Chara's Story

Chapter Six: Back to Normal

Asriel's POV

"He what? Chara, that's-that's horrible!" I said, tightening my grip on the hug. I heard Mom and Dad shouting our names, waiting for us to come screaming back. But we stayed in our positions until they came to us, they did find us a few minutes later and found us sitting there, my body flickering in and out of forms...I felt weird, yet calm at the same time. The sobs stopped, the hug stopped, every last touch between us stopped. Chara ran up to Mom and Dad's legs and started to sob into them quietly. They kept their arms around her shaking body while I was alone, no hugs for me, no attention, then more and more my body flickered between forms. "Mom? Dad? What's going on with me?!" I asked, not really wanting to bother them while they helped Chara through her pain. I changed into two different forms each time, one scarier than the other...both completely unreal and not normal at all! They all gasped, even Chara through her sobs and tears. I was growing, taller and taller by the second! I was taller than all their heights combined, my body twitching and shaking as I slowly extended towards the roof of the underground. "HEELLP!!" I shouted when I could almost touch the roof of the mountain with my nose! "ASRIEL WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH YOU?! IM NOT LEAVING!" Then everything stopped so suddenly it felt like I was thrown into a timeless space. My growth stopped, my form, everything. Done. Those words, Chara. Those were the words to fix my problems.

I started to twitch again but, this time I was shrinking! Mom and Dad started to cheer,many once I was down safely without any cuts or bruises in my normal happy form... Chara ran up to me and hugged me so hard I almost couldn't breath! I think she forgot about Mack and everything else so she was  happy now, a good person. I didn't think she could ever be a killer again! "Let's go home guys, it's getting cold out here!" I said smiling, my usual bright and huge smile on my face was back too! I was so glad to be back to normal. Momma giggled and Daddy picked me and Chara up and put us on his shoulders for a ride! "WEEEEEE!!" Me and Chara squealed as he spun us around and laughed, Mom laughing at us as we went. I closed my eyes and smiled again, happy to be in my normal form, and on the ground! This was probably the best smile I've had in years! Chara touched my shoulder and stared at me, something was wrong but I couldn't pinpoint what. What was she staring at in me? I thought nervously, still remembering every small detail of her story. She told me not too long ago...what she did to her parents what happened to her friend, her only friend in her whole village. Until that single day. Mack, I'm sorry you had to go through with killing yourself. I thought, I felt bad for not only Mack, but Chara too! Then, her hand slid off of me and back onto Daddy's shirt to hold on. She turned forward to watch as Daddy held us on his shoulders, walking towards the house.

Chara's POV

I felt energy when I touched his shoulder, it was a strong energy the dragged me towards him slowly. Wanting every fiber of that power, I gripped onto Daddy's shirt for support not to completely assassinate Asriel for that energy. I wanted to use that strong amazing energy for things, that I couldn't control on my own! Someone needs to stop these crazy thoughts in my brain before I go insane again! I felt like I was changing...though it wasn't the same as changing like I did for evilness to murder my family. I felt weird, yet powerful. Did Asriel feel this same thing right now as I was feeling it? I thought, questioning this type of energy's power. Something strange was going on ever since I touched Asriel. What kind of power was that? Maybe it's just a type of magic they use to defend down here? Or something other than that? I don't know...I need to think about this when I go to sleep tonight, that's when I do most of my thinking, laying down and pretending to be asleep when someone would check on me. Whatever it is, I have to figure it out. "Asriel? Are you feeling alright?" I asked, hoping for some good information. "Umm..yeah! I'm still a little queasy but that's it." Asriel responded, DARN!  But I decided to make a joke about it and say, "Well I guess since you don't feel good...MORE PIE FOR ME!" He laughed, "Hey! I feel good enough to make and eat it!" I was laughing so hard I didn't even notice that we were on the ground again. Then the front door opened slowly.

We all walked back in, there was a huge mess! The table next to the stairs was knocked over and down the hallway the "water sausages" were upside down! "Oh my, before we start making the pie I must clean up first." Momma said, her voice reverted back to her normal quiet self. I walked down the hallway and into our room, the mess was even worse in there! "How about we pick up everything first haha!" Asriel laughed, and I started towards the knocked over table we colored on just nearly an hour ago. I saw our drawings laying on the ground, Asriel's was finished now...it was beautiful! Then when I lifted the table back into its place, I found two thumbtacks and hung them up, putting my drawing over my bed, and Asriel's over his bed. "Chara, I love them." I heard a voice say from behind me, it was Dad! I turned around just before he left and gave him a bear hug, it was a small one though because of my small arms.

Everything was back to normal...and I loved it.