Annaka
I drink the water from the fountain, feeling refreshed, but still confused.
What happened back there? Why was I in Snowdin?
I feel someone touch my shoulder.
I swivel around quickly but relax when I see who it is.
Kennedy puts her hands up. "Sorry. I didn't mean to scare you."
I shake my head. "It's fine. What's up?"
"Did you go to Snowdin when you closed your eyes?" Kennedy asks.
I give her a puzzled look. "How did you know that?"
"Because," Kennedy says. "That's happened to me."
"Really?!"
Kennedy nods. "Yeah. But are you ok?"
I nod. "Yeah, I'm fine. Just...kind of confused on the whole matter."
Kennedy nods. "Welp, we better get back before anyone suspects anything."
"Ok."
The first half of our walk is in silence.
"Kennedy," I say, breaking the silence.
Kennedy turns towards me. "Yeah?"
"I-I just wanted to say sorry."
Kennedy gives me a puzzled expression as I look towards the ground.
"Why? You didn't do anything," Kennedy says.
I shake my head. "No. I did. I broke the...promise."
My mind darts back to when we made the promise.
Kennedy and I were jogging together and talking about who knows what.
When she said, "Annaka, I think we should make a promise. I feel like your keeping secrets from me so let's make a promise to not keep secrets."
"Ok," I said. "I promise."
And a few days after, we hooked Alyssa up with the promise as well.
I am back to walking with Kennedy.
I don't dare look at Kennedy, for fear she will be mad.
Tears sting the back of my eyes but I blink them back.
Until I felt her hand on my shoulder.
I look up and turn my head to her.
She is now the one looking down.
"Well...I guess I did too," she says.
"How?" I ask.
"Not telling you that I did the same thing you did. Just randomly transport to the underground."
"You had a good reason!" I say.
Kennedy looks at me. "So did you!"
There is a gap of silence the whole way and we part teams without saying a word.
I take my position next to Kealani and watch Madie get ready to serve on the opposite team.
"You ok?" Kealani whispers to me.
Madie serves and it comes straight towards me.
I bump it, sending it to the opposite side of the court and bounces on the floor.
"Fine," I whisper back as we rotate and Alyssa gets the ball to serve.
"What happened?" she whispers.
I shake my head. "I'll tell you later."
So we continue on with the game until it is time to leave school.
The bell rings and we race for our backpacks.
I grab my backpack and walk out of the school, to my mom's car, without another word from anyone.
.
I lie on my bed and finish my homework.
I pack my homework away and grab my phone to see some people texting on the group chat.
I text to them 'If you don't have something to teleport to the underground, get with someone who does. Also, can anyone bring a watch?'
'I'll bring a watch' Emily texts.
'Ok' I text.
I get off the group chat and text to Mimi 'Want me to take you to the underground?'
.
Mimi and I land at the last place we were at in the underground.
Most people are already there except for Kennedy and Juliana.
Must be going together.
I think back to what happened earlier with Kennedy and I, much like I have been for the whole day.
All I have been doing for the whole day is replay it in my head over and over and over.
And I hadn't talked to her since. I feel horrible about it.
Suddenly, a darker blue portal appears.
Kennedy and Juliana come through, landing on the ground.
"Ok!" Kealani says. "We've got everyone? Let's go!"
Kennedy
Before we go, I steal a glance at Annaka.
She doesn't seem like herself. She would've been smiling and laughing, but instead is staring at the ground, her face pretty blank.
I feel horrible about what happened earlier! Maybe I should try to talk to her...
Annaka walks past me, Mimi by her side.
Later.
We enter the room with Sans and his telescope, the box, and door.
"I'm gonna go talk to Sans," I say.
I walk over to Sans.
"Hey Sans," I greet.
"hey kid," he greets. "how's it going?"
I shrug. "I don't know."
"what's up?" he asks.
I sigh and explain the whole thing with Annaka, glad to talk about it with someone.
Sans listens intently through the whole story.
"have you tried talking to her?" Sans asks.
I shake my head. "No. Not yet. I really want to, though."
Sans shrugs. "then talk to her. don't be afraid. if she's your friend, she'll listen, right?"
I smile and nod. "Right. Thanks Sans."
Sans winks at me. "no problem."
I walk over to the group. They are by the wood bridge with water under and a little monster.
Most of the group is by the water but Annaka is talking to the small monster.
"What's a star?" the monster asks. "Can you touch it? Can you eat it? Can you kill it?..."
"Are you a star?"
Annaka smiles at the small monster, then turns around to face me.
She blinks at me a few times before saying quietly, "Hey Ken."
"Hey," I say.
There is a gap of silence, I am staring at the ground and Annaka is staring off somewhere into space.
Annaka turns to me. "I-I'm sorry."
I raise my head and pull her into a hug.
"Me too," I tell her.
Tears sting my eyes but I blink them back.
I let go of her and look her in the eyes.
"I'll never let this happen again," I say.
"I won't either," Annaka agrees.
"Annaka! Kennedy!" Kealani yells. "Hurry up!"
We turn to Kealani and then back to each other and smile at each other.
We follow the rest of the group as we walk across the bridge.
Annaka
We walk across the bridge to reach another bridge and walk across.
I suddenly hear my phone ringing.
"Who is it now?" I mutter.
I pull the phone out, putting it on speaker and answering.
"Hello?" I ask.
"HELLO! THIS IS PAPYRUS!" Papyrus greets.
"Hey Papyrus," I say. "What do you need now?"
"REMEMBER WHEN I ASKED YOU ABOUT CLOTHES YESTERDAY?" he asks.
"Yeah," I say. "Why?"
"WELL, THE FRIEND WHO WANTED TO KNOW..."
"HER OPINION OF YOU IS VERY..."
"MURDERY."
"BUT I BET YOU KNEW THAT ALREADY!"
I smirk. "No joke."
"AND BECAUSE YOU KNEW THAT..."
"I TOLD HER WHAT YOU TOLD ME YOU WERE WEARING!"
I put a hand to my hip, holding the phone with my other hand.
"BECAUSE I KNEW, OF COURSE..."
"AFTER SUCH A SUSPICIOUS QUESTION..."
"YOU WOULD OBVIOUSLY CHANGE YOUR CLOTHES!"
"YOU'RE SUCH A SMART COOKIE!"
I smile. "Oh, thank you!"
"See?" Kennedy whispers to me. "You are smart!"
I shake my head and mouth 'no' to her.
"THIS WAY YOU'RE SAFE AND I DIDN'T LIE! NO BETRAYAL! BEING FRIENDS WITH EVERYONE IS EASY!"
Papyrus hangs up and I put the phone away.
"Well...ok"
Kealani
We walk across more bridges and more bridges until we reach a place with an ocean and passage for us to walk across.
A yellow leg sticks up from the ocean.
As we walk more, more legs come from the ocean.
And suddenly, a yellow octopus pops out of the water.
"Hey...there...Noticed you were...here..." it says.
"I'm Onionsan! Onionsan, y'hear!"
We start to walk some more and Onionsan follows us.
"You're visiting Waterfall, huh! It's great here, huh! You love it, huh!" they say.
"Yeah! Me too! It's my Big Favorite!"
We walk and they fall.
"Even though, the water's getting so shallow here..."
"I, have to sit down all the time, but..."
"He-hey.! That's OK! It beats moving to the city! And living in a crowded aquarium! Like all my friends did!"
We continue to walk with Onionsan following.
"And the aquarium's full, a-anyway, so, even if I wanted to, I..."
"That's okay though, y'hear! Undyne's gonna fix everything, y'hear! I'm gonna get out of here and live in the ocean! Y'hear!"
We walk some more and see the end.
"Hey...there...That's the end of this room. I'll see you around! Have a good time!"
"In Waterfalllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll"
As we exit the room, I whisper to Kennedy, "That was weird."
Kennedy smiles.
We walk behind flowing waterfalls with a room with two passages: one north, one east.
"Which way?" I ask Kennedy.
"I mean, we can go up," Kennedy says. "but it would take more time up."
"Let's go east, then," I decide.
We walk to a room with a statue and rain falling onto the statue.
"Keep going?"
Kennedy nods and we continue to the next room where there are waterfalls, a sign, and a basket of umbrellas.
I walk up and read the sign. It reads:
*(Please take one)
"We might want to take multiple umbrellas," Kennedy says.
Everyone agrees.
We take an umbrella for each two girls.
In total, we took five umbrellas and I am sharing one with Emily.
We walk to the next room where there are waterfalls(big surprise!), puddles on the ground, and rain is pouring down, but we stay dry.
We walk and walk, through the puddles and rain until we see little Monster Kid, standing in the rain.
"Yo, you got an umbrella?" he asks. "Awesome!"
Monster Kid comes under the umbrella with Emily and I.
"Let's go!" he exclaims.
We walk all the way across, to the end of the room.
Monster Kid says, "Man, Undyne is soooo cool! She beats up bad guys and NEVER loses. If I was a human, I would wet the bed every night...knowing she was gonna beat me up! Ha ha!"
I smile down at Monster Kid and shake my head.
He's so naive, yet so cute.
We walk out of the room where the rain continues to pour and water sausages lie off of the path.
Monster Kid starts to talk again. "So, one time. We had a school project where we had to take care of a flower. The king-we had to call him "Mr. Dreemur"-volunteered to donate his own flowers. He ended up coming to school and teaching the class about responsibility and stuff. That got me thinking...YO! How cool would it be if UNDYNE came to school!? She could beat up ALL the teachers!"
We continue to walk and make a turn.
Monster Kid speaks more. "Umm, maybe she wouldn't beat up the teachers...She's too cool to ever hurt an innocent person!"
Hello! You're staring at some innocent people who got attacked by Undyne!
We round the corner to come to a beautiful view of a castle in the distance.
We walk a bit before stopping and admiring the view for a minute.
Then, we continue walking, and back to a rainy place with another bucket of umbrellas.
As we reach a ledge, Monster Kid says, "Yo. This ledge is way too steep."
"Yo, you wanna see Undyne, right? Put up your umbrella and climb up on my shoulders."
"I guys we'll take turns doing that," I say, folding our umbrella up.
Everyone else puts them back.
"I'll go first," I say.
I climb up and hop onto the ledge, just as everyone else does.
"Yo, you guys go on ahead. Don't worry about me. I always find a way to get through!"
Monster Kid starts to run, once again falling on his face and getting back up to run again.
We walk over to a dark room with signs on the walls and a yellow spark.
"I'll save," I say.
Annaka turns to Emily. "Time?"
Emily looks down at her watch. "One thirty, a.m."
Annaka nods.
I walk forward, pressing the spark. It reads:
*(The serene sound of a distant music box...It fills you with determination.)
*(HP fully restored)
We walk across a bridge and reach another spot where the front side of ourselves looks dark.
We continue to walk until blue spots appear on the ground.
I look back at Kennedy, puzzled.
"Watch out," is all she says.
Spears shoot up from the spots.
"Run and avoid it!" Kennedy yells.
Undyne suddenly appears on the bridge opposite this one.
"GO!" Kennedy yells.
As more appear rapidly, we take off in fast running.
I meet up to Kennedy.
"Got plans?" I ask her, panting.
She shakes her head. "Not really, no. Except for everyone to follow me!"
Kennedy runs to the front of the group, dodging the spears and going certain ways.
She leads the way to a big platform and a narrow passage. She runs across.
Our shadows appear to be long on the next side but we continue running, for the spears keep on appearing.
She skids to a stop at a dead end and holds her hand out for everyone to stop.
Everyone else stops and we face the other way, me standing somewhat towards the front.
As we hear footsteps approaching, I quickly grab my spear and point it to the approaching Undyne.
She swipes spears in between us and our end of the bridge starts to shake.
The bridge falls off and we all scream, knowing we are falling to our doom.
I turn my head to see everyone else. Everyone else is screaming.
Annaka looks up, her eyes shining brightly(I believe from tears). Kennedy clings on to Annaka's back, closing her eyes.
As we fall down, I watch Undyne, who is staring down at us. I clutch my spear close to me and close my eyes, knowing I will never see it again.
Due to the cliffhanger(sot of literally), you are filled with DETERMINATION
(I'm sooo sorry that this chapter is, like, 2,000 words. I was really into it! Anyways, stay determined!)
