Five Nights of Redemption
Hey guys so we've finally passed chapter 15 and the next part of the story is about to begin, we find out where Sans went and finally meet face to face with Asgore
Chapter 16: fighting the past
Everyone/everypony was ready for anything that Asgore may throw their way, they stood at the door to his castle feeling the tension in the air and the sense of one hell of an epic battle, Twilight, Moonlight, Sunset and Foxy were all staring at Toriel, with her whole body was on fire like she was one of Chip's movie heroes, the Human Torch if they were right, it made her look bad ass and fearsome, and they did fear her like this.
The end was closing in, all they had to do was go through the door, into the castle, fight Asgore and then find a different way to break the barrier perhaps if it were to come down to it have one of the anthros sacrifice themselves, but that can wait till there's no other option for now they just focused on prepping for the fight.
Alphys was scared, not only was she about to fight her most highly regarded employer but he was also the King and killing a King is considered treason which is a crime punishable by death, yet when she looked around Undyne and Papyrus were looking ready to fight, she could understand Undyne, she'd want Asgore to stop making her kill humans but Papyrus... she had no idea.
Alphys: "Papyrus?"
Papyrus: "yes DR."
Alphys: "why do you look so ready to fight Asgore?"
Papyrus: "well a few reasons really, 1. I want to be a member of the royal guard and Asgore it the only monster to grant that honour 2. I don't want to capture humans to do it so I'm going to fight him and when I win he will make me a royal guard"
Alphys: "how can you be so sure you'll win?"
Papyrus: "because I am THE GREAT PAPYRUS!"
Toriel: "well then, if you are ready my children"
Everyone/everypony: "ready!"
So Toriel led the crew through the door and out onto the bridge across the moat that was surrounding the castle and the judgment hall, from the bridge they could see the whole of the underworld, there was Snowdin, Waterfall, Hotland, The Ruins and one place they haven't been to called Temmie Village, a place full of Cat like creatures that call themselves Temmie.
Once they got to the other end of the bridge they entered the judgement hall, it looked like a church with golden bricks on the walls, brown and gold tales and no pews, the windows were stained with the Dreemurr crest and the sounds of the ponies horse shoes clopping against the floor echoed throughout the hall, the whole thing seemed like a place where the present and the past collide together to show what happened in the past so the present and the future knew how they got here, it makes life itself seem small and insignificant in comparison and that the past has more in it then now.
They walked farther down the hall and as they came to the middle of the hall they saw none other than Sans standing at the other end waiting for them to come this far to tell them that from the start of their adventure in MT. Ebott that they were being judged by a force that not even Sans knows of but at least knows they have been judged.
Papyrus: "Sans? What are you doing here?"
Sans: "I've been tasked with judging you on your performance while you have been here in MT. Ebott"
Twilight: "judged, what do you mean?"
Celestia: "judged, me, well I hope I have performed well"
Luna: "ha, judged, no one may judge me, I am a princess unbound to anyone/anypony"
Celestia: "Luna, remember this is not our world, we must abide by their rules"
Sans: "don't worry ladies, you have all done a good job of only hurting and not killing, you have taught lessons to the monsters of this world, but now comes the final test"
Papyrus: "Sans you Megalomaniac, what are you talking about?"
Sans: "well pretty much I want you to fight me until you can't take it anymore"
Toriel: "fine I'll fight, but I don't promise anything at this point"
Sans: "what's up with Toriel?"
Freddy: "we found out who Flowey is"
Sans: "Asriel Dreemurr?"
Freddy: "yep"
Sans: "damn, I was hoping it was that Monster Kid"
Monster Kid: "he I'm right here you know"
Sans: "oh..."
So Sans engaged in a fight and the area went greyscale, to start with Sans just stood there with his eye sockets closed and a smile on his face, he was listening to the birds and smelling the flowers, it was a beautiful day outside, the perfect weather... for beating the crap out of your friends.
Sans started by using a flurry of sharp bones and giant dinosaur heads he called Gaster blasters, they came in all different angles and everyone/everypony had a hard time dodging them but they were fine and this was only the start, Sans then turned the crew blue and they were all affected by gravity, just like then they fought Papyrus, Sans throw bones of different sizes from two directions at them and they had to jump over then to avoid them.
It wasn't so bad at first but then he would send a wave of bones at them and they'd have to jump high above it to get over it, Sans was impressed at the crew for taking this so far but now comes the real fun, Sans had a tricky ability were he could set up a move that was ultimately unavoidable but then he would stop time and change to another unavoidable move while in the middle of the fight, it coursed lots of confusion for the crew and in the end it did catch a couple of them.
Next Sans completely covered the battle field in bones leaving only a few platforms on the field for them to jump on then he would change gravity, those who weren't fast enough got caught by the bones on the top and others got disoriented, Toriel got fed up with this and it didn't help that she was already mad as hell at Asgore so she tried to strike at Sans, with her body coved in fire because of her rage she was fast but still not fast enough to hit Sans with his incredible dodging skills.
Papyrus: "wowie, bro I didn't know you could move like that"
Sans: "well I may be lazy, but I'm no slouch, I can move fast and strike hard"
Toriel: "ugh, hold still you bag of bones"
Sans: "now, now Tori, I may have strong attacks but if you hit me I'll crumble and turn to dust, if that happens then you'll fail the final test and the ending will be corrupted, I don't think you want that"
Sans was right, Toriel didn't want to hurt Sans and have him turn to dust, it would go against her policy of no killing and would ruin her chances of seeing Asriel again, she was getting angry though as she has all this pain and anguish that fuelled the hate for Asgore inside, Sans saw this and tried to pick things up as this test must be completed before they can move on.
He went for his final attack which started with changing gravity to various sides then coursing bones to appear on the same side, then using Gaster blasters in an up motion that the crew had to jump over, they only went up to a certain point so they could escape from it, then came a series of moves that expanded the battle field out so Sans could send then on a journey to hell as he called it, it would have bones reaching down lower and then went on to a winding road of bones that had barely enough space to get through, then went it finally got to the end the battle field closed up and Sans quickly grabbed them all in his telekinesis and threw them all over the place.
He didn't stop not even when he was slowing down he kept going on and on, no matter how tired he was he wouldn't stop so to put an end to this Bonnie waited for a chance to grab him and he threw him into the air with his own telekinesis and not the ground as to keep him alive and as he was about to hit the floor Bonnie grabbed him again and slowly lowered him down.
Freddy: "you finished? What was that all about?"
Sans: "that was your final test and you past, no matter what pain you went through, no matter the situation you have proved that not all humans are evil and want to kill monsters, you have indeed become a part of our world and part of the monster race, that includes you ponies too"
Starlight: "well I can say that making friends this way is far better than forcing a village to be friends with you, it's far more satisfying and rewarding"
Moonlight: "this fight felt good, fighting you I felt my sins wash away, I believe I can forgive myself because I know that friends like you Sans have the strength to help me when I doubt myself"
Twilight: "that's great Moonlight, no matter what happens keep that thought in your head then you'll be the best Alicorn King ever, because you're the only one so far"
That's when Moonlight made his rainbow connection and the full power of his forgiveness element and Alicorn magic was unleashed and he can now use rainbow power along with everypony, now that Sans was defeated he rejoined the crew and they were off to fight Asgore and break the barrier, it was what the adventure was all about the Dreemurr family has been the centre of the whole thing and to have come this far sends tingles up everyone's/everypony's spines.
At the other end of the judgement hall was the door to the court yard of Asgore's castle, the crew went through and saw a road that led inside the castle and one that led elsewhere, Toriel led the crew to this other place and it turned out to be a sort of memorial to the children he had killed, each coffin had a coloured soul on it, Asgore needed 7 souls one of each colour and there lay 7 coffins one of each colour.
The coffin that was at the fore front had a red soul depicted on it and the name that was carved into the stone lid read: Frisk, this didn't make things better for Toriel as he was the last one to fall down the hole, he tried so hard to put things right and he had made so many friends from what she had heard, he got so far but once he faced Asgore it all came to an end.
Toriel used this to give her more power and she marched straight to the castle with everyone/everypony else behind her, this was it the fabled reunion between Toriel and Asgore, it was said in some sacred passage somewhere that when they meet up again they would either get back together or try to destroy one another, it's just that passage was as old as the week that they split up and everyone had forgot about it or didn't really care.
Now though as they are about the see each other again Toriel had a moment of weakness remembering a time where she was pregnant with Asriel and she had become all playful and tried to think of ways for Asgore to say mum by using claver word plays or just to outright say it so she could feel proud of the title, now though it was a obstacle in the way of the truth, she pushed it away and went into the castle's throne room.
Inside were flowers, two thrones, one was covered up in tarpaulin as it was the throne that would replace Asgore's once Asriel had become King, the Dreemurr family's tradition was for every new King a new throne was also to be placed, and there right in the middle of the room was the King himself... King Asgore Dreemurr.
Toriel: "there you are"
Asgore: "oh, sorry I was busy with these flowers, what you like some... tea?"
Asgore saw something he thought he would never see ever again... his ex wife.
Toriel: "oh yes, some tea would be nice right about now, along with your cold, dead heart"
Asgore: "Tori?"
Toriel: "don't you Tori me Dreemurr, what... the HELL did you do to our son"
Alphys: "I showed them the video sir and it explained that Asriel is Flowey"
Toriel: "Alphys please, I want to hear it from his mouth"
Asgore was too nervous to say anything and he went through a door that seemed to be making a strange noise like behind the door there was some kind of fluctuating power source, Toriel was most certainly not having that and chased after him to see what he was tring to hide, it was time for some answers to questions that have been popping up throughout the adventure and now Asgore has nowhere to run.
Asgore: "this is the barrier, it keeps us monsters trapped down here, I've heard many things about you anthros, that you are humans trapped in your own underground and can't escape"
Mike: "well yes at first but now we've found peace and have chosen to come back like this"
Asgore: "well that's amazing, if only I could do that for my son"
Toriel: "you've done enough, why Gory, why did you turn our son into a monster?"
Asgore: "what do you mean?"
Toriel: "that flower is soulless and feels, if anything, only the smallest amount of love and compassion, but it's not enough so he kills to try and feel more but he never does"
Asgore: "what but how, why?"
Alphys: "I told you didn't I, if it works the flower would have no soul and feel only a small amount or nothing at all potentially creating a being of infinite hate"
Asgore: "oh what have I done, I only wanted to have my son back and I went through every possibility to get him back, but how do you know about this Toriel?"
Toriel: "sometime after I moved back into the ruins I started to see him where the flowers grow staring at the sun, almost as if it was Asriel like he used to do, wishing he could see the beauty of the outside world, but you had to ruin his purity, why?"
Asgore: "I'm so sorry, whatever I say now will only make things harder for you, as you know I want all humans and monsters to work together for peace but the only way for that is to break the barrier, you anthros have strong human souls, if I kill you and take them I can break the barrier and let all monsters go free"
Toriel: "you are a fool and you are flawed"
Asgore: "I can say the same for you, you let the children go without a fight and they all came to me, am I really the only one at fault?"
Asgore was right, Toriel had made mistakes but Asgore was the one killing all the kids in the first place, he looked at Toriel's burning body but her eyes had started to waver and then he looked at the barrier and it's powerful magic, a song popped up in his head about the chances of Toriel coming back to him and he started to sing it.
(now play Yours Again by RED)
Asgore: "I can almost feel you breathing,
Like a whisper in my ear,
I remember how you lost me, or how I lost you,
I stare into the blackness, it's staring back at me,
Why did I try to live without you, I want you, I need you,
Open up my eyes, I need your light again,
Burning me inside, I need your love again,
I can feel our hearts collide, I can feel our hearts ignite,
Open up my eyes, I'm yours again,
Will I wake up from this moment,
Will I see you slip away,
Or is this a new beginning of beauty and rage,
Where did I lose my passion, when did I start to fade,
Without you my world is darkness, I won't let go again,
Open up my eyes, I need your light again,
Burning me inside, I need your love again,
I can feel our hearts collide, I can feel our hearts ignite,
Open up my eyes, I'm yours again,
I'm yours again"
After the song Toriel did feel sorry for Asgore, given the chance and a different perspective on life she may have done the same thing as him but never try and kill humans just to at first go to war with them but then just to escape the underground, Toriel was content in her little house in a secluded part of the underworld, but now all that means nothing they have all come this far so there is no going back now, this is it a moment of facing the end as it closes in, it's almost like a German fairy tale or something and now the fight to end everything and hopefully stop the madness shall begin.
As the area went greyscale Asgore brought out his trident and destroyed the mercy option so that no one/no pony could save him, he thought he wasn't worth the hassle and just wanted to die with dignity, Toriel still hated him somewhat, just enough to think "fine, let's do this".
So the fight got under way and started with a simple wave of fire that swished and swayed from side to side, not a problem for them at first but then he did it again while launching fire out in jet streams at the sides of the battle field, that caught some of the crew and they tried to pat themselves down to put out the fire, next came a wave of fire the was above Asgore and it went across him spreading out as it went along, Toriel absorbed the fire to boost her powers and used her fire tornado to attack Asgore, it hurt him bad but he felt he was deserving of the pain and kept going.
His next move was different, he went black and his eyes shone different colours, one shone orange and the other blue, it meant he would swipe his trident twice first orange the second blue, so at first the crew kept moving to phase through the first swipe and stopped on the second and they came out unscathed.
Asgore was impressed but if he wanted to win and break that barrier he would have to try harder than before, the children may have had strong hearts while they were alive but the anthros hearts are far stronger and he could see that, he would have to use his most powerful form, using the power within Asgore started to burn up just like Toriel and the first move he did to show he was more powerful was a ring of fire with a small gap in one side so they could get out.
The rings of fire kept coming, the gaps getting smaller, moving and turning faster, some even changed direction while moving in towards them, Toriel was getting really pissed at Asgore and let him know he wasn't going to win this fight by combining her burning body with her Dreemurr armour making her the flaming guardian of the underworld, in this form she is completely immune to physical attacks and most projectile attacks, this told Asgore that she means business.
Asgore did his small fire attack again, he let the fire move in and out of each other for a bit then added more fire making it hard to dodge then to add more to the mix he let the jet streams out lasting for around 40 seconds, it almost tired him out but he had one more trick to do, he used two fire waves at once and they moved above his head at a good speed where the fire was so close everyone/everypony had to move through them single file.
After that Toriel took the last shot with a combo of her forms, the flaming shield, she used it to bash Asgore in the face and his fire died out, with his body back to normal his energy had been spent, he had fought bravely against his ex wife but ultimately failed, Toriel turned back to normal too felling sorry for needed to hurt her once true love but it had to be done.
Sans: "well, that was something"
Toriel: "I'm sorry Asgore, but you have become a true monster just like Asriel and you had to be stopped"
Asgore: "I'm sorry too, you are right, I did become a monster so I only have one course of action, take my soul and use the anthros to escape this hell and have a good life"
Mangle: "wait are you joking, you've just become another friend in this conglomeration"
Asgore: "you mean to say you want me to join you and this small army of friends?"
Sunset: "well why not, every other person we've met and/or defeated have so why not you?"
Fluttershy: "don't worry about your past mistakes, we've all made them"
Asgore: "well thank you but I must ask, Toriel, can you ever forgive me for what I've done?"
Toriel: "all things considered, I really should leave you here to mope in your sorrow, but then... what kind of good hearted Goat mum would I be, yes Asgore I forgive you"
Asgore: "you do! Oh thank you Toriel you've made this old Dreemurr so very happy, I promise that you and your friends will be my very special guests when they come to the castle and we make butter scotch and cinnamon pies together"
Flowey: "well that sounds great but now you die"
Asgore: "wha... ugh"
Toriel: "NO ASGORE!"
Flowey had popped up out of nowhere and killed Asgore while he was down, while everyone/everypony was shocked Flowey managed to attack all the ponies and take their souls and with them he gained a power so immense he transformed into something awful but only a silhouette could be seen, the crew tried to confront it but an inter dimensional vortex appeared and sucked the anthros and monsters into it sending them somewhere they may or may not know.
That was chapter 16 of Five Nights of Redemption, the end is nearing but I do hope you'll like what's still in store and that you'll come back for more and of course till next time.
Venomous Book out
