Welcome Home, My Child

I sit up in a bed of golden flowers. I dust the petals off me as I stand before staring up at the hole in the ceiling high above. I must have tripped and fell, my body aches but it's nothing too serious. You'd think a fall like that would kill a person. I shrug and walk down the path in the dark. I pass an archway and I see a lone golden flower before me. I kneel down and reach out to touch it when it suddenly opens eyes and smiles with a face I didn't know it had just a moment before.

I gasp softly and pull my hand back a little as the creature talks to me in a young boy's voice, "Howdy! I'm Flowey, Flowey the.. Flower! Golly, you must be new here, huh?"

I smile and nod and he continues, "Well, someone should teach you how things work around here."

He winks at me and I giggle softly. He continues talking, "I guess little old me will have to do!"

My eyes widen and I tilt my head curiously as a bunch of little white pellets of energy appear above Flowey.

"Right now, you're weak, and down here you'll need love. Everyone wants love, right? You can gain love by catching 'friendliness pellets' from various monsters down here. I'll share some love with you, so go ahead, catch these. Just reach out and touch them." he explains.

The friendliness pellets come towards me and I reach to touch them and then I'm thrown to the ground as they hit me. I groan, staring at Flowey in confusion, "That.. Hurt.."

Flowey suddenly laughs like a basic villain in the late night t.v. I'm not supposed to watch. His face twists into a sinister grin, "You idiot! Did you think I'd pass up the opportunity for such an easy kill?! In this world, it's kill or be killed! Now die!"

His mean pellets form around me and slowly close in as he continues laughing like a crazy person. Suddenly a blast of fire hits the flower and his pellets disappear as he gets blown away. A large humanoid goat monster in a long purple dress hurries over to me and her voice is soft as she talks, "Oh my, small one, are you all right? Such a horrible creature, harming such an innocent child."

She holds her hand out to me, smiling softly, "Come now, you'll be safe with me."

I stare at her for a moment before taking her hand slowly. A flower did just try to kill me, what's to say this goat woman won't? She gently pulls me to my feet and she sprinkles a green powder over me. The pain I felt suddenly disappears and she holds my hand as she leads me into a new room. I guess she won't. This new room is bathed in torchlight as torches are hung along the purple walls. The path ahead of us leads to a double set of stairs, which both leads into a doorway with a weird crest over the archway.

As we walk, the goat woman looks back at me, "My name is Toriel. I am the caretaker of these Ruins."

"Where am I?" I ask.

We pass the doorway and come into a new corridor bathed in torchlight. She releases my hand as we get to the door and there are some switches on the floor and one on the wall by the door. She hits the switches as she speaks, "You're in what we call the Underground. This is the Ruins, what's left of where we all lived at once. Not many monsters live here anymore, but do not be afraid. I'll protect you from the monsters that do live here."

She leads me through the torch-lit Ruins while explaining some puzzles to me. They seem simple enough, even though she says they're dangerous. We come towards a bridge made of spikes and a frog monster suddenly jumps on me. I yelp as I fall down under its weight. Toriel glares at it and it croaks before running off. She helps me back up, "You weren't hurt, were you?"

I shake my head and she smiles, taking my hand as we come to the spike bridge. She looks back at me again, "This is a little dangerous, so just follow where I step."

She leads me carefully across the bridge and we continue down the path. There seems to be only one path to follow through the Ruins. We go deeper into the Ruins and she continues to show me how to solve puzzles until we come to an intersection littered with leaves. We turn left to a large dead tree, dried leaves lay at its base. How could a tree even grow down here with no sunlight? That patch of flowers I woke up in had sunlight shining down, and rain probably came down, too, so that makes sense, but how can a tree grow?

"How did that tree grow?" I ask.

Toriel smiles at me, "Magic."

I frown lightly and she leads me to a cute little house with pretty red leaves littering the front of the house. We go inside and it's a pretty honor color on the walls and the floor. It smells like cinnamon. Toriel takes me to the hallway to the right and we stop in front of a door. She releases my hand and pats my head, "Welcome home, my child. This is your room. Why don't you get some sleep while I clean things up a bit."

"Okay," I smile and go into the room. I close the door behind me and look around. The room is painted a rusty red color and it looks like someone else might have lived here once. At the foot of the bed is a box of shoes of different sizes. I jump onto the bed and sneeze as dust puffs up around me. I get off the bed continue looking around there's a box of toys in front of the dresser but none of them look very interesting.

I open the dresser and there's a few different outfits in different sizes. I close the dresser and walk over to the small table the lamp sits on. I switch the lamp on and off a few times, at least that still works. It's kind of cozy in here, could use a good dusting, though. I go back to the bed and take off my boots.

I put the boots in the shoe box then pull the cover, pillow, and sheet off the bed. I thoroughly shake out all the dust before making the bed again. I then go turn off the light before climbing into bed. I snuggle up under the cover and close my eyes. It's warm and cozy, and I can still smell cinnamon. Before I fall asleep almost instantly.