Archive of Our Own ^beta

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Hello everyone, welcome to this fanfic. You probably already know the basics, well if you don’t.. let me help you:

Y/n stands for your name, meaning you can put either your own or your oc’s name to fill that, with that being said the READER is pretty much you too.

Now that that’s settled, let’s talk about this fanfic a bit. As you saw in the title, the main character/your soul is Justice, you may not feel very relatable with the way the character is going to be written, but have in mind that I need to progress the plot somehow and cannot show the reader as an ‘always tired’ character or ‘too energic’ either, that is only an example of course. The reader is going to be in the age range of 16 – 20 meaning they might at times act and think like an adult.

This fic will not have smut scenes, there may be scenes containing sexual assault but there will not be any nsfw included at all. There will be some sexual stuff and nsfw things mentioned but nothing is really going to happen.

S/n stands for ‘sibling name’, n/n stands for ‘nick name’

In this fanfic reader has a sibling, they are going to mentioned throughout the fanfic. The reader is really curious despite having the soul of Justice.

Yes, the justice child has fallen down before and has been killed. Frisk has fallen as well, but is not here at the moment but will be mentioned quite a lot.

This has platonic and romantic ships in it.

Have in mind that English is not my native language, resulting in possible grammatical and spelling mistakes. Thank you for understanding :) Updates might be slow but hopefully this won't become discontinued.

That will be it for now, might add more later.

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The wind felt strong as it hit your face, the car’s window was all the way down. Your parents complained a bit about the distracting sounds of the wind, but were able to ignore it after a few minutes. Your sibling sat next to you, a book in hand. You knew the cover too well by now, it was their all time favorite. They suggested you read it as well a few times, and you tried but the story was just not interesting enough for your taste. You didn’t know how they could read the same book over and over again, it felt unreal. Though, you weren’t in any place to judge. Your case wasn’t that different, reading random articles over and over again in hope you would learn something about the different types of mental illnesses.

You closed your eyes, trying to relax even though the rough road had some other ideas out for you, the car kept going through ups and downs, it felt sickening but finally after a few more minutes of driving, your dad stopped the car and parked it near a tree. Actually, there were just trees around you now. You passed the Ebott village not long ago and now were near the famous mountain of it. MT. EBOTT. There were a lot of bugs, you could already feel them on your skin despite not being out of the car yet. You didn’t really want to be here but your parents thought a camping trip would help with the ‘almost-breaking-bond’ your family was going through, simply because of their own jobs always keeping them busy.

Stepping out of the car, you took a look around you, picking up your bag and pulling it over your shoulder. With a sigh, you mentioned for your sibling to get out as well. “Having fun in there? come on, the bosses need us around to help them” You said, playfully pointing to your parents. They groaned, annoyed, as they got out from their own side. You start checking out your surrounding again, sure you didn’t want to come here but you have to admit this place is pretty beautiful, just like it’s village. You really wanted to see that golden flower bed back in the village but your parents wanted to just get here before nightfall. Despite the beauty of the village and the welcoming aura, the people weren’t really pleased by seeing new faces around them as it seemed. Still, they were nice enough to let the car pass through to the mountain.

Your mom called you, yelling something along the lines of “Stop slacking off and come here and help” or something, so you follow her voice to find her with your dad and sibling, trying to put up a tent. “If you’re done with staring into distance like some kind of idiot, would you like to help, your honor?” your sibling asks sarcastically, they were already sweating from the very hard work they did and were trying to keep the mosquitoes away as well. You chuckle a little as you watch their miserable attempt, deciding to go help them out when your father asks you to.

After an hour or two, your family camp is complete. The fire is on, the tent is set and the weather’s chilly, which makes everything have a nicer feeling. Your sibling suggested you to have a look around this place with them, properly, of course you couldn’t say no to them considering you wanted to have a better look around too. the breeze forced you to throw on your sweatshirt, you didn’t have a problem with that though, it felt nice. After picking up your bag [which was filled with a simple lighter, an half eaten sandwich and some pencils along some papers] you were ready to go. Your sibling was ready too, as it seemed.
You took their hand in yours after a bit of walking, and started talking. “How do you feel about this? You seemed really uncomfortable earlier, is everything okay?” with that, you begin staring at them in their eyes.

They shifted a little as they took their hands away from yours. “You know I don’t like the forest.. it creeps me out and it also has the damn bugs, and also dad. You think I like going through his stupid lectures about me staying away from them too much or I don’t know, locking myself away or something? Family time means I have to hear all those again. And then there’s the whole style thing, even for this shitty place where no one is going to see us I had to wear this basic shit, no offense.” Wow seems like they were really fed up, huh? “The only reason I came was basically because I wanted to see this damn mountain” with that being said, you noticed how close you two have gotten to it as you walked. A rough path could be seen, leading up to the head of it.

“Is that so? Then why don’t we go check it out, huh?” a smirk makes its way to your lips as you point to the path leading up the mountain.

Their eyes seem to shine as they see the path. “Hell yeah! I was worried we had to climb the whole shit!” saying that, they start running to the path.

“Wait! You still have to be careful, you idiot, it’s an uphill!” you shout out to them, following after them while chuckling to yourself.

You were not expecting the mountain to be exactly a described in that online book, you thought it was just exaggerating when it talked about the creepy big cave located on the top of it, but it was even better than that. It was creepy and a bit worrisome, but it was fascinating too. You wanted to know if the rumors were true as well… so you took your sibling’s hand, leading them to the cave. “Isn’t this dangerous? I thought you just wanted to check it out a bit, what if there’s some kind of wild animal in there or I don’t know..” they seemed to be hesitating, you got were they were coming from but your curiosity got the best of you.

“It’s okay, you can stay here if you want. I just want to see what it looks like from the inside.” Smiling slightly, you pointed to the cave. “Just wanna make sure of the rumors, who knows? Maybe there’s a cool treasure in there or something~” they just nodded their head, telling you to be careful. You took off again, walking towards the cave . . .

No sights of murderers, no drug dealer or any kind of creep. Well that’s perfect now you can only worry about the ghosts of those who apparently died here. It wasn’t a huge cave but it wasn’t small either, you could see the end of it though. It made you a but anxious, every step you took would make a small echo, every echo making you feel like you weren’t alone.

Something.. something is pushing you forward, you want to see what that hole is, is it deep? Is it endless as described in the legends, in the books? Would you die if you went further? Would you see your family again? …Of course, there is no need to worry. The legends, they are not true. It is possible that people died here, but not because of monsters or ghosts. This is okay, you’re going to be okay. But you need to see for yourself…

Where does the hole in the cave lead to? Death? An endless nightmare? An endless cycle of falling? Is there a living down there? or solid rock? Monsters? Or cannibals? Can people even stay alive in the underground? Is there any underground or just- . . . you are now closer to it, you stop. You don’t want to fall down, it seems quite slippery for some reason. You look down slightly, taking out your phone to take a picture. It’s dark, there isn’t really a source of light around here so you can’t really see down there, but you see a glimpse of something golden.. yellow? You try to take a closer look.

You step back, feeling the surface under your feet giving out. “That was close..” murmuring to yourself, you take a deep breath. “better head out before I-”

!

Something wraps itself around your ankle, before you can even look at what it is you are hearing your own scream as you’re yanked behind, into the a b y s s   o f   t h e   E N D . L  E  S  S  .  P   I   T  .

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You stared in the black emptiness of the void in front of you, it stared back. A child, There seems to be a child.. who is slowly approaching you. You wonder if this is what afterlife looks like, you don’t like it. It’s empty, you are alone with that child… and a man. The man is just standing behind the child. You weren’t afraid of him, you weren’t afraid of the kid. You wanted to know what happened to them, they seemed damaged. Both of them having white glitches covering their faces. The child slowly brought up their hand, pointing it to you. A silent warning, just like in the movies.

5 other people appeared next to them, all wearing different colors. Blue, Cyan, Green, Orange, Red. The child themself was wearing yellow. The red one stood out more than the others, they were damaged more than the others, wearing a striped sweeter with shorts. The man alongside the all others stared at you, but you weren’t afraid. You were determined to find out what happened to them, you wanted to save them. You wanted to be patient for them and see what they wanted. You really did, but…

Your body started fading into nothingness. . . . .  

You are awakened by someone’s high pitched voice, they seemed worried, but you didn’t know who this voice belonged to. This wasn’t your sibling, you aren’t with your family, you fell. Right, you fell down in the… unknown.

“Oh my gosh! Are you ok? Please answer, please! Oh god.. I think their arm is broken..” The owner of the high pitched voice spoke, panicking.

You slightly opened your eyes, looking above you. A pitch black crevice was all you could see. You groaned out in pain, something hurt so much.. you felt as if your arm was fucking broken! . . . wait. Didn’t the voice say something about that? You opened your eyes, now wider than before, starting to panic. Looking around, all you could see was yellow and golden flowers. A single, slightly bigger flower ‘stood’ next to you, a worried face on its- Wait what? Face? Why does this flower have a face? You screamed out, abruptly getting up to get away from the thing that was hovering over you. It started screaming as well. “What in the hell?!” You shout.

The flower’s face reflexes into a more panicked state as well as frustration. “H-hey! Tune it down a bit, will ya?” it..-he? Whisper yelled. “Jeez, you shouldn’t make these many noises here, you idiot! There are mo-” you cut him off.

“No, no no NO. I am not spending the rest of my life, in a hole with a fucking talking flower! Hell no.” You rest your weight on your hand, trying to get up- oops, your hand was damaged. You let out a cry of pain, trying to not be loud. “s-shit..” you feel tears well up in your eyes from the pain. Looking at the flower you oull yourself back a bit. “what are you? What is this?” you wave your hand around, mentioning your surrounding.

The flower sighs, disappearing in the ground; before you can call out to him he appears a meter further away from you. “Well.. I’m Flowey. And this is the Underground. Welcome or whatever.” Flowey pauses for a moment, sensing your dissatisfaction. “I’m guessing you need someone to guide ya around, if you want I can help. But we have to be quick. Toriel might arrive, she’s the guardian of this part.” Veins appear from around him, working as hands or maybe tentacles.

Suddenly, you feel light as your body starts floating in the air. Your surrounding starts fading and you are alone in a black void with Flowey. Not a moment later a yellow heart is pulled out of your chest(a cartoonish one, may I add), glowing and floating in front of you. Flowey smiles slightly.

“See that heart? That’s your Soul, the very culmination of your being.” You noticed some stats under it, as if you were in a video game. “HP stands for hope and your health, the less hoping you are, the less HP you have. It seems like when you fell you lost a decent amount of ‘em.” You noticed your HP being 10 out of 28.

“What the fuck is LV, then?” Flowey perks up with that a bit, seeming more anxious.

“LV stands for LOVE or Level Of Violence. When you hurt someone, you gain EXP, the more EXP you gain.. your LV increases as well.” He notices your confused state. “We don’t have enough time, I told you all ya needed to know. And your Soul.. it’s the Soul of justice. It’s.. pretty uncommon actually, among humans. It’s nice to see another justice Soul for sure, hope you don’t end up like the last one.” With that he summons some kind of pellets, circling them around you. Before you can react or dodge, they all come towards you and strangely vanish when hitting your body. “Those were friendliness pellets.. they can’t really undo big scars or broken parts, but they do restore some HP. They also make the pain disappear a bit.” You do feel better, emotionally and physically, feeling at ease you start talking yourself.

“You.. seem in a rush. What’s so dangerous about this place? How can I get out?” is this hell? Or maybe you’re in a coma? Somehow, you feel afraid of finding out about the truth.

“I told you, Toriel will come and check on here any moment now! she isn’t the best monster you can meet down here, though she’s definitely better than the others. And for your last question, you can’t unless you are really lucky or you have some kind of dark ass magic that can help you out.” You can only stare at him in confusion. “Go on now, I don’t know any short cuts around here so you have to try and find your way around the ruins without Toriel seeing you. And I can’t stay here, either. If she sees me, she’ll turn me to dust. I’ll see you up- ahead”

“But-” he vanished in the ground again, this time he didn’t come back.

You look around once again, feeling hazy. Your head hurts with the questions filling it. What are you going to do now? Can you really escape? Is there the need to escape at all? You feel like you are being watched, judged by every move you make. This is not ok, you shouldn’t be here. You should be up there, with your brother, with your family. Are they still up there? were you sleep for too long? Are they gone now?

Long, long nails are dragging themselves on your back. You hear voices, whispers of strangers. Something pushes you forward, hard, making you hit the ground. Two strong hands take a hold of your shoulders, finger nails dipping inside your skin.

Breathing seems harder and harder as each moments pass. You are afraid, you are all alone down here, everything could be an illusion from head damage. A talking flower? More like brain manipulation. Voices in your head? What if you’re already going insane? You are all alone, no one can save you now. You could be dead and no one would know. You feel like throwing up, but as you start coughing, nothing comes out. You are panicking. You try to calm down as you get up from the rough ground, you lean on to the wall grasping your shirt where your heart would be.

Arms wrap themselves around you. Breathe… You try. It’s going to be ok.. just breathe. You try taking deep breaths, calming yourself down. It feels like furs are stroking your skin, around your neck to your hair… it feels good and warm. “Calm down now, I mean you no harm whatsoever..” for some reason, the strange female voice brings you out of your panicked state almost quickly. “good.. good child, everything will be fine, just breathe.”  You are finally able to take deep breaths between small gasps. God you hate panic attacks. “There there, are you ok?” She smells horrible…

You look up in the pink devilish eyes of your ‘savior’. They seem kind and welcoming, but impatient and sadistic at the same time. Feeling hands wrap around your own, you look down only to see your savior’s hand intertwined with yours. You don’t scream, despite feeling scared, you can’t bring yourself to run away. Her gaze seems too kind, almost hypnotizing. But that isn’t the only reason. You feel something strong coming from here, you can’t really understand what it is. You can only mutter out a small ‘thank you’ as you lock eyes with the goat-like lady monster in front of you.

“No need to thank me at all.. Oh how rude of me! I didn’t even introduce myself.. I am Toriel, Caretaker of the ruins. Come with me, my child. I shall guide you to safety.. before someone snatches it away.”