"Come on kid. You can't hide away forever. You owe us a lot of money and well, the boss is getting impatient." A woman hide against the door of a rundown apartment. There was little furniture aside essentials and art supplies all over the floors. "Maybe she went out the back?" "Ya, she's too stupid to hide from us. You check around the property, I'm gonna break this door open." "Ok boss." "Can't collect money if I'm dead." She grabbed a duffel bag and started throwing things into it, supplies, sketchbooks, and whatever canned food she could easily open. She reached in her pocket, pulling out a lighter and thumbed it lovingly. It was a skull head that breathed the fire to light stuff. She pried open a paint can, throwing paint of all colors about the room, before climbing out to the fire escape, she lite a paper on fire chuckling before tossing it in, setting the whole room on fire. It began to spread faster then she planned and a few unopened cans of paint started to heat up and then exploded, sending the loan sharks outside the door and the woman out the window flying. "God damn it!" She held her leg and pulled apart her t-shirt, wrapping it around her bleeding and probably messed up leg. She snuck her away through the city, barely carrying her weight as every time she thought she was safe to stop, they would be near-by. She couldn't tell you how much money she owed, who she was in trouble with or barley even remember what got her here anymore. Her life was filled with debt and crime, never getting ahead of it, never having enough money or courage to escape. She left her city once, only to find herself dragged back here. It was as if something wanted to keep her here. There was no place for her to hide...no place that she wanted to go expect one. As if someone guided her hand, she was taken to the cursed mountain where people feared going. The woman hide her way through the trees and boulders as she avoided the flashlights of her dept collectors. "You can't run." "Hell, if she runs the way she paints, she might." "Shut up. Your not suppose to compliment them like that. Only their money is good for it, if she had any! That's why were are gonna break her little artist thumbs and fingers, hehehe." "Fuck you." The woman muttered, stepping back a bit as her foot landed on different material.

A shotgun sound blasted through the air. "Come out! You can't hide forever. Your little stunt was impressive if you weren't such a bitch, the boss might love to have you along." One of the men yelled. "We could bury her in an avalanche." "What?" Then how the hell would we get the money dumb skull!" "Well well!" She stared up seeing the bright light in her face, shotgun pointed at her. "Step back, I don't want blood on my shoes." "It might look better, blood would go with your eyes." She said, shrugging as they forced her back. "Shut up bitch. Where is the money." "Eh, don't really have any." He fired the shells at her feet, causing shrapnel to fly around her body, the ground cracking below her slightly. "Come on buddy. If your gonna kill me, do it? I'm not moving anywhere." She laughed, pissing off the men. "Hey, worst comes to worst, we can sell your body on the black market. You can make some great steroids from bones." The man laughed, firing another shot at her feet causing one of the other men to slap the backside of his head. "Fucking aim will you! She's not moving..wait what is that?" The ground began to break away as the men stepped back. "Shit!" They all backed up as the ground began to gave out from under them, sending the woman falling down into the dept of the mountain. "Well, fuck." The woman stared up at the ceiling after regaining conscious, barley any light shone through as the ceiling had collapsed in on itself. She started laughing almost histariclly, "You are kidding right?! I go out of my way to prevent people from coming here..and you drag me back." She whispered. She pulled herself to her feet, feeling a dark and almost sad aura surrounding her. The ruins felt quiet and un- lively that she was used too. The flowers below her feet were wilted and dead, no longer have been cared for. The front door of the ruins home was a wonderful and depressing site. It was covered in webs, cracked, decaying as if it was no longer lived in. "Be a good place to hide for now." She chuckled, walking around, finding none of the lights working. It felt cold and dry from the warming comfort she remembered of the place. Her stuff was thrown in the big chair as rummaged through the kitchen. "Nothing..man I'm starved." She made her way to the chair, using her lighter to light up the fire place and piled up with a dusty old blanket. "I'm sorry to burn these papers Asgore...but it looks like there's no ones here in a while."

The cell phone in her pocket was useless as she could get no reception and she had trouble getting the tv to run. "There is like, no power left here huh..it's weird that he'd leave it in such shape.." She stretched and pulled out on of her cans of tuna, prying it open. "Ah yes. Food." She started devouring the food and laughed, curling up. "This..this is a good place to die..the only place I ever belonged." Her mind started to wonder as she fell asleep. She was unsure how long she had been out before she heard footsteps walking about the ruin. The fire had long been out and she quickly hide behind the chair as they came up the stairs. "yeah yeah, calm down. no one come out here anymore." She tensed up seeing a skeleton wonder about the home. He stopped in the doorway, leaning back slightly. "you really think any humans are gonna fall down here?" "I must check everyday! That is my duty!" She faintly heard a voice yelling up the stairs. "ok bro." The skeleton walked about, he stared at the fireplace as she moved further behind the chair. "today might be your lucky day." He laughed as he noticed the bag and items scattered about the floor. He knelt down, pulling up a bag of green plants. "this is?" He picked up some between his fingers, "this is good shit." He felt a blade tap the back of his head. "Now, I know your not trying to steal from me." She smiled, recognizing the orange hoodie of an older skeleton. "we could share." "Heh, yeah why the hell not?" She flipped her switchblade back and sat beside the skeleton, packing a pipe and lite it. "Here." He put out his cig and took the pipe. "hehe, shit, this is pretty good." "Yeah? It's all natural. I grow it myself." "not bad. not as good as my shit but." "Oh really?" "seriously! how is this THIS good." The woman started laughing, causing the skeleton to laugh, "I told you. It's natural." "even bugs?" "Expecully bugs, bees mostly." "how you get bees for better weeds? Hehe." "I mostly bee nice to them." "hehe nice." The smoke filled the living room. "so human, how long have you been down here?" "Heh, even in the dark you can tell I'm human?" "no monsters are gonna come up here." "I guess that gives it away huh...what happened?'

"we are at war. and unlucky for you, your soul is just what we need to end it." "Hehe, sorry Papyrus, I can't let you do that. We both know it will end badly." The woman started talking on as a book caught the skeleton's attention, he flipped through it, almost letting out a regretful sigh. "i don't believe i ever told you my name." The woman tensed up laughing slightly as the high was coming down, "Papyrus? I..I'm sorry I assumed you know. Hehe, just like me, off assuming first." "hey I can't blame you. it is pretty cold in here, probably got a little brain freeze is all. let me turn up the heat for you dirty queen killer!" Suddenly the fireplace bursted into flame as the woman jumped to her feet, brandishing her knife as she was thrown against the wall by her soul. "so i guess you got bored and decided to come back to kill more." "What?" "you murdered our queen! and now we are at this war." Papyrus stared at the woman who dropped her blade. He had almost a look of surprise on his face. "heh, guess my soul is I'm pretty ugly huh? I haven't bothered to fix my makeup or anything." She noticed he was fixated on her soul so she looked down, seeing the blue heart there with a lowering hp bar. He watched as it was slowly going down by small points. "your love is.. you had murdered a boss monster like her..it wouldn't be this low." "Would you look at that." She placed her hand on top of it. "I am dieing after all. I was mostly being sarcastic." She looked at Papyrus's face, his hand shaking slightly. "Just do me a favor, when I die, destroy my soul or something, we don't want Temmie getting it huh. Oh, and could you maybe just, leave me here to die? I don't have long anyway. I don't really want to face the royal guard." "chara.." The skeleton put her down, just staring down at her. "Hey, you can stay and finish this bowl with me first if you want." She said walking past him and knelling down, piling back up in the blanket. "you still draw huh?" "Yeah..I guess that's how you figured it was me?" "kinda dark in here to see you before, kinda took a shot in the dark." He stared down at her and she laughed. "I don't need your pity Papyrus. I'm sorry that even leaving doesn't sound like it helped anyway...well.. atleast I did something good. I kept any other humans from getting in here."

Papyrus sat down beside her. "why is your hp so low?" "Heh, guess I've never been much of a fighter huh." She could tell he was getting tired of her sarcasm. "I..haven't lived well. I'm down here completely by a flook. Running from people I owed some money to..I think I messed up my leg pretty bad..and tried to get out shrapnel that I could but at this point there is no point. I can't keep hiding. Dieing would be so much easier and well, I'm comfortable here. It was the only place I really called home..at least felt like home anyway." She laid down onto the floor. "Come back in a few days. I'm sure my soul will be ripe for the taking..sorry to greet an old pal this way huh?" The woman laughed, drifting off to sleep. "I am glad I got to at least see a friend again before I called it quits." The skeleton looked down at the woman and gathered her things in the small duffel bag. "sorry kid. i don't keep promises." He picked her up as they vanished from the ruins home. She dreamed about the snow. It was falling gently around her as she laid out, staring up at it. A blue scarf flew across her vision just outside of her line of site. "Sans.." She closed her eyes and felt a hand run along her face, causing her to weep. Her vision faded and became blurry before focusing back on the environment around her. "Where is this?" She sat up, seeing a bare room around her, almost like a prison with bars to wide to keep anyone in. Chara heard paper rustle and looked down to a note tapped to her chest. "What is this?" "dear kid. i couldn't just leave ya out there to die. i think you need to suffer some for what you've done first. maybe seeing my brothers shining face will help. i figured that would be punishment enough. your friend, Papyrus." "Papyrus! You;ve betrayed me!" She stood up, gathering her bag and started to open the front door before shutting it quickly, hearing Papyrus's voice outside with another she didn't recognize. "You really captured a human! I'm so proud of you big brother." "yeah, they are pretty injured though. you should probably care for them until Alphys comes by." "What?! You just left them like that?!" "eh, i was bone-tired from trying to capture them. they didn't find it to be as humorous as me." "Papyrus no! Your gonna kill them with your puns!"

She sank against the door slightly. "That was Sans's voice?..it's so..different now..." She started laughing as she threw her bag out the window and climbed out afterwards. "I'm sorry Paps. I can't let anyone have my soul." And out into the snow she went. Her footsteps trended through the snow, that was a lot colder then she remembered. Its like the weather had gotten worse the further from the town she went. "I don't ever remember it being this cold..even when the blizzards hit..it..feels like a constant blizzard.." Help." "Someone! Anyone?!" She heard voices calling from out in the whiteness as the snow grew stronger. "Hello?!" She called, following the voices the best she could, seeing a couple of kids caught in the growing blizzard. "What the hell are you guys doing out here?" It was a small bunny and rock child with a pait of teenage dogs. "I was trying to look for my brother when we fell down the cliff side." She stared over the edge where an older rock teen and dog fell. "Can you get us up!?" "Don't talk to her. Teenagers rule the snow sides!" The one yelled at his friend. "Stop being difficult stupid brother!" "Yeah, besides dude, she has sweet tattoos. Shes a cool adult." "Aw gee, thanks for noticing." Chara laughed. "I know how to get down there. Come on. I know a way down there." "But its so hard to see!" "I know the path well! Come on. Take my hand." She lead the children down the slippery path to the lower part where reindeer monsters were known to live. The rock hugged her brother tightly, arguing with him about being stupid by going out here. "Come on, there is a neat cave up here." "Why should we listen to you?" "You don't have to, but the cave is pretty neat, its dark and barley lite up. I guess only the bravest would go there." "Well I'm brave!" The dog teen said and the others followed. "Yeah, i'm brave too!" "Well come on then." Chara laughed, leading them all into a small cavern hidden in the snowy cliff side. "Wow." "Yoo. This is so cool! IT's just like Waterfall." Chara collapsed against a wall laughing. "What were you idiots doing out here anyway?! And don't give me that teenagers rule crap ok?" The human complained. "We were looking for the beast." "Huh?" "Yeah, they said there is a beast wondering about the woods, hurting people. Supposibly it was the queen's doing." "The queen?" The human asked and the kid laughed. "Have you been living under a rock?"

"The queen used to be super nice and she would always go around giving people presents. But then they say she disappeared one day." "I heard she fell because of a murderer." The other dog chimed in. "That's just a myth to keep us scared! Supposibly her child took over. I didn't even know she had one." "She's really pretty though..the few times she's been seen in person." The sister rock said. "Yeah, but she's such a bitch." "Hey!" "I'm telling mom you cursed!" "Yeah, it's not cool to use that word!" The older teens started to almost fight and Chara separated them. "Hey, knock that off." "Now we are at war...there have been a lot of beasts attacking everyone lately. Innocent people." "So we came up here on a dare to see if it was true." "Is it?" The human asked and the rock teen sighed. "We never found it. The blizzard came in to quickly." "Poo." The youngest of them started crying slightly. "I'm hungry. Why did you have to come out here?!" "No one asked you to come look for me!" "Here." She dug through her bag. "I have a bit, you guys can have it." "Aright!" "If!" She pulled the can back, "You all share." "Ughhh." "We can share." "I'm not too hungry so I'm ok." She opened up her cans of tuna salads and shared them around with everyone. She listened to the kids stories of the beasts and of the war and sometimes it occasionally diverged to Nasbstabot's tv show. Chara must have clunked out during one of the stories because she woke up to the kids shaking her. "Are you ok? The blizzard seems to have calmed down." "Was I asleep." "Yeah..are you ok?" "I'll be ok. Let's head back home. I'm sure your parents are a little worried." "Dads gonna be so mad at you!" The girl rock said as they headed out of the cavern. "This place is so cold." She said, rubbing her arms. "Do you hear something?" The children tensed up, hearing a strange growling gurgle. "It's the beast!" The children screamed and she turned suddenly, seeing the large half melted and white monster standing there, a large whole of emptiness in it's face. "It's an amalgamate!" Chara tensed up, drawing her switchblade. "What are you gonna do?!" The children asked. "Nothing. It's just self defense...this one looks strange compared to the others.."

"I told you it was real!" "We never should have taken that dare!" The children and teens cowered behind her. She started chuckling, holding her chest. "I don't have the hp left to fight..one attack and I...death by protecting these kids..not how I saw myself dieing.?" She got on her knees, ready to block the beast from the children. She never even had the chance to try and reason with the beast before it shot a large lazer from it's melting mouth hole. She closed her eyes and heard magic swirl around them, blocking the attack from them. She opened her eyes, seeing large bones there, cracking from the attack and dissolved. "Didn't I tell you once already? Snowdin is my home. And as long as you attack it. Your attacking me." She saw the blue scarf from her dreams fly past her vision as it barley came into view. "The Magnificent Sans is your fight here beast!" Six larges bones formed in the air and charged the beast, causing it to absorb the attack and when it tried to move towards then a giant bone formed, blocking it's way. "Hahah. Couldn't handle this one huh? Not as tough as you've been making yourself out to be Myeh hehehe." It looked about the giant bone, but as it tried to go around, another kept appearing. Eventually, it gave up and moved away back into the cliff side, almost appearing to float off and disappear. Chara stared up at the skeleton, speechless. He turned laughing. "Haha. The beast didn't stand a chance. Are you children ok?" "We are teenagers!" "I suppose you are. My question still stands." "Yes! the cool adult helped us!" "She saved us from the blizzard." "Well then! The magnificent Sans thanks you..you..do look like you've been in better shape though." "Sans..." She reached her hand out, tears forming in her weak eyes as she barley got to grasp his hand before collapsing. For the first time in a long time, she didn't dream. She felt at peace and calm, something that she hadn't felt in so long.