Chapter Seven: When You Call
With Monster Kid
Kid walked down the hallway behind the door, cautiously looking around. He wasn't scared, but this was unfamiliar territory he was walking into. He knew Frisk was in here somewhere. He could feel it somehow.
The hallway turned downward and he walked, slowing down so as not to fall down again. That would mean he might roll all the way down the sloped area if he fell the right way.
Suddenly, he heard a scream. He could instantly tell it was Frisk. It sounded like she was in pain. But, Kid could also detect a large trace of fear in her voice, like she was facing a demon or something. Kid picked up his pace, his feet barely touching the ground as he continued onward.
He reached the place the screams originated from, stopping dead in his tracks, his eyes constricted and his breathing shallow. What he saw was Frisk laying on the ground, bleeding and with tears coming down her face, being attacked by a strange being he'd never seen before. The being raked his claws across Frisk's body, causing more blood to flow and more screams to burst from Frisk's lungs.
"Frisk!" Kid shouted, running up to her and tripping, falling on his face in his haste. The being turned his attention away from Frisk, turning to Kid.
"How did you get in here?!" the being asked, surprised. "Your DETERMINATION isn't high enough for you to access this place."
"Alphys helped me.' Kid said, standing bravely in front of the being.
"Alphys?" the being asked. "Oh, right, the Royal Scientist. I'll be paying her a visit soon as well, but first I must deal with this individual."
The being pointed to Frisk, his bony finger showing.
"What do you want with her?!" Kid shouted, moving around the being so that he (Kid) was in between Frisk and the being.
"She has escaped me." The being said. "And I will not allow that. I cannot take her by force, her DETERMINATION as high as it is, but I will make her go willingly."
"No!" Kid shouted, standing firm in between Frisk and the being. "I won't let you!"
"Fool!" the being shouted, swatting Kid away, the armless monster flying about five feet and hitting the ground.
"Kid!" Frisk shouted, but it wasn't very loud due to her pain. "No!"
Kid then stood up, relatively unharmed. The being looked at the armless monster in slight shock.
"I've been training with Undyne." Kid said, gritting his teeth. "I'm tougher than I was way back then."
"Kid…" Frisk said, reaching out to her best friend.
"Frisk." Kid said, facing down the being. "It's my turn to protect you now."
"If it's your wish to die" the being said, moving closer to Kid. "I'll gladly oblige you."
"Kid, no!" Frisk said, her eyes wide as she saw the being summon some strange power.
The being moved closer to Kid, but was stopped by something grabbing his leg. It was Frisk, tears streaming down her face as she held the being's leg.
"Leave him alone." She said firmly.
"Fine.' The being said. "I'll take care of you first."
"Chara." Frisk whispered. "If you're listening, please help us."
"There's no one to help you now!" The being said, facing Frisk, who was on the ground, too weak to even stand up.
The being raised his hand, ready to strike again, when a very powerful blast of magic, which knocked him away from Frisk.
"Dark magic?" The being said, thinking. "I haven't seen a monster with dark magic since… No, it can't be!"
The being turned to see a female figure with dark brown hair and a glowing red eye that had flames coming off of it. Her expression was one of anger and hatred. Her body was hidden in shadows, but they seemed to be coming off of her body due to her powerful dark magic.
"Wait…" the being said, realizing something. "You're not her. But, how do you have her power?! What the hell are you?!"
"I am the demon that comes when you call its name." the figure said, stepping closer, still cloaked in the shadows. "I am power. I am chaos. I am evil."
"how are you like Khara?!" the being shouted. "You're not supposed to be Khara! I didn't make a mistake, you're not Khara!"
"Khara?" the figure in the shadows said, laughing. "I am her offspring! Born of a human soul and a monster soul. And I'm here for the girl!"
"The girl belongs to me!" the being said. "You may be Khara's offspring, but this girl doesn't belong to you!"
"Give me back my sister!" the figure shouted, moving with speed unseen and punching the being in the face, adding a pulse of dark magic to the blow.
"Ch-Chara?" Frisk asked, looking at the figure. Behind her a familiar monster popped up from the ground.
"Can you stand?" the voice of Flowey asked her.
"N-no.' Frisk said, struggling to prop herself up on her elbows.
"Damn it." Flowey said. "Well, this makes my job harder."
"Wh-what can I do to help?" Kid asked, walking over to Flowey and Frisk.
"Can you support her weight?" Flowey asked.
"Probably not." Kid said, sighing.
"Damn it." Flowey said again. "Seems we've got to wait for Chara then."
"Can she take that guy on?" Kid asked.
"Trust me." Flowey said, chuckling. "She can handle him. She IS the child of Khara Darkspawn after all."
"What?!" Kid shouted, excited. "No way! Chara's the child of Khara Darkspawn?! The Demon's Maiden?! Awesome! She was even cooler than Undyne!"
"Khara Darkspawn?" Frisk asked, familiarity coming to her. "I read about her in the Librarby back in the Underground. She was really powerful, even powerful enough to leave the Underground. I wondered what had happened to her."
"She settled down with a human." Flowey said. "A few years after she gave birth to Chara, humans killed her, but she managed to get Chara into the Underground."
"Oh." Frisk said sadly. "That's terrible."
"Yeah." Flowey said. "It is."
"Wait" Frisk said, confused. "Why wouldn't you two fuse to make sure you got the job done?"
"Chara insisted on taking this guy on by herself." Flowey said. "Something about this being personal or whatever."
With Chara
"You have gotten my way for the last time, Darkspawn." The being said, firing bolts of magic at Chara, who either swatted them away or dodged them. She fired her own bursts of dark magic, with each one, she got closer.
"I won't let you take my sister!" Chara shouted, punching the being in the face with Dark energy.
"What does she even matter to you?" the being asked, grabbing Chara's wrist.
"Everything!" Chara shouted, wrenching her wrist free of the being's grip, snapping the bones in his wrist. She then cupped her hands together, charging dark magic in between them.
"Prepare to get dusted, freak!" Chara shouted, the magic ball getting larger.
"I am not a monster." The being said. "I will not turn to dust when I die."
"I wouldn't say that!" Chara shouted, firing the ball of magic Kamehameha style, the devastating beam razing the being.
When Chara stopped firing the beam, the creature had a large hole in his chest. Chara ran up and threw dark magic infused punches into the being's face. The being then shoved Chara away with one motion.
"Enough of this!" he shouted, releasing a lot of LV. A sinister aura began to pour from his body, which seemed to affect the entire room.
"Now." He said, grinning under his cloak. "The real battle begins."
"Good." Chara said, grinning. She released some of her own LV, her own dark aura (A/N: auras when visible take on the properties of the being they are emitted from—for example, a fire monster has an aura that moves like a flame, a water monster has an aura that moves like a liquid, etc.), which seemed to drain the light from around her.
A physical transformation also happened to Chara. Her eyes began to bleed a black fluid like substance as the same substance came out of her mouth. It caused her eyes to turn as dark a shade of red as they could, flames sprouting out of them with even more intensity. Evil, dark flames appeared in her hands, burning with hatred.
She and the being rushed forward, trading blows with each other. Their blows caused Frisk, Flowey, and Kid to feel them as they shook the ground around them.
With Flowey, Frisk, and Kid
"Oh no!" Flowey shouted. "She's going too far into her LV."
"What'll happen then?" Kid asked.
"Well, if she's anything like the stories I've heard of her mother" Flowey said. "Then, we will see hell broken open as the shadow demon returns."
"The shadow demon?!" Kid exclaimed. "But, how?!"
"If Khara's magic is tied to darkness" Flowey said. "Then Chara, but extension of birth, would get the same properties. And Khara's LV was already pretty high, so Chara might have just extended beyond her own natural LV to tap into some that she gained. If so, we might have a problem on our hands."
With Chara
Chara's LV was higher than it had ever gone before. She could feel her own dark powers trying to consume her, but she resisted as best she could. Instead, she focused her darkness toward the being that had tried to take her sister from her. She fired the sum total of her dark magic at the being, causing him to disintegrate into the air, which brought Chara's physical body to its normal look due to the lowering of her LV. However, Chara still held the unease that it was not over yet.
"I told you, Darkspawn." The being said, materializing behind Chara and punching her in the back of the head. "I will not be defeated by your line again."
"I told you" Chara said, righting herself and grabbing the being's arm (the one she didn't break). "To get away from my sister!"
Chara yanked backwards as hard as she could, pulling the being's arm off. She then threw a powerful kick that hit the being in the head, knocking him backwards. Chara then gathered a huge amount of her own dark magic, smashing it down on the being. She then grabbed the being by his cloak and repeatedly punched him until a crack was heard.
"Stay…away…from…my SISTER!" Chara shouted, throwing powerful blows on every syllable she uttered. When she was done, she charged up more dark magic, ready to unleash everything she had on the being.
With Flowey, Kid, and Frisk
"Flowey?" Frisk asked. "Can you heal me? At least a little bit?"
"What?" Flowey asked. "Why do you ask? I wouldn't be able to heal you enough for you to get up and walk, but maybe a little."
"Good." Frisk said. "Heal me as much as you can."
"O…kaaayyy." Flowey said, putting his leaves on Frisk. He pulsed his magic, some of it flowing into Frisk. She propped herself up on her elbows and crawled over to Chara.
Chara was busy attacking the being when she felt something touch her leg. She looked down to see Frisk, looking up at her with pleading eyes.
"Ch-Chara." Frisk said, tightening her grip on Chara's leg.
"Frisk!" Chara shouted, grabbing Frisk and pulling her up to her, embracing her in a hug as tears started flowing from her eyes. Frisk moved so she was in a kneeling position, hugging Chara back.
"Chara." Frisk said, squeezing Chara as tight as she could in her condition (remember, Flowey couldn't heal her completely—or much at all really). "You came to rescue me. You, Flowey, and Kid came to rescue me."
Flowey and Kid had moved over to where Frisk and Chara were at that point.
"Yeah.' Chara said, squeezing Frisk a little tighter. "Of course we did."
"Thank you." Frisk said.
"Welcome." Chara said, smiling. "And Frisk?"
"Yeah?" Frisk asked quietly.
"I-I love you." Chara said.
"I know." Frisk said, smiling and closing her eyes.
Flowey's eyes grew wider. Chara had never said that before that he'd heard. Not to Toriel, not to Asgore, not to him. But, he kind of expected it. Frisk had always had a special place in her heart, ever since they first met. Not in the romantic sense, but more of the familial sense. Chara considered Frisk to not only to be her little sister, but the one human she ever had cared for. He could tell that from her very actions around Frisk; from the fact that Chara was always there for Frisk, no matter what; the fact that Chara had, without hesitation, gone to rescue Frisk after the Gaster fight; the fact that she'd killed herself simply to bring Frisk back. It was obvious that Chara would go to great lengths for Frisk, even greater ones than Sans for Papyrus.
Frisk was sleeping, recovering from her lack of energy and the pain she was in. Chara picked her up, cradling her like a child. She looked a Flowey and Kid.
"Not a word of this to mom." She said, her voice a bit stern.
"Why not?" Kid asked. Flowey understood right away.
"Because" Chara said. "Dark magic is a banned magic, banned ever since my mother died. If they knew I'd gained her magic, they'd try to expel it from me and I won't let that happen."
"That does explain why you primarily use the Gaster Blasters." Flowey said. "And play off any dark magic that comes up as a result of your high LV."
"Right." Chara said, standing up, holding Frisk gently. "Now, let's go home."
aww, a happy ending. To this segment, anyway (I'm not done with this fic, don't worry, just this little 'arc'). Oh, by the way, the concept art for what Khara looks like is on my DeviantArt account under the same user name as this one: BatmanRules256 if you want to check it out.
