Chapter 2: Training with the Stars
Mary and Octavia were outside of the home of the three skeletons who they had learned were known as the Star Sans. Blue was standing in front of Octavia “Magic can take various forms but they are dependent on the user and the type of magic. Monster also do get affected by species as well.”
Blue demonstrates by summoning a light blue bone, Octavia nodded looking at the bone. Blue smiled “How to access magic differs for everyone, the simplest way is to focus on yourself and slowly draw it out of yourself.”
They are interrupted as Dream and Ink shouted loudly “Shit!” Mary was carrying two red glowing axes, chasing after them.
Blue frowned “Determination magic is generally driven by will.Hmmm, your friend seems to be quickly getting a grasp on it.” He then turned to Octavia who was biting her lip, Blue let out a slight chuckle “Feeling out of your depth, I was like you once. I was normal skeleton living in the underground in Underswap. It blew my mind learning there was thousands of alternate versions of me and my friends, I was completely overwhelmed.”
Octavia frowned “Well I’m glad they are not training me, you seem to understand me better.” She closed her eyes and began focusing, Blue watching closely. He caught a glowing blue arrow midair and turned around, his eyes glowing a fierce light blue “Dream, pay a little more attention.”
Dream and Ink froze, Mary looking between the two group confused. Blue then turned around, Dream sighed “We’ll continue this somewhere else.”
Ink nodded “Agreed.” Mary shrugged as she followed them away from Blue and Octavia.
Blue turned back to Octavia, only to see a slight shimmer of light blue and blue radiating dimly off her. Blue sat there quietly as the glow slowly grew brighter. Octavia’s eyes opened, she turned to Blue “Now what do I do?”
Blue smiled “Well your you could try to make your own form of magic. Try to form it into what you wish.” Octavia focused as a blue star formed in her hand, Blue nodded “Maybe that was too hopeful. Creating your own unique magic form does take some time, a star is one of the basic forms of blue magic.”
Meanwhile Mary was chasing Dream and Ink, Ink shouted “Any plan for actually countering her!”
Dream shouted back “No, I can’t do soul manipulation magic like other Sans! You at least can create things!” Ink turned around conjuring up a wall with ink from his brush, only to see two red cuts slice through the middle the ink turning into a puddle.
Mary landed “This is getting boring, I mean I was expecting some resistance from you?”
Ink frowned “I need to make a call, I will find someone who is more capable of fighting you.” Ink walked away with a scowl.
Mary raised an eyebrow “What’s his problem exactly? Was I being too blunt?”
Dream grimaced “No, you reminded him of Cross. One of Nightmare's minions, sort of. He is similar to Error, they are on and off minions. They don’t always follow his orders or even refuse to help him.” Dream sighed “I don’t trust Ink after the trouble he caused during the X-Event. That took a lot of fixing.”
Ink returned with three figures, a tall skeleton in an orange hoodie and black shorts who was smoking, a short skeleton in a blue hoodie with a white undershirt and back shorts who was drinking ketchup. The third was a young human wearing a green hoodie, white shirt, black pants and brown boots who was eating a bar of chocolate.
Ink gestured to them “The tall skeleton here is Carrot, the shorter one is Classic and the young human is Story.”
Carrot chuckled as he removed his cigarette from his mouth “I told you were giving Ink some trouble, so he called on us. He is, while powerful, a bit of a one trick pony and tends to be left pretty helpless if you can get past his ink constructs.”
Ink shouted “Hey!”
Classic shrugged “So your the human that Ink has brought the three of us to meet, you must be pretty powerful if you can cut through Ink’s barriers.” He then held out his hand, Mary took it only to deadpan as the loud sound of a whoopee cushion that was strapped to his hand.
Story grimaced “Why are we helping this human anyway?”
Mary summoned her axes “How about we have less talk and more action! Let’s do this!” Story smirked as she summoned two red glowing knives, charging at Mary. Mary dodged cutting into Story’s back with her axe.
Story lashed backward cutting into Mary’s throat, Mary stumbled backwards as the wound rapidly closed. Story shouted “How did you heal from that!”
Classic teleported over “Calm yourself Story, anger leads to mistakes. Calm yourself and focus on your opponent.”
Carrot joined them “Let’s do this.” He summoned multiple goat shaped skulls with orange glowing eyes known eyes, Mary dodged each blast. She frowned as they all surrounded her.
Mary winced as a voice spoke “Allow me to help.”
Mary closed her eyes only to see a pink humanoid silhouette in front of her “Who the heck are you?”
The figure smirked “I am the facade you used to put up in front of your parents when you were little. My name is Marilyn, it’s a pleasure to meet you.”
Mary rolled her eyes “You are way too formal but I do need your help. Let’s do this.” Mary opened her eyes, her left eye glowed a bright pink. She raised her hand, all of the Gaster Blasters eyes turned pink. She dispelled them.
Carrot blinked “What was that?”
Classic grimaced “That is Rhabdophobia, it allows one to take control of other magical constructs.” His eye glowed blue and grimaced “There are two souls working in tandem inside that body, this is bad.”
Blue teleported out with Octavia, he frowned “Brother what are you doing here? Why is Classic here and Story here!”
Carrot rubbed his head “Well, Ink apparently waned us to help train Mary over there.”
Mary walked over to Octavia as Blue shouted at Ink “What the fuck are you thinking, we don’t just bring others here for little things! What if Error turned up here!” Blue started to spasm, as his white skeleton turned black, his arms changed to a mix of purple and blue.
Octavia reached out “Blue?”
Blue? Frowned “Well my name in this form is Blueberror. I need some time alone before I hurt someone.” Octavia and Mary as well as everyone else watched as Blueberror left through a glitch.
Author's Note
Um, I lost access to the account with the first chapter so I have to continue it here but the link to that chapter is on the main page if you want to read it.
Octavia frowned “Can you please explain what the heck was that?”
Everyone else looked puzzled, Ink spoke up first “Blue is probably the most secretive of us. He didn’t tell any of us about this unless...” He then turned to Carrot “Did he tell you anything, you are his brother?”
Carrot shook his head “He has been secretive ever since he told he was part of your group, a few years back he started being even more secretive. He stopped returning to Underswap a year ago.”
Another glitch opened only for a black skeleton similar to Blueberror. Dream frowned “What are you doing here, Error?”
Error growled “I felt a glitch appear here! That is not a normal event to happen, there are only a handful of individuals who can do that!”
Mary lifted her axes only for Octavia to raise her arm “Blueberror left here, he lost his temper and started glitching. He opened a glitch to leave here.” A pained look crossed Error’s face, Octavia pressed “You know something about this, don’t you? I can see it on your face.”
Error glared at her then the other and then back to her. Octavia’s eyes met his, there was no anger, hate or fear but concern. Error sighed “Fine, I’ll tell you all the story but I won’t repeat myself so listen closely.” He grimaced “I captured Blue and brought him to the Anti-Void.”
Ink scowled “You did what!”
Octavia turned to him with a glare, a small ember burning in the back of her eyes “I perfectly understand your reasoning on wanting to beat him to a pulp but he is telling us important information so kindly be quiet.” Octavia noticed as she turned around that Mary put an axe to his throat, she would have words about that later.
Error continued after sparing a grateful glance to Mary who nodded in response “Blue was really kind, and despite my best efforts to shove his kindness in his face he wouldn’t stop. I was planning to let him go after I handled a couple of things for two hours.” He then scowled at Ink “I was attacked by Ink, it took me several weeks to lose Ink. I returned to find that Blue had turned into an Error like me, after that I figured out I must have been someone else once.”
Classic frowned “Who were you?” Error closed his eyes, his form shifted to a white skeleton with white clothes, a deep red cut through his chest and a huge amount of glitching around his right eye socket. Classic froze “You were Geno.”
Error returned to normal and nodded “I figured that out after Blue became Blueberror, I let him leave butI kept an eye on him for a while after his transformation, I didn’t see him face to face again though until the X-Event.”
Octavia frowned “I would like to speak to him, could you take me to his location. He needs a friend.”
Error frowned “I know one place he liked to go, I showed it to him after the event. I will only take you though, he might run again if too many arrive.”
Mary glared at him “At least let me come with, I don’t trust you!”
Octavia turned to her “I’ll be fine, I will come back. After all I have a lot of questions about you, I expect to get some answers.” Mary grumbled under her breath. Error created a glitched out space, the two stepping through onto a meteorite. Blueberror was looking as the stars as they passed by, soft orbs shining in the dark emptiness of space.
Octavia walked over and took a seat next to him “It is a beautiful sight isn’t it. I understand why you came here.”
Blueberror smiled sadly “It’s peaceful out here, where there is nothing but the stars. I just wish…” He started to laugh as his eyes started to glitch out “#@#@#@#@!” He began hoping from asteroid to asteroid with a manic grin.
Error frowned hopping after him, Octavia followed jumping after the glitchy skeletons. Error frowned “I don’t think you should follow, he could be dangerous.”
Octavia grimaced “I’ll be fine!” She then scowled as Blueberror was getting further and further away “We’ll lose him at this rate!” Octavia started to speed up, matching Error’s pace.
Error frowned as he could start see Octavia starting to sweat “Neither of us are running at full speed yet you are winded. You can’t keep up with him.”
Octavia was about to retort when she missed her jump, she looked down as she started to fall into the darkness. She felt herself being grabbed by someone, Blue was looking at her with concern “Are you alright?”
Octavia nodded as Blue placed her down on the asteroid “While I’m glad you came, it is very risky to come near me in that state. You were lucky I went happy crazy and not violent crazy.” Blue slumped “You know I am grateful that you wanted to help but if things really kicked off between me and Error you would be in real danger.”
Octavia grumbled “I know but who else would be able to do it. You ran off angrily because of the others.”
Blue sighed “I know, I owe everyone back there an apology. I better get started on that, let’s go back.”
Octavia frowned “I need to get some answers from Mary, if I am going to continue to travel with her I will need some answers.” Error nodded, Blue teleported them back to the Star Sans residence only to see Mary shivering in a corner, her pinprick sized pupils thin darting between everyone in the room rapidly.
Octavia’s eyes narrowed “What happened?”
Ink shrugged “I touched her and she suddenly freaked out. Neither of us know what happened to her, we have just stayed here watching.”
Error deadpanned “Sounds like she is traumatized, likely by physical abuse.” He then looked at Octavia “She must have been on some strong medication and she has run out, hmm I will need to do a full evaluation of her body.” Mary’s pupils flashed pink before she lost consciousness.
Author's Note
Next chapter will focus on Mary and will likely be longer.