MAN IT GOT WARM! Anyway hay there. I really wanted this Chapter to come out on the 22nd but... I kinda had to re-write a bit of it along with a little surprise that I'll talk about post Chapter. (But I mean it's already been out for a few days so yeah...) But over all I like how this Chapter turned out as I wanted a bit more light hearted-ness (Is that a word?) compared to some of my... more serious chapters. Anyway one thing before you read on.

I DON'T KNOW TOBY FOX! But I did get to meet most of the guys on achievement hunter a few weeks ago so yeah!


Papyrus narrowed his eye sockets and tapped his foot in the snow from sans' news. "I DON'T BELIEVE YOU." Papyrus muttered down to sans who just told him a human was coming this way.

"aw come on bro," sans winked up at Papyrus. "do you really think i would lie about this?"

"NO… BUT I THINK YOU COULD PRANK ME ABOUT THIS!" Papyrus didn't want to get his hopes up but now his hopes were up anyway, but at the same time he didn't want to be disappointed or made fun of. 'BUT MAYBE SANS ISN'T PRANKING ME…' Papyrus reasoned with himself. 'BUT I CAN'T LET HIM KNOW NOW OR I COULD LOOK LIKE AN IDIOT!'

Meanwhile sans scratched the side of his skull as he watched Papyrus's 'inner conflict'. "huh i guess ruby was right after all." sans glanced down the path that Ruby should be walking down any second now and then looked back up at his Brother. "pap." Papyrus was slightly lost in thought as he continually got his hopes up, then lowered them, and then raised them again.

"HMMMMMMMMM..." Papyrus scratched his chin as he continued to tap his foot in thought. Meanwhile sans heard some snow crunch off to his right. sans turned and saw Ruby walking down the path and right towards the two skeletons. She looked a little surprised that sans had somehow gotten farther down the path than her but Papyrus cut any question off.

"I'VE COME TO A DECISION!" Papyrus exclaimed and he turned towards sans completely missing Ruby who was now less than a yard away. "YOU WILL STAY HERE AND POINT AT THE HUMAN WHEN THEY… SANS WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"

Sans was absently pointing at Ruby. "i'm pointing at the human." Papyrus followed sans' finger and his eyes twinkled with joy before he bolted in Ruby's direction. For a split second Ruby wanted to run but she stood her ground and she waited for Papyrus's attack.

But Papyrus ran right past Ruby and jumped on to a rock that was sticking out of the snow. "I'VE GOT YOU NOW HUMAN!" Papyrus cackled with glee at what he thought was his first successful human capture. "AND NOW I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, WILL BE RESPECTED, REVERED AND COOL IN THE EYES OF EVERY MONSTER IN THE UNDERGROUND!"

Both Ruby and even sans where dumb struck by this. Meanwhile Chara snickered as they walked next to Ruby. "You know if you think about it, a rock isn't that far off from a ruby." Ruby frowned in Chara's direction but tried to just ignore them.

"uh… bro." sans spoke in an understandably awkward tone.

"YES I KNOW SANS, NOW THAT I HAVE CAPTURED A HUMAN AND WILL GAIN THE TOTAL COOLNESS OF THE UNDERGROUND I MIGHT BECOME TO COOL AND LOSE SIGHT OF MYSELF." Papyrus stood tall with his foot on the 'human'. "BUT KNOW THAT I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, HAVE LIVED WITH THE TITLE OF COOLEST DUDE ALL MY LIFE SO THIS HUMAN WILL NOT AFFECT ME IN ANY WAY WHAT'S SO EVER!"

Ruby and Chara where a bit taken back by the amount of self-confidence Papyrus had; while sans would have blushed from embarrassment (if he had skin) from Papyrus's speech. "bro i seriously have to tell you something."

Papyrus grinned over in sans direction. "WHAT IS IT SANS?" His tone was that of a happy toddler.

"that's not a human, that's just a rock." sans' words made Papyrus go through so many emotions so quickly not even Ruby could keep up. After a few seconds of emotion shuffle Papyrus stopped on angry.

"I KNEW IT!" Papyrus stamped his foot in the snow and ran over to sans and completely ignoring Ruby again who made sure she wasn't standing behind anything just to make sure. "I KNEW YOU WERE PRANKING ME! WHY CAN'T YOU BE SERIOUS ABOUT MY PASSIONS AND STOP PLAYING PRANKS ON ME!?" Papyrus continued to stamp his foot and sans looked over at Ruby with a pleading smile.

"Man you weren't kidding when you said he thought you were a lamp." Chara shook their head in amazement and winked at Ruby. "Well let's just kill him and move on." Chara reached over and was about to touch Ruby but she vanished thanks to her semblance. "Spoil sport."

Ruby reappeared with her left foot on top of the rock and let her hood flap in the suddenly dramatic breeze. "Are you the one they call The Great Papyrus!?" Ruby used her 'queen of the world' voice which basically sounded like an ultra-over dramatic version of a Lindsay Jones impression. Papyrus looked over in Ruby's direction with a confused stare but he cleared his throat to speak.

"nope."

"SANS BE QUITE!" Papyrus sighed and turned towards the path in front of him. "OF COURSE I AM THE GREAT PAPYRUS," Papyrus started to say in a similar dramatic voice but he instantly dropped it. "BUT IF YOU'D LIKE TO BE FRIENDS, UNKNOWN VOICE, THAN YOU CAN ALSO JUST CALL ME PAPYRUS."

Chara slapped their forehead. Ruby glanced over at sans who just shrugged. "I am not an Unknown voice Papyrus!" Ruby pointed directly at Papyrus in an attempt to get him to notice her as anything but a lamp.

"OH I KNOW YOU FROM SOMEWHERE?" Papyrus's voice was filled with excitement and Chara slammed their forehead into the ground. "IS IT YOU UNDYNE!? NO THAT VOICE SOUNDS TO YOUNG…" Papyrus ran a mental list of young female monsters he knew about until he found a match. "WAIT IS THAT YOU RED?!" Stars started to shine in Papyrus's eyes. "I THOUGHT YOU HATED HANGING OUT WITH ME!?"

Now Ruby was just offended that Papyrus wasn't noticing her. "No Papyrus, For you see I am not a monster." Papyrus gasped as 'the truth' started to become clear. "For you see… uh… the lamp in front of you is me. And I, am the human: Ruby Rose!" Ruby did a little pose on top of the rock and Papyrus gasped as he finally 'saw' Ruby.

"I- I- "Papyrus started turning in circles from that realization and continued to speak in lose thoughts. "THE HUMAN IS HERE! HUMANS CAN BECOME LAMPS! HUMANS AND MY BROTHER HAVE THE SAME TASTE IN CLOTHES! OHHHHHHH MYYYYYYY GOOOOODDDDDNNNNNEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!"

"hey bro?" sans asked in a calm manor and eventually Papyrus stopped spinning in excitement and looked at his brother. "you gonna say your… proclamation? that you practice… every morning-"

"SANS! OF COURSE, I WAS JUST GETTING TO THAT!" Papyrus then cleared his throat. "HUMAN! I THE GREAT PAPYRUS WILL NOT LET YOU PASS! BECAUSE I WILL DEFEAT YOU! THEN I WILL CAPTURE YOU! BEFORE LONG I WILL BECOME SUPER POPULAR! THEN I'D PROBABLY GAIN TO TOTAL RESPECT OF EVERYONE! NEXT I WILL BRING YOU TO THE CAPITAL! AND AT THAT POINT…" Papyrus's voice trailed off. "WELL I DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THAT. BUT I WILL CAPTURE YOU HUMAN! SO CONTINUE ON IF YOU DARE!"

With his speech finished Papyrus ran off cackling. "NYEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH." Until he was out of sight.

"Man how embarrassing can you make yourself?" Ruby glanced behind her to see that Chara was now sitting cross-legged in the snow. "Well know that I think about it-" Ruby turned away from Chara and looked at sans who was walking towards her. "Oh what you don't care about my opinions!"

"well that wasn't exactly how i thought things would play out." sans gave his classic shrug. "but like i said before, don't worry about my brother." sans winked at Ruby. "i'll be keeping an, eye socket out for you."

Chara groaned and Ruby muffled out a laugh. "Thanks Sans, I was actually a little worried that I broke your brother when he started spinning around like that." This time sans chuckled out of embarrassment.

"yeah me to, but luckily he was able to, mussel on through it." sans winked again and Ruby laughed out loud.

"Oh stop using him already and just move on!" Chara bolted up and started walking past the two. Ruby was confused by why Chara said and followed the ghost with her eyes expecting an explanation. sans noticed this and looked in Chara's direction but didn't see anything other than snow and forest.

Ruby bit her lip when she remembered how weird it ended up for Ice Cap and decided this could lead to that same problem. "um... I'll see you around sans." Ruby walked past sans and with a wave she started following Chara down the same path Papyrus took. "Oh and thanks for the hood-" Ruby turned but sans suddenly wasn't there. "Huh?" Ruby stood there for a few seconds but decided she should continue forward.

"About time." Chara grumbled as Ruby walked past them. Ruby didn't really seem to pay any mind to the ghost's presence or bitterness. Ruby figured she must be getting used to it. "So is this going to be that kind of relationship where you only pay attention to me when no one else is around?"

"Maybe?" Ruby replied with a shrug and glanced down at the snow under her feet. "I don't really know what I can do to make you-"

"Like you?" Chara scoffed out the words like a curse and Ruby frowned in self-disappointment. "Well to be fair if this situation was reversed, I would ignore you and your goody two shoe idealism." Then Chara chuckled boldly. "Of course how you are now…" Chara scanned Ruby's 'innocent' eyes and remembered the blood red version of them. "You'd probably be cheering me on if I was in control-"

Chara didn't get finish their thought because a monster yipped in the two's direction. "Stop!"

Ruby came to a complete stop and looked up to see a dog type monster standing on his two hind legs so he was around 5 feet tall and held two short swords in his paws. He was wearing a tank top with a dog face on the front and leopard pants which didn't seem to appropriate for the cold weather.

Ruby continued to just stand their awkwardly as the monster known as Doggo narrowed his eyes. "Where did you go?!" Ruby just tilted her head in confusion and Chara's eyes widened when they realized that this dog monster couldn't see Ruby unless she was moving.

They grinned and turned to Ruby. "You should go run up and pet him." Ruby frowned in Chara's direction but realized that could actually work.

"Petting did work before with that other monster dog…" Ruby scratched her chin in thought, which allowed Doggo to see her. "But this dog could hate that-" Ruby was cut off when one of Doggo's blades slashed centimeters away from her head. "AHH!"

Ruby started to fall backwards and she almost fell on her back. But she reflexively rolled with the fall and was able to give herself some distance from Doggo. "I don't think I got the human…" Doggo narrowed his eyes again and waited for Ruby to make a move, who was now rapidly reconsidering her options.

Ruby's heart was beating a million beats per second but she was able to keep herself still. 'It's just like with Vegetoid,' Ruby thought back to her fight with the vegetable monster. 'He almost killed me to…' Ruby gulped and managed to look over at Doggo without moving.

Meanwhile Chara chuckled as they watched the fight from the side of the path. "Well that was close one." They said in a purposefully annoying tone that Ruby tried to ignore. "Well if you need some help I'm-"

Before Chara could finish, Ruby used her semblance and dashed at her full speed right at Doggo. The monster dog started to react when he saw the red blur dash towards him and he slashed forward but he was to slow. Doggo slashed at empty air as Ruby managed to get a single scratch behind Doggo's ear before she reappeared behind Doggo like a ninja-samurai.

Doggo's response to the pet was exactly the same as Lesser dog. "PET! I'VE BEEN PET!" Doggo started jumping around in joy, as any aura of hostility had completely disappeared. "PET! PAT! PET! POT! PET!" Doggo then ran off into the forest continuing to go on about petting.

Ruby sighed in relief and Chara grumbled out the rest of their sentence. "-I'm free." Ruby looked at Chara who had their arms crossed in indifference. "But why should anyone care right Ruby?" Chara then out stretched their arms in an agitated manor. "I'll never be free right!?"

Ruby didn't exactly understand what Chara was talking about, but she had an idea. "You never had a chance to live the life you wanted?" Ruby half asked, half replied. "You were locked up and that-"

"STOP IT!" Chara's yell stopped Ruby mid thought and for a second she looked just like Asriel after the first time Chara scared him. Chara growled at the memory but directed their agitated emotions towards Ruby. "I'm sick of you going on rants about how you pity me." Chara walked until they were less than a foot a part from Ruby. Chara snarled trying to scare the girl but Ruby forced herself to keep eye contact.

This girl was the only reason Chara couldn't finally roam free now. But it was always something: A prison cell, 3 over powered women, some barrier spell, their own soul, Asriel's... reluctance and now some puny little girl. It made Chara even angrier and Ruby could feel the ghost's anger thanks to whatever kind of link they shared.

"Ok Chara… then I'll make you a deal." Ruby said after a few seconds and Chara perked up at that.

"Oh? You want to make a deal with a demon?" Chara's attitude changed completely and they leaned closer to Ruby with their signature smile. "Well let's hear it partner."

Ruby was a bit worried of how close Chara was to her now but she steeled her will. "How about neither of us talk about changing the other into what they want the other to become?" It took Chara a few seconds to understand what Ruby meant thanks to her stupid wording and they narrowed their eyes.

"So you mean if I stop talking about possessing you and turning you into a murderer- well a murderer that likes to kill, you'll stop talking about how much I should be a good little ghost?" Chara didn't sound like they opposed the idea but more like they were curious about it.

Ruby was a little happy that the killer ghost was at least considering her deal. "Yep… so what do you say on…" Ruby tried to think up a good name for the deal. "Mutually assured silence?" Ruby pulled the words out of Chara's vocabulary.

Chara didn't like the name but shrugged in indifference. "There's just one think though." In an instant Chara grabbed the back of Ruby's head and pulled her forward so both girl and ghost's foreheads where touching. "WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT THIS!?" Chara grinned as they watched the physical contact start to break Ruby just like it had before.

"We… wewe…" Ruby's voice trailed off for a few seconds as her eyes started to change blood red. But luckily Ruby was able to ground herself. Ruby shoved Chara back and took a few steps back herself. Chara flinched at the sudden pain where Ruby just touched but they quickly held it in. "We… will just… avoid touching each other."

Ruby put a hand over her right eye which was flashing between red and silver. At least her mouth wasn't locked in that twisted smile or her clothes bleached in a beautiful white of Toriel's corpse- Ruby stopped those thoughts from continuing, and didn't start moving until she knew her thoughts was back to normal.

"Fine." Ruby looked up at Chara who was crossing their arms to try and hide the stinging pain in their chest. "Neither of us won't force the other to switch alignments and we won't consciously touch each other." Chara then winked at Ruby and posed in a relaxed provocative pose. "Unless you change your mind~"

"Alignments?" Ruby tilted her head completely missing Chara's attempt at seduction.

Chara groaned remembering that they were still dealing with a 10 year-old girl. "It means if you're good or evil." Ruby blinked as she processed that information.

"Oh ok… Well then it's a deal." Ruby smiled and Chara looked away in indifference but they nodded. "Well let's get going my Ghost friend." Ruby walked forward a few feet until she noticed Chara wasn't following her. "Um… Chara?" Ruby turned and saw Chara was looking at one of the snow covered trees with mild interest.

When Chara noticed that Ruby was looking at them the ghost shrugged. "What? I haven't been here in ages." Chara commented and started to walk down the path. Ruby was a bit surprised that Chara would want to take in the sites.

The two continued to walk through the forest at wildly different paces until Ruby decided that she would walk at Chara's calm pace. After a few minutes the forest ended rather abruptly and gave way to very steep cliffs and at the bottom was even more snowy forest.

"SO YOUR SURE THAT HUMAN ISN'T RELATED TO RED?" Ruby turned away from the cliff and saw Papyrus and sans standing a few meters down the continued forest path apparently having a debate on her origin. Between Ruby and the Skeleton brothers was a large rectangle of what looked like oddly colored ice.

"well i guess, i'm not 'sure-sure'," sans shrugged and noticed Ruby and waved at her with his kind smile. "but i'm sure that red would bring up if she's related to a human at some point right?" Papyrus narrowed his eyes at sans humor but he also realized that sans was looking at something and gasped when he saw Ruby.

"GASP!" Papyrus jumped back and gave himself a quick pep talk and then turned back towards Ruby with a gleam in his eye socket. "HUMAN WELCOME TO THE FIRST AND LAST PUZZLE YOU WILL EVER FACE! COWER IN FEAR AT THE DEADLY INVISIBLE ELECTRICITY MAZE!" Papyrus then pulled out a small blue orb and held it in his hand like it was a trophy. "FOR YOU SEE WHEN YOU TOUCH THE WALLS OF THIS MAZE THIS ORB WILL DELIVER A HARDY ZAP!"

Ruby was shocked that this was Papyrus's first puzzle. A puzzle where you have to navigate an invisible maze wouldn't be that hard thanks to the foot prints she left in the snow, but the electric walls would really stop her cold. But she wouldn't give up.

"Alright Papyrus!" Ruby spoke in a similar manor as to how she had before to get Papyrus's attention. "Your maze may be-"

"May seem," Chara said off to Ruby's left in what Ruby figured was a helping tone so Ruby added the line to her speech.

"Your maze may seem like a really hard puzzle-"

"May seem to be an impossible obstacle,"

"And an impossible obstacle to pass. But I will navigate it!" Ruby then held up her fist as a symbol to show her righteousness to the taller skeleton who was amazed by the sudden heroic speech. Then Ruby did a complete 180 and walked back towards the forest.

Papyrus was needless to say confused.

"WHAT!?" Papyrus yelled in confusion as Ruby ran over to one of the snow covered trees and she started to climb up it. "MY MAZE IS OVER HERE HUMAN! NOT IN SOME RANDOM TREE!" Papyrus started to stamp his foot in the snow.

"hey bro just give her a second." sans tried to calm Papyrus down but that didn't seem to work. "maybe you scared her off with your awesome puzzle."

"NO WAY SANS!" Papyrus returned to his own heroic pose with him holding the electric orb like it was a trophy. "DIDN'T YOU HEAR HER HEROIC SPEECH ON HOW SHE WOULD PASS MY PUZZLE!" Then Papyrus narrowed his eyes and scratched his chin. "ALTHOUGH SHE DID TAKE A LOT OF PAUSES IN IT… BUT NO ONE, EXCEPT I THE GREAT PAPYRUS, CAN TALK FOR TO LONG WITHOUT TAKING A BREAK. AFTER ALL SHE'S JUST HUMAN."

sans grinned up at his brother as a thought hit him. "so I guess you could say, her sentence was a bit… disjointed?" Papyrus's eyes would have gone blood shot if he had eyes. "or maybe her words just didn't have any-"

"SANS NO!"

"Yes!" Papyrus and sans stopped their conversation and turned just in time to see Ruby burst out of the tree she was in. Ruby did a spin in the air and landed on her feet with a long stick in her hand. After taking a second to brush off any snow that got on her while she was up in the tree, she pointed the stick at a confused Papyrus.

"A STICK?!" Papyrus scratched his skull with the electric orb.

"Yep, and with this stick I'll be able to feel where the walls are of your maze and not be hurt by the electricity!" Ruby explained as she started towards the invisible maze and Papyrus gasped in amazement.

"IT'S THE PERFECT COUNTER TO MY PUZZLE!" Papyrus yelled in shock and was then actually shocked when the orb of electricity activated when Ruby hit a wall of the maze. "GAZZZZZAAAAAZA!" Papyrus fell in a cooked heap.

"Oh no!" Ruby gasped in shock and Chara snickered behind her. "Are you ok?" Papyrus then jumped up like nothing happened.

"WELL THAT WAS…" Papyrus scratched his chin and trying to hide his embarrassment at one of his traps back firing on him. "BUT ANYWAY I WONDER WHY I WAS SHOCKED?"

Meanwhile sans figured out what went wrong. "well it's not that shocking when you think about it." sans winked at Ruby who found it a little weird that he would make a pun after his brother just got electrocuted. "but see she has to be holding the orb to be shocked by it."

"OH! OF COURSE!" Papyrus then ran perfectly through the invisible maze and stopped when he was right in front of Ruby. "HERE YOU GO HUMAN." Papyrus then tucked the small orb into Ruby's hood and ran back out of the maze to he was standing in the same spot as before. "NOW HUMAN! HOW WILL YOU GET PAST MY MAZE-"

Ruby calmly followed Papyrus's foot prints in the snow to the exit and stopped right in front of him. "Here you can have this back." Ruby japed one end of her stick in the snow so she could get the orb out of her hood while Papyrus stood there with his jaw dropped.

"HUMAN." Papyrus started to speak before Ruby could even fish out the orb. "YOU HAVE OUT SMARTED MY TRAP NOT JUST ONCE BUT TWICE NOW, SO I WILL GIVE YOU THAT ORB AS AN EXCLUSIVE PAPYRUS MERCHANDISE!"

Chara had walked up so they were standing next to Ruby and gave Papyrus the blankest stare Ruby thought was possible. "But if someone touches the maze wouldn't you get zapped-"

"NOW I MUST PREPARE MORE PUZZLES TO CAPTURE YOU!" Papyrus then turned and ran off with childish glee. "NYHE!" Ruby stood their awkwardly holding the electric orb and Chara just huffed.

"Well… at least he's happy?" Ruby tried for her own happy tone. Her words were mostly directed towards Chara but sans took it that she was talking to him.

"yeah, seeing him happy always makes me grin." sans winked and Chara mumbled their disapproval. "by the way, that was really clever with the whole stick thing you tried."

"Oh thanks sans," Ruby blushed slightly at the praise and Chara scoffed. "It's just a shame I didn't get to use it." Ruby pulled the stick out of the snow and mentally noted to at least keep it with her as a walking stick.

"well it still profs that you can get yourself out of some stick-y situations." sans once again winked at Ruby and Chara rolled their eyes. "how's the new cloth fitting you by the way?" Ruby smiled back at her skeleton friend.

"Its great thanks for-" Ruby was cut off by Chara groaning. Ruby tried not to look at the ghost so as to not repeat something like last time but she got the message. "Um… anyway I think I should see what puzzle your brother has planned for me next."

Ruby started to awkwardly walk away from sans expecting him to just sort of stand their like last time. Which was why Ruby was surprised when sans started walking next to her. "well at least let me show you one of my favorite spots first." sans said offhandedly. "it's just a few steps down this way."

"Oh… Sure." Ruby nodded and the she followed sans down the cliff infested path. "By the way, why are there so many cliffs around here?" Ruby carefully looked down one of the cliffs when they walked over a small wooden bridge.

"well…" sans chuckled as his imagination started to make up a sarcastic scenario. "see there was this epic battle between the king of the monsters, the queen of all warriors and the… king.. of um…" sans sort of lost track when he noticed how invested Ruby was in the made up story. "the… uh… sharks…?" Ruby suddenly had stars in her eyes.

Chara shook their head in disappointment. "Wow. At least when I was telling you history in a fantasy manor it was real!" Ruby cast her own disapproving aura towards at Chara. "What?! Don't tell me you didn't… well actually you hated my story as soon as I got to the massacre part." Ruby tried to ignore Chara and turned her focus back on sans.

"Hey it's ok if you can't remember the rest of the story sans." Ruby patted sans on the shoulder and the skeleton had a mental weight lifted off his shoulders now that he didn't need to make up the rest of the story in a way that made sense. As that was some work sans defiantly didn't need. "I'll just take it that you monsters just like the high road."

sans chuckled at that. "well for my brother there's only the papyrus road." sans' tone reminded Ruby of Yang again. In fact the whole taking her to see something was something Yang had been doing a lot nowadays... for some reason.

"That's what I'm talking about." Chara said bitterly a few feet behind the two. Ruby spared a glance back at the frowning Ghost. "You're just hanging around this guy because he has certain qualities of Yang. When you know that I," Chara's normal form changed to that of PJ Yang again. "Can match her completely thanks to the bond we share."

Ruby quickly turned away from Chara's Yang impersonation. She knew Chara was right that sans was funny and so far seemed to watching out for her just like Yang would but she still felt a ping of guilt for some reason. At first Ruby thought it was just because she was scared of what would happen if her family and new friend found out about Chara when… or if she ever got out of the underground.

But then more dark and depressing thoughts started to bleed in.

'Maybe it's because I'm a killer and Yang would throw me in jail once I tell them what happened.' Ruby's genocidal voice chimed. Chara blinked in surprise, they weren't doing anything to create this voice but they could hear it just as clearly as Ruby could. It seemed like Ruby's genocidal side had its own… voice. 'Or maybe someone will try and use me as a weapon, just like how dad always said they used mom as a-' The voice was cut off as a top bit of Ruby's stick snapped off from her tight and trembling grip.

sans took notice of Ruby's sudden snap and even noticed a small tear roll down her cheek. He expected her to burst into tears or at least stop walking. But she kept walking and sans chose to not do anything to comfort her. '…jeez i really am a bad clinician.' Just after that thought the two reached the sight sans was talking about earlier.

"whelp here it is." Ruby blinked away another tear and looked up at the area around her. In a wide open snowy field sat a large snow ball at one end of a windy icy track. At the end of the track was a small hole that reminded Chara or a golf course. "the snowdin mini golf course."

"Cool…?" sans chuckled at Ruby's unintentional pun and Ruby started to smile to. "Anyway where do we get the golf balls?" Ruby looked around but didn't see a vendor or anything like that nearby. sans continued to chuckle as he walked over towards the large snowball.

"we don't need those." sans tapped the huge snow ball that was about his size. "see this thing shrinks as you push it down the trail." Ruby nodded in understanding while Chara just looked out over an edge of a nearby cliff trying to look awesome while at the same time being evil.

After Ruby glance over to see Chara just trying to show disinterest in the game she turned back towards sans. "Alright, but how do we play with only one snow ball?" Ruby walked over towards the start of the icy path. Sans scratched his chin almost like he hadn't thought this part of the plan all the way through.

After about a minute of thinking sans snapped his fingers. "you can use the orb my bro gave you as your own snow/golf ball." Ruby pulled the electric orb out of her hood and dashed over to the hole to see if the orb would even fit.

"Ok." Ruby stood up and dashed around so she was next to sans. "Let's play some Snowdin Golf!" Ruby yelled in a determined tone. "Alright! I'm gonna get a hole in one!" Sans scratched where his ear would be as Ruby continued to yell things right next to him.

"SHUT IT AND JUST PLAY IT THEN!" Chara yelled both physically and in Ruby's mind. Ruby stopped and looked at sans who glanced over at Ruby. Ruby coughed and motioned for sans to go first.

"thanks." sans walked up towards the large snow ball and Ruby wondered if it was fair that the skeleton had to use a huge snowball while she had a small orb. "now, watch the ball." Sans muttered as he lightly pushed the ball with one now slightly glowing blue hand.

Ruby and even Chara who was glancing over their shoulder looked on in amazement. The snowball started rolling and reducing in size but that wasn't the amazing part. The ball was turning and rolling like it had a mind of its own down the curves of the course. In actuality sans was making the ball move but Ruby and Chara were to occupied with the sentient snowball to notice.

Eventually it reached the end of the course but it was still too big to go in (Thanks to sans' cheating) so sans made the ball circle around the hole like a basketball on the hoop until it was small enough and fell in. When the snow ball fell in a light blue golf flag rose out of the hole. "whelp," sans turned towards Ruby. "you're up."

Ruby looked absently at sans like he just told her to win a spelling bee. "He cheated... somehow." Chara muttered as they glared at the smiling skeleton. Then the ghost grinned and they turned towards Ruby. "So let's cheat to."

Ruby was about to say something but realized that sans was right there and she decided against it. "Um… ok sans." Ruby put the orb in the same spot that the giant snow ball was and pulled out her large stick preparing to use it as a golf club.

But before she could swing Chara teleported in front of Ruby and blocking her view of the course. "So I've come up with a plan so we can get the ball in less than-" Chara was about to explain their plan but stopped when they remembered who they were talking to. "Right… your goody to shoes…" Chara was about to say forget it but when they looked at sans' dumb sleepy face and something in them made them burn with anger.

Ruby could feel this anger and was mostly confused by it. Up to this point Ruby figured that Chara just generally hated stuff but this was more like unknown anger. Again she was about to ask what was Chara's deal but realized that sans was watching, her stare absently at Chara or from his point of view, nothing but ice.

"Alright… I got this." Ruby breathed in and hit the orb as hard as she could.

In truth Ruby had never played mini-golf before. She saw normal golf on TV once during one of her mom's 'peaceful hours' and never even learned the rules other than make it go a far as possible on your first swing. Needless to say Ruby's reaction to almost seeing the orb launch of a nearby cliff almost broke Ruby's heart.

But out of no were Chara teleported and for a millisecond they transformed into their fake Ruby body. Ruby thought that Chara was about to try and attack them again but instead they spiked the flying orb like a volley ball straight into the hole breaking the light blue golf flag in two. Effectively making a hole in one.

sans had expected Ruby to take a minute or two and figured that he could take a quick nap while he waited. But he was jolted awake when he heard Ruby yell. "WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU!?" Thinking she found out he fell asleep sans bolted awake.

"i- i'm here." sans looked over at Ruby flailing her arms while she looked at a nearby cliff. "um…" sans didn't really understand what Ruby was yelling at but he figured out that Ruby must have gotten the orb in. "hey congrats rube's..." sans tried to congratulate Ruby but she seemed to preoccupied yelling at nothing. 'heh what a strange kid... now let's see what color you-' sans' thoughts stopped abruptly when he looked over at the flag.

The reason sans wanted to play this game with Ruby was for two reasons. The first was to try and make sure Ruby was having fun in the underground. But the other was to see if Ruby's soul was actually cracked or if it would heal.

See the 'golf game' was actually designed to show a sick of hurting monster what was wrong with them as monster's heath comes entirely from if their soul is healthy or not. For a normal monster that dropped anything they recently touched or carried in the hole a grey-white flag would appear. For a sick or wounded monster a slightly chipped grey-white flag would appear. But Ruby's flag was… chimeric.

The overall flag was a blood red which meant that Ruby had a human soul, no surprise. And it was even slightly chipped which sans had expected from what he saw from Ruby's soul earlier. But winding around the flag were thick Black wires and an even more terrifying characteristic was that at about the center of the flag a chunk of it looked like it was melting.

"So… sans…" sans redirected his attention towards Ruby who was pushing her fingers together like she just stole out of the cookie jar. "I did manage to get a hole in one… But…I…" sans snapped his fingers and teleported the warped flag away before Ruby (and subsequently Chara) could see it before he spoke.

"so were tied," sans patted Ruby on the head and winked at her. "and we'll have to play against each other again." Ruby sighed in relief that sans didn't call out the fact that she cheated.

"Well technically I cheated." Chara said now back in their normal body and a bit happier now that they had done something active. "But I did use a version of your body to cheat, so I guess-"

"Well we can go again right now!" Ruby half yelled to shut up Chara, which they didn't look to happy about. But sans shook his head.

"so remember that conversation a few trees back about how I should have some puzzles set up for you to." sans scratched the back of his head and Ruby nodded. "well… i'm asking this as a buddy, but can you wait a bit so i can get a puzzle ready?"

"Nope."

"Sure thing sans." Ruby gave a thumps up as she twirled her stick in her other hand trying to look cool. "I'll just hang out around here for a bit."

"hay thanks." sans started to walk off. "just give me 5 minutes." Once sans was out of Ruby's line of sight he teleported to his basement/lab/memory lane. "has been awhile." sans said to the old room as he walked over to a table that Ruby's flag rested on along with several other papers written in Wingdings.

Sans picked up the flag careful to make sure that he didn't scrape himself on the black wires. After looking it over for a few seconds sans tore out the melting bit of the pole and threw the rest to the side. The short Skeleton looked at the melting red in his hand with fascination and recognition as he remembered holding something like this before... Millions of Million life times ago.

"this… if this is a piece of ruby's soul… i could bring him back…" sans looked at a strange pod like device that took up about a quarter of the room. sans smile widened as his normally relaxed and lazy mind started planning out worked out an idea. "If I use Ruby's soul I could bring him back." sans started to walk towards the large pod, he raised his fingers ready to teleport Ruby into the pod and turn it on even though he knew it would just burn up her soul. "I must bring him back-" But he stopped when he heard a crack under his foot.

He looked down and saw that he had shattered the top part of Ruby's flag. "My request is, if a human ever walks through these doors... will you watch over them?" A mental image of Ruby, Papyrus and sans all having fun together flashed through sans' head as his promise repeated in his mind. "Please?" They were so happy…

sans dropped the melting red in his hand. "no!" sans took a step away from the pod. "she's just a sweet kid… i can't just…" Then sans' eyes wondered down the rest of the flag and saw the black wires that dug into the representation of Ruby's 'sweet' soul.

"but those wires…" sans had no idea what they could mean. Maybe Ruby had some form of illness that affected her soul. Maybe they were representations of whatever shattered her soul to begin with. "or maybe she isn't so sweet…"

sans was at a crossroads as he stood in the forgotten lab but eventually he came to a decision. "if… she starts to act like… that Yellow soul Human… then i'll… i'll break my promise." Sans teleported up to the kitchen and grabbed a random word puzzle off the counter and teleported behind Papyrus who was waiting for Ruby to arrive.

"SANS THERE YOU ARE!" Papyrus turned towards his shorter brother who smiled back up at him like he always did. "WHERE IS YOUR PUZZLE?! THE HUMAN COULD BE HERE ANY MINUTE!" Papyrus then looked in confusion as sans walked a few feet down the path and placed the word puzzle in the snow and winked at his brother.

"don't worry bro, this will set 'em straight."


There's a reason I wanted this to go up on memorial day...

Anyway hope you enjoyed the Chapter. this one took awhile only because I kept on rewriting the jokes a lot as I felt like I could just work more Papyrus in there. And of course more hints towards Gaster and the over all plot he has with Ruby's soul.

But... on the note of Gaster's plan... I wrote I knew story. And yes this is totally self promotion and While I'm here check out my - nah I'm just kidding. But seriously I did write a spin off to this story called 'Stay Patient', I know totally original name. But I wanted a name to be a clear sister to this story in some way other than me just saying it.

Anyway the plot is pretty simple, basically it focuses on Weiss after she failed at a Schnee-con. No that's not the name of the event but I with it was. I wrote it as the 10,000 view land mark for this story. Which by the way that is awesome! Thanks so much to you guys for reading this little story. And for people who will ask, I will do another special if I know Stay patient is well received, and if that special gets enough followers I'll continue that to. But if you like this story and you want to see Weiss get attacked by the kind of sharks go read it. Nah I'm just kidding, Oh there is one more thing about the story I want to point out. Only one Undertale character is in the entire story... I feel like I shouldn't have needed to say that but I know someone is going to be angry at me for not warning them of it. So there!

Anyway leave a Review on your thoughts of the chapter and as a closing thought/mystery look at the letters that Ruby's genocidal voice has bolded before it disappears... it spells Gaster.

P.G.P. out for May and have a happy summer! unless you don't live in the eastern hemisphere... darn.