Horrortale - Back to the beginning [eng]

Chapter 12

My neck hurt, I looked into the guard's eyes, with scars on his face.

My arms were losing strength, and he was squeezing more and more, until he released me brutally, and I fell to the floor.

"HEY!!"

I turned to see, and Flowey was on the ground, holding the guard with his roots.

"Don't even try!" Flowey shouted.

I got up quickly, seeing the guard trying to break free from the roots.  I knew that that guard was not alone, I took my backpack, remembering that I had a knife in it.

I held it tight, shook my head, and when the guard broke free, he came at me, at full speed.  I dodged him and his spear that he'd taken back from the ground.  I couldn't kill anyone, but I couldn't do anything more than to protect myself.

I was afraid it would mean killing someone.

He continued to attack me, and I just kept deflecting as much as I could.  Flowey looked scared, just like me.

There was a moment where I saw a breach, grabbed my backpack and ran into the forest, because I knew Flowey would follow me.

I didn't know if I could get past that guard.  His flair was very sharp, and he would find me as soon as he could.

It didn't take long until I heard him approach.

Flowey appeared by my side, I was sweating and had a bruise on my forehead, not to mention my neck that would have marks soon.

"What will we do??"

I remembered what Sans had said to me earlier, about how the weapon of the soul would connect with you depending on how strong you would feel your trait at that very moment.

Determination, I was determined to get out of there.  I wasn't going to die there, I still had a lot to do.

That was when I felt my soul outside my body, that bright red culmination, that enveloped me with a red aura.

"Frisk ...?"

I managed to summon a long sword, which fit perfectly in my hands, it was neither too light nor too heavy.

In a downward movement, I managed to dodge an attack from behind, the guard's spear that had already reached me.

"YOU'RE NOT GETTING PASS HERE, HUMAN!"

"That's what you think."

I invested in a frontal attack with my sword, and he deflected easily, so he invested another attack by throwing his spear, which narrowly reached me.

I felt stronger, with all that power.  I kept trying to defend myself from attacks from the guard dog, who was looking at me with a bloodthirsty look.

"I don't want to fight!  I want to help you!"

"You'll be helping when you give your soul to Undyne !!"

Flowey once again held the guard's body with its roots, which tried its best to get free.

I approached him slowly, who had stopped struggling.

"I'm trying to get you out of here, I don't want to kill anyone here."

He lowered his head and gave a cruel smile.

"But we do."

I had barely noticed the presence of the other guard in that place, which came from behind, and when I noticed, it was too late.

I went to try to dodge his attack, but his spear pierced my shoulder.

I screamed in pain and agony, that power that I had felt until then, was gone.  I tried to invest in an attack, but was thrown against a tree.  My head was spinning, my nose was running blood, and I felt weak.  If I were younger, my soul would have broken into pieces.

I heard Flowey shout something, I assumed it was my name, but it was all confusing.  I could barely get up off the floor.  I had no strength.

I leaned my back against the tree, blood running from my forehead, a cut, my vision blurred.

"Goodbye, human." The guards said, as I closed my eyes.

"Sorry, guys, I failed you again ..."

But I was surprised to hear the guards screaming in pain, their chests pierced by ... bones?

"... Sans ..?"

My vision grew darker, I heard a familiar voice calling me, but I couldn't answer at the moment.

That was when my eyes closed completely, and the pain took over my body.

I fainted.