Frisk was utterly and hopelessly confused. "What just happened?" She took in her surroundings slowly and noticed that she was right back at the mousehole with the obviously planted mouse trap. (*Cough* *cough* glued piece of cheese stuck to the plate *cough* *cough*.)

"Ok, this is getting weird. Now I really wish that I played more with videogames now that I'm in this situation..." She took in a breath then, using her DETERMINATION, continued on towards where the ghost was supposedly "sleeping" at. As she stopped in front of the "sleeping" monster, she thought back to what happened last time. She took another deep breath and proceeded in pushing the ghost to "wake" him up. Soon, the battle commenced.

The voice spoke up again, " Here comes Napstablook. He stands in the way of your journey. Fight?"

Frisk thought for a minute then decided to use the ACT option.

*Check

*Flirt

*Threat

*And lastly, Cheer

She somehow knew that all these options except one was pointless in this situation. The ghost seemed sad and lonely. So she went with Cheer and gave him a patient smile.

Surprisingly, he chuckled, but still proceeded to attack. She managed to dodge his tears this time and noticed that he looked a little bit better. It was her turn now. She chose Cheer again and made a little joke. He seemed to lighten up more. And for some reason the only thing he did was, "Really not feeling up to it right now. Sorry." The voice came up again and said that Cheering him up seemed to help him. So she tried it again and the voice said that he wanted to show her something. "Let me try...."

He started to cry but his tears seemed to defy gravity and started to form a watery tophat on top of his ghostly head. "I call it "Dapper Blook". Do you like it....?" The voice comes up again saying that he eagerly awaits her answer. 'I WAS going to hit the SPARE option in the MERCY section. But let's see what happens when I hit Cheer again.' she thought to herself.

And as soon as she did, he replied, "Oh gee..." then everything turns back to normal. He goes on to tell her he usually comes by the RUINS because there's nobody around and that today he met someone nice. Frisk couldn't help the slight blush that came on her face because of the compliment. They had a nice moment till he thought that he was rambling and proceeded to move out of the way for her to go through. But as soon as she went through, he just, disappeared. "Huh, well alrighty then..."

Afterwards, she came up to a fork in the path. 'Left or Right?' she thought to herself. She suddenly started to smell sweet delicious food coming from her right. Her stomach started to growl and thought, 'Well it won't hurt if I grab something to eat on the way to Tori's place, right?' So she proceeded to the Right. Soon she came across a spider bake sale and saw a that the sign said that all proceeds go to REAL spiders. "Strange that there's a charity for spiders. But, I'm not one to judge." She shrugged her shoulders and went on to buy several spider donuts and a few glasses of spider cider. She went back to the fork in the road and proceeded to go Left. She soon came across three Froggits that told her some useful information while continuing forward. She said to them that it was helpful but truth be told it was both quite obvious and a bit confusing.

Along the way, she received a phone call from Tori saying that she honestly wasn't expecting any guests so she has to clean up a bit. She also told her that if there's anything she'd like to keep, then she could keep it. But to have enough room in her pockets for anything else that she might like. Frisk took her words wisely. Along the way she continued to meet and battle monsters but choosing the more PACIFIST way out of the situation. And of course run into MORE puzzles as well. 'Man! These monsters really like puzzles don't they?! But, what else are you to do when you're stuck under a mountain for who knows how long.'

Soon she came to another fork in the road. She went to her Right again and saw a Froggit by a doorway. The monster told her that he saw Toriel come through here carrying groceries. But was too scared to talk to her. As Frisk continued her way up the staircase, she wondered why he was so scared of her. To her, Tori was like the mom she never had. Maybe that was why? Overprotective mother?

Frisk continued to think until she came upon a spectacular view of an old ruined city. She stared in wonder and now she wished that she had her camera with her to take a picture of this wonderful view!

She then noticed a gleam off of metal from the corner of her eye. She looked over and saw what appeared to be a Toy Knife. She picked it up and the voice once again rang through her head. "You acquired the Toy Knife! Be careful. It's sharper than it looks~." The voice this time sounded a little sinister. But she just wrote it off as her imagination running wild or being too paranoid. She quickly went back the way she came and proceeded to her Left.

Soon, she saw an old dead tree with red leaves around it. And then heard Toriel. "Oh dear! That took me longer than I anticipated." Soon Frisk heard her phone go off and saw that Tori was trying to call her. Tori heard the phone's ring and quickly went to Frisk to inspect her condition. Oh my! Who did you this to you my child?! Are you hurt?!" She said this with a worried expression on her face. Then her face contorted to that of pure annoyance. "I will make sure that you get an apology from them!"

Frisk couldn't help but giggle at the goat mother's enthusiasm for her safety. Even though Frisk was a legal adult, it still felt nice to be fussed over like a young child. Toriel thought over and over on what to do until she realized the obvious. "Oh dear! I'm so sorry! I shouldn't be smothering you with my parenting! Please forgive this old goat!" Frisk smiled and said, "Tori, you don't have to apologise for anything. To be truthful with you, your parenting me is probably one of the nicest things that has happened to me so far."

Tori was confused by what she said. Didn't Frisk have her own mother to fuss over her? Or... maybe not. Toriel smiled lovingly to her and motioned for them to get in the house. "There's a surprise that I have for you my dear!" Frisk couldn't wait to see what all the fuss was over this "mysterious" surprise. But she suddenly felt a little dizzy and finally noticed that she was beat up pretty good from her monster encounters. Instead of eating a donut that she got from the bake sale, she decided to eat one of the many pieces of candy that she had taken from the candy bowl that was in the early parts of the Ruins. Despite the voices' chagrin. It even went as far as saying that it was disgusted at how many pieces she took. Which in all honesty, wasn't that much. But combined the candy with the bake sale items she had bought, she was definitely going to have to brush her teeth sometime soon.

When she went inside, she noticed the smell of something sweet and delicious again. 'That seems to be a theme down here, doesn't it?' she thought. She was soon surprised with a Butterscotch-cinnamon pie! Tori thought it would be nice to celebrate her first day down here in the Underground with something homemade and from the heart. Frisk teared up at this and hugged the goat mother tightly and profusely thanked her for it. This took Tori by surprise. It was just a small gesture on her part. But yet, she was getting treated as though she gave Frisk the best present she ever received. Tori felt her Soul pull at her for thinking this. The last time someone was this happy to receive something as small as this, was when SHE was alive. Tori shook her thoughts away and wiped away the oncoming tears that threatened to fall from her face.

"Come my dear. Let's enjoy this pie together, and then rest for the night, shall we?" Frisk looked up from her right hug on the goat mother and nodded in agreement. But Frisk knew that deep in her heart, that she would need to leave and the thought of telling this to Tori after EVERYTHING she did for her broke her heart. She wouldn't be able to take the heartbroken look from her. So, she started coming up with a plan. All the while just enjoying whatever time she was able to have with the one of the only living beings that even resembled a mother.

To be continued...

In chapter 5