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ChaosPheory #11

The One Where Zin Talks About His Feelings

Darkness and loneliness, two great factors of fear. Take even the most rational, down to earth man. Then place him in the dark by himself, and it won't be long until his own imagination drives himself to terror. Betty learned this the hard way as she walked, hugging herself for dear life, in the dark and terribly alone. SHe had followed Zack's instructions and left him behind. Running as far away from the city as she could get as fast as she could get there, and she instantly regretted this decision. At this point she felt it would have been better for them, or at least for her, to have been captured and taken back to their torturers together then to face these trials alone. So alone. Although she had little to her name, she would've given anything to have Kumu by her side, or Zack or anyone who could tell her she was safe and no one was going to hurt her. A single tear rolled down her cheek as she fell onto the ground of the forest outside the city. She didn't have the strength to run anymore. She was frozen in fear, shaking like an animal, silently begging for someone, anyone, to come and take her away from here. She didn't care if they meant good or ill at least she wouldn't be alone, and just like that, someone came.

"Oh, you poor child. Look at what they've done to you" A voice came from the dark. Betty scrambled to her feet, and forced herself to stand in spite of her fear,

"W-who are you" she stuttered out, "show yourself!"

"You remember nothing? Not your powers? Not your mission? Not even your own father's voice his words gave her the slightest bit of hope, was he really there to help her?

"F-father?" she whimpered. Someone touched her on the shoulder, causing her to scream. She pulled away from the touch, and tried to run, but tripped and fell before she got very far. She felt strong arms wrap around her. She squealed, "LETMEGOLETMEGO"

"Relax" called the voice. It sounded like a command and felt like one too. As soon as her brain recognized it her muscles became less tense, and her breathing returned to a regular pattern, "there, was that so hard?" He put her on the ground, letting her look up at the man's straight brown hair and auburn eyes. The exact same hair and eyes as her, or at least on the right side, she couldn't see the left side.

"Who are you" she managed to ask. The man stared deeply into her eyes, as is she reminded him of someone else,

"That's a long story," he said, "come, I'll explain as we walk" he offered her his hand, and after considering it for some time, she accepted it.

"A long time ago this world was blessed with the greatest gift it had ever received in its existence, a woman by the name of Algate Lightvail, but the warlocks knew her as Poldirna. Even at a young age, she was everything, smart, beautiful, strong, talented, good with magic, a powerful SOUL, and above all else brave. I wanted her to know this, but who was I to tell her these things. My SOUL was weak. Compared to her I was pathetic, but I told myself that I could not let fear be my enemy. So I trekked to the vail and demanded to speak with her. To my surprise when she did"

He had lead Betty back to the outskirts of the city, to a large building that looked to be in ruins.

"She was a bit younger than I was, and I was very shy, so we were both uncomfortable talking to each other, but I did not hold back my feelings. I poured out all my heart and soul had to offer. I even remember asking her to marry me in my blubbering pubescent voice, fully expecting to be rejected, so you can imagine my face when she looked at me, then smiled, then even giggled. All of which was absolutely adorable. She told me I was kind to tell her these things, but that we were too young to marry. Even still we remained in contact, then we were friends, then good friends"

"Like me and Zack?" Betty interrupted,

"Like you and who?" he asked as a twig snapped behind them,

"nothing, keep going." Did she hear a rustle of leaves, was someone following them?

" we stayed great friends for the next few years. One time I jokingly brought up the topic of our marriage, and I believe she said something along the lines of, "we are getting older, maybe in a few years, once we're full of age, we could be wed" and I asked her, "would you like that" "nothing would make me happier, but in a few years, not now", but that day a harsh realisation came to me. If a wizard marries they have to be on the same level as their partner, so if Poldirna were to marry someone with a very weak SOUL, like myself, she would have to give up most of her powers. Could I do it? Could I condemn her to lose all the magic she had worked so hard to gain? My final answer was no, I could not. So in order to finally obtain this great woman, whom I have loved for so long now, I had to learn magic, and quickly. However, this proved to be more than difficult, as every wizard I came across who was willing to teach was an utter imbecile. Until one day I met an old man in a dark alleyway. He said that he was of the warlock dispensation, and gave me a vial of a black substance. He told me if I so much as touched it would give me magical power beyond my wildest dreams. I didn't need that, I only needed so much to be on the same level as my love."

He reached his free hand to his face, to the blackened side that Betty could not see clearly,

"However, he did not tell me that if I so much as touched it for an instant it would grab hold of my SOUL and never let me go. I did, and I've been its prisoner ever since"

Betty suddenly felt so sorry for this person. He wasn't a villain, at least not in her eyes. He was just someone who wanted love, and made some bad choices to get it,

"I returned to Algate to show her my new powers, but she was disgusted by what I had become. I told her all of this was for her, that it was for us to be together, but she didn't listen. To her, this was an act of treason, to her and the wizards of the vail. I didn't understand that at the time. I was angry. Now I know that what I felt at the time was this power, this HATE, guiding my actions, but then I thought she was giving up on me, and that made me angry. Did I offend her in some way, was I ever anything but completely kind and gentle with her, was everything I had not good enough! At that point, my rational thought had abandoned me, and I was under complete control of the HATE"

Now they were standing in a large room, with the ceiling open to the stars, but it didn't look like that hole in the roof happened naturally. DId something explode?

"What I did next was unforgivable. I used my magic to put her into a trance, and while she was dazed I… Kidnapped her to take her for myself. I carried her off to a place where no one could find us, or so I thought, but it seemed that Roy Goldburn, Bellance, had followed us. Our duel was short. As it turns out the power I had gained from HATE was far greater than that of most wizards, but Bellance was not like most wizards. Once I had finally gotten him into a corner he did something I had never seen before, something no wizard had seen before. He fused the slightest bit of Poldirna's SOUL to himself, and with that new strength put a flaming arrow in my eye. The left side of my face burned to a crisp and my left eye boiled in its socket. That fire still burns in me to this day, kept at bay by the HATE"

They had left the large room and entered a side room called 'storage'. 'Storage' Betty thought. 'Is he looking for something?',

"Under normal circumstances that would be the end of my story, me dying alone, burning to death, but the HATE wouldn't allow that. It kept me alive, coving my maimed face with shadow, but I didn't care anymore. My love was gone. My life was wasted. What was the point? I sat there alone for what I hoped would be the rest of my life, but then fate took an unexpected turn for me. After some time had passed, I didn't bother counting days or years at that point, Algate, Poldirna, had appeared at my door in the most pitiful state I had ever seen her. She begged to be brought inside, and I was in such shock that I could not refuse her. I asked her why she would come to me after all I had done, and she told her that she needed my help. She had s disagreement with her brother, Copper Lightvail, or Belcchupt, about the barrier made to restrain the monsters we had warred with. It had gotten to the point where they had to fight to settle this difference, and Poldirna lost. She was so humiliated by her defeat that she had lost her trait, and as such her magic. She banished herself, and till that day she had searched for a new trait. One that could beat DETERMINATION. "And that's why I need you," she told me, "your HATE, it just might be enough, please give it to me" but I couldn't do it. I had already hurt her once, I couldn't dare to do it again, I would never transfer my curse onto her, But there was something we could do. We could create a new trait, that could shatter his DETERMINATION forever, and after many long years we found it."

He dropped to one knee to look Betty in the eye

"FEAR, and with this FEAR we made you. Don't you see, she is your mother, and I am your father, and together…" He touched her face, "I'd say we raised a fine child" he encircled her in his arms, "I HATE myself for doing this to you"

Betty broke off the hug, "doing what to me?"

He sighed, "The warlocks have been watching you for some time now. They want your power, and under the command of HATE they ordered me to get your power for them."

"What are you gonna do to me?"

He started stroking her hair, "Hush now, it's okay, it'll only hurt for a few minutes, and then we can live a peaceful life"

"WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO TO ME!" she repeated

"I'm simply going to extract the FEAR out of you with a DTExtractor"

"WHAT!"

"Relax" and she was forced to be limp again, "now where did he put it, I don't think he would've destroyed it so it has to be… Ah, there it is" he carried her over to a machine oddly shaped like some kind of animals skull, "I hope it still works". He deployed a tentacle of HATE that attached to the machine's power supply, and once connected to his HATE the two sides of the machine skull opened up, revealing a small chamber big enough for a child. He put Betty down inside it,

" please no, please don't, please let me go" Betty whimpered

"I wish I could" he stroked her hair again, "I'm sorrier than you could Imagine" the two sides of the skull began to close, but then stopped midway, "something is interfering with my HATE" he looked around the room, scanning it slowly, "I know you're there, why not be polite and come out"

A figure stepped into the light, wearing a plain white shirt and pants, and two mismatched socks,

"ZACK" Betty cried

"So your Betty's friend," her father said, "strange, you feel close to me, and yet far away. Tell me, why are you here?"

Zack took a deep breath in, "are you the one who kill James McBean and Abigail Tyrenny?'" he asked,

"Oh, what's it matter at this point, yes I am"

Zack let out a sigh of relief, "that was easy," he pulled out a device he had palmed in his hand, a phone, He pressed a few buttons and said, "that message is on its way to Frisk, what they do with it is their choice"

Betty's father scoffed, "and what are you going to do with it, now that you know I'm a killer"

Zack went into a stance and formed Frisk's sword and shield, "I'm going to try and rescue my friend"

His opponent burst into laughter, "very well" he flicked his wrist, causing a surge of HATE energy to go into the power supply of the machine. The two sides of the skull shut, and Betty was left to guess how the fight would turn out.

AN: So it's been a hot three months, and now there's finally a new update (and a long one). So this one was more to shed some light on the Zin-Algate relationship. To be honest, I don't know how I'm gonna keep going from this point one, for one main reason. Glitchtale is an ongoing series and because of that its bond to change. The main one being the wizards and other children getting canon name, (if you read the first draft of the one where it's a tragedy you'd notice I called Abigale Alice) I tried to BS my way out of this using the warlock names, but I don't know if that's gonna fly. Ah, whatever, I finally got the next chapter out and I only tried to kill myself once. I'd count that as a win. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE review or PM me or do something that makes me think people care, and I'll... do a thing (I don't know.

User out.