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It was like a nightmare, but real.
When I fell from mount Ebott for the hundredth time I could tell it was different. Instead of being greeted with golden flowers I was greeted with a bed of dark red roses. The rose thorns pricked me, my arms were bleeding, I was screaming. I looked around; there was nothingness. I felt around for a while into the open air until I felt a door handle. I opened the door.
To no surprise, Flowey was directly in front of me. But there was no smile on his face like the other times. There was a panicked expression instead, as if he was scared/worried of something, not me but something.
"howdy, my names Flowey, Flowey the..."
He stopped, it looked like he was about to cry. There was true agony. I felt sorry for him, unlike every other game, I wanted to hug him.
"F...F..."
He was trying to speak to me, but couldn't. His leaves were trembling, his stem was shaking. I mimed the words 'are you okay' but he didn't respond. All of a sudden, his roots grew out of his flower pot to something that looked like a camera from a distance, then smashed it.
"Frisk, you need to get out of here now."
He said impatiently, whilst pointing his roots to the door on the right.
"Kid, they are after you, Asgore and his royal guard. This time they are gonna kill you."
Flowey said, as quickly as little mouth would allow him to talk. I widened my eyes, not believing what was happening.
"If you go now, you will run into Toriel, she is in on it too, to kill you. Don't befriend her, or else you will die. Stay strong, stay determine. They are going to kill me after telling you all of this but I don't care. Kid remember, don't befriend Toriel, stay away from her as much as possible but do go into her house to get of the ruins. Goodbye."
I nodded my head and hugged flowey before I left. As soon as I stepped out of the door I could tell the ruins were different. The froggets have different expressions on their faces, you could tell they knew what was going to happen to me. I shook the anxious thoughts out of my head and began to walk, in fact run, as fast as I could through the place. The battles along the way were so familiar, like before, but it was obviously part of Asgore's plan.
Before I knew it I ran into Toriel. She wasn't wearing her usual, sweet, mother-like clothes. She was wearing a red, baggy dress, probably so when she was planning to kill me the blood wouldn't leave any marks.
"What are you doing here?"
She asked me, a bit of frustration ringing through her voice. I put on the most realistic confused faces I possibly could. She ignored my expression and took my hand firmly.
"Come along my child, I shall take you through the last bit of the ruins."
She said, so sickly, so happily. I followed along her, trying to keep Flowey's voice in my head, ' Don't get too close to her' I thought over and over again. I was so scared of what was going to happen to me if I didn't obey the rules, would Toriel straight up kill me?
She was rambling on as I thought all of this, I tried to slide my way back into the conversation.
"Take this phone,"
She said, forcefully putting it into my small hands,
"Call me if you need help."
She said whilst rushing off ahead of me. I stopped a second, looking at the old phone. I checked it. Inside there wasn't her number to call, inside there was absolutely nothing. She was obviously desperate for me to try and think this was all normal, and exactly the same as last time. I wasn't fooled.
It was all so horrible walking through the ruins, I had to check everything that was in front of me. On the rocks I had to push for one of the puzzles, there was a knife stuck to it. If I hadn't have checked, I would've died right there and then. The spider bake sale was there but I didn't bother buying anything, it was probably all poisonous anyways. Most of the monsters fled in battle, obviously too worried that they would say something about it all being weird.
When I got to Toriel's house, I didn't bother looking around any of the rooms, I made my way straight to the exit of the ruins. As I made my way down the stairs, I noticed how the hallway was pitch black and there was no light switch. I walked as quickly as I possibly could. Just as I was at the doors to the underground there were thumps coming from down the stairs. All of a sudden a light turned on and Toriel was running towards me.
"WAIT!"
She shouted. In her hands there was a piece of pie. She hadn't even asked me if I liked cinnamon or butterscotch like last time. My body froze before I could enter through the door. That's when I saw it, her eyes turned red. It was only for a glimpsed second, but it happened. Before she had even reached me , she pulled her arm from around her back, there was a sharp knife. I ran as fast as I could out of the door, knowing if I'd stayed, I would've been dead in a millisecond. I was entering the undergrounds. There was something around my neck, a necklace. That was when I realised I had to lock the door behind me, so Toriel couldn't come through. Something was helping me out there, helping me to beat this nightmare.
As I entered the forest, I noticed that it was actually not in fact a forest. All the trees had been cut down, now there was just fields of snow. I again began to walk as quick as possible. I was about to cross the bridge when I had a firm tap on the back. Sans.
"Shake my hand."
What he had just said wasn't right. I turned around to be met by a terribly happy skeleton. Too happy. I didn't shake his head, I shook my head with disagreement.
"Come on pal, don't you know how to cheer a skeleton up? You big ph-boney!"
Sans said. His voice was so different. All of the life was taken out of it, it was dreary. Instead of trying to make me shake his hand, he lead me to Snowdin. Along the way I noticed changes. There wasn't any lamp for me to hide behind, there was nearly nothing. There were also no secret hidden cameras. Sans was still making awful puns but they seemed so... forced. He hadn't mentioned Papyrus.
"Do you live with anyone?"
I asked him. He looked deep into my eyes. There was a long awkward silence where he just stood, staring at me so horribly, as if I was being examined. His eyes began to glow blue. I was feeling so uncomfortable in my very own skin. I tensed up.
"No."
Sans said. Before I could respond, he disappeared in front of my eyes.