The mechanism was a large gun-like thing that would take two hands to use. There was a black handle on the bottom that connected to a red back-section of the gun, and a trigger part that connected to a familiar glass-section attached in front of the back-section. The glass was in the shape of a rectangular box with gold straps on the ends of it. Connected to the front of the glass box was a barrel of red and black stripes, and there was a smaller silver barrel connected to the front of that one.
"Welly Welly Well, look what I found here: an embodiment and a mortal, in love. How sweet! Hee hee hee Ha Ha Ha HA!" She said, as she held the gun mechanism in both hands.
"... What is the meaning of this?" Sans asked with a more threatening expression.
"... What is going on, Ciara?" Curtain asked, surprised to see the same woman who worked in the game store holding a more sinister gaze in her eyes.
"Aww, your upset. How adorable! Well sweetie pies, let me explain: with my extensive knowledge of Embodiments and Elements, I suspected that Sans was the Embodiment of Death when I first saw him! So I relayed some of that information to you, Curtain, so that you would trust me enough to tell me what was going on. Isn't manipulation wonderful? Of course, I have great experience in that field. Hahahahaha!" Ciara said, as she laughed and used one hand to partially cover her mouth.
Sans and Curtain looked towards one another, as Curtain looked at him with a sorry expression, which Sans slightly shook his head to say that it wasn't her fault.
Ciara continued, "But when I found out that you two made a deal and that the Strings of Completion were a part of it, that almost ruined everything! The Strings of Completion can override basically anything! I knew I couldn't capture Sans at all when I tried to lure him away! So I had to wait for this deal to end."
Sans and Curtain were alarmed by this, as they realized that the dark presence had to be Ciara's doing.
"So the dark presence... was you trying to get Sans?" Curtain asked, surprising Sans since she asked the same question that he thought to say.
"Why yes, of course! What other reason would he have come if the Embodiment of Life wasn't sooo concerned about mortal safety," Ciara said, as she laid her hand dramatically on her head.
During this time, the others were too shocked by the soul exchange and Ciara coming out like a villain to move much. Frisk was frantically telling Toriel about the soul exchange, and that Ciara was after Sans and caused the dark presence but it didn't make sense because she was mortal.
"She couldn't be working alone then... then... GUYS YOU HAVE TO GO!" Frisk said, calling out to the group as they turned to her.
"What do you mean?" Rini asked.
"What's going on Frisk?" Corvin asked.
"That woman, Ciara, I don't think she's working alone! For all of your safeties, you have to leave!" Frisk said.
"But what about Curtain? and Sans?" Karol asked.
"I'll see what I can do. I'm not alone either," Frisk said.
"But you're just a kid," Joseph said, while Frisk moved closer towards Sans and Curtain.
"I'm not just a kid," Frisk said more seriously as she turned towards them, and they could feel how serious she was.
"Now go! Curtain and Sans will be fine. They can't die... at least Curtain can't anymore," Frisk said, and the others wanted to question, but Marisol said,
"Let's go guys. They'll be fine."
"You too, Marisol? What's going on?" Jonathan asked, but she waved it off and said,
"I'm not totally sure what's going on, but I think it's best if we get out of the way for that reason. Let's go while we can!"
"Come on guys! You heard them. We'll get a better explanation later. Let's go go go!" Caroline said as she took charge and started herding the group away.
Frisk looked after them for a while, and then she turned her attention back towards the others. However, she caught a glimpse of something red behind the tree that was not too far from herself. She slowly approached the tree while hanging up her phone, and looked behind it to see nothing. As she placed her phone in her pocket, she heard a small giggle and noticed someone in a black cloak spring out of the tree branches and towards the harbor. Frisk sensed that this person had a dark, yet familiar aura around them, and she pursued them to find out more.
"Any who, considering how powerful you are Sans, I really preferred that you and Curtain trade parts of your souls, but I considered that Curtain may break down too soon. That's when I decided to flip everyone's watches and phones back ten minutes. Of course I couldn't reach your phone, Sans, but as I've seen, you don't look at it much," Ciara said, with a widened grin.
Curtain looked at her watch as Sans brought out his phone. The time on Curtain's watch actually was backed up by ten minutes. Even when she brought out her phone, it was still ten minutes behind.
"How? How did you... do that?" Curtain asked, her eyebrows furrowed.
"I have all of your phone numbers, besides Sans, so it was EASY to make the connection. Hahahahaha!" Ciara replied, as she held her gun upward with both hands.
"Now. Sans. I figured swapping your soul with Curtain would have made you weak enough so that I could acquire your soul in this gun and use it to enforce your power on others..." Ciara said, pointing the gun towards him.
Sans reverted himself to his reaper form, but he was still weakened from the soul exchange.
"Buuuut, your soul is still too strong for this weapon to absorb..." Ciara said, as she turned her narrowed eyes and wicked grin towards Curtain.
"That's why I'm taking HER soul instead!" Ciara yelled as she pressed a button on the bottom of the handle and a net shot forth from the gun on Curtain.
"HEY! What do you mean?! GET THIS OFF! Help!" Curtain yelled out from the net, as it dragged her towards the weapon.
"Curtain!" Sans yelled, as he summoned his scythe and was going to cut the net.
"Sorry sweetheart, but your not getting in the way NOW!" Ciara said, as she kicked Sans away from the net before he could cut it.
He fell back, but he quickly stood up, although he sunk to his knees since he was still recovering. His eyes widened as he saw Curtain glowing in various colors and then her body disappeared into light.
"SANS!" Curtain called out, as the net returned into the gun with the light.
"CURTAIN!" Sans shouted again, but he was momentarily blinded by the light and covered his eyes.
The group turned around when they heard shouting, and they too blocked their eyes from the light. When they were able to see again, they were surprised.
Sans removed his arm from his eye-sockets and was shocked to see Curtain's soul, which still had his piece, in the glass chamber of the gun with the light swirling around it.
"You see Sans, she is half monster and half human, so her body and soul are connected in such a way that taking her soul would make her body fade out into a different form until she's in a suitable environment to recover it. To put it simply: she's fine, especially with part of your soul that can't die," Ciara said, as she turned the gun and aimed it randomly at buildings.
"Of course, I still have to test the part of your soul that she has...!" Ciara said, as she aimed towards the harbor and pulled the trigger.
Sans tried to jump at her, but there was a pulse that suddenly came forth after the gun was fired that pushed him back. The glass chamber glowed, which hid Curtain's soul momentarily, and from the barrel shot forth a blast of dark purple energy that sparked blue and red. In a fit of maniacal laughter, Ciara spun around with the weapon still firing, and when she did a three-sixty she released the trigger to stop the gun fire.
Sans was kneeling still, but he felt like something was hurting him inside, as he heard an outcry a few yards away.
"You hear that Sans..." Ciara said as she put one hand to her ear with a sickening grin, "That's the cry of mortals in shock and grief to see that their loved ones were instantly killed on contact with a strange beam. Isn't it exhilarating?"
Sans was shocked, not just by the cries and ability of the weapon, but also by the sadistic expression on Ciara's face. He then heard cries not too far away, as he turned and felt like his soul was jabbed at with a knife.
Joseph had tears streaming down his cheeks with his glasses off for the first time, as he held a motionless Karol in his arms. Rini was crying tears like rain from her eyes, as she kept shaking a motionless Hare that lied on the ground. Corvin was trying to wake up a motionless Kelvin, not realizing that his tears were coming down. Caroline looked at all of them with Sans same expression and watery eyes as she held a motionless Jonathan since he was close to her. Marisol was looking between all of them, seeing that half of her friends were gone in an instant. She wasn't sure what to do, as she turned towards Sans. Their eyes locked, as Marisol's tears began to fall, and Sans couldn't help but let his own blue tears fall just as hers did.
"Aww, you feel bad for them. You got close... tsk. Tsk. Tsk. You let your guard down. Now you're in pain. Boo hoo hoo... even though it's your fault," Ciara said, with a calmer but still malicious expression.
"You shouldn't have to go through this pain, Sans. If you wouldn't have meddled with mortals, you would have been fine. But it can't be helped. You still have a heart like your brother. Too kind to realize your potential. The power you have to rule over all, or destroy it. Either or is fine, but you two haven't realized what you can accomplish," Ciara said, with her orange eyes, and yellow lines that reached from above her eyes to her forehead.
"Don't you see Sans? You wouldn't be in pain if you ruled everything. You would be in charge. You can set everyone in their places. They can't fight you. One tap and bam! Dead. Gone. In a way, I did you a favor. I got rid of that boy you were jealous of too. Double wammy! Hee hee hee hee! Isn't it grand? You can take over everything, and no one can stop you! Mortal, Embodiment, Element. NO ONE can stand in your way! Why do you think some of the Embodiments didn't like you or your brother at first, and you still have some problems with them, don't you? Because they FEAR you! You can use that to CONQUER them!" Ciara said, as she held up a clenched fist with a grin.
Sans was still on his knees, looking downward with blank eye-sockets, as Ciara continued,
"Or you can destroy them! Causing disorder, madness, death, destruction... CHAOS! It will be glorious! And I can keep Curtain safe for you, so that she won't get hurt, or get involved so she'll be fine. She's already where you originally wanted to put her. A glass shell to house her lovely soul. How nice for you, isn't it?"
Silence followed for a moment, and then Sans stood up while turning towards her and saying,
"You're really... CRAZY... aren't you? You captured my woman, caged her in a weapon, are using my power through her, especially against her will, and KILLED innocent people... and now you're trying to MANIPULATE me to think that this is FINE? You're a sick... demented... delirious... and obnoxiously, sadistic maniac! I'll send ya to the depths and risk shattering my soul X number of times then to EVER follow or consider joining YOU!"
Sans summoned another scythe, as a chain appeared between the bottoms of both scythes in front of him.
"Aww Sans, that's hurtful… HAHAHHAHAHHAAH!" Ciara said with black drips starting to fall from the edges of her eyes.
Ciara held her gun with both hands, as Sans was ready to attack her, although he still felt weak. Suddenly a large fireball came down, as Ciara jumped back to dodge it. Sans was surprised, but he recognized the fire, as Toriel stood before him with flames on her arms.
"Sans, are you alright? I am sorry I came too late, I was about to return to Cosmos when Frisk alerted me that something was wrong," Toriel said, as she stood protectively before him.
"I've been in better circumstances, but I'm alright," Sans said, and he looked around to see where Frisk was.
He saw that she was chasing someone over the harbor water, but he couldn't help her now since he had to get Curtain back from a psycho.
"Oh deary dear. If it isn't the Life Embodiment herself. Come to play? Or get in the way?" Ciara said, with a smug grin after the fire disappeared.
"You. What is your intent? Why steal an innocent soul and kill innocent mortals? Why do you wish for Sans' aid? Who are you?" Toriel insisted, as the fire on her arms blazed.
"Oh hohohohoho! I thought you were too 'kind' and 'delicate' to be tough since your Life. All well. You weren't one to mess with anyway. But my business doesn't concern a queen with no heirs and married to the king of galaxies, who won't exist soon~" Ciara said, in a light tone and a very devious expression.
Toriel gasped in shock and pain upon hearing her words, as Sans was shocked by how well informed Ciara was.
"You... you vile woman! No... who-whatever you may be... Why do you speak as if you know me? How could you know this? A mortal can't know! Only an Element or Embodiment could..." Toriel said as she trailed off.
Ciara looked at her with her eyes widened anxiously when she said the last sentence. Her sick grin revealed fangs, as Toriel recalled someone who showed her that same expression many, many years ago.
"No... You... can't be like her... you can't be like her... or are y-you..." Toriel stuttered out, as her fire quieted down on her arms.
Sans was confused by Toriel's reaction, but seeing how Ciara's face is becoming more sinister, he realized that she wasn't like any mortal, or wasn't mortal at all.
"Come now, Queen Toriel! Hit me with your savage fire that couldn't kill anyone because your Life! I mean, I'll get burned, but it wouldn't kill me now would it?" Ciara said, with a taunting smirk.
"I may not be able to kill, but I CAN harm evil creatures that wish harm on other lives!" Toriel said, as the fire on her arms and palms re-ignited.
I got to stop right there. I'll release the final part soon. ;) The conclusion!