Hana: Thank you and I'll take that into more consideration from now on

SPark681: Then this should be a good introduction to what this game is all about

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Chapter 3: Snowed in

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"Haha, the old whoopee cushion in hand trick never ceases to please. Humerus, wouldn't you agree?"

"...uh..."

"...uhm...?"

"I get it. You're the I-don't-get-it type of human." He stuffed his hand back inside his pocket. "Anyways, I'm Sans. Sans the skeleton."

"Sans, huh?" Naruto grinned. "What kind of name is that?"

"...that's a story for another time, friend. Now, don't take this personally, but I'm actually supposed to be on watch for humans like you but..." For a moment, Sans' piercing white pupils diverted off of the spiky blonde. "I don't really care about capturing humans, but my brother Papyrus on the other hand, he's a human-hunting fanatic."

"Got it!" Another grin. "I'll just capture him first!"

'Did I hear him correctly?' "What're you saying, kid?" His sharp tongue dulled down to a blunt edge. "What's a human going to do with a monster anyways?"

"Heh, you'll just have to find out!" Naruto turned, a rusted gate towered over the both of them, though the wide bars made it easy for him to slip away. Through the last section of needle trees was a small rest area.

Naruto cupped his frostbitten hands over his mouth and yelled, "Hey! Papyrus! Come out!"

"Don't think that's a good idea, pal." Sans said, walking up from behind the sentry station. "I have a better idea, hide behind that-" He motioned to a lamp sitting next to Naruto.

The lamp was rather lopsided, although it was just tall enough to fit Naruto's size, it didn't accommodate his spiked hair. Sans shrugged it off. "Guess that's too bad, huh? And...here he comes...I'll try and stall him for-"

"You don't have to."

"Heh, you got guts, I'll give you that, but let me handle this."

"I told ya already, I'm gonna capture him." He advanced to the exit.

*crunch

*crunch

'That's Papyrus, he'll be here at any moment.' "With your bare hands?"

"Yeah, that's how you capture 'em!"

*crunch

"Fine, whatever."

Papyrus was a tall, heavy chested skeleton, his bright red boots punished the delicate snow as he made his way towards Sans. There was a lot on his mind. 'I know I heard someone mention my name, it wasn't Sans, no. Could it be a new adoring fan?'

"'Sup bro." Sans casually greeted.

He shook his head. "Sans, did you hear some-"

"Hey! You're Papyrus, right!?" Naruto said, his cocky smirk burned inside Papyrus' memory. "I'm the one who's gonna capture you!"

"...! Y-you wanna capture me!?"

"Bro..." Sans snickered, Papyrus noticed him burying his hands further inside his pockets. "...that guy's a human."

"What?" He looked skeptically at Sans then back at Naruto. 'Well he is rather fleshy for a monster.' "Are you really a...human?" The child's head slightly squeaked in response.

"I see..." Papyrus' joints loosened for a second, he almost looked relieved. "This is...this is...AWESOME! S-stay here human! Let me go find my sack!" His boots scraped against the snow and he shuffled into the abyss.

"So, I thought you were going to capture him."

"I was just lying, and you fell for it!"

"Oh, you got me there." His voice drenched of sarcasm, not that Naruto could pick it up anyways. "But, I guess, you're not as bad as I thought. My brother's been feeling down lately and when he saw you, he got so happy. Maybe you can do this act-like-a-human thing for a little bit longer."

Naruto kicked his heel against the ice. "Who says I'll do what you say anyways?!"

"Because, I have a feeling you enjoy it just as much as he does."

"Yeah, whatever."

Sans could still see Naruto's vivid yellow hair bouncing in the wind as he began walking further and further away. "That kid," He said between chuckles. "What an idiot."

OoO

Naruto figured wandering far away from the path would result in death, so he didn't steer far. The path eventually let up into a crossway section filled with luscious evergreen trees. There was a crimson red chest and a sign standing idly by the trees, he walked over to it.

He lifted the hood and reached inside. 'A glove? Jeez, wonder how long that thing's been here?' "It's pretty tough for a glove!" He pulled the old glove over his numb hands, it fit snugly around his frostbitten fingers.

"You didn't even bother to read the sign, figures."

"So what? It's not like there's something-" 'Wait! W-who's voice is that?!' He slowly turned around. "An...Owl...Thing...?"

"You don't even know what I am, figures." Snowdrake said, he took a giant breath and filled his cheeks up with cold air.

"Figures?" Naruto glanced at his glove.

With the use of magic, the cold air formulated into sharp edged boomerangs and one-by-one they spewed out of his mouth. Naruto could easily weave through the boomerangs. "What do you mean by that?"

"A human like you wouldn't understand the power of...comedy!"

"Like a joke or something?"

"Yeah-yeah! I'll try out an ice pun 'cause ice puns are snow problem."

"...?" His head shifted to the side.

"I get it. My pun was so amazing you're speechless right now. Dad was wrong, I'm not just funny, I'm a comedy genius! I have to tell him, later." Using his stubby yellow legs, Snowdrake waddled away.

Naruto huffed, then muttered, "I still don't get it."

The few moments of peace he gathered were quickly disrupted when another monster came strutting alongside the road. Naruto dismissed its presence and kept on walking.

"..."

"Huh?"

Ice cap turned around at the spot and ran up to the spiky haired human. "Ahem!"

Naruto kept on walking.

"UM...HELLO?! My hat's up here!" He pulled on Naruto's shirt. "Look at it!"

"He-he, yeah I'll look at it," He spun on his heel and plucked Ice cap's hat off of his big snowball head. "Heh, not so high-and-mighty now without your dumb ha-wait-WHAT THE HECK?!"

"I...I...what's the point..." Ice cap's hat, the very culmination of everything he stood for, was gone. Without his hat, he was reduced to nothing more than a slab of ice. A slab of undignified ice.

'I'll just give it back to him...' Pools of cold water were seeping from the crevices of Naruto's finger. "H-hey! Don't worry, you-"

"Wait! I have an idea! I'll just rebuild my hat. I have all the materials. I can make it better than it was! Taller, prettier, icy-er! Yes!" Naruto watched the ice cube cheerfully hop off. 'These monsters are really weird...well...some of them.'

OoO

As the evergreen trees closed in tighter and tighter on the pathway, Naruto felt the same inescapable tightness crowding up on him from when he first entered the snow blanketed region. He could hear the sound of soft murmurs grow louder every step he took. 'Those voices...I know I heard them from somewhere...!'

"So like I was saying about Undyne, when I asked her if I the royal guards could patent my human catching sack she-"

"Hey, don't look now, but the human's back."

"What?! Really?!" Indeed, the small human had returned to his presence. 'Oh my god! he's here, he's really here!' "Now that I have my sack with me, I can finally be...and then Undyne she'll...I'll be so popular! I'll have so many friends!"

"Ahem! Human," Naruto shifted uncomfortably at his mention. "You shall not pass this area! Nor will you capture me! I, the great Papyrus, forbid you, for it'll be I who'll capture you and I who'll ship you to the capital!"

"Capture you?" He stuck his tongue out. "I don't wanna capture a loser like you with no friends!"

Papyrus fell on his knees, as if the word 'loser' itself was a piercing stab through his soul. "H-human! How dare you throw a filthy word like that around! That's it!" He sprung back up. "I'll sack you right now!" Whipping out a small, brown potato sack, he charged, full throttle, towards the human.

Sans eyed the human suspiciously, for some reason, he didn't even bother to move. 'I guess he took what I said to heart-' Only when Papyrus was nearly on top of him did his muscles twitch. It happened fast. Before Papyrus could process it, Naruto's hands were firmly planted on his skull, he bent his arms and pushed off of the tall skeleton's back. '-or maybe not.'

Naruto landed on the soft snow then took off. "See ya guys later!" His running soon slowed down to a walk as he ventured further inside the horde of trees.

OoO

'Man, all these stupid trees all over the place, how come no one's even bothered to cut them down?'

"Did something just move or...was it my imagination? 'Cause if something like a human were moving, well I'd make sure they never move again!"

"...who is that?"

*SLASH

"..."

"...?" 'I could've sworn a sword or something came through me and...' Naruto looked around, the trees were still. "Well, well," A dog donning leopard print pants and wielding two short swords stood in front of the spiky blonde. "I guess I was wrong, no one's 'ere after all." Doggo said, his white snout pointed directly at Naruto.

Naruto started getting himself up with the benefit of the doubt the dog couldn't see him.

"Oh-oh-oh! I was right after all!" Doggo gripped his blade and swung randomly, barking "Take this!" Each swing he took.

'Just a second ago he couldn't see me, but now he can?!' Naruto took a moment to study the dog. 'A blue sword, and a white one, when he attacked me the first time, he used the sword that didn't work on me.' Doggo stepped in the Naruto's direction, holding only his white blade, he grinned. "I see you."

'It's his blue blade then, the one that doesn't work!' Naruto crawled out of the way just as the sword swung down, easily, it cut past the thin layer of snow and etched itself inside the ice. Doggo muttered something and tried to pull his sword out.

'...yeah! I have an idea for once!' Naruto yanked off his tough gloves then threw them behind Doggo.

*plop

"More movement?" Doggo stopped pulling on the sword and turned to investigate. Naruto hopped to his feet, he sprinted away, never looking back until he was sure he was far away from the dog creature.

OoO

"Hey, watch out."

"Hu-" His leg flew forward and he fell on his back resulting in an unnatural sounding crack coming from the ice beneath him. "It's you again," Was the first thing that popped out, Naruto rubbed the back of his swollen head. "What do you want?"

"No need to be sour, kid." Sans' faded blue sneakers proved to be good traction on the ice and he leaned on the sign plotted right in the middle of the ice lake. "I have something important that you need to remember..."

"Shoot."

"...well my brother has a very special attack. If you see a blue attack, don't move and it won't hurt you."

"Would've been nice to know this sooner..."

"What?"

"Nevermind."

"Right, right. So anyways, just imagine a stop sign, when you see a stop sign, you stop. Stop signs are red, but instead, imagine a blue stop sign. You'll remember that during battle, won't you?"

"I dunno, maybe."

"Heh...I'm sure you'll be fine."

*pound-clank

"I guess that's my cue to leave. Remember, blue stop sign, also, I advise you to pet it."

"Pet what?"

*Pound-Clank

"That."

A heavy built, white dog hanged over Naruto. With its sword, amour, and shield it somewhat had the appearance of a typical guard. Its shield, specifically, held some value to Naruto. 'That same symbol on my shirt is on that dog's shield too?!'

"..." Lesser dog's blue spear flew down on Naruto, though it didn't do anything, so he switched to the white spear.

'Sans wants me to pet it, right?!' "Here I come!" Naruto reached for Lesser dog's head and brushed the top of its fur.

"Woof-woof!"

Naruto pet Lesser dog again and the excited barking intensified. The more Naruto petted it, the looser its grip on the spears were until it finally fell onto the ice. "Haha! This is fun!" Another pet and its head rocketed into the sky. Lesser dog's massive neck loomed in the sky, it casted a tall shadow over the spiky blonde. Naruto scraped at its neck again, but instead of getting taller, it began lowering.

Lesser dog's head had gone underground, Naruto was over petting the dog at this point.

"...?" Naruto revoked his petting. "Where's it now...eh, I'll just...go." He left north of the ice lake to find a lone lump of snow.

"Wait!" The lone lump of snow called out as he started to leave, Naruto stopped.

"I WANT TO LIVE! TAKE A PIECE OF ME OUT TO WORLD WITH YOU!"

"No problem," He grabbed a handful of snow and crammed it in his pockets. "I'll take this really far."

This time, Naruto went east of the ice lake, he found himself in a cleared out field where the two skeletal sentries were waiting. "You're so lazy!" Papyrus said, his buoyant voice hovered in the air for a bit before settling down. "You napped all night!"

"Actually, I think that's called...sleeping." He quipped.

"Excuses don't burn calories, Sans!"

"Um ok? At least the human's crawled back."

"Oh wow he has! Ahem! If the sack didn't work, then for sure these puzzles my brother and I created will halt your movements! This one in particular you'll find to be quite..." His eye sockets slit. "Shocking. Behold, the invisible electrifying maze!"

Papyrus held out a shiny sphere like contraption in his red mitten. "When you touch the maze, this orb will deliver a near fatal shock. Fun, right? Well...between 1-10 of the amount of fun you'll actually have, it's probably a 1.4."

Naruto smiled then approached the skeletons.

"Hey, wait I didn't see you could wa-"

*ZAPPP

"SANS!" Papyrus stomped his foot on the ground, recovering quickly from the electric shock. "What happened?! What did you do?!"

"I believe the kid has to hold the orb for it to work."

"Oh I get it!" Papyrus went out of his was to go through the maze himself, once he reached the end, he dropped the orb on Naruto's hair. "Ha-ha! Try to solve the puzzle now!"

He stared at the puzzle for a moment before taking a step forward where Papyrus walked, after two cautious steps, he got the hang of it. 'Ah! This is easy!'

"What?! You slippery slug, you solved that puzzle so easily...too easily...however, you won't be so lucky next puzzle because it was designed by yours truly's brother, Sans!" He finished with a round of NYEH HEH HEH HEH HEHs and slowly backed away.

"Thanks kid, it's...been a while since I've seen him this happy, but, the way you're going on right now isn't working. The underground isn't all flights and fights, there are puzzles too, and they'll only get more challenging, either you work harder or smarter at solving them, otherwise, you'll never reach the surface."

A/N: Going to be honest, this chapter was HARD to write and mainly, the problem I faced was how Naruto was going to interact with Papyrus. I had to go through three separate drafts before settling down with this one. Anyways, hope you really like Snowdin 'cause we're gonna be here for a while.

And a small note from Lesser dog:

"Bark bark!" ▽・ω・▽ (I have finally reached God status, pet me you feeble minded homo-sapiens)