Pikachulover66 here, I realized I posted two chapters in one day, don't expect that every week, from here on out it's one chapter every Saturday!

Chapter Three

And Then...

Soon enough it was three in the morning and everyone decided it was time to call it a night. Alphys and Undyne hugged Shadow before leaving. They promised her they would watch more Fairy Tail and talk about it with her later. That left Shadow pretty excited. Once they went out the door Shadow turned to Sans and Papyrus.

"Thank you so much for inviting me, I had a blast, really", her grin was bright and caused the two boys to smile back at her.

"IT WAS REALLY NICE HAVING OVER A NEW FRIEND! I HOPE THAT YOU COME BACK SOON!"

"It was good seeing you Shad, drive safe."

"Do you think blasting music at this time would be bad?" Shadow asked her head tilted to the side a bit.

"If you want to drive our neighborhood insane then no."

"Heh, I guess I'll refrain from that then." With that Shadow went out the door and drove home.

The rest of the weekend was spent texting back and forth with Alphys and Sans. They were talking about all sorts of things. Alphys ended up bringing up a very interesting topic.

"So I noticed you're looking kinda close to Sans, is there a ship forming there?"

"With me and Sans? I dunno really, maybe? He's a really cool guy and I'd like to get to know him, other than that I wouldn't know yet." Shadow's response seemed really honest, to the point where Alphys couldn't really push it.

"If you say so then I guess I'll leave it be" Surprisingly the subject diverted back to Fairy Tail shippings. The two made plans to watch more Fairy Tail on Wednesday. They were also going to have Shadow over for dinner.

"Oh, do you mind if Undyne's and I's room mate is there?"

"You guys have a roommate? Also no it's not a problem. I'm sure if you live with them they're a really good person." Alphys could practically hear how excited Shadow was from her text.

With that Shadow ended up spending the rest of her Sunday on homework and classes. Monday and Tuesday was full of just normal working hours. Except she started to see humans come in and try the food there. A lot of them were nice but others were very rude. Shadow was a nice person though so she handled them very well. Shadow was sure they showed up purely to treat the 'monsters' here badly.

Grillby kept Shadow late on Tuesday to talk to her about some of the humans that came in today. He was voicing his concerns for his restaurant, he seemed rather distressed, the poor man had no idea how to deal with customers that just treat all his regulars in a really poor manner. They've been shoving food off the tables, pouring water on some of the other monsters. It's really started to get out of hand.

"Shadow, how do I make this stop? I won't be able to keep running Grillby's at this rate", poor Grillby looked so distraught.

"There's a sign we can put up. It's a right to refuse service sign. That means we can turn anyone away we don't want in here. However, don't turn away all humans, that'll cause more problems for us." Shadow looked rather worried but this was all she could come up with.

"I think that might do the trick. Don't worry I won't turn them all away, but I will ask them to leave as soon as they start being rude. That'll go for anyone."

"I'm glad you think that. I can go out and buy the sign, I think I know a place where I can buy it. I'll try to bring it to you in the morning", with that Shadow ran out of the restaurant and hurried home to her car.

Grillby was going to stop her but she was already gone by the time he was about to speak. As Shadow ran out though, a certain snow haired man walked in.

"Hey Grillbs, I see Shadow ran off in quite a rush", Sans' smooth voice caused Shadow to pause, a quick glance at him was all she could spare before a red blush crawled up her face when thinking of what Alphys said. Soon enough though, Shadow was back to running.

"Ah yes, she wants to get me a sign that allows me to refuse service to anyone", Grillby replied in a calm voice.

"I guess this is a sign that things will be changing", Sans replied with a rather big grin on his face.

"I see you're as comical as always Sans."

"I hope that I tickled your funny bone with that one."

This time Grillby responded with a sigh. Sadly for Grillby that was the rest of his night.

Shadow ran into her car after running home from work. She was glad she wore sneakers today. She knew her best bet to find this sign is Smart and Final. After looking up how to get there Shadow headed over blasting her anime music once again. Running into the store she searched up and down the isles. It was like trying to look for clothes at the soup store. Somehow though in an isle in the back she managed to find the sign she was looking for. It was like discovering that unicorns were real! She sped over to the check out and was soon on her way home. She was rather proud of her accomplishment.

The next day Shadow actually drove to work. She had dinner with Undyne and Alphys after all. They lived quite a bit away and she gets off at five. Shadow proudly walked into Grillby's with a smile on her face. She was about fifteen minutes early today.

"Grillby! I got the sign!" Shadow cheerfully chirped at her boss.

"Wow, Shadow you really didn't have to get it but you left so fast that I couldn't tell you that." Grillby took the sign from the still proud Shadow and put it in the window. "Thank you for getting this for me."

Wednesday went a lot better work wise. That sign must have been magic because the number of people that came in to day to give them grief went down quite a bit. There might have been one hard to deal with customer. All in all today was a really great day. Shadow was humming happily by the end of her shift. Grillby waved goodbye to her and she was off to go see Undyne and Alphys for dinner.

The drive there was filled with traffic. A thirty minute drive took an hour. Shadow sighed at all the traffic but was glad she left when she did. She just barely made it there on time. Knocking on the door Shadow was greeted by a new face.

"Why hello darling, you must be the Shadow that Alphys keeps speaking of", a robot said, he looked rather glamorous, amazing hair, nice legs, a cute outfit. Shadow was impressed, he made pink look amazing.

"Um hello, nice to meet you…?" Shadow paused not knowing the robot's name.

"Mettaton, I'm the amazing star of the underground, Mettaton. I'm sure you're in aw standing in front of such a star!" Mettaton seemed to really like himself.

"Ah Mettaton, that's a really nice name. You seem to already know mine, but my good friends call me Shady." Shadow smiled at the robot in front of her, no judgement seemed to come from her. He was simply a new friend and that was it.

He let Shadow in and led her into the dining room. The little house was filled with all kinds of anime memorabilia. Shadow was almost jealous. In the kitchen Undyne could be seen cooking what looked like pasta with white sauce. This happened to be something Shadow was very fond of.

"Wow Undyne, that smells so amazing. I'm really excited to have dinner with you guys."

"Oh heya punk, I'm glad you think so. It's almost ready, go sit with Mettaton, Alphys will be out soon. She's just making sure she has everything ready for watching anime later."

Shadow sat down next to Mettaton and the two started having a rather nice conversation. Turns out the robot wasn't really all that self absorbed. He was speaking very highly of his cousin and his mixing skills. Shadow thought that this guy sounded like a really awesome guy to meet and ended up asking Mettaton if there was a way she could meet him.

"Darling of course you can meet him! There's a party I'm hosting at this lovely venue this Saturday night. I would love it if you came. Feel free to bring a plus one!"

"A plus one? Um, I don't have that very many friends besides you guys, Papyrus and Sans." Shadow said, her face rather red at telling this obviously popular robot that she was basically a nobody.

"Well, Sans and Papy are of course already invited. I'm sure they wouldn't mind you tagging along with them. Now I just have to ask though. How did you meet Sans? He's not one to make new friends." Mettaton said with an expectant stare.

"Oh, well I work at Grillby's, so we met the day I asked Grillby for a job. After that I got to talking to him last Friday and then we kinda became friends. I'm rather happy for it though. I don't hang out with people all that often." The way Shadow said people confused Mettaton a bit. It was like she was referring to them, the "monsters" as people, but he decided not to question it.

"Ah I see, now I have to ask something else. How did you not know who I am darling? I'm all over T.V", Mettaton said with a rather proud look on his face.

"Uh, well you see, I don't own a T.V. all I have is a laptop and internet and I mainly use it for school work or watching anime. I was never one for things like social media. You wouldn't even find me on FaceBook." Shadow's sheepish response caused Mettaton to gasp in shock.

"My word! That's not acceptable at all. We must fix that this instant!"

Before Shadow had a chance to reply, Undyne had told everyone dinner was ready. Poor Shadow wasn't sure how she was going to tell Mettaton no, she figured he might forget if she just didn't say anything else about it.

"Undyne this dinner is amazing, thank you so much for having me. I wish I could eat this well everyday!" Shadow complimented.

"Aw, thanks punk, it's no big deal though. Who do you think is teaching Papyrus to cook?" Undyne said with a proud grin.

"Oh really? I wouldn't know how his skills are since I've only ever seen him cook once. I was worried about the glitter and cardboard he tried to put in there though." Shadow said with a nervous smile.

"Yeah, he needs quite a bit of work in that department. He's been much better than he used to be. I finally got him to start adding water in there so he can actually boil the noodles." Undyne replied with a chuckle.

Shadow grinned at that. She didn't really have too much to say. Alphys kept giving Shadow looks whenever Sans was mentioned as if to see if the girl had feelings for him. Which it looked like she might have. She'd get a small smile on her face, and at some points a light blush would dust her cheeks. The rest of the night was fairly uneventful though. After dinner they all gathered around to watch Fairy Tail again. At around eleven though, Shadow had to say her goodbye's, she needed to get up early for work. With that Shadow was back on her way home.

The rest of the week was fairly quiet till Friday where Shadow ran into Sans again. Soon enough the two of them were back at the bar talking. This time though Shadow was drinking slower. They were having a fairly nice casual conversation when a loud crash could be heard. It looked like someone threw a rock in the window. Everyone was silent as they stared. Shadow was the only one who dared to get up. She found that their was paper tied to the rock. The paper on the rock said, "Go home you monsters. You don't belong on the surface, the longer you stay the more of you will be reduced to dust." It was written in red ink and had what looked like ash all over it. After Shadow read it she dropped it like it was on fire and backed away from it. Her eyes full of shock as she gave a pained look to her boss and Sans.

"What the hell is this?" Was all she could utter out.