Chapter twelve:
Asgore moves closer seeing that the Queen hasn't gotten up yet. He notices her eyes snap open.
The Queen opens her mouth causing Asgore to freeze as she begins taking his magic from him. She has decided that while it makes her vulnerable it might be her last chance to defeat the other.
Sans and another Soulless monster, who is an orange Geko monster named Rusty, are on either side of Undyne.
Undyne has a spear summoned in each hand as she looks from one to the other ready for them to strike.
Sans tries to think of a way to get Undyne without getting hit again. He knows well that if he is struck down then he'll probably be killed. His injured leg is a bit wobbly though he can manage to remain pretty stable. He lets Rusty move first as the other isn't injured.
Rusty charges and leaps at Undyne who swings one hand with the spear at Rusty. He tries to grab onto the spear handle. He thrusts his face forward snapping down onto Undyne's ear fin.
Undyne hisses slightly in pain and gives a violent throw to get Rusty off. Her ear fin is torn as a result and blood drips from it as it turns red where the blood reaches. She throws a spear at Rusty who is on the ground only for him to roll out of the way. She is jumped from behind by Sans who spits goo onto the tips of the spears in her hands. She tosses them away and swings a new spear towards her backside getting Sans in the cheek making the cut there worse. She finds that Sans tries to stay on strong. Her eyes slightly widen as she notices Sans open his mouth as if getting ready to drain her magic. She swings the spear once more only for Rusty to jump biting onto the handle of the spear. She swings her other hand with a spear now summoned in it at Rusty. She stabs him in the shoulder causing him to gasp and uses it to toss him away. Her spear coming out of his shoulder as he goes flying.
Rusty lands on the ground right by where another Soulless uses one of Doggo's knives to slam the punk style dog into the chest.
Doggo's soul ends up being hit and is turned to dust.
Undyne notices Sans trying to wrap his arms around her neck. She thrusts the spear in her hand striking him in the torso. She uses her body to toss him away as he lets her go.
Sans lands on the ground skidding a little. He tries to get up with the thought that he could get killed if he stays here. He shakily gets to his feet. He'll have to use the purple goo later to try to close the wounds. He just needs to survive right now. He turns as the Queen suddenly calls out.
"SOULLESS!"
The fighting is all paused as everyone turns to where the scream came from.
Asgore is standing over the Queen who looks over all those that remain of her Soulless members. He has managed to get free of her trying to drain his magic after striking her with some fireball attacks, which caused her to take even more damage that made her realize that she probably will lose to him. He raises his trident ready to take her life though waits to see if she will tell them to surrender. He could take them alive and truly punish them for all that they have done.
The Queen, with the thoughts that she is going to die of her injuries, continues with her voice raised. "RUN! GET OUT OF HERE! SCATTER! SURVIVE! I WILL MAKE SURE MY DEATH WON'T TAKE AWAY YOUR MAGIC!"
Some of the Soulless glance to each other before hurrying off in different directions trying to get out of the city.
One tries to drag herself away as her spine is broken though she doesn't get far. Her bottom half of her red fox body dragging uselessly on the ground. She ends up by Crystal who is bleeding to death before her throat is bitten by lesser dog killing her. So she dusts along with Crystal who follows soon after.
Sans gets to his feet and manages to start running as does Rusty, while the Queen sends the rest of her magic to the living members even though it fully drains her causing her to dust.
The Queen at least knows that with all of her magic left to those who are still alive will mean that they can continue on like they did before. She had to do it so that the remaining subjects of hers could live even though in the end it killed her.
Asgore steps away seeing that the Queen has sacrificed herself for her subjects survival. He is impressed that she would do this even though neither her nor her subjects can actually feel emotions with their missing souls.
"Brother! Wait!" Papyrus tries to call after Sans running over only to skid to a stop as Sans keeps going ignoring him. "Please! Sans!" He is about to try to chase his brother when a hand is placed on his shoulder. He turns to see Gaster who is watching the direction that Sans has now disappeared down. "We have to get him! He's hurt!"
"I am sorry Papyrus." Gaster lowers his head closing his eyes. "Sans has decided to continue being a Soulless." He opens his eyes only to look at the other skeleton. "While I do believe that what we did was right I know that it hurt you badly. Losing the last member of your family. Now I can really see the damage that was done. The negativity that was thrust upon you from what I had done. And for that I apologize. After all I tore your family apart when trying to deal with traitors. Yet seeing how much pain you feel about losing your brother makes me start to regret that he is a part of that group that I had to help banish."
Papyrus lowers his head looking down to the ground. "Thank you Gaster." He speaks a little softly though still loud enough to be heard. "I just wish Sans had decided to stay instead of leave."
Gaster moves his hand to around Papyrus's shoulders in a comforting move. He lets the other lean into him and turns as Grillby comes over as well with Frisk.
Frisk hugs Papyrus while Grillby hugs both Papyrus and Gaster.
Asgore leaves them be as he checks on how many were lost in the battle as well as checking the injuries.
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After running into some thick forest Sans slows down breathing heavily. He looks back yet doesn't see anyone. He also looks around himself though he can't catch sight of any other remaining Soulless members. He doesn't even know if they actually made it out or not. He sits on a rock and uses purple goo to try close some of his wounds. He makes sure that he won't die of blood loss then he starts walking in the direction of the Soulless home. He thinks that maybe the remaining survivors may have gone there to regroup. He also is trying to think of who is left in the group that he knows of. He makes it and heads into the home that feels a bit cold and empty. He looks around until he finds a few who are trying to patch up their injuries in the room for sleep. He heads over trying to help with the patching of the wounds.
"What are we supposed to do now?" Rusty questions finishing with his worst injury.
Some more join though it is clear that while they managed to kill royal guard members they also lost a good amount of monsters.
"Survive." Sans turns to Rusty. "Just like the Queen told us to do." He turns away to look at a crystal hanging from the ceiling. "We'll try to stay together and just survive as best as we can."
The others look at each other though they know that they can't go back to try to take revenge. They can see that they have lost too many members.
"The Queen's magic remains inside of us. As the magic that will always be a part of us. To keep us going even without her being here for us." One of the ones who were slower at escaping adds. "So we won't let her sacrifice go to waist." His words cause Sans to look to him. "We are still Soulless even without a leader. I suggest that we share this place as our home and just live our lives."
The others make sounds of agreement and even Sans nods to this.
"Yes. We'll stay away from the city and just try to find Soul monsters when we need to feed." Sans adds in which he can tell the others think that this is a good idea.
They all think that it is the only thing left for them to do now. They settle down to rest and try to let their wounds heal for now. They all have the understanding in their heads that they will have to lay low for now.
The next day…
Frisk is at the edge of the city with Gaster, Grillby and Papyrus standing to bid her farewell. She believes that maybe she should head back to where the humans are for now. She knows that they need some time to heal as well as get everything settled down.
"You sure that you don't want to come?" Frisk looks to Papyrus as she asks her question getting a soft smile.
"You're a great friend Frisk. But I am going to stay here." Papyrus informs her as she smiles back at him. "If one day Sans decides to come back I want to make sure that he will be able to find me easily."
Frisk nods in understanding. She gives him a hug that he returns. "I'll miss you friend."
"I'll miss you too." Papyrus responds then Frisk pulls away from the hug as he lets her. "Good luck out there."
"Thanks. I'll see you guys around some day." Frisk turns and heads off in the direction to return to the human area that she had come from.
The three watch her go before turning to head off together.
Gaster doesn't mind Papyrus being a part of his and Grillby's family. He really has started seeing the other skeleton as an honorary son. He can't wait to give the other another sibling, or more, when he has at least one with Grillby.
The end.
AN:
This was mostly written on my phone so hopefully I caught any autocorrects.
I may write more with this AU that I made. Whether it be with the whole Au itself or its characters. There is a chance that I will make more stories with them. I just don't know when yet.
To think that this all started with a drawing of an idea of what a Sans with the ability to change his form would look like. It ended up taking off from that drawing that I made for fun. The AU creating itself in my mind.
Funny thing is that I did have this partially written then I accidentally lost it. I had tried to copy something and I accidentally got rid of the rest. I only could recover a little thing about Undyne which was how she looked. I was thinking of rewriting it anyways but I lost a bunch of notes so I was starting it without those notes.
In the end though I think it turned out good.
I hope that you have enjoyed!
Kitkat.