Five Nights of Redemption
Ok let's do this the final part of Asriel's fight, ok if I don't do two songs here then I've failed, lay me down in a hole of fails, this has to make both you and me cry for this to work, I mean it's Asriel and he's so sweet and innocent so we all have to cry for this, I hope the song's work plus there's what comes after too, so let's get our feels on, can you tell I'm passionate about this part of the story yet?
Chapter 22: one last hope
Freddy was inside Asriel's heart, the darkness was getting colder and started to cover the light of Freddy's Determination, but now the only ones that are left are the anthros, Freddy's closest friends and best memories now lost inside of Asriel, he searched for them in his mind looking at the memories of his life, the times he had with them as a child were the first good memories with them, so much fun, laughter, playful moments and pain, he started to remember the day at Freddy Fazbear's when they died.
To start with being an animatronic wasn't too bad, strange at first but then the pain of death grinded on their minds and they eventually lost it, then Mike came, good times started to resurface, new good memories and better times, all thanks to Mike and new friends who had been through the same fate and now they have become a massive family, all these thoughts and memories gave Freddy the Determination to face the heartbreak of them not knowing him and the light shone bright in the direction of the anthros.
As Freddy was on his way to them he started to see something flash in front of him, it was fading in and out a lot like it was losing power and could only hold on for so long, it was Asriel's soul and he was trying to talk to Freddy.
Asriel: "Freddy, you're doing so well, I want to thank you but there's a problem, when you free your friends I'm only going to have a few hours before I turn back into Flowey, I don't want to but I don't think I have a choice"
Freddy: "don't worry if I have to, I'll give you my soul, you don't have to fear"
Asriel: "what?"
At that point Asriel's soul disappeared, Freddy was going to stay true to his word and give his soul too him when the time is right but now it was on to his friends, he found them, they were all there from the Freddy crew to Pete's crew and the original Toys and saw they had pixels on their faces and tried to reach out to them.
Freddy: "guys it's me, your best friend Freddy? Do you remember me?"
Pip: "dude I've never seen you ever in my life, what are you doing here?"
Freddy: "I'm here to help you, I'm going to get you out of here"
Opal: "I don't see why we should trust you, what have you done to make us want to go anywhere with you?"
Ashe: "yeah what's so good about you, why should we be friends with you?"
Freddy: "remember when we were stuck in Fazbear's Fright?
Lenny: "that was the worst time of our lives, but what's it to you, last I remember you were one of the phantoms"
Freddy: "so you do remember me, so go on tell me what you know about me?"
Lenny: "you are Freddy Fazbear, the leader for Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Express, you look after all the different animatronics out there and bring joy to kids"
Freddy: "there you go, now can anyone tell me how we became animatronics?"
Bonnie: "we were kids, we went to Freddy's and we were having a great time, it was brilliant but then a Purple Guy took us back to a room with no light and no one saw us, he killed us without remorse because he lost his dream, he stuffed us into the suits and our souls attached themselves to the suits"
Freddy: "that's it, who can tell me about Mike?"
Chica: "he was the one who saw us as his childhood icons and was happy to work at Freddy Fazbear's but found out the dark truth about us and tried to help us find peace by killing Purple Guy, he did but then we killed him and stuffed him into a Mongoose suit"
Mangle: "even after we killed him Mike was still willing to help get us all out of the void and find peace by destroying Springtrap and Purple Guy's soul forever by burning Fazbear's Fright and setting us all free"
Freddy: "right again, that's good got you guys back, now for the rest"
Mike: "oh that's all well and good but how much do you know about my brother/cousin?"
Freddy: "well he was into all the kawii and sempai stuff but that seems to have died out over the years, but he is still a massive movie fan, like he's an insanely massive nerd"
Chip: "well movies do play a big part in culture and can inspire things like this, I mean this thing here lost souls inside of a body, I'm sure that's been done before"
Freddy: "good to have you back"
Mike: "yeah ok, good to be back"
Freddy: "now you original Toys, can you tell me about yourselves?"
Finn: "we were created to play alongside you, but the Purple Guy struck and you had to be put out of service just as we were due to enter the scene, the Toys were created and put into service instead"
Opal: "we still activated at night and saw Mangle in a bad state, we would have fixed her but we didn't know how or had the tools to do it, the others like Toy Bonnie were too stuck up to fix her and we tried to ruin their shows just for pay back"
Ashe: "now though we are some of the closet friends and we work together to defeat anything that stands in our way"
Freddy: "great, just a few more to go"
Pete: "you won't guess me, you are my rival and I one day will overcome you Freddy"
Freddy: "you can keep wishing that Pete, we have become too friendly with each other to really care about the rivalry we have, you love Sarah too much to let her go head to head against Chica unless it's a cooking contest and Sarah you love Robin and Monty like pets"
Sarah: "oh wow you right, you must be my friend"
Freddy: "and I always will be, I'm always going to be all your friend"
Marionette: "and then there was one left, what exactly makes me your friend, why am I important to you"
Foxy: "I'll take this one, Marion, you are the one who gave us life, not once but twice, why? Because you saw our dead bodies and our floating, scared souls, you knew that something bad had happened to us just like it happened to you, you wanted to help us and let us be the animatronics we favoured most, then at the start of this whole adventure we needed to be organic and in order to do so, you had to give more than just life you had to give us feelings and sensations that none of us had for years, you gave us everything and you asked for nothing in return, how can you not be our friend?"
Marionette: "... of course I am your friend, what do you take me for"
Freddy: "yes, that's everyone, now just one last soul, come on guys"
Freddy then took all the anthros back out of Asriel's heart and now everyone has been saved, Asriel had now lost all his dark wishes and has nothing left to really fight back with, he know that now was the end, the end of his power, the end of the fight, the end of his life but not the end of all the pain and suffering, to him it wasn't fair and he started to sing a song about trying to get back to the life he once had and the commitment to his family.
(Now play Hold Me Now by RED)
Asriel: "fall asleep to dreams of home,
Where the waves are crashing,
The only place I've ever known,
Now the future has me,
I said the past is dead, the life I had is gone,
Said I won't give up until I see the sun,
Hold me now, till the fear is leaving, I am barely breathing,
Waking up and letting go,
To the sound of angels,
Am I alive or just a ghost?
Haunted by my sorrows,
Hope is slipping through my hands,
Gravity is taking hold,
I said I'm not afraid, that I am brave enough,
I will not give up until I see the sun,
Hold me now, till the fear is leaving, I am barely breathing,
Crying out, these wings are falling, I need you to catch me,
As I burn, as I break, I can't take it anymore,
I return to the place, where the water covers over everything,
Rescue me somehow"
After the song Asriel was a wreck, after losing the souls that gave him his dark wishes and his life he just couldn't hold it together, soon he would lose it all and become Flowey again and this time it was permanent, no amount of souls could ever bring him back nor could they make him feel anymore emotions, but right now he was feeling so much, hate, anger, fear, sadness, pain, lose and... love, Toriel could see he was on the edge just one more push and he would just explode with emotion and she hated that but the thing is it had to be done to finish this fight for good, they all could see that he was willing to give it one more try to go back in time and set things right the way he wants it, but time has already been tampered with too much, any more and the universe will most certainly be destroyed.
Toriel: "Asriel, please you have to stop now, it's time to go home"
Asriel: "mum... I love you, but if I end it like this then Chara wins, he would have left you fighting to get revenge on humans only to end up trying to bring me back and in your arms, but without the souls my own won't last, so while I still have it I want to set things right by killing him in the past so he can't hurt us, please"
Asgore: "no son, if you kill him you'll only be stooping to his low level, you'll only play into his hands"
Asriel: "but I have to or I'll be Flowey again and no one will come to me because they'll fear me and I won't feel any more love, I'll just kill again, and... I don... don't want that, so please let me do this"
Torigore: "listen to dad, we can't let you, you have to stop"
Asriel: "NO, LET ME WIN!"
Torigore: "NEVER!"
Asriel then charged a super powerful attack and since he was still in god form it had the power to destroy everything, he fired it at Asgore and Toriel and they didn't think they would survive and so they looked at each other and hugged, it was the full confirmation that they had forgiven each other, Asriel was too upset to see what would happen if the rainbow blast hit them he just wanted to reset his life so it could be better, but Torigore blocked the attack with his body, his golden structure was enough to block the attack and save his parents, Toriel and Asgore were shocked that he did that and survived, they both knew Asriel had quite the imagination.
Torigore: "ARSIEL, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING, you could have killed mum and dad"
Asriel: "I DON'T CARE, LET ME DO THIS"
Asriel used the rainbow blast again and it struck Torigore with all its might, the blast was still very strong and Torigore was getting hit hard but he still didn't give up, then he was hit again and again, it was an onslaught but Torigore was Determined to save his twin brother from a life as a flower, he had a plan and he was going to see it though, Torigore tried to stand but every time he got to his feet he would be struck down by Asriel and his rainbow blast.
Everypony was crying, all the female anthros were crying, some male anthros were crying like Toy Bonnie, Toy Freddy, Finn, Pete and Cyril, Cyril saw the works of not just a devoted brother but a hero, a soldier, a saint, the only times he saw feats like this were in his war stories were a soldier would be shot and bleeding out, the hero of the story would have to brave the bullets to get to his college and friend to save him, they'd try to deny them but they would say I'm not leaving you here to die and drag them back to a medic team and they'd fly home, but in some of the stories that savour would die in a blazing glory and Cyril thought that would happen here and to him it was beautiful.
Torigore was then struck again and he lost his golden form, the pain he felt just to try and save his brother was too much and he collapsed, Toriel and Asgore were crying now alongside Monster Kid, Mettaton, Alphys and Undyne, Torigore's body had endured the pain of a young boy wanting to go back to a place where everything was bright and happy after being torn apart by someone he once called friend, brother, but now he was distraught and over come with sadness and pain for possibly killing his brother.
Freddy had seen enough and he had a plan.
Freddy: "Marion, can you get me inside of Asriel's mind?"
Marionette: "yes, why?"
Freddy: "I have one more soul to save, if I can just reach out to him and stop him all together maybe Twilight can heal Torigore"
Marionette: "alright, good luck"
So while Twilight used her healing magic on Torigore the Marionette used his own mind reading tricks to send Freddy into Asriel's memories, he was sent to a specific place in his mind, the day before Chara would end up at MT. Ebott, as Freddy was inserted into Asriel's mind he was just outside of MT. Ebott's summit, it was windy and cold, this made Freddy run into the mountain and fall down the hole, as he landed he felt as if he broke his leg, he held it for a while and it did hurt a bit but the bed of butter cups did break his fall preventing any serious injury.
A young Goat boy walked up to Freddy noticing he seemed hurt and wanted to help, it was Asriel.
Asriel: "oh no, you've fallen down the hole haven't you?"
Freddy: "oh... em yeah, don't worry I'll be fine, nothing broken... I think"
Asriel: "well I don't want to take any chances, I'll take you to my mum's house she's good at making pain go away, she has a doctorate"
Freddy: "in what field?"
Asriel: "umm... grass?"
Freddy: "hahaha, no I mean is she a doctor?"
Asriel: "no, but she says that she wants to be a teacher"
Freddy: "oh really, well then let's go see her"
So Freddy and Asriel walked through the ruins aced the puzzles and got to Toriel's house, once there they could hear Asgore whistling and the smell of pie, but it was a smell that wasn't the same to Freddy, in fact it smelt foul and not edible but they went inside and saw the quaint little house they used to life in before Chara came and they moved to the castle, Asriel then ran up to Toriel and told her about Freddy.
Toriel: "oh Asriel, what's wrong my child?"
Asriel: "well I was going to look after the flowers and I saw this big brown Bear, he says he's fine but as we were walking he had a limp, I think he may have broke his leg or something"
Toriel: "ok I'll take a look, now does it hurt when I press here?"
Freddy: "OW! YES!"
Toriel: "yep that's broken alright, you're going to have to stay with us for a while"
Freddy: "oh no I have to get back"
Toriel: "oh no, you won't be going anywhere my child, now you go get cosy on the chair and I'll bring the cast, oh hope you don't mind having snail pie, I don't know what Bears eat so you may have to make do"
Freddy: "fine I can do that"
Freddy stayed in Asriel's mind for an equivalent time of 5 months when in reality it was only about 1 hour, he saw Chara and tried to get him to see a better way with the Dreemurr family, he had truly become Asriel's brother, but Chara did not listen to Freddy and killed bother Asriel and Freddy, that's when Freddy came back out of Asriel's mind and he was more sad than ever, Asriel was crying so much he started heaving from the pain and guilt, he just wanted what was now Asriel's new past, to be with Toriel, Asgore and Freddy.
He had one more shot, one last chance to put everything right, one last attack to stop the pain and live the life he always wanted but the attack would be so intense it would strip him of his god form, it's called the light of death, another move that's like Shatter Matter he gathers the light in his heart and with all his might throws it out and courses all that stands in its way to be erased from existence.
Folding his wings over his body, Asriel started to charge the light and Freddy just looked upon him with no movement, no attempt to stop him, nothing, Twilight had just finished healing Torigore, he was waking up but his body hurt all over, every piece of him felt as heavy as an anvil, Torigore saw Asriel charging the light, he somehow ran up to Freddy to try and stop him but Freddy stopped him, with just one look Torigore knew what Freddy was doing and he looked upon Asriel too.
The light inside was getting brighter, soon the light would be unleashed and whatever happens next will determine the fate of Asriel, it wasn't long now and as everyone/everypony looked to Asriel they could still see the pain and tears in his eyes and they could only hold it in for so long themselves, then as it was ready Asriel released the light then they all cried for Asriel, cried for him to be free, to be with them, as a friend by their side, as a brother to look after, as another part of the crew.
Freddy and Torigore looked to each other and nodded, it was the end... or was it.
The light past by and if there was any felling at all it was sorrow, Asriel's sorrow, the crew were fine they all looked around to see everyone/everypony fine as can be, it was like they were healed, Freddy and Torigore look to each other and saw they were fine and they bro fisted, but then they heard something, they heard someone crying, not so loud any more but they were still heaving and hiccupping, they were completely past it, they had made a choice and they had to stick by it as they had been told that they could not do otherwise.
Torigore and Freddy looked and saw Asriel, he sighed and huffed then started to sing a song, about still wanting to fight but he just couldn't as he was overcome with the power of Freddy and his friends, Freddy noticed how the song sounded like the song he sang just before the fight got started.
(Now play Nothing and Everything by RED)
Asriel: "enemy, familiar friend,
My beginning and my end,
Broken truth, whispering lies,
And it hurts again,
What I fear and what I hide,
All the pain, I want it to end,
But I want it again,
And it finds me, the fight inside is coursing through my veins,
And it's raging, the fight inside it breaking me again,
Still the same pursuing pain,
Is it worth all I have gained?
We both know how it will end,
But I do it again,
And it finds me, the fight inside is coursing through my veins,
And it's raging, the fight inside is hurting me again,
And it find me, the war within me pulls me under,
And without you, the fight inside is breaking me again,
It's everything"
After the song just about everyone was an emotional wreck save for Torigore and Freddy, but even a strong Bear like Freddy was only holding on by a thread and if anything else was to happen he would break, and that's exactly what happened, Asriel was just standing there crying, he was effectively waiting to die, waiting to turn back into Flowey, the thing that none of them wanted to happen but they didn't know what to do to help him, Torigore only thought of one thing at the moment in time, he went to comfort his long lost twin brother.
He slowly walked up to him and hugged him, he put one hand on his shoulder and rubbed his back, he put his other hand on his head and stroked it, he made sure that he was there for Asriel, to hold, to squeeze, to feel and to never let go, Asriel only cried more wanting to stay in the moment forever no matter what.
Asriel: "ha... (sniff) i... I don... don't wan... want to le... let go"
Torigore: "you... do... don't ha... have to"
They stayed in the moment for a long time, a good 10 minutes for good measure, but it had to end and some of them cried again knowing what might be to come, Asriel now only had 1 hour left before he would transform back into Flowey he had nothing else to do but go back to the bed of butter cups and stay there for the rest of time, he didn't think he could be saved nor did he think it was worth it so he said is goodbyes.
Asriel: "guys, I want to thank you all for trying to save me but, without a soul I'll turn back into Flowey, it won't be long before I do, so please I want you all to just go ahead and break the barrier and go on without me"
Torigore: "wait what!"
Asriel: "I'm sorry but I have to go, there's nothing I can do, without a soul I'll stop feeling love and compassion like I do now, without that I'll be I killing flower again, I don't want to be that and I don't want you to see that, so please just go on without me, I'll be fine trust me"
Toriel: "Asriel don't, I'm not going anywhere without you, not any more, either you come with us or we go with you"
Asgore: "please Asriel you have to stay here with us, you are our son and you have so many friends now, they believe in you and they want you to have a new life with them"
Sarah: "he's right, please don't run"
Finn: "it would be a shame to lose such kindness and purity"
Mike: "whatever it is, we will fight through it together"
Asriel: "NO, I have to go"
Asriel then ran off leaving everyone/everypony in his dust, he was on his way to the bed of butter cups right and the start of the Ruins and as he went he sang another song about leaving his loved ones behind so they could be free.
(Yes 3 in a row WOOOOOW, Now play Hide from, you guessed it, RED)
Asriel: "waste away, I'm crawling blind,
Followed by what I left inside,
For you, just you,
But I ignore, what I can't erase,
I will run and hide till,
Memories fade away,
And I will leave behind a love so strong,
Close my eyes, these voices say,
Haunting me, I can't escape,
And for you, just you,
Time will always wait,
While I throw away,
What I can't replace,
I will run and hide till,
Memories fade away,
And I will leave behind a love so strong,
I will run and hide till,
Memories fade away,
And I will leave behind a love so strong,
I WILL NEVER FIND!"
After the song was done Asriel left a trail of tears behind as he went on, Torigore was beyond enraged and all he did was start moving forward following the trail, everyone/everypony else just stared at him as he went not saying a word or moving an inch but then he turned around and said.
Torigore: "WELL, YOU COMING OR NOT!"
They could all tell he was pissed and wanted nothing more than to save Asriel, so without question they followed him along the trail and soon they will finally save their Goat brother from a fate worse than death.
So there you have it, Asriel's fight is complete but we are far from finished with Asriel we still need to bring him back so keep looking out for more chapters, I did it I made myself cry in the chapter, while I was type the part were Freddy would cry I was listening to the second song and it hit me how the scene might look with the song in the background and I just broke so please tell me in the reviews if you cried then hold on to your panties because the next chapter will most assuredly make you cry, but till next time
Venomous Book out
