Zombie has asked me to put this here that if anyone wants to give a go at her challenge give her a quick heads up because she would be more than happy to read many different writing styles and takes on the prompt. She was happy when I started writing it but I don't believe I'm doing it justice.
Ender the multiverse Detective: Thank you. I hope you enjoy whats to come.
Firehedgehog: Thanks. I'm glad you liked it.
Acediea: No problem. And Flowey may get more protective as the story goes.
Lucy112358: Thanks. I hope you continue to read.
Talking
Thoughts
Monster attacks
Chapter- 3
Several years past as more children fell into the underground.
Flowey and Toriel had made the decision after the first to "greet" them after they woke, Flowey would show up and explain about their soul and how it started off weak but could grow stronger if they gained a lot of LV.
"What does LV stand for? Why, LOVE, of course! You want some LOVE, don't you?"
White pellets had surrounded him, he explained that they were called "friendliness pellets" and in order to gain LOVE you had to catch them.
This was already the 7th child that had fallen into the underground, and doing the same as the ones before them tried to catch the "friendliness pellets".
"You idiot…"
Flowey said his voice cracking and head shaking. He hated doing this but it was the only way that they could come up with to scare the children into hopefully not leaving the ruins.
Sadly it hadn't worked so far.
"In this world, it's kill or BE killed. Why would ANYONE pass up an opportunity like this?!"
The pellets surrounded the child.
"Die."
He face twisted and he laughed maniacally but it was empty of emotions.
Toriel was watching from the shadows, and as the attack was about to hit jumped in to rescue the child sending a small attack at the flower that dissipated before making contact.
"What a terrible creature, torturing such a poor innocent youth… Ah, do not be afraid my child."
She walked up placing a warm hand on the child's head.
"I am Toriel, caretaker of the ruins. I pass through this place every day to see if anyone has fallen down."
She had made it a point to explain to every child, that since they were human monsters may attack them.
"You will need to prepare for this situation. However, worry not! The process is simple."
They walked as Toriel led the way explaining about the puzzles.
"when you encounter a monster, you will enter a fight. While you are in a fight, strike up a conversation."
She stopped waking when they entered yet another door, the only thing in the room besides themselves was a dummy.
"Stall for time. I will come to resolve the conflict. Practice talking to the dummy."
Toriel walked to the other end of the room, and the child doing as they were told walked up to the dummy.
A box appeared with text.
You encounter the dummy
Their soul was pulled out and they noticed different options below the box.
Fight – Act – Item – Mercy
The child decided on Act and the text changed.
Dummy
The child selected the only option, and the text changed once again but with two prompts this time.
Check – Talk
They did as asked and struck up a conversation with it.
You talk to the dummy.
…
It doesn't seem much for conversation.
Toriel seems happy with you.
You won!
You earned 0 XP and 0 Gold.
"Ah, very good! You are very good."
After walking a bit more they encountered a Froggit but Toriel was quick to shoo it away after scolding it. The continued on before Toriel asked them to wait there (knowing they wouldn't, since none of the others had) because she had something she needed to take care of.
She quickly handed over a cell phone saying if they needed anything to just call, before she walked away.
As always the child wondered, ending up at her home though it was the only place they could end up at. The ruins were basically a straight shot, the only way out being through the door under her home.
The child looked up at the large tree before them seeing feet hanging down from a high up branch.
"Oh, hello. You must be the child who fell,"
A young boy jumped down from the tree, landing gracefully as if he had done it many times before. He held out a hand for the other to shake.
"my name is Harrison but you can call me Harry. Toriel is my mother,"
He tipped his head towards the house further back.
"Come on, I think mom was making you something."
The other child Harry found out to be a boy followed behind him, touching the glowing star outside the house before walking inside going towards the kitchen.
"Oh, Harrison! I see you two have met."
"Yeah. Would it be alright if I showed him to my room? He seems exhausted."
Toriel looked to the poor boy and nodded.
"I'll bring you both a slice when it's done."
The boys walked through the house making it to the one door that Harry opened.
"I hope you don't mind sharing, we've added another bed because there have been so many humans falling lately."
The other boy nodded, having not said one word since waking up on the bed of flowers. He smiled and went to the bed he was pointed towards and fell asleep as his head touched the pillow.
Harrison was watching him, feeling for anything of about the other boy. He found nothing and gave a grateful sigh.
"looks like this one will be another pacifist"
He thought playing with the chain around his neck that held two stones.
For as long as Harry had lived in the underground, he was told to never go into the basement. He was told it was to dangerous, and he was to young.
That had never stopped him from exploring before, and it didn't then. He had found the entrance to the underground when he was 5, he was now 13. He had heard knocking on the door but figured it was best to ignore it for now.
When the children stared to fall into the ruins he started getting a since of déjà vu, it was only small things at first such as already knowing what a books contents were before opening it, or feeling as if he had already been up for a day even though he just woke.
When the 3rd child had fallen he finally realized why he was feeling the way he did.
He had been reading a book when suddenly he was back to where he was earlier that day, sitting up on the highest branch of the tree in front of their home.
"What just happened?"
Feeling a familiar fluctuation of power beside him, looked towards the newcomer.
"Hello Maximus, do you know what's going on."
"Unfortunately Harrison, I do. There is nothing you can do to stop it though."
Harry could feel a shiver go down his spine, it felt as though something inside of him was being torn apart.
"MOM!"
Death grabbed his master preventing him from jumping down the tree, pulling him back into a tight hug.
"Harrison, you are only 8 years old, there is nothing you could do. I am sorry for what is to happen but it must."
The boy was shaking, and having trouble breathing. Death turned him around in his arms so they were facing each other.
"She will be back. I promise you, and I would never lie to you so please calm down so I may explain."
Harry nodded, he tried to calm himself but was unable to.
"Mom…"
He was handed a bottle that he took without questing and downed the contents, he knew from his lessons in potions that It was a calming drought. The effects were immediate.
"Please explain everything Max."
- I'm a small totally unnecessary cut scene -
When Death had started training Harrison he told the boy his real name. He had told him only his master was to know of it, for whomever called upon Death by name would have control of him.
"Young master my name is Maximus en Mortem(***), with the knowledge of my name you may call upon me at anytime and I will appear."
- End small totally unnecessary cut scene –
The two met Flowey by the door, waking past into the house knowing he'd follow. Getting as comfortable on the seats in the sitting room as they could, they prepared themselves for the conversion they were going to have knowing it was not to be a happy one.
"Toriel is no longer of the living, she will return though."
Death sighed before continuing.
"The underground is set up as a game and surrounded in magic, the glowing stars for example are "save points" when the player or in this case the fallen children touch them they return to that location if they die."
Flowey looked away, he had known since the first child fell but seeing as no one remembered he kept it to himself.
"I did not bring this up before, because you had yet to notice besides the sense of déjà vu you kept feeling. Even if I had explained it to you before you would have forgotten when the underground reset."
Harrison silently agreed before asking
"But why am I noticing now?"
"I am not 100% sure,"
Death said honestly.
"It may be because of your control of your powers, or because this is the first time the child chose to kill instead of showing mercy."
"Can I…"
Harry looked hesitant
"Can I go down and see?"
"Of course Harrison, I will accompany you down. Flowey would you keep an eye on that child please but first inform king Asgore of what's going on and try to evacuate everyone that doesn't wish to fight."
"Okay! I'll be going for awhile Harrison, try to stay out of trouble."
The flower used a leaf to ruffle the boys hair before disappearing.
"Let's get going Harrison."
Death guided the young boy down into the basement, the walk was quiet and felt longer than it normally would have. They stopped walking, the door in their sight before Harry broke into a run.
"Mom!"
He cried seeing the pile of dust just to the side of the door.
"No…. No! NO! NO! NO!"
He couldn't stop himself from screaming, the sobs once again causing his body to shake.
He summoned a rock changing it to an urn as it reached him, he swept his hand above the dust using his magic to send it into the container. Closing the urn sealing it tight with his magic, he turned it along with the dust of his beloved mother into a crystal.
The crystal was a light pink and felt soft and warm, like a mother's love.
"A kunzite crystal, that's very fitting."
Death spoke softly. He used his powers to create a white gold chain, and with a swirl of his finger in the air the chain began rapping smaller thinner strand around the crystal. Once the process was done, he took the newly made necklace and clasped it around the still crying boys neck.
"I have made it so even when the underground resets this necklace will always be with you."
Harry smiled tears running down his face.
"The healing properties of the crystal have also been made stronger, and will help you with your natural healing ability's."
Flowey was able to warn Asgore but not before many monsters were killed. The king took the soul of the child with the help of his royal guard and royal scientist but unlike when the two children before them, one taking no lives, the other taking only a few.
The underground fully reset.
All the monsters killed were back not knowing they had once died. It was only known that another soul was obtained by their king.
Only 4 knew what had happened, an 8 year old child that became clingy with his newly brought back to life mother for the next few years, a flower that started to keep a better eye out on things in the underground, a death God that knew of all past and futures both of this world and others, and a skeleton monster that was the final judgement of the underground.
It was to be known as the genocide run.
I'll stop here because once again I can.
I never really put this out there but the prompt from ZombieTheSara was for one sided Flowey/Harry and the main pairing to be Sans/Harry so slash... but with Flowey I'm making it a brothers complex instead and with Sans I'm not sure yet.