Chapter 11: Knives and Unicorneus

(Third person)

'Hi I'm Unicorneus!' Asriel was trying to ignore the Temmie that had glomped his arm. The temmie had repeatedly proclaimed itself as Unicorneus and was wearing a blue and pink horn made of "Temmie flakes". 'Argh can you please stop repeating yourself! I know your name already' Ben proclaimed as the Temmie crawled up their arm and started to play with their ear flaps. Some where along waterfall the Temmie called Unicorneus had followed them and had attached itself to them.

They finally reached the judgement halls and Asriel shivered as a chill ran up his spine. He was dreading seeing his parents again, how would they take seeing their dead son walking around again and seeming a bit distant. As they reached the throne room Asriel remembered playing around the large throne, his dad telling him that one day he would be the one sitting on it. Back then it had been hard to comprehend sitting on the large red seat but now.

Asriel gulped nervously before he heard voices and a distant laughter, a familiar laughter. Asriel ran to the sound of the noise and saw Chara looming over Rose, life plunging down. Asriel screamed in terror and the knife stopped a centimeter away from Rose's head. Chara looked up and his breathing wavered as he saw Asriel before his usual evil and insane smile came back. 'Oh Asriel, you look amazing with that new soul! I recently got one to as well as Rose. Isn't that great? The old band is back together for a final adventure. We have the crazy mortal immortal, we have the pacifist prince with a dark secret, and then we have the genocidal human who hates his own kind' Chara said happily as she brought her knife in front of her, a warped reflection of Asriel showing in the blade's gleaming metal. 'Back together for what I like to call "The final battle" for you see, I have something very very special to show you' Rose screamed in pain as her soul went into Chara's hand. His wounds healed and he sighed as they closed, the flesh showing no signs of it ever being hurt

Asriel knew he couldn't vs Chara, not with two human souls. 'Please Chara, its not to late to change your mind' Asriel said trying to convince Chara out of this path. Chara just smiled back before raising his knife and putting the soul inside him. Rose's body started disintegrating, she had no soul and her body was struggling to stay together without it. Her emotions felt like they were fading from her very being before she caught a glimpse of a golden spark in the corner of her vision. Rose laughed a hollow delirious laugh and immediately starting coughing up dust as she crawled with stumps towards it. She crawled next to the golden spark, her body was barely anything and she only had one arm as she reached out for the tiny golden spark.

'Surely you remember what they did to you on that run? How they ripped you to shreds with my knife? Maybe you blocked the memory out but I remember it very clearly. After that I offered him a choice; Reset the world and be a good partner or don't. The idiot refused and I destroyed his precious world but of course he tried to come back to nothing. I then offered him a deal, I would bring back his precious world in exchange for his soul. He refused and I kicked him out of the nothingness. He tried to reason with me for something else but eventually he gave in and I got his soul.' Chara said before charging at Asriel with extreme speed. Asriel barely dodged as Chara kept attacking him with extreme speed. 'They reset the world and attempted to be a pacifist but in the end when they reached the surface, I took what was mine and killed everyone. The poor fool kept trying to complete the happy ending, talking to you, calling everyone as much as possible. He tried everything he could to try and change the outcome but you don't make a deal with a demon and expect to come out the other end with out consequences.' Chara recollected to Asriel as he swung her knife at him. Chara slashed wildly and without mercy, his red eyes gleaming with a sadistic pleasure.

'Now on one particular run after Frisk had saved everyone he some how managed to get into the true lab. I felt my hold on him weaken as he explored the true lab and as soon as he found Rose I knew something was wrong. He was on borrowed time but somehow he managed to cheat the deal. I followed them both the whole way and during that fight with Undyne I knew I could do something about it. It was tricky to get Rose to fight but eventually I did. She stopped just before the final blow but because of her own strength and inability to control it, she killed Undyne' Chara's voice was slightly shaky as he talked, his anger at Asriel not fighting making him feel something. 'She killed so many when she was forced to fight, you even helped her kill them. You both killed mum, dad, and Alphys and then she killed you. That part wasn't me but it was still amazing to watch as she walked in the foot steps of her "savior". I think by then I had a body but that doesn't mean I can't have a puppet to toy with. I am getting bored of this fight so why don't you just DIE!' Chara shouted before one of his slashes hit Asriel on the arm. The gash oozed crimson liquid and Asriel winced. Asriel stumbled from the pain and Chara just smiled as she held the knife. 'Chara… I know you've been hurt but listen to me. I still love you though all this' Chara's breath wavered as the words sunk in. 'Your just trying to reason for your life by telling me- '

'Mum and Dad miss you' Chara stopped and tried to shake the words off but they replayed in her head. 'We all miss you, its not to late' Asriel said as he took a step forward. Chara gripped her head and started shaking, the knife still in her hand. 'No, no no no! you don't understand do you! I can't! I hurt too many people. I killed so many, I killed you all! There is no turning back from the route I'm going down. Besides I'm on borrowed time, if I release the souls I have then well. I don't want to go back to being an ethereal cloud, watching as everyone lives life happily while I watch.' Chara said a tear escaping her eye as she shook. Asriel walked to Chara and hugged her, knowing the pain all too well. 'Its not too late' Asriel whispered in Chara's ear just before she pushed him away. 'There is no redemption for the demon!' Chara said before swinging her knife wildly at Asriel. She kept slashing until she fell to her knees in tears. Blooded arms wrapped around Chara and she gasped as she saw a bloody Asriel with cuts all over his body. A health bar could be made out in the corner of Chara's vision with a 1 next to it. 'I love you Chara' Asriel whispered in Chara's ear before she hugged him back.

Chara drew away from the hug and wiped her face with a green sleeve. A memory of a certain friend brought them both back to reality as they looked behind them. The spot where they had last seen Rose was just a pile of dust, with a single golden flower on top. Asriel walked over to the dust and looked down at the flower and smiled a sad smile. 'You know you don't need to pretend right?' Asriel said as he went down to his knees to look at the delicate flower. Eyes appeared on the flower and they looked up at Asriel, confused. A mouth formed on the flower and it took in a deep breath before looking up again. 'Why can't I feel my limbs? Why can't I feel anything?' the flower said before looking down at itself. Asriel just smiled as he pet the gentle petals with a large fuzzy paw. 'You don't have a soul but you have determination and so your essence infused its self with a host. From my time being a flower you can only feel; fear, confusion, sadness, anger, hate, hope, amusement. Just try to orient your self first I remember how hard it was at first.' Asriel got up letting Rose look around. She looked at her leaves and then squeezed her eyes shut and a bunch of small vines sprouted from the ground. Chara looked at Rose in pity before summoning Rose's soul. It was a weaker pink and the border was still around it, the two unable to separate. Chara walked to Rose with the soul in hand and knelt down. 'Hey' She said awkwardly as a long silence followed. 'Take it' Chara said as she pushed the soul towards Rose who just looked at it with confusion. Rose brang a vine to it and grabbed it out of Chara's hand with a vine and looked at it. She pushed it to her face and still nothing happened. Rose looked at the refusing soul with a mixture of anger and fear at why it wasn't working. 'Why isn't it working! Its my soul it should work!' Rose tossed it back to Chara as she started to well up at the thought of being like this forever. Chara picked up the fallen soul before placing it back into her chest with a slight sigh.

'Looks like we are going to be dealing with a second Flowey huh? Maybe we should call her Flowey so the others don't get hurt' Chara spoke her mind, her thoughts leaving their evilness for a few moments before sighing and groaning at the thought of a second Flowey. 'I think Papyrus might be happy to hear that he will have another Flowey to talk to' Asriel chuckled as he remembered the fan club. Rose should have been of happy, she should have been chuckling as well and experiencing joy at the fact she would be meeting the group with a fresh start but she couldn't, it felt empty. 'Look lets just get to the surface and forget everything that happened down here because I really don't feel like it!' Rose snapped in exasperation. 'What? You getting ready to "Leaf" out of here?' The group turned to the cave entrance and saw Sans with a single bone in hand.

'Hi!' some how Unicorneus had vanished through the fighting and decided to ran over to Sans after magically reappearing. 'Well it appears you have a Temmie with you, they don't let go easily you know and follow you like a lost puppy. Talking about puppies where is Rose?' Asriel was very confused as to why Sans wasn't wondering how the deceased heir to the throne was there. Rose couldn't look at Sans and retreated into the ground, reappearing behind Asriel. Sans noticed the slight hint of golden petals behind Asriel and clenched his teeth, remembering the flower that killed his friends. 'Say, whos your little petalled friend? They seem a little nervous' Rose peeked out from behind Asriel's legs and glared in turn to Sans's death glare. 'Oh her? She kinda followed us here' Sans looked at Asriel the one who had spoken and a forgotten memory of a judgement hall and a flower with a sticking resemblance to this little one attacking him relentlessly. 'Say, you look a lot like the heir to the throne that died all those thousands of years ago. I remember seeing a few pictures in a book about it' as Sans reached out one hand to Asriel, Ben came up from his nap in their soul and recoiled. Sans then put the pieces together, him being a very perceptive skeleton and noticing the slight orange and white glow from Asriel's chest it was easy to know what had happened but the remaining flower. 'Who is the flower?' Sans asked inquisitively as he looked the flower in the eyes. 'I thought you could remember the timelines? Or is your skull too thick to process what is going on!' Rose snapped angrily before hiding behind Asriel again. 'Well, didn't expect you to be so snappy like a dragon but you think you know a flower-'

'Stop acting like we are friends! You filthy judge! How many monsters did you kill anyway? You are the true monster here!' Rose snapped so loudly that Sans stepped back as the words sunk in. 'Rose?' Sans looked at the little flower who continued glaring. 'Lets just get out of here, I am sick of being down here for a few thousand years and I can't wait a second longer' Rose felt Chara cupping a hand into the cave soil just under Rose, picking her up easily wondering why there were no roots. 'Sans! We have been worried sick for you! What have-' Papyrus came into the cave opening and saw the group of strangers, all except for the flower speckled with blood. Rose tried to feel joy but she was as empty as ever but could hold herself from snapping at the innocent skeleton. 'Sans you really shouldn't disappear like that, where is the-' Toriel appeared in the entrance and just looked at her deceased children come back from the dead.

'Hi mom... been awhile hasn't it?'