p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"I bite back a curse. How in the hell am I going to explain this? Undyne's not going to fall for any crap, so my lie had better be damn good. My mind races to find a believable response as I try not to let my surprise./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"I think I may have found something believable. "I-I was making tea, and spilt the water and burned myself a little." She can't see my actual hand, so this should hopefully quench any sort of suspicion. Undyne narrows her eyes at me, and decides it's not worth her time to pry an answer out of me. Instead, she turns her attention to the cupcakes, more importantly, the icing./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Hey, at least you brought what you went for." She opens the icing and inspects it carefully. "By the way, I sent Papyrus home. Figured his brother would get worried if he was out too long."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"She looked at me. "You could go if you wanted to. I got this."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"I normally would stay to make sure that a hurricane doesn't accidentally occur in the kitchen, but I think I've had enough of today./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I think I'll go home tonight."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Undyne says nothing. Her back is turned, examining the cupcakes, so I grab my coat and sneak out of the house quietly. I have no idea why I felt the need to sneak out like that. Then it hit me. Undyne still scares me shitless to this day, even though we're friends.I still envision her suited up in her armor, spear in hand, ready to strike, terrifyingly huge. I shake the image from my head. As I leave Snowdin Town towards my house, the darkness becomes total, I'm tempted to use fire to light my way, but decide it would draw too much attention. strong(She can use fire long story will be explained later this chapter)/strong/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"The lights are all out at my house, so I sneak in gently, turning on the living room lights on my way in. I sit on the couch and unwrap my hand, in which the pain has subsided for the most part. I find that the cuts have been reduced to scars, probably from the tea I drank earlier. I decide to just sleep on the couch./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"I have a flashback of a dream. I see my grandmother, in her old clothes that look like you wouldn't even be able to get them anymore under normal circumstances, and the smell of cigarettes and car freshener she brought with her. When I plunge into complete darkness, I still hear her voice, smooth and deep, telling me the story I know by heart now./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"emMany generations ago, two races ruled Earth: Humans and Monsters. They lived in harmony, until humanity declared war. After a long battle, the humans were victorious. They sealed the monsters underground with a magic spell. But, there were two lovers, one human, one monster. The two had twin children. Each took one child, and parted ways with their lover./em/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"emIt is said that all of the descendants of those children have some small fragmented part of the other race's magic inside their soul, but very few can tap into the power such a SOUL holds./em/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"emWhen one is able to harness such power, they…/em/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Nanny never got to finish her story before my dad came in. "Hate to cut you two off, but Juni has a speech presentation tomorrow."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Nanny nodded. "Ah yes, wouldn't want to interfere with that. Good night, June."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"I glowed with pride. No one else in the world called me June. It sounded so elegant./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Juni? JU-NI."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"I roll farther into the bed, "No, let me sleep." I open my eyes and realize I'm not in my childhood bed, but on the couch in my new home./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Safire looms over me, an annoyed look on her face. She puts her phone speaker close to me and blasts music out of it. Right into my EAR./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Aaaah!" I groan, yanking myself away from the phone into a sitting position./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Safire grins. "Finally awake. Breakfast is ready, Sleeping Beauty."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"I drag myself into the kitchen, where two plates of waffles have been placed neatly on the counter. I take the plate on the left and sit on the couch. One bite tells me she made chocolate chip waffles. She must want something out of me./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Safire sits next to me, plate in hand. "How is it?" she asks, noticing I've only eaten one bite. "Not bad," I say dismissively. They're delicious, but I'm two tired to focus on how it tastes./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""There was a bit of news while you were asleep," She says./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Oh?" I say, only half listening. Most of the 'news' down here involves Lesser Dog and another one of his failed snow-dogs with the insanely long neck./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"I take a bite of my waffle, smiling to myself at the thought./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Safire sits up a little straighter, her red and black ponytail matted my the couch./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""There's a human in the Underground."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"I choke on my food, then swallow. "Shut up, Safire. You've pulled that joke before. It's old./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Safire looks at me, and I can tell she's serious. I feel the colour drain from my face./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Do you know where they are right now?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Waterfall, I think."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Then that's where I'm going. I'll let you know when I find them."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"I grab my phone and raincoat, and rush out the door,/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"strongA/N: Hey guys. I'm sorry I haven't updated in a while, and that this is a short chapter. I just had some school stuff that I had to deal with, and that had to come first. Hope you enjoy, and sorry for the wait!/strong/p