Three months after being reborn…
"So… you want me to go where?" I asked Undyne, looking up at her, actually having managed to hit her a couple times now.
"There's a place called Snowdin, nice place and all that, there's some guys that have something for me." she said. "As a warning, there's one that's quite a… hand full."
"Okay." I said. "What am I getting from them?"
"A package, they'll know what I mean. When you get there go to a place called Grillby's look for a Skeleton with a blue jacket." she says.
"Okay." I said, shrugging. I left her house, traveling to where I knew Snowdin was, shivering a little when I got there. I walked up to the bar, looking up to make sure I had the right building before going inside.
When I got there, I looked around, seeing the blue-hooded skeleton at the counter, walking over and tapping him on the shoulder.
"Hey kid, took a while." he said as he drank something red.
"You knew I was coming?" I asked.
"Yeah, Undyne sent me some letters about ya, gotta admit never thought she would take up teaching." he says.
"So, got the package then?" I asked, taking a seat next to the skeleton.
"Yeah." he said as he pulls out a package. "Got to say, this took a skel a-TON, of work." he said
I chuckled a little, amused at the joke. "You're very humerus, aren't you?" I asked.
"Kid, I think we're going to be good friends." he said with a chuckle.
"Probably." I said, taking the package. "I'll see if I'm not tired enough to come back and visit sometime after training." I said.
"Yeah, it sucks to talk to someone who's tired, it's really a pain." he said.
I shrugged, pushing myself out of my seat and going back towards Undyne's, giving Sans a lazy wave bye as I did. He waved lazily back.
I travelled back to Undynes, going in and to the basement. I saw her training as I came down.
"Hey your back, and got the package." she said.
"Yep." I said, handing it over to her. She took it and set it on the table.
"So, how's Sans?" she asked. I shrugged, idly swinging the pole I had kept on me at her. She ducked and kicked my legs from under me. "I take it he's good?"
I caught myself, rolling and swinging as I stood up, nodding. She blocked it and took some swings at me. "Did you see Papyrus?"
I shook my head, managing to block her swigs, doing a sweep kick. She jumped at that, me anticipating this and hitting her in the side.
"Ow- well I think you'll met him sooner that later." she said as she did some faints and got me in the legs. I fell on my back, breath knocked out of me.
"Remember, guard your legs." she said taking some steps back. "I've seen greenhorns get hit there a lot."
"Got it." I said, nodding, getting up and feigning left, thrusting the pole into her stomach. She caught it and pulled me forward and headbutted me. As she did so, I punched her in the chest, before stumbling back holding my head.
"Nice… hit." she said as she held her chest.
"Thanks." I said, grinning at her, still holding my head.
"I think that's enough training for today." she said as she hands me a bottle of water.
"Alright." I said, taking it and drinking. "So… when do we move on to magic?" I asked.
"Don't know, do you think you can handle it?" she asked.
"Yeah!" I said excitedly, summoning my weapon. She chuckled as she turned me to a training dummy.
"Alright, now try and hit the dummy." she said. I nodded, charging and swinging at the dummy. I hit it with the hammer part and crushed its head in. I heard Undyne whistled at me. "Nice one."
"Thanks." I said, smirking. "I still haven't figured out how to make more appear to throw at stuff though." I mumbled.
"Takes time kid, or that's not how that weapon is used for but you never know." she said.
I grumbled, concentrating… before managing to make a second weapon appear, it dropping onto the ground after a second.
"Good try." she said. "Keep practicing."
"Now I just need to figure out how to make it go in a direction instead of flopping onto the floor." I deadpanned, sighing.
"Try and will it to go, it's part of your magic so it's a part of you." she said.
I nodded, de-summoning the second and, after a couple seconds, managing to summon two, slightly smaller, white, ones that flew forward as if they were thrown, spinning and caving into the body of the dummy. Undyne nodded as I practice for a bit, at the end I was panting as sweat dripped off my face.
"I think that's good, you look like you're about to fall over." she said.
"O-okay." I said, panting, falling to a knee. She handed me another bottle and sat beside me.
"Ya know, right now you're more trained than most of the guards I have to deal with." Undyne said.
"Really?" I asked, sitting down and drinking from the bottle greedily.
"Yeah, sometimes I think they're blockheads." she said. "You kid, I believe you'll go far."
"If only I could actually join." I said jokingly, grinning,
"Give it a few years then you will, heck maybe you'll become my second in command." she said with a grin.
"Okay… well, I'm exhausted, I'll see you tomorrow." I said, getting up. She waved at me as I left. I headed back to Alphy's lap and saw the two guards, they saw me and one waved.
"Hey kid, how's training." the one said.
"Good." I said. He smiled at that while the other one shrugged.
"Don't mind him, he had a bad day." the guard said. I nodded understandingly, walking into Alphys lab.
"I'm back!" I shouted. I see Alphys peek out of a door.
"Hey Ulfin, how was… training." she asked.
"Good… I finally managed to summon more of the weapon I have." I told her. She blinked at me.
"That's… that's amazing." she said shocked. "You're getting better fast."
"I wonder if I'll be able to do any of the different color magics eventually." I commented, a thoughtful look on my face.
"Hmm… well… maybe tomorrow I can teach you how to use other magics." she said. "But for right now you need to get clean."
"Yeah… had a real workout today, I'll go get clean." I agreed, walking to the elevator and going down.
The next day…
I went up the elevator, up a little earlier than usual, and walked to the training room. I picked up a piece of paper telling me that Alphys had to go talk to the king about something, so I decided to get some practice in.
I pressed a button on the wall, bringing some dummies up. Summoning my weapon, I decided to get a little practice with the smaller white variations, summoning four that was a fourth the size of my original and tossing them, them going quick but doing noticeably less damage.
"So, smaller is weaker… I'll have to remember that." I commented to myself. I trained until I heard the lab door opening, followed by footsteps coming this way.
"Hi, Alphys." I said as she got in.
"Hey, I see you're training… like always." she said.
"Yep." I replied, grinning. "So, color magic today, right?" I asked. She nodded and began to explained what each color magic there is which took about ten minutes since she went with the simple and easy way to say it.
"So… which one do you want to try?" she asked.
"I think I'll try the green stuff first." I said. She nodded at me and took some steps back as she had a little robot filled with paper and some sort of catapult.
"This robot with toss paper at you, you just need to try to block it with green magic." she explained.
"Okay." I said, nodding. For the first few tries I got hit with paper in the face as nothing happened. I got a little annoyed, before eventually managing to summon a green shield in front of me, blocking the paper.
"Yeah!" I shouted, excited. "I did it!"
"Good job." Alphes said. "You… got it in your first training session."
"Now… how do I do the healing stuff?" I asked, eager to learn more. "I wanna be as versatile as possible."
"It's different for each monster, some say it's like putting on a magic bandaid, others a warm pulse." she told me.
"Okay…" I trailed off. "I guess I could just practice that on my own, then… what about the other color magics?"
"That's up to you, I can tell you another one or you can train with the one you have." she said.
"I guess I'll make sure I can use what I have for now." I said. "I'll see you later." I told her, walking towards the exit.
"Later Ulfin." I heard her call out. I left, before deciding to go see if there was anything to do in Snowdin.
When I got there, I shivered a little, pulling the coat I had picked up along the way on me a little tighter. "Alright, there's gotta be something to do around here." I looked around and see three other kids making a snowman. Two of them were rabbits and the third a lizard.
"Hiya!" I shouted to the three kids, walking over.
"Hey, there." one of the rabbits said, this one was a girl. "You new here?"
"Yeah." I said, nodding. "What's there to do around here?"
"Play in the snow." the lizard kid said.
"That's obvious." the other rabbit kid said, this one male. The three of them told me the activities there was and they were all snow related.
"So…" I started, reaching down and scooping up some snow. "How about a snowball fight?" I asked, smirking.
"Sure!" they all yelled. I smirked, throwing the snow at the all and laughing. I got hit in the face with a snowball and we all had a free for all snowball fight.
I rolled to dodge a couple more, throwing snowballs and hitting them as I started making a fort to hide behind. There were a few more snowballs the flew over but they stopped as the three of them started to build their own snow forts.
I managed to finish mine first, rapid-fire throwing at the three of them from behind the safety of my fort. We kept going until I heard some voices for the other three to head home.
"Man and here I was having fun." the male rabbit said.
"Yeah, well it's been fun." the lizard kid said.
"Aw, really?" I asked, frowning.
"Yeah, it's getting late anyway." the female rabbit said. "We can play tomorrow."
"Alright." I said, giving a false smile. "See ya tomorrow!" I exclaimed, turning and sprinting to Waterfall to get some more training in today.
I got to Undynes, knocking with a slightly eager look on my face. I knocked on the door and waited until the door opened.
"Hey kid, you look eager." Undyne said.
"Look at what I learned how to do earlier." I said excitedly, making a shield appear.
"Well look at that, you learned green magic." she said as she tapped the shield. "Careful kid, or I'll make you into target practise."
"Come at me!" I shouted, smirking. She rolled her eye and the two of us went to the training room. She turned to me and had a staff at the ready.
"Let's see how much you can take." she said as she swung at me and hit my shield. She kept going until she stopped around fifty hits. "Alright, let's take it up a notch." she said as she made a spear appeared and started to attack.
I blocked the best I could, managing to not get hit for a whole thirty minutes before one hot my arm, me grunting a little in pain.
"Okay, time to stop." she said as her spear disappeared. "You alright?"
"Y-yeah… just a little pain." I said, giving her a strained smile.
"Hang on, I'll get you something for that." she said before looking at me. "Unless… you know how to heal yourself."
"Now's a good as time as any to try." I said, putting a hand over the wound, getting a look of concentration on my face.
"Something wrong?" Undyne said as she had a box with a red cross on it.
"Trying to figure out how to." I said, getting a frustrated look on my face.
"Yeah… let me guess, Alphy's told you that it's different between monsters?" she asked.
"Yeah." I said, nodding.
"Well I'm not much better but I heard this from someone that works with the stuff." she said. "Green magic is all about healing, protection and keeping others not moving right?"
"Yeah?" I said, not seeing where she was going with this.
"Well white is mostly combat, how do you use your white magic?" she asked me.
"I focused on attacking and imagined my weapon." I told her.
"Right, what do you think when you are making your shield?"
"I focus on guarding myself so I can strike when the enemy is exhausted." I said.
"Alright, do you see a pattern?" she asked me. I thought about it for a second, before nodding. I turned back to my wound, focusing, a green glow coming over my hand I had over the wound and mending it. After I healed it I looked back at her. "So, what did you think about?"
"Healing myself to fight later." I told her, giving her a grin.
"See, this is how my friend told me, it's mostly how each monster thinks on how they use it, it could be different per monster but if you know how you think then you get the idea." She explained.
"Okay." I said, getting an idea. I summoned my weapon, before focusing again, the strange aura around the top flashing a light blue before I swung it at her, it harmlessly passing through.
"Seems to me that you learned some new tricks, now I have to be careful." she said with a chuckle.
"What you said just told me how to do it." I said, smirking. "Wanna have a spar real quick?"
"Alright." she said as she took a few steps back and summoned her spear. "Are you ready?"
I nodded, getting into a stance, before the aura around the top of my weapon flashed orange twice, then light blue once, me spinning and swinging it at her. She moved for the two orange attacks and stood still for the blue. She narrowed her eye at me as she came at me with a thrust.
I slammed the bottom of my weapon into the ground in front of me, my shield appearing as it glowed green. Her spear deflected off my shield as she jumped back, waiting for me to move.
I got ready again, aura flashing orange twice, blue three times, then orange again, swing-spinning more quickly. She was able to dodge them all as she came at me with some slashes and stabs. I dodge them and put up my shield before attacking. My aura went off as a mixture of orange and light blue flashes went off. She dodged some of them but I got a few in.
"You… fight… a lot like… the king." she panted.
"Not… quite… look… behind you." I said, shooting her a grin. She looked behind her and saw a bunch white mini versions of my weapon.
"Oh… crud." she said as they swung, flying at her. She tried to stop them but she went down with a lot of cuts and bruises on her. "Clever… clever kid."
"You… okay?" I asked, a little tired.
"Yeah… I'll be fine… I think that's good today…" she panted. I sighed, walking over and starting to heal her. "Thanks kid."
"No… problem." I said, panting, managing to completely heal her, but I was exhausted now.
"Here." she said passing me a bottle of water. "Go upstairs and take a nap, you look like you're going to pass out."
"Got… ya…" I panted, drinking and going up to her couch, falling onto it and passing out.