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UNDERWATER

Chapter 2: Meeting Flowey The Sea Flower And Other Extreme Sports

Notes:

Hey yall! So, I've drawn Reader, Pain & Panic, Sans, Papyrus, and Gaster for yallz! So go check that out!

http://darkfoxkirin.tumblr.com/post/138028230266/these-pics-i-drew-are-for-my-new-merfolk-au-for

http://darkfoxkirin.tumblr.com/post/138038978591/alrighty-heres-sans-and-papyrus-for-my-merfolk

(Also, I described Flowey and the flowers in the cave as the flowers in the cover art.)

Chapter Text

Something nudges your cheek gently.

It hisses at you and nudges you a bit more harshly.

This keeps on going until you groan and roll over.

Big mistake.

Pain lances through your ribs, head, left arm, tail, and some of your fins.

You cry out as your eyes shoot open. It's dark, but you're laying on something soft and it's giving out a strange blue glow. Panic swims across your vision, his holes on his sides glow a bright blue as an occasional vein of bright blue electricity crackles about his body. He nuzzles against your cheek and whimpers at you worriedly.

You look over your various bruises and scratches as you run a calming hand along Panic's body, his electricity wrapping around your hand and arm, making it tingle. If you were anyone else, you would be convulsing or worse, dead already. The only reason you weren't, it because when you, Alonda, and Alexander were first introduced to Pain & Panic as kids, your father had you all put through shock and poison therapy so that you wouldn't be hurt or killed by your pets accidentally. The poison therapy was because of Alexander's poisonous blue ribbon eel, Tsunami. He was thirty-seven feet long and acted just like his owner too. Alex had given him a red chain collar just like the ones Pain & Panic have. Tsunami was often separating the eel twins from fighting with each other like Alex does for you and Alonda.

You look down and find out that you're laying on a bunch of those glowing blue sea flowers like the one you saw before you got sucked into the ravine. They looked similar to those large yellow flowers from the surface, sunflowers you think that they were called. Only the petals were a glowing translucent sapphire and the face of the flowers were a greenish yellow with visible veins coming from the stems to the petals. The stem was a greenish yellow with a long bubble of the same translucent material that the petals were made of. Floating inside of the bubble were tons of small glowing golden balls. Some of the bubbles were longer than the others of different sea flowers.

You gaze up at the feeble light that was filtering down from the top of the ravine. You weren't too banged up, even if it did hurt a bit to be swimming. You lift yourself up and look at Panic who was a bit more calm after your ministrations. "Come on Panic, let's get out of here."

Only, you couldn't.

When you tried to pass the cave's roof by swimming through the gap that you got sucked through, an invisible wall became slightly visible and pushed you back after giving you a nasty zap. Luckily for you, you were used to rather nasty zaps. Other's would have been paralyzed for a spell.

You huff out a cloud of bubbles and look around the underwater cavern that you find yourself trapped in. The rock and stalagmites were a deep purple color, unusual but pretty. You saw an arch to the far side of the room that led to a dark corridor. "Well, since we can't go up, we might as well go forward." Panic hisses his discontent but follows after you faithfully.

You come to a smaller cavern, but this one only had a single sea flower in it. There was a crack in the ceiling that allowed a sliver of light to hit it. You swim closer to it, perhaps it'll have a smell. (Merfolk can smell things under and over water.)

When you get close enough, the sea flower turns around and it has a face on it. You lurch back while Panic hisses at it venomously. "The hell!? Why does a sea flower have a face!?"

The sea flower giggles and smiles wide at you while totally ignoring Panic. "Why, because this sea flower needs at least something to express himself with!"

"And it can talk!?" You have seen things that have been animated by strong bouts of magic, usually toys that you requested to be by your father, but they usually only talk when spoken to or when you needed someone to give you a hug. That was probably why you didn't immediately swim away screaming.

The sea flower laugh at you again. "Of course silly! Oh! Where are my manners! Howdy! I'm Flowey! Flowey the sea flower!"

You stare at the sea flower for a bit before slowly edging around it to get to the arch that was on the other side of it. "Uh huh. Charmed. Well, as... nice as it was to meet you, me and Panic really have to-"

Flowey's eyebrows scrunch up a little bit but keeps his smile wide. "What you have to do, is to let me tell you the rules down here! Golly! You must be so confused!"

"Well, yeah, but I'm sure that-"

That dumb flower cuts you off once more. "Don't worry! It's easy! Here we go!"

The cavern gets darker and there's a sharp wrenching sensation from inside of your chest. You gasp and look down to find out that there's a shimmery turquoise non-anatomical heart floating outside of your chest. You feel empty and uneasy without it. "Hey now, I don't-"

"See this? This is your SOUL. The very culmination of your being! Wowzers! You're pretty strong!" At that, Flowey some how starts to sweat, looking a bit uncertain, before shaking it off. "B-but every one needs more LV! What's LV you say?"

"I never said that-"

"Why, 'LOVE' of course! You want some love, don't you?"

"Not from you-"

"Too bad. Here are some... 'Friendliness Pellets'! Make sure you gather as many as you can!" Your eyes widen as some small white pellets, that look alarmingly like bullets, appear from behind Flowey and zoom toward your soul. You easily dodge as Panic becomes even more agitated than before, snapping at a stray pellet before it disappeared.

Flowey's expression darkens as he struggles to keep his smile up. "Oh no! Looks like you missed them! Let's try again! And don't forget to try and catch them this time!"

You easily doge those pellets as well. "Dude, I said no-"

The flower glowers at you. "Didn't you hear me? R u n . I n t o . T h e B U L L E T S !"

Even more alarmed, you knew that they looked like bullets, you dodge them once more. Then Flowey's face twists into something truly demonic. "YoU KnOW WhAt's GoIng oN HeRE. Don'T YoU?"

"Er, it wasn't that hard to figure out..." You begin to gather up your magic. You don't like to hurt people, but you're one of the best fighters in the sea. You were even personally trained by your father. The only people that can best you are your father and Alexander when he gets lucky.

"YOU INSOLENT LITTLE- D I E ! ! !"

Some more of those bullets form a circle around you and begin to close in. Ah, no. You form your favorite weapon, a scythe, out of your signature turquoise colored magic. (Alonda's is lavender while Alexander's is scarlet and your father's is gold.) With a wide sweep of your arm, you destroy all of the sea flower's bullets and place the scythe threateningly close to his stem.

Flowey's eyes widen and he sweats even more as he waves his blue leaves. "Whoa, whoa, hold up there buddy! Y-you don't wanna hurt little ol' me do you?"

He gets even more nervous as Panic swims in threatening circles around him, hissing as his holes light up. "What!? You just told me to die!" You exclaim in outrage.

He looks around frantically. "Ah... Did I?" He cringes and yelps when Panic gives him a tiny zap to one of his petals. "OW! Alright, alright! So what if I did!? I just wanted to get free EXP and LV! I didn't know that you were freakishly strong!"

You narrow your eyes at him and thip him in the face. The flower screams in outrage but you cut him off. Annoying ain't it? "You mean to tell me, that you were going to lure some poor soul into a false sense of security and then kill them!?"

Flowey gulps before slowly nodding. "Uh... No hard feelings?" One look at your enraged face gives him his answer. "SHIT."

You let your scythe dissipate, but before Flowey can escape, you form a bubble of magic around him, while making sure that there is enough of the pastel lavender sand and water in the bubble before you seal it. You swim over and cup the large bubble between your palms. "There. Now you can't hurt anyone else."

Flowey glares at you in outrage before attempting to break his way out. He quickly finds out that it hurts him to touch the bubble physically or with his magic and ceases his futile attempts. His voice is muffled as he screams at you. "You mother fucker! Let me out right n-!"

You thip the bubble and in turn, the bubble smacks Flowey right in the face. You patiently wait until his screams of pain and rage subside before speaking. "Watch it! It's either stay in there and learn your lesson, or I can kill you now, so what will it be Mr.Doom And Gloom?"

Flowey glowers at you as he sweats again. Finally, he huffs and looks away, sulking. You smirk and start to swim to the archway, having the bubble float after you. "Much better. Now, come along Panic, let's find a way out of here. The rude sea flower's in time out." Panic hisses out a laugh and follows after.

As you pass the archway, you almost bump into a purple and white blur. You don't because Panic surges forward and catches that impact so that you wouldn't have to. Whoever rammed into Panic backed up a bit and placed their hands to their mouth. "Oh! I am sorry my child! I heard some yelling and I thought the worst! All you alright?"

You blink at what looks to be some sort of Capricorn, only, she has paws instead of hoofs. because everything else looks goat-like. She also had pristine white fur with a similarly pristine white butterfly koi tail. She was wearing a purple dress with white sleeves and a strange white emblem on the front that looks like three triangles under a set of wings and a circle between the wings. Her small horns look exceptionally adorable. All in all, she's a very beautiful goat-fish.

"Um... Well, you're not wrong. Heh heh..." You rub the back of your head while Flowey snickers at your plight. You respond by thipping the bubble again. Silencing the bubble so that his screams can't be heard, you turn your focus back to the concerned goat-fish lady. "You see, I got sucked into the ravine and this mean little guy," You hold up the bubble with the sulking sea flower in it up so that the goat-fish lady, you gotta learn her name sometime, can see it before speaking once more. "attacked me, so I put him in time out until further notice." Catching her mother-henning gaze looking at your cuts and bruises, you wave off whatever thoughts that may have popped up. "I'm fine. This is just from when I hit the sides of the ravine while I got sucked in. No biggie."

She bleats at you worriedly before putting her hands on her hips. "Well, 'no biggie' or not, they should be treated! Come my child, let me heal your wounds and give you something to eat. You look famished!"

You chuckle and pet Panic when he gets close enough. "Well, I'm not one to say no to such a nice offer! But, may I ask, what's your name?"

You ignore Flowey's muttered, "You said no to me..."

The goat-fish lady places a paw to her muzzle and gasps. "Oh dear, where are my manners! I am Toriel, caretaker of the Ruins. And may I ask of your names?" She glances down at Panic before looking back at you.

You smile and point at Panic. "You may! This is Panic, and I'm Y/n. Oh, and this party pooper is Flowey, apparently."

Toriel smiles back at you before suddenly reaching out and holds your hand to lead you forward. "It's a pleasure to meet you! I'll make sure that your stay is exceptionally pleasant!"

This makes you pause for a second. Shouldn't she mean, 'visit'? You're not staying here, you're a princess for Poseidon's sake! Once your family catches wind of your disappearance, they'll send the royal army searching everywhere! You don't like worrying the people you love. Plus that fact that your father is known to have quite the temper.

You and Panic are going to get out of here.

No matter what.

[TBC...]