Tale of Shadows
BOOK 1: True LOVE
An Undertale…uhm…tale? All credit for Undertale locations and characters go to Toby Fox and Temmie
Prologue
The sun gleamed just off the horizon, painting the sky a beautiful orange and pink.
Sunlight covered Frisk's face…the glow reflecting off the far away buildings, brightening the trees that littered the ground in front of the mountain, where animals like deer and rodents ran about in a place that was so secluded from mankind.
*The beauty of the landscape…it fills you with DETERMINATION!
Frisk nodded at this statement that originated from the voice in their head.
I agree with that
A glowing star appears on the rocky ledge, levitating just off the ground
*You realize that the narrating voice is always correct =)
…?
*You correct yourself, the narrating voice is almost always correct =)
That's better
"My child, come along…we don't want the others to get too far ahead, do we?" Toriel asked the new Dreemurr.
*You nod with vigor!
Frisk walked down the mountain side, hand in hand with their new mother…filled with happiness.
Alas, the monsters and Frisk aren't out of the woods just yet
Toriel tucked Frisk into bed despite repeatedly being told that they were 'too old to be tucked in', the human eventual gave in with a giggle.
"Sleep tight my child" Toriel whispered while kissing her adopted child's forehead. The goat mom then promptly left the room quietly, only returning once with a slice of pie which she left on the floor of the room.
~A Few Hours Later, Approximately 1:00 am
*/load
*/run program…
*/access SAVE file? Y/N?
*Y
*RESET or CONTINUE?
*/modify RESET
*/patching…
*/patching…
*Patching Complete!
*FALSE RESET?
*You wake up…to see you're SAVE file glitching out!
*You then notice a strange being accessing your SAVE file, against your will!
Frisk shot up, drowsily only to see what appeared to be a shadowy hand hitting the RESET button.
"NO!" Frisk shouted, jumping in the way, no LEAPING in the way.
"what is going on kid?" Sans asked entering the room flanked by Papyrus and Undyne.
To the three monsters, it appeared like the shadows was curling around thin air... but that wasn't important at that moment.
"THE GREAT PAPYRUS WILL SAVE YOU HUMAN, NYEH HEH HEH HEH HEH!" Papyrus proclaimed while wearing race car pajamas, leaping forward and grabbing the child as Frisk somehow grabbed the shadow, attempting to pull it from the FALSE RESET button.
"LET ME HELP PAPYRUS, FIGHTING A LIVING SHADOW IS THE KINDA THING THAT ONLY HAPPENS IN ANIME!" Undyne shouted, wearing her fish decorate night clothes before grabbing Papyrus by the scarf and planting her feet onto the ground, Papyrus held on to Frisk by the waist…only to realize he was now holding Sans, who in turn was holding Frisk rather lazily.
*It appears as though Sans is still in his regular clothes...despite owning pajamas.
That is kinda weird now that I think about it... Frisk thought to themselves as gripped onto the shadowy creatures' slimy swirly dark 'skin'.
"SANS?"
"yeah bro?"
"WHEN DID I START HOLDING YOU AND WHEN DID YOU CHANGE YOUR CLOTHES?"
"when you started holding me, probably, and i changed around the time i changed my clothes"
"WHAT? YOU KNOW! JUST…WE WILL TALK ABOUT THIS LATER!"
*The horrible timing of the skele-bro argument, fills you with ANNOYANCE!
Not the time… Frisk thought with some emphasis.
The shadow swirled, moving around and trying to fling off the hitch-hikers by smashing into walls.
"this thing seems…"
"DON'T YOU DARE FINISH THAT SENTENCE SANS!"
"kinda 'shady'" Sans finished.
"NYEHHHHHHH!"
"eyyyyyyyy"
"REALLY SANS?" Undyne shouted as the shadow began rotating them around the room like a horribly made ceiling fan, "WHERE IS TORIEL!"
*MEANWHILE IN TORIEL'S ROOM*
Toriel lay in her bed wearing headphones connected to a portable player provided by Alphys, it was playing some relaxing music while the goat mom read her new book, Cooking Snails, Advanced Escargot Edition.
The headphones were provided by Napstablook to be perfectly sound cancelling to outside noise.
Toriel has no idea what was happening in Frisk's room.
*BACK TO THE SHADOW RODEO!*
"PERHAPS IF WE GIVE IT SOME SPAGHETTI, IT WILL BE SO ENTRANCED BY MY COOKING EXPERTISE THAT IT WILL LEAVE FOREVER ENCHANTED BY MY MASTERFUL SPAGHETTI" Papyrus suggested.
"That's...not a good idea Papyrus" Frisk shouted over the sound of cabinets falling over and the bed being smashed into the wall.
*The constant rotation fills you with NAUSEA!
"NGHAAAAAA!" Undyne growled as she planted her feet into the wall, using all her suplex trained muscle power to stop the cycle of spinning around.
Needless to say the shadow did not appreciate this very much…at all, though its lack of having a face did not fail to convey its emotions.
The shadow shot into strands which began to change into… scythes that ripped through the room and began raking at Undyne.
"PAPYRUS!" Undyne yelled over the noise, wincing in pain.
"YES UNDYNE?"
"USE YOUR BLUE ATTACK TO SURROUND AND IMMOBLIZE THAT THING!" Undyne shouted with a crazed grin.
Anime in real life! ROCK ON! Were the exact thoughts in her mind?
"YES EX-CAPTAIN!" Papyrus shouted,
WHAT IS SHE SMILING ABOUT?, The cool dude thought to himself, SHE WAS MOST LIKELY THINKING ABOUT WHAT A GREAT ROYAL GUARDSMAN THE GREAT PAPYRUS WOULD HAVE BEEN!
"WHAT DID I TELL YOU TO CALL ME!" Undyne hollered
"YES SENSEI!"
So not the time... Frisk thought as they threw up.
*Hurling your food causes damage to you internally...
*-5 HP
Well isn't THAT dandy...
Blue bones appeared through the roof, where the shadow was hanging from, and surrounded the curling mass of the shadow, preventing it from moving.
"NOW, IT'S PAYBACK TIME!" Undyne howled while picking up a nearby candle and HURLING it into the shadow creature. The candle entered into the being, dripping molten wax and shooting beams of light through the beings physical manifestation, the creature howled in pain, a sound so horrific that even Flowey's laugh would sound like a sweet lullaby in comparison.
Frisk let go of the creature, wincing in pain as molten wax fell on their hand and Frisk, Sans, Papyrus, and Undyne smashed into the wall.
The group fell on the floor in a tangle of limbs attempting to free themselves to stop the creature from...doing...whatever it was doing!
The shadow creature, free of obstructions, hit the button before any of them had the time to prevent it of course.
*FALSE RESET!
The world began to shake and turn white with an ear splitting sound and perhaps a laugh in the distant background?
"NYEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH/NGHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" Papyrus and Undyne screamed in sync.
Frisk stayed the emotionless child they usually were, perhaps screaming on the inside?
*Oh boy…
Sans just drank some ketchup, after all that…he deserved some…probably.
A gut feeling told him he wouldn't have much access to ketchup for a while.
Author's Note: After working on Tale of Under, I realized that I didn't want just the stereotypical beginning to a crossover with just the game lore…so I wanted to make a little bit of specialness to the story, so I will probably leave Tale of Under as DISCONTINUED, and work on this story and once this is complete I will do a full remake of Tale of Under! Any Constructive Criticism and Positive Feedback is welcomed and appreciated!
*The lack of detail and information in this prologue…fills you with DISAPPOINTMENT!
Everyone's a critic…but in all fairness…this has just begun =)
*Don't take my smiley face idiot =)
You didn't invent the smiley face, you don't control the copyright Chara…
*SINCE WHEN WERE YOU THE ONE IN CONTROL?
Since I made this fan-fic and that isn't very nice
*Why should I care, FART-FACE?
No sass, sarcasm, or mean nicknames for like an hour and I will give you a chocolate bar
*Deal!
=)