Long ago, two races ruled over Earth: HUMANS and MONSTERS.
One day, war broke out between the two races.
After a long battle, the humans were victorious.
They sealed the monsters underground with a magic spell.
After many years of being trapped and the monster king Asgore killing humans who have fallen down to gain SOUL power,
One human was different,
They brought monsters together with the power of MERCY and DETERMINATION,
And together they broke the magical barrier, and monsters migrated back to the surface once again...
Flora waved to her mother as she drove away from the school entrance. She looked around, clutching the straps of her sky blue backpack. Surrounding the pathway leading up to the prestigious-looking school built of mostly reddish-brown brick in a baroque style was something of a garden. A topiary of a smiling skeleton's head sat in the grass, its leaves blowing cheerily in the autumn breeze, which harmonized with the blowing leaves of hedges lining the path. Flora also noticed the hedges were dotted with golden flowers.
"Just breathe, I'm sure everything will be fine," Flora said to herself as she finally turned to face the crowds of children clustered around the school doors. She was able to poke out a few interesting looking ones of humans and monsters alike. It had been several years since monsters flooded back onto the surface, and she really didn't think much of it. Come to think of it, she always heard the monsters were very similar to humans, but of course, she had never actually talked to one. Now look at her, moving to the city just outside Mt. Ebott, which had the largest monster population on Earth since the monsters came back.
Flora eagerly strode into the crowd, trying not to draw attention to herself right away, which worked in her favor. She lasted the whole morning without talking to anyone. No one even came to say hi as she found a comfy place to read her favorite manga by a golden flower hedge. The school bell soon pierced her thoughts as she fumbled putting her bookmark in the manga and cramming it into her bag. She quickly realized she forgot to sign in and get a schedule. Flora shoved her way through the crowds, which probably didn't help her social case in order to get to the small office by the door.
A monster woman was waiting for her in there. She reminded Flora of a humanoid white goat. The woman wore a blue floral skirt with a matching light cerulean knit sweater. Her eyeglasses sat lightly on her snout. Flora was surprised they stayed on, since her floppy ears which draped over her shoulders couldn't possibly hold them up for her.
"Oh, you must be Flora!" The woman said, her voice high, smooth and hospitable. "I was afraid I might get your name wrong, seeing we have so many new students every year. I am Mrs. Dreemurr, your teacher, and also, what the humans call, principal?"
Flora smiled nervously. "Yep, Flora, that's me. It's a pleasure to meet you, Mrs. Dreemurr." Flora glanced over at a plaque on Mrs. Dreemurr's desk. "Your first name is Toriel?"
Mrs. Dreemurr chuckled. "What else would it be? You can call me whatever you like!" Mrs. Dreemurr let out a sigh. "I remember when my Frisk called me just to call me mother! Now look how things have changed! Anyway, my child, I'm rambling. Here is your schedule, and on the back, there is a printed map of the school so you won't get lost. I do hope you will be comfortable here, and if you need anything, just ask." Toriel smiled, and it was so genuine and warm, that Flora didn't even mind the short fangs.
"Thank you, Mrs. Dreemurr." Flora grinned and left the office. Toriel followed her, seeing as she had to get to class as well...
Two Hours Later...
It was officially lunchtime, and Flora had found that she camouflaged well with the bustling clusters of children. She spent the last two hours and in-between class periods getting set up in a small locker right above that of a young Froggit, who never said anything she could comprehend. On the way to lunch, she tried her hardest not to trip over any small monsters, which proved to be more difficult than she imagined.
A Whimsun meekly tapped Flora on the shoulder. "Excuse me, human?" The voice was light, high-pitched and extremely quiet.
Flora turned to face the little flying monster, causing the creature to flinch. "Yes? Oh, you want me to move, don't you? Sorry about that, these crowds make it pretty slow to get around." Flora stepped to the right, clearing a path for the Whimsun.
The Whimsun nodded quickly. "Y-Yes, thank you, human." It flew away, keeping its head down.
"Name's Flora, by the way!" Flora waved to the Whimsun, but it never responded.
Flora sighed to herself and took a minute to rest. Although she wasn't doing anything exerting, she still enjoyed taking a few moments to retain and compute everything that's happening.
Flora felt a shiver down her spine, as though something was crawling on her. She tried to reach back and scratch the itch, or grab whatever it was, but she was distracted by a loud yell.
"Don't scratch it!" A voice from behind shouted.
"Geez, it's just an itch..." Flora mumbled to herself before turning her head to see an athletic looking, humanoid, fish creature running toward her. The creature looked feminine, and she had long, thick, fiery red curly hair that bounced with every step, along with two fins on her face. Although the poofy hair covered most of them, little horns stuck out of the back of her head. Her green scales gleamed with a tint of sweat, and her yellow, reptilian eyes had a twinkle in them from the lighting. The fish girl was wearing a pair of basketball shorts and a T-shirt with a faded design of an anime character with cat ears. A long tail wiggled behind her.
The fish girl finally reached Flora and felt around inside the back of her blue and yellow striped shirt, and Flora wasn't sure what made her more uncomfortable, the fact that a stranger was feeling inside her shirt or the feeling of scales on her bare skin. Occasionally, the girl's claws got caught on Flora's own long red hair.
"Sorry about that, I'm supposed to be dealing with the younger kids, and it really gets out of hand at times. Don't move, if Spidey gets hurt, Toriel will never hear the end of it." The fish girl said as she pulled her hand out of Flora's shirt. Flora turned around to see a small spider crawl out of the fish girl's hand and continue scampering to lunch.
"Oh, heh, thanks for telling me about that. I'm Flora." Flora held out her hand to shake.
"Iris, the pleasure's all mine. Say, are you new here?" The fish girl shook Flora's hand back, nearly crushing it, although Flora held back showing any signs of pain.
"Yeah, just transferred." Flora's mouth began to form a smile.
"Oh, then you must be so weirded out, but there are some pretty cool humans here, so I wouldn't worry." Iris grinned, her smile full of pointy teeth.
"Iris! Did you find Spidey?" Another goat-like person came up beside Iris, she looked very similar to Toriel, but younger, and she was dressed differently in a long, flowy, white lace skirt and a pink shirt.
"Yep! How is Jerry Junior doing?" Iris asked.
"Weird...as usual. According to rumor, he must get it from his father. Anyway, who is this?" The goat girl gestured to Flora.
"This is a new student, I was just about to tell her where to find some humans." Iris grinned proudly.
"Iris, this is about correspondence and comradery! Maybe the human would want to hang out with us!" The goat girl smiled.
"Yeah, sure, sounds fun," Flora added quietly.
"See? I'm Willow, and I see you've already met Iris." The goat girl said.
"Yes. You wouldn't happen to be related to Toriel Dreemurr?" Flora asked.
Willow laughed. "I get that a lot. Nope, not every one of my kind is related to the Dreemurrs, even though it is fun to go over to their house to babysit," Willow cleared her throat. "Hang out, with Frisk. Toriel still likes to call it babysitting."
Iris giggled quietly to herself.
"Frisk...the human ambassador for the monster community? You know them?" Flora asked.
"Yeah, most monsters do. You'll have to meet them in person sometime." Willow said.
"Well, we're wasting our lunch hour standing around like this, let's go!" Iris said eagerly as the three began walking to lunch. Iris seemed to have a habit of smiling, which made Flora feel good, it made her smile too.
It didn't take long to find an empty table in the mostly blue and grey themed cafeteria for just themselves, the three sat down and began digging around in their lunchboxes.
Flora dug around in her lunchbox to see a red Tupperware of leftover ravioli. "Are there any microwaves in the cafeteria?"
"No need." Willow lifted a paw and a blue flame appeared, floating over the palm.
"Whoa! Fire! Where's the extinguisher? How did you do that?" Flora shouted, jumping back, accidentally knocking Iris backward out of her chair.
Willow reached into the lunchbox with her other paw and grabbed the ravioli. She quickly heated it before clenching her fist, extinguishing the flame. "Fire magic, pretty cool, right?"
"Yeah-huh." Flora nodded in awe. "Can you do that Iris?" She asked as Iris recovered from her fall.
"Nope, I'm pretty sure it's just a goat thing," Iris said, scratching underneath one of the fins on her face.
Flora couldn't help but imagine Toriel using fire magic when upset, it sent a shiver down her spine. "That must come in handy." She gulped.
"Yeah, but only for cooking," Willow said.
"What can you do, Flora?" Iris asked eagerly, grabbing Flora's left shoulder and shaking her from side to side.
"Um...well I can't do any magic...but I can play tuba," Flora replied, trying to find something she was good at that might be equivalent to heating her ravioli with a swipe of her hand.
"Tuba?" Willow and Iris said at the same time.
"You should play it for us sometime!" Iris grinned.
"Yes, it would be wonderful for you to serenade us..." Willow added.
"Oh! Speaking of serenades, Mettaton is in town tonight! Have you ever heard of him?" Iris asked, shaking Flora back and forth again excitedly.
"No..." Flora replied.
"Ooh! Then you have to go with us tonight! I'm sure we could get you a ticket if he knows your one of my friends! He's pretty cool, I wonder if you can even meet him!" Iris was bouncing up and down in her seat.
"Cool isn't enough, more like fabulous!" Willow smiled.
"Wait, wait, do you know Mettaton personally, Iris?" Flora asked.
"Kind of...my mom sort of built him..." Iris replied, rubbing the back of her neck awkwardly.
"Really? Is he...some sort of robot?" Flora asked another question.
"Yes." Iris and Flora said at the same time.
"Oh, well I can't wait to see him! I'm sure it will be an interesting concert." Flora smiled.
The other two girls grinned back. They didn't realize they were thinking the same thing, but although the school was created so that humans and monsters could correspond and live together as practically one race, most humans from foreign places flocked with the humans already present, which left the newly resurfaced monsters with a small circle of friends to choose from. Although Flora seemed reluctant of them, Willow and Iris had a feeling that the three of them would be friends for a long time...
So instead of sticking to one fandom...no...I decided to try contaminating another one of my fandoms with my writing...yay.
After the very emotional ending of my Undertale Pacifist run, I thought it would be fun to write about monsters and humans living together, preferably at Toriel's school. I may not have this evolve into an actual story, I may keep it as a oneshot or series of oneshots. Depends on what you guys think and if I get any more ideas.
Sooooo..some fun facts about the characters, here we go.
Flora: A young teenage human who has never really had any contact with monsters, so transferring to this school is a bit of a culture shock. Usually very quiet and introverted, encountering weird surroundings seems to make her brain want to go into sensory overload more often. Don't worry, though, Iris and Willow are here to help!
Iris: Fictional daughter of Alphys and Undyne...how the heck she came into existence, well, I'll leave that to your imagination. She is the ultimate fish hybrid of nerd and jock, her hobbies include watching anime, challenges of strength against other monsters (Aaron, I'm looking in your direction) whilst Mama Undyne watches proudly, or at least, she tries, she usually is pretty distracted by poor Alphys having a heart attack while her baby is suplexing boulders to threaten other monsters. She also enjoys cooking with her moms and their friends, training with Undyne, and hanging out with Willow. (Dang, I wrote a lot about Iris.)
Willow: Iris's goat best friend, and they find common ground over many things...including being huge dorks. Willow is a sap for things like harlequin romance novels and YA novels, she also has a secret love for anything ballet even though on a scale of flexibility she is an uncooked spaghetti noodle. She is one of the kinds of people who volunteers for pretty much everything, whether it be building houses for resurfacing monsters or helping with a pep rally for all sorts of causes, Willow works for no cost, for all the wealth she receives just by helping someone. Willow and Iris also work in the Keep Track of Kids Club, originally named by Asgore, later changed to the Kid Corps by (The Great) Papyrus.
Well, that's my attempt at a decent oneshot. Reviews are definitely encouraged, and I would like to know if you guys are interested to see more!
(This is a lot of headcanons...Geez...)