MISSINGTALE
CH 1 | Fallen On The Bed Of Flowers
Frisk awoke. Slowly opening his dark brown eyes and brushing his brown-haired bangs out of them. He looked around. He saw a small room filled with sunlight. The room seemed to have a grey hue. He looked down and saw this was on a bed of golden flowers. These must have broken my fall. He said in his head. Frisk looked up at the hole above with shining sunlight coming through.
He got up and saw a stick on the ground. I guess I can use this to defend myself… He brushed the petals off his shirt. His shirt was blue with dark blue stripes. He had on blue jeans and black runners.
He noticed something odd about the bed of flowers. It looked as if it had been re-planted. Like someone dug it up, and put it back poorly. He looked around the small room. He didn't see anyone. He was about to go forward when he heard a small crack of a stick behind him. He turned around to see a figure standing behind a pillar.
"H-hello?" he called out nervously
"I know someone's there. I'm not harmful." He said reassuring the shadowy figure.
Then, into the light, a small human girl appeared. She had short light brown-ginger hair with striking red eyes. Her hair looked dirty and tangled like it was in the literal dirt.
She was wearing a yellow and pale green striped sweater that seemed one size too big for her. Brown shorts and brown boots finished her outfit. She had bandages down her legs and knees. Her cheeks were also a strange pink colour. More peachy.
Frisk looked the girl over. She wasn't much older than he was. Which was about 10 and she looked only a bit younger. Frisk looked at her eyes. He wondered if that colour was natural or not but he didn't really care what colour they were.
"Hey there. I'm Frisk. What's your name?"
"Chara." She said quietly. She seems to be scared of me. Or scared in general.
"How long have you been there?" He asked stepping forward towards Chara.
"Awhile...I just woke up there and….I heard someone coming so I hid. Then you fell."
Strange. I don't remember anyone going up the mountain before me...
"Oh! Are you okay by the way?" She added looking concerned.
"Yeah, I'm good." Frisk said reassuring the girl.
Chara took a step closer. She seemed more comfortable now.
"Well," Frisk looked up again "Looks like we can't get out that way. We'll have to keep going."
"Keep going?" Chara asked looking unsure of that decision.
"Yea. We can't stay here...we have to keep going." Frisk held out his hand for Chara to hold.
Together they walked into the next room. There they saw a small patch of grass. In the center of the grass was a small golden flower like the ones Frisk landed on. Except this flower had a face. It looked as if it was smiling gleefully. The flower's petals were torn and burned. The room glowed red as a heart appeared in front of Frisk's chest. One appeared in front of Chara's as well. The only exception between the two was that Frisk's was a bright red and Chara's was a bit of a faded red. It looked almost dull.
Chara slightly hid behind Frisk.
"Howdy! I'm Flowey! Flowey the Flower!" the small flower said "Golly! You two sure look lost~"
Frisk wasn't sure about this flower. It seemed...unstable…
"Don't worry! If you let me help you...I can guide you through here~"
"Mm...I don't think so…" Frisk said to grinning flower clearly not trusting it.
"No? Well then….D I E!" The flower's exception changed into a terrifying smile with teeth. White pellet things surrounded Frisk and Chara. Frisk had to think fast or it was game over. The pellets came closer inch by inch. Frisk looked at the stick he was carrying and threw it as the flower.
"Wha-!" the pellets disappeared and the flower was distracted. Frisk tugged Chara to run while they had a chance.
The two ran into a brighter scene. Their heart's disappeared now and they were standing in a purple bricked room. Chara saw a yellow star thing and ran over to see it. Frisk looked around a little bit. Autumn leaves were scattered about and there were two sets of stairs leading up to a doorway. The place would have looked pretty if it weren't for all the crumbling bricks and tattered vines everywhere.
Chara touched the star. Nothing happened. Frisk walked over to Chara and asked why they looked unhappy.
"I was expecting something to happen."
Frisk reached out and touched the star. A bright light surrounded Frisk.
"What was that?" Chara asked Frisk
"I don't know. I touched the star and that happened." Chara touched the star again but nothing happened.
"We should go up the stairs. I don't know if we got away from the flower or not…"
"Okay." Chara said following Frisk up the stairs and into the nest room.
The next room had six floor buttons and a lever. The door was closed.
"A puzzle it would seem." Frisk said trying to figure out how to do it.
"I think I know!" Chara said. She stepped on four of the buttons and pulled the lever. The door opened.
"How did you do that?" Frisk asked puzzled
"I don't know." Chara replied.
"How did you know which ones to press?"
"I'm really not sure...I just...knew?"
Frisk thought that something was up with Chara. Like she wasn't telling him something. How does a person just know the correct answer without ever being here before?
The two continued on through the next room which was still looking very, very abandoned. It was like no one had been through there in years. More bricks looked to be crumbling and vines burned and piles of dust were spread out across the room.
"I don't like this…" Chara said.
"Yeah me neither." Frisk said going onward.
The two children walked further and reached a spike puzzle. Frisk was just astounded by the look of it.
"What kind of person makes a puzzle for spikes?" Frisk said "To keep something out?"
"Yeah...or something in…" Chara said under her breath but Frisk still caught what she said. He wasn't going to say anything back.
"Okay so how do we get across? We could swim? But we don't know how deep it is.." While Frisk was going on Chara had already figured it out.
Chara started to walk across the spikes getting untouched. Frisk gasped in horror that Chara was doing that.
"Chara! What the hell!" He said
"It's the puzzle! Come on! Just follow the path back there and use it here." She got to the other side safely.
Frisk did what she said and followed the pathway. He got to the other side as well where Chara was waiting.
"See?"
"How did you figure that out so quickly?"
"I just….I don't know."
"You keep saying that." Frisk said starting to wonder if Chara was telling the truth.
"I-I know but-
"Just tell me Chara!" Frisk raised his voice a little.
"I just don't know okay!" Chara yelled and instantly felt bad about it.
Frisk saw the sorrow in her eyes and felt bad for trying to question her.
"I'm sorry Chara…"
"It's fine…" She said quietly
"Can we...keep going?"
Chara nodded and followed Frisk with her head down. They walked through a long hallway. Frisk felt really bad for talking that way to Chara.
It seemed as if she doesn't even know who she is? At least not really. I'll have to ask her more simple questions to see if she remembers or knows simple things.
"Hey Chara?" Frisk called back to her
"Yes?" Chara replied
"Tell me about yourself." Frisk stopped at the big pillar at the end of the hallway and sat down.
Chara sat down with him.
"Okay. Well…I'm six years old...I...don't remember if I had a family...I…" Chara blanked out for a second
"Chara?" Frisk asked the girl sitting across from him.
"Hm? Sorry...I just...I can't seem to remember much."
Hm...amnesia maybe? "Thanks okay. Just tell me what you do know."
"I like drawing, and my favourite colour is yellow, and I like chocolate."
"Chocolate is pretty good isn't?" Frisk said trying to get Chara more comfortable.
"Yeah!"
"Well, my favourite colour is blue." Frisk said.
Frisk and Chara continued to go through the ruins. Chara found another star and Frisk touched it again and the light surrounded him. The continued to a strange like thing.
"Lets jump over this." Frisk said
"Okay." Chara didn't try to 'solve' this puzzle.
The two jumped over the unstable ground. The next room was a rock. Spikes were lined across the floor with no way to go around. Frisk looked over to Chara.
"What do we do here?" He asked
"Why do you assume I know?" she asked back
"Cause you knew the last two."
"Oh. well lucky for you, I do know." She went over and started to push the rock but it wouldn't budge.
Frisk went over and pushed with her and the rock moved onto the small platform. The spikes went down and Chara smiled.
The next room was...another puzzle. There were patches all over the floor and no way to jump over. Chara, without saying anything, took Frisk by the hand and guided him through the puzzle. It was a specific way to go through.
"You sure do know how to pass all these puzzles." Frisk said looking back at the patches on the ground.
"Yeah. It's like I've been here before. But I'd remember that. Right?" Chara asked Frisk as if he knew the answer.
"Yeah…" Frisk said not wanting to tell Chara what he thought of her.
The next room was more rocks. And spikes. There was water on the sides of the spikes but neither child wanted to get wet. There were three rocks all with platforms out in front of them.
Together the two pushed the two rocks on the ends and finally attempted the middle. Both jumped back in surprise as the rock talked to them. Chara asked nicely if the rock could move. It took a few tries before the rock stayed where it was supposed to. The spikes went down and one the children went. Frisk touched the star in the next room and Chara was more interested in the mouse hole. She tried to pick up the cheese for the mouse but it was stuck to the table. Frisk was continuing and called Chara to join. Chara ran up to Frisk and continued with him. They passed a pile of leaves and dusty spider webs. The next room was empty so the kept going. Then came something new.
There were spikes at the end of the room blocking the exit but seemed to be no way to make them retract.
"I think I remember how to do this." Chara said to Frisk going over to one of the more patches on the ground.
"You mean we have to fall down them?" Frisk said.
"Yeah I think."
"Do you know which one is right?"
"No. But I know there's a lever down one of them."
Frisk really wanted to know how Chara knew all this. But she didn't remember so there was no use in asking. Still, he was curious.
"Okay. It'll be quicker if we each took three." Frisk said going over to the one across from Chara.
The both jumped at the same time. Frisk landed with a thud on pile of leaves. Not much better than the flowers. Frisk looked for a lever but saw nothing so he went through a small vent that led him back up. When he came up he saw Chara came up at the same time. Though something was different about her. She was wearing a red bow in her hair.
"Where'd you find that?" Frisk asked Chara as she touched the ground after climbing up.
"Oh! Where I landed, I didn't see a switch but I found this ribbon. So I put it on."
Frisk thought it looked cute on her but quickly went back to the task at hand. They both went down the next patch. Frisk landed on more leaves. He looked up and saw a lever. He quickly got up and pulled it. A large thud could be heard from above. He crawled back up with excitement that he solved the puzzle this time. Even if Chara knew what to do.
He met Chara back at the top and the went on the the next room. Chara told Frisk each button to press in all the rooms. It's like she has this all memorized at the top of her head. The two came across a fork in the road. One way lead up and the other lead right. Frisk decided to check out the right side first.
It was a small balcony looking out onto a city. Frisk looked down at the city and from he could see it looked trashed. Not deserted, it was just in really bad shape. Chara followed Frisk in looking out as well. While Chara was looking, Frisk saw a small knife on the ground.
I threw my stick at that flower, I might need a new weapon. He made sure Chara wasn't looking and picked up the knife and stuck it in his pocket. It's only a toy, but it looks like it could do some damage.
Frisk and Chara walked back and down the other path. They saw a giant old tree with all the leaves on the ground laying peacefully and what looked like a small house. Frisk looked at Chara who seemed to be upset with the house somehow.
/Hello. I know what you're all thinking. 'Didn't she already make Missingtale?' Yes. I did. But I went back and realized it had so many grammatical mistakes that even if I fixed them all and reposted each chapter, the story line didn't make much sense. So as you can see, this is an updated or remastered version. You don't even have to read the original to understand this so don't worry. This first Chapter is a test to see how well you guys like this one. If you think it's better than the original and you want to see more, I will write more chapters. And if you don't like it? Tell me also cause I can change things if you think they need changing. Thanks -Cupz/
