Welcome to the second story's prologue.

The writing style may be a little different than the previous one, I'm still a new writer and trying to figure out what format is comfortable for me while providing as much content as possible. Think of this prologue as a test for me. Lmao


Summary of the previous story

A group of teenagers is friends with a strange, pitch-black being known as Hate. The group itself is a strange bunch with some secrets behind each member, but nevertheless, they all act like they're anime-obsessed. Hate makes some new friends to add to the party (Betty, Kumu, and Agni) and everything continues to resume as normal, up until Null and Tulah are abducted by a corrupted loox. Hate and most of its friends fight the strange creature and come out on top.

Their survival, bizarre story, and Betty's unique soul lead to public attention and earns each member an interview with Mettaton himself at Determino's arena. The group replaces Mila with Kumu in disguise to bring her along and they'd all eventually arrive at the arena for the interviews. Unfortunately, things don't go right. Withern leaves from the revelation of his weak soul, Tulah's soul is cracked and dying, and towards the end, four corrupted humans invade the area with the audience and some major Undertale/Glitchtale characters caught in the crossfire. As a result, Hate is suffering in a pocket dimension to be killed off; only having a soul and sword to defend itself, Withern and his new skeleton acquittance get ambushed and trapped in time, and Betty is being attacked by all four humans at once. It's unknown what's happening with the rest of the group.


Prologue

Well, this was certainly an odd predicament everyone had gotten themselves into. It has observed the strange group for quite some time, ever since that strange human and their soul - which it could only describe as malformed - came into existence. Her entire nature was strange actually.

That soul of hers wasn't normal. It had already known that from the conversations it had eavesdropped on, the battle included, having found snooping around far too easy. What kind of human has a pink and red soul, both different traits that should be impossible to combine under any circumstance whatsoever? Yet it happened to them. A demon and a angel, combined into one wretchedly pleasing form. One wanted to save, the other wanted to destroy. How was it they coexisted within each other without the soul tearing itself into shards?

It felt like it already knew the reason, but the truth wasn't ever certain. Determination was one hell of a drug and one hell of a control chip. Why else would those four hateful humans want that mixed human's soul? She was their token to success of...whatever they had in store. It never paid attention to them, believing the group to be nothing more than children moving onwards with a naive outlook. The other group, undoubtedly anime-obsessed nerds who have seen far too many episodes of Mew Mew Kissy Cutie, was no better, but it liked the conflict that arose from them. They were all broken pieces of glass held together by school Elmer's glue.

Where was this going? Oh. Right. Betty. She was a strange girl- it already thought that...

The strange girl (much better) was currently fighting those humans all while her friends were being handled by some strange being with swirly, magenta eyes and an everlasting smile with his daggered teeth. He was dependable, but he did have some major flaws that didn't do him justice. Why would they depend on him? Yea, sure, he's dependable, but you're better off asking a rock to kill someone. At least a rock doesn't toy around for several hours like a bumbling idiot. He was far more suited for something less taxing than murder, but that was just the creature's thoughts.

It thought the fights were rather one sided, the creature had seen what everyone was capable of and came down to a funny conclusion on how the events would go down. None of those humans knew what was in store for them.

Playfully, as the being peered down at the scene, it'd bat around with one of the dangling wires from the sky with its ebony paws. The wire didn't seem to mind its presence, which was cute in a way. Everyone had a cute aspect to them, it swore.

And there was none cuter than the being's younger sibling. For some reason they weren't lingering around in the arena. Strange. They haven't been seen since the hotel. Weren't they supposed to have an interview? What happened to that? It would've been nice to tease them again, they were always the runt of the family. Well...They WERE the runt of the family. Up until they killed their younger, yet stronger, brother - by all accounts that shouldn't have been possible.

How did a magicless creature like them kill?

Well, it had no right to say anything. There was not a single bit of magic in its system, nor a soul. The only thing it had going for them was regeneration. The pros outweighed the cons though. Without magic and a soul, it was hard to detect the beast. How else would it stalk people? Was stalking creepy? Probably, but it had a thirst for knowledge.

Knowledge was power. People seemed to forget that a lot, even his siblings did. How were the others doing anyways? For years it had not seen them. Maybe these humans would one day lead it to its brethren.

The idea sounded ridiculous, but this world was ridiculous already. Especially these humans. They, too, were ridiculous. It couldn't help but hope for an entertaining future with them all.

Why was it so hard to be on track?

The creature had already forgotten where it was going with its thoughts. Maybe it was having too much fun observing, the activity gave it far too much to talk about. Observing had to be its second favorite hobby, only outranked by pulling nasty pranks. Its least favorite hobby, though, was helping others. Everyone could die for all it cared, as long as it got entertainment from it.

Funnily enough, it didn't like participating in combat, unlike Betty who was having a super good bad time at the moment. Those wires and beasts looked a little overwhelming. For years it hadn't seen a gladiator fight.

Today was a nice change of pace.

"Heh...Entertain me." It mewed.