Me: ...
Shamir: ...
Me: Let's just get this going.
Danger...STARTS.
NO MORAL STANCES (II)
[New Home]
The room was filled with heavy tension, as the five monsters were exchanging looks, each trying to capture one another's thoughts on the matter at paw - while Asriel was feeling out of the loop, a bit unable to understand why they were so nervous - and the two Dreemurrs felt inclined not to divulge anything until they could present the whole deal in an understandable matter for their son. The old turtle, Gerson, tried to lay out everything he knew about the humans, and he insisted that the prophecy was a reality. That the human has arrived to exterminate them all, freeing their souls from this torment.
"haven't you said a while back that this was the bleaker outlook folks took in?" Sans asked the tortoise as his bony arms were folded and eyes closed.
"I am very much afraid that the times we're in, have influenced me as well. Still, you should consider yourself fortunate you haven't seen the First War." Gerson said as recollection was sparkling in his healthy eye.
"He is right, Sans." Toriel added in as her paws clasped, while her eyes were still filled with motherly concern over Asriel.
"I cannot believe such a dark day has arrived upon us." Alphys said as she fiddled with her claws. "If anything, the Guard's efforts so far haven't done anything. Is...this human...stronger than we thought?"
Asriel began pacing back and forth in the room, while stopping at one of the windows, his reflection seemingly visible in them. The capital stretched as far as his little green eyes could see, and in the horizon, black clouds were starting to gather on the former azure sky - and his mind was filled with memories of his dead brother, Chara. 'I miss you, Chara. I wish you could've met Shamir...' the little prince was thinking as tears started to fall on his fluffy cheeks, a few quiet sobs escaping him. Toriel saw her son exhaling heavily and wiping a few tears with the right sleeve of his green, creamy-striped shirt and went slowly towards him, planting a soft paw over the latter's shoulder, the little prince jumping from the slight touch.
"I-I'm sorry, Mom." Asriel began to say between tears.
"Asriel..." Toriel softly relinquished his name while leveling to him, their eyes meeting. "I know, I'm missing Chara too. But, I'm glad to have at least you back - it's a miracle I do not want to waste." the motherly monster said as she hugged him, her warm breathing tickling Asriel's fur.
"Do...do you think Shamir will be strong?" Asriel asked as his sobs seemed to cease, his mother's warmth was the best comfort.
"I hope so, dear. I know he's not the best brother you could possibly have, but..." Toriel said as she looked at the little goat before her, "he will do everything to protect us."
[Hotland]
"I still can't believe Shamir moved ME in here! It's too hot for my fur..." Parvos mumbled as he went up and down his sentry station, while the two feline RG 01 and RG 02 were patrolling the area. "He is ALWAYS trying to earn all the glory, to be famous, and respected! But...but he fails to see something. He fails to see I will take his place, and not that brat!" the white leopard said as he clenched his paw. "I don't even know what he sees in her."
Monsters around Hotland thought this leopard was insane - if Shamir was prideful, having an insane leader of the Royal Guard was worse - at least the jaguar was sensible enough to listen up in understanding and take the necessary actions. Even Tsunderplane was agreeing to the fact Parvos was the worst member of the Royal Guard - and she was a little displeased that Sans made sure the Hotland puzzles were active - she couldn't just walk around freely, while Pyrope was glad to have her for some conversation.
"I heard that the big ol' monsters are holed up in the capital." Pyrope said. "They want a burning plan to go down against that human."
"I am not up for violence, but...my wings will be a good slicing machine for that one!" Tsunderplane said as she blushed slightly.
"Hey, want some Nice Cream? It's hot, you could use something cool," the Nice Cream Guy said as he handed two Nice Creams. "Ten gold each."
"Yeah, thanks, NC." Tsunderplane said. "Be careful around the sentry station, that leopard is pissed."
"Huh? Parvos was usually in Waterfall...I know cause I saw him there!" Nice Cream Guy sweatdropped. "Uh, I assume the jaguar took Waterfall in. He's a braggart, but a brave one nonetheless."
"Yeah. I'd rather know him as the Guard's Captain than the leopard." Pyrope added.
[Waterfall, Second Sentry Station]
The wind was howling strongly as the possessed human approached the area of Waterfall, scouting for any monsters he could kill, until his eyes landed on the fish monster with the large armor. 'Curious...this little puny monster thinks they can stand in a station and be brave, huh?' Napstablook thought as a sick grin was plastered on Frisk's face, and his eyes darkened completely, and just as he was about to attack Undyne, a better suited prey came in sight for the evil ghost.
Monster Kid.
'Oooh, what do we have here? A hostage, hehehe.' Napstablook mused as in two moves, he was able to take Monster Kid by surprise and place the Toy Knife to his neck, and Undyne's eyes widened at the scene that unfolded before her. He was betting on her natural instinct to protect those younger than her, the ones with less capacity to defend themselves - in other words, he was using Undyne's weakness against her, he was using her bond with the lizard scientist, because the teen monster couldn't stop but mentally replacing MK with Alphys. What would she do, if Alphys was in that situation?
Her thought was to sacrifice everything, as there's nothing more important than someone's life - no matter if it was Alphys or Monster Kid - she just couldn't let the kid be the human's hostage. She could see the sweat bedding on the armless lizard's skull, and his eyes widened, begging for help from someone, anyone - and then, deciding there were no other options, her eyes squinted and started shouting at the darkened figure before her. "STOP, IN THE NAME OF THE ROYAL GUARD!"
"HA HA HA HA! You think yourself brave, little one? Can you save this poor soul from my knife?..." Napstablook grinned through Frisk's face, as he let out a banshee-like howl, draining the colour out of Monster Kid, whose eyes were still widened with terror as the Toy Knife was standing close to his neck.
"Tch. You're just like any ordinary villain in Alphys' animes, all talk big and act big, while you're nothing but a COWARD!" Undyne roared as she stood there, with her spear at the ready.
"Me, a coward? You seem to forget I have a hostage. A hostage can instantly kill and their existence will be erased...what if instead of this kid here...was your dear sister Alphys?" Napstablook said as he was goading her.
"How DARE you..." Undyne mumbled as her face darkened for a moment, her eyes shining with determination, "SPEAK OF MY SISTER LIKE THIS!"
Undyne aimed her spear towards the human's head, while the ghost invoked a red shield that parried her attack instantly and grinned maniacally towards the fish monster, goading her even more. "Hmm...seems like someone didn't train you in tactics just yet. Did you think I was going to take it like this and die?" he said as his hand started to carve a wound in Monster Kid's skin, the latter yelling in pain. "Each time you'll do anything like this, I'll be cutting him deep. His yells start to be delicious to my ears."
The fish monster looked in terror as the human before her did these atrocities, a hint of hesitation filling her SOUL, making her wonder just how could she win this battle, how to get past that red shield surrounding the child. If she would do just aimed attacks, that horrible creature would carve in Monster Kid, but if she'd make the human have no chance but to continously evade her attacks, then MK would have a chance to run - and that's exactly what she aimed for. No innocent folks between her and this stupid kid that's gone around killing everyone without an even opponent...until now.
[Anti-Void]
"ooh, this looks interesting," Error Sans said as he looked at the temporal rift. "the genocide is close to completion. once undyne falls, and shamir...nothing will stop napstablook and frisk from gaining rule over this..and then i'll destroy them. that freakin' ghost thought i'll let him live? bah, not going to happen!" the glitched skeleton said as ERRORS were filling his eyes and a glitched Gaster Blaster formed above his head.
Somewhere behind him, Altershift!Gaster was looking at the rift too, and was silently hoping that one of the monsters will stand before the human.
'Please...one of...you...find a way to stop the human...'
[Back in Altershift, Waterfall]
Undyne began summoning spears, while Napstablook tried to block them with his shield - only to notice that this time, the spears were stronger - they were leaving small cracks in what looked like it was an impenetrable shield. But Shamir taught Undyne than a shield could be broken if the will of the adversary wasn't strong enough - so well proven by the fact he purposefully showed the weakness of the Circle of Wind during their practice spars. And right now, the human's will was not so strong, given the fact that their chance at turning the fight in their favor just ran away - but Napstablook wasn't going to let the fish monster before him alive.
She will end up as dead as the others before her.
A mingle of red-white light covered the Toy Knife, and the possessed human started to run towards Undyne, jumping in mid-air to charge at her, his eyes hollowed and a plastered grin on his face, but Undyne parried the charge with her spear, and the recoil pushed the two back. Napstablook then placed the human's hands at their center, and started gathering energy to form a ball, while Undyne stood in a defensive stance to deflect the attack, her eyes squinted as the ghost finally released the ball of energy that clashed with the spear, the grinding between the two almost audible, and the teen monster struggled to control her spear - her eyes widened as the ball of energy was stronger than her water spear, defeating Undyne's resistance and hitting her in the chest.
"Is this how you plan to kill me? Energy attacks? That's not going to work on me!" Undyne roared as she summoned sharper spears towards the human, who deflected the waves almost casually, until he did something completely unexpected.
He summoned a white sword, with red ripples of energy dancing around him.
"How about a little competition? Sword versus spear! Or...are you too much of a coward to face me?" the possessed Frisk said with a screechy voice, placing the white sword in front of him.
Undyne readied her spear, and twirled it fiercefully, while cracking her neck and moving her shoulders a little, squinting her eyes as she pointed the spear towards the human, saying in a menacing voice, "Let's get this started."
Magic sword and magic spear danced around as they parried one another, ripples of energy bursting in and out of their clash - energy that was felt by Shamir - and it was obvious that neither adversary was ready to give up, although exhaustion seemed to be written on both of their faces. Still, Napstablook knew just where to hit her to finish this stupid battle that went down for almost an hour already, as Error Sans showed her and Parvos' first spar and how the leopard was aiming at her unprotected torso. 'This time, Shamir won't be here to protect her from that blow...' the evil ghost thought as he was readying his sword, while Undyne was again twirling her spear.
Shamir, however, was frowning in regards to that energy surge he just felt - he was meditating when suddenly, his azure eyes turned red for no reason, 'Wonder what was that.' he mused as he started to walk away from the Royal Guards' Headquarters through a secret passage that led to the sentry station, one of his Dual Sabers unsheathed.
In the meantime, the human and Undyne were still fighting fiercely, sword clashing with spear, until the human kept goading Undyne so she would fight with more and more ferocity, unable to actually plan her blows - she was just swinging at the human with blinded fury, while Napstablook was just waiting for the right moment to pierce her with the white sword while dodging the furious blows and parrying with what was left off the red shield. Until...
The fighting was abruptly stopped by the human's impaling of Undyne with his sword.
'Wh-what...h-how did he...?' was all Undyne could think, as she collapsed to the ground, blood dripping from her large gash, while the human grinned maliciously.
"Well...I was right about that, it seems. You are not brave...and you haven't stopped me. Ciao, bella." Napstablook said as he dissipated the sword and advanced further.
In the meantime, Undyne could feel how she was slowly, but surely melting in the nether. She was afraid that she wasn't going to tell her Dad just how much she loved him, when she heard a door creaking somewhere and some falling snow. But Shamir didn't care about getting snow on him, he could sense someone near, someone who was badly, badly injured, and was happy he made it to the sentry station. He didn't expect, however, to see...
His precious daughter slaughtered to the point of sushi.
"UNDYNE!" he hurriedly jumped next to her, sheathing his sword and checking her. "Who did this to you?" he asked while he tried to apply pressure on the large gash, his paws filled with blood.
"The...the human..." Undyne said as she coughed some blood, "Dad..."
"Yes?" Shamir looked with widened eyes as she was slowly turning to dust.
"I-I love you...and...be less...less pride...ful..." Undyne said as she disappeared in the dust, wind carrying her away.
"THE HUMAN WILL PAY FOR THIS INSOLENCE..." Shamir roared as his eyes were filled with an intense red, lightning covering both his paws.
Me: Welp, I seem to like cliffhangers myself.
Shamir: *eyes red* ...
Me: I know. And the chapter looks like it will have a bonus part.
See y'all next time.
