Chapter 11:
As I set off towards Waterfall, I could only think of one thing.
Would I be strong enough to kill this human?
I know how strong humans can be, I know how heartless they can be. I did live with a homicidal sociopath after all.
But in all seriousness, would I be strong enough to kill them, not mainly physically, but mentally. Would I be strong enough?
I couldn't think of anything else until I noticed Undyne in the distance, she was fighting the human, who appeared to be wearing a cowboy hat. He also had a gun.
*BANG*
The moment I noticed the gun, I saw Undyne fall to the floor, her spears disappearing, covering up her left eye in pain.
"You little PUNK, I'll get you for that!" Undyne yelled in pain as the human walked past her. Making sure the human was gone, I warped over to Undyne.
"Are you alright Captain?", I asked, reaching out my hand to help her up.
"Aagh, I'm okay, just can't see very well...", Undyne said, clutching her bleeding eye.
"Go get yourself healed; I'll take care of that human..." I replied as Undyne and I parted ways, one to the lab in Hotlands, and one towards where the human went.
I needed to find the human, and I knew that if I didn't find him, people would die. I noticed the dust on his hands, and I needed to bring justice upon him and bring him to Asgore.
But I have to actually fight them first.
Walking through Waterfall, I found the human in a small clearing of echo flowers where the human was meant to walk through. They had no choice; it was the only way to get to Hotlands. Standing in the shadows, I waited for the human to walk past me so I could jump out at them. They had already attacked Undyne and taken her eye, I won't let them harm anyone else.
I heard footsteps from afar, getting closer and closer towards the echo flowers. Getting ready to jump, the human appeared, their boots covered in dust, their gun full with bullets. They wandered down the path, eyes peeled for monsters to kill.
They stopped for a moment looking around, as their eyes landed where I was hiding, swiftly lifting up his gun and shooting at me. With lightning fast reflexes, I teleported away and appeared in front of him.
"That's pretty rude y'know, I didn't even get to introduce myself. The name's Serif, the King's executioner. My job is simple, execute any trespassing humans, mainly dangerous ones, such as yourself...", I paused.
"I saw what you did to Undyne, you can be sure as hell that I won't let you live", I continued, looking away for a few seconds.
"You could've made a choice y'know. You could've spared. But you didn't. So now...", I said, my eyes going pitch black, as black as the void.
"You will regret your decision", I finished, spawning several bones and launching them at the human, who just dodged and weaved their way through my attack. It was a simple attack after all. He holstered his gun once again and shot at my torso twice, only for his bullets to ricochet off of my armor. It was nice to attack with this armor, as I didn't feel the strain of my magic.
"Bad move kid...", I stated as I launched a flurry of bones and fire, nicking the human's health down as they whizzed by. The human was down to three-quarters of their HP.
"Try to keep up...", I said again, sending several Gaster blasters at the human. The human dodged the beams, taking time between to shoot two bullets at me, hitting me in the chest once again.
Ineffective.
However, what I didn't notice was that he pulled out a knife as he dropped his gun to the ground. Attack after attack we moved towards Hotlands, passing through the garbage swamp as I would call it.
At that point, I fire a series of blue bones and orange bones at the human. They lost a bit of health by the orange bones. Seems they've seen blue attacks somewhere before. I had to slow down my attacks if I wanted to use a certain technique I was capable of doing, though I didn't see the human preparing to dash at me the moment I lost focus on them.
As I focused on summoning my attack, the human lunged at me and plunged their knife into my armor, a red substance dripping from their knife. What is was I didn't know. Blood? Ketchup? Only god knows.
I felt the pain burning in my chest as I looked up at the human, only a few words leaving my mouth before I launched Gaster blaster after Gaster blaster at them.
"You'll pay for that!"
The human's health was down to a single digit, but that was only until they consumed an item, bringing their HP up a bunch. If I was to beat this human, I needed to be creative and find a way to outsmart them at their own little game of stabbing.
At that point I got an idea.
The human lunged at me again, slashing their knife, only to be intercepted and blocked by a bone I held in my hands, like with Jack's piece of shit lackeys back at the entrance of Mt. Ebbott. Grabbing the human by their hand, I threw them across the field, making them land face first. As they were getting up, I decided to ask a question.
"So, if you're a soul of Justice, why kill us? What is your Justice?"
"You pieces of shits deserve t'be exterminated, you cause nothin' but problems, and if no one'll act on it, I will", the human replied, speaking for the first time during our fight with a strong Texan accent.
"Justice huh?", I cut him off, chuckling a bit before continuing.
"I see, wanna know what my Justice is? Avenging the deaths YOU CAUSED!", I exclaimed, suddenly turning the humans soul green and unleashing Gaster blaster after Gaster blaster at them. They were blocking what they could with their shield, but the rate of fire was picking up, getting faster and faster.
You can't hold out forever kid", I stated as I continued firing the blaster at the human. Behind me was charging a larger, more powerful Gaster blaster. It was one of my own gimmicks and it looked more like a cat's skull than a dragon's skull. Or maybe a combination of both, a dragon's skull with cat ears. Slowing down the initial attack, I moved the larger one up front, and fired a blast so powerful, a shock wave pulsed through the garbage swamp, sending loose trash flying and making my trench coat flutter in the sudden gust of wind.
The human blocked the huge blast with their shield, inching closer and closer, as the blast started to fade away. Suddenly the shield broke as a large explosion sent us both flying in different directions. I flew straight into a wall, hitting it hard, only to fall down into a pile of garbage. The last thing I saw before my world went to black was the lifeless corpse of a human sinking into the shallow waters of the swamp.
End of Act II
Onward to Act III !
See ya, Seriftheskeleton~