Silence was the only sound.
A monster laid on a steel table unconscious in the middle of a room. The monster appeared to be a yellow eyed bird with snow white feathers. One noticeable feature the monster had was it's chest. It appeared as if it's chest was stitched shut.
The table was not very large, which was about the same size as the monster. Leather restraints were in place, holding the unconscious monster down.
The room itself was nearly empty, which only had white walls, a white floor, and a white ceiling, which gave the room a void like appearance. The only objects occupying the room is the table, a white door, and a decent sized vent above the door. The vent appeared to be large enough for a human to barely crawl through it.
The monster let out an audible groan as its eyes already opened, appearing as if it was unaware of it's location. After its eyes opened, the gasped in surprise after realization of his location.
"Where am I?" the monster asked itself, revealing to be male. He tried to get up, but the restraints held him in place. The monster grunted in frustration and tried to break them open, but he was too tired to use all of his strength.
The monster let out a sigh of frustration, accepting his defeat this time. Many questions were now flying in his head. How was he brought there? What happened to him? Who brought him there?
However, those questions were interrupted when a loud creak was emitted, which caused the monster to nearly jump up in surprise, but the restraints had stopped him. The door opened up as a man walked into the room.
The man had brown hair and very pale skin. He wore contact lenses, a white lab coat with a black t-shirt underneath, and white jeans.
The man closed the door behind him and slowly approached the monster. A burst of anxiety ran through the monster as more questions filled his mind. Who is this person? Was he his captor? However, his new questions were interrupted when the man spoke to him.
"Greetings..." the man greeted. The sound of his voice had no tone. It was as emotionless as if a robot had spoke.
"Who are you?" the monster asked, successfully hiding his anxiety.
"My name is John. I am one of the scientists who works here at Mount Ebott Facility," the man answered, keeping his previous tone.
"Why am I here?" the monster asked.
"I found you out in the mountain wounded severely. It was quite shocking to see a monster on the surface, as I thought that all monsters were trapped underground after the war. So I brought you back here and healed you so you would not die," John explained.
The explanation got rid of the anxiety the monster had acquired earlier. He let out a sigh of relief.
"Well, thank you for that," the monster said. John nodded in response.
"I'll release you very soon, I just have to ask you some things," John said as he retrieved a notepad and a pen from his pocket.
"Ask away," the monster said.
"What happened to you before you found yourself here?"
The question struck the monster's heart, as if something heartbreaking had happened.
"Well…" the monster said slowly, with a tone of sadness.
"My family and I were travelling at Mount Ebott to spend quality time together. It was very peaceful and enjoyable, until we stumbled into a small group of humans," Noctis explained. John nodded and took took note of what he had said.
"Mhm, go on," John said.
"They were armed with weapons, however. But none of us took note, or cared about that. Instead, all of us were curious, especially my brother and I. We had never seen a human, though we did have a good amount of knowledge on them, as my parents taught us about them. Despite that they were armed with guns, we were all filled with curiosity. I knew a lot about humans since my parents told me a lot about them, and it was our first time seeing them. My dad went up to greet them, as we stood still, but in response, they screamed at us, presented their weapons, and then hell went loose," Noctis explained more, tears threatening to break through his eyes.
"Go on," John said, sounding as emotionless as usual.
"They began firing at us, I tried to stop them, but I was shot in the chest. Before I lost my grasp on reality, I heard the screams of my parents and brother, before being cut off with gunfire," The monster was about to cry, but he had to hold it back because of the situation he was in.
"Okay," John said as he finished writing on the notepad. The emotionless tone, showing no remorse, irritated the monster. But he kept his mouth shut.
"What is your name?" John asked.
"My name is Noctis," he answered. John grinned and wrote his name down on the clipboard. "Well, Noctis. Would you mind if I leave you alone for a few minutes?" John asked. Noctis shook his head in response.
"No, John. I'll be fine alone," Noctis replied. John let a small chuckle, which unsettled Noctis.
"I'll be back soon. I have a lot in store for you."
FINAL WORD COUNT (not including A/N): 905
So, I want to redo this. Every day, I feel a bit more insane because the fact that I cannot finish this damned story or even work on it. I want to get this done. I'm going to get the series done.
The story is going to be redone, and I will not be accepting anymore OCs from the sake of my writing and the plot. HOWEVER, the OCs that did appear in the story before me rewriting it, as well as a few others, will remain in this story.
Why am I rewriting this, as well as redoing the plot, you may ask? Parts of the plot conflicts with others. So the plot will be getting a drastic change, while keeping the tone and major points of the story.
Though the story is not really good, in my opinion. Not talking about my writing skills that had deteriorated after a super long break, just the fact that some parts don't match up with Undertale's logic (like monsters having blood, etc., more soul types than the ones we already know). Plot points too (mainly around the ending) will be questionable. I tried my best to change them in order to (hopefully) be more tolerable while keeping the ending I desire. There will be parts of the story that probably won't be liked by others, yes, but I'll try my best to get them to be decent.
I've done a major overhaul of Noctis, although I did not intend for him to be a Gary Sue (well, he wasn't in the first place imo), I still thought he was overpowered. I mean, a determined monster with self healing powers and constant future predicting dreams? Ew.
Also, I originally intended this story to be mostly filled with OCs, but now there will be a very little(excluding the ones that already are/planned to be in the story), as cannon characters will instead return (That Comedian...).
I don't have my entire confidence in this story. It's a new turn, definitely, and I actually rarely see any Undertale stories with a monster OC as the protagonist, which is why I chose that, to go a little unique. It's quite challenging to write a story with an OC as the protagonist. Probably not for fellow authors, but for me, yes.
Last thing I'm worried about is the character development. I kind of want all characters to have a lot spotlight on them, especially on some protagonists.
Pushing my rant aside, I hope you like this chapter. I'm not confirming any release date for Chapter 2, as I will be making oneshots and different short Undertale stories. And most importantly, I hope you'll like the final product of this story once I finish it. It's been quite a long time since I made a decent story that was a heartbreaker (heh, back in the day when I wrote FNaF and I was a good writer), and I'm hoping I'll do the same.
Peace! :3