"My name is Chara." Said girl replied when I asked her what her name was.
"I'm sorry... I didn't catch it the first time you said it." I scratched the back of my head awkwardly, my muscles feeling painfully tense.
We were sitting in the flowerbed, where the soft light of the moon illuminated both of our faces. Chara made a strange, bittersweet golden tea over a small fire she made in a corner a few paces away from the flowers. The warm, crackling flames and the hot tea kept both of us warm in the chilly night.
As we sipped our tea, Chara explained where we were.
"This is the entrance of the Ruins, which leads to another, larger part of the Underground. Here, there are tons of monsters crawling about, and they're gonna try to kill you." My face paled. I never should've climbed Mount Ebott!
"And unfortunately, if you want to leave this place, you are gonna have to go through the Ruins, go through Snowdin, then the waterfall, then Hotland, then the Core, then finally, through the Judgement Hall, through Asgore's throne room and through the barrier that keeps the monsters in here."
That...was a long way. But then I realized something.
"Wait, is this THE Underground? Where humans trapped the monsters when they won the war?" Chara smiled softly and nodded. "Woah! I thought it was just a thing parents tell their children to make them behave!"
Chara glanced at me, slight amusement and curiosity in her eyes. "Make them behave? How?" I grinned cheekily and tried to make myself look like my mother.
"Frisk, if you don't eat your supper, I'll seal you in the Underground with the monsters!" I made my voice higher and flipped my hair. Chara burst out laughing.
"Gosh, Frisk, I never knew you were such a good voice actor!" She giggled. We spent a while making impressions of different people and laughing together, almost as if we weren't trapped in a hole filled with monsters.

In the end, we stopped our goofing around to have a sip of tea. Chara set her cup down, and took a wooden guitar out from her bag. She played a few notes, then drifted into a sweet melody (HOME- Toby Fox).

I involuntarily swayed my head in time with the music, and eventually hummed along when we reached the chorus. The tea made me drowsy, and Chara's song was a very good lullaby, so I soon lay down beside Chara and fell soundly asleep.

When I woke, I realized Chara wasn't beside me anymore. I was alone in the dark, with only the dimming coals of the fire to light my vision. I suddenly felt much smaller, much more scared. The moon was covered by the clouds, the only sound I heard was my rapidly quickening heartbeat.
'It's okay,' I chided myself. 'I'll be fine. At least I still have the coa-' At that moment, as if the word was conspiring against me, the coals promptly sizzled, and went out, leaving me in complete darkness.
I felt petrified, the hairs behind my neck pricked.
I waited.

Nothing happened. I began to relax when I heard a sound...like something was breathing.

"EEEEEEP." The sound escaped my lips and I lay flat among the flowers, their petals concealing my face.
I heard the sound of soil being pushed away. I lay there, frozen, hoping against hope that it was Chara, returning from wherever she went...

"Hi! My name is Flowey!" Five spinning sparks of light popped up one by one in mid-air, lighting up the intruder's face. It was a yellow flower with a grinning face, standing a few paces away from my feet.

Wait, what?

"Flowey the flower!" I was too shocked to even respond to that. The flower noticed my awe, and continued. "You're new to the underground, aren't cha'? Golly, you must be so scared!" He looked cheekily to the side. I smiled, maybe this flower was gonna help me, too.
"Don't worry! I'll teach you the ways of the underground!" A sudden pulse resonated from Flowey, and a floating, red, glowing heart appeared before my chest.
"See that?" Asked Flowey, gesturing at the heart. "That's your soul. The very culmination of your being!" My soul, huh? I tried prodding it with my finger, but it simply passed through as if it weren't there. "This is your LV! You can see it on your mobile phone!" I pat my pockets to find my phone, then realized I didn't have one. My mother thought I was too young to have a phone. I gestured helplessly at Flowey, who seemed a little annoyed that his tutoring session was interrupted. A cell phone appeared in my hands and I switched it on to see my LV- 1.
"So what does LV stand for?" Flowey continued, looking relieved we got that settled. "Why, LOVE, of course! And do you know how you can get more LOVE?" He gestured to the flying white balls. "These are called...'friendliness pellets'. Go on! Move around and get as many as you can!" The friendliness pellets started to move towards me, and I was prepared to touch one of them, but an instinct held me back. The friendliness pellets zipped behind me and faded away.
Flowey looked annoyed. The mood seemed to darken.
"Hey fella, you missed them." The way he said it made it sound like I just killed my mom. "Let's try again." The friendliness pellets appeared again, and this time, they moved faster. I dodged the incoming pellets, matrix style.
Flowey wasn't just annoyed, he was fuming.
"What are you doing? RUN. INTO. THE BULLETS." He paused, then he realized his mistake. His face morphed into an evil, grinning, sharp toothed demon face.
"IT DOESN'T MATTER." His voice was raspy and darker, a large comparison to the bright and cheerful tone he used before. " TRICKERY OR NO TRICKERY, I CAN KILL YOU ALL THE SAME." Three rows of bullets circled around me, trapping me, slowly coming closer and closer to me. Flowey cackled in vicious delight, and I said my prayers to every single God in my knowledge.
"Gah!" Flowey fell to his side, roots sticking up. He appeared to be struck by a toy knife. Glaring, Chara walked up to him.
"Flowey, I told you not to mess with the human!" Flowey gulped.
"Well... I couldn't help it. It's my natural instinct as a monster!" Beads of cold sweat trickled down his face. I wondered if it was possible for a flower to sweat.
Chara pinched the bridge of her nose, her discarded toy knife now in hand. "Fine, fine. Just don't do it again, or I'll get the bees." Flowey quieted down after that. "I haven't properly introduced you both. Frisk, this is Flowey, my companion for thirty years."
Thirty years?
"And Flowey, this is Frisk, the human I told you SPECIFICALLY not to mess with." Flowey flashed me an apologetic smile.
"I am sorry for the misunderstanding. I thought you were...er... Another human wearing a blue and purple shirt."
I rolled my eyes.
"Alright, then. But I want to ask, Chara, why did you go away in the middle of the night?" Chara seemed to shy away guiltily.
"I thought you'd be fine unprotected, and if you want to even think about walking around the Underground with that foot of yours, you're gonna have to need something to help." She held out a stick. "This is the best I could find. There aren't many trees in the Ruins..." Knowing that I probably would need it even if my foot healed quickly, I took it gratefully.
"We'll begin our journey tomorrow." Chara decided. "And you too, Flowey."
"What?" Flowey bent over backwards impatiently. "I don't want to waste my time guiding a human out of the Und-" He stopped when he saw Chara glaring at him through red, slightly glowing eyes. "Then again, I have nothing better to do."
Chara turned her now-friendly eyes on me. "Then it's settled."