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Chapter 1: Fallen Down
Everything was dark…was this what it felt like to die? Just darkness?
"Alex! Wake up!"
The voice snapped me out of my thoughts and I opened my eyes. No, definitely not dead. I was laying on something soft, in what looked like a cave with light filtering through the opening in the ceiling…wow, that's a high ceiling…how am I still alive?
"Come on Alex! Wake up!" Frisks voice once again brought me back to reality. I sat up, wincing as pain shot through my body.
"o-ow…" was all I could manage.
"Finally! I thought you'd never wake up!" Frisk was standing to the side, off of the flowers, which must have been what broke our fall…but, she seemed unharmed, a small bandage the only indication she was hurt at all, meanwhile, whether I had any visual damage, my body hurt like crazy.
"Are you ok? You don't look hurt" I said, waiting for the pain to subside enough for me to get up fully.
"I'm fine" she said "I think I landed on you on accident, probably why you're in pain, though you look fine"
I looked at myself and found that it was true, there was no sign of damage, except for a few small bruises and a couple of scrapes, nothing that should cause me as much pain as I'm in. before I could reply, Frisk spoke again.
"Come on, we should find a way out of here" she said, offering me a hand to help me up. I hesitated a moment, but took it, allowing her to pull me up. Oddly enough, the pain had completely subsided now…weird…but I wasn't one to question good luck, and it seemed like nothing was broken, so, hand and hand, we walked the only way we could…which lead us to a strange arch way…and beyond that archway, was an even stranger sight.
The room was completely dark, and seemed to be empty, except for a single ray of light that shone on the middle, where a single flower stood…if I looked close enough, I could swear there was a face on it. Curiosity spiking, and not really having better thoughts of what to do, I stepped towards said flower, my hand slipping out of Frisks, who had stayed in place.
"Howdy!"
We both yelped and sprung back in surprise. While I stayed on my feet, instinctively getting into a defensive position, Frisk stumbled and fell. I glanced over to see her sitting on the floor. I'd normally laugh at her, but I'm a bit too spooked by the fact that the flower, as there are no other possible sources, just spoke.
"I'm Flowey, Flowey the flower!" …and has a name, apparently. Well, either I'm hallucinating, or this is some magic flower, a boy by the sounds of it…Frisk getting scared rules out theory one.
"Uh, hiya! My name's Alex, and the girl is Frisk" I responded. Flowey turned slightly towards Frisk a moment, then back to me. I guess that's the equivalent of a glance? He seemed confused, but only for a moment, before his grin came back.
"Hmmm…you're new to the Underground, aren't ya? Golly, you must be so confused!"
"You could say that again" I mumbled. If he heard me, he didn't acknowledge me.
"Someone ought to teach you how things work down here! Guess little old me will have to do!"
"What do you mean by-" I was cut off as he continued
"Ready? Here we go!"
Suddenly, a strange energy washed over me. It sent a bad feeling through my body.
"See that heart?" he asked. I didn't want to look "that's your…SOUL…" he trailed off, eyeing me funnily. When I looked down, I could see why. There was a heart on my chest, about where my actual heart would be, I think, but instead of being red, it was a dark blue, and in the wrong light, might have looked black.
"Ahem" his voice caused my head to snap back up. He was smiling again "as I was saying. That heart is your SOULD, the very culmination of your being"
"It's my what?" I asked.
"It's basically who you are, what makes you, well, you" he responded. There was a hint of annoyance in his voice, but I probably imagined it "Your SOUL starts out weak, but can grow strong if you gain LV"
"LV? What's that stand for?" I asked
"Why, LOVE, of course!" he responded.
"Love?" I asked
"Yes, LOVE!" he responded. Something about that didn't seem right…but I decided to trust him, after all, no use hurting his feelings, right? "You want some LOVE, don't you?"
"Well, of course!" I respond almost immediately. I heard Frisk shuffle behind me, but I was too focused to look.
"Don't worry, I'll share some! Down here, LOVE is spread through…little white…'friendliness pellets'" suddenly, a few white pellets appeared above him "are you ready? Move around, catch as many as you can!" and with that, the pellets moved towards me. My guard was down now, so I didn't even think twice about moving away…but I really wish I had.
The pellets hit me full force, sending me into a tumble as I gasped. "Alex!" I heard Frisk yell as she ran over to me. If I thought the pain of falling down was bad, wow was I mistaken. Those pellets hurt! I managed to sit up with Frisks help as Flowey started laughing.
"You idiot!" he said. His voice had turned demonic, and it gave me chills. If it weren't for the pain, I'd probably have ran out as fast as I could "in this world, it's kill or be killed! And who would pass up an opportunity like this?" suddenly, a ring of pellets surrounded both of us…now I'm REALLY wishing I had moved away. "DIE!" and the ring slowly started closing around us. I hugged Frisk tight, much to my bodies protest, and shut my eyes, ready to embrace the death that honestly should have already claimed me…but it never came. I struggled to open my eyes and saw the bullets were gone, and Flowey looked very confused. It only lasted a second though, before he was knocked aside…by a fire ball? I looked up to see the source, an anamorphic goat-like monster walking towards us. Wow, she was huge!
"What a terrible creature, torturing such poor, innocent youths" she said. "Don't be afraid, my...children. I am Toriel, caretaker of the ruins"
Her voice had a hint of confusion in it, but I was too tired to pay attention. The threat of Flowey gone, and too weak to really move, I finally lost my struggling battle with consciousness…and I passed out.
Hi everyone! Wow, this is already turning out to be better than my previous attempt! Yay! I know blue is a soul color, integrity, in game, but I was going for something a bit different. Believe it or not, I did quite a bit of research before I chose a soul color. For more about why dark blue, feel free to ask!
Now, as happened in my previous story, early on the game and the story will be almost paralleled, with a few changes here and there, but I think you'll find more differences sooner, as with new knowledge, and new inspiration, I'm going to try a different approach at the story.
Remember: I love criticism, reviews encourage me, and I'm open to input! If you have any questions, suggestions, or whatever, and don't wanna leave them as a review, feel free to PM me! Bye for now!