Strange Ones

The Founders of Delta

"So, Frisk. About your parents, what are they like?" Alex asked. 

She and Jonas were in an elevator with Frisk and Saoirse, who were guiding them to Asgore and Toriel's office, which was at the top floor of the main building.

"Well, Mom is a really kind lady." Frisk said. "Dad is a fluffy pushover. They are really nice once you get to know them. I think your friends are either having a good time with them or Mom and Dad are explaining everything."

"Okay then." Alex said.

"Frisk, what is your friend doing here exactly?" Jonas asked.

"Saoirse is just staying with us for the whole summer." Frisk answered. "Her mom is on a business trip in Remnant while her dad and brother are venturing in a rainforest in Zootopia."

"Why didn't she come along?" Alex asked.

"Her mom, she is a business woman and Saoirse knows she's not allowed to come. Also, she can't come with her dad and brother because she is too young."

"I can see that."

The group suddenly heard the elevator ding. They knew exactly what that meant.

"Hey. We reached our destination." Frisk said, watching the elevator doors open.

The four walked out of the elevator and made their way to a door that had a sign that said 'Asgore and Toriel Dreemurr: Founders of Delta'. As Frisk opened the door, they saw the others with a goat man with a yellow beard and a purple cape and a goat lady in a purple dress. Ren and Nona were talking to the goat man while Clarissa was talking to the goat lady. Frisk cleared her throat and got everyone's attention.

"Oh, hey Alex!" Ren said.

"Hello there, my child." The goat lady said. "Did you and your friend just come in?"

"Yeah. We just got here." Frisk placed a hand behind her head. "Also, we brought two of the others humans here, so. We're just gonna leave."

"Frisk, I hope you don't mind staying for a while." The goat man said. "Your mother had made her butterscotch pie."

Frisk smiled. "Well, why didn't you say so?"

After a while, everyone have a good time. Frisk already introduced Alex and Jonas to the goat people, who were Asgore and Toriel, the Founders of Delta. Toriel also gave the humans a slice of her butterscotch pie. The humans were impressed.

"So, that is what happened?" Toriel asked while cleaning Frisk's face with a wipe.

"Yeah. It was crazy over there." Frisk said. "But, we made it out alive. Though we didn't get anything to chew on."

"I can see that." Toriel turned to the humans. "So, how's the pie?"

"Toriel. This is good stuff." Clarissa pointed to her pie. "Butterscotch and cinnamon, really delicious. I love it."

"Why, thank you, Clarissa." Toriel looked at Alex, who stared out of the window. "Um, are you alright?"

"Yeah. I just have a question." Alex said. "Do you guys know what's going on?"

"Whatever brought this up?" Asgore asked.

"Well, my friends and I, we've been through a lot ever since we got here. Not that I'm ungrateful for being here, but what is going on here? The disappearances, the thefts, the attacks, what's happening?"

Toriel sighed. "It's about time one of you asked."

The humans watched as Toriel walked up to a chalkboard and rolled it back to them. They watched Toriel turn it around. The chalkboard had a picture of a symbol with a black circle with triangles on top and white circles. The symbol looked like a face to the humans.

"Are any of you familiar with the Dark Ones?" Toriel asked.

"No." Clarissa said.

"Not really." Alex said.

"What are these Dark Ones?" Ren asked.

"The Dark Ones are an alliance of rogue Strange Ones that are full of anger and hate." Asgore answered. "The thefts, the disappearances, the attacks, it all came from them."

"They're the ones who stole all that dust?" Nona had her eyebrows raised.

"Yes. One of them was a friend of ours." Toriel said. "She turned her back on us long ago."

"Her name was Chrysalis." Asgore said. "She is the leader of the Dark Ones. She was a dear friend of ours long ago. We taught her to be strong. One day, she left us to find greatness. She later returned with an army of changelings that took over the whole island."

"That was when we came around. We stopped the changeling invasion and tried to talk some sense into Chrysalis."

"What happened?" Jonas asked.

"She once again left us, vowing that one day, she will return with a bigger army." Asgore answered. "Even bigger than her last army. She said that if she ever fought us again, she will destroy each and every one of us."

"But, why did you bring us here?" Alex wanted to know. "What is it that you want with us?"

"It is nothing that we want from you humans." Toriel replied. "We brought you all here to protect you. But, we won't be just protecting you from the Dark Ones. We will be helping you."

"Helping us with what?" Clarissa asked.

"We will be training you." Asgore answered. "Teach you all to be skilled fighters. Help you all to be able to protect yourselves."

"When do we start?" Alex asked.

"You will be starting tomorrow." Toriel said. "Undyne will be your mentor tomorrow."

"Um, who's Undyne?" Ren raised an eyebrow.

"She's a friend of ours." Frisk said. "She's the fish lady Asriel was talking about."

"Okay then." Jonas said.

Everyone suddenly heard the door swing open. They turned to the door and saw Asriel and Kubo at the door in the same state Frisk and Saoirse were in.

"Are you boys okay?" Toriel asked with concern.

"There was a food fight at the cafeteria." Asriel said. "It was chaos over there! I mean, when we entered, everyone was throwing food and I took a cupcake to the face! Kubo took a bowl of noodles to the head!"

"I don't want to be reminded of that." Kubo mumbled, taking the empty bowl off his head.

With wide eyes, Asgore and Toriel ran out of the room. The others followed them to the elevator and down the main building they went.