"NOW TRY TO ATTACK ME!"
"…Do I have to?" asked Hisha, lowering the stick in her right hand instead of brandishing it. It almost touched her own SOUL on the floor.
The school gym was currently empty except for her and Papyrus.
"IT IS JUST PART OF THE TRAINING!"
The human closed her eyes as she swung her stick in the skeleton's general direction. Of course, she missed him by a wide shot ; then it was his turn and she barely avoided his series of white and blue bones. She swung again and dealt only one HP of damage, then lost four during the next turn by not jumping high enough to avoid everything.
They went on for a few more turns of Hisha either missing Papyrus or doing pitiful damage then struggling with her jumps. Half her HP were no gone and she was breathing heavily.
"IS THERE SOMETHING WRONG?" the monster asked.
"…It's… it's just…" the human replied, trying to find her breath again, "…hard…to move…"
"YOU ARE WAY TOO OUT OF SHAPE FOR THIS", Papyrus commented. "I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, IS SPARING YOU!"
Hisha pressed the "spare button" immediately ; her SOUL went back in its place and the battle screen disappeared. Then she rested her stick and body against the nearest wall. Papyrus waited for her breathing to get back to normal then helped her up again, healing her as he did so.
"Didn't know you could heal?", Hisha said.
"TORIEL TAUGHT ME."
"Cool!"
"NOT SURE IF YOU'RE REFERRING TO ME PERSONALLY OR TO THE FACT THAT SHE TAUGHT ME, BUT BOTH ARE TRUE ANYWAY."
"Well you're not wrong!" she smiled. "Speaking of cool shit, you can increase gravity on a thing but is it possible to, hum, do the opposite? Or do other stuff?"
"OF COURSE! BLUE MAGIC MIGHT ONLY WORK ON A SINGLE TARGET, BUT IT IS VERY POWERFUL STUFF! HERE, LET ME SHOW YOU!"
Papyrus lead Hisha back to the centre of the school gym. Her SOUL appeared again ; he started by making it fall to the floor just to make sure (it was slightly more difficult to tell if his magic was even working when her SOUL was already blue to begin with), then started decreasing gravity on it.
Hisha jumped up and over his skull, laughing.
"It's like I'm on the Moon!" she exclaimed.
The double door to the gym flew opened to reveal Undyne, her clothes dripping from the cold rain outside.
"Ha! There you are, Papyrus! Do you know if- Wait, what are you two doing?"
"JUST SOME LIGHT-HEARTED FUN!", Papyrus replied.
"…Did you just…" Hisha said.
"WE WERE HANGING OUT THEN IT STARTED RAINING. SO WE WENT INSIDE. NOW HISHA'S HELPING ME PRACTICE!"
"Blue magic is actually fuckin' cool!" the human chimed in.
"Sure is!" Undyne agreed. "But you know what's also cool?"
"Ice?" Hisha joked.
"GREEN MAGIC!" the fish monster shouted as summoned two spears and handed one to Hisha before turning the latter's SOUL green, locking it in place.
The human successfully blocked all of Undyne's arrows for the next turn.
"No-one can run away from me while they're green!" she boasted.
"Didn't you show me that, like, fifteen chapters ago?"
"WE'LL PROBABLY NEED BOTH GREEN AND BLUE IN THE EBOTT POLICE FORCE", Papyrus pointed out.
"Speaking of that", Undyne said, "has Star talked to her siblings yet?"
"SHE DID. SHE SAID THEY SAID YES!"
"…Yes to what?" Hisha asked while observing the magical spear in her hands.
"To patrol for us while we're busy with this obligatory training crap the humans want us to do", the fish monster explained. "Most of us are already qualified to protect a city! I can train the rest myself!"
"But you also want to do that shit legally, I guess?" the human added. "Or you would just keep the patrol thing like it is."
"Yeah. And Asgore thinks playing by their rules is the best option here."
Papyrus offered the other two to come hang out at his house, which they gladly accepted. Hisha's SOUL went from green to its usual blue and disappeared into her chest once again.