Undertale: REWIND

SAVE Point: Beginnings

Their eyes widened in fear. Asriel! Frisk cried out. "No!" Then, they tried to reason shakily. "Y, you need him for your plan ..."

They silently prayed for mercy. Please don't hurt Asriel! The tension was thick in the air and Frisk felt that one wrong step would most definitely lead them to their doom. Now they're starting to doubt if rushing in here without a plan except to try and talk to Chara was the smartest move.

Why would Chara even listen? This kid is a cold-blooded murderer!

As soon as they thought that, Frisk regretted it. Chara's anger at humanity was understandable. Though their actions, or future actions may be inexcusable, Frisk shouldn't give up hope here that they can be saved. Just like how Frisk was saved, Chara will be saved too!

However, hearing Frisk's desperation, the other child only threw back their head and laughed. "Not anymore, I don't! Right now, all I can think about is teaching you how unmerciful life is."

They press the knife a little harder on Asriel's neck. A trickle of blood dyed the snow-white fur.

"H, hurts ..." He stammered in pain.

"STOP!" Frisk screamed, halting both Chara and Sans who had raised the bones from the ground to aim at them.

"Please don't do this ..." Frisk pleads. "Asriel ... Mu - Toriel ... and Asgore, they all love you."

Chara's voice was as cold as ever. "Well they aren't human. Growing up, I struggled to find out why there was so much hate in this world. Then, I realised, nobody loved because nobody could. All humans are after all, inherently evil."

"That's not true!" Frisk tried their best to keep their voice steady even though they were shaking in fear. "I ... thought that once too ... a lot of times, actually. As an orphan ..."

Sans dared not breathe. An orphan? Fortunately, Chara was still and quiet now.

"I wasn't ... liked in school," Frisk's voice grew smaller. But they took a deep breath and continued. "I thought the world was a hateful place ... until I fell down here.

"Here, where I experienced kindness and compassion. Here where I realised there's both good and bad in everyone. Here, where I learnt to use my voice ... so that, so that I can use it to make someone's day that little bit better ... and, and in doing so, experience the good in this world too."

Chara started laughing. "Well, you're wrong. I'm rotten to the core. And I'll make you regret coming here and thinking otherwise!"

They dropped Asriel to the ground and charged at Frisk. Bones came at Chara from all directions but they dodged every single one of them nimbly.

"Sans - don't hurt them!" Frisk yelped as they narrowly missed Chara's knife.

"Kid, move away! I can't hit that little freak -"

"Don't do it!" Frisk jumped to the side as the knife came down.

Chara had a manancial smile on their face as they attacked Frisk. "Oh? Not fighting back?"

"Never," they panted.

Chara's knife slashed across Frisk quickly. Although they managed to roll away, the blade still caught their sleeve and cut a thin line through. They winced and clutched their arm as they started to bleed.

"Kid -" Sans said helplessly from the side. Oh how he so badly wanted to destroy that genocidal freak, if it weren't for Frisk's darned compassion.

Asriel who had fallen to the ground, had picked himself up. Ignoring the pain in his neck, he ran over and hugged Chara from behind. "Please, stop, Chara!" He cried.