The Adventures of Gray in Undertale
It was warm. It was warm and bright. "Where did you come from?" A girl said. His eyes opened. He looked around him. He felt really sore. All around him were golden yellow flowers. " They broke your fall." The voice said. His name was Gray. The boy. He had no idea who the girl was or her name. Gray stood up and looked down at himself. He was in a child's body. A human child's. He was wearing a gray hooded jacket with a pointed ears on the hood and a gray fox tail was sown into the tail of his jacket. He had a turquoise shirt with two sky blue stripes and beige shorts with brown leather boots. He wanted to get a look at his face but there wasn't anything reflective around. Light was coming from a hole high above. The rest of the room was mostly in darkness.
He had no reason to stay here. But it felt wrong. Why was he in this body? Why couldn't he at least have kept his ears and tail? His real ears and tail... He sighed. Gray walked down a tunnel to a doorway. He looked at it. It looked like the entrance of some kind of ruins. He went through. Then there was light. A bed of grass. And there a single flower. " Howdy! My names Flowey!" A high pitch voice said. "I'm Flowey the flower." Gray looked at the Flower. It was talking to him. " You must be new to the Underground. Golly, you must be really confused! Well, I guess someone needs to teach you how things work around here. May as well be me!" Flowey said. " Well, lets get started. Do you see this red shape. That heart? That's your SOUL! The collection of your very being! It starts of rather weak, but don't worry! You can get stronger by getting LV! What is LV you might ask? LOVE of course!"
Gray watched as everything turned black and he was trapped in a black box like space with the flower. He also noticed that in his chest was a red heart. A human's soul? He looked at Flowey the Flower. Something didn't feel right. Not at all. " If you want love to get stronger I can help! I'll hit you with friendliness pellets! Ready? Here we go?" Flowey said excitedly. White dots appeared in a kind of half circle and flew towards Gray. He sidestepped them and watched them hit the cave wall behind him. They damaged the wall. He was being attacked. " Huh? You didn't let them hit you? Let try again." Flowey said. Another wave of pellets was sent his way. Gray dodged them the same way. " What is this? Hey! Let my friendliness pellets hit you! It is for your own good!" Flowey yelled. Gray looked at Flowey annoyed. Flowey stared back then started to laugh sinisterly. " I see. You know what is happening don't you? You just want to make me feel bad huh? Well try to dodge this!" Flowey said and made a circle of pellets surrounded Gray. He had no where to dodge now. Or so the flower probably though. Gray was about to attack but never got the chance.
Someone beat him to it. A fire ball hit the flower and sent it flying into the darkness. The black box vanished. A goat woman stood towering over him. "What a horrid creature! Attacking a innocent child!" The woman said. "Mom?" A girls voice said " Is that... Is that really you?" Gray looked towards the voice's direction but there was no one there. Gray sighed. " I'm Toriel. I am the guardian of the ruins. I come here daily to check and see if anyone has fallen here." The goat woman said. A puca if Gray remembered his fairy creatures correctly. They were incredibly powerful. Gray held out his hand. " I'm Gray. Nice to meet you." He said surprising himself. His voice wasn't even his. Sort of like his. But it was the voice of a child.
Toriel knelt down to look at him closely. " Hmm. I have not seen a human child with gray hair and yellow eyes like yours. Come. Let me guide you through the ruins." The she-puca said and took his hand. He was a child. That explained everything. But it was frustrating. This wasn't his body. This wasn't right. Gray sighed and looked at the ground slightly crestfallen. Toriel set some tests for him to go through. He was supposed to fight a dummy, but he didn't feel like it. Especially when something was living inside of it. He tried talking to it, he started poking it even. It wouldn't respond though. He turned to Toriel who was looking at him proud. Was she wanting him to be a pacifist? Well, he kinda already was. He didn't like hurting people anyways. Not unless he had to.
*You tell Gray that he shouldn't hurt Monsters.
*You tell Gray that, even if they try to hurt him he should try to befriend them instead.
Yet another voice. At this point Toriel had given him a cell phone and told him to wait by a pillar while she ran some errands. "Maybe I'm just going insane. I've been in that empty place so long I wouldn't be surprised if I went insane." Gray said to himself.
"Yeah, you are going completely off your rocker! HA HA HA!" A girls voice said and laughed at him. She sounded rather creepy and mocking. Very apathetic. And not in the same way he was. He turned to look dead in the eyes of a pale transparent girl with red eyes and brown hair. She was wearing a green sweater with two yellow stripes and light brown pants. " Oh, so your a ghost. That's nice." He said and shrugged. He looked at the cellphone to check on the time. "What, that's it? You know she's not coming back for you right?" The girl asked. Gray shrugged. " I'll give her a little more time. I'm already missing her company anyways. Better than yours anyways." Gray said bluntly. He didn't like her voice. Mocking. Condescending. She wasn't a nice kid at all.
Gray got a call after five minutes had passed. Toriel told him she would need another five minutes. Gray shrugged and thought about what to do while he waited. " So she's your mom huh?" He asked. The girl didn't say anything. They navigated their way through the ruins with little issue until Gray ran into a passage way blocked by a ghost. Gray blinked. He looked around. " Excuse me? Mr. Ghost person? Hello? Would you mind moving?" Gray asked politely. The ghost didn't respond. It pretended to sleep and kept on saying nothing but 'Z' out loud. It was obvious it wasn't asleep.
Gray sighed and simply hopped over it... But somehow he ended up back where he started. Gray poked the Ghost. " Please move. I need to get by." He said calmly. The Ghost stood up an looked crestfallen. " Okay... I was just hoping... Someone would maybe stop and talk to me." The ghost said looking very sad. Gray looked at him and cocked his head to the side. " Well maybe we can talk a little later? Or maybe you can come with? We can talk along the way? " Gray offered. This seemed to cheer the ghost up. The ghost told him how it was hoping no one was down here so it would be left alone. It left not long after that. More puzzles and eventually he made it to what looked like a tree with red leaves. He was looking up at it with curiosity for a moment before his thoughts were interrupted by Toriel's voice. "Ah, dear child! I am sorry I took so long. I see you made it through the ruins just fine. Well, I wanted to surprise you! Come in come in!" She said happily and lead him inside.
Books. Lots and lots of books. Many of them about snails. The inside of the house was tidy, cozy, and had a huge bookshelf with tons of books! Toriel was watching him as he stepped inside. His immediate reaction was to take his shoes off before stepping inside. Then his pig pointy hat. He had a mess of hair that he realized wasn't his. But it was okay. He looked about with curiosity. So this was home? It was nice. He wouldn't mind staying here. He smiled while he looked for a place to hang his hat up and put his shoes away. " My, my. You are a well mannered child. *sniff Sniff" Is something burning! Oh, no! The pie!" She yelped and left for the kitchen.
'I still don't like the fact that I am missing my tail. The way I walk is weird. And my ears aren't the right shape or in the right place... And they don't move...' He grumbled to himself once he found the mirror in the hallway. His messy hair was gray and short and his eyes were a sharp yellow. His face made him look difficult to read... Especially when he didn't really have an expression more than inquisitive. He was happy that he didn't look mean, even when he looked annoyed. He tried to smile and his eyes almost disappeared because of his cheeks.
*You tell Gray having a tail is weird for a human. You tell Gray that humans are not suppose to have pointed ears.
Gray looked at the mirror. 'I'm not human. And this isn't my body is it?' He tried asking the voice.
Gray sighed when the voice didn't answer, so he returned to the living room. He sat down next to the book shelf and started to read the titles. Yup, most of them were about snails. A few others were about the history of the underground. He looked for one about fairy-tales. "The pie will be cooling for a while. You should get washed up and in bed. Your room is the first on the left." She said. " The bathroom is the one on the right. "
Gray wasn't going to lie to anyone including himself. He was disappointed. But he was tired. He nodded and straightened the books back before heading to the bathroom to get cleaned up and then to his room. While he was in the bathroom he confirmed that he had his own toothbrush and where and what was being used as toothpaste. While doing this he noticed that he had a menu he could select. Item, Stats, and Cell. He looked at his stats. He had a stick equipped as a weapon and a gray fox hooded jacket as armor. He had 20 HP was a LV 1 and 10 gold. He looked puzzled before going to his room. Pink. In truth everything was in reds and light reds really. Gray scratched his head and shrugged.
"Hey this is like my old room!" The girl's voice said. Gray would look at everything later. For now, he crawled into bed after turning the light of and fell asleep.
He didn't have good dreams. In fact, they were filled with menacing figures. But these weren't his dreams. These were someone else's. His were always filled with emptiness and loneliness. A endless black void with the only light being what surrounded him. There wasn't even a place where he could step onto, lay down or anything in his dreams. There was gravity. His and that world's. And so he usually just drifted in the void. His dreams had been a reality not long ago. And after the menacing images were over, that's where their dreams turned to.
*... You tell Gray you are glad he got away from that place.
The next day Gray was up and about exploring everything. His room, which wasn't as girly as he first thought had lots of toys that were interesting. There were lots of shoes too strangely enough. Gray then explored Toriel's room. Books and plants and such. That was another thing about the little home. It had plants there. A cactus, yellow flowers, and water sausages.
Gray was happy when he got Toriel to read him the fairy tale book while he sat in her lap eating the pie she had left in his room. He spent hours there, just resting his head against her while she read until he drifted off to sleep with the tip of his jacket's fox tail being pressed to his mouth while he was curled up. Toriel gently petted his head while softly giggling.
Gray would have been content with this life if not for the dreams. Or that Toriel dodged any questions about the underground, its inhabitants, who ruled, why the monsters were not allowed to leave to the surface, or if he could help her go grocery shopping. Gray knew he had to leave once the dreams became vivid enough that a voice desperately told him he was the hope for both humans and monsters. But he didn't want to hurt Toriel. Maybe just a little longer?
He was dozing on her lap while she sat in her chair one day. His dreams drifted off to something big, white and with fur. The soft rough and slightly coarse voice spoke to him... Sang to him in a lullaby. He looked around to see the soft white fur surrounded him. The fur was long and white and two icy blue eyes looked at him lovingly as a huge black nose pressed against his face nuzzling him. He was surrounded by a giant white she-wolf who softly sang to him. He heard himself call her mom. Warm, calm, big strong and beautiful. He found himself crying and had been reaching out towards open space while Toriel looked down at him worried. He only saw white and a black nose at first so the first words out of his mouth were, "Mom?" He rubbed his eyes and saw Toriel's surprised face. She looked happy though but worried. Gray smiled at her at first but when he looked away trying to make an excuse he immediately turned sad.
"So what was she like? Your mother?" Toriel ventured to ask calmly. Gray smiled a little sadly. " Big, strong, really really pretty. A little scary. A lot like you except she was a giant white wolf." Gray said smiling genuinely. At first Toriel didn't know how to respond. She had been called pretty and scarey all at once. She giggled finally. " She must have been very protective." She said. Gray nodded vigorously. " She would tear the heads off of anything foolish enough to mistaken me as food. He voice was really deep and coarse. Almost like how she growls. But I could feel how gentle she was with me." Gray said. He rubbed his eyes trying to stop himself from crying. How long has it been since he last saw her? He sighed. He would probably never see her again. He hugged Toriel and was silent for a while.
The day Gray left he wrote Toriel a letter. He wanted to let her know he loved her and was thankful for all the things she did for him. He wanted to stay, but knew he couldn't. He explained his dreams and what he felt like he needed to do. He tried to express everything he felt. How happy he was and how sad he was to leave. But also how he knew he needed to go and save the monsters. He left this on her chair and used his magic to let him swiftly leave and quietly. He got to the door that would be the exit to the ruins and went through. And there was Flowey. The Flower started to talk to him but he completely ignored the little menace. Nothing it had to say was worth his time.
With his shoes on, his hat on his head, his jacket zipped up and stick in hand, Gray pushed through the last door that lead him out of the ruins.