Ok! Chapter 2 is out! I see that people are already looking for it, and for that I thank you! (Gives everyone who viewed cheese.) I am not going to do a long author's note, but everything from the first chapter still stands! I NEED COVERART, CHEESE, AND READ MY OTHER STORIES! There was the basic overview, now onto the story!
We start down the path, not speaking and instead just enjoying each other's company. Eventually we pass over the log in the road and walk further up the path until a loud crack sounds throughout the clearing. We both whip our heads to see the source of the noise, but to no avail. Darnit! It had become a game of mine and Sans to see if I could catch him in the act of breaking the log. I always failed. Thinking of memories of the little games like this we had created made it so that I could not help but smile. Unfortunately for me, Grandma Edna noticed.
" What are you smiling about? Did you break that log? How did you do it without me seeing?" She asks. I just continue smiling and answer.
" I didn't break it. It's just that a friend of mine used to play tricks like that on me all the time. It brought back good memories." Grandma looks at me with one eye before turning back to the path and continuing on. Every once in awhile she would look back, saying that she could have sworn that she saw someone, but continue on otherwise. We finally reach the bridge, where the sound of footsteps crinkling through the snow behind us causes both of us to freeze. The footsteps come to a stop right behind us. A familiar monotone voice rings out through the clearing.
" Humans. Don't you know how to greet and old friend? Turn around and..OOF!" Grandma Edna had swiftly turned around and hit Sans right in the head with her cane, sending him sprawling back in the snow. I quickly went to help him stand up and make sure that his HP hadn't been affected. Luckily the hit wasn't hard enough to actually do any damage.
" Are you ok?" I ask worriedly. Sans nods his head.
" Yeah. I'm alright kiddo." Grandma looms eerily above us.
" And just who are you? Don't you know that it is rude to scare people like that! Wait a minute!" Grandma Edna looked Sans down. Sans was frozen to the spot he standing in, clearly uncomfortable with the newcomer.
" Uhh, the name is…!" Grandma exclaimed a large "Wait!" before Sans could say anything. I was holding back laughter and it was taking up quite a bit of energy.
" You look like old WingDings! Are you his son? I remember him saying something about creating a son back when I last saw him!" Grandma Edna exclaimed. Poor Sans was beyond just confused.
" How do you know dad?" Sans asked.
" Knew him? Why me and him used to see each other every Sunday for tea with Tori and the gang! He was always a bit grouchy, but he was real nice once you got to know him!" Grandma Edna explained. Sans was just about as shocked as he could get. He looked at me with disbelief written all over his face.
" I'll do my best to explain later," I quickly whisper to him. He just nods.
" How did you know my dad though? He hadn't seen humans since before the fall," Sans tells her, allowing me to finally help him stand up.
" Just how old do you think I am sunny?" Grandma Edna asks him, a evil glint in her eye. I knew exactly what was coming.
" Uhh, 73?"
" You are close, but off by a few years," I tell him. He looks at me and cocks his head to one side.
" How many years?" Sans asks.
" 200!" Grandma Edna says. If Sans had a moveable jaw, I am sure it would have dropped. Grandma Edna laughs at the poor skeleton's expression.
" H-How!" Sans exclaims. Grandma Edna gets real close to his face before whispering
" Magic!" Grandma Edna laughs again, before turning around and looking at the path ahead of us. Sans turns to me.
" You have a lot of explaining to do," Sans tells me in a low voice.
" I will do my best, but I can only explain so much. I am still learning more and more," I reply. Grandma Edna looks back at us talking and smiles a bit larger.
" Do you two know each other?" She asks.
" Sorta," Sans offers. Grandma Edna looks at us then breaks out into a full blown smile.
" Well aren't you two just the cutest couple!" Grandma exclaims before turning on the path and continuing on, leaving two blushing messes behind.
" S-Sorry!" I try apologizing to Sans.
" It's fine. You didn't do anything wrong," Sans says. I am about to start messing with one of my sleeves, when Sans grabs my hand that was closest to him and intertwines his phalanges with my fingers.
" Though, I suppose she is right," Sans mumbles just loud enough for me to hear. Sans was staring at his feet. Both of our blushes are covering half of our faces. Mine a bright tomato red while Sans's was a bright cyan blue. I don't pull away my hand, instead choosing to speak.
" I think so too," I tell him quietly. Sans turns to look at me, surprise in his eyes.
" Is this you telling me that you want to be my girlfriend?" Sans asks. I feel my blush burn through my face. I am somewhat surprised that my face hadn't started burst into flames and started mimicking Grillby.
" I-uh-I- umm, y-yes?" I finally manage to stutter out. Sans swiftly wraps me in a hug, which I return with a bit of shakiness in my arms and legs, and my heart as I realize just how fast it is beating.
" Heh. Looks like you just got yourself a bone-friend then," Sans chuckles into my ear. I chuckle along with him, feeling my heart start slowing down. I could also feel Sans's soul stop beating as much, his own substitute heart. Grandma Edna is the one to break us out of our trance.
" Yoohoo! Lovebirds! We got a trail to trek!" Grandma Edna calls out to us. We both back up from the hug, blushing yet again, but we move down the path towards where Grandma Edna is waiting. We don't stop holding hands.
" Geez. This timeline is crazy," I tell Sans. He laughs.
" Yup. What a time to be alive." We both laugh at the pun, which reminds us of the soon appearing skeleton coming out of the forest.
" Which reminds me about another crazy thing about this timeline," Sans says sheepishly. I look over at him.
" What? Is something wrong?" I ask worriedly, afraid something had gone wrong.
" Well, you see, Paps kinda remembers everything," Sans explains. I nearly freeze on the spot.
" Everything everything?" I ask him.
" Yeah. Everything everything. Don't worry though. He isn't upset about what that demon made you do," Sans says, voice darkening at the mention of Chara.
" It's all in the past now," I remind him with a smile. Sans smiles back, well at least more than he always is. We reach Grandma Edna who is looking at the conveniently shaped lamp.
" What an oddly shaped lamp," is all she mutters.
" My bro is coming soon, and he is a human hunting fanatic. Why don't you hide behind that conveniently shaped lamp? And the sentry station?" Sans adds in, remembering that there was only one lamp and that there was no way that Grandma Edna was going to fit behind it. I let go of Sans's hand, already missing the warmth it had, before moving behind the lamp, but then realize that Grandma Edna hadn't moved at all.
" Grandma Edna! Behind the sentry stand!" I whisper. She doesn't move.
" Nope. I ain't hiding from some brother!" I look at Sans for help, but all our attention is brought to the stomping off a nearby skeleton looking for his brother. I sigh and move next to Sans again, who quickly grabs my hand again. Papyrus comes stomping into the clearing.
" SANS!" Papyrus steps into the clearing and closes his eye sockets, about to launch into his normal speech, but does a double take when he notices Grandma Edna staring him down.
" OH! TWO HUMANS? WOWIE! IT MUST BE MY LUCKY DAY!" Papyrus exclaims. He runs up to Grandma Edna and starts shaking her hand.
" HELLO HUMAN! MY NAME IS THE GREAT PAPYRUS! WHAT IS-OWWIE!" Grandma Edna had brought her cane down on Papyrus's head. Hard.
" Don't you know it is rude to come bustling into places yelling? Also, what is this I hear about you hunting humans? Rude!" Another swing of her cane sends Papyrus sprawling out in the snow. Sans and I run over to Pap to make sure he is ok. He sits up, slightly dazed, before standing up completely and looking down at us.
" BROTHER? WHY DID THE HUMAN HIT ME IN THE HEAD?" Papyrus asks incredulously .
" Don't worry Papyrus. She was just scared is all," I tell him.
" Scared!? As if! Edna Smith doesn't get scared!" Grandma Edna retorts. Papyrus looks at Grandma Edna before seemingly remembering something. Pap looks down at me in disbelief, before picking me up in a bone crushing hug.
" FRISK! IT IS GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN!" Papyrus exclaims. I hug him back as best I can and laugh.
" It's good to see you too Pap!" Papyrus puts me down on the ground before looking back Grandma Edna.
" DO YOU KNOW THIS LADY?" Papyrus says in an attempt to whisper. I nod.
" Grandma Edna, this is Sans and Papyrus. Sans and Pap, Grandma Edna," I introduce.
" THIS HUMAN IS YOUR GRANDMOTHER?" Papyrus asks in disbelief.
" Not by blood, but more of an adoptive by choice Grandmother," I explain.
" Well, we should probably start heading through and doing some puzzles if we ever want to reach Snowdin before nightfall," Sans says. Nightfall in the underground was when all of the lights in the underground magically lowered, creating the illusion of night. When I first saw it in Snowdin, I thought it was beautiful.
" YES! I HAVE SET MANY PUZZLES UP AHEAD! NYEHEHEHE!" Papyrus exclaims before running off to meet us at the first puzzle. I can't help but laugh at the younger skeleton's antics. Grandma Edna starts chasing after Papyrus, yelling something about running off being rude. She is surprisingly fast for a 273 year old.
" We better catch up before she ends up hitting someone else in the head," I tell Sans, wincing at the memory of having it fall onto my head at speeds of Asgore knows what.
" Yeah. I suggest we find a way to have her "loose" it. I cane not take another hit," Sans says, putting air quotations over the word loose. I laugh and nod my head.
" Definitely. That thing hurts!" I agree. Sans grabs my hand once more as we make our way down the path. We reach Grandma Edna, who is inspecting the box, and then continue forward with her. Once at the ice patch, I let go of Sans's hand a slide across the ice, landing rather ungracefully in the snow on the other side. I laugh, followed by Grandma Edna and Sans. Grandma Edna gracefully slides across the ice and offer me a hand to help stand up. I gratefully accept. Sans meets us at the path.
" Ice job Frisk and Edna," Sans happily puns. Grandma Edna nearly hits him on the head again with her cane, but luckily Sans dodged it.
" That's Grandma Edna to you!" Grandma Edna scolds before stomping onto the path.
" Yeah well," Sans grumbles, rubbing his nearly hit head.
" Sorry. Are you ok?" I ask him. Sans nods.
" We need to get the stick away from her," Sans groans. I can't help but laugh a little bit.
" Yep, but watch out. There might be snow way to do it!" I tell him. Sans's mood instantly improves at the pun. We quickly follow Grandma Edna before she ends up hitting Papyrus in the head again. We reach the clearing with the invisible maze, where Grandma Edna is intently listening to Papyrus's speech.
" -A HEARTY ZAP! OH! BROTHER AND HUMAN FRISK! BEHOLD! MY INVISIBLE ELECTRICITY MAZE!" Papyrus shouts, striking his normal Papyrus pose. A small breeze somehow makes his scarf flutter behind him. Grandma Edna looks at the maze carefully before stepping on it. A giant ZAP wrong out in the clearing as Papyrus was electrocuted by the small blue orb in his hand.
" Uh, bro? I think you are supposed to have the human hold the-OWW!" Grandma Edna had once again hit Sans on the head.
" What was that for?!" I ask her as I make sure that Sans is ok.
" I told you that it was Grandma Edna!" Grandma Edna scolds him.
" Ok okay! Geez!" Sans retorts, rubbing his head where the cane had left a small mark.
" Uh, Sans?" I ask him.
" Yes," he mumbles angrily.
" Is it normal for a small black mark to appear on your head?"
Thank you for reading chapter 2! Comments, Suggestions, Cheese? All are welcome in the comment section! I want to hear you wonderful voices! Even if you just say the word "Cheese"! I would actually like that! Because cheese is amazing. Welp, about one more chapter will be updated today, then I will be off reading even more fanfiction instead of writing! *nervously laughs* Welp, Creeper out! *continues to nibble on cheddar from last time* This is some good sharp cheddar...