The golden flowers waved in front of my eyes… It was a hot summers day… Everyone else was inside, escaping the heat.
Frisk and I were sitting in the flower patch making flower chains.
The world was a happy daze…
"Vella?" Frisk signed to me
"Yes?" I replied, trying to sound ok but the heat was making me really thirsty.
"Can we run away soon?" his hand movements were frantic… his face a mix of impatience and fear. I could see under his long sleeve shirt were the scratches and bruises left by the adults.
"… Tomorrow" I said calmly as the lady from the orphanage came out and dragged us back in.
Vella sat in the strange new kitchen, looking at the strange goat lady making tea, while the noises of the strange flower and skeleton fighting came reverberating through the house.
"Here you go." The strange lady said as she placed a cup of tea in front of Vella. "My name is Toriel. How are you feeling my child?" Vella didn't feel like talking.
"Can… can you speak?" Toriel seemed concerned. Vella looked at her. She was a tall woman in a purple dress with a white emblem on it. She had red eyes and white horns.
"Yes… I can…" Vella whispered tentatively. The lady's eyes softened as her face filled with relief.
"I'm glad" she smiled "How are your injuries? Do they hurt?"
"…not as much as I'd like" Vella mumbled.
Toriel opened her mouth to speak- shocked at what Vella had said- when a loud crash and a shriek emanated from down the hall.
"HELP!" The golden flower screamed as it's flower pot rolled down the hall and into the back of Vellas chair. Behind the screaming flower the skeleton walked in glaring at the flower and seething in anger.
"Sans, what is-?"
"You're lying." The skeleton growled as his left eye glowed a sickly blue colour
"No! no I swear I'm telling the truth!" The flower squealed and shuffled trying to get the flower pot up right again. The skeleton picked them up.
"Are you sure?" The skeletons eyes were filled with tears. Vella stared at them wondering how skeletons could even produce tears.
"I- I- I- I'm sure! If I wasn't- Chara would-"
"Chara?!" Toriel up panicked.
THUD
"Was that the…" Toriel looked towards a set of stairs in shock
"That was… probably them…" The flower whimpered and covered his head, expecting to be hurt.
"Tori…" Sans put the pot on the table "I'm going after them."
"Sans, you can't" Toriel said sternly "If anyone should be going-"
"I'll go." Vella piped up.
She didn't even listen to Toriel or Sans protests before she had picked up the flower pot and was walking down the hall, towards the stairs, and down a long dark corridor.
"You won't survive going after them" The flower chirped- seeming almost happy at that prospect "Chara is really tough and Fr-" Vella unceremoniously turned the pot upside down and dumped the flower and the dirt contents of the flower pot onto the floor.
"I don't plan on surviving." Vella placed the pot next to the pile of dirt "I plan on taking them on and dying. Human or monster- I couldn't care less."
"…you're a weird one" Sans said suddenly behind Vella making her jump. "Not often we find a human with this sort of determination". Vella stayed silent.
Toriels footsteps came resounding down the hall.
"Listen… Don't tell Toriel you feel like this. Her hearts breakin' as is…" Sans said before lifting Vella on his shoulders
"Sans! Is the human child-"
"I got her Tori" Sans said happily "and I've made an executive decision"
"You made a what?" The flower said before promptly disappearing beneath the ground to avoid a scathing glare from Sans.
"We're all together Tori. You me and… and…" Sans looked up at Vella
"…Vella…"
"Vella, we'll all go after Chara."
"Sans… are you sure?" Toriel came close and held Sans's hand
"I'm sure Tori"
The group left the ruins and started walking towards Snowdin. Flowey watched the group walk together, Sans chatting and joking, Toriel laughing along…
A small pang of pain hit the golden flower. He almost felt guilty for helping Chara…
Almost…
"Frisk should be in Waterfall now…" Flowey murmured.
Frisk had been going after Alphys lately- she was hiding the last of the monsters somewhere. Frisk had been trying to find her lab but she had upped the security… No matter how hard he tried Frisk couldn't get in.
"Vella… wonder if Frisk knew them…"
Flowey dropped bellow the surface of the snow and soil and sped along towards the spiders hideout in waterfall.