Chapter 20: Dinner with Sans
I sigh as I continue walking down the path until the path diverges three ways. One goes north, one went south, and the other one continued east. Which direction did Alphys tell me to go? Oh, right, she didn't mentioned anything about that. I decide to head north. As I start heading up the path, the scenery changes again. It was no longer extremely hot and there wasn't lava and rock everywhere. It was actually quite calm and peaceful. I freeze. Did that mean I had gone the wrong way? I turned to my left to see the waterfall I had traveled through earlier. "Darn it." I was back at the waterfall. I was about to turn back when I suddenly heard a voice. Curious, I continued down the path to discover the origins of the voice. "Hello, who's there?" As I passed into the next area, I heard "Hey, Kiddo, good to see you again." I knew that voice. "Sans!" I smiled. "Hey, kid, what brings you here?" "I should ask you the same thing." He chuckled "I was actually looking for you." "I need to talk to you about something." Something about that made me uneasy and my confidence faded. "Follow me." He started walking in the opposite direction he had come. I followed, even though I had no clear clue what was going on. We soon arrived at what looked distinctly like- "A restaurant?" "How are there restaurants down here?" "Humans don't have all the good ideas. We monsters are plenty intelligent and innovative ourselves." "You see, Sans- I'm not exactly-" "Come on, kid, let's go inside." I sigh. We walk inside and I was quite surprised to see that it was quite busy. Sans walked up to the front "Table for 2 please." The monster nodded "Anything for you, Sans." We walked past the monsters toward the table. I could hear the monsters whispering. I caught the words "angel, hope, despair, and Destiny." What could that possibly mean?
I sighed as we sat down. I opened the menu and looked for something I might like but I couldn't find anything. I started imagining in my head having some of Toriel's butterscotch and cinnamon pie. I gasped as the item was added to the list. "Woah, that's so cool." "You figure out what you want, kid?" I nodded. "I want some cinnamon butterscotch pie. "Huh, I didn't know they serve that here." I sighed in content when the food arrived. Sans had ordered himself a burger which I thought was odd since he was a skeleton but I decided not to worry about it. I took a bite into the cinnamon butterscotch pie and immediately smiled. It was exactly the way Toriel had made it for me when I was back in the Ruins. I felt rejuvenated and all my cuts and scrapes faded. "You sure love that pie, kid." I nodded as I finished the pie. I smiled. "It's almost as if Toriel made it." "Hey, kiddo." I turned to face Sans. "I wanted to talk to you about something."
Hmm, what could Sans want? "What did you want to talk about Sans?" "First, I wanted to talk to you about the girl." The girl? Oh, right. Frisk. I forgot that I asked him to ask if she knew me. "What did she say?" "She looked at me with a look of shock and surprise." She said "No, there's no way, he's still up in the surface realm." "How did he end up here?" "I shook my head and said "The kid knew you were here the minute I described you." "Who is he?" She responded "My brother." "Then I stopped pestering her and she walked off." "Seems she's familiar with you too, kid." "Sans, can you tell me where she is?" "I don't know where exactly she is but I do know she was heading towards the Core." "The Core?" "It's where the power for the entire Underground is generated. Magical energy is converted into a power source." "Then the power is spread throughout the Underground." "The only place that doesn't run on power from the Core are the Dark Ruins." The Dark Ruins? Why did something about that place seem familiar? I don't think I've ever heard of it or been there.
"The second thing I wanted to talk to you about is you seem familiar to me." "Well, I met you back in the Snowy Forest." "No, I mean even when I saw you then, kid, you seemed familiar. Almost as if we had met before." What is Sans talking about? I'm certain I met him for the first time in the Snowy Forest. "Hey, don't worry about it kid." "There's two more things I wanna talk to you about." "Ok, what are they?" "First off, I want to say how proud I am of you." "Proud?" What would Sans be proud of me for? "You've done really well on your journey. You've befriended everyone and haven't killed anything. But unlike the other one, you've shown that you can fight." "You're proving your worth." "Wow, thank you, Sans." "No worries, kid." "You've earned some praise." "Your journey is getting closer to completion and you haven't died." "You're doing even better than she is." "Anyways, I've got one last question." "Sure, Sans, what is it?" "It's your appearance." "You look a lot like the 1st one. You look a lot like her, nearly the same." "I'm not sure why that is but you've assured me that I don't need to worry about it." Huh? The first one? Could it be? Did he know her? Chara. He said I look a lot like her. But why did I assure him, that he didn't need to worry about it? What did Chara do? "Hey listen, be safe, kid. Cause somewhere out there, someone's rooting for you." "I'll keep an eye socket out for you." Sans gets up and starts to walk off. I wave goodbye and he smiles. I walk outside but he's gone. How did he leave so quickly? I guess I'll never know.