The Creatures of the Underground
You gazed at Flowey for about a dozen seconds, and he stared back. He was smiling at you. "Howdy!" he said to you. You were very surprised by him showing up out of nowhere, and right after your eerie feelings. He looked at you, recognizing your fearful state. "Ah, do not be afraid... It is me, your best friend... Flowey!" he winked at you, before continuing, "Now that she is gone, we can speak in peace.", you had calmed down from the initial shock then, but you still felt tension in the situation.
"Well firstly, I want to know if you're alright." Flowey's smile then disappeared. "Have you tried to hurt anyone?", for the following few seconds, he gazed at you directly in the eyes, with a deathly serious expression. However, soon he noticed he was being too serious, and he figured he could be scaring you. Swiftly, he tried to correct his mistake, by replicating his previous smile. You were slightly terrified by his sudden change of feeling. From what looked like joy, he had turned completely expressionless, in a matter of seconds. In your fear, you answered to his question, by swinging your head left and right, for you indeed hadn't tried to hurt anyone. Flowey was relieved by that answer, and his false smile translated into a real one.
"Thank you for following my advice. Now, for what I've been wanting to tell you... That time everything went black and white, except your soul. That was a battle, only then was your soul visible. I hadn't started it with the intents of attacking you, but rather, to teach you about your soul." you then knew that your previous guess was right. Indeed was the colour shifting of black and white, the commencing of a fight. Flowey continued, "That is not all however. You may have realized by now that monsters live in the underground. That being said, monsters are made of magic. They will use magic attacks to hurt you."
"These magic attacks, are very powerful." Flowey's smile now disappeared, "I'd say, around half a dozen hits will result in you falling on the ground, with death to come soon after. Knowing that, you should try to avoid any battles at all costs, understand?" you nodded. "It is for your own safety. If you do however defeat a monster in battle, you will collect some gold. Tougher monsters will carry more gold with them, but they are harder to defeat. Gold is the currency in the underground, you can use it to purchase foods or equipment.", Flowey looked at you, while thinking about something. "Some monsters, do not wish to fight. In which case, you should talk to them. I know many monsters here that would be willing to not only talk... but give advice too. Maybe you should listen to them, rather than me. I have already told you, what they will not, and there is no point in telling you what you will be told again later. Hence, I shall leave you now." he then smiled at you, "Yet do not fear, I will watch over you, and aid you when needed.", Flowey stopped smiling, and looked at you in a slightly irritated expression. "Try not to get hurt though, alright?" he closed his eyes, and sighed. Then he looked at you, while smiling a little, "Farewell." Flowey gazed at you for the following few seconds, and then he popped into the ground. You were now alone again, in the silent room. Although it seemed like Flowey wanted to help you and tried to be your friend, you had an eerie feeling about him, one that you could not describe easily. It was a feeling of a one-sided friendship, a feeling that he could betray you.
You looked around the now silent, and empty room. You then looked at the doorway, and were prepared to go through it. You took a few steps towards the doorway, yet as you did, you heard something ringing in your pocket. It was your phone, which you took out, and on the grey screen you saw, 'Incoming call - Toriel'. There was no button for accepting calls, so you pressed the 'call' button instead, and the call was accepted. You could hear Toriel's voice,
"Hello? This is Toriel. You have not left the room have you?" she said, "There are a few puzzles ahead that I have yet to explain. It would be dangerous to try to solve them yourself.", you sighed. You thought that Toriel was exaggerating again, as she did with previous puzzles. Although she only did so to protect you, for she worried about you. You nevertheless didn't get intimidated from going onwards, by her minor warning. "Be good, alright?" then you heard a click, and on the grey screen a message 'call ended' was seen. You put the phone back into your pocket, and then proceeded into the next room, despite Toriel's warning.
In the next room, you spotted a froggit to your left in front of a doorway, and to your right, another doorway. The room had two piles of red and orange leaves, surrounding a pathway to the two doorways. You walked towards the froggit, and it croaked at you. They weren't just any ordinary croaks however, they carried a meaning that was familiar to you, and you could understand. "Excuse me, human. I have some advice for you about battling monsters. If you act a certain way or fight until you almost defeat them... They might not want to battle you anymore. If a monster does not want to fight you, please... Use some mercy, human." the froggit said. You understood then what Flowey meant, when he had said that some monsters aren't willing to fight, and some would give you advice. This froggit was an example of that.
You headed towards the closest doorway, the one on your left. Upon going through the large doorway, you entered a minor room, with water streams to the left and right, and a cluster of green vines on the wall in front of you. A coral bowl, that had many various coloured candy wrappers in it, was in the center of the room, placed on a miniature white pillar, which was circled by crimson leaves. You approached the bowl, and you saw a paper note placed in the candy, which read 'Take one'. You took a random piece of candy, and you obtained a candy with a yellow wrapper, which read 'It has a distinct, non-citric flavour'. You didn't want to eat it yet, instead you wanted to save it for later, thus, you stored it in one of your pockets. You initially didn't want to take any more candy, but you were curious as to what the other wrappers said, and what they tasted like. You took one of each coloured candy there was. You obtained a black, purple, blue, green, and red candy. The black one, had a distinct non-liquorice flavour. The purple one, had a distinct non-blackberry flavour, the blue one had a distinct non-blueberry flavour. The green one, had a distinct non-watermelon flavour, and finally the red one, had a distinct non-strawberry flavour. You didn't eat any of them yet, instead, you stored them all in your pockets, to eat later.
You left the room where you obtained the candy, and proceeded onwards towards the other doorway. While walking, you suddenly stopped as you saw a ghost-like creature with wings materialize in front of you. Everything around you started flashing black and white again, this monster seemingly wanted to fight you. Out of curiosity, you decided to check it, and you figured out that it was too sensitive to fight. It was shivering, as it said, "Please forgive me..." and white butterfly-like creatures appeared to your left and right. If those were attacks, then they were definitely avoiding you, rather than aiming for you. You felt sorry for whimsum, and you decided to help it by consoling it, but halfway through your first word, whimsum burst into tears and flew away. Then the colours around you, returned to normal, as the fight was finished. If all monsters were like that, then you had nothing to fear. No matter how strong their attacks could be, if they didn't hit you, it didn't even matter.
You then approached and walked through the doorway. The room past the doorway, had some cracked floor tiles in the middle. You assumed that you would fall through them, if you were to walk on them. You weren't very keen on falling down again, like you had when you entered the underground, so you instead sprinted and leaped over the tiles, and proceeded into the next room. Almost exactly upon entering the next room, Toriel called you again, "Hello? This is Toriel. For no reason in particular... Which do you prefer? Cinnamon or butterscotch?" she awaited your answer. You had a feeling that you should have answered both, so you responded, "Both.", and she responded "Oh that's just excellent my child! Why is it excellent? No reason, no reason at all!", then Toriel ended the call.
You were in a room that had a wall of spikes, and a stone nearby a pressure plate. It looked like a very simple puzzle, so you walked over to the stone, and pushed it across until it was situated atop the pressure plate. Hence the spikes retracted, and you walked across. Although upon nearly reaching the exit, you stumbled upon a froggit, and a battle was commencing. You didn't expect the froggit to attack you either, you expected it to be too afraid to fight, just like whimsum, so you decided to talk to the froggit. You talked to froggit, and although it didn't understand what you said, it wanted to respond anyway. The next thing you saw, was the froggit leaping over at you, hitting you straight in the chest, and making you fall on your back. It hit you surprisingly hard, you didn't expect it to attack you at all, yet it leaped at you with full force, leaving you with a huge, blunt, pain at the front of your ribcage. As you struggled to stand back up, you noticed froggit was shivering, and slowly hopping back. Then, almost in an instant, it hopped away into the doorway behind it, with the battle finishing.
You moved on to the next room, which was another puzzle. Part of the floor you had to cross, had an unavoidably large area of cracked floor. When you tried to walk on it, you fell down, and onto some crimson leaves. This time, you didn't feel any pain at all, despite the long fall. You spotted a sign on the wall, that read 'don't step on the leaves'. After a few more falls, and false attempts, you figured out the puzzle, and crossed the cracked floor, all the way to the other side.
You moved on to the following room, which was yet again another puzzle. There were three rocks and three pressure plates, and a wall of spikes blocking further travel. Again, this seemed like another elementary puzzle. First, you moved the middle rock, then you tried to move the bottom rock, which looked quite odd compared to the others, but when you tried to touch it, it spoke to you "Whoa there, pardner! Who said you could push me around? Hmm? So you're askin' me to move over? Okay, just for you, pumpkin." then the rock moved about two feet, nowhere near the pressure plate. You came over to him, "Hmm? You want me to move some more? Alrighty, how's this?" it then moved to your left, not even in the direction of the pressure plate. It seemed this rock really wanted to test your nerves. You came over to the rock in a threatening manner, and it said "Hmm? That was the wrong direction? Okay think I got it!" it moved directly on to the pressure plate, and the spikes retracted, even though the top rock was not on the pressure plate. It was probably there just to distract you. When you approached the spikes however, the talking rock moved off the pressure plate, and you approached him even more threateningly, as it said "Hmm? You wanted me to stay there? You're giving me a real workout!" he then moved back onto the pressure plate for the final time. You crossed the spikes, and then you stumbled upon a pair of moldsmals.
A battle was commencing. Out of curiosity, you tried to check them, but you were interrupted when they came closer to you, and then wiggled their gelatinous, green, bodies, at you. Splats of their slime got onto you, and you were quite disgusted by it. Then however, the slime started to burn your skin, making you feel sharp pain, all over your hands and legs. The two moldsmals watched you in your pain, and they weren't so happy any more. They felt sorry for you, and they decided that they will cause you no more trouble. They both escaped into the nearest waters they found, and the battle was finished. You proceeded, limping into the next room.
There, you found a mouse hole, and a table with a cheese on it. You tried to pick up the cheese, but it was stuck to the table. Looking at the cheese, you remembered that you had some candy with you from earlier, and you were quite heavily wounded. Thus, you took out a monster candy, and ate it. It had a distinct non-liquorice taste, rather, it tasted quite sour. After eating it, you felt the pain you had, weaken, but not completely. It would take longer for your wounds to fully heal.
You then proceeded into the next room, where you found a ghost laying on a bunch of crimson leaves. Behind the ghost, there were two doorways to other rooms. He was blocking the way to them, and he was pretending to sleep by saying 'z' out loud repeatedly. You tried your best to get past him without using force, but there was no way you could. You then told him that you knew he wasn't sleeping, and you wanted to get past. After you said that, the ghost looked at you for a few seconds, and then he floated upright. He did so with such great force, that the leaves he was lying on started circling around him in the air. The ghost was floating high above you, and you had to look up at him. "Why does nobody have faith in my fake sleep...", the ghost said, he looked like he was about to tear up.
Next, everything around you started flashing black and white. You had a somewhat bad feeling about this. You felt like this battle was different from all the rest, you felt like you were going to have an unpleasant time. This was quite a dreadful situation for you. You were already quite seriously injured, and this was no ordinary opponent. Suddenly, wind started circling around the ghost, and tears came out from his eyes.
After the tears circled the ghost for several more seconds, the ethereal wind changed direction.
The tears were now heading towards you, at a dangerously fast speed.
