Undertale: giving soul

toxic takeover

Taking Midori to the King and Queen my dark thoughts lingered in the back of my mind as i entered the thrown room i could feel the tension.

"MIDORI!!", they ran over and took her from my arms as I let them check her over.

Walking over to Gaster I had a troubled expression, "What happened out there?! are you alrigh-". He saw the scratch on my face and tried to touch it but I moved his hand away.

"I'm fine Dad . . .",I was still in my thoughts and he took me aside.

"What is it? you have that look on your face that always makes me worry", he said trying to read me.

'What would I tell him, that I think its Lin Even though the magic didn't feel like hers?'. shaking my head I just replied with a, "Never mind It cant be".

This left a sour taste in his mouth as he kept with his worried expression but left it at that for now. Looking at the door way I started to worry, "If its about Papyrus, Sans already went to get him".

letting out a sigh I relaxed, "that's good, he's strong but I worry about him sometimes".

"your not the only one", he looked at me then went back to the others.

Midori was taken to her room with the Queen to calm her down while the other humans were under Strict instruction to stay in there rooms after Midori went missing, aside from the princes that is.

Chara came over to me, "You alright".

Asriel was never far behind him, "You got a scratch, it looks painful".

To ease the tension I thought I would make a light joke, "The only thing painful here is our hight difference, both of you grew so much taller then me".

"(Y/n)", they both said unamused.

Raising my hands up in a defeated manner I tried to reassure them, "I'm fine its just a scratch".

"you sure about that . . ", Asriel said unconvinced.

Chara took hold of my hand and brought me closer, "just a scratch my ass. Its magic! who knows what it could do".

Papyrus and sans chimed in, "there right sis, Magic is no joke. At least let me take a look at it".

"Sans is right at least let us look at it", Papyrus cupped my face with his hands examining my face.

Sans took a look as well and didn't like what he was seeing, " . . sans?". He changed expressions so quickly you could almost miss his disgusted and angry emotion.

"looks like its nothin", He shrugged and linked arms with me.

"s-so shes alright . . . why is it when it comes from sans im less sure of that", chara said looking at sans.

He flashed his smile at the prince, "dont worry I got a little birdie just in case it's 'peck in' a nasty after affects". He held up one of the crows in a bubble like orb that I had placed the princess in.

"Brother . . .", papyrus said unamused with a cringing expression cascading his face.

Gaster came back to placing his hand on my shoulder, " Excuse us but we will be departing from here, I have been given approval to take (y/n) home with me this evening".

Chara and Asriel's seemed gloomy from the news while Sans and papyrus where joyful, "she's coming home! Oh this is wonderful~ I get to show you our new computer Sans n I found in the junkyard last week".

"W-wait like right now?!", Asriel said taking it as rather sudden.

"Yeah doesn't she need to pack o-or . .", Chara couldn't find the words to keep me here.

"She has everything she will ever need at home", sans said walking along side me.

They looked at me wanting me to stay but I had no reason to refuse my one chance at going home, "sans is right everything I need is at home".

In a low mumble Chara spoke, "this is your home too. . "

Asriel moved the conversation, "H-how long will she be gone?".

Gaster was looking at the scratch on my face and made up a number on the spot, "not very long, maybe a few weeks at best".

With that Chara stormed off and Asriel followed like he always did, "a- Chara!? H-have a good time at home (Y/n)". He looked like he wanted to say more but he didn't want to leave Chara when he's upset.

Saying my goodbyes to Asgore and Toriel I headed home, 'ow?! It's starting to sting a bit'. I grimaced a bit from the sudden sting.

I could tell they were keeping a close eye on me but didn't want to make it a big deal. "When the pain starts to get unbearable I will need to seclude you in the home lab".

"Seclude? Have you seen magic like that before?!", I asked holding my cheek.

"If you don't mind, I'm curious about it as well. I've never seen anything like that", papyrus and I looked at Gaster for answers but he gave a simple and short explanation.

"It's magic that hasn't been used since the war . . . It reacts to everyone differently is all".

'He's not spilling anything . . . Guess if it gets worse I'll know but if he's this calm about it. . .', I let out a sigh of defeat. "As long as I can eat some of your food paps I'm alright with having a small scrape of doom on my face".

"Sister that's- wait you miss my cooking?! Wowie!! Dont fear sister I shall make the best dinner for us", he talked about food the whole way home and it felt nice listening to him ramble on.

the trip home felt so short and the house i haven't seen in so long looked so small, 'it use to look bigger and brighter . . .'

"come on you'll catch frost bite if ya stand there all day", Sans said waiting at the front door.

"cant catch frost bite bro Im always packing heat", i joked as we came inside.

"SANS!!",Papyrus said already annoyed.

"What?! it wasn't me this time", he said looking back at him.

Pappy pointed a wooden spoon at him, "your being a bad influence". the silly comment made me laugh.

"I've missed being home", I said softly as a pair of hands rested on my shoulder.

"we've missed having you home", Gaster said with a smile.