Mistaketale

Chapter 3 Meeting This Goat Lady Was A Mistake

When Lydia entered the next room the first thing she noticed was a little, yellow star. The star seemed to shine brighter, she reached out to touch it. File Saved.

'Wait is my life a videogame now? K whatever I'm sure weirder things will happen here anyway.' Sierra just kind of looked over at her not sure what just happened but didn't want to press further.

Toriel took Lydia from room to room explaining how there are puzzles everywhere and stuff. They then reached a room with nothing but a dummy.

"While you are in the Underground monsters may try to attack you. If they do then you will enter a "Fight" while in a "Fight" strike up a friendly conversation and I will come to resolve the conflict. Here you can practice talking to this dummy."

Lydia entered a "Fight" with the dummy and noticed she could do four different things, FIGHT, ACT, ITEM, and MERCY.

'What did the dabbing goat lady want me to do again? I should have payed attention.' Lydia turned to Sierra for assistance.

"What was I supposed to do again?" Lydia whispered. Sierra looked confused and thought for a moment before saying "Stabby stab." Lydia hesitated for a second "K," she hit the FIGHT button and somehow killed the dummy.

Toriel looked disappointed and stopped dabbing because of it.

"No, no the dummies are for talking, not killing. Well good enough, let's continue." Toriel started dabbing again before leaving the room.

Sierra looked from the dummy to Lydia before saying "To be fair, I didn't pay attention either."

"Fair enough." Was Lydia's answer.

After a few more puzzles Toriel led Lydia into a long, empty hallway. "My child I have to ask you to walk to the end of this room alone, forgive me for this," she then sprinted down the hall and hid behind the only thing in the room, a pillar.

Lydia shouted down the hall "I can see you, you know that right?" Toriel either didn't hear or chose to ignore Lydia's words so Lydia just walked down the hall. Sierra had decided to adopt Toriel's strategy so she followed behind Lydia dabbing.

When Lydia reached where Toriel was she came out from behind the pillar.

"Do not be afraid, my child I did not leave you. I was merely behind this pillar the whole time." 'No way, I would have never guessed.' "There was a reason for this exercise, to test your independence. I have to leave you here while I go do things in secret. Oh! I know I'll give you a cell phone-"

"I already have a phone." Lydia said holding up her phone.

"Oh! Well, I'll just add my number then." Sierra didn't know if her being there made it any less of an independence exercise or not.

While adding her number Toriel noticed something strange. "My child why don't you have any contacts in your phone yet?" Lydia looked surprised.

"What but I did have contacts! Oh no! Oh no! Oh, thank goodness." Lydia looked relieved when she looked at something on her phone.

"What is it, my child? Did you find your contacts?"

"No I was just making sure my Minecraft worlds were still there."

"I-I see. Well I better get going. Call me if you need me and don't go anywhere."

Sierra rustled in her pocket and pulled out a ghost phone. She held out her hand for Lydia's phone. She then inserted her number into the phone and called her. She hung up and met Lydia's confusion with her own.

"Holy sh*t, I wasn't expecting that to work." They walked/floated in astonished silence.

"Hey I've been wondering, it seems that no one else can see you. Why is that?" Lydia said looking at Sierra, who had started dabbing again.

"Uhhhh ghost physics I guess. I never thought about it. I usually have to think about appearing and stuff in front of people. I don't know." Sierra shrugged after giving this half a$$ed explanation.

"Huh, well that sounds like fun." Lydia replied. Well, time to wait for Toriel.