Decaytale
Chapter 2.
Continuing the fall into ruin.
Here we go!
(Chara's POV)
Asgore slowly approached the barrier, stopping just in front of it, looking it up and down, taking a moment to observe the flashing of light and pulsating colors it was made up of.
"Hear goes nothing." he thought.
Yeah, I could hear his thoughts now, this was going to be so much fun.
Asgore finally stepped through the barrier, which was surprising not that thick at all, it was about as thick as regular-sized chocolate bar.
"Just keeping walking straight and we'll be there." I told him.
Had I known the village was this close to the land of monsters, I probably would have done this a long time ago.
"Six," I heard Asgore think, "just six and...absolutely no casualties."
"That's what you think." I thought to myself.
"What was that, Chara?" Asgore asked aloud.
Shit, guess he can hear my thoughts as well...better be careful.
"Um...you really think we can do this?" I inquired innocently.
"We should be able to," the king replied, "so long as we work together and tread lightly."
It's almost laughable, how clueless he is.
Finally, we made it to the human village, it was in the late afternoon, close to 5:00 p.m., so, there was not much activity.
"It's awful quiet right now." I noted.
"Yes," Asgore said, "which means that we will have to be tactful about this."
Wasn't that your plan from the beginning?
Asgore cautiously entered the village and it was at that point I asked a vital question.
"So...Dad...since our souls are one now, does that mean I have control as well?" I inquired casually.
"From what I have heard," he told me, "depending on the situation, when a soul is absorbed by another, control of the body usually does end up split between the two owners of each soul."
"So...hypothetically speaking..." I pressed, hiding my urgency, "I could take control whenever I wanted?"
"If you absolutely needed," Asgore said, "like, if something happened to me and I was unable to keep going, then you would pretty much have to take control and get us out of here."
That's all I needed to know.
It was then we finally spotted a lone human, a woman who looked to be in her mid twenties, on her knees as she tended to her garden. Luckily, she was facing away from us, so she had no idea that we were there.
"Found one," my "father" sighed, "we better do this before anyone sees us."
"Yes," I responded, "we better."
My soul throbbed erratically with excitement as we approached the woman from behind.
"Forgive me for this." Asgore mumbled quietly.
It was now or never, mustering all of the Determination I could manage, I forced my soul to engulf Asgore's, taking control of our body for myself.
"What...Chara!?" Asgore thought tensely.
I ignored him, using our combined power, I forcibly caused the king's fingernails to turn into long, beastly talons, much more befitting of this form.
"What do you think you are doing, Chara?" the anxious king thought to me, "Answer me!"
Again, I ignored him.
I then let out a low growl, alerting the woman to our presence.
As soon as she saw us, the woman looked on in alarm, eyes so wide they could've popped out easily.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH," she screamed at the top of her lungs, "MONSTEEEEEEERRRRRR!"
I then plunged my newly created claws straight through the center of that sorry bitch's body, slashing her with my free hand to detach her from them. The woman's lifeless body fell to the ground, her blood quickly pouring out and spreading all around her.
With that, I gave control back to Asgore, who stared in horror as the human woman's soul rose up from her body, hovering right above her corpse.
"Ch...Ch-Chara..." he spoke haltingly, obviously processing what had just happened, as he took the human soul in our hands, "what have you done?"
I laughed, casting off my innocent facade at long last.
"Sorry, old man," I said bluntly, "but, I have my own priorities."
At that moment, more screams rang out, as other villagers had now stumbled onto the scene, calling attention to the rest of the town as they came towards us, a majority of the adults being armed.
"Look!" a twentysomething-year-old man shouted, clearly leading the crowd behind him, "There it is! It killed her! I saw it! It killed her! Murdered her!"
"AAAAH!" a middle-aged human woman cried, "Oh God, it's do horrible!"
"How did you get here!?" an elderly man questioned us.
The humans continued to cry and squabble in fear and anger, children sniveling to their parents about how scared they were and begging them to make the "bad thing" go away.
"No, no, no," Asgore mumbled frantically, "this was not supposed to happen!"
"You'll pay for this!" the same man who had led the rest of the villagers to the scene suddenly yelled at us, before picking up a large stone and throwing it at us.
Asgore lifted his arm to block the stone, however, his forearm was the struck by something else, which turned out to be a bolt from a crossbow.
"Together everyone!" a human man shouted, "Kill it as it killed one of our own!"
With that, the humans went all out, assaulting us with a barrage of stones, arrows, bolts, spears, anything and everything they had on hand. We were struck many times, though, thanks to my position, Asgore was the one feeling all the pain.
"Hmm..." I thought, "maybe now would be a better time than any to get more of souls."
I tried to take over Asgore's soul once again, though, I guess he had heard me, as I felt his soul throb violently, keeping me from getting a hold of him.
"No, Chara," the king growled, "not again!"
No matter, I already got what I needed.
Wounded and clearly in agony, Asgore turned away from the humans and ran from the village, some of the humans chasing after us until we were outside of the town.
"Chara, why?" the king questioned me, slowing down as his undoubtedly fatal injuries began to catch up with his, "Why did you do that? The plan was to get souls without killing anyone!"
"That was your plan, Asgore," I retorted, "my plan however was to simply...get a soul, by any means necessary."
"But, to kill an innocent person-" he grunted, beginning to stumble.
"One, you don't know that she was innocent," I proclaimed, "two, it wasn't about getting her soul, it was about getting a monster soul."
"A monster s-" the king huffed.
"Yep, and not just any monster's soul," I interjected proudly, "but, the most powerful of all monsters' soul."
Asgore didn't respond.
"Thanks for literally handing me your soul, dumbass!" I sad gleefully.
Finally, we could see the barrier in the distance, however, our vision became blurry, I could feel Asgore's soul twitch as it started to slow down, it was clear that the king was fading fast, yes, soon his soul would be mine to take.
"Why..." Asgore asked sadly, "why would you do this? We...we loved you...you were our son...what could possibly warrant such treachery?"
"Oh, you poor, simple, blind oaf," I voiced earnestly, "don't you get it? I never cared about any of you, not you, not that bitch Toriel, not that sniveling wuss Asriel, absolutely none of you! I couldn't care less about your guys' freedom or happiness, all I wanted was my own freedom, my own power!"
Asgore did not respond, either because he was too stunned by my words or just too weak by this point.
"With your soul," I told Asgore, as he hobbled through the barrier, "I will be able to take as many souls as I damn well please, I will hold the human race firmly in my grasp, I will be God, do you hear me, GOD!"
Finally, the moribund king staggered into the throne room, where Toriel, Asriel, and Gaster had been waiting, and collapsed to all fours slowly reverting back to his normal form.
Those in the room were perplexed by the sight, though their confusion quickly turned to panic when they noticed the state of their king.
"Darling!?" Toriel gasped.
"Daddy!" Asriel cried anxiously.
"Si...re?" Gaster spoke unsteadily.
(Normal POV)
Toriel ran to her fallen husband, who reached for her as she dropped to her knees in front of him, she held him as he grabbed her by her shoulders, leaning into her embrace. Asriel soon ran to him as well, while Gaster took only a few steps forward, before stopping.
"Gorey," the queen inquired tearfully, "my love, what happened out there? You said that you would be fine, what did those humans do to you!?"
"Chara..." Asgore panted weakly, "it was Chara."
"Chara?" Asriel responded, baffled, "What happened, Chara?"
Asgore shook his head.
"Chara...betrayed me..." the king heaved, his grip on his wife's shoulder loosening, "he lied to us, mislead us...he was never going to help us."
Toriel looked on in shock.
"What...but...Chara..." Asriel responded sadly, "...you promised...why..."
As his entire body went limp, the king reached under himself and pulled out the lone human soul he had gotten from the surface.
"Chara...used me to kill a human..." he revealed quietly, "when the other humans...saw...they...they attacked with everything they had...they were so afraid..."
Toriel looked at the human soul, then at her husband.
"Do not...let...Chara...take...yours..." Asgore exhaled.
with that, he was gone, his dust spreading out around them, much of it coating Toriel's clothing.
At that same time, in the lab, Sans, Papyrus, and Alphys, who had been watching the entire time, had witnessed the moment themselves. Sans was quick to cover his younger sibling's eyes, as they promptly buried their faces in his shoulders.
Toriel looked down at herself, petrified by the amount of her husband's remains strewn about her dress, her arms, her hands, and the ground. She then turned her attention to the human soul Asgore had presented, still hovering in front of her, and took in her hand.
"Da...ddy?" Asriel whimpered, staring at the dust-littered ground.
Gaster did not say anything, horrified by the incident, he staggered backwards before turning to run out of the room, all the way back to his lab. The scientist rushed through the entrance of the lab and promptly leaned back against the door, hyperventilating.
"What have I done?" the skeleton man murmured hysterically, "What have I done? Why did I have to..."
He continued to mumble miserably to himself, before dissolving into tears, unaware that his children were watching from the next room. They did not say anything though, Sans closed the door before they could make their presence known, feeling that their father should probably be left alone for a while.
While everyone was absorbed in their shock and grief, Toriel and Asriel sobbing over their husband and father's dust, Chara, who still had Asgore's soul in his possession, hurried from the room while nobody was looking. This time, with all of his determination, he made his soul completely envelop Asgore's, suppressing any remaining consciousness of the now deceased king and releasing the power of it into his tiny body.
Chara merrily ran down the corridor, laughing as he approached the barrier.
"Yes, yes, it's mine now, everything is going to be mine," the impassioned child giggled, "the human race will be in my hands!"
He stopped at the barrier and happily jumped through it, he looked up at the sky, it was now nighttime, the moon was just coming up.
Chara then turned his attention to the human village, but, it was not his sole target, not by a long shot.
"It's time." he said darkly.
Whoo, second chapter is done!
Now I just need to figure out where to start and what to detail next.