- The Determination Route: Prologue -

"Frisk. you came from this world, right? So you must have a place to return to, do you not?" Toriel paused, her eyes turning from the fast fading sunset on the horizon to her child, Frisk, who was watching the sunset with a melancholy in their eyes. The cliff they were standing on was at the top of Mt. Ebott, just outside of the cave that led into the Underground. The home of monsters. "What will you do now?"

A small smile ticked at the corners of Frisk's mouth, and they looked up at Toriel in turn. "I want to stay with you!" Chara smiled brightly, letting the response flow from Frisk's mouth easily, mimicking the expression Toriel wanted. Looking back at the city in the distance, Frisk sighed internally. Their family wouldn't want them anyway.

"What? Frisk… you really are a funny child," She smiled, and gently took Frisk's hand in theirs. "If you had said that earlier, none of this would have happened. It is a good thing you changed your mind" She giggled a little in the happiness of the moment. "Well… I suppose. If you really do not have any other place to go… I will do my best to take care of you, for as long as you need. All right?" Smiling despite herself, she gazed back to the sunset after receiving a small nod from Frisk, before speaking again. "Now come along. Everyone is waiting for us!" She looked back at Frisk, who gave a nervous smile, and they both started walking along the quickly darkening cliff. Sans lifted his head a little, his eyes half lidded as he gazed at Frisk carefully, his trademark grin plastered across his face as he stood up from his position leaning against the cool stone face. He took a step toward the child, small lights flickering around him, purple sparks, white gaps in the world. Toriel just kept walking, seeming to pay no mind even as Frisk let go of their hand unconsciously.

"Not this time, Kiddo..." There was a snap, and a crack of bone. Then everything went black. "...I'm done playing games."

A/N Heya, Peeps! Hollow here, this is a fanfiction I've been meaning to write for a long time… I really hope you guys all enjoy the ride, as I find time to write amidst school work and other projects. But anyway, see you next time, the chapters will be a lot longer than this, but prologues are prologues~ (Probably a lot late to this party but eh, that's my style I guess)

~ Hollow1134