AN: Wada wada wada. Time for a new chapter and new things to arise. Enjoy as usual!
Chapter Twenty: Remember Emotions
(Undyne POV)
I keep up my onslaught of spears for long after Kris runs off. The flower keeps avoiding the attacks and I keep doing my best to hit him. For what feels like hours, I do nothing but unleash spears.
"Die already! You're why Alphys died aren't you!?" I yell in anger as I keep throwing spears and I don't notice my spears start losing their dark blue aura and start turning grey as I keep getting angrier and upset.
"Kill or be killed." The Flower screeched as he started fighting back and tried to hit me with vines. I summon a spear to block it but I finally notice my spear's degradation and the spear fails and the vine slams me into a wall. My emotions. I forgot that my emotions would hinder my magic.
"No… This won't end here." I say as I feel a red substance drip out of my mouth and I grasp the Nightgem tight and feel the substance stop and I feel rejuvenated.
"What are you?!" The flower screeched and I yank off my eyepatch and feel the magic in me flowing out of my eye.
"I am Undyne! And I am your destroyer!" I shout as I launch myself into the air and summon a hurricane of spears and throw them at the flower and he is ripped to shreds.
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"I am Undyne! And I am your destroyer!" I shout as I launch myself into the air and summon a hurricane of spears and throw them at the flower and he is barely able to dodge all of them. I turn his soul green and force him still and unleash a volley of reverse spears and he is unable to dodge and is ripped to shreds.
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I unleashed a volley of reverse spears and only one managed to hit the flower. The flower retaliates and sends a vine through my body but as it does I summon a spear and destroy it.
"You're gonna have to try a LITTLE harder than that!" I yelled and encircled the flower in spears but he ducked underground. Soon he resurfaced and once more and shot a storm of white bullets at me. I brush them off and walk up to the flower and yank him out of the ground. I stab him with a spear right through his face.
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"You're gonna have to try a LITTLE harder than that!" I yelled and encircled the flower in spears but he ducked underground. Soon he resurfaced and once more and shot a storm of white bullets at me. I brush them off and the flower ties me up in a bunch of vines. I summon a flood of water and wash all of them away and drown the flower.
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I summon a flood of water and wash away all the vines but the flower ducks underwater to dodge the attack.
"Die already!" The flower screeches and he absorbs my water attack and summons a smaller flower and shoots me with water that I am not phased by.
"Note that fish live by water." I grinned as I walked through the stream of water and spear him like a fish. The irony was not lost on me.
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"Note that fish live by water." I grinned as I walked through the stream of water and the flower once again barely avoids my attack. I look around to see where he would appear when I see flakes off dust come off of me.
"No! I won't die until this flower is dead!" I yell as I summon spears from underground and feel one of the spears rip the flower to shreds.
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"No! I won't die until this flower is dead!" I yell as I summon spears from underground and see the flower get flushed out and he looks pissed and manages to entrap me in vines. I try to summon a spear but it won't appear.
"DIE!" The flower screeched and sent ten vines through my chest and I felt my HP drop to 0.
"So this is it how it ends?" I grit my teeth as I fall to my knees.
"Finally!" The flower screeches and I see him get obliterated by a beam of pink light
RESET
"Finally!" The flower screeches and he suddenly ducks underground to dodge a beam of pink light. I turn to look behind me and see a ghostly human that is glaring at the ground.
"Are you alright? You look like how Chara explained her friend Undyne looked. You look stronger than she said." The ghost floats over to me and I look through her and saw the flower reemerge on the cliff we were near.
"Not strong enough!" The flower screeched as I felt one final vine penetrate through my body and I felt myself melt into dust. The last thing I saw was a bunch of small ghouls erupt from the ground.
(Jevil POV)
This fight was fun to watch. The flower descended further into the darker, yet darker. Chaos, Chaos. Oh this was much fun, even if there was RESETs. It's not like I didn't deal with them with the Lightners. The Knight will one day come and the chaos would be forever gone. But I would have fun killing the flower before then. But only after the ghost's had it's fun.
(Metta POV)
I feel a ghostly tear fall down my face as I see Undyne turn into dust. I turn my head 180 degrees and unleash a tidal wave of ghouls and tear through Flowey.
RESET
My eyes widen as I realize I was sent back through time right to after Undyne died. I growl as I unleash the ghouls again and I knew that Flowey would duck back underground. Right as he emerges I summon a beam of energy and wipe him out of existence.
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"Ugh! Stop with the RESETs!" I yell as I summon blue magic and keep Flowey suspended in the air.
"It doesn't matter how many times you kill me! I'll keep coming back!" Flower screeches and I give him the middle finger before pulling apart his body with blue magic.
RESET
"Didn't you know? You can't harm a ghost." I taunt Flower as he sends magic at me and it just phases through me. His eyes widened as I force him in place with blue magic and destroy him once more with a beam of energy.
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"But I refused to die." I taunt as I once again kill the flower with my ghoul magic.
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Flowey stays still for a long while after the latest RESET. I approach him to see if there was still life in it and suddenly he springs back with half his body covered in darkness. The flower screeches and my ears, if I had any, burst. I quickly summon a beam of pink energy to stop the shockwave that erupted with the screech. I look past the energy and see the flower writhing in pain as he stares straight at me and where my last sliver of my soul lie.
I knew he was staring right at it and decided it was time to flee. I quickly float away and into the rock formations on the ceiling. I breath heavily in relief as I look back at where we had been fighting and see an imp that I'd never seen before start fighting the flower. It created a carousel and entrapped Flowey in it. The imp shot out attacks of spades, hearts, diamonds and clovers at the flower and didn't seem to be trying to beat Flowey. Instead it seemed to just be toying with the flower.
"Metamorphosis!" The imp yells happily as it turns into a bunch of knives and launch at the flower and slice it into pieces. But the flower doesn't RESET, it just reforms and strikes at the imp. The imp doesn't seem at all bothered by the attack and just keeps attacking. Soon the magic turns red and starts killing the flower more often, but it still reforms.
"Bye bye!" The imp waves at the flower and the entire area turns pitch black as huge knives fall out of the sky at the flower, who just takes all of the hits and grabs the last one with a vine and waits for the darkness to fade and throws it into the lava. I see the imp reform back from that last knife and just float back out of the lava.
How in the world did it live that?! Lava will causes HP to automatically drop to 0.
"Chaos! Chaos!" The imp shouted as the entire area of Hotland was filled with the symbols of cards. Thankfully I wasn't hit as I backed further into the rock, but when I looked back out, the only land left standing was where Flowey had rooted himself in the ground.
Suddenly a vine launches out of the ground and right into the imp's chest, where his soul was revealed after unleashing all that magic. I watch as the soul is crushed and the imp fades and his last words are haunting.
"The Queen of this world. They shall be the one to defeat you. Chaos will envelop you." The imp fades into dust and Flowey ignores his words and stares at where I was watching.
"I will kill you soon ghost. You better watch your back. After all, in this world it's kill or be killed. Not be killed and be resurrected!" Flowey screeches before ducking back underground. I bite my ghostly tongue as I try to figure out where Flowey would strike next
(Kris POV)
RESET. RESET. RESET after motherfucking RESET. That's all I felt after me and Raven entered the log cabin. I woke multiple times and would be sweating profusely from knowing what had happened. But after around 10 RESETs, which was more than I like to happen in a day thank you very much, I could feel time continue moving normally, but I couldn't help but feel dread in the air. It felt worse than the darkness in the Cavern. And that felt suffocating. I try my best to go back to sleep, when I feel a shaking in the ground. It felt entirely unnatural.
"Undyne." I mutter to myself, filled with worry. Was she still alive? Would she be able to kill Flowey?
"Kris?" Raven yawned as he woke up and looked at my worried face.
"Did you feel that?" I ask as he puts his glasses on.
"Of course. I'm pretty sure anyone on the mountain felt that quake." Raven sarcastically states
"Ok. So it wasn't just me. I'm worried for Undyne. She had the Nightgem, but might not be strong enough." I bite my lip in fear.
"Nightgem? I had already presumed that Asgore's trident was the Crimson Key based on what Asriel said in school, but the Nightgem? What's next, the Legendary Artifact is in this cabin?" Raven rolls his eyes.
"She also had DT levels of 2000. So maybe she'll be fine." I state and Raven stares at me like I had grown a second head.
"The scale is based off of 1000 as the highest! And that's a human's level. How could any monster even reach that?!" Raven wondered, bewildered at the information.
"You'd be surprised." I think to myself as I hear the door to the cabin open. I immediately summon my sword and prepare to fight whoever had entered. I exit the single bedroom to see an adult in a dark blue cloak with a police badge in hand.
"Who are you?!" I yell as I aim my sword at him and the man looks at me.
"So you aren't her. When did you fall down the mountain?" The man switches the topic from the first comment quickly.
"How's that your business?" I start letting my energy start flowing into my sword.
"It's my business because my job is the supervision of magical activities. And thus you having magic and escaping the mountain with a monster qualifies as such." The man said in a serious tone and I shoot a shot from my sword at the man as Raven finally gets out here. The man summons a shield to absorb it and I can feel his eyes bore into me.
"I've had years of training... Ugh!" The man yells as he is hit by electricity from Raven.
"Oh sorry, years? How about your entire life?" Raven boasts and the man glares at Raven.
"Maybe if you could tell me if Chara escaped as well, I would leave you alone." The man threatened as he summoned a whip made of blue energy.
"Chara?" Both me and Raven say at the same time and the man nods.
"Where is she?" The man says as he slams his whip to the ground, causing a massive hole to appear.
"I… Uh.' I say nervously before Raven decides to butt in.
"She died earlier yesterday." Raven said with no emotion and the man glared at him.
"N...No! You're lying! I refuse to believe my sister is dead!" The man cries out before striking at Raven with the whip and the whip dissipated right before it hit its mark. The man in the cloak fell to his knees in tears.
"How did she die?" The man asked, still in tears. I bite my tongue as I knew what he was feeling. I had experienced it before.
"An explosion destroyed one of the two kingdoms and s...she was in the blast." Raven said with a lot less monotony, he actually sounded like he cared now. But why? As I thought this, the man stood up and wiped his tears away.
"I… My name is Michael Campbell. Integrity Mage of Ebbot. I was sent here to retrieve you two." The man introduces himself and I notice a blue heart tattooed on his left cheek.
"Kris." I state blankly without giving any more information.
"Baron Raven. Second Royal Scientist, after your sister." Raven bows and Michael gives him a confused look.
"Why did Chara not continue her job as Royal Scientist?" Michael asks and Raven bites his beak in either anger or guilt.
"And why didn't you say anything besides your first name?" Michael turns to me and I roll my eyes.
"Why not? It's not like if I choose to tell you or not will make a difference." I say as part of my old, your choices don't matter, personality arises back up.
"And, uh about that Royal Scientist thing. Chara ran away, leaving the position open." Raven told the half truth that I expected.
"There's your answers, Michael. Now can we please get them back to the Mage Center?" Another cloaked figure, wrapped in a purple robe and had a feminine figure, asked as they entered the cabin.
"Aria. Nice to see Justin and Aqua didn't trust me to do this myself after all." Michael rolled his eyes and I start concentrating my energy to summon my shield as I feel magic flowing off that Aria girl and it was aimed towards us.
"Go ahead." Michael says with melancholy seeping into his voice and I see the girl pull out a book and aims the cover at us and I see purple strings shoot at us. I quickly push Raven to the ground and pull out my shield to block the attack. Aria looks mad that we wouldn't be taken easily.
"Why'd you try purple magic on us?" I question as I start summoning my other form of magic, that I hadn't used in ten years.
"It's my way or the highway. So don't bother fighting back." Aria stated smugly and I shrugged as I finally summoned a beam of pure light and blinded everyone except myself. I quickly grab Raven's talon hands and lead him out of the cabin.
"You know. When I thought I first got to the Surface, I imagined much worse reactions." Raven chuckled as I led him downhill through the forest.
"Can you see again?" I ask as I let us stop at a stream flowing down the mountain.
"A little bit. What magic was that?" Raven rubs his eyes with his arms.
"My own kind. I know that no one else has it. I also have another form that's completely unique to me." I gasp for breath from all the running.
"But what kind was that? My curiosity must be satiated." Raven lowered his voice to seem more menacing and I rolled my eyes at the pitiful attempt.
"If you must know, I have control over pure light and dark. And I won't answer why. It's personal." I make my voice more threatening at the end and Raven flinches away.
"The Surface is beautiful. You're lucky. You lived with this for a lot of your life. I wish I got that same luxury." Raven said with some tears in his eyes.
"You know, I never wanted to hate Asriel or Chara. It's just that I made a promise to my mother to never trust a Dreemurr child and repeat a mistake she made." Raven admitted and I give him a sad glance. What had hurt his mother to make her make him take that promise.
"I decided to use science as an escape from the reality of that promise. Robots, chemicals, Determination, souls. If I could hide behind those, then I would never have to even pretend to follow through with my promise. But of course that failed. Ugh! Why does everything I do fail?!" Raven yells in anger and sinks his talons into a tree and cuts it in half. We're lucky that the top half fell away from us.
"Soul Examiner, failed by blowing up. Artificial Determination, I was dumb enough to test it on my own mother. I sent myself off the deep end after that. I didn't care who I hurt as long as my projects worked. And even after they worked, they were eventually destroyed. Fate hates me and so does everyone. Just leave me just as everyone else. Leave the weakling coward." Raven collapses to his knees and curls in on himself. I wonder why he started breaking down like this, but decide to leave that question for now. His heart ached, his hopes and dreams would always bite the dust.
I bend down to my knees next to Raven and place a kiss on his cheek. He looks up at me with shocked eyes.
"No one is perfect. Mistakes are made. I know I've made my fair share of them. But to be brave, you must admit what you are scared of. No one starts out strong. They go from weakling to strong. Do you think I was born with magic? No it festered in me as I grew stronger. So prove yourself stronger." I say as I help Raven to his feet and he nods.
"Maybe I can somehow make up for my sins against Asriel and Chara. Hopefully, their spirits will forgive me." Raven wipes his tears away and suddenly I hear a branch snap. I snap my fingers and will darkness to cover us and light to make it seem as though there was nothing wrong with the area.
"I swear I heard them talking over here." I hear Aria's voice say from where we had just been.
"You think they'd stay in one place when we're looking for them? I mean we've got all six of us in the forest and no one has found anything yet." Michael informs the girl, who had now removed her cloak and was just wearing a purple t shirt and besides that had purple hair and a completely smooth face and looked cute even when frowning. I had to admit, she looked attractive.
"Let's keep searching. They can't have gotten off the mountain yet." Aria orders Michael who just follows along as they walk uphill. After five minutes of silence, I decide to break my magic. I fall to my knees from exhaustion, but Raven helps me stand.
"I got you. Where are we even planning on going?" Raven asked me as he helps me walk down the mountain. Even though his hands were talons, they didn't hurt too much.
"Do you feel a high magic field around 20 miles east?" I ask as Raven finally reaches flat land.
"I'm gonna stop questioning how you can tell that stuff, but I guess that's as good a place to start as any." Raven shrugged before continuing to help me through the forest. By the time we exited the forest I was barely able to walk by myself. I hadn't used that magic in years, so of course it would take a lot out of me. But when we exited the forest, we found ourselves in a plain area with no buildings or anything. Which made me uneasy as I could hear the city nearby so the reason this was untouched unnerved me.
We trudge across the empty plains for a long time until the sun starts to set. Just as we were about to call it a night, I spot something odd. I walk over to it and Raven follows. What was odd was a random giant stone heart, cracked in the center, in the middle of the plain.
There was an inscription on the heart and it read:
Thee that doth seek thy truth of heart. Seek thy path of crimson night and find thine of different souls and open thy door containing thy truth that thou seek. One day, far in thy future, will thou finally be free of life and death
"What is this?" I wonder aloud as Raven starts muttering to himself about souls.
"I think I know the person this was made for." Raven told me suddenly and I stared at the heart as he told me.
"The door. Door of Nothingness. It is what my mother protected before Asgore tricked her into letting him open the door. It's why my mother made me take that promise. So I wouldn't be tricked." Raven tells me and I expected him to stop but he continued.
"Asgore falsely claimed to love my mother, but after he opened the door he never cared to mutter her name again. My mother didn't even look like me. She was a Boss Monster, but didn't want to be reminded of him, so forced a monster to change my soul's output to make me a different monster. I hate Asgore for ruining my mother and ruining me. You told me earlier that I needed to be brave. Well for me to prove to myself that, me getting payback on him is what I feel the best route." Raven continues with hate laced into his voice. I bite my tongue as I remember that the Asgore of this universe was different to my Dad. I was on the opposite side of this world's Asgore. I needed to remember that.
"Fine by me. But let's find some shelter for the night." I shrug and start walking away from the cracked statue, and neither of us notice as the heart starts cracking more.
(Third Person POV)
Somewhere in Hotland, a spider girl had not realized the situation yet. And before she could fight back, a vine slammed her into the wall, killing her and all her spiders.
"Only the king, an old turtle and that ghost left. And only the ghost will be a challenge." Flowey maniacally laughed as he ducked back Underground, not knowing how wrong he would turn out to be. Oh, very wrong. Just as Flowey ducked back Underground to find Asgore and Gerson, the Nightgem had sprang from the lava and started flying towards Waterfall
AN: I deliberately didn't go in depth for Jevil. I had the POV from Mettablook, who was trying to comprehend the chaos from all the attacks and Flowey's new resurrection method. I decided to use Jevil to help showcase Flowey's new resurrection and how he could just keep fighting anyways. Also Jevil is hard to write for with his crazy personality. I just hope I portrayed him well enough.
Ateno: Just have him say chaos as every word and you'll be fine
Angel: That's what most people take away from him.
Jevil: Chaos Chaos!
Leya: Get it out! This place is already chaotic enough with Ateno
Angel: Fine. Snaps fingers and Jevil fades back into his dimension. Now onto other stuff. Can I just say that Baron is going through a lot of changes from when I first made him? In the beginning I created him just to be an old antagonist from school that would do anything against him. Over time I made him into an actual character and i am finally figuring out where to take his character in the future. Originally I just planned him as evil and planned to have Chara kill him later in this book, but that is no longer the case. Also I no longer have any clue how much longer this arc will be as I want to keep in this time without a RESET back. I want to use this arc to build upon the Surface and its characters, Kris and Baron Raven, Metta, and Asgore and the past. Honestly, killing of characters and being limited to less characters is a load off of trying to balance how much I focus on some characters. Currently, the Underground inhabitants still alive are Asgore, Gerson, Mettablook, Baron Raven and Kris (if you want to count her).
Anyways QOTD. Who plans on getting Deltarune on Switch that hasn't played it yet like me? I am so excited to actually play this game and get a better understanding of the characters from there that I included in the story. Anyways, have a good night everyone!