Author note: Welp this chapter? Is something that gives you all the backstory you need and finally the title of this au. This has been in my mind for over year, so I worked hard to get this down before I let doubt ruin it for me. As always I love to hear from you guys so leave a comment or subscribe to more chapters and more of my works. Here are the deal guys I won't be updating this story until my break meaning the next time I update it will be around Christmas.
He wasn't an idiot. And in the wrong hands the artifact could collapse this reality and created another, but it needs to be truly absorbed through the soul. And created from the will of the one holding it but the last time it was used it powered the core, but gaster fell into it thus he was eviscerated in any and all of the reality and as it's my power and apart of me? But to leave it in the hiding place the captain left it in was utterly insane. Even with the lazy skelly watching it he couldn't stop some human with enough determination to take and abuse the power. That is if they ever decide to touch it with your bare hand. I need to hide it somewhere, and I had just the place.
The small white dog took off from his hiding place under said lazy skelly's bed. The smell in the room was comforting and homey feeling. That he was extremely overlooked never bothered him because those who did notice revered him as something more, like a deity. But he was just a regular pup! Unless he was causing hijinks or taking Papyrus's special attack from him when he's training. But he was a pup with a mission take the artifact to the vacated ruins and buried it there. Getting there was easy enough it had been abandoned for almost a century now. I notice a flower garden and assuming from tiny crack above the seeds could fall from above and gives the rain in needs. I notice the center spot and start to dig burying I noticed the faint red glow and decided not to worry about it since no one comes here or ever needs too.
I wake up woozy, dizzy, and lightheaded. Cursing internally at my luck and the staff that I came on this stupid hiking trip. Stupid orphanage for trying to make us not be weak. I can see the hole above me. I tilt my neck to look up at it. The hole I fell through the light is a pinprick from this distance. I don't see a wall I can climb up it. I have no way to get out. Whelp anything is better than an orphanage. She thought to herself regardless. She needed to get out of here. The darkness seems to be creeping, and I hear whispering.
"Are they dead? No, no they can't be, or their soul would have come out already."
I turn towards the voice blink my eyes trying to adjust to the lack of light what I see shocks me.
"Howdy friend! I'm Flowey the flower you're..."
Before he could finish his little speech, she had gotten up and tried to stomp him out like a bug.
"I saw little shops of horrors you weed. I know better to believe your seemingly innocent plant who just wants to help me! You were just standing over my body almost hoping I was dead! I could hear it in your voice."
"You're not as dumb as the others I see! It won't save you, dear."
"We'll see about that."
Flowey started to become a mass of tangled vines, no bigger than a bush. I was dodging attacks like practiced this all my life, glad I took gym seriously in school. From the left, I saw two fireballs strike Flowey in the face and one in the roots
"In this world, it kills or be killed, human child." He yelled maniacally.
When she saw him still moving, she threw a bunch more just to be safe
"My child, did that despicable creature hurt you ?"
When I looked at my rescuer's face, I realized it was a woman! Crazier she was goat-like. Fur, horns, and the whole shebang but hands instead of hooves, and she stood the height of an adult.
"I know this all strange to you are all right my child?
"Yeah, it's bizarre, I feel like this isn't actually happening, am I dreaming ?"
"Don't worry; sweetie let's see if we can't get you some rest at my home hmm?"
Something about the way she's treating you. Made you feel makes you trust her to take care of you. At least till you get your bearing on what I just fell into several puzzles and Toriel. The lady who found me taught me about the underground about Fight Act Items and Mercy. She explained what exp actually meant and lv said and how they affect people here.
Toriel was bent down on one knee tired and out of breath, but the look in her eye told me she was resolved in her decision, that she's come to make.
"You want to leave the ruins even after everything I've said. I've tried to make you see the reason, but you don't want to listen. Remember My child when you walk out that door the ruins are forever closed you know that you can never return here again."
Thankfully, I knew she might react like this. When you've been bounced from place to place as I have. You pick up a few traits and cues about people. I have met guys like her before. She's the kind of person who is thinking she knows best will be harsh when you don't agree to do what she wants. Fortunately, I decided to stay a week of complete attention from her. I know that she honestly does care for me. I rather soak it up now before she gets tired of me, at least before having to face this ending. Preparing a backpack full of things, I need to survive. Let her teach me about everything I would need to know. She told me all about the monsters in the ruins and learning from Toriel about the underground ahead of us. I remember going back to the spider bake sale a second time to buy a few more donuts with the pocket money Toriel gave me, and they told me the story of how they're trapped here because if they try to cross into Snowdin, they will freeze from the freezing temperature. What I noticed there were many discarded items buried in Toriel's home with the solution to their problems for the more humanoid and bigger spiders I gave them some of the extra heating coats that Toriel seem to have in spades. While some of the humanoid ones were carried their brethren in their pocket of their coats other wanted to be more independent and got inside of the self-heating hamster ball. They thanked me for helping them, and that was a lot of generosity, and they will never forget it. I asked them to go to the end of the ruins and wait for me to open the door for them to make their escape with that another door shuts behind me. It wasn't the first time it had happened to me in my short life nor would it be my last; I thought with a mental sigh. At least, the spiders gave me a hug. Knowing I was hurt from her abandonment no matter how jaded I seemed. I knew they could go quickly to their real home, but apparently, there is only one person who does that. The person in question only takes people who have been to the places on the route. They said something about the underground has to be thoroughly explored before you can go where you want to go. They say that once you have seen enough. You'll see for yourself why he didn't want you to skip all the places in between here and where the spiders reside. This is something he told me when I met him in person. I did thank him for letting me experience the beauty of the underground with my own eyes. Instead of never seeing it all if I joined the spider's trek home. Knowing she was mad at me hurt my heart. Worse than she believed I would be killed hurt me even more.
Being left behind by the spider people go to their home quickly know they can't stand these temperatures. If anything I was glad they free and safe. I feel so ungrateful, especially after she burned Flowey to protect me mostly a stranger they ran so fast on the path, they were blurry and finally gone. After a few seconds, I cautiously walked the road with my semi-heavy backpack. Which at the time seemed like a dumb idea if there were predators, I was a sitting duck. Meeting Sans while he seemed imposing and scary was a great guy and even asked me about the spider people, and if I helped them escape the ruins. He told me about his brother who loved hunting humans. Making me visibly nervous he reassured me, that even if he met me, he would want to make friends with me instead of taking me to the captain of the royal guard as he supposed.
While the trek was tough but she made friends along the way include a skeleton with braces and a pair of glasses and his younger brother. Who was a rambunctious kid who saw himself as little Romeo but it made me smile, and they made feel okay and helped me out. Though I remember having a crush on the with the one with the braces. He was so funny and easy to talk to, I doubt I could stop myself from liking him if I tried. If he liked me back? I'll never know, but we hung out a lot including going out for a milkshake in hotland once I finally made it there. But I knew I had one more obstacle before making it to the end.
She couldn't do it she passed the spider in their lair in hotland, and I told them I understood the underground was a beautiful place something tragic and incredibly beautiful and to hear the words out of the monster's mouth their struggle, the hunger and the how claustrophobic it feels in the towns. So much of the underground was held together by the duct tape and cardboard it was falling apart, and my heart hurt see with my own eyes. Waterfall was breathtaking, but I could see the potential flooding it's always raining like they were an inch away from its breaking under some underground lake that right overhead. And I complained about the group home at least I won't die from starvation. But I have been dying for days I lost count after the first ten times I died Mettaton was relentless and merciless, and I'm so tired. He wipes the floor with me. Mainly since I'm not alone in the fight, he seems to fight even harder since I'm upstaging him. When I went up to fight Mettaton. I was confident, and I was ready to befriend and help him . some of Muffet's people showed up to be back up dancers in the battle, and they were quick to dance on cue. It was so unexpected, but I was glad for the assistance. They were great quick and great, but Mettaton was too fast, and I haven't stopped dying, and he just laughs maniacally. When my health is right before zero. Saying in that condescending tone, " You're the one who wanted to see my new body, you're the one who thought you can outshine me now you can die human. And I can go free. "
Hearing that over and over and over again I saw the black void, and I saw it right there covered in red flaming light. I was dead once more how do I get the option to come back I wish I knew. More than usual it was pitch black void I can barely make out what it said the ethereal options that always appeared. My eyes? Can whatever I am now be considered a body, a disembodied soul, an afterimage of what I am. Do I truly have eyes or a mouth or nose or anything but my own thought process? I just pressed an option I couldn't see, and I felt dizzy spin backward and forwards. I looked at my body, and it was disappearing before my eyes. I started to scream, but I knew no could hear me. All I know is wish for things to be better than this.
As she said, the world seemed to reassemble itself a little nicer than it was but still broken. Like the world could hear disjointed and tried thoughts of Frisk. trying it's best to fulfill the vague wish with no real concept of what to do exactly what was asked. The only thing that truly changed was Frisk herself she glowed with a fiery red power that seems to glow from within her. The world above was bright and sunny, and she hugged her family as she told them about the class senior hiking trip. Where she would make it to the peak and fall down to be saved by goat dad and the cycle would happen once again.
For the first time in 50 years, the garden that held the dust of the young prince and the first fallen child did not have an eerie red glow over it.
Final note: Finally! I've been dying to write this for forever now this was the first image in my head, but I didn't want to start here because I'd have to title it prologue and it wasn't exactly ready back then also it would ruin a lot of the mystery element I wanted to set up. All the backstory here is something both essential or something you could figure at least partially without this chapter. But if you having issue understanding frisk has with her frame the legendary artifact within her. The title of this au, is ArtifactTale. Since the artifact is the main point of the story and what is causing this anomaly in my story at least partially. I'd like to ask your opinions on it like hate comment and tell me your thoughts about this I didn't write this on a whim and I worked really hard to explain frisk very first true reset to explain she now has the powers of a true god not a fake one like omega flowey or Asriel. No, she's become the real deal she can warp reality in a way no one truly has before. The closest was the annoying dog in the beginning but he only made the template and never messed with the world beyond that nor felt the need to.