Truetale: Inner Demons

Chapter 5: SAVE

Chara POV

Something's up with Sans, every time he does something new, I get a terrible 'vision'. Everyone of them ends with me telling myself "You can do it". Me and Asriel walk up to the hotel room. We immediately lay on the bed, not caring how awkward it is. I'm so tired and I'm pretty sure Asriel is too. We lay in the bed, resting, for about 10 minutes until I break the silence.

"Asriel?" I ask, to check if he's still awake.

"Yeah Chara?" He responds

"Did you really mean it when you said I was your friend?" I ask

"Of course Chara," He replies

"But we just met!" I say "Like you keep saying,"

Asriel chuckles "That's for people who think we're a couple. That's weird of them to think of that,"

"Pfft," I say "We aren't even the same species, and it would be... Furry"

Asriel laughs "Exactly! You're hilarious Chara,". He yawns "I'm exhausted,"

"Yeah," I say "Lets get to sleep". We fall asleep immediately.

I open my eyes, I'm in nothing. Blackness spans for miles, the only thing I can see is me. At least the me in my visions.

"Greetings," It says in a creepy voice, similar to mine "I... Am Chara,"

"No you're not," I retort "I'm Chara"

It ignores me "Thank you, your power has awakened me from my death,"

"My 'human Soul', my 'Determination'," It continues "They were not mine, but YOURS,"

"You're scaring me," I say, worried

"With your guidance," It says with its voice getting more distorted with each second "I realized the purpose of my reincarnation,"

I back away. Her eyes and flesh seem to be melting, and with her voice fully distorted and unrecognizable, she says "To merge Souls," It lunges at me.

I wake up and gasp. I look around to confirm I'm in reality. I take a sigh of relief and hear a snore behind me. Asriel's there, sleeping peacefully, looking adorable, as always. I lay back down to go to sleep, until the bed rustles behind me and I feel a paw around my stomach. Asriel has his arm around me, I think, surprised. Then I smile and think Thanks Asriel. You know how to comfort someone even when you're unconscious. I drift back to sleep, uninterrupted.

I wake up with Asriels arm still around me. I gently lift it up and put it back down to avoid waking him. I really need to go to the bathroom. I sit down and pull my phone out, strangely enough, I get very good signal down here. I look at my messages, 21 from Dad, 29 from mom, and 2 from an unknown number. Most of Mom and Dads read 'please come home' and 'I don't know what I'll do without you'. One of Moms messages stand out to me though. It says, in all caps "YOU THINK YOU'RE ABOVE CONSEQUENCES DON'T YOU?", I swear I've heard that somewhere before. I check the two from the unknown number. They're even more confusing than Moms. One says "Stay away from 'them'," and the other one says "You're your worst enemy,". What is it talking about? Does it know about my visions? How does it know about my visions? I forget about that and read the rest of Mom and Dads messages, they all say the usual stuff like "I love you!" and such. I know that's bullshit. They never loved me, they were like the rest of them. Racist bastards that only like what's 'normal'. I wasn't 'normal' so they did everything to make me 'normal'. I had major anger issues, so they gave me classes and counselors. They did the same for my other problems. It kept happening until I had no free time. They treated me like a retard! I hate them! I hate them all! I find myself crying with a major migraine. Wait, oh-no. I pull my pants up and run to the door.

"Asriel!" I scream through the door

"Ugh, what is it Chara?" He replies hazily

"Block the door! Make sure I don't get out!" I yell

"Okay," He replies, hurried now

"Q-quickly," I say, losing consciousness.

I faint.

I wake up again. I hear someone crying through the door.

"A-Asriel?" I ask "Is that you?"

"Chara?" He says, sniffing "Is that really you?"

"Yes Asriel, I-" I tell him nervously "I'm done,"

He opens the door. He runs to me and pulls me into a giant hug. I return the hug, I know how hard going through one of my outbursts can be.

"You didn't mean all that stuff you said about me did you?" Asriel asks, still sniffing

"No, Asriel," I say calmly "I-it's just a problem I have,". I start to cry "I'm sorry Asriel. I'm so sorry," I squeeze harder "Please, stay with me Asriel. I-I don't know what's happening. I need a friend to help me through this,"

"Don't worry Chara," Asriel says, calmed down "I'll be with you to till the end,"

I cry harder "Thank you," I say "T-thank you,". After a few minutes, I pull away and stop crying.

Asriel looks at me "Chara," He says "I'm Determined to make this life better than your old one,"

I laugh and sniff "You're going to make me cry again!"

Suddenly, Asriel gets this scared look on his face.

"Asriel?" I say, worried

"Something appeared in my pocket," He says nervously

He takes it out. It's a small yellow crystal, seeming to float in his hand. Suddenly, a voice rang out. It sounded like a lady from a customer service place.

"Save or Reset?" The Voice asks

"Um," Asriel looks at me, I shrugged "Cancel,". The crystal disappeared.

"I think we should talk to what's-his-face Gaster," I suggest, Asriel nods in agreement

"Yeah, he'll definitely know what this is," He replies. We head down to the lobby and leave.

"Thanks for staying Asriel!" The lady says. We head to Sans' house, hoping he could take us to Gaster.

"Ugh, what is it?" Papyrus says when we knock. He opens the door, notices us and yells "SANS! YOUR FRIENDS ARE HERE!". Sans appears at the door. "You're getting pretty good at teleporting," Papyrus remarks, then disappears.

"Whadda you two want?" Sans asks us

"Well, Asriel found something, and we were hoping to talk to Gaster about it," I explain.

"W-what did he find?" Sans asks, worried. Asriel showed him the crystal and Sans gasps. "Oh no, we need to talk to Gaster now!" Sans grabs our shoulders and we're teleported to a bright lab. In front of us, there is a tall skeleton who I can assume is Gaster.

He looks down at us and says "Hello children,"