Save Me Before I Fall (rewriting owo)

I left the capitol then. Asgore and Asriel were nowhere to be found.

'Don't worry. We'll get them later.'

Who are you?

'My name is Phoenix. The rest is not important. You should head to Snowdin next. Plenty to do there!' He snickers.

I walk to the door of the home. I look back for a moment, gazing around.

This home was the first family I had.

A little song from the surface pops into my head....

"I didn't know the girl

But I knew her family

All their lives were shattered

In a nightmare of brutality"

My lips curl into a smile.

I grip the knife.

And step out the door.

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Snowdin.

Frost and snow.

You never realize how white it is until it's coated in grey.

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Waterfall...

Flowers whisper around me... whispers of conflict, of souls, of wishes.

The water is a bit less luminescent
when I leave.
All the flowers are slashed at the stem.

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The CORE.

Many large monsters stand in my way.

My knife seems to glow a faint yellow.

Dust quickly turns the blue floor grey.

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A lab.

I walk through the dark. Machines whir around me.

There's a strange feeling of being watched.

A large, skull-like machine stares down at me, teeth bared.

'You feel like something is crawling on your back.'

Oh, shut up. I close my eyes for a moment.

'...determination.'  I only caught the end of that sentence.

'If you plan on narrating my every move, you can shut up right the fuck now.'

No answer.

Something stirs behind me. My eyes flash open and I whirl around-

Nothing...?

Phoenix chuckles. 'This ought to be interesting.'

Why's that?

'There's only three monsters here, they'll give you a good amount of EXP. Two of them will be easy for you, at the LV you're at right now. However, the other one... he-'

There's a whisper behind me... but it doesn't sound like words.

Phoenix's voice changes abruptly to a smoother, mature (ndiewygfuyowaebxfcnrk) voice. A man's voice.

'Well, greetings, child. I've heard much about you.'

Someone grabs me and turns me around... There's no one there?

I look down.

There's two, skeletal-looking hands. But no body or arms. They clutch my arms tightly, pinning them to my sides.

'It's been a long time since we've seen a human here... You can be very helpful to us.'

Another voice comes... not in my head this time. It's more quiet with an undertone of anger. "i think i should take this..." My knife is pried from my fingers. A short, humanoid skeleton monster comes into my sight, my knife in his hand. When he looks at me the white glowing pupils in his eyes go dark.

The first voice echoes around the room, out loud this time. "Sans, warn Alphys and Hotland. I shall call for you if I require you."

The skeleton nods and, with one last glance at me, vanishes into thin air.

Phoenix? Are y-

"Who are you talking to? The stowaway?" Something moves in the darkness in front of me... darker, somehow, than the pitch blackness.

Stowaway?

My surroundings shimmer and vanish into a void.

I'm falling.

I can't breathe.

It's so dark...

Dark...

Darker...

Yet darker...

A fiery orange glow pierces the black veil, forcing my eyes to close.

I can feel the ground again. I fall to my knees as hot air fills my lungs and a wave of heat smashes into me.

I start to sweat.

Finally my eyes adjust and I slowly stand and look about.

A steep dropoff is mere feet in front of me. A sea of lava lies at its bottom, many soot-covered machines surrounding the ocean of molten rock.

A man stands at the edge, in a black robe. His hands are hidden in his pockets and his head is white and smooth as bone.

"You shouldn't have come here." He says, without turning.

My knife appears in my hand, covered with a faint red glow.

'You can't beat him.'

Why?

'Because he-'

His voice is cut off again by the man. 'Silence!'

Then I fall to my knees as pain explodes in my head. I clutch my temples as my vision hazes over with yellow, then the pain fades into a constant throb.

My lips move, but the voice isn't mine.

"No."

My body stands.

My knife flickers yellow and starts to change shape.

My eyes focus on the man. They narrow.

My arm rises and aims a gun at the man... a pistol, golden and flickering with yellow fire.

My face contorts into a maniacal grin.

"I won't lose this time, Gaster."