Chapter 12: Possession

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Mettaton woke up screaming and Alphys rushed into his room and asked "Mettaton what happened?"

"Oh, I had the worst nightmare! Ones and zeros everywhere! And I think I saw a two." Said Mettaton shuddering at the last part.

"O-oh, well don't worry Mettaton. The nightmare's over now." When Alphys finished talking her phone rang and she answered it. "Hello… Undyne?... Slow down… I'll look." When Alphys said that the phone call ended.

"What was that about?" Asked Mettaton.

"Something's wrong with Frisk." Said Alphys.

"Sans! Sans! Wake up Sans!" Sans heard Papyrus screaming from outside and woke up to find himself on the couch in Papyrus's house in Snowdin town.

"What's up Papyrus?" Asked Sans.

"Something's wrong with Frisk! I keep getting calls saying she's hurting people! And she's headed for the ruins! I have to help her before she gets there!" Replied Papyrus through the door.

"Wait Papyrus!" Called Sans as he ran to the door and quickly threw it open. When the door opened Sans froze; Frisk was facing away from him and towards Papyrus, and while Papyrus had his arms wrapped around her in a hug, she had put a gilded knife through his chest.

"F-Frisk… What did you do?" Asked Sans with his voice shaking from the anger he held in.

As Papyrus turned to dust Chara asked "Getting mad comedian? Well, which of us do you plan to hurt? Me? Or her?" As Chara finished speaking, she turned around to reveal that while the left half of the body was Chara's, complete with her demonic left eye, the right half of the body was Frisk's and had tears running down from it.

Sans woke up with a gasp and found himself in Toriel's bed with her sleeping close by. Then the two of them heard a loud knocking at the door and they both got up to see who it was.

"REALLY SANS? HEART BOXERS?" Asked Papyrus when Sans opened the door.

"Papyrus, what are you doing here at… 8:00 in the morning?" Asked Sans as he saw a nearby clock.

"IT'S 8:00 AT NIGHT! YOU SLEPT ALL DAY!" Replied Papyrus.

"Oh, goodness I missed work! And Frisk missed school!" Realized Toriel.

"WELL, LET'S HOPE SHE ISN'T MISSING ANYTHING ELSE! I'VE BEEN CALLING YOU TWO FOR HOURS! SOMETHING WEIRD HAPPENED!" Yelled Papyrus.

"Can we come inside?" Asked Undyne, revealing that her, Alphys, and Mettaton were also there.

Sans yawned and motioned for the group to come inside. "What happened Papyrus?"

"LAST NIGHT WHILE I WAS AT HOME, I SAW FRISK WALKING BAREFOOT THROUGH THE SNOW! I YELLED OUT THE WINDOW TO HER AND SHE RAN OFF! AND THE WORST PART WAS WHEN I RAN OUTSIDE TO GET HER, I SAW BLOODY FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW, HEADED TOWARDS WATERFALL! SO, I CALLED UNDYNE AND TOLD HER ABOUT IT!" Explained Papyrus.

"So, then I looked around outside and saw her headed for Hotland, then called Alphys." Said Undyne.

"Then I saw Frisk on the security camera, headed for the underground's exit." Finished Alphys.

"Oh goodness! Undyne call Asgore! I'll go check Frisk's room! And Sans, go put on clothes!" Ordered Toriel as she walked up the stairs.

"Ok." Yawned Sans as he walked into the pantry and shut it behind him.

"SANS GET OUT OF THE PANTRY!" Yelled Papyrus, but when he opened the pantry door, he saw that Sans was no longer there. "I HATE IT WHEN HE DOES THAT." Said Papyrus as he shut the pantry back. Sans stepped out of the pantry a moment later wearing his usual clothes. The group then heard Toriel shout upstairs and ran up to Frisk's room and were greeted with a horrible sight. The entire room was destroyed, and Frisk was sitting on the broken remains of her bed wrapped in a blanket. Her hair was a mess, she was covered in tears, and the blanket she had wrapped herself in had blood soaked into it, most likely because of Frisk's barefoot walk through the snow.

".sloof uoy nur" Whispered Frisk weakly.

"Oh, my child!" Cried Toriel as she ran to Frisk's side and held her tightly in her arms.

I-I can't believe I slept through this. Thought Sans, clearly angry with himself and fighting back tears. "Tori we need to take Frisk out of this room, the broken window is letting cold air in." Explained Sans, Toriel scooped up Frisk, who was still wrapped up in a blanket and carried her downstairs.

Toriel sat on the couch holding Frisk closely and using her magic to heal Frisk's injuries. Frisk continued to cry and held on tightly to Toriel. Asgore knocked on the door and was let in by Undyne. "Undyne! Are you alright! You called me earlier, but you never said anything, and I heard someone screaming!" Explained Asgore.

"I'm fine, but Frisk is hurt" Replied Undyne.

"Oh dear, Tori what happened?" Asked Asgore as he ran past Undyne and over to Toriel.

"We don't know yet." Stated Toriel as she finished healing Frisk.

Sans sat down next to Toriel and stroked Frisk's hair comfortingly. "Heya kid, how are you feeling?" Asked Sans.

"Like you care." Said Chara.

Frisk suddenly started gasping for air, not sure whether Chara had made her say that out loud or not.

"Ya know kid, last night you asked if me and Toriel were a 'lovey dovey' thing or not, well we talked about it, and now we are." Said Sans.

Hearing this made Frisk a little bit happier, until she heard Chara say, "It won't last." And left Frisk wondering if it had really been said aloud or not, the guilt making her cry even harder.

"HONESTLY SANS, IS THAT HOW YOU CHEER PEOPLE UP? LET ME TRY." Said Papyrus. "HELLO FRISK, I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, AM HERE TO CHEER YOU UP!" Cheered Papyrus. "DO YOU WANT TO GO FOR A RIDE IN MY CONVERTIBLE? OR MAYBE WE CAN SOLVE SOME PUZZLES." Suggested Papyrus.

"I hate puzzles." Hissed Chara.

Chara please, this is torture! Just let them go. Begged Frisk.

"HMMM, UNDYNE, WHY DON'T YOU GIVE IT A TRY?" Suggested Papyrus.

"Uh, sure." Replied Undyne as she switched places with Papyrus. "Hey squirt… listen, I'm no good with touchy feely stuff, so I'm just going to ask. Frisk, who did this to you? We can't get back at them if you don't tell us." Said Undyne, but Frisk didn't respond.

Alphys stepped forward and was about to try talking to Frisk, when Mettaton placed a hand on her shoulder and said, "Hold on doctor, something isn't right here."

"What do you mean?" Asked Alphys.

"All people emit an aura that relates to who they are. Some people can see aura or feel it, but an even more rare gift is the power to hear it. I can hear a person's aura like a song, and I've noticed that depending on how a person feels that song can speed up or slow down, become louder or quieter, but no matter what the notes all stay the same." Explained Mettaton. "When I first met Frisk, her song was one of hope and friendship, but I noticed something odd the other day. When you, Frisk, Sans, and Papyrus went to my concert I heard some foul keys in Frisk's song. I had never heard of anything like it before, so that's when I decided to make the prize for winning the contest on my show a date with Frisk, so that I could see what had happened to change her aura."

"What's your point? That Frisk has changed a little since she left the underground." Retorted Undyne.

"I'm saying that since last night, her aura has changed completely. It's not even the same song anymore. This song is one of pain, a song of love and loss." Explained Mettaton.

"Mettaton, you're scaring people." Said Alphys as she gestured to all the people in the room who were switching their gazes between Frisk and Mettaton nervously.

"You should be scared. I am too." Stated Mettaton.

"Alright, I've had just about enough out of you." Said Undyne. An argument soon broke out between the two while Papyrus and Alphys tried to break it up. Frisk pressed closer to Toriel hoping that maybe the sound of her heat could calm her down.

"Hehe, the sound of Toriel's heart? I remember listening to it stop. Do you? After all, that one was all you." Said Chara. Upon hearing this, Frisk's body was taken over by Chara once again, though most of the people in the room hadn't noticed.

Sans, however, felt the change instantly. I need to get the kid away from Tori. Thought Sans.

Before Sans could do anything Toriel placed Frisk down on the couch and yelled "Enough! Fighting like this isn't going to help Frisk at all."

Suddenly the sound of a knife slicing through the air rang out. Everyone in the room turned to see that Frisk was once again holding a red knife, and that Sans had barely managed to dodge a swing from it.

"Attacking me first may have been a tactical mistake." Said Sans with a wink. Everyone in the room suddenly felt the air become heavy.

"M-my child? Put down the knife." Ordered Toriel.

"Hehehehe, what's the matter? Don't you trust me?" Asked Chara as she turned her head and reveled her face to the group. Everyone's blood ran cold as they saw what Frisk had become, Chara was using what Asriel called her 'creepy face', but it was even more terrifying now. The only word to describe her face was demonic. Both of Chara's eyes were solid black except for red pupils, there were bloody tears running down from Chara's left eye, and her mouth seemed to open across the entire length of her face. I became clear to all the people in the room that the creature they were looking at, wasn't Frisk.