Hello folks! Arana here! Sorry I've taken so long with this! However, I am going to introduce new characters, this chapter. And each character is going to have 2-3 chapters involving them and their interactions with the characters so far.
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Chapter 10- When The Past Decides to Return
"Sir!" cried a Royal Guardsman as he entered the throne room.
"What is it, R 10?" Asgore asked… using the guard's title instead of his actual name, since the majority of the guards went by that now.
"One of the souls has disappeared!" R 10 yelped. "I was watching them, since it is my shift, and then the light blue soul just… disappeared…"
Asgore froze, then took out his phone, dialing Toriel.
"Yes Asgore?" asked the most likely annoyed boss monster on the receiving end of the call.
"Can you go see if a human has fallen into the Underground?"
"Why?"
"One of the souls has disappeared."
"What… how?"
"R 10 says it just did. I believe that it somehow escaped because a human has fallen."
"Fine, I'll go check."
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Emily wasn't expecting to fall into a black hole-like… hole when she was climbing Mount Ebbot to look for Jordan. She had entertained he went to the old mountain to search for Frisk once again, since he had done so before. But, this time he had disappeared!
Emily groaned, then sneezed. Great, she had pollen in her nose. She sat up to look at the flower bed she was on, noticing it was buttercups. Great, just the flower she hated.
Looking around in the dim light, Emily almost didn't notice the light blue outlined child standing close by. When she did a double take, Emily also noticed that the child was see through.
"Hello," the child, a young girl with a red bow in her brown hair. "It is so nice to finally be free again!"
"Uh, what?" Emily asked slowly.
"Oh, silly me!" the girl said with a giggle. "I'm Patience, nice to meet you. I shall be your guide through the Underground… well at least through the Ruins. I've never made it passed the small house here, so I don't know what's on the other side…"
"Are you a ghost or something?" Emily asked the small child, unsure why her name was Patience. Maybe it was something to do with Mount Ebbot's supernatural history involving monsters living under it.
"Not exactly," Patience said softly. "I'm a 'lost' soul for a better term. But at least I have my memories and stuff." Then she seemed to realize something. "Wait… what kind of soul do you have?"
"Wait what?"
"Uh…" Patience said. Then she thought, and started to mumble. "Well… Chara seems to be following the two determination souls, maybe since she needs that soul power to leech off of…" The child started to pace. "If I'm linked to her, she may have a soul of patience…"
Then, suddenly, a flower with a face popped up out of the ground, startling Emily, and spooking Patience. "Howdy! Well Asgore was… right…" the flower said, turning from Emily to Patience. "And the soul has a physical form. Wow. Frisk didn't have to throw determination at her…"
"Woah, wait, did you just say Frisk?" Emily asked the flower. "She's alive? Does that mean Jordan's down here too?!"
"Calm down, I shall answer your questions," the flower laughed. "First, though, I am Flowey the Flower, a poor soul who died some time ago and got turned into a flower. I'm still regaining my soul. Anyways, yes Jordan and Frisk are here, although Frisk is a skeleton now…"
"Skeleton?!" Emily yelped, jumping up.
"jeez kid, you'd think that you were a loox with that attitude," said a deep voice.
Startled, Emily turned to see a skeleton wearing a blue hoodie. Before anyone could say anything else, she fainted.
"If she's a patience soul…" Patience commented. "I don't think that would be normal."
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Emily slowly came to, lying in a warm and cozy bed. She was drowsily trying to remember why and how she had fainted~something she normally didn't do~before she sat up fast, the hoodie wearing skeleton.
Then, she noticed Patience, who was drawing on a see through pad with a see through pencil.
"How long have I been out?" Emily asked slowly.
"About six hours," Patience commented. "Flowey and Sans, that skeleton who scared you, were worried and waited for Toriel to come get you. We checked your soul, and my hunch that it's patience like mine, to see if there was anything wrong with it. Turns out you have a small crack in it…" The child paused, then looked at her. "What was so traumatizing that that happened?"
Emily paused, then shivered. "Well… when I was four, a man came into my home. He wanted to take me away from my parents, because he thought they didn't deserve me….
"While my dad was fending him off, and my mom called the police, I went and hid in a secret spot I had discovered about a few days before hand. A little bit after that, I heard gunshots, and then police sirens.
"When I finally came out of the hiding spot, I saw my parents lying on the floor, dead, with things shatter on the ground. The man was nowhere to be seen. The police came in, and found me crying. They told me they had caught the man responsible, and then took my to a foster home, where I met Jordan and his baby sister Frisk. That was about eight years ago…"
Emily then sniffed, and wiped a tear from her eye. "I'd rather we not talk about this anymore…" she said. She then noticed the time. It was past nine, so she lied back down and went back to sleep.
Patience looked at Emily with a sympathizing look. Why in the world did she had to go through the same past as the lost soul, Patience couldn't comprehend. But, now that King Asgore wasn't killing humans anymore, Emily would find refuge here.
She hoped.
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Omg why did I have to make Patience's and Emily's pasts so sad…
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~Arana