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Your name was Penny. Your family were... not the best people to put it lightly. They would probably sell you for a wet soda cracker, to be honest.They never really cared about you, even though they claimed they did. They always had "better things to do", leaving you in the dust. They always had to do anything BUT take care of you, leaving you isolated. You never really learned to connect. You did not relate to anyone at your school, really. You were seen as... no one. Invisible. Even the teachers only barely knew your name.You were ignored by them, not even seen as worthy enough to get bullied. You were that boring to them.The solitude worked you down to the bone. However, you got through it to the best of your ability, finding hobbies as the only things to keep them from cracking. You were a very artistic girl, after all, that was the only thing that got you the attention you so, so desperately craved. But at some point, it wasn't enough anymore. You needed to get someone to notice you, someone to finally SEE you.So you climbed Mount Ebbot. This mountain was said to be cursed, the curse to bring everyone who dare climb it a pain-filled doom. This was PERFECT to get on a headline or two.After a couple of hours of trying to climb this rocky mountain, making you exhausted in the process, you have finally reached the peak of the mountain. The view of your village around you is beautiful, the suns glowing rays beaming onto your skin. You love the warmth. You close your eyes and bask in it. While you are distracted by the immaculate scene around you, you walk aimlessly a bit. This was a GRAVE mistake.You accidentally tripped on a rock and you slipped. And you fell. YOU FELL ALL THE WAY DOWN.This mountain was DEEP. The long fall gave you a lot of time to reflect. You wished you could've been better. You wished your parents could've been better. You just felt so.. so numb. You wish you could've done something good with your life, but its too late to wish now. All you can do, is just closing your eyes and accept your-
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You.... you didnt die? Wait where the hell ARE YOU??? HOW DIDNT YOU DIE???? You open your eyes, baffled by the fact that you are somehow not dead from that extremely big fall. Huh. Now what? After the confusion dissipates a bit, you examine the floor you were laying on. It was a plain of damp dirt covered in beautiful golden buttercups, which were encasing your sore body. Changing your gaze from the floor to the front of you, you gaze upon... a oddity.It was a flower, but taller then the rest. It was slightly above your eye level as you were splayed on the ground. It had two black lines on its white gynoecium that resembled eyes, and 1 curved black line near the bottom of it that kinda looked like a mouth."Huh.... What.. are you?" you blabbered, spacing between each word due to how much your body was aching from the fall, and how much your head was ringing from the concussion you most likely got.And it spoke back."Howdy, my name is Flowey! Flowey the Flower, nice to meet you pal!" The flower spoke"WHAT THE FUCK?!!" you screamed in both disbelief, and in fear."Aw... you must be so scared! Don't worry. Things like me are normal down here! Hehe!" Flowey comforted. "Besides, it's kind of rude to greet a person like that, don't ya think?"You started to breathe heavily, trying to calm yourself down so you could think clearly. As you do this, Flowey waits for you to say or do something. As he waits he starts stares at you, analyzing you.As your breathing slowly started to dissipate, you confronted the flower in front of you. "Uh.... Flowey, is it? May I ask, where am I?" You inquire, feeling like you have gone off the deep end by involving yourself in... whatever the fuck is this. Is this even real???"Your in the underground, ya dummy!" He says enthusiastically. You think to yourself, that even if this is fake, it's probably gonna be more fun of a life then whatever is "real", so you decide to abandon trying to be logical and just fully go with it"So how are the people here? In the underground I mean." You ask."Oh, they're nice! Well.. to other monsters at least. They don't really like humans all that much. I suggest you be careful, friend! The king here doesn't take to kindly to your breed. To get out here, he needs human souls. You know how he gets those?" Flowey asked rhetorically. You shook your head, as to say no"HE KILLS THEM!" He exclaimed, putting his petals on with face to try to show surprise, as if for dramatic effect. You stare at him, wide eyed. You were speechless"But don't worry, I will make sure you are safe! As long as you stay with me, I will make sure that you will be A-OK!" Flowey assures you. "Follow me... I'll lead you somewhere that I know will be safe." Flowey says, as he moves in the soil, walking dragging himself up to a rusty, vintage looking door."You coming or not?" Flowey asks you. You ponder for a moment and start to slowly walk behind the buttercup, following his lead. You walk in the door, and it leads you to a area with violet bricks, covering each of the walls. As you walk across the grape colored carpeting on the floor, Flowey asks you a question."By the way friend, you never told me ya name! What should I call you?" :) he asked you, even though he was in front of you, you could tell he was smiling wide."My name... is.. Penny." you reply."Well.. nice to meet ya, Penny!" He greets.Just got here and it's already better then you life in the human world.Really makes you question your standards, huh?
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As you walk though the purple area, you ask flowey a question. "Flowey?" You say. "What's up?" He asked back "Where.. Where are we going?" You inquire, with a look of uncertainty plastered on your face. "Oh, I didn't tell you? Woopsie! My bad!" He uses one of his leafs on his stem to emulate a person facepalming."We're going to find you a place to stay!" He states giddily. "Wow! Really? Thank you!" You say in a tone of glee. "How can I repay you?" You ask him. "Repay me? Awww! You make me blush!" He covers his face in his petals, presumably in embarrassment. He taps his head with one of his vines periodically, you ass ume that hes thinking about what you can do to repay him. As he thinks, you start to wonder around a bit. There's a bunch of signs everywhere in a strange language that you are unable to read. But you try to read it, a monster attacks you from behind!The monster was a frog like creature that was about half your height, it was colored with a mostly white coat and had black markings around his eyes. It used its tounge to wrap around your body as you are stuck in place."GHhh-!" A sharp breath escapes you.You struggled and try to wiggle your way out, but it's no use! You can't run and you can't fight. Do you just give up? Die to a weirdly large frogs big ass tounge? HELL NO! You remembered you always kept a small pocket diary in your pocket. This was your only thing that could be used as weapon on hand, so it would have to do. You then started hitting the frogs body and tounge with the book as HARD as possible, hitting it AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN, until it finally let's go of you and you fall to the floor, soaking wet with frog slime.It then hops away to go bother someone else. Finally it's gone. Now your covered in weird sticky saliva. "Oh I know!" Flowey finally exclaims. "You can put me on your shoulder!" You stare at flowey blankly, how did he not notice the frog, and why didn't he tell you? Is he blind or something? "Is this about the froggit thing?" Flowey asks.Froggit..so that's what it's called. You do not answer him, you just continue to stare at him."Oh yea, I knew that was there. I let it attack you. Don't worry, that was just to test how strong you really were! And you passed!" Flowey admits."And... what would happen if I havent had "passed"?" You inquire, you were a wee bit worried about his answer. You fiddled with your fingers while waiting for his response."Then I would have saved you Penny! I would NEVER let you die! Plus, I knew you would've passed anyway. I could tell you're strong!" He reassures you.Your cheeks grow a little pink in flattery. "Well thank you for caring about me Flowey. I really appreciate it." Is this what being respected feels like? It feels....nice. "Now don't get distracted Penny! We have a home to go!" Flowey declares. You nod to him and continue on your journey.You walk and walk making small talk with Flowey as you do. "So where are we right now?" You ask. "Well, at the moment we are in the ruins! But in about 30 minutes, if all things go well, we will get to our destination!" Flowey responds "Lets go!". You walk across many things, a talking rock, a shy ghost a LOT of spikes, and many more silly things. In any other case all of these things may have terrified you, but your minds already so broken that it just didn't really phase you at this point.You bantered with flowey until you reach a home in the ruins. It's dark, the windows of the house are unilluminated so you assume the person or monster inside the house is sleeping. Flowey seems uncomfortable from seeing the house, as he just stares at it blankly, not smiling like he usually does. You feel a bit worried for him. "Flowey... are you okay?" You quiz. "I'm fine." He grumbles, not nearly enthusiastic as he usually is."So.... where do we go now?" You drop the subject, as you can tell he doesn't want to elaborate. Flowey takes a big breath "We go through the house, make sure to be quiet! Don't want to wake the owners do ya?" He asked you rhetorically, in a much more energetic tone. You nod to him in understanding. "By the way, I figured out how you can repay me!" He announced. "You have to listen to me!" He decides. You then ask flowey to elaborate on that. "Listen to you? What do you mean?""I mean that you have to listen and follow mu advice! After all you are my friend right?" Flowey says affirmatively.You get a bit nervous. Is that what friends do? You haven't had a friend before. Well, I guess if you've trusted him this far, I guess you could do that. "Yea...Okay Flowey, i'll listen to you." You answer. "Good choice." He remarks.You go into the dark house, the door was unlocked so it was quite easy to invade. "So, where do we go?" You whisper to Flowey. "We go into the corridor over there." He whispers back to you. You follow him into the corridor, and you follow flowey, walking as quietly as physically possible. At the end of the corridor, there's two big doors facing you. When you open them, you are faced with a wall of extremely cold air falling on you, the slime on you causes your body to become even more cold! Flowey continues to lead you to your "new home", and he seems unaffected by the cold. You shiver constantly, and it seems like forever until you FINALLY reach your destination. "Here it is, Penny!" Flowey tells you. It's a 2 story house, made of wood and quite rustic. It was really nice. "Well, looks like I gotta go now." Flowey says."Wait, why?" You question. "I'm reaaaally tired right now, Penny!" Flowey yawned in a exaggerated manner. "Plus, I think it's about time you get some rest, and also to get to know the place!" He expressed. "-And to take a shower!" You add on."Well, see you later Flowey!' You were gonna wave goodbye to him, but before you you had the chance he retreated in the ground. You ignored the confusion on how he did that, went into one of the rooms upstairs, and flopped on the bed. Before you could even tuck yourself into the bedsheets, you immediately fell asleep.