Truetale: Inner Demons

Chapter 4: The Skele-Bros

Asriel POV

How can a monster like a human? It's just wrong to have a crush on something that trapped us underground, ruined our lives, and isn't even the same species!

But, something about her just seems to scream "I'm cute, please love me!". It'd be hilarious if she thought the same way.

"Wait!" I realize suddenly "You haven't told me your name!"

She giggles "It's Chara,"

"Oh, that's a nice name," I say. She blushes, I love it when I do that to her. We walk through the door to Snowdin. Immediately, she starts to chatter her teeth.

"Jeez, i-it's freezing out here," Chara says through chatters. I haven't really noticed the cold, mainly because I have fur.

"Uh, um," I say while trying to find something warm.

"Here ya go kid," Says a mysterious voice from behind the trees, it made both me and Chara jump. Out of the trees comes a short skeleton holding a blue hoodie out to Chara.

"Howdy!" I say politely "Who are you?"

"I'm Sans," He says simply

"Oh, what brings you to The Underground?" I say

"Oh, my Dad, Wing Din Gaster. He invited me here from my... other place," Sans tells me

"Oh, yeah. Gaster's a nice guy," I say "Are you his son or something? He talks about his children all the time,"

"Yeah, I'm his son. I also have a brother, his name's Papyrus" Sans says "Who are you though?"

"Oh, I'm Asriel, Asriel Ray Dreemurr. She's Chara," I say pointing to Chara

"Oh, is she your girlfriend or something?" Sans asks making us flustered

"W-wha? Her? N-no!" I say, Chara is too embarrassed to even talk

"Uh-huh," Sans says sarcastically

"You sure do know how to make someone embarrassed don't you?" Chara says, still blushing from the last comment

"Yep, and it's funny every time," Sans says chuckling. We start walking along the path to Snowdin. It's surprisingly barren, even at 7 o' clock people are here.

"You still never explained what you guys were talking about" Chara brings up

"Oh, well, we were talking about the Royal Scientist, W. D. Gaster. My dad hires a scientist to experiment ways to get out of here. Gaster is our first, and right now it's going well," I explain

"Wait, why would your dad hire a scientist?" Chara asks

"Because he's the king," I say

"Really? Wow, this is going much better than my old life," She says, making me and Sans stop in our tracks. I see that Sans' white pupils have disappeared, leaving a black void for his eyes. Chara gasps, I think she realized she messed up.

"What do you mean?" I ask

"I mean, uh-" She sighs

"Tell me the truth Chara," I say "You can trust me, I'm your friend right?". I think Sans mumbled "Totally not your girlfriend"

She sighs "Okay, I came here because the surface sucked. Everyone there hated me. I thought coming down here would be a better life, my reset,"

I hug her, even though it's weird, I wanted to cheer her up.

"Yep, totally not your girlfriend," Sans says

I pull away from Chara, we both say "Shut up Sans!". Sans just laughs.

"Hey do you guys want to see some magic I learned?" Sans asks us

"Sure!" Chara says excitedly "What is it?"

"Teleportation, Gaster taught it to me a few days ago," Sans explains

"Okay," I say reluctantly

"Alright, just grab my hands," Sans says, holding out his hands. Sure, I think nothing wrong with holding a strangers hand. Both me and Chara grab on to Sans' hand. He seems to be concentrating on something, then suddenly, we're in a dark void

"Sans..," I ask nervously "Where are we?"

Sans just mumbles "Shit". He grabs on to our shoulders and suddenly, we're back in Snowdin. Except, it's abandoned.

"Sans, take us back please," says Chara, worried. Sans notices something ahead, and I hear something. It sounds like crying. We all walk ahead, into some fog. Through the fog I notice something, a figure. It looks like Sans, kneeling by a pile of something. We all stop and listen to the horrors in the air.

It's Sans' voice, yelling "She will pay" in between sobs, over and over again in a maniacal way. I look at Sans, he isn't crying nor talking, just staring at the pile. I take a closer look at the pile and stifle a scream.

It's a pile of monster dust, the decay of a dead monster. Chara seems to be looking at it and holding her head and shaking it. That's when I get worried.

"Sans, lets go back. Please," I urge Sans. As soon as I say that, he grabs our arms and teleports us to a cabin. A tall skeleton, who I'm presuming to be Papyrus, is in the kitchen putting things away.

"Sans! You came back! You were supposed to help us move in! And who are they?" Papyrus says. Sans runs up to Papyrus and hugs him.

"You guys should really go get some sleep, it's 10 o' clock. You should go to the Snowdin Inn," Sans suggests. I agree, I'm pretty tired. Me and Chara exit the house and head to Snowdin Inn.

"Hi, we'd like a room," I ask the lady

"Oh, here's your room key Asriel," She responds

We head up to the room and enter.