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Chapter 1:
Location: District 5
Time: 11:00 am
welp, here's another day, another year. it's reaping day, the day in which a bunch of humans (and monsters) talk on a fancy stage and pick names outta a hat-er glass bowl. it's kinda like the old lucky dip that kids would pay a dollar for a random toy, or a lottery. except the prize is a 23/24 chance of dying. fortunately, our dad, dr. w.d. gaster, is head scientist of the CORE Project, an invention that will ensure more efficient energy that would never run out, and any waste product would be recycled into the system. cool huh? this means that paps and i won't have to apply for tesserae, making our chances of being picked 1/how many names there are. paps doesn't have to worry bout that for now, he's only eight. i don't i can bear to think about paps being in an arena, my baby bones brother. huh? guess i've been monologuing too long huh? shhh, their starting.
Location: District 3
Time: 11:05 am
I never liked crowds to be honest, but it must be because I'm a nerdy introvert. I've been fascinated in robotics for a long time, and maybe I could become a royal scientist, but that'll only happen when I no longer have to participate in another reaping, which is two years away. I find it so awkward to talk to strangers to be honest, I get nervous quite easily and I have that infamous stutter, but at least your family would always be there for you. My mum, my dad, my two sisters who have moved out long ago. Then there's that somebody, maybe they're from an alternate universe, maybe they're in this crowd, somewhere, waiting for me. A girl can always dream I guess. The Games are honestly kinda pointless, tributes from 12-18 years of age MUST compete in a battle to the death, the arenas are constantly changing to suit the bloodthirsty audience of the Capitol because after all, it's all a show. There's this one gamemaker though, Flowey I think, the only monster in the team. He's absolutely brutal, because behing that innocent façade is a soulless, sadistic demon. No wonder the Capitol loves him. Oh great, wonder who this year's female tribute is…
Location: District 4
Time: 11:30 am
No. Freaking. Way. Is this real? Oh my god I'm actually in the games this year! Fuhuhu, I'm gonna be like old man Gerson! I could become head of the Royal Guard! All these thoughts are swimming (no pun intended) in my head! Sure I could die, but that's not gonna happen! I, Undyne, will win this year! And then, and THEN!
Location: District 5
Time: 11:30 am
t. here i am, lazybones sans, "Wing Ding's boy", waiting on my death sentence. i can see dad outside the rope circle, disbelief, shock, grimness carved onto his face, he's probably thinking about the fact that i'm boned, heh, probably not the best time for puns though. paps is tearing up though, clutching onto his lucky scarf. aw geez, please don't cry paps, but if my dust, who'll look after you when dad's not around?
Location: District 3
Time: 11:30 am
Strangely, I feel numb. I should be shaking, but I'm not. Did I subconsciously expect this? Come on Alphys, why would you? You've applied for tesserae ONCE, so that only means that there's TWO of your names in there, not fifteen! Oh god, I'm gonna die aren't I?
Location: District 9
Time: 11:30 am
You're filled with sadness, but you must stay determined. Surely there is a way to win this without increasing your LOVE right? You must stay determined, for your mother, who took you out of that damned orphanage. Whose bakery gives out butterscotch-cinnamon pie for the hungry children on the streets. Whether or not you want to enter the arena is out of your control. Stay determined, Frisk. They're counting on a pacifist.
A/N: Geez I haven't been on here for a while! Haha, sorry 'bout that! Hopefully this story WON'T die as this idea kept bugging me for the whole day. I'm considering deleting Poppet as that seems to be going nowhere and I'm still trying to get the motivation for Revenge, hopefully in a few months at the very least. Now I know that I'm definitely not the first person to come up with this, but this story will be altered by you, the reader's opinion. Polls won't start until after the Tributes have been sent to the Capitol. All ships will the canon to the original game, but ages will not as we haven't gotten much information on the character's when it comes to age. Frisk's gender is open for interpretation, so they will be referred to with gender-neutral pronouns. The tributes from the game are: Alphys, Frisk, Undyne, Sans, Dogaressa and the Justice Soul (still deciding on a name here XD) and other tributes will be a mix of humans and monsters. May the odds be ever in your favour, RF