Chapter Eleven: Killer Part Three: Search and Rescue
Chara flew over the city, her speed increasing quite heavily as she sensed out Frisk, looking for any trace. Her pure aura would make her easy to track, even if she was far away, especially since her Soul was so entwined with Chara's. Chara's love pushed her forward, driving her to find her wife at any cost, any struggle. Her body was reaching its limit, but she knew she probably had more in her. She had three and a half human Souls after all. Surely that had to be a fierce power to be reckoned with.
But, wait. Chara remembered the Souls had left. Without them, she had no way to use her ungodly power to its fullest without fear of corruption. She was down to her own half a human Soul. Though, a hybrid was just as strong as a human, if not stronger, plus she had the advantage of magic. Add to that her demon powers she'd obtained upon dying and literally making a deal with the devil to come back as a machine of vengeance, she was still a force no human or monster would be able to reckon with singlehandedly or with only one Soul.
Chara took a deep breath, knowing she might have to break the strongest promise she made to Frisk: the promise she wouldn't use her true demon powers… the powers she'd used only three times before. Sans was powerful, but Chara knew that if she'd used her trump card, she'd have utterly destroyed him. But… something had always held her back, even before Frisk came along. She knew what would happen if she let the monster inside out. She knew she'd never come back from it. Only an angel with as much light as she did darkness could hold her back.
Chara let the tears come to her eyes as she felt that her angel wasn't in her arms. Realizing there was one group that would try (or at the very least have the physical or magical capability to) to take her, her eyes narrowed. She clenched her fists in her anger, biting them back as she decided to fly straight for the place she knew the Order of the Three Hearts was last based with Fortuna: the caverns around Mount Ebbot; the place where she was reunited with Asriel. The one place that connected to the monsters' prison, the angelic realms, and the demonic realm. The one place all other forces had gathered to fight the monsters, the place where gods, demons, angels, devils, and humans had conspired to stop the monsters with a monster creation that ultimately damned them.
They weren't like the monster haters the humans typically sported. These were beings who knew exactly what the monsters could do with the powers of Souls, something none of them could ever do: ascend to GODHOOD. An organization that feared the unbridled power of the first GOD the monsters brought forth. Hell, even one human Soul made a monster more powerful than more than half of the armies of heaven, hell and humanity in terms of ingle combat. They could beat the armies of heaven, hell, and humanity senseless with three. Give them seven… well, Fortuna was lucky Chara had still been holding back. Chara knew what would have happened if she'd unleashed all of her demonic powers. Even with Frisk's angel blood, the demon in Chara was stronger, having come straight from the source: Lucia herself. The queen of the demons granted Chara the power to take vengeance upon the humans for Asriel's death, but required a condition: destroy all monsters. It had amplified Chara's own dark powers from her mother to make her quite formidable even against GODLIKE beings.
Chara had accepted, but had always held back her power for some reason. She knew it was because the monster in her didn't want genocide. It wanted peace. Frisk had helped her realize she didn't need vengeance.
Chara reflected on Frisk as well. She knew Fortuna had birthed her to destroy monsters, something Frisk was too pure to do. Engineered by the Order, Frisk and the other six had been sent. Some were good and some were bad, but Chara had killed at least four of the other children, their Souls going to Asgore, who collected them for use to destroy the barrier.
Chara had discovered upon heading to the fortress of the Order that Angela, queen of the angels, had commissioned Fortuna, her second in command, with creating hybrids that could and would kill monsters. Chara also knew that there were two other second in commands, commissioned by the human kingdom and the demon kingdom. They were Salem (A/N: no relation to Salem from RWBY, I just liked the name as it was fitting) and Crimson respectively.
Chara knew Salem was a witch, like the old wizards of the days of the Monster War, where the Order had first attacked the monster kingdom and Crimson was a powerful demon. She also knew she had to stop them if she was to fully destroy the organization… though, she would probably have to tear heaven, hell, and earth asunder to do so.
One thing the wizards had misunderstood was that Mount Ebbot, which was where all four realms were connected, was a place of great magic. Such strong magic resided there that a human with a powerful enough Soul could essentially destroy all monsters simply by absorbing some of their Soul fragments. Chara had gained the ability to revive after death and reverse time when she gained demon powers. She knew Lucia understood the magic sent to her was powerful and that Chara wouldn't use too much. Chara also knew Lucia was scared, scared of what she had created, giving a human-monster hybrid demon magic as well. It was confirmed undoubtedly when she fused with Frisk, who had angel blood.
Chara remembered something that mentioned all four species with seven Souls was unstoppable. She had disregarded it, but her battle as Charisk had shown some potential.
Chara arrived at the spot where the Order kept themselves. She thought back to the several times when she'd been to this place, once in spectral form via Lucia, twice to be experimented on, and once more to battle Fortuna.
Letting her black aura leak out of her, Chara walked ominously forward towards the building, her eyes bleeding black ooze that reeked of demonic magic. It was the blood that now flowed through Chara's veins, the blood she was cursed with. Her eyes becoming black and slit upon receiving the other three Souls she formerly possessed was only proof her demonic nature was overpowering her other natures in a sense. The nagging in her head to let herself go and unleash hell was getting stronger, the hybrid starting to feel it gnawing at her very Soul. She felt her desire to kill becoming more powerful.
The only thing besides Frisk that had prevented her demonic nature from fully taking over to destroy all monsters was the hatred she harbored for humans themselves. While she no longer harbored hatred for all humanity, the Order had enough humans to count in her opinion. She figured she could start with skewering Salem on a spike. Her left eye flickered into a bloody red flame as she let it start to burn, her power emerging further.
Any sane human or even demon wouldn't dare to get in the way of her at this point. She was far more than a force to be reckoned with; she was a monster unchained, a free reign of terror that was going to stop at absolutely nothing to bring back her wife and annihilate the bastards that kidnapped her.
The ancient looking fortress loomed in front of her. Chara knew they probably were aware of her presence. She didn't care. She knew that meant they'd know to run like the cowards they were. Chara's mouth began to leak blood as well.
Chara was aware that Gaster would never approve of this course of action, having tasted the Void magic himself, the very source of his true power. An unclaimed fifth element that was unknown in its source. Chara had tasted the power of the Void, having almost fallen into the Core herself once. She had locked away her most corruptive power using it. Lucia thought she'd given Chara most of her power, but she had no clue. Though Chara had no clue how to access the Void, she was sure there was a way… even if she had to throw herself into the Core to find it, she would if it meant saving Frisk.
Chara walked up to the large steel doors of the complex, the heavy metal literally bending and twisting away from her presence as she distorted it with her walking. Dozens of soldiers, almost all human, stood in front of her, prepared to fight her. Chara simply blinked as dark, unholy spikes impaled them all.
"Pathetic," The hybrid said. "I expected more of such a powerful group."
"You've got a big mouth coming from someone who can't manage to keep her own wife on a leash," The voice from nearby irritated Chara to no end. Her anger burned as she turned toward the other door in the place.
"You really think you can destroy us and save her?" The voice taunted. "We have the resources of three different realms at our disposal and you just have your power. You think you could defeat someone as powerful as Lucia or Angela or even Humana?"
"I will tear this organization apart from the inside out," Chara growled. "Send your warriors at me if you dare. I will kill every single one of them."
"Bold words coming from someone who was almost killed by Lucinda," The voice taunted.
"Bold words coming from someone who was almost killed by a ten year old," Chara's sword, Bloodlust, emerged from her aura, bursting into black flames made brighter by her hatred. "I am in no mood to argue. SHOW YOURSELF!"
"Why should I take your orders?" The voice asked. "You really think I'm going to listen to you?"
Chara unleashed more of her power, the building shaking with the force she was outputting with it.
A soft click of high heels nearby caught Chara's attention as the hybrid turned to see the source of them.
Her eyes narrowed as she saw the owner of the heels, a face and body she despised more than any other, even more than Fortuna.
She wore a red uniform like Chara wore, as was custom to demons in the Order. Unlike Chara, the heart on hers was a sickening black like Chara's own magic. Her hair was a bloody red, almost as if it was made of blood. Her eyes were black at the sclera and green in a slit like a cat's. Her skin was paler than Chara's, but Chara was originally human once. Her wings sprouted from her back, black and batlike similar to Chara's. They were sheathed like Chara's as her own demonic blade emerged from her hand.
"Scarlet," The word came out like spit as the black fluid that made up Chara's circulatory fluids landed on the ground.
"Seems like you've been a bit busy without us, eh Chara?" She smirked. "I'm sure you haven't thanked us for the power boost. But, it seems as if you only have your original Soul left. Too bad. Looks like the GOD you once were can't save you now."
"I'll take yours instead," Chara growled.
"Funny, I doubt it," Scarlet said. "Even if you could kill me, you and I both know Salem would rip your Soul straight out of you. For a human, she's pretty powerful."
"What makes you think I can't kill her?" Chara's anger was rising still, making her eye glow more brilliantly as she stared at the demoness in front of her.
"The fact that you won't kill me," Scarlet smirked. "But, I see you obtained the artificial GOD we attempted to make."
"So Fran was really from here," Chara growled. "You people really are a pain in my side. But, your convoluted plan ends here. This whole organization is going to burn."
"Prove it," Scarlet smirked. The two demons rushed at each other, swinging their blades in combat.
And, the next part of the Killer Arc continues. Who will win this clash? Chara or Scarlet?
Oh my god, it has been almost a year and a half since I updated this last. It's a mix of laziness and just not knowing what to do with it. But, once i started writing this chapter, I was getting really into it, so i guess we'll see where it goes. Yeah, I guess I may have gone overboard with the lorebuilding, but I had fun coming up with it, so it should be fine... plus, the Order wasn't really developed much besides being the evil from the original Underschool... they needed more development or at least a better understanding of them.