Chapter 2: Welcome to the Ruins?
The child finally met her end of her decent and crashed down into what appeared to be a bed of buttercups. Yumi lied there unconsciously after hitting her head on to the ground when she had finally landed. It was not until a peculiar flower popped up and noticed the child laying down in the bed of flowers.
"Well what do we have here? Another child decided to pay a visit to the underground. ~" The flower commented to no one in particular. "Hmmm... She doesn't seem to be very strong… I can only hope that she isn't too wimpy to play with or else this game will get really boring." Said the flower as he examined the unconscious child. "Well better wake her up and get this game started. Hehehe. ~" The flower laughed maliciously to himself. He used one of its vines and try to stir Yumi awake.
After a couple of minutes of the flower continuously prodding the child, Yumi finally woke up with an unsurprisingly massive headache. "Ugh jeez my head is throbbing… Huh? Wait-what?... H-how am I still alive?" Yumi looked around her surroundings and noticed that she was in a small hole and that she was lying on a bed of flowers. "Did the flowers break my fall? But that's highly improbable!" as she thought to herself. She then looked up and saw how far away the main entrance of the hole was. She then groaned with a look of misery "Oh just great how am I supposed to get back up there?" Her moment of grieving in despair was interrupted when the flower that stood before decided to acknowledge his presence to her. "Well unless you've got wings or levitation abilities ya don't!" Yumi jumped back, startled by the flower's sudden appearance. "W-who are you? ..." Yumi asked cautiously. "Me? My name is Flowey! Flowey the flower! Howdy! ~" Flowey exclaimed enthusiastically "Gosh you really took a real hit to the head! It took me forever to wake you up!" "Really? Well it's nice to meet you Flowey… Umm my name is Yumi." Yumi replied feeling less threatened by the flower. "Ah Yumi that's a weird name hehehe! So what brought you here to the underground?!" He asked giving her a "cheerful" smile. "Well I was looking for some clues about a missing children case that has been going on around the area that I live in" answered Yumi as she tried to get up on to her feet, only to stumble as she tried to gather her bearings. "Oooh a mystery quest! Hey you might want to be careful! That fall took a lot out of your HP." She turned to him with a confused look on her face, "HP? As in Hit Points or Health Points, like in videogames?" she questioned. "Eeyup! Jeez you must be really confused on how things work down in the underground. But don't you worry your pal Flowey is gonna teach you how things are done!" as he looked at her giving her a winky face with his tongue sticking out.
They entered into a "FIGHT" and the match began. Yumi witnessed as a purple heart appeared out of her chest and glowed right in front of her. "You see that thing right there is your SOUL the very culmination of your being. You are able to move it around to dodge an enemies attack! But you can also gather LV down here. What's LV I can here you asking. Well LV is LOVE of course! Here let me give you some with my 'friendlyness pellets'! ~" Flowey then produced his pellets and shot them slowly towards her. Feeling skeptical with how Flowey called his pellets, Yumi moved out of the way of the incoming pellets. "Uh Yumi?... Heh what are you doing? Don't you want LOVE? ~" he replied to her in a sing-song voice. "Ummm you never really explained what those pellets would do to me and I don't exactly trust you all that much. I'm sorry Flowey. Flowey could only look down and started to laugh creepily. "Heheheh you're pretty smart. You're not as gullible as those other idiots! But I wanna see how strong you are!" He looked backed up at her with a cynical smile on his face, which caused her to scream in alarm of his contorted face. Yumi then quickly try to run away from him only to be struck by his barrage of pellets, subtracting eight points from her HP leaving her only one HP left.
After taken damage from Flowey's attack, Yumi had fallen to the ground and groaned in response. Flowey looked at her with his cynical smile still on his face, he began to tease her. "Go ahead cry for help. ~ No one can save you cause you see in this world it's KILL OR BE KILLED! But since I'm such a nice guy I'll give you the ability to SAVE so you can regain your health. You seem quite persistent to stay alive and I want to see how far you will go down here. Will you perish like all the others or will you actually be able to escape? This is gonna be so fun! HEHEHEHEH!"
Desperate for help, Yumi screamed as loud as she could, hoping that someone will hear her call. "HELP! SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!" silence filled the air, Flowey was straight faced at first, then he simply smiled and started to say "But no one ca-…" when suddenly a woman's voice called out "Hello? Is someone there?" Flowey flinched after hearing the woman's voice "Crap I almost forgot about her! Well guess I'll see you later! I'll keep my eye on you! HEHEHE!" Flowey quickly retreated back into the ground to avoid detection from the woman that was making her way towards the main entrance.
Once Flowey had disappeared, Yumi looked towards where the voice had come from and saw what appeared to be some kind of goat lady coming out from a passage that leaded to the next room. Too injured and exhausted from her fall and the confrontation with Flowey, Yumi could only lie there as the goat lady came into full view. She was very tall and looked to be pretty strong, but she did not seem to be threatening; although the flower did not look threatening either.
The large goat woman was surprised to find another child who had fallen from the surface, especially from all the injuries that the little girl had on her. She thought that by now the humans from above would have done something to prevent people from falling down here, do they not know what happened all those years ago? The goat lady quickly rushed to Yumi's aid and started to ask her questions. "My child how on earth did you receive all these injuries? I can understand the one on your head, but what about these small bruises that are all over your body?" Yumi weakly responded "There was this flower that attacked me…" Alarmed by her claim the lady questioned "A flower? I have never heard of a flower monster before. Hmmm well worry not my child, I will keep you safe." as she responded while giving Yumi a motherly smile. "I am Toriel, the caretaker of these ruins. Here allow me to heal your wounds for you." Toriel began to emit a green fire in the palm of her hand and began to heal all of Yumi's injuries as well as her HP. It was warm and comforting, it had reminded Yumi of her mother's warm hugs that she would give her whenever she was upset or had injure herself.
Once all Yumi's injuries were healed, the two both got up and Yumi dusted all the dirt off of her and then looked at Toriel. "Thank you for healing me ma'am. My name is Yumi. Ummm you would not happen to know if any other kids like me had fallen down here would you?" Toriel casted her head aside with solemn look on her face. "Yes, unfortunately. As to what became of them, I can only imagine that they had probably fallen victim to Asgore and had their souls taken away from them." Worry started to run through Yumi's veins. "W-wait so are you basically telling me that they are probably dead?!..." Toriel nodded her head as confirmation. Yumi looked down at the ground, feeling tears starting to form in her eyes. Toriel laid her hands on the small child's shoulders and gave her a reassuring smile "Worry not my child I will not let anything to harm you. Come, follow me back to my home we can talk more about this once we get there. If you need to take a moment to process all of this I will wait for you in the next room. Okay? ~" Yumi nodded her head and try to give her a small smile. Right after Toriel left the room, Yumi pulled out her journal and her pen so she could right down her thoughts. When she opened her book, she was surprised to see a shiny glowing yellow star had appeared out of it. "HUH! What is this? When the heck could my journal do this?!... Well at least it's a good light source for me to write my journal in." Then she started to write her next journal entry.
End of Chapter 2