Welcome, fanbase! A few things I want to put out there before we start: first of all, this fanfiction is an original concept combining humans' life with monsters with epic action and combat scenarios. Though it may not look like an Undertale fanfiction at first, I guarantee it will by the fourth chapter. There's also a lot of focus on the properties of different colored humans souls.
Now, some clarification on the reasons for the rating. The violence isn't too bad, nothing really gory or graphic or anything like that, just people getting into fights and getting hurt. And when I say "censored cursing," I mean characters will curse, but I'll replace the cursing with asterisks. The romance, well, I'm just going to say that it's by no means deserving of an M rating. You let me know if I'm any good at that sort of writing.
One more thing: I put a lot of thought into making this story as realistic and canon as possible. You won't regret reading this.
"Half days are awesome, am I right?"
It's the end of the fourth six weeks of our sophomore year of high school. I'm just meeting up with Azalea, Darius, Minerva and Erika at the bus loop as we start heading towards our bus.
"Heck yeah," says Darius. "No homework due, no actual work to do in any of our classes, and of course we get to leave school early; they might even be better than full days off, get what I'm saying?"
"And is it just me, or is the weather always better when we get out on a half day?" said Azalea. She has a point; it's pretty windy today, with temperatures probably in the fifties, and the sky is partly cloudy, giving us shade from the brightness of the Sun every now and then. I love it, mostly because it's perfect weather for wearing my awesome jacket.
"It's not as late in the day, so we've got more energy and positivity left in ourselves. That, and the Sun hasn't had as much time to warm this place up," says Erika, being the realist she is.
"Well, I'm just glad I don't have any freaking homework this weekend," says Minerva. "Homework is the absolute worst thing about school. We're here seven and a half hours a day, and they expect us to work for two more hours when we get home?"
"Darn right, school would be a heck of a lot better without homework," I say as we step on to the bus, each of my friends making their sounds of agreement. We take our usual three seats near the middle of the bus, me and Darius on one, Azalea and Minerva on the seat across from us, and Erika alone behind us on the seat next to the emergency side door. I'd switch places with Minerva, but I've heard it's illegal for males to sit with females on school buses.
"Everyone remember the plan for tonight?" Darius says right as the bus is about to start moving.
"Chill for the afternoon, meet up at Zeze's at 7:30 for dinner, and then our long-awaited dark run of Almond Creek Linear Park?" I say excitedly. "That's what I remember. Am I wrong?"
"You're good to go, X," said Minerva. "Looks like the rest of us are as well." I look over at Azalea, who seems to be having trouble staying seated, and back at Erika, who's smiling confidently.
"Well, I'm playing Crossy Road now," I say, and I take out my iPad and start up the game.
We all play our mobile games (I end up playing Darius at a few rounds of Drive Ahead) until the bus gets to our neighborhood; Azalea gets off at the first stop, Erika and I get off at the second, and Darius and Minerva continue to the third stop from which they head home.
"Can you wait for that dark run tonight, Erika?" I say as we start walking home, past a stationary yet running car with really dark windows.
"Well, it's been almost a month since we came up with this idea, so I figure I could wait another eight hours. What are you going to do until then, X?" She's chill like that.
"Eh, read Undertale fanfictions, play Splatoon or Super Smash Bros, pretty much the usual. How about you?"
"I actually think I'm going to take a walk downtown this afternoon. My mom is friends with a teacher, so she's babysitting her kid today."
"Oh yeah, I get that. Well, I'll see you later."
"See you."
With that, I walk up the driveway and shove my way through the door.
My name's Xavier, but I go by X because it just sounds cool, and Xavier sounds so much like a little kid's name to me. Of course, that has made me the butt of a lot of annoying jokes in algebra class, but I've sort gotten used to it by now. That, and everyone gets bored of pointing at me whenever our teacher tells us to "find x."
Normally my brother would be coming home on the bus with me, but he's being driven over to his best friend's house by his best friend's mom, so now that I'm home, it's just me and mom in the house.
"Hi Xavier! How was your half day?" says Mom, who's on the couch watching TV and playing on her smartphone at the same time.
"Pretty darn good," I tell her. "Our Spanish teacher actually put on a movie in English for once."
"That sounds good. Well, if you want to go out with your friends tonight, you'd better make sure you get all of your chores and stuff done before then, right?"
"Mom, it's not until 7:30. Of course I'll be done way before then."
"Just make sure you don't forget anything. Especially lunch; you haven't eaten lunch yet today, you know."
"Holy crud, I am an idiot," I said. Up until Mom said that I've had no intentions of eating a full meal right after school. "I'm not going to have a very big lunch though, I'm going to try to eat as much as possible at Zeze's tonight."
"Alright, that's fine," my mom says going back to playing on her phone. At this point, I go into the kitchen to make myself a roast beef sandwich and a bowl of applesauce.
It's my week to clean the kitchen, so while I'm eating, I turn on the faucet for the water to start heating up. Then after I've finished my sandwich, I go and plug the sink and add soap. From there I have just enough time to eat my applesauce before the sink fills up. Dang, I apparently really like to multitask today. I carry dishes to the sink and stop the water at the same time.
Okay, chores are boring, so long story short, cookies, radio, wash table, sweep, clean my room, and now I'm on the Wii U ready to kill some time with Splatoon. And-holy dang, there's a Splatfest coming and it's Pokémon Red vs. Pokémon Blue. I was seriously not expecting such self-promotion from Nintendo like that, but I guess I'm not too surprised.
Yeah, I'm pretty much spending the rest of the afternoon playing video games and reading Undertale fanfictions. Oh yeah, about Undertale: that holy grail of video games is my reason to live right now; not that I'd kill myself without it or anything, but you get the point.
I played it about two months ago, during Christmas break, and let me just say, how dare my dad for hoarding that game on his computer for weeks and not telling anyone he had it or even playing it up to the Toriel fight! Once I beat it, I was not even close to being done with the whole concept and idea of monsters, intelligent creatures with bodies made of magic, living in our world today. So I got into reading fanfictions.
My favorite Undertale fanfictions have always been the ones about monsters' lives on the surface, but I also like the ones about Asriel and Chara and the other six humans that fell into the Underground. Some of the fanfictions about OC monsters are pretty cool too. The best about Undertale fanfictions, though, is that Undertale has so much potential for fanfictions that there's almost always an update on a good fanfiction to read. Like right now: I've been playing Splatoon for an hour, and now there's an update on this one involving PTA stuff.
So now I'm going back and forth between video games and fanfictions, until, holy crud, it's almost 7:00. This is the part where I get myself and my bike ready to go out. Tonight is going to be seriously epic.
Yep, this is about a group of teenagers who love Undertale but otherwise currently have nothing to do with the events of it. That will change though. We just need to do some exposition first.
Next chapter, more about X's gang, and what could go wrong eating out with your cool friends?