p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="0886676577331e57c9b61d2171ced666"Our little group walked along the snowy path in comfortable silence, though there was an obvious tension in the air. Springtrap and Freddy had their hands above their guns and everyone was watching the trees around us. We could feel the someone watching us in the trees, though they weren't hostile, just curious and cautious. I payed more attention to the path before us, as we came upon a large tree branch in the way. Springtrap, Foxy, and Slappy immediately set out to moving it, setting it off to the side of the path, out of the way, and we continued on./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="2a08a348a7beef757b7d5b688c581e53"We came upon a bridge that was poorly barred off. We stopped and just as we were about to discuss possible solutions, the presence from earlier appeared behind us. I felt the others tense up, though Frisk oddly seemed excited. "Hey human! Don't you know how to greet a new pal?" they said, revealing a deep masculine voice. I suppressed a shiver, (Hey! I'm still an adult ya know?) and turned around to face a skeleton about 5'6, which was 6 inches taller than me. He held his hand out for me to shake. I spotted the whoopie cushion and smirked inwardly, 'a comedian, huh?' I shook his hand, and a loud farting sound filled the air. We and Frisk laughed, while the others kinda stood there confused. "I'm Sans. Sans the skeleton. " He said, introducing himself. I felt something click as I recognized the name. I gave him a sly smirk, "You wouldn't by any chance be the same Sans that used to sneak into Gaster's room with me, are you?" I asked him, handing Frisk to Slappy, knowing what was probably about to happen. Something clicked in those eye sockets and the once dull look in his eye sockets turned into a spark and I was yanked into a em style="box-sizing: border-box;"bone /emcrushing hug. "Crystalyn? It's been millenias, how are you still alive? Humans don't live this long." He asked me, his skull buried in my hair and his forearms wrapped tightly around my waist. I hmmed, "Well that might be the case for a normal human, he'll it'd be that way even for a normal mage, but I'm not normal." I answered. He pulled back, albeit reluctantly, to give me a confused look. I chuckled and pulled my soul out and held it my hands. He looked at my soul in awe. "When we went into hiding, I felt helpless, so I practiced magic practically religiously. My sister had even compared me to Gaster at one point. I had learned so many different kinds and had expanded my magic to a point to where my body and my soul weren't equipped for ir, and my magic decided to change me, both body and soul." I told him. He glanced up at me and, at my nod, gently took my soul into his skeletal hands. I felt his hands on my soul, it felt odd, but it was a pleasant odd. He rubbed it and turned it this way and that, before letting it drift back to me and wrapping his arms back around my waist. I pulled my soul back into my chest and he put his face back into the crook of my neck. It was obvious what he was doing. Skeletons had a superior sense of smell, which was kinda ironic really, and he was re-familiarizing himself with my sent, simply enjoying that fact that I was alive and there. Springtrap and Foxy had done the same after I had gotten hurt. When he finally pulled back, I ignored the blue tear stains on my shirt. "Hey listen, Pap is gonna be here soon, and he's a human hunting fanatic. Asgore put a law in place, where any humans found are to be taken to the castle. Pap is innocent still, like, really innocent, so he doesn't really know what happens afterwards, but Asgore...he kills them and takes their soul. Pap doesn't know this though, so he's all for handing humans in to the king, and with this big group of humans here..." He said, trailing off. I snickered, "Sans, Frisk and I are the only humans here. The others are my familiars." I told him. He looked at me in surprise. "You perfected your mom's charm?" He asked me. I nodded, as the others reverted to their real forms, much to the shock of Frisk, who was still being held by Slappy, who had shrunk. "Meet Slappy, Bendy, Springtrap, Foxy, and Freddy." I said, motioning to each of them in turn. He nodded to them, "Thanks for keeping the trouble magnet safe." He told them. I made a sound of protest as the others laughed. They reverted back to their human forms. "I'm not a trouble magnet." I protested. Foxy snorted, "Lass, ye be attractin all kinds a trouble. First it be the Russians, then it ye tangled with a new demon, then ye dealt wit our crazy crew and that bilgwater, then ye were on the run from the other mages, which led ter us fallin down the hole." the fox said. I scowled as the other chuckled around me. Sans laughed, "Sounds like your still a trouble magnet, even after all this time." He said. I rolled my eyes and huffed. A loud voice came from the distance and Sans looked panicked. "Through the bars, Papyrus made them too wide." He said. I nodded and herded the others across the bridge and onto the other side./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="c876186997223ff9327ffb502ff8b3a1"We got to the other side and Sans was already over there. I gave him a knowing look, before telling everyone to hide. I hid behind the booth and Frisk hide behind the weirdly shaped lamp. The others hid as tattoos on me. "Sup, bro?" Sans greeted. "YOu know what's 'sup' brother! It's been 8 days and you still haven't recalibrated. Your. Puzzles! You just hang around outside your Station! What are you even doing?!" exclaimed you I assumed was Papyrus, as Gaster had never sounded like that. " Staring at this lamp. It's really cool. You wanna look?" Sans asked. I had a moment of panic, 'Just what is he doing?!' I thought. " No! I don't have time for that! What if a human comes through here? I want to be ready! I will be the one! I must be the one! I will capture a human! Then I', The Great Papyrus, will receive all the things I deserve! Respect! Recognition! I will finally be able to join the royal guard! People will ask to be my friend?" The younger skeleton exclaimed. I resisted the overwhelming urge to go, awe! "I will bathe in a shower of kisses every morning." He finished. I wrinkled me nose at that part. 'Get a dog then.' I thought. "Hmm, maybe this lamp will help?" Sans suggested. I scowled, before almost laughing, I had finally realized what he was doing, and it was kinda funny. He was purposely irritating his brother to get him to leave. "Sans! You are not helping! You lazybones! All you do is sit and boondoggle! You get lazier and lazier everyday!" Papyrus scolded. "Hey, take it easy, I've gotten a ton of work done to day. A skeleton." Sans replied. I pressed my hard to my face harshly, to prevent them from hearing my snort. "Come on, you're smiling." Sans said. "I am and I hate it!" Papyrus replied, before sighing, "Why does some one as great as I, have to do so much just to get some recognition?" I could practically hear the grin in Sans' voice, "wow, sounds like you're really working yourself down to the bone." Sans replied. "Ugh! I will attend to my puzzles! As for your work? Put a little more backbone into it! Nyehehehehehe!" He finished with the most strangest laugh I've ever heard. A few moments paused, before one last, "Heh!" filled the air. Another couple seconds paused, before, "Alright you can come out now." He said./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="a4649e477c5f2200bf8e6ab877233815"Frisk and I stood up and I stretched, popping my back in the process. Sans flinched and I chuckled, "You always did hate it when I did that." I teased. He gave me a half-hearted glare. "Snowden's not to far from here, just a little ways ahead, but, uh, listen, Papyrus has never actually seen a human, he was too little to remember your folks when we were locked away and you guys had to go into hiding." Sans said, scratching his skull. I got the general idea, "And you want us to let him see us?" I asked him. He nodded. I opened my mouth to answer, but Frisk beat me to it and nodded enthusiastically. Sans smiled, "Knew I could count on you kiddo." he said. I mentally noted how weird his sentence was, like he'd met her before. "Kiido? So I'm not the only whose picked up Your dad's verbal tick?" I asked him, an amused glint in my eye. He snorted, "You too?" He asked me. I nodded, "Yep, found myself doing that quite often after I went into hiding. Started writing my notes in wingdings, called those younger than me kiddo, even cracked a pun or too every now and then. Pissed Slappy off when he first tried to read my notes, asking me, and I quote, "What the is this shit?!" I had a very good laugh at that. It kinda helps that no one really knows how to read the stuff anymore, especially after some of those dickheads broke into my house and tried to read my notes." I told him. Sans nodded his understanding. I gave him a look that screamed, 'I know your hiding something.' He was acting very off, kinda...shifty. He kept glancing at me, like I'd disappear or something. He noticed my look and sweat started to appear on his skull and he nodded. I nodded once, a satisfied look on my face. I turned to Frisk, who seemed to be watching the whole affair and laughing a weird silent laugh. "Alright, let's go Frisk." I told her. I sent a mental green thumbs up to the others, and they re-entered the real world, though Freddy and Bendy remain on my skin. I assume to sleep. We continued on our way. /p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="2a08a348a7beef757b7d5b688c581e53"We came upon a bridge that was poorly barred off. We stopped and just as we were about to discuss possible solutions, the presence from earlier appeared behind us. I felt the others tense up, though Frisk oddly seemed excited. "Hey human! Don't you know how to greet a new pal?" they said, revealing a deep masculine voice. I suppressed a shiver, (Hey! I'm still an adult ya know?) and turned around to face a skeleton about 5'6, which was 6 inches taller than me. He held his hand out for me to shake. I spotted the whoopie cushion and smirked inwardly, 'a comedian, huh?' I shook his hand, and a loud farting sound filled the air. We and Frisk laughed, while the others kinda stood there confused. "I'm Sans. Sans the skeleton. " He said, introducing himself. I felt something click as I recognized the name. I gave him a sly smirk, "You wouldn't by any chance be the same Sans that used to sneak into Gaster's room with me, are you?" I asked him, handing Frisk to Slappy, knowing what was probably about to happen. Something clicked in those eye sockets and the once dull look in his eye sockets turned into a spark and I was yanked into a em style="box-sizing: border-box;"bone /emcrushing hug. "Crystalyn? It's been millenias, how are you still alive? Humans don't live this long." He asked me, his skull buried in my hair and his forearms wrapped tightly around my waist. I hmmed, "Well that might be the case for a normal human, he'll it'd be that way even for a normal mage, but I'm not normal." I answered. He pulled back, albeit reluctantly, to give me a confused look. I chuckled and pulled my soul out and held it my hands. He looked at my soul in awe. "When we went into hiding, I felt helpless, so I practiced magic practically religiously. My sister had even compared me to Gaster at one point. I had learned so many different kinds and had expanded my magic to a point to where my body and my soul weren't equipped for ir, and my magic decided to change me, both body and soul." I told him. He glanced up at me and, at my nod, gently took my soul into his skeletal hands. I felt his hands on my soul, it felt odd, but it was a pleasant odd. He rubbed it and turned it this way and that, before letting it drift back to me and wrapping his arms back around my waist. I pulled my soul back into my chest and he put his face back into the crook of my neck. It was obvious what he was doing. Skeletons had a superior sense of smell, which was kinda ironic really, and he was re-familiarizing himself with my sent, simply enjoying that fact that I was alive and there. Springtrap and Foxy had done the same after I had gotten hurt. When he finally pulled back, I ignored the blue tear stains on my shirt. "Hey listen, Pap is gonna be here soon, and he's a human hunting fanatic. Asgore put a law in place, where any humans found are to be taken to the castle. Pap is innocent still, like, really innocent, so he doesn't really know what happens afterwards, but Asgore...he kills them and takes their soul. Pap doesn't know this though, so he's all for handing humans in to the king, and with this big group of humans here..." He said, trailing off. I snickered, "Sans, Frisk and I are the only humans here. The others are my familiars." I told him. He looked at me in surprise. "You perfected your mom's charm?" He asked me. I nodded, as the others reverted to their real forms, much to the shock of Frisk, who was still being held by Slappy, who had shrunk. "Meet Slappy, Bendy, Springtrap, Foxy, and Freddy." I said, motioning to each of them in turn. He nodded to them, "Thanks for keeping the trouble magnet safe." He told them. I made a sound of protest as the others laughed. They reverted back to their human forms. "I'm not a trouble magnet." I protested. Foxy snorted, "Lass, ye be attractin all kinds a trouble. First it be the Russians, then it ye tangled with a new demon, then ye dealt wit our crazy crew and that bilgwater, then ye were on the run from the other mages, which led ter us fallin down the hole." the fox said. I scowled as the other chuckled around me. Sans laughed, "Sounds like your still a trouble magnet, even after all this time." He said. I rolled my eyes and huffed. A loud voice came from the distance and Sans looked panicked. "Through the bars, Papyrus made them too wide." He said. I nodded and herded the others across the bridge and onto the other side./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="c876186997223ff9327ffb502ff8b3a1"We got to the other side and Sans was already over there. I gave him a knowing look, before telling everyone to hide. I hid behind the booth and Frisk hide behind the weirdly shaped lamp. The others hid as tattoos on me. "Sup, bro?" Sans greeted. "YOu know what's 'sup' brother! It's been 8 days and you still haven't recalibrated. Your. Puzzles! You just hang around outside your Station! What are you even doing?!" exclaimed you I assumed was Papyrus, as Gaster had never sounded like that. " Staring at this lamp. It's really cool. You wanna look?" Sans asked. I had a moment of panic, 'Just what is he doing?!' I thought. " No! I don't have time for that! What if a human comes through here? I want to be ready! I will be the one! I must be the one! I will capture a human! Then I', The Great Papyrus, will receive all the things I deserve! Respect! Recognition! I will finally be able to join the royal guard! People will ask to be my friend?" The younger skeleton exclaimed. I resisted the overwhelming urge to go, awe! "I will bathe in a shower of kisses every morning." He finished. I wrinkled me nose at that part. 'Get a dog then.' I thought. "Hmm, maybe this lamp will help?" Sans suggested. I scowled, before almost laughing, I had finally realized what he was doing, and it was kinda funny. He was purposely irritating his brother to get him to leave. "Sans! You are not helping! You lazybones! All you do is sit and boondoggle! You get lazier and lazier everyday!" Papyrus scolded. "Hey, take it easy, I've gotten a ton of work done to day. A skeleton." Sans replied. I pressed my hard to my face harshly, to prevent them from hearing my snort. "Come on, you're smiling." Sans said. "I am and I hate it!" Papyrus replied, before sighing, "Why does some one as great as I, have to do so much just to get some recognition?" I could practically hear the grin in Sans' voice, "wow, sounds like you're really working yourself down to the bone." Sans replied. "Ugh! I will attend to my puzzles! As for your work? Put a little more backbone into it! Nyehehehehehe!" He finished with the most strangest laugh I've ever heard. A few moments paused, before one last, "Heh!" filled the air. Another couple seconds paused, before, "Alright you can come out now." He said./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="a4649e477c5f2200bf8e6ab877233815"Frisk and I stood up and I stretched, popping my back in the process. Sans flinched and I chuckled, "You always did hate it when I did that." I teased. He gave me a half-hearted glare. "Snowden's not to far from here, just a little ways ahead, but, uh, listen, Papyrus has never actually seen a human, he was too little to remember your folks when we were locked away and you guys had to go into hiding." Sans said, scratching his skull. I got the general idea, "And you want us to let him see us?" I asked him. He nodded. I opened my mouth to answer, but Frisk beat me to it and nodded enthusiastically. Sans smiled, "Knew I could count on you kiddo." he said. I mentally noted how weird his sentence was, like he'd met her before. "Kiido? So I'm not the only whose picked up Your dad's verbal tick?" I asked him, an amused glint in my eye. He snorted, "You too?" He asked me. I nodded, "Yep, found myself doing that quite often after I went into hiding. Started writing my notes in wingdings, called those younger than me kiddo, even cracked a pun or too every now and then. Pissed Slappy off when he first tried to read my notes, asking me, and I quote, "What the is this shit?!" I had a very good laugh at that. It kinda helps that no one really knows how to read the stuff anymore, especially after some of those dickheads broke into my house and tried to read my notes." I told him. Sans nodded his understanding. I gave him a look that screamed, 'I know your hiding something.' He was acting very off, kinda...shifty. He kept glancing at me, like I'd disappear or something. He noticed my look and sweat started to appear on his skull and he nodded. I nodded once, a satisfied look on my face. I turned to Frisk, who seemed to be watching the whole affair and laughing a weird silent laugh. "Alright, let's go Frisk." I told her. I sent a mental green thumbs up to the others, and they re-entered the real world, though Freddy and Bendy remain on my skin. I assume to sleep. We continued on our way. /p