Corruption

In The Beginning

A long time ago, humans lived as they always had. But after a while, something happened to them. Maybe it was one too many Snickers bars or one too many manipulative politicians got into power. Violence became the norm. It was unheard of to be nice to absolutely anyone. Nice was weak, and the mean ate weak for breakfast. Literally, in some cases.

The core problem: humans souls were corrupted.

No one was sure how or why, but they were.

Once massacres substituted every holiday, a handful of semi-sane people tried to think of a cure. They thought that if they changed the genetic makeup of a human, that action would cure a human. These people hired some of the corrupted people to kidnap anyone that had just become corrupted, making most of the victims teenagers.

One after another, the teenagers were experimented on, adding limbs, subtracting limbs, adding senses, losing senses, gaining strength and stature, and shrinking to the threat of a fly.

By the end of all of the pain, results were the best they could have possibly hoped for; the teens were cured of corruption. 

But nobody wanted them for they had become one thing in the eye of the corrupted humans:

Monsters.

The corrupted humans found a cave that the monsters would fit into. After shoving them all in there, the humans cast a spell to torture the monsters with. Unfortunately, since no human properly studied anything academic anymore, the spell did nothing remotely related to its purpose. Instead of torture, all the spell did was expand the cave and "fancify" it. Different biomes expanded from the entry and over time an exit formed.

But no monster used the exit. Why would they leave the one place where they were accepted?

The humans, thinking they destroyed all of the monsters, started using the pit as a trash can. But it was so far out of the way that regular waste like excrement, dead bodies, food waste, and broken items never went down the hole.

It was perfect if a child never wanted to be found.

Six decades after the cavern's creation, a young girl ran through the forest to the "human trash can." She grew closer and closer to it until she lost her balance and fell into the cave, the Underground as the monsters called it.

Her name was Chara.

Upon her strange and sudden arrival to the world of monsters, a young monster found her and helped her up. His features resembled something goat-like and fox-like at the same time. Fluffy white ears poked from his misshapen mass of light gray hair.

His name was Asriel.

As current Prince of the Monster Monarchy, Asriel had the power to protect her from the other monsters. Of course, monsters had developed some level of resentment towards humans because of how they were treated. But no monster would go so far as to either go against the ruling of the Dreemuur Monarchy or harm a child.

The King and Queen of the Underground, Asgore and Toriel, adopted Chara as their own. They cared for her and raised her to be a great future ruler. She grew into a brilliant teenager, smart, strong, and beautiful.

But that's when everything went wrong.

Chara was human. When humans became teenagers (older ones within the 15 to 19 range; every age below is unaffected), their souls fully developed their corruptness. Instead of black and white, everything just became red. Nothing but anger, jealousy, mischief, and hatred. Not a drop of kindness left.

Children were unaffected by their corrupted souls for as long as they are young, their minds are clear and pure of hatred. But nobody listened to the nice guy.

Even genetically evil people want company in their crimes, so Chara offered a piece of her soul to Asriel. With advanced magic, she could extract a fraction of her soul and either convert it to a weapon, a magical object, or a drink. If someone, whether it be human or monster, drinks the soul of another being, they absorb and develop the traits of the soul of that other being. It is considered sacred and the ultimate trust between two people as they now had each other's strengths and weaknesses.

It had only been meant for Asriel.

Of course, Asriel accepted.

After a few days, Asriel's behaviors changed. Nightmares plagued his sleep and hallucinations destroyed his days. He felt he never had a moment's piece. When Chara offered ways to silence these voices, she had become his savior.

Unfortunately, these ways were not the kindest.

Then out of nowhere, Asriel and Chara died without apparent reason. The King and Queen wouldn't say anything about the matter. It wasn't until a month after their death that the public even knew about the passing of their future monarchs.

There were multiple rumors that spread about how Asriel and Chara died. Maybe they fought each other to the death, maybe Chara killed Asriel because she's human and King Asgore killed her to get revenge, or maybe Asriel killed Chara for some unknown reason and, out of sorrow, killed himself.

A few months after the death of the Monster Prince and Princess, the Queen disappeared. Asgore told the public that she was mourning the loss of her children and had merely locked herself in her quarters. There was nothing wrong with her, she would be back ruling the Underground as soon as she was emotionally able.

Humans were no longer trusted completely since Asriel's death may or may not have been caused by Chara. Asgore set up an elite guard to protect the monsters from harm. He also blocked off the entry area known to the monsters as the Ruins to stop further human entry. But, on the off chance they would get through, the elite guard would test them to see if the human posed a harm to the monster population. After these tests were administered, all humans were to be sent to Asgore for a final verdict with the guards' analysis included.

No one questioned anything.

Hopefully, there would be one human to change that.

I told you it would be different! Does this version of Undertale sound as interesting as the original story? I hope it does.

I'm flipping this chapter closed. Hope the batter is mixed right!

Edit #1: I had someone read this over for me, and they didn't understand a single thing. So I'm revising it to make it better and more comprehensible. I hope this version is better.