Well, I guess this is it, my revision of my Grouptale Fanfic. I'm still working out the entire story but I can at least give you the first chapter. Before we start lets go over the characters first.
John: Age 17. Short red hair, pale skin, freckles on cheeks, and chubby. Caucasian. Cowardly, lazy, joker, bipolar, perceptive. Has an obsession with silk. Best friends with Jerod. Carries a silk ribbon in his pocket as well as a toy knife.
Jerod: Age 17. Dirty blonde buzz cut, tanned skin, muscular build. Caucasian. Athletic, Childish, temper problem, impulsive. Best friends with John. Easy to humor. Carries a manly bandanna and a tough glove on his left hand.
Delilah: Age 14. Long brown hair, fair skin, pretty. Caucasian. Virtuoso, Charismatic, Diva. John's little sister. Wears ballet shoes and a skirt (She didn't have a tutu when she fell).
Iris: Age 11. Shoulder length brown hair, dark skin, short. Indian. Child prodigy, studious, geeky, bookworm, computer wiz . Loves anime and reading. Delilah's best friend. Wears cloudy glasses and carries a notebook of her notes.
Diego: Age 14. Black wavy hair, caramel skin. Hispanic. Culinary, charitable, semi-pacifist, selfless, responsible. Older brother to Caleb. Wears a cooking apron and carries an old frying pan.
Caleb: Age 11. Short black hair, caramel skin, birthmark on left cheek. Hispanic. Outgoing, hyperactive, animal lover. Loves cute and fluffy creatures. Little brother to Diego. Wears a cowboy hat and carries a toy gun.
Frisk: Age 10. Brown shaggy hair, yellow-tan skin, squinty (almost closed) eyes. Asian. Flirty, ADHD, friendly, stoic. Best friends with Caleb. Wears a bandage on his cheek and carries a stick.
If you would like to know what happened before then read my Grouptale Origins story that I finished. For those of you who read my previous version of this, don't expect everything to be the same from the original. Treat this like it's a completely different story. Ok, lets get started!
Chapter 1: The Fallen
Arc 1: The Ruins
"W-wh- where am I? Who are you?"
The whole group fell down into the hole and landed on the hard ground, surprisingly they are all not dead. They landed on a patch of golden flowers that broke their fall. They each started to get up an check on each other.
"Ugh, is everyone alright?" Diego asked. He wanted to know that everyone is okay before he checks himself.
"I'm okay" Iris said straightening her glasses. Diego saw that her purple turtleneck was all dirty now. "Nothing broken, just a little banged up. What about you?"
Diego inspected himself. He had nothing serious, just a little cuts and bruises. "I'm good thanks."
"John get your butt out of my face!" Jerod shouted. His friend was laying on top of him.
"How about you get your face out my butt!" John retorted. He crossed his arms and scoffed.
"Uh I think you both should get off of Delilah." Diego said. They both looked down and saw Delilah's arm sticking out of the dogpile, her hand clawing at the ground. They could hear her muffled yelling.
They both quickly got off as Delilah gasped, finally able to breath. She slowly turned her head and glared at John and Jerod. Flower petals stuck to her hair.
They both chuckled nervously. "Heh, no hard feelings right?" Jerod said. He grunted as she kneed him in the groin. She turned to John. He put his hands up.
"Y-you wouldn't do that to you own brother right." John stuttered. She rolled her eyes as she punched his shoulders and then hugged him.
"Don't ever tell anyone about this." Delilah said. John agreed in fear of getting hit like Jerod. "But I am glad your alright."
"Ugh you didn't have to do that." Jerod groaned as he got back up.
"Yeah sorry, I get a little over dramatic." Delilah apologized.
"Guys, Frisk needs help." The group turned and saw Caleb kneeling by Frisk. His teeth was gritted as he clutched his right knee, it looked like it was swelling.
"What happened?" Delilah asked.
"I landed on his leg pretty hard. I think it's broken." Caleb said. Iris walked up and felt around his leg.
"You going to give me a boo-boo kiss Dr. Iris?" Frisk said winking. Then immediately winced as Iris's hands touched a tender part of his leg.
"Shut up Frisk. I don't feel any fractures but your still going to need a splint."
"With what, the flowers?" Frisk asked.
John sighed. "Your right, we're gonna have to amputate it." Frisk's face paled as he tried to crawl away.
"Ignore him. We're not cutting off your leg but you can put any weight on it." Iris said.
"I got him." Jerod said as he hoisted Frisk onto his back. Frisk clung to his neck. "Be grateful that's the worst injury we got from... hey how did we end up down here?"
"We fell from up there." Frisk pointed up. Everyone looked up and saw sunlight shining from high up.
"Thank god the flowers broke our fall." Delilah said. "But how are we going to get out of here now?"
"Maybe we could parkour our way back up?" Jerod suggested. He noticed the face John was giving him. "Um maybe that's not a good idea."
"Why don't we call someone, let me just..." She pulled out her phone and saw that it was broken. Everyone else pulled out their phones same thing.
"Wait, mine's still good." John said reaching for his. "Screen's a little cracked but it... damn it! Are you kidding me, no signal at all." John said.
Caleb looked at Frisk. "Hey Frisk, you got any ideas?"
"Maybe we can go that way." Frisk pointed to the left where the cavern extended into an ancient doorway.
"Um I would prefer if we don't go in the spooky dark cave." John said.
"Really, what are you scared?" Caleb said.
"N-no, just that I don't wan't to...to run into the monsters."
"I thought you said that you didn't believe in monsters." Iris said. A smug grin appeared on her face.
"I-I didn't say that! We should just wait here and help will come."
"What help!" Jerod said. "No one knows we are down here. Quit being a chicken and let's go."
John groaned. "Alright... lets go. I mean what's the worse that can happen?"
After that, they went an ventured through the doorway. Past it was nothing but a grassy patch, and a single yellow flower...with a face.
"Whoa, thats amazing!" Iris walked forward and started scribbling down on her notebook. "Look at the way the androecium is formed. It's the most amazing thing I've ever seen." Iris extended her finger at the head.
"Aw that's flattering. Howdy I'm Flowey, Flowey the Flower." The flower spoke. Iris jumped back and shrieked. Everyone stood frozen. The Flower's face looked confused. "What, is there something on my face?"
"N-no it's your face." John stuttered.
"Oh...OH I see. Your all new to the Underground aren't ya?" Flowey asked.
"The Underground? Uhh yeah I guess so. Is that an actual name or do you mean just being under the ground?" Jerod asked.
"Both silly, that's what we call the kingdom down here."
"Kingdom? Of what, mole people?" Caleb asked
Iris nudged Caleb. "No stupid. This is the kingdom of monsters down here. Right Flowey?"
"Yes-sirree" Flowey said. It dawned on them that Flowey had a distinct southern slang in his voice.
"Wait, so there really are monster's down here?" John asked.
Flowey nodded. "I knew it!" Iris exclaimed. "People always said the stories were false but I knew that the legend had to have started from something."
"Legend? What legend?" Flowey asked.
"It's a really old legend back home, 'Any human that climbs Mt. Ebott never returns." Iris said.
Flowey arched an eyebrow. "Really? Then why did you bother climbing the mountain?"
"We were following our friend. Frisk here decided to run away to the mountain." Jerod said
"Well why would he do something like that?"
Everyone looked at Frisk. "Yeah, why did you climb the mountain Frisk?"
Frisk frowned as he hid himself in the back of Jerod's shirt.
The silence was a little awkward and uncomfortable.
"It's okay Frisk, you don't have to say it now. But you still owe us an explanation, got it?" John asked. Frisk slowly nodded.
Flowey cleared his...throat, and continued to speak "Well anyway, it looks like someone ought to teach you how things work around here. Luckily little old me is here to lend a leaf." Flowey winked.
"That's not necessary Flowey. We're not staying long, we have to get home." Diego said.
"Well it is a long trip to the other end of the cavern. You might as well get some tips for the journey."
Delilah sighed. I guess you have a point. Go on and show us."
"Great, here we go!"
Suddenly everyone felt a tug on their chest. They saw different colored hearts spout out of their chest cavity.
"See that. That's your SOUL."
"My SOUL... as in the very culmination of your being?" Iris asked.
"Yep!" Flowey replied. John stared in amazement at his SOUL. It hovered just above his hands, the glow of cyan lighting up the dark. He reached out and gently grabbed it. He felt funny in the chest. He checked the other's SOUL, Jerod was orange, his sister was blue, Iris was purple, Diego was green, Caleb was yellow, and Frisk was red."Your SOUL starts off weak but you can strengthen it by gaining a bunch of LV."
"LV? As in level like in a video game?" John asked.
"No silly, it stand for LOVE."
"LOVE really?"
"Yeah, do you want me to share some with you?"
"Uhhh"
"Great!" Flowey winked and stuck out his tongue. "LOVE, is shared through little white friendliness pellets. Like these." Suddenly a bunch of pellets popped up and floated around Flowey. "Alright now stand still while I give these to you. Wouldn't want one to miss and go to waste."
The group stood there as they closed in. Suddenly they all cried out as they felt a pain in their chest. Diego quickly caught Frisk when he fell off of Jerod. They all collapsed on the ground.
Jerod glared at Flowey "Ow, what the hell kind of game are you trying to pull here...Flowey?"
Flowey's face morphed into something evil and demonic as he gave a sadistic cackle. "You guys are complete idiots. 'Friendliness pellets' really, you fell for that crap? Down here, it's kill or be killed. And I'm just the luckiest flower that I came across all of you first. No one else would pass up an opportunity as sweet as this."
Diego was shaking in fear as he clutched Caleb and Frisk tightly. "W-what are yo-"
"SHUT UP, I'm doing a monologue! Where was I, oh yeah. With all seven of your SOULS I'll become all powerful. Monsters and humans will bow to my power. Oh I could just imagine the fun I will have. Golly, too bad you wont be around for my reign of terror. Now how about you all just DIE."
Flowey cackled as he summoned a ring of pellets which surrounded the group. They all huddled up together as the pellets closed in.
Before they could hit the group, a green bubble surrounded them and absorbed the impact of the pellets. The bubble then vanished.
Everyone as well as Flowey looked in confusing. Then a fireball came out of nowhere and knocked Flowey away.
"Uh, what just happened?" Iris asked.
"Oh dear, are you children alright?" Said a motherly voice. The group all turned and saw an actual monster. She was wearing a long purple robe with a peculiar symbol on the chest area. She was covered in white fur and her head resembled that of a goat. She approached them with a face of concern.
Jerod and Caleb stood protectively in front of the group. "Stay back monster." Caleb said, aiming his gun. It's a toy gun with no bullets...but he could pistol whip her.
"Your going to have to get through me to get to my friends." Jerod said punching his fists together.
Toriel put up her hand to calm them down. "Don't be scared, I am not your enemy. My name is Toriel, caretaker of the ruins."
"Well 'Toriel', how do we know that you aren't going to trick us?" Caleb said, eye not leaving her face.
"I'm sorry, I truly don't have any way to prove myself. Please just lower your weapons and you will see that I mean no harm."
Delilah tapped Jerod's shoulder. "I don't think she's lying."
"Me neither, lets see how this plays out." John said.
"She did save us from Flowey." Diego said
They both gave in and let their guard down.
Toriel smiled. "Thank you, now can I ask for your names?"
"I'm John."
"Jerod."
"Delilah."
"Iris."
"Diego."
"Caleb."
"Frisk."
"Those are nice names. I pass by here everyday to see if a human has fallen down here. I haven't seen humans in...a long time."
"Well if you know this place so well can you show us the way through the place?" Iris asked.
"Of course. Come children, I will guide you through the catacombs."
Frisk stepped forward and grabbed her hand. Toriel gasped at the sudden affection. Frisk looked up at her and smiled.
"Psst didn't Frisk have a bad leg?" John whispered to the group.
"I thought so too, what happened?" Iris said.
"I don't know he just started walking alright sometime just after Flowey attacked us." Diego said.
"Children, are you coming?" Toriel called out, her and Frisk were already waiting at the other end of the room.
"Yeah, we're coming." Diego said. They all stood behind her as she led them through the catacombs.
"Guys?" John said
"Yeah?" The rest of the group asked.
"I think we're definitely going to be late for school."
And so begins the adventure of the seven humans...for the second time. I'm not going to call back a lot to my previous story in this one. Not going to lie, it's going to be a long one. I promise to put a bunch of effort into this one.
Cut Ideas
I originally wanted to make them all the same age of 12 but I decided against that since that would completely make the Origin story not canon to this, and I really don't feel like doing it all over.
I wanted to give Flowey a ridiculously over the top cowboy accent but that seemed a little too silly.
The group accidentally step on Flowey and he attacks in anger.
Flowey actually being nice...nope.
They never meet Flowey and run into Toriel first.
If you have any questions that won't spoil the story please ask, I'll be happy to answer.
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