Chapter 16: Family is stronger than anything

(Lucas P.O.V)

I felt tears streaming down my cheeks as I felt my mind played back the past for me one more time. It hurt when I understood that the one promise that I never wanted to break, was the one I was breaking right now. I can't let it haunt me more and more, I'm of the past controlling me. I looked towards Chara, and saw that her red eyes that was filled with hatred and anger, was now filled confusion and nervousness, as she was looking at my hand. I looked slowly down at my hand, and I could see the cell bar that had held me back was shattered in my hands. I grabbed the other cell bar right beside it, and took a quick drag to it, making it just shatter to pieces as I dragged it away. I carefully walked out of the cage and walked to Chara, seeing she didn't try to teleport away, just staring at me in shock.

"H-how did you get out that cell! This is my place!" She screamed at me as she quickly got up from the corner and tried to slice my chest. I sighed and took a step back as she tried to attack, making me dodge the attack well, making her miss my chest just barely. I quickly step beside her and change position, facing her and grabbed her hand as she tried to slice me again.

"Don't you ever do anything to my little sister ever again!" I let go of her hand and looked at Lucy, and saw that she also was staring at me, but more with a sadden and scared expression as she pressed her body closer to the edge. "Because this, is my life! And I will control it! You'll stay behind, got it?!" I reached my hand out towards what could have been seen like that I was looking out from my own eyes and I suddenly felt myself blacking out once more.

As I opened my eyes, I could see Lucy laying on the ground, her eyes in shock as she looked up at me. I fell to my knees and grabbed my head, as it felt like Chara was still trying to fight back for control. Now I knew why she wanted to work with me, she wanted to wait for the perfect opportunity to take me, and control me. But, despite all that, it was still some things I just couldn't figure out despite this all this. My mind kept asking on why she wanted to this is, why I was the one who she wanted to control, and why I felt like it was something more that bugged me. It was like, despite this all, I still trusted her, still wanted to be friendly towards her. I sighed and slowly stood up again, looking at Lucy with a saddened expression.

"L-Lucy…i-I'm s-so sorry for what I did. I don't know what came over me." I said to her as I took a step closer to her, only for her to take step away from me. The Lucy that I know, who was always looking up to her brother and wanting him close, was replaced by a girl who had seen something she didn't need to see, her eyes full of fear of the person in front of her. I couldn't really blame her, it was really my fault that this all happened.

"B-big bro, w-why you do that to me? I d-didn't do anything" Lucy said as she curled up to a ball and started to shake. I looked at her softly and stretched out my hand, a small soft smile on my face.

"I-I'm so sorry, I d-don't know what came over me. It was like I wasn't in control. B-but this is me…can't you see it? My little rose…" I told her as I smiled gently and tried to hold her gently. She looked up at me, as if looking for something, then she gently smiled back and unfolded from the ball. I kept holding my hand out gently towards her, I could see the fear in her eyes was slowly fading from her eyes, a warm smile on her face.

"It r-really is you, big bro, isn't it?" She asked me, slowly grabbing my hand and smiling, letting me lift her up. I felt a sting in my head as I lifted her up, making me put my other hand on my head. "B-big bro?!" I went on my knees and grabbed my head, hearing the familiar laughter echoing around my head.

"Stop being so nice! She needs to hate you! You just hurt her! This isn't fair! People hate each other! Show me it" I could hear Chara scream in my head, louder than usual. I closed my eyes and saw her standing right in front of me, her red eyes glaring into mine, a knife against my throat. "Do I have to show you it?!" I looked more at her eyes, and even though I never really thought about her, when her eyes were glowing like that, it made her look pretty or cute.

"Heh, you done soon? Or are you going to look at me with those cute eyes more?" I said to her, smiling gently and I could see a faint blush across her cheeks, before she suddenly disappeared again. I opened my eyes again, and saw Lucy holding her hands against my chest. I sighed and rubbed my head and smiled.

"B-big bro? A-are you okay?" She asked me, which I just nodded slowly too and slowly got up.

"Yeah sis, I'm okay. B-but we should maybe get out of here before…" More I didn't get to say as the sound of armor clanking against the ground suddenly started to get audible. I widened my eyes and quickly looked around, getting worried what was about to happen. "S-sis, get on my back, n-now!" Lucy nodded and climbed up on my back, making me flinch slightly as she touched the scar on my back. I need to remember that wound, almost forgot about it.

"B-big bro? What's going on?" She asked me as she put her arms around my neck and looked around. I tilted my head upwards and felt her head move along, and on the top of the mountain stood a person in full armor. I held around her and took a step closer towards the entrance, only for a spear to stick itself right in front of me, making me stop. I looked up and saw that the person in the armor was holding another spear, tilting it sideways and threw it towards us.

"Giving us some help? Thanks" I said and grabbed the spear as it fell to us. I looked at it and held it in one of my hands, as I held around Lucy with my other hand. The person looked down on us, jumped down from the mountain and landed right in front of us.

"Seven. Seven souls are required. We got six, so one of yours will have to do. Then, king Asgore, will finally become a god and save us from the barrier." The person said, then grabbed their helmet and took it off, revealing a blue fish head, with red hair and an eye patch over their one of their eyes.

Undyne…so she is still planning to stop us. I sighed and held the spear up. Undyne smiled and pointed her spear towards us, small blue spears headed towards us. I lifted my spear up and started to parry each spear. They were moving at a slow speed, that it was a bit too easy to reflect them. I smiled and looked over at Lucy, who had her head backwards and seemed to be shaking.

"B-big bro! One is coming this way!" She said, and I quickly turned around, only to see a yellow spear coming towards us, but something was off. As it was heading towards us, it kept spinning in different directions as it got closer. I tiled my head and moved the spear to block it, only for it to move to my right.

"Shit!" I said as I quickly turned around and tried to block it, however it went past me and hit me in the arm. "L-Lucy, keep an eye on those. They seem to be bad news." She nodded her head and I looked back at Undyne, only to see her charging towards us with her spear raised high, ready to strike. I felt Lucy holding tighter around me, and I smiled, knowing she was feeling safer with me again. Raising my spear, I blocked her attack and tried to push her away, only for her to keep attacking, making me stay on the defensive. I kept blocking her attacks, looking for a small window of a gap. Lucy nudged at my shoulder and I could see her finger in the corner of my eye pointing beside Undyne, and I could notice a small gap. I smiled and focused, pushing Undyne a small distance away and quickly ran past her, looking around for help.

"Really?! Running away?! You're such a coward! Fight her!" I could hear Chara screaming in my head, making me a bit dizzy as we ran away from Undyne. I stumbled as we ran, holding close to Lucy so she didn't fall off.

"B-big bro, look! It's Sans!" She said as she pointed in front of us again. I followed her finger and saw she was right. In front of us was Sans, resting in another one of those stations that we saw when we first got here. I ran up to him and tried to shake him awake, as it seemed he was sleeping. However, he didn't seem to wake up. I sighed and looked behind me, seeing Undyne running up to us, getting close. I turned around and started to run away again, seeing that we were starting to run over a bridge, with lava under us.

"I-it's getting really warm here. N-not feeling so well." I told Lucy as we managed to get over the bridge, seeing a small water tank with plastic cups in a small holder beside it. I stopped by it and panted, going to my knees, and holding my head. "That's it! Fall! Let me have control again and I'll show you how to beat her" T-that's enough Chara…no control. Just let her be please. I be you. That was words I never expect myself to say to her. I let Lucy down beside me and saw Undyne slowing down on the bridge, stopping right before leaving the bridge.

"A-armor, too warm…" She said as she collapsed down, sweat or whatever it was dripping down her forehead. I looked at Lucy and moved my head Closer to the water tank, hinting that she should use it.

"Use this Lil sis…a-and get help…please…" I said as I felt the heat and dizziness get too much, making me close my eyes. "Please…help…"

I decided to delete the previous chapter, as it turned out even worse than I thought. I rewrote the chapter, hopefully making it slightly better than what it was. Hope you like it, and see you all next time.

Dark Chara out.