Chapter 1: Falling

AN: Hello! Sorry for the long wait. When I release the first chapter, I did it with little thought of the future of my fanfic so in between the first chapter and posting this chapter, I made a better and more precise plot. I am also going to try to get a regular update schedule started beginning next Friday, every week. I hope you all enjoy the chapter! Also, I would like to thank Silverstreambeam1118 and Guest for reviewing!!! They helped give me the determination to continue writing this!

"Break the chains binding them. Free them from their eternal prison, Kai."

Kai opened his eyes upon hearing his name called out. He took a second to take in the scenery, or lack thereof. All around him was darkness besides the distorted figures surrounding him. Despite him looking straight at them, Kai could not make out any of their features. The tallest figure, the one in the middle, seemed to be the one in charge.

"Break the chains binding them. Free them from their eternal prison," repeated the tall entity, "it is our only hope to end this."

"Who are 'they' and who are ya," questioned Kai, "Also, where am I?"

The unidentifiable entity ignored Kai's interruption and kept talking, "Keep your mind sharp, as it is key to your survival."

With that last message, the unending darkness that enveloped Kai started to enclose on him…

Everything hurt him but his back was the worst. It was sending spasms of pain from his torso all the way up to his neck. Kai grunted and stood up after multiple attempts. He blinked his eyes in order to adjust to the change of colors. He was still in a relatively dark area, but now there were bright yellow flowers and emerald vines surrounding him instead darkness that seemed to consume everything in sight. He shivered, remembering the crazy dream. That's all it was, just a dream that his dull imagination thought up.

Just like he did in the dream, Kai took in the scenery of the room. He noticed a purple door along a dim pathway. Kai frowned; it was too early for it to be dark. It was only 5 a.m. when-

Something, or rather someone, stirred behind him. Kai turned to face the kid that had caused the fall. Even though it was the boy's fault, Kai still could not bring himself to stay mad at such an innocent kid. Frisk had gotten up without any troubles, unlike Kai.

"Are ya alright kiddo? That was a long fall we took," Kai asked worriedly, while trying to check if Frisk had any injuries.

"I'm alright, just a bit tired," replied Frisk, "I think the flowers cushioned my fall."

This day just keeps getting weirder and weirder, Kai thought. "Well as long as you are okay."

Just as Kai was about to ask Frisk if he wanted to go through the doorway, Frisk bolted through the door. Kai sighed and followed Frisk at a slow pace. When he got to the next room, he saw Frisk talking to something. Kai rubbed his eyes and looked again. There was a talking flower. Am I still asleep, wondered Kai as he approached the talking flower.

"-Flowey the Flower! Hmmm… You're new to the Underground, aren'tcha?" Frisk nodded his answer to Flowey's question. "Golly, you must be so confused. Someone ought to teach you how things work around here! I guess little old me will have to do." Flowey gave Frisk a grin that looked so trustworthy Kai almost ran the other way.

"Frisk, we can't trust this flower. He could try to manipulate us since we are new! Don't lower guard around him," Kai whispered, quiet enough so Flowey would not be able to hear him.

"Ahem," Flowey said, interrupting their little talk, "Like I was saying, I'll help you! Here we go!"

Kai felt something pulling on him. Suddenly, the light pull turned into a strong tug. Kai gasped as he felt something being pulled from inside of him. In front of him was a bright green heart that seemed to pulse with Kai's heartbeat.

Flowey resumed his tutorial, "See that heart? That is your soul, the very culmination of your being! Your soul starts off very weak, but it can grow stronger if you gain a lot of LV. What's LV stand for? Why, LOVE, of course!" As Flowey taught the duo about their souls, his already suspicious grin widened. He was starting to look less and less friendly. "You guys want some LOVE, don'tcha? Don't worry; I'll share some with you!" When Flowey finished his spiel, he winked while sticking out his tongue. Somehow, his wink created a sparkle of light.

"I swear, I'm going crazy," Kai muttered to no one in particular.

Flowey shot Kai an annoyed glare and then recomposed himself. "Down here, LOVE is shared with… Little white… 'Friendliness pellets.'" Several "friendliness pellets" blinked into existence around Flowey. "Are you ready," questioned Flowey.

Kai touched Frisk's shoulder in order to get his attention. "I don't trust him. 'Friendliness pellets' sound suspiciously like bullets. If this is real, they'll injure us instead of giving us love," Kai explained to Frisk. "I know we got off on the wrong foot, but just trust me, okay?" Kai gave Flowey a thumbs up to show that they were ready. Flowey's smile somehow grew even larger and more menacing than before.

"Move around! Get as many as you can," Flowey instructed the human duo as the "pellets" slowly approached them. He hissed as Kai held Frisk's hand to keep them in place instead of allowing him to touch a "pellet." Flowey's face seemed stuck halfway between a scowl and a smile. "Hey buddy, you missed them," Flowey said dryly, "Let's try again, okay?" More "pellets" appeared and flew at the duo again, this time a little faster than before. This time, Kai and Frisk had to move to dodge the magical "friendliness pellets." Flowey's face finally decided it wanted to be mad, so he reached 100% scowl potential. "Is this a joke? Are you dudes braindead? RUN. INTO. THE. BULL—'friendliness pellets,'" Flowey said, hastily covering up his mistake by spawning in the next wave of bullets. Kai grabbed Frisk and he dove away, scraping his knees in the process. Kai looked up and saw Flowey's scowl turn into a sadistic grin. "You know what's going on here, don't you? You just wanted to watch me suffer, didn't you?" Flowey scoffed, "You are just like the rest of them."

Flowey snapped out of his self-pity and turned to the pair. "DIE!" He yelled, all the false cheerfulness and friendliness gone, leaving him full of anger. Kai and Frisk were surrounded a huge circle of white bullets that were slowly approaching towards them. There seemed to be no gap wide enough for the humans to escape through, even Frisk's tiny body wasn't small enough to fit between two bullets. Just as Kai's life was about to be cut short, Flowey was hit with a fireball. With a scream of pain, Flowey disappeared, along with his army of magical bullets.

Kai craned his neck to see where the fireball that had saved Frisk and him had come from. Their savior was a tall goat, most likely a lady. Oh great, Kai thought sarcastically, another monster, even stronger than the last one. Hopefully this one is peaceful, but it could be just as manipulative, if not more, than Flowey. Kai was snapped out of his thoughts as the goat lady started to speak to them.

"What a terrible creature, torturing such innocent youth… Ah, do not be afraid, my children. I am Toriel, caretaker of the Ruins. I assure you that I mean no harm," she said in response to Kai's skeptical look, "I pass through this place every day to see if anyone else has fallen down. You are the first humans to fall together in monster history. In fact, no human has come here in 79 years!" Toriel remarked. "Come! I will guide you through the catacombs."

As Toriel finished her introduction, Kai felt the earlier pain from the prior events return. His knees to started to wobble as he bent over, suddenly feeling the urge to throw up.

"I don't feel so good," Kai rasped. The world suddenly seemed to implode on him. Blackness overtook Kai's vision as he toppled over.

"Ughhh." Kai groaned as he woke up. His stomach seemed to be having a war with itself, it hurt so much. He tried to stand up but since his legs were numb, he crumpled to the floor. A door opened and the goat lady walked in with Frisk beside her. Kai tried his best to sit casually on the floor but his legs refused to move.

"Ah, young one, you should not try to get up yet. Your human body is not used to having magic inside of it, especially not the amount of magic that I used to heal you," Toriel told Kai. "I am sorry but I do not know what is wrong with you. All I can tell you is that healing magic can slow down most diseases but I can't get rid of a disease I don't know. I am sorry, my child." Toriel left the room, leaving Frisk and Kai alone.

Initially, Kai had been mad that she had used magic on him without his permission but the worried look Frisk was giving him, a total stranger, told him that his condition was worse than he had realized.

"Here," Frisk said sheepishly, holding out a pie, "Toriel and I baked a get-well pie for you. It's a butterscotch and cinnamon pie."

"Heh, thanks kiddo," Kai took a piece of pie, a huge grin forming despite the terrible news he had just received. He noticed that Frisk didn't reach for a piece of pie despite the fact that it was right in front of him.

"Why don't we share the pie? Just because you helped bake it, doesn't mean you can't have any."

Frisk hesitated before grabbing his own piece of pie and sitting down beside Kai. They ate together in silence, at least before the third party spoke up.

"Frisk c'mon, you said you would ask Kai what was wrong!"

Kai looked around and was surprised yet again by what he saw. In the corner of the bedroom he was staying in, there was a spectral girl.

"Who are you?" Kai wondered aloud.

AN: More updates: I am going I start hiding secret messages throughout the following chapters to give you guys, the awesome readers, something to occupy your attention while I write. The first code is as follows:

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Also: Two spaces between paragraphs indicates a line break. I am writing on mobile so I can't use a lot of things available to most other writers. Every week I don't update, I will add another code to the most recent chapter's bottom author's note(and mentally kick myself for being lazy!). Thank you all for reading my fanfic!