Chapter 3: Ruins

Finally …

The rushing air whipped through her short human hair as she fell. Unlike the other guy who screamed his fucking head off and then fainting, Kia was silent as she fell. Kia felt it. They passed into the mythical Barrier. It was like she was in a small puddle before. Now she feels as though she was dumped into the ocean! She felt alive!

Kia drank in as much as she could. This moment was probably the most alive she has been since she had given birth to Frisk. Being an animated corpse Determined not to fade, she doesn't have many options than to actually try to make a meaning of her life, lives, whatever. Now, she just needs to stay alive to go back home.

She isn't ready to die just yet.

This other guy though…

Kia maneuvered herself to face the huge thug. Crimson magic glowed the faintest glow. She pushed him harder to fall faster. She turned him just so in this direction. Now, she just made her board to flout the rest of the way down to the barren cave floor. There wasn't much air currents for her to ride on to move anywhere quickly, so she just descended into the darkness. Watching the body fall rapidly from her soft decent, she grinned when she heard a distinct snap and he landed head first on the ground. Her magic should fade by the time someone finds him. Now, if anyone found him, they can't point their fingers at her.

Landing, her magic dissolved. Moving over to the other guy, she waited with arms crossed. A muddled color SOUL slowly formed above him. It started to crack, about to break. With a wave of her hand, a crimson sphere formed around the breaking SOUL. The shattered pieces held neatly in a pile in her hold. It was heavy. Sins are such a weighty thing.

Crimson flares around her hands. Her pale claws cradle the sphere containing the shattered human SOUL. Crimson irises glowed with delight. Using the points of her claws, she delicately picked up a piece of the SOUL. Inspecting it in the dim light filtering through the barrier, Kia lowered the piece towards her. It disappeared behind her pointed teeth. She chewed happily with loud crunches and munches. Her magic reserves keeping her alive slowly replenishing from the natural magic in the air suddenly got a boost from the small piece she ate.

Turning about, she inspected the area she had fallen into. Other than the pile of broken vines and the corpse, there wasn't much. When finding a tunnel leading out of the area, she waltzes right on through, eating as she goes. Coming upon a small and thin patch of green grass, she noticed a single flower. It had six golden petals and a standard stem. What she really noticed was the personality surrounding a cracked, transparent, inverted SOUL. It was green. This flower was alive, and it was kind.

It startled when she crunched on a larger piece of the man's SOUL. Its stem twisted until she could see a rather simple face. It instantly looked terrified as it saw her in the shadow. It paled further when it saw what she was eating. She grinned as she ate the small bits left in her sphere. Rolling her shoulders, her magic settled. Her appearance was human once again.

It trembled. She took a step closer, so she could be in the light. It shrieked and shot vines at her. Her crimson magic flared up and created a dome around her. She glared lightly at the startled and whimpering plant. She could only assume that it was a monster, but it doesn't seem to be all that threatening. Sighing, she used one of her hands to uproot the little thing with her magic. Its magic vines disappeared. It squiggled in front of her as it tried to escape her magic's grasp.

"Alright then, introductions are in order. That is if you can understand and speak my language. Well anyways, I'm Kia. Who and what are you?"

It froze. It stared at her warily. She was starting to think it couldn't understand her when it spoke. It started to smile shakily and straighten itself out. Its bud head held up high.

"I-I'm Flowey. Flowey the Flower. I-I'm ready."

Raising an eyebrow, Kia stared at Flowey blankly. How original.

"Ready for what?"

It looked at her confused. Then she got it. She snapped her fingers.

"Well, light bulb moment, but no, I'm not going to kill you. Douchebag back there taking a dirt nap deserved it. I don't kill kids."

"W-what?! How can you tell? Who are you?!"

Tapping her chin, she gave him a pointed grin.

"Secret~, besides now that you are not attacking me I can set you down now. You are heavier than you should be."

Kia set down the little flower. It grimaced. It looked up at her. Then it looked up at the light shining over her shoulder. It squeaked and disappeared. Kia huffed.

"Rude, you little shit, where did you go?"

Kia looked around. It was getting warmer in a very threatening way.

She side jumped when flames were suddenly shot in her direction. She cursed at the sudden onslaught of attacks. Looking up to see her attacker, she took a moment to process what she was seeing. It was a tall Goat Monster. Off white ruffled fur, black and torn outfit, yellow sclera and red eyes, and bare feet-paws-something, Kia guessed it wasn't going to be the worst sight she was going to see down here. What really shot to the forefront of Kia's mind was the look in the monsters eyes.

Disappointment and rage

Loneliness

The attacks stopped suddenly. Kia eyed the monster warily. It seemed to huff before focusing their gaze on her. It smiled. Kia didn't trust that smile.

"Why hello there, I am Toriel. I hope that flower wasn't bothering you too much. It can be quite misleading."

Kia shifted her weight on one of her legs, popping out her hips as she scrutinized this Toriel. Crossing her arms, Kia hummed. Toriel twitched. Kia smirked. She shrugged and relaxed.

Something darkened in Toriel's countenance. Her eyes shifted. She turned and started to leave.

"Well then, would you please follow me?"

"Why not?"

Toriel twitched again. Kia giggled as she followed. Coming to a pair of stairs, Kia saw that one set was completely crumbled. Seeing the star of magic, Kia grinned. Walking up to it as Toriel shuffled up the only intact stairs, Kia grasped it and absorbed the magic in it. She hummed in satisfaction. She has completely recovered now.

Walking through the Ruins, she noticed the recurring theme of red, black, death, and hostility.

Toriel had ditched her some time ago. Various monsters had attacked her. It wasn't until she killed one that she noticed the grey dirt sprinkled everywhere were piles of Monster Dust. It was interesting.

What really made her day was this dark colored apparition! He looked like a stereotypical Halloween ghost sheet. He was so adorable in his anger and self-denial. She didn't have the motivation to kill it as it attacked her. He had left after she forced a hug on him grumbling and muttering. He was sooooo soft and squishy and absolutely huggable!

His blush was adorable.

Her giggly and happy mood had instantly crashed when she walked into a room full of dust, cobwebs, and spiders.

"Nope"

Promptly turning around, Kia wished she had a lighter as she exited and walked away. A headache started to form behind her eyes as a migraine attacked the back of her head. She ended up with an even shorter temper fuse and killed more monsters, mostly by accident. She had found a faded red ribbon at one point. Shaking it off, she stuffed it in her pocket.

Eventually, she came upon a dead tree and a run-down house. Kia walked up the door and knocked on it. She would wait for a couple of moments. The door grumbled before opening to reveal Toriel. She seemed mildly surprised to see Kia. Kia raised a hand in greeting.

"Yo, Toriel! You live here? I was told that this was the end of the Ruins."

She stared down at Kia balefully before sighing.

"Yes"

"Alright then, could you point in the direction of the exit? I could get out of your fur quickly enough afterwards."

She raised an eye brow and smirked. One paw jutted a thumb like appendage over her shoulder. Well, that is inconvenient. Kia sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose as her headache got worse. Jeez, fucking really? She has had a remnant of her killer hangover, no shower in who knows how long, nothing to eat or drink, and this just tied it all on top.

Fucking great…

"Ah, well may I pass through?"

Strangely enough Toriel seems to have given Kia a once over and a delicate sniff. Kia scowled. Fucking rude man!

"I don't see why not, but I would insist you clean up before you … leave."

She gave Kia an innocent smile. Kia doesn't trust that smile. Then again, a free shower use!

Kia shrugged and smiled ruefully.

"That would be nice, thanks."

Being lead inside, Kia was set up inside a huge shower area as her clothes were carted off to be cleaned, supposedly. The hot water helps to make her feel less gross and lessened her headache a little bit. Although, she will have washed out her highlights since it was cheap one day spray dye crap. She'll be fine though, it was just some color.

Stepping out, Kia noticed that her clothing was no-where to be found. Clicking her tongue in irritation, Kia wondered the house in the humongous towel looking for something to wear. Toriel wasn't to be found either. So her clothes were nowhere to be found either. Kia sighed in irritation.

One room was under renovations, next was she assumed to be Toriel's room, and the last room looked to be a children's room. She couldn't find anything to fit into in the last two rooms, so she decided to rifle through the kid's room. She could only assume that a kid of Toriel's would be about her size since the large goat monster was really tall compared to her small height.

She did find a black and red sweater with some slightly too big thick pants in a children's room, looking further produced some socks. They were musty and a couple of inches too short, but they fit well enough for her purposes. It felt odd not wearing under things. Kia shifted on her feet in discomfort, pulling up her slipping waist line. She was lucky her hips were just wide enough to kind of fit these pants, even if they keep on falling down when she moves.

Shrugging it off as much as she could, Kia wandered out into the hallway. Kia padded over to a cracked mirror leaning on the hallway wall. She paused to pull up her waist line. Tilting it to where long side was up without cutting herself, she started to finger comb her damp locks. Since she took a shower, her curly dirty blonde hair had straightened out completely and darkened to a chestnut brown. Pale skin of her face had rosy cheeks from the warmth of the shower and new clothes.

Kia grinned and with a flare of crimson magic passing through her eyes, she summoned a replica of a hair drier. Since it wasn't a true machine, it couldn't heat the air within the chamber where the fan was going. Kia heard a gasp and a thump down the hallway.

"Chara?!"

Looking over curiously, Kia continued to blow dry her hair. Toriel had dropped a large spindle of twine. Raising an eye brow, Kia dissipated her magic, leaving her hair half dry. It was still brown, but it has some of the blonde glean in it now. Also since it was blow dried a bit, the curls hadn't formed yet, so her hair reached just the top of her shoulders in waves.

Toriel stumbled towards Kia. Kia eyed her warily. Magic flashed through her eyes, ready for use in case of hostility. Instead, Toriel fell to her knees and bear hugged Kia with sobs. Extremely confused but liking the hug anyways despite the uncomfortable bare feeling under shirt and her waist line slipping again, Kia raised her arms around Toriel and hugged her back. That and it seemed as though the distraught goat monster needed some comfort. Kia soaked in the comfort and plushy surface of the dusty outfit. Toriel's hug was the best so far in Kia's books. She was huge, fluffy (in some spots), and warm.

Kia's hug capacity has reached 100%.

Patting Toriel on the back, Kia tried to shift away from the upset monster. Toriel refused. Kia insistently patted Toriel's back. Toriel refused.

"Alright, I love hugs, but this is going a little too far. Let me go."

Toriel jerked away from Kia. Toriel seems stunned for a moment before she glared a Kia. Kia let out a yelp when Toriel pinched one of her ears between her claws. Tear tracks took away some of the intimidation factor, but the glazed look in her eyes said otherwise.

"Don't you dare talk that way to me again, I am your mother!"

Kia's eyes flares with crimson magic.

"I don't know how you have come back, but I am not going let you leave my sight ever again!"

Kia grinned. Large crimson hands formed behind Toriel. Kia directed them to grab Toriel by her dominate limbs and lift her as high in the air as she could without crashing into the ceiling. Toriel started to struggle and looked around in crazed panic. Kia calmly pulled up her waist line then walked over to the thick twine cone. Picking it up and propping it on her hip, Kia glanced at the bleating goat monster in the air.

"Alright shut the fuck up! I don't know who this 'Chara' is, but they ain't me! You need to fucking calm your shit now!"

Toriel went silent with shocked wide eyes. Kia grinned up to Toriel darkly.

"Now, what were you gonna do with this?"

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Toriel. Goat Boss Monster. Mental instability and intention of human flesh consumption. Classification: Dangerous Threat. Clearance for elimination: DT.

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-SOUL shattering-