What is your name?
The first day was mainly consisting of playing in the snow, building snowmen and making... snow angels? Then another supper at Grillbys which Papyrus complained about, The next day he insisted on making spaghetti which he made wonderfully, even if it was a bit violent. He even taught me how to make it, I didn't see the point in smashing a tomato but he insisted. The third day was full of wandering around Snowdin and meeting all the people, there were a lot of bunny monsters and a wolf monster who kept throwing big blocks of ice into the water. The 4th day was a lazy day, the 5th day the kiddo hung out with a local kid monster, Monster Kid. Yesterday, they wanted to hang out with Papyrus and learn more about puzzles before we both agreed on leaving today. Sans basically avoided us, only showing up here and there to make some puns or some random comments. He watched over his brother as if he still didn't trust us with irked me. He wasn't even here to say goodbye, jerkwad.
It was me Papyrus and the kiddo standing on the skelebros porch, I had the backpack on which was pretty full. The kiddo stood beside me sniffling, they hate goodbyes. They still smiled when Papyrus bent down to give them a hug. He turns to me, his smile on his face and sparkly tears in his eye socket eyes.
"Oh! Dearest Friend, I'm so sad to see you go! I hope you visit again... Oh... I seem to have, forgotten your name. I APOLOGIZE DEEPLY!" Papyrus wailed, I smiled and waved it away.
"Nah, don't worry about it. I did too!" My eyes light up and I grin wildly. Papyrus seemed confused and just blinked, unsure of what to say. So he shrugs it off as I did moments before. Mumbling something about human memories being that way since the 'littler human' didn't say their name either.
Oh! Light bulb moment, I turn to the kid surprise and wondered that it hadn't come up earlier. We were outside the snowy cold blowing against me and the kid. They pulled their coat closer to themselves to warm themselves up. When I turned, my feet crunching in the snow, they looked up. Confused at first but saw the questioning look on my face and waited.
"Kiddo, you never did tell me your name?" They knew I can't remember anything so there isn't any use apologizing about forgetting it, even if there is a coat of bile building up in the back of my throat and my stomach was unsettled with guilt. Their eyes lit but and smiled, despite me forgetting it. They lifted their hands in the similar fashion as last night, they made motions with their hands but it didn't look familiar so they tried finger spelling it but I couldn't understand. Huffing in frustration they spelled it out in the snow, their feet shuffling, hands scooping some snow out of the way, standing back every now and then to observe before actually finishing then presenting it to me. I snapped out of my daze, papyrus steps forward. reading the snow.
"Ffff-er-isk.... AH! Frisk!! What a pleasure to meet you, again, smaller human!" Papyrus lunges forward and wraps the kid into his boney arms, Sans shuffles out the front door hands in his jacket pockets, pink slippers standing out in the white snow. Papyrus twirled around and set them down before turning to me with his long arms. "I do hope you remember your name and tell me taller human, it's quite important to have a name." I shrug and reached up for a hug.
After he let go he turned to Sans demanding he gives us a hug too. Sans shook his head.
"nah bro, i leave all the hugs up to you, no one can beat your hugs."
"HMM, TRUE. That's alright, I already forgive you." He sent his arms up in a flurry and spun around to meet us again. I gave him a warm smile, I stuck out my hand for the kiddo to latch onto. "Well, -sniffle- I'll miss you new best friends!" He spun dramatically and took long steps away, saying that its better this way Goodbyes are so hard.
"Bye Bye Paps, I'll see you both around." I nudge the sniffing kid to move on, "We'll visit!" I shout at them behind me as I move along. Not doubting that I'd see them again. Frisk and I walked through the snow eventually making it to a mysterious wall of fog, snow pouring down masking anybody to getting through. I looked at the kid and they grinned at me, freeing one of their hands to sign.
This is where I 'fought' Papyrus, we're the best of friends! No matter what.They declared their face setting in pure dedication. I chuckle and nod, making sure one of their hands was on my own as we walked on. It took a couple minutes, the wind blowing harshly into my face biting into my ears, my hair whipping all around me. Finally, we got to the other side, I could see from here where the snow stops suddenly. I shrugged thinking that it might be normal and kept walking forward.
The cold died down suddenly, it wasn't hot nor cold, it was perfect. I helped the kiddo out of their coat, they seemed eager to get out of it, brimming and bouncing with excitement. I folded it up and stuffed it into the bag, it almost didn't fit. I pulled my own hoodie over my head and tied it to my waist before shrugging the backpack back on.
"Interesting, this must be Waterfall. Someone was sure creative with these names." The kiddo let out a silent giggle as we moved on, We ran into Monster Kid from Snowdin, they were exclaiming in excitement something about an 'Undyne'. Vaguely familiar. We walked past a glowing flower which was planted next to a suspicious looking shack that looked an awful lot like Sans' from Snowdin. It's even got the snow on top of it... but that's silly. I shook myself out of my thoughts before continuing on.
The walls to this part of the cavern were sparkly, they shined and twinkled where ever we moved, and the water seemingly glowed. The 'echo flowers' I learned they were called, were such a lovely part of this scenery. I don't know why, but ever since we entered this part of the underground, my hearts been swelling and aching. As if I'm missing something. My memory on the edge of my mind, something on the tip of my tongue but no matter how much a pursued it, it just faded away. Leaving me confused on what I felt in the first place.
We decided to take a break when we reached a large room with a couple seeds for some strange plants, we just got done talking to an Aaron. well, he flexed most of the time. He certainly was an interesting person. He told me some stories, about a guy named Washua, And about his rival, The Captain of The Royal Guard.
Apparently, the Captain is a human hunter so the kid and I have to make sure to avoid them at all costs. Didn't Papyrus mention saying something about being in the Royal Guard? He totally could have been if he didn't befriend frisk and I. Dang, He's not getting his wish because of me... Welp, no use brooding about it now. I can ask more about it when we visit again.
After we sat and rested for a bit, I declared that it was probably time to get a move on. The kid tried to do a trick to get up but failed and just opted for rolling. I let out a giggle and helped them stand then tugged on the bag and lead the way onwards. The kid knew how to go this strange puzzle, they took the odd seeds and set them in the water, which drifted till it hit the other side and then bloomed into a platform. they repeated this task until there was a bridge of four flowers branched across the river like a stream. They giggled and ran across excitedly and waved for me to follow, so I did. Not questioning their logic. I took a hesitant step forward, it held. Not even wavering for a second as my weight was shifted onto it. I stepped onto the other one, the same results. And again, then a final time before I made it across to the kid.
They held out their hand for me to grasp and led me ahead. it went by in a blur, twists and turns a dark area lit up by glowing shrooms. A corner was hidden and the kid found it if they hadn't pointed it out, I would never have guessed to look there. A hidden passageway led to a small corner pocket, away from all other life in the underground. There was these cat dog like monsters that barely made it to the kid's knees. They bounced all over the place and spoke strangely. Admittedly, these guys were pretty adorable. Apparently their names were Temmies.
One of the Temmies came up and told us to check out the Tem shop. Frisk seemed extremely excited about this, they tugged on my arm and pulled me to the little doorway in the cave, leading to another Temmie with a box labeled 'Tem Shop.'
"Hoi!!" The Temmie greeted with an oddball face. "welcom to da Tem shop" I waved awkwardly, the kid and I didn't have any money to spend, I almost turned and walked out with the kid when they planted their feet and pulled out a LARGE bag of coins. I furrowed my eyebrows confused. When did they get all this money?! They haven't been out of my sight at all!
The Temmie seemed thrilled by this, ignoring my entire confusion. "WOOAA!! Thas a lotta muns!" The Temmie eyeballed the sack of money.
Frisk signed something to the Temmie, I didn't quite catch it being behind them and all. I could tell one of the words was something about an armor. But I just passed that as a translation error or something. What could the kid possibly need armor for?
Until The Temmie pulled a white piece of metal from under their box, it was the Kids perfect size but I shook my head. No way was I going to allow this. I stepped forward to stop this interaction but was held back by something. I couldn't tell what, I just knew that this would be needed. But that's ridiculous, they're a child. They don't need armor.
Frisk dawned the armor, looking less like a child and more like a cosplaying chipmunk. Then the armor shrunk to fit them. It glowed a shade of green before shifting and fitting them better, They still had their striped shirt on underneath but you couldn't see it from here. The kid turned and smiled at me, when I shook my head and opened my mouth to tell them to give it back, they wouldn't need it; a voice echoed in the back of my mind. Freezing me entirely in fear and worry of the unknown, a chill crept onto my back as the voice dripped into my mind.
Oh yes, this will be needed. Undyne's fight is next