Guess who's back?! I went into a writing frenzy these past few days, and let me tell you it was pretty crazy. I was going to tell you last chapter, but I wanted to take a small break before continuing and getting back into the groove. I have a few more notes at the end, but I would not want to make you wait any longer, so onto the reviews and such~
Thank you to Bandolera Roja and NoxNightKing for following, and A Blast of Fanfics for the fav and follow~
Valkyriestar of wing clan- Thank you, and sorry for the long wait!
A Blast of Fanfics- Thank you so much for the ideas! You got me so excited to write that in, and that's what spurred the writing frenzy. For the Waterfall area, I was thinking glowsticks or a fire devil stick. (Those twirly fire things) What do you think?
"Speaking"
'Reading'
"Protagonist speaking"
Save point
As you wait to calm down a bit more from the dance you see that there's two ways you could proceed. There's a room ahead and one to the left, both too far for you to see inside clearly. Before you could decide which way to go, you get another call from Toriel. "Hello?"
"Hi mom!"
"I have just realized that it has been a while since I have cleaned up. I was not expecting to have company so soon. There are probably a lot of things lying about here and there."
"What are they lying about? Are they spreading rumors?" You ask, sensing that this was a great opportunity to joke a bit.
She giggles before continuing, lest she lose her train of thought. "You can pick them up if you'd like, but try not to carry more than you need. Someday you may see something you really like. You will want to leave room in your pockets for that."
"Okay, bye!" You hear the click signaling that she hung up.
You walk forward enough to pop your head into the room ahead and feel your heartbeat quicken again, but out of fear instead of adrenaline. You see spider webs hanging off of every possible place, and spiders as big as your forearm crawling about. So you were afraid of spiders, you didn't hate them! They just freaked you out a bit. It's a very common fear but you've never hurt a spider for any reason before, you simply asked your dad to take it outside instead of killing it. You start to leave but notice a faded red ribbon lying on the floor near the right side of the room. You slowly inch into the room and swipe the ribbon before anything crawls too close to you. You didn't dare venture further inside to read the sign, you just backed away and went to the left instead.
The next room is surprisingly (not really though) also purple with a dark blue flooring that seems to be pressure sensitive. There are spikes blocking you from moving to the next room. You step on it and some space around your feet glows and changes colors. You've been so distracted lately that you hadn't remembered that you took off your shoes earlier, and you've been in your socks this whole time. You slip around slightly and look in wonder at the swirling shades of red spreading from your feet. It reminds you of putting food coloring in water, the restless swirls dimming and growing brighter every few seconds. You see a sign near the exit to the room and run to it, slowing to a skid and watching the red trail bloom from the floor.
'If you can read this, stand in the middle room and do the move known as a Chasse' You have no idea what that word means but on the bottom of the sign you see a drawn diagram of what a Chasse should look like. There are two figures drawn, a man and women, in what seems to be a starting position, but you're not sure what kind of dance the move is from. The male takes a step forward with his left and then turns the female slightly to the left while taking another step, finishing the move by moving his right leg to meet his left. It seems doable but would probably be easier with a partner who could lead. It's moments like these you begin to think that you should have waited for Toriel after all.
You move back to the entrance of the room to remove your socks, hoping it would make this easier. You make a mental note to remember to grab the socks after, so that Toriel wouldn't have to clean more than she would normally need to. You move onto the flooring and see the red turn much brighter and more vibrant, the color swirling freely with much more energy than before. You skip to the center and take the same position as the female. You move your left leg forward but notice that the colors started draining the second you did so. You pause and think about why that may have happened.
You realize it a few seconds later that you had been in the female starting position, but were dancing as the male would. You face palm before once again standing in the same position as before. This time you take a step BACK with your left and see the colors bloom once again, signaling that you were doing this right. You twist to your right before meeting your corresponding leg to match, and bring your left leg in to meet your right. The entire floor turns a warm red and the spikes retract. You giddily skip into the next room.
This room has different flooring, looking very similar to that of a disco floor. The exit to this room is blocked off with spikes as well. The squares all a grayish blue and normal flooring a few feet before the panels start. There was a yellow switch near your left so you walk to pull it, making sure to not accidentally step on any of the large tiles just in case. There is a burst of blue and you turn to see the tiles activated when you pulled the switch. The panels stay the same shade of blue for a moment but then the place to your left lights up in a pale lavender hue. The panel turns to blue once more as the tile straight ahead of it lights up in the shade of purple. The next panel to the right diagonally flashes as soon as the blue turns back to purple. The flashing pattern goes from there to a diagonal left, to the right, and then skips the last row entirely.
Once the colors stop flashing you step ahead instead of to the left, deciding to forego the puzzle and see what happens instead. The tile you step on heats up at a quickening rate and you jump back in surprise. The tile you were on before starting is much cooler and a relief to your bare feet. You move to the left this time, standing on your toes in case you need to hop off quickly. The red from before returns and starts mingling with the blue there, signaling that you were doing well. You step forward and then to the right corner and don't feel a change in temperatures. You move forward a tile and step back as soon as you feel it warming up. You quickly move to the corner left and hop right before taking a quick break to look back. The previous steps you took still had mingling colors but they were still their own colors, not mixing at all. You face forward, leap to the end of the room, and see light coming from behind you. You turn to see the correct tiles shining a bright, vibrant purple. You smile a bit and leave the room.
The next room is much different from the others, and there was a very faint yet delectable smell in the air. You just were not sure where it came from. You walk forward into a row of grass and feel the blades caressing the soles of your feet. Up ahead there was a new row of red leaves and yet another row of grass after. The leaves ahead led to a hall with a large leaf-less tree in the center. You decide to go towards the tree and would check the hall ahead after. Something was nagging in the back of your mind, like if you have forgotten something. As you get closer to the tree you hear a faint and familiar song getting louder. Toriel pops up mumbling about something before she proceeds to pull out her phone from her dress and call someone, presumably you. She looks up to see you standing there and rushes over as quickly as she can.
"How did you get here, my child? Are you hurt?" she asks you, and you hear a bit of panic in her voice.
You rush to reassure her that you are fine, but she looks you over before the panic seeps from her expression and changes to slight wonder. "Not a scratch on you, impressive! Still, I should not have left you alone for so long. It was irresponsible to try to surprise you like this"
You look at her in surprise and she looks a bit sheepish as she realizes what she said. "Umm, well I suppose I cannot hide it any longer. Come, young one!"
You walk a bit faster to keep up with her long strides and she sweeps into a small house, most likely her home. It looks small and doesn't draw too much attention to itself, much like its owner. There are more leaves outside next to the doorway and a yellow star sitting atop them. You touch it to hear the male voice you've grown accustomed to. Seeing this quaint, tidy house and hearing the melody trailing from inside fills you with determination. You walk into Toriel's home to see her standing by a stairway, waiting for you. She begins speaking as you survey the area, unintentionally drowning her out. The house wasn't purple like you expected, but a nice shade of light beige that relaxed you. There were two hallways on either side of you, and the staircase that Toriel was right in front of. The air was rich with the smell of something delicious, but you couldn't quite place it.
Toriel reaches her paw towards you and you take it, hoping that she wasn't leading you somewhere dangerous. No, she wouldn't do that… Hopefully. She begins walking to the right side of the house and you see three simple doors to rooms. Two look identical whilst the third one closest to the end of the hall has a paper on it. It was too far for you to read, but Toriel was waiting in front of the first door already. She releases her grasp on your hand and pats you on the head affectionately. "A room of your own, I hope you like it" you hear her state proudly. She lightly pushes you in the direction of the door while speaking. She pauses for a second before quickly changing subjects. "Is something burning…? Um, make yourself at home." She rushes out of the hallway and you turn back to the room. With an exhale, you open the door and see quite a bit of red emanating from the light inside. This looks like a children's bedroom, with toys and small shoes lying here and there. The bed was red as well and-
That's what you had forgotten! You were supposed to pick up your socks before leaving one of the puzzle rooms. You had hoped that you wouldn't inconvenience Toriel. You made another mental note to go pick them up later, but you would probably forget this time as well. You look in the shoe box and see quite a few sizes, and a disparity of human and monster shoes. The only reason you knew that some were monster shoes were the size, seeing as how they were generally larger than human sizes. The only strange thing was that all of the monster shoes were the same size. Scratch that, the fact that Toriel had this many pairs to begin with was slightly more disturbing.
You walk around the room, feeling the soft carpet on your feet and the warm atmosphere as you look inside the bureau. There are many sizes of the same shirt, a green long-sleeved with a single yellow stripe along the center. Half were the about the same size as you while the other half was slightly longer. Your current shirt is a mess, but for some reason you decide not to wear one of the shirts. It feels… disrespectful? That's the right word but you can't understand why you feel this way. You unlace the tutu from your waist and twirl around the room for a moment. Doesn't feel the same without it. You plop onto the bed and feel your eyelids grow heavier with every passing second. You hadn't realized you were THIS tired. You snuggle into the soft pillow before falling asleep. You hadn't realized before you fell asleep, but half of your body was hanging off of the bed. Your back was going to hurt horribly when you woke up from there.
This was hard to write for some reason, but hopefully some people still decide to read this despite the month break I took. I have decided to make the protagonist female, and when people other than Toriel refer to them, they'll be a she now. Sorry, it just makes it easier to write. Another thing that would help is if she was in the 19-21 age range. Canon Undertale Frisk was probably like 10 or something, but that's far too young to be doing this. Last note, from now on I won't have another beta, so there will be a few mistakes. I hate reading my own writing, mostly because I criticize myself far too much. A HUGE thanks to A Blast of Fanfics, for without them I wouldn't have continued for another week or two.
Thank you everyone for waiting this long, you know what the next chapter is!~
