Hey all, like I said. Here is my novelization of Undertale. Not going to say much before diving into it other than this: I will try my best to stay 100% true to the game, but there will be a couple of OOC dialogues. Don't forget to follow if you want to be updated on new chapters!
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You stand over a gaping hole that you found on the side of a mountain in small, hidden cave. You can hear your name being called over and over by a female and male voice. While your mind wanted to run back into the arms of your parents, your body stayed firmly in place. You couldn't go back now, no.
There's a voice that sounds closer now, maybe right outside of the cave but you can't be absolutely sure on that. Taking a tentative step back, you feel your body weight pitch backwards at an angle too sharp. Your heel is stuck, lodged on the other side of a vine that had crept its way near the hole. You hear your name being shouted, then the feeling of weightlessness takes over your body and you plunge into the dark abyss below.
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Pain. Sharp and throbbing in your arm. Your back is also in a small amount of pain, but it's different than the one in your arm.
You look down at it. You've never seen a broken arm before, but you're sure that it is. The searing pain that shoots through your whole limb backs up your ideals. You cradle the broken arm to your chest, brushing back the tears that fill your eyes. You bite your lip and refuse to cry out.
You wonder how you aren't dead. Looking up, you know it's impossible to climb back up. Thick creepers hang down and curl around broken, crumbling pillars. They're too high up for you to reach though, nor could you climb them with a broken arm.
Looking down at the ground, you can see a bed of golden flowers. That's must have been what broke your fall. Your favourite purple and blue striped sweater hangs off your body slightly and your jeans ripped on the fall down. They were ripped at the knee, exposing your scraped up and bleeding knees and thus causing the stiff material to hang awkwardly on your legs.
You look around, seeing no other way to walk other than forward. You don't want to look around the pillars, the darkness seems to be watching you.
You let out a small sniffle and walk forward with quiet, careful steps. Not making too much noise in fear that something lurks around here. You cradle your broken limb carefully to your chest, taking small breaths to calm down your racing heart. You pass through another small cave and it's pitch black. Except for a small grass patch a few steps ahead, a golden flower sprouts from the one light up area.
You approach it, realizing that someone had drawn a face on the flower. Does that mean someone else is down here?
"Howdy!" You jump back, regretting the action immediately when searing pain returns to your arm and you bite your lip again to fight back tears.
"I'm Flowey! Flowey the flower!" You only stare, slack jawed at the talking, inanimate object. Your stunned expression is apparently easily read because the flower continues talking.
"You're new to the Underground, aren'tcha?" He asks. You nods slightly, giving the bright, smiling flower a careful smile back. He seems friendly, maybe he can help.
"Golly, you must be so confused!" You nod again, more confident in your actions this time. "Someone ought to teach you how things work around here! I guess little old me will have to do!" You move a bit closer, almost in the edge of the light that surrounds the small grass patch. You listen attentively to the helpful flower.
"Ready?" Flowey asks, and you nod your head again. Your short brown hair tangled in a mess at your shoulders sways with your actions. "Here we go!"
There's a tug that comes from within your chest. But not just physically, it feels deeper than that. Like Velcro being ripped apart, a fire truck red heart is pulled from your body. It floats in front of you, and the outside background seems to fade away slightly. Flowey stays clear, and a white box appears around the small red heart. Under the box that hold your SOUL, Flowey's words materialized in a black box with white font. Like a dialogue box. Below the dialogue, there was something that caught your attention immediately. Characteristics much like a video game hovered under the board.
*LV 1 - HP 20/20
Four boxes hovered under the strange text. Even if you didn't play video games, you knew that LV usually stands for level and HP stands for health points. You squint your eyes and read the four boxes under your stats.
*Fight
*Act
*Item
*Spare
You try to take a small step back, but it's stiff. Your soul jerks down in the box, and your body moves slightly as well.
"See that heart? That is your SOUL, the very culmination of your being!" The flower says patiently. You nod, moving around slightly and getting used to the feeling of controlling your… SOUL. You nod after a moment's hesitation, you're vaguely aware of your nearby surroundings and the stiff way your body moves.
"Your soul starts off weak, but can grow strong if you gain a lot of LV. What does LV stand for? Why, LOVE of course!" The flowers bounces back and forth on its stem, beaming a happy smile. You listen intently, trying to learn as much as you can from this plant. Apparently LV doesn't mean level, so HP might not stand for health points. By the way he speaks, it sounds like this place is quite big, too.
"You want some LOVE, don't you? Don't worry! I'll share some with you!" The flower winks, a small animated star floating away from his eye. The action makes you narrow your eyebrows slightly. He was being too nice. Even for an eleven year old, you knew something was going on. You don't respond.
"Down here, LOVE is spread through… Little white… 'friendliness pellets'." As he says this, five small white seeds hover, spinning around the flower's head. You watch the pellets hover there. Something tells you to be weary, but this flower has been nothing but kind to you. You smile and nod, showing your understanding.
"Are you ready? Move around, get as many as you can!" The seeds fly at you at a moderate pace where it would be easy to move around them even in this newfound way of moving. You reach your hand out to catch it, causing your SOUL to move into it. As soon as your SOUL makes contact with the white object, a different kind of pain shoots through your body. This one doesn't feel physical, it feel like a knife cutting right through your entire being.
You shout out in shock and pain, causing you to jerk your physical body back. Jerking your arm suddenly makes the physical pain return on top of the new internal pain. Sure enough, when you look at your stats, they have changed.
*HP 01/20
"You idiot." Flowey says in a deeper tone, his force morphing into something of nightmares. You cradle your arm and move your SOUL to the corner of the box, but you can't return it back fully. "In this world, it's kill or BE killed." The flower continues, seemingly amused at your desperate attempts of freeing your SOUL of the fight scene. "Why would ANYONE pass up an opportunity like this!?"
Hundreds of white bullets surround your SOUL, forcing it into a smaller space. You quiver, whimpering slightly in fear of your life.
"Die." The demonic flower says gravely, and the continually swirling circle of deadly pellets slowly start closing in on your SOUL. Flower cackles maniacally, watching you frozen in place due to fear and inability to do anything else.
As soon as the first seed touches your SOUL, they all disappear and you feel the internal pain slip away. Confused, you look at your stats
*HP 20/20
The flower looks at you, equally as confused before a large ball of fire shoots out at Flowey, forcing him to duck underground to avoid being seared. Still slightly in shock, your emotions slowly start catching up with you. You sniffle slightly in realization that you almost died. The battle apparently ends, because your firetruck red coloured SOUL slides back into your chest and the surroundings become more visible again.
However, your emotions were put on hiatus as a towering white creature with horns, long ears and short fur entered your peripherals. She wore a long purple robe with a white decal on the front. You took a wary step back, thinking she was going to attack you and-
"What a terrible creature, torturing such a poor, innocent youth…" Her voice is light and her eyes full of concern. You hold your arm to your chest in mid step, craning your neck to look up at the goat-like creature. Seeing your scared expression, she gives you a small and patient smile.
"Ah, do not be afraid, my child. I am Toriel, caretaker of the Ruins. I pass through this place every day to see if anyone has fallen down. You are the first human to come here in a long time. Come! I will guide you through the catacombs." She reaches out her large, fuzzy paw to hold yours. You still look up at her with fear, having not recovered from the last creature acting friendly towards you.
Instead, the two of you end up staring at each other in a tense silence. The large goat creature looks down at you, worried when her eyes catch you cradling your useless arm.
"Oh my, are you injured, my child? Here, let me show you that I wish no harm upon you." She says, crouching down to your height. You looking back tentatively, seeing no other option anyways. Something about this new monster screams safety and protection, so you take a careful step forward.
She smiles, holding her hand out. You carefully move your broken arm to put it in her warm, fuzzy one. She smiles again, and you suddenly find yourself smiling back. She takes this as encouragement as she hovers her other paw over your arm. A soft, opaque, green light envelops your arm. A cool sensation runs through your whole limb, and after a moment she brings her arm away. You lift your arm slowly, but find that it no longer shoots pain all up your arm.
Healing must take up a lot of energy, because she lets out a small breath.
"Now come, my child. I shall guide you back to my house and we can clean up the rest of your smaller injuries." She says softly again, keeping her hand out for you to take. You do, laughing softly as her hand holds yours gently, causing your whole hand to disappear into a white fuzzball.
She stands back up, and you have to lift your arm slightly to keep it enclosed with hers.
"This way." And the two of you start walking forward in the darkness of the cavern. You look back at the small area that is still lit up, expecting to see a flower there still. But it's empty. A sense of unease settles upon you, unable to see where you were walking.
After a moment, you reach a large, pillared door that reminded you of the pillars from where you fell. You look up at Toriel curiously, but she is looking ahead now as the room becomes a bit more visible.
You walk into a large room with huge purple brick walls. Somehow, there are red leaves scattered amongst the floor. You make sure to step on all of the dry ones to hear the crunch under your shoe.
Toriel lets go of your hand and ascends a small flight of concrete stairs. There is a matching set of stairs on the opposite side of the room, and a raised platform connects the two above. You step forward in the middle of the stairs where there is a large pile of leaves.
The shadow of the ruins looms above, filling you with determination.
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