Chapter Two: A Mistake
Asgore, Chara, and Gaster stood in the Throne Room. Usually, both Toriel and Asriel would be with them, but they shouldn't have to see this, so they were in their rooms.
"My son," Asgore was right in front of the human, while Gaster was in the back of the room, "are you sure you want to do this?"
"I told you," the boy answered, "I want to help save you and the monsters!" He put on a sickly-sweet smile.
They were here to go with Chara's theory on absorbing a soul and not killing the person. "Plus, Dr. Gaster says it's safe."
Gaster, who was here to make sure everything went fine, looked at his notes he was holding, "it should be safe. King Asgore, Prince Chara, if either of you think anything is going wrong, end the battle. Immediately."
The prince rolled his eyes, "okay, okay. Let's just get this over with."
Chara smirked in their mind as they engaged in battle, feeling the familiar power surge of being in a fight. He watched as color faded from the world as he went into the red soul. Usually, the human has the first attack, so he had to wait.
Chara: ACT… Chara is waiting.
Asgore looked one last time at his adoptive son and hoped nothing will go wrong.
Asgore: ACT… Asgore absorbed Chara's soul. Does no damage.
Perfect. It worked.
It was Chara's turn, but he had to do nothing, so that's what he did and the battle was stuck on his turn.
Now, Asgore became a stronger being. He grew bigger, almost reaching the ceiling, his horns became sharper, black lines appeared all over the king's body, and his eyes became blood red.
This is what the king didn't want his wife and other son to see. The way he looked now was what humans would think of monsters.
Gaster stared at the hybrid, trying not to show his fear. Though he was afraid, he was also in awe that this worked. The prince was really smart for their age, maybe after this was done they could work with him.
Slowly, the giant goat monster walked out of the throne room as Gaster followed. They went down the long path, which Chara always wondered why that was there.
Finally, they were at the barrier. It glowed as twilight shone through. Though Chara hated humans, he couldn't deny that they were great at magic once.
Without a word, the hybrid walked through the barrier. It was like walking through a veil, slightly annoying, but easy. It felt like light, if it was a little bit solid. Also, the barrier, which people might think it was thinker, it was about a centimeter and then you were on the surface.
The beast looked up at the starry sky and the full moon. Then it saw, in the distance, a small town, which it started walking towards.
They walked silently up behind a human. Asgore's plan was to go into another battle, absorb six human souls, and not kill anyone.
He started a battle, which thankfully the human didn't notice. Since they were on the surface, where magic was rare, the human didn't go into their soul.
Chara took this as his moment. He used his turn with the power of the hybrid.
Chara/Asgore: Fight… Chara used DETERMINED FIRE!
Chara sent a red fire ball at the human who immediately felt the pain.
"AHHHHHHHHH!" They screamed as their flesh burned and the fire ball reached their heart.
Chara wished they killed the human quicker so they wouldn't scream, but they did the job. A cyan soul floated above the dead body. It was then that Asgore took back control of the body.
He stared in pain and confusion at the soul. Why would Chara do this?
He didn't have enough time to think about it fully because, thanks to the human's scream, others came out of their homes.
Asgore absorbed the soul quickly as the first humans reached him.
"Monster!" One shouted and hefted a weapon in his hands.
"Murderer," another shouted.
"Kill before it kills all of us," multiple people shouted that.
Soon, all the humans were either throwing rocks at the monster, attacking with actually weapons, or protecting the human children.
All Asgore tried to do was walk away, which infuriated Chara. He wanted to shout at the stupid king to fight. Instead, he was trying to go back to the underground! He could get all the necessary souls and more in a heartbeat!
The prince tried to gain control, but to no avail. Soon, they were back to the barrier, but Gaster was gone.
The hybrid could feel their HP lowering, the body even started melting and turning to dust. The HP ticked down to one when they reached the Throne Room, which, for some reason, both Asriel and Toriel were there, probably to greet them and see how it went.
"My love," the queen shouted and ran towards Asgore/Chara as the body finally dissolved.
"D-dad?" Asriel started crying and looked at the dust spread across his dad's favorite flower.
The two were so busy crying over the king to notice red, cyan, and white souls float above the body. Quickly, the red soul flew towards the white and surrounded it with determination. The soul absorbed the boss monster soul a flew out of the room, leaving the cyan soul, which was useless for it.
Once it reached the area where the barrier was, the soul formed back into a human. Chara, now in his own body, could cross through the barrier with no limitations.
He had one though on his mind, "time to ruin the surface…"
A/N Hey, guys! Sorry for the late update, which I wanted to do last week, but I had no time. The next chapters will be next Tuesday and Friday and remember that Ruintale belongs to IamDragonFury!
