You are awake. Your head is in splitting pain from falling. It's… bleeding even.

There seems to be no one nearby to help you. Save you from what the world has done to you. There never was.

You are struggling to stay conscious, scared of what might happen if you don't. Yet all you can feel is the slow falling of your eyelids… Ever so slow…

A distant shouting. Something or someone is nearby. But you are too weak to call for help. You feel the last ounces of your energy fading as you drift off into sleep…

"Kris!," you hear someone shout-whisper. "I think they might be conscious!"

Wake up, $#!. You have to keep going!

Stay Determined!

You are startled up into wake by a soft hand touching your skin. It was fluffy, like a pillow of clouds.

"Oh! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to scare you." the voice says. "I'm glad to see you are OK! We were so worried."

You get a glimpse of the world you were dropped into. It's all a dark purple, tinged with blue. Or maybe that's the fall making you think it is?

"Hey," the voice calls once again, "can you see me?" You turn to face the voice with the soft hands. And for a moment everything was normal. Toriel was just waking you up for your first day of school….

Yet this was not Toriel. This was a similar being, however. It looked like a rather normal looking goat-person, in a green robe, with what appeared to be a scarf around their neck.

"Alright! Glad to see you are alive! We really did worry about you."

You are panicked. You recognize nothing about your surroundings.

"Where is Kris? Where am I? Who even are you? Wh-"

"There, there. It's OK. I suppose I should introduce myself. I am Ralsei, King of the Darkness, one of the three Heroes who- "On second thought, that should probably wait.

"Well, we are in my Castle. we took you here to make sure you were okay. You had a rather large head wound, $#!."

You put your hand up to your head. It feels leagues better than it did when you first woke up. It was… magical. You'd known monsters to be able to use healing magic before, but also that some of them couldn't.

You inquire further. "Where's Kris?"

"Well, that is a good question. I called for him earlier, but he hasn't arrived. If you'd like, I could go-" You grab his hand.

"No, I need someone here with me. I don't know…" You look up at his face. Some of the light white near his cheeks has turned pink.

"...V-very well. We shall wait here together. Please try and stay awake, if you can."

He turns away and calls for Kris once more. You have the feeling that you didn't just fall unconscious an hour or two ago. It feels like… You head pangs as you try to gauge the time. It's too dark to tell, and there are no windows or clocks to aid.

"How do you know my name?," you ask Ralsei. He turns to answer, with a grin.

"Kris told me. It is a rather nice-"

"My real name."

"...I don't know what you are talking about."

"..." No one has called you $#! since… since when? It must've been years.

Regardless, you drop the question, wary of Ralsei, waiting for your knight in shining armor to save you again.

End of Chapter 10

(sorry about the delay in release. im not to confident in my consistency with this one. i will try to be more... attentive. see you soon.)

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