Aftereffects

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Waterfall lived up to its name.

18 left to go in this area and I was already more dead inside than ever. Yay.

For some reason, Frisk ran through a waterfall but I was not in the mood of figuring out why.

I honestly didn't care too much about the Captian of the Royal Guard, I was too busy having, what Frisk dubbed my 'hissy fit'. I didn't care when Undyne almost speared Frisk in the face, I was too busy laughing. I got to hide the pain somehow. Plus it was funny.

I mean if it happened to me it wouldn't be funny, but that shows how much better I am compared to her. Because I am. No denial.

So then Frisk came across some seeds and was confused, causing me to have to help her.

"Sign, take a look," I told her. She groaned.

"Whatever you say, mom," Frisk grumbled. I didn't provide much more help than that. Then Frisk turned around with a grin on her face.

"Well, if you aren't going to be happy when you're helping me, well, I got a surprise for you!" Frisk said with a devious grin. I groaned. Sheer determination was the only thing preventing me from nope-ing out of here. Frisk pulled out a (slightly dusty) tutu and put it on.

"Hmm, my pants are too, poofy too look nice..." Frisk grumbled.

"I think you look fine," I said. Even though Frisk was right about her pants sticking out and that they didn't match her pink tutu at all, but hey the tutu was a... change. And a nice one.

"Chara, Chara... CHARA!" Frisk yelled. "You're blushing~"

Okay, yea nope-ing out of here now =)

"Hey! Come back! I was just kidding!" Frisk said. My cheeks felt hot and chances of that being a lie were 0%. I groaned. Thanks a lot, Frisk. She could catch up to me later. Frisk must have figured out the puzzles because when I was sitting in the 'wishing room' she caught up fairly quickly.

"Congratulations. You can puzzle," I said, with a small smirk. Frisk rolled her eyes.

"Congratulations. You can float through walls," Frisk grinned. "Those puzzles were annoying, it'll nice if you could get your head out of the clouds and help," I rolled my eyes.

"Being dead doesn't have that many benefits. You wouldn't be able to talk to anyone or be seen by anyone. You're just special so you can see me," I grumbled. Oh how much I wanted to be physical. Because of physical meant legs. And legs meant kicking down doors.

Heck is it bad if thats the only reason I want legs? I sure hope not.

Frisk entered a battle with Aaron and ignoring check she hit him... Then she neglected her HP and a few encounters later, she died.

At least she SAVEs sometimes.

"How about, try SAVEing after each encounter, so you don't have to redo so much?" I suggested. Frisk agreed... She's been getting better at killing...

Even with this help, she still died a few times (mostly to Aaron) And I couldn't help but grin whenever she stepped back from the glow of the SAVE point with that annoyed expression on her face.

Yet she stayed determined.

Determination.

It didn't take long after that to clear Waterfall...

*But Nobody Came

Doing so, she increased her LOVE from 9 to 10!

*But Nobody Came

oh wait that means it bad memory time.

whoops

His grin was only matched by the giant snowball in his hand. Heck, I shouldn't have asked for a snowball fight with someone with blue magic (and his brother) when all I had was Q̸̡̅̊̄̓͑̏͂̐̚͝͝X̷̨̨̨̘͕̠͇͔̘͎͎͔̹͆͊͊̈́͑̍̍͛̉̍͐̅̂̋̕͜Ņ̶̗͉͙̫̗͇̱̆̍̆̓̇́y̵̨̱͍̘̠̺̩͍̱͖̞̘̳͛̒͒̿a̶̯̰͉̋̑́́́̓͌͌͊̃̕͘͠͠Ŵ̷̢̨̢̛͚̞̪̞͌̅̌̈́̈́̿͊͑̂̅͊͝͝V̴̯̬͕̭̪͈̳͊́́͌̀̿͌̈́́͊̽͘̕͜s̶̢͒ and he didn't know much in the way of magic, which really bugged him. Whatever. At least I have the power of brute force and chocolate on my side.

"...Turn off the camera Q̸̡̅̊̄̓͑̏͂̐̚͝͝X̷̨̨̨̘͕̠͇͔̘͎͎͔̹͆͊͊̈́͑̍̍͛̉̍͐̅̂̋̕͜Ņ̶̗͉͙̫̗͇̱̆̍̆̓̇́y̵̨̱͍̘̠̺̩͍̱͖̞̘̳͛̒͒̿a̶̯̰͉̋̑́́́̓͌͌͊̃̕͘͠͠Ŵ̷̢̨̢̛͚̞̪̞͌̅̌̈́̈́̿͊͑̂̅͊͝͝V̴̯̬͕̭̪͈̳͊́́͌̀̿͌̈́́͊̽͘̕͜s̶̢͒" No one could know. No one could find out. He looked at me, hesitantly and turned it off. Then he turned back with a smile, a small one, yet it was still there. He put down the camera.

Hope. Thats what I had to bring. Smiles. Thats what I had to protect.

Buttercups... Right? I would save them all.

Fear. Black. Pain.

You know what? I give up on figuring them out in a timeline sense. Yeah, random points of time with little context is the most annoying thing ever. Worse than anything else. But overanalyzing when I don't have anything better to do? Yeah sure. Why not?

The first one seems to be pretty happy, then it goes into the land of not good. And looking at my current situation, nothing good came out of it.

C'mon Chara. Let's think happy thoughts. Happy thoughts. Happy thought...

Oh hey, how's Frisk doing? Running for her life from spears? Nothing out of the ordinary.

"A little help here?" She grumbled. "This is my 5th try, could you try to be helpful?"

"Nah, I like watching you suffer," I said, trying to adopt my sarcastic persona. (which with all of these memories is seeming less and less like how I acted before, but this was me now and that wasn't going to change).

But that was weird thinking about. Me? Serious? Never. Well not anymore. Plus acting like this was at least fun. Old me did get into snowball fights but also had that responsibility that I didn't want. I was fine living like this, even when I learn how I used to be like.

Maybe I should adopt a new name..? Nah Frisk was the only one who can see me, no point. Unless I'm wrong of course.

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Finally, Asriel got all of that STUPID TABLE DUST off of his petals. Anyways, What was he doing again.

Oh, shoot.

He was trying to help Chara with the puzzles.

Now They've gotten past all of those STUPID PUZZLES.

IT DIDN'T HELP THAT THEY KEPT DYING AND RELOADING.

With a pop, the flower went back into the ground.

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