A Feral Tale

A Feral Tale Ch.2

Disclaimer I do not own Undertale and this Feraltale AU is inspired by Sketchy-vore who gave me permission to do so. I will be doing my best to make this Feraltale AU into my own specific version as I've found a few AU's labeled as FeralTale, so I believe this is doable!

Warnings for this chapter include violence and I'd normally say blood, but these are monsters so it's Dust instead though I might put a bit of blood.

And please don't hate me for what I'm about to do, I had to give Amy a reason to leave the Ruins, and this was what I thought of. Italics are thoughts, or a character writing if they are able to if in 'these'.

Tori- Fell Toriel

Toriel- Classic (main) Toriel

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   I'd been with Tori and Toriel for a few days, and they took much better care of me than my Uncle ever had. They had some books about their kinds history, and I eagerly soaked up the information like a sponge, learning that the legends about Monsters having been sealed Underground centuries ago had been true. Apparently, though, when they'd been sealed Underground they'd gone Feral and became more like Beasts. A lot of them retained their intelligence, like Tori and Toriel being able to read and write, and understanding when I spoke to them.

   But some hadn't been so lucky and were complete animals in their behaviours, not knowing they'd once been able to hold intelligent conversations or read or anything. It made me feel sad to think of the Monsters Underground who'd gone full-Feral, not knowing or remembering who they were before.

   I was sitting in the main room of the house, next to the fireplace, when Toriel came into the room, smiling as she held a piece of pie out to me.

   "Thanks, Toriel." I said, putting the book I'd been reading aside and taking the pie from her. She sat next to me, the sketchpad and pencil in front of her in case she needed to tell me something. "This a new pie? It tastes like Cinnamon, and...something else, what is that?" I asked between bites. Toriel let out a small huff of amusement, taking the pad in her paws.

   'It is a new recipe, it's Butterscotch Cinnamon. Do you like it?' she wrote. I nodded.

   "Butterscotch isn't my favourite flavour, but the cinnamon really compliments it. They taste good together." I said, making her smile. "Hey, Toriel? I read something in this book. It was about something called 'SOUL-speech'. What's that?" I asked. She looked a bit shocked and grabbed the book next to me, scanning through the pages for a few moments before suddenly throwing the book in the fire!

   "Wh- Toriel! That was a book! How could you throw it in the fire?!" I yelled in shock. I leaned over to try and grab it out of the fireplace, but her strong arms wrapped around me, pulling me against her chest as I watched the book burn helplessly. "Why would you burn a book...?" I said quietly. I loved books with a burning passion, and to see a book mistreated hurt me emotionally, but burning one? That almost felt like a physical blow to me with the surprise and pain I felt. 

   'It was a book that was never meant to exist. It has nothing but bad omens in it, my child.' she wrote on the pad. I had a feeling she was hiding something, but relaxed in her grasp and hugged her.

   "Alright, fair enough. But you could have just said so." I mumbled against her. She let out what sounded like a soft purr- apparently goat Monsters can purr, who would have thought?

   As I enjoyed the warmth and tenderness radiating from Toriel, I was completely unaware of the second set of eyes watching us from the darkened hallway...eyes glowing with jealousy and anger.

That evening

   I was asleep on the plush rug by the fireplace in the main room when I was woken by a loud crash in the hallway. I jerked awake, startled. I didn't even get a chance to call aloud for anyone before a loud screech came from the hallway. I got to my feet quickly and ran into the hallway- only to see Tori and Toriel charging at each other, blood seeping from wounds on their bodies.

   "T-Tori? Toriel? Wh-what's going on?" I asked. Toriel spun around and looked at me with wide eyes, and started to move towards me- but Tori cut her off, her yellow eyes glowing as she tackled Toriel to the ground- and shoved her clawed paw through her chest! I let out a shriek as a red-grey substance leaked from Toriel's body, coating the floor before suddenly her body disintegrated. Literally, it turned into dust.

   I ran over to the pile of Dust, kneeling by it, stunned at what had happened. Toriel was so nice, why would anyone kill her?! I turned my gaze up to Tori, glaring at her angrily even through my growing fear.

   "Why would you kill her?! She was so nice, you had no reason to kill her!" I shouted at her. She handed me a scrap of paper with scrawled words on it.

   'She was trying to take you from me. My child, nobody can take you from ME'. the paper read. Suddenly, she tackled me to the ground, making me fall in the Dust that was Toriel's remains. She growled softly as she nuzzled me, though I did not feel the safety I'd felt from her these past few days. Now, I felt nothing but fear for my own safety as I managed to squirm out from under her, Dust covering my shirt as I ran down the hallway, looking for an escape. I heard her growling behind me as I noticed a staircase heading deeper into the Ruins. I ran down it and into another hallway, this one very long. I kept running as I heard Tori getting closer and closer behind me, my legs ready to give out but I couldn't stop or I'd be dead like Toriel.

   Suddenly, I rounded a corner and saw a huge set of doors in front of me. I charged at them desperately, managing to push them open and get out just before Tori could grab me. I knelt panting on the ground just outside the doors, staring at Tori just in the doorway. She wasn't coming out of the Ruins after me.

   Whether it was because she didn't want to, or couldn't as something was stopping her, I didn't care. I got up and slammed the door in her face, then turned around to see what exactly lay beyond this door from the Ruins.