I groaned as I slowly woke up, floating in something, the blackness slowly leaving my vision as I opened my eyes. When I woke up all the way, my eyes widened, thrashing a little in what appeared to be a tube. I saw a door open and some weird lizard being runs in with a lab coat on.
I narrowed my eyes at the strange lizard, calming a little, if only so I could be aware of what's happening. My arm floated into view, my eyes widening again at the dark-red scales covering it. I decided I'd worry about that later, however.
I would've tried talking to the lizard I was practically glaring at, but I had a strange contraption covering my mouth and a bunch of wires feeding into me. The lizard started to talk but I couldn't hear other than some muffled sounds. I watched the lizard walked over to some machine thing to do… something, which I took this chance to look around where I was.
I appeared to be in some kind of lab, it having dark green floors and walls. I felt whatever the liquid around me was draining, falling to the floor of the tube, my body acting like it had never lifted anything before, struggling to stand. I put my hand on the wall of the tube to steady myself. There was a beeping sound as the tube opened and I fell forward.
I got up slowly, feeling DETERMINED to not appear weak, glaring at the yellow lizard in front of me.
"Body is good, it's moving so that means it can walk." The lizard said as it typed away not looking at me.
After a minute, I took shaky steps forward, idly noticing I appeared to just be in shorts, walking towards the lizard, a low growl managing to escape me. It looked over at me as I stood in front of it, and paled.
"Uhh…" it said, sounded female, as she took a few steps back. "Y-you don't look happy."
"W-where… am I?" I asked, voice scratchy. She blinked at me.
"You… you can talk!" she said as a grin appeared on her face. "It worked! I got it right again!"
"What… are you… talking about?" I asked.
"Oh… well… uhh… this is a lot to explain… you uh look like you need to sit down." the lizard said.
"That… would be… nice." I decided to say. She shifted over to push some garbage from a chair, a lot of those noodle cups things, and pulled it over to me.
I took a seat, sitting down. The female lizard kept looking me over in silence or in giddy mumbling.
"Ever since Undyne I thought I would never make another but it worked! I made one DETERMINATION." she mumbled.
"What… are you… talking about?" I asked.
"Oh! Uhh are you thirsty? I have… water." she said.
"A… little." I said. "Throat… scratchy." She shifted over and grabbed a cup and went out of the room. A minute later she came back and handed me the cup of water.
"Thanks." I said, gulping it down. "Where are we?" I asked after I was done.
"You are… in my lab." she said. She shifted in place in nervously.
"Okay… and where is that?" I asked.
"In a place in the Hotlands, it's named like that because it's… well really… hot." she said.
"I… don't know where that is…" I said, lying through my teeth, having a very good idea where I was right now.
"Oh… well you see-" she said as she started to explained in detail where we are and the whole thing.
"Okay… so… we're underground?" I asked, just to clarify.
"Yes." she answered.
"Neat." I said with a shrug. "And… why did you make me, exactly?"
"W-well you see… you're the second experiment that was a success after so many fails." she said as beads of sweat fell off her face.
"You just made me because you could, didn't you?" I asked, sighing.
"N-No! I didn't, I wanted to see if I could make a monster with DETERMINATION and-" she closed her mouth to stop talking.
"DETERMINATION?" I faux asked, needing to play the part of something that was just made.
"Yes, something that is part of a SOUL and it's used to-" she closed her mouth again and looked away. "Shut up, shut up, shut up!"
"Calm down." I said. "Let's change the topic, okay?" I asked, seeing she didn't appear to like talking about this. She looked at me and took a deep breath.
"Right… I think… right a name, you need a name." she said as she gave me a sheepish smile.
"I'm open to suggestions." I said, trying to give her a reassuring smile… though my sharp teeth didn't really help there.
"Well… how about… Ulfin!" she said happily.
"We'll… use that as a place-holder." I said, glancing off to the side. "So… you said something about magic earlier, right?"
"Yes, well since you are new to… everything, I'll be teaching you how to use magic." she said.
"Okay… that sounds fun, we should do that." I said, before pausing. "And get me some clothes."
"Oh! Right, uhh… follow me." she said. I followed her until we got to a door. "This will be your room for the time being, sorry for the small mess."
I walked inside of the, it being rather spartan, with a not entirely comfy looking bed and a dresser, the only real decorations being manga everywhere. "What's with all this stuff?" I asked, picking up a manga.
"Well… I never have anyone over so I don't really bother to clean up." she says nervously.
"Oh." I said. "I guess I could just leave it then." I said, tossing the manga and walking over to the bed, sitting on it. She shifted over and opened the closet, which surprisingly there isn't any manga in it. I saw different types of clothes, some for male and some female.
I picked up a black shirt, grey pants, and a red and purple sweater, slipping them on.
"Are they… comfy?" she asked.
"Yeah, they're fine." I said, nodding. "So… am I just gonna stay in here all the time?"
"Yes… I mean no, I mean... " she stuttered as she tried to come up with something.
"I mean, isn't there other stuff to do? All I see is a bunch of stuff on the floor with squiggles in them." I said, faking not knowing how to read.
"Oh… right… maybe I should teach you how to read and write." she said.
"Probably be helpful." I said, laying back on the bed in a relaxed pose. She spent the next few hours 'teaching' me how to read and write. She was pleased that I was picking this up pretty fast.
"Wow, you learned pretty fast, I thought I was going to spend the next week teaching you this but it's been a few hours and you're reading and writing like a pro." She praised me.
"So, now that that's out of the way, got anywhere to teach me magic?" I asked. "I don't think my room would be the best place for it."
"I do but…" she looked over at the clock that says it was close to midnight. "I think we can do that tomorrow, it's late."
"Ugh, fine." I said, laying down in my bed. "I'll come find you if I wake up first."
"Okay, night." she said as she left. I closed my eyes, falling asleep.
The next day
I woke up, looking at the clock and seeing that it was five in the morning, I got up and walked to my door. Thankfully, she didn't lock it so she could sleep, so I freely walked out.
I started wandering the True Lab, until I got to the elevator, pressing the button and going up, coming out in the 'surface' lab, looking around before going to my left and up an escalator, seeing Alphys sleeping on her bed and walking over, shaking her to wake her up. She groaned a bit and turned over still asleep.
"Hey, scientist person." I said, shaking her more roughly. "Wake up."
"Mmm… what? Whatzit?" she mumbled as she sat up in her bed.
"Magic time." I said, crossing my arms at her. She blinked tiredly as she looked at her clock.
"It's past five in the morning, why are you up?" she asked as her eyes are closed.
"I dunno, but I'm DETERMINED to make you teach me magic, or I'll just go find someone else who will." I said, not giving up. She sighed.
"Alright alright." she said as she hopped off the bed. "Follow me." I followed her till we got to a big room. "Okay, let me explain how magic works and what it is."
She then spent what felt hours explaining to me how magic works and stuff. I just nodded at things here and there. "Okay, I think I got it." I said, concentrating.
After a couple of hours, in which Alphys had gone back to sleep, I managed to summon a weapon… something that looked like a halberd and warhammer mixed, with two large blocky hammer bits at the sides of the end, and a long blade at the top at the end of the pole.
"Cool." I said, grinning. The weapon was colored red, and had a menacing aura-like flame around the hammer sides and blade. Dismissing the weapon, I left the main room to explore.
I went back to the main area, but instead of going to see Alphys… I went out the front door, emerging in Hotland and looking around, when I heard a voice coming from my right.
"Hey, what are you doing here?" the voice said. I turned and saw two big monsters in guard armour, the one of the left of me having been the one to talk.
"I was exploring." I said honestly, tilting my head.
"Yea, well you shouldn't be here, walking up to the front doors." the monster said.
"Err… he came from the front doors." the other said. The first monster frowned at him then looked at me.
"Is that true?" he asked me.
"Yes." I said, nodding.
"Err… hey, we're supposed to keep anyone out of the lab but… what do we do if someone comes out of the lab?" the second monster said.
"Well… this one looks like a smaller, reder male version of Undyne so… I guess it's fine…" the first monster said.
"Well, I guess you can go kid, don't get into trouble." The second monster said.
"Okay." I said, turning and walking forward, grabbing some water on the way, leaving HotLand and ending up in Waterfall. I decided to explore, wandering the place until I ended up in front of a certain fish-head shaped house.
I decided to knock on the door, waiting patiently for a answer.
"Hold on!" a voice said. The door opened and I saw a woman with an eyepatch answer it. "Hello?"
"Hello." I said, smirking up at her. "I heard you trained guards?"
"I do, I'm the head of the Royal Guard, that's one of my jobs." she said as she looked at me. "Why…"
"Well, I just learned how to summon this." I started, summoning my weird warhammer-halberd hybrid. "And I figured it'd be a good job as any."
"Uhh… kid, I think you're a little young for this." she said.
"Never too young to start the training though, right?" I asked. "Besides, if you need to, think of it as just teaching me how to defend myself." She blinks at me as she thinks about it.
"Well, it gives me something to do with my free time…" she muttered to herself. She then looked at me. "Alright kid, I guess teach you how to defend yourself."
"Okay, how do we start?" I asked, filled with DETERMINATION.
"How about we see what you are made of." she said. She took me into her house and down to her basement, it was some kind of training room. She took two staffs and gave me one. "Just so we can't hurt each-other."
"Okay." I said, taking the staff and de-summoning my weapon, charging blindly at her. She sidesteps me and hits me in the back lightly.
"Yeah, you need a lot of help with defending yourself." she said bluntly.
"I haven't had to yet." I said simply, shrugging. I tried again, getting ready mentally. She sidestepped me again and tripped me. I landed face first into the mats.
"How about you try something else." she said. I grumbled into the mat, before rolling and swinging at her while I was still down. She jumped and backed away. "There you go!"
A little more confident now, I got up, smirking and charging again.
A/N: So, this is gonna be a thing cause I can... have fun reading it people (don't worry, the chapters will be longer in the future)