Determination (Charisk) [OUTDATED]

53 - OBLIGATORY GYFTMAS EVE SPECIAL

A/N: Credit to Nick NITRO for the music! Also, this is the longest chapter I've ever written.

~PART 1 - GYFTMAS EVE~
(You can start the music at the top now.)

(CHARA POV) [M]
"Huh?" I stood up.
"What's up?" I grabbed my chest.
"I'm... I'm a guy again." Frisk eyed me up and down slowly.
"I don't notice anything different."
"Well, I swear it's changed." I looked down the inside of my shirt. Sure enough, I was a man again. "...I think I've had enough change today, I want to go back to sans and Pap's house, if that's okay with you."
"Ah, sure. Although, I only spent an evening there, you've spent almost a month there though."
"It'll be fine! sans knows why so it won't be that big of a deal!"
"Right, let's pack up then." We folded up the blanket and headed back to town. As soon as we stepped into town, Frisk gasped.
"What?"
"You guys celebrate Christmas?" Frisk walked around admiring the lights strung up about the town, the large tree in the town square, and acting all giddy.
"What the heck is Christmas?" Frisk turned to me.
"What do you mean? This is Christmas!" I shook my head.
"Naw, this is Gyftmas. It's a tradition older than me. A couple of jerks covered old Mr. Gyftrot in human decorations from the dump in waterfall. So a bunch of the locals helped untangle the decorations and gave him some gifts to cheer him up. Now we just decorate a tree and put gifts underneath that."
     "Oh, we have something similar on the surface, it's more of a religious holiday though... I..." Frisk started to cough.

. . .

(FRISK POV)

     "Frisk? You ok?" I felt like I couldn't get any air into my lungs. "Frisk?!" I my vision filled up with black like it was a container of liquid. I had a very bizarre dream that I was at a Christmas party with sans and Papyrus. Also there were multiple sans and Papyrusus? One of the sanses even spiked the eggnog. Like I said, it was weird.
     "kid, you ok?" I opened my eyes. My vision was blurry at first but,
     "Papyrus? Did you always wear a sweatshirt?"
     "WHAT? WHY WOULD I WEAR THAT WHEN MY BATTLE BODY IS CLEARLY SUPERIOR?" I blinked a few more times. Papyrus was clearly wearing his usual outfit. I... I must be seeing things.
     "Frisk? You passed out in the middle of town."
     "Woops, I must have exhausted myself on the walk home. Haha..." sans and Chara looked at each other for a few seconds.
     "..Frisk, are you okay?"
"I'm fine! Let's stop focusing on me, it's Chri— Gyftmas eve! Let's celebrate and bake cookies!" Chara's ears seemed to perk up.
"Cookies?"
"Yeah, I'll—" as soon as I sat up I got hit by a wave of dizziness. "...I'll make us all some cookies."

"So Chara, what sort of stuff do you do on Gyftmas?" I cracked 3 eggs into the bowl of ingredients.
"Well, we decorate a Gyftree, it's similar to other subterranean pine trees that grown in Snowdin Forest, but the branches follow a more... geometric pattern. We decorate it with magic lights and those really fuzzy pipe cleaners. We also put different bits and bobbles on there, and then we put a star on the top of it. But everyone decorates their Gyftree a little differently." I mixed the ingredients together using Papyrus's stand mixer.
"Anything else?" Chara thought for a second.
"Yeah, we put up these pouches above the fireplace, on the mantle. And when we wake up in the morning, it's filled with candy and other small puzzles."
"Puzzles?"
"Yeah! Monsters love puzzles! You were unconscious for most of it, but back in the Ruins, there were so many puzzles. Like, every room had one."
"Huh." I gave a handful of chocolate chips to Chara, he devoured them all in one mouthful.
"Yeah *Gulp*. And on Gyftmas, you wake up to a bunch of presents under the branches of the Gyftree." Sounds surprisingly like Christmas.
     "I suppose some jolly fat guy with a white beard and a red suit is going to deliver these presents?" I spread the cookie dough balls onto the cookie sheets and placed them in the oven.
     "What? No, it's magic." I rolled my eyes.
     "Right, right. Magic. When will I learn?"
     "I mean seriously. It's not that hard to grasp." Chara and I looked at each other in silence for a brief moment before we burst our sides laughing.
    I grabbed the kettle of hot water from the stovetop and poured Chara and I mugs of Hot Cocoa. Chara smelled the drink intensely as I handed it to him. "I think I'm in love."
     "..."
     "..."
     "You know..."
     "Hm?"
     "I missed this."
"Missed what?" I looked around. Papyrus took off his battle body for the first time since I met him, and put on a classic 'ugly Christmas sweater' type sweater. He was casting magic and hanging up lights and other decorations around the house. sans was asleep on the couch, with the words 'gyftmas spirit' written on his forehead in red marker.
     "I don't know... This feeling of... warmth? Security maybe? Being with you without the threat of us dying? All of it... but..."
     "It won't last... Will it?"
     "No... It wont... I'm going to have to go fight King Asgore."
     "Wait, you're going to do what? Absolutely not. I'm sure we can just talk things out with him."
     "Chara. I... I talked with Undyne. And the King already has 6 SOULs. 1 more and you guys get set free. As a King, it makes sense that he would do anything for his people. I'm... Chara. Chara look at me. I'm going to use my words first."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes. Now as your Girlfriend, I'm generally supposed to make a good impression when I meet your parents. Showing up with a gun would not count as good impression, I reckon."
"Pfft. Yeah..."
"But I want to set you guys free as much as King Asgore does. What happened to you all was wrong and I intend to fix that."
"All by yourself?"
"Of course not! What? That would be suicide, and we both know how that turned out. You're going to be helping me!"
"Why me?"
"Because, you have huge influence! You're the prince... princess?"
"Prince."
"Right. And I'm going to need all the help I can get if I'm going to be saving an entire race of magical people."
     "R-Right..."
     "...But let's not worry about all that! It's Gyftmas, let's just relax!"
"Yeah. I'd like that... Do you smell something burning?"
     "Shit! The cookies!"
     "Wait what?! No!! Not the Cookies!" Luckily I pulled them out of the oven just in time, and only one of them had caught fire. Chara didn't seem to mind. "These are so good."
     "Whatever, Chocoholic." Chara shrugged
     "I prefer Chocoholic to Princess."