Determined Love (Charisk)

Chapter 24: Your Best Friend

     "Frisk." Asgore said. "It was nice to meet you." He looked at Chara, and looked away quickly, not being able to look her directly in the eye. "Please forgive me, Chara." 
      Asgore drooped his head, and looked towards the ground, as he pulled out a giant red trident from his cape. The large trident was almost as large as Asgore itself, the twilight light reflecting off of it. "Goodbye." Asgore said. 

      He rose his trident, and Chara instinctively jumped in front of Frisk, ready to take the blow, but it never came. A fireball was hurling towards Asgore, and before he could react, it hit him dead on, causing him to fall back, making a large thud as he landed. 
      Chara looked for the origin of the fireball, and saw Toriel, to the direct left of them. "Mother?" Chara said, dumbfounded. 
      "Such a miserable creature, torturing two innocent, poor youths.." Toriel said, walking over to the girls. "Are you okay, my children?" 
     Chara ran over to Toriel and hugged her, Frisk following shortly. "Yes, I'm fine!" Chara said.
     "Me too." Frisk said.
     "You must forgive me, you two. I was going to let you go on your adventure by yourselves, but I could not stop worrying about either of you! Your adventure must have been treacherous, and ultimately, would have burdened you with a terrible choice. To leave this place, you would have to take the life of another person.." Toriel said, as the girls released their hug.
      Chara began to feel guilty as she said that, but obviously wasn't going to explain why to her mother. 
      "You would have to defeat Asgore." Toriel continued. "However..." She said, looking at Asgore as he began to get up, making a disgusted face. "I realized... I cannot have that happen. It is not right to sacrifice someone, just to let someone leave this place. So, for now, let us suspend this battle. As terrible as Asgore is..." Toriel said, looking at Asgore again, taking a deep sigh. "He deserves MERCY, too." 
      Asgore walked over, looking happy. "Tori... you came back...!" 
      "Do not 'Tori' me, Dreemurr!" Toriel snapped. "You pathetic whelp, if you really wanted to free our kind, you could've gone through the barrier after you got ONE SOUL, taken six SOULS from the humans, and then came back and freed us." Toriel said, sounding more and more angry as she talked. 
      Asgore was stricken by intense sadness and emotional pain, as Toriel's words cut into him, like a knife through warm butter. "Tori.... you're right." Asgore looked on the verge of tears. "I am a miserable creature.... but, do you think we can at least be friends again?" He said, trying to be optimistic. 
     Toriel sighed deeply. Right now, she didn't want to answer Asgore. She was mad, and didn't want to make a rash decision. She would ponder on his question later. "I don't know, Asgore." She said.
     Undyne came running in the room, screaming. "NGHAAAAAAAAA! Asgore! You two! Nobody FIGHT each other!" She sounded winded, like she ran an entire marathon. "Everyone's gonna make friends, or else I'll! .... I'll!" Undyne couldn't think of what to say. She froze when she saw Toriel standing next to the girls.
     "Hello! I am Toriel!" She said. "Are you a friend of these two?" 
     "Yeah mother! We fought Undyne a long time ago, but when we got to talk and visit with her, we found out she was really cool!" Chara said. 
     Frisk smiled, seeing Chara openly admit she liked Undyne made her feel happy. 
     "Um... yeah! Nice to meet you!" Undyne rushed over next to Asgore, and whispered in his ear. "Hey, Asgore, is that your ex?" 
     Asgore nodded.

     "Jeez." She said louder. "That's rough, buddy."
     "H-hey! N-No body hurt each other!" Alphys said, running in the room as well. She sounded even more winded than Undyne did. She looked around at everyone and got quiet. It was pretty awkward. 
      "Hello!" Toriel said. "Are you another friend of these two? I am Toriel!"
      "This is Alphys," Frisk said. "She is the Royal Scientist, and helped us a whole bunch on our journey!" 
      Chara didn't say anything, and just nodded, reluctantly. 
      "Uh... uh, h-h-hi!" Alphys said, nervously, holding her arm up to say hi. She awkwardly walked over to Undyne's side.