Our Saviors Chapter 4, an undertale fanfic

Hello everyone, I'm back with a Summer Vacation Special! Hopefully I actually write stuff this Summer, but you never know with how lazy I am. As always, I hope you all enjoy this chapter and provide constructive criticism where necessary. Again, thank you.

I've always been astonished by the Royal Guard, ever since I was little. Now of course I'm not going to be a full time member if I can make it, since I'm going to be king eventually, but for now I'm just happy I get to put on the uniform. The pristine crystal armor glistens off the small amount of light there is, but even with the small amount, it's still a spectacle to look at. I slowly slide myself into the leggings and put on the rest of the outfit. Since I'm a goat, there are holes for horns that have yet to fully grow in, but just seem to be a few years off. I open the door separating my assigned dorm from the main lobby area, but I'm stopped by my roommate before I can leave.

"Come on, Asriel. It's barely even four in the morning! Training doesn't start for another two hours."

I shrug him off, "I know that, but I want to get warm before training starts. Why are you stopping me? Shouldn't you be getting ready too, T-... what was your name again?"

"Tima! How many times do I have to tell you, man? For someone who's supposed to be the king one day, you sure do have birds for brains."

"Gee, thanks."

Tima's a cougar with silky blue eyes and a scrunched up face that gives him the look of a fierce fighter, though the look comes with the exact opposite personality. We've been training for a week and he's done, well, pretty much nothing. Despite this, he's apparently a genius and was able to ace the written exams typically required to get into the training program. This genius, however, appears to have made him the laziest monster of all time.

He continues to plead his case, "Please? I even got the video games hooked up, they're fun! Try them."

I sigh and put my hands up, "Fine, you win. I'll play whatever you have... what do you have?"

"It's older stuff for sure, around a decade old. I was able to get it for free by emulating it on a PC."

"Isn't that illegal?"

"No! As long as the emulators don't come with games pre-installed, it's completely legal." He walks over to his computer, sits in a chair and boots up a top down, 2D game.

"What's this one called?"

"Rivermen. It's a game where you traverse the river on a small kayak."

"That doesn't sound fun at all."

"Well," he turns the chair around and looks at me, "you won't know until you try it, right?"

"Right..."

I end up playing for an hour. To my surprise, the game is actually really fun! I have to stop myself before I get too into it.

"Thanks for showing me that game Tima. I enjoyed it!"

A light shun on his eyes, but quickly dimmed, "I could tell. I can show you something else later, if you want."

I nod, "For sure. For now, I'm heading out to wake myself up a bit before training starts. Are you sure you don't want to come along?"

"Nah, I'm fine with sleeping through the whole thing if I could. You go on ahead, I'll be there on time."

"Alright, see you there."

I open the door and jog my way through the dorm hall towards the training center. Once I get there, I take a moment to sit and catch my breath. To my surprise, only one other monster is here- the Captain.

"Good morning, Captain."

"Shut up!"

I do as told and instead watch her stare down a rock.

"...Hiya!"

She swings a diamond spear majestically through the rock in a blink of an eye, splitting it perfectly in half. Flabbergasted, I stand up and walk towards the rock.

"But, how..?"

Captain Undyne closes her eyes, "Years of training... and determination."

"Determination?"

"Alphys tells me that I have determination. What that means? I don't know. What I DO know is I'm going to use it to protect every monster in the Underground."

My eyes must've been sparkling, because she looks down at me and chuckles, "Just rambling on, 358. You're here early because you want to get some work in, right?"

"Right."

"Well then," she points her spear at my sword's sheath, "draw!"

I draw and she quickly charges at me. I'm just barely able to get my sword up to parry the attack. She jumps back and summons four more spears which she fires at me in quick succession. I'm just able to dodge around the first three, but the fourth grazes my shoulder just enough to send me flying back.

Captain Undyne puts her head down and sighs, "Get up and rest for a moment, we'll keep going at it later. Just know that if this was a real fight, you'd be dead."

"I know..."

I get up and sit on a bench, Captain Undyne grabs me a foodbar and tosses it to me.

"To make you feel better."

I thank her and chow down. It tastes like nothing, which makes sense since this is supposed to be a medicinal foodbar. That said, it is filling and I do feel a lot better after eating it.

"Thank you."

"No problem."

We spar for a little longer. but it's not long until the rest of the trainees arrive. We're put into lines and finally instructed by Captain Undyne.

"Upright, dust specks!"

We all quickly stand in an upright position.

"Now, if you wish to join to Royal Guard, you must first take an oath? Alright, repeat after me, I solemnly swear."

"I solemnly swear," we follow.

"To keep the Underground safe."

"From crooks, thieves, and any human that tries to attack us."

"For as long as I serve."

Captain Undyne smiles, "There, see? That wasn't so hard. Now drop down and give me 20!"

We do that, along with a ton of other strenuous exercises, on command- each of us trying to out do the other. At the end of a long couple hours, she finally rounds us up.

"Alright, now each of your roommates will spar each other, and then we'll take a break. You got that!?"

"Yes, Captain!"

I grab one of the wooden swords readily available, and my opponent, Tima, grabs a staff.

"Ready..."

Everyone takes a battle stance at the sound of the Captain's voice.

"Start!"

Tima charges at me and immediately swings the staff as hard as he can, seemingly leaving himself wide open. I quickly thrust at him with my sword, but he's able to kick his staff up in time to parry the attack. I'm unable to recover the sword before he swings at and knocks me off my legs. Since it was last man standing, he's won.

He jumps up and down, "Ha! I may be lazy, but I know how to fight. I could tell you were feeling cocky, and took advantage of that."

"...Well, you got me."

I pick myself up and shake his hand. It's not long until Undyne calls for lunch, and we're sent to the Cafeteria.

I actually did it, I finished a chapter. Hallelujah. Hope you enjoyed it. It's a tad short but it flowed better to divide this part and the next into chapters.