The Golden Flower of Gravity Falls Chapter 6: The Secret Garden, a Gravity Falls + Undertale Crossover fanfic

Chapter 5: The Secret Garden

A/N: This chapter is very important... But not the end of the story... So read on knowing feels are a head... Also this chapter was heavily influenced by the Flowerfell song: Secret Garden by EmpathP. So give them some love on YouTube. And I said love not LOVE! Anyways enjoy the feels because you all knew this was coming...

MABEL'S P.O.V.

(Sans tells her what in the room if I don't catch myself describing places cause I am horrible at writing a blind person)

I couldn't feel both my hands anymore. It's Sans who cleaned me and patches me up, and then took care of Flowey too. I was really glad that he and the flower are getting along now. Well, not exactly getting along, but they were learning to work together.

I still have no idea what were are going to do, really.

I heard the Echo flowers... I know what my curse is doing to me...

Seven human souls and one monster soul in order to break open the barrier. The king has six, and I'm the seventh, and then there was Chara mocking voice in the back of my head insisting that I am the future of humans and monsters every time I die, even though they want me to restart in the Ruins and kill everyone! But I refuse to let them kill them.

Even though the monsters have been horrible to me, nobody deserves to die like that or to be trapped underground. That's why I want to free them peacefully.

Sans didn't know this but I could barely feel my legs too. The flowers already have taken over both my arms and my torso is probably going next, but my legs were starting to get numb.

What if I can get out to the Surface, but it's in this condition?

What if the flowers are irreversible and the poison doesn't effect me?

What if I could never be back to normal again?

What if?

Sans told me that we were making our way to Hotland, and then to the Royal Scientist's lab.

I couldn't feel my feet as we walked anymore even though I know that the flowers haven't eaten them yet.

The scientist's name was Alphys, I gathered, as she hissed, "You," when she saw Flowey.

Even Sans stepped back a little when Alphys started to yell, started to telling Flowey what a traitor he is for helping a human, and then she said venomously, "Do you think your parents would be happy with what you are doing, Asriel?"

And that's when Flowey yelled back at her to shut up, shut up, shut up!

But Alphys didn't fight us.

Instead there's an explosion of sorts, and Sans was fighting someone named Mettaton. A robot, I thought from what I've been heard. A robot originally built for entertainment and then was modified to destroy humans.

But Sans wasn't letting Mettaton lay a hand on me.

I smiled and said, "Thank you." And I could imagine Sans grin on his face.

All Mettaton did was ask questions and if Sans answered wrong, we would all die. But Sans answered them all confidently, smugly even, from how I heard it, and eventually we were left alone. Alphys had apparently long fled the lab.

I tried to direct my head in his direction and said, "You're really smart Sans... You and Dipper might get along..."

Sans sighed and said, "Maybe Sweetheart but let's get you home so we can find out..."

I nodded and followed the skeleton via his grip in my own. After a while I began to drag my feet as we walked, too tired to muster the strength to actually lift them especially with the numbness rolling through them.

"Hey, honey?" Sans said softly.

I lifted my head and said, "Yeah Sans?"

"We kind of need to hurry. No pressure, but things are going to get a little heated if we lag."

I giggled a bit.

Right, right. The Core is near magma and lava. Or maybe this place was called Hotland? I really can't remember right now.

But it's a good that Sans is telling jokes. He has been telling jokes lately and whenever I touched his face, he felt like he's smiling. Even though Flowey was snorting an "Unbelievable" from the skeleton's shoulder when I did.

So I tried best to walk.

Determination, they chanted once again. Determination, Chara whispered in the back of my head.

They weren't so active before but now as my legs and the rest of my body beings to grow more and more weary, their voice has appeared more now than even even during the death reloads.

Is this their way of telling me I'm nearing my end...?

There was no doubt that Papyrus and Undyne were still chasing us, that was why we have been walking and walking for as much as I could now.

No more stopping.

Because they all know Sans is a traitor now. And Sans will die if we get caught and it will be my fault. So I kept walking.

And we stumbled upon other guards in Hotland, and I died again, twice, because I was too tired and slow to dodge... I think that I'm losing one of my feet for real now.

Sans was starting to get exasperated, I could tell, and I said, "I'm sorry Sans... My body just... Slowing down now from exhaustion..."

But when Sans spoke again he just sounded sad when he brushed my hair aside and said, "It's okay, sweetheart, it's okay."

Mettaton fights us several times more –it would have been ridiculously fun (besides the potential death part) if I could see, but I couldn't, so all I have to go on are what I can hear, and it still sounded ridiculously fun!

From the cooking show, to the news casting, and Flowey pointed out that I might want to stay out of the spotlight if we don't want Papyrus and Undyne to find us.

Darn-it! I've always wanted to be on shows like that! But Flowey's right... I can't risk it right now...

We finally managed to rest at a hotel. Sans kept me close to him at all times since the monsters don't appear to be very friendly around here.

And I thought about just staying asleep for awhile, but Sans was right. We will be found out, and Flowey and Sans will die if we are caught...

Determination, Chara chanted once again.

The end is coming quickly Mabel... You need to make your choice on how to use that Determination of yours... So tell me Maribeth Annalise Pines, are you going to accept my deal or keep your curse? I want my answer when after you leave the Core... So tic, tock Mabel... YouR RuNNiNG ouT oF TiMe!

I pushed their message in the back of my mind and began walking with Sans once again.

And when we encountered Muffet, she made me reload and reload and reload until my right leg was completely out of commission and I began walking with a limp.

Sans got frustrated and... And he ended up killing Muffet.

I cried and cried and cried... I didn't want her to die! No one should die like I have! No one!

I didn't speak to him a little while, but I didn't force a reload no matter how much I wanted to.

I continued walking, Sans supporting my weight, while Flowey remained on his perch to scan for danger. This time according to Flowey, we were really in the Core, at least that what I think when Sans spoke again and confirmed it.

We fight Mettaton and once again my soul shattered from defending Flowey and we all wake up at the hotel.

And I know that it's my other leg that's going to pay for my death this time.

This time Muffet didn't die. Neither does Mettaton, although Sans kept on growling as he dodged like he'd rather rip the robot apart.

I was very thankful that he didn't.

By the time that we were out of the Core, I stumbled and fell to the ground with a yelp.

I scraped my good knee and one of my cheeks.

My arms are useless, my legs are following suit.

Make your choice... NOW...

I sighed and whispered out my choice to Chara into my mind.

I'm setting them free one way... Or another...

SANS'S P.O.V.

"Shit," I cursed as I moved beside her.

I then paused before slipping one of my arms under her back and the other under her knees, holding her bridal style.

Mabel looked up towards me with her flower decorated face and a fresh bleeding cheek and said, "I'm fine."

"No you're not," I said retorting back

. "It's not your fault Sans."

That sent me silent for a while.

She doesn't blame me?

This angel really is too sweet to have what happened to her happen. And as long as I can help it, it won't happen again.

I then continued walking out of the Core area with the human girl cradled in my arms.

That's when Mabel began to sing a song softly from my arms.

He said, 'Oh Mary, Contrary, How does your garden Grow?'
'Come with me, and you'll be the seventh maid in a row'
My answer was laughter, soft as I lowered my head
You're too late, I'm afraid this flower's already dead.

Resetting, as I was with blossoms in full bloom
Never a chance to pause, with magic to consume
A shadow walked behind me, offering his hand
But couldn't understand...

Scattering Petals down the road without an end.
Left on the battleground for the one I call my friend
Maybe he loved me as took me by the hand.
And tried to understand...

"What was that Sweetheart?" I asked softly a bit shocked by the grim lyrics and the fact she was singing in general.

Mabel replied with a smile, "I've been thinking it up as I've been down here... I haven't finished it yet but... It's getting there. Starts out sad and turns happy right?"

"I'll get you to the Surface," I said, "Don't worry. No matter what it takes, sweetheart, I'm getting you to the Surface and we'll have the happy end to your song."

She tilted her head towards my chest and rest a bit while I continue to walk.

King Asgore might have been a good king once.

No, I know that King Asgore was a good king once.

But desperation and loss can do things to a man.

The kingdom was losing hope, and with the death of both of his children followed by his wife's leave due to her grief, he has hardened and now looks at everything as mere things that can be expended if they reach his goal.

I know.

Because once upon a time, I cared for my brother although Papyrus always was a little ambitious.

Once upon a time, I held out hope for getting to the surface and nobody hurt each other.

Once upon a time, I didn't resort to so much violence...

Then once upon a time, Chara and Asriel died, and Queen Toriel left, and everyone thought, this is it, we are stuck here forever. Unless we take seven human souls and blast our way out of here.

Once upon a time, everyone learned that sometimes murder got them what they needed.

Once upon a time, time started resetting so much that I didn't care anymore how many times I needed to kill human children. I just needed to kill. And eventually I just decided not to because no matter how much I did kill, everything was going to be reset.

Once upon another time, a human girl named Mable with a red soul that sang Determination fell and was kind.

Once upon another time, Prince Asriel Dreemurr's soul was put into a flower by the royal scientist and said prince was currently perched on my shoulder.

Once upon another time, I remembered exactly how being happy feels like and wants to fight for it.

And I want many more once upon the times... I want them to be on the surface with these to at my side...

And I will get us there and I'll do it her way because Mabel...

Mabel being the sweetheart she is brought back my hope.

FLOWEY'S P.O.V.

I know how to reset and reload, back when I still had that ability.

Somehow, that was transferred to Mabel's soul when she fell, and I felt guilty for being relieved. I could only reset so much to prevent the other children to be killed, you see. And I knew I was weak in magic to defend all six of those who had fallen. So I tried to wind back time again and again until I got tired and decides to just let it be.

And then a human girl falls.

A human girl with a soul as red as Chara's.

A human girl who looks sort of like Chara except with long hair and braces.

A human girl who is determined like Chara.

So I went with her. I helped her.

I was a traitor, but I was loyal to my best friend and sibling whom I promised that I would find a way to get all the monsters to the Surface.

I promised Chara.

And I am not going to go back on my promise when I was being reminded all the time by Mabel's presence despite her being much more kinder than Chara...

Mabel was kind and sweet and wanted peace... Chara only wished to see humanity burn...

But I will get us to the surface but I want us to be peaceful and co-exist with them...

I hope Chara would understand...

So sometimes I died in the middle of battle, hoping to hell Mabel and Sans got out, but that never happened, because she would always reloaded with a new flower on Mabel but I held on.

I sat on Sans' shoulder listening to my father explain why we should do this, and why the humans deserved to be punished, and thought, that no, this isn't what King Asgore would do.

Not the father I knew when I was Asriel, but the enemy I would face.

I defended Sans and Mabel for as long as I can, no matter if Mabel can no longer stand with all the flowers clinging on to her.

We will win and no blood will be spilled... For Mabel's sake.

SANS'S P.O.V.

Mabel can't stand now. But she pleaded to and Flowey still.

"Don't hurt him. Don't kill him. Spare him. Please."

Asgore looked at her strangely, and I said nothing as he defended.

When a fireball got too close to Mabel, I started to attack.

Mabel can't see anyways so I won't kill the king, I'll just weaken him until he can't fight anymore.

Stupid girl.

Stupid human girl believing in kindness and managing to worm her way into my rib cage.

Stupid me for wanting this girl as a friend.

Stupid fucking circumstances that made everything like this.

In another life, where everyone hadn't lost hope, they all could have been friends. And this entire mess wouldn't be necessary. And sure, they wouldn't be out of the Underground quick, but it would be happy and peaceful.

Flowey stilled on my shoulder for a moment before whispering that he has an idea and then sunk into the floor, roots breaking the cement before he disappeared and leaves me to fight alone.

I cursed, but whatever that damn flower had planned, it was probably worth it. He wouldn't leave Mabel like that.

Mabel was sitting behind me. Hands on the ground, still praying to the stars that nobody got hurt.

She couldn't see.

She couldn't move.

She could talk but her voice wavered at times.

Goddamn kid is suffering.

I struck one blow before Asgore was down on one knee, weaken from our fight.

"Well then?" the king asked, huffing, "Do it."

I still had my bones behind me and I'm still able to call my Blasters to finish Asgore off.

It would be easy.

One blast.

One blast and I could kill the king and take Mabel out of here and out into the Surface.

I lifted one hand...

And then dropped it.

I turned back to Mabel behind me, picked her up into my arms and faced the king again.

"No."

Asgore looked up in surprise and frowned, "No?"

Mabel moved in my arms and leaned her head into my chest.

She began saying, "Thank you." Over and over in appreciation of sparing the old goat king.

"Always be kind. Sometimes kindness is all we can give," I said, "Sometimes kindness is enough."

Asgore laughed, "That's not how it works around here, boy. It's kill or be killed."

I shook my head and pulled Mabel closer.

"Not anymore."

We walked past Asgore, tense, but to my surprise the king let me.

He made no move to stand and just kept his head low.

I walked over to the barrier and stared at it.

We needed seven human souls to cross the barrier. Or one monster soul and one human soul.

Whoever gets that gets to cross the barrier.

I looked at the feverish girl in my arms.

"Hey, sweetheart," I smiled as I looked at her.

She was trying to press closer to me, it was almost amusing.

"You still holding on good?" Mabel nodded slowly.

The cement in front of me broke and Flowey emerged.

He had his vines wrapped into a ball and was panting, but he looked at me and then pulled his vines back to reveal six floating hearts of different colors.

My breath hitched.

No, not hearts.

Souls.

The six human souls.

"We can…can cross the barrier," Flowey coughed, "Or at least take one of the souls. Cross the barrier, take one more, come back, take the rest and then break the barrier."

He was shaking badly, "I don't know, just get Mabel out of here or something."

It's a good plan. Take one soul, get another from Surface and then go back to complete the job and free Mabel and monster-kind.

"MABEL!"

I turned towards the barrier to see five humans on the other side of the barrier.

One was a young lady with bright red hair and a plaid green shirt.

The next was a man who was a bit more portly with a question mark t-shirt and a ball cap.

Then there was two identical old men who I guessed to be twins, one wearing a suit, the other wearing a trench coat.

But the one that caught my eye was the boy who looked like a male version of Mabel.

This was him... This was her twin brother, Dipper.

The five ran through the barrier not caring if they were trapped on the inside or not.

Dipper looked at me and yelled, "LET GO OF MY SISTER YOU MONSTER SKELETON THING! WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER?!"

"Dipper?"

Mabel sat up revealing her halo effected face directed towards the direction of her twin showing all the flowers spilling over her entire body.

"Mabel! Thank god you're alright sweetie!" The man with the red cap said.

Mabel then asked, "Who's all here?"

The girl then said, "You might want to push the flower crown up to see up Mabel, you'd see me, your Grunkle Stan and Ford, Soos, and Dipper here."

"It's not a flower crown..." Flowey breathed still exhausted from getting the souls here.

"What do you mean by-"

"They're grow out of me... Sans would you mind helping me...?" Mable said motioning me. I gently pushed some of the flowers up revealing the stems rooting into her skin and small little black and green lines running underneath like veins.

"Did he do this to Mabel?! Or the talking flower?! Did you two do this her?!" He brother declared in anger and concerned for her.

Mabel laughed softly and said, "They helped me Bro-Bro... Sans and Flowey... They protected me... Kept me safe from anything that meant me harm... They're friends Dipper... They just want to see the sun..."

"Oh dear..." Ford declared.

Wendy looked at him and asked, "What's wrong?"

"I just realized we entered the barrier and we can't get out without..."

"These?" Flowey directed to the souls.

"Those are..."

"Six humans fell before Mabel... They weren't so lucky to escape the monsters after them... But not only Mabel did it, she did it would hurting a soul. She was something that was definitely needed down here. But all we need to do is send one monster and one of these souls through get one more human soul from somewhere and then..."

"No," Mabel rasped and grabbed my sweater.

"Mabel!" Flowey declared, "We need seven human souls to break the barrier; we only have six."

Mabel shook her head rapidly and clenched her teeth.

Was it painful for her to move now? What was this flower thing doing to her?

"Seven..." She whispered, "We have seven..."

"No, we..." Flowey paused and stares at her with wide eyes, "…don't."

Mabel pointed to herself.

I nearly dropped her.

Her family looked floored and her friends were staring in surprise and sheer horror.

Flowey starred at her, disbelievingly, while I tightened my grip on her, and declared, "Are you fucking stupid? You can't just give up – not after all that – "

"Not…not giving up," Mabel croaked with a cough and a bit of blood came out in the spittle surprising all the occupants in the room.

"I... I can't go back to Surface anymore... I'm nearly covered in flowers now... Hah," she laughed weakly, "I'm dying. Slowly. The flowers... They're buttercups... They're poisonous..."

"Oh god Mabel... That's what they are?! Why are they growing to you in the first place?!" Stan asked looking at her in sheer horror as he apparently recognized the plant.

"...Cursed... I know how to break it... But I won't..."

Dipper then screamed out, "WHY?! WHY THE HECK WON'T YOU BREAK IT?!"

"Because I don't want to kill them all... I don't"

The room fell silent in sheer shock of what she said.

She then said, "...They said... I have to go back... Back to the moment I fell... And dust every monster... Leave none... Complete... Genocide... I won't do it... I won't kill them like... like..."

She moved her head and said, "Like I was killed over and over and over and was brought back again and again by this curse of a power... A flower for each death... Sans and Flowey tried to save me from them but it still happened... I don't blame them... They helped me get back to you guys... and I can help them now..."

"Mabel..."

"Don't say that Mabel!" Dipper stated with tears in his eyes spilling over his cheeks.

Mabel chuckled, "One last thing. Right now hope of humans and monsters determines on this moment... You have to do it Sans. Take my soul," she smiled weakly, "Free everyone and Bro-Bro... I love you and Stan and Ford... Wendy, Soos, Candy, Grenda, Pacificia... even Mom and Dad... I'll miss you guys..."

The group remained silent with heartbreaking looks on their faces.

"Mabel, no," Flowey sobbed.

I watched two drops of water land on Mabel's cheek before I realized I was crying too.

The rest of the figures in the room had tears going down their cheeks as well.

"I won't last long," Mabel said softly, "Please." She clutched my sweater tighter, "Please."

Her red soul flickers in front of her and Flowey started crying harder while the red soul beats in rhythm with Mabel's heart beat.

Mabel's chest was still moving, up and down, but it was getting slower.

I looked at her as the red soul floats near my face.

Mabel then began singing out in a hoarse whisper;

Resetting, as I was with blossoms in full bloom
Never a chance to pause, with magic to consume
A shadow walked behind me, offering his hand
But couldn't understand...

Scattering Petals down the road without an end.
Left on the battleground for the one I call my friend
Maybe he loved me as took me by the hand.
And tried to understand...

I then sung out from my swam of tears;

I said, 'Oh Mary, Contrary, How does your garden Grow?'
'Stay with me, I can't see anyway that we could go.'
Their answer was laughter, darkness swallowed them up.
One more time, I'll be fine, sometimes kindness is enough.

'Oh Mary, Contrary, How does your garden Grow?'
'Don't leave me, please don't be the seventh maid in a row'

She sung right back a bit softer;

My answer a whisper, soft as he lowered my head
Set them free, I'm sorry, this flower's already dead.

Mabel whispered something to me after she ended the tune, but I couldn't hear it, so I lowered my head once again.

"Can you say that a little closer?" he asked.

Mabel was falling asleep, and her soul was getting brighter and slowed in pulsing in front of her.

I needed to shove it back in so she can keep breathing.

My tears were falling faster onto Mabel's face.

But he needed to listen, because she could barely talk now and it would be rude not to listen especially after all she did for me.

"I didn't quite catch that."

"Sweetheart?"

The soul stop pulsing the glowed in a vibrant red.

Her chest stopped moving.

She wouldn't respond anymore.

A final breath was released and she was gone...

"Sweetheart?!"

The tears flooded my faces I made the realization she was dead.

I fell to my knees letting out my sobs, not caring who was watching.

Flowey crawled onto my shoulder and sobbed above her.

The humans there too were crying out in their own ways.

Soos hugged onto Wendy and cried onto each other, Ford and Stan were letting out muffled sobs trying their hardest not break down here and now.

But the one who screamed out the most, the one who cried out the hardest along side me was none other than her twin.

Without a monster controlling them, the souls flew up to the barrier and pressed against it making sparks fly.

I watched in sheer agony as Mabel's soul made it's way to the center and pressed along side it...

Soon enough the barrier shattered... As did the souls...

She was really gone now...

And I couldn't save her this time...

We buried Mabel back at the entrance of the Ruins.

The same place she fell, Asriel said to us.

Apparently her and Dipper's parents had left their home in California according to their neighbors, packing everything and leaving a note telling the twins to never look for them again, leaving the twins in the care of their Great Uncles leaving them to handle the funeral preparation.

Flowey asked them if we could bury her there as a respect for what she did for all monsters and the fact she would have a private grave that was protected.

They agreed and so we let the humans down the roads of the underground, with monsters passing by giving Mabel's casket blessing of magic.

When we finally reached the point, I saw the very same flowers that killed her some tilted away so she could be properly buried.

We delicately set her in the ground and I looked at the faces all around.

Two girls hugged each other sobbing hard.

A blonde girls cried tears under a veil of hair trying to hide it.

A boy with some really big hair and handcuffs off cried trying not to look at the casket.

A group of teens bowed their heads with tears going down their eyes, and in the case of one girl and boy, mascara dripped down as well.

An old man with a long beard and broken glasses took off his hat and bow respectfully.

Then there was this one guy in a grey jump suit and a had a mustache looking hair style let tears fall down steadily as well, but they were tinted with a yellow-ish color.

Finally there was her family and monsters who killed her the most.

Toriel was openly weeping for the girl into her ex's shoulder not caring at the moment while the king silently bowed his head in respect.

Undyne, Mettaton, and Alphys bowed their heads in silence.

My brother on the other hand was next to me standing in a respectful silence.

Asgore explained to the four what she did...

And how she did it so they all could be free...

Papyrus may be a psycho sometimes but he has a respect for those who willingly give something up so he can better himself.

To him, Mabel gave him a new world to live in... And for that he has her at most respect.

Her Great Uncles (at their request 'Grunkle' wasn't to be used since Mabel came up with it) bowed their heads morning their niece.

Dipper was still crying but more softly like myself, we still haven't ran out of tears and honestly I could care less about it...

We all stood there watching her be lowered into the dirt, all the monsters their passing a magic blessing onto the coffin.

When it came to my turn, I pumped out all the magic I could without killing myself in the process and bestowed it upon the coffin.

When I was finished, I whispered out as I regained my balance, "I'll protect you... No matter what Sweetheart."

Soon the grave was covered a tombstone erected. It read;

Maribeth Annalise Pines
Mabel Pines
Loving Sister, Niece, and Friend
Savior of the Underground
And The Golden Flower of Gravity Falls

Flowey said that was where Chara was buried too.

The first human, their sibling, the first red soul of Determination.

And so last red soul was bury next to the first...

And my Sweetheart was finally put to rest...

A/N: ... I'm sorry... There still one more chapter... Tell me what you think... and please don't kill me...