Part I: Discovery

Chapter 1 :Freefall

I remembered 7 years ago, I was still a kid who got bullied for no reason. They often picked on me because of my appearance, because I looked weak and strange to them. At that time, the only thing I can do was to run away and tried to stay out of trouble, yet the bullies always found their way and caught me off guard. Once they've surrounded me, they started to beat me up violently while saying mean stuff about my family. The process continued for around 10 minutes, sometimes even an hour. No matter how hard I tried to fight back through using magic or words, it's still useless. They're twice of my size and came in groups, I'm totally defenseless and too weak to them. This has become a routine until one day, something unexpected happened…..

I was practicing my magic in a quiet place which I've found out long time ago while I was exploring Snowdin, didn't really pay much attention around my surrounding until a voice interrupted me. At that time, I knew that bad things was going to happen.

'Playing with your stupid pile of bones again?' the voice sneered.

'Go away and leave me alone…'I said without turning around, knowing the bullies have come.

'You look so lonely, mind if we "join" you…?' another voice said.

The sound were getting closer, without hesitation, I started to run as quickly as possible, hoping the bullies won't be able to catch up with me.

As a skeleton, I seemed to get the advantage on speed and agility. Not only because I weighed less but also my 'regular training' on dodging and running. Thanks to the bullies, I'm able to dodge and react quicker than many monster around my age at that time. Plus with the extra limbs on my back, I got a better sense of balance, yet the downside was they gave the bullies a chance to grab me easily.

During the chase, I was too scared and just blindly ran towards the forest next to me. After putting some distance between them, I decided to hide inside a bush, silently praying they will give up in some point.

'Where did the Winged-freak go?' a voice cried.

'He's sure one sneaky little bastard, let's spread out and search, he will not have gone that far…' another voice said calmly.

After few seconds later, a mixture sound of leaf rustling, shouting and footsteps slowly drifted towards me. The more closer the sound were, the harder I can control my body to stop shaking. The whole process was a torture and time seemed to have slow down itself.

Rustle, Rustle, Rustle….

The sound made me froze and everything suddenly became still. Without warning, something grabbed me from behind and I can't help but screamed. I turned around and faced the 'Capturer', who turns out to be an ugly big bear looking monster.

'Gotcha, little freak….'the bear monster grinned, showing its yellow sharp teeth.

I tried my best to wriggle one of my hands out, after few second later, I summoned few bones out from the ground and aimed them at the bear monster's leg. The bear monster yelled in pain and dropped me immediately.

My bone magic at that time didn't really do much damage, but they have bought me some time to escape. I quickly scanned the forest and found light shining far ahead from me which it seemed to be an exit. Without wasting any seconds, I ran towards that direction.

Bright, brighter and brighter….

Just when I thought I've escaped from the bullies, the exit turns out to be a cliff with nothing below but darkness. Great, now what?

'You're nowhere to hide, just give up running away from us…' a voice said.

I turned around and found the bear monster and his friends were blocking the entrance of the forest, slowly approaching me.

'Stay away from me!' I cried, backing away from them.

'Just accept your fate, you're destined to be a punch bag…' the bear monster sneered, it didn't seem to like the 'leg massage' I gave him just now.

The bullies were getting closer and I was too focus on them, didn't aware that I have ran out of space. I slipped and fall backwards, the cliff seemed to have shrunk the further I dropped.

Fear has took over my mind at that moment, I was completely numbed and shocked, unable to think about what to do next. I shut my eye sockets tightly, unwilling to face my death. Something inside me seemed to refuse of what just happened, the only thing I felt that time was a mixture of anger and fear….

SWOOSH!

The falling speed seemed to decelerate a little and I slowly opened my eye sockets. Instead of facing the cliff, I was staring at the darkness down below me. I looked around and found light blue feathers has grown on my extra limbs, it took me few seconds to realize they were wings, which were now glowing softly in the dark. Before I had the time to process, I saw a tiny oval shape hole suddenly appeared right in front of me and it was displaying a scene of a forest. The moment my body contacted the hole, it felt like I just landed into a pool of water. Next second, I found myself sitting on a dirt ground, still confused and shocked. I slowly stood up and brushed some dust away on my clothes, cautiously looked around. I noticed I was surrounded by trees and saw something blinking beautifully in the sky, at that time I have no clue they were the real stars but thinking they were decoration on the ceiling in the Waterfall.

Something ain't right about this place….where were the snow and why was the atmosphere suddenly became unfamiliar?

Before I can explore further, I heard footsteps coming from far ahead, no choice but to hide again….

(END OF CHAPTER 1)