Author's note: Okay I'm gonna be completely honest. I'm a bit terrified of uploading this chapter, because well...there's a certain character, which I'm not sure how people might react to. I'm just gonna do it anyway, since it's still my story and I'm okay if some of you might disagree. Also I would REALLY appreciate it, if you leave a review with your thoughts of my fanfic, be it positive or negative!


During Gerson's entire speech the little Monster boy just couldn't stop himself, but widen his smile more and more, firmly clinging on to the words of the old turtle, while happily wagging with his tail. Despite of how much he loves to talk about his idol, he had to admit, he never really knew that much about her or her past, so hearing this story was definitely a welcoming change.

His sister however, while not bored or anything, wasn't completely sure with what to think of Gerson's story and had many questions, which she kept storing at the back of her head and waited for the monster to take a break from talking, since she didn't want to be rude and just interrupt him or anything.

But fortunately for her, Gerson soon made a break from talking and asked the two, if they had any questions. Her brother was already about to jump up and probably make a meaningless comment, if she didn't already use her tail to block his mouth.

"Sir, that's a nice story and all, but something is starting to really confuse me.." She told him, as her brother tried to speak, but only ended up, giving mumbling sounds, because of her blocking tail.

"What is it, kid?"

"Well...how exactly do you even know about the parts, you weren't there for? Like when Undyne visited her friend, weren't you still busy with the shellfish grapes?" She curiously asked with a raised eyebrow.

Gerson stayed quiet for awhile, not really sure how to answer and slowly scratched the back of his head, proceeding to clear his throat in the same slow fashion.

"Anyways. Back to the story, a few days after the event with the bandits..."

"Wait but-"

Staring out of the window, even if there wasn't anything interesting to see, Undyne had her head leaned on the table and gave a very long and bored sigh from herself. Coming back home from her little adventure must have probably been one of her stupidest decisions, she's ever made, considering the scolding she's received. And it wasn't even in her own household, no it was literally her entire neighbourhood, who told her how dangerous her actions were and how she...Yeah, yeah I've heard it a million times already…

"Alright, I think we're good to go" A female voice came from the other room, making Undyne jump up from her chair and roll her eyes, as she looked at the figure, emerging to the living room.

"Mom, why do you always have to wear that? You look super creepy y'know!" Wearing a big, pitch black cloak, her mother was currently tying her significantly shorter hair, while eying her child

"You don't seem to be freaked out or scared about it, so where's the problem?" She retorted.

Undyne's mother shared a striking resemblance to her daughter with her slightly brighter red hair, fish-blue scales and skin, and unlike Undyne very long, floppy ears, which just loomed down. She stood twice as tall as her twelve-year old daughter, as she awaited an answer with a raised eyebrow, even though it was kinda hard to tell with the shadow of her cloak, hiding her face.

Undyne stood up from her chair, both hands leaned on her hips, and smirked at her approaching mother "Nevermind that. But what's with the sudden urge to take your daughter with one of your errands?"

She shrugged "It's been awhile, since we did something together, so I thought, why shouldn't I? Besides I don't want to leave alone for too long after you pulled that last stunt"

"Rrreeaaaaaalllyyyyy, now?" Undyne's smirk grew wider "and you're sure it isn't because, you'd otherwise get a bad reputation as a mother from all our neighbours?"

"..." Undyne already guessed how much, her mother was sweating now under that cloak "Ahem, it's getting late, we should probably hurry"

Before a response could be given, the woman already rushed out of the house with her laughing daughter, close behind her.

"Don't worry mom, I think you're a great mother! Even if you're most of the time, just transporting random people on your boat, instead of doing stuff with your daughter" Undyne mischievously added and closely watched her mother's body language to see her shoulders slightly dropping, while walking.

Ouch now she actually made her feel bad. She didn't want! She just wanted to make a little fun of her.

Undyne opened her mouth to quickly say something, but the cloak wearing monster already cut her off "It's fine, Undyne. I know, I haven't been the best in the world, but thank you for being so patient with me. I promise, I'll be there for you more often as of now"

Undyne just slowly nodded, unknowingly and looked up ahead to see the river, the two were approaching. A single brown boat was silently floating on the water, as the clashing water was the only sound, echoing through the darkness.

Undyne's mother, followed by Undyne herself stepped into the boat without another word and set off.

"Tra la la la.." The woman suddenly started, singing in such a soothing voice.

Undyne always loved, when her mom did that. It reminded her so much of the times, she used to sing her a lullaby before going to sleep. Of course nowadays, Undyne's way too old for stuff like that, but it was nice to be reminded to those times.

Being young was so much easier.

The girl ended up, having her arms crossed on the edge of the boat, with her head lying comfortably over them, as she slowly dozed off into a relaxing sleep…

"We're here!" Her mother suddenly announced, breaking Undyne's dream of a nice nap.

"Ah, that wasn't even twenty seconds!" She replied, rubbing her eyes open.

"The Underground is small, that's just how it is. Now come on let's go" She dragged her daughter from the boat and held her hand, walking away from the river.

Undyne didn't complain with the holding hands stuff, but she sniffed several times with her nose and started, cringing when she realized, where they were going.

"The garbage dump, really?!" She sighed, as she started seeing several trash bags on their path, the more the two kept going.

"Look, I don't get much money from transporting people around, so we just have to be satisfied with what we get" Her mother responded calmly, making Undyne cross her arms and puff her cheeks.

"It would be easier, if you'd actually charge people for shipping them everywhere" She said, as she made a big leap over a large can on the ground.

"No, I don't want to get payed for something, that I enjoy regardless if other people can benefit from it or not" She told her daughter "Now come on. Help me find something edible"

With rolling eyes Undyne started her search, going through several garbage bags and trash cans to find anything, not completely disgusting. But the more she kept looking, the bigger and fewer the giant mountains of trash became Jeez where's all this stupid garbage coming from anyway?

She decided to just close her eyes and point at a random mountain of garbage, which will be her next destination in search for food. And of course as destiny wanted it, she pointed at the biggest garbage mountain out of all of them.

With a sigh she started, digging through all the thrown away treasures and couldn't help, but raise her eyebrows at the supposedly only connections between the surface world and the underworld. What picked her curiosity first was a small and thin, pink box with a cover of a being, that looked be some kind of mixture between a temmie and a dog. Opening it, revealed only a small grey disk, whatever it was used for.

She threw it away, coupled with several other objects, that weren't shiny or flashy. What caught her attention next was this very weird stick with a rectangle head, which itself had several hidden blades inside of it. Wondering if this was some kind of weapon, she brushed her finger against it, but flinched quickly back and shrieked in pain.

"What the hell?!" She yelled at the inanimate object

She looked back at her finger to see a small cut on it, where her dust slowly, but surely escaped in fragments Why was this thing so sharp?!

She shook her head and threw the thing away, before focusing on finding something to cover the wound, even if it was only minor. With monster's extremely fragile physical matter, even from such a small cut, dust would just keep escaping until there was no body left, which would sometimes take up to several years. Just grabbing the next best thing, Undyne reached out for a box of handkerchiefs and tied several of them around her wounded finger.

She then proudly looked at the white chunk, tied around her finger and laughed to herself

"Is that the best you got, humans?! These pathetic blades are nothing against me, Undyne the…crap, I still need a name" She snapped her fingers and sighed, before she put her determined expression back on and glared above, where all the trash was falling down from the waterfall.

"As I was saying humans! If it's a fight you want, come down here and get, I'll destroy all of you!" She screamed battleready and shifted into a fighting stance.

After a few minutes of silence passed, Undyne crossed her arms with a smirking face "Thought so" Before proceeding to climb down from the huge pile of garbage.

However she made on false step and tripped over a red plastic ball and flew with the red object against the cold hard ground.

"Ouch...the hell is wrong with me, today?" She mumbled to herself, as she heard a trembling behind her and rolled on her back, to see what was going on.

To her widened-eyes shock, Undyne saw almost the entire garbage fall towards her like some kind of trash avalanche or something. She closed her eyes and crossed her arms over head, preparing herself for the worst.

But there was no pain.

She opened her eyes, to see a weird, green energy, surrounding her and a shield in the same colour, protecting Undyne from all the falling garbage until it was finally over.

"That was a very close call.." The voice of her mother rang through her ears, as the green shield disappeared.

Undyne, still in shock, slowly stood up and ran towards the sound of her mother's voice. But instead of falling into her arms and thanking her for saving her life, Undyne was just staring at her with beaming eyes.

"Mom! How did you do that?! That was awesome!" She exclaimed with sheer excitement in her eyes

"Erm...Well.." The riverwoman was visibly surprised and also disappointed by that reaction, but of all people she should have known better, right?

"It's Soul manipulation magic. A special kind of magic, that changes the colour of your opponent's Soul and changes or adds some attributes to it. My magic immobilises others, but gives them a shield to defend themselves. Actually, you can use that Magic, too" She explained calmly, widening Undyne's eyes even more.

"I-I can? I always just thought, summoning spears is the only thing I can do" She looked at her hands again, as if they were suddenly something super holy.

Her mother has noticed the white chunk of Handkerchiefs, tied around her finger and curiously took a closer at it. At first, not saying anything she gently grabbed her child's hand and felt the wounded finger.

"Undyne have you hurt herself?" She asked worryingly and casted without notice a soothing healing spell through her palms.

Undyne didn't seem to realize, what her mother was doing and just smiled nervously, reflecting back.

"Well...it's a long story, but to summarize everything, humans have launched one of their deadliest weapon at the heroine, standing in front of you! But of course, I managed to counter and pride myself with this scar in prove of my glorious battle!" She told her mother proudly, even if the truth was slightly different than what she told her.

The cloak-wearing monster chuckled to herself and let go of the already healed wound on the finger. Of course she knew, her daughter is gonna be very disappointed to see her glorious battlescar suddenly gone.

"Anyways, I think we should go home for now, I've found a bunch of noodle boxes back there, which should be enough for a few days. You can go ahead, I'll meet you on the boat" Undyne nodded happily and sprinted off, wanting to explore some more of the garbage dump first, before heading to the boat.

However nothing really caught her interest or better said, she didn't want to cause another trash avalanche, so she always kept a good distance to the piles until something very familiar caught her interest. Hidden under a few carton boxes, the green remains of shellfish grapes were seen, which made her raise an eyebrow What are those doing here?

She asked herself and wondered if it didn't maybe belong to one of the bandits, since they recently just tried to steal whole bags of these things for whatever reason Is this, where they live? Or could it just be coincidence?

Whatever the case may be, if the chance of finding one of the bandits was a possibility, there was no way, she could just ignore it. Taking a closer look, only now Undyne was able to see the slithering slime all around the carton boxes. The whole thing was just weird. Deciding it was the best to put it aside for at least now, she turned away and ran towards the wooden boat.


To make sure the ride home was a bit more enjoyable, the riverwoman purposefully took a much longer route, so her child had the option to just doze off, during her "Tra la la"s. Once the snoring was heard, she stopped and looked at the twelve-year old, smiling genuinely.

Despite her overall extremely rough and reckless nature, seeing Undyne peacefully sleep like that was a really nice change of pace and filled her heart with nothing, but love and happiness. To a proud mother, something was obvious…

Undyne is going to be a strong and loving Monster one day