//------------------------------// // Chapter 17 - The Full Story // Story: Lost Dreamer // by Arceaion //------------------------------// Chara sighed as she read over another set of documents; a knock was heard at the door causing Chara to look up for a moment. "Enter." She said before returning to her work. The door opened and the sound of hooves entering caused Chara to look up and see Celestia and Luna taking a seat before her desk. "It's rare that you disturb me when I'm working in here, is something wrong?" She asked. Celestia sighed. "Chara, we've tried being patient with you, we've waited four centuries and during this time we never asked about your past or even the past of Humans. But after what happened earlies today we need answers Chara and you will give them." Celestia said in a commanding voice. Chara sighed. "I assume you want the full story about everything, from the Human Monster War to present?" She asked. Luna nodded. "We do Chara, It’s time you told us your full story." Chara sighed as she leaned back in her chair. "Alright, guess it's about time I told you everything... well almost everything." She said with a sigh. "Some things I will not discuss in depth because they are either personal or private affairs." She said. Celestia and Luna nodded. "That's acceptable." Luna said calmly. Chara nodded and cleared her throat. "I'll start this story in a way that you can understand it with a beginning middle and end; though keep in mind that some events won't make sense without preexisting events." A very, very, long time ago, two races ruled over Earth; Humans and Monsters. One day war broke out between the two races and after a long battle, the humans were victorious. They sealed the monsters underground with a magic spell. During this war Humans created weapons capable of decimating the world and the after effects of the destruction poisoned the land, after the war between the Humans and Monsters ended the Kingdoms of Man turned these tools of war they made on each other. They fought for power, dominance, and control over everything. During this time a child was born in a small village, they had pale white skin and blood red eyes. Because of their appearance their parents abandoned them and they were labeled a demon, the child was mocked, beaten and raped for years till one day she fled to the mountain where she fell into the Underground. It would be here that they would meet their first friend, the Prince of Monsters, Asriel Dreemurr. Prince Asriel would take the child to his parents Queen Toriel and King Asgore where she would be adopted and made a Princess of the Underground. The child would spend years learning about the Underground and its inhabitants however it would soon become apparent that something was off about them. Despite having live within the underground for quite some time she didn't age. The King and Queen tool the Child to The Royal scientist, a Skeleton by the Name of Wingding Gaster. Through tests, Dr. Gaster would learn that the Childs ageing process had been slowed down due to the concentration of Magical Energy within them and the magic of the Monsters. Somehow the two magic’s mixed and because of this mixing the child now aged at the rate of a monsters, specifically a Boss Monster. As time passed the Child learned how to control these magical energies and became a skilled mage however the child was also extremely intelligent and after a time Dr. Gaster would take her on as his apprentice. He taught her how to further use her magic, expanded her education and over time the child and doctor grew a bond similar to that of family. Because the child was a human that aged like a monster she quickly was seen as a prodigy though the factors that allowed for this was mostly due to her natural biology and the teachings of Dr. Gaster, she soon received her diploma and became a member of the science team that worked in the Labs of Hot Land. The Child dedicated herself to finding a way to free the underground and exacting justice on the humans who had no right to what they held. It was also during this time that the Child and Dr. Gaster discovered through the use of Determination the Multiverse and the myriad of Timelines that existed within. With the help of Dr. Gaster and his son Comic Sans, the Child created an experimental Time Tunnel that used a liquid form of Determination synthesized by their magic. This Time Tunnel would allow Monsters access to past and future events as well as the ability to enter other Timelines without damage to the Time-Space continuum or Reality. "Wait, you created the device?" Luna asked confused. Chara smiled as she leaned back in her chair. "Indeed, and I will admit that it was my greatest achievement in the fields of science." Celestia chuckled. "For all your patting on the back, it looks like you royally blew it." Chara chuckled as she looked at Celestia with a dark smile. "You don't know the half of it." Some tiny miscalculation on my part destabilized the Time Tunnel and ripped a hole in reality that swallowed everyone that was a part of the research team up, we were shattered across time and space as we were flung into the Void. We must have spent thousands of years there; we didn't age, eat or sleep we just existed. At first we went mad, very mad but eventually we acclimated and some of use began to grow sane again. Once our sanity returned we began to learn, of those that fell into the Void only three were able to gain enough sanity to actually begin learn and understand, these three were Dr. Gaster, Comic Sans, and me. Because of this I have total understanding of the Time-Space continuum as well as a working knowledge of the dimensions and Timelines. This is what permitted Sans and I to use our short cuts; we can pinpoint a weak wall of reality and exploit it to travel to anywhere we want, within reason of course. Because of my determination I was able to pull myself out of the Void and back into reality, Sans was able to pull himself out as well but as he did the Portal to the Void closed leaving the others trapped in the Void and erased from existence. This means that no one remembered them however, because we had been into the void and gained a working understanding of reality while in it we remained unaffected to this development. It was during this time we also learned that while millennia had passed for us in the Void it had only been a few minutes in the physical world. After Sans and I recovered from our destabilization through the multiverse we canceled the Time Tunnel project stating it as a failure where it was in fact the exact opposite. Afterwards I turned desperate and decided on the plan to poison myself with buttercups and have Asriel take my soul where we would steal the remaining souls, of course that plan failed and I died however my soul was not allowed rest. I watched over the place I was buried and accompanied each child as the fell, I watched them die at the hands of monsters and after the fifth child Asriel was brought back as Flowey. As Flowey, Asriel had no soul and as such was completely emotionless. At first he was the same Asriel I knew but this was an act and soon he began to kill and murder for his own pleaser and entertainment, he was ruthless and the only person that could stop him was Sans. Eventually the seventh human, Frisk, fell down and took the Power of Determination away from As-Flowey and went through the Underground before freeing the monsters. "So you were free?" Celestia asked causing Chara to nod. "Then what happened that returned you to the Underground?" Chara sighed. "If you wouldn't interrupt then you would find out." She replied causing Celestia to blush and nod. "Right sorry." Celestia said sheepishly. Frisk lived for about 15 years above ground and was around 22 years old before Sans and Alphys, the current head Royal scientist after Gaster's accident and Sans resignation, discovered that I was attached to Frisk. Using a significant amount of Determination, shards of my soul and a monster soul I was revived and my body was aged appropriately to fit Frisks since I was attached to her. Despite my return I wasn’t actually there for a long time, the thousands of resets made by Flowey and witnessing the death of five children by either my father’s hand or a monster had left centuries worth of mental scarring and damage. Frisk managed to help a lot in helping me recover mentally and eventually we fell for each other and got married. It was on the day of our marriage that our little happy ending ended, the PLAYER took control of Frisk and caused a RESET of the time line to when Frisk first fell into the underground. After the RESET the Genocide timelines started and repeated over and over. How long has this battle between the PLAYER, Frisk and I been happening, how long have we been trapped in this endless cycle, these are questions I will never have answers to but if I want to be honest I lost track. We hit the end so many times only for me to send them back. "And there you have it, the abridged and shortened version of my life and the story that has unfolded." Chara said as she leaned back with a sigh. "This is all new, we've been moving forward but it's been so long for me and I'm tired, so very tired." Chara sighed and for a moment the women leaning back in the chair looked as if she were old and not the young vibrant twenty something she was. "Chara, your age is showing." Celestia said with a chuckle. Chara waved her hand off. "I'm a being that is at least eight thousand years old." She said with a sigh. "I have the right to act old after this long." She said with a sigh. "I still have a few questions that remain unanswered." Luna said. "What are they Luna?" Chara asked with a sigh. "Why do you have the Trait of Hate and why can Frisk transform like you?" Chara nodded. "So First let’s talk about the Trait of Hate and how I got it." Chara said calmly. "The Trait of Hate is one of eight traits known as Unnatural Soul Traits, it was the second to ever be identified and is considered one of the most powerful and dangerous of the eight, able to destroy entire timelines and warp reality." Chara stood and walked over to a blackboard as began to write on the board a list. "The Trait of Hate grants complete regeneration however the user still feels pain, holds the ability to create a liquid state that can be shape in any way they want." She said a she wrote out this information. "Furthermore Hate has a corruptive nature that warps the user in different ways." "This warping is the transformations that you under go?" Luna asked and Chara nodded. "The Trait of Hate holds a symbiotic relationship with its host, the host keeps it feed through hate and in return the Hate will protect its host. When the Hate senses that its host is in extreme pain in a mental or emotional way it will try to shield the host from what is harming it by causing the host to become more aggressive. If the Host is in pain physically or they are in a situation that they feel extremely threatened then the Hate will take a physical form by altering the host’s body to suit the situation." "And as such transforms your body into one of two forms." Luna said in understanding. "Three forms actually." Chara corrected causing the princesses to look confused. "My first form is the one I just used against PLAYER, it's known as Form One or, as it was named, Black Assassin. Form two I've only used twice and it's my Boss Monster form. The third and final form is what was used four centuries ago and is called Total Corruption." "I assume that each form is more powerful that the last." Celestia commented however Chara shook her head. "Each form is specialized; Black Assassin is designed for speed and evasion and is most often used for what it's named, assassination. In this form I become the perfect Assassin. My Boss Monster form suppresses my human form which turns me into a Monster, this grants me access to more magic but removes my ability to use determination. Finally my Total corruption form makes me unkillable; I become an undead monster that simply exists to destroy whatever is the treat and feed off Hate." "But you are still in control right?" Celestia asked however Chara shook her head. "No, as the name implies I'm completely consumed by Hate and it takes control. There is actually one other form and it's when both I and the Trait of Hate merge into one, if I ever merge into this form then find frisk immediately." Chara said with a sigh. "And on the Subject of Frisk, I assume she is bound by hate as well?" Luna asked. Chara laughed. "No she is bound to my opposite, the thing that gave monsters life, Hope." Chara said with a smile. "Most people don't know but HP is an Acronym. Just like how LOVE stands for Level Of ViolencE or EXP EXecution Points; HP has a meaning as well, it stands for HoPe. To a Monsters HP shows how hopeful they are, the more hopeful a monster the more HP they have and the stronger they are." Chara explained as she erased the black board and began to write several things down. "Hope is the opposite of Hate and as such is extremely powerful, when using the Hope trait one gains total regeneration, the ability to create liquid HoPe and shape it in anyway the user want." "So why can she transform?" Luna asked. Chara smiled. "While Hate requires the host to be in danger, Hope is opposite and requires one who the host to care deeply about to be in extreme danger to activate. Hope gives its host two form one is a shift like my three forms known as Valkyrie, in this form the host becomes the perfect shield meant to protect and fight. The form is a perfect balance of offence and defense. The second form is when both I and the Trait of Hate merge into one, in this form Frisk would become a literal Angel thought what happens to her mentally and physically I have no idea." Celestia frowned. "You make it sound like if this happened it would be bad; wouldn't something like that be good?" She asked. Chara frowned as she began to erase the black board again. "I don't know, it might be good but I know from experience that such a transformation changes you and not just physically but mentally and might even affect the soul of a living being." She said as she finished erasing the board and walked back to her desk "You sound as if you've experienced... this... before." Luna trailed off looking at Chara in shock. Chara nodded. "I found about my forth form the hard way, when it happened I became a demon." Chara shuddered. "It's why I'm known as the Demon who comes when there name is called." She said quietly. "Chara are you... can be summoned like a demon?" Celestia asked concerned and Chara looked away causing Celestia frowned. "Why- how can that be possible?" Chara sighed. "Celestia, when I turned into that form I became a Demon and not just some evil being that you would call a demon but a literal Demon. Corruption like that leaves an imprint that can never be removed, it's branded in to your very soul and marks you for eternity." Chara looked at the Princesses with a dark look that made then shudder. "Even when I'm not in that form I'm bound to the rules and laws of demons, it's why I take deals and promises so seriously." Celestia looked at Chara sadly however Luna simply chuckled. "I think your wrong Chara." She said causing Chara and her sister look at her confused. Luna smiled and looked at Chara her eyes soft and kind. "You’re not a demon, simply... a fallen angel." She said happily. "This coming from what one would see as an angel of darkness." Chara said with a sigh. "I can see where you are coming from Luna but I'm afraid I've walked down this path too far to return, I might have once been a fallen angel but that path was closed the minute I accepted the Trait of Hate, now I'm simply a Demon." Char looked down at the papers before her and pulled a few before turning away from the sisters. "If that all then I have work to return to Princesses." She said sadly. The Princesses hesitated but slowly the rose and left the room Luna looking back for a moment before leaving; as thee Alicorns left Chara looked at the door sadly. In another time this is who you could have been." A voice said as the shadows seemed to lengthen. "Do you regret joining me?" It asked. Chara chuckled. "I made peace with what I became long ago, and I'd do it all again to protect Frisk. The Anti-Monster Humans United had crossed the line." Chara said as she reached over to a drawer and pulled out a bottle of amber liquid. "Chara, don't do this to frisk, don't give up again!" The Voice screamed in an angry tone. "I'm not!" Chara said firmly. "But I need a drink after talking about that stuff." She said with a sigh as she poured a drink. "Make that a double would you sweetie?" A voice at the door said causing Chara to jump and spin to see Frisk standing at the door a tired look on her face. Frisk, you should be asleep!" Chara said in concern as she sat the bottle down and smiled happily. Frisk smiled. "I'll be fine Chara, but I heard what you said." Charas smile faded. "Oh... Frisk I-""I understand Chara." Frisk interrupted as he walked into the room and approached Chara. "I know what's it's like to deal with it now, it's hard." She said. Chara froze. "Frisk, are you okay?" She asked in a calm voice. Frisk walked around the desk and pulled Chara into a hug. "I'm fine now." She said as Chara returned the hug and rested her head on frisk chest. "How's Hope treating you?” She asked. A presence whisked around Chara and giggled. "Oh don’t worry Demon, She’s safe from you." A voice said causing Frisk to growl. "Chara is my wife and you will show her respect!" Frisk hissed angrily causing the presence to recoil as if struck. "If you think you can trust her then you have another thing coming." The voice said causing a darker voice to chuckle. "Chara is different than any of my previous hosts." Hate said. "Chara became what she is to save me Hope, I've given her my soul and in exchange she has given me hers." Frisk said as she picked up the bottle and poured herself a glass and took a sip. Chara sighed. "So Hope's as annoying as he is?" She asked as she pulled out another glass and poured herself a drink. "She reminds me of you when bound me." Frisk replied as she took another sip and frowned. "Never got how you liked this stuff." She said with a frown. Chara chuckled. "It's an acquired taste." She said with a smile as she sighed. "So what’s it like to gain immortality Frisk?" Frisk chuckled. "Honestly it’s the same only I feel the magic flowing through my veins like its water in a pipe." She said as she looked at her hand as she flexed her fingers, after a minute of silence Frisk smiled and looked at Chara. "So, fill me in on what I've missed." She said with a smile. Chara chuckled. "Get comfy honey, we got a little over four centuries to cover." Chara said with a smile as Frisk pulled up a chair and got comfy.