Chosen Demon

"A-Asriel?" I asked as I faded in and out of consciousness, "W-will you- cough cough will you do me a favor?"

"What is is Chara?"

"W-when I d- give you my soul will you...bring my b- me back to my village? I- I just want to see the flowers one last time..."

"Of course, Chara!" After that, I stuffed a few flowers in my mouth, chewing as fast as I could, grimacing at the taste.

"H-hey, Azz?"

"Yeah, sib?"

"C- cough cough could you maybe get some- cough some more of that tea?"

"Sure, Chara, anything for you." When he came back, I took a few sips, thanking him for it in a weak voice before the mug dropped from my hand, and I fell asleep.

/

I was floating again...but this time it felt less...real. Like a nicer dream where I floated and light stayed on me. A warm sensation on my hand as someone maybe held it? A cooling on my head where burning had once been…

"Chara… Can you hear me?" It was Dad, "We want you to wake up..." He sounded so sad… so desperate. How long had I been asleep? I couldn't have been too long, I remembered that once I woke up after falling into sleep after eating those flowers I had been dizzy, really dizzy. Then I had grimaced at the immense pain in my mouth.

The whole day I spent throwing up, having to be helped out of my shorts more than once due to the blood on them. The unbearable cramps in my stomach that had me screaming and shouting, crying and crying out like a wounded animal. It hurt so badly. Asriel must have had to watch this...my parents already had to clean it up and listen to my yelling but I just couldn't stop.

Screaming itself burned my throat, which was blistered and horribly bloody. Did monsters even bleed? Did they even understand what was happening? At least they didn't know how bad it was, even before I ate the yellow flowers. The worst thing would be them having to stare at my corpse, would they even know I was dead if I didn't turn into dust? Would they still try to wake me?

I brushed away the thoughts but was still scared. I was all on my own and...I- I didn't want to die! I didn't want to die! I just wanted to help them, I never wanted this! Player said I wouldn't die! They told me I would live on but...was this Player's plan all along? I wasn't sure but I was still scared…

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That's when I felt it.

"Chara! You have to stay determined!" I could feel the pull of my soul from my body, "You can't give up… You are the future of humans and monsters..."

Was I giving up, probably, wasn't death sort of the ultimate way to give-up, giving up on life?

"Psst… Chara… Please… wake up..." The whispering was right in my ear, "I don't like this plan anymore." He was sobbing desperately, "I… I…no, I said I'd never doubt you. Six, right? We just have to get six...And we'll do it together, right?"

I couldn't give up. I couldn't give up because Asriel was waiting for me. Azz, my brother, we were going to do this together, we would get two human souls. We would go to the surface, and we would free all monsters. Then, humanity would fall, to me, or Player, or the monsters; it didn't matter. The monsters deserved the surface more than anyone.

/

I don't remember much after that. Only an infinite blackness. The time when I first fell came to mind. Down in the trash heap, I think. I remembered the family picture we all took, flowers we had grown as bouquet in hand. Mom's face after she realized the flowers in the picture had covered my face. The pies we had all shared over the year. Memories surging through my mind that made me want to do this for my family in the first place. I'm only sorry it was Asriel that had to do it...but no one else would have, I know that.

It's after that that I feel a bright happiness, surging through my chest as I feel myself being carried by furry hands. Maybe I can still feel it because he has my soul? I'm not sure if he'll go through with the plan but...I hope the villagers don't try to kill him because he's with me...Then I feel my cheeks being brushed by wildflowers, Player's deadly flowers. That's when I hear a laugh in the back of my mind and my dreamscape turns dark.

"Fool." I can't find a voice to respond with, "Your spirit becomes a vessel which becomes me which takes the body of them."

I'm not sure what she means I can feel myself lifted once more and taken back, being placed on the ground, being...surrounded...with...d..u..s..t… His dust...Asriel, he's dead?! After that, I know no more.

/

"Greetings. I am Chara." Who was speaking now? "Thank you. Your power awakened me from death. My 'human soul.' My 'determination.' They were not mine, but YOURS."

"Hello? Who's there, I'm Chara, why are you Chara too?"

"At first, I was so confused." They were ignoring my words but who were they speaking to? "Our plan had failed, hadn't it? Why was I brought back to life?" The plan had failed?...failed for me. Was this Player pretending to be me?

"...You. With your guidance. I realized the purpose of my reincarnation. Power. Together, we eradicated the enemy and became strong." Memories rushed through my mind of...myself? I saw through my own eyes as I narrated their journey, as they...killed monsters?! Monsters aren't my enemy!

"HP. ATK. DEF. GOLD. EXP. LV. Everytime a number increases, that feeling… That's me. 'Player...'" So they admit it…! "Now. Now, we have reached the absolute. There is nothing left for us here."

"WHAT?! You can't do that, Player! That wasn't the deal!"

"Let us erase this pointless world, and move on to the next."

"Stop! You can't do this! Please!"

"Right. You are a great partner. Just like them."

"We'll be together forever, won't we?"

"Right, Chara?"

Player's Angel

An End.