CHAPTER 13

You can't bring someone back to life, it's impossible.

Wait, no… it IS possible, but the method is both dangerous and takes too much sacrifice. You might already know the answer deep down inside your mind, and yes, it is that, indeed.

Black magic.

Each monster is filled with magic, their attacks and their life is technically magic. Without magic, the underground wouldn't be existing.

It's not the sort of magic children describe fairies as; those mythical creatures do not exist. But monsters do. They need magic to live. But for now, that's enough description about the sort of magic we're talking about here.

Black magic… on the other hand, isn't something to be used often. The castor of black magic must have an unbelievable amount of determination, so it's obvious that not everyone could handle black magic.

The only known monster underground who does not melt from Determination is Undyne, but it's impossible for her to use black magic. Why? Everything she has from ability to personality is positive. Negative power does not exist in her body.

But to summon Chara's soul, that type of magic is definitely necessary. But there's a couple down sides to that.

First of all being Chara themselves. They are basically an uncontrollable psychopath killer, maybe instead of making them put Frisk's soul back, they would kill Frisk.

Secondly, the summoned soul must take over the castor's body. You cannot get rid of the soul and bring the castor back unless…

No one had yet to found out the 'unless'.

So by the looks of it now, whoever summoned Chara is basically gone forever. Good thing is that their soul would still be around.

This might sound rather confusing but… Asriel absorbed Chara's soul, which means they're two souls combined as one. But when Asriel's soul and everything he had was destroyed… Chara's soul escapes. Their soul escapes along with all the memories Asriel has while the two souls were together.

Which means Chara would stop at no cost to kill Frisk and everybody else.

"How could this happen to them…?" Toriel was lost in her overwhelming emotions, she wasn't powerful enough to protect Frisk. She didn't know what to do now.

No one knew what to do. Alphys had shared her knowledge of black magic with everyone, but nobody seemed to have the right condition to summon Chara.

This was the moment when they realized someone was missing.

In the morning, Gaster woke Sans up without disturbing Papyrus, and lead him out of the cell room. It was early morning, Sans didn't have much sleep, all the chaos last night had driven him crazy. But that was fine, he never gets enough sleep anyways.

"How are you feeling? Subject S1?" Gaster asked while walking down the hallway of cells with Sans following him. He had a new cup of coffee in his hands which he occasionally takes sips of.

"Tired. Dr. Gaster." Sans yawned, he was happy that Gaster liked his joke, it wasn't something a man like him says often. It had filled Sans with determination.

"Do you know what we're going to be doing today? I've told you last night."

"To train using my gift." Sans said, Gaster nodded. They took a couple of turns and went into an area Sans had never been to before. There was a large, rectangular metal box with glass, inside were white lights and shelves in which held colorful packets.

Sans watched carefully as Gaster pressed on the number pads and inserted a couple of gold. Then the machine started to work itself. Moments later, one of the packets dropped out and Gaster picked it up.

He handed it to Sans, Sans thanked him excitedly and took a look at the bright packet. 'Popato Chisps.' It read. Sans squeezed the packet gently and it felt like air. He then shook it and heard a delightful sound which came from inside.

"What is this?" Sans asked,

"Food."

"Is it a gift?"

"No, it's a present."

"What's a present? Dr. Gaster?"

"Something someone gives willingly to another without payment."

"Oh, thank you! Dr. Gaster, I will return you with a present one day as well." Sans said, there was no need to smile, he had a grin on his face all the time.

Then Gaster traced back their route and went inside a new room. Another place Sans had never been to before. The room was huge with a high ceiling. Nothing was inside the room except for couple dim lights and mirror as walls. The floor was made of wood, soft to the touch.

Gaster closed the door behind them and locked it. There were five other locks beyond the main lock, he locked them all. Only then Sans realized that the room was well secured, every inch of it was as strong as the barrier. The door? Unpassable.

Sans was hugging his bag of chisps like his only toy, he watched Gaster as he went to the center of the huge room. Sans remained beside the doorway, the doctor didn't tell him to move.

"This is what your gift may end up like." Gaster called across the room and rose his gloved hand.

Suddenly, rays of white light appeared out of nowhere and formed a gigantic skull, the skull was long in length and looked epic. Then Gaster summoned more skulls that looked similar to each other, they floated on top of Gaster and quickly occupied the entire room's space.

Sans was amazed and had his eyes wide open, he had almost dropped his precious bag of chisps.

"This'll be loud." Gaster said as all of the skulls blasted the most forceful spectrums of energy Sans had ever experienced at the floor. A giant hole appeared on the ground but started to replace itself quickly, obviously this wasn't an ordinary room. It was built for damage like this.

Gaster waved his hand and all of the levitating skeletons disappeared. He brought out a dummy from some hidden closet behind one of the mirrors, and stretched his hand out.

He clicked his finger and he activated his blue attack. He lifted his hand and the dummy was in the air. He slammed it against the walls. After the dummy landed, bones pulled out from the walls and was basically destroying the dummy.

Gaster also performed more abilities, each had stunned Sans more than the previous one.

By the end of the 'show', Sans was dazed and frozen. Like someone in a coma. He was still hugging his bag of chisps, but he was basically squeezing it now.

"You're going to learn how to control all of the abilities I had performed. Willing?" Gaster asked, he put his hands back into his lab coat pockets.

"Yes, absolutely, doctor. But…" Sans pulled his left hand out and showed Gaster the giant hole which appeared after the injection.

Gaster pulled off his glove and showed him his. The holes were identical.

"Which one are you interested in learning first, subject S1?"

To be continued...