Five Nights of Redemption
Hey guys this is chapter 7 of Five Nights of Redemption, in this one the crew will get more acquainted with Toriel, her quirks and her sorrow so let's get started
Chapter 7: Goat mom
Toriel had just saved the crew as she does when other creatures, mainly humans, come down from the surface only to meet Flowey and get attacked, she knows that Flowey is nothing more than a monster with no soul and so she has a self proclaimed duty to protect any one and any other creature that finds him.
Everyone/everypony was very thankful that she helped them out of such a mess, they all thought they were going to die but with her presence Freddy was filled with a Determination that they would live and it flowed through everyone's/everypony's body.
Freddy: "thank you so much for helping us, it was getting hairy back there"
Toriel: "you are most welcome my children, to see that flower day in day out doing such deplorable things to innocents such as yourselves is just so terrible, and yet I can't help but think I know who that flower is"
Celestia: "oh, you know something about that flower?"
Toriel: "only that it looks and sounds like my son"
Mike: "you have a son?"
Toriel: "had... his friend got ill and he wanted to take him back to the surface, unfortunately he was seen by the humans and accused him of murder and they killed him, but even after that... I forgive them"
Mangle: "wait, that sounds like the story the flower told us"
Toriel: "what but then... no, no that's preposterous, why would my son kill for fun?"
Marionette: "well perhaps we can talk about this later, for now we need a place to stay for a while, that flower beat us silly"
Toriel: "oh of course, follow me I have a home at the end of the ruins here, come my children"
So Toriel lead everyone/everypony through the arch way and into the ruins, she explained how there were lots of different puzzles throughout the ruins that are meant to throw off any of the more low IQ monsters that take them a long time to figure out the puzzles then get through the ruins unharmed.
Once Toriel had completed the first puzzle the door opened into an area with a flight of stairs either side of a patch of grass, in the grass was a strange light, the light was the literal embodiment of hope, this hope gave Freddy and Twilight the Determination to find out more about Flowey and Toriel's son.
Toriel took them into a long corridor with some levers in the wall.
Toriel: "this puzzle is for you, I've labelled the switches you need to pull, don't bother with the last one"
Bonnie: "ok, I'll pull them"
So Bonnie walked along the corridor and pulled the levers that were labelled by Toriel, as he did he read the signs she left behind, they read: to get beyond the spiked floor one must pull on this switch, once the labelled switches were pulled the spiked floor descended and was safe to pass.
In the next room there was a stuffed dummy that was used to help Toriel practise her fire abilities so she would stay on target, but any time a human or other creature would fall down the mountain she would use it as a method of teaching others to be kind to other monsters and not fight them if there was an encounter.
Toriel: "alright, now for this I want you to engage in a fight but do not hurt the dummy, I want to show the underground that if a human does fall down here again they are not the mindless killing machines some say they are"
Toy Freddy: "well believe it or not but, we are human"
Toriel: "how could you be human, you look like a cute and cuddly Teddy Bear"
Toy Freddy: "thanks... eh, but if you could see our souls then you'd understand"
Toy Bonnie: "wait but that's it, she said to engage into a fight, when that happens she'll see our souls"
Toy Chica: "do it then"
So Toy Bonnie went up to face the dummy, he saw the world around him become greyscale and his soul appeared in front of him and Toriel saw it too, Toy Bonnie had a light blue soul, a soul of perseverance, Toriel was astonished to see what she thought was a surface monster, which is what she called animals, to have a human soul, the mere idea of it made her head spin.
Toy Bonnie then looked at his options, he choose to act by striking up a friendly conversation.
Toy Bonnie: "oh hey there, how's it going for you?"
Dummy: "..."
Toy Bonnie: "what, not much of a talker, that's fine I can talk for hours"
Dummy: "..."
Toy Bonnie: "how's the weather today, it's a bit cold down here don't you think?"
Dummy: "..."
Toy Bonnie: "come on, you got to say something, I know you can"
Dummy: "how about this, screw gravity"
The dummy then floated up to the ceiling of the ruins then disappeared from existence, Toy Bonnie had won the fight and gained 0XP and 0G, Toriel was very perplexed by the confrontation but didn't mind the outcome and continued to the next room, in this room it was just a corridor with a path that went up then down then up and down again, it was almost like some kind of pattern for something coming up.
On the way there something stopped them in their tracks, it was a Froggit, they live all over the ruins as it is a moist, and in some areas, warm environment, great for Froggits to thrive, everyone/everypony were pulled into the confrontation and didn't know what to do.
Vinyl: "hey, frog face move aside we're trying to get by here"
Octavia: "yes indeed, it's rude to jump out at us when we are just walking past"
Opal: "don't worry we'll handle it, Finn"
Toriel: "oh on, let me deal with this one"
Toriel then came into the fight and gave the Froggit a good old stern look, the Froggit was intimidated and walked off, the fight was won, they earned 0XP and 0G, after that they continued to the next puzzle, it was a whole floor of spikes, Toriel remembered the pattern off by heart by now and so told everyone/everypony what to do.
Toriel: "ok, this puzzle is too dangerous to do by yourselves, so I want you all to go single file and follow me, please stay close"
Toriel then walked along the spiked floor and when she got close to them they retracted and let her pass through, the ponies went first then the crew followed after Fluttershy finally went through to follow the other ponies, Toriel was happy, they were getting close to the end of the ruins, getting close to Toriel's house.
Toriel: "well done my children I'm very much impressed with your progress"
Luna: "your children, you do realise that myself and my dear sister Celestia are over 1000 years old don't you?"
Toriel: "oh come now, I myself am around 406 but you see in my eyes everyone is my child no matter what the age"
Marionette: "yes you are a very thoughtful woman, I can see your concern for our well being, it's very kind of you, if only you were around when we met our demise so many years ago"
Toriel: "sorry?"
Mike: "what Marion means to say is, if there was a person like you at the pizzeria in our universe we'd still be our selves, but we had a run in with a murderer and we died because of it"
Toriel: "then you are all humans with new bodies yes?"
Freddy: "indeed, thanks to Marion we have these bodies you see before us"
Toriel: "interesting, someone tried to do that for my son, I never saw the end result because I couldn't take it, as well as my ex husband becoming a murderer, anyway now is a test, I must leave you alone for a while, but do not despair I'll give you a cell phone"
Cyril: "cell phone? What is this America?"
Marionette: "the mountain does seem to be located on a rural area of San Francisco"
Cyril: "oh great, I fight in a war that eventually gets them involved after that Pearl Harbour rubbish, then I get sucked into a mountain that looks more like a shrine for a lost soul full of monsters that have American pronunciation even though they've been here for years and by all rights should have their own language by now"
Sarah: "you done yet?"
Cyril: "yes"
Pamela: "well then let's move on"
Toriel then ran off to do some house work to get ready for her guests, everyone/everypony continued to the next room, it was a corridor with a hole in the wall, a table with a block of cheese on it and another ray of hope, from the hope Freddy and Twilight was filled with more Determination to carry on to Toriel's house and perhaps find put even more about her son and her ex husband.
They continued on to a room with what looked like a crumpled floor, it seemed very unstable and could fall underneath them, but after becoming anthro the crew thought they'd be fine as they were not nearly as heavy as they used to be and Toy Freddy went first, but of course the floor gave way and he fell on his rear end.
Toy Freddy: "ow, my coccyx, shish I really thought I could get past that"
Toy Bonnie: "looks like some one's still a Freddy Fatbear"
Toy Freddy: "oh shut your face"
Chica: "don't worry, you can still get back using the door to your right"
Toy Freddy: "ah, thanks"
Toy Freddy the found his way back to the crew and they continued forward, they came to a room with 3 pillars and 3 switches, the switches were different colours and each room had a certain switch that needed to be pressed, Rarity took the lead for this puzzle, colour coding was one thing she did best, though it would be easy for anyone/anypony to complete this task but for some reason this room had some kind of problem with perspective... strange.
After that room there was a room with 3 rocks in it, it was simple, move the rocks into position, so Lenny pushed the rocks on the pressure plates and then came the final rock, they were almost there they could see Toriel's house in the distance and was spurred on even more, all they had to do was move one rock simple, easy, straight forward, a singe.
"ring ring"
The phone rang, it was Toriel, Freddy answered.
Freddy: "hi mum"
Toriel: "... did, did you just call me mother?"
Freddy: "well you keep calling us your children so it's only fair if you ask me, plus you do kind of remind me of my mum"
Toriel: "oh how sweet, well if you all want to call me mother then that's fine, anyway I just wanted to ask, what do you think, butterscotch or cinnamon pie?"
Freddy: "oh, butterscotch"
Bonnie: "cinnamon please"
Chica: "(gasp) got to be cinnamon"
Foxy: "butterscotch"
Mangle: "yeah butterscotch"
Toy Freddy: "butterscotch FTW"
Toy Bonnie: "cinnamon"
Toy Chica: "well I like both cinnamon and butterscotch, why don't we have both"
Toriel: "so none of you would turn up your nose if I gave you the other would you?"
The Crew: "nope"
Toriel: "oh excellent"
Toriel then hung up and made 3 different pies, 1 butterscotch, 1 cinnamon, 1 butterscotch cinnamon pie, so Lenny now empowered by the promise of pie continued to push the final rock but it wasn't moving, it was like a rock with the density of a white dwarf, it just wouldn't budge and then it started talking.
Rock: "hey bud what gives?"
Lenny: "oh erm, I need you to move please"
Rock: "oh ok"
Rainbow Dash: "again would be nice"
Rock: "oh ok"
Rainbow Dash: "no not in that direction"
Rock: "oh, could have been more specific"
Rainbow Dash: "ok, please go onto the pressure plate"
Rock: "oh right"
Lenny: "thanks... hey"
Rock: "what?"
Lenny: "stay there"
Rock: "oh ok, you didn't say for how long"
Lenny: "how about for long enough for me and my friends to cross the spiked floor"
The rock did as it was told and stayed in place long enough for everyone/everypony to get by, soon they came to the cross road where Toriel's house was, one direction took them to her house the other took them to a spider bank, they had earned some G after sparing a few monsters they encountered on their way here so they thought why not invest in a spider account, for their contribution they were rewarded with spider donuts.
After that they moved back to the cross road and went to other direction, they finally got to Toriel's house and she was wondering if they were alright, she tried to phone them but then realised that all of them were already at the front garden.
Toriel: "oh my, that took longer than expected, are you all alright?"
Twilight: "yes, we're fine, no need to worry"
Toriel: "oh thank goodness, it was foolish of me to leave you alone for so long, I promise my children I will never do that again, now come on in I have set up the house for you all to stay"
Luna: "I do hope you have beds fit for royalty"
Celestia: "yes, we require the best material you have, and to be honest your house looks too humble for that"
Toriel: "oh you'd be surprised what I have for you two, I know that you are royalty, why else would you be wearing crowns?"
Celestia: "well, she's good"
Toriel: "that and the fact that I used to be a Queen myself"
Pamela: "(gasp) another Queen, where are my manners I must bow to you as a ruler I am but a mere servant"
Opal: "she said she was a Queen, she's not anymore"
Ashe: "yeah she's just mum now"
Toriel: "it's quite alright my children, now then I'll show you your rooms"
Toriel then showed everyone/everypony to their new rooms, down the hall were three rooms one was Toriel's room, one was a room that had guest bedroom on the door but after opening the door it was obviously extended with hasty magic and the last room was labelled as Asriel's room.
Toriel gave them all a loving smile and then went to tend to the pies, some of the crew went to get a quick rest for a moment but the rest were curious about this Asriel, by the sounds of the name it was possible that it was Toriel's son, if that's that case then she may know something about Flowey, and they'd try to get as much info on him as they could.
Toriel was sitting on her chair in the living room just in front of the fire place and reading a book about snails... riveting, she was too happily reading the book to notice the looks on the crew, in front of her was Freddy, Bonnie, Foxy, Toy Bonnie, Mangle, Twilight, Applejack, Pete and Sarah.
Toriel: "ah, my children, you'll be happy to know that I have set up a curriculum for your education and I've set up situations for more social development, I hope they are satisfactory"
Freddy: "it's not that, we want to know... who is Asriel?"
Toriel: "Asriel... was... my son, he was such a sweet boy, so kind, so innocent, so pure, he was the best thing me and my ex husband ever had, we loved him so much, but like I said, his friend died and he was taken away from us when all he tried to do was bury him on the surface"
Mangle: "so your son is Flowey? He told us the same story, do you know that?"
Toriel: "I don't know about Flowey, I was told by a scientist called Alphys that she could perhaps bring my son back but before they could complete the procedure I left, with my husband declaring war on humans again and the loss of my son I couldn't take it so I left"
The conversation of her son brought happy memories to Toriel which only made her sad all that more, the memories of good times and the bond of family made her want to sing about the loss of her son.
(now play Hymn for the Missing from RED)
Toriel: "tried to walk together, but the night was growing dark,
Thought you were beside me, but I reached and you were gone,
Sometimes I hear you calling from some lost and distant shore,
I hear you crying softly for the way it was before,
Where are you now? Are you lost? Will I find you again?
Are you alone? Are you afraid? Are you searching for me?
Why did you go? I had to stay, now I'm reaching for you,
Will you wait? Will you wait? Will I see you again?
You took it with you when you left, these scares are just a trace,
Now it wanders lost and wounded, this heart that I misplaced,
Where are you now? Are you lost? Will I find you again?
Are you alone? Are you afraid? Are you searching for me?
Why did you go? I had to stay, now I'm reaching for you,
Will you wait? Will you wait? Will I see you again?"
After the song the ponies that were with the crew were crying, Toriel had cried too but she had learn to quickly regain her composure so she could be the protector she needed to be for everyone/everypony, but the questions were still to come, next was the topic of Toriel's ex husband.
Bonnie: "ok, can you tell us more about your ex husband?"
Toriel: "his name is Asgore, as the King of monsters he tries his best to think of everyone, he made sure we lived in privilege not poverty when we came down here so we would forget the trouble of having to get used to a new home that was not meant for any kind of creature but we managed to pull it off and here we are"
Twilight: "do you know what he was planning to do with himself after he declared with the humans?"
Toriel: "all I know is that whenever a human came down here he would wait for them to find him then try to kill them and use their soul to break the barrier and destroy them all, it takes 7 human souls to break the barrier and with that many souls he could have god like power, no one would be able to stop him, but it's not working, the souls are too weak and keep braking, they say monster souls are weak but these human souls seem just as weak"
Foxy: "ok with that info I say we see what this Asgore guy is up to and as we go find out more about Flowey, what do you say Freddy?"
Freddy: "good idea, Applejack, round em up"
Applejack: "alrighty y'all, let's head out, this gravy train be a rollin'"
The crew that was resting got back on their feet and gathered around Freddy, he noticed a stair case that lead to a strange part of the house that was damp, dark and cold, but it seemed like the right place to go and continue their great adventure, the only problem was Toriel was following them, they didn't mind of course they all saw her as a mother figure, even Celestia and Luna found her to be a pleasing figure of authority, but there was this look on her face and body language they didn't like, almost as if they were breaking the rules and they were about to be punished for their disobedience.
Toriel: "I'm sorry my children but I cannot allow you to go, at the end of this tunnel lays a one way door to a town known as Snowdin"
Mike: "and that's where the next step of our journey will begin"
Toriel: "no Mike, that's where you will die, Flowey, Asgore, those monsters... will kill you, I cannot allow that, I cannot allow even another single soul to throw away their life trying to find out the truth behind my son or to help free us, I'm happy here, and I won't let you throw yourself at the mercy of merciless killers"
Marionette: "Toriel, we've faced these kinds of people before and I'm sure the ponies have enough magic to overcome such evil, please just let us through"
Toriel: "no, if you want to pass, then prove yourself, prove yourself that you can protect yourselves from the evil that lays beyond this door"
Toriel blocks the way, everything went greyscale and the sound of heartache seemed to fill the void, they could see she was trying her best to keep them safe with her love, but Flowey called out to them for help and no matter what pain they must endure to help him, they will not rest until they had completed their task, so they were willing to fight her to get through and find Flowey or Asgore whatever came first.
That was chapter 7 of Five Nights of Redemption I hope you liked it and that you'll come back for more the story's getting good but as you may have guest as they go through the undertale universe they'll see other characters and they may tag along so it will get cluttered so be warned other characters may be come lost but I will try to remember them but till next time
Venomous Book out
