This was all happening too fast. To see a human after all this time, and for it to be one just as sick and in pain, if not more so, than Chara only filled Toriel with worry. She was fast too, darting just far enough ahead to keep Toriel from catching her and that was what worried Toriel most of all. Where did this girl have all this energy?

She was so light...

The thought haunted Toriel, who was already assuming the worse. The Legend of still exists after all...

No! I can't think about that. The barrier is in effect so nothing that drove the human to this point can get them now. I have to be the one to tell her..! I can't let her...

She focused on the sounds of her feet clambering against the concrete as she continued to chase after the child. Every now and then her pained breathes escaped into audible gasps. Until they made it to a dead end. The bridge that Toriel used earlier...was covered in spikes. The human stood at the edge of the bridge panting while Toriel came to a stop making sure to give the human plenty of distance. She spoke softly in an attempt to calm the human down.

*Innocent one, please stop this. I don't know what happened up there but hear me when I say...that nothing can hurt you now! I just...Just LET ME HELP YOU!

She couldn't help but bark the last of her sentence out, old wounds dug deep as she saw the spitting image of Chara before her. The child was motionless as they looked over the sea of spikes and then slowly turned their head to look at Toriel speaking in a slow melancholic manner.

"...Nothing? So you mean...I can do this...?"

She raised her foot up and slammed it down hard against the spike. Toriel raised a hand to her mouth in horror as she saw the child do this. Blood spurted out violently from her foot, and the girl let out a gasp of pain but remained still, staring at it like she saw nothing there as though she was confused by the pain.

"You see? I was never afraid of being hurt, not physically...This doesn't compare at all to what humans do to each other emotionally.

She took her other foot, placing it slightly ahead of the first and then slammed it down on a fresh spike. It was stained instantly with red blood. This time she cried out in pain, but did not cease her venture forward. Toriel trembled with fear at the sigh of the child's determination and frantically looked for some kind of switch that would turn off the spikes all the while hearing the girl saw what she was hoping to be her last words.

"They all thought I was crying for help for myself. They all thought that I was being the childish one. Its because I'm a girl right? Because I'm cute and irrational am too young to understand the world right?

Splash. Stomp. Stomp.

"Do you see...? I am strong enough to handle it. I'm not a little girl I'm...human! If you would just talk to me for once...You'd see that I wasn't trying to help myself, I...I gave everything just to get you people to be apart of my life..! I hoped that if you saw how miserable you were making all of us...everything would go back to normal..."

If they were in a FIGHT Toriel could have just used her magic to move the child off the spikes, but without a way to ACT, Toriel could only watch the human do this to themselves. There was a chance that she could initiate a FIGHT if she threw a fireball at the child but...But what if she didn't have the HP to withstand it?

Stomp. Rip. Tear. Splash.

"Whenever humans gather together...they only seek to hurt, or use one another. This is the conclusion I've made. And if I have nothing to look forward to but a long road of work just to get the people I care about to come together...Then I just don't see the point. "

Toriel had went to the hall from where they came from, quickly throwing the switches.

Click!

Something happened! Toriel rushed back to see if the spikes were down. They weren't exactly, however, the one the child was standing on, had retracted into the ground. It seemed that there was a certain path to take that would keep oneself from standing on the spikes and judging from the trail of blood the child was leaving behind, the path was not to simply go straight. There had to be some kind of clue...!

"Is it so hard to ask for people to genuinely love one another? Why is it all so fake? I realize now that taking on this 'cute girl' personality wasn't the way to get people to care about me. It was just a way to become idolized...Idolized and...abused... But...why...why was it...so hard...?"

She had made it to the other side of the spikes, by now, the color had drained from her face and she was all but mumbling to herself. Toriel pieced together the puzzle while seeing the path of blood on the spikes. The white on the floor was unstained, that was the part to walk on! It had been there in the room before too! Carefully, Toriel took her first step on the spike that should go down and found that it retracted away from her foot. Now that her theory was confirmed, she raced ahead to try and stop the girl but she was too late...

The girl had lost too much blood and drive to live and simply fell over, her body drilled with holes from the spikes sprayed blood in a thick mist.

*...haaaa...aaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Toriel's scream echoed through the chamber at the sight of the child falling. Over and over the thought played in her mind.

This was the second child I couldn't save. This was the second child I couldn't save. This was the second child I couldn't save. This was the second child I couldn't save. This was the second child I couldn't save. This was the second child I couldn't save. This was the second child I couldn't save. This was the second child I couldn't was the second child I couldn't was the second child I couldn't was the second child I couldn't was the second child I couldn't was the second child I couldn't was the second child I couldn't was the second child I couldn't was the second child I couldn't was the second child I couldn't was the second child I couldn't was the second child I couldn't was the second child I couldn't save.

Every time she blinked her eyes she saw Chara impaled in the same way this child was. Slamming her hands into the ground she shook the ruins with magnitude of her emotion. This child did not deserve this! No human deserved this amount of pain! To be driven to this point! There were so many wonderful things she wanted to show this girl about life, so many things she wanted to say to help her and maybe one day, they would be able to face the demons clinging to her heart together. She could have been anything, see everything, be with anyone she wanted but because certain humans were self-centered and unable to create an environment suitable for a budding new life...It was extinguished before it had a chance to begin.

She couldn't bring herself to look at the child any longer, but she also knew that the human would not want to be left in this sad state. She at least deserved a proper burial. Summoning up what little strength she had left, Toriel walked past the human and deeper in the ruins to get some tools to help life her out of the spikes. But when she came back a few minutes later she would find that every trace of the human was gone. And then a few days later a few Froggits were gossiping...apparently, Asgore had gotten his first human soul, and a skeleton had helped him do it.