You peek your head around a corner to find a large and dark room, in the center rests a flower appearing to be identical to the ones in the patch you saw just a moment ago. Upon moving closer, the flower seems to be moving. It turns its "head" up to you, stares at for a few seconds and slumps back over without as much as a word.
"Hello?" you ask, trying to get ahold of the situation.
"You're too late I'm afraid" It says.
Slowly it turns up to face you. "A human not unlike you got killed just minutes ago."
"Oh?"
"And so did all the others that came here. In fact unless you know a way out, you're doomed to be number eight."
"I don't." You answer unsure of what else to say.
"Well, if I were you, i'd just kill myself and get it over with. But I'm not. You're not gonna listen to stupid old me, are you?"
For a moment, you ponder what you're going to tell it. It's not everyday fall over a cliff and meet a talking flower. "I've survived on the internet, this place can't be much worse."
It chuckles. "Humour's typically in short supply around here. I'm going to be enjoying your company." for a moment it seems hopeful before turning sad again. "But that just means I'm going to miss you when you'll be gone."
"I'm still here now…so, can you show around or something like that?"
"Oh of course." It digs itself into the ground and pops up a little further down the room "This here's the exit to the ruins. Before going in there we need to go over some safety rules first."
It tells you all sorts of dangers that apparently fill the Underground. Hostile Monsters, traps and puzzles, but most scary of all the so called "Boss Monsters". It then begins to explain about the humans that fell down here before you. The both of you then continue to the next room, before the flower stops. "You go up ahead, I'll catch up to you in a second."
"Why? Is something wrong?"
"No I just need to save before we continue."
"School always taught me monsters didn't have determination?" You passively ask
The flower seems to puff up a bit, as if it was prideful "I'm a special case." but again, it's sadness seems to return quickly "But it doesn't matter. The human before you also had determination, even one that was stronger than mine! But… even that wasn't enough to turn this place's luck around."
"Don't worry, we'll figure something." You say, trying to cheer him up.
"I hope you're right." it says "Well, let's go on!"
The two of you continue for a little while. No real trouble as of yet, except for a few simple puzzles the flower seems to have memorized anyway.
"Do you have a name?" You ask the flower.
"Right, I forgot all about introductions didn't I? My name is Fowey, what's yours?"
"My name is-" Before you have the time to answer, Flowey pushes you into a river.
"Someone's coming, hide under the bridge, quickly!" Is all he says before popping into the ground and disappearing in his usual fashion. As fast as you could you did as he said, and hid before anything could see you. It was only seconds before you began hearing footsteps getting closer at a rather unnerving pace. Luckily, it didn't seem to notice you. You carefully peeked out to see a tall monster headed towards where you and Flowey came from. As soon as it left, you began debating whether to leave the bridge and flee, or wait for Flowey to get back to you. Part of you really wanted to get out of the water, most of your clothes was already soaked by now. But if this place is as dangerous as Flowey told you, it could wait.
"Quick! Get up, but don't be too loud."
You turned your head to see Flowey looking down at you from above the bridge. "She's close, but we can get away, if we're silent about it."
You do as he's telling you and begin to crawl up again.
"Sorry about pushing you and all." Flowey
"It's okay, I'm glad you're looking out for me." You tell it "Even though all my clothes is drenched."
"Yeah... sorry, but we should get going. I don't know when she's coming back."
After getting into the next room Flowey stops you in front of a dummy. "I it's time show you how combat works down here."
Flowey pops down and then up again besides the training doll. Flowey then begins to explain how monsters work compared to humans and what effects it has on you:
"Imagine this dummy as a hostile monster. Unlike humans, monster bodies aren't quite as 'Physical' as you are. fighting happens on a much more emotional level, if you desire to hurt someone enough, you can kill them instantly. Of course humans don't work that way, so all the monsters hatred aren't gonna help them more than their weapons are. This is where you have the advantage. Try to focus all of your frustrations and anger into a single hit, and throw it at that dummy."
"Just with my hand?" You ask
"Unless have better weapon with you, then yeah."
You take of the backpack you fell down here with, and begin to look for anything just slightly dangerous. As you realise just how wet it is, a worried thought passes through your mind. As fast as you can you open a the front pocket only to find your notebook (Containing all your homework, drawings, and notes) completely soaked and destroyed. Anger begins to build up in you, and to relieve all the frustration of hours worth of lost work. You take the book and smack the dummy before you as hard as you can with it. Shock fills your eyes as the dummy practically explodes in a cloud of dust, leaving nothing standing left.
Flowey looks slightly shocked at you. "Keep that up, and no one's gonna stop you."
"Sorry I didn't really know what to expect." You state "Does Monsters react like that too?"
"Yep. Anger like that'll put anyone down here out of their misery, and they also turn to dust like that when they die."
"It's kinda comforting to it's that easy, but still. I don't wanna go on a rampage down here."
"I know what you mean." Flowey responds "This place wasn't always this bad, it was actually really nice once. I really wish there was a way we just, turn all this around."
"What holding us back from trying?"
Flowey let's out a breath and says "You haven't seen the rest of this place, it hopeless. No matter how determined I been, it's only lead to somebody getting hurt."
A thought runs through your mind "Hey, if every porkchop was perfect we wouldn't have hotdogs." Flowey giggles at your optimism.
"Did you come up with that yourself? It's kinda nice."
"Nah, it's just something I heard in cartoon. Anyway, determination doesn't solve all your problems. Hopes and dreams can only get you so far. In a world like this, without hope, you need something more." You sit down on one knee trying to get down to flowey eye level "The strength that keeps you going even when things become difficult. The power to keep your head clear in Complicated situations. The will to continue even though the light at the end of the tunnel seems to be gone."
"Isn't that exactly what determination is?" Flowey asks in a confused tone.
"No. Determination is the hope that keeps your going through life. Perseverance is the will to keep going even when that hope seems to be gone. It's exactly what this place needs."
Flowey just stares at you for a few seconds trying to process everything you just said. "It's been a long time since I've actually been feeling hopeful." For once, Flowey's optimism seems to stay. "Then It's settled, with my determination, and your perseverance, we'll save the underground together!" Flowey makes haste to dig himself over to the next door. "Come on! Come on! We have a lot work to do from here."
