Dreamer Adventures

-Mindscape-

Asriel opened his eyes to a vast expanse of neural synapses in constant activity. Electrical brain waves firing from nerve to nerve in rhythmic fashion.

“What… what is this place…” Asriel asked in dumbfounded awe.

“Better question, how'd she follow us in?” Azure asked, pointing to a pair of hands locked around Asriel’s waist.

“How'd she wh- CHARA!” Asriel shouted as he was pulled into a tight hug.

“Determination!” Was Chara's response as she clung close to Asriel.

“Oh for Pete's sake…” Asriel groaned at, eliciting a laugh from Azure.

“She must really have a thing for you.” Azure mused, now standing above the two and leaning down.

“She’s too childish for my tastes.” Asriel complained.

“You're a bit of a child yourself.” Azure shot back with a sly grin, Asriel burying his face into the floor.

“Hate you both…” The goat child groaned. Chara responded with squeezing Asriel and rubbing her face more into his chest.

“Alright you two love birds,” Asriel groaned further at this comment. “I need to get to the bottom of Asriel's situation, so if’n ya don't mind…”

Azure grabbed Asriel by the scruff of his neck, lifting the two children with ease.

“Chara, you can let go now.” Asriel muttered in complaint, Chara's legs currently locked around his waist.

“Nuu~ my goat!” Chara whined out as she clung to her goat wrapping her legs around him tighter.

“Dying. Need advice. Cuddle me later.” Asriel stated calmly and assuredly. His arms hanging limp at his sides and his legs dangling in the air.

“As much as I'd enjoy watching you tear his clothes off with your teeth, I kinda need him as free and calm as possible.” Azure added in argument.

“Don't give her ideas!” Asriel cried as he now began a desperate struggle for freedom.

“That doesn't sound like a bad idea~” Chara says as she playfully bites his shirt.

“Help! Help! This was not how I wanted to break in this body!” The goat cried as he tried pushing Chara off his chest… only to find himself separated from the menace by a golden bubble. “Oh thank God…”

“Let me out! He will be my husband!!!” Chara yelled out as she pounded on the golden bubble.

“Not with that attitude.” Azure teased coyly, one knee raised and leaning over the pair. “I'll let you out once I assess the damage.”

The man began to saunter around the bubble, purposefully waving his hips in Chara's face as he slowly descended his left index finger on to Asriel’s forehead.

“mine!” Chara yelled out nearly shattering the bubble with a determination infused fist.

“This is the part where I ask you to be gentle, isn't it?” Asriel asked with a bit if apprehension.

“Only if you want to~” Azure said with a wink, a star materialized just attop his right eye.

In an instant, the bubble was shattered as a vast amount of data and information literally began to cascade from within Asriel. The goat child's eyes having gone white from the surge of power. Chara then broke out of her bubble and was once again wrapped around her goat.

“Unreal… look at all this data…” Azure gasped, backing away as he began to soak up everything that was being presented him.

“It's a shame it's all fragmented and inco- hello jackpot.” The endless stream stopped, Azure now focusing upon a status screen of Asriel's health, mana, level, structural stability, and something called “Bonds”.

“Hey Chara… what's with this disconnect between his body and soul?” Azure asked.

“He was summoned and they screwed up the ritual by saying a different word.”Chara says before burying her head back into asriel.

“What was the ri- no never mind I found it…” A separate screen was pulled into his vision, and then thrown back. “Who the FUCK gave them a copy of the NECRONOMICON!!?”

“I would say Discord but I know they wouldn't trust him…” Chara says once again pulling her head up to say it then Burying her head back into asriel.

“Jesus… the only reason they'd need a passage from the devil’s playpen is if the thing they were trying to summon was already dea- oh that explains a lot…”

Azure began to shuffle through the broken and fragmented memories and thoughts until he came upon a glitched scene of an adult Asriel holding a child interspersed with a young man in a chef's jacket holding a cast iron pan over a burning stovetop.

“Okay… that's weird. What am I looking at?” Azure asked Chara.

“The day I regret most of all…” Chara said knowing exactly what he was talking about as that was one of the the memories she had locked away from everyone.

“Oh… that kid is you… isn't it, but then… who's the guy on the left?” Asure asked, once again looking at the second half of the glitched image. “And… why is it part of our friend’s memories?”

“That's probably who he was before he got displaced… both of us got the memories of the people we became…” Chara says shivering as a particularly painful memory of the real Charas came up.

“Aight so lemme get this straight… the princesses fucked up a dead man's ritual, and shoved a chef into said dead man's rotting corpse? That's cold…”

“Actually monsters turn to dust immediately after they die…” Chara says correcting him.

Azure looked at Chara, fully expecting context. “Okay that's it, I need to read your mind.” Chara however did one better as she pulled up two bookshelves from out of The Ether.

One shelf looked to have aged terribly, covered from top to bottom in cobwebs and dust. Several of it's volumes had been coated in several layers of rot and mold. Some had their spines literally torn asunder and others were filled with holes and bookworms…

The second however was rather well kept and tidy, several rows filled with black bound tomes all the way to the bottom shelf until the book bindings began to gray out and turn white.

“That's… that's a lot of books. Which are relevant to Asriel and you? No I don't mean as a couple. Somehow I doubt he feels that way…” Azure mumbles as he looks upon the disheveled bookshelf. Chara pointed to the well-kept bookshelf and one of the only well-kept books on the rotten shelf.

He takes the only clean books from the horrid bookshelf and begins to skim through one as he made his way to the cleaner shelf and pulled several black books at random.

Within the opened tome in his hand, Azure found something… strange and beautiful. “It's… it's sheet music.” He closed the book and slowly began to open it's index, finding nothing but a directory of various tracks. “Can I keep this?” Azure asked.

“But those are supposed to be memories!” Chara says that she was completely confused.

“Too late, already made a copy,” Azure says mindlessly as he waved a brown book with a treble clef imprinted on its face. “Octavia's gonna get a kick out of this.” Placing the original back on its shelf, Azure began levitating several more books as he began to pour through their pages. Some of the books he levitated were black books with red and yellow spines.

Once he had finished reading the books from the rotting selection, he began to read from a red spined black book…

The synapses around the trio went dark, the book now closed as it began to burn wildly. The light returned once the book had become a pile of smoldering ash.

“I'm sorry was that important to you?” Azure asked Chara with a deathly calm.

“Don't worry this is just a copy of my memory…” Chara said with a quiet tone of voice as she looked away in Shame.

Azure cracked his jaw, closing the remaining black books as he began rubbing his throat. “Yeah… I remember my first time too. Not pretty,” With a flick of his wrist, the books had all been returned and Azure returned to Asriel. “I have everything I need anyway.”

As if with a fine toothed comb, Azure began to meticulously thumb through each fractured memory, every ounce of data… no detail had been spared.

“Okay… I think I know what went wrong…” Azure said as he waved to Chara. “See, he's got all these fragmented thoughts…”

“Can you fix it?” Chara asked as she walked over to him.

“I fixed the brain issues… it's his body I can't fix. Not without some serious Necromancy…”

“Is there anything you know of that can fix him!?” Chara yelled out as she didn't want to lose Asriel a second time even if it was a completely different asriel.

“That's something he's gonna have to do himself… take a look at this.” Azure brought up a file labeled Bonds: Cloak.

A video began playing of Asriel talking to a wizened mare in tarnished gold armor and rags. The two took to each other well and even held several sparring sessions.

“Don't know who Cloak is, but she seems to have done him some good.” Azure brought out Asriel's status screen, several new details apparent. One such detail was a line connecting to Asriel's heart now labeled “Cloak”.

“Whatever he and Cloak did, it's sort of stabilizing him.” Azure added. He then began scratching his head in befuddlement however.

“The weird part here is that Cloak is supposed to be dead if his most recent memories are correct…” Azure thusly turned to Chara, curiosity written upon his face. “He hasn't been hanging around graveyards has he?”

“No but he did come in contact with her skeleton when we were sent to deal with zombies…” Chara said as she remembered what happened.

“Great… more undead… but if hanging out with the ghosts of dead ponies makes him whole, I can't really say anything to the contrary…”
Azure began sifting through the data once more, tilting his head with a small smile. “Uh… who's Rosie?”

“The one that needs to stay away from my goat!” Chara yelled out as she somehow teleported asriel into her arms.

“Haha, a rivalry? I can already see who wins this one.” Azure chuckled. “I can give you a few pointers, really give you the upper hand.” Azure offered. Chara looked up at him hopeful as she didn't want to lose asriel.

“You see, it's all about timing. You gotta know when you can move in and start whittling him down…” Azure said as he snaked his finger along the floor, a sultry look upon his face.

“But you can't be too quick or to strong, you'll scare him off like that. You gotta show em what he's missing, but you gotta be willing to show em you're more than a pretty face. Take the time to listen, to share in his moments,”

Azure sighed a deep and content sigh, as if remembering a pleasant memory. “Let him come to you and you'll do just fine, but don't ever forget to be yourself!” He said excitedly as he pointed at Chara.

Chuckling, he turned back to Asriel and began to put his memories away in their proper place, essentially waking the goat child.

“I didn't drop those plates I swear!” Asriel cried. “Oh… I'm back. What… what happened?”

“I fixed your brain.” Azure replied calmly

“Isn't that great Azzy.” Chara says in a happy tone of voice as she continues to cuddle him.

“Yeah, yeah I guess,” Asriel replied a tad bit emotionless. “Could you maybe give me some room? I feel… vulnerable.” He hangs his head, immediately panting from exhaustion. Chara reluctantly let him go.

“Oh, yeah… that's my bad…” Azure said a little apologetically. “I mean… there was so much to put back, and now that the “Asriel” half of your mind is more or less complete…”

Asriel looked up, rather perturbed at what he was insinuating. “And what about the half that's me?” His voice cracked as tears began to bud from his eyes.

“It's… a little more complex. You're still you, but…” Azure began to prod his index fingers together, unsure of what to say.

“There's just a little more now, like add-ons or DLC!” Chara said trying to lighten up the mood.

“Yeah, I think I can do without the fang brigandine censorship mod… half my “swears” don't even make sense!” Asriel exclaimed, no longer crying and not at all emotionally flustered.

“I did try to fix that… I may or may not have fucked up.” Azure replied.

“and you're adorable when you're trying to swear!” chara says as she does everything in her power not to jump and cuddle him.

“I am NOT adorable!” The adorable ball of adorable that was Asriel cried out to the heavens. He huffed and got to his feet. “Okay, my brain’s been fixed, what about the rest of me?”

“Oh, glad you asked!” Azure exclaimed. “You see, all you really need to do is hang out with the dead!” Azure jumped excitedly as he said this.

“Elaborate.” The goat child demanded.

“You're body is in this halfway state betwixt the realms of life and death…” A diagram was brought out as Azure began explaining Asriel's current situation.

He pointed to a rough sketch of Asriel, then a rough sketch of a ghostly Cloak. “This let's you bare your heart… so to speak… to members of the recently departed!”

He flipped the board and pointed to a sketch of Asriel in Cloak’s armor. “The souls you meet who stick around complete you, the way the soul fragments within you were supposed to do… but failed to do.”

“So I'm… half dead?” Asriel asked, a palm outstretched as if he were asking for clarification.

“Yes? No? Maybe? I don't know?” Azure had tilt his head with each query. “Could you repeat the question?” He asked seriously.

“He asked if he was half dead!?” Chara yelled out.

Asriel groaned as he facepalmed, “Surely you can't be serious…” He grumbled.

“I am serious, and stop calling me-” Azure shrunk at the death glares leveled his way. “Okay okay, serious now…” Slapping his cheeks twice and uttering several incoherent noises, he snapped his fingers.

“Okay, so the easiest way I can put this is to say that you are a…” Azure's face took on a… disgusted/disgruntled look as he groaned. “A paradox…”

“Not what I wanted to hear.” Asriel said with an angry calm “So… what? I don't exist?”

“What no, no… no. Of course you exist… you're just alive and dead at the same time.” Azure tried to smile, hopeful the duo before him wouldn't try to kill him.

“I think I understand what you're saying!” Chara says as she looked like she was deep in thought.

“So what happens when I'm complete?” Asriel asked, sitting upon the floor and stretching out his legs.

Azure raised a finger in silence and pulled out another blackboard. “Right… yes… the endgame…” In the middle of the board was Asriel, his heart carved seven different ways inside of him and seven wisps surrounding him.

“Two things can happen… Either the souls you meet find solace within you and more or less become a part of you or… uh… you...” The man looked away, not wanting to meet the children's gaze.

“Or I what!” Asriel shouted in annoyance.

The board was flipped, showing an image of Asriel’s heart exploding. “Or you blow up.”

“I won't lose another Asriel!” Chara yelled out once again wrapping her arms around asriel.

Asriel stared blankly at nothing, his face a mix of shock, confusion, anger, and… something.

“You're not gonna lose Asriel,” Azure stated a bit offhandedly. “I mean… yeah maybe… but he just has to make sure the souls he talks to are okay with sticking with him and… fading from reality…”

He puts a hand over his eye and pouts. “Yeah wow, Asriel is boned…”

“Could I pour my determination into him to fix his soul!” Chara asked wondering if she poured enough determination into him would it fix him.

“Yeah sure,” Azure said dismissively as he shook his hand at Chara. “If you wanted to melt him.”

“HOW THE FRUIT DO I LIVE THROUGH THIS?!” Asriel shouted, knocking his arm on Chara’s head after shooting to his feet in frightened rage. “Oh uh… didn't see you there.” He then proceeded to rub her head. Chara just leaned into him the bump on her head may have hear but she would never be able to be angry at asriel… He was the only one she had an attachment to after her displacement.

“Look… I can maybe pull some timey wimey bullshit an-”

“I can do timey wimey! Hit me!” Asriel exclaimed as he chose not to wait for clarification.

“Haven't you ever seen anything related to time travel!? It never ends well!” Chara yelled out conveniently forgetting that her powers are time based.

“I am a literal Avatar of Time!” Azure proclaimed, shooting both his arms in to the sky. “Time is my middle name!”

“Then time me!” Asriel pleaded, now on his knees and hands clasped.

Lolling his head, Azure procured a shield shaped medal adorned with a pair of crossed blades. Focusing, several clocks began to phase in and out of existence as the medal began to float midair.

A great light shined forth and died down, the medal dropping into Asriel’s hands. “My world anchor, the Sword Master’s emblem. I remember you telling me something about your skill with a blade, so that should help.”

“...And?” Asriel asked expectantly.

“If for any reason you were to somehow expire, time will reset one hundred and twenty minutes into the past.” Azure explained.

“Two hours? Yeah I guess that's fair…”

“You do realize I can easily save, load, and reset reality right?” Chara asked with a deadpan. After all that was kind of her thing.

“If I killed him right now, could you do it without freaking out?” Azure asked calmly, making Asriel currently not so calm.

“Can we not test that theory?” Asriel asked as he put away his shiny new toy.

“if you did anything of the sort I would kill you repeatedly while leaving your memories and resetting the timeline.” Chara said her voice dead and without any emotion.

“And you were able to beat me… oh wait. You weren't.” Azure replied.

“Guys, let's not measure our egos?” Asriel asked.

“I would eventually as that is the nature of my powers.” Chara says interrupting asriel. “You can't perma-kill me, it's impossible... unless you're dusttale Sans or an absolute god of hyperdeath.” Chara finishes with a sadistic smirk and stirring up emotions and memories inside of Asriel.

“Kid… you're scaring me.” Asriel whispers.

“Eh, she's all bark no bite… either way, it's time to test your limits Asriel.” Azure turned around and took a step, until he turned back with a sweeping motion and revealed himself to be wearing a gold suit of armor with a flowing blue cape.

“Tell that to the genocide timeline…” Chara says as her sadistic smirk turned into an evil grin as her Shadow started warping and twisting.

“Dude, I think she's serious!” Asriel now yelled slightly afraid.

“Ignore her, sword up.” Doing his best to ignore the current threat to his health, Asriel focused on his adult form and unsheathed a wicked blade. It's jagged edge shined with rainbow light.

“Uh… en garde?”

Both of them were surprised at a red glowing knife flying right by Azure’s face leaving a small cut on his cheek.

“Okay, maybe you should start paying attention to her…” Asriel stated, looking at Chara in fear.

“I've had my limbs torn off, a knife grazing my cheek isn't all that scary,” Azure calmly wiped the blood from his cheek and licked his fingers clean. “Plus, this is your session, not hers.” Unperturbed, Azure unsheathed a crystal blade with a gold dragon head shaped hilt. He suddenly had one of the glowing red knives buried Hilt deep in his back.

“You really should listen to my goat, could save your life.” Chara says, saying the ‘my goat’ possessively as her eyes glow red and a final red knife was aimed at his head.

The knife struck, stopping as Azure had turned his head from the force of the knife… only to turn to the now angry Chara, knife in his teeth.

“Can you wait?” He asked as he spit out the crimson blade.

“Alright one, I don't swing that way but that was pretty hot,” Chara glared at Asriel as he said this. “Two, maybe you can get her to calm down now.”

“Hey, she's into you not me.” Azure shot back.

“No way, she'd kill me! Plus, I'm holding out for… uh…”

“well whoever you're holding out for is going to die cuz you are my goat! Besides I would never hurt my goat!” Chara says completely horrified at the idea of actually hurting asriel.

Said goat looked to the only other guy in the room, hoping for some sort of out. When he was given none, he groaned as he sheathed his blade. “I'm only doing this to calm her down…” Asriel muttered as he closed his eyes and held out his arms wide.

“Mine!” Chara yells out as he was Suddenly glomped by her both of them falling to the floor with Chara's face firmly rubbing into his chest.

“Whatever helps you sleep at night…” Asriel grumbles. “Wonder how things are going in the guard…”

Azure slowly began inching his way to the fallen goat man, kicking his foot. “You two done yet? I need to make sure Asriel can still use his magic without it killing him.”

“If you so much as hurt my azzy I will permanently remove what makes you a man!” Chara threatened and due to her tone they knew she was serious.

“Look if you want me that badly…”

“YES! PLEASE!” Asriel exclaimed now holding out Chara. “SHE'S ALL YOURS!”

“But she's not even my type…”

“I will never betray my goat!” Chara yells out somehow getting out of his hold and once again clinging to him.

“Come on Chara, give yourself to the incredibly attractive man…” Asriel said as he tried his best to pry Chara off of him.

“But I'm not even into humans!” Chara yelled out, and it was true she was not into humans as her sheer dislike for them reached apocalyptic levels.

Azure thusly burst into peals of laughter. “Hah! She… she thinks… she thinks I'm human!” Getting a grip on his hyena like laughter, he wipes a tear from his eye. “Oh that's rich…

“But… aren't you?” Asriel asked now slightly curious.

“Nah, this is really just a spiritually powered meat suit. Wanna see what I really look like?” Azure asked while leaning into the goat’s face.

“...yes?” Getting a nod, Asriel’s eyes began to widen as the man before him began to crack and peel, revealing green scales behind what he thought was brown skin.

Without warning, he burst, revealing what looked like a regal bipedal dragon with a massive flowing red mane. “Tada!” Azure exclaimed with outstretched arms and jazz hands. “Eh? Eh?”

“I prefer my goat… Besides you look like something Satan would sick on someone.” Chara says once again burying her face inside of asriel's chest letting out a Content sign noise.

“Yeah, I'm not as fluffy as I want to be… still, it could be worse… I could still need to wear,” He stopped, audibly gasping. “CLOTHING!!”

The mindscape shuddered at the offending word.

“Right… well since short stack doesn't want to let go,” Asriel got to his feet and ruffled Chara’s head. “I'd say we do this anyway.”

“I'm game!” Azure exclaimed as he brought out a larger crystal blade with a black hilt.

“This is a dream you know… You can make more than one of yourself…” Chara said as she continued to snuggle into Asriel.

“I can?” Asriel asks, looking down at himself as he was no longer held by Chara. He then looked to himself, still being held by Chara and looking… sullen. “I don't look so good…”

Shaking his head, he looked to Azure and brought out his blade once more… before going wide eyed. “If this is a dream…”

He stuck out his hands, mental constructs of Celestia and Luna popped into existence wearing rather provocative Arabian garb, looking about rather confused. “Hah! Yes!” He proclaimed as he pumped his fist in victory.

“Okay, you done?” Azure asked, drooling slightly.

Asriel snapped his fingers, the constructs poofing from existence. “Okay, yeah done… wait one more!” Excitedly, Asriel made another pony appear in much the same garb, only this mare had wild pink flower petal like hair.

“And now I'm happy!” He exclaimed, fists on his hips. Chara immediately decapitated the mare.

“And now I'm sad…” Asriel muttered as he drooped over. “Woah boy!” He cried as he ducked under a sword swing.

“Alright, I'mma try and kill you now.” Azure casually stated. Grabbing the goat by his face and lifting him up.

Asriel began to flail like a fish out of water, his head slowly getting crushed. Frantically, he began to throw several rainbow colored stars at his tormentor’s chest… to no avail.

“Uh… how has he survived this long?” Azure asked Chara in mild curiosity. A cry for help muffling itself in his tight grip..

Shrugging, he let the struggling Asriel go, watching has he fell on his back and started to rub his face. “Ow… what the hiffle are you made of…”

“I honestly don't know…” Chara says before sending a blade of determination at Azures arm that was holding asriel.

The blade did little more than plink against the scale, dropping to the floor after impact.

“Check yourself before you wreck yourself.” Azure said, picking up the knife and handing it back to Chara. Chara sent more Blades of determination these a lot sharper than the one before.

There was a brief flash of light followed by the hard sweep of aged rags. Standing in front of Azure was Asriel, wearing Cloak’s armor and holding an even set of knives in each hand.

“Impulse control short stack, impulse control.” The goat chastised as he dropped the knives.

The Dracopyre behind him began to look at his armor, even sniffing it from time to time. “Truly outrageous…”

“Hey he was crushing your skull! what was I supposed to do!?” Chara yells out as she goes back to hugging and snuggling her Asriel.

“I let him go!” Azure complained, motioning to the now standing Asriel.

“You hurt my Asriel! You're lucky I only hit you with knives of determination instead of summon anything I have in the dark reaches of my mind!” Chara said making an unspeakable thing assault Azure senses.

“Huh… yeah that was pretty bad wasn't it.” Azure replies a little unnerved. Chara then made him live through torture porn followed by scat and then lolicon.

Asriel only stared at the unmoving dragon, noticing several images flash through his eyes. “What are you…” Asriel began to reach out his hand, Azure grabbing his wrist before it went any farther.

“Don't, you'll thank me later...”

“Oh come on it can't be that bad.” He replied.

“Two words. Meat. Spin.” Azure said, still unflinching.

“Wait no you're hurting him!” Asriel cried as he reached out to Chara.

“Asriel! No!” The Dracopyre finally broke from his trance and attempted to stop the goatman.

Asriel's mind was suddenly filled with sexy loli Chara pics, a lot of them having him screwing her.

“MY BRAIN!!!” Asriel cried before his mind’s thoughts were replaced by a series of looping eighties Madonna music videos.

The goat froze in place, slightly shuddering every three seconds.

“By the by, you have great taste in lolis.” Azure whispered to Chara.

“Is it bad that I want to try some of that… the lolicon ones I mean.” Chara asked out loud.

“I can give you some pointers?” Azure asked, never letting go of Asriel’s cranium. Said Asriel currently chanting “Li-ving in a material world… li-ving in a material world…” Chara sent more porn of herself over to asriel in a mix of adult and Loli.

He thusly clutched his head and began to run around like a headless chicken.

“Wow he is just not that into you…” Azure commented. Chara felt hurt that he didn't even find her adult self sexy even as she tried to hide it.

“Wait… weren't you two raised as siblings?” Azure asked as the realization dawned on him.

“I'm a displaced, not the original Chara and we're not related by blood, so it's totally okay.” Chara says as if that answered all the questions.

“Okay… but,” Azure caught the hysterical goat by the scalp and eased his mind. “I saw the Asriel side of his brain… he deeply cares for you. As a sister.”

“Heheh, he said d’oh…” Asriel whispered in a daze. “And then there's the part of him that doesn't even know who you are.” Azure added.

“I have the original Chara's memories that I was forced to live through and that fucked up my brain but it only got worse after my hatred was suppressed which was a good third of my brain and emotions… doesn't help the original Chara had a part of her that wanted to be something more than just brother and sister and my emotions which I can't control anymore!” Chara ranted as she stomped her foot.

“Have you tried getting to know him first?” Azure asked as he set Asriel down, wiping a bit of sweat from his brow. Chara didn't say anything she just crossed her arms and looked the other way.

“And that's why he's so against the idea… you haven't taken the time to get to know him…” He chuckled, running his claw along Asriel's cheek. “I remember a time when I was that naive…” Chara had by this point walked to the edge of the mindscape and just sat down.

The Dracopyre sighed as he began to pat Asriel on the cheek. “Come on big guy… let's get you on your feet.”

The goat’s eyes began to clench until they slowly creaked open. “Why can't I get the sound of Madonna’s voice out of my head?” He asked groggily.

“Yeah, my bad. I had to flush your mind out and Eighties Madonna is basically brain bleach.” The two got to their feet, Asriel did so rather groggily.

“So, what's the verdict? How fucked am I?” Asriel asked, rubbing the nape of his neck in discomfort.

The Dracopyre simply looked back to the moping child, a smile on his face. “Short of a planet buster like me, I'd say you'll be fine so long as you stop using your magic.”

“But I'm defenseless without it!” Asriel argued.

“You're defenseless with it, instead, rely on Cloak to keep you alive.” Azure replied.

“How am I supposed to fight?” Asriel shot back, hand on his hip. Surprisingly, Azure had presented a shining two handed longsword.

“If you absolutely need to fight, use this.”

Asriel gulped as he took the golden blade in his hands, feeling an intense weight within it instead of from it. “So… that's it?” He asked as he put the blade on his back.

Azure began to count off the fingers on his claw. “I fixed your mind, I got a lot of new data including but not limited to a new game to play and a lot of new music, all that's left to see is how well you fight with Cloak o-”

Asriel thusly sucker punched the distracted Dracopyre, getting a chuckle from him as he started to dodge several claw strikes and a high kick.

“Dodge me you can, keep up I must!” The two began an intense tango of hit and miss, neither one giving an inch despite the growing complexity and speed of their movements.

Their fight ended when a pillar of stone sought to pummel Asriel from behind, only for the stone to be sliced in six, Asriel crouching as he re-sheathed his blade.

“Hohokay… that's that shit I do like!” Azure said as he started to clap. “Yeah… we're done here. Pick up small, cute and pouty so I can start shutting this place down.”

Nodding, Asriel began to make his way to Chara… slowing his pace the closer he got. Sighing, he knelt down and put his hand on her head. Chara flinched at the unexpected touch but other than that didn't move.

Giving an even deeper sigh, Asriel opted to cradling the moping child in his arms. “Alright I picked her up, now wha-”

The world blinked...