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Chapter 36 Emerge

"Hey."

Undyne called Thistle. At this point, Undyne was only suspicious of the monster she gazed upon. Had the entire crew watched this female for the entire duration of the search?

'There's definitely something 'fishing' going on.'

Undyne mentally slapped herself for the thought, heaving a light sigh.

'Great, now Sans's puns are getting everyone to do it.'

On the other hand, Thistle was uncertain as to why Undyne was unaffected by her magic.

'It's impossible to meet this kind of person three times in three days. What the…'

Thistle felt something familiar as Undyne closed in.

It was unmistakable.

It was the Jiang family's magical trait.

Apparently, Darkness and Tempest trusted this fish monster much enough to give their power to her.

"Hello, officer." Thistle attempted to keep her composure, her words as calm as she could muster them to be, "What is the matter?"

Most of the time when encountering people or monsters, she had no need to use her brain. She always talking to lesser-minded folks, thanks to her blasted magic. Speech was far less reliable. Talking with "clear" people was quite unusual.

'She's stressed. I can tell. It was way too obvious to miss that.'

This increased Undyne's suspicion towards the strange monster. As such, she felt a questionnaire and an ID-check was in order.

As Undyne approached, the monster suddenly ceased panicking, its expression replaced by inexplicable calmness. Knowing this was usually a sign of resistance or mental instability, Undyne readied for combat while approaching with caution.

Just as expected, the monster attempted to grasp Undyne with her left hand. It was quite a sad attempt at an attack, as it was halted by nothing more than a clasp and twist of its wrist. She had to hand it to Alphys, the suggestion of Martial Arts truly did come in handy.

"Why are you attacking me?" Undyne growled. She was quite certain this was their target by the recent events and the monster's sudden attack, "Are you Thistle?"

"Yes…" Thistle answered. "But you are not catching me today. And… sorry for this. You'll be well soon. I promise."

The monster was way too confident in Undyne's eyes. Usually, this only led to one thing.

'Dammit... A Trap...'

The moment Undyne attempted to reach her cuffs to restrain Thistle from using magic, the fox monster suddenly used her caught hand to touch Undyne's arm, calling upon the earth element to enhance her physical strength.

Although intense, the magic was too weak to shake the fish off, since the they are standing on the road now, not the best condition to gain earth magic, but on the second shake, her grip began to loosen. Thistle's gained more and more momentum.

On the fifth shake, Thistle managed to wrench from Undyne's grip, dashing into the woods nearby and shifting her form into that of a white fox.

Undyne wanted to chase her, but her legs were unable to respond. In fact, they were completely useless. She collapsed to the ground.

'What is wrong with my legs? How did she drain my strength?'

This had never happened a single time in Undyne's life. Her legs were paralyzed when the needed them the most. She could only growl in anger as Thistle left.

—A few days after—

Thistle was not an easy monster to capture. So far, the monster always managed to get away before anyone could find her. After the encounter with her and Undyne, it was as if she was always one step ahead, as if she knew their every move.

At a loss, the group decided on concocting a plan to catch Thistle off-guard. The Dreemurr family was now part of the operation as well.

"Perhaps she's too familiar to our magic, once she felt it. She would flee without hesitation. So, what…ZZZ."

Tempest fell asleep in the middle of their talk.

"Tempest!" Darkness yelled at the nodding dragon.

"Wha…What?" Tempest rubbed his eyes, and found Darkness staring at him with horror.

"You just feel asleep while talking! What happened? This is not you!"

That was quite a new. It seemed like Darkness had the same brotherly love as Sans did to Papyrus, although they were cousins.

"I don't know, my connections to the Land of Dreams is growing stronger recently. Sometimes I can't resist it."

"Come home later… I'll give you a mental scan." Darkness sighed in worry.

"OK." Tempest yawned, "I feel tired recently. Why? I haven't done anything."

"You two can sort that out later." Undyne said. "The question now is how are we going to sneak up on her without getting charmed? The chief sent a few officers, but they all end up lagging at the place until someone called their names."

"Tempest's and Darkness's scales have their magic traits on them. It's too easy to spot. Do anyone have…" Undyne was halted by snoring.

"ZZZ"

Tempest fell asleep again.

Undyne, who was standing beside the dragon, shook Tempest.

The dragon woke up at once. But instead of saying sorry about suddenly falling asleep, he glanced around... and laughed.

No... this wasn't Tempest's laugh. The tone was darker, more sinister, more sadistic. And his eyes… they had shifted to a shade of silver.

"So, the stronger monsters are here?" He squinted at Asgore. "The Loser King is here, too."

Asgore's heart dropped to his knees. This was the 'Tempest' who challenged him. This was the exact dragon in his memory who was so cruel and heartless towards him.

"Lunar. Why are you here?" Darkness snapped, his eyes narrowing.

"I can't believe you still remember me, Darkness." The dragon cackled, "Well as you see, I took over."

"But how?" Darkness asked. "Tempest was stronger than…No way."

A crazy theory started construct itself in Darkness's mind. If that was the case, they were in a scenario which would cost them their lives.

"If you did that..."

"Hahaha! You got it!" Lunar blinked her left eye. "I did that!"

"Are you insane?" Darkness widened his eyes in disbelieve. "You might kill the entire town as a whole!"

"I don't care actually. After all, stronger people and monsters could make it out alive. That actually saves me a lot of time, in my view!"

Darkness didn't say anything. That was twisted. Even the most determined person couldn't get out of this situation. He was certain of it.

'Tempest…no…'

Lunar hopped out the window and left.

"What the heck was that?" Sans shouted.

"I believe I own you all an explanation," Darkness slightly touched his forehead, it seemed whatever is happening now was a trouble to him. "That was Lunar. Now, some of you might know, Tempest was a girl. Female dragons are not taught to fight when little, they were only taught how to use magic, for safety reasons.

"Females are rare in our kind, about four boys to one girl, at least that for those who remain as dragons. So, every one of them are precious. Plus, they are leaders of families. But my cousin back then eagers to fight."

"So, she got an idea, she created an alternate personality by using magic and changed her gender to attend fighting classes. The alternate personally was Tempest. She used Tempest to take the magic lessons for her, while she went to combat classes."

"But, for some reason, after Aunt's death, Tempest took over Lunar. That's the brief story. Only Tempest knew the whole picture."

"So…why did Lunar suddenly appear?" Alphys asked still surprised of the turn of events. "If Tempest was strong enough he won't let this happen, right?"

"Sure, but she had done something which could change the tides."

Undyne crossed her arms. "How?"

"This was actually why our family was stronger that other monsters back at the war… We used our unique magic to channel two power sources from the Land of Dreams. Nightmare and Dream."

"A dragon, who will be called master for now, would hold the ritual, randomly soak the attendant into one of it, this will result the attendant to fall asleep, and the master would use Dream or Nightmare to cast the other power away and wake up the attendant. Once it's done, the attendant could generate DETERMINATION like humans, and this kind of DETERMINATION can't cause any harm to monsters."

"But keep in note, the succession rate is lower than forty percent, since the master couldn't perfectly understand the two concepts at the same time. It's like a wheel of fortune. It's pure luck, either too little or too much, results death. No matter it's Nightmare or Dream."

"Dream?" Asriel tilled his head with confusion. "Is that bad to have dreams?"

"Well, what happens if you see the world is perfect like in your imagination?" Darkness started to walk around the room. "Will you become diligent to realize you dream? The answer is no. That is what Dream does, it makes people see their ideal thoughts, a goal in fact, but not providing them motivation to achieve it."

"You will become lazy, and do absolutely nothing. And… eventually, you will lose DETERMINATION since there's no use of it, resulting in forever sleeping but still having vital signs. And unavoidably, the body will wither too, without energy income."

Everyone was shocked about the theory, so dreams were no better than nightmare.

"So here comes the part of Nightmare. It always reminds you dreams couldn't be achieved without work, therefore forcing you have DETERMINATION pumped up all the time. I think I don't need to explain what happen when the opposite part happens. It's quite obvious to you. These two things came from the same source, and both need to be used in balance."

Darkness hopped back to the subject.

"Back to the main. I guess Lunar tied herself with Dream, and Tempest with Nightmare. Then, she polluted every living being's thoughts in Ebott with Dream…making Tempest, who is Nightmare now, weak."

"Monsters are more resistant to it, because of their basic composition is like Dream, but they will still be affected at the end."

"So, we need to find Lunar and defeat her?" Undyne asked.

"We don't need to find her, she won't even try to hide. Finding her is not a problem, defeating her is. And look outside. It's already taking effect."

Darkness pointed outside.

A dozen of humans were sleeping on the ground, others and walking around randomly, as if day dreaming.

"Oh Golly…"

Asriel looked at the whole scene. Then the Dreemurr family suddenly thought of one thing at the same time.

Frisk

It took another second for the rest to realize what the Dreemurrs were thinking. If the humans were here sleeping, then Frisk...

The group rushed to Dreemurr's house, thrusting open the door to find... Frisk wide awake and eating leftover pie?

"What happened? You've looked like you see a ghost. No pun intended."

"It seemed like the monster part of Frisk's SOUL helped her to stay awake." Darkness said. "Interesting."

The group used a while to explain the whole situation to Frisk.

"Darkness. How long do we have left?" Frisk asked.

"About three days. On day four, it's your turn to fall asleep. But this number varies by individuals, and it's usually those who have more tragic backgrounds who have more resistance. Plus, the effect is gradual. Your sleeping time will increase significantly on the course of time."

"Before that, we must get Tempest's SPIRIT out of Lunar. Then he can fix this. I can stay awake since I passed the ritual, but I couldn't win against Lunar on my own. There's no chance of it. I remember... Lunar was a champion of the Grand Arena once she attended, until she was suppressed by Tempest." Darkness said.

"Grand Arena?" Asriel had no clue what darkness meant, "What is that?"

"The remaining of it, I think it's called the Colosseum now? Or it's somewhere else? I'm not sure. The memory was way too remote."

"She's a great fighter. The advantage we have is that she not a mature dragon yet, and she doesn't use much magic. If she does, she will let you know. She always preferred to win by solid strength, rather than luck and tricks."

"Just remember, she an honorable fighter with too much battle spirit and arrogance. She will follow the rules of a duel and respect a fight. But that doesn't lead to respecting a loser. That is where her arrogance is shown."

While Darkness wanted talk more about his cousin, the phone rang.

"I'll go get it." Toriel walked to the phone. "It's Gerson. Hello?"

No one knows what did Gerson told Toriel, but her face had some quite significant changes. It must have been something shocking, to the least.

"What is it?" Undyne asked. "What did the geezer say?"

"Monster Kid…woke up not long ago! And he made a full recovery!"

"WHAT?"

This came from everyone in the room. It was supposed to be impossible.

—Later—Ebott Hospital—

It was a surprise when Gerson called in about Monster Kid's status. Once all the humans fell asleep, Monster Kid woke up and was hopping around lively.

Gerson currently spoke to Toriel and Asgore about the situation, while Asriel was talking with Monster Kid.

"Monster Kid?" Asriel asked in surprise. "Why did you wake up?"

"I don't know! Really! It's just like magic! Uhh... Yeah, magic." Monster Kid smiled. "Suddenly, I have the power to face whatever happened. Now, I feel energized!"

"You still remember what happened?"

Asriel was surprised about this. Monster Kid wasn't supposed to be standing here. He was in the "falling down" state, and that was always inevitably fatal.

Monster Kid's smile disappeared, and seemed a bit low. Asriel mentally slapped himself. Why did he remind Monster Kid if that?

"I know. They beat me up, again and again. I couldn't believe there were that kind of people in this place. ...Treating someone like this... I don't even know who they are, nor do I know what I did to anger them."

"They stuffed me in a bag and tossed me in a car. I even heard the say they were going to kill me, and deciding where. Inside the bag, it was only dark and hopeless. At some point, I managed to escape."

"But end up stepping in a bear trap. I got found, beat up again, and passed out."

Monster Kid paused.

"I knew I was dying. In my dreams there was only black. Everything was gone. I only could focus on despair. But…"

"What happened?"

Asriel was curious, what kind of turn happened which helped Monster Kid to wake up?

"At some point of time… I remember Undyne. I understand why she stood up to protect everyone. It was just a light push, but it made me have a goal to fight for. I want to become someone like her. I don't want anyone to experience what did! So I had to stand up and live."

Asriel could feel the DETERMINATION burning in Monster Kid. That amount of it would already melt Monster Kid at the point, but for some reason he was fine. No signs of melting or feeling pain.

This also made Alphys surprised. According to her experiment with DETERMINATION with monsters, it didn't end well. The reason was because high concentrations of it will disrupt the magic inside a monster, leading to horrible results, causing excruciating pain in the process.

Alphys shook her head to cast away the unfortunate event. It was still haunting her. However, she was distracted by darkness's voice.

"Dr. Alphys... This is how the ritual works. It makes monsters gain their specialized DETERMINATION and more resistance to negative things. A lot." Darkness looked at Monster Kid with curiosity. "The Nightmare which caused Monster Kid dying provided a chance. Once Lunar balanced it off with Dream, the whole process is done. I don't know whether this is unintentionally or on purpose."

"Oh! Do you know I met Tempest in my dream?" Monster Kid said. "But he's some kind of weird. He talked in a girl's voice. He left a message for you!"

"It's intentional." Darkness sighed, shaking his head. "One-hundred percent intentional. I was wondering why she would become a good dragon and help someone without benefits."

"What did he say punk?" Undyne rubbed her fists. From what heard from Darkness, she thought Lunar was quite a selfish dragon who she was willing to pulverize, "We want to know."

"Sure! After all, he wanted you to hear this message."

Monster Kid took a deep breath

"I'll be waiting in the Ebott park, at the fountain. Challenge me if you want. If no one comes… I'll go to find you all on day two, and fight all of you one by one!"

Silence took over, until Gerson said something.

"That's quite an invitation for people who eager to fight, very straightforward." Gerson remarked simply. "It's good news that she won't be leaving the town for a while. Now we just need to fight her."

"Hey Punk." Undyne called Darkness. "Do you know more about your younger cousin? It's helpful to know what she can do."

"Sure. She won't kill people easily, even in a duel, but cheating is another case. She would DEFINITELY kill cheaters. She considers that an insult to her."

"As to what a cheater is? I think Sans or Tempest in a fight is the lowest she would accept, perhaps on the edge. More than that is not acceptable to her. She mainly uses her sheathed dragon-bone Katana, A.K.A. her mother, but don't be fooled by it."

"Although sheathed, she can use it like a blunt weapon. The sheath is extremely hard and sturdy. I remembered it was crushed by a road roller and the sheath was still fine without a crack. So far, it seems she can't pull her blade out of its sheath."

Asgore and Gerson were surprised about how stiff the sheath was. Usually, the harder the sheath, the more lethal the blade within. It was quite fortunate that she was unable to pull it out.

"Her magic is mainly support magic," Darkness continued to say more about his cousin. "which was the part which Tempest didn't take from her. Tempest almost took all the magic, including element tendency."

Darkness turned back. "I'll go home to get some gear to prepare, and try to make aback-up plan. I suggest you allto prepare as well...We have a long day tomorrow."

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