"Hey Dad?" Frisk asked as she walked into the kitchen.

"sup' kiddo?"

"Can we go to the zoo this weekend? Please!"

"well sure, i don't see why not."

"Can Leah and Asriel come?"

"you're going to have to make sure it's ok with everyone's parents first."

"I know! It was Leah's Idea."

"alright then, sure we can go."

"Yay! Thanks Dad." She smiled and hugged Sans. Frisk then walked back to the living room and continued to watch the commercials that were on between her show.

"SANS?" Papyrus asked from the stove. "ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT LEAH THERE. I KNOW HOW YOU ARE AROUND HER."

"yes and no. she's frisks friend and hasn't given me a reason not to trust her since the two of them became friends. however, she still rubs me the wrong way from when she bullied frisk."

"THAT CHILD HAS TRIED VERY HARD TO CHANGE."

"and she's done a good job, i'm not saying she hasn't. that still doesn't change the fact that i don't like how she bullied my little girl. leah has changed a lot but that doesn't mean that all her sins are forgiven." He said and sipped his coffee from the mug Frisk had given him for Christmas.

That weekend Frisk, Leah, and the monsters all went to the zoo together. Frisk looked at the brochure while she waited with Sans, Papyrus and Gaster to get tickets. Papyrus looked over one of Frisk's shoulders, while Gaster had looked over the other.

Even though the monsters had been above ground for a while now the group had still neglected to go to the zoo. They had wanted to go to the zoo, but it wasn't exactly a priority with everyone trying to help other monster build homes, and everyone finding jobs. Mostly everyone had seen pictures of the animals figured that would be good enough for now. Everyone with the exception of Gaster and Asriel. Having just come back to their families within the past few weeks they hadn't really seen many pictures or shows on these creatures.

"alright i got the tickets."

"GREAT! EVERYONE IS WAITING FOR US BY THE GATE!" Papyrus told his brother and pointed to the large group.

"Frisk! Frisk!" Asriel and Leah called her over so the three could talk.

"Im so excited! What kind of animals do you think they'll have!" Asriel asked his smile spreading from floppy ear to floppy ear.

"Here, take a look." She smiled and handed him her brochure.

"Wow! That one's neck is really long."

"Yeah, it's a Giraffe." Leah told him. "Personally, I like the Lions!" She explained and roared imitating it. Asriel looked a little scared by the roar, but more confused than anything. "That's the sound they make." She patted him on the back with a warm smile.

"Come on kids let's go." Toriel called.

Asriel looked up at the different animals in awe. When he saw the Giraffe enclosure he let go of his mother's hand and ran over to the gate, looking up at the tall creature.

"So cool!" he said and smiled.

"B-Be careful, those animals are known to spit." Alphys told him.

"WHAT! NO STUPID ANIMAL IS GONNA SPIT AT ASRIEL I'LL BEAT THEM UP FIRST!" Undyne yelled, scaring the animals a bit.

"No, wait come back!" Asriel said desperately as the large animal started to walk away.

"Here." Leah said and handed Asriel a cup.

"What's this?"

"Food, you can feed the animals. Here, you just take some in your hand, hold it out and…" Leah trailed off as a Giraffe that the two hadn't seen stuck their head out of the pen and began to eat from the young girl's hand.

"Whoa!" Asriel smiled and reached into the cup as another Giraffe came and took some food from him.

"hey kid?" Sans asked the child sitting on his shoulders. "You wanna do that?"

"Sure!" Frisk smiled.

"alright, hey leah where did you get the cup?"

"I'll go grab you one."

When she came back Frisk stayed on Sans shoulders and fed the Giraffe from there. Some of the food fell out of her hand and onto Sans' skull the Giraffe tried to lick the food as it rolled off of Sans round head. The entire group burst into laughter Sans even started laughing too.

"OH MY GOD! SANS COME HERE YOU MUST PET THIS ANIMAL!" Papyrus yelled across the Rat House.

"May I feel?" Gaster asked.

"OF COURSE DAD!" Pap held the small animal out to the other skeleton and he pet it.

"Oh my, what's this one called."

"That's a chinchilla." Frisk said as she came over with Sans.

"wow you're right bro, this thing is really soft."

"Chinchillas have 60 hairs coming from each follicle!"

"wow kiddo, you sure know a lot about these little guys don't ya'."

"This was the animal I was most excited to see."

"really?"

"Yeah its so cute and fluffy!" Frisk said and took the tiny creature from her uncle.

"Look! There they are!" Leah yelled and pointed to the Lions from their safari vehicle. "They're so cool!"

"OH MY GOD! THAT ANIMAL HAS SO MANY STRIPS!" Pap pointed out.

"I, um, think that one's called a Zebra."

"WHOA! Would you look at the nose on that one!" Undyne now pointed at an elephant. This continued for the rest of the ride. Some of the humans seemed a little offended by how loud the monsters were being, until they realized that this was most likely the monsters first time at a zoo. After that they helped identify what the different animals were and told the monsters some facts that the automated voice on the loudspeaker didn't mention.

The day was finally coming to a close. The group headed into the gift shop and everyone immediately ran in different directions.

Sans saw Frisk looking at some stuffed animals, only they merely glanced at the animal for a moment before moving on. It seemed like they were looking for something in particular, and Sans knew exactly what it was. He used his teleporting ability to move around the store faster.

"hey buddy." Sans said to frisk. "looking for one of these?" He asked and held out a stuffed animal of a Chinchilla. Frisk's face automatically lit up. She took the toy from him and hugged it.

"Thank dad." She said and hugged him.

"no problem kid. wanna go walk around some more?"

"No, I just want this."

All three children left that day with a stuffed animal of their favorite animal. Meanwhile the monsters had gotten a plethora of souvenirs. They all went home with bags and bags of stuff from the zoo.

A/N: Ok, so First I want to apologize, I know a lot of you have been waiting for over a month for the next chapter. To be completely honest I was starting to get out of writing for a bit. It felt like writing this story became more of a chore than me writing for fun. So that month that I took off from writing really helped and I feel like I can come back to writing now and actually enjoy it.

I can't promise a consistent schedule but I will do my best to make sure you guys don't have to wait another month for the next chapter.