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Chapter 5:

More Monsters…More Puzzles

Leaving the Spider Bake sale behind, Li continued on his journey through the ruins. He passed a few Froggits that were happily croaking away to each other. Li didn't stop and chat, letting them continue with their conversation before one of them noticed him and croaked in his direction. Li stopped and turned around to see the two Froggits watching him, both with smiles on their faces.

"Ribbit ribbit, I've heard others say that there are currently four frogs in the room. But I can only see three frogs in the room," one of the Froggits informed Li. Li started looking around the room to see another Froggit sleeping next to the sign about the Spider Bake sale. He counted three Froggits and he couldn't see a fourth one. "This is troubling, to say at least…Ribbit."

'I guess a fourth one will turn up later?' Li thought to himself as he decided to carry on with his journey but the other Froggit stopped him.

"Ribbit, ribbit, I have heard you are quite merciful, for a human. Surely you know by now a monster wears a yellow name when you can spare it. What do you think of that?"

"I…dunno? It's bad but handy at the same time…" Li wasn't quite sure what answer the Froggit was looking for.

"Really? Then, I'll tell all of my friends to tell their friends' friends to never use yellow names. How about that?"

"Please…no more yellow names…It just seems strange…"

"OK, I will let them know not to use yellow names." The Froggit hopped away just before Li felt the phone vibrate in his pocket. He felt around in his pockets for the phone, feeling the vibration, Li pulled out the phone and answered it.

"Hello…?" Toriell's voice came through the speaker. "I just realised that it has been a while since I have cleaned up. I was not expecting to have company so soon. There are probably a lot of things lying about here and there."

"Can I pick them up? Help you tidy up the Ruins a bit?" Li asked.

"You can pick them up, but do not carry more than you need, okay my child?"

"Why?" Li asked.

"Someday you might see something you really like. You will want to leave room in your pockets for that."

"I guess that makes sense…Okay, I'll only carry what I need," Li squeaked excitedly.

"I'm glad to hear that, my child. I shall go now." The phone was hung up after that.

'Maybe yellow names on monsters might actually be a good thing…now that I think about it. It lets me know if I've pleased the monster enough to let me pass…' Li thought to himself. He had been able to spare monsters because he saw that their names had changed colour. He turned around and headed back towards the two Froggits that were talking. By now, both of them were standing idly next to each other, bobbing their large heads up and down. "Hey…Froggit..?"

"Ribbit, ribbit. How are you doing without yellow names?" The Froggit smiled slightly at Li. The young child shuffled awkwardly on his feet before he plucked up what courage he had and asked the question.

"Can…I have yellow names again?"

"Huh? It's rather inconvenient that you changed you mind like this."

"I know, I'm sorry…" Li apologised to the monster.

"I told everyone not to use yellow names, everyone threw theirs out."

'How do you throw out names?' Li thought to himself extremely confused. He didn't think it was even possible to throw a name out, especially if it was your own name.

"Well, last year it was fashionable to have pink names. I think everyone still has those in their closets somewhere…I'll ask everyone to look. But this is the last time!" The Froggit looked a little angry at Li for changing his mind.

"That's a promise, I won't ask to change name colours again."

"Ribbit ribbit, I'm happy to hear."

"Bye," Li waved to the Froggits before he decided to quickly leave them alone. He didn't want to make another Froggit angry because he changed his mind. The next room came into view.

There were six different dark purple patches on the ground with cracks in the middle. He knew that if he walked on the cracked ground, the floor would give way and he'll tumble down possible into the darkness forever. Li noticed that there were vines growing on the wall of the Ruins, something he had seen before but he was glad that there was something 'normal' in the Ruins. Then again, he was the weird one here. He was a human that fell down and awoke in this strange but wonderful land. Li noticed that there was a sign hanging on the wall. Walking over, Li wondered what it read.

"There is just one switch." He looked at the cracked floors and guessed that this was another puzzle. He hoped that there were patches of petals for him to land on. Li walked over to the closest cracked floor before a monster stood in his way.

Loox drew near. Loox was a small monster with a giant eye taking over most of the body with tiny horns sprouting from the body. A tiny mouth was under the giant eye with tiny claws from the side of the body. Loox has tiny feet as well. Li's choices appeared in front of him.

FIGHT – ACT – ITEM – MERCY Li pressed the act button.

ACT - *Loox - *Check *Pick On *Don't Pick On

CHECK

Loox – ATK 6 DEF 6

Don't pick on him.

Family name: Eyewalker

'Yeah, no kidding…' Li thought to himself as he looked at Loox.

"Please don't pick on me…" Loox begged Li before Loox summoned small rings which started to bounce around, trying to hit Li. Once the attack had finished, Loox gnashes its teeth. Li's choices appeared once more. He gently tapped on Act and then Don't pick on.

"Finally,somebody gets it," despite what Loox said, it repeated the same attack as before. The rings reappeared and started to bounce around once more. Li avoided as much as possible but one of the rings managed to tap Li. He winced in pain slightly but it was a simple sting, rather than anything else. He was sure that it was going to bruise slightly. Li looked at Loox to see that it was staring right through him. A little creepy but he moved over to the Mercy option and tapped it.

MERCY - *Spare *Flee

*Spare

YOU WON!

Li earnt 0 XP and 5 gold.

Now that Loox had been spared, Li walked over towards the closest cracked floor and walked over. As expected, the floor quickly gave out from under Li and he fell down towards the lower floor, he landed in a pile of red leaves, cushioning his fall.

"So glad that this was here~" Li felt the leaves before he noticed a green leaf. Looking around, he saw what appeared to be a vegetable growing from the ground. "Couldn't hurt to pull," Li got up on his feet and walked over to the vegetable and grasped at all the leaves and pulled up the vegetable.

"Hey!" Another battle had started up so soon. "What do you think you're doing?"

"Wha!"

Vegetoid came out of the earth!

A Soul of Determination – Chapter 5: More Monsters…More Puzzles

Li finally found the switch and pulled it down. A few Vegetoids had given Li a few small bites to eat, giving back his health. He spared them before he picked the *Devour option for the battle. They were talking vegetables and he was hungry. He climbed through the vent back onto the top floor. Now that the switch had been pulled, Li was free to travel to the next room.

"The far door is not an exit. It simply marks a rotation in perspective…Wonder what that means?" Li asked as he looked around the room, the room was shaped like a corner with three pillars standing tall. Each of them had a small switch sitting next to it. The switches were all assorted colours, one being a light blue, a nice green and a red like his soul heart. It wasn't hard to see to see that they were switches as there was a button on them. Li walked over to the 'exit' of the room before he felt a tiny hand grabbing him, pulling him into another battle.

Loox drew near. Li knew exactly what he needed to do and before long, Loox had left with a smile on its face and with Li having five more gold in his pocket. Li waved at the Loox and headed into the next room.

"Wonder why I'm not getting any exp…?" Li questioned as he entered the next room to find that it was mirrored to the room he was just in. The blue switch was now closer to him while the green switch was in the middle and the red switch was furthest away. In the previous room, the blue switch was the closest, then the green and then the red switch. "Hang on…the far door is not an exit. I think I get the sign now. So, there should be another sign around here somewhere…" Li ran off and scanned the walls before he found the sign. "If you can read this, press the blue switch. Which'll be the switch near closer to the door I came through." Swiftly, Li ran towards the blue switch and pressed the button. Shortly after, Li heard a clicking sound.

"Hey!" Li was soon grabbed by another Loox. It seemed that Loox and co. decided to pick on Li! Loox was accompanied by a Vegetoid and a Migosp. He didn't need to pick on Loox, have a Vegetoid prepare a meal for him and once Loox and Vegetoid could be spared, spare them and then spare Migosp. Migosp was only angry because he wasn't alone. As soon as the buttons came up, Li pressed Act. Once all three were satisfied, Li picked up eleven gold off the floor. The rest of the rooms were similar, a sign asking for a coloured switch to be switched before Li can travel into the next room. Once all three switches have been pressed in the different rooms, Li came to a long corridor.

The light purple path spread as far as it could with a little bump before continuing into another room. Li noticed that there was a large row of green vines stretching across the floor, looking like a barrier for the monsters from the Ruins not to cross. Li smiled and walked over and tried his best to jump over the vines and onto the solid ground past them. Apart from going forward, the path turned left where red leaves had scattered on the floor. He guessed that Toriel was over in that direction but his curiosity wanted him to continue on the path he was on at the moment. He just wanted to check out the room ahead of him rather than turning on a different path. Making his decision, he walked forward and jumped over more vines on the floor and into the next room. There was a door and a Froggit minding its own business.

"Hello Froggit."

"Ribbit, ribbit. Just between you and me…I saw Toriel come out of here just a little while ago. She was carrying some groceries. I didn't ask what they were for…We're all too intimidated to talk to her. Ribbit."

"Why? Toriel's nice," Li smiled.

"Ribbit, ribbit. Human, you don't know? Ribbit…" Li shook his head. "Ribbit, ribbit. Well, just be thankful. Ribbit."

"Well…alright then, bye." Li left the Froggit and walked into the door next to him.

Standing tall in front of him looked to be the rest of the Ruins, a large building reached as tall as it could with many windows but there were no lights on. He assumed that it was because no one was inside and rather running around in the ruins playing with each other or just relaxing on their own. Li couldn't see a way down to the building in front of him but he noticed a sparkle on the floor. He walked over and reached down to pick up a toy knife and placed it in his bag. He quickly ran back to where the path divided and headed towards the door he ignored before. Running through the new doorway, he noticed that there was a large black tree. He took a few steps forward before he heard Toriel's voice.

"Oh dear, that took longer than I thought it would." She was walking towards the tree with her phone in her furry paws.

"Toriel!" Li called and waved, drawing her attention from her phone.

"How did you get here, my child? Are you hurt?" Li found himself wrapped up in her arms while she gave him a quick hug before she picked him up and started checking him over.

"I'm fine," Li squeaked.

"There, there, I will heal you…I should not have left you alone for so long. It was irresponsible to try and surprise you like this."

"Surprise? What surprise?" Li asked excited.

"Err…" Toriel blushed before she smiled at Li. "Well, I suppose I cannot hide it any longer. Come, small one!" Toriel put Li back down and ran off into the building behind her. Li just smiled, she was so friendly. He walked over to the tree and examined it.

Every time this old tree grows any leaves, they fall right off.

"I feel sorry for you tree…" Li left the tree and walked forward. He noticed a star twinkling on the floor.

Seeing such a cute, tidy house in the RUINS gives you determination.

Description
Chapter 5:

More Monsters…More Puzzles

Leaving the Spider Bake sale behind, Li continued on his journey through the ruins. He passed a few Froggits that were happily croaking away to each other. Li didn't stop and chat, letting them continue with their conversation before one of them noticed him and croaked in his direction. Li stopped and turned around to see the two Froggits watching him, both with smiles on their faces.

"Ribbit ribbit, I've heard others say that there are currently four frogs in the room. But I can only see three frogs in the room," one of the Froggits informed Li. Li started looking around the room to see another Froggit sleeping next to the sign about the Spider Bake sale. He counted three Froggits and he couldn't see a fourth one. "This is troubling, to say at least…Ribbit."

'I guess a fourth one will turn up later?' Li thought to himself as he decided to carry on with his journey but the other Froggit stopped him.

"Ribbit, ribbit, I have heard you are quite merciful, for a human. Surely you know by now a monster wears a yellow name when you can spare it. What do you think of that?"

"I…dunno? It's bad but handy at the same time…" Li wasn't quite sure what answer the Froggit was looking for.

"Really? Then, I'll tell all of my friends to tell their friends' friends to never use yellow names. How about that?"

"Please…no more yellow names…It just seems strange…"

"OK, I will let them know not to use yellow names." The Froggit hopped away just before Li felt the phone vibrate in his pocket. He felt around in his pockets for the phone, feeling the vibration, Li pulled out the phone and answered it.

"Hello…?" Toriell's voice came through the speaker. "I just realised that it has been a while since I have cleaned up. I was not expecting to have company so soon. There are probably a lot of things lying about here and there."

"Can I pick them up? Help you tidy up the Ruins a bit?" Li asked.

"You can pick them up, but do not carry more than you need, okay my child?"

"Why?" Li asked.

"Someday you might see something you really like. You will want to leave room in your pockets for that."

"I guess that makes sense…Okay, I'll only carry what I need," Li squeaked excitedly.

"I'm glad to hear that, my child. I shall go now." The phone was hung up after that.

'Maybe yellow names on monsters might actually be a good thing…now that I think about it. It lets me know if I've pleased the monster enough to let me pass…' Li thought to himself. He had been able to spare monsters because he saw that their names had changed colour. He turned around and headed back towards the two Froggits that were talking. By now, both of them were standing idly next to each other, bobbing their large heads up and down. "Hey…Froggit..?"

"Ribbit, ribbit. How are you doing without yellow names?" The Froggit smiled slightly at Li. The young child shuffled awkwardly on his feet before he plucked up what courage he had and asked the question.

"Can…I have yellow names again?"

"Huh? It's rather inconvenient that you changed you mind like this."

"I know, I'm sorry…" Li apologised to the monster.

"I told everyone not to use yellow names, everyone threw theirs out."

'How do you throw out names?' Li thought to himself extremely confused. He didn't think it was even possible to throw a name out, especially if it was your own name.

"Well, last year it was fashionable to have pink names. I think everyone still has those in their closets somewhere…I'll ask everyone to look. But this is the last time!" The Froggit looked a little angry at Li for changing his mind.

"That's a promise, I won't ask to change name colours again."

"Ribbit ribbit, I'm happy to hear."

"Bye," Li waved to the Froggits before he decided to quickly leave them alone. He didn't want to make another Froggit angry because he changed his mind. The next room came into view.

There were six different dark purple patches on the ground with cracks in the middle. He knew that if he walked on the cracked ground, the floor would give way and he'll tumble down possible into the darkness forever. Li noticed that there were vines growing on the wall of the Ruins, something he had seen before but he was glad that there was something 'normal' in the Ruins. Then again, he was the weird one here. He was a human that fell down and awoke in this strange but wonderful land. Li noticed that there was a sign hanging on the wall. Walking over, Li wondered what it read.

"There is just one switch." He looked at the cracked floors and guessed that this was another puzzle. He hoped that there were patches of petals for him to land on. Li walked over to the closest cracked floor before a monster stood in his way.

Loox drew near. Loox was a small monster with a giant eye taking over most of the body with tiny horns sprouting from the body. A tiny mouth was under the giant eye with tiny claws from the side of the body. Loox has tiny feet as well. Li's choices appeared in front of him.

FIGHT – ACT – ITEM – MERCY Li pressed the act button.

ACT - *Loox - *Check *Pick On *Don't Pick On

CHECK

Loox – ATK 6 DEF 6

Don't pick on him.

Family name: Eyewalker

'Yeah, no kidding…' Li thought to himself as he looked at Loox.

"Please don't pick on me…" Loox begged Li before Loox summoned small rings which started to bounce around, trying to hit Li. Once the attack had finished, Loox gnashes its teeth. Li's choices appeared once more. He gently tapped on Act and then Don't pick on.

"Finally,somebody gets it," despite what Loox said, it repeated the same attack as before. The rings reappeared and started to bounce around once more. Li avoided as much as possible but one of the rings managed to tap Li. He winced in pain slightly but it was a simple sting, rather than anything else. He was sure that it was going to bruise slightly. Li looked at Loox to see that it was staring right through him. A little creepy but he moved over to the Mercy option and tapped it.

MERCY - *Spare *Flee

*Spare

YOU WON!

Li earnt 0 XP and 5 gold.

Now that Loox had been spared, Li walked over towards the closest cracked floor and walked over. As expected, the floor quickly gave out from under Li and he fell down towards the lower floor, he landed in a pile of red leaves, cushioning his fall.

"So glad that this was here~" Li felt the leaves before he noticed a green leaf. Looking around, he saw what appeared to be a vegetable growing from the ground. "Couldn't hurt to pull," Li got up on his feet and walked over to the vegetable and grasped at all the leaves and pulled up the vegetable.

"Hey!" Another battle had started up so soon. "What do you think you're doing?"

"Wha!"

Vegetoid came out of the earth!

A Soul of Determination – Chapter 5: More Monsters…More Puzzles

Li finally found the switch and pulled it down. A few Vegetoids had given Li a few small bites to eat, giving back his health. He spared them before he picked the *Devour option for the battle. They were talking vegetables and he was hungry. He climbed through the vent back onto the top floor. Now that the switch had been pulled, Li was free to travel to the next room.

"The far door is not an exit. It simply marks a rotation in perspective…Wonder what that means?" Li asked as he looked around the room, the room was shaped like a corner with three pillars standing tall. Each of them had a small switch sitting next to it. The switches were all assorted colours, one being a light blue, a nice green and a red like his soul heart. It wasn't hard to see to see that they were switches as there was a button on them. Li walked over to the 'exit' of the room before he felt a tiny hand grabbing him, pulling him into another battle.

Loox drew near. Li knew exactly what he needed to do and before long, Loox had left with a smile on its face and with Li having five more gold in his pocket. Li waved at the Loox and headed into the next room.

"Wonder why I'm not getting any exp…?" Li questioned as he entered the next room to find that it was mirrored to the room he was just in. The blue switch was now closer to him while the green switch was in the middle and the red switch was furthest away. In the previous room, the blue switch was the closest, then the green and then the red switch. "Hang on…the far door is not an exit. I think I get the sign now. So, there should be another sign around here somewhere…" Li ran off and scanned the walls before he found the sign. "If you can read this, press the blue switch. Which'll be the switch near closer to the door I came through." Swiftly, Li ran towards the blue switch and pressed the button. Shortly after, Li heard a clicking sound.

"Hey!" Li was soon grabbed by another Loox. It seemed that Loox and co. decided to pick on Li! Loox was accompanied by a Vegetoid and a Migosp. He didn't need to pick on Loox, have a Vegetoid prepare a meal for him and once Loox and Vegetoid could be spared, spare them and then spare Migosp. Migosp was only angry because he wasn't alone. As soon as the buttons came up, Li pressed Act. Once all three were satisfied, Li picked up eleven gold off the floor. The rest of the rooms were similar, a sign asking for a coloured switch to be switched before Li can travel into the next room. Once all three switches have been pressed in the different rooms, Li came to a long corridor.

The light purple path spread as far as it could with a little bump before continuing into another room. Li noticed that there was a large row of green vines stretching across the floor, looking like a barrier for the monsters from the Ruins not to cross. Li smiled and walked over and tried his best to jump over the vines and onto the solid ground past them. Apart from going forward, the path turned left where red leaves had scattered on the floor. He guessed that Toriel was over in that direction but his curiosity wanted him to continue on the path he was on at the moment. He just wanted to check out the room ahead of him rather than turning on a different path. Making his decision, he walked forward and jumped over more vines on the floor and into the next room. There was a door and a Froggit minding its own business.

"Hello Froggit."

"Ribbit, ribbit. Just between you and me…I saw Toriel come out of here just a little while ago. She was carrying some groceries. I didn't ask what they were for…We're all too intimidated to talk to her. Ribbit."

"Why? Toriel's nice," Li smiled.

"Ribbit, ribbit. Human, you don't know? Ribbit…" Li shook his head. "Ribbit, ribbit. Well, just be thankful. Ribbit."

"Well…alright then, bye." Li left the Froggit and walked into the door next to him.

Standing tall in front of him looked to be the rest of the Ruins, a large building reached as tall as it could with many windows but there were no lights on. He assumed that it was because no one was inside and rather running around in the ruins playing with each other or just relaxing on their own. Li couldn't see a way down to the building in front of him but he noticed a sparkle on the floor. He walked over and reached down to pick up a toy knife and placed it in his bag. He quickly ran back to where the path divided and headed towards the door he ignored before. Running through the new doorway, he noticed that there was a large black tree. He took a few steps forward before he heard Toriel's voice.

"Oh dear, that took longer than I thought it would." She was walking towards the tree with her phone in her furry paws.

"Toriel!" Li called and waved, drawing her attention from her phone.

"How did you get here, my child? Are you hurt?" Li found himself wrapped up in her arms while she gave him a quick hug before she picked him up and started checking him over.

"I'm fine," Li squeaked.

"There, there, I will heal you…I should not have left you alone for so long. It was irresponsible to try and surprise you like this."

"Surprise? What surprise?" Li asked excited.

"Err…" Toriel blushed before she smiled at Li. "Well, I suppose I cannot hide it any longer. Come, small one!" Toriel put Li back down and ran off into the building behind her. Li just smiled, she was so friendly. He walked over to the tree and examined it.

Every time this old tree grows any leaves, they fall right off.

"I feel sorry for you tree…" Li left the tree and walked forward. He noticed a star twinkling on the floor.

Seeing such a cute, tidy house in the RUINS gives you determination.