Chapter 7: Awake
(A/N: Minor warning, words on Chara's corpse? Not graphic)
(Chara's Point of view)
The years had passed by in almost a blur, a few times, a familiar twinge had pulled at the child's consciousness, but they slept on.
A haze-like state; summer, fall, winter, spring. No matter the season in the world above, the flowerpatch stayed in blossom. Grew on. As if trapped in a lost time.
The barrier in the cavern far above buzzed with a warm magical energy, and occasionally the child caught brief snatches of a flower-like creature speaking.
"Another one… almost free-ouch… Chara…"
The child did not understand, how did this creature know them? It was not long before the void-like trance captured them once again.
They did not know how long they slept, accompanying the flowers and their long overgrown body.
One day, they felt a tug, expecting it to fade like the others, the child was surprised. The sensation was much stronger than before; it seemed to pull at their soul insistently, expectantly. Sighing, the long buried child slowly opened their eyes.
They patted their face, the dark bandage still covered their left eye, thin wrapping still crawled up their fingers, and the golden locket still swung from their neck. Smiling a small smile, the long forgotten human sat up. They wondered how long it had been, were they a ghost?
The memories came flooding back, they remembered the plan; it had worked at first then… Asriel just had to be such a sissy about it…
Sighing, the dead child stood up
I guess it may have been too much to ask of him… especially since-
The child gasped, holding up a hand, they noticed for the first time that they could see through it slightly. Looking down for extra clarification, they bit back an excited shriek when they realized they were able to see the flowers underneath.
They were a ghost!
Hearing a sudden rustling jolted the child out of their thoughts, turning around, the ghost child flinched.
A human was rustling through the flowers on their hands and knees- a human!
A HUMAN! Were there humans in the underground now? How long have I been gone? What are they doing?
Upon closer inspection, it was concluded that the human was searching for something. The ghost child took a look around and quite easily spotted a foreign object, neatly tucked into a small space by one of the pillars.
I shouldn't help them, can I even hold stuff? It's a human! But it's only a kid. I was a kid when I fell down here. But humans are EVIL!
As the ghost child argued with themselves, their hand drifted unconsciously to their sheath. Their fingers felt nothing. Glancing down, they scowled at the absence of their knife. The short leather sheath that was always strapped to their left leg was empty. Hissing in slight annoyance, the child shrugged; they weren't sure that they could harm living things anyways.
Pushing aside their flood of questions and inner bickering, the first fallen child took a moment to admire the human's fashion choices. The sweater was especially cool.
Watching the human for a while, the spectral child decided on the next plan of action. The human didn't seem to see the ghost- actually, the human didn't seem to see anything. They were searching with their eyes closed and it was taking them a painstaking amount of time to find the object. The ghost child tried to pick up the disk, their hand phased right through it. Concentrating, they managed to pick it up for a little while before it dropped again. Sighing, they gave up.
~O*O~
When the blue sweater clad child began to cry, the kid in green facepalmed and without thinking, snapped "It's over there!"
The human's head whipped towards Chara's direction and they wiped their tears away.
The spectral child was pleasantly surprised, so at least ghosts could talk to people.
Unfortunately, the human did not follow instructions, just tilted their head in confusion.
The ghost facepalmed, was this kid blind or just stupid? They proceeded to give the human instructions.
~O*O~
"So are you blind or something?"
Watching the kid take out a small notebook, the child with one stripe muttered a curse under their breath; this was going to be a long day.
After a short altercation* with themself about whether or not to ditch this miserable human, the child remembered when they first fell. Asriel was there for me…
They decided to help
~O*O~
The ghost child peered over the human's shoulder in curiosity as they wound up the strange object. When the notes began to shift through the air on silent wings, the child stiffened; the music was so beautiful, soothing… and so familiar. They felt as if they had heard it before, somewhere…
Letting the nostalgia was over them, the once-dead child walked in silence. Tilting their head, they gave the beautiful ancient pillars and stalactites of their resting place one last look.
The invisible barrier buzzed and hummed, even without sunlight, the place was warm. Even without sunlight, the wild grasses popped up across the rocky surface. Even without sunlight, the yellow flowers grew and grew and grew. The seeds that once sprouted from a long forgotten corpse grew into an invasion. The sunny plants now covered the entire plateau, crawling up the ancient pillars, crowding out the native plants; all the while shining brightly as if nothing was wrong.
Ripping a venomous gaze from the overgrown flowers, the child turned back toward the human.
"So what's your name?"
"That's a nice name"
"I'm Chara"
~O*O~
The child grinned,
Despite everything, it was still them.
So they guided Frisk toward the entrance to the ruins,
toward an adventure,
toward the future.
(Notes)
Some more in depth about Chara's introduction so you can better understand how they play a part in this story :D
In this fanfic, Chara is a bit like white text-chara, but not exactly. They are a guide to Frisk to keep them from having a bad time everyday; but more than that, they are a friend. (also adding a lot of room for character development O-)
*Definition: altercation- a noisy argument or disagreement (well, noisy in their head)
I didn't really want to use the name 'Chara' in this chapter a lot (idk, mystery) so if you could tell, I had fun with tons of random pronouns X)
(Here is a list of Frisk's relationships with characters so far: )
Frisk: Ms. Scott= daughter:mother/ pupil: teacher- Platonic
Frisk: the Boy= sister: brother- Platonic
Frisk: Chara= friend: friend/ sister:sister- Platonic
(Platonic Morailship for life)
Uhhggg, I hope I can write this with 2 children in it with they/them pronouns x-x
I think I like the idea of a no gender Frisk and a both genders Chara so that's what this shall be.
(Frisk doesn't care, and Chara is very vocal on it :D
Chara believes that they are a ghost.
This scene makes more sense if you are looking at the Undertale opening pics (not the actual game start where Frisk is in a tiny patch of flowers)
Speaking of flowers, everyone's favorite is coming soon :]
(p.s. if you are interested in SU, Pink Diamond, theories, and Rose Quartz, feel free to check out my one shot titled 'Code Diamond' OwO)
Til next time,
~PhysikLily UwU