Michael walks through the enterance to study... the amazing view of what is seen. Purple... Leaves... And there seems to be something that looks like a house but really isn't. Toriel sees Michael and smiles before walking up stairs, before waiting for him at the top. He looks up as the shadows looms over Michael. He focused at the beautiful view before walking up the stairs. Toriel advances through the enterance and Michael follows. What he sees is 6 buttons and a lever on the right that caught his attention more.
"Welcome to your new home, innocent one. Allow me to teach you in the operation of the RUINS." Toriel said, before walking over 4 buttons and flicking the switch, which caused the door to open, leading another passageway, before walking back to Michael.
"The RUINS are full of puzzles. You know, ancient fusions between diversions and doorkeys. One has to solve them to move from room to room. Please adjust yourself to the sight of them." Toriel explained, before walking through the enterance. Michael read a sign that was to the side of the doorway.
"Only the fearless may proceed. Brave ones, foolish ones. Both walk not the middle road." The sign read.
'I guess it could be some solution to a puzzle.' He thought before walking through the enterance.
"In this puzzle, you will need to trigger several switches. But don't worry, I labelled the ones that you need to flip." Toriel stated, before walking to the end of the hallway.
Michael didn't exactly read anything else, he just walked to see a switch that was pointed by drawn arrows. Clearly stating the obvious. He flips the switch and walks to a set of 2 switches, one of them being marked. Again, stating the obvious. Michael flicked the switch, which caused a set of spikes behind Toriel to lower into the ground.
"Splendid!" Toriel prasied. "I am proud of you, innocent one. Let's move to the next room." She stated, before walking through ANOTHER enterance.
Michael grinned before flicking the other switch. ...It didn't even do anything. Michael chuckled at himself before advancing through the next enterance.
"Since you are a human living in the UNDERGROUND, monsters can attack you. You need to prepare for this situation. But do not worry! The process is simple. When you encounter a monster, you will enter a FIGHT. While you are in a FIGHT, strike up a friendly conversation. Stall for time; I will resolve the conflict. Practice this by talking to the dummy." Overall long explanation finally over. Michael nodded his head slowly before walking up to the dummy. Which caused his SOUL to fly out into the box.
And Michael just... stared at the dummy.
". . . . ."
Michael felt way too uncomfortable so he backed away from battle, resulting his SOUL to go back into him.
"..." Toriel stared at Michael, confused.
"... you ran away... Well, that is a good option. Sometimes you need to avoid conflict as much and as fast as possible. ... This way." Toriel said, before walking through the enterance. Michael stood there, his eyes blank. "...What just..." He mumbled before walking through the enterance.
"There's another puzzle in this room. ...I wonder if you can solve it?" Toriel said before walking. Michael looked around to see if there's anything that can be seen for a puzzle but nothing,what he thought so he followed Toriel. To find a group of spikes.
"Well, this is the puzzle, but..." Toriel debated mentally. "...Here, hold my hand." Michael hesitated but did so, as Toriel led him through the spikes, the spikes going down. 'Till they reached the end. "Maybe some puzzles are too dangerous for humans." She stated before walking through another enterance. But before he followed, something attacked him, causing the same scenario to happen! It looked like a frog. Michael had the wonderful unlogical powers to Check the frog.
Froggit - ATK 4 DEF 5 Life is difficult for this enemy.
Before Michael could commentate about this, Toriel stomped towards Froggit, which made Froggit hop away. ...He won? Michael followed Toriel.
"You have done great this far, my child. However... I have a difficult request to ask of you.
...
I would like you to walk to the end of this room. By yourself. Forgive me for this." She explained before running to the end of the hallway. Michael stood there for a bit. "...Is she real?" He asked himself before shrugging. He walked. And walked. And walked. And walked. Before he reached to a pillar and another enterance. Michael observed the pillar a bit. He takes a step forward before Toriel walks away from the pillar to Michael.
"Greetings, my child. Don't worry, I did not leave you. I was just behind this pillar this whole time. Thank you for trusting me."
"...But... what's the point of that?" Michael asked, still confused.
"Well, the reason for that was to... test your independance. I need to attend to some business. And I need you to stay here for a while. I don't know for how long, but it's too dangerous to be wandering around. Hm... I have an idea. I will give you a CELL PHONE. If there's anything you need, use it to call me."
"Actually, I already have a cell phone." He stated before showing it to her.
"Ah, I see. Then, here's my phone number. If there's anything you need, call me."
She gave him her phone number. "Be good, alright?" Michael nodded before she walked away. Michael stood there for a bit before adding Toriel as one of his contacts. On the top of the list. He put the phone away before walking through the enterance, rebellious. Suddenly he got a phone call with an obnoxious ring tone. Why did he pick that again? He answered.
"Hello? This is Toriel. You... did not leave the room did you? I haven't explained the other countless puzzles in the RUINS. Be good, alright?" Before Michael answered, *click!* the phone hang up. He hesitated before putting his phone in the pocket, focusing on the leaves. So red and beautiful. Michael wrote in his notepad.
"Okay so far it's been not that bad. I mean I had to deal with some monsters and I ran away from a dummy but that was just because I was weirded out. Toriel seems nice. I just hope it doesn't end up like the situation with me and Flowey.
I'm going to keep going, I might have to fight other monsters but I'll try to... 'strike up a friendly conversation' with them."
20 minutes later...
Michael stumbled upon what looked to be a really plain looking ghost in the leaves. It was blocking his path. It sounded like it was saing 'z' repeatedly. Michael stared at it for a bit before he attempted to walk past it, but ended up battling it. He checked it, like usual. Napstablook. Man, that ghost looks depressing, he thought. Napstablook ... CRIED on Michael, damaging him, mumbling. During each attack Michael kept cheering him up with simple compliments until Napstablook cried hat.
"...do you like it..." Napstablook asked.
"Yeah! You look... better with that hat on!"
"...oh dear..." he mumbled.
"its been a long time since ive met someone nice... thank you...
oh... im rambling again... ill get out of your way" Napstablook mumbled before dissapearing. Michael nodded, smiling, before continuing on.
Another 20 minutes later...
Michael sighed as he found another enterance. He was so tired of walking, that he ended up eating his "Monster Candy" without using it for any healing purposes. Michael entered through the enterance. And heard a voice. Yes, it was Toriel. She looked like she was calling someone, until his phone rang. She realized Michael was there.
"Oh! My child, when did you get here? Are you hurt?"
Not a single scratch.
"...Huh, not a single scratch. Impressive, my child. Well, since you're here, you can come live in my house! This way." She stated before walking in what looked like Toriel's house. Michael stared at the completely dead tree, then at the house. He focused more on it. Wow, what a beautiful looking house! He thought, before walking inside the house.
"Welcome home, my child! You can live here for as long as you want! Here, let me show you your bedroom." Michael followed Toriel to what looks like a door in a hallway.
"Well, this is your bedroom. I think you should sleep. You've been walking for a while."
Michael and Toriel then sniffed, smelling something.
"Oh dear, is something burning?" She said before running into, what seems like, a living room than a kitchen, he predicted. Michael then walked into his new bedroom. And Michael forgot the fact he already has a bedroom. He observes everything before he unintentionally passed out on his new bed. Michael was wanting to take a quick nap but he ended up sleeping for 8 hours.
Michael slid off his bed, wheezy. Until he found something on the floor on a plate. Pie! Michael was suprised, and... happy. He gladly takes the pie and... somehow puts it in his inventory. ...Suddenly, Mom crossed his mind again. ...He knew he couldn't stay here long. He sighed in disbelief. He didn't want to leave Toriel, but... No, he needed to go back. He wanted to leave. He can't stay here forever, right?
He leaves the bedroom and sees Toriel reading on a massive chair.
"Oh, hello my child! I see you are awake. Do you... need anything?"
"Yeah. ...How does one exit this... what is this... RUINS?"
Toriel's expression shifted to concern. So, she tried to change the subject.
"Um... do you want to know what book I'm reading?"
"...Are you reading 'How to exit the UNDERGROUND'?"
Toriel's expression changed again to a scared face, although a little annoyed by his sass.
"Er... excuse me for a moment." She said, before standing up and quickly walking to what looks like downstairs. Michael already felt guilty for doing that. ...But... he needed to escape. Michael quickly followed Toriel, down the stairs. ...The change of atmosphere was extremely unsettling.
"Ahead of this corridor is the door out of the RUINS. ...I'm going to destroy it."
"Wait, WHAT?" Michael said, shocked.
"...Don't try to stop me. Go upstairs." She requested, before walking deeper into the hallway.
Michael quickly chased after which made her stop.
"Listen. I've seen this happen 6 times. They come. They leave. ...They die. He... ASGORE... will kill you. And I don't want that to happen again. So I have to prevent. ...Go upstairs." She explained sternly before walking.
Michael then just quickly walked after her, which, again, made her stop.
"This is your last warning. If you don't go back... you'll have to FIGHT me." She demanded before walking to the door. Michael just walked towards her slowly and hesitantly.
"...I see. You just want to leave so badly? ...Very well." She turned around, with a focused, stern face. ...And the battle began. Instant regret, as Michael was caught off guard, even after the warning. Michael stared up at her. ...He's not gonna FIGHT, that's... that's not right. He tried to say something, but... his vocal cords just wasn't... working correctly. Toriel attacked him and he did lose some health. This went on as Michael just kept... staring at her without doing anything, since he couldn't anything significant other than gag at trying to talk.
But Toriel began to catch on his behavior, interrogating him to what he was doing, trying to make him fight, or run away. But Toriel got uncomfortable and just... wouldn't attack. She just stared at him, sometimes looking away. Michael kept looking at him with saddened eyes until Toriel caved in and... tried to convince him but it couldn't work.
"...No. I understand. If you kept staying here, you'd go mad. Especially at your age."
"That's ageist."
"...Exactly. It's okay, my child. But, when you leave, do me a favor. ...Don't come back."
Toriel walked up to Michael, leaned down and hugged him. ...For what seemed like a while, Michael hugged back. Until finally they both unhugged.
"Goodbye." Toriel said, before walking off, not without one glance behind her shoulder. Michael stared at the door for a bit, silent. Finally he pushed through the door. ...But he saw Flowey waiting for him through the door. Michael quickly grabbed the dagger that he actually had, but never really used.
"Heh. Clever. Realllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllly clever. You never hurt a single thing. But... since you ARE advancing this place... what happens if you stumble upon something so vicious... you'd lose yourself and kill out of frustration? ...Your height and age doesn't make any difference to your power you know. I know that just because you're older and taller means that you can handle any situation." He said mocking, before laughing maniacally just the same as last time before dissapearing into the ground.
Michael stood there for a bit, shocked, confused. But Michael advanced after a long while, as he walks through another enterance. He felt colder tho as he walks towards it. ...Until he makes it through.
OC MEETS UNDERTALE
(WOOOOOOOW IT TOOK WAY TO LONG TO MAKE THIS CHAPTER! wHAT THE FUCK. I swear I'm gonna cry. ...Okay not really but I'll fix any errors you see so far. This might happen again, so be warned!
