People had been known to disappear around the top of Mt. Ebbot. One such person was a woman who was named Ariel Serif. She was a young scientist that had just graduated from college as a Mythologist, with her concentration on monsters and a minor in engineering. Very few knew that she was a descendent of three of the seven sages that had sealed the monsters underground in the first place, or that she was descended from two of the three sages who were actually friends with the monsters. The only reason the purple souled sage, the light blue souled sage, and the red souled sage had helped to seal the monsters in was to protect them from the rest of the humans, and they did so with heavy hearts. The red soul had actually been a part of the royal guard before the war started, while the purple had been one of the leading scientists, always trying to better things for the world. The light Blue soul had been one of the royal sorcerers that had the patience to learn Monster Magic.

The stories of the truth behind the monsters' imprisonment had been passed down through the Serif family for generations, and Ariel Serif was determined to find out any truth behind it. She found the opening and brought out her soul. It was quivering with excitement, anticipation, and a perseverance to survive whatever may become of her down there. Perseverance was one of the greatest traits of the purple soul, and being the one to inherit the color only made Ariel more sure that she was meant to go and become one of the humans to disappear. Besides, from her research, she was able to deduce that the other people/ children who had disappeared had all been descendants from the other sages that sealed the barrier. She would be the sixth soul to disappear, and she knew it. She just didn't know if she could convince them to let her live a little first.

Ariel's mother was descended from the soul of integrity and was possessive, needy, and tried to force her into a multitude of things, one of which being marriage to another clan or to a wealthy person. Ariel was quite relieved when her father, the descendent of the souls of Patience and Perseverance, had won custody over her in the divorce.

Ariel was a tall young lady with chocolate brown hair, a dark black turtleneck, a white lab coat, blue jeans, and dark purple tennis shoes. She had cloudy glasses, and a dirty backpack that held many things in it. She also had dark blue eyes that brightened or turned purple whenever she attempted to use the ancient sage magic that ran through her.

Ariel looked down the hole that led to the underground and thought back to her reasons for going under. The world was cruel and didn't know how to respect people. Monsters were feared and respected still as they were terrors that haunted people's memories, even though they had been peaceful in the beginning. Man had corrupted monsters, there was no doubt about that in the mind of Ariel Serif as she used a grappling hook and made her way down into the hole.

She found herself in a pile of golden flowers, and not too soon either as the grappling hook fell, nearly hitting her. She growls and shakes her head before noticing one flower that seems to stand out. It has a face and seems pretty bruised.

"H…Howdy…" The flower sounds like a nervous child. Ariel takes a deep breath and walks towards it. The flower flinches away. "Y…you're new around here, aren't you? Y…you must b…be so con…confused… OH, I'm… Fl…Flowey… Flowey the Flower."

Ariel's usual glaring face turned into her soft one that she used when dealing with children or when she was making herself look less dangerous than she was. "Only a little, Flowey. I'm Dr. Ariel Serif. Are you okay?"

"Um… I'm…"

"Oh ignore the weed and face a real opponent, child." The voice was slightly crazy sounding, but at the same time, still seemed motherly. Ariel turned with a dangerous gleam in her eyes as she looked at a tall goat monster who was wearing a ragged looking purple dress.

Ariel smiled. "Flowey, how's about you go hide. I'm going to have some fun with this lady."

"D…d…don't hurt her… please… she's…" Flowey wanted so desperately to say what was on his mind, but he was worried about what else would happen if he revealed his big secret.

Ariel looked at the buttercup with a sympathetic smile. "I'll just beat her to within an inch of life and spare her, don't worry." Her smile then turned slightly crazy as well. It was as though she was made to survive in this crazy world of "Kill or be killed!"

"Be careful, she's got LOVE!" Flowey warned as he dodged a fireball, and he fled with tears in his eyes. He would remember this human who had shown him mercy.

Ariel gritted her teeth in a grin. She then shouted to the lady, "HEY, YA BITCH! YOU WANT TO FIGHT? I THINK I GOT ONE OR TWO LEFT; HAVE AT IT!" She felt her soul come out and form into a purple heart right in front of her. It was cracked and weak with a cancer, much to her opponent's surprise.

Torial, the goat lady, hardened her glare as the combat started. Ariel dodged all her fire attacks as she summoned her own magic to form a creation she called "Book Blasters" as they looked like books that shot out words as weapons. Much to Torial's surprise, words of kindness started shooting towards her. She didn't trust them, but couldn't dodge all of them. Torial was shocked with the healing words as Ariel stopped and looked at the goat woman.

"Why?" Some of her sanity had returned for the first time in centuries.

"I'm planning on figuring out how to get you all out of here, not kill you all." Ariel rolled her eyes as she noticed some of the red monster soul start to turn into a light pink, showing that it was trying to turn white once more, like it had been before man had corrupted them. Ariel held out a hand to her. "I'm Ariel Serif. I came here to see if I could help in any way to make this easier before I die and my soul is used for the barrier."

"I'm Torial… what do you mean?" Torial accepted the kindness with hesitance.

Ariel brought out her soul once more and showed her slightly broken soul. "I'm dying from a cancer that is set to kill me in a year. I'm came down here to see if I could make things easier for you, but don't expect anything too great. I can only do so much." She grumbled as she looked at herself with disdain. "I am a stupid human after all."