I woke up from crunching sound right next to my ear, the first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was a skeleton leg. It took me several seconds to understand what was going on: Sans was sitting right next to me with a bag of chips in his hand, lost in thoughts, my shoulder was now resting on his, but he didn't seem to have noticed or simply didn't care. "I should've known better then to sleep sitting up" – I thought to myself, as I stretched cracking my back and looked around. Sans now had an expression of pure shock on his face, Frisk and Flowey were still asleep and Papyrus was nowhere to be found.
After thinking about it the other day I decided to try my best to be friendly with Sans. I knew what I was getting myself into before coming here, I knew all too well that monsters will try to kill me, so I couldn't blame him for attacking me. Besides, I knew that in this place I needed allies more than anything.
"Good morning" – I muttered in still sleepy voice, to which I got a "morning" of the same caliber.
"Sans, can I ask you something?" – In respond he moved his head slightly showing interest, I continued – "why did you change your attitude towards me? You weren't exactly friendly with me at first, even threatened me, but several minutes later you were completely calm" – I decided to not mention the smile and the small chat we had. It bothered me, but I knew he might tease me for that.
"Your soul is quite interesting… Let's just say I decided to give you a chance."
"That doesn't explain much. What about my soul?" – He ignored my question - "you're not gonna say anymore, are you?" - The only answer I got was a quite chuckle. Seeing that this was meaningless to continue I gave up for now.
Getting up I asked Sans if I could use the kitchen to which he nodded and actually came with me.
"You might need some help to get a hang of it. Cooking here would probably differ from what you know. In return I want some of that food, I'm hungry."
"Deal" - I said in a dramatic voice.
After rummaging the kitchen we managed to find something other than pasta and decided to make pancakes. Or rather I decided and Sans just went along with it… doing nothing, but giving "advices" the whole time. Cooking monster food was actually fun. It was mainly the same old cooking, except sometimes the ingredients did things they weren't supposed to do. The flour changed color when I added stuff to it and the sugar had a silver shine to it, while cooking the hot oil looked like small fireworks. To my disappointment once ready the pancakes looked nothing special, they did turned out pretty yummy though and, according to Sans, had some healing qualities. I was able to find some honey too, which made our breakfast even better.
We were almost finished when Frisk came in holding Flowey. He put the pot on one of the chairs and without saying anything sat next to it. The kid was sometimes grumpy after waking up, so I didn't say anything and pretended I didn't notice.
After the delicious breakfast Sans went to work.
Being left alone in a practically empty house didn't seem fun, and since I didn't see the town and was too curious about it, the three of us decided to go out and look around. Putting on my boots and the purple jacket I picked up my bag, the key Papyrus left for us and headed out.
The cold air instantly filled my lungs as I gasped at the sight in front of me. The town was surrounded by fir forest, everything around us was covered in thick layer of snow that was glittering ever so slightly, the houses decorated with colorful Christmas lights looked cozy and welcoming. On the main road, in the middle of the town there was a Christmas tree, several monsters could be seen near it.
"I'll show you around!" – said Frisk cheerfully taking my hand.
To the right, next to skeletons' house was a library. Ironically the sign was misspelled. I decided to check it out later, since Frisk obviously wasn't interested in it right now. Passing the library Frisk turned right and ran ahead excited about something.
"Sis, over here! Look!" – He yelled pointing at something.
Getting closer I saw a big rock with a mustache and two small ones next to it wearing scarfs.
"This annoying kid again. He's been running around here all day yesterday and now he brought others with him?" – The rock was visibly annoyed. The only thing hinting at the source of the voice was his mustache moving in sync with the words. His slight British accent made the whole situation even more amusing.
"He probably likes your mustache. It's stunning after all" – I replied in a teasing tone, which he, apparently, didn't notice.
The rock, completely satisfied by the compliment, didn't complain any more.
"Well, that was easy." – I whispered to myself turning around to have a look at the rest of this place. It was a small area with a couple of houses with round doors and windows. To me they looked like comfortable hobbit holes.
We hung out with the rock family for a while and even made a snowman while figuring out the reason behind a wolf's ice throwing activity. Not sure if the reason was the sudden appearance of a female or the wolf was simply happy to see new people, but he would show off his muscles whenever we looked at him.
Our next stop was the Christmas tree. It was decorated neatly with lights and colorful toys of different shapes. Several presents were lined up underneath it addressed from various locals to each other.
I said hi to two bears and a bunny lady and even had a chat with a yellow armless monster kid for a bit, while Frisk and Flowey were looking through the presets, without opening them of course. The monsters didn't seem to like me being a human and all, but they weren't filled with hatred either. Going through the inn and a shop, that were ran by bunny ladies, and talking to various monsters on the way I realized that the folk here was actually peaceful and nice… at least most of them were.
Munching on cinnamon buns that I bought by Frisk's request the three of us went out of the town to explore a bit more. I stood for good ten minutes on the bridge outside Snowdin watching the scenery. The valley beneath was covered in thick forest as far as the eye could see with a wide river flowing across.
Frisk showed me a couple of Papyrus' puzzles he solved. The first one was set on ice, the idea was to turn all the large "X"s into "O"s. As we slid across gracefully I went a bit off the course and fell from the side into snow. Getting up I saw a snow sculpture, it had a body of a buff guy with Papyrus' head on top. Getting back up and following Frisk I saw the next snow masterpiece: the sculpture looked like a serpent swimming through the snow and ground making arcs over our heads… except it was a dog head with a neck longer then the Great Wall of China.
I couldn't help but laugh at the next puzzle. The ground was supposed to be covered with colorful tiles, each color having different qualities, but apparently everything went horribly wrong. The tiles were mainly pink with several red ones here and there. After making fun of the puzzle for a bit we moved on.
Getting past two more X O puzzles we got to the fun part.
First puzzle was spaghetti… just spaghetti in a plate. It looked tasty, but we didn't have a chance to eat some, the food was so cold it was stuck to the table. I managed to break a small bit and put it near a mouse hole in hope it will eat it.
The next one showed Sans' brilliance to its fullest. It was a word search puzzle that Frisk actually tried to solve, before giving up.
Soon it started to get dark, so we decided to head back. As both Frisk and Flowey were getting sleepy we walked in silence for a while and I had time to rethink everything that happened during the time I've been here. That's when I realized that something wasn't adding up.
"Frisk, how did you end up here, in the Underground, I mean?"
Instead of helping Frisk's answer made me even more confused and more questions popped in my head as I listened.
"I wanted to get to the blue cave to play" – he started – "But when I was in the flower field I tripped and fell here. But, sis there was no hole there, right?" – He looked at me in confusion, I shook my head.
The flower field was quite far from where I fell, how could we end up in the exact same spot? More than that random holes appeared out of nowhere in span of two days. I got confused and lost in thoughts. When I came to we were by Grillby's bar in Snowdin and Frisk was pulling on my sleeve.
"Who is Paps talking to?" – He asked hiding behind my back.
As I looked I noticed a tall, dangerous looking monster in heavy armor right in front of the house. Papyrus was visibly sweating while explaining something to the stranger.
I knew exactly what to do to not be spotted. Telling Frisk to be as quite as possible I led him through the woods behind Grillby's. As we got to the rock family that was still chilling in the same spot, we crossed the path and, finding ourselves in surrounding of trees again, moved towards the house.
We were almost there when I had the stupidest idea yet that would probably make the situation a lot safer. I took off my shoes, took out the rope and with Flowey around my neck and Frisk on my back got out of the woods and made my way to the house. Needless to say it was way too cold barefooted, but we were completely silent.
I attached a rock to the rope and threw it to the balcony on the second floor. The rope wrapped itself neatly around the railing, the little noise it made drowned in Papyrus' loud rambling. From what I got he was telling the person… monster how nice and harmless we were.
With the rope firmly attached I climbed the balcony, from there sneaked into the house. As I was closing the door behind me a woman's cold voice could be heard.
"If you're telling the truth there won't be no problem for me stay here for the night right?"
Panic and fear took over and before the front door could open I ran into the nearest room. Saying hi to the short skeleton I put Frisk down and sat on the bed next to him.
"How did you get in? Undyne is still there, right?" – He asked putting away the book he was reading.
"The balcony" – I replied – "And I think she's staying overnight."
"Then you've come to a right place. Undyne wound rather get killed than come into my room, I even promised to do the killing myself. It would be right for you to sleep here." – As he said that I could swear I saw his cheekbones flush faint red, as he stood up quickly moving to the window.
Sitting for a while in complete silence I got a bit more comfortable wrapping my ice cold feet in a blanket. My small companions were already sound asleep occupying the pillow, in a bit I was falling asleep too. But before drifting away completely I felt my back leaning against something nice and warm as someone's arms wrapped around my chest and shoulders hugging me gently.