DarkFoxKit: … Um… are you going to come out of the blanket any time soon?
Donfyre: Erm… *pokes my head out from the blanket* A-are you gonna stop teasing me like you did on the RESET Warfare AN? ^^;
DarkFoxKit: Oh come on, does it look like I have a camera right now? *Is holding a plate of a really big cookie* Come on, let me see that adorable face of yours. c:
Donfyre: COOKIE! :D *jumps out of the blanket and stands in front of Fox eagerly with his tail wagging*
DarkFoxKit: Awww, that's so cute! So would you mind telling me what you think about the next chapter?
Donfyre: *is trying to get to the plate of cookies, but Fox kept keeping it away from him* The next chapter? Of Memories of a Soul? Um… okay? It's the one after Frisk messes up the truck people and Flowey persuades Frisk to trust him, right? Weeell… the next chapter is gonna be what Frisk does now after what he's done, and with Flowey at his side too. It was shocking. ^^; So uh… why did you want me to do that?
DarkFoxKit: *Picks up the cookie and smiles* Say hi to the readers~ *Wipes a chocolate chip away to reveal a camera lens*
Donfyre: …. Y-YOU BETRAYED ME! DX *is already back under the blankets*
DarkFoxKit: Aww, come on Fyre, don't be like that! … Uh… go ahead with the chapter, readers, this may take a while. ^^'
Chapter 14: Chara
Flowey was on my shoulder as we walked into town. I wanted to hurry up and get to Mt. Ebott, but Flowey suggested we should at least get some supplies before we go.
The nearest supermarket was a little far to walk, but guess there's not much of a choice. There were a lot of annoying people running around.
"Gah!" I hissed when someone ran me over.
"O-oh! Excuse me, I'm in a hurry!" A young man said frantically.
Flowey hissed from beside me, "Are you going to let this idiot get away with hitting you like that, Chara?"
Of course I won't let anyone get away with that. I thought to myself, feeling a smile coming up on my face.
"Oh it's no problem," I said sweetly to the young man.
"A-are you okay? Your shirt… is that blood?" The young man asked nervously.
"Yes, it's blood," I said, gripping my knife. "And now I want yours."
"W-what?"
I launched at him without warning. The shocked look on his face was priceless before I swung my knife at his chest. I didn't want to kill him yet, it would be no fun to kill him right off the bat. My knife tore through his shirt as a red gash mark was left in his chest.
The young man screamed in shock and pain, and it made me giddy.
"That's what you get for running into Chara like that, you idiot," Flowey said as white pellets appeared around him, making sure he couldn't run away.
"W-why are you hurting me? I-it was an accident…" He said in fear, holding his bleeding chest.
"I don't care if it was an accident or not," I growled, feeling rage and anger building up inside me.
Just looking at this pathetic human made me want to strike him down. It was rage I couldn't explain, but I just wanted to act out on it. I gripped my knife as I ran at him again. The young man, seeing me coming, ran away from me. The pellets Flowey surrounded this coward with smacked into his forehead, knocking him back.
The young man hissed in pain, holding his forehead.
"Where do you think you're going?" Flowey snickered. "Chara's not finished with you yet!"
I took notice of the crowd looking at us. Heh, these people should just mind their own business, but hey, if they want to stay here and watch one of their own die in front of their eyes, fine by me. It'll be a lot easier for me to strike them all down in one place any ways.
"P-please stop… I didn't hurt you… I just ran into you, please… I'll watch where I'm going… I-I'm sorry if I did hurt you… please let me go…" The young man begged, tears in his eyes.
I hesitated.
"Don't stop now, Chara. Don't forget how humans treated you, how they treated the monsters you call your family. They treat us like garbage, and they won't hesitate to kill us all, but not if you can kill them first," Flowey said to me.
"H-hey, what are you doing? Are you really going to stab him?" Someone from the crowd asked, sounding scared.
I looked at the person who spoke and smiled at him, "Does it look like I'm not going to stab him?"
The crowd looked around, scared. Some of them began running towards me, to stop me I assumed. Flowey summoned more pellets around them, knocking them all back.
"Nobody interferes!" Flowey hissed at them.
I approached the crying boy, knife tightly in my grip. His hand was covered in blood, still holding his cut open wound no doubt.
"S-stop… please don't h-hurt me…" The boy begged, crying his eyes out, looking at me in fear.
Again, I hesitated. The boy looked really terrified… did I really want to do this?
Humans are cowards. They can't own up to what they've done, they all deserve death.
"That's it, Chara, finish him off. Gain the LOVE you deserve." Flowey smiled.
I raised my knife, the boy shut his eyes while the people in the crowd began screaming at me to stop.
I almost plunged the knife into his heart, when I felt a sudden familiar tingle in my chest that stopped me. My red Soul was coming out of my chest, then it dinged before it suddenly turned blue and I felt a heavy weight of gravity over my Soul.
"What?" I was confused.
"Tch! Of course HE had to show up now!" Flowey growled.
I turned around, my eyes widen in surprise when I saw a familiar face looking at me. It was Sans… what's he doing here? His left eye was glowing a blue-yellow color as he approached me.
"... Kid… what are you doing? Why were you trying to hurt this poor human?" Sans asked me, sounding calm yet serious.
"She doesn't have to answer to you anymore!" Flowey snapped.
Sans looked at the flower on my shoulder before his left eye gave a ping sound, turning Flowey's body blue. I gasped when Flowey was shoved off my shoulder by an invisible force.
"OW!"
Sans turned back to me. "Frisk… what happened to you? Put that knife down."
I glared at him, feeling like he would attack me. "I just wanted to go back to Mt. Ebott! I only wanted to defend myself! Is that so wrong!?"
I stopped when I realized I sounded like the Jessica from my nightmares did. I looked down at myself, seeing the bloody knife in my hand. I was beginning to shake.
"I know you, Frisk. You're a pacifist, you hate fighting even to defend yourself," Sans said while I continued to shake. "What changed? Was it the flower? Or was it… The ghost LOVE you received when you decided to kill everyone?"
"I didn't kill anyone! And what is so bad about love!?" I snapped.
"Heh… I guess you still don't remember… LOVE is an acronym we use. It stands for Level Of Violence. The more you kill, the less you will hurt when hurting others," Sans explained.
"I told you that, remember?" Flowey said. "Or did you forget that too?"
I almost dropped my knife as blood left my face… LOVE… Love… Level of Violence… THAT'S what he meant!? I-I… I remember Flowey saying something like that, but… I guess I really did forget...
… It's starting to make sense now… but… why the heck did they have to use an acronym like that? It's misleading! I… I really hurt this poor boy… he bumped into me, but it was just an accident, and yet I... I've already hurt so many people… I can't even go back home like this. The news people saw this, Mom and Dad are going to see this if they hadn't already. Mom will scream and yell at me, wishing I was never born. Dad will call me a demon and I would go to hell. Then they would both kick me out to live off the streets by myself. They… they would do that… Did I even have a home anymore? Sans saw what I did, he probably saw what I was doing on the news. The other monsters will never want me back now. I… I have nowhere to go…
"Kid… I know this is scary, but… I'm sure we can fix all this. Just put your weapon down and come here," Sans said gently to me.
Something about this seemed… very familiar… and it made me uneasy. He's trying to trick me. He'll just turn on me the second I let myself be vulnerable! I shook my head. N-no, Sans wouldn't do that… unlike humans, monsters were very nice creatures… I… I can trust him… r-right? I dropped my knife to the floor and approached Sans, wanting nothing more than to cry in his chest.
"Thanks kiddo, I knew Frisk was still in there somewhere," Sans said as I ran into his embrace. "I'll take you back to Mt. Ebott, I even know a shortcut… but… I must apologize, we can't have you running around."
Before I could question what he meant by that, I felt something hard hit me in the back of my head. I only had enough time to give a surprise yelp before everything went black for me.
I woke up again somewhere dark. Looking around, I could see this was a kindergarten classroom. All these little kids were asleep on their mattresses, some had pillows, some had stuffed animals and others had blankets. I looked down at myself to see I was much smaller. It was like I had regressed back to the age of 5. Why was I here?
"You're awake already, Frisk?"
I turned to the voice. It was… my only friend… Ken.
"Ken?" I looked at him.
"I guess you didn't feel like taking a nap today either, huh?" Ken smiled kindly at me.
I… I remember this day… it was the day… everything changed. When I was more outgoing… and more cheerful… Ken was my best friend. We did everything together, he always encouraged me when I felt down, and he would defend me when someone was trying to bully me.
"No… I guess not…" I answered back.
"Do you want to draw something?" Ken asked me, holding out some pieces of paper.
"But… good kids always takes their naps, right?" I remembered asking.
"Heh… I think we should make an exception today, Frisk. Come on, I like your drawings, they could be good for cartoons when you grow up," Ken said to me.
I nodded and took the pencil and paper, beginning to draw random things.
"Frisk…" Ken sighed. "Um… there's no easy for me to say this but… remember that promise we made to never, ever split apart?"
I looked at him and said, "Yeah?"
"I'm… I'm afraid… I'll have to break that promise, Frisk…" Ken said sadly.
I stopped drawing and said, "What? Why?"
"Because, after all that extra stuff I did with the teachers, my parents found out I have a special gift, a young genius they called me, and they want to send me to some other school. We'll be… moving somewhere far away tomorrow… so… this is our last day together…" Ken said.
I dropped my pencil. I didn't want to believe it, but what Ken was saying is that he was basically leaving me. I remembered crying a lot that day. The teachers couldn't get me to stop. I hated that Ken, my one and only friend in this world, was leaving.
I also remembered my other classmates didn't want anything to do with me because I withdrew into myself. My parents didn't make matters any better, they just told me to stop crying or they'd give me something to cry about. Anyone else who I remotely got along with ended up leaving me behind anyways. I hate this world, I hate my life, I hate how little humans cared about each other. They want to go live their own lives, but they don't care about the people they're leaving behind, and why should they? Because we're holding them back, we're just people who exist, they go on and do great things and forget about us in the end.
I never heard from Ken again. Not by phone, not by internet… it's like he disappeared from the face of the planet. What was the point of making friends? They'll all just leave me in the end anyway.
"I'll never leave you, Frisk."
I gasped and looked up to see who was talking to me. It was… another girl, who looked similar to me. She wore a green shirt with a yellow stripe, and brown pants. Her hair was brown, and her eyes… her irises were red and creepy. She smiled at me.
"We can be friends forever, and ever. And I'm not just saying that, Frisk. I promise to never leave you."
"How do I know that? Everyone else left, and my parents are leaving me to rot," I said. "Nobody cares about me. They're all too busy with their own lives."
"I'll never be too busy for you, Frisk. You can trust me. I'll make sure those people who hurt you pay dearly for what they've done."
The girl reached out her hand to me, giving me a friendly smile. I looked at her, tears filling my eyes. I felt so alone… I couldn't remember anything else, just the cold, darkness of loneliness, and how nobody would ever care about me. I reached out for her hand and grabbed it with my own. Suddenly everything around me grew fuzzy.
I gasped as my eyes flew open and I found myself behind glass walls. I panted in fear as my hands touched the cold glass. I noticed I was in some kind of lab… was I being experimented on? My Soul was out of my body. I looked down to see Alphys was at the computer. Undyne and Papyrus were talking out the door. Toriel and Sans were both looking at me. Why…? Why did they put me in here? Was it because I hurt those people? I couldn't hear what they were saying, but one thing was clear… they didn't trust me.
Tears trickled down my face. I hated this. Nobody really cared about me… I'm just a worthless piece of human trash… I'll never amount to anything. Mom was right… she should've had another child, a more worthy one. I felt a lot of pain in my Soul, and it wasn't because of the monster's magic. It was getting too much, my body was in pain from the emotional pain alone. I hiccuped and cried. Why did I exist? I have no business of being here. I banged furiously against the glass. I wanted someone to feel my pain. If I couldn't give them emotional pain, than physical pain will have to suffice! I vaguely realized my irises were red in the reflection of the glass, but I didn't care, I wanted out! I wanted to hurt someone so they know the pain I was feeling.
I banged on the glass more and more, trying to break it. The monsters that were watching me were starting to back away nervously. The glass cracked, until finally it shattered. Alarms were blaring off.
"F-Frisk!" Toriel yelled in concern.
"No! Don't take another step! Frisk isn't herself right now!" I heard Sans yelling.
I looked up at them, seeing terror and shock in all their eyes. It hurts… it all hurts so much…
I grabbed the nearest sharp objects I could find, which was a piece of glass. I stood up and glared at all the monsters.
"Frisk… now please calm down… we're not going to hurt you…" Sans said cautiously.
"It hurts… so much…" I cried, feeling unwanted tears falling from my eyes.
"Calm down… please… tell me what hurts?" Sans asked me.
I grabbed onto my chest, as if a bullet went through. "It hurts… make it… stop!"
"That's… that's what we saw in the Soul," I heard Alphys say. "Her Soul… it's breaking…"
"Frisk! No!" Toriel put her hand over her mouth in horror.
Is that what was happening? My Soul is… breaking?
It's these monsters fault. They're the ones who kept shattering your precious memories, and now they're breaking it! I found it hard to breathe again.
"Frisk!"
"What's this?" I heard Alphys' voice, but it was getting hard to see. "Someone opened the chamber!"
"What!? Put it back!" Undyne yelled.
"WHAT IS THAT!?" I heard Papyrus scream.
Sans and Toriel moved away, and I put my hand over my eyes, trying to get it stop blurring out. Then I heard a low growl. Looking back up, I saw something face to face with me.
It gave a noise that I couldn't understand. This thing in front of me looked like some kind of cat-like blob, vibrating a lot. I glared at it.
"What do you want!?" I snapped.
The thing charged at me, pouncing me into the wall. I felt weak and dizzy, but still glaring in defiance. The cat-like blob's face came up to my face. I could practically feel it breathing.
"Fr… isk… I… follow… you…"
What…? I noticed the face changed a bit, turning into a more human-like face… a face that I had grown familiar with. A face I saw before I had climbed Mt. Ebott.
"... Jessica…!?"
DarkFoxKit: What? Jessica? What's she doing here and what happened to her? O.O And what's happening to Frisk? Will she survive or will her Soul finally break? And is Chara taking over? Heh... guess you'll have to wait and find out. :P
penguinfan28: Well thankfully Sans stopped them... or did he? O.O'
Fogstorm621: Eh, I bumped up the rating to T, I realized this might be too much for K+. ^^' Well Flowey isn't wrong, Chara is still in Frisk's Soul, just not possessing her, although she is trying. The thing about Flowey is that he can tell when he's seeing Chara even if it's in a different body.
ThatGuyWhoWatchesVideos: Jerry, huh? I feel more sorry for him than anything because nobody likes him. I know he's a jerk, but even jerks can feel lonely and sad, right?
Bennetthedrummer: Hah! I see what you did there! ... How dark. ^^'
Jotlik12: Inside Out? As in the movie? Huh...
17nicholasc: I don't think Chara is a bad person, but she is pretty messed up. And you were right in saying Sans came to the rescue. XD
AnimeGirl: You could say that.
SneaselXRiolu: They know about Chara and what she and Frisk had done before, of course they don't want her to come back. ;3
Primus1661: Thank you, and that is a lot of cookies. I'm sure Fyre would LOVE those, he's a cookie maniac! XD
JadeKnight: You like the idea where Frisk turns into Chara? Creepy ending.