Chapter 20 (?Finale?)
/Warning: This chapter is VERY long. Please take your time to read it. Thank you./
Chara took a step and suddenly, the blue walls of the Core turned into to grey as she stepped into the Capital. Chara saw another save star and saved again.
Saved.
She continued her way down seeing all the houses and apartment buildings. Chara was always impressed by the skills of the monsters. The had got trapped in a mountain and a few years later the built houses and a city. She remembered going into the town sometimes with Asriel to get things for her mother's pies, and her father's gardening.
***(flashback)
Asriel's hand held Chara's as the ran through the Capital shops looking at all the things they could buy.
"Look Chara!" "and over there!" " Ooh! And that!"
Asriel pointed out things that looked cool to him that he hoped he could show Chara. Chara stayed silent. She was lost in thought and but was paying attention. The one who wasn't paying attention was Asriel when he bumped into a rather large dragon monster child.
"Oops. Sorry sir!" Asriel said looking up at the giant dragon.
"Look where you're going, brat."
He pushed Asriel to the ground causing Asriel to lose 25% of his hp. A quarter of it was gone. The fall was hard. Asriel's face lit up in pain he laid on the ground. The monster laughed at the small goat child.
Chara looked at her brother in pain then back at the bully and her eyes went bursting red. Chara's anger mode was activated. She stepped up to the dragon and stared at him.
The monster seemed confused at this and tried to push Chara down as well but she stood her ground. She lost only a little hp from the hit but remained standing. The monster was angry at this and pushed harder. Chara stepped out of the wall causing him to fall on his face.
Chara turned back to Asriel and helped him up. Her eyes turned back to light amber and her kind eyes looked at him with concern.
"You okay Azzy?" she said.
"Y-yeah...are you?"
"I'm fine. But we should get you back to mom. She can heal you." Chara and Asriel turned back to the castle when Chara heard the monster yell after them
'Yeah! You'd better run, cry babies!"
Chara turned her head to show her red eyes again and the monster quivered back in fear.
***(present)
Chara blinked into the Capital. She sighed and continued her way down. She went down the next hallway.
***(fb)
"Race ya to the end!" Chara yelled running up from the corner.
"No fair! You started early!" Asriel yelled after her as he ran to catch up.
Chara ran down the hallway to the very end where she was out of breath.
"Wow...you're fast Chara!"
"Heh...I know!"
Chara sat down and laid out. Asriel joined her. His head reverse hers and laying the opposite way.
"Chara?"
"Hm?"
"What are we doing?"
"Dunno."
"Oh...alright…"
There was silence between the two as the stared up at the ceiling covered in little star things. They weren't as noticeable as in Waterfall but they were still fun to look at.
"Chara?" Asriel asked again.
"Yes Asriel?"
"Do you ever wish...that we could see the surface?"
Chara was silent.
"Maybe.." she said in a low tone. "I mean...I came from the surface...and I fell because I wanted to get away…"
"Get away from what?" Asriel asked trying to understand what his sister meant.
"Everything." Chara replied "The surface isn't what it seems. There are terrible things always going on that, no one really wants to deal with. I wouldn't go back. It's not a good place to go."
There was silence between the two for awhile. Chara looked over at Asriel who seemed a little worried. Chara spoke again.
"But you know, good things come in small packages Az. And you're the smallest package anyone could ask for."
"Chara!" Asriel laughed and complained at the same time
"It's true! You're so tiny!"
"I'm taller than you!" Asriel said still laughing
"But I mean it…you're the best thing down here Az. And I couldn't ask for a more perfect family!" Chara smiled at Asriel.
***(P)
Chara got to the end of the long hallway and came to the entrance of her old house. Her real home.
Home.
***(fb)
Chara and Asriel played in the leaves. They threw them at each other and just rolled around having fun. Chara's red hair was full of leaves and Asriel's fur was as well. They laughed until they two heard their mother gasp from behind them. The two turned around their smiles faded from their faces as they saw their mother's name in shock.
"What have you two done? There are leaves in your hair and fur!"
"We just having fun mom!" Chara said almost like a whine.
"Yeah!" Asriel said backing his sister up.
"No. You will both come inside now. I need to get you two cleaned up. We have an important night tonight."
"Oh yeah!' Asriel said jumping out of the leaves and helped his sister up.
"What is it? What's important?" Chara asked confused.
"Today, Chara is the day you came here."
"Yeah! Like your birthday!" Asriel smiled gleefully.
"O-oh...wow...I didn't think you guys would remember something like that…" Chara blushed a little
"Why wouldn't we Chara? We're your family now. Right?" Asriel said looking at Chara with wide eyes.
"Y-yeah...we're family…" Chara smiled and went inside to get ready
***(p)
Chara saw the save star. She touched it and saved. Can never be too careful. She stepped inside.
She saw the house. The house she grew up in. The one she called home. She remembered so many great memories here. But one came to her immediately.
***(fb)
Chara stood in front of the mirror. Her bangs were long enough to cover her eyes. She always hated her eyes. She thought they were too different from everyone else's. Toriel came along and said to Chara,
"Chara, my child, why are your bangs so long?"
Chara shrugged and looked back her reflection.
"Why do you hide your face?"
"Because...I'm afraid others will think I'm too different…"
"Chara...everyone is different. There is no such thing as TOO different."
"Really?"
"Yes. You are not the same as everyone, but that's what I love about you…"
Chara smiled.
"I'm going to make dinner now." Toriel got up and placed her hand on Chara's head. She then walked off.
"Mom?" Chara said turning to her.
"Yes my child?"
"Could you...cut my bangs?"
"If you'd like me too...then of course."
***(p)
Chara stood in front of her door. She placed her hand on the knob and slowly opened the door. She stepped inside and saw her room. Asriel's bed, her bed, their closet. Everything she grew up with was there. She saw her yellow flower. She remembered the time she drew it. She saw the difference between the sides. Asriel's side was filled with stuff animals and Chara's side had nothing. Through the four years she lived there, she never had a stuffed animal. She only had one true treasured item.
Her locket
***(fb)
Chara was lying on her bed staring up at the ceiling with no emotion. She had a black undershirt on with bandages on her upper arms.
"Chara?" Asriel said taking Chara's attention off of her blank stare.
"I know you must feel pretty down right now from….what happened...but I wanted to give you a gift!"
"What kind of gift?" Chara said quietly
Asriel took a box from behind his back and gave it to Chara. Chara took the gift and looked at it. It was a white box with a red bow on top.
"Open it."
Chara opened the box. There was a golden heart locket inside. Chara picked it and looked at Asriel.
"Turn it around."
Chara turned it and saw what was engraved on the back.
'Best Friends Forever'
"Do you like it?" Asriel said
"I-I I love it Asriel!" Chara started to tear up. Chara smiled so wide, you wouldn't even think she was sad a minute ago.
"Good! Cause I made another! So we match!" Asriel smiled as well, glad that he made his sister happy.
***(p)
Chara bent down at the small gift on the floor. There were two. She went to the one closer to her bed and opened it. Chara gasped of joy when she saw what was inside. My locket! Chara wasn't buried with it. Her mother took it off her before she did. Chara never knew where it was but now it's here. She picked it up and put it on. There. Now I'm whole again. Chara looked over at the other box. She grabbed it and took it over to her. She opened that one too to see something she didn't want to see.
A knife.
Chara didn't want to know why a dulled knife was in a box. She questioned if she was even supposed to find it. She slid it away from herself and got up. She placed her hand around her locket and smiled.
She looked around and saw the flower drawing again. She smiled as she remembered what she did to the wall.
***(fb)
"Hey Chara! Watcha' doing?"
"Drawing." Chara said laying on her stomach on the floor with papers and crayons all around her.
"Drawing what?" Asriel sitting down across from her.
"A flower. See?" Chara held it up so Asriel could see.
It was a yellow, five petaled flower with a green stem.
"Haha! It's neat! Can we add a face?"
"A face? To a flower?"
"Yeah! And then we could name it...uh…"
"Flowey?"
"Yeah! sure! Flowey the Flower! Great idea Chara!"
-
Asriel and Chara had paint all around them their hands covered in different colours.
"Okay now more there and-"
"CHILDREN!" Toriel yelled in shock at what they had done to the walls.
"Um..we can explain…" Asriel said feeling bad about what he had done.
"It's my fault..." Chara spoke up. "Asriel said he didn't know what a rainbow was so I wanted to show him…"
Toriel sighed and took her children by the hands.
"It is alright my child. But please do not do this again."
"Yes mother!" the children said in unison.
"Now, let's get you two cleaned up…as usual.."
***(p)
She walked out of the room. She went over to the sign on the stairs. The sign said that Asgore was in the garden and the keys were in the kitchen and in the hallway.
Chara went to the kitchen first.
***(fb)
"Okay. What first chef Fluffy-butt!"
"Chara don't call me that!"
"Why not?"
Asriel sighed and took the old cook book. "Anyway! First we need...butter...cups?"
"Buttercups? Like the flower?"
"Yeah!"
"Are you sure?"
"Pretty sure. That's what it says…" Asriel looked at the book again.
"Okay...I'll get the flowers then…" Chara left to get the 'unknown-to-her' poisonous buttercups.
***(p)
Chara took the key and didn't want to remember what happened next. We poisoned dad… It's my fault...I shouldn't've got the flowers…
Chara went back to the hallway and got the other key. Okay. Time to go meet my father. Chara unlocked the chains and went down the stairs. She walked into the grey hallway when she remembered what happened here.
***(fb)
Chara walked down the grey hallway humming to herself a the cheerful tune she heard at waterfall. She was going to visit her father in the throne room. She was so focused on her humming, she didn't even notice there was some else with her.
Suddenly she felt a strong pain across her right arm. Her shirt had been ripped and there were three deep cuts on her skin. The blood was rushing fast and she quickly put her hand overtop of the wound.
Her soul appeared in front of her. Bright red.
She turned around to see who had done this. She saw a tall skeletal figure standing a few feet away from her.
His eyes glowed purple and three sharp looking bones came from thin air shooting to her left arm. Again, three deep cuts were engraved into her skin. She yelped in pain.
She let go of the right arm and held onto the left one. Both were bleeding fast. She looked back at the skeleton but he had disappeared.
She saw her soul turn a deep blue and she was lifted into the air, and slammed high against the wall.
Chara cried out in more pain as more bones then struck her too the wall through her clothes. Chara was terrified as the skeleton came right up to her.
Chara was literally pinned against the wall. She was helpless. Tears had rolled down her cheeks.
"So...you are human the King and Queen adopted?" asked the skeleton in a slight british accent.
He never smiled for any good reason and he had two cracks in his skull. One from his left eye socket to the back of his head, and the other was from his right eye socket down to his mouth. He was wearing a white turtleneck sweater and a black lab coat.
Chara couldn't speak. She was to intimidated by the scary looking monster in front of her.
"I can say I'm very disappointed...I'd thought you'd be stronger…"
Gaster checked her HP and saw it was 10/20.
"Your soul is red I see. That's good…"
"Wh-who...a-are y-you?"
Chara said, barely talking at all. When she spoke, it was light and you could barely hear it.
"Who am I? I'm Dr. W. D. Gaster. Head Royal Scientist. It seems you've never heard of me before...I wonder why the king and queen haven't told you about me yet...why...even the prince knows who I am…"
"A-asriel?"
"Yes. Though, I suppose it has something to do with the fact that…"
Gaster got very close up to Chara. His face barely brushing hers. His smiled was sinister and his voice because creepily low
"I'm not a very nice person…"
Gaster stepped back from Chara who was shivering in fear. She continued to cry as Gaster let out a subtle laugh.
"Heh… human children scare so easily…"
Clearly taking enjoyment from scaring the terrified child, he took ahold of her soul again with his magic.
"Now my dear...if you don't mind...I would like to take this burden of a soul from you…"
Gaster began to rip out Chara's soul from her chest. Chara let out more yells of pain.
"Don't do that, this won't hurt for long…"
He tugged harder until the soul was almost let go.
"GASTER!" A loud, deep male voice yelled down the hall.
Asgore ran towards his daughter who was pinned to the wall. Gaster let go of his hold on the poor girl's soul. Asgore took Chara down from the wall. Chara's arms had blood all down the sides and her eyes were barely open.
"Chara...can you hear me?" Asgore said to his daughter resting in his arms.
Chara moaned and coughed up blood. Asgore put his big furry hand on her head and turned to Gaster.
"Don't EVER do something like this again. I don't want to know why you did this now, but If I ever see you place a bone on her again, you will be fired. Understand?" His tone was stern, not angry.
"Yes sire." Gaster said in a non-apologetic voice, dipping his head to the monarch.
Asgore walked away quickly to his house with his badly wounded child in his arms and yelling his wife's name down the hall.
***(p)
Chara shivered in fear from that memory. She hated it. She hate that it ever happened. She took both her hands and grabbed the upper part of both arms. She stood in the hallway for a few seconds before continuing on.
That must be the worst memory here...well one of the worst…
Chara kept going, though her pace got slower and slower. She reached the end of the hallway to get to the judgement hall.
Chara took a second to collect herself. She was afraid that when she went in there, she would be reminded of what happened. She took a deep breath in, then out. She took the step into the room.
She looked around the room. Yellow / gold tiles layered the floor. The light shining through the glass windows with the dune on it. The pillars reflecting the light. Chara took more steps forward shakily. She walked down the hall when she saw something flash red. She stopped to turn to it. But there was nothing there. She continued and saw more flashes of red and bones. Chara closed her eyes.
It's not real. It's not real. It's not real. It's not real. It's not real. It's not-
Chara repeated this in herself head until she opened her eyes to see blood spilled everywhere. Leftover bones scatter about and Sans at the end of the hall with that grin and the blue flashing eye. His hand went up and summoned two gaster blasters. Chara covered her face with her arms as she heard the sound of them firing. The firing then became faint as she opened her eyes again to see it was all an illusion.
Chara was standing just at the end breathing short from what she just saw.
It's not real. It's not real. It's not real.
Chara collected herself again and continued on.
Chara now stood at the edge of the garden She could see her father watering the flowers with his back turned to the doorway. He didn't hear her come in. Chara took another step forward. He heard her this time.
"I'll be right with you. I was just water my-" Asgore turned around and saw his daughter standing before him.
"Little flower…"
He dropped his watering can and walked over to Chara who was smiling like an idiot so happy to see her father.
"My little flower. Chara...is that really you?" He held out his hand towards Chara cheek.
Chara took the hand and placed it on her face. "Yeah dad...It's me."
Asgore hugged his Chara so tightly. Both were crying.
"I...I thought you were dead…"
"I was...but...I'm here now…"
"Ho- I...I don't want to know...I just don't want to leave you again."
The two stood there hugging for a long time. In silence, both shedding tears. Chara finally spoke up.
"Dad?"
"Yes my little flower?"
"I need to talk to you about something."
End Of Part 1