Asriel
I opened my eyes to the ruins,
exactly like they were a second ago. Something however, felt different. I realised that I no longer had to concentrate to stay my normal self. Also, the air smelled...fresher? I walked over to a bed of flowers and sat down at the edge to think. "What happened? Who was that? Why am I being given a second chance after all I did? What even is this second chance?" I was so deep in thought, I almost didn't hear the dull whump behind me. It still took a second to register the sound. As soon as I realized I had heard something, I jumped up and turned around. Laying face-down in the bed of flowers was a human with a green striped sweater and brown hair. A moment later I was startled by a loud clanging sound. I looked around and saw a dagger that had fallen down; I reached down and picked it up. I recognized this knife, and the human, that must be "Chara?" I said. My question was met with a muffled groan. "Come on Chara, we need to get you to...somewhere safe." I was going to say "Mom," but I didn't know what was happening. Was I in a flashback? Had Chara somehow come back from the dead? Was I back when she had first fallen down? I had so many questions and absolutely no answers. I decided I could think about these extremely important questions later. Right now I had to get Chara some help. I picked Chara up and started walking in the direction of our first house, the place Dad had named "Home." I chuckled softly at Dad's terrible naming skills until I remembered my name was also the result of Dad's terrible naming skills. Chara groaned, "What are you laughing at you punk? If I were you I'd be crying because I was so hairy." I chuckled again, "Chara, do me a favor and keep your eyes closed, okay?" Immediately Chara opened her eyes and jumped so hard she fell out of my arms. "What are you?" She yelled. "I are Asriel, the Prince of the Underground. You, human have been caught trespassing and will now be sent to the dungeons." I said in a fake haughty voice. Chara's eyes narrowed and she placed herself in a fighting stance. Suddenly, she paused, "Wait, where is my knife? Did you take my KNIFE?" She was starting to scare me a bit, like she used to when she was angry. "Don't worry, I've got your knife right here, and I was just joking around, like we use-" I cut myself off, I had forgotten Chara hadn't met me yet. Chara looked at me quizzically, then she seemed to remember she had just fallen down a giant hole, and collapsed. I rushed to catch her, and lowered her to the ground. "If I remember correctly, we had gone to Home on a holiday because Dad was getting stressed out about people losing hope. So, we don't have much further to go." "Ok, first off, 'gone to home' is incorrect grammar. Second, are you having trouble remembering things? You said that sentence like you weren't sure. Third, you spend your holidays at home? What do you just stay inside?" I laughed out loud at that, "Sorry, I guess I should explain. Our house over here in the ruins is named 'Home,' the castle we usually live in is named 'New Home." "Those are kind of...unoriginal names." Chara pointed out. "You think those names are unoriginal," I say, "my name is literally just a mashup of my parents' names." "Wow, I'm so sorry." Chara says in the most un-sorry voice I've ever heard. "Can you walk?" I ask Chara. "Yes, I think." She says uncertainly. She gets up shakily and immediately has to lean on me for support. She starts blushing, but I just hold her up and start walking. I was used to Chara being around, we were like siblings.
We get to a room with pillars, "Almost there." I say. We walk around a corner four times and it opens up into a different hallway. "Wait a second, we just walked in a circle." Chara exclaims. I look at her, puzzled. "You haven't been to this part of the ruins before, it doesn't even look like the other parts." "No, I mean we rounded a corner four times, we should be back where we started, logically, unless we changed elevation." "Huh." I say, "I never thought about that before, magic I guess. Anyway, Home is just around this corner here." As we enter the courtyard of Home, I yell out "MOM!" I hear Mom inside yell back "What is it?" I reply "I found something while I was out walking, can I keep it?" Chara sticks her tongue out at me. Mom comes to the doorway and says "Is it another Froggit? I told you once before, my child-" She stops when she sees Chara. I grin at her, "She's not quite a Froggit, but she'll do." Chara punches me in the arm and I laugh. Mom just stands there in shock, my smile disappears. "Mom, you've got to help her, she's hurt. She fell down from the surface. Pleeease help her, I'm sure we'll be great friends." I do my best Temmie-eyes at mom. Mom sighs, "Ok, but you will need to go talk to Dad." She tells me. Then she turns to Chara "Come with me, my child. I will help you feel better." As Chara walks past me towards Mom, I brace myself for another punch. But instead she turns to me with a look of genuine gratitude, and believe me, I know fake gratitude. This surprised me, Chara never showed gratitude like that. Maybe I'm fixing things already. I rush off to Dad's room.
I burst into Dad's room to find him playing with his new cell phone. He presses a button and the phone emits a short, loud burst of music. He turns to me and remarks "Technology sure is something isn't it?" "Yeah," I say, trying to keep myself from bursting into laughter at how ancient the phone is. I take a deep breath and blurt out "SoIwaswalkingaroundtheruinsandahumanfelldownsoItookhertoMomtohelphercanwekeepherplease?" I finish off the request with another Temmie stare while attempting to catch my breath. Dad looks at me confused, then bursts out in laughter. "Son, I didn't understand a word you said. I even thought you said a human had fallen down here." I looked around sheepishly(goatishly?), "I did say that, Mom's helping her right now." Dad does a double take and gets a faraway look in his eyes, "Son, humans have taken everything from us, and you want me to adopt one? That's a tall order, even from my little Prince." "I know," I say, "but I have a really good feeling about her, I'm sure we'll become best of friends." Dad lets out a huge sigh, "Ok, I just can't say no to that face, we'll see how it turns out." I run and give Dad a huge hug, "Oh thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!" Then I run toward the living room to deliver the good news.

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New Beginnings
Random"Alright, ya fower, you just couldn't let everyone have a happy ending, now could ya?" "Sans?" I asked, "I didn't know you were alive already. I guess I didn't get out much." I turned to face the skeleton, whose left eye was glowing a frosty cy...