Two Worlds, Two Souls

Chapter 52: Let it Go

Angel's Point of View (Three Forty-Seven AM):

Within minute of us leaving the hiding spot where Frisk and I had hidden did Undyne notice the blood trail from my arm. We could hear her roaring behind us and it wouldn't be long before she would come back after us again.

Down the rocky pathways and bridges we ran, hurrying along toward a set of plateaus before reaching the lab and the college. I could see the sentry station that Sans used every so often for work. I didn't dare stop at it, knowing that Undyne would hurry along and find us.

"There you are!"

With a thundering voice, Undyne leapt from wherever she was and hurried after us. She landed into a mountainous rock wall before pulling herself from it and following us into Hotland's burning entrance.

Lava could be seen from all around, its steam traveled up to the high ceilings. Geyser shot the molten liquid up into the air, making the arid location even hotter than before. It was harder to breathe as we kept moving. Not only were we tired, but we also were dehydrated. We were down one water bottle due to my wound, but that hardly mattered to how much sweat we produced in our escape.

Frisk and I just had made it ten feet past Sans' station before the heavy collapse of armor could be heard behind us. Skidding to a stop, I glanced backward to see that Undyne had finally fallen after chasing us though the entirety of Waterfall and the beginnings of Hotland. I could only assume at the time that Hotland had taken what little energy she left to chase. She was a form of a fish woman after all, being over heated in that location seemed to be what finally caused her to either give up or succumb to what her body desired, which was water and rest.

She fell to her knee first, only a single one. She struggled to try, to pull herself back up. She tired once, pushing on her leg in an effort to get her legs under her. When she couldn't, she settled down on her haunches. Her armor looked so heavy and suffocating in those moments… I couldn't help but feel pity for her.

"Damnit!" She pounded at the earth beneath our feet once before her body finally fell. She collapsed on her side. Her body panted, needing air while her eye dulled in color and she seemed to fade from us, I assumed blacking out.

"Oh my god…" Hesitantly, I approached. I kept Frisk behind me while I stepped closer.

When I made it to Undyne's side, I carefully touched her face with my left hand, the only one still intact. I could feel just how clammy the scale-covered skin was. The color was also slightly disturbed, but that may have the glow of the lava.

I felt Frisk gently touch my intact arm. "Sis… should we… leave?"

"We can't just leave her like this." I panted heavily, struggling with the heat no differently than Undyne. "Let me…"

And that's when I fell.

Landing on my knees, the pain, the heat, the exhaustion… it was all starting to build up. I had determination, but even that would waver if the right conditions were met. I was hitting my limit for what I could physically do. I couldn't even summon my chains any longer from the wound and drain of my magic, and healing wouldn't help my arm at all...

"Frisk… grab the other water bottle. Pour some water into her mouth and on her head and neck. That should help cool her off a bit."

My sister looked between me and Undyne worriedly, but obeyed. She quickly grabbed the item requested and was quick to turn Undyne onto her back. Once the older woman had been turned, the water infused with small bits of magic to keep it at a near frozen temperature was poured over Undyne.

Within seconds, the reaction happened.

From my sister's hands, her water bottle was snatched and drank greedily by Undyne. She had almost instantaneously woken up due to that cold drink. Undyne gulped the entire thing down before she turned to look at us, surprised to see it was the two humans that she chased.

Quickly did I pull back my sister from her, hiding her behind me, even as I couldn't stand much anymore. Frisk gently held onto my shoulder, eager to flee in fear of the woman. Undyne watched us carefully, looking between both of us before we saw her get to her feet. Her glare was piercing, but neither of us moved.

With a growl like huff, the woman took a step backward. Then another. It wasn't long before she had stepped back all the way to Sans' sentry post. Once she stood at its side, she glanced at us a moment longer before I watched her turn around and head back to Waterfall.

Undyne… had given up…

I couldn't believe it…

A sigh left me. I groveled a bit on the ground, shaking in pain from the wound I still had. Frisk hovered around me, not sure what to say or what to do.

I wasn't sure just how much more I could move… the wound…

I carefully looked over to my arm. It was bleeding more now, or at least what was still inside of it. The tourniquet held up as best as it could, but my arm… there was no saving it. The wound had widened, and the pain was unbearable as the moments ticked by. If I had any chance of surviving this night, I had to be rid of it.

I couldn't move much, though I tried to turn my head around in the area to see what I could use to cauterize the wound once I made the cut. My tired eyes met with a single red glowing crystal that was off in the distance, only ten feet away from us.

"Frisk… get that crystal for me. Set it next to my right arm…"

"Okay…" Frisk watched me carefully, not knowing exactly what I was planning in those moments. She used her magic to grab the crystal, avoiding touching it from the sheer intense heat that radiated from the crystal.

Once it was set next to me, I carefully tried to hold out my arm away from my body. With what energy I had left, I summoned a single chain and raised it over my shaking arm. I struggled to focus in on it with all the pain and stimulants in the area.

"Angel-what are you doing?!" Frisk screeched when she pieced together what I was planning. "No! Stop-"

The single chain twirled around about in the air, itself cutting through and making incredible force before I closed my eyes for a single moment and forced the chain to slash at my arm.

Within milliseconds, my arm was free of the acid, but at the cost of losing half of itself.

Before I could feel the pain of the cut, adrenaline kicked in and I hurled my stub of an arm down onto the crystal, the searing surface of the mineral nearly set my arm aflame if it wasn't for all the blood.

It was finally in those moments that I screamed.

The pain… oh God…

It was so unbearable; I only had enough willpower to last for a few moments of attempting to cauterize it before I yanked myself back. Even though the pain, I attempted to steady myself, but I only succeeded in falling onto the earth below me.

"ANGEL!"

The ringing in my ears wouldn't stop as I laid out on the ground, hot earth singeing my shoulder from where my skin was exposed. Everything hurt, everything felt like it was one fire...

And then I'd flash cold for only a moment before this area of the underground heated me up once more. Hotland certainly held up to its name as I lost blood out on the earth below.

I could hear my sister. She was shaking me desperately. Through a vision filled with haze did I see her pull out her cell phone and call for help. She must have been crying, I couldn't quite tell in those moments while she sobbed, trying all the numbers she knew of people she could ask.

I wish she didn't have to see me like this...

That was the last thing I remember was reaching out my stub of an arm at her before the haze turned thick. It was black as the bottom of a pit before I could recall nothing more...

Frisk's Point of View (Four Twenty-One AM):

Tears flowed endlessly down my face. I didn't even try to stop them as I looked upon the form of my sister. She lay there, motionless, as she was set against a set of rocks that I'd leaned her against only minutes before.

My sister… she'd save me… again and again… when I could do nothing to assist her. I had no idea how to help when we faced Undyne, and if it wasn't for Angel… I never would have escaped the fish woman I once called friend.

I knew it was Angel's fault that we were out there. I knew that. But even so… I couldn't find it in my heart to hate her for it. My sister had always done what she thought was right for the both of us, mostly me. This was… one of the first time I think I'd ever seen her do something even remotely selfish.

Sans really affected her that much, and seeing her pain… it only caused the tears to flow down my cheeks some more.

I felt numb. Healing magic had done nothing for my sister after I'd hidden us away off the path. She lay there, motionless, breathing with shaky breaths that made me fear she was struggling even more then she already was.

With unsteady hands, I attempted to call the very skeleton that was root of this entire problem we were in…

"Hey, its Sans. Leave a message."

It didn't honestly surprise me that he wasn't up. His phone… during the fight he had with my sister, I saw him hurl it into the kitchen backsplash. I heard something break. With our luck, it actually was his phone that was destroyed in their fight.

But I didn't have the strength to end the call…

"…What do I do, Sans?"

Struggling not to sob in the middle of the recording, I tried to cover my mouth, bit a whine left it anyway. I couldn't hold back my emotions…

I wasn't strong like Angel was…

"Angel… she won't get up… her arm is… I don't know what to do!" I felt my teeth sink into my lips, biting on them as a bad habit when I was upset or anxious. Or worse yet, a combination of the two.

"Why won't you answer? Do you hate us?"

And with those words said, I felt my heart pump faster with something I'd not felt in a long time. Fear… but not just any old fear, fear of being alone…

Only once or twice had I been separated from my sister, and I felt like this, helpless and without anyone. Angel was the only one there for me, so I was ecstatic when she'd return from wherever she'd been.

But this time was worse… I didn't know if she was coming back… This time… she might have truly died…

"Please… I don't want my sister to die."

Saying those words aloud truly cemented it. The fears. They quickly festered and grew out of control as soon as I finished talking and beeping was coming from my phone, telling me that Sans would hear no more of my words.

Oh my God… what do I do?!

Witch's Note:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

What the hell! What the hell! Oh my God, what the hell?

Okay, there is so much to cover! Undyne gave up! Holy crap she gave up on catching the girls! But onto more serious matters! Angel cut off her arm! What the fuck! Oh no! What are we all gonna do?!

And poor Frisk… she sounded so desperate at the end of the chapter…

Did I pull at any of your heart strings? Did any one cry?

(Mystic Girl shoots her hand up in the air with dramatic anime tears flowing from her eyes.) ME!

Don't forget to let me know!

And now onto our reviewers!:

Not A Shady Guy: Of course, Shady! Who would we be if we weren't doing that to our characters!? So glad you're loving the chapters and hopefully this one really knocks your socks off! And yes, we'll be working a lot with Sans and Frisk during the next few chapters so you'll get a lot of insight since… well… Angel's kinda…

(Mystic Girl jumps up to me and slams a hand over my mouth) Don't tell him! It's supposed to be a surprise!

(I raise an eye brow at her) Like I would give out anything. I'm just teasing them. Chill Mystic.

(She hissed at me, irritated from a long week of work.) Don't tell me to chill!

(I really had to give her a once over) Who died and crawled up your ass?

(She gives me a dead pan look.) Bitch.

(In the background of this all, all members of the R.A.W.C are moving the evil members that were being reformed back into the jail they were being kept at previously. They immediately begin the process of making appointments for the inmates to prepare them for what was going on in the up-and-coming months. The members nervously complied with the law that I put down, but still kept their guard up even as they followed orders.)

RoseCentury: I'm sorry you're suffering from that Rose, wishing you the best! And I'm so glad to hear they gave your fiancé such an amazing gift! Glad to hear that you're eating better. Try to keep it up! But don't push yourself either. Finding that balance is hard, so do your best, but don't be afraid to ask for help. Even here in our community! Okay?

Oh boy, we gotta get a move on people! Time is of the essence to make sure Angel survives! Help! Help! We got to save her!

Love you all! See you next week! Holy moley! Move thy hiny!

Halloween Witch