James POV
me and frisk sat down, our backs to the trunks of thick trees, we couldn't see the sky this deep into the forest.
"*Sigh* I think we lost them" I looked over to Frisk, they looked at me with annoyance
the residents of the forest came looking for the disturbance quite quickly, while most monsters just looked from afar, a few actually chased, a certain white fox was especially annoying in its persistance.
"why would you use magic without the skills..." Frisk pouted
"why would I need skills to use magic? " I raised my eyebrow "I might have made a mistake but I haven't actually tried to use magic before, this won't be a problem after I experiment a little..."
"well..." Frisk thought of an answer before looking at me again "ain't skills supposed to be what we are good at? wouldn't it be better to use our powers instead of relying on weaker abilities?"
"...I haven't told you but I did gain an Extra skill when we faced Flowey" Frisks eyes widened "the skill is called [Magic Sense], it allows me to sense magic like a 6th sense, though its really taxing on the brain" I grimaced at the memory of opening the skill unrestrained
"wait!" Frisk was kinda too loud, "are you saying that you can get NEW superpowers?!" Frisk leaned forwards with stars in their eyes
As I opened my lips to answer, my lazy [Analytical Appraisal] radius caught a familiar aura trekking towards us from behind.
Frisk saw my expression and focused before probably finding the monster with their Aura sense, we both looked at each other in agreement before slowly standing up while using the trunks of the trees as cover.
"I can smell you humans, come out so I can at least learn your names before we begin" a feminine voice echoed through the now quite forest, the fireflies are gone, and from above the foliage a little light came through, signaling Dawn has arrived.
I hardened my heart before walking into direct sight with the monster.
a giant white Fox that looked similar to a big wolf, even standing on their four legs they reached my neck in height, its eyes were reddish pink with rings within them, sort of like a rinnegan.
the Fox bared their teeth when Frisk appeared from behind me, their eyes narrowing a little
"my names Frisk... we don't really have to fight right?" Frisk tried weakly, they seemed to look at the fur of the Fox.
"the names John, John Script" I was ready to fight this time, my tiredness forgotten in a rush of adrenaline.
"... my name is Vixen" the fox began to grow even further, reaching past my height "I was sent to hunt you by the order of the great Naga" even more eyes began to open on her canine face, her fur became rigid, making her look more wild "Humans, prepear to die".
after saying that Vixen dashed towards us with fangs bared, thankfully coming at me first,
'the best defense is a good offense' I outstretched my hand, palm forward and drew all the magicules in the area using my own as a herder.
anyone with magic sense could see the large whirlpool of magicules that coalesced together in an orb within my palm, with a flex of will and imagination the magicules instantly turned into shades of red and yellow
anyone without magic sense will suddenly see a bright orb of condensed fire within my outstretched hand
'the power of the sun in the palm of my hand' its time to see my current limit with magic
even before I finished my fireball, Vixen felt the gathering magicules and broke her momentum in an instant with her claws, she jumped to the right where unfortunately for her Frisk met her.
Frisk climbed on top of her back quickly with Aura enhanced strength, and-
'...are they petting the fox?!' Frisk held onto the giant Fox with their legs and scratched her neck with their fingers
"Wha- get off me!" the Fox shook violently and made sudden movements to shake the crazy child off their back, unfortunately for them... Frisk was determined...
aiming my orb at the fox that was trying to reach Frisk on her back, I slowly lost the serious mindset I sank into to prepare for the fight.
suddenly another monster attacked from my right, quickly turning my head I saw a hideous creature, humanoid body covered with weathered steel looking armor, sharp claws on long bony fingers, a face that looked like the skull of a horned goat covered in pale blemishless grey skin with glowing blue dots from the pits of where the eye balls should be.
In an instant my fight or flight activated and I jumped back, I flicked my hand at the fast approaching nightmare fuel, its sharp fingers nearly reaching neck, I shot the fireball at its chest.
*BOOM*
the explosion was loud, but I didn't feel it at all.
a second later reality returned, slowly feeling and pain returned, the injuries and scrapes from blowing myself across the forest floor and into a tree, each scuff with the floor took a bit of my skin and the tree shook my ribs and fortunately didn't break them or my spine.
my eyes opened slowly, and I saw Frisk and the fox hover above me looking at me with worry and surprise respectively.
"how are you not burned??" Vixen seemed impressed with my ability to not burn to a crisp from the giant flame explosion I was in the middle of
"THAT WAS SO COOL" Frisk as always took this in a stride and gushed over the power of the spell, they even mimicked my hand flicking and made explosion noises
"I forgot myself, but I got [Thermal fluctuation resistance]... I guess it helps with fire as well." I slowly stood up and Frisk quickly offered a hand to help me stand
using Frisks shoulder to right myself on my feet while feeling dizzy I looked at where the demon monster was and didn't see even blood, it was seemingly gone
"the... 'thing' died" Vixen answered when she saw where I was looking "its body disintegrated after you blew off its upper body" their answer made me a bit confused about the creature, on one end it disintegrated like monsters in Undertale, but Vixen called it a 'thing' and also wasn't angry so I don't think it was a regular monster.
"do you know what it was?" Frisk seemed to pick on the fact it wasn't a normal monster
"I don't know, but its definitely not a citizen of the undergrowth" the forest was called the undergrowth, how... creative.
Vixen looked at us with contemplating eyes, before she turned to look at a certain direction with worry,
"I suggest a truce" she looked back at us "that 'thing' shouldn't be here, and Naga should know immediately, but..." she peered into the cracks of the foliage above.
shadows passed high above us, armored beings with wings, they seemed to arrive from the direction Vixen looked at before, some of the shadows seem to rush towards us, probably due to the giant explosion.
Vixen began to glow white, her white silhouette form became bipedal and soon humanoid, the glow receded and instead of Vixen a pale Woman with white hair and fox ears appeared, she had the cliche Japanese kimono/yukata or whatever its called of a shrine maiden,
her numerous eyes still on her face and now even had black sclera, she even had an eye on the middle of her forehead like a third eye, though it was somewhat covered by bangs.
[Picture here]
"this form should be more familiar to you humans, I used my [Transform] skill to appear human, though... my [Beast Body] seems to still affect my appearance" while she talked I noticed her teeth were still as sharp as ever "the Undergrowth is under attack, this might be an invasion from the numbers alone" Vixen was quite panicked about her home and probably friends
"what should we do?" Frisk seems enthusiastic to help the monsters that attacked us earlier, but I guess the demon looking creatures were probably the bad guys by looks alone.
"We should reach the great Naga, the leader of the undergrowth, I can't imagine what can keep him occupied while these creatures invade uninterrupted" Vixen shot a thankful look at frisk, she then looked wearily to me to see my answer to her offer of a truce
while she probably felt Frisk was stronger than me, she also noticed that Frisk was a child, she assumes I will be the one to decide, which I suppose was fair.
there isn't really a choice here
"we're in"
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pretty cool chapter, if you don't like OC's you should probably drop now, I plan on adding much more depth to the monster kingdom.
anyway tell me what you think? would you be interested in seeing more slice of life or action, there is a saga I'm planning if you didn't notice so the slice of life will only come after.
do you have any ideas? thoughts? prayers? I did bless you with a whole nother chapter.
C ya guys later aligator