Chapter 7: The Unlikely Hero
I usually take this time to rant on about my problems, don't I? Well you know what? Screw that! Why should I bother you guys with this stuff? I'm just gonna shut up about me, and stop feeling sorry for myself! I wanna know how you guys are doing. Leave a review or something telling me how your day went.
Asriel woke up earlier than normal, way earlier. It was 3:00 in the morning. He sat upright in his bed, feeling a sense of dread, but not knowing why. He looked over to see if Frisk was there, but she wasn't.
He decided that she must've gone to use the bathroom, which he had to do as well. When he knocked on the door, though, nobody answered. He tried again. There was no response. He decided to use the bathroom before investigating further.
Once he was done, he looked all over the house, quietly so he wouldn't wake anyone up. He still couldn't find Frisk. He had searched for almost an hour
'Maybe she went back to our room,' he thought.
Frisk wasn't there either.
He searched over the house again, even more thoroughly.
"Frisk! If you're pranking me this isn't funny!" He called out in a whisper.
There was no response.
"Frisk! I'm going to get Mom if you don't come out right now!"
Again, no response.
"Fine then! I'll let you take the blame if this was just a prank!"
Asriel walked up the stairs to his mother's room, careful not to wake up anyone else.
"Mom?" He said quietly.
Toriel yawned, "What is it my child? Did you have a bad dream?"
"I can't find Frisk anywhere. I searched the entire house. I even peeked into everybody's rooms to see if she went into anyone else's room. She's not in our room either. She's not in any of the bathrooms," Asriel rambled, tears in his eyes.
"Slow down, slow down, what happened?"
Asriel retold Toriel the same thing he had just said, only slower.
"Oh my, that isn't good. I'll wake up the others."
"Oh y-yeah, one more thing,"
"What is it?"
"Frisk's side of the bed was exactly as I had left her, the sheets, the blanket, the pillows, everything! As if she had just...vanished."
"This is not good. Some...otherworldly force must be at play here."
Asriel remembered the day before.
"Gaster!" He started, "It must've been Gaster!"
"Now let's not jump to conclusions, but he does seem to be the likely culprit."
Toriel then proceeded to wake everyone else up. Sans was not pleased to hear the news, to say the least.
"that scumbag! i knew we shouldn'tve trusted him!" Sans yelled, slamming his fist at the table that everyone was gathered at.
"wait, I know what happened," said an insecure voice, "I saw it all."
"Who's there?" Undyne yelled in surprise.
"Sh-show yourself!" Alphys yelled in reply, clutching Undyne's shoulder.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, Napstablook appeared.
"yeah, I saw it all. Gaster wasn't doing a bad thing at all." Napstablook said quietly.
"then what did happen?" Sans asked.
"something...evil appeared near Frisk. some sort of spirit. it wanted to take control of Frisk. it wanted to possess Frisk. I think Gaster saw it too, since only spirits and the like can see spirits that don't want to be seen, we can sense when they don't want to be seen, too. Gaster was watching over the household, he had seen the evil and decided to take matters into his own hands. he woke Frisk up and told her to come with him. Then, they disappeared into the void. oh, I've been rambling, haven't I? I'll be quiet now.
"thanks for the info Napst, but why were you here in the first place?" Sans asked.
"oh well, I guess there's no use in hiding it now. Mettaton and I wanted to surprise Frisk by throwing her a party for her 17th birthday."
"Oh, well that's very nice of you, don't you think, Asriel?" Toriel asked, snapping Asriel out of their daze.
"Oh, uh, yeah, really nice," Asriel responded, not really knowing what his mom was talking about. He couldn't shake the feeling out of his mind that Chara had something to do with it. Then he remembered the conversation he had with Frisk the day before. "Chara," he whispered, "the demon that comes when you call its name!" He talked louder and louder with each word until he was almost yelling the last word. "Shit!" He yelled, not caring who heard him.
"Asriel!" Toriel was surprised by her son's language, "Watch your language!"
"Now's not the time Mom! I know what's going after Frisk! It's all my fault! I summoned her by saying her name yesterday!"
"What is it then?" Undyne asked.
"I know you hate making promises, but Sans, promise me you won't flip out when I say who." Asriel said.
"i'm not promising anything, bucko, especially since i had to wake up about four hours early because of them." Sans replied.
"Okay, but you're not gonna like it. Neither are you, Mom, you may want to sit down, like the rest of us. Toriel took her seat at the head of the table. "Okay, so the mystery person is...Chara."
"WHAT!?" Sans was screaming his skull off, "I SWEAR TO GOD IF I EVER SEE THAT BRAT AGAIN, I'LL KILL 'EM!"
"Chara!?" Toriel was surprised, "Are you sure!? Chara was a good kid!"
"No Mom, she wasn't," Asriel started, "She's the reason I died in the first place." Asriel explained what happened to him and how Chara had tried to take over and how it was all part of her master plan. "And the worst part is...she's taken over Frisk's body before. She killed everyone here in cold blood. She didn't ACT, she only used MERCY once, and that was with Sans, because she just wanted the battle to end, and she couldn't beat him.
"you're darn right she couldn't! it took her at least a thousand tries before she hit me! when she spared me, i dunked her!"
"Yeah, you did, and she deserved it, she had killed everyone, she went out of her way to do it. She killed everyone at this table except for Alphys, including you, Mom."
"This...this is just so much to take in! I-I…" She trailed off.
"EVEN I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, COULDN'T STOP HER?"
"No Papyrus, you were too nice. She killed you in the most humiliating way possible, she decapitated you, and when she saw that you were still alive, your skull being the only thing that remained besides your scarf, she crushed you."
"Even me?" Undyne asked.
"Even you Undyne, although, you could say that you went out in the most badass way. Chara tried to kill Monster Kid, but you protected him, taking the blow instead, you were down in one hit, since you had your guard down. You were turning into dust, but you used DETERMINATION. You revived yourself. You went through an amazing transformation. You looked completely badass! It was like you came straight out of an anime. Chara had some trouble dealing with you. The amount of DETERMINATION you had added with all of your wounds caused you to melt."
"I'm not sure whether to be flattered or creeped out by the fact that you know so much about our deaths." Undyne replied. "But it sounds like I was awesome!"
"Hey, don't blame me, blame Flowey for being such a little creep that kept surveillance on Frisk at all times." Asriel argued.
"Anyway," Toriel interrupted, "back to the matter at hand. How are we gonna get Frisk back?"
"W-we'll j-just have to w-wait for G-Gaster t-to c-come back." Alphys replied.
And just like that, there he was, with Frisk.
"speak of the devil." Sans retorted.
"We're back!" Gaster announced.
Frisk immediately rushed over to Asriel and hugged him.
"Did ya miss me Azzy?" She asked, smiling.
"Yeah," He responded.
Then, a booming, echoing voice shouted, "YOU FOOLS!"
"It's Chara!" Frisk yelled.
"YOU'VE ALL GATHERED INTO ONE AREA SO I CAN KILL YOU, HOW NICE!"
Sans's eye started to glow blue, "not if i can help it."
"There!" Frisk pointed, sensing Chara's SOUL, "Sans! Grab the air in that area with your magic!"
Sans did, and instantly sensed Chara's SOUL within his grasp. Chara became visible, as Sans tightened his magical grip around her. Little did anyone know, Chara still had some mobility.
"any last words before i send you to hell for good?" Sans asked.
"Just two: Goodbye Asriel!" With that, Chara threw her knife at Asriel, too fast for anyone to react, except for one.
HISS!
The knife disintegrated.
"What the-" Chara was cut-off by Sans, who shot them with Gaster Blasters and impaled them with bones, instantly killing her, destroying her SOUL for good.
"Are you alright Asriel?" Toriel asked, checking her son for any injuries.
"Yeah, I'm fine, a little shaken up, but fine." He replied
"How did the knife disintegrate like that?" Undyne asked, almost yelling.
Everyone turned to look at the one person they knew had the power to disintegrate and melt stuff, Napstablook.
"yeah, it was me, I kind of just reacted. I used my acid tears to destroy the knife." He replied.
"Thank you so much!" Frisk yelled.
Everyone was thanking Napstablook and asking him how he felt now that he had just saved Asriel's life.
"I feel great, actually." He replied.
"I can't thank you enough for saving my son's life."
"Oh yeah!" Asriel remembered, "That reminds me! Happy Birthday Frisk! I'm sorry that I didn't get you anything, I didn't know it was your birthday until a few minutes ago."
"That's alright, but there is something that you wouldn't have to go out to get for me, Azzy."
"What's that Frisk?" He asked.
Frisk was blushing now. "A birthday kiss," She mumbled.
"What?"
"I said, a birthday kiss." Frisk was blushing even harder now, Asriel was too, just as much as Frisk was.
Asriel hesitated for just a moment, then, he kissed Frisk. It wasn't just a simple kiss on the cheek, like a full on kiss on the lips.
They stayed like that for a minute, enjoying every moment, before finally stopping. It had been both of their first kisses.
"S-so, uh…" Asriel stammered, blushing even harder now, if that was even possible, "h-how w-was that?"
"It was wonderful Azzy, thank you." Frisk said passionately, blushing just as hard as Asriel was.
Then, there was an awkward silence for about twenty minutes as the couple decided to sit on the couch, smiling nervously while not looking each other in the eyes. They were afraid that their partner didn't really like the kiss, while in reality, they both loved it.
"Alright you two lovebirds," Undyne started, "get ready for birthday breakfast!"
Toriel and Papyrus had prepared chocolate-chip pancakes, normal pancakes, hash browns, scrambled eggs, fried eggs, toast, sausage, and the always important bacon.
Frisk could tell that it was going to be a good day from now on.
