Chapter 4: home and heartache
"my child, are you alright? You spaced out for a minute there." Toriel tells me.
"oh, sorry, I was remembering something" I reply
"that's alright, my child." she takes my hand. "come, I have another surprise for you" she guides me down the hallway and stops at the first door "a room of your own!" she rubs my head a little "wait, is something burning? Ah! Make yourselves at home!" she runs off to save the pie. I take flowey into the room and set him next to the empty picture frame.
"ok, as much as we both love it here, can we please leave as soon as possible?" flowey asks " I don't want to be here any longer than necessary. "
"ok, fine one night, ok?" I should get the pie slice before we go, it will be useful later.
"good, glad we are in agreement. Now go to bed!" He responds
-9 hours later-
I wake up to the sight of flowey stuffing his face into a slice of pie next to him. I try to hold back a burst of laughter… I failed " hahahah oh my gosh flowey that was hilarious"
He quickly turns at me, bits of pie are stuck on his face "Frisk! Why didn't you tell me you were awake!"
"sorry! I just woke up when you were eating"
"shut up! You know her pie is amazing! Don't act like you haven't done this yourself!" guilty. I take the slice of pie toriel left for me and put it in my inventory. I leave the bedroom and walk toward the living room where toriel is waiting for us.
"ah, good morning my child" she looks at flowey "I see someone enjoyed the pie, hehe. Well anyway, I want to let you know how happy I am to have you both here. I can show you my favorite bug hunting spot, and I have prepared a curriculum for your education, this may come as a surprise to you, but I have always wanted to be a teacher, I suppose that really isn't that surprising. STILL. I'm glad you two could stay with me. So, what did you need, my child?"
"what's the book you are reading?" I reply. I want to humor her, make her a little happy.
"oh this, it's called '72 snail facts', would you like to hear one?"
"sure"
" ok, here's a good one, did you know that snails sometimes flip their digestive system as they mature? Now isn't that interesting."
"yeah" that was a lie, I've heard it hundreds of times before.
"well, bother me if you need anything else."
"toriel, there was something else I needed to ask you"
"What is it, my child?"
"I need to leave the ruins."
…
"Wait here, my child, I need to take care of something." she leaves the room. I follow her down the stairs into the basement hallway.
"you want to know how to return 'home' do you not? At the end of this hallway lies the entrance to the rest of the underground. I am going to destroy it. Be a good child and go upstairs." she walks farther down the hallway. No way to go but forward.
"i have seen it time and time again. if you leave, they, AGORE, will kill you." yeah, so, I've killed him hundreds of times. "Don't you see, this is for your own sake." she walks further. I follow.
"humph, you are just like the others. There is only one way to settle this. Prove yourself. Prove to me you are strong enough to survive!"
*Toriel blocks the way!
*spare
"..." she throws a wave of fire at me. I stand completely still and focus on my emotions.
*you are filled with PATIENCE
my soul shifts colors from deep red to light blue. The magic flames pass through my soul, leaving me unharmed.
*spare
"..?" she throws another wave at me. once again, they phase through.
*spare
"what are you doing?" more fire.
*spare
"fight or run away!" fire
*spare
"stop it!"
*spare
"I know that you want to go home" not really.
*spare
"but we can have a good life here together" not for long
*spare
"please, go up to your room."
*spare
"why do you have to make this so difficult"
*spare
"..."
*spare
"no, I understand. The ruins can get quite boring, once you get used to them."
*battle end
"if you want to leave so badly, I won't stop you. please, though when you go, don't come back. I hope you understand. Good bye, my child." she couches down to hug me, stands back up, and walks to the edge of the room before taking one last glance toward me and leaving. I pick up Flowey's pot, and walk to the exit.
*the thought of meeting sans fills you with DETERMINATION
end of chapter 4
*(hi, this is the author again. Sorry this one took so long to get out, I had a bunch of stuff going on. Welp, next chapter we will be meeting sans the skeleton, and, well… I suck at making puns. So if you have any good ones you think is can use pm me or put it in a review. That said, you guys are great and don't forget to tell me any questions or comments! Good night!)