
The Ruins
A voice replied from the cell phone. “Good, then can you bring them home?” “Yes, mom.” “Okay, I love you Frisk.” “Me, too.”
Click, as the call ended.
Asriel was lying on a bed of flowers. He was staring into the sky, but his view was blocked by a thin lay of gray mist. It was the hole in the top of the room. and he couldn’t see how deep it was from the barrier.
“Oh, you’re awake now.” The same voice that was talking on the phone, was speaking to him. The voice’s owner was a girl, who had brown hair, with brown eyes matching her hair. He was confused to see a human being kind to him.
But she didn’t gave him time to recollect his thoughts.
“Is that locket important to you?” She was giggling by his reaction. “What, ...?”
He looked down at his hands(or paws, doesn’t matter), which are clutching a pair of lockets tightly.
He was embarrassed by his actions, since he didn’t remember having these. He just put them away in his jacket’s left pocket.
“By, the way what’s your name?”
“Uh, my name is Asriel.”
“Asriel, that‘s a great name. My name is Frisk.”
“Frisk... Why do I have a feeling I had knew your name for a long time. But let‘s get out of here first.”
He tried to stood up, but he fell right away. He collapsed into the flower bed again.
“Oww, what?” He turned and looked at his left ankle. It had swollen up badly.
“Looks like I twisted my ankle from the fall., I can‘t go anywhere in this state.” “Actually, I can help with it.”
Frisk lowered her hands to his left foot. She gently touched his ankle.
“Monster injuries are different from human injuries. There is nothing can be done while here.” He shook his head to intend Frisk to stop it.
But her hand emitted green light. “How?” Asriel asked. The ankle returned to the normal state. “I thought most humans couldn’t do magic.”
“Most doesn‘t mean All." She was correcting him. “I can only do healing magics. So if you're ready, let’s go.”
“Go where?”
“To, our home of course. Mom is baking a butterscotch-cinnamon pie. And besides, there isn‘t any safe place for you except there.” He knew it was true, there weren't any alternative options for him. He stood up, and followed her. They went out of the room and entered a room with a switch and a several pressure plates on the floor.
“This is new, I haven‘t seen them.” He was looking at the new decorations with astonishment. “New? Oh, these had been installed to stall monsters.” She was pulling down the switch. “It’s only for capturing monsters.” The door had opened with a loud rumbling.
They had got out of the opened doorway to see another purple room. “Welcome to the ruins, Asriel. You sound like you have been here before?”
“I don‘t recognize this place that much. It’s so different since the last visit.” He was looking around the room. The colors were so different. The ceiling, the walls, and the floor were all purple, and the road was magenta. The road split into two, one heading forward, and the other leaded to the right.
“Where does that leads to? I haven‘t seen it before.” He asked, pointing in the room ahead.
"That goes to the village. We didn't have much space to accommodate everyone, so we had to dig into the walls to create houses." She explained. "Interested in paying a visit? There is no one left here."
"Well, it would be fun to look into someone's house." He stepped forward. "You know, it is rude to look into someone's house without permission." informing him, as Frisk followed him into the next room.
The houses were all purple as the same as the colors around it, just having a simple design. A doorway and two windows, one next to the door and the other one on the second floor. Asriel was dissapointed, because he had heard humans had at least some sense of building. These houses had only the same color, without any changes. As if Frisk read his mind, Frisk told him "We weren't left with much building materials. There weren't any options."
Asriel entered a house that was on his left. The interior was dumb as the exterior. Only a table in the middle of the living room(IF you count it as one), few chairs along with it, and a staircase on the left corner.
"Are the houses all the same like this?" Asriel asked as he touched the table to determine what is the table made out of. "Yeah, they're all the boring same."
Asriel noticed a small picture frame lying on the table. He turned it backsides to find a family picture on it.
"Whose is this?" Asriel was looking at a handsome man with black hair in the picture.
"They are the Takeshi family." Frisk replied. It had been only two years after the incident, so she could still remember it.
"People killed them because they supported the monsters. Then, everyone blamed them for us being trapped down here." Asriel was irritated after hearing that.
"I'm sorry to hear that.", Asriel laid down the picture on the table. He didn't thought the humans hated the monsters that much.
" 'The past is in the past. We need to live on forward.', it's what my brother always said. So let's go to our home and have some pie my mother is baking."