Chapter 16
Rise of a True Demon
Frisk really wasn't sure what she was expecting when she entered the room. Sure, she knew she couldn't expect to have some room of boiling magma, or completely dark and foggy place, but even so, part of her was expecting some kind of eerie and evil background for a fight against an embodiment of hatred and vengeance.
The room, however, was actually quite nice looking, almost inviting. Unlike the first floor of the building and the outside of the building, the second floor seemed to be completely refurbished, having furniture like an actual house. A couch, a couple chairs, a fridge and a freezer, a few lamps, even TVs and game systems... it was almost as if Chara had invited them over for a hang out rather than a battle.
They didn't have to look very long to catch sight of Chara. He was silently standing at a window that allowed the sunshine of the outside to enter into the house, staring at the outside. He wore a black button up shirt that was left unbuttoned for a more casual look, as well as a pair of black dress pants and a pair of black shoes. He looked more like he was going to be going off to a business meeting than get into a fight to the death.
Toriel remained quiet and her eyes remained careful, but her hands were shaking at the sight of her adopted son standing there. Even after she heard it from Asgore... even after she and all of Frisk's friends mutually agreed that Chara was the one they were looking for, she wanted to believe that they were mistaken... that her son hadn't become what they said he had... and now here he stood in front of them; her own son and the one that caused all the mischief that happened these past couple of days.
Chara didn't seem to pay any heed to the seven just yet. He stood at the window, staring outside as he brought up to his face a bar of Mounds Chocolate that he was holding in his hand and took a bite of the candy bar, chewing the dark chocolate and shredded coconut very slowly, taking some time to savor the the chocolate before finally swallowing it. He was about to take another bite, but stopped as he looked at the window. He stayed still for about seven seconds before putting the candy bar back in the wrapper and twisting it a bit to keep it shut, putting it to the side.
"...So... you're finally here." Chara said as he looked at the reflections of his seven 'guests' that he saw from the glass of the window. "...I was half hoping for you all to arrive a bit later... I didn't want to squander the beautiful day outside having to fight."
"...Is that so?" Frisk asked as she continued to stare at Chara.
"...It's a beautiful day outside... don't you all agree?" Chara questioned without turning to face them. "...What more could be asked for at a moment like this?... The sun is out... the temperature is warm... the birds are chirping... and not a cloud in the sky as far as the eye can see... if you ask me... it's such a pity that one of us needs to die on such a beautiful day."
The others said nothing as Chara turned around and finally faced them, allowing them to see his red eyes, his rosy cheeks that stood out from the rest of his pale face, and a purple shirt with a Pokéball print worn under his unbuttoned button-up shirt. "On days like these... there are so many things you can do outside, isn't there? Go for a walk, take a swim, play a game of baseball... I would say that it was a perfect day for hide n' seek... but you've already heard that before from my father."
"...Yes... I have." Frisk said as she kept her guard up. Chara didn't seem like he was planning anything at the moment, but Frisk had learned to not assume anything from Chara. He was just as dangerous doing nothing as he was attacking.
"...Ah. Where are my manners?" Chara said with a little snap of his fingers and shaking his head. "You are 'guests' here... may I get any of you anything? Something to eat, drink, read or play?"
"...Do you have any spaghetti?" Papyrus questioned.
"Papyrus!" Undyne whispered to him. "What the fuck?! Don't ask him for anything!"
"But he's offering, Miss Undyne... I mean, if he's willing to get it for me..."
"You know, bro... your optimism is really going to get you into trouble, one day." Sans said with a shake of his head.
"...Chara... you know why we're here." Asgore said.
"...Right..." Chara said with a nod. "...I was hoping that I could put it off for a little while longer... but I suppose you're all here for a reason... and it wouldn't be fair to any of you if I had kept you all here longer than you have to be here."
"...Why?" Toriel questioned as she looked at Chara, her heart feeling as if it were being pressed by a huge boulder. "...I don't understand... we... we raised you... we loved you as if you were... no... you really were our son..." She looked at him with tears in her eyes. "...Why?... Why are you doing this?..."
"...Isn't the answer obvious, Mother?" Chara questioned and gave a sigh and looked down. "Do you think that I could have so easily let go of the past like it had never happened? After being tortured by my family and driven to attempt suicide... you expect me to just be able to forget what all my parents did to me?"
"Chara... we are your parents." Asgore said as he stepped forward a little bit and held his hand out gently. "...My son... we are your parents, and we always will be... no matter what happened to you in the past, or what you do now... we'll always be your parents... just please... let go of all this... and come back..."
"...Do you think that you'll be so easily accepted by those humans?" Chara questioned and looked up at all of them. "All of you answer me this, and think very carefully before you do... do you really think that the humans will be able to tolerate any of you? Slavery, war, murder, rape... that's what humankind does to its own kind... if they can't even get along with their own kind, you can't seriously expect them to be able to tolerate any of you."
"Th-this isn't a-about being accepted or not... w-we know that it'll take a while t-to be fully accepted by the humans... b-but that's not what this is about... i-it's about doing what's r-right for both humans and monsters alike." Alphys said.
"Doing what's right? You think what I'm doing is wrong?" Chara questioned with a raise of his eyebrow. "...When the LORD saw how great was man's wickedness on earth, and how no desire that his heart conceived was ever anything but evil, he regretted that he made man on the earth, and His heart was grieved. So the LORD said: "I will wipe out from the earth the men whom I have created, and not only men, but also the beasts and the creeping things and the birds of the air, for I am sorry that I made them... Genesis 6:5-7."
Chara gave a hum and looked at the window once again, staring at the outside. "...The Christians, Jews and Muslims declare that there's one God up there... an all loving and omnibenevolent God... and yet according to their Torah, the wickedness of humanity was so unbearably great that even their 'omnibenevolent Father' would have killed all humans on the earth... now, at least in my mind, if even the kindest of beings would kill all humans if they could, that's not good news for them."
"But He didn't destroy the humans." Frisk said. "He didn't destroy all of the humans because there were a few among them that were willing to do good... there are people in this world that are good people... you can't just generalize all because of the experiences that you've had."
"My mind is set, Frisk... I'm not going to sway away from my views so easily... besides... you're not here to lecture me." Chara said and turned around. "...You're here for us to finish what I started... to decide which of us rises... and which one of us falls to the ground."
"Chara... you can't do this..." Toriel said. "...Don't you understand how many innocent people you're going to be hurting by doing this?... What would your brother say if he could see you now?"
"My brother... hmmm... my brother... oh, that's right." Chara said with a snap of his fingers. "Thanks for reminding me, Mother... I knew there was something that I was forgetting." Without any warning, he walked into another room quietly, closing the door behind him.
"...What do you think he's doing in there?" Papyrus questioned.
"I don't know... but whatever it is... I don't like it." Undyne said as she stared quietly, waiting for Chara to come back out.
In a mere matter of seconds, Chara opened the door and walked out, but didn't have anything in his hands. "...You want to know what my brother would say if he could see me now?" Chara questioned. "...Why don't you go ahead and ask him?"
Chara looked over his shoulder behind him and gave a little nod before looking straight back at the others and stepping to the side. When Toriel and Asgore both saw who was behind Chara, both of their hearts skipped about five or six beats, and both of their shocked gasps could have sucked all of the oxygen out of the room if they were any stronger.
Nobody but Frisk could really believe their eyes. Though there may have been one or two among them that had never met the boy before, everyone already knew who it was. There was not any doubt in anybody's mind about the identity of the boy, as he stood there, looking exactly like a younger version of Asgore and Toriel.
"...A... Asriel..." Asgore said in complete shock. Toriel just stared and put both of her hands over her mouth. Both she and Asgore felt like fainting then and there. Their hearts were drumming like Hell in disbelief.
"...Mom... Dad..." Asriel said softly as he looked at them.
"Asriel... our... our baby boy..." Toriel said as she couldn't help but feel herself tear up. This was all too much. Not only was Chara alive again after all these years... but Asriel was alive again as well. Just when they thought that their sons were gone for good... in a matter of days, there they were again, standing before them as if none of their deaths had ever happened.
"...You didn't think that I could have possibly forgotten my precious brother... did you?" Chara questioned and looked at Asriel. "...He's been the only one in my whole life that's ever been able to understand me..."
"...I didn't want to make things harder on you than they had to be." Frisk said as she looked at them. "...I learned that Asriel was alive again with Chara the dream that I had that he explained everything to me... I didn't want to tell you because I didn't know how you would react."
"...You told them the truth... and yet they continue to stand by your side here and now?" Chara questioned with a curious raise of his eyebrow. "...Hmmm... interesting... I'm sure that there wouldn't be any humans that would have stayed by your side if they knew the truth."
"...Maybe not many... but there would be a few that would stay with me if they knew the truth." Frisk said as she stood and pulled out a stick and held it in her right hand. "Now come on... are we going to fight, or are we going to stand around talking all day?"
"...A stick?..." Chara said before laughing for a couple of seconds. "Hahahahahahahahah! Ohohoho! Oh that's simply rich. You're coming up against me, Chara, a demon with powers beyond your wildest dreams, and the weapon that you're going to try to use to defeat me is a STICK?!" He began to laugh again.
"Maybe she doesn't need anything more to kick your ass." Undyne said with a smirk and a cross of her arms. "Frisk is going to beat the living Hell out of you with just that stick."
"Oh... is that so?" Chara questioned. "Oh no. I'm going to get my ass handed to me by a little twig! Oh, I must have absolutely no hopes of winning! Whatever am I going to do?... Oh wait, I know." He then looked at Asriel after his little sarcastic monologue. "Asriel... the other five Souls. Get them for me, would you?"
"Chara, please reconsider." Asriel pleaded to him. "Taking all 6 of the Souls at a time is way too dangerous. If you try to take in all of them and fight Frisk-"
"I don't have any other choice, Asriel." Chara interrupted. "I promised Frisk that I wasn't going to hold anything back during our fight. I have to use every last bit of strength that I can use here, no matter what the risks are... now get the Souls for me."
"Chara..." Asriel whispered softly and gave a sad sigh as he went over to a container and opened it.
The eyes of everyone widened as Chara opened the palm of his right hand, and the yellow Human Soul of Justice slowly floated out of his hand and began to circle around him. Their shock only increased as they saw from the container float the light blue, orange, blue, purple and green Human Souls as they also fell in to the circle that the Human Soul of Justice floated around and began to circle around Chara as well.
"...Hmhmhmhmhmhmhmhm... finally... the six Human Souls to come together with my own..." Chara said as he watched with fascination as the souls continued to float around him. He then gave a smirk to Frisk. "...And soon... your soul is going to be among them."
"Th-th-the Souls!" Alphys said as she took a step back, her entire body trembling. "H-h-h-h-he's got the Human Souls!"
"As I told you, Frisk... I wasn't going to be holding anything back." Chara said. "While you all were taking your sweet time to arrive... with the help of Darkeol, Oceaol, Flameol, Thundeol, Eartheol and Windeol, I was able to get my hands on all six of these babies... and I took some time last night and early this morning to make sure that I got some training to be able to control these fairly well."
Frisk gave a nervous step back and tightened the grip of her stick. She thought it was going to be bad enough going up against Chara when all she had was a stick, and he could go along and have a knife for all she knew... but this... this changed absolutely everything.
Chara gave a smirk and watched as there appeared in the room five beings that looked like Darkeol, only with different staffs and colors of clothes and eyes. Oceaol was a blue one with green eyes, his staff having the power of water. Flameol was a scarlet one with orange eyes, his staff having the power of fire. Thundeol was a yellow one with blue eyes, his staff having the power of lightning. Eartheol was a green one with brown eyes, his staff having the power of the earth. The fifth one was the familiar teal being among them, Windeol.
"It's almost really pitiful, isn't it, Frisk?... You came all this way just to stop me... only to now learn that you never had a chance."
"Chara, you can't do this!" Asgore said.
"Why not? You wanted to do this for the exact same reason, didn't you? Take all the souls, become godlike and free all the monsters, and destroy all of humanity. You could do it at one time, so why can't I?"
"Chara, please listen to him." Asriel pleaded. "It's too dangerous. If you take the souls in now, and you can't control them-"
"I've had time to practice this, Asriel. I can't back off on my plan." he said. "...Now stay back." Asriel, knowing there was nothing he could do to change Chara's mind, took a few steps back.
"...It's time now..." Chara said and held his arms out. From his chest slowly floated out his soul, which was heart shaped just like all the others. There were only a few visible parts of the natural red it had, because almost all of it was covered by the black gunk of his hatred and his malice. Hatred had almost completely consumed Chara's soul, but by the few red parts that were still visible, Frisk knew there was still some hope, albeit very small.
"...The Light Blue Soul of Patience... the Orange Soul of Bravery... the Blue Soul of Integrity... the Purple Soul of Perseverance... the Green Soul of Kindness... and the Yellow Soul of Justice..." Chara said as the souls began to slowly approach the black coated heart that represented Chara's soul. "...Come together with my black soul... we shall become a being of absolute power and vengeance... our enemies shall cry out in despair and pray for mercy... and we shall become the bringer of Armageddon... the agent of Judgment Day... and the Lord of Genocide."
With that, the six Human Souls entered Chara's body, and Chara's own soul reentered his body. He began to groan as electricity of each color of the souls was zapping around his body. The power of seven souls inside him like this was almost overwhelming... but he had been practicing for this very moment. As he continued to zap and groan, his entire body became a dark silhouette as it was starting to change.
"Oh no..." Asriel said quietly as he backed up a bit more. "This... this can't be happening..."
Frisk remained quiet as all she and her friends could do was watch helplessly as Chara continued to transform. On his head, what appeared to be horns began to form on the sides of his head, right above his ears, and his body was starting to become bigger. Right at his tailbone, what appeared to be a tail of some sort was also being formed. It seemed his body was making drastic changes to itself, if nothing to be able to better handle the amount of power Chara now had at his disposal.
As the transformation had ended and Chara's color came back, he looked nothing like he did before he took the souls inside him. He now stood as what appeared to be an adult of about Asgore's height, with two red horns sprouted from his head. His hair had become very long and a silvery platinum color, while his skin was literally white as snow to match up with it. The rosy blush on his cheeks was gone. He also had a long white tail like that of a monkey that swayed around to get used to its form.
Chara's body also took on a bit more of a feminine appearance in some lights. His thighs had become a little thicker, and the build of his stomach and chest seemed to have decreased in masculine appearance. However, to compensate for that, his shoulders had become very broad, and his arms, though not very muscular, appeared very strong, like they could rip through the hardest material in a matter of minutes. His legs also appeared to be strong, like a single kick of them could send the Empire State Building crumbling down. It was almost as if Frisk was looking at a more demonic version of Metatton EX; she was having trouble figuring out which gender Chara was trying to look like.
"...Hmmmm... this feels quite nice." Chara said with his eyes closed. His new voice sounded like that of an adult woman, but also had a demonic growl layered into it. He opened his eyes, showing a pair of eyes that were completely pitch black, save for vertical linear red pupils that looked like the eyes of a demonic snake. "...What do you think of my new look?... Impressive, isn't it?"
Frisk didn't make any reply. Her arm was beginning to tremble. She remembered a fight exactly like this against Asriel when she was to decide whether or not the barrier would be shattered and all the monsters freed from the Underground... but somehow, this was different. The dark sense that Chara gave from just standing there was enough to make the brightest of stars blacken and dim in despair.
"...Too shocked for words, I see." Chara said with a little giggle as he did a little twirl and a bow, as if he was in some kind of ballet. "We'll see what good your determination does against me now... it ends right here, Frisk. Today, you'll have the privilege of becoming the child that bravely stood against me... and died in a valiant attempt to save the world."
"No! You stay away from her!" Undyne shouted as she pulled her sword out and began to charge to help Frisk.
The elemental creatures that were under Darkeol immediately reacted as they jumped swiftly in a large circle around Frisk and Chara and pointed their staffs towards the two as the center. "Do not interfere!" all five of them said in complete synch.
Undyne eventually bumped into a forcefield that seemed invisible as it sent her sprawling to the ground. "Undyne!" Alphys yelped as she ran over to her to see if she was ok.
"Don't worry about me. I'm fine." Undyne said as she got up and looked at what she had ran into. The five creations of Chara had just created a forcefield around Frisk and Chara so that nobody could interfere with their fight. The forcefield was now visible and was made by some impossible yet somehow very stable combination of water, fire, electricity, earth and wind.
Sans gave a growl and held his hand towards the forcefield, his left eye glowing yellow and blue as he tried to stretch his powers beyond the forcefield to summon a field of bones or a few dragon skulls to attack Chara and help Frisk. He strained and he tried to pry his power past the forcefield, but for some reason, he couldn't do it. Somehow, the power that those five beings had put together was so strong that not even Sans with all his strength could get anything past it.
Undyne gave a growl as she began to ram herself into the forcefield to break past it, but it was no use. The barrier was steadfast and wouldn't be breaking by force. "Put this barrier down!" Undyne shouted as she continued to ram herself at it.
"You will not interfere." all five of the creations said in complete synch. "This fight will be only between Frisk and Chara."
Chara gave a hum and watched as Sans and Undyne both continued to try to get past the barrier somehow to no avail. "...There. Now we're free to play our little game all by ourselves... you and me..." Chara turned to her and gave a smirk. "...Just like old times, huh?"
Frisk remained quiet and the grip of her stick tightened in her trembling hand. "...Hm? You don't seem to be completely terrified." Chara said. "...You still have some valor in you, even in this bleak situation?"
"I don't know... right now I'm just trying to figure out what exactly I should call you." Frisk said. "I don't think your anywhere close to being a demon... and you're obviously something different than a human..." She gave a little defiant smirk. "I was thinking about calling you a monster, but I decided that would be an insult to my family and friends here now."
"Hmhmhmhm... well, at least you'll keep your sense of humor throughout this fight." Chara said with a smirk. "That's good... very good."
"Yes... I'm not going to lie to you Chara... I would rather that we not fight... that we solve this dispute some other way... but if I absolutely have no other choice, then I don't care how strong you are... I'm going to fight until the bitter end."
"...Well then... allow me to make it clear for you." Chara said as he held his hand in front of his face. At this point, Undyne and Sans both stopped and watched helplessly along with all the others as in Chara's right hand began to form a very large sword, with the blade very big and heavy looking. The sword was brown and looking like rock at the top, with 'veins' of red, while the bottom blade part was grey and looking incredible sharp. The most disturbing detail, however, was that inches above where the handle met the sword, there was an organic yellow eye that stared at Frisk as Chara held it up.
After a few seconds and a split second of the eye of the sword widening as it continued to stare at Frisk, Chara brought the sword down to the ground and held it behind him, the sword seeming to be so heavy that Chara had to hold it close to the ground with one hand. "...You don't have any other choice."
Chara held his left hand up and let a cloud appear above it that had a vision of the sky with a big black star up in it. "You see the black star?... When the star hits the ground outside... that will be our signal to start fighting."
"Sounds good enough to me." Frisk said as she gave a sigh to banish all the fear and nervousness out of her. "...By the way... before we fight... how many monsters did you make me kill the first time?"
"Hmmm... let's see..." Chara began to mentally count all they killed. "...I think just below a hundred... give or take a few... I want to say somewhere around 97 or 98."
Chara gave a nod and snapped his fingers, and the cloud showed the black star slowly descending from the sky upon the earth. All of Frisk's friends silently held their breath as they helplessly watched on, Asriel trembling in fear of what will happen. Frisk was continuing to shake, despite her attempts not to. How could she not? There was so much riding on this one battle, and she has to fight against a being that has so much power... just like her fight against Asriel, but something about this fight was different.
The seconds felt like eternities to Frisk, and those seconds she wished she had more of. She wasn't at all ready when she saw the black star crash to the ground, and heard the sound from outside.
The minute the star was seen to have hit the ground, Chara immediately moved, kicking his legs from the ground and flying at commendable speed towards Frisk, who had absolutely no time to react before Chara was right in front of her and slammed his fist right into her stomach, sending her flying into the forcefield which she slammed upon with great speed, immediately coughing up blood from the hit of Chara and the force of hitting the barrier.
"No! Frisk!" Papyrus shouted as he watched on helplessly.
Sans gave a growl and went back to trying to get some of his powers through he barrier. "Come on! Break, you fucking forcefield!" he growled, and Undyne continued to slam herself against the forcefield again to try to force herself past it.
"My child..." Toriel whispered as she was on the verge of losing her mind as tears fell from her eyes. Asgore and Alphys remained quiet, both of them silently praying for some kind of miracle or for Frisk to be able to do this.
With a weak groan, already feeling the pain coursing through her body, Frisk fell weakly to the floor, just barely catching herself with her hands and knees. She tried to get up, only to catch glimpse of Chara running in from the side and delivering a kick with unbelievable force onto Frisk's hip, causing her to go flying again. This time, instead of being slammed into the forcefield, Chara appeared right behind her and she slammed into him. She gave a yelp as she could already feel her body weakening from just those two attacks.
"Please tell me that's not all you can take." Chara mocked with a chuckle. "Surely the one that was able to save my brother and free all of the monsters trapped in the Underground can take more than that."
Frisk gave a groan and looked behind her a bit. She turned around swiftly and slammed her stick into Chara's left thigh with all her force, but the attack literally did nothing to him. "Heheheh... such a pitiful attack." Chara said as he grabbed Frisk by the head and held her in a very tight grip, causing Frisk to scream as she tried to loosen Chara's grip with her hands.
"Chara! Stop! Please!" Toriel begged from outside the forcefield. She and Asgore couldn't take this. Their own son fighting against Frisk, Toriel's adopted daughter and the one who had done so much for them... it was a fight they never wanted to see.
"It's kind of a pity, really." Chara said as he ignored Toriel and wrapped his tail around Frisk's neck tightly and began to choke her, releasing his grip on her head and now keeping her in the air with his tail choking her. "I was really looking forward to having a good fight against you... but I guess I can't really blame you... after all... how could someone that has absolutely no LOVE possibly be able to defeat the Lord of Genocide?"
Chara gave a chuckle as he grabbed his sword handle with two hands and held it up, ready to strike a finishing blow on Frisk. "Have no fear, dear child. I still care about you from our adventures together... I care about you enough to not keep this suffering going... I'll end your pain here and now... isn't that nice of me?" Chara began to laugh as he was getting ready to strike the finishing blow.
Frisk gave a groan and looked and saw that her legs could possibly kick his face if she tried hard enough. She had no other alternative option. She gave a choked growl as she brought her legs back and thrusted them forward. Her original target was Chara's nose, but she had aimed the double kick higher and more to the sides by mistake, and ended up giving Chara a good kick to his eyes.
Chara immediately stopped laughing and his grin had completely vanished after Frisk's kick. He may have been a very powerful demon now, but it seemed like even he still could feel pain. "My eyes!" he screeched as his tail moved Frisk away from his face. His tail then flung Frisk behind him, making her tumble and roll on the floor weakly while he continued to scream in pain and hold his eyes with his left hand.
Frisk groaned and tried to get up, but she couldn't. Her body was aching all over from just those few attacks. She knew that Chara was going to be strong, but she didn't know that it was going to be this impossibly difficult.
She knew when Chara was able to recover from the kick to his eyes when she heard a demonic growl and footsteps approaching her. Before she could make any reactions, she felt Chara grab her by the foot and lift her overhead before turning around and slamming her into the ground.
"Well, now you've gone and done it." Chara growled as he grabbed her by the leg again with his tail and held her upside down in front of him. His eyes seemed to have been bloodshot from the kick that Frisk had landed on them. "Now you've gone and pissed me off... now I'm going to make sure your death is as painful as I could possibly make it."
He threw her to the ground, getting a weak yelp out of her. He raised his foot into the air, which began to burn with some unholy strength and slammed it down onto Frisk's chest, causing her to scream in the purest of agony as blood was beginning to blast out of her mouth from the damage that Chara was doing to her body. Undyne and Sans were only increasing their efforts as Frisk screamed. Papyrus at this time began to slam himself into the barrier in an attempt to help Undyne break it down, while Alphys was trying to fruitlessly calculate some sort of way to get in there.
Asgore and Toriel just remained silent, both of them on the verge of breaking down and crying. This was too much for them. They couldn't take the sight of the girl that Toriel took in as her daughter being killed and tortured by their own son. They couldn't believe that the boy they had once taken in and raised as their own could possibly become such a dark and merciless being.
Asriel, however, was the one that was taking this all the hardest. His entire heart felt like shattering and breaking into a thousand pieces. From what Chara said, only one of them would walk out alive... how was Asriel supposed to make a decision of who he wanted to walk out? His own brother, or his friend that forgave him after everything he had done to her?
Chara lifted his foot up off of Frisk and gave a couple of strong breaths before giving a growl and holding his sword up in his right hand over Frisk's chest. With a yell, he raised the sword just a bit higher before bringing it down, plunging it right into Frisk's chest.
Frisk's eyes widened and she let out a tortured gasp as the blade pierced her chest like a knife through hot butter, the ribs in her chest snapping like twigs from the sheer power of the sword. She could feel her lungs and her heart completely crushed by this attack, and could just barely feel the feeling of her warm blood blasting out of her chest.
"NO!" Toriel shouted as she got up and tried to run to the barrier, but Asgore took hold of her and stopped her. "FRISK!" Alphys's calculating was brought to an immediate halt, and Undyne, Sans and Papyrus froze in place.
"...You could have taken my offer and came to me peacefully... it didn't have to end this painfully for you." Chara said as he let go of the handle of the sword he was holding with his right hand, and instead took hold of it with his left while he raised his right hand up and let it gather dark energy. When it had gathered enough, he pulled his right hand down to his chest in a closed fist, and the dark energy he had gathered had caused a small discus of that dark energy burst from where Frisk was stabbed by the sword.
There was utter silence among everybody as the attack was finished, and Frisk's little hand slowly fell to the ground. Chara stared at the body quietly for a few seconds as he slowly lifted the sword out of her chest. Watching all the blood leak out of her. "...Well... I didn't expect it to be over so soon... but I suppose I shouldn't be surprised." he said.
Toriel fell to her knees and began to cry like Hell. She was completely crushed at what she had just witnessed. Asgore hugged her in an attempt to comfort her, but that wasn't to be. He was silently crying, just as crushed about what had happened as Toriel was.
"No... Frisk..." Papyrus said quietly as he also fell on his knees. Undyne gave a yell of mourning and slammed her fist against the barrier that had kept her from saving Frisk as tears were also escaping her. Alphys and Sans just stared, unable to describe the pain and the sadness they felt for what had happened.
Asriel's emotions were at a complete loss of words... there was absolutely no adjective in the English language that could have possibly described the lament that washed over Asriel's heart.
"...Well... I guess that's that, then." Chara said as he turned around. He was about to give the gesture to his creations to take the barrier down, but he stopped cold when he heard a very, very weak groaning. He turned around and found Frisk's hand slowly twitching, her chest and mouth still bleeding like Hell.
Frisk was writhing in pain, but she knew she couldn't give up... she refused to go down so quickly... she refused to let herself die and abandon the world of its hope. With what tiny bit of strength she could muster, her body bleeding beyond the limits of any human body, she began to slowly force herself unto her feet. "...That's not possible." Chara said in complete shock as he watched Frisk slowly get up.
"...G-guys!" Alphys said. All of Frisk's friends looked at the barrier and stared in absolute shock. Frisk was getting up. After such an attack like that, anybody else would have died for sure... but Frisk's burning determination far surpassed the mortal limits of her human body.
"...How?" Chara questioned as she looked at Frisk, who was still bleeding horribly, but somehow still stayed on her two feet. "That attack completely crushed your heart and lungs... you should be dead by now!"
"Y... you... w... won't... b... be... beat... me..." Frisk said in a barely audible, pitiful voice as she slowly took her stick back into her hand and stood there weakly. "I... I... am... de... ter... mined... to... beat y... you... I... won't... l... let... you... kill... ev... ery... body..."
"...How sad..." Chara said as his sword began to gather dark energy. "How sad for you to think you actually have a choice here... your determination doesn't mean anything now... this next attack will finish you off." He raised the sword up into the air, and swung it down.
When he did, a green ball of energy was shot out of the sword that came into contact with Frisk. When it had hit her, she was surrounded by a gentle green aura, and miraculously, all of the wounds she had just taken slowly began to heal. The bleeding had completely stopped, bruises and open wounds she had were closed, and she could feel the beat of her heart again and was able to breathe once more as her lungs and heart were completely healed.
"What?" Chara questioned as he looked at the sword. "...Why did you..." He could feel something in his body... a slight wriggling and squirming... seemed like the Human Souls were already starting to fight against him and were trying to help Frisk.
"Frisk..." Asriel whispered slightly as he and the rest of Frisk's friends continued to watch quietly.
"...Phew..." Frisk said as she was fully healed up. "Taking those attacks didn't feel very pleasant at all..." She looked up at Chara and held her stick ready to fight. "...You're going to have to do better than that if you want to beat me."
"Nyeh heh heh heh! Alright Frisk!" Papyrus cheered as he got up to his feet. "Now come on, Frisk! Keep going!"
"That creep doesn't have anything on you, kid!" Sans cheered along with him. "Give that brat the ass whooping he deserves!"
"We know you can do it, Frisk!" Undyne shouted at her. "Now kick that brat's ass like it's your birthright!"
"...So... your determination really does mean something in this fight after all." Chara said with a hum as he took ahold of his sword handle in his left hand. "...I'm very impressed... but I know you can't survive attacks like that forever... we'll see how good your determination does you now that we're moving on to Round 2."
Frisk gave a nod and held her stick up and stared at Chara, ready to get going once again. The real battle was about to begin.