Blue Attacks are Weird...
Fay was still reading when she heard Frisk moving behind her. Fay dropped the book in her hands, but before it hit the ground it vanished. Turning to look back at the groggy human, Fay smiled.
"Morning sleepy butt~"
Frisk rubbed at their eyes and looked around. The obviously didn't remember Fay making the little shack last night. They marveled at the impromptu structure and hugged the blanket closer to them out of reflex. Fay fished out a cinnabun roll and offered it to Frisk. They took it and ate it while waking up. Once they finished, they licked their hands clean and looked at Fay.
"You eat?"
"Hm? Uh, yeah! Before you woke up... You warm enough?"
Frisk frowned at Fay's obvious lie, but when she asked about the temperature, Frisk was about to say that they were obviously cold. But now that they were thinking about it, they noticed they weren't. In fact, Frisk was toasty warm. Looking down at themself, Frisk inspected the blanket and noticed it was warmer than they were. Looking back up at Fay with wide eyes, they didn't expect her to laugh.
"Calm down Frisk. The blanket is magic. I managed to buy it off of one of the people in town. I thought it would be a good idea. Seems I was right! You don't look like someone that spent the night outside in the snow."
Fay nodded happily to her own idea and smiled. Frisk however looked at Fay, realizing that they did indeed spend the night outside in the cold. While Frisk didn't see Fay with a blanket, she seemed warm enough, so Frisk didn't say anything. They did however unwrap themselves from the blanket and wondered what to do with it. Seeing Frisk's slight distress, Fay expertly folded the blanket and put it in her own inventory. As she did this, the sound of footsteps approached them. Fay didn't seem to care in the slightest, but Frisk froze and held their breath. As it turned out, they didn't have to worry. It was only Papyrus.
"HUMANS! YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD HIDE FROM THE GREAT PAPYRUS? WELL I HAVE FOUND YOU. NO ONE CAN HIDE FROM ME! NOW, PREPARE TO BE CAPTURED BY ME!"
Fay tried to keep a straight face as Papyrus spoke. She didn't want to laugh at him when he was being serious. But when the skeleton pulled out a bone to attack, Fay shot to her feet.
"Wait! Fight me! Frisk just woke up. They shouldn't have to fight so early in the morning. Besides, they are just a child. They haven't even had a proper breakfast! Don't hurt Frisk. I'll fight you."
As Fay spoke, she positioned herself between Papyrus and Frisk, as if to be a shield for the child. Papyrus looked at Fay and Frisk then smiled.
"I ACCEPT YOUR CHALLENGE HUMAN! THE GREAT PAPYRUS WOULD NEVER STOOP SO LOW AS TO FIGHT A CHILD WHO HAS YET TO EAT THE MOST IMPORTANT MEAL OF THE DAY! AND SINCE YOU SO OBVIOUSLY WANT TO SEE MY GREATNESS FOR YOURSELF, I SHALL NOT DISAPOINT YOU! IT WOULD BE AN HONOR TO FIGHT SOMEONE AS CARING AS YOU! HMMM.... MAYBE YOU HUMANS AREN'T ALL THAT BAD AFTER ALL... I BET WE COULD BE FRIEN-"
Papyrus stops talking for a moment then shakes his head.
"N-NO! NO THAT WON'T DO AT ALL! AFTER ALL, WE NEED A HUMAN TO FREE US FROM THE UNDERGROUND! AND ONCE I CAPTURE YOU, I'LL BE POPULAR AND HAVE FRIENDS! I'M SORRY, BUT THIS IS THE ONLY WAY!"
Having come to his decision, Papyrus readies his attack and attempts to pull Fay's soul into battle. But nothing happens. Fay readies herself, waiting for Pap's attack, but he was frozen in place looking at Fay strangely. Noticing this, Fay frowned an tilted her head in confusion. Then all at once she realized what was wrong.
"Oh... OH! Ah! Sorry! Just... Gimme a sec... Hold on.... THERE! HA!"
As Fay spoke, she created a soul from scratch and quickly thrust it out in front of her. It however held no color. Seeing this, Fay frowned and completely ignored the sputtering Papyrus and wide eyed Frisk. Mumbling to herself, Fay snapped her fingers and the heart turned a bright hot pink.
"What? EH! Why Pink!?"
Snapping her fingers again, the heart turned brown, causing Fay to scowl.
"Who in their right mind has a brown soul?!"
With another snap, the heart once again changed color. Only this time, it was red and green plaid. Dead panning, Fay's arms went limp. Taking a deep breath, Fay's eye started to twitch.
"What the fu-... WHY PLAID?! You know what? Screw it... I'll stick with pink... Stupid shuffle option...Who the hell put plaid in there?"
Twirling her finger in a counter-clockwise motion, Fay made the heart go back to being hot pink. Sighing to herself, Fay finally turned her attention back to Papyrus and smiled while clapping her hands.
"Sorry about that... Technical difficulty... We can start now!"
Papyrus just stood there, staring at Fay with his mouth hung open. Laughing nervously, Fay chanced a glance back at Frisk and saw that they too were in a similar state of shock. Giving another pathetic laugh, Fay looked back to Pap and saw him shake his head.
"WAIT... IS THAT HUMAN ACTUALLY A MONSTER??? I'VE NEVER SEEN HER BEFORE, SO HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?!... MAYBE IT'S A 'HUMAN THING' TO CHANGE YOUR SOUL COLOR..."
Jumping at the chance to get at least one person off her back, Fay nodded ecstatically and smiled.
"Yeah! We can change the color of our souls! Most people just stick with their favorite color. But mine isn't working right now... Heheh... Heh..."
Papyrus seemed to buy Fay's blatant lie. Frisk however was looking at Fay in a confused and shocked manner. They obviously knew that wasn't possible and were starting to question just who and what Fay was. Though it didn't really matter, did it? In response to Fay's comment Papyrus looked at her with sparkling eyes.
"REALLY? THAT'S SO COOL!!! I NEVER KNEW HUMANS WERE SO INTERESTING! I AM EXCITED TO SEE WHAT ELSE YOU CAN DO HUMAN! BUT WORRY NOT. I SHALL GO EASY ON YOU!"
Glad that was over with, Fay nodded and readied herself for battle. And by that, she meant she was sparing the shit out of the adorkable skeleton. The fight started off normal enough. Fay just kept her soul out of reach of the bones. But then Papyrus stepped it up a notch.
"SO YOU WON'T FIGHT... THEN, LET'S SEE IF YOU CAN HANDLE MY FABLED BLUE ATTACK!"
Having completely forgotten what Sans had said about blue attacks, Fay flung her soul wildly about the box. She managed to hit EVERY SINGLE bone, yet Fay sustained no damage. However, her pink soul was now blue.
"NYEH HEH HEH! YOU'RE BLUE NO-... WAIT... WHA-"
Despite being blue, Fay's soul was still floating about the box like nothing happened. Not to mention her health was still at 100%. Fay looked at Papyrus as he cut himself off and wondered what was wrong. Did she do something wrong? Then it hit her.
"AH! I'm supposed to do the jumpy thing now, aren't I? Here... Lemme fix it... There! Okay, continue!"
Fay's soul finally fell to the bottom of the box with a heavy thud. She then smiled encouragingly at Pap while he just stared at the blue soul. He was quite confused but managed to speak up.
"WOWIE!!! DO ALL HUMANS USE MAGIC NOW??? WELL... WHATEVER IT IS, I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, WILL STILL TRY TO CAPTURE YOU HUMANS!!!"
Fay froze the moment Papyrus asked if all humans use magic. Blinking, Fay's face soon turned a bright red as she fell to her knees. Fay hid her face in her hands and shook her head violently. Making a strange strangled noise, Fay flopped onto her stomach and groaned. She started mumbling to herself and she rolled in the snow in an embarrassed panic. One could almost make out the words failure, stupid, and idiot. Fay messed up BAD. Face still red, Fay sat up and held out her wrists as if to be handcuffed.
"You win... I'm done ... Throw me in the dungeon..."
Frisk watched this whole ordeal without saying a word. Going between feeling shocked, to curious, to embarrassed, the child couldn't tear their gaze away from the so called fight in front of them. However, when Fay had her little break down, Frisk could only sweat drop. It was as if she just realized humans shouldn't be able to do all those things. Still, they found themself slightly amused by her act. Frisk positioned themself in front of Fay. It was their turn now.
Papyrus on the other hand was just confused by the tall human's actions. She seemed to be in distress and Papyrus was about to ask if she was okay when she surrendered. Still confused and slightly concerned, Papyrus smiled over his victory.
"WOWIE, YOU'RE GIVING UP ALREADY? THIS WAS EASIER THAN I THOUGHT! FEAR NOT HUMAN! I'LL TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOU WHILE I WAIT FOR UNDYNE TO PICK YOU UP- HM? SO THE SECOND HUMAN WISHES TO TRY FIGHTING ME? ALRIGHT! I'LL GIVE YOU A FAIR FIGHT AS WELL!!! PREPARE YOURSELF FOR THE GREAT PAPYRUS' ATTACK!"
Fay looked over at Frisk with wide eyes, of which started to water. They were going to fight anyway?! NUUU! Lowering her hands, Fay crawled meekly over to Frisk and sat by their feet. Climbing to her feet, Fay leaned over Frisk's shoulder and watched the fight start. However, the kid was about to flirt with Papyrus. Scrunching up her nose, Fay looked over at Frisk.
"NOPE! You're what... six? Ten? No getting lovie dovie! So... INSULT!"
Before Frisk could even disagree, Fay pressed the magical "insult" button and looked at Pap expectantly. She kinda hopes to see a trace of sadness or anger. But all she got was a smile. Deadpanning, Fay clicked insult again only to have Papyrus thank them.
"OH HUMANS! YOU WISH TO SAVE MY FEELINGS FOR WHEN I MUST HAND YOU OVER TO UNDYNE! I AM FLATTERED! BUT WORRY NOT HUM-"
"HOW can someone be so pure?! Frisk! HOW?!"
After yelling this out, Fay ducked down to hide behind Frisk as if the small child could hide her. Frisk looked down at her and sweat dropped before looking to Papyrus who was still talking without a care. Smirking, Frisk suddenly felt a little devious. Noticing this, Fay frowned.
"Frisk... No... NOOOO...."
"I surrender..."
Putting their hands up in universal surrender, Frisk smiled warmly at Papyrus. Who of which had finally stopped talking and was looking at the two humans in awe. He was practically sparkling. He somehow managed to make a little squeak noise before shouting in victory. Fay however seemed to deflate and looked at Frisk with begging eyes.
"OH MY GOD!!! I... I ACTUALLY CAUGHT TWO HUMANS FOR THE FIRST TIME!!! OF COURSE I COULD DO IT THOUGH, AFTER ALL I'M THE GREAT PAPYRUS!!! OH, I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL UNDYNE SEES HOW EASILY I DID IT, SHE'S GOING TO BE SO PROUD OF ME AND I'M GOING TO BE SO POPULAR!!!"
Papyrus coughs in an attempt to regain his dignity and turned to look at Fay and Frisk.
"NOW YOU TWO! FOLLOW ME AND I WILL ESCORT YOU TO THE SHE- I MEAN HOLDING CELL!!!"
Frisk nodded their head enthusiastically while Fay groaned and covered her face. Despite Papyrus telling them to follow him, he leaped over and picked up Frisk like they were nothing. Pap threw Frisk over his shoulder and quickly picked up Fay as well. She was no heavier than a soda can, but Pap didn't question it. He held her by his hip like a sack of potatoes. Pouting, Fay crossed her arms and looked at Frisk.
"You were supposed to avenge me... Love ya lil bro..."
Frisk simply giggled at Fay's irritation and smiled. The two humans allowed Papyrus to carry them back to his house and lock them in his shed. Frisk went over and bundled up in the blanket provided and patted the floor next to them. Fay obliged and sat down on the floor as directed. Upon getting settled, Fay looked over at Frisk and smiled.
"Okay! So~ I'm still gonna help you get a happy ending... But we're gonna have fun doing it. Meaning~ Ima have fun!"
Frisk looked over at Fay and tilted their head in confusion. They had no idea what she meant by that, but it was definitely going to be different... Frisk didn't know if they should be scared or not. Eh, it would probably be fine...