Board Thread:Fanfiction/@comment-26186871-20190817193510

''After the banishment of the monsters, legends were made about the cursed mountain:Mt. Ebott''.

October 31, 201X

Lark:Alright, everyone.. Time for a scary story for this Halloween.. Long, long ago.. We were not alone. There were all kinds of monsters.. Monsters that wanted to kill.. And steal your very SOUL.

Lark:Yes.. It was a very scary time to live in.. But fortunately.. Seven wizards fought them off, and banished them underground."

Lark:They say the place the monsters were sent to.. Is Mt. Ebott, the mountain that you can see from this village. And that if one were to climb it.. They would never return. The monsters within.. Would eat your very SOUL..

Chara:Okay, I don't get why you're trying to scare us all.. We all know there's no reason for monsters to eat your SOUL!

Luke:What? Chara, monsters are scary! If there really are monsters down there, they would TOO eat your SOUL!

Chara:But what do they have to gain from eating someone's SOUL? Wouldn't they just eat, you know.. food?

Lark:Why did they do it? Why, that is a great question! First off, do you all remember what human SOULs contain?

Chara:They contain our willpower, our determination.. But don't they already have that stuff? I mean, if they didn't, they wouldn't have the will to take souls in the first place..

Lark:They also contain a very powerful magic.. The very same magic the wizards used to banish the monsters underground.. If a monster were to get its hands on such a SOUL, they would become a powerful beast with unfathomable power.. So they eat SOULs to gain power..

Chara:We don't know that! Maybe they were nice! Maybe the seven wizards just didn't like monsters, because they aren't human! Maybe we just wanted the land to ourselves! We can't just say the monsters are bad, and imprison them all!

Luke:Come on, Chara.. They're MONSTERS. How could you possibly think they're GOOD?

Chara:How do we know that they're bad? Just because of a few stories you're told? Monsters aren't evil! They're people too! Who just want to live with us! Maybe the only time monsters would take a SOUL, is to protect someone else! ...Actually, they persist after death, right? What's wrong with taking a dead SOUL, to save the lives of thousands? If someone tries to attack them, they need a way to defend themselves!!

Luke:Chara, stop saying nonsense!! They're OBVIOUSLY evil!

Emily:Maybe.. Chara's saying it.. Because THEY'RE a monster!!

Deric:I think I have a silver coin! Let's use it on them-We know it works against vampires and werewolves!!

The other children sratched Chara with the dime.. And nothing happened.

Larry:Maybe we're not doing it HARD ENOUGH!!

Deric:Yeah! Then this monster can DIE!

--

By the end of the day, Chara took a lot of damage.

And Chara's parents? They blamed it on Chara.. Because sympathizing with the "vile monsters" is always a bad idea.. Chara was shown an image of Kanashi.. Told how he slaughtered hundreds of people, after taking the soul of someone who thought he loved..

To everyone, it was abundantly clear. Monsters were evil beasts, who didn't deserve freedom. And anyone going to Mt. Ebott was a fool. And the thought of defending monsters was flat-out sacrilege.

But Chara saw a darker truth. The monsters weren't bad guys.. They were good. The humans banished them underground for no reason. They were quick to fear, and never opened up to alternative possibilities.

Humans.. were the real monsters.

--

November 1st, 201X

Larry:Chara? You're still around? Why don't you go to Ebott.. With the OTHER monsters...

Chara:Look.. I know why you think monsters are bad guys.. They can turn powerful..

Larry:..By eating your SOUL. Come on. Nobody with a SOUL would still think they're GOOD.

Chara:Why didn't the monsters do that during the war?

Larry:Um, 'duh! Because we killed them before they could do it? *chuckles* Don't even think about defending your fellow monsters... We all know the truth..

--

(To be continued. Yeah, this is getting long.) 