Chapter two: A mother, a puzzle, a depressed ghost and a... ?!
Tommy and Lady Kristen got along pretty well. The way to the entrance took maybe fifteen minutes and yet, Tommy already loved this woman. Everything about her reminded him about his father. The way she held his hand like it was made out of glass, how softly her voice sounded, how she cared about him despite that they meet a couple of minutes ago.
"You know, you're the first human who has fallen here fora very, very long time," LadyKristen suddenlysaid.
"Wait, so there were others before me?"
"...Yes," Lady Kristen said, but her mood visibly dropped.
"Oh, ok," Tommy said. He didn't want to continue the subject and make her uncomfortable. "Oh hey, look! Is that the entrance to the ruins?" Tommy said to change the subject.
"Ah yes, it is!" Kristen gladly took the bait and changed the topic. "Come, I don't want you to get lost in the catacombs."
But what got Tommy's attention was a bright star-thing in front of the entrance. Tommy, amazed by the glowing thing touched it. By the moment he did that, a communicat popped up, with the following message:
The shadow of the ruins looms above, filling you with DETERMINATION. HP fully restored.
SAVE RETURN
Tommy, slightly confused chose the save option, because why would he not?
File saved
Tommy even more confused watched as the screen faded out of existence, but shrugged it off. It's probably nothing, maybe Flowey just forgot to mention something? But yet, Kristen seemed like she didn't see the glowing object. Tommy, lost inthoughts was pulled back to earth by Kristen asking concerned:
"My dear child, is something wrong?"
"Oh right! Sorry, Lady Kristen, I just got... lost in thoughts" Tommy rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly.
"It's okay My Child. Now, come here, we still need to go through the ruins." Lady Kristen said and opened the entrance, allowing Tommy to go first.
After Tommy entered the Ruins, Lady Kristen took his hand again and started walking towards the first puzzle. While they walked there, Tommy met a couple of monsters from the ruins. At first, the monsters were skeptical about the human, but after he spared every single one of them, they started to trust him. Lady Kristen even let him try and fight with a dummy, but Tommy spared it too. She showed him some puzzles too. Unfortunately, his mom- Lady Kristen needed to go somewhere and she needed to leave him alone.
"Here, take this cellphone so I can contact you and you can contact me." Lady Kristen said with a smile while Tommy shoved the phone into his jacket. "Don't go anywhere, the ruins can be dangerous," She said and walked away. Tommy waited. He really did! But after some time, he decided that he will go through the ruins alone.
At first, it was easy. Most of the puzzles were only to flip a switch or press a button. He spared a couple of monsters when he came across them. He fell into a hole once or twice, but found his way up easily. Lady Kristen called a couple of times, asking about something about cinnamon and butterscotch? And something about if he has any allergies. He figured that would be important later. Monsters were extremely friendly, once the rumors about a nice human that fell spread through the ruins. Some greeted him, some gave him free gold and some just talked to him! About half an hour later, Tommy found another corridor with another weird star-thingy. Next to the thing was a table with... cheese on it? And there was a mouse-hole in the wall. Tommy walked up to the table and a message popped up:
This cheese has been here for quitea long time.
It's stuck to the table...
"Alright..."Tommy said and turned to touch the star-object.
Knowing that the mouse might one day left its house and get the cheese... It fills you with DETERMINATION.
SAVE RETURN
File saved
What's up with this 'file saved' thing? Tommy thought while walking away from the weird star. About five minutes later, he found another room. It was connected with yet another room, but the way was blocked by...a ghost? The ghost looked like it was sleeping. It was white and changed black mid-way. Tommy hesitantly walked to it and lightly poked it.
"Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..."
"Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..."
"Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..."
"(are they gone yet?)"
"Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..."
(This ghost keeps saying 'Z' out loud repeatedly, pretending to sleep)
Move it with force?
Yes No
Tommy didn't want to interrupt the ghost, but he needed to walk through. While he was thinking, a leaf fell from somewhere, clicking the 'Yes' button.
"Wait, NO-"
Tommy couldn't finish, because everything was black and white.
"Great..."Tommy muttered.
Suddenly, music started playing.
"Where the heck does this music keep coming from?"
Here comes Ranboo.
Tommy quickly chooses ACT.
*Check * Flirt
*Threat * Cheer
Tommy chooses Cheer.
"Ranboo, huh? That's a nice name!" Tommy said and gave Ranboo a patient smile.
"heh..." Ranboo gave an awkward chuckle and started crying?!
"Wait, no no no I didn't want to make you upset!" Tommy started, but after a moment he realized that the tears were Ranboo's attack.
"oH SHIT-" Tommy managed to say before he needed to dodge the rain of tears-that-were-bullets. Thank god or anything that's up there that the attack lasted only like 5 seconds.
Ranboo looks just a little bit better.
Well, that's good.
ACT
*Check * Flirt
*Threat * Cheer
Tommy chose cheer again.
"Hey, how do you call somebody with no body and no nose? No-body k-nose!" (HAHAHA, I'm so fucking hilarious ~AN)
"heh...heh..." Ranboo chuckled again.
REALLY NOT FEELIN UP TO IT RIGHT NOW. SORRY.
"Oh...ok then"
Cheering seems to work
Tommy smiled to himself.
ACT
*Check * Flirt
*Threat * Cheer
Ranboo wants to show you something.
"let me try..." Ranboo said and started crying again. But this time the tears went up and started to form a... hat?
"i call it "dapper blook". do you like it...?"
Ranboo eagerly awaits your response.
ACT
*Check * Flirt
*Threat * Cheer
Tommy grins to himself.
"Your hat looks wonderfull!" Tommy exclaimed.
"oh gee..."
The colors started to come back.
"i usually come to ruins because there's nobody around. but today i meet someone nice. . . oh,i'm rambling again. i'll get out of your way," Ranboo said and disappeared. I guess ghosts can do that. Tommy, a little confused walked through. There were two rooms. Tommy walked to the first one, finding there was nothing. There were only a sign and two cobwebs. Tommy walked to the first web.
Leave 7G in the web?
YES NO
Tommy clicked yes, and got a donut! Later, Tommy walked to the second room. There, he met a couple of Froggits. They were talking something about F4, but he didn't have any idea what that meant. From there on, there were only more puzzles. He fell into a hole again and scratched his arm, but it didn't hurt so he didn't notice.
After like... 4? 5? puzzles, Tommy found a big room with a tree in it. The tree didn't have any leaves, but there were a lot of them on the ground. From behind the tree, some muffled talking noises could be heard. Then, his phone went off. Hurried footsteps could be heard, and Lady Kristen walked up to Tommy from behind the tree.
"My Child, how did you get here? Are you hurt? I'm sorry, It was incredibly unresponsible of me to try to surpriseyou like that...!" Lady Krisen said panicked while checking Tommy for any injuries. "Your arm! Does it hurt?" Lady Kristen said in a concerned voice.
"Wha... Oh!" Tommy looked at his arm and noticed the cut, "I didn't even notice it was there."
"Alright. Now, come here. I bet you're tired after your small journey" Lady Kristen smiled softly, took his hand, and guided him to a small house behind the tree. Another stary-object was in front of the house. Tommy quickly touched it and clicked SAVE, still not sure what the 'File saved' thing meant. The inside was rather cozy, made out of bright wood, and decorated with plants, bookshelves and rugs. Lady Kristen guided him into a hall and stopped by a door.
"Here, it's a room just for you!" She happily exclaimed and opened the door. The room was small, but still, Tommy loved it.
"It's wonderful Mom!" Tommy didn't even notice that he called her mom. Not that any of them minded. "I love it!" He said and hugged her.
"I'm glad you like it. Now, go to sleep, you need to rest after your walk through the ruins." She smiled and gave him some pajamas. After he changed and went to bed, she kissed him, said 'Goodnight' and left the room. Tommy quickly drifted to sleep from his exhaustion.
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Tommy didn't know where he was. Everything was pitch black.
"Are you proud of yourself?" A voice called.
"What-"
"I mean, you probably should. You fooled them all," the voice continued,"pretending to be their friend. A saviour of some sort." The voice paused for a bit. "What is your plan? To gain their trust and then break it into million pieces? Or maybe you want to get close to them, so you wouldn't be sus when monsters will start disappearing from the ruins?" Tommy could now see a figure approaching him. The figure looked really similar, but had a little more sand-like hair, purple eyes, and was wearing a purple sweater with two yellow stripes on it. For a moment Tommy thought that their eyes were red, but when he looked closer, they were purple. Weird...
"W-What are you talking about! I would never do that! They're my friends!" Tommy yelled back, the feeling of odd dread filling his heart.
"Are they? I mean, friends don't lie to each other, do they?" The figure asked, looking Tommy directly in their eyes. Tommy looked to the ground, not that he could see it.
"I didn't lie to them. They never asked me if I was human" he said, still not looking at the boy's(?) eyes.
"Yea, keep telling yourself that. But in the end, you will be the one betraying everyone, trust me." Tommy tried looking into the boy's(?) eyes, but he(?) wasn't here. Suddenly, everything started to light up, and he could feel... someone poking his shoulders?
Then, with a gasp, he woke up. He was in his room, everything was the same. Well, except the plate with a fresh, butterscotch-cinnamon pie slice on it. Tommy smiled to himself and took the pie slice into his inventory. Then, he went back to bed, because of the strange dream, which was more like a nightmare, he didn't feel any better.
A certain flower watched from behind the bookshelf as the boy curled into the covers and went back to sleep. The flower smiled softly, and went back underground, leaving only a small, yellow petal behind.
Ahhh yes, another chapter. Thanks to my wonderfull editor from discord (I don't know if she have wattpad) for checking for any grammar mistakes.
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