Epilogue Part One: Awakening

Frisk blinked her eyes open, shaking her head carefully, realizing she was lying on her back. She could feel a strange aura in the air around her. She tried to roll over, but something was holding her, preventing her from moving. She stopped and felt it, realizing that the object was warm and felt like a pair of arms.

"These arms feel warm and comfortable." Frisk said. "That means they could only be one person: Chara."

The arms holding Frisk were held around her, almost protectively. She could feel the strength behind those arms, sheltering her.

Frisk turned her head to see Chara, sleeping soundly. The demon girl seemed comfortable in her sleep.

"Chara." Frisk said, moving her body to rock Chara. Chara stirred, waking up after a minute. She looked at Frisk, smiling.

"Mornin' kid." She said, pulling Frisk closer.

"Morning." Frisk said, giggling as she rolled over to face Chara.

"Where are we?" Chara asked, looking around. The area around them looked empty, almost as if they were the only ones there.

"I don't know." Frisk said. "I just woke up here."

"Well" Chara said, thinking. "We should look around."

"Right." Frisk said, standing up. Chara stood up as well, stretching her wings.

"Let's find out." Chara said. Frisk nodded, the two of them taking each other's hands and walking in the direction to their left.

Later

Chara and Frisk had been walking for quite some time, but had not found anything.

Suddenly, they came upon a large purple door that stood, looming over them.

"What's this?" Frisk asked.

"It looks like the doors in the Ruins." Chara said, thinking.

"Do we go through it?" Frisk asked.

"I'm not sure.' Chara said, looking at the door. "But, I have this feeling that we should."

"Me too." Frisk said.

"Well then.' Chara said, chuckling. "on three then."

The two teens counted to three, taking a step through the door.

On the other side of the door, they saw the same rainbow colored, heart shaped object that had been inside of Frisk's mind.

"Oh, hello.' The object said, noticing Frisk and Chara. "We've been expecting you."

"Who are you?" Chara asked. "We saw you before in Frisk's mind."

"You truly do not recognize us?" the object said, its tone showing slight surprise.

"No.' Frisk said, shaking her head. "We do not."

"That is" The object said, its tone thinking. "surprising. We thought you had figured it out."

"We don't know who you are." Chara said.

"Oh" the object said. "then, how about this?"

The rainbow heart split into six different hearts, one green, one light blue, one a darker blue, one yellow, one orange, and one purpleish pink. Each heart morphed into a different human shape, though no discernable features could be noted. Frisk and Chara looked, trying to figure out who these humans were.

"You have been through a lot." The voice came from the green human though, their mouth didn't move. Their tone was one of awe.

Frisk and Chara nodded.

"But, despite everything" the purple human said (A/N: just take the humans' speech as implied telepathy), their tone amazed. "You still kept going."

"Even in the face of death." The orange human said. "You bravely fought and came out the victors."

"You stayed true to yourselves." The darker blue human said. "Even when you didn't even know who you were."

"Who are you?" Frisk and Chara asked. "And, what do you want with us?"

"We are the SOULs of the humans that fell in between your own fallings." The humans said simultaneously. Chara's eyes widened slightly and Frisk stepped closer to Chara. "And we have come to an agreement as of your battle."

"Agreement?" Frisk and Chara asked simultaneously.

"yes." The SOULs said again. "When Fortuna used our power in an attempt to turn you two into a GOD, we realized that staying in this plane of existence is far too dangerous should we fall into the wrong hands. We came to the agreement that we must leave this plane and move on to the next."

"So" Chara asked. "Where do we come in?"

"We attempted to expend our energy to give you the power to become a GOD." the SOULs said. "However, that proved to be ineffective. Now, we have decided to use the full remainder of our power to give you two something…if you two desire it."

"And, what would that be?" Chara asked.

"Life." The SOULs said.

"Life?" Frisk asked. Suddenly, memories assaulted her and Chara. Fortuna, their battle (the parts she didn't remember), everything.

"Yes." The SOULs said. "This is the one thing we can do that will guarantee our inexistence."

"I don't know why you'd want to give someone like me life." Chara said. "I killed most of you, and almost the entire Underground I killed hundreds of times, resetting for my own twisted fun and reasons."

Chara sighed, looking down, feeling arms around her and an arm on her shoulder.

"Chara don't say that." Frisk said, holding the demon girl tightly. "I won't leave without you. You mean too much to me."

"You redeemed yourself" came the voice of the yellow SOUL, their tone sympathetic. "by guiding and protecting an innocent human through the Underground, saving all of monsterkind, and fighting for your friends. You changed your feelings of the humans through your love for one, gaining a new outlook. You are truly repentant of your actions (even though you use them as an intimidation factor with your foes). Frisk cares for and vouches for you, so therefore, you have earned a chance to regain your life."

"Please Chara." Frisk said. "Say yes. I won't go without you."

"Well" Chara said, sighing as she put her arm around Frisk, pulling her in for a kiss. "When you put it that way, how can I say 'no'?"

"So, it's agreed then." The SOULs said, nodding. "Oh, one last thing to note: you will retain your wings and a large portion of the power you had with us inside of you, but you will only have your two SOULs, so you will be unable to attain GODhood again. We will restore your lost arm, Chara, but we cannot heal your other injuries due to it save slightly healing your chest wound."

"Yes." Chara said. "These wings are badass. Plus, that was my hand that I used for my sword."

"Among other things." Frisk said, giggling.

"Yeah." Chara said. "It is my dominant hand."

"So" the SOULs asked. "Is there anything you wish to know before we send you back to the world of the living?"

"Yeah." Chara said. "What is this place that we're in?"

"This is the world in between life and death." The SOULs said. "Had you chosen death, you would have been sent to the land of the dead."

"Oh." Chara said, nodding in understanding. "That's all then."

"Right." The SOULs said, holding their hands out towards the two girls. The two of them glowed for a second before a bright flash of light shone in their eyes.

The hospital—outside room 305B

Toriel, Khara, Sans, Undyne, Rachaya (who Khara had threatened with death unless she stayed absolutely passive) and Alphys waited outside the room, waiting for news. Asgore, Asriel, Papyrus, and Kid (Asgore and Kid had shown up after Toriel told them the news) had gone to get food for everyone.

"You know" Khara said, thinking. "It is odd that Alphys was able to detect that their SOULs were slightly sustaining their bodies and we couldn't."

"She's been workin' with SOULs for a long time." Sans said, shrugging. "It's her field. Though, she said that she couldn't revive them and they probably would die after a bit."

"But" Alphys said. "I actually thought they had passed on. It wasn't until Rachaya mentioned their full DETERMINATION and GODhood that I thought we could save them."

"I did strike me as funny" Rachaya said. "How two people who achieved GODhood would simply die, even after all those injuries."

"There was the tiniest hint of their essence left." Alphys said. "So, I decided we should let professional human doctors handle it."

"The look on that doctor's face" Khara said, beginning to chuckle. "When I said Chara was my birth daughter was priceless."

"Yeah.' Undyne said, grinning. "You'd have thought he'd been frozen in stone."

The door to the room opened and a doctor walked out, looking at Khara and Toriel.

"Well" Khara said to the doctor that came out of the room. "what's going on?"

"I think you should see for yourselves." The doctor said, opening the door and gesturing the monsters in.

Inside were the bodies of Frisk and Chara, laying on two hospital beds close to each other. Chara's right arm and Frisk's left arm hung over the side, the two hands touching. Monitors beeped and blinked, monitoring their vitals, which were stabilized.

Suddenly, Frisk and Chara's eyes blinked open, looking around. The monsters all ran up to them, Khara hugging Chara and Toriel hugging both of them.

"Oh, Chara." Khara said. "I'm so happy to see you alive."

"I'm glad you two are okay." Toriel said, smiling.

"Yep." Chara said, chuckling, her voice a bit quiet. "We're alive. But, we gotta recover a little."

"Monster food might not be extreme enough for it." Toriel said. "We'll have to let it be the slow way."

"Works for me." Chara said. She looked at Frisk, who looked back at her. The two of them sat up, grabbing each other in a hug. Chara then kissed Frisk, Alphys fangirling to the extreme. Chara then moved her wing to cover her and Frisk's faces.

"You know." Chara said, looking at Frisk, smiling. "I promised you a date."


So, it seems everything's allright. But, this is a multiparter. What's the next part hold? Well, you'll find out.

This ending was actually suggested to me by Zero kami no mu (not exactly this way, but pretty much the entire concept).

On another note, i was actually considering writing a prequel of sorts giving some events about Khara and Toriel (since i only mentioned their past and it was vague). Tell me what you guys think becasue if you guys really want it, i'll get started on it sooner.