AN: Welcome to the beginning of a story I've had in the back of my mind ever since I replayed the True Pacifist route. I would of gotten it up early December, (Along with the second story of my other story, which will be uploaded in a bit for anyone that may be following it) but there was a vacation I had and I was trying to figure out where I was going to end the chapter. Anyways, I hope you enjoy Ebbot and the Goat Prince
Chapter 1
Sunlight shone through the barrier, illuminating the otherwise dark room, On one side was the surface, home of the humans, the other side was a powerful, and frankly, very scared young goat monster. That monster was Asriel, as well as Chara, whose SOUL was inside him.
Asriel, come on, please, let's go to the village, and get the SOULs to break the barrier! A voice echoed through Asriel's mind, the voice was from his sister, a human named Chara, who he had found a few years ago. Now that you absorbed my SOUL we are so much more powerful. Not only will we free everyone, but after this we'll be together forever =) Asriel did want to be with his sister, but she was acting strange, and he also wasn't that big of a fan of this plan. but he wasn't going to argue, they agreed on this plan days ago, he wasn't going to be a crybaby like he always was, at least according to Chara.
So, Asriel and Chara began their journey, passing through the barrier and into the sun of the surface. Beginning their trek towards the town
As Asriel and Chara reached the edge of the town of Ebbot. They began to notice what they came here for, SOULs, human SOULs, Every one of them seething with power. They were also noticed, at first it was just excited children, pointing and looking up at us in awe. Eventually though, the adults came as well, they were nowhere near as happy and cheerful.
"What's that doing here?"
"Go back underground!"
"Is that a dead child!?"
Asriel was now even more nervous than before, as Chara piped up in his head. See? You haven't even done anything and the humans are already mad at you. They deserve to die.
Asriel. Just attack!
Not yet Chara. Asriel mentally said, trying to stall for time, and hopefully get out of the mess he had brought himself into. Let's get to the center of the town. It seemed that wouldn't be long though, as the body they shared was beginning to approach the center of the town,more and more people exited the houses and buildings around them. The duo was approaching a small . fountain with buttercups surrounding it. As Asriel began to lay the child down, a man with a shotgun began approaching. Hearing the footsteps, the monster turned his head around and glanced at the man. He looked mad, yet at the same time, Asriel could feel a bit of twisted joy by the way the man was looking at both him and Chara.
"Hey!" Asriel fully turned around, looking slightly down at the man because of his newfound height "What are you doing with that kid!"
Now Asriel, attack, take their SOULs, all of them. Don't leave a single one behind!
What? Asriel once again spoke between the siblings two SOULs. All? Chara, I don't want to do this anymore.
"I don't know what you think you're doing!" The man was starting to get mad "But I have a weapon!"
Asriel! You're going to get us killed. Attack! Asriel, however, was refusing to move, and refusing to give Chara control of his body. The girl was acting unlike herself, and Asriel believed she would regret killing anyone. Even if she wanted to right now.
"That's it monster! If you killed that girl, then eat metal you bastard!"
Asriel began to pipe up, after being silent for the entire exchange "But I didn't ev-" Pain shot through Asriel's body as the pellets zoomed through him. Great! Asriel, I hate you. You're a traitor and you deserve this death. You wouldn't just listen to me! Monsters could of been free. Before the man could shoot again, Chara's SOUL, now a dull maroon instead of her usual bright red, damaged and weak from the scuffle, as well as being disconnected from her body, flew off into the distance, back towards the Underground.
Asriel was once more alone, battered by the bullets, and now back to his normal form. Now, looking up at the man, he curled up with Chara's corpse, sobbing from both the pain of the shotgun shell lodged throughout his body, and the emotional pain he felt for his sister.
"Did it die?" One voice called out
"Was that it's SOUL?" A young man asked.
The man that had shot Asriel spoke out, noticing that Asriel was still breathing. "It's still alive, Let me finish it off when I reload this gun and-"
"WAIT!" A young woman approached the scene, standing in between the monster and human.
"Michelle! Can't you see that I'm in the middle of something right now" Asriel's attacker piped up.
"Can't see? I'm the one that can't see? Can't you see that you are attacking a child right now? Can't you see that he's carrying the corpse of a child I took care of and disappeared five years ago? Can't you see that not only does he looked extremely scared, he also looks sad, almost as if he lost someone he loved! I don't know about you Daniel, but it seems to me that what you're in the middle of, is you trying to play hero by killing someone that you don't know did anything wrong." The woman, who Asriel guessed was named Michelle, was fuming now, yelling at the man who was shrinking into his shirt as the gun he was holding was jittering from his arm movements. "So why don't you wait a moment, and see what the innocent child has to say."
Michelle turned towards Asriel, putting on a warm smile, even though she was mad, she still seemed welcoming and kind to Asriel, probably because she didn't shoot a shotgun at him. "What's your name?"
"A-Asriel" Asriel stuttered
Michelle noticed this, and began looking at his wounds "Daniel, maybe try and make up for what you did and help me get him to the clinic. We'll worry about explanations when he isn't heavily injured." Michelle beckoned Asriel to get up, and as he did, she offered her arm as support for the goat monster.
"Thank you" Asriel said, leaning against the woman, but as he began walking, he began feeling lightheaded, with one last breath, he collapsed. When Michelle saw this, she was about to scream at Daniel, as well as do many things to him that were much worse. But, Michelle was always slow to action, thinking about what she had learned about monsters. Monsters, when dying, turn to dust, this was used in the war as an easy way to know when our prisioners were about to die, as they began to start flaking from starvation.As much as she didn't like the second part of that tidbit. The first part was now one of her favorite things. The child was still, well, a child, and not a pile of dust. Picking up the chi;d's otherwise lifeless body, she wonders if monsters had to breathe or not.
Asriel's blinking was groggy as he came to, looking around, he found himself in some sort of doctor's office. Though where he normally would of saw tools used to test magic, he know saw other tools, most likely to test human things that he knew nothing about.
"He's awake" said a voice, Asriel recognized it as the kind woman he had met earlier. Tears swelled up in his eyes, earlier, that word felt scarier than anything right now. Chara left him, he was attacked, and now his parents were probably worried sick, all because of what happened earlier.
Michelle walked into the room, as well as Daniel. Asriel cringed at the sight of him, sinking into the bed he was lying on. Michelle, noticing this, shooed him away, and the goat and woman were left to themselves.
"Asriel, was it?" Michelle asked, as Asriel nodded meekly in response "Good, you feeling better now. Your magic seems to have already fully healed the wounds once we got the metal out of you. I'm sorry about that. Daniel is actually a pretty nice guy, believe it or not, but he also really protective and doesn't think things through. Not that it excuses what he did, I just want you to know he's not going to do that again." Once again Asriel nodded in response.
"Shy one, are you?" Michelle chuckled. "I know a few of my kids that would like you. I am the caretaker of the local orphanage, do you don't have to be scared of me. I'm not going to hurt you either."
"Ok" Asriel muttered.
"I know you've been through a lot, and we want to send you home so you can see your parents again, but there is one thing I would like to know if you can be so kind; What happened to Chara? She used to live at my orphanage but disappeared five years ago, and now all of a sudden today a monster child comes in with her in his hands, dead. I'm just a bit curious is all."
Asriel didn't want to talk about Chara, he missed her so much already. But by the way Michelle was talking, Asriel knew she was missing Chara for a lot longer than he has, so she deserved an explanation. "Well, five years ago Chara ran away from your orphanage and tried running away by climbing the mountain. She fell down a hole that led to the Underground and I found her. My family decided to adopt her, as there was no way for her to go back to the surface. But she got really sick one day recently, and, she died." Michelle seemed shocked at the story, Chara got a family, but then she passed due to an illness. She felt bad for the girl, and the adoptive family, who must've been sad as well. "She had one wish, to have the barrier broken, and she told me to absorb her SOUL, and, go to the surface. I didn't know how to break the barrier, but when we got to the town, she said I had to kill people and absorb their SOULs I didn't want to, and we got attacked and her SOUL ran away towards the Underground and now I'll never see her again."
Michelle disagreed, as she reassured Asriel."If she went back to the Underground, then we can just go to the barrier, right?"
Asriel sad demeanor was lifted as he realized that was right! He could go back home. 'Can you bring me there?" he asked.
"Of Course"
The peaks of Mt. Ebbot sent a chill through Asriel's body, even with his fur, the t shirt and pants he usually wore were nowhere near enough for the winds. He and Michelle found themselves on a small cliffside, approaching the magical barrier.
"Well, Asriel, I don't know about you, but I am happy I have met you, I hope you monsters do find a way out of there."
"Yeah, me too." Asriel muttered, he was much more focused on something else. Usually, the barrier from this side was almost completely transparent, but now it was a pinkish white, just barely see through. As Asriel approached it, and touched the barrier, he pushed his hand through the magical force-field trying to pass through the seemingly different barrier.
But it refused.
AN: That was the first chapter of my story! If you would, please give me any feedback you can. It's always appropriated and helpful. Thank you and Good Night!
