Chapter 4: Geno or Paci?
(Lucas P.O.V)
I walked over to the room Lucy and I was, and rubbed my back, feeling my back starting to hurt more than earlier. I put my hand under my sweater and could feel a scar going around on my back, felt my body twitch at the touch. "Ugh!" I said to myself as I moved my hand out from under the sweater and to the door handle to the bedroom. I opened the door and walked over to the closet where Toriel said that had extra Clothes. I closed the door after me, making sure no one could look inside the room and took of my jacket. Looking at it, I could see that the entire back of it was covered in dried blood.
"That fall…. did it hurt me that bad?" I asked myself as I turned my jacket around and saw small cuts covering the sides of it. Would seem entering that game and then falling hurt my back a lot. The jacket got more torn then it was before. I threw it to the bed sitting in the corner and opened the closet. Inside was just a couple of sweaters, and a couple of pants. Could also see a brown and black jacket being in there. Not what I could last remember being in it, it almost seemed like it changed after who was there. Could also see what looked like a green and yellow dress. Probably for Lucy, I thought as I moved it aside. Was just about to grab on of the sweaters when I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned and my glare was met with red eyes.
"Can you stop trying to be all nice? It's disgusting" Chara said as she looked at me.
"If you don't like it, too bad for you Chara. As I said, I was planning a pacifist run, and being nice is just how I am." I said to her as I looked back in the closet and pulled out a grey and blue striped sweater and the jacket. Couldn't really understand why it was here, but I didn't really want to question it. "Can you look away, while I change?" I heard laughter and turned around and looked at Chara. Her eyes were glared at me, like two small suns shining at me. Wait…what am I thinking? I thought as I shocked my head.
"Why should I look away? It's just for a few seconds, nothing bad about it is there?" She asked, while having a small laugh in her tone. I clenched my hands and took a step closer to her. "Turn…around…now" I said, staring to get a bit annoyed with her. I didn't want anyone, epically not a person like Chara to notice what had happened to me.
"Hehe, so you can act rude. Well still won't turn, so too bad for you" She said, as she sat down on the bed and watched me. I sighed, knowing fully she would never listen to reason.
"Gah…Fine, you won't listen to me either way, so what's the point in asking you, you freak." I said as I grabbed the edge of my sweater and started to pull it off. I could hear Chara make a noise by the bed, almost sounding like she was angry. "What is the big deal anyway!? It's just a fucking clot- "She stopped midsentence as I removed my sweater, having my back turned towards her. I could feel my back starting to really hurt, the pain increase with the small chill feeling in the room. I quickly grabbed the other sweater and put it on me, not letting her watch it too much. I could feel the sweater just pass on the cut, making it hurt a bit more for a second before fading away. I grabbed the jacket and put it on, making sure it was covering the back of my sweater as well. I turned around and could see Chara just staring at me.
"As I told you, was nothing to see there." I told her as I turned around and closed the closet. I heard her stand up from the bed and walked up to me. "Told you to not look"
"What was that?!" She asked me, she sounded a bit worried. "How did that hap- ""Just be quiet Chara!" I interrupted her. "Don't even say it, I won't tell you until when I feel for it." Knowing fully how it would be if they found out how I got it, would make me get in more trouble, which made me worried. I knew that my sister knows a bit of it, but if she found out how much the scar had been affected and opened up, I would never hear the end of it. I grabbed my used clothes and put them down by the bed. Looking at them, I could see that because of the fall, the place where I had the scar made it clearly visible on the back of the clothes. I sat down on the bed, and just looked down at the ground. I could feel someone sit down beside me on the bed, looking to the side I could see Chara just sitting there. "So what now huh? Still taking your so called pacifist run?" I just looked at her, giving her a small smile, giving a small laugh as well.
"That's what I said before didn't I? That is what I intend to do" I answered as I looked at the door. "I just want people to be free" I stood up and walked towards the door.
"You do know the monsters here will try and take your soul right? They won't leave you alone, no matter what" She said as she stood up. I knew that they would do it, knowing fully how it turned out. I have understood the story being the things happened here, which made me more than happy to help them.
"I know Chara, and I'm willing to take the risk." I answered as I reach out for the handle. I could hear her trying to say something else, but the handle started to turn. I turned around, and saw that she had already disappeared out of sight, and I knew already where she was. I turned back to the door, and saw it starting to opened. When it fully opened I could see Lucy standing there. I smiled and walked up to her.
"Hey there little sis, thought I said I would come soon." I said to her as I smiled and just looked at her. She smiled back and let out a small laughter.
"I know, I was just worried big bro" She said as she hugged me. "Also, Toriel wanted me to come and tell you the pie is soon ready" She let go of the hug and turned around. "Come on, we can't let her wait." She started to go back, taking small jumps while she walked. I let out a small laugh, just watching her doing that was both reassuring and funny at the same time. Just knowing how happy she was made things a bit better in my meaning. I walked out of the room, closed the door and walked back to the living room. I could see Lucy sit down on a table and just looking around the room. She always was the curious one out of the two of us. I looked around the rooms, trying to find something I could use to get more information about the whole place. I stopped by the stairs and looked around. It was a plant standing by the staircase, and small shelf on the other side. I walked up to it, and could see the whole shelf was filled up with different kinds of book. I traced my finger over the different books, seeing some being cooking books, and some other seems to just be books with puns. "Always one for laughter huh" I said to myself as I turned around and headed back to the living room. I smiled at the scent of a pie being taken just out of the oven. I walked up to Lucy and sat down on the seat beside her.
"I'll take a guess and say that you helped with this Lucy" I said looking at her. Her smile increased and she nodded. "Heh, should have guessed that, you did really well."
"Thank you! Doing this is actually fun, I'm enjoying myself" She said. By just looking at her, I could easily tell that she was stating the truth. When she got excited or happy about things, she always gets so childish in her attitude. "Hey big bro! Also, I like your new clothes, they really suit you!" I looked at myself again, and a small smile crept up.
"Thanks sis, it's nice of you to say. Glad to see your clothes haven't been destroyed from the fall" Looking at her clothes, I could see that neither her shirt, or her skirt had been torn or anything like that. Seems like I managed to keep things good for her, both her body and the things she was wearing. Glad to hear that everything went fine. Footsteps and the smell of a finished pie made me turn around, and I saw Toriel heading out from the kitchen. She walked up to the table, put the pie down and sat down on the chair in front of us.
"Hope it's okay for you two, wasn't sure which you prefer, so hope this is okay." Toriel said as she cut up the pie and gave us both a piece before taking one herself.
"It's okay Toriel, as I said, we like both, so no need to worry about it" I said as I cut it a bit more and ate a small piece. The taste was delicious, it was so good. I took another piece and when I took a bite of it, I felt a small twitch up inside my head. Huh, what the heck was that? I thought as I put the piece down. "It was me" Chara said in my head. "Just the taste of Toriel's pie made me feel good" I smiled, and took another bite. That's okay Chara, just be in control of yourself, it's hurting me a bit somehow. I thought, knowing she could hear me. I looked at Toriel and smiled. "It was really good Toriel."
"Yeah it was! Best pie I ever tasted!" Lucy said, having a really excited tone in her voice. I could see that Toriel was happy hearing it, by the smile that increased on her face.
"Thank you children. I'm glad to hear that you like my pie, it's just to keep eating, I made it for you two." Toriel said as she finished her piece and looked at us. I was about to grab a new piece when I remembered what we were here for. I knew that asking it would maybe turn things worse for her, but I had to do it, to make things continue for Lucy and me. I put down the piece I had in my hand back on the plate and looked at Toriel.
"Toriel, we are really grateful for all you have done to us, but I have a question" I said to her as I put my hand on my leg, bouncing it up and down. "How can you get to the underground from here?" I could feel Lucy starting at me, as if I asked something bad. I turned to her and mouthedto save themto her. She gave me a small nod and looked at Toriel, with what seemed to be a bit sadness in her eyes.
"We enjoy being here Toriel, don't take it wrong! But…we want to help you, we want to save you." Lucy said to her. I gave a quick glance at Toriel, and I could see that she was getting sad about this. But I can't blame her, she did lose her children, and the kids falling down left her, so it's fully understandable.
"But my children, it's dangerous in the Underground. I have experienced it way too much." Toriel said as she looked down at the table. "Every human falling down here meets the same fate. They come, they leave, they die. I'm only making you stay so it won't happen to you two as well." I got up from my seat and walked beside Toriel. "Children, if you leave the RUINS. They…Asgore…will kill you. I can't let that happen." I stopped beside her, and put my hand on her shoulder. I managed to reach it now, since she was sitting down.
"Toriel, we know of the risk of being here, but we both want to help you come back to the surface." I said to her. "We want you to be free." Lucy stood up as well and walked on the other side of Toriel, and gave her a hug. I smiled and removed my hand. "Toriel, we can take care of ourselves, so don't worry about it okay?" I looked at Toriel again, and I saw what looked to be tears forming up in her eyes. Lucy looked at her, and gave her a smile.
"Come on Toriel, we c-can do it. Just trust us. We will be okay." Lucy said to her. Toriel looked down at her, then back at me as I gave her a smile.
"If you leave the Ruins, you won't be able to come back" Toriel said as she stood up from her seat and looked at me and Lucy. "I'm closing the door after you…and that's final" She turned around and heading out of the room and down the stairs. I turned to Lucy and nodded, and started to walk after her. Lucy smiled and walked up beside me. I grabbed her hand, and we started to walk down the stairs.
"Are you sure about this big bro?" She asked me as we came to the bottom of the stairs and kept walking towards the door. "Why can't we stay?" I sighed and turned to her.
"We can't stay Sis, if we want to help everyone, we need to keep going" I said to her. "We need to get out of here so we can help them" I turned back around and continued to walk towards where Toriel was heading. Small shaking came from my hand, I looked down and saw that Lucy was shaking a bit. I stopped, turned towards her and lifted her up in my arms. Even if she was just four years younger than me, I could still carry her around like the little sister she is. She let out a small giggle and leaned closer to me.
"Hi…at least we can help her… R-right?!" She asked me while looking at me, with small tears under her eyes. I looked at her, and wipes away the tears.
"Yeah we can Lucy, we can help her…we can help everyone" I said to her, while giving her a small smile. I looked back down the hall, and saw Toriel standing still by the Door. Hope she let us through…I really don't want to fight her. I thought as we were getting closer to her.
"Are you so sure about that? I get the feeling you really want to, Geno runner" Chara said in my head. I heard her laugh, but as we got closer to Toriel, I could hear her laughter getting lower and lower until it faded away. I said I wouldn't do it, and I plan to keep that run out of my head… I thought, and stopped right behind Toriel.
"You really want to leave that bad?" She asked us, with her face turned towards the door. Lucy turned her head around from my chest, and looked at Toriel.
"We want to free you Mom!" She said, then quickly covered her mouth. I understood that was because she just called her mom. Could not blame her, Toriel really had that motherly nature to herself. I just looked at her, and closed my eyes, getting the image of me killing Toriel, right in front of Lucy. I quickly opened my eyes again, and shook my head. N-no…I will not kill her…I promised. I thought, regretting even seeing that. "You can't ignore it forever Lucas, you will fall to it" Chara said. I looked carefully down at Lucy, then back at Toriel. I will not fall for it that easy Chara, no matter what you say. I was only met by silence. I sighed and looked at Toriel, who was now looking at us.
"…What is with that look my child?" Toriel asked while looking at me. "You look like you have seen a ghost… Do you know something that I do not?" I mentally slapped myself. Of course she would ask that, she had a feeling from what I could remember playing the game, that we or when I was playing as Frisk, like they had met before. "No, that is impossible" I looked at her, and sighed.
"Toriel…please…let us out, let us help you, and close the door behind us. We know the things we will face. The consequences we will meet…but we are doing this because we want to help you." I said to her while putting Lucy down. I walked up to Toriel, and gave her a hug. I could feel her body twitch for a second, but I ignored it. "We will be safe Toriel…We promise" I heard footsteps behind me, and before I had time to react, Lucy was hugging both me and Toriel.
"We will not fail mom" She said. "We will save you" Toriel's body was shaking a bit more now, and I could small tear drops fall down on my neck. And suddenly, I felt her arms around me. I smiled and hugged her tighter.
"My children, I know you want to go home…but" She said, with what sounded like sadness in her voice. "please…go back upstairs. I promise I will take good care of you two. I know we don't have much, but…" I could feel Lucy's head be tilted up, and understood that she was looking at Toriel now. "...but what?" She asked, with a saddened voice.
"We can have a good Life here. So please…stay, and go upstairs now" She said, and I could hear that her voice was cracking up. I looked up at her, and shaked my head.
"We know Toriel…but we won't stop now. Not until you are all safe and sounds" I said one last time, before letting go of the hug. "We know you will be alone…but it will not last for long now. We will help, no matter what." I saw Lucy let go of the hug, and walked close to me. I put my hand on her shoulder and smiled.
"…I understand now…I will not stop you, my children." She said, as she turned around and opened the door. "But remember…don't come back, hope you understand." She crouched down and gave Lucy one last hug, and then stood up and hugged me as well. "Goodbye, my children." She then let go, walked beside us, and I could hear her footsteps fade away. I turned around and saw her completely out of sight. I turned back, and looked at Lucy.
"…Let's keep going" I said as I crouched down, picked her up, and walked through the door opening. I kept walking through the long hallway, looking down at Lucy, seeing tears fall down her cheek. "I know you wanted to stay…but we had to go Lucy, to save them all."
"…I know big bro…but I feel so sorry for her" She said as she leaned closer to me. Yeah…me too. I thought as we came to the end of the hallway, and there, growing out from the grass was Flowey, staring at us with his annoying grin.
"Clever. Verrryyy clever. You think you are so smart, don't you?" Flowey said, laughing at us. "You spared the life of a single person, but don't act so all nice and cocky now. I know what you did" I widened my eyes, and stared at him. W-what?! H-how can he know it?! In this timeline, we haven't even met at all. I thought as I could hear Chara's laughter in my head. "Well, this is interesting" She said and went quiet as I looked down at Lucy, who seemed to be shaking, and then back at Flowey. "You murdered her! You murdered everyone! Then you went back, because you regretted it. Ha ha ha ha… You idiot! Enjoy it all while you can! I'll be watching! Ha ha ha!" He laughed and went back under the ground. I walked to where he was just standing, but I couldn't not see any traces that signed if he had been here. I felt Lucy move around in my grip, her head moving back and forth on my chest.
"Lucy? …a-are you okay?" I asked her while rubbing her back comforting. She tilted her head towards me, tears forming once again in her eyes.
"L-Lucas…d-did…y-you r-really k-kill t-them?" She said, trying to wipe away the tears. I sighed, knowing that she had a really hard time believing it.
"Not here sis…but it seems he knows about the time when I played the Genocide run at home" I told her, putting her down and grabbing her hand. "But trust me, that's something I regret and I will not go back to that." She wiped away the tears with her free hand and smiled at me. I smiled back and turned towards the black passageway standing there between us, and the entrance to Snowdin. "You ready now sis? We get to meet the others soon now" She giggled and started to walk towards it, dragging me with her. I let out a small laugh and looked quickly up. This whole adventure will be fun if you ask me. Having both her here, and you Chara…makes it interesting. Glad you wanted to tag along. I thought as I looked back towards the passage.
"Tch, don't think of it as something big. I'm just tagging along cuz I'm bored, and want to see if you really can control yourself, hehe." She said, with a small laughter in her tone. I guess we have to wait and see then huh? I thought, smiling. I heard her sighed in my head, and I took that as she was just getting along, for the start. I looked back at Lucy and nodded to her. "Time to start the true ending, or what do you say sis?"
"Yes! True ending here we go!" She said, letting out a soft laugh. I laughed, hold her hand tighter and walked through the passageway, blackness surrounding us and I just knew. This whole thing, will be an experience for life, and I would never forget about it.
So now we are done in the ruins and heading towards snowdin. Just so you guys are aware, there will be small sequences where the conversations are the same as the game, but that only cuz i see it good for someone to understand a bit, but it will not be so much of it. Thank you for reading, and i'll see you next Saturday!
Dark Chara out!