There was snow underground.

Well, Halloween was just a month ago, but it hardly was time for snow to fall.

After playing in the snow for a bit, Winter was getting ready to walk down the long stretch of pathway, when something caught her eye.

She looked over inside of a bush, only to see something looking back at her!

"What IS that thing?!" She reached out to touch it, and it LICKED her hand.

A small white dog popped out of the bush, and ran off, leaving Winter all alone.

"Maybe that dog has an owner? I should follow it!" She was turning to leave when she heard a mechanical whirring inside of the bush. She turned to find that the source of noise was a camera, that had a little windshield wiper wiping the lens that the dog had licked.

It focused on Winter, and seemed to follow her around. She didn't know what to think. So she ran after the dog.

She slowed down to walking, and soon she came upon a big branch in the path, which she hopped over, and continued down the path

CRACK

She whipped around and saw the branch snapped cleanly in half.

She turned around and started running towards some… thing and the bridge.

Just as she arrived, she heard snow crunching behind her. It stopped just as it couldn't get any louder.

"Human. Don't you know how to greet a friend? Turn around and shake my hand."

She complied with the request, turning around and- PLBBBBBHHHHTTTT

"heh, whoopee cushions. Can't beat the classics." Was all the "friend" had said

Winter was not amused. "And WHY did you do that?" she asked, looking him over.

He was a skeleton wearing a hoodie, and black shorts with white stripes. And slippers. What is wrong with monsters

"Because it was worth seeing your face like that," he said with a wink. "Name's SANS, Sans the skeleton." Sans had an extremely huge smile.

"Uh, okay, Sans, what are you doing following me?" Winter asked kinda miffed about his "stunt"

"I'm supposed to be hunting humans, and you look like a human. That's hilarious."

His comment was on the face she made when he mentioned "hunting"

"I'm not really into that stuff, but my brother is a human hunting fanatic."

"Yeah, him and everyone else, it seems." She replied, quietly.

Sans took note of her sad face, and did what he does best,

"So, are you heading to SNOWDIN? It's a pretty ICE town." he said with a wink

Winter looked up at him, and made a face. "I don't know, I'm feeling pretty chill right here."

She replied, making finger guns at him.

"Heh, that was pretty good, kid." Sans replied, shrugging and closing his eyes.

"You'd better get a move on, before my brother finds you, ya know," Sans said, ushering Winter across the bridge, "If he finds you, don't worry about it, m'kay? He's completely harmless. Whoop, that looks like him there. Quick, hide behind that conveniently shaped lamp." Winter did as she was told, and stood behind the lamp.

A rather tall skeleton, presumably the fabled "human hunter" came running towards Sans' location, and stopped dead in his tracks as he saw his brother.

"BROTHER!" the tall skeleton shouted at the, uh, not tall skeleton, "sup, bro?"

"YOU KNOW WHAT'S "SUP", BROTHER! IT'S BEEN EIGHT DAYS AND YOU STILL HAVEN'T… RE-CALIBRATED. YOUR. PUZZLES! YOU JUST HANG AROUND OUTSIDE YOUR STATION! WHAT ARE YOU EVEN DOING?!"

"Staring at this lamp. it's really cool. Do you wanna look?"

"Wait, what? he's betraying me! But I thought he said… that he didn't care about that stuff..."

"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 GET ALL THE THINGS I UTTERLY DESERVE! RESPECT… RECOGNITION… I WILL FINALLY BE ABLE TO JOIN THE ROYAL GUARD! PEOPLE WILL ASK, TO, BE MY, 'FRIEND?' I WILL BATHE IN A SHOWER OF KISSES EVERY MORNING!

"hmmm… maybe this lamp will help you." "why does he keep doing this…? Was he trying to help me or not?" Winter thought to herself, not moving an inch, just in case.

"SANS! YOU ARE NOT HELPING! YOU LAZYBONES! ALL YOU DO IS SIT AND BOONDOGGLE! YOU GET LAZIER AND LAZIER EVERY DAY!"

"Hey, take it easy. I've gotten a ton of work done today. A 'skele-ton'."

It took everything winter had to keep from laughing at the pun, let alone giggle.

*BA-dum tss* there was a rim shot in the background, and sans smiled wide and winked at the invisible audience.

"SANS!"

"Come on. you're smiling."

"I AM AND I HATE IT! SIGH… WHY DOES SOMEONE AS GREAT AS ME… HAVE TO DO SO MUCH TO GET SOME RECOGNITION..."

"Wow, sounds like you're really working yourself… down to the bone."

*cue rim shot again* Winter was losing her cool.

"UGH! I WILL ATTEND TO MY PUZZLES… AS FOR YOUR WORK? PUT A LITTLE MORE 'BACKBONE' INTO IT! NYEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE!" The tall skeleton ran off, only to return right after. "Oh no, what if he saw me?" Winter thought to herself.

"HEH!" was all he said and ran off. "Um, never mind?"

"Okay, kid. You can come out now. You'd better get going before he comes back. Then you'd have to listen to more of my amazing jokes." he said with a wink

"They were funny. Why doesn't your brother like them?" Winter asked, letting out all of the laughter she held back.

"Probably because he's so cool, he doesn't need to tell jokes to let people know he's cool." Sans replied with a shrug.

"Well, I can't understand why he wouldn't like them. Maybe he lost his funny bones?"

Winter joked. Sans winced at the joke. "That was horrible, I know," Winter replied, rubbing the back of her head. She could do better than this.

Winter started walking away, "Oh, and could you do me a favor? My brother has been feeling down lately, so if you could just…?" "Say no more, Sans, I'll do my best." Winter replied to the request. She liked Sans, so how could she say no? "Welp, I'm gonna be up ahead. See ya later, kiddo." going." Sans just stood there, unmoving.

"Um, aren't you going to go on ahead?" Winter asked tilting her head slightly.

"Sure, but I'm gonna let you go ahead. Ladies first, after all." He said with a smug look.

"I ain't no lady," Winter said with a goofy accent,"I'm a shojo."

Sans gave her a look of pure confusion. "Okay, just get outta here." he said, waving her away.

Winter did as she was told, walking away in the direction sans' brother went.

Once alone, sans stopped smiling only to look at her walking away,"What's a shojo…?" he wondered, scratching his skull.

Winter was walking along the snowy pathway, when she saw another sparkling light.

She stopped and touched it, feeling refreshed, and wondering what these things were.

"Hold up, you!" Shouted an unfamiliar voice from some trees around her,

as a snowdrake hopped out in front of Winter, blocking her path.

"I'm a traveling joke teller, and YOU'RE my audience!" He said, pointing at her almost in an accusing way.

"Um, okay? You could just ask me if I want to listen to your jokes," Winter calmly informed him, as she was trying her best to not insult/fight/annoy the local monsters, "You don't have to be rude."

"Oh, okay… nobody's ever wanted to listen to my jokes before, so I just started forcing them to listen to them. They all say you'd have to have no sense of humor to think they're funny… umm, will you please listen to my jokes?" The snowdrake asked this time, not pointing at his "Audience".

"I would be delighted." Winter replied, making a small chair from the snow, and then tucked her skirt behind her knees, and sat down, giving the teen her full attention.

"O-Okay, uh, I never actually had somebody this interested since… since..." He looked sad,

as if remembering a distant memory.

"Anyways, here's the joke! D'oh! I shouldn't have told you, um, what do you get when your, uh, dog gets left out in the cold?" He asked, with genuine interest in what his listener might respond with. Frostbite. Winter knew the answer to this one, and she wanted to give him the satisfaction of telling it. "I don't know," She said, with such good acting, she may as well get an award, "What?" She asked.

"FROSTBITE!" he cried out, looking at her face for her reaction.

She laughed as best she could, without looking like a fraud. At least it wasn't a stupid "Why'd the chicken cross the road?" joke. Those were the worst.

"See?! LAUGHS! I KNEW I COULD DO IT, DAD!" he was jumping around, thanking Winter like he was on television.

He turned and ran in the other direction, telling Winter thanks again for being so nice.

She was walking along, when suddenly, an ice cap came out wondering what all the shouting was about. Oh crap, I mean, darn. Not more monsters.

He looked over and spotted Winter, rushing over to her to see if he could pump some compliments out of her. "Hey, isn't my hat the coolest?" He asked, floating around Winter in circles. She just ignored him, because "If you have nothing nice to say, don't say it." came to mind. "HEY! don't ignore me and my AWESOME HAT!" He threw some icicles at her, which she simply pirouetted out of the way, making him look like a total noob.

He wasn't happy about this, naturally. "Forget it, you aren't worth the trouble." He floated away, leaving Winter alone. Finally.

She started again, when SUDDENLY ANOTHER MORON CAME OUTTA THE WOODS.

It was Jerry. Winter was getting ticked off by not being able to progress.

He came over to her, looking her up and down, and finally said the stupidest thing ever.

"Red looks horrible on you."(Persona 4 ref. FTW)

Winter snapped.

"HISSSSSS!" She hissed at him, with venom in her eyes. She could be nice, but this was too much.

Jerry turned and ran, like the little baby that he was.

"Well, at least that didn't become violent." Winter thought to herself.

She FINALLY started down the snowy path, making sure to look at least a LITTLE intimidating.

She came across a box that had a glove inside. She plopped some stuff she didn't need into the box, and went on her way.

Man, being alone in this new world was kind of scary, but she liked the sense of adventure,

remembering how her dad would be absolutely against anything like this.

He hated doing things he didn't know about, let alone his own daughter. Mom, on the other hand, would gladly be up for a new adventure.

She was lost in thought, only broken by some shouting in the distance.

As she approached the shouting, she saw the bone brothers.

Papyrus turned, seeing her. Her heart froze.

They started looking at her, then one another, then her, and then started spinning.

"SANS! OH MY GOD! IS THAT A HUMAN?!" Papyrus shouted, pointing at Winter.

"Uhh, I think that's just a rock."

"OH."

"But what's that near the rock?"

"OH MY GOD! (SANS, IS THAT A HUMAN?!"

"please say no"

"Yep."

"Dang it."

"HUMAN! I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, WILL CAPTURE YOU, USING MY EXPERTLY MADE PUZZLES!" he ran off, leaving the two alone.

"Well, he sure is sure of himself." Winter commented.

"When you're that cool, it doesn't really matter." Sans said, with a shrug.

"Obviously."

"See ya up ahead, kiddo."

"Bye."

They parted ways, which is not saying much, because Sans didn't move this time either.

"Papyrus, you look out. Winter is coming for you. Are you ready?" Winter shouted.

"What a nerd." was all Sans said.

Soooooo, yeah. I got pretty lazy with this stuff. I am a HUGE procrastinator... anyways, happy mothers day?! If you are a mother, and you are reading this, i hope you had a nice day!

Back to story stuff, I looked up what shojo means, and it said that it WASN'T bad, so if somebody comes around saying otherwise, can you show me evidence?

If you see any spelling errors, let me know. R&R, thanks?!