RE: DETERMINED FATE

The Soul of Peace in Another World

Pure white.

A pure white landscape was all that existed, a wasteland; a destroyed Universe. Standing on two of the only few pieces of land were two brothers, now rivals; a broken family that was once loving and now only filled with hate and resentment.

On the left, stood our protagonist, the 15-year-old Ryutensei "Ryu" James Henderson-Shock (also known as Ryuuto), youngest child of Shinra Markus Shock and Emily Jospehine Henderson. His hair was a snow white color with a singular streak of red going through its spiky and messy form. His eyes, filled with unadulterated fury and hate, were heterochromic; one was blood red and glowing with Determination. The other was yellow-green, but the thing that was the same with both eyes was that their whites were blacked out with the corruptive essence of Hate . He wore a dull gray jacket that was left open, revealing a black t-shirt, along with black pants and black shoes. In his left hand was a extremely sharp sword, colored red and made entirely of magic. His magic, the Magic of the Red Soul, Determination . On his back was a bow, colored yellow and also made of Magic, but this one was made of the Yellow Soul of Justice 's Magic.

On the right, stood Ryutensei's current enemy, his older brother Blaze "Athab" Shock (he left behind their mother's name apparently). His hair color was a stark contrast to Ryu's own, colored orange-red with yellow dashed into it, looking like a blazing forest fire was infused into the messy mop of hair on his hair. His hair, while messy and spiky in its own right, liked to follow gravity's laws a little more than his younger brother's, as parts of it framed his face and partially shadowed his orange eyes that seemed to glow like hot coal. His clothing was much more monotonous than his brothers, all decked out in variants of a dull gray. In his blood and dust-stained hands were black flames, Blaze's advanced fire magic that gave him his nickname "Athab", which was Arabic for Hellfire and the 'coolest' fire-related nickname his brother's former friends could come up with. The two glared at each other, but Blaze seemed much more casual in his posture, as if he didn't find his younger brother threatening at all. It was Ryu who spoke first. "What was the point of this, Blaze? You just committed genocide on a completely unseen scale!"

Blaze shrugged, his eyes glowing with barely repressed insanity. "Meh, I was originally thinking those Monster freaks were holding you captive. You know the stories about their species has always painted them in a negative light." That didn't help the pyromancer's case at all, as in Ryu's left hand formed a glowing spear of Ice Magic, catching Blaze's attention. He didn't know his brother had a Ice-elemental affinity, he originally thought he was just going to be a basic Soul Magic User.

"Since when does a baseless suspicion like that mean you can commit genocide not only against Monsters, but the entire universe as a whole?! You just eradicated countless timelines!" Ryu snapped, causing Blaze to sigh as an almost bored expression took over the formerly insane one.

"Wow. Did you almost forget that your friends have committed genocide too? How many times has 'Flowey' or 'Asriel' or whatever that flower kid was called kill his family and his entire race? How many times have Frisk and Chara torn away happiness from everyone around them, just after giving them everything they wanted, like cruel Gods?" Blaze scoffed. "How about Asgore? He killed 6 innocent children." Then, immediately the genocidal teenager's eyes lit up. "Wait, I remember! Those kids were your friends back then, right? Back in Rustcottmo?"

Almost immediately, Blaze got a reaction from his brother, who disappeared from his floating platform in a burst of speed that shattered it through the sheer force of his instant acceleration. Ryu smacked his brother with the blunt edge of his sword and then shot his Ice Spear at him with as much force as he could. The impact of the spear caused a small explosion, or at least small in comparison to the blank, timeless void around them. Blaze floated out of the explosion, barely damaged by the icy explosion of magic. "Man, I seemed to have touched a nerve there!" He laughed in a slightly manic manner. His laughter stopped when he noticed his brother's unamused and icy (no pun intended) expression. Ryu raised his hand to the nonexistent sky, when a rumbling sound was heard, like thunder. But that should have been impossible, there was basically nothing in existence anymore, let alone anything that would have allowed for lightning. The older teen then noticed that in the younger one's raised hand, rainbow-colored electricity could be faintly seen.