Chapter 1:
Because not everyone likes people.
Far deep in the woods, near the Ruin´s door, there was a little hut. If one looked at it, it would look abandoned, but there was one person, or should I say monster, who lives there.
A few weeks ago, the king announced his threat against the humans that fell down here, and the kingdom was regaining hope.
It was a new day in the Underground, it was pretty early and the door of the hut opened.
A looking human girl appeared on the doorframe, went outside and closed the door behind her.
She has a human appearance if you didn´t look her hair or eyes of course, and she looks around 16 years old. Her skin looks tan, even without the sun, and she´s petite, around the 5.5ft tall. Her hair long and soft, a brownish color, but mostly red. Her face is round, and her eyes are a dark red color. She is wearing casual clothes: some jean shorts, a gray shirt, a dark red jacket, that was open, and some red boots; a weird choice of clothing considering she´s in Snowdin, but she doesn´t look bothered by the cold.
She starts to walk to Snowdin, going between the trees trying to be unseen. As she reaches the town, she puts up her hoodie up.
Walking with her head down, she enters the Shop to buy the usual supplies there, trying her best to cover her face and talk the least possible. She pays the sale-bunny and exits the shop.
Unfortunately, she was so distracted that instead of returning to her home she took the wrong way, going in the opposite direction. As usual, she walks with her head down, looking at her feet as she walks.
Fate was against her, apparently, and before she noticed she was walking in the wrong direction, she bumped into someone. The crash made her fall backward into the snow and start shaking.
"A-Ah! I-I´m so so-sorry!"
She doesn´t look directly at whoever she crashed into, she just looks down waiting for a yell or an attack to come.
She hears a deep voice grunt, but nothing else. She still doesn´t look up, scared.
A hand appeared in front of her face, made of bone..? The same deep voice spoke to her.
"here, let me help you."
Since are no screaming or anything, she looks up, and see who is it so kind? A skeleton was looking down to her, his bony hand in front of her. He had a rounded skull and a permanent grin, his eyes just a small light in his eye sockets. He was wearing a T-shirt and a blue hoodie, with black shorts and... slippers? Uhh... Moving on, he was waiting with his hand in front of Redness.
Looking suspicious, she takes his hand hesitantly. The skele-monster grabs her hand tight and pulls up, to which Redness shrieks. In moments she´s standing in front of the skeleton, and she noticed he is an inch or two higher than her. Before she can turn around and run away, the monster in front of her starts to talk.
"are you ok? heh, i don´t know you but you´re already "falling for me"."
At this, the ghost of a smile appeared on her face, to quickly disappear a second later.
Before he could say something else, Redness vanished in a light red smoke, leaving the monster there.
Nothing more was said.
Redness had spent the rest of her day hidden in her house, this was the closest she´s been with a monster without... atta... So it was obvious she was worried. She didn´t even get out to de-stress herself. It wasn´t like someone was concerned about her.
A week later, the food she had bought from the shop was running low. She had no other choice but get out of her home and buy more supplies.
Wearing almost the same clothes (except for her t-shirt, this one was black), she headed outside, closed the door behind her, and vanished in smoke.
She appeared in front of the Shop, with her hood up, and got it, buying the usual and trying but failing at being invisible. She paid at the bunny behind the counter and left with a bag full of food and things like that.
She went outside and was about to vanish to her home when she heard someone call out.
"hey!"
She freezes, it´s the same voice from the skeleton she bumped on the other day! Looking around, she saw the bony monster walk towards her, hands in the pockets of the hoodie.
Before she can escape, the skeleton is next to her.
"don´t you know how to greet a new pal? shake my hand.!
Saying this, he pulls his left hand out of his pocket and places it to get a handshake.
Redness eyes up and down the skeleton, but raises slowly her tight hand and grasps the hand from the monster in front of her.
Pffffffff...
Redness blinks. Was that a farting noise? She pulls her hand again, and on his hand, there´s a whoopie cushion, Was that there before? Huh.. it doesn´t matter. The skeleton in front of her smiles wider? Is that even possible? Well, he does.
"heh, this old trick always works. i´m sans, by the way. you are?"
At this point, Redness would just vanish in smoke and move out of her little hut, but she was so surprised she didn´t think of the words coming out of her mouth.
"I´m Redness."
She can´t help but be dry and not really say much, she doesn´t want friends. She doesn´t need friends!
Sans apparently doesn´t mind, since he keeps talking. The light in his eyes dims a little, though, but Redness doesn´t notice.
"heh, well hello red. you´re the first person i know who can teleport."
Redness flinches, she doesn´t like people knowing stuff about her or her powers, but she can´t do anything now.
"Yeah, I do. Do you teleport too?"
She is curious about this Sans monster. Maybe, just maybe...
-not really, but i am good at finding shortcuts.
He winks. Even if she´s lost, smiles anyway. He keeps talking.
"i should go to work now, but i hope we see each other soon, red."
Redness blinks, and when she opens her eyes, Sans is gone.
"H-Huh!?"
Redness looks around, but there is no trace of him. She looks puzzled, then vanishes in smoke to her home.
That moment Redness changed a little. After de-stressing, she felt a little more confident. She still doesn´t trust Sans totally, but after so much time by herself, she isn´t too worried.
The next time she sees Sans, he is with another, taller skeleton.
"SANS! WE MUST GO TO OUR POSTS! YOU CAN TALK WITH YOUR FRIEND LATER!"
"i´m sorry bro, but she comes here at this hour. you can go if you want, i´ll wait for her."
"NONSENSE! I WANT TO MEET HER TOO!"
Seeing Sans with someone else makes her want to turn around and leave. But since she feels a little better than usual, she walks to them.
"H-Hi..."
The loud skeleton answered.
"HELLO! I´M THE GREAT PAPYRUS! ARE YOU A FRIEND OF MY BROTHER?"
"heya red.
Redness shakes a little, she hates being around people! Why was she here in the first place?
"Y-Yeah, you c-could say that..."
Papyrus laughed.
"NYE HEH HEH! WELL, NOW YOU CAN MEET HIS MORE AMAZING BROTHER! THAT IS ME! REDNESS! DO YOU WANT TO BE THE FRIEND OF THE BEST MONSTER IN THE UNDERGROUND!?"
Red flinched but smiled anyway.
"Of course, Papyrus, we can be friends."
Redness knew she was just lying, but she couldn´t say no to the skeleton. On her head, she was already planning a way to get out of this town and never come here again. Maybe Hotland isn´t so bad...
"red?"
She blinked. She forgot she was still there.
"O-Oh, yes Sans? Sorry, I was just thinking about something."
She smiles, but she doesn´t want to leave this little town.
"heh, i said that is you wanted to join us for lunch later."
"U-Uhhh..."
...
"Yeah, I can join you."
Thanks for reading! The ending of this chapter might be a little weird but meh, doesn´t really matter.
I´ll try to post another chapter soon! With something more interesting!
Adios!