I procrastinated... AGAIN!
why do I do this to myself...
At least this book gets updated... one of my books on wattpad was once updated every day.
I've been working on chapter 22 for the past 4 months.
Heads up, this chapter switches perspectives a lot. It's supposed to sound this mysterious and confusing (hopefully.)
She saw him. He was here now.
She saw her, too. She felt the need to intervene.
He trotted on the dock, observing the scenery. To his right were drooping cattails in marshy, polluted water. Somehow their grayness was soothing and beautiful. To his right were tall purple rock pillars that reached to the top of this cavernous, dark around of the underground. Everything seemed tinted purple. Crystals from one side of the dock lit him from behind. He stopped walking to take a deep breath in. Despite it smelling like garbage and acid rain, it somehow made any of his unnerved nerves relaxed. He continued walking again, slower and calmer now. It wasn't like he was never calm, but it felt nice to be at peace officially.
Something slammed down hard in front of him. A blue spear lay inches away from his eyes. He had no time to stop and think about what happened. His heart started to race. Spears came launching at him at high speeds. He was forced to doge the oncoming projectiles with impossible accuracy. He looked to the source of the spears. There was a soldier covered in what looked like strong, iron armor. It was hard to see her face. The only 'personal' features he could see were a red ponytail flying behind her helmet, a yellow left eye, and a black eyepatch where her other yellow eye should be.
The dock didn't make it any easier to doge. It started to turn in odd, unnecessary ways. He slid to the straight left to doge one spear, and found himself being poked at by another. His soul was scared out of him, and he was forced to doge an onslaught of spears raining down. Ironclad footsteps followed his. His arms were covered in bruises from the spears. His left leg was a little bloody. He fell on his back in order to doge one spear and ran ahead in order to avoid any more.
When he did... ironclad footsteps didn't follow his.
Fearing his break would last long, he ran to the end of the dock and hid behind tall, blueish grass so he could catch his breath. He breathed in the scent of the lake and slowed his breathing. He laid his back on the ground beneath the grass and placed his hand on his heart. It was barely beating rapidly. Frisk felt himself yawn dramatically.
"Yo... you made it!" cheered a familiar voice in a whisper. He recognized it right away, it was the monster kid.
That didn't stop him from flying two feet in the air when he heard it. His eyes opened wide and his heart rate was in the thousands.
"How...!?" he whispered with a strained tone.
"Man, you should have seen her earlier. She came in this VERY PATCH OF GRASS looking for the human that was running away from her! SHE TOUCHED ME!" monster kid exclaimed in a whisper. "To think what would have happened if you were here a moment earlier..." She sounded dazed, as if she was still fangirling over the thing with Undyne.
"What would happen if Undyne lost a battle with a human?" Frisk wondered allowed to the monster kid.
"Man, I don't pay attention in school much, but it would be awful! I can't imagine there's ever been a human that has ever survived Undyne. If they did, then they'd have to fight the king! And he doesn't like to fight. If you make him fight, he will not show mercy. Mercy isn't an option." Her tone was hushed and serious.
He thought back to when he was running away from her. If no human could ever beat Undyne, then how did she lose an eye?
He voice his thoughts. "But... her eye..."
"That? I doubt a human caused that. She probably did it to herself, because the only ones strong enough to even hit her is her and the king, but the king is to big of a softie to tear out an eye," she explained. "C'mon! I thought she caught up to the human!" The tall grass shifted as the monster kid got up. She ran out of the patch of grass, after falling down and giving herself a new bruise.
The sound of the waterfall and the smell of the lake calmed him once more as he got to his feet and walked on forward. He needed to see Chara.
If Undyne is such a great warrior... why did she stop attacking mid way..?
*Earlier*
Chara followed the path to the Core, slicing her path to the surface. She had killed about 20 monsters before she realized the power only counted if Frisk killed the monsters. Frisk had killed a few, and now, there would be around 14 left, counting his little monster friend and the Royal Guard. She found herself on a dock made out of purple wood. The lighting made it even more purple. She walked among the stone pillars. The marshes of this area of the underground were always so pretty. She kept imagining the waters stained with crimson. She imagined the color swirling up the cattails and possessing them with the color. In a perfect world, the docks would have vines on it, wrapped around it in a nostalgic ancient beauty. The vines would have blood from every monster and human that stepped on the thorns... ever.
Beautiful.
She reeled back as a spear slammed down in front of her. The spear cut off some of the skin on her left hand. She lifted it up and examined it. Blood dripped down the wound and flowed down her hand. She used her other hand to catch the drops the fell from one hand into the other.
Blood.
It was an incredible feeling to be bleeding. She felt her arteries delivering extra blood to the one spot on her body. Her hand throbbed. She licked the wound to taste her own fresh blood. She left the irony taste on her tongue from a bit before letting the blood go down her throat and fill her stomach. Her nerves felt like they were coming alive. She grinned and laughed evilly as she felt spears rained down on her from above. Magical spears weren't as powerful as real spears, but they could be used more accurately. Magical spears caused bruises, and sometimes, they caused intense pain if they were infused with nerve magic. The spears Undyne had used that kind of artificial pain. Pain felt so good. Before this she was dead. She was battling monsters that couldn't hurt her. Her grin widened.
"You've killed before, right?" Chara said, giving Undyne a twisted look. Undyne didn't throw her next wave of spears. She almost looked disgusted.
"Of course you've killed. More than I have, probably," she said with a laugh. "I bet you've never been killed though."
Undyne said nothing. Chara laughed. She knew now how Sans felt talking to Frisk.
"I have. By my own kind. But I won't do that to you. I won't have the monsters betray you. I can kill you on my own!" she monologued. She laughed slyly for a few moments.
"...No human has ever beaten me," Undyne threatened, trying to sound tough.
Chara's giggling got louder at how shrewd and cliché the comment was.
"But you're not the human... are you?" Undyne calmly concluded.
"What gave it away, dearie? The insanity, or the pale skin?"
"A little bit of BOTH!" Undyne answered, throwing her spears rapidly at Chara again.
Chara dodged seamlessly. She got ready for her attack. She Picked up one of the magical spears left on the dock and ignored the extreme pain that came with touching it. She charged it with a bit of her own magic. She wanted this to do actual pain, not artificial pain. She visualized black and green energy flowing into the spear, and then she threw the projectile like a javelin.
At least... that was the plan. It landed in the water with a splat.
Undyne was now the one to laugh. She launched spears at Chara endlessly. Chara bolted. Sadly, her body was not strong enough. She doubted her spell even worked, if the spear somehow made it to Undyne. She was too weak to compare. She would have to either train her new body or posses Frisk to be able to fight Undyne herself. The most likely scenario was that Frisk would fight Undyne alone. She had to help, though. If Frisk died before he had a chance to load... it would be the end of both of them.
She ran into tall standing grass as she heard footsteps approach. Undyne was close... real close. She could sense a monster right next to her. Her monster sense must have been broken, though. Undyne couldn't be as weak as the monster she sense.
An armored hand shoved its way into the tall grass. It grabbed something. All that mattered was that it didn't grab her. She snuck out of the tall grass while Undyne was distracted and hid back at the docks. She hoped Undyne didn't see her hiding place.
If she so much and makes Frisk bleed... she had a plan.
He walked passed the mouse hole without a second thought. In the next room, there was another box. This one didn't have a sign. He wondered if he created that. Learning how to create them could be helpful. Maybe he could even find a way to make 2. He placed the Quiche in the box. Once he finished that, he saw an odd looking telescope. On the part you put your eye on was red, wet paint. Some prankster must have been trying to get people to use it. Who would ever fall for that?
On the other side of the box was some opening. It almost looked like a storefront. He entered. It lead down a path to some sort of selling center. It was as if someone was selling ice cream.
More like ice scream.
He face palmed for the awful pun, and continued on.
To his surprise, he couldn't go forward. Nothing was there. He had to go down a blue and black path, with luminescent grass lighting up the whole area. The wind whistled a calming lullaby. Echo flowers were everywhere, but no flower had a story to tell. He kept going down, figuring it was the quickest way through the maze of winding paths. When he couldn't go down, he would go forward. Eventually, after passing so many bridges, he found a way out of the maze. But not before running into two monsters. He found 6 monsters in this area all together. Then, he walked out of the maze. Ahead was nothing but a long path next to a shallow lake.
*A little bit less earlier*
Frisk's leg was cut open. Blood rolled onto the floor. Her master plan needed to be put into action. Spears rained down Frisk.
No one was allowed to do that. Not in the world where she ruled.
She threw the boulders down with her weak levitation magic from several spots on the beams before leaping down and leaping into the shadows. Hopefully, Undyne didn't see her as boulders stopped her in her tracks.
That's it.
Oh I have to fix a plot hole...
Once upon a time MK's mom was a merchant allowed into the ruins to sell stuff. There, she found this lovely faded ribbon and gave it to her tomboyish daughter in hopes to get her to act more girly. Out of respect for her mom, she wore it at a bow everyday.
Yay.
R&R ( right the rong. Wait... I spelled that wrong.)