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.