Chapter 3
After the child left I remembered a promise I made to voice behind the door the human had just walked out from. I quickly ran to the door, my heart racing. I slowly raised my hand to knock on the door, hoping I was right about this. I knocked a couple times but no one replied. I was freaking out again. If my dream wasn't a dream then that meant Tori, my new best friend was behind that door somewhere.
"Tori? It's me Sans, uh the voice from the other side! Are you in there?" I started to bang on the door harder but no one came.
When I first moved here I was pretty lonely this far into the woods. Several days into my new job I walked deeper into the woods looking for something interesting. That was when I first encountered the door. It was just out there in the open, no walls, just standing there by itself. It had a weird engraving in the middle top of the door. It had an orb between two wings three triangles underneath it. I instantly knew it was the royal family's rune but I didn't expect anyone to be at the door. That was the first time I heard the voice, now I knew who the voice was. After talking for several weeks Tori became very serious one day. She made me promise that if a human ever came through this door, I would watch over them and make sure they were safe.
After knocking on the door for several minutes, I finally realized that she wasn't going to answer, if she was even there at all. Hopefully she was not just a part of my dream, she was my best friend. I decided to follow the human and protect it as best as I could. That's what she wanted before, so that's what she must want now. I ran back to my sentry station to grab a bottle of mustard, my second favourite condiment, and took a shortcut through the woods to meet with my brother.
When I met up with Papyrus there was no sign of the human. I jokingly asked if he had seen a human, hoping he hadn't already dealt with it. Just as he was about to lecture me about the importance of a human for the thousandth time, I told him I was just messing around and asked him how Undyne was doing. He started a long winded story about Undyne's awesome new attacks and how it would stop a human right in its tracks, when the human showed up. At first he was speechless because he could not hold in his excitement.
"Sans! Oh my God… is that a HUMAN?" Papyrus whispered, bouncing up and down.
I just shrugged. I was so happy to see my brother so shocked I broke down and smiled.
"Well it looks like a human, so I guess it is." I tried to be nonchalant about it but he was too excited to even notice I spoke to him.
"Sans! I finally did it. I found a human! Undyne will be so proud of me. Just you wait and see!" He quickly deepened his voice. "Human… you shall not pass this area! My brother and I's puzzles will stop you! Then we will capture you! Then you will go to the capital! I'm not sure what happens then but I will be famous among all of the monsters as the final human hunter. I will be the sole reason we break the barrier and continue to the surface! I will be so popular!" He shouts for joy then ran away.
While he is giving his speech I froze. That was the exact speech from my dream! How could this be? There is no way I would have heard him say it before. He told me he just made it up today. I slowly realize that everything that has happened today happened in my "dream". I came to the conclusion that my dream wasn't a dream at all, it was a nightmare. I was never going to wake up from this because I was living in a video game.
"You. This is all your fault!" I scream at the child. "What did you do to my brother? Why can't he remember everything that happened? You think this is a game? You think you can just reset our minds and we will forget everything? Well I remember, I know everything. Our friendship? Our freedom? You can't just take away the surface from them! What's wrong with you?"
There was that blank face looking at me again. They didn't say a word but the look they game me said it all. This really was a game to them. They were the heroes, we were the pawns to help them along. Well I wasn't sure if I wanted to play their game, not sure I wanted to be a pawn. As the child continued on to Papyrus puzzles I stayed there to think. How could I be living in a game? Papyrus and I only moved here a couple months ago. Our lives had been basically normal up until now. What had changed?
I knew where I was supposed to go next. I was supposed to meet up again with Papyrus and watch the child complete the puzzles. Well they would just have to figure it out themselves. If this was like any other video game I played, the child would just return to the last place they saved if they died. There was only one person I knew that could help me figure this all out. That is if they even believed me.