Story Arcs

Welcome to the story page of A Tale To Remember. Here we've layed out the full story arc by arc for you to enjoy.

### Arc 1, The War.

###### Leon in an attempt to seek Justice for his father tricks most of the Grand Wizard Jury to agree to the declaration of war, it ends with the Monsters, plus Aria and Scar, getting trapped underground and the creation of the Barrier from 7 of the Grand Wizard Jury members.

Chase, Auburn, Indigo, and Parsley rush to a balcony to watch what was happening, there in front of the HWS is Leon, with Lavender, Lapis and Ash, standing in front of dozens of soldiers. "We have, by this day forth, declared war on the Monster Race! Once we get there have your fun in the town!" Leon yelled over the rain. "What the hell is he thinking of doing?! Sending citizens to do war crimes?!" Auburn asked. "This is bad, how do we stop it?" Indigo asked. "Nothing really, I mean, we can try to get in contact with the Monsters but doing so would get us killed" Chase said, suddenly his phone rings. "Who's calling you at this hour?" Parsley asked, Chase looked at it and saw it was Amy. "What's going on?" Chase asked as he answered the phone. "Chase we- w-we have a problem" Amy said, her voice wavering, like she had been out of breath. "Take a deep breath, what's going on?" Chase asked again. "It's the kids I can't find them anywhere" Amy said, all color from Chase's face disappeared. "Are you certain?" Chase asked. "I'm 100% certain, I looked everywhere twice." Amy said, Chase looked out past the lines of men and doesn't see anything. "Damn it, listen, I'll get my brother and we'll get to the bottom of this." Chase said, then hung up the phone to call Sam. "Sounds like we got a mess on our plate." Indigo said. "Sam speaking." Sam said. "Sam I need your help now, Aria and Scar are missing!" Chase said. "Ok I'll be over, I guess the HWS building is where you're at?" Sam asked. "Yes I am there." Chase responded. "Ok I'll be there in literally a minute."

### Arc 2, the Experimentation.

###### 5 years after the War arc with the failure of not being able to open the Barrier and the First Human being attached to Aria. Gaster desperately wants to break the barrier for Asgore, so going against Asgore's word, he takes Aria and Scar to experiment on them, his goal is to try to make a Wizard to see if the magic they create can break the barrier, he tries to use Artificial Magic on Scar, but the magic was too strong so it turned Scar into a Skeletal Monster. After the slightly disappointing failure Gaster then cuts out his own palms to turn the dust they create into a liquid state, once done he tries it on Aria which is a success.

Aria watched the footage again and again, still in disbelief that she didn't remember any of the experiments, did she have a feeling that there was more to her and Scar's sudden change? Yeah but it was just that, a hunch. "So this is what happened to you" Frisk said in Aria's mind, she always forget that she's now no longer the only person to her thoughts. "I don't believe it... How's it that so many people don't remember any of this?" Aria thought. "Hard to say, seems as though there's some kind of power that resets everyone's memories" Frisk said in Aria's mind. "Then is most of what anyone does pointless?" Aria thought, as she held out her hand to summon her upside down Determination Soul with two cracks in it. "Is it pointless to just... Continue on with anything anymore?" No response as Frisk stays silent. "Answer God damn it!" Aria yelled. "I'm sorry I don't know what to do jeez" Frisk said with annoyance in Aria's mind. "We've been like this for only two weeks, we both need to learn to work together, we can't argue and fight" Frisk said in Aria's mind. "You think I don't know that?! It's just... It's just..." Aria began to say as she sinks to sit on the ground of the True Lab. "It's just... I miss everything, the surface, the sun, the rain, the stars... My family..." Aria thought, as she reached into her shirt pocket to pull out a photo. "I miss not being so worried on whether or not I'll even remember tomorrow" "... I know" Frisk said in Aria's mind. "I know, I fear that as well".

### Arc 3, Sibling Rivalry.

###### As both brother and sister work on ways to get out of the underground arguments are bound to ensue. Aria disagrees with Scars way of killing Humans to break the barrier, and Scar disagrees with Aria's way of just letting the Humans be. This rivalry starts about a couple of years after the Experimentation Arc, and doesn't really end until much later when everyone is freed from the underground.

"Can I say something Undyne?" Scar asked, as he made a bone he summoned disappear. "Sure what is it?" Undyne asked, doing the same to her spear. "Is what we're doing a good cause? With the whole kill any human child to gain their soul thing I mean" Scar asked, Undyne thought about it for a minute. "Are you asking for my personal opinion or just wanting to vent?" Undyne asked. "I guess a little bit of both" Scar said. "You need to remember that those humans didn't just betray us Monsters by dismantling our peace deal, but also you and your sister cause your both stuck here" Undyne said. "If you doubt that it's not the right thing to do you need to take into account of who else is stuck here, and you make your choice accordingly" Undyne added. "Yeah, I guess you're right, it's just... Aria's been looking more and more sad as of late and I'm not sure what to do" Scar said, Undyne patted Scar's shoulder. "Like I said, remember who's down here and judge your actions accordingly" Undyne said, then caught a glimpse of a Human with light blue hair. "In fact, now's your chance to test it" Undyne whispered, turning Scar to the Human, Scar took a deep breath and closed his eyes. "Here goes nothing" Scar thought, then summoned bones up, killing the Human child. "Way to go buddy!" Undyne said excitedly. "Scar?! What the hell was that?!" A familiar voice called out. "Uh oh..." Undyne said. "Yeah... This isn't going to be great..." Scar said defeatedly. Aria storms into the house angrily as Scar follows behind, somewhat annoyed himself. "What the hell were you thinking?! Why did you do that?!" Aria asked. "What other choice did I have?!" Scar asked. "You could've just let the human go! But no instead let's kill the same people as my family because why the heck not!" Aria yelled. "What did you want me to do? I did what was best for us to get out of here!" Scar yelled back. "Oh yeah sure while you're at it kill me and take my soul for Asgore's crazed idea" Aria said, waving her arms around, that's when something just snapped in Scar. "Well it's better than what you're doing!" Scar yelled, Aria blinked, caught off guard by what Scar said. "I'm sorry, what?" Aria asked. "All you do all day every day is wake up, go to your post and sleep, come back, sleep, eat dinner, sleep, and repeat cycle! Sometimes I have to physically drag you out of your bed to get ready for your patrols!" Scar explained, while keeping the loudness, Aria clenched her fists to contain her shakiness. "I come by your post and have to chew you out on it for hours on end, and every single time you respond with "Well I am a lazybones for a reason" as if none of what I said actually made an impact on you!" Scar continued. "Scar, please" Aria said in a low tone. "Ugh whatever, I'm done, I'm going out on patrolling duty, do whatever you like, not like anything was stopping you in the first place" Scar said, picked up and put on his helmet and slammed the door behind him, Aria just collapses on the couch. "Damn, what got into him?" Frisk asked in Aria's mind.

### Arc 4, Genocide.

###### 35 years after the Experimentation and War Arcs. Scar gets himself into a battle with the seventh human, after the seventh human kills Undyne Aria realizes that someone needs to stop the kid before everything is ended, so Aria injects herself with liquid Determination to fight the seventh human. Aria's consequence for it is that during random intervals of time her right arm will begin hurting, if she doesn't keep her emotions in check then her magic goes awol, and if she lets too much of it run through her soul Aria's soul will shatter.

Alphys started to panic as Undyne became dust. "Wh-what do we do? There's n-nowhere to run from th-this kid!" Alphys said, Asgore scratched his beard. "There's gotta be somewhere we can hide Innocents right? What do you think Aria?" Asgore asked, and turned to find nothing. "Uhh... She was here five seconds ago wasn't she?" Asgore asked, then heard an elevator ding. "O-oh no I-I think I kn-know where she went" Alphys said, as she went to the bathroom signed door and opened it to a elevator room. "Some bathroom huh?" Asgore asked as he stepped in. "The true lab... It's been a while since you've been here, why now?" Frisk asked in Aria's mind. "To give the both of us a fighting chance" Aria thought. "And how do you plan to accomplish that?" Frisk asked in Aria's mind, as Aria opened a door to a couple of injection needles of liquid Determination. "Wait, wait, wait, what? You plan to inject yourself with liquid Determination?!" Frisk asked, clearly surprised. "I have to, it's the only way" Aria thought. "Now hold on a minute, aren't there side effects to liquid Determination?" Frisk asked, as Aria summoned her soul as she looked at it. "I can handle this, I've handled worse" Aria said, and jabbed the injection into her soul, causing Aria to nearly double over, after a couple of seconds of getting used to the pain Aria empties the liquid Determination into her soul. Once it's emptied Aria takes out the needle and throws it, her weak throwing was enough to make the needle shatter upon impact. "Stronger, stronger" voices started to echo in Aria's head as she held her right arm and screamed in pain. Chara walks down the hall, knowing that the brutal end of the Monster race was about to end, when she was suddenly stopped, as there was another person in front of her. "Heya" the voice said, the person looked like Aria, but when she spoke it sounded like two people were speaking at once. "I can see the murderer has been busy" she added, as Chara stepped forward. "Still the silent type huh? That's fine, I got one question though" Aria said, as she closed and reopened her eyelids her eyes were gone completely, replaced instead by two black shapes that took up the entirety of the eyesocket. "Do you think you're above consequences?" Aria asked. "Cause if you take another step forward, I'm gonna give you the same amount of pain as what you did to the rest of the Monsters" Aria added, Chara just took a step forward, as Aria sighed. "Sorry, Lady, I tried" Aria said, in the moment sounding like herself, as she summoned a red knife and grabbed her Scythe.

### Arc 5, The Aftermath.

###### Taking place in the same timeline and after the Genocide Arc, once the Monster race is fully killed off the Barrier is destroyed, and everyone that lives in the nearby villages can see the effects of the Barrier shattering with black sludge near the entrance and it being hard to see, but one thing that's also different is the color, which is a worn out blue instead of the normal bright blue, Sam Amy and Chase realize that something is happening and decide to investigate, by hacking the HWS cameras and equipment to find out what happened.

Leon stood over the cliff to the underground, looking at the crowds of people, including Sam, Chase, Amy, Indigo, Parsley, and Auburn. "Citizens! I come before you to claim my victory!" Leon said defiantly. "But didn't you already get that 35 years ago?" Chase yelled. "See, that was a foil, I didn't want to get my hands dirty completely, at least, at first" Leon said. "You see, I've been particularly hard at work to figure out how to get rid of the eventual problem before it would become one" Leon explained, and that's when Chara stepped up, holding a skeletal figure, it wore a black shirt, skirt and boots, and a very familiar blue and black checkered scarf, Amy screamed and collapsed to the ground crying, as Parsley tried to help her up. "You see, this kid in front of you has helped me rid the world of the Monster race! And the traitors that I had trapped with the Monsters 35 years ago!" Leon roared with defiance.

### Arc 6, Pacifist.

###### This Arc takes place the same time as the Genocide Arc because of the Reset and Load power. In the True Lab there's a couple of entries hinting back to the Experimentation Arc, and much like the tapes in the game there's also a couple of new, slightly more gruesome tapes, as it has various experiments of Aria and Scar on them. And Scars battle plays out a little differently than the character his role is in the game. However unlike the game, the Pacifist Arc ends with the Monsters setting up shelter and a hint that Leon has caught wind that the Barrier is broken.

After what felt like hours of dodging Undyne's attacks Chara was able to run away and into the mountain that she was guarding. "Hey! Get back here you little punk!" Undyne yelled and started running after Chara, while also trying to throw spears at her. Chara was doing a good job dodging most of them, until one came out from under the ground behind her and pierced through her elbow, Chara screamed in pain as she looked at the wound and back at Undyne who was rapidly approaching, deciding to just risk it Chara takes the spear that's in her arm and proceeds to rip off the spear, causing her arm to fall off, Chara paid little mind to it and kept running, when she reached an area with lava at the bottom of the chasm, and sitting in a booth, which still had snow on it somehow, a couple of feet in front of Chara was Aria, who was... Asleep. "Aria! Aria come on you gotta help me!" Chara yelled, as she looked around to see Undyne. "God damn-" Chara said under her breath as she ran further into the hotland.

### Arc 7, The Reunion.

###### This takes place the day after the Pacifist Arc, and goes on for a couple of months, during which will be the Monsters moving to the surface, with Aria and Scar getting used to life back on the surface and eventually reuniting with Amy and Chase, the main plot point is also set up here, where Chara and Asgore face a problem trying to reintegrate to the surface thanks to Leon and the HWS which leads to many problems in future Arcs, and the main problem Leon causes for this Arc, the kidnapping of Aria to figure out how Aria and Scar are suddenly a Wizard and Monster, and to 'figure out what happened to the 6 missing children' it's not really why Leon kidnapped Aria but it's to appease both his fellow HWS members and the general public, this Arc ends with Aria getting rescued by Chase and Parsley, while also getting hints that something happened to Aria and Scar in the Underground. \**(See the Experimentation Arc)*

Aria walks around the somewhat in tact house that was where she and Scar lived before being forced underground. "What caused the house to be like this?" Aria thought. "Fire by the looks of it, feels like magic too, whatever caused the fire was not caused by an accident" Frisk said in Aria's mind. "If not accidental then what caused it? And what of my parents?" Aria thought. "They at least are fine, you would've felt something if they weren't, even underground" Frisk replied in Aria's mind. "Right, but what could've caused it?" Aria asked. "Ignis is a pretty good fire spell you know" A voice responded, Aria jumped and quickly turned around to see a male with messy yellow hair, wearing a black and yellow suit. "Leon" Aria said with caution in her voice.

### Arc 8, Sibling Rivalry V2

###### After the events of the Reunion Arc everyone wants to find out what happened to Aria and Scar, so Amy, Chase, Sam, and Parsley ask Aria and Chara for anything in particular of what happened, Aria agrees to show some of the tapes of the Experimentation Arc, however, once she does Aria and Scar get into another heated argument, as Scar believed he should've been told about it, after the argument Aria storms out of the house to try and cool down, while trying to do so she runs in Lavender, Lapis, and some HWS members who all continuously beat Aria to the point of unconsciousness before Chase scares them away, as Aria is being treated and trying to wake up the one person to not leave her alone is Scar, as he drifts off to sleep he has a nightmare about Aria dying from the injuries she had taken, Scar wakes up from the nightmare to see Aria awake, as they both promise not to do anything stupid.

Scar jumped awoken form his sleep. "That was... A dream...?" Scar thought, trying to calm himself down. "Heya bro" a familiar voice said, looking up Scar noticed that Aria was awake. "Aria! You're up!" Scar said, so excitedly that he began to form tears in his eyes. "Whoa whoa, what's wrong there bro?" Aria asked, when Scar suddenly hugged her. "I'm sorry I said those things, when I found out you were ambushed by Ash and Lapis I was so scared you weren't going to make it and, and..." Scar rambled off, Aria returned the hug. "Hey, hey, it's alright, really, I'm here now, still kicking for now alright?" Aria said. "Yeah, hey Aria? Let's promise not to leave each other in danger alright?" Scar asked. "Oh come on, you know I hate making promises" Aria said, laughing a little. "I know but please?" Scar asked. "Ok, ok, I will" Aria said.

Aria sits in the backyard of the house, just gazing at the stars. "What's going through your head partner?" Frisk asked in Aria's mind. "I've just been thinking... With Leon wanting to kill Chara it's something that we never had to deal with before" Aria thought. "What about when Chara was killing everything in the underground?" Frisk asked in Aria's mind. "Well, yeah, you have a point there" Aria thought. "Someone's approaching" Frisk said in Aria's mind, as the back door opened up. "I see nothing has changed" laughed Amy, her blonde hair being highlighted by the light bleeding out from the inside. "Hey mom" Aria said. "You and your brother would just sit atop of some trees and just count the stars" Amy said, recalling her memories. "It does make sense, Scar and I would imagine the stalactites are stars." Aria said. "That must've been fun, you heard of the news then I assume?" Amy asked, Aria simply nodded. "Well you're a tough person to hit, sometimes even find" Amy said. "Heh, yeah" Aria said. "Well, remember to come on inside before Leon's goons begin patrolling" Amy said. "I know mom" Aria said. "Also let Frisk know that I'm really grateful that she's got an eye on you" Amy said, and left, shutting the door. "What... Huh?! Did she just- she- she knew I was here?!" Frisk asked in astonishment. "Yeah I guess" Aria said, looking just as shocked.

### Arc 9, The Consequences. (Old Version, no longer canon)

###### Over the span of months starting from the ending of the last Arc, Leon orders Lavender, Lapis and all other HWS members to hunt down Aria, she tries her best to try and hamper the plot but to no avail, and endangeres her life as well as Chara's because thanks to Lavender and a well placed bomb. So in an attempt to save her Scar tries to block Lavenders attacks, but misses one of the attacks as it pierced through his soul shattering it. Aria as of this point no longer tries to play nice, and both mentally and physically snapped, she first activates the forbidden spell Constituta virtus, and rips out Lavenders soul and shatters it with her own grip, effectively killing Lavender, everyone else realizes that Aria is not only wanting revenge, but is gaining lv in any way possible to become strong enough to take on Leon, so Amy, Chase, Indigo, Ash, Auburn, Lapis and Leon have to work together to stop Aria's disent into madness. Once Aria has been eventually subdued and calmed down, the effect of the Spell wears off and Chara awakes, though more fragile than ever, and Aria's soul has a new crack stemming from the left side, realizing what were to happen if he was still in power Leon resigns and goes into hiding, leaving Chase to take up the mantle of leader of the HWS, the Arc ends with a memorial of Scar being placed in the middle of Snowdin while Aria, Amy and Chase look at it.

Scar and Undyne rush into the bustling street of Penketh, looking around. "Where did you get the feeling?" Undyne asked. "Not sure, it keeps moving..." Scar said, looking around, then he bumped into Chase. "Ow! Watch it wi- oh Scar, sorry about that" Chase said, helping Scar up. "I should be the one apologizing, I ran into you" Scar said. "So you felt that too huh?" Amy asked. "Yeah what is that?" Scar asked. "Ones bloodline is a force of its own, immediate family feel that way when another of their family is getting hit to the point of death" Chase said. "So where's Aria then?" Undyne asked, and just as she asked a force flies into the ground a couple of feet from the four, and there lies Aria, wounded from protecting Chara, as Lavender and Lapis approach, seemingly not noticing Chase, Amy, Scar, and Undyne. "That bastard...!" Undyne said, as she raised her spear Scar held out a hand to stop her. "Undyne, don't, there's civilians that need to be evacuated" Scar said. "What you want me to that? I thought I was your boss" Undyne asked jokingly, then realized that Scar was serious. "Wait you're kidding right?" Undyne asked, Scar shook his head. "I have to help my sister" Scar said. "You're going to get yourself killed Scar!" Chase said. "I have to! I promised Aria the other day that we wouldn't leave the other in a dangerous position, I'm sorry Dad" Scar said, then ran off to Aria. "So Aria, Leon sends his regards" Lavender said, as she thrusted her purple strings to go straight to Aria, who was just barely getting up, when Scar stepped in and took the hit, the strings pierced several holes into Scars body, Lavender looked surprised. "What the" Lapis said, also in shock, Aria just looked at Scar with a glassy look in her eyes. "Scar?" Chara asked. "Well, guess I couldn't really keep that promise huh?" Scar asked, as he turned to dust, with his soul shattering, Amy and Chara both just screamed. While Aria looked at the bits of dust on her hands as she got flashbacks to when she found Scars dust in Snowdin. "Do it, do it" multiple voices chanted in Aria's head "Revenge, kill" they repeated. "You know what to do" Frisk said in Aria's mind, her voice becoming chilling and threatening like, Aria simply stood up. "Huh? A-Aria?" Chara asked, as she watched her cousin get up. "Still wanting to go another round hu-" Lavender was about to say, when Aria moved so fast that it almost looked like she teleported to Lavender, Aria took her own hand and just forced it into Lavender's chest pulling out Lavenders Soul, as she screamed in pain. "Aria stop!" Chase yelled, but it was too late, as Aria retracted her arm she looked at the purple soul and crushed it to bits, Lavender suddenly stops screaming and drops to the ground, dead, Aria then moved so mechanically, past the shockridden Chase and Amy, and seemingly stopping for no random reason, until Chara noticed the yellow star like object next to Aria. "Aria wait don't!" Chara called out, as Aria smashed it. "8 left" Aria said, her voice sounding like another person fully synchronized with her and spoke at the same time. Chase, Amy, Parsley, Auburn, Indigo, Leon, Ash, and Lapis huddle in a circle around Chara as they walk through the street. "Never thought I'd see this day" Leon said. "What, my daughter going ape shit on your employees?" Chase asked. "Well... That, but all of us working together, it's a first in like a while hasn't it?" Leon asked. "No one asked for you to go down memory lane Leon" Amy said. "What's the magic reader saying Chara?" Indigo asked. "Uhhm, nothing" Chara said. "Wait how's that possible? Did anyone test to see if it was working?" Chase asked. "No-no, I mean there's nothing new, no sign of Aria, I see you guys on the radar, just not Aria yet" Chara clarified. "Oh I see" Chase said, suddenly laughter begins to echo. "Where that coming from?" Parsley asked. "Uhm... Still nothing?" Chara said in confusion. "What do you mean nothing? Aria is somewhere here obviously" Leon said. "I think... I think Aria can hide her magic so it doesn't get detected" Lapis said. "Ding ding, we got a winner" A voice called out, as Aria stepped out of the shadows, she has a crazed look in her eyes, her clothes have dryer blood stains on them and her scythe blade is coated with dried blood. "Oh my god-" Indigo said and immediately ran into an alleyway. "God damn it is he still squeamish at the sight of blood?" Lapis asked. "Aria please we need you to stop this. This isn't Justice" Chase said. "Quiet, I know right from wrong, and I intend to make you all suffer for the wrongdoings" Aria said, her voice doubled. "Why? Half of us didn't even do anything!" Amy said. "Any one of you could've convinced the HWS members that Leon was crazy before he declared war on the Monsters" Aria spat. "The hell's this gotta do with Scar's death?" Leon asked, which severally made Aria mad. "Don't, use his name" Aria said, slowly and angrily. "Aria, please there's no need for-" "Chase look out!" Amy cut off Chase, as she dashed in front of him and brought up a green shield in time. blocking a red blaster that would've killed Chase, once the smoke cleared Aria was gone. "Uh oh, everyone stay on your guard!" Chase said, as everyone brought out their soul powers. "Careful, Aria will target the people who she thinks have the highest LOVE" Chara said. "You mean like you?" A voice said behind Chara, turning around she found nothing. "Gh... She's playing mind games!" Chara called out. "Am I though?" The same voice said, as Chara was held up by blue magic. "Uhh guys? A little help here!" Chara called out as she was dragged to Aria. "Constituta virtus" Aria called out, as she raised her hand, Chara then slammed into Aria's outstretched hand and collapsed onto the ground.

### Arc 9, The Consequences. (New version, current canon)

Scar and Chase help the citizens of Penketh to evacuate. "That's the last of them?" Chase asked. "No we're missing Undyne" Scar said. "She's holding back your sister who's literally going to use everything at her disposal to kill everyone that's wronged her" Chase said. "I mean... Can you really blame her?" Scar asked. "This isn't Justice!" Chase said, when two pairs of footsteps approach them, being Parsley and Alphys. "All humans and Wizards are accounted for" Parsley said. "Including Chara and Sam?" Chase asked. "Yes including them" Parsley said. "A-and all M-Monster civilians are a-accounted for" Alphys said. "Good, everyone is good to go, they're on their way to the extraction zone?" Chase asked. "Yeah, Chara Asgore and Leon are leading everyone there" Parsley said. "You sure it's a good idea to team up with him?" Parsley asked. "Aria has snapped and is murdering pretty much anyone just for revenge, if we're to stop that then we to team up to do it" Chase said. "What if the only way is to kill her?" Scar asked. "Huh?" Chase asked, taken aback from the sudden question. "What if the only way to stop Aria is to actually kill her?" Scar asked, Chase took a minute to respond. "I... I don't know, theres not only a lot of other variables to account for, it's also that the fact that I haven't considered that" Chase said, suddenly a huge force shakes the ground. "The hell was that?!" Parsley asked. "O-over there!" Alphys said and pointed towards Penketh, where two beams are drawing closer to each other at fast speed, one red and the other green. "Is that Aria and Undyne fighting?" Chase asked. "It is, we need to go, now!" Scar said, and started running the opposite direction, Chase, Parsley and Alphys followed suit as Aria and Undyne clashed, the force of it equaled that of a nuclear bomb, leveling the city and sending Scar, Chase, Parsley, and Alphys flying.