Chapter 3
Frisk stepped inside Toriel's home and was immediately greeted by warm yellows and oranges. This home had such a home-y welcoming feeling it was almost sureal.
"Do you smell that?" Frisk raised her muzzle and her tiny pink nose up. She sniffed and found out the smell was..PIE! Oh and that was cinnamon and butterschoch. Why wasn't she surprised this kind loving woman would cook that for her?
"Surprise! It's butterschoch and cinnamon pie!" Asriel chuckled as Chara sighed.
"It's better than the snail pie trust me." Toriel blushed in embarrassement again and looked at the two of them running towards what seemed to be their room.
"why you two--" Toriel sighed as she looked back at her.
"I thought we might celebrate your arrival. I want you to have a nice time living here.." Frisk saw that again the woman assumed she will just live in the Ruins...but she knows that both of them knew...she couldn't stay.
"I will hold off on snail pie for tonight. Here i have another surprise for you." The mother started walking towards the room the two just entered. They stopped in front of it.
"This is it. A room where you can sleep." Frisk looked at Chara who opened the door and Asriel who was laying in bed with an eye-brow raised.
"I hope you like it! Oh the little one is sleeping with you two." They both spurted as Asriel shot up from his place on the bed.
"we don't even know if it's a boy or a girl!! Can't she just sleep in da--" Toriel narrowed her eyes.
"No.." The two fell silent and Chara moved from the door to let her in. Toriel patted Frisk on the head before turning around and smelling something. Frisk sniffed too and tried to stiffle her little smile. Something was burning a bit...but not to the point where it wouldn't taste good.
"is something burning..?umm..Make yourself at home!" Toriel darted towards what she assumed was the kitchen. That's when both Chara and Asriel sat on their beds with their arms crossed looking at her. She sat on the floor and mimicked their position. Chara rolled her eyes.
"Man..we're stuck with a brainless monkey in the room." Frisk norrowed her eyes. She looked at the desk in the place and jumped on it and took a piece of paper and a pen. She wrote.
'I am not brainless. It's just humans can't understand monster, thank you very much.' Chara's eyes widened. Asriel's jaw dropped.
"You have been reading all the signs in this place..understanding us the whole damn time...and solving the puzzles without using your luck?!" Chara said. Frisk face-palmed and nodded.
"I KNEW IT!! YOU OWE ME EVEN MORE NOW!!" A pillow flew over the room and landed in Asriel's face.
"SHUSH!! now...what's your name..." Chara asked as she schooched over more. Asriel also had his eyes on her.
'Frisk'
"AWWW!! THAT'S SUCH A CUTE NAMEEEEE~~" Asriel said. Chara laughed.
"Ok..umm..boy or girl?" Frisk took another neutral displeased face.
"hey not my fault i can't see if you got tits and a choochie or not." Frisk face-palmed at the stupid remark and wrote 'girl'.
"Well i be damned.." Chara said. Asriel snorted.
"You're sleeping with her." Asriel said. Chara shrugged.
"Fair enough..you've got any questions..?" Frisk nodded.
'why did i feel a monster soul inside of you?' The two were silent.
"we...umm..we were supposed to be dead.." Chara said rubbing the back of her neck awkwardly. "I used to be a human with a monster soul...that's why they threw me down here..." Frisk's squinted eyes softened.
"We um...we decided we wanted to break the barrier that holds monsters underground...i..i absorebed her soul after she died...and..i tried to go and get the other 6 souls needed....i got attacked and...yeah. I um...died.." Frisk nodded. She knows that monsters now have more gruesome death due to the fact they have the human-like souls. Humans took their ability to dust...which Frisk wanted because she hated getting blood in her fur.
"We don't really know how we came back..we just did...and yeah..now we live with Toriel."Chara said. That's...peculliar. Not knowing how they came back? Also Chara didn't call her mom.. oh well...
"ok uhh...how old are you..?" Frisk laughed. she wrote '21'.
"oh..my..god...that's just a bit younger than us..." Chara hit her face in a pillow. Asriel laughed.
"you seriously look like a child." Frisk puffed her chest and narrowed her eyes. Fine! She closed her eyes and let herself grow in her other form. She was now as tall as Chara, her muzzle a bit longer and her white fur had from place to place auburn ends a shade lighter than her dark auburn hair. her horn grew and twisted as her claws grew as well. She totally looked like a Griphon now... Asriel and Chara looked at each other in disbelief.
"Oh...my..god..AND WHY THE HELL DIDN'T YOU DO THIS THE FIRST TIME?! Look at those claws!!" Chara said. Frisk laughed at her excitement.
"What are you?!" Frisk smiled and said:
"I'm a griphon..it just takes too much energy to maintain this form. Plus we're supposed to be extinct.." Chara and Asriel looked at each other.
"THAT'S SO COOL!! OH MY GOD!! wait...YOU CAN TALK?!" Frisk smiled. Aw man these reactions were like the ones of little children. Frisk stretched. man she stopped using this form.
"Man...i'm swore..Step back a bit." Frisk let her wings pop out and started stretching them as well. The room was just a bit bigger than both her wings stretched a bit diagonally. The two were looking at her awe-struck as she sat down on the floor and let her wings dissapear. her wings...were just like an eagles. they had brown and white feathers and they were red-ish at the tips.
"WHY THE HELL DIDN'T YOU DO THIS WHEN WE MET YOU INSTEAD OF LETTING US THINK YOU'RE SOME KIND OF DUMB BRAINLESS PET OR SOMETHING!!" Frisk let herself go back to being small and shrugged. Soon enough they were talking about The Surface and the weird 'check-points' and she wa right. She also found out these two used to be serial killers of some sort, playing with time and space 'reseting' everything. How she made them talk? Easy...she was ANNOYING. After that they talked about the Underground a bit. It was a beautiful place. And really really big. They all fell alseep and Frisk woke up first the next morning. She went to the bathroom and realized..yeah she will need to shower and use the bathroom and so she did. Monster fur did still inherit some of it's magical properties so just using a towel dried it perfectly. It would have been quite times consuming to have to dry it all with a hair-dryer every time. Monsters used the hairdryer for the actual hair. She finally got a better look at the two brother's room...but they seemed like they were more like best-friends instead of actual brothers. Chara never actually looked at Toriel as a mother and more as a...well..Caretaker. She saw that the two beds were each on different walls. between them was a dresser and a desk. On Asriel's side was the door towards the bathroom and a wardrobe on Chara's side was another wardrobe. There were some nicely drawn drawings on the walls and a music box alongside some toys. That must have been their childhood room.
Frisk however was curious and stepped outside the room. She looked around and went to the left. The corridor was beautiful. It was decorated with flowers and had a nice carpet on the ground. The room next-door was a light pastel blue. The room had a bucket of snails in the corner which seemed out of place..but Frisk found the rest of the room was normal. A queen sized bed and a desk with a journal on it....err...a journal of bad puns. Frisk snorted as she flipped through them. Frisk found a huge book-shelf and her eyes lit up and twinkled. She loved to read and find out new information. Most of all she knew was from books! She never got a higher education than high-school..she couldn't afford collage. She took one of the encyclopedias and it was about suterran plants. Oh! She flipped it and found a section about..typha...righttt the water sausage. She closed the book and put it back. She left the room and tried to open the last one at the end of the hallway..it was locked. She scoffed and went back. After she passed the door of the room she just slept in she found herself back in the hallway. That's when she noticed the flight of stairs going down. She made a mental note about it and continued going forward. She found a nice living room. Frisk smiled as she saw the human woman read in her arm-chair. The patch of floor in front of her arm-chair looked...empty...There was another book-shelf and a fire-place with what Frisk assumed was magic fire since it changed colors. Now it was gree...now teal...then baby blue...indigo..purple. There was a dinning table with 4 seats and a beautiful vase with a fake bouqet of flowers inside. What Frisk found adorable was the fact that Toriel filled down the ends of her fire-place tools....to make them safer for kids. That's adorable. She then looked at the book-shelf. She took one of the history books and read a passage. In this book they portraited the humans as the ones running instead of the ones banished. Interesting...However she loved the fact they named the end of the caverns 'Home'. The King surely sucked at names. So she guessed this place used to be..'Home' and now there was some king of dunno..'New Home'? She thought of New York at that...it made sense.
She stepped inside the small kitchen. It was ADORABLE!! It had a fridge and an oven..even if the oven seemed bearly used. Did Toriel have fire magic? That would kind of explain why there was magic fire inside the fire-place. Finally she went back to the nice warm living-room and tugged the human's dress. Toriel looked at Frisk and smiled as she closed the book she was reading and took off her glasses.
"Up already, i see? um, i want you to know how glad i am to have someone new here. There are so many old books i want to share. I want to show you my favorite bug-hunting spot. I've also prepared a curriculum for your education. This may come as a surprise to you...But i have always wanted to be a teacher." Frisk's eyes softened at the mother who wanted to have a little child again...But she knew she couldn't stay. And the fact she wanted to be a teacher? Not surprised at all. it suited her quite well.
"..actually perhaps this sin't very surprising..STILL." Toriel made a funny face when she said that. Aw man she was going to break her heart...
"I am glad to have you living here. Oh, did you want something? What is it?" Frisk fidgeted a bit. Oh god...She pulled out some paper she got and a pen and started writing.
'How to exit the RUINS?' Frisk wrote. Toriel looked off to the side.
"Wanna hear about the book i'm reading? It's called '72 uses for Snails'. How about an exciting snail fact? Did you know that snails..Talk. Really. Slowly. Just kidding, snails don't talk. Interesting." Frisk held up the paper again. Toriel looked nervous.
"I have to do something...Stay here." Toriel got up and left through the door. Frisk followed behind best as she could. The woman was way taller. Damn it she had to do this like an animal. She got on all fours. This was embarassing. She ran down the stairs and found herself in a long corridor with torches on the walls.
"You wish to know how to return 'home' do you not?" Well..not necessarily since she doesn't have a 'home' so to speak. But she would like to go back to the surface...or even better..Help humans get back on the Surface.
"Ahead of us lies the end of the RUINS. A one-way exit to the rest of the Underground. I am going to destroy it. Now one will ever be able to leave again. Now be a good child and go upstairs." HOLD THE FUCK UP. WOAHHHHH there buddy partener HELL NAW. You aren't just going to tell her: 'yah there's an exit to the ruins...I'MMA MAKE IT GO BOOM BOOM AND BUH BYE!' hell no. Frisk followed the woman.
"Every monster that falls down here meets the same fate...I have seen it again and again." Wait..there were more..?
"They come. They leave." There was a heavy pause.
"They die." What...? BUT THEY'RE ONLY CHILDREN WHO WOULD DO SUCH A THING?!
"you naive child...heck you may not be a child...but...if you leave these RUINS..they...ASGORE...will kill you.." Asgore..? Who was that?
"I am only protecting you...do you understand?!..Go to your room..." Frisk followed her again. She stopped as she was taking a turn.
"Do not try to stop me. This is your final warning." They ended up in a room with a giant purple door.
"You want to leave so badly? Hmph." No..she wants to help you see...that living trapped down there...AND in the Ruins as well..IT'S WRONG!! She wants to help you...help all of you.
"You are just like the others..."
J U S T L I K E T H E O T H E R S . . . ?
Oh she wasn't..she wasn't like the others...IF THOSE OTHERS would have fallen down here...you all would have been dust under a rug...you all? Would be burning...in...HELL. Those others..are the same others who would say 'humans aren't real. They're just a myth'. Those others only care about money. THOSE OTHERS SHOWED HER NOTHING FOR ALL THE SHIT SHE HAS DONE FOR THEM!! And if those others would go this far to show her..WHAT WAS WRONG WITH LIVING IN EXILE? She was wrong again...Not only was she running from her problems...she was living in her own cell she built in her mind...AND SHE HAS THE AUDACITY TO CALL HER LIKE 'LIKE THE OTHERS' ? Sometimes people surely can be selfish..can't they..?
Toriel didn't say anything as Frisk realized she spoke...actual words. Oh no...oh no oh no...Shiiitttt and there goes her ability to speak again. Toriel was tearing up and looking at her.
"I-is that true my child...?" Frisk looked away and didn't respond.
"oh..i'm terribly sorry..i didn't...i never...--I shall open this door for you.." Frisk looked at the woman in front of her and smiled.
"If you truly wish to leave the Ruins..i will not stop you..However..when you leave...Please do not come back...I hope you understand. Goobye, my child." The woman kenlt and hugged her. The woman was about to leave bu tshe stopped and turned around looking at Frisk one last time. At least..in the Ruins. Frisk smiled and said, using energy just like before.
"It's not goodbye..It's farewell...i may not be able to return. But you can always leave the Ruins...So...see you later, mom." The woman stopped as the doors opened and closed behind her. She could hear the faint giggles and a soft 'See you later' as she adventured forward. She stepped inside another corridor and found a brick arch-way. She then was met with total darkness.
'Clever...very clever...You must think you are, perhaps, really smart? Unfortunately..in this world: Your place in this little 'game' is reserved for someone else. You may have been able to play by your own rules..." Frisk kept walking in the darknes...this hallway felt odly huge.
'You must feel really...great! but...what will you do if you meet a relentless killer...? You'll die...and you'll DIE AND YOU'LL DIE!! HAHAHHAH!!' T-that laugh...she knew that laugh...SHE KNEW THAT LAUGH!! But...she couldn't quite place it...Suddenly a blinding light hit her and she found herself on the other side of the door. And for some reason she just knew she already saved.