*I don't own Undertale, Tob Fox does. Some of the game's dialogue will be used.*
Chapter One: You're new to the UNDERGROUND, aren'tcha?
I just couldn't think right, besides knowing I just had to run. I just had to escape. Tears streamed down my face as I tore through the forest on Mt. Ebott. It doesn't matter about the legends, they could just be stories. There was nothing to fear.
Brambles scratched my bare legs, but the pain was probably the only thing keeping me in the moment. It was no easy feat making it through a forest, on a mountain, at a breakneck pace. I managed to dodge rocks, tree roots and bushes for a while, it felt like hours but was probably only a few minutes of running.
But my luck ran out. As I reached the top of Mt. Ebott, where a gaping hole lay, my foot caught on a tree root. Panicked, I flung my arms out trying to grab hold of something, but it was no use. I was flung into the pitch black abyss, like a doll thrown by a toddler, falling down, down and down.
A ragged scream escaped my mouth as my right arm scraped against the rocky walls but it's not like anyone would hear. The monsters left the underground a week ago and no one in the right mind would do what I had just crazily done. Hopeless, I squeezed my eyes shut as I plummeted through the seemingly endless abyss. Just when it seemed like I would be falling forever, I made impact with the ground and the world faded away to darkness.
Sometime later I awoke to darkness. Pain raced through the arm I had scraped and my head was aching, but besides that, I wasn't really hurt. How the fall hadn't killed me, I wasn't sure but didn't care to ponder.
I had landed on what felt like flowers, but my eyes were no use in the darkness. Gently, I picked one to observe if I ever made it out of the pitch black. Tucking it into one of my jean's pocket I stood up. It didn't hurt, but my legs had that feeling when you sit for too long at a movie theater or something. I was all alone, but I don't really talk. I can, just don't. Sometimes I'll use sign language, but no one else really knows it, besides me and my sister.
Sighing I held my hands out in front of me and started to walk forward. After feeling around for who knows how long I reached some sort of doorway, except it didn't have a door. As I walked in I saw there was a beam of light shining on a large flower. Once I got closer, the flower turned towards me. I gasped, seeing it had a face.
"Howdy!" it said, "I'm Flowey! Flowey the flower!" I gazed at him with a mix of fear, wonder and awe. Was this a monster? It didn't look threatening like the stories said monsters were. "Hmm… You're new to the UNDERGROUND, aren'tcha? Golly! You must be so confused! Someone oughta teach you how things work around here!" Flowey then paused. "I guess little old me will have to do. Ready? Here we go!"
If Flowey was right about one thing, it was that I was confused. Without any kind of warning, a red heart appeared in front of me.
"See that heart? That is your SOUL, the very culmination of your being!" As Flowey explains. I started to pace and found that my SOUL moved with me. I stopped as he started explaining the next bit; "Your SOUL starts off weak, but can grow strong if you gain a lot of LV. What does LV stand for? Why, LOVE, of course! You want some LOVE don't you? Don't worry! I'll share some with you!" After his words a white star appeared next to him. I don't know why, but something about this didn't seem right.
"Down here LOVE is shared through little white, 'Friendliness Pellets'." The last part he said gritting his teeth. "Are you ready? Move around! Get as many as you can!" A bunch more white "Friendliness Pellets" appeared around him, I at least thought it was a him.
Maybe I don't trust others as much as I should, but I wasn't going to get any of the "Friendliness Pellets", no matter how nice he seemed. It was like taking candy from a stranger. I dodged all the pellets with agility that I didn't know I possessed and looked back at Flowey.
"Hey buddy, you missed them. Let's try this again," he said as more "Friendliness Pellets" appeared. Again I dodged them. Flowey replied by saying, "Is this a joke? Are you braindead? RUN. INTO. THE BULLETS."
My eyes grew wide at his words. "Er, Friendliness Pellets," he tried to fix himself, but I wouldn't buy it. To my horror, his face changed from an innocent look to an evil, demonic face.
"You know what's going on here, don't you? You just want to see me suffer." I shake my head vigorously, but Flowey starts to laugh evilly. "DIE!" he screams as a bunch of attack pellets, as I decided to call them, surrounded me. I closed my eyes as they started to close in and waited for inevitable death, but the never came. I opened my eyes to see a fireball hit Flowey and knocked him out of my view.
A tall goat lady walked into the light. "What a terrible creature, torturing such a poor, innocent youth. Ah, do not be afraid my child." She said after she must have noticed the lingering fear in my eyes. "I am TORIEL, caretaker of the RUINS. I pass through this place every day to see if anyone has fallen down. You are the first human to come here in a long time." She pauses after this and gazes around.
"Come," she says and starts walking away from the spot. I hesitated, but then started following her. I figured she wasn't going to save me to then hurt me. Toriel gave me a phone with her number and lead me through the RUINS, teaching me how to ACT in a fight and showing me the puzzles until she told me she had business to attend, so I wandered. I had met up with several froggits, a few of which entered fights with me where I complimented them, a few Whimsuns that ran off and some Moldsmalds that I could SPARE right away. Being mean to them or bringing them harm seemed wrong. I came to their home, I can't just kill them!
There was also a room that had a bowl of candy on a pillar surrounded by a circle with I sign that said, "take one". It seemed sort of creepy, but I did take one of the monster candies.
While I was journeying Toriel called me she called me and asked whether I like cinnamon or butterscotch better and I had answered saying, "I prefer cinnamon, but I like both and I don't have any food allergies." It seemed overkill, but something in my head told me that should tell her all of that. Then it hit me, I had just talked for the first time in months, if not years!
Later there was also an, um, interesting you could call it, rock. It spoke and moved, I guess with magic.
After a while, I was walking and came across a ghost that was in my way. I tried to move him, but that resulted in accidentally starting a fight. He looked really sad so I tried to cheer him up. He started crying and when I touched the tears it hurt and I felt my HP dropping. I continued trying to cheer him up until he said he wanted to show me something. His tears then defied gravity and flew up to his head, eventually creating a hat.
"i call it 'dapper blook'. do you like it?" he asked. I gave him a thumbs up and nodded with a smile on my face and then SPARED him. "i usually come to the RUINS because there's nobody around. but today i met somebody nice… oh, i'm rambling again. i'll get out of your way." And without warning, he disappeared.
After walking a bit there was a room with two webs and a sign explaining that it was for a spider bake sale and the prices. Since some of the monsters I SPARED gave me G, I put seven G in one of the webs. As soon as I put down the G a spider crawled down to give me a donut and collect the G. While I started walking again I ate the spider donut to recover my lost health and it tasted pretty good.
Nothing noteworthy happened until I reached a tree with all of its leaves on the ground around it. Toriel came out from the tree and said, "Oh dear, that took longer than I thought it would," but I'm not sure if it was to me or not. She starts to dial a number on her phone but stops when she looks up and sees me there.
"How did you get here my child?" she asks. "Are you hurt? There, there I will heal you. I should not have left you for so long. It was irresponsible for me to try to surprise you like this." She pauses, looking at my confused expression. "Err… Well, I suppose it can't be hidden any longer. Come, small one!" She says cheerfully.
She takes my hand and we walk to the house to the north, Toriel's house I suppose. I don't think Toriel would break into someone's house to surprise me with something. At the doorstep, she lets go of my hand and says, "Come in when you're ready."
When Toriel disappears into the house, I walk over to a yellow star by the side of the house's wall. I saw a few before but didn't check them out until now. When I touched it a black rectangle screen appeared in front of me with an option to save or return. I pressed the save button and the screen looked like this;
Frisk LV 1 32:31
Ruins - Home
File Saved
Then the screen disappeared and I jogged back to the doorstep and into the house, not wanting to worry Toriel. I was confused with the screen, but that would have to wait.
"Do you smell that?" she asks when I come in, "It's a butterscotch-cinnamon pie. I thought we might celebrate your arrival! I want you to have a nice time living here. So I will hold off on snail pie for tonight. Here, I have a nice surprise for you." I take her hand and she leads me to the hallway on the right at into a room.
"This is is! A room of your own. I hope you like it!" she exclaims. I look around before returning my gaze to Toriel and nodding with a smile.
"Is something burning? Um, make yourself at home!" Toriel says before rush out of the room. I walk over to the bed and see some bedclothes lying on it. I change out of my blue and purple sweater and jeans into the short sleeve bed shirt and shorts, which were more appropriate clothes for the climate of the RUINS anyway. Exhausted, I climb under the covers and fall into a peaceful, dreamless sleep.
I know this chapter was kind of boring and pretty much the exact same thing as the beginning of the game, but I needed to set everything up. This is also my first ever fanfiction that I wrote, so how did I do? I think I need some help making my writing more interesting. Well, have a great day everyone, bye!
