Chapter 2- The Ruins

Frisk was confused.

Confusion was a feeling that she hadn't felt in such a long time. After living through so many different timeless, she had long since grown use to the abnormalities of the Underground. After all, when you knew all of its secrets, it was really hard to be surprised about anything anymore.

Yet it would seem that the Underground was an even stranger place than she could've ever anticipated. Kaylin's presence within this timeline was evidence enough. Frisk couldn't comprehend what she could have done in her last run to trigger such an odd occurrence in the timelines. What made the situation even more baffling was the fact that the male possessed a green heart.

She was well acquainted with the souls of the six fallen humans. After all, they had saved her life in multiple timelines from that damn weed-otherwise known as Flowey. Green, was the soul that represented kindness from what she remembered. While she didn't think it was unlikely that there could be multiple humans with a soul of Kindness; every human up to this point, with the exception of herself who shared the soul of determination with Chara, had a unique soul type.

Speaking of Chara, Frisk silently wondered what happened to the other girl. She had been oddly quiet ever since the reset. Which was strange. Usually by this point, she would have already heard the girl voice in the back of her head, egging her to kill. She wondered if Chara's absence had anything to do with Kaylin.

She glanced at Kaylin who continued to look at Toriel with the same disbelieving face that he had when he had saw Flowey for the first time. She honestly didn't know how she should feel about him. He seemed nice enough, but his presence was worrying… what if something else had changed this time around? She couldn't deal with any more surprises. She had a goal, and she was going to achieve it. She didn't need all of these distractions.

The Goat woman tilted her head and smiled brightly at them; which made Frisk's heart clanged. She had hurt this woman in so many timelines- including the last- She didn't deserve her smile. She wanted to fall to her knees and cry. To beg for forgiveness; but she knew that doing something like that would be pointless.

It wasn't as if Toriel had knowledge of the other timelines.

"Frisk are you seeing what I'm seeing?" She heard as Kaylin silently muttered to her. "I'm not going crazy am I… because there's a giant goat woman standing right there." Frisk suppressed a smile. He had a similar reaction to her when she first saw Toriel; she could only imagine all the thought that were currently going through his head at the moment.

"Don't worry, I see her too." She assured him. She didn't want him to feel as though he was going crazy, although he was taking the situation surprisingly well. Much better than she did.

"Are you two alright?" Toriel questioned. "He didn't hurt the two of you did he?"

"No ma'am." Frisk answered. Which resulted in Toriel sighing in relief.

"Yeah if it wasn't for you, we would have been toast" Kaylin added. A grateful look appeared upon his dark features. "What was that guy's deal anyway? He was so nice at first and then he just tried to kill us!"

A sad look appeared upon Toriel's face. "I'm afraid child that not all the monsters living in the Underground are… welcoming to humans." The goat woman explained to the two humans.

"Underground… Monsters?" Kaylin sputtered- "You mean this place is filled with guys like that?" Frisk could hear the slight quiver in the older teen's voice. "Oh god; I think I'm going to throw up." The brunette could see the fear in the other humans' dark eyes as he raised a hand to his lips to prevent himself from splattering his contents onto the floor.

Before she could move to comfort him, Toriel had already closed the gap between them. She would slowly crouch down and wrapped her arms around the boy who had become to shake slightly. Frisk could only look on in sympathy.

"It'll be alright child," Toriel said in a soothing voice. "Not all monsters are like the one you encountered..." She tried to reassure the older teen. Kaylin continued to shake in the goat-woman's hold; but eventually he would pull away.

"Thank you Toriel." He said in a somewhat somber voice. Frisk could see the lines of tears on his dark face which confirmed her suspicions that the boy had been crying.

She was wrong. He wasn't taking this situation well at all. The sight of her new acquaintance drawn to tears made her feel guilty. Maybe if she had told him something, instead of pretending to be completely obvious of her surroundings, they could have avoided this situation. At least he would have been mentally prepared for such a revelation. Then again, it was never easy to hear that almost everything wanted you dead.

She approached the two. "Are you ok Kaylin?" She questioned. Worry evident in her voice as she regarded the boy who refused to meet her gaze.

"I'm fine." He answered a bit too quickly. "I promise." A smile graced his face once more as he finally turned to face her.

"Kaylin? That a lovely name my child." Kaylin's smile seems to get a little brighter at the goat-woman's compliment.

"Thank you." Toriel smiled at the boy's response and nodded, before taking a step back as the human male straightened. Toriel's gaze would shift towards her and Frisk could help but flinch in response. The goat-women looked confused, and possibly hurt, by her actions. While the brunette felt horrible she couldn't help it.

It was too soon. She didn't know if she could look Toriel ever again without being plagued by all the horrifying memories.

"What is your name child?" Toriel inquired. Her voice was gentle, warm, and welcoming. Which only help to fuel the guilt the girl felt.

"Frisk." She answered rather curtly, inwardly she winced at how harsh she sounded and silently cursed herself for being so cruel to such a kind woman.

She could feel Kaylin's eyes on her. This time he was looking at her with worry; possibly wondering what had gotten into her. To her shock Toriel didn't seem offended or even upset with her; instead the goat woman continued to smile, with the same inviting smile, as she introduced herself.

"My name is Toriel. I am the caretaker of these here ruins. I am glad you two are alright. I have been coming to here every day to see if anyone has fallen down. I must say, I'm surprised to have found two of you this time." Toriel explained as she adjusted her clothing.

"So humans tend to fall down here all the time?" Kaylin inquired.

Toriel shook her head in response. "No, not at all. In fact, you two are the first humans that have fallen down here in a long time." She explained.

"So… where are the others?" The older teen inquired. "You said that there were others before us… so uh… where are they?"

Honestly Frisk had hoped that the boy would have been as ignorant as she was when she first came here. She had only found out about the fate of the others when she tried to leave the ruins and Toriel attempted to stop her. Until then she hadn't even given much thought about the humans that had arrived before her.

Toriel hesitated. It was obvious that she was trying to come up with an excuse as to why the humans were no longer present; but if she didn't think of one fast Kaylin would surely catch on.

"Well they- "Toriel had begun to explain, but was interrupted by Frisk.

"They probably found a way back to the surface." Frisk theorized. "I mean… if they aren't here anymore that's really the only logical explanation right?"

Kaylin pondered over Frisk's words. "I guess you're right." He agreed; before turning to Frisk. "You're pretty smart, shorty."

"Hey! I'm not short" Frisk rebutted; offended that he would suggest such a thing. "I'll have you know that I'm 5'7, which is quite tall for a girl my age."

"Yeah well I'm 6'1, so you're pretty short in comparison." Kaylin countered with a grin on his face.

Frisk huffed and pouted, folding her arms, she looked away from Kaylin. "It's not my fault you're so freakishly tall." She shot back and the boy snorted.

"If I'm freakishly tall," He said motioning towards Toriel. "She's a giant."

Toriel chuckled at the exchanged. A nostalgic feeling welling up in her as the two reminded her of her own children who, unfortunately, had passed away a long time ago. "Now, now my children. You are both of respectable heights; there is no need for you to bicker." As much as she enjoyed the interaction between the two, an uneasy feeling had come upon her and she felt it wise to leave the area.

"Follow me children; I'll guide you through the catacombs ahead." The Goat-woman would motion for them to follow as she turned and walked down the path.

"Do you think we should follow her? I mean she seems nice but…" Kaylin looked conflicted and Frisk could tell he was being extra cautious given what had happened earlier.

The brunette gave the older human a reassuring smile as she laced her hand with his. "I think we can trust her."

Kaylin blinked at her in confusion for a moment, before a grin appeared on his face. "Alright. Let's go shorty!"

"I'M NOT SHORT!"

Kaylin stood in awe as he stared up at the entrance of the ruins in wonder. He could see Toriel at the top and waved at her with his free hand; his other hand still laced with Frisk who had gone oddly silently ever since they entered the area.

"Hey... Kaylin?" She called.

"Hmm?" He turned his head to the brunette and raised a brow at her.

Said brunette pointed towards the open area between the stairs that lead to the top platform where Toriel stood. "Do you see that?" Kaylin blinked and tried to look for whatever Frisk was referring too. "Um… what are you pointing at Frisk? I don't see anything."

Frisk's expression quickly morphed into one of confusion. "W-what?" The brunette stuttered as she seemed shocked by the fact that he couldn't see whatever she was pointing at. "Can you honestly not see…." She faltered and seemed to go into deep thought. "How is that possible?" she murmured quietly.

"Are you ok Frisk?" The taller human asked worriedly. "You seem a bit off…"

Frisk waved him off. "Yeah I'm fine; you should go on… I have something I need to take care of."

The taller human bit down gently on his lower lip. "I don't know if that's a good idea Frisk… you heard Toriel; these ruins are filled with monsters." Besides, what could the girl possibly have to do that she had to do alone?

Frisk gave him a reassuring grin. "Stop being a worry-wart, I'll be fine. I promise I'll be quick."

Reluctantly Kaylin relented. "Well if you say so…" The boy removed his hand from the younger teen's grasp and instantly tucked it into his pocket. As much as he wanted to prod the other, to figure out what she was up to, he didn't want her to anger her.

"Try not to take too long ok?" He said with a small smile on his face before he proceeded up the stone stairway.

Frisk waved at both Toriel and Kaylin as they entered into the ruins without her. Once she was sure that the both of them had gone inside she approached the star-shaped object that illuminated an Aureate light that threatened to blind her as she got closer.

She didn't understand why Kaylin hadn't seen the save point. He was human just like her and yet he looked at the checkpoint as if it weren't even there. Although it was foolish of her to assumed that all humans had the ability to see them; maybe the reason why she could see and use them was due to her having a red heart?

Or was it because he was an anomaly? Maybe the save points recognized that he shouldn't exist and therefore were denying him their aid? However, that sounded very unlikely to her.

Pushing the thoughts away for now she decided to reach out for the save point. She had promised the other human that she would be quick and she'd like to keep her promise. The save point reacted to her approach; seemingly glowing ever more luminous as her red heart appeared for her chest. Emitting a vibrant red glow as it floated nearer to the checkpoint.

Suddenly Frisk would be consumed by the golden light and the world around her would become pitch black. Three words floated ominously in front of her; a dim light being exerted from them and brightening up the nearby area.

Save

Load

Reset

However, all three options had giant cracks that ran through them, which shocked the brunette. What was going on? The only people who were capable of damaging the options like this were Flowery and Chara.

She was one hundred percent sure it wasn't Flowery; in his current state he didn't have the power to do anything but make meaningless threats. Chara had been absence since she had reset the timeline, besides she would never risk damaging the options as they were her ticket to freedom.

Frisk wasn't a fool. She could feel Chara gradually getting more and more powerful every true reset; Chara was just bidding her time until she was strong enough to completely overcome her and use her save and reload abilities to reach the surface. The brunette shudder at the mere thought of releasing a being like Chara onto the world above.

But if it wasn't Chara or Flowery, who could have caused this? Worry had begun to build up within her as she closely inspected the three options.

Placing her hand on the save option she would feel the determination rush through her system; a sudden spark of electricity would cause her to retract her hand instantly. She shook it to help numb the pain. That never happened before.

What was going on here?

Frisk had managed to catch up with Toriel and Kaylin. Having already traversed these ruins in multiple timelines, she knew them as well as the back of her hand at this point, which made it easy for her.

The two were currently standing in front of a dummy with Kaylin striking up a conversation with the inanimate object. Frisk giggled at the scene. If it were any other person, or if this were her first run through, she would have thought that the boy had gone mad. However, she knew that Toriel was teaching the older teen the proper way to combat the monsters down here, but it didn't stop her from laughing at the exasperated look on the boy's face as he continued to converse with the dummy.

Toriel must of her heard laughter as she turned her gaze away from the boy towards her. "Ah my child! I was just about to go and retrieve you" She said as she pulled away from the dummy to approach her, muttering to Kaylin to continue to converse with the dummy and that he was doing well as she past him.

"How did you managed to pass the puzzles my child? You are not hurt are you?" Toriel seemed puzzled by the girl's appearance as she bent down to inspect her for any injuries. The brunette felt guilty for making the Goat-woman worry and couldn't help but feel as though she didn't deserve such attention from her.

After all she had killed her multiple times before.

"I'm fine honest. Sorry if I made you worry." She apologized as she stared at her shoes; refusing to meet the goat-woman's gaze. Far too afraid of breaking down if she were to make contact with those loving, warm eyes of hers'.

"It's alright my child." Toriel reassured her. Her furry hand lacing with Frisk as she stood up and gently tugged the girl toward the training dummy. Frisk stiffened slightly at the contact; the memories of past timelines filling her mindscape.

It always started like this; with her holding Toriel's hand.

"Are you ok my child?" She could hear the panic in the monster's voice. "Should I remove my- "

"No it's fine." Frisk was quick to reassure Toriel. Her grip around the monster's hand tightened to emphasis that she didn't want Toriel to let go of her hand.

The monster smiled gently at the human child. "I know you must be scared, but the underground isn't such a bad place; I'm sure when you get used to it you'll grow to like it."

Frisk nodded and allowed a small smile to grace her face as Toriel gently directed her towards the dummy.

Kaylin had stopped talking to the dummy once he noticed that Toriel had returned with Frisk. "Are you alright shorty?" She saw him mouthed to her; her eyebrow twitch in annoyance at the nickname.

"Yeah I'm fine" She mouthed back to the boy. "And stop calling me shorty!"

"As I've told Kaylin. As humans living in the Underground, monster may attack you." Toriel said. "If they do attack you, you will have to fight them," She continued. "You will need to know what to do in this situation."

"Apparently we have to strike up a conversation with them." Kaylin added although he didn't look particularly please with the idea. "I'm fine with avoiding conflict it's just… what if we run into a monster like that Flower?"

Toriel shifted her gaze towards Kaylin. "I understand your concerns my child. All you need to do is stall for time and I will come to resolve the conflict." She promised. "Like I said earlier I will make sure no harm comes to either of you."

Kaylin sighed but decided to listen to Toriel.

"Your turn my child" Toriel would gently remove her hands from Frisk's and nudge the brunette towards the dummy.

With an award winning smile and a hand on her hip, the younger of the two humans approached the dummy. "Nice to meet you; I hope we can become friends?" She greeted. The tone of her voice was quite friendly and welcoming and her posture portrayed no signs of hostility.

"Wow; you're good. Much better than me." She heard the older human say and would blush at his compliment. To be fair, she had enough to time to practice and perfect her charisma skills, so she did have an advantage over him.

"Thanks. You weren't bad yourself." She complimented.

Toriel clapped at the display and if Frisk wasn't afraid to look at her face she would have seen the look of pride on the monster's face. "Well done! With skills like that you might not even need me to help." Toriel joked. As she approached the two humans.

She stretched out her hands for the two of them to take. "Come now children; there's more to see."

A giant frog swiftly leaped out of a nearby bush, just as the group of three were passing by, and tackle Kaylin, forcing him to release his hold on Frisk's hand. The boy would yelp in both surprise and pain as he slammed onto the cold, rough, stone surface of the ruin's ground. The Frog sat comfortable on his chest; crushing him slightly and making it difficult for him to breathe.

Frisk's eyes widened at the sight and she made to advance towards the older human to assist him. However, she felt herself get gently tugged backwards.

"No. Please wait my child." Toriel advised as she watched the scene unfold. Frisk stared up at the monster in shock.

"But Kay- "

"Kaylin will be fine. Just watch."

Kaylin gulped as the giant frog stared at him with its giant beady eyes. His mind was running a mile a minute with thoughts as he tried to figure out what to do. He was scared shitless; he hadn't expected something like this to happen… he knew he shouldn't have drop his guard… he was foolish to think that Toriel's presence would have prevented attacks from other monsters.

The frog's cheeks puffed up and its eyes sharpened as it seemed to grow larger inside, increasing the pressure upon the human's chest which caused him to wince in pain. Promptly the creature ejected its tongue from its mouth, which lashed out like a whip toward his head. Kaylin screamed and titled his head just enough to avoid being struck by the tongue.

"Get off of me!" The boy cried as he tried to push the monster off of him but to no avail.

Toriel blinked; that wasn't the reaction she had expected. She had hoped the boy would have applied the training from earlier to this encounter… but she could see that the older of the two humans didn't seem to work well under pressure.

Frisk couldn't take much more of it and roughly tugged her hand away from Toriel's grasp; shocking the monster with how much strength the young girl had. Rushing over to the two; Frisk would place a hand on her chest and call out to the frog-monster. "Please stop Mr. Frog! You're hurting him." The brunette pleaded.

The Frog turned its attention towards her and Frisk would feel her soul leap out of her chest. Signifying that she had just entered battle. The frog's tongue shot out towards the brunette repeatedly, forcing the girl to hop, skip and roll around to evade it.

"You're just the cutest thing ever Mr. Frog!' Frisk complimented as she narrowly avoided being struck by Froggit's tongue.

The Frog's attack would suddenly halt as a faint, red, blush appeared upon its face. Toriel would sudden approach the big frog; her big furry hands on her hips as she gave the creature a menacing look. The frog shifted uncomfortably before it leapt off the older human and vanished behind the bush once more.

Frisk ran towards the down human and bent down to inspect him. He was visibly shaken by the experience; his breathing was erratic and his entire body was shaking violently. "It's ok Kaylin… the frog's gone." Frisk tried to comfort him but it didn't appear as though the boy had heard her as he continued to shake.

Toriel bit down on her lower lip. "I'm sorry my child… I thought that- "The Goat-woman sighed. "Whatever I thought… I was clearly wrong, I shouldn't have left you to defend yourself like that" The monster opened her arms and without even realizing it, Kaylin fell into her grasp.

He subconsciously wrapped his arms around Toriel's waist as he continued to shake and Frisk could help but feel slightly angry at Toriel for not assisting. She knew that Toriel had only good intentions but that didn't excuse the terrible way she handle the situation.

After a few moment Kaylin finally stopped shaking and with a deep breath he pulled away from the monster.

"I realize that you cannot talk your way out of everything and I know that this situation might be scary for the two of you; but I just hope that you both never have to hurt anyone." She admitted as she slowly got to her feet.

The group would find themselves in a massive hallway that stretched furthered than Frisk or Kaylin could see.

"Would you two mind staying here for a bit" Toriel inquired politely. "I have some important business I must attend to. The areas ahead are very dangerous without my guidance and it would put me at ease if I knew you two were here safe and sound." She reasoned.

Both humans nodded and Toriel smiled "Oh before I forget." She would suddenly produce a device from her pockets and hand it over to Frisk. Kaylin would look over the device, that looked like a very outdated phone, with curiosity.

"If either of you need me, just call me" Toriel stated.

Kaylin raised a brow. Silently wondering how a phone could possible work down here. The phone was definitely no IPhone… but he supposes it would do.

After Toriel left, the older of the two humans turned to the younger. "I'm sorry about freaking out earlier…I'm still getting use to this whole situation" Frisk was taken back by his sudden apology and couldn't for the life of her understand why he felt the need to apologize in the first place. "I mean I'm so useless; I can't even beat a frog." He joked in a self-deprecating way.

"Stop it." Frisk snapped. Her tone seemed to catch the other off guard as he abruptly stopped laughing at himself. "You're not useless. Don't ever think like that."

"Yeah but you saw what happened earlier… If you hadn't step in…" He trailed off before sighing. "I can't help but feel like I'm going to die down here."

Frisk puffed out her chest and had a determined look on her face "You're not going to die down here. Know why?" Kaylin shook his head. "Because you have me and I have you… I'll make sure nothing bad happens to you. That's a promise."

"Shouldn't it be the other way around?" Kaylin joked.

"Hey! just because I'm a girl doesn't mean I can't defend you." Frisk argued.

"Hey, I never said anything about you being a girl." Kaylin countered. An amused look on his face.

"Yeah, but you implied it!" Frisk shot back. A grin slowly appeared on her own face.

"Did not!"

"Did so!"

"NOT!"

"SO!"

The two playfully glared at one another before bursting into a fit of laughter. Their laughter echoed throughout the halls of the ruins quite possible rousing the local monster populous but the two didn't care; they continued to laugh.

"Thanks Frisk" Kaylin said in-between laughs. "I really needed that."

"No problem." Frisk said as she got her laughter under control.

"So what do we do now?" Kaylin inquired after finally getting control of his own laughter. "Should we wait for Toriel to return or should we do some adventuring?"

Frisk pondered their options. On one hand they could go exploring the ruins, and Frisk was sure that with the two of them here, adventuring through the ruins wouldn't be as dull; but she knew the consequences of doing so. While Chara was quiet she didn't want to risk accidentally stumbling upon the knife that rested in these ruins.

"I think we should wait on Toriel." Frisk said. She noted the slightly disappointed look that appeared on the other human's face when she suggested that they should stay.

"Are you sure? Who knows what kind of treasures are hidden here." The boy insisted.

That was the problem. She knew exactly what laid in these ruins. She wouldn't trust herself around any weapons this time around; she had been foolish last time to believe that a toy knife couldn't hurt anyone. She had never imagined that with enough determination and a sadistic imagination like Chara that she could have hurt so many people.

"Yeah I'm sure." Frisk asserted. "Besides we did tell Toriel we'd wait here for her; it wouldn't be right to just leave." The brunette reasoned.

The curly haired boy sighed. "I guess your right…" He agreed." So do you wanna talk while we wait?"

"Sure"

Alright that's chapter 2 folks! I hope it was an enjoyable read for you guys.

17nicholasc- Firstly I'd like to thank you for the review, I'm really glad you like the story so far. As for the pairing I'm aware that most people prefer Sans x Female OC or Sans x Toriel or even Sans x Frisk. I just wanted to be the odd one out and create a Sans x Male OC fanfic.

At first I was confused by your question about whether or not Kaylin wanted to die; but after rereading it a couple of times I think I understand what you meant. No he didn't want to die; he just felt that he was useless and that he was keeping everyone else from their happiness. Hope that clears things up?

Also what do you think of Kaylin? I'm trying my best to avoid making him a Gary Stu and to make him an interesting and personable character for you guys. I know he seems to be a bit of a cry-baby but I feel like his reaction to the situation he's in is reasonable. I'd still like to know what your opinion are thought!

Please review! It fills me with determination whenever I see a review.

I'd like to thank everyone who review/followed/favorited. It makes me happy to see that others like my work.

Also I'm still debating on whether or not this will be Genocide or Pacifist. Although I have had two people so far who said they wanted a Pacifist run.