26Mettaton and I stood in the corridor, facing the red eyed girl in the green hoodie, dusty knife in hand.
"...Hey there...Mirror." She managed out, her voice almost trembling. "Why? Why'd you do it?" Chara could barely contain the emotion in her voice. "Why did you kill everyone that WE loved?!" She shouted, her voice echoing across the hall.
This will be my hardest fight yet...
I opened my mouth to speak, but just like how we first met, I couldn't find any words to say.
"I wanted to believe that you were different from the other humans! Guess I was too blinded by my feelings to know any better..." She continued bitterly. "After all, we're HUMANS! There's no escaping who we really are, eh Mirror?"
Chara reached into her sleeve, pulling out a knife. She then rushed us, slashing at my chest. I sidestepped her slash, swinging my own knife at her, aiming for her neck.
She jumped backward, dodging the blow and sighed. "Heh, wow. So you're really serious about this, aren't ya Mirror?" Chara's voice still shook with emotion, and let out an empty chuckle.
"Hey Mirror, remember what I told you last time? That monsters...are like snow.."She suddenly said, causing me to flinch.
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Chara and I traversed the snowy forest side by side, with Mettaton in tow. Since the green hooded girl and I were "partners", she occasionally joined me and Metatton along the way.
For a while, there was only companionable silence, until Chara decided to speak up with a sigh.
"Hey...Mirror, I think there's something you should know about the monsters down here." The red eyed girl suddenly said and stopped walking, causing me to also stop and turn around to face her. Usually Chara was the calm, occasional flirty, prankster. However, the way she spoke, this was the first time I've seen her serious.
She was deadly serious.
"W-what is it, Chara?" I asked her, a little unnerved by her tone. Chara's crimson red eyes seemed to burn right through me, staring right into my very soul, studying it.
"Despite how scary and other worldy they seem, the monsters down here aren't like the ones in the stories that the humans tell." She began, her gaze shifting from me, over to the blanket of snow that covered the ground beside us and walked over to pick up a handful. "I guess, the best way to put it would be that monsters are like snow." Chara said, scooping up a handful of snow with delicate and tender care. "With one wrong touch, they'll easily disappear, break apart, and vanish into dust." As if to further make her point, the snow in her hand crumpled away and fell to the ground.
...Dust...
So monsters turn into dust when they die...
"Like the Froggit at the very beginning of the Ruins, Frisk." Mettaton told me, causing me to flinch at the memory
"I've told you multiple times, Mettaton, that was an accident! The Froggit just...attacked me and I didn't mean to hit it!" I pleaded to my partner mentally.
Chara seemed to notice the look of guilt on my face and sighed. She placed a gentle hand on my shoulder, causing me to flinch slightly at her touch. "Listen Mirror, I like ya a lot, wayyy more than most humans in fact. Which is why I'm gonna tell ya that you remind me a lot of myself when I first fell down here. But then I met Rei and my family and I soon found out that even if the monsters here seem scary, they're just a bunch of dorks and goofballs." She encouraged me as we sat down in the snow to talk.
"I'm gonna let you in on a secret, Mirror." Chara continued in her serious tone, but it was gentle this time. "I hate humans. I hate their guts and everything about 'em. Heck, falling down Mt. Ebbot was the best thing that has ever happened to me." She let out a humorless chuckle. "I would give anything if it meant that I could be a monster just like Rei and the others. Being human is overrated." She laughed, though it didnt seem very cheerful.
Chara seemed to let out a sigh and look up. "but Asriel-"
The tense atmosphere was shattered by a shower of snow followed by the laughter of a certain goat monster.
"Whaaa.." The dazed Chara looked around, spotting Asriel rolling in the snow in a fit of laughter.
"Chara, you know you should never let your guard down! Someone's gonna get you sooner or later. Especially if you and the other human are busy slacking off!" The rainbow scarfed goat shook his head with a sigh. "O poor human, I, the great God of Hyperdeath, will help you." Asriel offered a hand to her.
With a wicked smile, Chara hand latched right onto Asriel's and gripped on tight. "So you're the one who nudged the tree, aren't you, Rei?" She said in a sickly sweet tone that oozed with annoyance.
"I-I'm sorry! I was just trying to test your reflexes!" The goat monster pleaded with a startled yelp.
Asriel then let out a sigh. "Still, don't you worry Chara, even if you're a slowpoke, the human and I will look out for ya!" He beamed at the two of us.
Sighing, Chara let Asriel pull her up and we rose to join the siblings.
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"...Yeah, just like snow." Chara sighed, flipping her knife in her hand. She then glared at us with those burning crimson eyes, the emotions returning to her voice. "However...Rei was so much more than that. He was like...white snow, a kind and innocent kid."
Then...something in Chara...snapped.
Her knife blade glowed a bloody red, and so did her eyes as she flashed a crescent smile.
...Red with Determination.
"So, Mirror, was it fun playing with my lil' brother?! Now it's my turn to play with you." She said, pointing her knife at us. "Keep in mind, I'm much slower than Rei was so I might bore you, but don't worry. We're human, we're much tougher than monsters.
Let's play together for a long, long time, My Reflection." She laughed and readied her knife.
"It's such a lovely day outside." She began approaching us with that creepy smile.
"The birds are chirping, the flowers are blossoming. On days like these, kids like us...
...should be burning in hell."
A/N: Back with more Storyshift!
I wanted to take a stab at a confrontation with Chara during a Genocide run. So I ended up basing the dialogue on the "Chara at Judgment Hall" video and the "Snow" comic and ended up mashing them together with original dialogue.