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 almost victorious.

Before the humans could ban the monsters to the underground, seven kind souls stepped forward.

Four humans and three monsters, they pleaded the kings to stop the war.

They stood their ground and after a long time…

There were finally peace.

Despite the war being over, it was still some tension between both humans and monsters. Some humans sided with the monsters and some monsters sided with the humans. To calm things down, the two kings moved their kingdoms far away from each other. Over time, the kingdoms expanded and the bigger towns got their own mayor that answered to the kings. And as the time passed, the relation between humans and monster became better and the hate and fear slowly disappeared until it was almost completely gone.

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MANY YEARS LATER

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The human Queen's castle

Chatter echoed in the big hallway along with footsteps from different persons. Maids and cleaners, both human and monsters, were scattered around and cleaning and decorating the room in green, red, silver and gold colors. A big celebration was up, one of the Queens children's birthday was in a few days. Despite the hurry in order to get everything up in time, everyone was cheerful and happily chatted with each other while they worked.

Quickened footsteps stood out from all the others as a human woman dressed in a suit hurried past all the maids and cleaners. Her red hair was tied into a knot and it barely moved as she took quick steps. Everyone went silent when they noticed her. A troubled frown dressed her face as she walked towards the largest door that existed in the middle of the large and long hallway. She barely glanced at the decoration as she hurried past. She paused at the door and looked at the two guards standing there.

"I need to see the Queen. It's urgent." She said with a steady voice and the guards silently opened the door for her. The woman stepped into the large throne room.

The room were brightly colored with some dark colored details. Flowers of all kinds decorated the walls along with lamps. Different kinds of paintings covered the space that wasn't covered with flowers. The sunlight that shone through the windows light up enough of the room to make the electric lamps unnecessary. By the floor were some tables with different statues on, otherwise the room was bare. Except for the two thrones at the end of the room.

The woman walked over to the occupied throne and bowed to the other human woman on it. The woman wore a dark blue dress with a white pattern and a white jacket over it. A golden crown sat on top of her black hair.

"Queen Estelle." The woman in the suit said, still bowed down.

"Ah, Mario. What brings you here? Shouldn't you be speaking with the mayors?" The queen said. Mario stood up straight and nodded to the lady.

"Yes, my Queen. I was talking to them but I got a call from King Asgore. He requests to have a video conference with you." She said seriously. Estelle frowned.

"No. He knows very well I do not wish to talk to him outside the necessarily occasions and formally ones." She said and waved a hand to dismiss Mario. She paused as Mario didn't move an inch.

"Your Majesty, this is urgent. And I'm inclined to believe him. He has never called you outside from the necessary calls, except from the time you just have taken over the crown. So please, my Queen. Answer his call, just this once." Mario said as she looked dead in Estelle's eyes. The queen looked at her secretary and contemplated what has just been said.

"Just this once then. Go and prepare for the call, I will arrive shortly." She said and Mario quickly bowed before she hurried out of the room.

Estelle sat for a moment on her throne and wondered about the reasons Asgore would have called her on. She sighed and rose up from her seat. Subconsciously she brushed away non-existent dirt from her dress as she walked towards the large door. The guards kept the door open for her and fell into her steps as she continued onward. She smiled at her servants as she passed them but she didn't falter in her speed. Soon enough she and the guards reached the conference room and she walked in while the guards stopped outside and closed the door after her.

The room was an oval one with a table matching the room. At the end of the room was a screen and a picture of the monster goat, Asgore. Estelle walked over to the screen and looked wearily at the other regent. He looked very tired, but despite that he gave her a gentle smile.

"Queen Estelle, thank you for answering my call. I know I normally don't call you and thus I'm very sorry." He said and bowed his head in an apology. Her eyes narrowed a little before she stood straighter.

"King Asgore. To my understanding, this is urgent. So get to the point."

"Ah, yes. Of course. You see, the inhabitants in my kingdom are getting sick-"

"I know you have very potent healers and doctors in your kingdom, I'm sure you are able to find a cure on your own."

"Queen Estelle. This isn't like any other sickness out there. This is something completely new. None of my healers or doctors have seen anything like this. We don't even know how it starts or how it spread. I'm taking that you haven't seen it or getting reports of it in your kingdom, but I'm sure you have getting reports of attacks on villages of monster and humans from my land."

"How are this sickness related to your attacks?"

"The ones that's infected are very aggressive and will attack anything that they doesn't consider a friend. Some have gone so far that they will kill for the thrill of it. Some of my people have been able to get through the haze the infected seem to be in, but it doesn't last very long. Please, I need your help. My people needs your help. They are suffering under this sickness and we have yet to find a cure."

"So I am to believe that your attacks on my people are just sick crazy people? That you have no control over? I'm not that dumb, Asgore. Declare war if that's what you want!"

"That isn't what I want! Please, Estelle! I'm begging you! I have sent all men I can to take care of the sick people, but I can't guarantee anyone's' safety! My alchemists are at a lost, they don't know what to do."

Asgore had let all of his dignity disappear. If he could, he would have been on his knees and begged for help. Estelle looked at the goat man and her features softened just a little.

"Do you have any proof that they are sick, and not a group that hates the truce we have?"

"Yes. My alchemists and doctors have found traces of some kind of energy in the bodies that's affecting everyone that carries it. It isn't something that are supposed to be there."

"That sounds more like drugs to me than a sickness."

"They get sick of it too. First it's just a normal cold that gets worse until they snap. And even if it's a drug, we need help. Please, can you send someone to help? A doctor, a scientist? Just someone to help my men dealing with the sick ones!"

Estelle stood there as she thought about what Asgore just recently told her. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She opened them again and looked at the desperate man.

"I know someone who might be able to help. I'll send them together with some soldiers." She said and Asgore's face lit up with relief.

"Thank you, Queen Estelle. When should I be expecting them?"

"I'll send them in a few days. So a week from now on, if their journey goes well."

"Thank you once again. May my prayers for your people be heard. Goodbye, Queen Estelle."

"Goodbye. May the Gods be with you, King Asgore." She said and the video call was cancelled. Estelle stood there for a minute before speaking out.

"Mario." She said and the secretary was quickly at her side.

"Yes, your Majesty?"

"Go and fetch Toriel. I need her to prepare Frisk for their journey."

AN: ... Ok, I'm now officially Undertale trash. I have started a fanfic. Welp, nothing to do about it than to write!

First things first: hello everyone! I hope you enjoyed this prologue of Guardtale! This story is spawned from Shyrstyne's picture "Undertale - Shield Bearer" on devianart. Go and look it up, it's amazing! And in the next chapter you will see why this has the name it has and how this spawned from the picture!

Secondly: This is about my update pace. I'm a slow writer(though I'm now trying to write a little every day) and I don't want to be pushed into making updates. Because then the story will not become good. So I'm asking of you readers to not leave any "Update!" reviews. It's fine to say "It will be fun to read more!" and "Can't wait to see what happens next!" but don't step over that line. While I'm happy that you like the story, "Update!" reviews just stress me out and I will lose the fun in writing the story. And that will just make it harder for me to write. I already have one story on hiatus until I have finished writing the story because I was too slow to update according to a guest reviewer. I will do the same to this story if I get too many "Update!" reviews. I really wish that it won't happen. Please be patient with me! I will do my best!

I have one more chapter that I need to finish and update and hopefully it won't take too long(I will have two more days of rest before I start to work again). After that it will take some time between the chapters. When I update though, it might be a double update then. But that's just a maybe. So don't count on it.

Thirdly: If you have a question, ask! I'll answer the question the best I can without spoiling anything!

And lastly: To my readers on my other fanfics that take a peak on this: sorry. Didn't mean to start this one, but I can't help it, especially when I have a friend I can talk with this about. I'm still writing my other stories, this one just popped up and demanded to be written. I still hope that you enjoyed this!

Thank you for reading this long AN and reading this prologue! I hope to see you in the next chapter! :)