***Hello, everyone! I'm back with a brand-new story after watching some antisepticeye for reasons that are beyond me. This story was actually by the request of one of my biggest supporters, dream1990. So, I just had to do it! Warning: this particular chapter gets pretty bloody and there are mentions of vomiting. That aside, Asgore, Toriel, Asriel, and Chara (who I see as female) belong to Toby Fox, and let's roll!

Prologue: A Failed Plan

"MOM! DAD! HELP!"

Asgore and Toriel both heard the cry from different parts of the house. And they both ran to it, for it was in the throne room.

There was Asriel, looking as he had after he'd absorbed the SOUL of Chara, who was dead over his shoulder. He was badly staggering through the golden flower bed. It was as if he was drunk. His left arm looked like a staircase, it was so badly broken. He was cut up and even stabbed a few times, blood oozing from every mark on his body through his robes. He kept his right arm to his stomach, that area especially stained with crimson. He collapsed on the flower bed, Chara falling to the side.

Toriel ran over and spread him out in starfish formation. When she did, she began to heal him quickly. The magic could be seen from her hands as she worked.

"How's his HP?" she asked monotonously, not looking up. Asgore checked Asriel for that. "It's very low, but it's going up. Slowly," he reported. "Good," Toriel said.

She kept healing, moving her hands to the various injuries on Asriel's body. Even when her face began to pale under her fur and beads of sweat appeared on her face, she just held her DETERMINED expression and kept going.

Asgore felt, for lack of a better word, useless. He cradled Chara's cold, lifeless body as he watched, stroking her caramel-colored hair. It took a few minutes, but eventually, Toriel did finish. She was sweaty, exhausted, and out of magical energy. But, she'd done it. And that was what mattered.

"Ch... check him," she said, panting. Asgore did just that. "He's back to a full HP level. Wow," he said. Toriel help up a thumbs-up, wiping her forehead and panting. Asgore very gently put Chara's body so it was next to Asriel's.

When they touched was when it happened.

Asriel melted back into a child. From his chest rose two SOULs; a white one and a red one, linked together. They separated, however. The white one went back to Asriel while the red one went back to Chara. Both children seemed to relax. It looked as if they were merely sleeping.

"Wait a moment. We know Asriel's alive. But maybe..." Asgore said. He pressed his ear to Chara's chest and put his paw against her cheek.

Her face was warm and she had a heartbeat.

Asgore sat back up so quickly that it nearly gave him a head rush. "Tori, our children are alive again!" he cried out in his joy. But when he looked over, he saw that he was pretty much talking to himself.

Toriel had passed out from exhaustion and was sound asleep on the floor. Asgore just looked at the three that were asleep on his bed of golden flowers.

"...well, I would rather have them asleep."

XxX

Asgore found that he was strong enough to carry every member of his family. Individually, of course. He moved them each to their respective beds and went between them all, checking in on them as they slept.

Unsurprisingly, Toriel was the first to awaken, that very night and a few hours after the royal couple had gotten the scare of their lives. "Gorey?" she said, her voice soft.

Asgore went over to her. "Good evening," he said simply. "What happened?" Toriel asked. So, Asgore relayed the events that had happened a few hours prior. "...and then, I brought you here," he concluded.

"Chara and Asriel... have they woken up yet?" Toriel asked. "No. But I assure you, they're only asleep," Asgore said.

Toriel smiled. "Thank goodness."

XxX

It was a day later that Asriel woke up. He was shaky and sore as his eyes fluttered open. It was a struggle, but he got up and went over. "Chara?" he said softly. Nothing. He remembered then everything that happened.

"Our plan failed... but we survived. I'm gonna get Mom and Dad," he said. Although he spoke like Chara could hear him, he knew that he was pretty much talking to himself. He walked out of his room until he found his parents. "Mom? Dad?" he said.

Asgore and Toriel immediately looked up from what they were doing. "Oh, my child!" Toriel exclaimed. She ran forward and gave Asriel a hug. "Ow-ow-ow, I'm still sore!" the young prince cried. Toriel let go. Asgore came over as well.

"Asriel, beyond the soreness, are you feeling alright?" he asked. "I'm a bit shaky, but other than that, I'm fine. Chara's still asleep," Asriel said. That seemed to be a relief to his parents.

However, there was a still the elephant in the room. "My child, what did you do in the human world that caused you to be hurt so badly?" Toriel asked.

Asriel sighed; he'd hoped he wouldn't have to explain this. But, now he did.

"Me and Chara had a plan. She would eat the buttercups on purpose to make herself fatally sick. Then, I'd use and absorb her SOUL to cross the barrier and to fulfill her last wish. That was to see the golden flowers of her home village. So I took her there. But the humans... they saw me carrying her body and they thought I killed her. and they attacked me. I was lucky to get away with my life. Another thing I wanted to do was bring back seven humans so we could use their SOULs to break the barrier," he explained.

He frowned. "But we failed, and both nearly died in the process." He found himself in the embrace of his father.

"Asriel," Asgore said, "do your mother and I a favor by never doing something like that again." His tone was deadly serious.

"You know how heartbroken we were when Chara died. We don't want to lose our children," Toriel said. Asriel nodded, allowing himself to melt into Asgore's hug.

"Okay."

XxX

Two days passed. Chara was expected to not wake up for about a day or two. But three days was a bit of a stretch. So it felt like a miracle when Chara woke up.

It was the middle of the night when she woke up actually. She went over to the bed across from hers. "Azzie, wake up," she said. "Hm..." Asriel hummed, eyes opening slowly. It didn't take long for him to wake up, however, when he saw who else was awake.

"Chara! Thank goodness!" he exclaimed. Chara nodded. "We failed at the plan, didn't we?" she guessed. When Asriel nodded, she sighed. "Crap," she muttered.

"Let's go get Mom and Dad! We were worried about when you would wake up," Asriel said. Chara took maybe two steps before the color drained from her face. "You okay?" Asriel asked.

"The buttercups are coming back up," Chara replied. And, she threw up onto the floor. When she was done, she went back to her bed and flopped down face-first. "Go get Mom," she said, her voice muffled by the pillow.

"I was planning on it," Asriel said. Then, he left the room.

***And, that's the beginning of a brand-new story, everyone! I have probably a few more multi-chapter stories than I can handle, but whatever! I enjoy it. Anyways, be sure to leave a review on the way out, and I'll see you all in the next one! Bye!