Final Battle, and Loose Ends
(Aurora's POV)
I set Frisk down after we entered the elevator. He was determined to save them, but he now knew. "Hey Frisk, don't tell them, alright? Only you and Segoe know, and I would rather it stay that way."
"Alright, but I am not happy about it."
"Did you talk to Alphys, down here?" Frisk just nods in answer to my question, "That is good, everything is set." At my words he looks sad before perking up.
"Let's go!" I smiled as he said that. As we started up the elevator back to the Lab, we got a phone call from an unknown number.
"Chara... are you there? It's been a long time, hasn't it? But you've done well. Thanks to you, everything has fallen into place. Chara... See you soon." as soon as the phone call ended the elevator started to flash red and shake as we where lifted past the lab and up to the capitol. When we walked out of the elevator vines grew around the entrance blocking us from entering.
"You don't even know how true your words are Asriel," I said as we continued walking. We encountered no resistance to our walk, there was nothing to do, nothing to say. We walked all the way to the room with the barrier, Asgore was waiting for us there, just before we entered I asked, "Are you ready, child of the human race?" the seriousness in my voice stopped Frisk.
"I'm ready," He was determined, that was for sure.
"I meant for what comes after, are you ready to lead the monsters into the light of day?"
"I am," With those two words he looked me in my eyes, "I promise to make it worth it, and not to Reset."
I gave a gentle smile "As long as you do, that would make me happy." After that we walked into the room. We met Asgore once more, and once more he explained everything. Once more the fight started, but this time.
"Human, it was nice to meet you. Goodbye," before he could pull out his trident to smash the mercy button, a fireball appeared, he looked at in confusion before it hit him, sending him flying. It was funny to see, familiar footfalls came running up to us. Toriel, mother, had arrived.
"What a miserable creature, torturing such a poor, innocent, youth..." She was looking for me, and while Asgore was recovering I let her see me through a crack in my magic. She smiled brighter at seeing me. "Do not be afraid, my child. It is I, Toriel, your friend and guardian. At first, I thought that I would let you make your journey alone. But I couldn't stop worrying about you. Your adventure must have been so treacherous... and ultimately it would burden you with a horrible choice. To leave this place you would have to take the life of another person. You would have to defeat Asgore. However...I realized... I cannot allow that. It is not right to sacrifice someone simply to let them leave here. Is that not what I have been trying to prevent this whole time? So for now let us suspend this battle. As terrible as Asgore is, he deserves Mercy, too.
By this point Asgore had recovered from his ex-wife's attack his face was full of hope and pain. "Tori... you came back...!"
She gave him a glare only a wife and a mother can, "Do not 'Tori' me, Dreemurr! You pathetic whelp. If you really wanted to free our kind, you could have gone through the barrier after getting ONE Soul, taken Six Souls from the humans, then come back and freed everyone peacefully. But instead, you made everyone live in despair. because you would rather wait here, meekly hoping another human never comes."
Asgore has a look of pain in his eyes "...Tori...You're right...I am a miserable creature...but do you think we could at least be friends again?"
She sighed at that. "No, Asgore" before she could go on we heard a person come running, Undyne had come.
"Ngahhhhhh! ASGORE! Human! Nobody fight each other. Everyone is going to make friends, or else I'll... I'll..." Undyne yelled out as she came into the room, much to the Shock of Asgore and Troiel, but Toriel soon smiled at her words. Undyne trailed of as she loked at Troiel.
"Hello. I am Toriel. Are you the Human's friend? It is nice to meet you." Toriel was smiling kindly at her.
"Uh, Yeah...? Undyne replied with a goofy smile on her face. "Nice to meet you!" she then ran over to Asgore. "Hey Asgore, is that your ex?" he nodded. "Jeez. That's rough, buddy." After she said that another person appeared, this time it was Alphys.
"H-hey! Nobody hurt each other!..." she looked around seeing everyone.
"Oh, are you another friend?" Toriel seemed happy to meet them. "I am Troiel. Hello!"
"uh, h-h-hi!" she was nervous after her out burst. "There's two of them?" she asked in a whisper, she ran over to Undyne, for obvious reasons.
"HEY! NOBODY FIGHT ANYONE! IF ANYONE FIGHTS ANYONE...!" a familiar loud voice calls out as Papyrus appeared next. "THEN I'LL! BE FORCED! TO ASK UNDYNE FOR HELP!"
"Hello!" Mom was having a fun time greeting everyone.
"OH! HELLO, YOUR MAJESTY!" he looked at Frisk and attempted to whisper "PSST, HEY HUMAN... DID ASGORE SHAVE, AND... CLONE HIMSELF?" he said as he looked between Asgore and Troiel.
"Hey guys, what's up?" Sans had finally arrived. After that I tuned out what was going on, I was preparing myself for what was about to happen. As it does, everything comes to an end.
"... LET'S JUST SAY, A TINY FLOWER HELPED ME."
"A tiny flower?" Alphys's voice was full of fear and shock. And with that a giant vine went past and grabbed everyone there, except for me and Frisk, Flowey had arrived. I sat there as the monsters protected Frisk's soul from Flowey even though they where held in Flowey's grasp. I noticed twin flashes in the corner-she was watching intently. I felt sorry for them, both Flowey and everyone else, but I know that this will be the last, they will have the happy ending that they deserve, even Flowey. They all gave a few words when they helped save Frisk, they were touching to listen to.
"You are all IDIOTS!" Flowey called as he absorbed every monster's soul with a brilliant white flash of light, when it faded, it was only me, Frisk and Goat boy, Asriel. "Finally... I was so tired of being a flower." he turned around and looked at Frisk. "Howdy! Chara, are you there? It's me, your best friend." With another flash of light Asriel went from boy to adult, looking a lot like his father, only a bit more terrifying. The words ASRIEL DREEMURR appeared in the air below him. The Fight had begun, and like always I began to sing.
Hopes and Dreams (Undertale the musical)
I revealed my self from the start, using my magic I sped up Frisk, letting him dodge everything easier, I dodged him with practiced ease. He went through his lines like normal, he actually ignored me completely, I wasn't important, only 'Chara' had his attention. When the attack came, the one that acted like a black hole I rooted my self to the spot as Frisk held on to me. The fight carried on, Frisk saved everyone, then called out Asriel's name, awakening his feelings again, after that he unleashed a huge blast of power bringing Frisk's Hp down to 0.000,000,000,1/20, Asriel then gives up, not wanting to fight anymore. Frisk then Spared him, the fight was over. Asriel talked with Frisk, as he was doing so I held the two bottles containing the souls in my hand. "Hey Frisk, come and meet us at the beginning alright? Also Gaster is waiting in his room, I have already saved him." Frisk gave me a sad look as Asriel broke the Barrier and released the souls back to the monsters. With another flash of light Frisk was gone, and me and Asriel where sitting on the flowers at the very start of Frisk's journey.
"Why are you still here? Shouldn't you be with Frisk?" He was so sad, he truly regretted his actions.
"I am here to complete a promise I made to Chara, and through her, you." I showed him the two bottles, I had been slowly repairing them using my magic, that is why my magic was so depleted, Souls weren't meant to be fixed like this, after they shattered, that was supposed to be it no coming back, not including Resets. It would have been easy if I rewound time that far back, but I had to simply do it on two souls, not the world. the amount of power and control it took... it was exhausting.
"I won't take another's soul!" Anger was in his voice seeing the souls.
I laughed "Relax your highness, these Souls didn't come from anyone else but you and Chara, you see I collected the shards of your Souls and I have been repairing them." at my words his eyes widened in shock. "Hey Chara, come on out please!"
Asriel looked around and started to cry as Chara's ghostly body formed in front of me. "I am here." they looked down, then into my eyes. "Are you sure you want to do this?"
"You were listening in on us weren't you?" Chara nodded while Asriel looked confused. "I will do it, after all I keep my promises." I then walked over to where Chara was buried and placed my hand on the ground above it. "Here I go."
"What are yo-" a rumble interrupted Asriel as the ground around Chara's grave began to rise to the surface. Soon the Coffin was uncovered, I lifted it up and placed it on the ground. I turned to look at Chara.
"Want to see your skeleton?" there was humor in my voice, Asriel gasped.
"No thanks, unless that is what I need to do?" was Chara's response.
"Nope, I was just wondering." I turned to the coffin and rested my hand on it, as I did a purple glow surrounded it. The coffin soon looked just like it did the day it was put into the ground, I opened it up to show Chara lying there. "Now Chara if you would?" I placed the bottle holding her soul on her body.
"Alright, but don't scream Asy." Chara said as she flew into her body, as she did her soul was brought back into her body, leaving the bottle empty. "I am still dying right?" as she said that she sat up, in her actually body, Asriel looked a bit freaked out.
"Yeah, now come stand over with Asriel, and Asriel, catch!" I threw his soul to him, as he caught it the soul entered his body. Chara complied with my command and sat next to Asriel.
"What next?" was her question.
"Now I need you two to hold on to this." I handed them the Artifact that I stole earlier. "As you do, please concentrate on your memories, the path you took, both the good and the bad. The artifact will be able to anchor your minds as I change the fate of your bodies."
"Alright, come on Asy, we can do this. For Mom and Dad!"
"For Mom and Dad!" Asriel echoed as they gripped the artifact together, as they did it began to glow a little bit.
I sighed as a purple mist surrounded me, I was going to need my full power, I couldn't hold back myself any more. any spell I had was canceled as I grew older, from my seeming child self I turned into an adult. In my new form I stood five feet nine inches. Also I had some of my dragon features, my pupils had gone vertical, I had scales growing on the skin of my arms and legs, I also had wings growing on my back. My dress had grown to fit my new body, becoming a bit more elegant, also it now had a Dragon roaring at the sky imprinted on the front in purple against the field of black. "It is time for me to begin." As I said that the ground that the children sat on suddenly became a clock face. I put my hands together, and my eyes flared up, one dark, one purple. The clock began to tick counterclockwise, gaining speed as it did. I winced in pain as the cracks began to grow, they soon covered my entire body as I brought the children to just before Chara died. "How are you two feeling."
They looked at each other "We feel amazing, than-" at that Asriel had turned and saw what I looked like. "What happened to you?"
"She is paying the price for meddling with reality, we aren't supposed to be saved." Was Chara's sad reply. I simply nodded, I reached out with my magic grabbed the children's personal timelines, I made it so that their lives carried on from that point, and that they wouldn't be doomed to repeat the same mistake.
"There we are, you are now back among the living once more." I said, I released my magic and then stood there with my eyes closed, I could barely stand, the cracks where slowly consuming my body. I took a deep breath and channeled my magic once more, this time I reached into the timeline and made a seal that would activate the moment that the monsters would stand on the cliff overlooking the surface... stopping anyone from Resting to a prior point. I heard feet running in my direction as I finished, I turned in that direction slowly. I saw Segoe, Gaster, Frisk, and Sans... they were coming to see me, or maybe to stop me but in the end they were to late, the deed had been done, now to wait for the end.
(Segoe's POV)
I won't let my emotions beat me. I can't. I won't. I wo- There goes the first tear. It cut through the magic that enveloped me in a state of invisibility. A sliver of silver was all that was me, then it grew, and I was visible. I can't control my magic in such a state. Don't cry. Stop it. Stop it... No. She would want me to cry.
The golden flowers beneath me turned grey. The ashen tone blossomed around me, surrounding, choking...monochrome. I hate it! I hate it! I hate grey! She would've told me that color meant nothing...She would've told me it was beautiful.
My mouth was dry. I couldn't speak, couldn't think...and eventually, I couldn't feel. I feel...hollow. Monochrome even! What a filthy cliche. I clench and unclench my fists, the grey building around me. I hate it! It's beautiful! It's grey! It's wonderful! Stop!
A small voice from with in the fragments of her magic sung a small tune, trying to comfort her.
"Segoe, are you alright..?" Gaster rests a hand on my shoulder, his voice was a scratchy conglomerate of English and Wingdings. It rouses me from those repetitive thoughts.
"Fine," my voice is more scratchy than his, and I realize why. That disgusting liquid is building at the back of my throat, hate.
Unconvinced, he sits beside me. I realize with a brief wash of happiness, that he is restored.
"I've seen you like this before, it is unhealthy. Your magic is fluctuating, you are... very upse-"
"Who wouldn't be?!" I spat, choking on the bile that burned my tracheae.
I look up, eyes burning La Paloma and Lavender, just in time to watch her shatter. The Void Dragon had fallen. All that was left can only be described as wreckage.
Aurora looked at all of us and said with tears slowly falling "I know it hurts for now but the pain will fade, just like me from your minds." the cracks begin to glow a bright purple before she shattered. It was like looking at a beautiful stain glass window breaking, bits of color went every where. Each shard containing a piece of her, Aurora the Void Dragon. A dull thunk was heard, on the ground where she once stood was now a snow globe. both the shards and that snow globe faded from reality.
Tears, black and grey, pooled at the corners of my eyes, threatening to spill. The hate bubbled at the corners of my mouth. Gaster was almost afraid, this was not Segoe anymore...This is who I was before-nobody. Grey flowers bloomed where the earth was bare, not unlike the first day...The first day I met her.
It was so hopeless. So, so hopeless.
"There is still some hope," the voice was Aurora's faint but recognizable.
There was a tug at my soul, aching, and I coughed up a mouthful of hatred. I heard her! I-I..! I'm crying again. I finger at the snow globe around my neck, fussing over it in my shaky grasp. "Say something again! Anything!" I beg. Gaster looks uneasy.
"You can here me? Then it worked..." there was relief in her voice.
"Aurora! Aurora!" I laugh, "Y-You're okay! You're..! Dead..?" my elation is replaced with confusion.
"I am, and I am not..." there was a bitter chuckle, "How do you kill a thing that doesn't exist."
I babble incoherent relief, crying, and reaching needily at a lingering shard. The snow globe cupped in one hand, the chip in my other. My voice is some terrible mix of English, Wingding, and gibberish. I fumble for some king of word, one to express my relief before the Ex-Royal Scientist and the Dreemurr siblings. All I can hear is, "Thank you!"
It seems as though the others cannot hear her, I must seem... delusional, shocked, in denial? Something of the sort, but I am overjoyed. Perfectly overjoyed.
The shard seemed to resonate with the snow globe, and Aurora's voice came from it "Find me."
Segoe's voice cracked with a grief stricken laugh, "How do I find something that doesn't exist..?"
Here we are. The "End."
Hmm...
...
...or is it?
We aren't sad, no, but I don't think we're happy either. It's a feeling of...apprehension?
Thank you for everything.
...
I'm not ready to leave...heh.
No matter how I feel...
Our adventures may not end for some time yet, but this story will.
Without further adieu...
"The End"
