Login

Keybearer

by Chaos Nightmare

Chapter 34: Chapter 34 Kill or Be Killed

Previous Chapter Next Chapter
Chapter 34 Kill or Be Killed

It was been two weeks since Elzin became able to talk with Erza and she was not an easy person to live with, she had me waking up at five in the morning to train with Terra and Aqua “Hurry up, Huxley!” She said as I sleepily wandered through town, I probably could use a coffee to wake me up even though I wasn't a coffee person. “Move it Huxley!” She said, startling me as I began to run towards Sweet Apple Acres.

As I ran into Sweet Apple Acres, I spotted Terra and Aqua sparing up in the main clearing. “Oh, hey Huxley.” Terra said as the two saw me and stopped.

“Hey Terra.” I said, out of breath.

“DID I SAY YOU COULD- Oh hey, Terra right?” Erza asked.

“Yes.” Terra replied.

“We were just about to train, would the two of you like to join us?” Erza asked.

“What about Elzin? Why does he get to sleep in?” I asked catching my breath

“Because I’m using his body since we are fused together he gets a workout while he sleeps.” Erza said.

“Sure, if it means I get a shot at hitting Huxley.” Aqua said, a grin across her face.

“Don’t be jealous my girl form is better looking.” I joked.

“While that is true your girl form is rather attractive, there’s no water around.” Aqua pointed out.

“We’ll it might rain today.” I said.

“Can we stop this conversation?” Terra cut in. “We’re training to get Ventus back, not debate about wherever this was heading.”

“Sure I was joking anyway.” I said

“Yeah, Ven is our priority.” Aqua agreed. “So what are we training in today?”

“Endurance, we’re going to run the Whitetail woods trail five time in a row.” Erza said as I just looked at him/her.

“You’ve got to be kidding”

“Well I got this in the bag.” Terra said. “I might be big, but in terms of endurance I last the longest.”

“Said none of your girlfriends ever.” I said.

“Like you’ll last the first two laps.”

“I’m not being fooled by this, no bets.” I said

“Who was saying anything about a bet?”

“I’ve seen enough things to know where this leads too.”

“Just pace yourself and it should help.” Aqua stated. “If you fall over and I’m near by I’ll cast a low level ice spell to cool you down.”

“Thanks.” I said as we headed towards the woods.

The trail was the same used during every Running of The Leaves, a ten mile path that circles around the woods in a long set of circles and zigzags. I get this town does a lot of things the ‘earth pony’ way, but still, no magic at all. “Okay this Is the path for Running of the Leaves a tradition to remove the leaves the earthly way.” Erza said.

“So five laps on this?” Terra asked. “Huh, reminds me of the rumble races back in Disney Town.”

“I really need to visit that world.” I said to myself.

“I wonder if my time in the realm of darkness did anything for my strength? It was almost non-stop fighting.” Aqua pondered.

We started the run the trail and Erza was the first to slowdown followed by me then Terra and Aqua were tied for first place.”I guess you where all talk Erza.” I said.

“If I had my body I’d have won a while ago, Elzin’s body is strong in terms of strength and magic, but his endurance is pretty bad. Given that he’s you a few years in the future on your world, you got lazy.” Erza said, breathing heavily.

“Yeah spending two weeks starving yourself really does make you work harder.” I said putting my hand behind my head.

“Hey you two slowpokes done yet?” Terra asked.

“Ice.” Aqua said, a burst of cold air hit Erza and me, sending a cold chill up our backs. “Better?” She asked.

“Yeah.” I said as Erza’s eyes changed back to Elzin’s

He fell over. “Why do I feel cold and tired?” He wined.

“Because Erza used your body to exercise.” I told him.

“I’d say screw her, but she’s me at the moment so that’d be hard.” He said, moaning in exhaustion. “Man I am out of shape.”

“Yes you are anyway I found a new world you want to head to it?” I asked as my stomach growled. “After breakfast of course.” I joked.

“Sure why not, not like I had anything planned for today.” Elzin said

“Hey what about Us?”Tarra asked.

“You guys still need to prepare for the attack on Castle Oblivion ‘Your’ Nobody is powerful and we’re going to need you two to be ready.”

“And you two don’t need to train in the same way because?” Aqua asked.

“Because we are going to see if we can’t get stronger in a new world” I said turning to Elzin “Hey maybe it's like Agrabah and we’ll find a genie.” I joked

“DIdn’t you already do exactly that?” Ezin asked.

“Yes I found Genie.. Hey maybe I should introduce you to him.” I said as Elzin looked at the floor “What’s wrong?”

“The actor for genie is dead...” Elzin said.

“What how... nevermind don’t want to know.” I said before turning to the town “Lets get breakfast.”


After a quick breakfast I clicked on the new world in my book and the DTL opened up as Elzin and I walked though. As we came out Elzin noticed a sign before running off ‘Mount Ebott’

“Really…” I muttered, following the idiot and after a while I got lost in the forest. I was calling out for Elzin when I tripped over a vine and fell into a hole. I forgot about my flying power so I ended up dropping straight down, landing on Elzin who was in his flying armor on a conveniently grown flower patch. “Dumb ass…” I said, getting up and off him. “Why did you run off?”

“It was a sign that said ‘Mt Ebott’ aka the place where Undertale takes place“ He said as I tilted my head

“Underwhat?”

“You know Zeke’s wife Toriel you told me about?” He said

“Yeah what about her?”

“This is her world.” He said, getting up. “The protagonist can choose three routes, Neutral, where you kill and spare some characters, Pacifist, the ‘true’ ending of the game, and Genocide, where nobody, not even the world survives.” Elzin explained.

“Okay so let's find this ‘Protagonist’.” I said as we entered into the ruins

“They're a kid named Frisk.” Ezin said as he walked ahead. As they wandered through the ruins not a monster was seen which scared Elzin. “Uh-oh” Elzin said running ahead through the traps.

“Hey wait up!” I shouted as we got to a large house like building.

“Hello?” He shouted as nobody answered. “Nononono!” Elzin said as he ran downstairs to a pile of dust. “Ah crap baskets...”

“What?” I asked.

“This is a genocide run… We gotta find that kid before he reaches the end of the ‘game’ otherwise we’re gonna be dealing with a mini Core.” Ezin explained.

“That's bad.”

“Don’t worry if there bad we may have time let move.”

“Duh, let’s move.” Elzin kicked the door open and the two ran through the snowy forest and through the forest they arrived at a little abandoned town.

“Over here.” Elzin said as they saw a monster. “We need you to take us to hotlands.” Elzin said as the ferry monster just looked at us.

“Get on” the monster said as we got on and a blast as we flew towards the hotlands

‘Why do you know so much about the genocide route Elzin?’ Erza mentally asked.

“I kinda did one or two times...” Elzin said as I stopped and looked at him.

“You did what?” as Erza also asked the question mentally.

“I was bored never got past Sans anyway.” Elzin said.

“Anyway we should be close through his elevator to the top and through the MTT building.”

“When we get back we’re talking about this.” I said.

As we got to the King's chamber we saw a skeleton with a blue eye fighting against a child. “Help the skeleton.” Elzin fired spears at the child while I summoned Keys to Avalon.

“Hey thanks for the help.” the Skeleton said as a bone impaled the kid I looked back as the kid just disappeared. “Here.” he said handing me and Elzin a hotdog. “you're going to need your strength went hey came back.” he said. “Oh i’m Sans, who are you?” he asked.

As me and Elzin finished the Hotdogs the kid came back. “Hey what is this the thousandth time we’ve seen each other? I’ve lost count.”

THe child looked at Elzin and I, a creepy smile spread across his face. “Something new…” He muttered, charging faster than expected. He was like a haze as I quickly took a blocking position, the impact of his knife hitting my Keyblade cracked the ground under us. “Humans? Good, not as fragile as these monsters.” He said, somehow spin kicking me in the head and charging at Elzin, who fired a hail of spears, only for non to hit as the child slashed Elzin in the arm.

The skeleton, Sans, fired off some kinda beam from a massive dog head and it hit the kid, but he got back up. “You alright?” Sans asked Elzin.

Elzin looked at his arm, blood was dripping out. “I’ll manage.”

I ran in for a charge, the kid dodged every swing like he’d mastered evasion… wait, if he can come back… then he’s had all the time he’s ever needed to get… crap. I thought, feeling a sharp pain in my leg. The kid left a massive cut in my leg, blood gushing out. “You… Bastard!” I screamed, summoning Olympea in my other hand and cross slashed the kid, his neck getting hit and an audible snap came from the impact. “How’s that you little-” I was cut off by his body dissapearing. “Right… This is gonna take forever.” I said, casting cure on myself.

The child walked back from the end of the hall, the same shit eating grin across his face. “Nice hit, you’re like me, not hesitant to kill.”

I took a defensive stance as did Elzin and Sans. “Maybe. I’ll admit I’m not the best of people, heck, I got some anger issues, and a grudge towards an allie who hasn't even done anything other than help me when needed. But at least I don’t murder innocent lives.” I said.

“That may be true, but tell me, you haven’t ever dreamed of spilling blood without reason?”

I had a quick flashback to my Mark of Mastery. “Maybe… maybe I’m not meant to be a hero, or even a decent guy… but I at least try.” I threw Olympia in a strike raid, Elzin shooting spears behind it while Sans chot out large Bones and fired off more of those Dog beams at the same
time.

The Kid managed to evade about half of the onslaught, but was still able slice at at Sans, who seems to be just as fast, if not faster, at evading hits. When he had an opening, he lifted up his hand and a blue aura formed around the kid, slamming him against the wall where bones came out and impaled him. When his body disappeared, I took a short breath. “Man, a kid that’s about seven or eight is kicking out butts…” I said.

“Tell me about it.” Elzin said.

“So, any idea’s on making him stay dead?” Sans asked.

“One.” I said. “He’ll have to stay still though, I need a clear shot at his chest, or for him to just stand still long enough.”

“I’ll try.” Sans said, his eye glowing brighter.

“Same.” Elzin added, spears and swords floating around him.

The kid came back, and this time, Sans used his dog blasters to keep him cornered as Elzin fired of his magic weapons, aiming for his legs. While the kid was either dodging or clocking the attack, I managed to get close enough. “Stopza!” I shouted, the spell working as the kid became frozen. I quickly jabbed one of my Keyblades into his chest, and his heart floated out… odd, it’s red and black?

“Sans get It.” Elzin said as Sans and The Kid reached for the heart just as the kid was about to reach it I knocked them back while Sansd grabbed the heart.

When he grabbed the heart his other eye glowed orange. “let's go Kid” as Me and Elzin took a step back to see Sans levitate the kid before launching them into a wall of bones and before he used the dog blasters to blast the body away.
“Okay thats dealt with so what now?” I asked.

“Well it's not safe here we need to take the remaining monsters to daybreak give them some hope.” Elzin said.

“I don’t know where Daybreak is, but it could be better then here right now, nobody has been maintaining the core and it could blow soon.” Sans said.

“Okay I have a plan, Me and Sans go tell the monsters that the Kid is dead while you go get King Asgore.”


“Okay” I said as I walked with them.

“Umm Asgore is the other way.” Elzin said as I turned around and walked towards the hall with the tone of yellow flowers

“Oh hello I’ve never seen a monster like you.” The goat man said.

“I’m not a monster, are you Asgore?” I asked.

Asgore chuckled. “Of course you are a monster. We may be civil creatures, but like any monster I can feel the primal power and bloodlust within you. It’s a trait only we monsters carry around.”

Bloodlust? I know I just killed a kid… I killed a kid… No, he was a murderer, why… why do I now feel bad about it? “I’m a human, and I’ve come to talk about-” I was cut off by him launching a trident near my feet.

“So you’re the human who has been slaughtering my people?”

“N-No, no, no, no! I came after that little freak, I-” I was cut off when he walked forward. I could feel his power emanating off him. “Listen to me!”

“Too often have humans come to me before this barrier that traps us was made, they made promises of peace and coexistence… When my people moved into their new lives, we were slaughtered like animals. And here I stand with yet another human that reeks of a monsters aura… Name one reason why I should trust you?” He said, picking up his trident.

Think damn it! “I- I can get your remaining people to a safe place, somewhere that-” He swung his trident at me, sending me crashing against the barrier.

“New age, same mistakes… not anymore. Whether you are the human that has slaughtered what’s left of the Monster race or not, we will escape this place, we will feel the sun again.” Asgore donned a helmet and some other armor parts over his body.

Crap. I thought, trying to evade his onslaught of fire blasts. He swung his trident at me fast, I blocked. “Damn it, listen to me!”

“Your words fall on deaf ears.” Asgore replied.

‘Then why did you reply?’ I mentally said, trying to knock his trident out of his grip. I managed to get both olympea and Key to Avalon around his weapon, and broke it. Asgore just tossed the broken weapon aside, and fired off more, well, fire. I was blocking. ‘Damn it, I don’t wanna fight this guy! I’m trying to help! Why is everyone I try to help against me?!’ I mentally screamed, hating that all my attempts at being the good guy are met with negative results.

“You will Die now.” Asoge said, charging a large ball of fire and shooting it at me.

The blast it made on impact I managed to block most of it, but the heat burned me hard. I screamed in pain. My arms, left leg, and right cheek hurt. I looked at my clothes… He burned through them… SCREW THIS! I lost it, feeling power that I didn’t know I had flow through me, not even noticing that I was pulsating with darkness. I charged in fast, and cross slashed Asgore… sending his head flying off his body as it turned to dust.

“Wow.” I turned around, spotting a yellow flower sticking out ofthe ground with six colored hearts floating in jars next to it. “And here I thought I was a cold blooded killer, well, cold roots anyway.” The flower said, grinning.

”What are you?” I asked, not yet noticing the deeper, twisted sounding voice coming from me.

“As you can see, a soul is missing here, without it, I can’t become a god.” The flower said, roots growing out of the groundbreaking the jars and grabbing the souls/hearts. “Yours seems plenty strong enough for this.” The hearts/souls were absorbed by the small yellow weed, a bright flash blinding me. When I looked, he had turned into a monstrosity of a board photoshop user. “Time for you to die now.”

The flower shot some kinda seeds at me, which I managed to dodge, he sent vines to swipe at me, that I cut though like they were paper. As time went on I just got more pissed. Why can’t I do this right? Why can’t I save people… like Zeke does. Why can’t he fail, get tossed around and rejected like I have? WHY DOES HE MANAGE TO DO WHAT I CAN’T!?

My darkness had expanded, covering the whole of the room as I swiped at the giant weed. I cut deeper each time, I kept going faster and faster, getting more and more angry til I didn’t even have my Keyblade anymore. THey had vanished from me, but I didn’t care as I used the darkness around me like the weed used its vines to hack what was left of the weed away. Once it was said and done, all that was left was the flower, looking at me with pure terror in it’s eyes. “Y-y-y-y-y-you r-r-really are a monster.” He said.

I just looked at him and placed my hand infront of him and simply said, “Burn.” as a ball of fire left my hand.

He screamed as he was burning. “Mom, dad, Chara! I’m sorry!” Were his last words before he too turned to ash.

I looked around me, noticing how dark the room was. ”Wasn’t the-” I cut myself off… the… is that my voice? I looked at my hands, seeing ash on them. Flashbacks of my mark of mastery kicked in, and I screamed in pain. I killed a child, I killed a king who cared about his people, and I even feel bad about that flower dying?! My darkness was evaporating, letting the room return to normal. I still felt it strong though, clutching my heart like a parasite. I slowly walked into the king's throne room. As I passed his chair I saw a small mirror and lifted it up. My right cheek had a deep burn on it… but I dropped it at seeing the rest of my face. My brown hair had turned pitch black and my eyes… my eyes… were completely black…

“Nononononononono!” I screamed, freaking out. I- I’m not a monster, I’m not a monster… I’m not a demon like Core! I, I don’t want this! I started crying. All I want to do is help people and be liked for it like how Zeke, Ben, the FOretellers, how everyone does it… why am I becoming a demon for it? Even with what Zeke did… how dark is my heart? Why… why did God pick me when I am becoming this?

“Cause you can learn from it.” I turned around… God was there.

“W-what?” I said, shaking.

“Yes, your anger is constantly trying to swallow you, make you into the Demon Core wants, what your darkness is tugging at.” God said, helping me up. “I was like you when I was young… angry without reason, jealous of what others could do. So I studied. I spent the whole of my youth and part of my adulthood in solitude, shutting out everyone.”

“W-what changed?”

“Core’s wife died. Then, he fell into darkness. I had realized then that, if I had been there… If I had not been so envious of him, his natural talent for Keyblades, magic, science, and with the ladies… I might have been able to keep him from doing what he did… I blame myself for what Core has become. I chose you to surpass where I failed. I couldn’t get over my jealousy, and rather than helping him when he had first fallen, when he still had his humanity… I left Core and again, went into isolation that lead to the world breaking up into the stars…”

“W-what does that have to do with me?”

“Your heart is dark, but you hide what makes the darkness beautiful… Emotions. Rather than just trying to surpass everyone around you to prove yourself, just be there for them so they don’t fall… I don’t know much, but I know Core now has void power, so things are going to go downhill from here, big time. You have a darkness that can rival Core’s, but Darkness isn’t evil, it’s only evil when you make it out to be. You can flow more than just anger, fear and jealousy into it, find your joy, happiness, and love. Darkness can change it, but as long as you remember, you are not a demon, you are human, they will make it clear enough for you.”

God handed my a mirror, my eyes were back to normal and my hair was brown again. “I… Can I really do it?”

“Yes. I have faith in you, you just need to put faith in your true strength. Be a man, and stop acting like a scared child.”

God left in a flash of light, leaving me holding the mirror. I just looked at myself… My burn mark and torn cloak. I think I pull off that scar pretty well, as for my cloak… I wonder if Rarity can fix it? As I took off my cloak I went to find Elzin and Sans whom were waiting in the hallway where I left them

“Hey.” Sans said. “Where’s Asgo- where did you get that lvl?” Sans asked.

“I had to kill the king it was ether him or me.”

“That doesn’t explain the lvl for two monsters though.”

“There was this talking flower who took the heart-” Elzin cut me off.

“Souls and he knows about Flowey, shame you killed him, Zeke probably could have done something about his condition, poor kid.” Elzin said which made me sick to my stomach “You okay?”

“Yeah just didn’t know he was a kid when I burned him...”

“Ouch…. anyway we just need you to use your keyblade to open the barrier then we can take them to Daybreak.” Elzin said as I realised I could have done that during the fight and Asgore might have believed me.

“Please give me a moment.” I said opening a DTL to Daybreak and walked through it, I landed in a major area of the city were looking for Zeke I found Leon. “Okay you’ll do.” I said as he looked confused.

“You’re Huxley, right?” He asked.

“Yeah listen I have a group of refugees coming in from my version of Toriel’s world and they need sorting.” I said as he quickly got it.

“Oh, Alright then, send them over to the refugee center. Also, you have a meeting with the council in two months.”

“Why? The meeting not where to send them.” I said.

“Zeke and the council need to discuss about adding your reflection to Unity. We figured you’d have enough experience there and since you're already acquainted with Daybreak, it’s less paperwork.”

“Okay could you tell me where the Refugee center is so I can open my DTL there?” I asked.

“A few blocks down the road, just look for the big building with a lot of Gummi ships going in and out of it.”

“Thanks.” I said as I hurried towards the center. As I got there I opened a DTL to the hallway where I met Sans. “You can send the refugees here, Sans.” I said as Elzin walked out with a yellow lizard lady.

“This Is Alphys she’s the new leader of the monsters sense Flowey killed Asgore.” Elzin said as I was about to correct him, but realised they wouldn’t trust me if I told them I killed their king.

“Thanks for finding us an new home mr.” She said handing me a copy of some movie I’ve never heard of.

“Dude is that Gurren Lagann?” Elzin said.

“Yes it's an amazing piece of film.” Alphys said.

“Anyway Me and Elzin should get going home.” I said as Sans looked at me.

“Actually i’m not staying here could you take me somewhere else.”

“Why?” Alphys asked.

“I have a feeling that i wouldn’t be able to find a job here” Sans said joking. “Plus there’s that” Sans said as Toriel, Papyrus and another Sans came in to greet the new monsters.

“Okay I get you.”

“I’ll take him to Traverse town.” I said as I walked back into the hallway and closed my DTL before sending Elzin home and opening a new one to Traverse town. “Hey Bartz. “ I said waving as he gave me a look. “What?” I asked.

“Its nothing so who’s your friend”

“This is Sans, he lost his world and needs a place to stay.” I said.

“Well that’s what Traverse town is for, I’ll find him a job.” He said as I walked off wanting to test something.

As I wandered into a dark hallway I snapped my fingers and a DTD opened up before I closed it. “Well at least those are back.” I said sarcastically. As I opened a DTL back home. Before I walked into the library, I tried summoning my Keyblades and they appeared. I looked at them. “Not sure if you actually can hear me, but I promise… I won’t become something you reject ever again.” I disbanded them and opened the door.


Author's Note

Special thanks to Bio who wrote the fight scenes and the dialog between god and Huxley

Next Chapter: Chapter 35 Elzin talks with the foretellers Estimated time remaining: 56 Minutes
Return to Story Description

Login

Facebook
Login with
Facebook:
FiMFetch