Determination (Charisk) [OUTDATED]

15 - BATTLE AGAINST THEIR HERO

(FRISK POV)

We collected our stuff and walked out of the inn.
"Bye! Have a nice night!" The Innkeeper called.
"You as well!" We walked back into town, surprisingly, it's way more active during the day. Apparently, Waterfall city is a tourist destination. I can see why, this place is beautiful. I felt a ghostly tap through my shoulder.
"Frisk, we need to go."
"What do you mean?"
"Undyne." He pointed over to Undyne, who was questioning the locals. I nodded.
     "Right." We headed off. Hiding behind buildings and carts and what not. We made it to this super thin bridge MK was standing on. "MK!" We walked over to him.
     "Y-Yo..." he stepped back a bit. "U-Undyne said that you... you were a dangerous human..."
     "I may not be dangerous, but I am human, yes."
     "I thought that was obvious." I glared at Chara.
     "Undyne said that we shouldn't hang out. Quick, say something to make me hate you!" There were tears in the corner of his eyes.
"MK, you know I can't do that."
"I'll do it myself! I-... I hate your guts. I can't do this." He ran away.
"MK!! Be carefu—"
"AAAAAHHH!!" Undyne was at the end of the bridge we just came from. MK was only holding on by the skin of his teeth, literally.
"MK! Hold on!" I ran over to help him... That's a long way down. I went to grabbed him when he dropped. He under his teeth to grab on to my arm. He was very heavy, and his teeth were grinding into my arm. "C-Chara... Help." I suddenly felt very weird. A chilling but almost pleasure inducing feeling washed over me. I couldn't help but feel sad, upset at everything I've done. Why did I let MK fall? I'm a horrible friend. Why do I treat myself so badly? I keep telling myself I'm worthless, but I deserve to be alive and be happy too. I just wish I would realize that. I don't think this relationship is going to work out. I— no Chara is such a nice  person, I don't deserve her- Him. I feel myself sobbing uncontrollably. The rain soaks into my clothes. Why can't I just be happy? I-I love him so much, why can't I just be happy for one day? For him. It hurts so bad, all of my thoughts screaming in my head. A swirling chaos of confusion and lament. My whole body feels like it's on fire. I lost control of my body "Eep!" I... No. We lifted MK up from the chasm. Both MK and Undyne looked shocked. Chara flew out of me. I felt my face warming up. MK ran off and Undyne looked at me, then walked away. I turned to Chara, "What was that—" he was on his knees panting. "Chara are you okay?" He got up with a strained smile.
"I-I'm fine. Let's keep moving!" He was not fine.
"No! If I'm right, you know what all of... that was, and you felt it too." He sighed.
"I don't normally posses people, because one: It's an invasion of privacy, because I can think their thoughts as if they were my own and vis versa," He saw my face and looked away quickly. "Two: it puts a lot of strain on both the participants, both due to brain activity on how your body is moving and the people's SOULs, for having to share one physical form." Now that he mentions it, I feel unusually tired, and in pain. Like my SOUL is having a crick in her neck, so to say. "And three: because it amplifies the emotions of both parties towards each other, due both people sharing the same hormones and stuff." Was all of that, what I felt, my feelings towards him? His towards me?I mean, I love him, sure. But pleasure, uncertainty, distress? What does that say about our relationship? I don't know. I'll push all of those thoughts deep down inside me, they're not relevant now. MK has apparently followed Undyne or something because he was gone.
     "So we—"
     "Yes. We felt and thought the same things at the same time. And by the way, I've never possessed a female body before." What's that supposed to— Oh. My face was even redder then before, matching his flushed cheeks.
     "H-Hey! Don't get any ideas mister!"
     "One: If I had any ideas, you would instantly have had them too, and two: you didn't have a problem last night."
     "Grr, you—"
     "Let's get moving shall we? I, for one, don't want to be a ghost kebab." He does have a point. We walked into this big, mountainous area, although technically they would be stalagmites, not mountains. Undyne was standing on the top of a sheer cliff. How did she get up there without going past us? We were literally in the previous room. I quickly grabbed the SAVE shard, it had a picture of a flower within a water droplet. The tone alerted Undyne to our presence. She turned around.
     "Seven. Seven human SOULs, and King ASGORE will become a god. Six. That's how many we have collected thus far. Understand? Through your seventh and final SOUL, this world will be transformed. First, however, as is customary for those who make it this far... I shall tell you the tragic tale of our people. It all started, long ago—" She stopped abruptly. She took off her helmet and turned to look at us. She was a red-haired blue fish with an eyepatch. Pretty tame for the underground. "No, you know what? SCREW IT! WHY SHOULD I TELL THAT STORY WHEN YOU'RE ABOUT TO DIE!?! NGAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" She jumped down from the cliff and landed on her feet. She should definitely have broken legs by now. "YOU! You're standing in the way of everybody's hopes and dreams! Alphys' history books made me think humans were cool... ...with their giant robots and flowery swordsman. BUT YOU? You're just a coward!" Giant robots? Flowery swordsman? Eh, I guess she's not too far off but... Oh wait. I forgot I'm dreading for my life. Suddenly a wave of calm washed over me. No. Not her, that's not who I am. I can't move my body, it's moving on it's own. If I struggle I could hurt them again.
     "Coward? I think you and your kind are the real cowards here, preying on innocent children." I shouted. She tensed up. "You know I killed you in a past life." She turned pale... well as pale as a fish could be. Chara wasn't himself right now either. He was the other Chara. "Yup! You weren't hard to beat, captain, all it took was a shot to the eye." She brushed her finger over her eyepatch.
     "You're crazy if you think you did this. Past life? Please. You've gone insane!"
     "Heh, at least you're right about one thing." I fell to the ground. I was back in control. "I'm sorry! That wasn't me I swear! Please don't hurt me!" She was dumbfounded at first, but acted like nothing happened.
     "Whatever, human. But let's not forget your wimpy goody-two-shoes-shtick! Oooh! I'm making such a difference by hugging random strangers! You know what would be more valuable to everyone? IF YOU WERE DEAD!!! That's right, human! Your continued existence is a crime! Your life is all that stands between us and our freedom! Right now, I can feel everyone's hearts pounding together! Everyone's been waiting their whole lives for this moment! But we're not nervous at all. When everyone puts their hearts together, they can't lose! Now, human! Let's end this, right here, right now. I'll show you how determined monsters can be! Step forward when you're ready! Fuhuhuhu!" She swiped at me, but I just barely dodged. "En gaurde! You're GREEN now. As long as you're GREEN you CAN'T ESCAPE! Unless you learn to face danger head-on... You won't last a SECOND against ME!" I couldn't move my legs, my SOUL was Green. She tossed me a spear. I was almost hit with a flurry of spears from all directions.
     "Junior league, don't fail me now." I just barely managed to block all of the spears. I was just about to get hit by another when I felt Chara posses me again. "Eh?" Me and Chara seemed to move in unison, we were much stronger together. But once again, the feels started to wash over me, like the insanity, I felt all of my feelings towards Chara and his towards me, hurt harder than the spears. I had to keep focused on blocking the attacks. I had to. Why can't I take better care of me? I always put others first, it isn't healthy. I deserve help too. Why can't I see that. No. These are his thoughts, I swear I'm fine. No, I'm not. "Chara, I'm fine. You don't need to treat me like I'm the queen... Yes, I do. You deserve it. You have to realize that!" I didn't even realize but we had stopped being attacked. "Why does everyone keep wasting their energy on me? I'm fine! Everyone needs help more than me! Frisk! Stop it. There are people who love you, I love you... SHUT UP! Stop telling me I need help, you're supposed to be on my side! I am. You just don't realize it, it's like you won't realize it. Why can't you just see it from my perspective? There are people more hurt than me, more sad than me, they need the help more than me. They deserve it more than me... Frisk, I know that but— Obviously not... Frisk— Get. Out." Undyne was just standing there, silent, confused as to what just happened. Chara unpossessed me, and for just a couple seconds, he was visible. Undyne had looked over at him in shock then back to me. I was teeming with rage, my knuckles were white as my fingernails digging into the palm of my hands. My thermoelectric-reception started fading, I tried to open my eyes, but all I saw was Undyne going to catch me as my head hit the hard ground. I woke up in an instant on a sofa, the blue wall paper had a simple pink fish pattern plastered across it.

Snail Fact #11
Snails are known to indulge in the literary works of Agatha Christie.