As soon as Toriel found herself face to face with the Sage Soul, she struck, launching a wave of her fire at her opponent. The Sage immediately countered with a wave of ice shards, freezing each fireball in the air as it approached and barraging the Boss Monster with the extra shards. Toriel rolled to the side to evade as she got a better view of her foe. The green figure was garbed in a flowing robe, and held a staff in its hands, plainly a true mage. This was going to be difficult.
Knowing that mages tended to be more skilled at range than up close, Toriel lunged in, surrounding her hands in her fire as she struck out. Much to her frustration, the Sage dodged each swipe of blazing paw, letting them sweep by millimeters from them, before countering with a solid strike to Toriel's midsection with the staff. Since the staff was charged with lightning, this blasted Toriel a ways back, as well as draining a good chunk of her health.
Grunting, she pushed her way to her feet, only to find the Sage staring down at her, not pressing its advantage.
The Sage says you have no chance, and encourages you to withdraw while you still live.
Toriel snarled as she was confronted with that detail. "You think I'll just stand by and let my child die?" she roared out angrily, leaping to her feet and firing off a massive blast of fire, only for it to be dispersed by a massive icicle that nearly impaled her, blasting by her head and grazing her ear.
The Sage reminds you that you have already done just that...seven times.
Toriel felt the tears stinging her eyes. "I know that..." she murmured under her breath. "Asriel and Chara...if I'd been more watchful, I could have realized what they'd planned and prevented it. And each of my children who fell down since...I let them leave. Their deaths are as much my fault as Asgore's. I knew what they'd face in the Underground...I knew letting them leave was a death sentence...but I could not keep them caged..." She stared at the Sage with a flinty gaze. "But no more! I have taken no action for too long! I will not stand by and let another of my children die if I can prevent it!" She once more gathered her power. "I will protect my little Woona if it costs me my life!" She felt her DETERMINATION rising.
You and me both, Mom.
Toriel gasped as she finally recognized the voice that had been whispering in her ear. "C...Chara?" she gasped out. "Is it...really you?"
It is, Mom, Chara responded. Woona's been carrying me around with her since just before she threw you that birthday party where she got you spider cider mixed with sleeping potion so she could get out of the Ruins without fighting you.
Toriel shook her head, chuckling ruefully. "That clever little foal..." Her eyes widened as she felt power flooding into her. "Chara?"
You're not fighting alone here Mom, Chara spoke up. I have a certain amount of power borrowed from Woona. Enough to match the six Souls helping the others. And I'm going to use it to help you fight this Sage, and save Woona. He continued to pour all the power he'd gathered into Toriel. It's time to show this Demon what a Monster is really capable of!
Toriel arched her back as she felt the power flood into her, filling every cell in her body with raw, unfettered magical energy. Her flames erupted from her body, her flesh no longer able to contain them as they burned away her robes before wreathing her entire body. She felt the aches and pains of eons slip away as her physical form became a full decade younger, restoring her to the full prime of her magic, the point of balance between youthful energy and grown wisdom. She hovered in front of the sage, garbed only in her inner fire as it formed wings of flame behind her, like a phoenix rising from the ashes of defeat.
Chara had only one way to describe the transformation his mother had undergone.
She's a Killer Queen.
The Sage took a step back in surprise, but steeled itself. Raising its staff, it unleashed a barrage of ice shards again, but Toriel simply raised a wall of flame to defend, making the shards melt and evaporate. She then dropped the wall before launching several spheres of flame, condensed to the point they were solid and bounced around the area seemingly at random until they came to a halt around the Sage, at which point they exploded like dynamite, unleashing a blazing torrent of flame that the Sage was only barely able to escape by encasing itself in ice. Before it could break free again, however, Toriel had focused her magic between her hands and unleashed a focused beam of flames so intense it was practically a laser, punching through the ice and smashing the Sage backwards.
As the blast ended, the Sage struggled to recover, only to get kicked in the back of the head, knocked across the featureless field as its staff fell from its grasp, bouncing away. It turned to retrieve it, only to see it in Toriel's grasp, burning away into ashes.
"You...are hurting...my child..." Toriel growled out, her eyes blazing white. "I will not allow that to continue!" She blurred forward in a blaze of light.
The Sage lifted its arms to try and protect its head, only to find Toriel's flaming hand embedded in its torso, wrapped around its soul. It stared into the eyes of the Merciful Queen...and found none.
"My child is insistent I say this..." Toriel murmured as she glared into the Sage's eyeless face. "Heat. End." With that, she squeezed her hand.
The Sage's body burst into flames as its soul was crushed, both shattering explosively.
Thanks Mom, Chara murmured softly. After seeing that in Alphys' anime stash, I'd have kicked myself all the way back to the grave if that reference hadn't been made.
Toriel chuckled softly. "Anything for my children," she murmured softly, letting her power start to subside. "Anything..."
Kali-MA!
Looks like he couldn't handle the burn
She still looks like a hottie even at her age.
A Killer Queen? More like a women of Burning LOVE.
....I make no regrets of making these puns.
This is cool will we see a picture of the characters super form anytime soon in your blog? Great story keep it up!
I don't get the reference? Heat. End.? Where is that from?
Great chapter though!
... When will they learn not to touch the child?
7407370 Somewhere in the multiverse, a drum was beat.
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https://youtu.be/lNSAa5_HwmI?t=17s
7407400 Thank You! That makes much more sense now.
I feel like you're missing the gunpowder and gelatin. You definitely had the dynamite, laser beam, and mind blowing in the bag.
7407385 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpaOy8b8X6A --> use for comedic punchlines. You mean this drum?
7407421 Yes. That drum.
That Sage got on the wrong side of Mama Bear... or is it Mama Goat?
Found a slight error.
I wonder how Asgore is going to take down his oppenent?
7407370 At least this didn't fan the... flames of hatred anymore huh?
Guess Chara wanted to always have things said in the... heat of the moment.
Now this is what I would call as... feeling the burn.
I kinda figured Toriel was always the... hands on type.
Yay, Goat-Mom!!!
7407438 Goat mom!
Don't mess with Goat Mom!
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7407523 *laughing from puns*
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I haven't raged at your puns for a while...UNTIL NOW!
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That awkward moment when toriel realizes she burned all her clothes off...
She is wedded to convictions—in default of grosser ties;
Her contentions are her children, Heaven help him who denies!—
He will meet no suave discussion, but the instant, white-hot, wild,
Wakened female of the species warring as for spouse and child.
7407484 I hope it's the idea I suggested in the last chapter.
am I the only one that thought of
?
7407600 I swear that they better react to this. I know what the rating is, but if the author can write that muffet scene, he can do this
7407635 Hmmm, catchy.
7407635 That was my first thought. Glad I'm not the only one.
Fucking Meis...
Up to the chapter "The Coward" and beyond is basically every one of our favourite monsters going HAM on these guys, wrapped up in their very own little chapters.
Play of the Game: Toriel as Goat-mom
Hell hath no fury...
Like a mother's love.
I guess you could say this chapter was a scorcher with the fans.
All these puns are making me sweaty. Can you guys turn down the heat a bit?
I have no regrets.
Nice chapter!
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Well, Killer Queen from JoJo was named after that song. Well, a LOT of Jojo stuff is named after bands and songs. There's a goddamn guy named Robert E.O. Speedwagon for Christ's sake.
7407820 Given the reference at the end, I think you'll find this more appropriate.
Erupting! BURNING FINGER!
7407635 That was the whole point of that joke, methinks.
Yay! Goat mom!
Forgot that I actually tried this one out...Have a downvote!
Downvote is for excessively cliche and overly saccharine faux-cuteness. The "Woonaness" of Luna is just plain stupid. It's obvious woobie-bait with no real substance, with added Mary Sue qualities because why not!
I feel that this is shitting on the idea of Woona as "kid Luna in cute scenarios" by just ignoring who Luna is and adding a pointless speech impediment(that is honestly grating to read over and over). If anything positive is coming out of this at all, it's that the fic makes me want to go back and read Moonstuck.
Because that's still good.
This fic, however, is not.
Clearly, she's dynamite with a laser beam.
7407541 true
7407935 He remove the speech slurring very early on.
duh duh duh duh its super goat mom to the rescue wonderfully feely chapter good work
cool refeance and damn i watch to much tna i saw thwe lines killer queen and thought shed hit him with a restiling move not a heat crush though id say been much cooler if she pulled it out nd crushed it in front of thwe sage
This is THE song for this chapter. None of the references will do, this is the song that fits this chapter.
Still laughing at the fact that the sages are Anons.
I had a realisation about Ice in terms of battle uses. It's good. Even verse fire it turns into water, the fire'd have to be really hot to get rid of the water in enough time for it to not hit the caster.
Everyone goes like:
Here's a music for this chapter and that
But... this is my jam for ALL of them fights:
(because everyone's going like geno-Sans final battle against the Sages)
Damn Tori, what a ice cold heart. That just burns my heart, such passion within her! I love this chapter, its so cool!
7407936 Guarrenteed to blow your mind, anytime!
This story's hand glows with an awesome power. Its loud roar tells it to grasp victory.
Man, I thought you were gonna turn Tori in to the Gatekeeper. I think that would have been pretty cool.
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I don't think it really matters anymore at this point. The fic opened with something that really damaged the product, and it felt indicative of the style the author was approaching from.
Too many Undertale fanworks get a pass for merely being "okay", and even some of the worse ones are still liked...because it's an Undertale fanwork and NOTHING Undertale can be bad, right? I loved the game just as much as anybody else here, but if I see something bad, I call it out. There are no free rides when it comes to quality writing, only blind readers.
The power of an enraged mother in full-on protective mode.
A reckoning of fire has come, and the foe never stood a chance.