The child's eyes widened as they dodged Sky's attacks before leaping towards him with their blazing knife. The skeleton waited until the very last second before vanishing into thin air, making the attacker's slash to miss completely, causing them to be shocked.

Before the child even tried to glance around, Sky was right behind them.

"Did you think I'm just gonna stand there and take it?" He said as his left eye flashed a sinister blue. He flicked his hand slightly, causing the kid's body to make impact with the pillars that lined the room and the floor.

The kid coughed up blood as they stood to face the skeleton, having that same twisted grin on their face.

They wanted to kill him.

They were DETERMINED to kill him.

Sky continued fighting for what seemed like an eternity. He was able to dodge their attacks while managing to create and land attacks right back at them, making them get more and more irritated.

Unfortunately, his stamina was beginning to run out, and unless he could find a way to do something useful, then he would die in battle and the rest of the Highground would be doomed.

Maybe if he uses the special attack. . . .

Sky's eye flickered on and off as they tried to charge at him, but he only kept sending them back.

Dammit. . . . .he was getting tired. . . .

Wait. . . .what are they doing?

Why did they stop?

Sky sighed in relief as the kid sat down, looking defeated. They never did this. Hm. They've probably called it quits or something. . .

This thought made Sky internally smile.

My special attack was a success. . .finally. . .

Wait a minute. . . .

I remember this. . . . . .

Using my special attack. . .feeling tired. . .sleeping. . .and. . . .that slash. . . . . .that's what got me killed in the first place. . .

His eyesockets start to slowly close, but he tried to keep them open.

Dammit! He can't go to sleep! He can't!

Exhaustion was slowly taking over his mind.

. . . . . .

It's. . . .quiet. . . .

Very. . . .quiet. . .

. . . .I'm gonna. . . .take some time to rest. . .and soak in the calm silence. . . .

I'm sorry I failed you all. . . . .

I'm just. . .tired. . . .

. . .very, very, tired. . . .

Sky's eyesockets flashed open as he quickly dodged the quick slash.

"Phew, that was cl—"

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Sky looked down at his shirt to only see it be coated in blood.

. . . .his blood.

A deep wound is sliced in the bone marrow across his ribs and sternum. It's heavily oozing out blood and he could already feel another rotten crack forming around his outer ribs.

Sky sucked in a breath as he pressed his arm snugly against the opened wound to stop the free flowing surge of sticky blood. Colorful spots contour the sides of his eyesockets as he gritted his teeth from screaming in devastating pain.

The kid would like to hear his screams, after all.

The wounded skeleton dropped on one knee as the crimson warm blood started to drip from his arm that was covering the wound. It soaked both of the materials of his jacket and the scarf. Even though the pain was unbearable, Sky strained to keep a grin on his face, knowing that he will die after this. . .knowing that the kid will RESET after this. . . .knowing that this god damn genocidal charade will start over and over again. . . . .

"I-I guess I w-was wrong. . ." he coughed, causing the kid to freeze. "Y-you know... I really hoped w-we could b-be friends. .e-ever since the first timeline. . .but now. . ."

Sky couldn't finish his sentence as that same frightening grin appeared on the kid's face.

With what little strength he had left, the skeleton managed to stumble up. "W-well, I'm going to G-Grillby's," he said as he began to limp away. Feeling his body start to crumble into dust, Sky slumped down, his head leaning against the golden wall. He slowly closed his eyesockets again as he succumbed to all of the death and sorrow consuming him up.

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A tall figure started to slowly walk past the decaying Sky, following the child as multiple hands started to form around him.

"👎✋👎 ✡⚐🕆 ❄☟✋☠😐 ✋❄ 🕈✌💧 ⚐✞☜☼ ✡☜❄✍ ❄⚐⚐ 👌✌👎 ✡⚐🕆 ☞⚐☼☝⚐❄ ❄⚐ 😐✋☹☹ 💧⚐💣☜⚐☠☜ ☜☹💧☜ ✋☠ ❄☟✋💧 ☼⚐🕆❄☜."

The kid tried to turn around, to only see their own knife meet their flesh.

The tall figure twisted the blade in his floating hand, sinking it deeper and deeper.

Without warning, the floating hand jerked it all the way into the child's back, until the shiny red metal had disappeared inside them and the black handle was pushing against their broken skin.

He blinked as the hand pulled the blade out of the dying adolescent.

Glitches surrounded them as they slowly disintegrated away, their SOUL immediately shattering into pieces.

The tall figure walked back to the pile of dust that was once someone he had watched over for many, many years.

He huffed in slight annoyance as he picked up Sky's jacket and the crimson scarf.

"⚐☟ 💧✌☠💧. . . .🕈☟✌❄ 🕈✋☹☹ ✋ 👎⚐ 🕈✋❄☟ ✡⚐🕆. . ."