Chapter seven: three tests and training

When the skeleton named sans walked in I had no idea how to react, I mean come on a walking talking skeleton and seeing how drake reacted must be a common thing. After sans noticed I was there he went talked with his cousin (how can you be related to one is beyond me) and left me alone.

When drake had referred me to the kid the first time I had let it slide, but when he said it a gain I told him I was sixteen years old, he didn't say anything as he continued talking to sans, something about a sighting. So I sat there bored out of my mind as drake reached into his purple and black cloak and pulled out my black cloak and my dagger and placed it on the bed.

Before heading out of the door.

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"okay sans, am leaving you with the human, and I want you to bring her to the port as I have to run an errand," drake said as he was leaving, " don't worry about the dagger, she has no intention of hurting you and anyone else purposely."

With that he closed the door behind him, leaving only the human and the skeleton named sans. Who now had full attention set on her. He sat in the same chair that drake sat in earlier, sans had a lazy grin on his face.

"well a human teen, how funny, I was suppose to watch to see if any human came though the ruins and capture you but I don't really feel like doing it, and besides your already here and lucky to," he said.

Frisk didn't know if she should respond or just keep quiet, sans continued on.

"well it was a good thing that drake found you, before you turned into a popsicle," sans said. "any way, once you warmed a little bit more we should head out," he added.

" but its too cold for me to be walking around without some layers of clothes," she informed him.

" oh don't worry about that, it warmed up a little outside. Not a lot but enough so you don't freeze like last time."

"okay I guess," frisk said getting up and putting on her cloak.

She couldn't believe this was magic, she felt nothing as she put it one in the ruins so how the drake know this was magic and if so what kind of enchantment is placed on it. Frisk could ask sans, maybe he knew? She shook her head, better not.

Sans looked at her than to an imaginary watch on his boney wrist, "come on kid, I got to get you to the port before drake gets back, or I want hear the end of it," he said opening the door for frisk.

Once frisk stepped outside she didn't feel the sting cold, it was still cold but at a more tolerable level. But more of a winters over and spring is coming, sans walked a few feet ahead of her while she closely followed. They didn't really such much to each other, one was to busy looking around and thinking, while the other was lazy and didn't feel like talking.

It didn't last long, sans held up his left hand, signaling for frisk to stop and she did but before she could ask why did they stop, sans beat her to it.

"okay frisk, I need you to put on your hood and look down, okay" he asked her.

She did what he said, "what's wrong?" frisk asked while looking down.

"there's a patrol up here, I don't want one of them to see that you're a human, got it?" sans said.

"yeah," she answered, pulling up her hood over her head and looking down at the snow covered ground.

They continued walking. Frisk following sans footprints in the snow, as they walked she could hear people( monster?) talking and the sound of metal being hit. She really wanted to look up and see what was going on, but she also didn't want to be capture by any other monster and thus kept her head down.

"hold skeleton," a deep voice said.

Sans stopped and so did frisk.

"sup," the skeleton said.

"wait, I know you, yeah from earlier," the deep voice said, " how did you get past us?"

"well, there are many ways to get to one place and another by that I mean the long road," sans answered.

"who's the child?"

" a kid who wandered to far from town, and am taking her back to her parents, who must be worried sick," Sans said.

" I need to see her face, so i can find out who are the parents and fined them for carelessness," he said.

Frisk say the mans shadow as he went to unhood her, this was going south fast. Luckily a female voice called out to him.

"hey, just leave the kid alone and help me with this," she said.

The man sighed, " you two may go."

" see yeah," sans said walking along.

Frisk kept her hood on for a little bit, making sure that they were out of sight. She pulled her hood down and almost immediately someone was yelling.

"there you are you lazy bones, I have been looking for you for almost an hour," a tall skeleton wearing armor and a red scruff around his neck, shouted at sans who looked really sort compared to him, than the tall skeleton spotted frisk, " a-a human!"

"no papyrus, that's a rock," sans said.

Papyrus looked a little disappointed, then sans added, " but what's that in front of the rock?"

Once again papyrus had a excited look on his face, as he took a few steps standing in front of sans.

" human! I the great papyrus challenge you to a duel, now prepare yourself," he stopped as sans whispered into his ear, " change of plans, instead I will test you to see if your really worth fighting, meet me over there when your ready. Come along brother I need your help making sure the tests are ready."

Papyrus walked off with sans trailing behind, frisk was slightly amused at what just happened with the tall skeleton, she would have never guessed that they were brothers and what's this about tests? She thought as she walked towards were papyrus pointed to.

It wasn't far of a walk as she saw the two skeletons standing side by side, they stopped what they were doing as they saw frisk waking closer.

"halt human!" papyrus shouted, causing frisk to stop a good distance from them, "you shall not go any further until you passed the tests that I have laid out for you," He turned to sans, "brother ready to begin?"

Sans shrugged," yup."

He turned to frisk," you ready human?"

"yes," like she had any choice.

"okay, here's a riddle," papyrus cleared his throat, "round she is, yet flat as a board, altar of the lupine lords, jewel on black velvet, pearl in the sea, unchanged but ever changing, eternally. You got five minutes to answer."

Frisk didn't know at first, but the 'pearl in the sea' clicked, pearls are white and on black velvet in the sea, the answer came to her.

" the moon," she answered.

"correct, human! Now the second test," papyrus said as he walked towards her, "here this is for the second test."

He had handed her a rubrics cube, she looked up to see that he was already back where he was. " you got ten minutes to solve that one."

It took her only four, as there was tiny arrows drawn showing her what to do. This left papyrus baffled but quickly composed himself, he turned to sans who was already half a sleep.

"okay human last test and this one will be the most challenging, that I haven't been able to solve…yet, behold."

Nothing happened, he looked confused.

"well… that was something I didn't expect," he said before waving it off, " no matter we shall begin our duel, but not here, somewhere more space-ish."

With that he left, frisk walked after him, sans stopped her.

"yeah here's a quick tip when fighting my bro, when you see blue stop be still as you can be, think of a blue stop sign," he side stepping to the side, "okay there, head towards the duel."

Frisk thanked him and continued, following the trail that papyrus had left. As she walked she couldn't help but think of the fight she was going to have against the tall skeleton. Her fight with toriel hard enough, with balls of fire aiming at you. But papyrus seemed nice( though his a bit determined to fight her) and may go easy on her, hopefully.

After a few minutes of following the foot prints had led frisk to a large open area, and there in the middle was papyrus.

"ah there you are, now that you are here we shall begin our duel," he said," do you know how to fight?"

"more or less," frisk answered.

Papyrus looked annoyed, " more or less, human its a yes or no question!"

Frisk was taken back, " no, I don't know how to fight." She answered.

" well, I can't fight you if you don't know how to fight," he sad as he calmly walked towards her, "here let me teach you the basic's."

With that papyrus spends the next hour teaching frisk on foot work, telling her how to attack, but there wasn't really much of that sense it was easy to use a dagger.

"very good, you learn fast human," papyrus complemented.

"thank you, and my names frisk," she said to him.

"well, frisk, now you know the basics we shall begin the duel and don't worry I'll go easy," he said.

Frisk nodded, looks like her first real fight will begin.

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