Now was my chance. I turned around at top speed and threw as hard of a punch as I could. The punch only caught air as whoever it was jumped out of the way. I looked, the the thing was actually a skeleton! He was wearing a heavy blue jacket with gym shorts and slippers. He had no eyes, but had two white specks for pupils. He also had this humongous grin.
"whoa, hey, i'm not the fighting type," He said before reaching his hand out. "i'm sans. sans the skeleton."
"Uh, hi, the name's Favi…" I shook his hand only to have it make a fart noise as I grabbed it.
"ha, ha, gotcha with the ol'fart button in the hand trick," Sans joked. I couldn't help but laugh. This skeleton seemed pretty cool.
"so you're a human. that's pretty neat. i'm supposed to be searching for humans, but that's too much work. my brother, papyrus, on the other hand is a human hunting fanatic. don't worry though; he won't hurt you. in fact, here he comes now," Sans said.
Off in the distance, another skeleton was coming. Sans and I walked to a little watch building that I assumed was Sans. A palm tree was by it for some reason.
"hey, can you do me a favor, kid, and hide behind that conveniently shaped palm tree?" Sans asked.
I did so. Oddly, standing perfectly still the tree gave me great cover. The brother of Sans, Papyrus, came into the area.
"hey, bro," Sans said nonchalantly.
"DON'T YOU 'HEY BRO' ME, BROTHER," Papyrus spoke loudly. "I HAVE NOTICED THAT YOU HAVE NOT CALIBRATED YOUR PUZZLES."
"yea, sorry, i've been too busy staring at this cool tree. you should look at it too, it's verrrrryyyy interesting," Sans said playing a joke on Papyrus.
"I DON'T HAVE TIME TO LOOK AT PLANTS! WHAT IF A HUMAN ARRIVES? I MUST CATCH A HUMAN. I MUST GET INTO THE ROYAL GUARD, FOR I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, MUST BE POPULAR!" With that Papyrus ran off.
I came out from behind the tree. Looking at Sans, I asked why he had tried to give me away.
"don't worry, papyrus won't pose a threat to ya," Sans assured me.
I was starting to leave when Sans spoke again.
"hey, my brother hasn't been able to use his puzzles on a human. he's been down lately, and could use a pick me up. thanks a million. i'll meet you up ahead." Sans was asking me to help his brother, I guess.
Sans then proceeded to walk the opposite way I was going and then disappeared. I was a little confused about what he was doing. I walked past his little hut thing and went to another area. There was a box. There was a sign next to it. Before I could read it though, a monster came up to me. It looked like a bird and a snowflake combined. It started attacking me. It seemed upset and was blubbering nonsense as it launched projectiles at me. I punched it in the face to try and knock some sense into it. It ran off crying like a baby. Hmm, maybe if I did that to all the monsters I ran into maybe they wouldn't want to fight. I kept on walking and ran into Sans and Papyrus.
For the first time, I was able to get a good look at Papyrus. He was much taller than me and Sans. He wore an orange jacket, one that was very similar to Sans's sweatshirt, just different colors. They turned and saw me. Papyrus almost fainted.
"A HUMAN!" Papyrus yelled at the top of his lungs. "THAT'S A HUMAN RIGHT, RIGHT SANS?" he asked turning to Sans.
"yeah, bro," Sans replied nonchalantly.
"O MY GOD!" Papyrus fanboyed before turning to me. "HUMAN! I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, WILL CAPTURE YOU! I HAVE CREATED MANY AMAZING PUZZLES FOR YOU TO GET THROUGH! ONCE I CAPTURE YOU… I'M NOT SURE WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT, BUT I'LL BE FAMOUS!" Papyrus ran off saying "nyeh" which I assumed was his way of laughing. I turned to Sans.
"don't worry i'll keep an eye socket out for ya," Sans reassured me.
I kept going through this snowy area. Any monster that attacked me usually ended up on the worse end of the fight. Things went wrong though when this dog monster that was running this shack attacked me and wouldn't give up when I punched it over and over. Eventually, it fell over and crawled away, bleeding that same ooze Toriel was bleeding. Most of the dog monsters that attacked me in this area ended getting beat up real bad; actually, I came to learn that many of them disappeared.
I continued on with Papyrus's puzzles. Each one failed hilariously in my favor. One electric maze puzzle zapped Papyrus instead of me. Win. One puzzle Papyrus finished for me because I couldn't quite figure it out. Win. One was a puzzle where I could only step on certain colored tiles to get across. Luckily, the colored tiles that I could step on went straight across. Win. Finally, his last puzzle was one that seemed very impossible, with swinging cannons, spears, flamethrowers, wrecking balls, and a dog. Papyrus thought it was too easy though. So he disabled it. Win.
That's four straight wins for me there. All involving humor, stupidity, and luck. After the last puzzle I saw a sign for a town: Snowdin. I came up to the little town; it was rather cute. It had a bar called Grillby's; it had a shop, a hotel, a library. It was awesome! There was a Christmas tree in the center of town for some reason.
I walked through the town; monsters were all around. But many seemed sad and didn't want to attack. I walked through the town and once I got to the outskirts the snow almost blinded me. Suddenly Papyrus was in front of me."HUMAN. SINCE MY PUZZLES WEREN'T ENOUGH TO CAPTURE YOU THEREFORE, I MUST CAPTURE YOU MYSELF," Papyrus told me.
I didn't want to hurt Papyrus; in fact, after all of the puzzles, I wanted to be friends with him. I saw the look on his face. Deep down he was reluctant to fight me. Just like I was reluctant to fight him. I just needed to make him be friends with me. I had to act.
"Oh how can I possibly fight someone so cool!" I said trying to sound so dramatic.
"Yo-YOU THINK I'M COOL! WOW! WAIT NO! I MUST CAPTURE YOU!" Papyrus said.
He threw a couple of bones at me which I easily dodged. I still chose to not fight him, telling him how cool he was. His attack then threw a twist. My normally orange soul turned blue, and I fell to the ground. He sent bones for me to jump over. I got up and jumped over the bones only to flop on my face once again. A couple actually hit me and these bones hurt just a little less than Toriel's fireballs.
"Papyrus, you're so cool, I wish I could be friends with someone as a cool guy like you," I said.
His next attack I let hit me showing him that I would let him hurt me to be his friend. "Please, I'll even let you capture me if you'll be my friend." I pleaded.
"I'VE NEVER HAD A REAL FRIEND BEFORE." Papyrus said looking at the ground before he looked up. "OK, LET'S BE THE BEST OF FRIENDS!" Papyrus had a huge grin on his face. He took me by the arm, and we headed back to Snowdin.
Papyrus is the coolest of the cool.