Creation Begins with an I, Destruction Begins with an E (Undertale Errink Book)

Mr Monochrome and his Misplaced Brother

Error cleared his throat, "You mentioned a Goddess." 

"Oh. Yes, I did," Four sat back up, pouring himself another shot, and then offering Error the bottle, who shook his head. "Her name is Life."

Error frowned. "That's her name? Or her title? Goddess of Life?"

"Both."

"...Is she a skeleton?"

Four shook his head. 

"I thought there was a war?" Error stared at Four, but he didn't say anything, so he continued, "A war that meant only skeletons would become Gods in future?"

"You're absolutely right, King Multiverse won the war. He passed the law about the skeletons. Y'know, he was no more than you are now at the time that he killed the ruler of the Nameless Gods. Just a minor God."

"Is that encouragement to kill KM?" Error joked, smirking. Four snickered. "Anyway, how come there's a Goddess who's not a skeleton, then?"

"Life was... maybe twenty years old? The King had reasons for keeping her, but wouldn't say why. And so he spared her. But gone were the other Nameless Gods: Positivity and Negativity were killed together, and Death was killed by the King himself, which was strange since Death was a skeleton, and he and King Multiverse were friends. There was no Resurrection, but there was a God of Mercy and Protection. And that was Alpha. Ironic, I know."

"And what were you?" Error asked. 

Four looked Error in the eyes. "Destruction."

Looking shocked, Error opened his mouth to say something. He instead just exhaled, looking away. He downed the rest of his glass, refilling it after. After maybe twenty seconds, he cleared his throat and asked, "So I'm assuming the 'Nameless Gods' are just Gods whose names are the same as their title? Like The Goddess of Life being called Life?" 

"That's right." 

"And you're saying that we've gone all our lives not knowing that this other Goddess existed? I mean, I've always found it weird that we have a God of Death and a God of Resurrection. Surely it makes more sense for there to be life instead of resurrection."

"In truth," Four looked up from his glass, "We didn't exactly need Glitch. When the King discovered you guys were coming in as new minor Gods without knowing anything about it, he panicked. We had one God of Resurrection before Glitch. It didn't exactly end well for him." Four poured yet another shot, "But Life follows rules stricter than yours. She was ordered to keep away from the newest set of Gods. The King claimed it would confuse and anger you all."

"Anger-?"

"He assumed you'd all have a problem with her not being a skeleton."

"...No? I mean, I didn't fight in the war, so I don't really have the right to complain. I would have thought the King would have been the one with the problem, but apparently not." Error drank the last of his glass, "And I really don't want any more of that, thank you. Fine, call me a lightweight, but it's the taste I don't like."

Four smirked. "You don't drink vodka for the flavour, do you?"

"No, but I'm sort of drunk right now. And if I'm going to keep up with anything you're saying, I can't have any more of that stuff, because fine, I'll say it, it's strong. You yourself complained about me being drunk in the first place. Also, we're drinking whiskey, and you do drink whiskey for the taste... unless you're broke like me, in which case you buy cheap whiskey that tastes bad, so you're only using it to get drunk."

The taller laughed. "Touché. Anyway, where were we..?"

"Something about Glitch being useless?"