UNDERTALE SPOILERS

I don't own Undertale.

the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate.

"Why not set up over there?"

I glanced up to see where my friend Peter was pointing. We were on a camping trip – or, more accurately, we were beginning a camping trip – and were looking for a place to pitch our tents.

"Forget that!" I shouted. "Check out this cave!"

Just beyond the rocks that had until now blocked our view, there was a dark cave. Vines hung over the entrance and blew gently in the breeze.

Peter grinned. We could forget the tents – that cave was ours now. We scrambled towards it and parted the vines. It was pitch black. Duh. I pulled off my backpack and dug through various camping equipment. A pan, a tiny portable gas stove, an apron (why was that in there?) and…

"A-ha! Torch!" I said, extracting the small metallic object from my bag.

I shone it into the cave. It wasn't very large, and there appeared to be a hole in the centre of it. No problem, we were sleeping there. It had been decided. I slipped the torch back into my backpack, walked out of the cave and examined the view from Mt Ebott. Below, I could see a small village and a long, meandering river that stretched between the mountains. Green grass grew throughout the valley and I wondered how the dark legends surrounding this place had ever come into existence.

I was a pretty light sleeper. I also moved around a lot in my sleep, and staying in a cave with a gaping hole in the centre had, looking back, not been my greatest idea. Oh, well. Twenty twenty hindsight and all that.

I woke up to feel a powerful wind in my face. I was weightless. The wind seemed to sound different the further I fell. Like how the sound of running water changes as you fill up a bottle. I could tell I was nearing the ground.

I have to stop my fall.

I reached out with my hands to see them enveloped in green energy. Below me, a rectangle of the same green was flying towards me. Wait, no. I was flying towards it.

I collided with the rectangle and bounced back up. I couldn't tell how far. Twenty feet? Thirty feet? No idea. I fell down and bounced back up again. And a couple more times, until I was lying on the squishy, glowing green rectangle. Then, it vanished. Just like that. Gone. I dropped a few more feet. Apparently it was thicker than I realized.

I couldn't see, and judging by the smell of damp and by the deafening silence, I doubted that there was any light to turn on.

I sat in the dark and rested my head against the wall of the vertical tunnel I had fallen down. If I looked up, I couldn't make out the hole in the cave. Peter was probably still asleep. He had no idea I was gone. He didn't know about that crazy green glow. What was that, anyway? Magic? Nah. Impossible.

I sat without thinking for a few minutes, just enjoying the silence.

Minutes turned to hours and my stomach began to rumble. We'd been planning on catching our food, so all I had was equipment. Nothing to eat. There had to be some kind of edible plant down here. But first, I needed light. I reached over for my backpack. The zip was opens and my stuff had spilled out onto the floor, as far as I could tell by feeling with my hands.

I need a light.

In my palm, a glowing sphere of green appeared. Like the squishy rectangle, but smaller. I waved my hand through it. Not squishy either – it was like it didn't exist. I held it over my bag to see that my stuff had indeed fallen out and my torch was smashed on the ground. Apparently my new magic powers didn't extend to my torch. It didn't really matter anyway – as long as I could make the glowing light thing again, I didn't need one.

I waved the light around and it lit up the room. I was sitting on a bed of golden flowers. Beyond that, there were worn purple slabs lining the floor. The walls were similar. Nothing looked edible. Up ahead, I could see a door. I got to my feet and walked cautiously towards it. For all I knew, it could have been some creepy tomb or one of those caves governments drop nuclear waste down. I reached out with my left hand and opened the door, the little sphere of light still in my right.

In the next room, burning torches hung in brackets on the walls. Everything was made of purple brick, like in the last room. The green light in my hand disappeared upon coming into contact with the light from the torches.

I continued to walk through similar rooms. Various broken puzzles littered the rooms, which were fairly easy to traverse until I got the room with no door.

It seemed that one of the switches on the wall was meant to open a door, but they had long since rusted up and I couldn't make them move. Even if I did, I doubt it would work. I examined the wall next to it – yes, this was definitely where the door was. A long, thin crack extended along it in a rectangular shape.

Could I just bust it down? I pushed on it with all my strength. Nothing happened. I could try that power again. The green magic.

I raised my hands and focused. Nothing. The only other times I'd done it, I'd really wanted something.

I need a way to break through this wall.

A tall, wide shield made of green energy appeared, resting against my hands. I gave it a shove, and it jumped from my palms and tore through the air. It ploughed through the wall like it was made of paper.

On the other side of the hole, I could see a girl. She wore a tattered pale blue t-shirt, a knee length skirt and a faded ribbon in her hair. In her hand was a dust-covered toy knife. Her eyes glinted with what I could only describe as terror.

The terror of a killer.

Woo! It's me! I'm back. I hope it's good. For anyone wondering, this story is set before Purple fell, and set after Yellow, who was probably first after Chara (given the cowboy hat and gun).

The Green Human's power was designed to help people - providing solutions to their problems. However, I think it will become significantly more powerful if Green tries to use it for someone else...