"This looks pretty nice compared to the ruins."
having gotten used to red and black brick walls, the dull colors of a pine forest is a nice change of scenery.
"Don't worry, we're bound to run into trouble before long." Flowey answers sarcastically
Rolling your eyes, you answer "I hardly wait."
You continue down a path, leading directly away from the ruins. Looking around it's easy to forget you're deep below the surface. The trees stretch tall, and the dark ceiling could easily be mistaken for a cloudy night sky. Before reaching anything notably you hear a loud noise, a cracking sound or something heavy being dropped. It's coming from right behind you.
"You think someone is nearby?"
"Probably."
You barely get to walk another ten steps before you hear sound behind you again.
"Okay, clearly someone is following us."
Flowey looks at you questioning "And what exactly do you plan to do about?"
It takes you second think the situation through. Turning around you begin to yell considerably loud "When you're done playing passive/aggressive mysterious, you can come out and face us!" Though, to no response.
You're about to turn around when you feel a cold grip on your shoulder. Without thinking, you turn around and instinctively punch after whatever's behind you. Pretty accurately you hit him right in the face, or rather right in the skull, and finally get a look at the monster behind these shenanigans. Short, looks like skeleton and honestly kind of disappointing. He grips around his cranium and cracks it back in place.
"Why, good day to you too, pal."
"And what are you doing?"
"I work here."
"By scaring strangers?"
"No, by patrolling this area and staying on the lookout for humans."
This makes sense, and makes you kind of nervous at the same time. Pretty quickly, an awkward silence falls over the conversation. Luckily, Flowey is there to break it.
"We'll just be on our way."
The skeleton turns to look down at Flowey, he probably hasn't noticed Flowey before now. "Who's your friend?"
"Does it matter?" You ask.
"Honestly, not really. I was just curious." He lays a hand on his shoulder and begins to roll it around, giving out a few cracking noises.
"Well, I get paid minimum wage for this garbage job anyway, so eh, you wanna get lunch or something?"
"I don't know, where? This forest seems pretty empty…"
"It is, but if you continue up this path there's a small town at the end."
"Thanks, we will."
"One last thing, there's another skeleton around here. He's pretty tall and wearing a confusing mess of clothing. I doubt that he'll be any trouble though, he couldn't find his own spine with both hands…" he stops and takes a deep breath "What I'm trying to say is, you're most likely a bigger danger to him, than he is to you. So please, have some mercy, won't you?"
"That won't be a problem."
"Good, my name is Sans, nice to meet you."
He extends his arm as if to give you a handshake, you take his hand but quickly let go as you feel a shocking sensation from his touch.
"Ow!"
Sans holds up his hand to show the mechanism behind the trick "Gotcha."
"Should have seen that one coming." You mumble.
"You should." He turns around, before continuing "Guess I'll be seeing you around." With that, Sans walks off.
"Quite the character, huh."
Flowey perks up, as he finally gets a chance to say something "At least he's not something to worry about. Oh, and he forgot to tell you. The road from here to Snowdin is packed with the royal guard."
"Snowdin?"
"It's the town, and the tall guy he mentioned is Papyrus, his brother."
"Know anything else useful?"
"Papyrus has a sentry station up ahead. It's pretty close by, so we're bound to run into him if we continue."
"Any way we could sneak through?"
"I highly doubt it. The trees are too tight for you to fit in, and otherwise the only way through is in plain sight."
For a second you stop to think the situation over. Clearly you have to get to Snowdin somehow.
"You don't any better ideas?"
Flowey seemed to have something on his mind, but still acted a bit hesitant "There's always the river. Normally this would seem like a pretty bad idea. You know, freezing to death and stuff, but you seem to handle lethal situations pretty well…"
"... Are we really doing this?"
"If you jump in the river, you should be able to get all the way to snowdin without any trouble. No one bothers with the water, due to cold temperatures. On top of that you even have the stream flowing your way. Not bad, eh?"
"Fine! I'll freeze and drown all the way to Snowdin, just for you. If that's really the best solution you can come up with."
"Great, the river is this way. I'll be waiting for you in Snowdin town!
"I'm regretting this already…"
