Frisk Pov

I waited for Sans to be at least slight healing before bugging him about starting to train me. Ever since he said he would help I couldn't help be slightly excited. It was finally time to prove that I'm am worth more then a soul. I can be helpful in some way then just being some kind of high school senior who was following some skeleton around.

I was started to check his wounds. As always he wasn't really happy with me touching him, but he knew it was for his own health. I used a damp rag to go over the wound one more time to be better safe then sorry. "Everything seems closed. And you look pretty clean too." Sans tsked at my comment. "You think I'm gonna walk around like I murdered someone?" He said all snarky with that stupid grin of his.

I rolled my eye's trying to hide the fact he almost made me laugh. I threw the rag in his face catching him off guard. "Knowing you? Maybe." I smiled as he pulled the rag of his face.

"Just take it easy." I said as I stepped up from the bedside. "Okay mom." He said sarcastically.

It was getting close to noon and Sans was pretty antsy on getting out of here so we could head to Mt Ebbot. We checked out of the motel and headed to a near by park. It was close to the direction we were heading, and Sans made a promise to me. We found a place that wasn't occupied so it would be easy to practice without scaring anyone near by.

The surrounding's of the park were beautiful. The tree's stood tall above the rest of the park with the birds chirping around. The grass was soft with a few flowers were growing from the ground. Sans looked around as he was also amazed by the beauty of a park surrounded by such a cruel time. It's probably been months for him. For me it's been years.

"Okay!" I said pumped. "What's the plan? How do I start? Do I have some sort of special power being the all mighty red soul?" I started acting as if I was this all mighty wizard from some movie. He looked at me as if I was just some dork playing Lord of the Rings role play. I ducked my head down feeling kinda dumb of myself. "Sorry. Just excited." I said with a nervous laugh at the end.

"For one thing, your a nerd." He said at me with a wink. I rolled my eye's only to ignore him. "Second of all, to answer your twenty questions, you do have a weapon for having the soul of determination. Each soul as one. I'm not really an expert on which one has which, but I do know that being the most rarest and powerful soul out of all you have a sword and a shield along with magic abilities such as fire and shit like that."

I started to feel my heart thump hearing the fire bit. I tried to act cool but I knew I wasn't holding in the best way. Then a question came into my head. "Do you know all of this from the experiment with Alphys? Because if you had to study souls, wouldn't you know more about them?"

He looked down as if it was a trivia question. I knew he wasn't very keen on me asking about his past life, but the more I knew about him and determination, I feel like it would be easier to know about e of myself.

"Well I should know more. But I didn't stick around long enough. I quit before we could get to that part. I never bothered knowing more cause I didn't think it was really that important." I shrugged thinking it was a fair point. Knowing me I'd probably do the same thing.

"Alright." He said with a clap. "Let's get started. The sooner we start the sooner we can start heading towards Ebbot."

I gave him a thumbs up letting him know I'm more then ready. He chuckled at my enthusiasm and sat on the ground right in front of me. I looked at him a little a little confused, and he could clearly tell I was.

"Before we start with the weapons part, we need you to learn how to control your soul. Summon it, get to know it." He said as he let back in the grass. I sat in front of him feeling the soft grass in my fingers. I put my hand to my chest asking myself how the hell I'm supposed to get to know something that's already a part of me.

"I know it's weird, but all monster's have to do it if they really wanna know how to fight. For human's it's slightly different because we don't have the same abilities. But I'll do my best teaching you considering I did have to teach myself as a monster." He looked down at his hands then felt his chest. He closed his eye sockets and stayed still. After a moment watching him hold his hand to his chest he finally opened his sockets, one of them having that bright blue eye I see when he fights. He pulled away his hand and revealed an upside down heart with a dark blue outline. It glowed with a little fire just like his eye and had this huge vibe of power and...sadness.

"This is a monster soul. Normally their just an upside down white heart, but lets just say I'm a bit different." He looked at his soul with a frown as if he was ashamed. I was about to comment, but he stopped me before I could.

"Okay. Now you try." Looking at me. I cocked my head. No instructions, no 'The way to do this is...' Just straight to the point. "How do I just make my soul appear in my hand?"

"Well you bond with it. Give it a name, talk to it, get to know it, then it just appears. Simple." He shrugged placing his soul back in his body. I looked at him like he was crazy but I guess he was the expert at this.

I held my hand to my chest and started to think of name's I could name my own soul. I didn't even know what gender it was...or if it had a gender. I didn't want to offend it. "Okay." I said out loud talking to my self...and my soul. "Hey um...Alex...How is you day? So whats your...favorite color? I'm guessing that would be red right? Being the soul of determination and all. Do you think that you could come out? So we can bond more and maybe meet Sans soul?"

I watched Sans small smile turn into complete dying laughter. He fell on the grass and started to hold his stomach kicking his feet. I was a little confused of what was so funny. Then I realized...this was a joke.

"You motherfucker!" I yelled as he still rolled laughing on the ground. I grabbed some grass and threw it at his rolling laughing self, but then realized it was gonna be effective considering he was made out of bones making me look more like an idiot.

"I can't believed you named it Alex!" he continued to laugh more. "What were you trying to do? Not hurt it's feelings? It's your soul! Your soul is very culmination of your being." I smacked his leg getting aggravated by his laughter. "Get your bone ass up and just teach me how to do this with out one of your jokes."

"Okay okay." He said. "Think of something that makes you determined and keep it within you. Then there you go." He then laid back resting his arms on his head.

I thought of some of the things that make me determined. The main thing is school. If I can get through that, then I can finally get out of that hell hole and get a good carrier and have a decent life all to myself. I held my hand close to my chest and tried to stay focused on that subject.

But nothing came.

"Ugh!" I screamed hitting the grass below. "I thought of finishing school and a carrier and nothing came out. And those are like the only things I wanna to get through." Sans, still on the ground held a finger up. "Sometimes your brain is different from you soul. You brain is telling you that you need to get school through, but what you actually want is something else."

I thought of anything else that I might want to do. Then something came into mind. It was helping Sans find his brother, using my magic to help and maybe even defend him the next time he was in trouble. I wanted to prove I wasn't just some human in distress. I could actually be something worthwhile.

I closed my eyes and held my hand close to my chest. I thought of how determined I was to be something other then a human with a rare soul. Then I red light shined through my shut eyes, and made the darkness red. I opened to see a red heart glowing with the feeling of determination. I smiled as I saw my own self in my hands. I did something...Something I had no idea I could do. And it made me feel so excited for myself.

Sans sat up and looked at my soul. His sockets were wide with shock. Probably surprised that I could ever accomplish something like this. I smiled to thought.

"Wow...good job kid." He said still staring at my soul. "Next I guess is to summon your weapon. Now that you know how to control getting your soul into your hand." He laid back down once again resting his head on his arms not even paying attention.

"I'm ready!" I exclaimed. I heard a faint chuckle in his deep tone. "Alright. First your gonna need to stand. I have no idea how big your weapon is gonna be. All I know it's a sword. Sometimes it depends on the person." He shrugged in the grass unsure of himself.

I did as told and stood up. He then gave this whole speech on how no matter what I have to be responsible and to be careful with who I hurt and not to loose control. I thought to myself for a slight moment. Sure there was people who I'd love to see in a grave, but that doesn't mean I want to be the one responsible. I always said I would ignore the people who piss me off and focus on the ones that mean something to me. But the ones that did are gone, so whats the point on hurting anyone if it will only make me more alone.

"Okay, now touch your toes." He said smiling. I crossed my arms with my eyebrow furrowed. "I'm not following for that again." He chuckled lightly. "Buzzkill." I kicked his foot making his change his position. "What your actually do is think of someone or something you wanna protect. You have to be ultra determined for it to work so make sure it's important."

I thought it might be the same thing as last time. So I thought of Sans and Papyrus and I need to fight for them so they can go back to a normal life. I checked my hands...and nothing. I remembered what Sans said. My brain thinks differently then what I want. My soul is me, so what it wants I want...but I don't know what I want.

Maybe my parent's after the fire. I wish I could've saved save them. But they protected me before I could. I wish I could go back...

Then I felt something flaming in my hand. It was a flaming red sword long and sharp. It shined with a bright phoenix and it's handle was decorated with a little design around it. On outside where the handle and the blade meet, a dark red wad decorated into it.

"Holy shit." I heard Sans say. He was standing in front of me looking deeply at the blade. "I've never seen anything like it..." He looked in awe and almost wanted to touch it. But he stopped himself probably knowing he'll get hurt.

"Well I'm not just some human now am I." I said all cocky. I waved my sword the other direction acting touch and mighty excited that I finally did something for once. "You really aren't" He said as I played with my new skill.

"Alright. We need to start heading toward's Ebbot. The sooner we move the sooner you can play with your new toy." He said already starting to walk, grabbing my bag in the process.

I was sad to put it away, it was easier then taking it out. I kinda just thought of no longer having the sword. It was fun while it lasted, and I'm hoping maybe something will jump at us so I can try. But luck ran out. We walked through park and up a path that takes you to the top of the mountain where the Monster's crawled out.

As we passed there was a sign that read "Tours of the Underground! Coming soon!" I saw as Sans rolled his sockets. I could understand why. That was basically a prison for them, and now it's gonna become some kind of tour spot.

We passed though the nature that led up to the path all the way up. We took breaks, talked about some of the things that were in the underground and how it was painful to live life in there, then continued and repeat. It was a long way up, so long it was almost sundown by the time we were at the top.

As we did, I saw a cave that read "The underground" Then in small letters under that "Home." According to the news, that's what the king named it after the discovery of the place. The king wasn't very good at names it seemed.

"Alright the plan is were gonna-" He then stopped to grunt holding his side right where he was slashed. I went over and tried to help him in anyway. At first he protested, but then let me at least see behind his blue coat and his grey shirt a little see through. It seemed the way it was, most likely just sore. We have been walking a quite some time.

"I'm fine. Anyway the plan is to-" "No Sans, your not." I interuppted looking at him hands on my hips. "Yes I am. It's just a little sting." He tried to walk more but I stopped before he could. "Sans wev'e been walking for a while. You might be a skeleton but of you can bleed that might cause you to open your wound and bleed more."

He looked at me, then looked the other way. He grunted but sat on a near by rock. "Fine. I'll take another break while I discuss the plan. Then we go in and find that son of bitch." I face palmed myself." Please don't tell me your planning to go after him with a wound like that."

He looked at me as if I just asked him the stupidest question on earth. "Sans!" I started to yell. "If you go in there now, your dead. Give yourself time. Train. Heal!"

He looked down thinking. "Were staying here int'ill your done healing and we can actually fight. From what your telling me, the second we get in there I'm damn sure Gaster will have his men surrounding Papyrus." I said continuing to scold him.

He stood up and looked me in the face. "We don't have the time to sit around. We're going now." Why do we need to go right now? I know you want your brother Sans, but you want him alive and he want's you to be the same." I countered back. He started to make a fist getting aggravated.

"You don't get to decide what I do kid. Listen to me when I say I'm fine. Now lets go." His face was practically touching mine. I could feel the anger in me bottle up ready to scream at him. But I wasn't going to lose focus and I certainly wasn't going to die.

"And you don't get to decide my life either. I could have happily just let your brother get killed and leave right now if I wanted to. Sure I'd be hunted down, but that's what cops are for." he was gonna say something but I kept going before he could speak. "But I'm a better person then that Sans. I just met you and I'm helping you. Now fucking listen to me once in your god damn life and just heal and be ready so Papyrus can see his brother in one piece."

I finally stopped catching my breath. He seemed to get the message finally calmed down himself. "I don't know how much time I have left." He whispered looking anywhere but my direction. "What do you mean?" I asked still slightly heated.

"He said that I only have so much time to save him before he..." He sat down on his little rock again collecting his thoughts. "He could be getting impatient and for all I know I'll show up there to a dust pile. He could be planning it right now because his goons could be telling him that were just messing around."

I started to calm down knowing where he's coming from. I sat down in front of him on his rock. He seemed to have blue tears bottling up in his sockets, but he wasn't going to let them go.

"Sans. " I said placing my hand on his. "How do you know how much time you have? I thought-" " I lied." He interrupted. " I knew from the start who stole my brother. I know who he is and I know why he has him. I just had no idea where he was. thought maybe it was in the underground, but I wasn't sure. Anytime I would try his pets they would dust themselves. I'm sorry but I didn't want you to know to much. Now you know more then I intended."

I gave him my sympathy. I was some stranger in'till he picked me up from the streets. I smiled at him and started to rub his hand. "It's okay Sans. And I promise that Papyrus is alright. Just trust me when I say we need the time to collect ourselves. I know we have a mission and people are after us, but they can wait for a day or two."

He sat looking down at my hand thinking. I know in movies they always regret taking a break, but they say that in danger. Right now we need our break, and his friends are gonna have to wait. Were just gonna have to beat there asses is they even come near us.

Sans stood up disconnecting our hands from touching. The small tears were gone his stupid smile was back on his face. "I guess I'll get the wood." He says already on his way to the tree's nearby the open area near the cave entrance.

I smiled and started to make a little area we can camp with a ring of rocks for the fire and logs for us to sleep. I know Sans was against this all, but I have a feeling he'll be thanking me for it later.