Every reset was the same. I would feel the flowers under my hands, hearing the voice of my 'best friend.' I would take the steps through the ruins, feeling the connection of a mother I never had through the lonely old lady. My footprints were covered in the snow as I spent time with the skeleton brothers. My will to not fight earned me the friendship of the guard captain Through kindness, I learned much from the royal scientist. Preforming on TV gave me a place in the heart of the underground's star. I held my arms open to the great king, telling him I refused to fight and watched him die by the hands of a broken soul. Even with the power of trapped human souls, I could not step back out the door. Where did I have to go? My hand would reach out every time as I felt myself fall and awaken back with the flowers under my hands. "I don't understand. Why won't you kill me? Do we have to do this every time?" I knelt down and pet the flower's head as I walked by. That was the last time we did that. There was another player in our twisted game. I wasn't the only 7th human soul wondering around this place as another occupied both our souls. His once brother and former human child of the royal family...and the strongest..whatever he was anyone in the whole Underground as I watched through his eyes tear through every monster over and over again..but it was my fault...I was blind and let him in and led us to our death, and our rebirth.
When I was little, my sight slowly faded my world into darkness..I always thought that was why my parents abandoned me. I was too young to really remember them. I never really knew what took me up to the top of the mountain in the first place. My curiosity I suppose made me want to go see if the history and myths of the child eating mountain was true. It was the best decision I ever made and the worst mistake of my life. I only knew the monsters by their voices, and I couldn't tell that they were anything different I enjoyed my way through the world, luckily, by a lazy, but kind guiding hand. I loved everyone down there, but Sans was always on my mind. He was looking out for me and sometimes I thought I could see him following me, making sure I'm OK At the end of that journey, when I fought Flowey off, I looked back and decided that I wanted to stay. Over and over I'd learn more about the story of the barrier and of the war. How everyone wanted to see the surface. I grew close to Sans. We were always out a Grilzby's, watching TV, making jokes. I was content with my life..but then I found out, they were monsters. I became afraid. They were the same people I had just become friends with, but what was the power to reset? Why was it that only I, Flowey...and Sans remembers every move I made..every reset? Did I die when I fell down here? Was this my afterlife journey to heaven? Was Flowey some manifestation of what I've done wrong? Did I do wrong? Did that make Sans..the grim reaper? I attacked and destroyed everyone monster and I felt the fear completely take me over. I was no longer in my own body. I was misguided by my own hand, through the soul of him..of Chara. I could feel my dusty hands that moved out of my control. I would beg someone to end it all..and Flowery was the only one who could hear me, as I watched him die more violently then everyone else. He would stand at the entry way but I was able to fight him back and reset it. I had to watch everyone forget everything except him and I could feel his pass aggressive behavior towards me each time.
I felt myself losing more and more of my self each reset. Chara would take us through, kill some monsters this time, or only one other times. As long as I could still fight her off, maybe I could somehow learn to save their lives. I became close to Flowey whenever I could keep in control. At one point, I held out my arm, inviting him to come with me, even just for a while. Hesitantly, he uprooted himself and wrapped around her shoulder. He said it was stupid and there wasn't anywhere he wanted to go. I took him with me anyway, stick in hand as I had been through the same path so many times that I knew my way through the darkness to wherever I wanted to go. He stopped me in my tracks as we had wondered into an area that didn't exist before and found ourselves unable to leave. The way ahead looked like an endless loop of what was behind us. "There is a door here...that's all I see." He whispered. I opened the door and felt a strange heaviness come over me. The air was silent and dead, not the slightest breeze to be found. "Is someone there?" I called out and the flower whispered there was a strange man here with us, moving his hands about. I explained that I could not see and it appeared that he could not speak. My hands began to shake as I dialed my phone, hoping to reach anyone, as the monster didn't move any closer to me, but the door behind us had vanished. The phone remained silent except for heavy static. "My name is Frisk. Is there anyway we can leave?" I heard a scream fill the room as everything rushed around us and we ended up back outside in the trash dump. My phone rang as I opened it, there was almost 40 texts from Sans asking where I was. What felt like only a few minutes to us was almost a whole day out here. I apologized to Flowey for dragging him there. He said I was stupid for going into strange places, but said it was OK It was something finally different for him. I was awoken in the middle of the night by a text. The font was broken and static It said "DonN'T bE afRAiD. i CaN SaVE yOu bOTh."
We wondered every day to try and find that area, but it hadn't yet appeared again I remember asking Sans about it. If he knew anything about a gray door in Waterfall and would act funny, making a joke and changed the subject. Months passed and we saw nothing more of the strange monster. Many more resets had happened between then. My power to keep Chara at bay was growing weaker. Flowey tried his best to help, and even with his powers, he found himself fading as well. What were we to do. While I existed down here, the Underground cycled again and again through the same days, even when time passed. No other humans fell down, and Chara was unable to end the world like he wished, but it didn't stop him from trying. "Can you hear me kid?" I heard from the darkness. I was weak and could no longer take place from Chara. I told all this to Sans. I told him about me and Flowery becoming friends. That every reset I felt myself fading further and further away was the only way I could describe it. "heh. you probable can't anymore but, i forgive you. i know this isn't you." For a split second I thought that I could see Sans. I could make out a blue and white shape turning into dust before me with a grin on his face. I could hear Chara laughing as he grabbed Flowry and tore him in half, eating the other half. Chara had become more mad each time we stopped him..but this time we couldn't..I had no strength left, but I couldn't let Chara continue to hold Flowey in this torture of a body any longer. I managed to break Chara's grip lose and took what was left of the flower, holding him tightly as my corporal form could. I don't know why, but I ran my fingers about the phone, dialing the text back.."plese hep us." We felt of the world vanish around us and Flowey said he felt the darkness fill him. We laid dying in the dark world that felt shouldn't exist I asked him if he had any regrets He said he wish that he had stopped resetting and learn to live with his new body. That me missed cooking with his Mom, that and wasting so much time on an idiot like me. After a bit he asked if I had any. I told him that I regretted that I would never be able to allow everyone have their allow Sans to move on.
The phone began to blow up in texts as I held them out to Flowey. "Can you still read?" "Ugh, I suppose." He moved the phone near him as he forced himself on his side. "I am sorry to meet under these conditions. I was not aware that you were unable to see. I can not speak myself so I sympathize with you. You both have messed with time haven't you? The former child Asriel and this human child. You were both corrupted by such a powerful soul. His determination was much stronger then even your own. Every time you went back, he got little more of each of your souls..but this happened long ago didn't it Asriel?..Shut up, you don't know me...This place is where I am from. It exists outside of time and existence I'm long gone from this world and you two would be soon to follow but there is a way you can stop this." I felt a warm hand run over my chest, my soul slowly fading. "Who are you?" The text continued to come in, "Who I am is not important. Have you noticed how time passes, but the same thing repeats over and over again There is a way you can end this cycle, if you are willing to make a deal?" I felt my hand caress Flowy's petal. "Yes. Whatever it takes to stop Chara. I'd give my 7th soul up to save everyone." "I WaS HOpInG YoU WOulD SaY ThAT."
She woke up in the garden, gasping for breath and sat up. "Flowey?! Flowey where are you? Where are we?" She called looking around for her stick and felt someone else passed out. She could feel the flowers under her once again There was a heavy feeling on her shoulders and her ears rang loudly. "How did you two get here my children?" She turned up towards the voice, hearing Asgore. She heard a familiar voice awaken next to her. It was Flowery, but it wasn't..it was Asriel, the lost child of the royal family. She heard him collapse on his knees and hug the child tightly as he started crying. We were very confused about what was going on, were we in the past or the present? What happened to the strange monster? My phone was completely destroyed. The king was much more confused at where a human came from. He didn't know who Frisk was. We realized that the world had been reset the last time...and no one remembered me.
It took a long time to explain it, but we told him about Chara. About how they had somehow freed themselves from his tyrant grip somehow. They weren't sure how, but they knew that he was still around. The only reason Frisk was allowed to stay in the castle, was that Asriel defended her tooth and nail to make sure Asgore understood what was going on. The concept of outside of time, timelines and resets made no sense to him. He did explain that he remembered dying and he remembered killing Frisk many times, although he does not remember who she is. The human sat in the middle of the throne room garden alone. The very idea of knowing that she know longer existed terrified her. Many of the monsters were to young to even remember that the royal family once had a child, but as she had to hide out here, he wished to remain secret for as long as he could too because he was afraid of waking up as Flowey. Frisk watched as the king entered the garden. The room was dark as night had fallen. The moon light barley light up the golden petals as they had closed up to sleep. He looked down at her and said he no longer needed to collect human souls. The hole his sons death left in his heart gave him life again. He wasn't sure what Frisk had to do with Chara or with the return of his child, but he understood the darkness in his human son and agreed to let me stay here. Asriel grew on me quickly, like a brother of my own I never had. But we both heard the voice talking to us in the darkness. How could we explain that we cut a forgiven soul from our own, leaving us to die until it was filled by nothingness. One should have been more careful when you make deals on your soul.
"Hey idiot? You OK?" Asriel asked, staring down from where he was sleeping on his fathers shoulder. "Yes Flow...I mean Asirel. That is gonna take a while to get used to." "I have many rooms about the castle. Please find one that you would wish to call your own." "I will Asgore..I have no where else to go." The king reached down with his free hand on my shoulder. "It is alright. For now, you are my child as well Frisk." And the giant was off, leaving her alone once again. She stared up at the darkness, seeing a tall and dark monster there. "That was quite a history for such a short life." "I'm sorry." "Do not apologize." A disconnected hand rested on her shoulder. "Just remember our deal. I save your life, you let me your free will when I need it." "Did I just trade another puppeteer for another?" "Nascence" His hand ran down her face. "Besides, I can not risk your life. I would lose half my soul as well." He kissed the top of her head before vanishing into the darkness. "I suppose this is where I be for a while...put away from a world that doesn't know I exist" Frisk grabbed her stick and pulled to her feet. "I'm..sorry Sans.." Frisk was slow to learn the castle, despite taking the same path everyday. Asriel was by her side whenever he could be. He still had the sarcasm that Flowey was known for, but he had a kindness to him no one had ever seen. He started treating her more like a friend as months went by, and a sister as years passed. Asgore was filled with happiness that he hadn't felt since the death of his son. But as happy as things were going in the castle, the Underground was growing more unsafe. When Chara had torn himself from Flowey and I was torn from him, he was almost unchained. He was trapped in the body him and Flowey turned into. He had gained more power without our souls to hold him back. We were watching the TV in Asriel's room. MMT was doing a report on an army building up in the ruins, lead by a strange monster. The royal guard was recruiting more and more monsters to fight off the growing rebels. Monster families were broken up as members disappeared. We both knew why, but how could we explain it to anyone?
"This is our fault isn't it Frisk?" Asriel asked, holding his knees. "It's my fault..I should have stayed as Flowey. Then he wouldn't be loose. I'm..I'm scared Frisk." Her hand grabbed his hands. "Don't be! As long as no one knows I'm here then we are safe." "Our child was alive all this time?! And you have the nerve to not tell me! HOW DARE YOU!" We heard the commotion out in the hall and headed down, sneaking to the entryway. "Mom?" It was Toriel with a few bags. Her body looked beaten, like she had fought her way free of whatever hell she faced. "Asriel?" The woman started crying and ran over, grabbing her son. "MOM!" "My child! How long have you been here? Why didn't you tell me? Why are you hiding out here?" "Are you OK Mom? Did something happen in the ruins?" She was quiet at first and then sighed. "I was chased out of my home..I'm lucky I survived." "That's because your really strong Mom!" "How long have you been back?" "..a..year. But I had to hide. I'm the reason Chara was set free. I don't...really know how but I have too stay here so that Chara..well.." Frisk shook her head from around the corner, telling him it must be secret. "Can..can I have some of your pie?!" "Of course my child." Toriel smiled, lifting him up before glaring at Asgore, walking away. Frisk stepped out when the room was empty and walked up to Asgore. "Are you OK Asgore?" "She still hates me. I suppose I really deserve it this time keeping our child secret." "I thank you anyway...but I suppose, I'm the only one that should be kept away. Asriel is your son. He's a lot stronger then he thinks. He's the kid of a boss monster. THE boss monster! It might not hurt to let him know that once in a while." Asgore chuckled, "I do tend to keep him sheltered..I don't want to lose him again" "He kicked my butt many of times before." "He has?..Well...now more then ever it might not be a bad idea." She felt someone lean over her, "You have no idea what that human is capable of Frisk." She pulled back from Asgore as he walked off to tell the castle staff of their new guest.
"Come along human." Frisk took the monster's hand and disappeared. When she realized she was walking, she was in a secret place even more hidden then her. An old abandoned lab, just under the home of the now Royal scientist. Her soul started glowing slightly as she sank on the ground slightly. The monster walked down the room and sat at a computer as the room powered up. "Your soul is quiet powerful. I hope you do not mind borrowing it for a while." She looked up, seeing a less corporal version of the man that shared her soul. The computer programs started running as he was signed into secret files. "Welcome back Dr. Gaster" "Your name is Gaster?" "Ah yes. I suppose I never formally introduced myself. My name is W.D. Gaster. Former scientist of the royal family." "I've..heard of you.." Frisk said. "They say that you fell into your.. experiments?" "Somewhat, but that is nothing to concern your young soul about. Need you to stay focused." "Are we real?" Frisk asked as the man stopped typing slightly. "We exist outside and inside of time right now. This is the deal you took to save everyone remember." "Yes..I understand." He turned slightly sighing. "Chara had taken over your soul and the only way to save you was to..fill the empty space." "And Asriel?" "Ah, he is a different story. Free of Chara, his..fused soul was his own again It's smaller and weaker then it used to be. You can see it in how fast he is aging for a monster. He has not changed much..I mean, it has only been a few years but..Compared to how he should be. But I think he will slow down eventually But you should worry more about yourself. Your getting yourself worked up and it is becoming hard to control our soul, please relax" "I'm sorry." "Your still wondering. Focus human." "I can't. I'm sorry." He got up, typing something on the computer and lifted her, setting her on a chair. "What do you like to do? Are you a drawer? Kids draw right? Reader? Anything to put your energy into." "Well, I like playing music..I mean. I like making music. I used to play back on the surface..It always reminded me of angels." "And that was?"
This had become Frisk's life. Every few days, sometimes many nights in a row, Gaster would borrow her soul and continue on projects, experiments and other activities he wouldn't share with the human. Frisk was well to keep hidden in the castle from the staff, but with Asriel's mother around now, he was more and more out of the castle, leaving her alone. One night she woke up, finding a gift in her room. As she pulled off the wrappings, she found it making music as her fingers struck strings. It was a large harp, meant for a monster, or at least an adult and much too big for her. "Gaster! Did you?" "When you play the hologram, it forces you to focus and it leaves me to go about my work." "Thank you Gaster." "It is not a gift. It is a tool to help you concentrate." "Of course." Frisk smiled as she started trying to play the strings. On days Toriel was gone from the castle, she asked Asgore to carry it to the garden. Asriel like to sit and listen to her play, but only for a short while before he grew bored and would run off to play. One evening, Toriel had come home when Asgore had to step out of New Home for a while and discovered the human in the garden. Asriel begged her not to be scared. Toriel walked over to Frisk and knelt down slightly, "Your a human? How did you come to be here? I never saw you fall into the ruins. It is the only way to enter." Frisk wasn't sure how to answer. She had fallen in that way. She had made the travel through Underground before, but no one knew, no one remembered. She was quickly to accept the child and gave Asgore an earful of how he could have hidden a human child for so long! And in such shabby shape. She was bigger then Asriel and was wearing mostly altered Asgore hand me downs. Toriel went out and got her own things. She had clothes that actually fit and things of her own in her room. Undyne and her apprentice Papyrus were always in and out of the castle. So badly Frisk longed to hang with them, even to just talk to them, but it can't come to be.
There was a knock at the front door as Toriel opened it. "Oh. Hello Sans." "i came to see how my puddy was doing. hear ya got kicked out of your home." "Puddy? Pun buddy. Oh." She chuckled. "What actually brings you there?" "looking for Paps. he's been in New Home a lot lately, figured he was here." "I don't believe so. No one hangs around here much. It is much safer to stay at home...but..do you want some pie? You can take some home to your brother." "i don't know. is it, pie-riffic?" Toriel chuckled. The skeleton yawned, stretching slightly. "huh? is that music?" He turned slightly ,walking down the hall. "I thought the castle was pretty em..?!" He froze in the doorway to the garden. Frisk was sitting on a chair as she was playing the giant harp. "that's..a human!..but..she..she looks like the kid..but she vanished after the last reset.." "Hello?" He tensed up, hiding behind the wall. "Mom? Is that you?" Frisk stood up, walking to the doorway, but hearing nothing. "I suppose not." She said, walking back into the garden. "it can't be right?" "Hey Frisk!" Asriel entered from downstairs. "Mettaton had an interview with Undyne! She is so cool! I want to be a hero just like her." "What is it about?" "I think she infiltrated the ruins! It..it would be a good way to hear about what Chara's been doing." Frisk followed the child upstairs. "Frisk...she..sounds different..how long as she been here.." Sans came back month after month to watch her, over hearing her conversations. He learned of her and Asriel's plans. As long as Frisk hid in the castle, Chara's power will never come to full flourish. As a sentry himself however, he was often stuck in Snowdin as the first front from Chara's base in the ruins. He wanted so much to talk to her, but knew it would put everyone in danger. It was harder every visit, listening to her music, he found himself enjoying the company of the refugee.
"Hey Frisk!" Asriel ran into the garden laughing. "Look what I found! It's for you. Well. It has your name on it!" He stopped , holding it out. "What is it?" She sniffed it and started laughing, "Is that a hot dog?!" "I know right?! Who would send someone a hot dog?!" Sans pulled behind a wall when Frisk looked towards the doorway. The teen started laughing even harder. "What's so funny?" Asriel said, cracking his hands. "Did you know that I once had 32 hot dogs on my head? Stacked straight up in a tower." "What? Bullshit!" "No bull! I swear. When I took a step, they all came crashing down." "I didn't think you were into sausage parties." Asriel joked as Frisk lifted her foot and pushed the kid back slightly in a friendly matter. "Gross. You keep this up and I'll tell Mom about the new words Monster Kid taught you!" "You mean that you taught me." "When have I ever used the word sausage party?! Haha..it feels like it was so long ago." "Yes, your getting old huh?" "Shut up Asriel!" "Come on. Dad was looking for us." "Alright, let me eat this first." "Wait, your actually gonna eat it? You know it's made of right?" "You love hot dogs!" "I do, but I prefer mine, less with a bow and tag. Come on, I'll race you!" Asriel took off, sliding slightly as he hurried out the door. "You can't beat me! You have short legs!" She stood up and started running, stopping just a few feet outside the doorway. She turned back slightly, staring right at Sans as he held still, not moving a muscle. "Is someone there?" "Come on you old fart!" "I'm seriously not that much older then you!" Frisk yelled down the hall. She turned back, staring at the skeleton and smiled, gripping her stick tightly. "It's nice to know someone is looking out for me..but you can't come here anymore..I'll put everyone in danger." She stopped staring up. "Oh...no one I guess. I thought for a second..must have just been a joke. Asriel is gonna pay for that." She turned and walked off. Sans sunk down slightly, holding his chest. "she stared right at me and didn't even see me.." His head titled slightly as his eyes turned black. "that stick she always carried..how could i be so stupid. heh, i'm sorry kid." He stepped into the throne room, staring out at the golden flowers. "she looks healthy..not so skin and bones now...human lives are so short..and she's wasting it away." His eye started glowing slightly, "because of that dirty brother killer." as he vanished from the room.
He continued to send her gifts and deep down, she knew they were from him, but as much as she wanted to see him, she knew better, and more importantly, Gaster couldn't know someone was wondering about. Asriel was growing to be a bit of a rebel and was out late nights with his friends. Frisk worried about her brother being out, but she wasn't gonna tell their family about what was going on. Asriel was very strong for his age. His boss monster blood was strong inside him. Him and a group of friends have even been making their own gang and occasionally was caught fighting separate units of Chara's soldiers She spent many nights staring out at the window at a city that she couldn't even see. Sans laid out on the couch, half asleep. He was jostled as the door was banded on loudly. "SANS OPEN THE DOOR!" "i hope it's monster scout cookies." "ITS THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. WHOSE SELLING COOKIES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT?" "why are you still up anyway?" "I WAS SLEEPING UNTIL THE DOOR WAS ABOUT BROKEN DOWN!" "whose there?..heh, this knock knock joke better have a good punch..." His face went blank as he stared out the door "Tory? is that?!" He stared up at the tall woman. "I know I shouldn't be here but something terrible happened! I had no where else to go!"