Chapter 2: The Good, the Bad, the Flowey

Darkness. Soft darkness.

That was what Ruby felt and could see. She slowly got up, and felt something stuck to her hair. Brushing it off, she realized they were petals.
Golden flower petals.

In fact, she was lying on a bed of golden flowers. And they were pretty, too!

Ruby got up, brushing the petals off herself and her clothes. She looked around. The place was dimly lit. There was only one light source, and it was straight above. A mysterious circle shadow was right on top of her. Looking up, Ruby saw a strange, thick, smoke-like circle hovering really, really high. She guessed that was what had brought her here.

That was when she realized something. For some reason, everything looked….low-res. No seriously, it looked kinda blocky by her perspectives.

Ruby noticed a path up ahead, and followed it. It led to a strange looking gate. Ruby said, "Well, that looks ominous…and if I'm alone down here…I could always talk to me!"
…..

"Hello, me!"

Ruby walked through the gate, and looked around. Again, more darkness…until she saw that there was a light coming on one particular spot…..

"What could THAT be?"
She moved closer, carefully, and saw a flower pop up from the light. It also looked low-res.

"Howdy!" the flower chirruped, "I'm Flowey! Flowey the Flower!"

Ruby was astonished, but regained herself quickly.

"Why, hi Flowey! I'm Ruby!"
"Nice to meet ya! Say, you must be new to Underground, are you?"
"Underground?" Ruby looked around. She was…..underground?

"You must be soooooooo confused, right?"
"Yeah…."
"Well, somebody needs to teach you how things work around here. It's a good thing old little me is here!"

Suddenly, Ruby's chest started to glow. And a strange, heart-shaped light formed on her chest.

"See that? That's your SOUL. The-"

"I know what a soul is! It's the very source of a person's being, and is the source of their Aura!"

Flowey had never heard of 'Aura' before. And he noticed how unusually bright Ruby's soul was.

"Erm…..yeah! Good girl! Now see, here in Underground, your SOUL starts out weak, but grows strong as you gain LV."
"LV?"
"LOVE, of course! You want some LOVE, don't you?"
"Course!"
Flowey then brought up some pellets out of thin air.
"See these? LOVE is shared through….tiny….shiny….little…." and then he had a shifty look on his face, "Friendliness pellets…."

RWBY noticed the shifty look immediately, and suddenly, trusting this little flower didn't seem like a good idea…

"Go on! Catch all the pellets! Grab as much LOVE as you can!"

At this point, Ruby wasn't very trustful of how much he was pushing her to catch the pellets. So she instead dodged them. Flowey gave her the 'wha…' look, and then said, "Um….you missed them all….let's try again…..catch them all!"
Again, he sent out the pellets, and again, Ruby dodged them. Gracefully.

Now Flowey was getting pissed. He said, "Are you braindead? Run into the bullets! I mean, friendliness pellets!"
But Ruby had heard the bullets part, and said, "No."

Suddenly, Flowey's voice deepened, and was no longer friendly.
"So you know what's going on? Well, I guess I should have spared myself of the trouble. Let me give you a piece of real advice. In this world, it's kill or BE KILLED."

Suddenly, a huge dome of bullets surrounded Ruby. Flowey then said, with is face changing demonically, "Die."

The dome of bullets closed in. But before they could move any further….Ruby disappeared in a blast of rose petals. Flowey's attack disappeared. What the hell had just happened? A human disappeared…..in a flash of red petals? Was…..that girl even human?

Ruby popped up suddenly, saying, "Ta-da! Try better than that, Mr. Flower!"
"Fine I will!"
This time, he created another dome…one which had bullets so tightly packed together…..that this time Ruby realized she had no space between the bullets to exploit by using her super speed to run between them and stump him again.

The dome closed in. Flowey's demonic laugh rang through the air…..

When suddenly, a surge of fire came in out of nowhere and knocked Flowey out, cancelling his attack too.

Ruby looked into the darkness, and saw a figure emerge. It was a rather tall, aged lady…..with a goat(?)'s head. She looked down on Ruby, and said, "What an awful creature, that was, attacking such a young child….."
Ruby hesitantly shuffled forwards. After seeing how quickly Flowey revealed his true self, she wasn't trusting this monster immediately on her looks. But she saw into her eyes, and saw pure kindness.

"Don't worry, child," She said in a motherly voice, "I won't harm you. What's your name?"
"R…Ruby."
"Ruby? What a beautiful name. My! You sure are tall….."

Ruby was somewhat surprised. Everybody in her school commented on how short she was.

"Um….thanks?"
"I always come here to check if anyone fell in Underground," the goat woman continued, "and it looks like you fell in. Come, Ruby. Why don't I take you to my house?"
Ruby wasn't sure what to expect. Like everything else, the woman looked low-res. But she was being pretty nice….she even looked nice. Still, Ruby wasn't too trustful. But she decided not to show it.

"OK…."
The woman then said, "If you're feeling….unsecure…..then hold my hand." And she held out her hand. Ruby looked at it, then at her face, and then slowly touched it, and rolled her fingers into her soft hands.

"Thank you, miss."

"Toriel. Just call me Toriel. I'll just take you to my house….and stay close, okay? The Ruins are full of puzzles."
Ruby hated puzzles. They usually made her head hurt. She was actually glad Toriel was by her side. If there were any puzzles, Toriel might as well do them all.
TO BE CONTINUED!