You pace the floor a couple times before deciding she wasn't coming back any time soon. You peek out the doorway, but don't see anything but a Froggit and a whole lot of leaves. Your keyblade still strapped to your back, you step out of the room and start to walk.

As you do, your phone rings. It scares you for a moment before you pull it out and answer it, trying not to sound as nervous as you felt, "Uh, hello?"

"Hello, this is Toriel," you hear her say "You have not left that room have you? There are a few puzzles up ahead that I have not explained and it would be dangerous to try to solve them on your own ."

"Uh," you freeze up. What do you say to her? What can you say? Just staying put certainly wasn't an option. An yet, disobeying felt wrong too. But, you figure maybe Toriel would understand, "No?"

"Okay, be good now, my child." You can hear the smile in her voice as she hangs up.

You let out a sigh as you put your phone away and shake your head, "That was close. It was almost like she knew or something." You look up and realize you had wandered aimlessly into another room. Ahead was a large bowl on a pedestal. Curious, you step closer. A little sign reads "Monster Candy! Take only one."

You smile as you reach in and grab a piece of candy, putting it in your pocket and walk back out of the room. As you step out of the doorway, the Froggit standing nearby hopped closer and croaked at you. You jump back a little as it surprised you.

"Whoa! Hi little guy." You say as you lean over a little. The Froggit looked up at you.

"Ribbit, ribbit." it says, literally.

You tilt your head, "Uh. Yeah, gotcha." you nod like you understand it and the Froggit hops away. With a shrug you turn and walk down the path.

Playfully crinkling through the leaves fills you with determination.

As you pass the save point in the leaves, you smile to yourself. Though Frisk's voice whispering in your ear was still a little odd, it some how felt good. It was as if they were empowering you to continue, a constant reminder of what it is you are doing. As you grin and hold your fist up, you feel energized. Hurrying ahead through the next room felt great! Even though you were just running through everything now, you felt as if nothing could stop you.

That is, until you fell through the floor.

As you land in another leaf pile below, you rub your head and look up, "Oh man," you groan, "I forgot the floor can be unstable here." You stand, rubbing your back and stretching a bit. You look up above you where the hole was and just smile, "Guess I just gotta be more careful."

You look around and start to walk again, heading towards a set of stairs on the other side. As you begin to ascend them, another monster trips down them into you. You barely have a chance to react as you both fall back into the leaves and the battle begins.

"O-Oh! I-I'm sorry..." the monster apologizes, avoiding making eye contact with you.

You tilt your head, "What's with this guy?"

That's a Whimsun, you hear Frisk tell you, They are really shy and usually too nervous to fight.

You stand and brush the leaves off yourself, smiling at the Whimsun, "Hey, it's okay. Not your fault, right? Accidents-" before you could finish the Whimsun burst into tears and retreated back up the stairs. You stare, just blinking as if you may have missed what happened, "...happen. Guess it's gone then." You shrug and walk up the stairs.

As you pass through the rest of the Ruins, you noticed a majority of the monsters starting to approach you more. It became less and less fights, and more just curiosity. They would ask you questions about what you like to eat, what you do for fun, or just tell you something mundane about themselves. Somehow, it made you smile. They were beginning to warm up to you.

Along the way, you reached a road block. In the doorway, lying in a pile of leaves, seemed to be a ghost.

"Zzzzzzz...zzzzzzz...zzzzzzz..."

As you approach the ghost, you hear them saying a bunch of Z'S out loud. They didn't really seem to be asleep, as one of their eyes opened a little and looked right at you. You start to say something, but they just continue on.

"Zzzzzzz...zzzzzzz...are they gone yet?"

You step a little closer to the ghost and put a hand out to try to...wake them up. As your hand passes through them, they disappear and reappear above you, starting to cry.

"Don't mind me. I'm just pluggin' along," the ghost said with a sniffle, seeming to avoid eye contact with you.

Here comes Napstablook, you close your fists as his tears seem to fly all around you, closing in on you before just falling to the ground, A lonely ghost who really just doesn't want to be here.

"Hey, come on now!" you smile at Napstablook, thinking maybe they just need a friend to cheer them up, "Theres no need to cry. Come on, surely there's something to smile about!"

Napstablook just turns their gaze to the side away from you, groaning, "Sorry, I'm really not feeling up to it right now," they glances at you for just a moment and you just smile, "Hnnngggghh..." they just look away, starting to cry again, though it seemed to be letting up a little.

You dodge the tears to the side, swooping away as quickly as you could as it trapped you in. An idea hits you and you step back, smiling at them again, "Oh hey! Um... where do ghosts go to have fun?" You ask then.

Napstablook stares at you, just waiting.

You grin and hold a finger up, "They go to the Boovies!" You laugh, maybe a little harder than you should have. When you calm your giggle fit, you Napstablook just smiling a little at you.

They don't really have a sense of humor.

"Oh, I'm REALLY funny," you hear Napstablook say. You look at them, confused for a moment. But, before you could question it, they seem to shift a little, nervously almost, and say, "I want to show you something."

You nod, smiling at them as you watch. They begin to cry again, but instead of flying to you, the tears fly up to their head, "I call it 'Dapperblook.'" As you watch, the tears begin to form into the shape of a top hat.

You grin, "Whoa! That's really cool!" You tell them, stepping towards them, "That must have taken a lot of practice!"

"Oh..."

Napstablook floats back a little, "I usually come to the ruins because there's nobody around. But... Today I met someone nice... Oh, I'm rambling again. I'll get out of your way..." they backed away again and just disappeared.

"Oh wait!" You called, but they didn't come back. You smile and sigh a little, starting to walk ahead, "Ah well, maybe I'll see them again."

You look up at the ceiling as you pass through the rooms. It was very low, very closed in. It almost made you feel like you were trapped, never to escape. With a huff, you tell yourself that's not the case and hurry ahead, keeping your eyes straight instead of up.

Suddenly, you feel something drop on your head. Confused, you stop and look up again. As you do, something falls and hits you again in the face. It smells sweet, but it very, very powdery.

"Whoa! Is... this a doughnut?" You take it off of your face and tilt your head. It was a pink doughnut that looked pretty tasty.

"Hey! This isn't a museum!" A voice above you squeaked

"You eat it, you buy it!" Said another.

"Please buy our baked goods!"

As you look up again, you see a couple little spiders hanging from their webs in front of you. Even though they were small, you could see the powder on their limbs and the little aprons tied around their necks.

"Oh! Was it you who dropped this?" You ask them, holding it up.

"Yes! It's for our bakesale!" One of the spiders said, "All the proceeds will help us get out if the ruins."

"Would you like to buy a spider donut?" The other asked, "It's just 7g, nothing more."

You smile and nod, reaching into your pocket. You see you somehow have a bit of money to give them, even though it's a bit more than they asked, "Here, I hope you can get out soon."

"Wow! Thank you! Here, have another!" One spider climbed up, then dropped back down, handing you another doughnut.

"Whoa, thanks!" You smile and wave to them as they climb back to the ceiling and scurry off towards a bunch of big cobwebs. You hold the doughnuts and look yourself over "Now... could I...?" You hold one arm to the side and smile as you shove the doughnuts in it. Surprisingly, they fit as if it were an extra pocket. With a nod, you look up again and hurry ahead.

"Hey! You!"

As you enter into another long hall, a pair of monsters appear in front of you. They both seem to very large, very evil looking, carrots. They both call you out as they pop up out if the ground.

"Uh, me?" You say, pointing to yourself.

"You look as if you aren't eating a nutritional breakfast!" One of them says.

"Or anything for that matter!" The other cackles.

"I mean... I've got these doughnuts-"

"NO! You must eat your vegetables!"

As the battle begins, little food starts to fly at you from all around you. You dodge away as quick as you can, but a stray potato brushes past your cheek, damaging your heart.

"Come on, guys," you say with a nervous laugh, "Can't we talk about this?"

"Plants don't talk, dummy." One says, the other cackling beside it.

You sigh, keeping it out the way of the flying food, "Alright, fine then. I'll eat my vegetables. What have ya got for me, huh?"

The two monsters seem delighted, "Eat your greens, kid."

You look around them, confused for a moment, as they continue to throw more and more food at you. You dodge then to one side, then the other, before you finally see it. Amongst the food they throw, there is a stalk of broccoli. You grin and rush towards it before it disappears.

"Oh man, i hate broccoli!" You exclaim as you take a bit out of it. It tastes just as horrible as you would have thought, but somehow it makes you feel better. You straighten yourself up and smile at them, "Wow, I do actually feel good now."

"See?"

"Part of a balanced breakfast!"

You smile at them and nod, stepping back from them, out of the fight, "Thank you, really!" The two monsters seem satisfied as they sink back into the ground and disappear. You look down at whats left of the broccoli and smile. It seemed as if it had been an eternity since you had anything to eat, but somehow the broccoli didn't really satisfy that hunger. It did definitely make you feel better during the fight, but that was it.

With a shrug, you toss the broccoli piece over your shouler and start to walk.

"Ow!"

You quickly turn back as you hear a little exclamation, but see no sign of any other monster around. "Hello?" You call out. When no one answers, you simply shrug and continue walking forward, "Maybe I'm just hearing things." You say to yourself.

At the end of the hallway, you can see the doorway is lined with spikes. You blink and look around. There didn't seem to be any switch, though there was a few holes along the walls. Curious to what was beyond them, you walk towards one. You could see into a little, a light almost shining from below. The closer you got, the brighter the light.

Then the floor collapsed beneath you.