Undertale: Beautiful Souls

Prologue

"Naomi! Where have you been?"

It was my dad. I was sneaking into the house after exploring the mountain. He was standing expectantly in my doorway.

The mountain was a safe haven for me. According to legend, there was an entrance to the Underground: a place where Monsters were trapped. I had learnt in school that many years ago the Monsters attacked the Humans and were banished to the Underground.

I had also learned that there two sides to every story. I wanted to know the Monsters' side. They must've been provoked.

"Uhhh..." I freeze and panic, halfway in my window.

"Seriously, how did you expect not to get caught? It would be impossible not to hear you bounding across the yard!" My mom comes up behind him now.

"I..."

"What were you out there doing?" My dad asks walking towards me. "Obviously nothing dirty. No guy would want to get near you with a ten foot pole!" My dad laughs at his joke.

"I was just..."

"Were just what? Getting high?" My mom reaches towards me. She wraps her hand around my forearm, pressing her nails deep into my skin.

I grit my teeth to keep from screaming, but my entire body shakes. Tears start to well up in my eyes.

"We thought after last time you would've learned your lesson. No more sneaking out, no more getting high, no more exploring the mountain. These are pretty simple rules, Naomi. Why don't you think they apply to you?"

My dad rears back his hand getting ready to hit me.

"Get back inside the house." He says menacingly.

I stay where I am. My mom jerks my arm forward causing my knees to scrape against the window sill. I grunt in pain.

"I said, get. in."

I look at the ground defeated. This wasn't the first time they had caught me. You'd think I would've learned my lesson. But I knew I was close to finding the entrance to the Underground and I refused to give up.

"No." I tilt my head up to look into my father's eyes.

Both of my parents are taken aback. "Wh- What did you say?" My dad asks, shocked. My mom opens her mouth and then closes it; she was at a loss for words.

Using their appall to my advantage, I scream in frustration and tear my arm from my Mom's grip. Then I jump out the window and begin running towards the mountain.

My mom screams outraged. I turn my head to look over my shoulder and she's leaning out the window, waving her arms menacingly.

"Get back here, Naomi! I'm warning you!"

Luckily, my house was at the foot of the mountain and before long I'm dragging myself up the rocky surface. I didn't want to take the path, out of fear my parents would be following.

Sure enough, once I've dragged myself past the rocks and reach the grassy top my parents are heading back down the mountain with flashlights in hand.

"Naomi! If you don't come out RIGHT NOW you are going to be in sooo much trouble." My mom shrieks in the opposite direction. Her voice echoes in the night.

"RIGht now"
"right now"
"nowww"

"Come on. I don't think we'll find her in the dark. We'll keep looking in the morning." My dad turns off his flashlight and reaches his arm around my mom's shoulders.

My mom doesn't move for a second. She looks over her shoulder, seemingly right at me. I hold my breath and close my eyes. When I open them again, the beam from my Mom's flashlight is getting smaller and smaller as she walks down the pathway.

I sigh, letting out the breath I was holding before running up the path. I had forgotten all about my bloody knees and now they were beginning to hurt, slowing me down.

I no longer had the adrenaline rush and the pain from my knees and arm was really getting to me. It hurt to move, but I had to keep going. I had to find the entrance!

I approach a large gap. I hadn't remembered it from any other time I'd been on the mountain. It looked like a giant meteor crater, but how could it have been unnoticed?

I approach the hole, then look to my left and right. A little ways to the right of me was a fallen tree. It was bridging the gap.

Excited, I begin running towards it. The tree looked wide enough for me to walk across and it was wedged in between two rocks so it shouldn't roll. It seemed good enough.

Before I reach the tree, however, I feel my left foot get caught in a tree root. I trip and fly through the air. I reach out to latch onto the tree, but my fingers tear off small pieces of bark and I fall into the abyss.

Defeated, I curl my legs in to myself and put my arms to my chest, accepting my death.

I was so close to finding the entrance. Now I'd never know the truth about the Monsters.