiped away all records of monster existence!"
"Oh, they did, but they didn't succeed in tying all monsters to the Underground you see, some us us can use, well, let's just say disguises." And having had said that he glimmers out of sight.
Toriel looked around her fearfully and sensing where the attack was coming from mere moments before it actually struck.
Holding his wind sharpened blade between her hands she whispered. "Practicing with Undyne more then readied me for fighting people like you." Then she lit her hands on fire.
The fire raced up the oxygen rich air covering the blade and cought the mans robe on fire. He howled and summoned a strong breeze to extinguish the fire.
"So, how did you disguise yourself as human?" Toriel asked calmly brushing herself off.
"Magic." The man smoldered. Literally.
"Well, that much is obvious." Toriel said rolling her eyes. "What kind of magic?"
He vanished again. This time Toriel had a lock on his breathing pattern so she knew where he was immediately, she shot a fireball towards him, she couldn't see anything but her fireball stopped in midair so she assumed that it had hit him.
The next moment a different person appeared in front of her, he seemed to be in his mid-twenty but Toriel had learned from her encounter with the other man moments before that these, beings, were more then they appeared to be.
"Headstrong." The new man said. "And easily distracted."
"Wha-" Toriel was cut off by the first man suddenly holding his sword to her neck. "But I-" "Hit solidified air." He interrupted.
"Mathew!" The so one man barked. "Keep ahold of yourself!"
"Yes master." The first man -Mathew- said rolling his eyes. "So, what do I do with her now?" "That's for me to know." The unidentified man said.
"Now, Mathew, will you-" he was cut of by Toriel throwing a fireball at him, it passed right through him.
"Wha-?" Toriel said.
"Things are not what they seem..." The man said pointing up towards what looked like some kind of bird monster about sixty feet above them.
"Illusion magic is rather more useful then fire magic, huh?"
Toriel had one plan left, she didn't like using her special attack because it always ruined whatever she was wearing but it didn't look like she had much of a choice.
She set her whole body on fire.
This immediately caused screaming from Mathew as he was also engulfed in the white hot flames. Toriel whirled around as soon as Mathew let her go and punched towards him. She firmly connected with his jaw knocking him to the ground, he hit has head and lolled.
Toriel extinguished the flames.
"So," she said, trying to hold the remaining bits of her clothing together. "What now?"
The man simply frowned and blinked out of existence.
The bird monster dodged a stream of fire that Toriel shot at it and flew away.
Without the illusion magic in place people started noticing Toriel and the unconscious Mathew.
Toriel blushed deeply and -picking up Mathew- started heading home.
At a last thought she texted Undyne to come over to her place.
Well, this is the opponent I had planned from the beginning! How do you think this battle is possible? Just ask me! I won't answer or anything, but hey, you can ask!
