As Frisk took Toriel's hand, she wondered if the menacing flower was still there. She looked back to see where he was. He was gone. "But how? Was he incinerated by the blast?" As Frisk thought this, Toriel noticed that she worried about Flowey.
"Don't worry my child, he won't harm you again. Though I did not use my full strength on him, which honestly I should have, he wouldn't dare to lay a single hand on you again."
Frisk smiled and replied, "Thank you for your concern Miss Toriel. I'll keep that in mind."
"Oh dear, my child, please, just call me Tori. No need for formalities. But you should know to stick beside me through the travel to my house." Frisk asked why and Tori replied, "Well you see, monsters have a love of traps and puzzles. And some of them can be quite dangerous and risky for a child such as yourself. By the way, I never caught your name. What is it dear child?"
Frisk just realized that Tori might not know that Frisk is a legal adult. At first she thought that Tori just called her child because of age difference. But now that she knows that Tori thought that she was a child, she..... had to set things straight.
"Tori, I may not look it, but I'm actually an adult. I'm officially 18 years old now." Tori stopped abruptly in her tracks and stared at Frisk, who, by the way, was only five foot five and had a youthful appearance. Tori wasn't sure whether to believe her at first, but once she noticed her chest and how it was protruding outwards and how she had a womanly aura around her, she thought otherwise.
"Oh dear, how rude of me! I thought........ Well nevermind about that. What I should call you is your name, tell me, what is it?"
"It's Frisk." She chirped.
"Frisk, what a lovely name! Well, now that we know each other a little bit more, how about we make our way through, yes?"
As they made their way through the spiked traps and the various of puzzles, Tori wanted to test Frisk. "Frisk dear, before we go any further, I need to test you on your ability to handle a situation, like a fight, if need be. Over here, is a dummy. Do as you see fit in order to win a FIGHT."
As Frisk approached the dummy, she noticed how cute it was and couldn't possibly hurt the poor thing, even if it was just a dummy. She raised her hand and patted the dummy on the head and started just a mild conversation with it. In the last moments of the FIGHT the dummy seemed to smile. Then the voice once again spoke to Frisk.
"The dummy seems to be pleased with the conversation. You earned 0 exp and 10 gold."
Exp? Gold? What was this? A video game? As Frisk thought this, the dummy disappeared through the wall.
"What the heck?!" She yelled in surprise.
Well this was new. She knew monsters had magic powers but she never thought that she'd see something disappear with her own eyes!
"That was wonderful dear! But keep in mind that not all monsters are like that. Some may try to harm you because of what you are." Frisk took careful note of Tori's words of wisdom. "Ok, this is your last test. I want you to continue on your own throughout this hallway."
And with a great dramatic flash of fire, Tori disappeared. Frisk was amazed at what just happened. She couldn't help but clap at that fire show. But she did what she was told and carefully walked down the hallway. Looking both left and right she kept a lookout for monsters until she reached the end of the hallway.
When she reached the end of the hallway, onto her left was a carved stone pillar covered with vines. The next thing she knew was that she heard clapping and, "Very good my dear! Very good! Now that I know that I can trust you being alone, I must attend something urgent back at the house. Wait here until I get you. Okay? Here is a cellphone so that if you are in any danger, you can contact me at any time. Alright?"
Frisk nodded and waited and waited and waited until Frisk grew tired of waiting and decided to venture on her own. She couldn't wait anymore. Time was wasting and she needed to find a way out. As she made her way through the various traps and puzzles she seemed to be doing good, until she ran into low level monsters. A Froggit here and there and a few Whimsalot, but nothing too serious, but that wouldn't last.
She came across other monsters that weren't so friendly and barely managed to escape. Frisk at this point was tired and wondered how much further that she had to go until she she reached to Tori's house. But Frisk noticed something that she failed to ask Tori about while on their small journey together. There were star like anomalies that were shining so brightly that she thought to herself, "How could Tori ignore those? They're so bright!" She didn't know what these were and honestly she didn't want to know.
It wasn't till she received various calls from Tori that she started to question what she was up to at the house. Cinnamon or butterscotch? What? Well she would soon know when she arrived at the house. It wasn't till she she reached a hallway that she saw another star. It was right across from a random table that had cheese stuck on the plate that was near a mouse hole.
She had enough of being scared of the unknown and decided to see what this star is all about. As she carefully touched it, a screen like object appeared before her. It said, "Save or Continue?" Just in case, Frisk went with her gut feeling tapped the "Save" option. Suddenly the star gleamed and glowed until it suddenly dulled out. It was then that she noticed that she wasn't tired anymore. This star seemed to rejuvenate her health. But she didn't know what the "Save" option meant.
It was then that she heard the voice again, "Knowing that the mouse will get the cheese one day fills you with DETERMINATION." Again with the voice. Who was it? Was she finally loosing it?
She pressed onward until she ran into a block in front of her. A ghostly block that is.
The voice appeared again, "Napstablook blocks your path."
"............... Are they gone yet?" The ghost muttered nervously.
"He's obviously faking sleeping, force him to move?" The voice suggested.
Frisk had it up to here with this video game nonsense and said, "Look! Whoever that is just come out!"
Nothing spoke back. "Arrrgggghhhh! Fine! I'll just move him. Happy?!"
Again, nothing spoke up but Napstablook did "wake up" from his "nap" and was prepared to battle. His ghostly tears and music note attacks were too strong. Then before she knew it, her heart or in this case soul, broke and she woke up in a void like space. She couldn't tell up from down until she stood up.
Then out of nowhere, another voice spoke up. This voice however was a bit different. It sounded as if it was more masculine and spoke in a code that she wasn't familiar with, but she did know what it said to her, "Don't give up Frisk! This isn't the end! Not yet!"
And that was the one piece of news that she needed to hear. "You're right! I'm not going to give up! I'm going to get out of here no matter how many times I "die"! I say, bring it on!" Then the all to familiar voice spoke up with a slight snicker, "Good to hear it."
Frisk turned around to see another screen that said, "Continue? Or Reset?" She hit Continue. And before she knew it. She was back to where the star was.
To be continued...
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