Cover Art: FairyFan94 from Deviant Art
A/N: I will try to update every week as long as I have internet connection. Appologizes in advance since I believe that this chapter is surely not as good as it could be but I didn't know how else to write it.
Chapter 4 – Of Spears and Friendship
Several things started to happen at ones. Sans was in the blink of an eye in front of the little human child one hand outstretched and his right eye glowing blue. Papyrus was clinging to Undynes legs shouting loudly to please listen to him and that the little human was harmless. Undyne, who had stumbled forward in curtesy of Papyrus sudden action, was staring at Sans before her a little stunned yet relieved that her spear impaled the wall and not the short skeleton. She shook her head before glaring at him.
"Get out of the way!" A new spear appeared in her hands as she shook of Papyrus and took stance before Sans. "Asgore needs the human soul. Don't stand in the way of our hopes and dreams!"
The blue light in Sans right eye-socket focused on Undyne as he refused to move to the side. The short skeleton didn't really want to fight her. She was a friend after all but he couldn't let her scare the kid. Also how was he going to get them to be friends if Frisk was scared of the fish woman.
He was about to say something when Papyrus got between the two, staring panicked to and fro between his brother and Undyne. "THERE IS NO NEED TO FIGHT! CAN'T WE ALL BE FRIENDS?!"
"You know what we need the humans soul for! Six souls we have already, this would be the seventh and last one we need." Undyne stated suddenly rather calmly which was unnerving for both skeletons as she was staring past them at Frisk before shoting Papyrus a disapproving look.
Worst was Sans couldn't really argue with her statement. It was true after all. Seven human souls were needed to break the barrier. That reminded him. How did the kid break the barrier in the first place before?
"U-UNDYNE… ISN'T THERE A DIFFERENT WAY?" Papyrus piped up, Sans could hear the little hope in his voice. The short skeleton was slightly glad to see that in that short amount of time they had spent with Frisk that his brother had already become fond of her.
Both skeletons spared a short moment to look at the small human girl that was now clinging to Sans back hiding her face in it, before they looked back. Undyne too, took a moment to look at the human child. Sans swore he saw something like recognition in the womans eye.
Undynes shoulder sacked for a moment as she looked at Papyrus hopeful face. The short skeleton could see the conflict happening in her mind. He bet that she was feeling some kind of familiarity when she saw Frisk the same kind Papyrus had.
"WE DON'T HAVE TO BRING THE HUMAN TO ASGORE RIGHT? WE CAN KEEP THEM HERE… RIGHT?!" Papyrus continued his voice filled with even more hope. For a moment the short skeleton thought that stars were twinkling in Papyrus eye-sockets.
Undyne shook but suddenly her shoulders tensed as she lifted the spear in her hands. "I will not let our dreams and hopes go to waste! I will bring the humans' soul to Asgore!"
Sans was about to say something seeing how they were getting closer step by step on convincing Undyne when a sound registered in his head. It was the sound of a door being opened and shut in a hurry. It took a moment for the two skeletons and the fish woman to realize what that sound meant.
"THE HUMAN RAN AWAY!" Papyrus suddenly yelled, eye-sockets wide and shock written over his face.
"Tsk what a coward!" Undyne spat before she also run out their door breaking it while doing so.
"U-UNDYNE! WAIT!" Papyrus shouted running after the leader of the royal guards.
Sans stood still for a moment trying to understand what was happening. Frisk had run away. The short skeletons eye-sockets went wide. 'No. If the kid ran way does that mean…'
He was out through one of his short cuts in a matter of seconds, appearing here and there throughout Snowdin and Waterfall. He passed Undyne and Papyrus at some point, when he appeared at the outskirts of Waterfall at his third sentry station he paused. He was breathing hard and leaned onto the side of it.
"Heh… maybe I should train more…" Sans muttered as he leaned more agaisnt the side of the station trying to get his bearings again. His magic level was getting low and he hadn't seen the little human girl anywhere he had appeared. The short skeleton was getting more and more panicked. He did realize that in that amount of time Frisk couldn't have run all that far from their home but he also knew how smart that kid was so she could have hid herself away somewhere.
Also there was that fact about Undyne still wanting to kill the little girl for her soul and even thought his brother was the coolest and best he did not know for sure if Papyrus was convincing enough to stop the fish woman from doing so.
Taking another shortcut Sans appeared near the statue in water fall and was confused for a moment when he heard a music box. The skeleton turned to see that someone had placed an umbrella over it. He blinked before he realized that this might have been Frisks doing.
Taking another short cut to get farther ahead Sans appeared near a bridge. Just as a little monster kid walked right into him falling backwards and looking up at the short skeleton with big eyes.
"Whoa dude where did you come from?"
"Uh hey kid, sorry bout bumping into ya." Sans said rubbing the back of his skull.
"Nah it's k." The monster kid said as he stood up, it glanced at Sans before trying to walk past him. Sans waited a moment before a thought crossed his mind.
"Hey kid? You didn't happened to see another kid here running around in pj's?" It was a long shot but maybe he was lucky enough that this monster child had meet Frisk and maybe he was going to be lucky enough to make it in time.
"D-Dude, are you after my friend too?" The monster kids eyes went wide for a moment as he took a step back. "T-they are my friend! You will have to get through me too!"
Sans grinned hearing that. It looked like despite Frisk running away from them that she still made another friend. "Nah, just trying to keep an eye-socket on my friend." The skeleton answered and watched how relieve washed over the kid.
"They went ahead that way." The monster kid then said nudging his head in the opposite direction it was walking. Sans nodded and turned to leave, waving with one of his bone hands a wordless bye. The monster kid too smiled before it left until it turned around in mild step.
"Greet them from me!" The kid yelled turning with a grin around running, smacking into the ground before standing up and continuing on its way. Sans waited a moment longer, making sure that the kid was nowhere near anymore before he hurried through a short cut.
"Ngaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"
Sans was about to get a heart attack when he stepped out of the short cut. Spears were flying through the air. Little Frisk was standing in the beginning of a long cave way that lead to Hotland. Her soul was floating before her but instead of its calm red color it was glowing green.
"What…"
"Face me head on punk!" Undyne yelled as she started to throw more spears at the human child.
Frisk was looking slightly bruised up and Sans growled as protectiveness washed over him. The light in his right eye-socket turned blue but suddenly Frisk held her hands out a shield appearing before her. Her hands moved to the side, the shield moving with them. Blocking the spears right before they could hit her, right there Sans could see the determination the kid had.
"Fuhuhuhuhuhuhuhu. You think you are tough punk? Let's see how you will handle this!" Another round of spears appeared around the human child and Sans realized that Frisk wouldn't be able to block them all.
"Not on my watch!" The skeleton muttered his left bone hand stretched out its tip stating to glow blue, in a blink Frisks soul turned blue and Sans moved her around to dodge all the spears.
"NGAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Stop dodging and face me head on!" Undyne yelled frustrated, not noticing the blue glow the human soul had.
The girl only giggled as she watched Undyne lifting a boulder just because she could before smashing it into bits. Undyne blinked at the girls giggling it was somehow very familiar to her as if she had heard it before. Something about this human bothered the monster woman very strongly.
"Strong." The little girl suddenly said looking up at Undyne with determination, for some unknown reasons that made Undyne smile one of her huge smiles.
"You are pretty tough too punk!" Undyne told the kid as she threw another round of her spears, watching how the girl dodged somehow effortlessly.
Sans wasn't sure how to react since he was concentrating on helping the kid avoid the spears. Her soul was still glowing blue thanks to his magic and he was only partly paying attention to what they were saying yet he couldn't help but be slightly relieved since it looked like Frisk was not scared of Undyne as much as he had feared. Also he suspected that the kid knew that it was his magic keeping her save, seeing how she giggled whenever he moved her in the air to avoid a spear.
"BROTHER WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" Papyrus voice ripped Sans out of his concentration as he turned to look at his brother. "WHY IS YOUR RIGHT EYE AND NOT YOUR LEFT ONE GLOWING BLUE?"
"Wha..?" Before Sans could answer the two skeletons heard a cry of pain. The two turned around just in time to see Frisk holding onto her right arm and tears forming in the corner of her closed eyes. Undyne was standing before the child, but her face was not that of a victorious person more like a distressed one and she was only lousily holding on to her spear.
"OH NO THE HUMAN IS HURT!" Papyrus yelled as he rushed forward but stopped as the child stood up again and Sans was fascinated by the determination the child was showing.
"Ready to admit defeat?" Undyne said covering up her distress and grinning at the fact that the child still had the will to face her, something familiar washed over her once again. She lifted her spear. Sans was ready to interfere. Papyrus was also ready to stop Undyne.
Until Frisk did something none of the three expected her to do. Sans was going to pull the girl back with his magic but stopped when she hugged Undynes leg. Undyne took a step back with her human free leg and stared down at the kid hugging her other leg.
"Let go or you will regret it!" Undyne yelled shaking her leg but the child only giggled as she held on tighter. "I told you to let go punk!"
It was the first time Sans noticed that Undyne was using her nickname she always used for Frisk and couldn't help but grin. Papyrus too was smiling. "I KNEW THEY WOULD BECOME FRIENDS!"
"Train me!" and that caught all of them of guard again. The three monsters stared at the child that was still clinging to the fish womans leg. Sans started sweating.
"Training you?" Undyne asked in disbelieve as the child on her leg nodded staring up at her. "HA! Never…"
'Here come the puppy eyes...' Sans thought with his default grin, while wiping the sweat from the back of his skull.
"I would never…"
Papyrus eyes twinkled as he shared a look with his brother. "NYEH HEH HEH HEH! MAYBE BECOMING THE HUMANS FRIEND AND TRAINING THEM WILL BE TOO MUCH OF A CHALLENGE FOR HER?"
"Pap… No." Sans words fell on deaf ears as Undyne looked somewhat insulted before turning to Frisk who kept looking up at the fish woman, radiant with determination.
"Grrr… Fine! You want me to train you punk?!" Undyne stomped her foot and the child let go to fall backwards onto the ground giggling. "You will get the hardest training you ever had!"
"And then we will be the best besties ever!" Grabbing the girls head Undyne lifted Frisk up and run back in the direction of Waterfall.
"WAIT! I AM THE HUMANS BESTIE!" Papyrus yelled and was about to run after them as he was yanked back by his cape. "NYEH?! WHAT IS IT BROTHER?"
"Uh.. how safe is training with Undyne bro?" Sans asked as he once again started sweating awaiting his brothers' answer.
"WELL… HER COOKING LESSONS ARE VERY… EXTREM." Sans had a hard time not letting his worry show as he remembered how Undynes cooking lessons usually ended when they lived in Aboveground.
"BUT I BELIEVE THE HUMAN WILL BE FINE! NYEH HEH HEH HEH!" Sans wasn't that sure about this. "ALTHOUGH I DO THINK UNDYNES OBSTACLE COURSE MIGHT BE TOO MUCH FOR THE HUMAN."
Papyrus blinked as his brother had disappeared on the spot. "NYEH?"