Frisk stood in the front of the boss monster once more. Prepared for what was to come. Experimenting a bit, albeit carefully, Frisk decided to immediately spare Toriel. She just kept quiet as she formed huge paws with her magic and launched it at Frisk, flames trailing behind the paws. Frisk dodged all the flame balls as they rushed towards them.

" Can't believe I actually dodged that." Frisk muttered to themselves.

Toriel looks through you

Frisk spared Toriel again, the monster still not saying anything, her kind and sweet face replaced with a cold mask that Frisk was determined to crack.

Toriel sent another wave of flames to Frisk, who dodged them easily. Their arms moving and flowing around the flames like water. Frisk saw Toriel raise her arms.

Toriel prepares a magical attack

Frisk spared Toriel again. The woman keeping quiet for an even longer period of time. The paw attack was launched at Frisk again, which Frisk avoided. Then, Frisk noticed that Toriel's face changed.

Toriel is acting aloof

" Hmmm" Frisk muttered, their eyes widening slightly when they saw that Toriel was preparing the attack that killed them the first time. Narrowing their eyes in concentration, Frisk waited for the attack...

WHOOSH!

...and dodged it without a single scratch.

Toriel acts aloof

Grumbling, Frisk once again sparing the goat. This time, Toriel spoke.

" What are you doing ?" She asked

' Um...trying not to die? What is it do you think I'm doing!' is what Frisk wanted to say. Instead, they kept quiet.

Toriel launched giant paws at Frisk again, who managed to get burnt. Their HP lowering to 16/20. They silently hissed, not noticing that Toriel was breathing heavily.

Toriel takes a deep breath

Spare.

" Attack or run away!" Toriel told Frisk, once again attacking the teen.

" No!"

Toriel prepares a magical attack

Spare

" What are you proving this way!"

" That I don't need to hurt anybody in order to leave!"

Toriel attacked again, however, Frisk noticed that the fire balls were moving away from them.

Toriel looks through you

Spare.

" Fight me or leave!"

" I am a rebellious shit so NO!"

Frisk didn't even move an inch as the next attack was directed towards them.

Toriel looks through you

Spare.

Toriel's hard gaze softened. " I know you want to go home but..."

Spare.

"...please. Go upstairs now."

Spare.

A small smile appeared on Toriel's lips. " I promise I would take good care of you here."

Spare.

" I know we do not have much but..." Toriel curled her paws into fists.

Spare.

"...we can have a good life here." said Toriel uncurling her paws.

Spare.

" Why are you making this so difficult for me?" Toriel said, her eyes beginning to water.

Spare.

" Please...go...go upstairs."

Frisk silently shook their head. A hopeless smile appeared on Toriel's face as she laughed a hopeless laugh "Ha ha...Pathetic is it not. I can't even save a single child."

Frisk began to feel terrible.

" But...I understand. You would just be unhappy here. The Ruins become small once you get used to it. It wouldn't be right for you to grow up in a place like this."

Normally, Frisk would have crossed their arms with a ' Damn Straight', however, they knew it was a serious moment and decided to keep quiet.

" My expectation, my loneliness, my...fear...for you my child, I will push aside."

Toriel and Frisk left the Fight Screen, once again finding themselves in the front of the exit to the Ruins.

" If you truly wish to leave the Ruins I will not stop you. However, when you leave do not return."

Frisk mouth formed into a frown.

" Come with me. Leave with me. You can protect me from the other monsters if you want." Frisk said

Toriel's eye widened and then closed. " I'm sorry...but I can't come with you. I hope you understand."

Toriel leaned in to give Frisk a hug, who happily accepted it, sniffing fur that smelt like fire and traces of butterscotch cinnamon pie. Toriel let go of Frisk, and with one last smile said " Goodbye my child." and walked away.

Frisk stood there by the exit to Ruins, not leaving until Toriel was completely out of sight.

Are you okay?

" Yeah. I'm fine." Frisk muttered, wiping away tears they didn't know fell

So. A rebellious shit.

" Nothing more. Nothing less." Frisk said with a weak smile, keeping a ' Thank you' to themselves

Let's go

Frisk nodded as they turned around and pushed open the door. They walked through a dark hallway. And walked, And walked. And walked. Why was the exit so long and narrow? They finally reached the exit and met the person they wanted to see the least right now."

" Howdy, I-"

" Jack off." Frisk said coldly, flipping Flowey the bird and stepped over him.

Not liking Frisk's actions in the slightest, Flowey, caused red thorned vines to shoot from the floor and grab ahold of Frisk. Bringing the teen closer, Flowey began to speak as the vines suspended Frisk in mid-air.

" Now. As I was saying before you so coldly interrupted me. Howdy!. You're clever aren't ya. Verrrry verrrry clever."

" So. What's it matter to you." Frisk spat.

" Nothing. I really don't care. I can't care actually. Don't have a soul. What caught my interest though is that you actually think you're smart. In this world, it's killed or be killed."

" Yeah. In my world it's screw off or get pushed mercilessly into a dark abyss." Frisk said dryly.

Pffttt...

" Pffftt..."

"Pffffttt...ha..ahem...anyway, so you were able to play by your own rules. You spared the life of a single person. He he he he" Flowey laughed, his face shifting into the black eyed face.

" And?"

" And I bet you feel really great. You didn't kill anyone this time." Flowey adapted this smug expression.

" No. Not really. In all honesty, I feel really terrible about what transpired. Wait...how did you know what happened? Wait...what do you mean this time?"

" That's nothing you should be concerned about. What you should be concerned about is what will you do if you meet a relentless killer? You'll die and you'll die and you'll die. Until you tire of trying. What will you do then."

" Nah. I'm a pretty fast learner. I'm pretty sure I'll be able to dodge their attack and not kill myself before I quit." Frisk said flatly.

" Whatever. But... will you kill out of frustration? Or will you give my entirely on this world.. and let ME inherit the power to control it." A sharp toothed Flowey asked

Don't let anything he says get to you

"...I'm not giving any sort of power to you you psycho. "

" I am the prince of this world's future."

" More like the 'prince of evil plants trampled beneath Frisk's brown combat boots if they had their own way' "

Flowey tighted his grip on Frisk.

" Ow!" They hissed.

" You're quite the comedian aren't you?'

" The best you're gonna see." Frisk said with a smirk despite the thorns puncturing their skin.

" Well, good luck with a certain smiling trashbag. Anyway, not to worry my little monarch. My plan is not regicide if that's what you're thinking."

You have no idea what regicide means do you?

' Not a clue'

" This is SO interesting." the plant laughed a crazy laugh before disappearing beneath the dirt.

After the thorny vines dropped Frisk, they rushed to the patch where Flowey was, digging it up in hopes that he would still be there so they could rip his petals off slowly and one by one.

" Shit." Frisk muttered as they got up and dusted themselves off, digging the dirt from under their fingernails and flicking it away.

Just ignore him

" Planning to as of now." Frisk said as they began to walk towards what they hoped was the real exit.

They were greeted with white and a cold that bull rushed them so fast, Frisk almost suffered from hypothermia.

" So... ." Frisk shivered, their teeth chattering as they tried in vain to warm themselves.

" E-even with th-this thick a-ass sweat-ter I'm still- still fr-freezing my bu-butt off h-here."

It never snowed where you live?

" N-not once. N-never have. N-never will."

Something caught Frisk's eye, something shiny in the snow covered bushes beside them. Frisk sauntered over to the bush, push past the leaves and got a face full of camera lens.

...?!

There's a camera hidden in the bushes

" Th-thanks Ca-captain O-obvious."

Keep moving forward. It will keep you warm.

Frisk merely huffed, slightly surprised when they saw their breath in the front of them, and kept moving forward.

Sorry I haven't updated since September. Things got rough for me with school. And the hurricane in October did not help. I'm doing better though. I probably won't be able to update for a while since my final exams started. Once I'm done, I'll try to update as soon as I can. Just know that just because I'm not updating doesn't mean I'm not working on this. I already started working on the chapters of the voice's reveal to Frisk and his backstory. It won't be put in for the next...let's say twenty or thirty chapters but writing the middle part of a story you are no where near yet is much better than not writing at all don't ya think?