I turned a corner and hid. She went running by thinking I was ahead of her. After a moment I came out of my hiding spot. She had chased me a good distance and the scenery had changed. It was pitch black out. The only source of light was from above.

I looked up and to my amazement I saw what looked like stars above me. I thought that I could see the night sky, but upon a harder look I saw that these "stars" were actually rocks that glowed bright like stars. They still made the place feel nice and peaceful. I looked around and saw that there were writings on the wall.

They looked like they were ancient but luckily they were in English. They told the story of the monsters.

"A long time ago, monsters once roamed the surface alongside humans. They lived in peace with one another for many years. Monsters, were very different than humans. There souls held monsters together by use of magic, making the soul so weak that it is destroyed on death. Humans on the other hand did not need magic as their souls were powerful enough to sustain life. Human souls are powerful enough to sustain themselves even after the human body has died. If a monster were to absorb a human soul after it has been released from it's body, then the monster transforms into a terrible beast, capable of immense power.

Humans feared this power that monsters had, and one day attacked the monsters unprovoked. The war ended quickly, as monster magic was no use to human weaponry. Monsters suffered heavy casualties while humans suffered little to none. The monsters were forced to go underground. Where 7 of the most powerful human sorcerers created a magical barrier that monsters could not escape from. Keeping them trapped underground.

Only a tremendous force of 7 human souls could break the barrier and set monsters free."

These ancient writings told me exactly what I needed to know. Apparently there souls weren't strong enough to be able to break this barrier themselves. The monsters needed human souls to get free.

My orange soul fluttered out in front of me. This was what they were after. This little orange heart held enough power that it could set these monsters free. The more I thought about it the more I was intrigued. Was was so powerful about my soul? Flowey had told me that my soul was "the culmination of my being" but what did that mean.

So instead of going ahead in my journey I decided to go backwards. There had been a library in Snowdin and maybe it had stuff on what a soul contained. It took me awhile but I made it back. I hadn't seen Sans but I'm sure he was watching me somewhere.

I went inside the library. There was a vast amount of books. I went up to the monster librarian and asked her for any book the hand about human or monster souls. She handed me a couple of books. I sat down and started reading.

What I read was interesting. A monster soul is weak and does not persist after dying, turning to dust along with the would take all the souls in the Underground just to make the equivalent of one human soul. Human souls though are much, much stronger. Persisting long after death along with the body.

The human soul is powered by a substance called DETERMINATION. A human soul gets stronger with more DETERMINATION. Some humans have been known to gain powers or magic due to DETERMINATION. Some may be able to possess magic much like monsters. Some may have powers that are even stronger than one can imagine.

That last part was something very interesting to me, it could explain what Frisk can do. Quietly I ripped the page out of the book and left.

I jogged back through the waterfall area passing many monsters. Finally I got to some place that I hadn't seen before. As I walked down a passage, there was a statue of a monster. Rain was falling on the poor thing. I went to get an umbrella for it but decided that it was just a statue.

I held on to the umbrella just in case it did start raining. Which was a good choice because almost immediately after I left it started pouring. This made no sense to me as the Underground couldn't get any rain from the sky. Then i realized that there was a river that ran down the mountain. We must be under that river right now.

It rained for a while as I walked. No monsters were around to attack me so it was just me and my thoughts. I thought about Toriel, Sans and Papyrus. I laughed thinking about how bad Undyne is gonna kick my ass. Mostly though my thoughts drifted to home, Frisk most importantly. I wondered why she hadn't used her power to bring me back yet. Usually at the first sign of me being in trouble, I would be waking up in my bed doing a redo.

That was Frisk's power. She had the ability to SAVE parts of the day. Where if anything were to happen to me or her, she could just reset the day back to that very spot where she had hit the SAVE. Essentially she could RESET time at will. No one remembered what had happened in the past before she reset except her.

I could tell when she did a reset but not remember why. Some mornings she would come into my bedroom crying, saying stuff like I had died or something. She seemed really traumatized when these things happened. I don't know how many times she had to reset the day because of me.

I got my head out of the clouds as it stopped raining. It seemed quite peaceful. I walked through the caves until one opened up. I turned to my left and stared.

There it was. The capital of the Underground. A huge castle rose out of it. That must be where the king, King Asgore, lived. Also, the barrier that led to the surface was there, according to a book I had quickly read in the library. Asgore and I were on a collision course, him wanting my soul, me wanting to get home.

More on Frisk later.