"Here comes Napstablook."

The white ghost just slightly larger in size than the children floated around in front of them, looking not-so-happy about being disturbed from their alone time. Frisk went on the use the check option on Napstablook.

"Napstablook - ATK 10 DEF 10
This monster doesn't seem to have a sense of humour..."

The ghost seemed to hear what the voice said as well, considering he rolled his eyes and replied, "oh, I'm REAL funny." before sending a rain of.... tears? on the group. The team scrambled to dodge the bullets.

The group looked rather irritated with the ghost's attack. Well, other than Frisk, who stood at their spot and gave Napstablook a patient smile.

"heh......." He chuckled. And sent a harmless grey message that read "REALLY NOT FEELIN UP TO IT RIGHT NOW, SORRY"

"Huh, he seems just a little bit better." Chase observed. Frisk nodded, then went to tell Napstablook a joke.

"heh... heh" The ghost laughed a bit more, but then sent another rain of bullets (or is it tears?) at the group, who swiftly dodged past them.

"I think cheering improved his mood a lot." Hannah said thoughtfully.

The voice everyone has been hearing all the time while battling came again. "Napstablook wants to show you something." The group cheered him on.

Napstablook started crying... upwards? The tears joined together to form a top hat on the ghost's head. "let me try.... I call it 'dapper blook'. do you like it?...." He asked.

Everyone gave him a thumbs up. "Ten out of ten!" Ethan cheers.

"oh gee...." Napstablook blushed from all the compliments. And the room faded back to the purple and red background.

"I usually come to the RUINS because there's nobody around..." Napstablook floated up and down in front of the group awkwardly. "but today I met somebody nice... ... oh, I'm rambling again."

"I'll get out of your way." He said before fading away, leaving the group clear to continue on their adventure.

Passing through the bottleneck, they see two openings in the other side of the room. Walking through the one in front of them, they reached a small room with spider webs sitting at one side of the room, with a sign standing beside the webs reading "Spider bake sale: come to eat food made for spiders, from spiders, of spiders!"

"Food!" Ethan went running towards the webs cheering with Frisk following behind him licking their lips. Ryan and Sophie took a few steps forward behind them to inspect the webs out of curiousity. The rest of the group took a few steps back instead.

"Did, did it just say 'of spiders'?" Angela stammered and pointed to the sign. Upon hearing that, Sophie halted at her tracks and took a couple steps back. Ryan on the other hand took a few more steps forward.

"Gross, guys." Chase turned to Frisk, Ethan and Ryan who were rather enthusiastic about the spider food and were crowding around the smaller web by then. Inspecting the smaller web, Ryan turned to Chase and the others. "It says it's selling spider donuts one for 7G."

"7G? You mean those coins we've been getting after fighting those monsters?" Ethan fished out some of the shiny gold coins he and the rest had been keeping in their pockets throughout their journey.

"Probably," Ryan grinned. "Want to bet it's monster money?"

Frisk counted seven coins from their stash and dropped them onto the web. A small group of spiders came stuttering down the web to carry the coins away. After a while, they appear again with a donut and gave it to Frisk.

"What do you know? It is food!" Ethan cheered as he dropped his own coins onto the web, and received a donut himself in about a minute.

"Are you seriously going to eat that? Gross!" Angela stared at him judgementally.

"I'm no professional chef, but I don't think I want to eat something that might be made of spiders." Hannah added as Ryan strolled back to the group holding one of the purple donuts himself.

"What?" He asked as half of the group stared at him in silence. "It might taste good, who knows?"

"Well, you're right about that!" Ethan yelled with a mouthful of donut. "It tastes amazing!"

"Ew!" Angela screeched and jumped backward. "Frisk! Don't copy what Ethan is doing! He's going to be sick before Toriel can even find us!"

Frisk took a look at Angela, then a look at the donut, before wolfing it down themselves despite Angela and Hannah's screeches of warning.

"Tasty." They said after finishing the last of the donut.

"Well, I'm just gonna hold this for a while before eating it." Ryan declared after watching the scene unfolding around him.

"Not if I throw it away once you're not looking." Angela huffed. "I don't think we need three sick kids right now."

Exiting the small room and going through the other opening, they reached a large room with three froggits sitting in it. After chatting with them for a while, (and finding out there was a tiny fourth froggit in a crack of a wall) they continued on and found themselves in a room with yet another puzzle.

There was more spikes blocking their way, and there was six tarps on the floor. Near the entrance was a sign on the wall saying: "There is only one switch."

"Well, everyone pick a hole to fall into now. Frisk, you stay near the spikes and see if the spikes retract or something when we go down." Chase ordered.

"Okay," Frisk said while making their way across the room, then standing beside the spikes waiting for the rest of the group to go on.

Everyone chose their places, and on a count of three, everyone jumped in and fell through the floor.

Ethan fell right on top of something that looked like a carrot, screamed pretty loudly and then was forced to fight it alone. Chase found himself in a similar situation but he rather accidentally stepped on it instead, and he dealt with it a lot more calmly then Ethan did. Their rooms were empty other then that.

Ryan's room was completely empty, and he came back up the quickest. Hannah on the other side, found Napstablook laying down on the floor.

"oh," he said. "i've fallen down, and i can't get up."

"oh wait," he added after a short pause. "i'm a ghost. i can go through walls." And without another word, he phased right through the walls and out of the room.

Angela was the one who found the switch. But just before she could pull it, she and the everyone else heard another scream coming from one of the rooms, and it wasn't Ethan's.

Sophie didn't fall down gracefully, she lost her step and fell into a pile of red leaves, losing the red ribbon tied on her head in the process.

"My ribbon!" She gasped, before rummaged through the leaves in a panic. Yet before she could get her hands on her ribbon, one of the carrot-like monsters popped out of the leaves.

Sophie let out a scream, and scrambled out of the room as fast as her legs could allow her to in a fright.

By the time she was up there, the rest of the group was above there waiting for her. They've all heard her scream. "Sophie! What happened down there?!" Hannah asked anxiously.

"And where did your ribbon go?" Ethan pointed out her missing ribbon. Her pale blonde hair seemed rather plain without her red ribbon on it. If Ethan remembered properly, he had never seen Sophie without her ribbon.

"I don't know, I think it fell off into the leaves when I fell. There was a monster, and I just ran. Oh no, I need to get it back, but the monster..." Sophie was talking so fast her words were starting to blend together. She loved her ribbon more than arguably anything else in the world. But she knows well enough she's not strong enough to fight off the monster down there on her own.

"Hey, it's fine. We'll fight that monster together." Chase assured Sophie. And in less than 10 seconds the group was surrounding the hole Sophie jumped in. And on another count of three, they all leapt down together and into the black background once again.

Standing in front of them was a monster that looked like a giant carrot with a face.

Vegetoid came out of the earth!

As usual, Frisk pressed the ACT button and used the check option.

"Vegetoid - ATK 6 DEF 6
Serving Size: 1 Monster. Not monitored by the USDA."

"Very funny, voice in our heads." Angela muttered. The ghost beside Frisk smirks.

Vegetoid sends a rain of vegetables down at the group. And everyone knows how much getting a hit on the head by a quash is. Much like the other fights, they dodged the attacks rather easily.

Frisk patted their stomach as a sign to vegetoid. It smiles and offers a healthy meal.

"Eat your greens!" It cackled, and sent more vegetable-shaped bullets at them, but some of them are green in colour.

"Hmm, let's give a try." Chase said as he touched one of the green vegetables. His wounds he got from previous fights healed a bit. "Guys! Touch the green ones!" He yelled to the group. Hearing Chase's call, everyone ran to touch the green bullets.

"Ate your greens!" Vegetoid cackled after the attack ended. Frisk pressed the MERCY button and spared it.

The black background fading once again, the group finds themselves standing in the red pile of leaves Sophie fell on a few minutes ago.

"I lost my ribbon just now when I fell into the leaves." Sophie explained. "I can't see it in the pile cause it's red like the leaves." Looking at the large pile of leaves that the ribbon was in, it was no wonder why Sophie couldn't find her ribbon before the monster from earlier popped out. The fact that the ribbon is the same shade of red as the leaves didn't help either.

"Well, let's get started then." Angela sighed and the rest of the group followed. Anyways, they started to kick and rummage through the dry, crisp leaves, trying to locate the ribbon.

After searching for just a minute, the group heard Ethan yell out. "Found it!" He called, and everyone turned to face his proud face.

Standing proudly, he was holding the ribbon in the air like a trophy. The look on his face was like he won some competition and was showing off his prize to everyone else.

"My ribbon!" Sophie yelled in delight, and ran to take her red ribbon from Ethan. "Thanks, Ethan!" She sang while tying the ribbon back onto her golden hair.

"No problem." He grinned. Finally finding the ribbon, everyone climbed back up to the room above them.

"Dang it, the spikes are still there." Chase groaned. Everyone turned towards the exit, which was still blocked by the sharp spikes. "No one found a switch to set it off?"

"Actually, I did." Angela said. "I just didn't have time to pull the lever down when Sophie lost her ribbon. I'll go do it now." And without another word, she jumped back down into the room she was in before and pulled the lever. The spikes above retracted with a "click!".

Angela climbed back up, ginning upon noticing the spikes are gone, and everyone headed off to the exit and of to the next room.

They arrived at a room with a puzzle that just consists of pressing a switch of a certain colour according to what a sign on a wall says. Everytime they press the right switch, spikes near the exit will retract and allow them to go on.

It should've been done in just 5 minutes, but Ethan lengthen it to 15 minutes due to curiousity. Instead of pressing the correct switch that was clearly stated on the wall, Ethan just had to press the wrong one for fun at the last puzzle, when no one was paying attention to him, which promptly teleported the group back into the first room somehow, forcing them to start all over again.

"And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why you keep Ethan in your line of sight at all times." Angela groaned after finishing the puzzle and the rest of the group (except Ethan) nods in agreement.

They found themselves in a room with a T-junction leading to two other rooms. Picking the one in front of them, they reach a small room with a froggit standing beside a door.

"Ribbit ribbit." It said, which ment "Just between you and me, I saw Toriel come out of here just a little while ago." It gestured at the door beside it.

"She was carrying some groceries. I didn't ask what they were for... We're all too intimidated to talk to her."

"Well, that figures." Chase commented. "As far as I know, everyone would be intimidated if a tall goat monster was walking around."

Walking through the door the froggit stood beside, they reach a balcony with the view of a town built all from purple bricks. It seemed to be abandoned, though.

"Hey, that's weird." Ryan said. "This town looks like a ghost town. Was it abandoned?"

"It still look pretty though." Sophie said, staring at the scenery in front of them.

"Didn't that froggit say that Toriel came from here carrying groceries? Where did she even get the stuff from? I don't see a way down." Chase said. It was true, the group couldn't see a way to go down there from the balcony.

"Maybe she got the stuff from somewhere else, and then just stopped by here to look around." Hannah reasoned, the group shrugged.

"Well, whatever." Ethan said. "We can always ask her later if we ever meet her again ."

Taking a last look at the scenery, they walked out of the room and onto the other path. They found themselves in front of a large tree, with its red leaves all fallen to the ground below it.

Before they were able to continue forward, they heard a voice.

"Oh dear, that took longer than I thought it would." Toriel appeared in the line of sight of the group, mumbling to herself, before picking up her phone to call the group.

The phone Chase held rang, and Toriel looked up in surprise before rushing to meet up with the group.

"How did you all get here, my children? Are you hurt?" Toriel asked worryingly while checking all of them for wounds. "There, there, I will heal you." She comforted them, and within seconds, all of their wounds had healed with a green glow.

"I should have not left you all alone for so long." She admitted. "It was irresponsible to try and surprise you all like this."

"Huh, what surprise?" Hannah piped up, and the group stared at Toriel with a confused expression.

"Err...." Toriel trailed away. "... Well, I suppose I cannot hide it any longer."

"Come, small ones!" She said, and walked off around the large tree, and the group followed her to the surprise she planned for the seven children.