I climb carefully, trying not to fall. The last thing I would want was to-

I trip on a root and I'm sent flying, down, down, down.

To the realm of the monsters.

I scream and curl my small body into a ball, my hair whipping past my face as my heartbeat quickens.

Squeezing my eyes shut, I brace myself for the fall. I hit the ground with a force that knocks the wind out of me, and I black out.

I open my eyes and groan, sitting up, and rubbing my eyes. I'm confused for a moment, and then I remember what happened. I look around.

I'm sitting in a bed of yellow flowers, and above me I can see a small bit slit of daylight from the hole I fell through. I sigh.

Standing up, I do a slow 360, looking at my surroundings. It looks pretty empty, a few stone pillars resting underneath a few cracks in the mountain, smooth gray stone lining the walls and ground. I pick one of the flowers, and after looking at it for a moment, I decide to toss it aside and walk around.

My boots make echoey thuds as I walk forwards, and I run my hands on the wall before finding an exit.

Just as I'm about to leave, I hear a voice. It's low, and sends shivers up my back.

Be careful, little human.

After freezing for a few moments, I take a deep breath and walk out.

It's very dim, and I blink, trying to adjust to the light.

After a few moments, I see a flower. It's a lot like the flowers I woke up in, but with a smile, and it's upright, on a stem. Something about it...disturbs me.

"Howdy!" It exclaims. "I'm Flowey! Flowey the flower!"

I snort. What a dumb name.

"You're new to the underground, aren't cha?" it asked. I nod.

"Here, I'll help ya!"

I felt a small tug and a glowing heart appears in front of me. "That is your soul, the very culmination of your being!"

I narrowed my eyes, suspicious. The way the flower was eyeing it, it was almost like….

White pellets appeared around the Flower, and he explained other things quickly, before calling the pellets around him a name.

"Um, these pellets are little white...Friendship Pellets!" Flowey let them float towards me.

It smiled. "Get as many as you can!"

Don't.

It was the voice from earlier. I dodge the pellets with a grin. The flower's smile drops for a second, and then comes back. "Ha! You must have missed it. Here, I'll send them again."

I dodge out of the way again, and repeat what the voice said.

"In this world, it's kill or be killed."

The flower is caught off guard for a moment, and it begins to grin widely, exposing sharp teeth. "You know what's going on here, don't you?"

I shrug. "I don't know, do I?"

The flower grins even wider, until it looks like the corners of it's mouth were about to rip apart.

"Foolish human. Who would pass up an opportunity like this?!"

I'm suddenly surrounded by a ring of white pellets.

"DIE." The flower laughs, loud and crazed, as the pellets close in.

What do I do now?! I ask the voice, panicked.

Now, you wait.

As the pellets come closer and closer to me, I close my eyes, ignoring the grating sound of that stupid flower's laugh.

Suddenly, they stop. Flowey stops laughing, looking confused. "Huh?"

A flaming orange ball races towards it, and knocks it over. "AHHH!" it screams.

A tall goat woman appears. Her fur is a cream color, and she wears a purple robe, with a strange symbol embroidered on the front of it.

"Poor child, are you alright?"

I nod. "Thank you, but who are you?"

The goat smiles, her eyes filled with kindness. "I am Toriel, caretaker of the Ruins."