Chara’s new home
Part 2

‘What was that? Also, why am I lying down?’ I thought as I opened my eyes. However, all I saw was pitch black. After making sure I wasn’t blind by looking at myself, I got up and looked around, trying to figure out where I am.

The only thing that was different from the darkness was a creepy looking door in front of me. While I didn’t like the bad aurora coming from the door, I didn’t see any other exit and my curiosity was running quite high. Ignoring my instincts screaming at me to turn away, I walked up to the door, examining in further. The door itself was wooden, with a dark grey color and a lighter grey metal handle. The frame of it was a dark cyan crystal, with a few small spikes sticking out of it. What was the most interesting though was the grey crystal at the top, swirling with some sort of purple and green mist.

Pausing for a second, I took out my knife in case there was anything on the other side. Taking a deep breath, I opened the door, fully expecting something to be on the other side.

There was just a wall.

Confused, I pushed on the crystal wall to make sure there wasn’t anything behind. Sighing, I closed the door and turned back around, only to see that the room was entirely different. Instead of the dark expanse that was there before, in it’s place was what looked like a throne room. The walls were a mixture of white and purple in a similar fashion to a sunrise or sunset. There were several blue crystal pillars on the walls throughout the room, with many windows between them. The floor was an interesting shade of blue, with a red carpet streaking through the middle towards a throne.

Sitting on the throne was a pony, wearing a tiara and jewelry that suggested that she was royalty. She was a little shorter than an average adult human, with a blue coat, along with a wavy, purple mane and tail. What was most notable was that she had a shiny look to her fur and hair, as if she was some sort of colored ice sculpture. She also had a very long horn on her forehead, measuring up to about half of my height.

These observations were banished from my mind however when I saw that she was glaring at me, filled with enough power and determination that I took a couple of steps back. Deciding to try to lighten the situation, I decided to speak up.

“Um, hello there. I’m Chara, who are you?”

She continued to stand there, unchanged by my question. After asking a couple of more and trying to get a response, I realised that she wasn’t listening to me. It was as if she was ignoring me yet hating me at the same time, which made things even more tense. Deciding that I should go before she does anything, I start backing away from the throne, speaking up as I’m doing so.

“Well, I gotta go. I guess it was nice seeing you, goodbye!”

Just as I turn around, I’m met with a shockwave that sends me flying back, sending me halfway to the throne and a bit off to the side. Groaning, I sit up and look at where the blast came from. The giant doors that once stood there were now broken, with one of them even being sent off it’s hinges onto the ground. Surrounding it were what looked like four guards in silver armor, lying on the ground either moaning in pain or unconscious. In the doors place was something that was basically a nightmare. The pony had a dark grey coat and black mane and tail. His eyes’ sclera was green instead of white, with a blood red iris and evil purple smoke spewing out of them. The armor and accessories that he wore suggested that he was a king.

I looked back at the pony on the throne, seeing that she had narrowed her glare at the new pony. It was then when I realised that my body had the same look it had when I was a spirit, meaning that they didn’t see me. It was then when the pony on the throne spoke.

“Sombra, why have you turned your back on the empire. You were one of my most trusted officers!”

Sombra only chuckled at this, responding in an unnatural voice that sent shivers down my spine.

“You are a fool Sancta. You and your ancestors have ruled without respect from the rest of the world. You and your followers are weak. Every time a challenge approaches us, we either back down or rely on help. Today’s the day that ends, my dear queen. Today, the empire will enter an age of prosperity and greatness, all after you die of course.”

At this, black crystals appeared below Sombra, sending him surfing towards Sancta with a dark scythe in his magical grip. Sighing, Sancta sits up, levitating out a pair of matching swords, ready to meet Sombra’s charge head on. Just as their weapons clashed, the world started to black out, bringing me away from the battle that just started.

In the world of real life

I open my eyes quickly, my hands curling into fists as I look around, trying to spot the battle. However, instead of the throne room or the darkness from before that, I am inside a hospital room. The room itself is quite bare, with just the bed I am lying on, a small nightstand, a door, and a window. Taking a brief glance out the window, I confirmed that I was indeed in pony land, since the buildings were the same that I saw before. That and I saw several of the ponies themselves walking around.

As I looked around, I noticed that my knife was gone, along with my striped sweater and black shirt, which was replaced with a really oddly fitting nightgown. There was one other thing that was missing though that I became really pissed about.

‘Where is my locket?!’

The door then opened, breaking me from my rage-induced thoughts. In came a pony doctor. He had a light blue coat that somehow fit well with his dark blue mane and tail. I also notice that unlike the ponies I’ve seen so far, this one had bat wings, along with pointed ears and a pupil quite similar to a cat’s. When he saw that I was awake, a smile grew on his face as he approached. “It’s good to see that you are awake, I am Doctor Nightvein, may I ask who you are, my child?

I ignored him calling me a child and decided to answer his question. “My name’s Chara.”

Nightvein became even more happy and proceeded to ask a bunch of questions. Most of them were alright and just related to things like medical history and things about humans, but I refused to answer the few ones that were about my past. After it looked like he was finishing up with his questions, I decided to ask a couple of my own.

“By the way, where is my stuff? Also, what happened when I was unconscious?

“Hold on, I’ll go get your items for you.” At that, he turned around and left, only to return a minute later, carrying the knife and locket on a small tray balanced on his wings. “Sorry about the clothes, but Mrs. Rarity is currently fixing it up for you back at her boutique.”

“Now to answer your second question. Well Mrs. Fluttershy had arrived here in a panic about a couple of hours ago. She was carrying you and asking us if we could help her. We were a bit reluctant for a few reasons, among them being that we’d never seen a creature like you before and thought that fluttershy was overreacting. Although thoughts on the later disappeared when we saw the giant gash on your back. How did you get that, by the way?”

Before I had to answer that, I was luckily saved when the door opened and a nurse entered. Seeing her, the doctor mumbled a quick “Excuse me.” before trotting over to the nurse. The two seemed to start to get into a heated argument, so I decided to try to break it up.

“This probably isn’t my business or anything like that, but what are you talking about?” At this, the nurse perked up and responded before the doctor could.

“There are some visitors that want to see you, but Doctor Nightvein thinks that you need more rest before talking to them.”

“It’s true!” Nightvein retorted, giving the nurse a quick glare before turning his attention back to me. “You’ve been here for less than a few hours. As it is, you look like you could fall asleep at any moment.”

‘You’re not too far off.’ I mentally state, thinking back to me staying semi-awake/alive all of those years before Frisk showed up. While most would think I was forced to stay in that position, I had to fight every second of it staying in there. It was very difficult, and I lost control and died a couple of times back when Asriel was a flower and had control over the timeline. I then turned my attention back to Nightvein, who was apparently listing off multiple reasons why I shouldn’t have visitors.

“-mental exhaustion, and stress to your body from the injury.” He finished, taking a deep breath.

“I actually don’t mind if I talk to the visitors for a bit.” When he was about to protest, I added “Only for a while.”, which seemed agreeable to him. Both he and the nurse left then, but before they were out of the room, I saw the nurse give the doctor a look that said ‘I told you so.’

After a few minutes of waiting, the door opens yet again and six more ponies come in. I recognize Fluttershy immediately, and I presume that the white unicorn with the purple mane and tail was Rarity since she was levitating my shirt. The other four I only remember from the TV. Upon seeing me, the pink ‘normal’ pony gasps, jumping into the air and literally pops up right next to me, speaking a mile a minute.

“OHMYGOSHICAN’TBELEIVEIGETTOMEETAREALHUMAN!WHATKINDOFCAKEDOYOULIKE!WHATABOUTCUPCAKESORICECREAM!IJUSTREALISEDTHATYOU’RENEWTOPONYVILLEANDNEEDA’WELCOMETOPONYVILLEPARTY!’IBETTERGETTOWORKONTHATSOI’LLSEEYOULATER!”

Then in a small *poof*, she disappears yet again. I looked around the room but didn’t see her, so I just turned my attention back to the rest of the ponies as the lavender unicorn stepped forward and started speaking. “Hello Chara, my name is Twilight Sparkle. These are my friends Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Applejack. The one that just left was Pinkie pie.” She explained, pointing to each present pony as she named them.

So I then went through another round of questioning, except this one was a bit more personal. I tried to answer them to the best of my ability, but I had to lie on a few of them, as well as avoid any involving my time in the underground and some of the more unsavory memories of my life. About 10 minutes into the questioning, Rainbow Dash asked me something that got me emotional.

“Hey Chara, do you have any brothers or sisters?”

“Yeah.” I said before I could stop myself. ‘Why did I say that?!’

Dash looked at me a few moments longer before grunting in impatience and saying “Well, what are they like?”

Deciding I might as well try to answer, I go ahead and say as much about Asriel as I could. “Well, he was a great brother, even if he was a bit of a crybaby at times. He was so innocent and kind, yet strong and supportive at the same time. We would always go off and play together or try to make something. He w-was my best friend.” As I finish up, I start struggling to keep my emotions back, feelings of sadness and loneliness starting to build up. Then Applejack had to make it worse.

“Ya’ll said ‘was’. Care to explain?”

I barely keep back a sob as I mumbled out my response. “I-I’d rather not t-talk about it.”

They decided that then would be a good time to leave. I thank Fluttershy for bringing me to the hospital and Rarity for sewing up my clothes. They say their goodbyes and leave. However, Applejack decides to stay behind a minute. “I’m sorry bout bringing up a sore subject Chara."

“It’s a-alright Applejack. You didn’t mean to.”

Taking that as a good answer, Applejack turns to leave. Before she reaches the door however, she looks back at me and says “By the way, ya’ll can tell us the full truth when ya’ll are ready to.” With that, she closed the door, leaving me alone to my thoughts.

All of a sudden, my held back emotions burst out, leaving me in a sobbing and emotional wreck. I barely manage to put on my shirt and sweater before falling asleep in a restless nap.

Author's Note

There we go! Part 2 is finished! If any of you are wondering, this is what I've based the Crystal Queen off of:

Also, it'll probably take a while longer for the next chapter since I got to catch up on work for my other story (Tales of Littlepip: From one world to another), as well as other things.

Stay determined folks!