After the girls had saved and spared a teenage snowdrake, Frisk turned to Chara. "How did you do that Chara? How did you lower your LOVE?"

"I didn't do anything." Chara replied. "All I did was back down from the FIGHT." Walking past Frisk Chara stopped when she saw Papyrus and Sans on the path ahead.

"SO, AS I WAS SAYING ABOUT UNDYNE." Papyrus said before noticing Frisk and Chara. After the brothers finished turning back and forth between the girls and each other Papyrus turned to Sans and asked excitedly. "SANS! OH MY GOD! IS THAT... A HUMAN!?"

"uhhhh... actually, i think that's a rock." Sans replied.

"OH."

"hey, what's that in front of the rock?"

"SANS, THAT'S JUST A TEENAGE MONSTER."

Chara rolled her eyes and sighing, wishing they would hurry up.

"sorry bro, what's that next to the monster?"

"OH MY GOD!" Papyrus shouted loudly, before whispering to his brother. "IS... IS THAT A HUMAN."

"yes." Sans whispered back.

"OH MY GOD! SANS! I FINALLY DID IT! UNDYNE WILL... I'M GONNS... I'LL BE SO... POPULAR! POPULAR! POPULAR!" Papyrus cleared his throat. "HUMAN! YOU SHALL NOT PASS THIS AREA! I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, WILL STOP YOU! I WILL THEN CAPTURE YOU! YOU WILL BE DELIVERED TO THE CAPITAL! THEN... THEN! I'M NOT SURE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT. IN ANY CASE! CONTINUE... ONLY IF YOU DARE! NYEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH!"

Papyrus quickly left to make preparations for capturing the human.

"well, that went well. don't sweat it, kid. i'll keep an eye socket out for ya." Sans said before following his brother.

"Finally." Chara groaned. "I thought they'd never shut up, and why the hell didn't we just ignore them and walk past?"

After giving it some thought Frisk replied. "To be polite, after all Papyrus has never seen a human. I thought we could humor him to make his day, he'll be so happy that in the end he won't want to capture us. We can just solve his puzzles, 'defeat' him in a FIGHT and everything will turn out just fine."

"Oh, so now you want to humor him and do his puzzles. You didn't have a problem with just walking through them last time."

"Chara, you know that I wasn't myself last time." Frisk said, hurt by Chara's scathing words.

"You could have stopped at any time, but you didn't until you had slaughtered nearly everybody. You're a hypocrite and the only thing you're good for is freeing the monsters from the Underground."

Frisk flinched at Chara's harsh words as tears began to form in the corners of her closed eyes.

Chara turned on her heel and began to follow the skeleton brothers whilst saying, "Come on, we've wasted enough time."

"You don't even know me." Frisk whispered as she watched Chara's back before following her.

As they continued onward, and after Chara waited impatiently for Frisk to get a snowman piece from the snowman, they finally caught up with the skeleton brothers at the electricity maze.

"YOU'RE SO LAZY!" Papyrus criticized his shorter brother. "YOU WERE NAPPING ALL NIGHT!"

"i think that's called... sleeping." Sans replied, grinning as always.

"EXCUSES, EXCUSES!" Papyrus said before noticing Chara and Frisk. "OH-HO! THE HUMAN AND TEENAGE MONSTER ARRIVES! IN ORDER TO STOP YOU, MY BROTHER AND I HAVE CREATED SOME PUZZLES! I THINK YOU WILL FIND THIS ONE... QUITE SHOCKING! FOR YOU SEE, THIS IS THE INVISIBLE, ELECTRICITY MAZE! WHEN YOU TOUCH THE WALLS OF THIS MAZE," Papyrus pulled a baseball sized orb out of his pocket. "THIS ORB WILL ADMINISTER A HEARTY ZAP! SOUND LIKE FUN? BECAUSE! THE AMOUNT OF FUN YOU WILL PROBABLY HAVE, IS ACTUALLY RATHER SMALL I THINK. OK, YOU CAN GO AHEAD NOW."

As soon as Frisk took a step forward, Papyrus jumped as the orb he was still holding electrified him.

After a brief moment of silence Papyrus shouted. "SANS! WHAT DID YOU DO?!"

"i think the human has to hold the orb." Sans replied without missing a beat.

"OH, OKAY." Papyrus proceeded to walk through the maze leaving an easy-to-follow trail of footprints in the snow. When he was finally in front of the girls he turned to Chara. "BY THE WAY YOUNG MONSTER, YOU NEED NOT HAVE TO SOLVE OUR GREAT PUZZLES, THEY ARE FOR THE HUMAN."

Chara glanced at Frisk, who gave her a small smile, before glaring at Papyrus and snatching the orb from his mittened hand.

"OH-HO, YOU WISH TO JOIN IN ON THE PUZZLE SOLVING?" Papyrus exclaimed delightedly. "VERY WELL, THE MORE THE MERRIER! HOWEVER, YOU WILL BOTH NEED TO GO THROUGH AT THE SAME TIME SO THAT NEITHER OF YOU WILL GIVE THE OTHER THE ANSWER UNINTENTIONALLY. UNFORTUNATLY I ONLY HAVE ONE ORB SO YOU WILL BOTH HAVE TO HOLD IT."

Finished with his explanation, Papyrus quickly walked through the maze to stand by his brother. Sighing, Chara held out the orb, Frisk giggled quietly as she placed her own hand onto the orb, both of their hands encapsulating it. Chara took the lead as she quickly followed Papyrus' footprints, pulling Frisk along behind her.

When they reached the end Papyrus was impressed. "INCREDIBLE! YOU SLIPPERY SNAILS! YOU SOLVED IT SO EASILY... TOO EASILY! HOWEVER! THE NEXT PUZZLE WILL NOT BE EASY! IT IS DESIGNED BY MY BROTHER SANS! YOU WILL SURELY BE CONFOUNDED! I KNOW I AM! NYEH HEH HEH HEH HEH!" Papyrus laughed as he hurriedly moving ahead.

Before Chara and Frisk could follow, a dialogue box appeared in front of Chara that said her LOVE had decreased again.

"well frisk, i don't know how you're doing that but keep up the good work, i guess." Sans said with a grin. "anyway, my brother seems like he's having fun, so thanks. by the way did you see that weird outfit he's wearing? we made that a few weeks ago for a costume party. he hasn't worn anything since, keeps calling it his 'battle body.' man. isn't my brother cool?"

Frisk nodded but Chara hadn't heard a word he said. She was still staring at the dialogue box, as something felt slightly off. After a few moments she decided it was nothing and closed the box, following Papyrus.

Behind her she heard Frisk call after her. "Chara wait for me!"

Chara ignored her and continued walking, passing the nice cream salesman, and stopped when she saw Sans a few feet ahead. She felt someone tap on her shoulder as she glared at the smiling skeleton. Spinning around she saw Frisk holding 2 nice cream cones.

"Here Chara, I got you a nice cream, I'd figured you would be hungry by now." Frisk said as she held out one of the nice cream cones.

As Chara stared at the nice cream, she realized what had felt off was that she was indeed hungry. Thinking back, she hadn't been hungry at all since she woke up in the RUINS with Frisk. She wondered why she was starting to feel it now as she accepted the nice cream from Frisk.

Could it have something to do with my LOVE going down? she thought. As she began to eat the nice cream, another dialogue box appeared in front of her saying that her LOVE has decreased yet again. Looking over at Frisk, who had her back turned while she was chatting with Sans, Chara closed the box before Frisk saw. Shortly after Frisk rejoined her and they continued on their way.

Sighing, Chara finished her nice cream as they walked past a hole cut into the ice. Reading the message printed on the inside of the rim of the cone it said: Love yourself! I love you!

Grimacing, Chara looked over at Frisk who was reading her own message with a smile. Noticing her Frisk said. "Hey Chara, what does your cone say? Mine says: You look nice today!"

"Mine says the same thing." Chara replied before quickly biting off her cone's message so Frisk couldn't ask to see. Chara felt something was off again. It was very minor and almost unnoticeable but undeniably there.

Finishing her cone, she grabbed Frisk's sleeve and began to lead her to the next "puzzle." "Come on, let's get moving, the monsters aren't going to set themselves free."

Frisk could not help but giggle. Chara looked at her questioningly. Frisk shook her head.

"It's nothing Chara." she said. "Lead the way."

*Chara's LOVE continues to decrease, but what could be the cause? The unanswered questions fills you with Determination.*