Legend Of The Crow

Prelude

"Chara.... I'm scared... I'm so scared..."

"Well if you had followed the plan in the first place.... YOU WOULDN'T HAVE TO BE!"

Asriel crumpled into the flowers that grew around his parent's thrones. Blood oozed out from the countless wounds that covered the monster child's body. His clothes ripped to shreds with one eye swollen shut. The pain was excruciating. It felt like his body was starting to fall apart. As if it was.... Going to turn to dust.

Fear surged through him. Dust. He was going to turn to dust. He was going to die without having helped anyone. Not even Chara. Mom and Dad were going to lose both their children in a matter of days. His brother was right. He should have just stuck to the plan. If he had gone through the barrier and came back with the souls then Chara wouldn't have merged their souls for nothing. Everyone would be free, including him. But because he couldn't do it... Because he was to much of a crybaby he had backed out. Now he was going to die here on the floor of his parent's throne room.

Tears streaked down his blood matted fur. Chara's constant chant of "Stupid! Idiot! Crybaby!" the only thing he can hear. No one else was around. He had done this without telling anyone and it was early morning. The light in the room making all the colors pop. No one was going to find him until it was already over. Until he was already nothing more than a supercharged soul and dust.

All the colors began to blur as the edges of his vision started to go black. He reached out a hand towards the door. Hoping that he could see his parents one last time. The sight only caused a strangled sob to escape his throat. His fingers were already falling apart. The dust scattering across the golden flowers that his father loved so much. This was a good a place as any to die. His parents would be able to visit him everyday when they tend the garden.

Trying to hold back sobs the darkness continued to fill his sight until there was nothing but black. The pain in his body faded as his body turned into nothing. All that was left was the darkness.

Asriel was laying on a floor but he knew there shouldn't be anything there. He looked around. Seeing nothing but the darkness that had consumed his vision. Was this really what happened after death? You just wandered around in endless darkness?

"You dragged that out longer than needed." Asriel's brother stepped into view. His arms crossed against his yellow and green striped shirt. He looked slightly amused but there was anger behind his eyes. The brief relief at seeing his brother soon vanished at the snarky tone of his words.

"Easy enough for you to say... You didn't have to feel it. You didn't have to get hit and stabbed over and over! YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO FEEL YOUR BODY FALL APART!" Asriel's voice cracked at the end. He stood up from his laying down position. "It was a stupid plan! We would both be alive if we hadn't of done it! Now Mom and Dad are alone!"

Chara hissed at the tone in his voice. "Are you kidding me? It's YOUR fault the plan didn't work! YOU were the one who got cold feet and backed out at the last second!" He pressed forward and pushed Asriel who ended up stumbling back a couple steps from the force. "If you had followed like you were supposed too... We would be bonded forever. Like we both wanted and everyone.... EVERYONE in the Underground would be free right now. But nooooooo..." Chara stepped up so that he was all up in Asriel's face. "You had to chicken out while I lay dying. DYING! Do you know how scared I was when you backed out?"

Frustrated tears started to form in Chara's eyes and his voice was starting to shake. Asriel looked at him confused. "Scared? You didn't cry once! You left in your sleep!" his voice starting to shake like Chara's.

"Of course not! You were crying to much as it was!" The tears finally crested. Starting to fall down his cheeks. "I knew there was no way that I would survive after eating those flowers. YOU knew I wouldn't! Then the fever set in and you backed out.... I felt so hurt... So betrayed... But I couldn't show you that!" Quickly, he wiped the tears from his eyes before laying into Asriel again. "I thought for sure that you would go through with it once our souls merged and you walked through the barrier. But you didn't, like the cry baby idiot you are! You had all that power... It wouldn't have been hard... But no. Now you are here. Like me!"