Undertale Spoilers!

I don't own Undertale, by the way

persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success.

My foot snagged on something. I don't know what. Perhaps a vine, or a heavy stone. I was suddenly weightless. The wind was howling. I could feel myself accelerating towards my death, and yet, I was strangely calm.

No.

I wasn't calm. It was a steely feeling. A feeling of power and strength, that wouldn't go away.

I knew I would live.

I was lying on something soft and uneven. A rug? It was a little damp, and smelled odd. I opened my eyes and lay still for a few minutes while my eyes adjusted to the dim lighting. It appeared that I was lying on a bed of golden flowers, surrounded by a floor paved with large bricks. Some kind of dungeon? I picked my notebook up and stood unsteadily. My leg was sticking out at a weird angle. I jumped a little when I saw that. What scared me more was when it glowed.

The bend in my leg was glowing purple through my jeans. As it did, my leg straightened itself slowly, and stopped glowing. I went to pull my jeans up to look, and put my hand in something warm and wet. I couldn't see clearly, but I think it might have been blood. It was hard to see colour in the darkness. I pulled my hand away quickly. I'm a wimp, all right? I don't like blood.

I looked up, to see how far I had fallen. Far enough that I should have died. Getting out with a broken leg alone was lucky.

A thought struck me. What if I had died, but that glow had been there, fixing my injuries? After what I had seen, it seemed likely.

A little distance away, I could see a doorway. I walked slowly at first, unsure about my leg, but it seemed normal. Better than normal, in fact. I could persevere.

Beyond the doorway, there was another room, wider and longer than the last. A huge corridor, covered with the same bricks as the last area. Cracks webbed the floor, walls and ceiling, similar yellow flowers sprouting between them. I continued to walk, accidentally crushing a few as I went.

"HEY. DON'T YOU HAVE ANYTHING BETTER TO DO?"

I'll admit, I shat bricks.

"W-What? Who said that?" I asked, my voice croaking.

"You're… a human?"

"Where are you?" I called into the darkness, unable to detect the source of the voice.

"Down here, moron."

I looked down at the ground.

A flower looked back.

"You're a human." It said.

"That's right." I told the flower.

I was hoping that I wasn't having some weird hallucination.

"Oh, boy. You must be new around here, huh? Well, I'd better show you how things work in the underground!" It said, giggling maniacally.

I didn't like the sound of that.

"W-who are you?" I asked, making conversation to distract the lunatic flower.

"I'm Asriel! Asriel the flower!" It smiled, his face contorting into a wicked grin with razor sharp teeth.

Vines whipped up from the floor, and as they did so, the colour faded from the world around us.

"We've entered a FIGHT. That heart is your SOUL. It's pretty, isn't it? Soon, it will be mine."

Before me, a glowing purple heart hovered.

"Really, buddy, I think I'll keep it." I said, turning to run.

In response, Asriel wrapped a vine around my leg and lifted me into the air. I bashed at it with my notebook and he screamed in pain. Where I had hit it, bulging purple marks had been left, like the glow while my leg was being repaired, but these ones were clearly destructive, and they were spreading fast. Asriel was forced to cut them loose to stop the purple from spreading to him.

"Leave that child alone!"

Woo, cliffhanger. I dunno, this probably sucks. Tell me and I'll remove it. If it doesn't suck, I'll keep writing. I have a little more that I'm not happy with, so I'll fix it and upload it as another chapter if you guys are okay with that.