"Well there HAS to be something!" I slammed my hand on the table at the dog. Only Dogamy and Dogaressa jumped at my sudden rage, and Greater Dog and Lesser Dog just kept on panting. Doggo was frowning, probably sad that he had to put down his dog weed outside for medical purposes, as Asgore looked at me drearily. We sat at a table in the Judgement hall, while the sun was still going up, and my mind was still blurry from the dream the night before. It's been a week since we ran out of the True Lab, and all of our minds have been switched on by the incident. Well, at least for Papyrus, Alphys and me. To everyone else, the incident was just our imagination, and they didn't give a crap about it.
"Undyne…" Asgore sighed.
"I'm done with this crap!" I said to Asgore, "There has to be something fishy about this. I'm SURE of it!" some of the dogs barked in laughter at my pun that I didn't try to make. I glared at them, and they shut their muzzles instantly.
"Undyne," Asgore said nicely, "It's time to move on."
"NO WAY!" I said back, unnerved. "There's something important in this! I know it!" I said loudly.
"Also, please don't call a meeting for something we've gone over with you 3 different times," Asgore sighed, tired and exhausted.
"You guys don't even care," I stood up, and stomped away. I exited the judgment hall fuming, as I ran into Alphys.
"W… well?" Alphys stammered at my irritated expression. My eyes softened as I heard her voice, but I was still mad.
"They don't even care," I said as I started stamping down the long hallway. The painted mural on the wall did look beautiful, and I knew it tended to relax me. Alphys ran to catch up to me, as we took the farthest elevator up to the human world.
As the elevator was going, Alphys sighed.
"Are you really okay with me staying in your home? I… I mean, I could… um… find another place?" Alphys stuttered.
"It's absolutely fine!" I grinned down to Alphys, annoyances gone from my head. We stepped from the elevator that now ran to a building in town, and entered the village.
In Front of us was the monster village. On each house hung a Delta Rune, kind of like the family runes that the humans had hanging on theirs. Each house was wood, and each monster put something individual in front of their house. We walked down the rows going to our house, as I noticed a sweet family picture that fell of the porch of Snowdrakes family. I smiled, and put it up on their porch, as we walked to our house.
"Feel free to go in," I said to Alphys. "I have a few things to do in town before I join you," I said to Alphys, and smiled.
"The last time you said that you went adventuring," Alphys smiled.
"I won't! I swear!" I laughed and held up my hands in defeat. Alphys pushed up her glasses up the ridge of her muzzle thoughtfully as she walked inside.
As soon as I knew she wasn't looking, I started walking out into the woods. I took out my makeshift "map" and pencil that I cleverly stored in my pocket so she didn't see, as I looked down at the map that I started on a couple days earlier. I've grown to be more of a nerd (Yes I know, I know. I'm no nerd.) when I started looking at this thing that one of the people who dared come up to me called mapping. Supposedly the area around the village isn't mapped out at all, and the humans tend to stay in the village, so I took it upon myself to grab a pencil and jot it all down.
I continued to walk, stop and jot until I heard a rustle in the bushes. I looked over, surprised.
A cute little flower popped up.
"Howdy! You're Undyne, right?" it said happily. I jumped and nodded mutely at the strange creature. "Boy! Long time no see, right?" it said in a happy, light voice, smiling childishly. I looked at the flower with absolutely no recollection of ever meeting it, and I shifted, confused.
"I don't know you," I said to the flower, as I suddenly sounded stupid because I was talking to a flower.
"Hmm. Must be another fish," the flower frowned, and then continued to smile. "Howdy! I'm Flowey. Flowey the flower," it said, still happy and sing songy. I frowned, because I knew that I was the only fish left because of a small accident a while ago, but I decided to let the poor thing go.
"I'm Undyne," I grumbled at the flower. The flower eyed the map in my hand, as he smiled.
"Are you making a map? Boy! I love making maps, too!" The flower squeaked as he turned up a spear jutting out of a rock. "I would have been doing it more often, but I can't hold pencils with my hand, and lead in my mouth is… well…" The flower stuck out it's tongue. "Absolutely gross."
"Do you have any suggestions?" I questioned the flower, as I crouched down to look closer at it. It's mouth and eyes were huge gaping holes of black, which made me cringed in fear. It's petals and stem looked innocent enough though, so I relaxed and let my fear go.
"Over here is a good place to check out!" Flowey said happily… almost too happily. He disappeared beneath the surface and came up out of the ground, as he made his way over to the left. I followed him, curious.
He stopped a couple feet away from me at the other side of a bush. I went through the bushes, and gaped at the view.
"Wow," I said, in awe.
In Front of us was a huge lake, that had the sun shining light on it from the distance. The village was a faint speck across the lake, and Flowey was enjoying the view as well. The water was like a ribbon strung across two pieces of land, and boats were littered across the landscape. Fishermen pulled in their nets into their boat, and started to move around the far side of the lake like ducks. The sun was slowly going down, and they were probably pulling in the catch for the day to hang out and dry.
"Isn't it great?" Flowey chirped in happiness, "There's some more places that I could show you… do you want me to find you when you go and map?" The flower asked curiously.
I shrugged and looked at it. "Sure?" I said, not really caring. I sat down on a rock near the lake, and watched the waves lap the shore. After a couple of minutes staring out into the distance, the flower piped up.
"How are you enjoying being out of the underground?" Flowey asked.
I thought about the question for a moment. The overground wasn't like I expected; I thought that the overground was all castles and giant building that went up as far as the eye could see, instead of the small building, fend off against animals old timer feel that it had today. The overground, based off of what the two oldest people said (Asgore and Toriel of course… even Gerson wasn't as old as them… well… or at least he doesn't remember.) seemed to be some amazing place, while it was all wooden houses.
I shrugged. "Not that much," I sighed, looking at the water.
"Why?" The flower looked at me innocently, with a questioning look in his eyes.
"Well…" I paused for a moment, and looked up at the flower. "It's not what I was expected," I frowned, realizing that I really thought what I said was true and valid. "I was expecting some great castles and amazing structures that went up as far as the eye could see… but that's not what I see here," I said truthfully to the flower.
"What do you see?" The flower said. "I'm not allowed in the village, and this is about how far I can go," the flower looked down at his stem, and then back up.
"I see a town that's a huge pile of wood. Everything's wood; no metal at all unlike what you would expect, and everything's… well," I paused to think of the word, "Blah." The flower laughed at my use of language, and I smiled and laughed back.
"I figured. That's what it looks like from over here," the flower laughed.
"Why can't you go into the village?" I looked down at Flowey. He frowned at looked down at the ground, and back up to me.
"My stem doesn't reach that far. That's why I usually stay in the underground," he explained thoughtfully. "It's easiest for me to stay in the ruins, yah know? It's where I'm closer to… well… my element…?" the flower frowned, but then looked up at me. "It's fine," it said when it saw me frowning.
We sat there, letting the breeze brush brush around us as if it was a blanket. I shivered, as I realized the sun was slowly setting, and I shifted, almost about to leave.
"I was thinking," the flower said enthusiastically, "If you wanted to I could show you more things to map! I mean, I'm just a flower and I can't go near the village, but I could help!" I stood up, and smiled at the flower.
"That would be great, punk," I said down to the flower. I crouched down and looked the flower in the eye, and smiled the biggest smile that I could.
"Next Monday?" the flower winked at me happily.
"Sure," I smiled, as the flower popped back in the ground and went away. I walked away from the spot and realized that there was another one of those spears sticking out from the ground where I just met Flowey. I looked down strangely at it, as I heard a voice.
"Those have been showing up everywhere," the voice said.
I jumped up as I saw that Flowey was talking from behind me. I looked at him and saw him, smiling as always. I relaxed as I realized that it wasn't a totally evil intruder that was trying to destroy the world.
"Really?" I straightened up, curious. I never realized that a flower could be so helpful to any quest.
"Yup. This one showed up a couple days ago," the flower popped over to the spear and looked at it interestingly, "I wasn't there, but overnight it just… appeared?" Flowey said, curious. "Or at least that's what I've been told," he frowned at the ground, but then looked at me, smiling.
"Interesting. I'm working with Reveton on a quest about the spears," I explained. "Could you look out for any more that end up appearing in the forest?"
"Okee Dokee," he said happily. "See you next Monday!" he said as started to leave.
"Bye, punk," I said after the flower left. I frowned and turned around to look at the spear.
Weirdly, it was just like the energy spears that I used in battle. But instead of it being made out of… well… energy, it was made out of rock. It almost looked like it was always there, but as Flowey said, it wasn't.
Maybe Grillby was right, I pondered the thought and then shook my head. Why would I ever trust a type of guy like him? He was probably trying to scare me, I thought as I turned around to look at the woods.
Before I could think of the thought further, I turned around and walked away.