I do not own Undertale. I do own my character in the story. Another inspiration for this coming from the wonderful story 'UNDERTALE: (file name not found)'. Good story, good plot, great development. 10/10 from me. I will continue to put up names for stories that I found were done right.
"The beautiful thing about fear is when you run to it, it runs away."
~Robin Sharma
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Upon leaving the cavern to follow Toriel, the woman walks into a more developed but dimly lit room. The walls looked chiseled to mimic brick, a double stair case leading up to another door way with vines growing around the archway and what looks like windows are on both sides. Red leaves litter the ground, most of it piled up between the two stairs. But in font of the pile was a ball of light. Getting closer the woman saw how it shifted through different colors of yellow, shining like a star. Feeling compelled to touch it, she did.
As she lay her left hand, the one that was injured during the fall, on it a black box outlined by white appeared.
*(The shadow of the ruins loom above, filling you with determination.) SAVE/RETURN?
It seems to be asking if she would like to save. Glancing over the other words in the box she stopped on her name. Aurora. A name she holds with pride but doesn't randomly share with anybody. That didn't go well last time. Never again. And it also seems she isn't directly in the Runes yet; only the entrance. And her LV is still at one. Deciding that she was done here Aurora lightly pushed save.
*FILE SAVED. HP FULLY RESTORED.
Filling a sudden new rush of energy, Aurora went up the stairs two at a time. Looking back one last time she sighed before following Toriel into the next room. This room looked different then the last. There was a door here this time along with a golden lever on right side of the door and six grey stumps set up one, then two, then one again and lastly two more. On the left side of the closed door, there seems to be some sort of stone or silver sign.
"Welcome to your new home, innocent one. Allow me to educate you in the operation of the Ruins." said Toriel before she stepped on the second and last row of grey stumps. She then walks over to the golden lever and pulls it up. What she did opened up the door leading to the next room. Turning around Toriel addressed Aurora. "The Ruins are full of puzzles. Ancient fusions between diversions and door keys. One must solve them to move from room to room. Please adjust yourself to the sight of them." she said before going on into the next room.
Glancing down at the puzzle on the ground Aurora guessed that the grey stumps were actually giant buttons. The way Toriel stepped on them suggests that the only way to open this door is to follow a specific order. Walking over to the sign she noticed before, she reads whats engraved into it.
* Only the fearless may proceed. Brave ones, foolish ones. Both not walk the middle road.
It must be a hint for the puzzle. After all the only stumps that weren't stepped on was the ones in the middle; the ones highlighted by a path. Exiting the room to enter the next, she stopped in front of Toriel who was standing in front of a sign. "Take make progress here, you will need to trigger several switches. Do not worry, I have labelled the ones you need to flip." she said before walking to the other end of the room, waiting for Aurora to solve the puzzle.
Surveying the room, Aurora took in the lay out of the place. Water was flowing from two different drain like cut outs in the wall. To go over the water flow were wooden planks to use as bridges. They looked sturdy enough. And like always, the walls were purple and carved to look like bricks. Thick green vines clung to the wall in here, closer towards the water. Three golden levers, one in the middle and two at the end with Toriel. Behind her looked to be a wall of spikes blocking the entrance to the next room.
Reading the sign in front of her and on the back wall makes Aurora question who made the signs.
* "Press [Z] to read signs!"
* Stay on the path.
Weird. Crossing over the bridge to first lever, the were many markings and arrows pointing at it written with looks like golden marker. It was obviously Toriel's doing since she left her name at the bottom of her little message. The message asks if Aurora could 'please press this switch'. And see as she didn't want to hurt the goat lady's feeling by doing the opposite, she flipped the switch. The clicks and turning of cogs behind the wall indicated that something was working.
Crossing the next bridge Aurora doesn't even stop to look at what Toriel wrote this time, she just flipped the switch that was marked. "Splendid! I'm proud of you, little one. Let us move to the next room." Toriel praises before moving on to the next room, much to Aurora's dismay. She wanted to ask her some questions that might just help her out with her original objective.
Quickly rushing to catch up, she followed the kind Monster into the next room. Inside the room was a lone training dummy. Toriel went and stood in front of the entrance to the next room.
"As a human living in the Underground, Monsters may attack you. You will need to be prepared for this situation. However, worry not!" she hurriedly said as to not fright the Human woman, "The process is simply. When you encounter a Monster, you will enter a fight. While you are in a fight, try to strike up a friendly conversation. Stall for time. I will come to resolve the conflict." she said. "Practice talking to the dummy." she instructed.
The human woman walked up to the dummy, some how entering into the weird fight interface. The giant black back appeared along with her SOUL, a bright shining light blue. Yellow text appears. It says:
*You encounter the Dummy.
Four box pop up in front of her. Fight. Act. Item. Mercy. Pushing the Act box two more options pop up. Check and Talk. Pushing Talk, Aurora makes a pun and tells the dummy he looks quite beat up. It looks like it's done with life. Toriel seems happy with her. Text appears as the blackness slowly edges away.
* YOU WON!
* You earned 0 XP and 0 gold.
"Ah, very good. You are very good." Toriel says as she ushers the Human woman to follow her into the next room. Giving the dummy a kind smile before leaving Aurora turns and follows Toriel. What she didn't know was that her dazzling kind smile made the dummy blush. As did the entity in the Void who has been watching since she fell.
"There is another puzzle in the room...I wonder if you can solve it?" indirectly Toriel asks Aurora. While walking forward to head to the next puzzle, a frog like Monster appears, initiating a fight. As the background once again bleeds into black some text appear.
* Froggit attacks you!
Before she could act, Toriel comes into the fight and scolds the Froggit causing it to look down in shame before leaving the fight. Color slowly comes back and more text appear for the final time.
* YOU WON!
* You earned 0 XP and 0 gold.
With the fight over, both women continue towards the next puzzle. On one of the walls was a sign. It said that the eastern room looks the same as the western one. They soon came across a whole floor of spikes sitting in the middle of a room of water. The floor spikes were all on a wooden platform supported by wooden pillars under the water. This must be the puzzle.
"This is the puzzle, but...," Toriel confirms hesitantly, "... here take my hand." she said before her furred hand gently grabs a hold of Aurora's. She then guides her through the spikes. As they both walk, the spikes slip into the ground making it safe for their feet. Toriel walked in a specific pattern; the same pattern as the floor in the previous. That was what the sign meant.
Getting to the other side was easy and simply. But Toriel didn't release Aurora's hand until they got into the next room. This was much longer than the others and the end could barely be seen except for the lone white pillar that was visible.
"You have done excellently thus far, my child. However... I have a difficult request to ask of you." says the goat lady nervously. Her motions are jittery, like she's about to do something she might regret. Not saying anything, Aurora just tilts her head slightly to the left. Toriel and the entity in the Void find this cute. "I would like you to walk to the end of the room by yourself." Toriel says before swiftly and quickly running to the other end of the room.
Not seeing a problem with this, Aurora walks soundlessly down the path. What would have been a long stroll for a child was just a few seconds for her. She has always been a fast walker.
From behind the pillar Toriel pops out looking relieved. For what reason, Aurora doesn't know but chooses not to ask. After all PATIENCE can get you far in life.
"Greeting, my child. Do not worry, I did not leave you. I was merely behind this pillar the whole time." she assured. "Thank you for trusting me. However, there was important reason for this exercise. To test your independence." Toriel reasoned. It made sense, but she was an adult. She learned about independence way before the appropriate age for it.
Since Aurora didn't say anything Toriel continued. "I must attend to some business, and you must stay alone for a while. Please stay here. It's dangerous to explore by yourself." she warned. Her face soon brightened as she seemed to have gotten a solution to her inner turmoils. "I have an idea. I will give you a cell phone. If you have a need for anything, just call. Be good, alright?" Toriel said while place a old cellphone in Aurora's hand.
With that she gave Aurora a once over before bustling into the next room and then out of sight.
"Does she expect me to stand here while she's doing what ever it is she's about to do?" asked Aurora to nobody in particular. Seeing as no one was around to answer her she sighed before pocketing the phone and moving to the next room.
Unaware of watching eyes, a single yellow flower pops out of the ground from the shadows with a wicked smile on it's face. So far the Human has went along with the original story line. But it won't matter after he takes her SOUL. Slinking back into the darkness, the flower casts one more glance at the Human woman before disappearing.
As for the entity in the Void. Well he was having an internal battle with himself. For some reason, this Human was effecting him, and she wasn't even in his presence. Is her appearance a good or bad? There is much that still needs to be seen.
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