Chapter 1

Fallen Down

"Ugghh"

The boy groaned as he began to lift himself up from the ground. His legs were still weak, but he managed to stand. His knees were scraped, but other than that, to his own dismay, he was unharmed. He looked down, only to see yellow flowers strewn across the floor of what seemed like a cave. He picked up a cap from the floor. It was blue, with a pine tree at the front. He was also wearing a pair of shorts, an orange shirt and a dark blue vest. Suddenly, his face widened, and he quickly turned around.

"MABEL!"

He ran towards a girl, who, just like him before, was lying on the bed of flowers. She was wearing a skirt and a colorful sweater with a Flower on it. He helped her get up from the ground.

"Are you okay Mabel?" He asked worryingly.

"Yeah, I'm ok Dipper." She looked up, only to see a large hole. "I guess we fell down there, huh?"

"Yeah but, how did we survive the fall. It looks like we fell at least 25 meters."

"What if the flowers broke our fall?"

"Seriously? That sounds unlikely."

"Dipper, we've seen things far stranger than flowers breaking a fall this summer."

"I guess, but…"

"Like What?"

Dipper was soon interrupted by the voice of a girl behind them. She looked about the same age as the other two. She had shorts brown hair, and was wearing a purple striped blue sweater, and dark blue shorts.

"Oh, uh, I dunno" Mabel replied, "Gnomes, and mermen, and ghosts and stuff."

"Cool". The girl said.

"Hey, you're the reason were down here." Dipper angrily said to her.

"What?"

"Yeah, Mabel and I had come up here to investigate stuff, saw you at the edge of the hole, you tripped, we saved you, then the ground crumbled beneath us and we fell into, well, wherever this is!"

"What were you investigating?"

"Wha? That's not the point! The point is that it's your fault we're stuck down here!"

Dipper looked like he wanted to shout, but managed to hold himself back.

"Calm down bro." Mabel told her brother. "Why don't we go have a look around, and see if there's a why out.."

"Good idea Mab, uuhhh, what was your name again?"

"Mabel, yours?"

"Frisk. Nice to meet you Mabel." Frisk extended her hand to Mabel for a shake, and then to Dipper, who, despite still being angry about the whole falling into a giant hole in a Mountain thing, begrudgingly shook her hand.

The three children walked until they came across some sort of pillared entrance, and on the other side, a flower with a smiling face, bobbing around left and right. The three looked at it, each with faces of confusion.

"Ok, we don't know what that thing is." Dipper quietly whispered to the other two. "So we should be careful to not just walk towards it, ok Mabel?"
He turned around, only to see Mabel had gone, and began walking towards the flower.

"Mabel, we don't know what that is!"

Dipper and Frisk went to get her, but she was already talking to the flower.

"Hey there little guy." She said without a single bit of fear in her voice.

"Howdy!" The flower replied with a high-pitched, cartoony voice. "I'm Flowey. Flowey the Flower!"

"Well hello there Flowey, my name is Mabel."

"HEY!" Dipper said to Mabel as he grabbed her sweater and pulled her away from Flowey. "How do we know it isn't evil?"

"Come on Dipper, just look at that face, does that look like the face of evil to you?"

Dipper turned and looked at Flowey.

"I guess not, but still, we should be careful."

"I dunno," Frisk said calmly "He doesn't seem that bad. Hi there. Sorry about Dipper he's a bit paranoid."

"Howdy Dipper. Hmm, you three are new to the Underground, arent'cha. Golly, you must be so confused."

"Yeah, I guess we are, you cute little guy." Mabel said, still unfazed by the fact that a flower was talking to her.

"Someone ought to teach you guys how things work around here. I guess little old me will have to do. Ready. Here we go!"

Suddenly, coloured hearts appeared in front of the three. Mabel's heart was green, while both Dipper and Frisks were red.

"Okay what is this? You two get back." Dipper said immediately said after the hearts appeared.

"There's nothing to fear." Flowey reassuringly told Dipper "Those hearts are your souls."

"Our what?"

You souls! The very culmination of your being. You soul starts of weak, but can grow strong if you gain a lot of LV.

"LV? What is that, level?"

"Dipper, it probably means love." Frisk said undoubtibly.

"Correct! You want some love, don't you?"

"Sure." Mabel said enthusiastically.

"Don't worry, I'll share some with you."

Flowey blinked before 5 white pellets appeared above him. Dipper nervously backed away, as he was obviously suspicious.

"Down here, love is shared through… little white… 'friendliness pellets'."

However, as he said that, Mabel and Frisk began to back away as-well, both with uneasy looks on their face.

"Uhhh, maybe we can get LV on our own." Mabel said with a nervous chuckle.

"No, move around and get as many as you can." Flowey said, with a less happy tone as before. Suddenly, the pellets cam flying towards Mabel's green soul, But Dipper immediately shoved her out the way, causing the pellets to smack Dippers soul hard, knocking him back.

"Dipper!" Mabel shouted as Frisk ran towards him. He was lying on the floor, grasping his soul, his face squinting with pain. His arm wrapped around Frisk's shoulder as she tried to help him up. Flowey's face changed from a cute, innocent smile to a sinister grin.

"Heh heh heh. YOU IDIOTS!" Flowey's voice changed from happy to creepy instantly. "In this world, it's kill or BE killed. Why would anyone pass up an opportunity like this?"

Suddenly, dozens of the 'friendliness pellets' appeared around the three.

"DIE!" Flowey screamed. He began laughing a sinister, high pitched, creepy laugh as the pellets slowly flew towards the kids, fear striking their face, their bodied frozen. But just as soon as Flowey changed from cute to evil, the pellets disappeared. Flowey looked confused, until WHAM! A fireball flew towards the flower, knocking him away into the darkness. The Dipper managed to lift himself up, as a large goat woman walked in front of them.

"What a terrible creature, torturing such poor innocent youths." Her voice was soothing and motherly, and she was wearing a purple robe with a strange symbol on it.

"Ah, do not be afraid, children, I am Toriel, the caretaker of the ruins. I pass through here every day to see if anyone has fallen down. You are the first humans to come down here in a long time."

"Hi there, Toriel." Dipper said. He was still paranoid after the flower had tried to kill them. "Thanks for saving us, I guess."

"My pleasure young man. Now, come, I will guide you through the catacombs, this way."

Dipper looked at the other two as they got up from the ground.

"Do you think we should follow her, I mean, the last thing down here we trusted tried to kill us."

"Well what other choice do we have Dipper?" Mabel replied. "It's not like there's a way out we can see?"

"Plus, she did just save our butts. I trust her."

Mabel agreed with Frisk, nodding their heads in unison.

"Ughhh, Ok." Dipper groaned, "But if we die, I'm gonna kill both of you."