I had a thought that since this story is based on Sarah's already existing stories, it's basically a fanfiction of a fanfiction. #fanficception
Also sorry for the delay. School and stuff. BUT! I did manage to finally write the first half of a short story about Jerry which I promised to the readers of my previous fanfic, His Story. The Jerry short is called Left Behind and you can find it on my profile page if you're interested. Maybe you should, I don't think anyone has written a fanfic about Jerry yet. :D

CHAPTER 3: The Visitation

Lucky for him, Undyne generously decided that the broken plate was actually her fault since she kept making fun of him; that way, their 'deal' was still valid. Mad suspected her that she didn't actually want to kick Finn out. Undyne was pretty hot headed and gave the impression of a strict and authoritative person, but she evidently didn't have the guts to actually let him down.

The rest of that evening was rather boring compared to everything that occurred before. The four of them watched some kind of cartoon about a bunny who wanted to be a cop; Mad was only there because he had to keep an eye on Finn who apparently wanted to be a part of anything that was going on in the house. The dummy really didn't want to enjoy the movie at first but grew fond of the story about halfway through -and cursed so loud during the last action-packed scenes that his companions had to pause it at one point and wait until he calmed down again.

"This is why I don't watch movies," he said later. "I just want to get in there and beat the hell out of the bad guys."

The girls allowed Finn to sleep in the hall; Mad has been offered the same and he did consider it, but ultimately decided that he was too used to sleeping outside, alone and on fresh air, so he rejected the offer. The pet didn't really seem to care as long as he had his teddy bear with him.

Mad had some pretty wild dreams. He somehow became a police officer and had to chase some animal that was leaving water trails all throughout Undyne's house; he never saw the criminal, but he had a feeling he knew who it was. Suddenly, he slipped on the wet floor and fell face first into the water which made him wake up.

He immediately realised he does indeed have a strangely wet face. When he slowly, still half asleep, opened his eyes, he saw Finn's head right in front of him, almost shining in the morning sunlight. Apparently, he had been licking the dummy's face for a while.

Mad screamed, jumped into the air and reflexively pulled out his knife, pointing it at the pet. The two of them were looking at each other for several seconds, one shaking and scared from his sudden unpleasant awakening, the other one with nothing but pure, simple minded joy that he got to see his friend again.

"Muf," Finn said eventually, turned around and walked back inside.

"You crazy anglerfish!" Mad shouted one minute later when he crossed the doorstep too, addressing Undyne who he suspected was the one who let Finn out. "You sent him to wake me up on purpose!"

"Good morning to you too, punching bag," Undyne replied from the kitchen; in the bathroom Alphys was snickering. "I don't know whatcha talking about."

"Ha ha ha. You're so lucky I can't physically get angry this early," Mad snarled and entered the room. "Just make me a huge coffee and I'll forget about it, deal?"

"Sure, just let me finish breakfast," she agreed and swallowed a big spoon of cereal.

The small devil was sitting beside Undyne, looking up at her bowl of cereal with a very interested face.

"Your pet looks hungry, by the way," said the fish lady.

"He's not my pet," Mad replied and sleepily grabbed Muffet's bag to look for Finn's breakfast. He jumped up and ran to him, undoubtedly aware of the Dummy's intention. Much to his surprise, Finn had enough patience -or training, perhaps -to wait until the food was actually on a plate which Mad placed on the ground. Because he was still only beginning to wake up, this simple preparation took about two unnecessarily long minutes.

"Cause any more trouble today and I swear this is the last meal I'm ever giving you," he told Finn.

"Muf," the pet replied and turned his attention towards his breakfast.

Undyne was up by the kitchen counter and tinkered with the coffee maker. "Oh come on already, it was cute!"

"I kinda believe watching it from the distance might have been." Mad sat down on a chair by the table and smacked his head right onto said table. "Just dig me a hole in the ground and throw me into it."

"Too much effort for one morning," the woman laughed.

Soon, everyone's had their breakfast and the girls were ready to leave. Maddy was somehow able to survive that morning thanks to Undyne's coffee and Finn's lightly contagious enthusiasm about everything in general.

"Stay out of trouble you two!" Undyne said to Mad while she and Alphys were leaving for the bus.

"Gee, thanks for the tip," he rolled his eyes.

The two girls walked into the distance holding hands. The sight made him think about Muffet; he also realised that now that Undyne was gone, he wasn't going to hear his girlfriend's voice the whole day.

"Man, I guess I should really get a phone some day," he muttered to himself.

"Muf."

"Oh yeah, you're here," Mad looked down at Finn who was watching him intently with a smile. "You know what, since we have the whole day ahead of us, why don't we go visit Napstablook? I haven't seen him in a while, anyway."

The day was bright and warm for a change -inconveniently for someone who wasn't used to sunlight at all. As they walked through the town, Mad was silently cursing the Sun and seriously considering bringing a parasol next time he'd go outside. Finn wasn't any help either: when the dummy stopped in a shadow of some house for a moment, the pet simply kept walking forward, and he'd probably abandon Mad right where he was had he not been attached to a leash.

"Hey!" the ghost shouted. "Can't you see I'm taking a break?"

"Muf?"

"Of course you can't," he sighed.

And then, a wild chipmunk appeared at the opposite side of the road, running through grass from one tree to another. Both of them looked at it and froze for a second.

"No," Mad said to Finn in a threatening tone. "Don't even think about HEY GET BACK HERE YOU STUPID ANIMAL!"

Finn, completely unaware of the dummy's presence, sprinted across the road and began chasing the terrified chipmunk around before it wisely chose to run up a tree. The pet would have probably attempted to follow it, but Mad took out his knife and threw it at the leash which Finn was still pulling behind him. The blade went precisely through the handle, effectively pinning it to the ground. The little imp noticed something was out of the ordinary and finally turned around.

"Do you have any idea," Mad began to scold Finn, "what could have happened? Just one car driving by, and that would be it! You can't just chase down every squirrel you see!"

"Muf?"

"I mean, look at the poor thing! You scared her to death!"

"Muf," said Finn.

"Squeak," said the chipmunk and maliciously threw a wallnut at Mad; it hit him directly in the head.

The dummy groaned and turned red.

"HOW DARE YOU, YOU LITTLE BASTARD! I'M GONNA HAMMER YOUR FACE INTO THIS TREE!" he yelled, propelled himself into the air and proceeded to chase the animal through the branches instead of Finn.

About a minute later, he floated back to the ground breathing heavily. The chipmunk managed to get away unnoticed and was now mocking the dummy from an adjacent tree, but Mad didn't know that.

"Muf?"

"Oh, don't give me that look," Maddy spat out. He was embarrassed. "I still have the right to lecture you about not chasing squirrels."

They continued to walk to Blooky's house in bad mood. At least on Mad's side; Finn seemed happy that the two of them got to see a chipmunk and do some exercise.

"Here we are," the dummy said when they arrived. "It's nice to be someplace with no jerks for a change."

The house had a literal small bell by the front door with a rope attached to it. It was a small thing Napstablook decided to put there when he realised that his dummy-cousin didn't have any fingers to ring an electronic bell.

Mad caught the hanging rope in his mouth and pulled. The bell swung and the high pitched hollow sound resonated through the environment. Finn flinched and barked at the unexpected sound.

"De quied, you, ish okay," the dummy told him. Then he remembered that he still had the rope in his mouth and let go of it.

"...hello?" a shy voice asked from the other side of the door.

"Hey, Blooks, it's me. And Finn."

"Muf."

"...oh. Hi." said Napstablook and opened the door. Finn immediately jumped forward and passionately greeted him. The ghost petrified on place, not sure how to respond.

"You maniac, give him some space," Mad whirred. "Sorry. He's like super excited about everything."

"...I see. So... What are you doing here?" Blooky slowly and carefully, as if he was afraid to break him, pat Finn on the top of his head. The pet closed his eyes and smiled blissfully.

"Oh, you know. I had to take him on a walk, and I figured I'd stop by, see how you're doing."

"...oh. Well..."

"Who's that, Blooky?" a third voice called from inside the house.

"Who's that, Blooky?" Mad repeated. That voice was familiar, but he couldn't quite connect it to a face.

"...it's my cousin," Napstablook shouted back to the stranger, allthough his shouting voice was more of a slightly amplified whisper. "...Madstablook."

"Oh. Err, hi?" said the voice, and its originator emerged from one of the doors.

"...sorry, we... weren't expecting company..." said Blooky to the dummy and blushed. That was a weird sensation for Mad to see in his cousin. He looked at the girl behind the ghost's back.

"Um, hello," he said. "You're Shyren, am I right?"