#i like the funny bunny blob okay

[spaghettiandart]

doodles of that glitchtrap amalgam blob thing except more bunny

[saigawrites]

Hey siri, how to take care of an aura jelly blob?

Continuation of my series | part 1 | part 2

Seelie! Genshin characters x Platonic! Gn! Reader

Sumeru men edition

Tags : fluff, crack, scenarios

Warnings : cursing, mentions of animal attack

Summary : you took home a strange creature, that looked nothing like anything from your world. So, you try to take care and somehow live with this sentient balloon.

You didn't know what had happened at all. You didn't know how and why you took home an intellectual blob with pretty colors. But, right now there is no time asking questions, as this flying circle thing has been squeaking for about 30 minutes, trying to explain you something. You came up with an idea in your mind, but for a moment thought it would be impossible. But, who knows? Maybe this creature actually has an intelligence and can write what they wanna say on a notebook?

Grabbing a empty notebook and a pencil from your workspace table, you open it and give the pencil to the creature. Shockingly, it holds it with tiny arms, and levitating themselves closer to the paper, they start to scribble something.

Wanderer ♥︎

"Filthy humanoid creature! I am the unnamed wanderer from teyvat! I know nothing about the surrounding environment around me. Tell me, where am I, so I can figure out a way to return to my homeland. And don't you dare to take advantage of my current state! I am powerful beyond your understanding, even if I'm not in my original form."

Okay, that's kinda freaky. Why is an aura balloon acting all supreme now?

When you read what he wrote, an "really?" expression set on your face. That's probably why he zapped you when you took him out of your bag.

As much as you know, there isn't a place called "teyvat" in any part of the globe. So, this thing is from another one. Great. You somehow bringed an alien into your house.

But at least, some of your questions were answered.

You found a bit funny that a floating circle with cat ears and tail was deliberately trying to boss around, though you didn't wanna get electrocuted again, so you simply followed whatever demands this alien thing could have.

Oh, his demands were BIG. No sleeping past 6 AM, doing intense research on the topic of multidimensional lapping, and long explanations about literally everything your world can offer you.

Well, you are glad that you don't have to feed him or watch after him.

That last part was a lie, as this seemingly harmless boss companion of yours was dangerously curious, and happened to cause trouble even if he was as soft as jelly.

Yeah, that time he wanted to see what type of clothes do your humans wear, he shaked that closet a little too much, as it almost fell on you.

You learned that he is surprisingly very strong after that, he even helped you put the heavy wood rectangle back in place.

Or that time you both were taking a walk in the forest, and he came too close to an aggressive tank with antlers, a 6 feet tall moose, making him react violently to you.

Gladly, the moose couldn't come any closer as your blue-purple friend somehow casted a heavy gust of wind, strong enough to push the animal away.

Your angry little jelly blob rushed to your side after that, afraid of you damaging yourself in any way. After scanning your face for any injuries and finding none, the cat blob made sure to not to stray away from you far.

Kaveh ♡

"Thank you, kind-hearted humanoid! I was so scared when I woke up in that place. Your rescue will be forever remembered by me. I am Kaveh, the architect of the sumeru city! It is an honour to be acquainted with such a peculiar creature like you! Please, help me find a way for me to get back to my planet."

First off, did he mention sumeru? The ancient city that existed centuries ago? Second off, did he call you peculiar? These balls be wildin

The warm-yellow bunny eared balloon floated around you excitedly, waiting for your response. You wanted to pet him and slap him into the void at the same time.

You got his vibe just right in your first interaction. The jelly ball acted all cute and adorable, but the clinginess of his made you progress on the aggression part in the cuteness-aggression feeling way more.

Seriously, this piss blob's ignoring of your personal space is on another level. The amount of times you had to shove him away from nuzzling all over your face and hair is overwhelming.

In his eyes, you are a majestic architectural masterpiece. He takes notes how your eyes and ears are on the same level, how your brows are exactly perfect centimeters away from your eyes. He loves your nose structure, he often stares at it to much, gaining a questioning look from you.

He is just like that with literally everything else in your apartment. He takes notes of the proportions of some objects, and in his seelie mind he finds ways to project your modern structures into his own.

Other than disturbing your piece he likes to look out the window, stare down at all of the other buildings and examine them with extreme focus.

Sometimes he even tries to make a sketch with his itty bitty hands, but fails miserably and comes crying to you, burying himself in your arms and making you pet his smooth body.

Al-haitam ♥︎

"I am Al-haitam, and I come from another world, as you probably already have guessed from our appearance differences. I thank you for taking me into a safe environment, may the archons bless your kind-soul. I ask you to fulfill my another wish, help me return back."

Who are archons? Are they some kind of deitys? Gods perhaps? You truly don't know.

His calm and reserved behavior matched his talking style. He kinda reminded you of the mystical tree, his colors and a leaf like antenna confirmed your statement further.

That's probably why you would burst out laughing whenever the green aura circle would act all smart, reading books and watching educational videos on youtube with you.

Though, after laughing your ass off, you would always think of his behavior as cute in a way. So much that you would have to hold your hands in place and resist the urge to just squeeze the life out of him.

Sometimes you couldn't hold it tough, and give in to your desires, smiling and giggling as you nuzzle this jello orb body of his.

Fighting back and eventually winning, he would aggressively bring your communication notebook and write down that your relationship is purely professional and you are disturbing his necessary research.

Making a ridicilously serious face and nodding repeatedly you would leave him alone for some time, only to come back again to lay on him and fight in the process.

Eventually he would just give up and go with the flow of your playfulness, seeing as he got exhausted of reading multiple books already.

And when you would get tired, you both would just lay there, napping peacefully as he nuzzles in your chest, listening to your heartbeat and think of how strange you are in his world perspective.

After waking up from a quick nap, he would poke you with his tiny arms and tug you to stand up to go to the library with him.

He really loved your libraries, the sight of your extremely detailed and textured bookshelfs and scriptures would make him scream like a fangirl on the inside.

He also liked your concentrated state, with your reading glasses on and gaze fixed on the letters. He would enjoy it even more when you would take notes of the subject, he's genuinely amazed of your handwriting.

Cyno ♥︎

"I am the general Mahamatra, Cyno. I thank you for saving me from the streets. I would be more than happy if you could get me back in my world, teyvat. Thanks in advance, or should I say, in later on."

What the hell was that. Was it... a joke? Okay, now is not the time to question what type of humor does this purple circle has.

Oh, but he's questioning you, looking at you with such a attentive gaze. Is he waiting for you to laugh?

Fulfilling his wishes, you chuckled from the amusement of not getting the joke at all. The blob didn't care though, as he simply jiggled in his place, proud of himself.

From that moment you discovered that this alien orb is a terrible jokester, as he would literally pull you from whatever you were doing to just check his new made ones.

And everytime you couldn't help but laugh histerically at his antics, because you wouldn't get the premise at all. All of his jokes never made sense, but were the most hilarious thing you laughed at in a while.

And he would always jiggle with pride after you laughed, bro really thought he gained a fan of his jokes💀.

One day you thought about showing him your world's perspective of humor, as you sat him up on the couch and turned on the tv with popular comedy shows.

Safe to say he would repeatedly jump from his seat, and roll on the couch from side to side, as his purple anubis ears would jiggle uncontrollably.

You took it as a sign of him liking it, and soon enough you both had a routine of watching comedy shows and gasp from laughing.

At first you thought he was just a happy go lucky guy, not realizing he can be sort of a guard dog.

Really, you only saw him being serious when he sensed something and flew to it's direction, only for it to be a racoon that he scared away with mini thunder.

Now you got why he was such a bright color of purple. Not gonna lie, you were a little scared to hold him after that, afraid he'll electrocute the shit out of you😰.

But it never happened, so you guess he's only friendly to you? Honestly, you felt kinda honored to have this status.

Tighnari ♡

"Greetings, suspectable another species of humankind. I am Tighnari, the forest ranger of the sumeru region. It is a pleasure to be in your natural environment, being able to study your world. Though, I would appreciate it if you could help me return back to sumeru. I still have a ton of things to do back there, so please, make sure to fulfill my request."

Is he some type of a scientist? "A pleasure to be in your natural environment, being able to study your world" yeah, my ass.

And he was an ass. Pain in the ass, to be exact.

He wouldn't leave you alone, wherever you would go or whenever time it was. He was always around you, floating and examining your features.

He just can't help himself, you look so strange! And everything around you looks so strange. He just has to know atleast something about the place he is in right now, what type of setting it is, how does it work, and yada yada yada...

That's what lead you to the situation you are in now, as he peeked out of your hoodie pocket, staring at all the contests of the supermarket you were in.

Even if you had told him already a thousand times that he can't go with you because he doesn't look like everybody else, he didn't listen and sneaked inside your clothes, successfully getting out of the house with you.

You desperately tried to cover his enormous ears with your hands, stuffing him further inside the pocket only for him to pop out from the other side. What a nosy aura blob.

It would get even worse when he would fly out to scan some object like salty pickles, thinking of it as peculiar, when in reality the only thing that's peculiar was him.

He would closely watch whenever you would put something in the cart, taking notes on how you hold the product and how you place it inside the metal structure.

He especially got very freaky about your world's greenery, demanding you to go out with him into a park, a nearby forest or literally anywhere where there is some type of plants.

You instead decided to take him into a local botanical garden, and when I say he went crazy, he went crazy.

Stopping every 3 minutes to find a new plant and examine it for about 20 minutes you and him spent the whole day in that garden.

He would poke your shoulder to it being numb, asking you to explain or tell what kind of plant it is, where does it grow, how does it grow, can we take it home, all that nerdy shit.

You did end up taking some small house plants afterwards, due to his unstoppable crying and squeaking, like a child wanting their parent to buy candy in the store.

He then made sure to always bug you to take care of the plant, saying that he is "incapable" of doing so himself. What a troublesome circle.

Oof, this ones LONG. And I'm proud of it😜. Genuinely hope you enjoy this, cuz I spent an eternity writing this😭.

Tag : @vault-of-reblogs

[swee7dream]

cg!127's cg names cg!nct 127 x f!regressor!reader

genres age regression content, fluff warnings none . author's note this is the ilichil counterpart to this post ! i will get to wayv soon :3 dni if you sexualize age regression. i'm blocking and reporting you if you break my dni :P author's note requests are open ! especially wayv reqs are welcome <3

moon taeil (´ ∀ ` *)

moon(ie), illie

moon taeil is the most grandpa-coded cg i’ve ever seen in my life

but like, a cool grandpa. like the kind that listens to doja cat with you when her songs play on the radio as he drives you to the store for candy

on nights when the full moon is out he’ll point up at the sky, saying: “that’s my home” and you’re like “??? moonie’s an alien?”

duh! that’s why he gets you down for naptime so well, his alien moon powers! (his lullabies)

so when you begin slipping in public, taeil is well aware because you get giggly over nothing. your illie is an alien and nobody knows! just you! gotta keep it a secret so he doesn’t get taken back to the moon!

seo youngho (￢‿￢ )

daddy.

basically the chenle of 127.

he just loves how sweet it sounds coming out of your mouth! makes him want to crush you in a hug and leave kisses all over your cute baby face!

likes referring to the two of you as a duo, a package deal, a 2-in-1!

“daddy and baby gotta go to bed now, okay?”

“daddy and dolly are going on a picnic today, isn’t that exciting?”

“daddy and bug gotta be nice to each other. none of that pranking business.”

really hates pranks because all he wants is to keep you safe and here you are acting like you broke something just because you find his reaction funny! not cool >:(

lee taeyong (.❛ ᴗ ❛.)

bubu + mommy

king does not care what you call him as long as you’re comfortable. if you asked him his preference, however, he would say those two

has been reading up on the most random of subjects because every time you call for him it’s always to ask a question. his curious baby!

“bubu, what’s that bird?”, “how old is the oldest tree in the world?” “mama, can i eat hair dye?”

he sat you down for that last one, chucking out any home dye under the sinks and letting you know that the next time you want to paint your hair any pretty color it’ll have to be at a proper hair salon

nakamoto yuta (￣ω￣)

yuta + daddy

the way his name comes out like in a little song when you’re small warms his heart, how could he negate you anything?

daddy is more of a title he uses for himself. it comes out more natural to refer to himself as a daddy when talking in third person than his name

he says it reminds him of elmo so he doesn’t like it

has a strong hatred for elmo??? the one-sided beef is crazy and has no real origin. he just hates the red blob and namecalls it any chance he gets. he’s like an actual bully and only scoffs and rolls his eyes when you tell him he’s only 3 (and a half!)

“as if. and grass is purple, baby.” “it is?” “no, sweetheart. it’s not.”

acts so betrayed when you regressed by yourself and he catches you watching sesame street

kim dongyoung （´▽｀）

doie

you guys tried different names but ultimately, it was doie that stuck

fun fact: before you guys ended up finally choosing a proper name for doyoung, you called him bunny!

you were a bit sad to have to stop calling him that. you thought it was cute but also understood that doyoung didn’t feel like you could take him seriously when it was ‘bunny’ telling you it’s time to turn the ipad off and get ready for bed

to make up for it, doyoung took you to build-a-bear! you named your little rabbit bunny and he has a voice recording of doyoung’s voice playing the character of being doie’s rabbit twin!

it also smells like doie’s cologne and you always have it nearby to cuddle with at night when he’s away

jeong yunoh o(〃＾▽＾〃)o

hyunnie + mister

he loves- no, adores being called mister. he acts like it doesn’t phase him but he’s got his smug little smirk every time you call him so

for that reason you barely call him that. you like having the upper hand any chance you get and honestly? he hasn’t caught on yet

he likes hyunnie too though, he supposes. it sounds like honey! hyunnie and honey <3 the ultimate pair <3

hyunnie is used for common conversation and mister is used for manipulation I MEAN convincing for things like a second dessert or a new dress for one of your dolls ! MAYBE a kiss on the cheek helps too. you don’t even know what manipulation is! you’re just tiny!

dong sicheng ♡✧( ु•⌄• )

read here when published !

kim jungwoo (☆^ー^☆)

woo, also woowoo

jungwoo has a habit of starting random games of hide ‘n’ seek when you’re small, suddenly disappearing mid-chocolate milk preparation

when you call out for him (‘woo?’) he’ll reply with another ‘woo!’ until you guys are woo-woo-ing each other to find where he’s hiding!

he also likes playing ambulance

not doctor, ambulance.

you find a mystery bruise on your leg and all of a sudden jungwoo’s holding you up in the air and he’s going ‘wee woo wee woo wEE WOO’ all around your home until your stomach hurts from laughing so much

lee minhyung (ᓀ‸ᓂ)

read here !

lee donghyuck ʕ˙Ⱉ˙‧:ʔ

read here !

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[softquietsteadylove]

Hello there! Love the actor au very much! How about Gil is watching Thena while she is doing a scene? Pretty sure he is mesmerized by her look, her presence and acting skills too!

Gil was staring. Everyone was.

Thena was in the middle of a few glamour shots, meant just to capture her natural beauty in their current work. It was a fantasy thing--she was a beautiful creature of nature, with massive wings they would CGI onto her in post.

A flower crown sat on her perfect sunshine hair, there were a few real little bunnies hopping around. A few green blobs were also scattered around in order to animate them into more fantastical creatures. It was quite different from the roles he had done with her before.

He was playing a royal guard, in charge of protecting the queen, who would turn out to be evil by the end of it. He hadn't had many scenes with Thena yet, but even just being on the same set with her put him more at ease.

"Sometimes," Thena murmured in the scene to her little bunny friends, as well as the young actor playing the fish out of water who had stumbled into her little forest. "People want for things they know they can't have."

"But why, your majesty?" the kid asked in - to his ear - a pretty mediocre accent. They couldn't find an actual English accent?

Thena sighed, stroking one of the bunnies that seemed to have really taken a liking to her. Gil had to keep his laughter in; furry animals weren't really Thena's thing. She was staying in the scene really well, but he was certain they would have to get them all off her once they cut before she freaked out.

"We are not so different from humans," she murmured, extending her vowels in a received pronunciation that she had mastered early on in her career. "They are capable of insatiable greed. But do we not also want for things just out of reach?"

Gil sighed.

"But, your majesty," the kid scooched a little closer on the fake forest floor they had constructed. "You are the most powerful fae around."

The kid's tiny hand floated up, stroking what would be a shimmering white feathered wing in the final film. For now, it was just the empty air between them.

Gil smiled; Thena moved her shoulders faintly, as one would when a part of their body was adjusting itself. It would look great when the wings were 'on her'.

Thena pursed her lips (a personal habit that made its way into her characters every once in a while). "Power does not equal strength, and strength does not guarantee things going the way you might like. There are things I want that my power will never help me attain."

She looked off into the distance, longing written all over her face. Although her eyes landed on Gil, in the distance, behind the blinding lights on the scene. Her lips twitched into a smile. "The heart wants what it wants, child. It longs for things it once had, no matter how you tell it not to."

"And...cut!"

Thena smiled as the kid was pulled away for a mandatory union break. She remained sitting, still encircled by free roaming little bunnies.

Gil chuckled, walking right up to the soundstage and being careful of any wandering cotton balls. The wranglers were already rushing out to collect up the vulnerable little creatures. Gil knelt down beside her and reached out a hand, "your Majesty?"

"Very funny," Thena chided him lightly as she took his hand. "My legs are asleep after all those takes."

Gil waited in that position until all the rabbits were collected up and clear from danger. Once the wranglers were all clear he moved back to his feet, pulling Thena up with him. She laughed as he swung her around in his arms. "You got it?"

"Ah!" she bit her lip as she tried to firm up her knees, "pins and needles!"

"Okay," he laughed, as if he needed that excuse to sweep her up in his arms and walk off with her bridal style. "Let's go."

"Gil!" Thena laughed as he made his way down the stairs and towards their chairs. They initially weren't anywhere near each other, but they had both moved them together subtly over the course of several days.

"Well, we can't have the fae queen wobbling around like a fawn," he teased, and received a poke in the cheek for it. She could have smacked him on the arm but he was in his 'armour' for his scene.

"You are supposed to be allied to a different queen," Thena pointed out as he deposited her right into her chair, flowing white dress and all.

Gil sat himself next to her, as he always did. "Well, she does turn out to be plotting, like, magical mass murder by the end of this. So maybe I should reconsider some shit in my guard life."

Thena just shook her head at him, pushing back the mane of hair she had, and which was made even longer by the extensions they had woven into it. "I won't miss this, I can say that much."

Gil helped her sort the mass of hair out of her way as she picked up her script and her bottle of water. "What did make you take this?"

"Hm?"

"Well," he shrugged, the replica armour he was wearing clanking faintly against itself as he did. "It's not really your usual thing. Especially the benevolent fairy queen part."

Thena raised a brow at him with a smirk, "are you saying being the beautiful queen of the enchanted forest doesn't suit me?"

"Come on," he gave her a nudge. Their laughter died down and he lowered his voice, "really, though."

Thena tucked some of her hair, and what was attached to it, behind her ear. Her smile became bashful as she looked down at her open scrip on her lap. "Well...I wanted something in between action films. And...when you told me you were signed on-"

Gil's eyes lit up visibly.

"Stop it," she murmured, sticking her finger in between the plates of plastic armour on his shoulder just to give him a good poke. "Why did you take this, then?"

Gil shrugged. "I mean, my part is relatively small. I was told my shoot time would be half of what it usually is. And I get to be a literal knight in shining armour!"

"Well, you do come over to my side by the end of it," Thena murmured, flipping through her pages. It was only briefly mentioned, and it would be ultimately up to the director and how things looked onscreen the day of the shoot, but it was implied that the queen's guard would defect by the end of things.

"See?" Gil wiggled his pinkie at her. "You're still my queen at the end of the day."

"The poor, lonely fae queen will finally have a soul to match hers?" Thena rested her chin in her palm, batting her lashes at him.

"Well, I'm sure she'll be in need of some," Gil mirrored her playful body language, leaning forward until they could practically touch noses, "protection."

[hesesols]

The Good Life

 “Stop seducing me in front of my daughter!”

Day 1 of IR month 2020

Prompt: Once Upon A Dream

Word count: 2.5K

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"You're pathetic!"

Grimmjow grouses from his perch among the low-lying branches of the cherry blossom tree. The erratic movement causes a shower of pink petals to descend. Carried by the wind, the rainfall of petals flutters and trails along the faces of both father and daughter before succumbing to the pull of gravity, kissing the earth and becoming one with the world again- heralding the beginning of spring with their fall from grace.

The circle of life is full of stolen moments, enshrined in the poetry of flowers and their decay; each one unique, each one fleeting, tender and surreal- no two ever the same for man or time.

Violet eyes widen at the sight of them.

Clapping her hands excitedly, his youngest tugs at him, pointing out the bright colours to him, making funny little noises as she jabbers gibberish. Her enthusiasm is infectious but Ichigo is frowning as he dusts off the pesky things.

He should have never let Rukia talk him into planting them in the gardens, now every spring is just a personal reminder of how big brother is always watching. Byakuya has eyes everywhere, even at his own backyard. That has certainly proven to put a damper on the mood when he's trying to have a few moments of uninterrupted bliss with his wife.

"Hmph."

His non-committal grunt deepens Grimmjow's scowl. Feline grace marks his leap as he jumps off the tree and lands perfectly next to Ichigo.

"Don't just sit there on your fat ass and hmph, you lazy fuck! Get up and fight me! I swear you get lazier every fucking time I see you."

Ichigo snarls, hastily covering his daughter's ears as he glares.

"Oi! Language, asshole!"

Fatherhood mellowed him out pretty nicely but that doesn't mean he isn't a hot minute away from throwing hands with that blue-haired freak if it comes to that. Especially if his little girl's first word turned out to be a swear word because of someone's potty mouth.

"You do this every month," Ichigo rolls his eyes, shifting his hold on his daughter when she starts wriggling on his lap, "Give it up already, Grimmjow! I'm not going to fight you! Come back next month, maybe you'll get lucky."

"C'mon!"

Grimmjow swears that he's not fraternizing with the enemy here. Lines and loyalties are clearly drawn between Shinigamis and Arrancars. He simply laments the fall of a fellow warrior. How the mighty have fallen!

When and how exactly did the saviour of the three realms get reduced into this?

This... blob of passivity and stagnancy?

He eyes the baby- cherubic, rosy cheeks, bright eyes; the root of all evil, the devil dressed in a bunny onesie- with something akin to apprehension in his gaze and feels a shudder running down his spine; to think that a hero will willingly bend the knee and let himself grow weak for this insufferable… creature that does nothing but sleep, eat and poo all day.

It gurgles at him, makes an attempt to grab at him with her grubby hands and he flinches, hissing as he backs away instinctively.

Truly children and babies, especially babies, are the worst!

He briefly contemplates if he will get away with it if he snatches the creature away from her father's hands and runs for the hills the minute he did. That should teach the punk a lesson! It could work in theory, he muses- a Garganta with one hand, hell spawn in the other. Diabolical plan in the works, his lips curled into a smirk as he creeps forward. He'd like to think that he almost got away with it too if he hadn't made the rookie mistake of looking into Ichigo's eyes.

If looks could kill, Ichigo's glare would have been sharp enough to cut him down a million times over.

"Don't even think about it!"

A father's instinct to protect run deep and being parent to a pair of rambunctious pre-schoolers means that hardly anything surprises him anymore. Nothing- especially not a sneak attack aimed at his youngest- gets by him. His grip tightens as he cradles the tiny body against him. Grimmjow is a dead man if he takes another step forward.

Of course not everyone appreciates his efforts. Hisaki, for one- the literal baby of the family and already a full-fledged Kurosaki when it comes to getting things done her way- is not amused by the tight hold. She squirms, pouts and makes an angry face at her father while she makes persistent attempts to lunge at the other man.

"Urhhh-urhh…”

Baby talk is hardly the most eloquent of speeches but Ichigo tries. Her pinched face as she gestures wildly and wills him to let her loose is entirely too precious to be ignored. The doting father follows her line of vision and snorts when he notices her fixated stare at Grimmjow's colourful hair. Okay, so maybe Rukia was on to something when she said that Kurosakis are born with little to no sense to recognize danger and run from it.

He laughs, kissing Hisaki's cute button nose.

Maybe when she's older. Right now, he doesn't even trust Renji with her and that man's got years of experience in dealing with children compared to the almost-feral Arrancar in front of him.

Gently, he bunny kisses her chubby cheeks, blowing raspberries against them until her attention shifts and he becomes the focus of those big violet eyes again. She giggles- delightful little sounds that melts his heart down and has him smitten all over again since the day he first held her.

Bloodlines don't lie and she is perfect- a blend of Rukia and him sieved and condensed into this little bundle of joy. Don't get him wrong, he loves all his children equally but fathers are allowed certain liberties in playing favourites, especially when it comes to their baby daughters.

He runs a hand through her hair- soft, orange tufts that smell like baby shampoo dipped in an assortment of syrupy goodness, honeyed, sweet; heaven on earth- but that face, that pointy little chin and those unworldly eyes that gleam in the dying day; that's all Rukia.

His baby girl is going to be a heartbreaker someday, just like her mother and Ichigo is both a little excited and worried at the prospect. Someday, he thinks; the line of boys queuing up for her love and affection is going to be long enough to go round Seireitei and he needs to be prepared- will have to keep his blade sharp and ready if only for better crowd control.

As if to ease his troubled thoughts, his daughter yawns and snuggles her tired little head against him. Well- he adjusts his hold, wrapping both hands around her. He is getting ahead of himself there. For now, this is already enough excitement for the one-year-old and clearly past her naptime.

He eyes his long-time rival- deeply scowling with no signs of leaving any time soon.

"You're never going to leave until I say yes, aren't you?"

"Damn straight!"

"Fine! Just let me put her to bed first."

He slips in through the back door, wanders inside the house with his bare feet.

The pictures on the wall, silly little knick-knacks from the Living World decorating the shelves- the story of a life he built together with Rukia. A mishmash of new and old; the past and present- still them but better, fuller, happier with each other- of them on their honeymoon, of them at the Ishida's wedding, of them with Chad as he opened his veterinary clinic, the happy little family at the birth of each child, of his eldest's hatsu-zekku, and the most recent picture taken with their extended family- Shibas, Kurosakis, Kuchikis brought together to celebrate Hisaki's first hinamasturi.

Pockets of happiness preserved in stillness. Each one infinitely more precious than ever; chronicles of their evolving journey through life together. The sheer joy, the softness in their eyes; he can't help but mirror and smile back.

"Let me guess? He won't leave until you fight him?"

He looks up from the smiling faces frozen in time to see his reason for being. Sunshine filters through the open window from the kitchen and his breath catches. He sees her gilded and golden, crowned by the halo of the setting sun.

He heaves an exaggerated sigh as he presses his sleeping daughter to her.

"I can't catch a break! I'm supposed to be on paternity leave."

Paternity leave is supposed to be time spent with family, with his wife, especially his wife. Instead he spends it fending off old frenemies, being reminded of his brother-in-law's presence every five minutes while Rukia tackles her paperwork indoors. She only returned to active duty a few weeks ago and it has been a constant nightmare since then to catch up on the backlog of paperwork.

According to the newly minted Captain and mother of three, he's a distraction to her work progress, and can't be trusted not to mislay official documents in a bid to lure her to back to bed for the pursuit of sleep and other carnal activities, so to the gardens it is.

Ichigo doesn't bother denying it. He's simply saying that Captain Kurosaki-Kuchiki needs to do a better job of saying no, of actually pushing him away rather than deepening the kiss or groping at his ass every time he comes on to her.

It does, as the presence of three growing children attests, take two to tango.

Rukia rolls her eyes, "Most paternity leaves don't last a full year."

Ichigo shrugs unapologetically.

"Anyone who's got a problem with that can take it up with the Soutaichou himself. Kyoraku signed the papers- official seal and everything. I'm on paternity leave until further notice. Even Byakuya agrees."

It was nothing less than a miracle. He and Byakuya never agree on anything.

Rukia snorts, pokes at his sides as she teases, "Well, a little sparring might be good for you. You're starting to look a little soft and round around the edges there."

"Oh I'll show you 'soft'!"

With a playful growl, he pounces- grabbing her by the waist as he nuzzles against her soft hair, breathing her in- desperate and reverent, until the world melts away and all that's left is Rukia, sunshine, warmth and home. A hand rises to touch her face, his thumb tracing the fullness of her lips. There's the woman he fell in love with all those years ago. Proud, spirited; still breathtakingly beautiful but now a fuller figure to hold onto at night, a few more laugh lines dotting her familiar face, and maybe- just maybe, a little softer in the exasperated looks she shoots him whenever he annoys her; but still a fighter in every sense of the word.

She fights for him, for them and their little family, and he is so hopelessly in love with her- the undisputed queen of his heart.

"I'll be back by dinner."

"Come back before then."

Rukia pulls him down for a kiss. It is needy, sensual; a familiar ache that tiptoes a fine line between her wants and his needs. Passion flares and there is fire in her touch as she runs her fingers up and down the length of his bare arm- playful, teasing. There's a teenager lying somewhere in him still- eternally seventeen and reeving to go once she gives the signal.

He remembers long hot summer nights, naked bodies coiling in the dark; violet hazes that streak and colour his world when he gives in. Rukia's touch is magnetic and he is drawn irresistibly to the pull.

"The boys can stay a little longer with Nii-sama and Kukaaku-san today and Hisa sleeps like the dead once she's out," she whispers dark and tempting. Teeth nipping at his lips for good measure as she pulls away. He's all putty and labile in her hands and she knows it.

"We can have the whole house to ourselves."

He almost whimpers. The things she does to him-

He groans, forcing himself to look away from her sultry bedroom eyes. It's been too long.

"Stop seducing me in front of my daughter!"

Rukia laughs, tenderly brushing the stray wispy hair away from Hisaki's face. "You mean our daughter."

Swaddled in her mother's arm, his youngest looks even tinier than usual; her face small enough to fit into one of his palm and a little drool escapes the corner of her mouth as she fusses, tiny little digits flexing then bunching at her mother. His lips curve, wondering what she's dreaming about and if she can comprehend just how happy she makes him just by existing.

They were in his arms before he even knew it. His heart so full that it seems to burst at the seams with the love he has for his little family, smiling so wide that his cheeks hurt.

There is nothing that he wouldn't do for her, for them.

"I'll be back."

Fingers brush at his cheek. Rukia's eyes are soft and smiling as she watches him leave.

Knowing what he knows now, Ichigo will be the first to admit that there's still a whole lot out there that he doesn't know but this much is true: life is a mystery and anything can happen in the blink of an eye, so when good things happen you don't question it.

You don't look a gift horse in the mouth, or scorn at your good fortunes like a little shit and ask why. No, you count your blessings, grab hold of them and run- praying in vain that you'll somehow outrun time itself and the fates never catch a glimpse of your happiness long enough to be envious of it.

Somehow, somewhere; he was at the right place, asked the right questions at the right time and Rukia said yes to all the important ones.

Life begins anew and he hasn't looked back since.

All is well.

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| Big People School |

Woo, the first request on this blog! I love this idea, and ya’ll know I can’t resist a little sister request. Thanks for your lovely request and I hope it suffices  xx

This is very long, but who’s complaining, right? It’s chock-a-block full of fluff.

Story below.

“Psst... [Name].” Todoroki’s quiet voice soothingly wakes you, his hand patting your teeny shoulder under the blanket. He watches you open your eyes, stretch your limbs until you became the shape of a starfish and yawn up at him. Your blankets were a mess, but he fixed them as he used a hand to help you sit up. “Morning, sleepy.” he smiles a tad.

“Morning...” You sleepily reply with another yawn, rubbing your little eyes and grumbling when your older brother picks you up. Your cheek squished up against his shoulder and you wrapped your arms around his neck and shoulder, struggling to keep your eyes open. You rocked around for a bit as he bent down to tuck your sheets in and fix your couple teddies. 

“Hey, where’s your Mister Giraffe?” He quietly questions with a quirked brow, walking around the bed to try find the small giraffe teddy. He knew he was one of your favorites, so when he heard an adorable little gasp and felt your head lift, he wasn’t surprised.

Your face was full of worry and you wiggled around in his arm. “Mister Giraffe is missing?” You pout.

“Don’t worry, we’ll find him.” Your brother smiles, and pats your back gently while walking over to your drawers to get your clothes ready. He pulls out the top one, and pokes around for a suitable outfit for kindergarten. “Bunnies or frogs, sweet?”

“Bunnies!“

Most of your clothes had little bunnies or frogs on them, because they were your favorites.He picked out a long sleeved jumper with tiny bunny print and little denim shorts.

He placed you on the ground as carefully as he could, and smiled when he gently pulled your fist away from your red eye. “Come on, now, stop. Your going to dent your eye in if you don’t stop rubbing it.” He was still talking quietly, because Enji was sleeping in the room next door.

You eyes were still closed and your mouth was still drooling while he helped you step into your shorts and pull the jumper over your head. Of course, he didn’t forget the rainbow striped stockings you always wore. It was weird, but everyone knew that the girl with the rainbow stocking was [Name] Todoroki.

After you had your white velcro shoes on, he did his best to tie your fluffy white hair into a ponytail and make it look decent. He was pretty good at it.

“Here, sweetheart.” Shouto places a plate of toast with peanut butter and sprinkles on it onto the dining table, but he looks around for you since you weren’t at any of the chairs. “[Name]?“

He ended up finding you in the hallway calling out for Mister Giraffe with a plate full of chocolate biscuits on it. Apparently chocolate biscuits were his favorite, so Shouto just chuckled and let you put them there so Mr Giraffe would come back.

Just as he was clipping you into your car seat while you sang some song from a kids TV show, his phone chimed and he checked it quickly.

“Bipity, bipity, bomp!” You finished singing the last line of your song, kicking your feet around with a goofy smile. Your hands were flinging Mr Giraffes arms around to make him dance on your lap. Shouto found him under the driver’s seat when you got in the car. Lord knows how he got there. 

You saw Todoroki and asked him what he was reading.

“Ah... It’s mom saying that you can’t go to kindergarten today. You were supposed to get your flu shot yesterday but since you didn’t, they.. can’t let you in.” He sighed, and lent against the outside of the car brushing his hand through his hair. He honestly didn’t know what to do now. He could stay home with you, but UA would probably bust him for it.

He sighed and thought of the last resort. “I think you might have to come to school with me.” ____

 “I know, I’m sorry sir. It’s just for a day before we’re able to get her back in to her kindergarten.” Shouto explained, with his sister’s small hand in his.

“Don’t let it happen again.“ Aizawa stated, clearly irritated with the situation Shouto turned up to school with. Having a kid on school grounds wasn’t exactly allowed, but Aizawa let it slip for a day.

“It won’t. Thank you sir.” Todoroki nodded, and that was Aizawa’s queue to sigh and trudge back to his desk drearily. Your brother looked down to you, a patted your hair and tapped your chin. “Come on.“

You nibbled on Mr Giraffe’s ear and listened to the voices coming from behind the giant class door. You really didn’t do well with new people, or really any people at all. Especially men. You know, with the delinquent father and all.

“Shou, it’s scary.“ You mumble.

He smiles sympathetically and bends down to pick you up and haul you onto his hip. “I’m right here, okay? If you get too overwhelmed, you can tap my shoulder and we can go home.” He kisses your cheek and waits for an answer.

“Okay...“ You pout nervously. And switch from chewing Mr Giraffe to fiddling with your brother’s hair.

He smiles, and goes to push open the door with his spare hand, and the talking got louder when you both went in. You couldn’t see anyone yet, since your head was facing backwards on his shoulder, but as he walked down the aisle to his desk, you lifted your head to see more and more people looking at you with excited smiles.

“Oh my god!” A girl gasped and was shaking and squealing. “She’s so cute!”

A guy with spiky red hair was grinning and tapping his mate’s shoulder. “Look, man!”

Another girl with pink skin and a boy with green hair were both whispering to each other and smiling at you.

“Yeah, yeah. Quiet. Todoroki has brought his little sister in for the day because of valid reasons, so don’t go squealing and crying, okay? This is still a school day.” Aizawa pointed out from the front of the class, getting all the talking and squealing to stop. Shouto sat down with you on his lap at his desk.

While the teacher started talking, he lent back to look at your anxious face. “Are you okay?”

“Mhmm.” You nod, looking around the large room while. You felt safe and comfortable in your brother’s arms despite the huge weird room. “He has spider arms.“

Shouto looked to who you were pointing at, and it was Shoji. He actually found it a tad funny and he smiled. “Spider arms?”

You nodded, and giggled. “Spider arms!”

“Alright, do the rest of those pages and don’t do anything stupid. Wake me up if there’s a fire or something.” The tired guy with the black hair grumbled, and seemed to disappear behind his desk.

The girl with pink hair stood subtly, peering as far as she could to check if Aizawa had fully gone down. She realized he wasn’t paying attention, so she jumped up from her desk, jittering and exploding with excitement. She was suddenly leaning on your brother’s desk, and he lifted his head and held you against him by your stomach. “Yes?”

“Oh my god, Todoroki, is this your sister?” She smiled giddily at you.

“Yes, what do you want, Ashido?” He replied, and you looked at her with a teeny pout.

Then another two came to his desk. One had spiky red hair and another had spiky yellow hair. “Dude, this is fucking awesome! They let you bring a kid in her-”

Shouto sighed, and frowned at the frantic yellow haired guy, eyeing him like a pissed off mother bear. “I’d appreciate if you wouldn’t swear.”

“Aw c’mon, bro! She’s so freaking cute!” Kirishima yelled, slamming his hands on the desk and smiling. The loud noise startled you and you jumped in Shouto’s arms. “You wanna come sit with us?”

“Why would she want to sit with you?” Todoroki said.

It took a bit of arguing, but you ended up sitting with Ashido, which made her very happy. You thought she was pretty cool, and you loved her pink hair. Todoroki was constantly peering over to make sure you were okay, to the point where he wrote down one sentence in twenty minutes. You were standing in front of her desk, peering over the top as she drew some sort of unicorn. “Huh... This sorta looks like a blob of play dough with a tumor on it’s head.” She frowned.

“Can I color it?” You asked quietly.

She smiled and rotated it around for you. “’Course, cutie!”

She handed you some pencils and you stood there and colored in her unicorn with them. Wasn’t the best coloring, but you were four, so it’s fine. Mina giggled and said, “That’s pretty good, lil’ miss Vincent Van Gogh!”

“I like unicorns.” You smiled. “And I like the ones with the- with the wings!” You grinned, jumping up and down flapping your arms like wings.

“I like them, too!” Mina giggled, watching you bounce around.

“And fairies, and mermaids, and um- and- and Mickey Mouse!” You were just bouncing around talking weird toddler nonsense, but it was cute. “And like bunnies, too! Look, there’s a bunny rabbit on my jumper. Shou picked it.”

You looked down at your jumper, pulling the bottom of it out to get a good look at the picture, which gave you a double chin. “He has a top hat.”

“He’s a fancy bunny.” Mina giggled.

“He needs a mustache.” You stated simply, and reached for one of the girl’s permanent markers, which made Mina laugh and jump to stop you.

“I don’t think your mom will like that, honey...” She laughed, putting the pen back in her pencil case.

The first two classes were pretty fun. You spoke to Mina and colored her unicorn for a while, but eventually went back to Shouto. You and him drew in his book, and you drew a cute little smiley face on his cheek with a texta. When the bell went, you followed him out the class, holding his hand and Mr Giraffe.

“Look at my unicorn, Shou! He has a um- a tuxedo.” You told him tilting your head to the side, flailing your coloring all over the place. Your brother smiled and gently took the page from you to look at it.

“You’re good at coloring.” He said truthfully. He looked at the paper and all the little smiley faces and hearts everywhere. The smiley face was still on his cheek, but he had forgotten. People who walked past him thought it was pretty funny.

“Do you get nap time?” You asked.

You heard a chuckle, as Todo put your picture into his backpack. “I wish, but no. You can have a nap now if you want. Are you tired?”

“A bit.” You say, getting closer to the cafeteria. “Drawing is hard work.”

You ended up falling asleep at lunch, two minutes in, on Shouto’s lap. You managed to eat a couple of bites of your peanut butter and sprinkle sandwich, but that was about it. While you were asleep, everyone was giggling at your divine choice of filling. It was yummy, but sleep felt better.

“You know, I’d imagine it’d taste pretty good!” Uraraka said from the other side of the table, thinking about your sprinkle and peanut butter sandwich.

“Do you think that’s what the teletubbies eat?” Midoriya chuckled.

“Oh my god, yeah! That’s what that elephant vacuum thing makes.” The girl laughed. “What the hell even is that thing, though? Director must’ve been on drugs.”

“She’s eaten so many of those. She had it for breakfast, too.” Shouto smiles, patting your back as you snore quietly.

“Damn, how has she not gotten diabetes yet?” Uraraka says with a smile and a shocked face.

“Uraraka, don’t joke about that...” The green haired boy nervously said.

“She used to like jam and sprinkles, but a commercial on TV showed strawberries with smiley faces on them going into the jar, so she thought that jam was dead strawberries, which is why she hates jam now.”

“She isn’t exactly wrong, though..” Iida said, shrugging. “About the dead strawberries.”

“That is true.” Uraraka said. “What kinda TV advert shows that to kids, though?” She giggles.

“I think I’ve seen that one! With the weird bear in overalls?” Midoriya asked. “His eyes look like golf balls...”

“Yeah, that’s the one.” Todoroki replied. He felt your head start to move and looked down at you, seeing your eyes opening and closing again because of the bright lights. In the background, everyone was talking about the weird jam commercial.

“Shou?” You grumble, seeing your brother’s face.

“You fell asleep when you were eating.” He said, smiling slightly at the peanut butter and sprinkles on your face. All over your face. “Here, lets get this off.”

He grabbed a napkin from the table and wiped the stuff off your cheeks and mouth. You were still pretty sleepy, and all the bright lights and talking was a little scary. Shouto got the rest of the stuff off your face and you yawned, reaching for the rest of your sandwich.

“Hey, [Name], can I try a piece please?” The girl with the brown hair asked, with a small smile.

You nodded, and ripped the corner off and handed it to the girl. She took it and put it in her mouth as her eyebrows rose and she nodded slowly. “That is actually Gordon Ramsey menu worthy!”

“Is it really?” Midoriya asked.

“You bet. This stuff is gold!” She muffled, pointing to your sandwich.

“Hey, Todoroki, has she gotten her quirk, yet?” Iida said out of curiosity.

“Yeah, she got it about two months ago.” He said, and Midoriya lit up with a cute little smile. Everyone knew he loved the subject of quirks and heroes, so everyone braced themselves for the giant flood of talking they were about to encounter.

“That’s so cool that you have your quirk!” He smiled, and you smiled back, nodding. “How’d you get it?”

You pulled up your jumper’s sleeve to show a small scar going down your arm. Everyone looked at it and you said, “I froze my bed and my blankies went all hard and cold and then I moved and it cut me here! Shou had to make fire and un-freeze it so I could get out. And then Fuyumi gave me a Little Mermaid band aid.”

“So your quirk is like your brother’s ice?” Iida said.

You nodded dramatically, shooting your arms out and smiling, “I’m like Elsa!” ____

“So, [Name], how was Yuuei today? You get to meet cool heroes?” Fuyumi asked, carefully placing a plate of veggies, chicken and rice in front of you. You blew on it and stabbed the chicken with your fork, which you were holding backwards. All of your siblings sat down at the dinner table around you, thanking your sister for the meal.

“I like old people school!” You exclaimed, shoving the chicken in your mouth.

Natsuo smirked and sat down next to you with his plate of food, ruffling your hair. “Who you calling ‘old’?”

“She froze an entire rock when we were doing hero training in the courts.” Shouto smiled proudly. Fuyumi gasped quickly and smiled at you.

“That’s so good, [Name]!” She said.

Natsuo chuckled and pointed his fork at you. “When I was four, I couldn’t freeze a damn pebble. That’s some pretty good stuff, squirt.”

“Yeah, I’m gonna be a hero when I’m big and I’m gonna freeze all of the villain’s butts!” You say happily, punching the air. All your siblings laughed and you sat in your chair for the rest of dinner thinking of ways to sneak into Shou’s backpack to go to his school again, because today was fun.

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umieli, 5? thanks :3

A/N: I’m sorry for this long delay.The requests have been sitting in my inbox for the longest time because I waseither too lazy/ not motivated or I was too busy with my college life. I hopeyou see this Anon!

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“Wait aminute. Are you jealous?”

“So…explainto me how this happened again?” Umi’s eyebrows twitched while a child-like Eliclutched onto her leg in confusion. Nozomi and Nico gave each other a concernedlook, neither wanting to fess up or lie to their friend of the events leadingto Eli becoming a three-year old.

“Well?”The pair jumped at the dangerous tone and the stern look they received. Despitebeing younger than them, Nozomi and Nico knew how fatal an attack from Umi canbe whether it was with magic or physically. And to make matters worse, they hadturned their only shield from that wrath into a child.

“Take onefor the team Nicocchi.” Nozomi lightly pushed the shorter girl closer to Umiand hid behind her small body.

“What?!Why me?! This all started because of you!” Nico turned around and glared atNozomi. “If you hadn’t pulled Eli in front of the spell, this wouldn’t havehappened!”

“So, youwere targeting me.” Nozomi feigned being hurt. “I can’t believe you would dothat. Even after you said that you love me. Was it all a lie?”

“Nozomi!”Nico knew well were this was going. “You damned titty monster don’t try to getout of this and leave me behind to the demon!”

“D-don’tfight! Fighting means you hate each other.” Eli stood between the two. “Papasaid to always apologize to each other and make up…so…don’t hate each other…”

Tears werethreatening to spill from Eli’s eyes. Nico and Nozomi immediately stopped andbaffled by the new side of Eli they have never seen.

“I-it’snot like I hate her or anything…” Nico muttered under her breath. A light shadeof pink colored her cheeks.

“Don’tworry Elichi, Nicocchi and I were just messing with each other.” Nozomi bentdown to wipe away the small tears. “Don’t cry okay?”

A sighleft Umi’s lips. “I believe I still deserve an explanation.”

“Don’tworry, we’ll find a way to fix your girlfriend Umi-chan. For the time beinglook after her for us.” Nozomi grabbed Nico by the hand and sprinted off. “Let’sgo Nicocchi.”

“Wait! Inever said-” The two were already gone before she could finish her sentence.

The firstyears eyed the small blonde who was on the floor coloring without a worry inthe world. Then they all looked back at Umi who seemed to be puzzled at thereason why they were giving her that look.

“So, whatdid those two do this time? Didn’t they learn from their last mistake afterturning each other into animals?” Maki crossed her arms and sat back in herchair.

“I’m surethey didn’t mean to get Eli-chan caught in between it…” Hanayo meekly tried todefend the two upperclassmen.

“…” Rinkept looking at Eli in silence.

“What’swrong Rin?” Umi wondered what was going through the other’s mind.

“If thisthis how Eli-chan looks like when she’s little, does that mean if Umi-chan andEli-chan have a baby together she would look like this?” Maki and Hanayo weresurprised by how bold the statement came out of the ginger’s mouth. Then again,it was Rin.

“E-excuseme?!” Umi’s cheeks instantly went up in flmaes.

“UMI-CHANAND ELI-CHAN HAVE A CHILD?!” Two individuals immediately barged through thedoors almost breaking it. Umi had wished it was just a strong wind, but sadly,her two childhood friends were more than she could handle right now. “UMI-CHAN,SINCE WHEN DID YOU AND ELI-CHAN DID ‘IT’?!”

“ENOUGH!”Umi wanted to crawl into a hole. She was tired; too tired to deal with thismess she didn’t cause. In the back of her mind she was planning the murder oftwo certain upperclassmen in very vivid details. “We haven’t done anythingshameless like that!”

“Hehe, weknow, we just wanted to tease you Umi-chan.” Honoka smiled playfully. Annoyed,Umi pulled on the other’s cheeks, earning a cry of help from Honoka to Kotorito save her from their childhood friend.

Eli tiltedher head in confusion through all the ruckus. Looking back at her drawing shesmiled to herself and stood up carrying the piece of to the stressed Umi.“Look, I drew this for you.” Touched by the little blonde’s gesture, Umi lookedat the drawing along with the others who were hovering above her shoulders.

“What theheck is it?” Maki bluntly commented at what she thought to be blobs of blue andyellow.

“Maki-chan,that’s mean nya.” Rin nudged the taller girl.

“What? Youtell me what it is then.” The red-head grumbled.

“It’sbunnies.” Eli responded. “The yellow one is me and the blue one is Umi.”

Umi smiledat the child version of her girlfriend. Even when in grown up, Eli hadn’t losther touch of innocence…sort of. But she had to admit, the smile of Eli’s childself was sometimes too bright for her to look at. It kind of reminded Umi ofwhen she first met Rin and Hanayo.

“She woulddefinitely be a cute daughter Umi-chan.” Kotori cooed. However, at this point,Umi was no longer listening to their teasing nonsense.

“I don’twant to be Umi’s daughter! I going to marry Umi!” Eli puffed out her cheekobviously showing she was upset. Everyone found it to be too adorable, yetlaughable at the same time because they couldn’t take her child form seriously.On the brink of tears, Eli latched onto Umi’s waist and refused to let go whilehiding her face from the other. Umi let out a chuckle and gently caressed Eli’shead.

“We bettercall the cops on Umi then.” Nico jokingly said while entering the room with agrin. She immediately regretted it when she received a glare from the saidperson.

“Well?Have you found a way to get her back?” The blue haired girl sternly asked theshorter girl.

“Don’tworry Umi-chan. The spell will only last for a couple more hours. But since shewon’t leave your side, you get to take her back with you to your dorm room.Just make sure to not do anything funny.”

“I won’t!”Anger and embarrassment colored Umi’s cheeks when the two suggested she woulddo such things to Eli when she was in such a state. “And don’t think I’llforget the punishment you two deserve for this!”

Umipinched the bridge of her nose and closed her textbooks. She had completelyforgotten that she had a test for her Potions class tomorrow and decided to dosome last-minute review to freshen up her mind. They had already had dinner andtaken a bath together. The thought of taking one with Eli when she’s back to normaldid make her blush for a good while though.

“Umi…” Atiny yawn escaped from Eli as she hugged the stuff bunny that was, ironically,given to Umi from Eli.

“I’msorry, are you tired Eli? I can turn off the lights and you can go to sleepfirst.”

“I want tosleep with you…” The words came out in a small mumble, almost like a plea whichmade it even harder for Umi to resist. Closing her textbooks, Umi decided tocall it a night and went to get ready for bed. Eli slipped into the covers withthe stuffed animal and smiled at the other. However, once the lights went out,it was like the girl completely changed. Immediately, Eli hid under the covers,terrified as if something was going to eat her alive.

“Eli? Areyou okay?” Umi had completely forgot about Eli’s fear of the dark and rushed tothe bed where the other was. Peeking out of the covers, Eli pulled on Umi’spajamas, gesturing the other to get in bed with her.

“You won’tleave me right Umi?” The older girl, for now at least, was taken aback from thequestion. Umi gave Eli a gentle smile and got in bed, pulling the other closeto her.

“No.Never.” Before she realized it herself, Umi was softly stroking the blonde’shair, carefully lulling the other to sleep. “I promise you Eli.” It wasn’t longbefore sleep took over Umi too.

xXx

The nextmorning, Umi felt a heavy weight laying on her chest. It wasn’t uncomfortable,but it was different from what she had felt last night. Opening her eyes, citrinecolored irises squinted at the ceiling and blinked to focus their surroundings.She slightly lifted her head and found Eli sleeping on top of her back to hernormal age and size, however, she was completely naked.  

Eli mumbled in her sleep and nuzzled more intoUmi’s warmth. A blush crept across Umi’s face when she realized this is thefirst time they have woken up together like this. Shameless thoughts enteredher mind as she tried to control her heated face. A stifled giggled escapedfrom Eli making the other realized that the blonde was awake the whole time.

“E-Eli?”

“Umi is sowarm~.” The older pulled Umi closer and took in her scent. “I want to stay likethis forever.”

“Eliplease get off me…” The blue haired girl wanted to burry herself in a hole. Shecould feel Eli’s chest pressing against hers and was having wild thoughts ofwhat could happen.

“Do youhate it?” Eli pouted. “Or do you like younger girls? You were fine with me likethis when I had the body of a child.

“That’snot-” The comfortable weight lifted off her chest leaving an empty feeling as areplacement. Her girlfriend sat at the edge of the bed wrapped up in the bedsheet and crossed her arms. “Wait a minute. Are you jealous?” It was aridiculous question, there was no way Eli would be jealous over such a trivialthing. It’s not like she was with another girl; she was with Eli the wholetime.

“I’m sureyou found my younger self to be much cuter. In fact-”

“Mygirlfriend is cute regardless of what age and size she is. But I prefer you tobe back to normal because I can’t do…d-do couple things…with you when you’re athree-year-old…” Eli was stunned by Umi’s confession. It wasn’t everyday hergirlfriend would admit to liking the lovey-dovey things couples do.

“Really?”Eli look back at her red-faced girlfriend.

“Don’tmake me repeat myself twice.” Amber irises averted away from Eli’s eyes. “Andplease put some clothes on.”

“I loveyou Umi.” Eli brought her hand to Umi’s chin and gently tilted her chin up. Itwas hard to resist such a cute face.

“Justhurry up already…” Umi’s face was glowing brighter by the second. She couldhear her heart pound against her chest in her ears, but she didn’t want to turnaway.

“Are yousaying you don’t-” Eli’s sentence was cut off by a kiss from the younger girl,only to quickly end when Umi pulled away.

“How muchlonger are you going to stay naked? I don’t want you to catch a cold.” Umi bither lip to stop herself from kissing Eli again.

“One moretime.” Eli pleaded and pushed Umi back onto the bed.

“We’ll belate for class Eli!”

“Do youwant to make a little me instead?”

“THAT’SSHAMELESS!”

[herecomesthesonshine-blog]

Week Two: 1st and 2nd Graders Are Crazy (and Awesome)

First of all, it’s crazy to think it has been a week. ONLY ONE WEEK. It feels like a month and simultaneously like I just blinked and now it’s Saturday again.

My voice is gone. I just woke up about 45 minutes ago and haven’t tested it yet today because I want it to be back and I’m afraid that it won’t be. I have realized that I love to talk and laugh and sing and with my voice being gone for almost 3.5 days now it has honestly put me in a depressed mood. I just want it back!

Before I get started, I just wanted to say I miss all of you back in Arizona who might be taking the time out of the day to read this or who aren’t. Don’t forget about me! (Biggest fear)

Alright, so we started off the week being prayed over by the church that Camp Sonshine is located at. I loved it. I love seeing other churches and their communities and their worship. The whole side of worship that involves flags?? Awesome. Seriously, awesome. There was also a men’s dance worship team thing where they had these big flag lookin’ things (they were kind of like the thing that hit the Moana girl at the Oscars during her live performance). Again, really cool. A bunch of us went to Cafe Rio and Starbucks afterward.

First day of camp was hectic and crazy. Instead of being with my  regular group I was subbing for a kindergarten group in Discovery. If there’s one age group I don’t know how to handle it’s these little munchkins. I definitely became friends with some of them, but I also had a special needs student that was super unwilling at times. Love her to death, but I’ve only ever experienced working with special needs that are older kids so Monday was a struggle. There was also just craziness all over camp so it wasn’t just me (thank the LORD).

But starting the second day of camp by being with Explorers (1st and 2nd) was awesome. These kids are great. Also, all of these days blend together so I’m just writing the rest of the camp week from here.

These kids are so creative and so extreme. Some of them go from having the worst day ever to the most fun day ever in 0.2 seconds. Or some of them have been having the worst day ever for two days now and there’s no changing that kid’s mind. They’re also way smarter than I give them credit for sometimes.

A bunch of the boys made this rock shop on a log near our arrival/departure area and their form of currency is wood chips or credit cards (but it’s really just a big wood chip). Fast forward a couple days and a different group of boys who think the shop is charging too much for their rocks has made a weapons shop that they dragged a log over to make and now these two shops are at war (WHAT). They use big sticks and branches as guns. I seriously can’t even. What are boys. Most of the rest play gaga ball or hang out with their counselors.

The girls are very split. Some of them, I’ve noticed, really like to hit this tree stump nearby with sticks. WHY. Some of them, and by that I mean very few, like to join in with the boys to play gaga ball. A lot of them hang out with their counselors or play in the sand pits.

Since I don’t have a specific group I’ve also gotten to watch a few groups while their counselor is gone. So I watched the same group of girls twice this week and one group of second grade boys. The girls are pretty okay. A little crazy and whiny, but they’re cool. We’re friends. I try to say hi to them every day. The second grade boys? Oh man. Rough day. They were tired and thus cranky after a morning at the pool so they were very rude to each other and there was one fight with pushing and then one of the kids punched a different kid in the eye during gaga ball at the very end of the day. I think they were all just having a bad day. I had no voice, so it was hard to control. But it was fine in the end! They went home and they were okay. Their counselor made them say sorry to me the next day. That was kind of sweet.

But there’s this one girl who is one of my good friends now. I don’t know if I can say her name, but we’ll call her Mary. Mary is in my friend Paris’s group. She isn’t quite up to the social bar all the other kids are at so she’s just a bit argumentative at times and a little judgmental of her peers. My programmer asked me to hang out with their group earlier this week so I could hang out specifically with Mary. Mary lights up a little bit when I talk to her. She really likes talking to me and telling me a bunch of things. She will softly pat your shoulder and then kind of mumble what she wants you to know and you have to pay attention or you’ll miss it. I always want to pay the utmost attention because I want Mary to know that I think what she says is super important to me.

So on a different day, I made Mary sit by me in an activity which was a lot of coloring and face paint. She didn’t want to draw so I offered to draw for her. I drew a bunny which was pretty good but she didn’t think it was so she crumpled it up (lol). She asked me if I knew how to draw a butterfly and while I do know how, I told her I always end up drawing blobs and it never looks right. I gave her an example that kind of looked like popcorn and she said something like, “Wow. I can draw one that’s way better than your’s.” I told her to draw me one and that I would keep it in my backpack. She did it! It’s an orange butterfly, a purple flower, the sun, the sky, clouds, and the grass. It’s still in my backpack. Every now and then I show it to her so be like, “See, Mary?! I still have it!” and she smiles every time. I also got to talk about churches with her a bit. She said it was boring at church and I told her that all churches are different and she might like a different kind of church more and think it is a little more fun. I wish I could bring Cornerstone here and have another Kidz Camp and have her go to it.

Most of the time I’m just hanging out with these kids and they really like to show me tricks and tell me things. I consider myself to be an attentive person and I think they catch onto that. They know that I’m fully listening and watching. I also think most of their parents must work a lot.

SIDEBAR: “Do you have a boyfriend?” WOW these kids are so interested in my romantic life, which is nada. None. Zilch. Sorry to disappoint, kids. But literally, WHAT? There are the kids that assume the ring on my right hand (the only ring I wear) means I’m dating somebody or married. Nah, that’s the left hand, kiddos. Or they think that because I am in/have graduated college that I must be dating someone. When one boy said that I told him, “But what if I’m not dating anyone?” To which he said, “Then you just don’t want to right now.” NOT ALWAYS TRUE, KID. Haha. They’re so funny. Just yesterday these girls assumed I had a boyfriend because of my ring and i told them I don’t. They asked me how old and I was and I told them and one cried out, “But if you don’t have a boyfriend then how are you going to have babies?!” ExcUSE ME. Who said I wanted babies right now, kid? Their minds crack me up. I know I had a similar logic when I was little and now I know how funny that was other other people. But those girls also told me I could have a boyfriend anytime I want and I said, “Really? Who? Who would it be? Cause I don’t have any clue.” and Grace starts pointing at every male counselor in the room, “Him! or him! or him! or him!” and I laughed and said, “Calm down.” 

Segues are hard. I had a really good talk with Preston recently and I just wanted to say I’m really lucky to have a really good friend from home here with me. Someone who already understands who I am as a person and I don’t have to explain everything to. Preston, you probably won’t read this, but seriously you rock.

The last thing I wanted to talk about was being on skit team.

Skit team is great. We meet up in the afternoon to talk about the skit for the next day and then we meet up in the morning to rehearse. This week was super fun getting to come up with skits about the camp rules, whining and complaining, participating, wandering off, and about how God Is Real. I got to be a hippo that played in shaving cream and I got to be that annoying friend who just doesn’t shut up. But that annoying friend ended up being the one to convince the others that God is real. And also the one that ate a burrito for breakfast and kept farting. Lol what.

But honestly skit team has such a cool impact. These kids in Explorer come up to me and ask me silly questions about how my character ate burritos and was lost in the safari for a year and two girls from the group I got to watch this week also talked to me about how the God is Real skit was their favorite and their favorite moments from it. How freaking cool is that?

Today I think we’re all just hanging out at the house before going to the cookout/bbq/thing later for camp staff. It’s bound to be fun!

P.S. We get a worship night a week and if you need a worship song to get you through your next week I highly recommend Build My Life by Housefires. It’s lit.

[nsschaintale]

LINE 3: WATERFALL WISHES

UNDERTALE

LINEAR TEMPORAL

LINE 3: WATERFALL WISHES

It was something that Hiro would never have expected when he visited Papyrus for their “date”.

He had decided to take up on the tall skeleton's invitation for the date, and met him at his and Sans's house. Papyrus was happy to see Hiro and thought he was serious about the upcoming meeting. Hiro was not sure if he was serious about this as well, but when Papyrus led him to somewhere he liked to spend his time at, he thought it was at Grillby's. It was at his own house. Before he could say anything, Papyrus rushed inside excitedly. A bit dumbfounded, Hiro entered inside after him. The interior of the house had a simplistic style to it. The living room was large and the carpet was in blue and purple waves. There is a long green threadbare couch along the maroon wall, and a large flat TV sitting on a brown shelf. There was also a rock covered in sprinkles on a table near the front door. Papyrus mentioned it was Sans's pet rock. He found it was strange that his brother hadn't fed it at all since that odd day, but he started to do so after a while. Sans did still forget to do it on most days, so he had to do it himself. The room is connected to a wide kitchen where a stove is closer to the door by two counters, a tall sink with a step stool, and a refrigerator. Papyrus had increased the height of the sink for the purpose of fitting more bones inside. Hiro opened the cabinet door to find the same dog from his fight with Papyrus chewing on a bone. Before they could catch it, the dog bolted out of the door with the last bone. To top the failure off, the sound of a trombone rang out from the upper level. Apparently, Sans had been plaguing Papyrus's life with incidental music, and Hiro just got an example of one. Hiro went back to the kitchen and took a look inside the refrigerator. While Papyrus proudly mused over his “food museum”, all Hiro saw was half of the fridge filled with spaghetti-filled containers and the other half having a pair of a near-empty bag of chips and a near-empty bottle of grape juice. Hiro closed the fridge and stopped by the trash can, which Papyrus had invited him to visit at any time.

He didn't want to.

He moved over to the stove and Papyrus explained that while Sans always went out to eat, he had tried to bake something like a quiche, but with a sugary, non-egg substance. Hiro thought it was a cake at first, but cakes had eggs in them, too. Maybe. Hiro left the kitchen and noticed a series of notes next to the TV stand. It looked like a banter between the two brothers in which Papyrus was trying to get Sans to pick up his sock. Seeing as the sock is not here, Sans may have picked it up at some point. He moved on to the TV and turned it on, the current channel showing a message about there being a new program and the initials MTT displayed on. Papyrus wasn't too happy about that. Hiro went to the couch and sat down for a bit, hearing a faint jangling sound. He stood up and investigated it to find 20 G in it. He thought about putting the money back before noticing a book sitting on a small round table by the couch. He picked up the book, and found it was a joke book. He looked inside and it turned out to be a quantum physics book. He looked in that book and found another joke book. Inside that was another quantum physics book. He had to put the books down.

Hiro made his way to a flight of stairs to two more doors and a large portrait of a single bone. The left door has a stop sign, yellow police tape crossing diagonally from top right to bottom left, two red dots near the top right, a horizontal yellow line that is broken by the doorknob, and a sign showing “PAPYRUS'S ROOM” on it. The right door just has a pair of real thick chains crossing the door in an X. Strangely, a flicker of a vision didn't match what was displayed before him. In Hiro's vision, there were no chains on the door. Papyrus explained that he saw Sans putting them up on his door one day. Sans told him he wanted to decorate his own door like he did, and Papyrus was pleased about him doing this. Hiro was asked by Papyrus if he was ready to go inside his room and do whatever it was that people do on dates, and he said yes. He followed Papyrus inside and was surprised at what he saw.

The room was very wide, and very cool in Hiro's opinion. He notices the room's walls and carpet are the same as the rest of the house. Going from the right around, there is a box of bones sitting by the door, a brown desk with an old computer system (complete with a bulky monitor, keyboard, wired mouse and tower), a door that looked to lead to a closet, a large bookcase almost filled to the brim with books, a pirate flag with a few notes underneath, a large rectangular table with various action figures, and a red car bed. There is also a wide deep purple rug with flames rising from the edges inward. When Hiro approached the box of bones, Papyrus explained that they were the attacks he used in battle. He mentioned about having a particular attack that he thought about using, but decided not to. On the computer, a social media web page was displayed, and Papyrus boasted about being a dozen away from a double-digit follower count. He then complained about how an online troll was pestering him with puns in a funny font. Hiro had some idea of who that could be. He moved over to the closet and looked inside to see Papyrus's clothes neatly hung up. He made a comment about how there were no skeletons in the closet unless he was in it, and this made Hiro snicker. Hiro looked at the bookcase where Papyrus told about his two favorite books: Advanced Puzzle Construction For Critical Minds and Peek-A-Boo With Fluffy Bunny. This caught Hiro off guard.

Hiro stepped up to the pirate flag hanging on the wall, and Papyrus mentioned that it was found in the bay by Undyne and explained his theory on how humans may have descended from skeletons. Hiro wasn't sure if he should tell the taller skeleton about what he learned about the basic human body, since he's read books on it. Hiro's attention was drawn to the action figures on the table, Papyrus stated that he used them in theoretical battle scenarios and received them from Santa. Hiro's eyes lit up at the thought that Santa Claus may actually be real and was nice enough to even visit the monsters. Hiro finally reached the car bed, and Papyrus wistfully spoke about his dream of driving down a long highway when he gets to the surface. At that point, Hiro had a vision flicker in where Papyrus's neck was severed with multiple slash marks covering his neck like his scarf. The vision left Hiro shaking as Papyrus tried to ask him if he was okay. He told him he was fine and that he was ready for their date.

Papyrus: OKAY! DATING START!!!

Papyrus's room suddenly went gray-scale, and at first this worried Hiro because this usually happens during battles. But Papyrus wasn't attacking him, so it was okay. Papyrus admitted that he's never done this before -neither has Hiro- but he was prepared as he pulled a small book out of his pocket. It was an official dating book from the library, and the first step was to activate the Dating HUD. Hiro took out his phone, but the only way to activate it was by pressing a “C” key. He figured it must be the “1” button on his phone, so he pressed it. It worked. Five panels came into view around the pair: a crescent moon with “SUN” by it, a tri-colored gauge with the words “Reel It In!” above it, a Population square with a line peaking and dropping, a circle radar with an image of a dog blinking on screen, another square with “Crime” on it that has four diamond-shaped blobs pulsing, and an egg. Hiro didn't know what to make of this display, and the only thing that made sense was the time of day. It was Sunday night? Papyrus then began Step 2, which was to ask someone out on a date. He asked Hiro and he agreed, receiving the most sparkling look on Papyrus's face that seemed impossible on a normal human skull. But Hiro remembered that Papyrus is a monster, so the look may work for him. How cute! Now for Step 3, which was to put on nice clothes to show one cares. This caught Papyrus by surprise. He noticed Hiro's bandanna around his neck and was shocked to see him wearing clothing, even from earlier today. He asked if Hiro wanted to date him from the very start.

Hiro (confused): I......Yes...?

This shocked Papyrus to the point where the Dating HUD vanished. Hiro planned it all along?!

Hiro (flabbergasted): Wha...No, I didn't!    

Papyrus: YOU'RE WAY BETTER AT DATING THAN I AM!!!

Hiro: No, I'm not!

Papyrus: N-NOOOOOO!!! YOUR DATING POWER...!!!

Hiro: I have a Dating Pow- (sees a blue bar pop up above Papyrus's head that filled a quarter of the way) Uuh...

Papyrus smirked at Hiro as the Dating Power bar went away, and a new rectangular box labeled “Tension” with a red line sporadically rising and falling appeared. He bragged about never been beaten at dating, and Hiro wondered how that worked if they both never dated until now. He also mentioned about having special clothes under his regular ones. Hiro became interested in that, and Papyrus rushed off to his closet. Some shuffling of clothes later, and Papyrus returned wearing a baseball cap sideways, a white shirt with the words “COOL DUDE” on it, sleeves designed like basketballs, shorts, knee-high socks, and sneakers. Hiro agreed to what the shirt says and thought that Papyrus looked pretty cool in it. He loved it. Receiving such a compliment shocked the tall skeleton as the Dating Power bar rose a lot more. But it wasn't enough and it dropped a little. Papyrus stated that date won't escalate further unless Hiro could find the secret to his outfit. Hiro started with the shoes but that was wrong as Papyrus started talking about how human Souls are stronger than monster Souls. Shoe soles are about the same. Hiro tried his pants and got a retort about how the skeleton worked out his legs. Hiro then held Papyrus's hand which made him blush somehow, yet the tall one resisted the urge to tell the boy his secret. Hiro noticed something odd about Papyrus's shirt and was told how it didn't have anything on it before, and gave Hiro a tip on how clothes can be altered that way. Hiro's Soul touched Papyrus's arm and got a remark about him caressing his biceps with a floating heart. Hiro got to the hat and Papyrus mulled over it for a bit before revealing what was underneath. It was a present sitting on Papyrus's head. Hiro opened it to find...whatever it was in it. It turned out to be silken spaghetti that is finely aged in an oaken cask according to Papyrus. Hiro thought it sounded really yummy and decided to take a small bite.

Any words that Hiro may have had about the spaghetti in his mind were gone in an instant.

There was nothing in the entire world that could describe the taste Hiro had just experienced from taking that bite. He felt like crying because he couldn't figure out how to describe what he just ate. He couldn't even decide if he should swallow the spaghetti or spit it out. Hearing Papyrus compliment his “passionate” expression made Hiro chose the former option. His face was more of pain (in pain) than passion. Hiro now understood what Sans meant by his brother being able to make something edible by next year. Papyrus mentioned that Hiro must have loved his cooking and by extension, him. Hiro liked the skeleton, but his cooking, not so much. This wave of Dating Power overloaded the bar and overwhelmed Papyrus as the area went white around them. Papyrus believed that what Hiro had done so far was for his sake and he was ready to confess his feelings. That is, if he didn't feel awkward about it. But in the end, he wasn't able to reciprocate Hiro's “feelings” for him. Papyrus had assumed that when Hiro flirted with him, they were supposed to go on a date and the feelings between them would blossom, but it didn't turn out that way. He felt that it was his fault for dragging Hiro into the dark prison of passion and failed at the task at hand. Hiro was going to say something, but Papyrus decided to cheer the boy up and help him settle for second best. After that, Papyrus left the room, only to return and ask Hiro to exchange phone numbers with him. Papyrus gave him his number, but Hiro didn't get to give his before Papyrus ran off again as the room returned to color.

Hiro (at an entrance on the outskirts of Snowdin): That was really weird. Are all dates like that? ….Hmm..

Hiro couldn't stand in one place for long. After recounting the “date” with Papyrus, he walked ahead into the next area. He could hear the rushing water echoing from within as he moved away from the icy world that enveloped the little town. To Hiro's joy, it was getting a little more warmer further in, so he won't have to worrying about nearly freezing to death. Hiro meandered into the watery cavern as he watched a few giant ice cubes floating by in the river and a few small waterfalls pouring from the ceiling. He soon arrived at an area where an orange fish monster wearing black sunglasses and a light blue sleeveless shirt with an orange fish on it, a blue flower, a Save star, Sans and his station blocking what looks like a pair of doors, and the monster kid from Snowdin are present. Hiro talked to the orange fish who told him that the blue flower by it is called an Echo Flower and it repeats the last thing it heard over and over. Hiro touched the flower, it said the exact same thing the orange fish said. He talked to the monster kid and was asked if he was sneaking out to see “her”.

Hiro: Her? Uh...yeah?

MK: Awesome! She's the coolest, right?! I wanna be just like her when I grow up.. Hey, don't tell my parents I'm here. Ha ha.

Hiro: Okay... Who is he talking about??

He went over to the Save Star and saved his progress. When he closed the panel, he could have sworn he caught Sans looking away out of the corner of his eye. As odd as that was, he didn't think much of it since he was playing more attention to the sound of the rushing water from the waterfall that the monster kid was standing by. Hearing it filled him with determination.

Hiro (walks up to Sans's station): Hi, Sans! (notices the snow on top of the station) Err...why is there snow on your station thing?

Sans: Because it looks cool.

Hiro: Won't it melt?

Sans: Nah, it's frozen in place, so there's snow problem with it falling off.

Hiro: Ah. Wait, did he just... (shakes his head) Um, so what are you doing here? I thought you were at the station in the snow place.

Sans: What? Haven't you seen a guy with two jobs before?

Hiro: No.

Sans: Huh, well, it means I can take twice as many legally-required breaks. I'm going to Grillby's. Want to come with?

Hiro: Yeah!

Sans: All right, I'll pry myself away from my work. (leaves the station and walks ahead of Hiro towards the opposite of Snowdin; nods his head in that direction) Over here. I know a shortcut. (walks away with Hiro following him)

Hiro (enters the shadows): Wait, isn't this the wrong- (appears in Grillby's as Sans closes door behind them) -way..... Huh?? (looks around confused) What? What?! How...wha...?

Sans: Fast shortcut, huh? (turns to the crowd) Hey, everyone.

Dogamy: Hey, Sans.

Dogeressa: Hi, Sans.

Venus Flytrap Monster: Greetings, Sans.

Spiral-eyed Bunny: Hiya, Sansy~!

Fish Monster: Hey, Sans, weren't you just here for breakfast a few minutes ago?

Sans: Nah, I haven't had breakfast in at least half an hour. (winks) You must be thinking of brunch.

Hiro (hears everyone laughing): …...I don't get it...

Sans (points to the barstool): Here, get comfy.

Hiro (sits on the bar stool): Ok- (hears a loud farting sound erupt from his seat; blushes furiously as he hears some monsters having a hard time containing their laughter) ….

Sans: Whoops, watch where you're sitting. Sometimes weirdos put whoopee cushions on the seats.

Hiro (glares at Sans): You...

Sans: Anyway, what do you want? Fries or burger?

Hiro: Um...fries!

Sans: That actually sounds like a good idea. (gives a little wave at Grillby) Grillby, we'll have a double order of fries, if you please.

Grillby (nods): …. (walks to the back room)

Sans (scratches his chin): So...What do you think...

Hiro: Huh?

Sans: ...Of my...brother?

Hiro: Hmmm... I think he's cool.

Sans: Heh, of course he's cool. Anyone would be if they wore what he's wearing. He only takes it off if he absolutely needs to. At least he washes it.

Hiro: Ah.

Sans: And by that, I mean while in the shower.

Hiro: Wha...really?

Sans: Yep.

Hiro: Hahaha, that's so silly!

Sans: Haha, yeah, it is.

Grillby (walks back out with two order of fries and gives them to Hiro and Sans): ….

Sans: Ah, here they come. Thanks.

Hiro: Thank you!

Sans (holds a bottle of ketchup): Want some ketchup?

Hiro: Yes.

Sans: Here you go. Bone appetite...

Hiro: Thanks! (holds the bottle over his fries; the cap comes off and all of the ketchup in the bottle poured out) Ah.

Sans: Whoops.

Hiro: ….

Sans: Don't worry about it. You can have mine if you want.

Hiro: No, I'll....eat this.

Sans: ...All right. (eats a fry) Anyway, cool or not, you have to admit that Papyrus tries real hard. Especially when he tries to join the Royal Guard.

Hiro (scrapes the excess ketchup off of every fry he eats): He did say he wanted to join.

Sans: Yep. One day, he went to the house of the Royal Guard Captain and begged her to let him join.

Hiro: Her... The “her” that monster kid talked about?

Sans: Of course, she shut the door on him because it was midnight. (eats a fry) But when she woke up the next day, she found him still sitting outside waiting for her. Seeing his dedication, she decided to give him training. It's a..uh..work in progress, but it's better than nothing.

Hiro: That's cool.

Sans: Yeah. (stuffs his mouth with fries)

Hiro: ? Nothing's falling out of his skull? (tries to look under Sans's skull, but stops himself)

Sans: Oh, I was going to ask you something right quick. (makes a slight swiping motion with his hand then snaps his fingers; the area snapped into darkness except for light focused on him and Hiro)

Hiro (sees everyone frozen in the darkness): Aah?! Wha-?

Sans (moves his carton of fries away from him and leans on the counter, his arms crossed): Hey...have you heard of a talking flower?

Hiro: Um... Does he mean Flowey? That's the only one I know. (nods) Yes.

Sans: So you do know all about it, huh? …...The echo flower.

Hiro: Huh? That blue flower by your station?

Sans: Yep. They're all over the marsh. Say something to them, and they'll repeat it over and over again.

Hiro: Yeah, that orange fish showed me. What about it?

Sans: What about it? Hm, Papyrus told me something rather interesting recently. Sometimes, when he's alone, a flower appears and whispers things to him. Flattery...advice...encouragement.... (tightens his fist on his jacket sleeve) ...predictions.... (loosens it; glancing at Hiro) Strange, right? Someone must be usin' an echo flower to mess with 'im. If only...

Hiro: If only what?

Sans: ...heh... Keep an eye out, okay?

Hiro (nods): Okay.

Sans: Thanks. (snaps his fingers, time resumes as the darkness faded, everyone starts moving again) ….sigh..... (slides off the bar stool) Welp, that break took forever. Can't believe you dragged me from work this long.

Hiro: But you wanted to come here.

Sans: True. Uh, by the way...

Hiro: Yeah?

Sans: Hmmm....never mind. (digs in his pocket and pulls out change for the meals) Thanks for the meal.

Hiro: Ah, what about yours?

Sans: I'm not really too hungry now. I might get something later.

Hiro: Oh.. (watches Sans walk away)

Sans (stops near the door, then turns back to Hiro): Actually....

Hiro: Huh?

Sans (stares, then shakes his head): Nah, it's nothing. I was going to say something, but it's not coming to mind. See ya. (leaves)

Hiro: ….. (turns back to his food and almost finishes it and Sans's)

After eating, Hiro chatted with the patrons in the restaurant. There was a lot of positive feedback about the shorter skeleton, but there were also a few words about his initial behavior. Grillby, or the bird who is translating for him, mentioned how Sans usually has a huge tab that he hasn't bothered to pay, but one day out of the blue, he started paying it off little by little. Hiro didn't really see this as strange, but he did remember catching Sans looking unhappy while talking about the talking flower. Was it really someone using an echo flower or was it Flowey? He wasn't sure, but he hoped to find out soon. Hiro left the building and returned to where Sans was at, waved at him, then moved further in the cavern. According to the Save Star, this is Waterfall. Hiro approached a box with a sign from someone who hated boxes and put away his excess items in case he found anything new while traveling through the area. He continued on until he reached a large boulder-filled waterfall that split the path ahead of him. As he watched the boulders falling and rolling in the water, he noticed a walkway heading away from the waterfall and wandered over. It lead to a rectangular pier where a branched-off portion has an echo flower. He went over to it and touched it.

Echo Flower: I swore I saw something...behind that rushing water...

Hiro: It must be talking about this waterfall... Right? (walks to it and steps through the waterfall, getting doused) GAAH, pffft!! (notices a camera in front of him) Huh? A camera? (taps the lens) Heellllooooooo? Why is there a camera here? Do you know? Hmm.. (leaves from behind the waterfall) That was weird. (walks back up the pier to the upper level and checks the second waterfall after nearly getting hit by falling boulders) I don't like that... (notices he's in a small room with a few mushrooms and a pink item  near the back of the area) What's that? (goes to it and picks it up) Looks like that thing ballerinas wear....a tutu? (shakes it and dust get flung in puffs) Eh? Dust? It must be pretty old. (shakes it some more then holds on to it) I wonder if I should wear it... (leaves the waterfall, getting doused again) Ugh....

Hiro left the waterfall while avoiding the boulders falling from above and continued onward. He walked towards a large patch of tall grass and pushed his way through it. He was halfway in the brush when he heard a familiar voice from above him. Hiro glanced up to see an armored figure with something red flowing from the top of its head and, to his surprise, Papyrus speaking to the person.

Papyrus (nervous): H...HI, UNDYNE... I'M HERE WITH MY DAILY REPORT....

Hiro: That's Undyne...? And Papyrus...? Why's he here?

Papyrus: ...REGARDING THAT HUMAN I CALLED YOU ABOUT EARLIER...

Undyne (turns to Papyrus): …..............

Papyrus: HUH? DID I FIGHT THEM? (poses bravely, but tries to look unnerved) WHY, YES I DID! I FOUGHT THEM VERY VALIANTLY!

Undyne (turns away from him): ….........................

Papyrus: …..WHAT? DID I CAPTURE THEM...? (twiddles his thumbs) W-W-WELL... (glances at Undyne) NO. I TRIED VERY HARD, UNDYNE, BUT IN THE END...I FAILED...

Hiro: ….

Undyne (turns to Papyrus again before looking away): …...................

Papyrus (shocked): ….W-WHAT..? YOU'RE GOING TO TAKE THE HUMAN'S SOUL YOURSELF.... (walks up to Undyne pleadingly) B-BUT UNDYNE, YOU DON'T H-HAVE TO DESTROY THEM! YOU SEE... YOU SEE...

Undyne (stomps up to Papyrus; causing him to flinch back): …..............................................!

Papyrus (looks down): …...I UNDERSTAND. (faces Undyne) I'LL HELP YOU IN ANYWAY I CAN... (walks away anxiously)

Hiro: Poor Papyrus... That's Undyne, huh? Looks really scary. (pushes some grass away for a few steps) I better go- (hears the sound of armor clanking close to the edge of the cliff; freezes in his place)

Hiro's body felt like a statue when he heard Undyne approaching the cliff's edge. He was only able to move his head just enough to see Undyne conjure an aquamarine-colored glowing spear in their hand. As the armored knight scanned the area, Hiro was struggling to keep still. He felt himself nearly tipping over, but luckily, he heard Undyne leaving. When he felt that it was safe to move, Hiro dashed out of the grass brush, and tried to calm his nerves. He spotted a Save Star ahead of him before hearing the grass rustling behind him. He turned to see the monster kid running out in excitement.

MK: Yo... Did you see the way she was staring at you..?

Hiro: Yeah...

MK: That...was AWESOME!

Hiro: Eh?

MK: I'm SOOOO jealous! What'd you do to get her attention?!

Hiro: Her? I don't know. I hope I didn't get her attention....

MK: Ha ha... C'mon! Let's go watch her beat up some bad guys! (takes off running; trips then face-plants to the floor; gets up then runs off)

Hiro: Ah. Beat up bad guys? I hope I'm not one of them. (goes to the Save star and saves) I'm not a bad guy.... (a faint vision of himself flickered in his mind) I'm not....

A heavy feeling of dread hung over Hiro, but if he wanted to leave the Underground, he had to stay determined. Thinking about that goal did the trick. Hiro arrived in the area where he saw a waterfall with no way to cross, four plants that are a small pink bud with four leaves in a small corner, a bridge leading to a much larger area that Hiro was unable to tell much of.

Hiro: How am I gonna go there? (sees a stone sign with a black surface and blue words written on it on the wall) “When...four Bridge Seeds...um...align...in the water, they will sprout.” Bridge Seeds? (walks up to the plants) These thingies? (picks one up by the leaves and drags it to the water) Huge! (throws it in the water and waits for it to sprout; nothing happens) Hmm...It needs the others.... (goes back and drags the others one by one to the water; sees the blossom) Yes! So cool... (trots across the bridge and sees the wider area) More Bridge Seeds. I get it now!

Before he was able to go further, an odd neighing sound rang out. From around the corner came a monster that is half-horse, half...fish? It had a horse's head on a bodybuilder's torso, big muscles, a tail with five spots on the sides, and a flat fin with an eye-like shape on it. The horse fish  monster was flexing his arms as the area went gray-scale. Hiro checked the monster, found he was called Aaron, and had the options Flex and Shoo present. Hiro tried Flex and copied what Aaron was doing by flexing his arms, trying to make his little muscles show. Aaron flexed twice as hard and they both felt their strength increase.

Aaron: Flexing contest? OK, flex more. ;)

Hiro: Okay! (sees a series of flexing arms coming towards him) Aah! (dodges them) Phew. (flexes harder as Aaron does it thrice as hard) Oh, whoa..

Aaron: Nice!! I won't lose tho. ;)

Hiro (dodges the arms again, but gets hit at the last second): Ahh! (flexes harder) Hrrrgh!

Hiro and Aaron flexed. Aaron flexed so hard, he ascended from the battlefield. Hiro just floated there in surprise.

Hiro: ...Was that too much? (floats back down as the area returned to color)

Hiro came across four more Bridge Seeds and a bell on the far wall with a sign saying that if an error was made, the Bell Blossom will call them back. Hiro tried them out a few times in different areas (even the spot near a sign by the entrance that tricked him) until he was able to use them at the large exit by the Bell Blossom. Once he solved it and crossed the flowers, his phone rang. Hiro saw that it was Papyrus and answered it.

Hiro: Hello?

Papyrus: HELLO! THIS IS PAPYRUS!!!

Hiro (has the phone away from his ear): H-Hi, Papyrus. Um...how did you get this number? I didn't give mine to you after the...uh..date.

Papyrus: HOW DID I GET THIS NUMBER? IT WAS EASY! I JUST DIALED EVERY NUMBER SEQUENTIALLY UNTIL I GOT YOURS!! NYEH HEH HEH HEH!!

Hiro (stares at his phone incredulously): Wha....

Papyrus: SO....WHAT ARE YOU WEARING....?

Hiro: Bwuh!? WHY?!

Papyrus: I'M...ASKING FOR A FRIEND! SHE THOUGHT SHE SAW YOU WEARING A BANDANNA!

Hiro (terrified): …........I......

Papyrus: IS IT TRUE? ARE YOU WEARING A BANDANNA?

Hiro: Uh....I.... (looks at himself) ….I'm.....not....wearing it..

Papyrus: SO YOU'RE NOT WEARING A BANDANNA... GOT IT! YOU'RE MY FRIEND SO I TRUST YOU 100 PERCENT! HAVE A NICE DAY! (hangs up)

Hiro: …......... (takes his bandanna off and puts on the tutu)

Hiro felt guilty about lying to Papyrus, but with him changing the pieces of clothing he had, he at least made it true that he wasn't wearing the bandanna. He went on to the next area and found a few echo flowers nearby. He went to one that mentioned how monsters would whispers their wishes to the stars in the sky a long time ago. If one hoped with all their heart, their wish would come true.  Hiro figured that this was when the monsters were on the surface. It continued to say that they only have the sparkling stones on the ceiling. Hiro looked to see multitudes of stones gleaming and twinkling like stars in the night sky.

Hiro: These are their stars now? But they look so neat.

Hiro continued to the next flowers that cried out how thousands of people wishing can't be wrong and how the king will prove it. Hiro was nervous once again at the mention of the king. As he went further, he ran into a monster that looked like one of those old washing buckets with a crank to squeeze the water out of clothes between rollers, a round head with two beady eyes and a round mouth, two clawed legs like those on a legged bathtub, and a rubber ducky floating in the water of the bucket body. It shuffled its way up to Hiro as the area went gray-scale, and Hiro checked to it be called Woshua. His options were Touch, Clean, and Joke. Hiro looked at himself and did realize he was dirty, so he asked Woshua to clean him, if possible.

Woshua (hops excitedly): Green means clean!

Ducky: Tweet.

Hiro (flies around from the teardrop attacks): Waah! (notices several green teardrops) Aah?! (misses all of them; asks Woshua to clean him again and gets hit before grabbing a green teardrop; getting healed again) Haah... (spares Woshua and watches it shuffled away while color returns)

Hiro had continued on to the next two flowers where the voices of two monsters, one of which is possibly a sister, were making a wish to see real stars. Hiro had realized that he almost forgot that he couldn't see the sky, day or night. Before he thought about it further, he caught sight of a silver telescope.

Hiro: Oh cool! (rushes over to it and looks through the scope; sees the “stars” and moves the scope to a cloudy area where the words “CHECK WALL” with an arrow pointing up) ….Check wall? (looks around at the walls) Eh? (goes to the walls and rubs his hands along them, running into an echo flower that muttered how the horoscope was the same as last week's. He moved along the walls until he went to the far path across from the telescope and touched the wall; the wall crumbles away at his touch) AAAH!! ….....Oh. It's this wall. (enters past it)

Hiro arrived at an area where it was mostly water, except for the plethora of typha plants (those weird water sausage ones), the stone wall, and the wooden pathway lined along it. A small set of stairs was on the opposite end of the path, but he didn't know what it was for. He saw a row of stone signs on the wall, and went to read them.

Hiro: “The War of Humans and Monsters....” Oh! There's more of that story! (goes to the next one) “Why did the humans attack? Indeed, it seemed that they had nothing to fear.” Well, we thought monsters are evil and mean. “Humans are unbelievably strong. It would take the.....the SOUL of nearly every monster just to equal the power of...a single human SOUL.” R-Really? Hmm... (goes to the next one) “But humans have one weakness. Iro....I...I-ron-ni-call-ly......Iron-nic-cally...Ironic-cally, it is the strength of their SOUL. Its power allows it to per...sist outside the human body, even after death.” …..It does? (looks at himself) My soul can do that? (goes to the next) “If a monster defeats a human, they can take its Soul.” Wha... “A monster with a human SOUL...A horrible beast with unfath...un...unfath.......un-fathpht......” really freaky power. Maybe. So if they get my soul, they'll get powerful? (goes to the next one where he sees a rather strange creature) Hmn, wh-what is that...? Looks really scary.....

Hiro towards the edge of the pier and was surprised at the makeshift raft a part of had become. The wooden raft slowly drifted on the black water to a pier on the far end of the area and he thought about the words on the signs.

Hiro: I wonder what happens if my soul gets taken? I don't want that to happen.... (reaches the end and climbs off the raft, watching it drift away) Hmn.....

Continuing on the wooden path, Hiro reached a large area where one side, scattered rows of typha plants were being gently pushed by the flow of the water and on the other side were pillars of stone. Hiro was admiring the scenery when the sound of something slicing the air drew closer. He stopped just short of a familiar aqua green spear landing where his foot would have landed. With a startled shout, Hiro stumbled back away from it as it vanished. He caught something gleaming out of the corner of his eye. Appearing from the shadows of the stone pillars was Undyne.

And she's got three long floating spears aimed right at him.

Hiro (panicking inwardly): Aaaah.... (waves a little) Hi?

Undyne: …... (launches the spears at him)

Hiro: AAAAAAHH!!!

Hiro took off running as Undyne ran along the cliff side. He was able to dodge a few spears, but one struck him in his left side, throwing him into a small gray-scale battlefield where he saw many spears flying at him.

Hiro: Ah! (gets grazed by a few spears before seeing the battlefield vanish) What happ- (sees a spear flying at him and scrambles away) Waah!

Hiro was able to dodge more spears before getting hit by another volley of them. After the impromptu dodging and getting hit by more spears, Hiro was getting exhausted. He came upon a large field of grass and dove in to hide from the spears whizzing by and at him. Thinking he was safe, Hiro decided to sit and take a break from running. He felt most of his body thrumming from running so much and the stinging from being hit by Undyne's spears. Just when he was able to relax, sounds of the grass shifting and the heavy metallic footsteps drew near behind him. Hiro almost let out a gasp when he clasped his hands hard over his mouth. Undyne was in the grass searching for him. Fear started to wash over the boy as Undyne was stalking further in and stop near him. The dread he felt before almost paralyzed him as he waited for something to happen. Suddenly, a sound of something getting hit startled Hiro into letting a frightened squeak slip out. He wasn't sure of what happened, but he heard Undyne walking away after a short while. When he felt it was safe and didn't hear Undyne's footsteps anymore, Hiro relaxed himself. He crawled his way out of the tall grass and stood to his feet when he emerged, feeling the shaky remnants of fear leaving his body.

Hiro (trembling voice): Th-That was....really s-scary.... Was Undyne that relentless killer Flowey mentioned? I don't know if I wanna try to talk, but I-I can do it? (hears something rustling the grass behind him and turns around quickly) AAH?! (sees the monster kid run out excitedly; calms down) Ooh, it's just....

MK: Yo... Did you see that?!

Hiro: No, see what?

MK: Undyne! (hopping in excitement) Undyne just....TOUCHED ME!

Hiro: She did? She hit him?

MK: I'm never washing my face ever again! Man, are you unlucky.

Hiro: Why..?

MK: If you were standing just a LITTLE bit to the left... (sees a panicked look on Hiro's face) Yo, don't worry! I'm sure we'll get to see her again! (takes off running, falling in the middle of it and scrambles back to his feet)

Hiro: Hmn....

Hiro let the last of his jitters fade away before moving on the next area. He arrived to find another Save Star, an echo flower, and a table with a slice of cheese encased in pink crystal. Where there's cheese, there's a mouse. Sure enough, there's a mouse hole. Hiro touched the flower and it squeaked, just like the mouse did when he talked to it. He was curious about the cheese, but found that it was so old, it crystallized and got stuck to the table. As he went to the Save star and saved, he knew that one day, the mouse will get that cheese out of the crystal. Hiro soon departed the room into the next area and spotted a gray door. There was something odd about it, but he couldn't quite place it.

Hiro: Aah. It's weird seeing a door like this here. (walks up to it) I wonder what's inside. (opens the door)

Hiro entered and found himself walking down a narrow hallway until he reached the wide room. The entire area was gray with no furniture or anything in it. The only thing that he saw was a pair of strange creatures conversing in the center of the room. They both look similar, having a skeletal look to them despite their right eyes nearly melted closed and the left eyes normally open. Their right eyes have a crack rising to the top of their skulls while the left have a crack meet their mouths. Their bodies are a goopy black mass with a white triangle pointing down on the front and their....hands...are misshapen and have a hole in them. The similarities stop there when Hiro noticed the one on the left had strings of symbols around various parts of its body.  There was a halo behind its head, three circles surrounding the neck, chest, and waist connected by two long strings reaching the neck to the floor on the front and back of the creature, and two strings connected to the waist circle on the sides. Its hands has a circle of symbols, the chest has a long sharp object that's pierced in its chest where the V meets and out its back, and has two chain links hanging on the front. Hiro noticed that the left creature's cracks look like black chains, and while its partner had a smile on its face, the left one looked very sad.

Hiro (walks up to the creatures cautiously): Um.....Hello?

(both turn to Hiro startled; the right creature vanished and the left one had the halo ring of symbols drop over its body and shatter on the floor, melting away)

Hiro: …........Huh? (roams around) Where did they go? (stops in the center) …....Were they monsters, too? (leaves the room) I should show Sans and tell him about it when I see him.

Hiro stepped out of the gray room back into the hallway before glancing back at the gray door. After a brief stare, he continued on. He arrived in an area where he spotted Sans standing by another telescope, another box by a wall, and an entrance into somewhere.

Hiro: Ah, hi, Sans! Oh, Sans, Sans! (grabs Sans's jacket sleeve)

Sans: Whoa, hey there, kid! What's up?

Hiro: You gotta see this! (pulls Sans back with him) I found a gray door in the hallway this way!

Sans: A..A gray door?

Hiro: Yeah! Come on, come on!

(Hiro leads Sans to the previous area; they arrived in the room where the Save Star is)

Hiro: Wha...? (inspecting the room) But...I...

Sans: You said there was a gray door? All I'm seeing is an echo flower, that star thing, and a... (squints at the cheese) ...a crystal..?

Hiro: No! There was a hallway after this! (runs ahead of Sans) I came this way and it was just a hallway with just a door! I know I saw it! And there was a gray room and two black monsters with white heads!

Sans: Black monsters with white heads?

Hiro: Yeah! They look the same, but one has stuff floating around it! ...I know I saw it this way! (runs out of the room; ends up where he met Sans by the telescope) …......I....

Sans (walks up to Hiro): Maybe you were imagining things?

Hiro: …..Was I? (looks disheartened) I thought...Hmn....I am?

Sans: You were traveling in the Underground for some time, so maybe.

Hiro: Oh...

Sans: ….Tell you what. (leads Hiro over the telescope) I was thinking about getting into the telescope business.

Hiro: Really?

Sans: Yeah. (glances at the telescope wistfully) It's normally 50000G to use this premium telescope...

Hiro: Bwuh! (frantically counts on his fingers) 50...How much is...?!

Sans: Hey, don't panic! Since I know you, you can use it for free.

Hiro: You will?

Sans: Yeah, so how about it?

Hiro: Yeah! (runs up to the telescope as Sans adjusts it to his level; looks into the telescope but only sees red) Eh? Why is everything red? (steps away from the telescope) That was weird. Everything was red. (sees Sans trying to hold in his laughter) ….? What's wrong?

Sans: N-Nothing. Pfft..

Hiro: Well, I didn't see any stars through that telescope.

Sans: Not satisfied? Don't worry, I'll give you a full refund for trying it out.

Hiro: I didn't pay, but thanks?

Sans: Sure. (watches Hiro head inside the entrance past the box; leers at the direction of the Save Star area) ….Two black monsters with white heads in a gray room... (rubs his fingers on his chin thoughtfully; frowns) I don't remember seeing anything like that... (takes out a pen and a purple notebook that has strings in the three holes keeping the paper together; writes the information down then snaps the book shut) I'll have to find a way to look into that someday....

Hiro walked up a long narrow pathway into a small room where he spotted the blue bunny monster he met in the snow fields before Snowdin. There was also a box nearby and a wall plague that looked like something was painted over. Upon closer inspection, he noticed the words were those of ice cream flavors.

Hiro: Aww, it covered the words. (walks over to the Nice Cream guy) Hi, Mr Nice Cream Guy! What are you doing here?

BB: Hi there! (ears droop a little) I relocated my store, but there are still no customers... (ears stick back up) Fortunately, I've thought of a solution! Punch cards! Every time you buy a Nice Cream, you can take a punch card from the box. If you have 3 cards, you can trade them for a free Nice Cream!

Hiro: Oooh! I wanna try!!

BB: Yeah, they're sure to get the customers to come back!

Hiro: I hope so, too, 'cause that sounds awesome!

Seeing how much gold he had, Hiro proceeded to buy three Nice Creams. As he did, he noticed that the cards he retrieved from the box had the words “Please....Please come back..” written on them. Once he got all three cards, Hiro redeemed them for a free Nice Cream. Hiro got four Nice Creams now and he departed the room, stopping by the box to put two of them in it. He met up with a bipedal onion-shaped monster who was curious about stars and whether or not one can touch, eat, or kill it. It asked Hiro if he was a star, but he told it that he wasn't. He continued on to the next area where it split off towards the bottom. Before he was able to go to the bottom, he spotted something yellow on a strip of land across a disproportionately large gap with glowing blue water. It was at this point where Hiro realized his new surroundings had changed. Instead of the usual bluish coloration of the gem-speckled walls, the area, especially the ground, was a black and the water is a glowing blue. The light from the water touched the exposed areas not covered by the shadows that caused it to look like most of the area was a land of shadow. Rising from the waters, a glowing mist and bubbles floated and dissipated into the air.

Hiro: Whoooaaaaa! This is soooo cool! (runs over to the water and watches the mist and bubbles rising from the water)

Hiro had crouched down by the water's edge for a some while before standing back up and moving further south along a path into a much larger area. Little lily pads were idly floating here and tall typha plants were swaying with the water there, it was a beautiful sight to behold. As he wandered around in the area, he came across two echo flowers. One asked if the monster the question's directed to had a wish and the other responded hesitantly about having one and how stupid it is. Hiro walked over towards a path where a large patch of tall grass is. He decided to see if there was anything hidden in there, and found a pair of ballet shoes.

Hiro: Hmm... I got a tutu. I guess I can wear these. Hmm.... Nah. There's something bad about these shoes...

He held on to the shoes and make his way out of the grass. As he continued further down, Hiro's phone rang. This time, he was ready to answer the phone as he held the phone away from his ear.

Papyrus: HELLO!! THIS IS PAPYRUS!!

Hiro: Hi, Papyrus!

Papyrus: REMEMBER WHEN I ASKED YOU ABOUT CLOTHES?

Hiro: ..Yep.

Papyrus: WELL, THE FRIEND WHO WANTED TO KNOW... HER OPINION OF YOU IS VERY....MURDERY... BUT I BET YOU KNEW THAT ALREADY! AND BECAUSE YOU KNEW THAT, I KNEW WHEN YOU SAID: “I AM NOT WEARING A BANDANNA.” IT WAS REALLY A SECRET CODE! YOU REALLY MEANT... “I ACTUALLY AM WEARING A DUSTY TUTU!”

Hiro *freezes*: …..............A...wha...?

Papyrus: YOU WERE TRYING TO PROTECT YOURSELF WHILE MAKING IT SO I DIDN'T HAVE TO LIE!

Hiro: Err......

Papyrus: I PICKED UP ON THIS AND FOLLOWED YOUR PLAN. IN FACT, I TOOK IT ONE STEP FURTHER! I TOLD HER YOU WERE NOT WEARING A BANDANNA! YOU WERE PROBABLY WEARING A DUSTY TUTU! OF COURSE, YOU WOULD NEVER WEAR THAT. BUT THAT'S THE POINT! SHE WON'T RECOGNIZE YOU NOW, AND I DIDN'T HAVE TO BETRAY EITHER OF YOU! WOWIE! YOU'RE SUCH A SMART COOKIE! I REALLY CAN BE FRIENDS WITH EVERYONE!!! (hangs up)

Hiro was not too happy about hearing what Papyrus said about what he wore. By exposing what the boy wore, the skeleton inadvertently put him in danger of running into danger, should Undyne find him. He begin to walk a little faster until he ran into a Woshua. After cleaning up the battle with Woshua, Hiro continued on and stopped by another echo flower. This one was saying that it won't laugh at the other monster. He moved on to the northern most path and spotted a stone wall sign.

Hiro: “The power to take their SOULs.” Um.. “This is the power the humans feared.” Oh. Maybe that's why the war happened? Because the humans were scared? Hmm.

Hiro headed up the path into a wide area full of water and just the path he was walking on.

Hiro: What's this place? It's kinda creepy here...  (walks further in and notices something yellow poking out of the water then sinking back in) EH? (walks slowly until two long tentacles poked out of the water then back down) Aaaaah... What are they...? (walks a little faster until more tentacles poke out) Eep! (keeps walking; stops when seeing more tentacles appear and something rising from the water) Waah!

Out of the waters appeared....an octopus monster? And it has an onion-shaped head and a rather cute face.

Octopus (wispy medium-high voice): Hey......there.. Noticed you were.... Here....

Hiro: Err.....yeah.. Wh-Who are you?

Octopus: I'm Onionsan! Onionsan, y'hear!

Hiro: O-Oh. I'm Hiro!

Onionsan: Hi! You're visiting Waterfall, huh!

Hiro: Yep!

Onionsan: It's great here, huh!

Hiro: Yep!

Onionsan: You love it, huh!

Hiro: Yep!

Onionsan: Yeah! Me too! It's my Big Favorite!

Hiro (starts a stroll with Onionsan): It is?

Onionsan: Yeah! (turns away) Even though, the water's getting so shallow here... I....have to sit down all the time, but... (turns back happily) He-Hey! That's okay! It beats moving to the city, and living in a crowded aquarium!

Hiro: Really?

Onionsan: Yeah! Like all my friends did! (turns away again) And the aquarium's full, a-anyway, so, even if I wanted to, I....

Hiro: Huh?

Onionsan (turns back to Hiro joyously): That's okay, though! Undyne's gonna fix everything, y'hear!

Hiro (worried): Undyne will...?

Onionsan: Yeah! I'm gonna get out of here and live in the ocean! Y'hear!

Hiro: I hear you.... (continues walking until he reaches an exit)

Onionsan: Hey....there.... That's the end of this room. I'll see you around. Have a good time! In Waterfallllllllll..... (continues until fully submerged)

Hiro: ...That was...weird. Undyne will fix everything..? How? (exits the area)

Hiro entered the next area where there is a split path, one straight ahead and one to the west. As he was about to move to the western path, he somehow encountered a monster. It looked like it had short hair with long sections on the sides, a long strand of hair with a small ball on the end, a small fish tail poking out of the back of the head, and it looks like the entire head is floating. The body is scaly, with a muscular arm and two spikes on the back. It was facing away from him as the area went gray-scale, and after checking the monster, he found its name is Shyren. His other options are Smile, Hum, and Conduct. Hiro decided to give a smile.

Hiro: Can I see your smile, too, Shyren?

Shyren: ….

Hiro: Hmm... (notices Aaron in a corner nodding his head) Eh? Hmm....  (starts humming something close to a funky tune)

Shyren (taps a little beat with her fins): …...Hmm hmm...

Hiro: Ah! (hums some more)

Shyren (the head turns to reveal a face that has wide droopy eyes and a toothy smile; some of the bangs covered the left eye and the other is long, reaching the arm): Si re, si re si mi si mi!

Shyren let out a song as music notes sprang forth from her mouth. Hiro had to dodge the notes, but as the battle continued and they both were humming this funky tune, not only was Shyren getting comfortable with her singing, there was also a growing number of monsters that stopped by and watched the battle like it was a concert. So much so that Hiro thought he saw Sans selling tickets on toilet paper. The impromptu concert continued as a storm of socks were thrown, everything was going great! Hiro continued to dodge Shyren's notes and humming, until eventually, it all had to end. Shyren had thought of her future, the both of them had come so far, but they had their own journeys to embark. Shyren aggressively made tooting noises about this, and Hiro took that as a signal. Hiro started to hum a farewell song, and Shyren let out a final toot. She let out an onslaught of notes, a few notes hitting him but he made it out okay.  A vision that blinked in his mind was different than what he wanted. Again, Hiro was confused at the vision, so he chose the spare her. Hiro and Shyren went their separate ways as color returned. Hiro went to the path he meant to go and found a piano, some symbols above it, and a sign on the other side of the con-caved wall.

Hiro: “A haunting song e....echoes...down the cor...cori...cor..ri...dor....corridor. Won't you play along? Only the first 8 are fine.” (tilts his head confused) Eh? What's that mean..? (looks around for a short while before leaving)

Hiro decided to move on until he spotted more stone signs. The first one mentioned how humans are unable to take a monster SOUL, due to it disappearing upon said monster's death. It would also require an incredible power to get a living monster's SOUL. The next sign states that an exception is that of the SOUL of a special species of monster, a Boss Monster, can persist after death, but only for a few moments. A human could absorb this SOUL, but it's never happened before, and now it never will. Hiro was unsure of this new information, but the thoughts went away as he spotted a lone horned statue sitting under a spotlight with rain dripping onto it.

Hiro: Ooh.... What was this? (inspects the statue) It looks neat. (looks up) Where's the rain coming from? And the light? And why are just the rocks dry? Hmm. (continues to the next room and finds a sign and a bucket of umbrellas) Ooh, umbrellas! Maybe I should put one on the statue! (runs back to the statue and finds a spot to put it in) There you go, nice and dry- (hears a music box type song playing from the statue)

The music that played from the statue sounded cheerful, but somehow it felt....sad...yet nostalgic. Hiro started to get visions, but they weren't like the scary ones. He saw lots of yellow flowers with yellow petals floating in the wind. He saw two figures sitting in the sunlight where the hole of the mountain is seen high above. He couldn't tell who the figures were, but the vision blurred away as he felt something wet come to his eyes.

Hiro: Eh? Why am I crying...? (wipes his sleeves on his eyes) Eeehh....

Hiro hadn't expected himself to cry like that, so after he stopped, he remembered the sign back at the piano room. He ran back to the room and tried the piano out, hearing the distance melody down the hall like the sign said. It took him a while to figure out the notes, he even found a loose rock and tried scribbling the patterns on the wall to find the correct one. When he finally succeeded in getting the right pattern, the wall in the indented area crumbled away. When Hiro entered the opened room, his eyes caught the sight of a red ball object sitting on a pedestal. He wasn't able to see what the plaque behind it says, but he was more interested in the spherical item before him. He was about to take the orb, but he couldn't put it in his phone's inventory. For some odd reason, he found that he was carrying too many dogs.

Hiro: ….I had a dog? I always wanted a dog.... Hmn... I wanna keep it, but I want that ball thing. Ball or dog? ….I can get the dog back.

The moment he took the dog out of his phone inventory, he recognized it as the white dog that stole one of Papyrus's bone attacks. Before Hiro could do anything, the dog jumped onto the pedestal, laid its body on the orb, and absorbed it into itself.

Hiro: Wha- Aaaaaah!! (chases the dog towards the wall; sees it disappear into the wall) ….Eh?! How! (turns back to the pedestal) It took the ball.... (looks in his inventory; sees an item called Dog Residue) ….What's this? It...looks weird.....

Hiro was unsure of what to do with the new item, but decided to hold on to it. He returned to the hall past the musical statue and grabbed another umbrella when he saw it was raining. Before he could move on, he was stopped by Monster Kid who decided to join him under the umbrella. Monster Kid was very chatty, discussing about how cool Undyne was and how she never lost a fight. Hiro was getting uncomfortable with this as he is a human. Monster Kid soon switched subjects to him and his classmates having to take care of flowers when he spotted an echo flower on a patch of land across the way from where their path leads. The flowers were donated by the king, “Mr. Dreemurr”, and he taught the class about responsibility. Hiro was confused at this, because he heard so many different versions about the king. Toriel said he'd kill him, Papyrus claimed that everyone loved him, most monsters spoke highly of Asgore. But what is the real Asgore? A killer or a friend? Hiro hoped it was the latter. But of course as he pondered this, Monster Kid couldn't carry on a conversation without mentioning Undyne.

MK: How COOL would it be if Undyne came to school!? She can beat up ALL the teachers!!

Hiro was finding this Undyne to be terrifying, but the way the little monster talked about her made him feel like she's his role model. Hiro hopes that the role model part of Undyne is the one he'll meet, but at the moment, he's not seeing it. Besides, Undyne was too cool to hurt an innocent person.

Right...?

The duo made their way on the path until they emerged past the rocky formation beside it, stumbling upon the most amazing sight Hiro's ever seen. It was like walking upon a hill and seeing a large expanse of land, with a castle far in the distance and hundreds of stars shining above. For a moment, it was almost easy to forget that this is all underground, under the surface of the earth. Perhaps over the course of the years, the monsters had to have places to live, and that included royalty. If there is the king Asgore, then who would the queen and their child or children be? This curiosity had a slight edge over Hiro's fear. He admired the sight for a little while before moving on, Monster Kid in tow. Soon, they reached the other side of the road and the rain picked up again. Hiro was going to take the umbrella with him, but he wasn't able to, so he had to put it up and climbed up Monster Kid to reach the top of the ledge. He wasn't exactly looking forward to meeting Undyne, though. As he walked on, Hiro spotted a few more plaques that explained the monsters' history.

Hiro: “The humans, afraid of our power, declared war on us. They attacked suddenly, and without mercy.” (walks over to the second after saving) “In the end, it could hardly be called a war. United, the humans were too powerful, and us monsters, too weak. Not a single SOUL was taken, and countless monsters were turned to dust...” So it....wasn't the monsters' fault...? We...started the fight..?

Hiro was feeling unsure of what he just read as the sound of muffled rain on the cave top filled him with uncertain determination. He pondered about what he read as he walked on into an area that's like a two-tiered boardwalk. He noticed it was getting darker as he got a little further into the area and stopped to look around. Before he took a step, he noticed a glowing aquamarine circle appear on the ground.

Hiro: Huh? (sees another one near him) Eh? (sees another next to his foot) What's that? (watches several more lights appear before a spear juts out of all of them) AAAAAAAah!! (takes off running)

Unbeknownst to Hiro, Undyne was on the second level of the boardwalk causing the light spears to appear. He didn't realize there are branching paths that sometimes led to dead ends. Despite getting hit by a few spears, he was able to reach a larger area where the speed of the spears appearing grew. He soon  dashed for a single path as more spears jutted up from the ground, only to find that it was also a dead end. He was about to go back the way he came before stopping. Undyne was blocking the way.

Hiro (trembling): U-Um... Undyne....?

Undyne: …..

Hiro: I didn't hurt anyone! Please don't hurt me!

Undyne: …......

(a sound of something phasing in is heard; three large spears struck through the wooden pier)

Hiro: Eh? Phew.... (hears something creaking and feels himself sinking; realizes he and the pier are falling) Ah? AAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaahh.....

It was dark. There was nothing to be seen around.

???: It sounds like it came from over here...

Just the darkness....

???: Oh! You've fallen down, haven't you...?

Fallen down....

???: Are you okay?

Am I...?

???: Here, get up...

Up. This feels...

...

???: ...Hiro, huh? That's a nice name.

Name......that's.....white...light....?

???: My name is

(Hiro jolts awake in a bed of yellow flowers)

Hiro: ….

Hiro sat up from the flower bed to find that most of himself is wet. He looked around to see not only the broken pier that fell with him, but piles upon piles of trash that possibly fell from the giant wall of water close to him. He climbed off the boards and found that the water reached his stomach. He noticed that there were a few brands that he recognized in some of the piles that he looked in as he waded through the flooded area and reached the Save Star that's floating above a few wooden boards.

Hiro: Maybe the monsters get their stuff here. (looks up) Is the waterfall from the top? (notices a piece of trash fall from the waterfall and to the bottomless abyss; looks down as it falls; sees a few more trash pieces doing the same) It just keeps going....just like I should! (saves at the star as he becomes more determined)

Hiro continued to wade his way through the flooded areas and saw a rusted bike that had a horn with a honk of  despair (does the sound of a sliding whistle really bring despair?), a beat-up desktop computer with its insides missing (maybe Papyrus's computer has them?), an unbranded cooler with some dried space food (Hiro took most of them), and an anime DVD package with odd scratch marks on the edges floating idly. He noticed ahead of him that there is a dummy standing in the water.

Hiro: Oh! Didn't Toriel have one of these? I think so. (stares into the dummy's eyes for a moment before he gently pats the dummy's snout) Have a good...um...day? Mister or Miss Dummy! (walks towards the exit; hears something sloshing behind him and stops to glance back; sees the dummy facing him) Eh?

There was something off about that dummy, and sure enough.....

DUN DUUUN!!

The dummy's coloration went from a plain khaki tan to a fiery orange, and its cute beady black eyes became angry. It looked absolutely mad as it dove underwater past Hiro and came out floating, blocking the exit.

Dummy: Hahaha... Too intimidated to fight me, huh?

Hiro: Who are you?

Dummy: I am a ghost that lives inside a DUMMY. My cousin used to live inside a DUMMY, too. Until...YOU CAME ALONG!

Hiro: Eep! W-What did I do?

Dummy: When you talked to them, they thought they were in for a nice chat, but the things you said to them.... Horrible....shocking...UNBELIEVABLE! It spooked them right out of the dummy!

Hiro: Eh? But I was nice to the dummy ghost.

Dummy: SILENCE, HUMAN!! I'll scare your SOUL out of your body!! (becomes infuriated as its body turns red and its midsection splits open)

Hiro: Aah!! (his SOUL leaps out of his chest as the area went gray-scale)

Hiro watched as the Mad Dummy, the monster dummy before him, swayed from side to side. In his Check, Hiro was dismayed that physical attacks can't hurt it. Not that he would hurt it, but how can he get past the dummy? His only option is to talk to it.

Mad Dummy: Pitiful, pitiful, PITIFUL!

Soon after it said that, Hiro noticed a few miniature dummies popping up and shooting cotton bullets at him. He flew around to avoid them and past the Dummy, seeing some of them hit it. Before Hiro could apologize, Mad Dummy reprimanded the mini-dummies on where they were aiming their magic attacks. It took a short moment before it yelled at Hiro to forget what it said about magic, but it was too late. If Hiro couldn't use physical attacks, and he refuses to do so, he'll use magic. Seeing those cotton bullets hitting the Dummy gave him an idea. As some more mini-dummies shot off more cotton bullets, Hiro flew around the area, dodging most of them and leading some to the Mad Dummy. It was doing an armless ska dance at one point and Hiro tried to talk to it. The Mad Dummy was not much for conversation and no one was happy about this. It exclaimed how it will take Hiro's SOUL to cross the barrier. More mini-dummies showed up and Hiro kept leading the bullets to the Dummy as it started to move from one end of the battlefield to the other. It soon bragged about how it'll stand in the window of a fancy store. It must be what the Dummy wanted to do if it left the Underground. With so much cotton being flung everywhere, the area started to smell strangely like a clothing store. Hiro saw the Dummy stop on one side of the field and almost missed leading most of the cotton in its direction, but some of it still managed to hit it.

Hiro: I think I'm (some of his words are covered by cotton) Eh? Am I (more cotton covers his words) Bleugh! The cot (his words are covered in cotton again) Mrrr! (swats the cotton balls away until they're gone) There! But um, will that help you? Taking my soul?

Mad Dummy: Huh? Yeah, I guess that'll avenge my cousin. What was their name again..?

Hiro: Err...I don't know...?

Mad Dummy: Whatever, whatever, WHATEVER!!

Hiro was about to dodge more cotton bullets when he saw the mini-dummies flicker red and launched themselves at him. He had to fly through the open spaces before trying to lead the cotton at the Dummy. Every time it got hit, the Dummy flew around erratically, screaming “FEEBLE!” and “FUTILE!” and other words as Hiro dodged the mini-dummies and led cotton to it. Eventually, the Mad Dummy has had enough.

Mad Dummy: HEY GUYS! (sees the mini-dummies appear) Dummies. Dummies! DUMMIES!! Remember how I sad NOT to shoot at me? Well.... (infuriated) FAILURES!! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU'RE ALL BEING REPLACED!!

Hiro (watches the mini-dummies leave the battlefield): Err....

Mad Dummy (laughs manically): Now you will see my true power: relying on people that aren't garbage!

As soon as it said that, mechanical whirs filled the room.

Hiro: What's that...?

Mad Dummy: DUMMY BOTS! MAGIC MISSILE!

Hiro: Eh? (sees robotic versions of the mini-dummies appear and shoot little rockets; flies around to dodge them, but sees them follow him) Wah! (flies more before the rockets lose track of him and hit the Dummy) I don't like those.

The dummy bots tried again at the Mad Dummy's command as it glares into a random mirror nearby, turning to Hiro with the same expression. It was shocked that the dummy bots were just as awful as the mini-dummies before as it watched Hiro continuously led the rockets to it with little to no contact with them.

Mad Dummy: DUMMY BOTS! FINAL ATTACK!

Hiro: Grr!

The mini-dummies launched at Hiro as a rocket popped up and followed Hiro. Soon after, the dummy bots launched a multitude of rockets. Hiro got hit a few times, but he managed to lead the rockets to the Mad Dummy. The Dummy was stunned that the dummy bots were even worse than the mini-dummies, but he didn't care. He didn't need friends. He got knives. The moment a knife appeared by the Mad Dummy, Hiro had a horrible vision of the Mad Dummy looking...happy. It was happy about it finally being merged with its body as a ghost, only to be savagely slashed and turned to dust. The vision disappeared as the knife was thrown at Hiro, which he dodged at the last second.

Mad Dummy: I'm.....out of knives. (becomes hysterical) BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER!! YOU CAN'T HURT ME AND I CAN'T HURT YOU!! YOU'LL BE STUCK HERE FIGHTING ME!!! Forever... Forever!! FOREVER!!

Hiro (watches the Mad Dummy laugh hysterically as its parts were being slingshot in a frenzied manner): Ah...

Mad Dummy: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAG- (feels something wet hit it) Wh-What the heck is this!? (sees drops of water) Eugh! Acid rain!? Oh, FORGET IT! I'm outta here! (leaves the area)

Hiro: Eh...Acid rain? (sees Napstablook appear) Napstablook!

Napstablook: …..sorry, I interrupted you, didn't I?

Hiro: No, you didn't. Why?

Napstablook: ….as soon as I came over, your friend immediately left....

Hiro: Hmn, he wasn't really-

Napstablook: ...oh no...you guys looked like you were having fun...

Hiro: Err...we weren't-

Napstablook: ...oh no...i just wanted to say hi....

Hiro: But you can-

Napstablook: ...oh no......................................... (vanishes from the battlefield as the room returned to color)

Hiro: Wait, Napstablook! What are you going to do now?

Napstablook: well....i'm going to head home now... oh...umm...feel free to come with if you want.... but no pressure... I understand if you're busy...

Hiro: I'm not really busy.

Napstablook: it's fine....no worries...just thought i'd offer... (floats out of the room)

Hiro: Ah! (follows Napstablook)

Hiro followed the ghost to the next area where there is an area of glowing blue water next to the entrance he walked through, a rectangular strip of regular water in the center where a Save Star is floating close to the edge, three paths to the north and a path to the east and west. Napstablook was floating ahead of Hiro before they showed him where their house is, in case he wanted to see. Or in case he didn't. After saving Hiro in this area of calming tranquility, he followed the ghost to the middle path. He arrived in an area where there are two houses. They look like someone tried to build a square house, but decided to add a bulbous top to it, only for it to end up lopsided and just added a triangular roof to make it considered a house. A circular window is on the bulbous part and a single door are present. What's different is the second one is facing the opposite way, it has a pink color scheme and there's a light on. Hiro tried entering the pink house but it was locked, so he tried and entered the blue house. The inside of the house looked pretty run-down, with cracks and holes in the wall, small holes and some discolored planks in the wooden floor, a white refrigerator, a blue TV with a small dual antennae box, a table with a desktop computer system that's blocking a small window, a spider web in the corner of the far wall on the entrance side, and three objects preceding the web. The atmosphere of the house was....Hiro was not sure how to feel about it. He spotted Napstablook in front of the computer with a pair of black headphones on. Napstablook heard Hiro walking in and turned to greet him.

Napstablook: oh...you really came... sorry, I...wasn't expecting that.

Hiro: It's okay. I wanted to visit!

Napstablook: oh.... it's not much, but make yourself at home.

Hiro: Okay.

Hiro explored the house a little. He looked at the spider web and found a flyer for a spider bake sale. He remembered the one in the Ruins when he arrived in the Underground. He went over to Napstablook's computer and saw a website with many different songs and posts about them. It looked like a music website. He then went to the TV when Napstablook told him it's theirs and that there's a show they liked to watch sometimes. He went over to the three objects and Napstablook mentioned how they are music they made. The objects turned out to be CDs. Hiro went up to the one by the spider web and was told it was called “Ghouliday”. Napstablook commented on how it's not hard to sing along once the lyrics are learned. Hiro hummed along and realized the melody sounded familiar. The next CD Napstablook introduced is “Spookwave”. Hiro listened to it, and was suddenly hit with an odd sense of being thoroughly spooked out of his wits. He wasn't alone in this since Napstablook was feeling this, too. The last one was called “Spooktune”. It was similar to Spookwave, but without the creepy ambiance. After listening to the songs, Hiro went over to the refrigerator and asked Napstablook if he could have something to eat.

Napstablook: oh....are you hungry... (sees Hiro nod) I can get you something to eat... (floats over to the fridge, put their hand through the door and takes out a translucent sandwich) this is a ghost sandwich... do you want to try it...?

Hiro: Yes, please! (is given a slice of the ghost sandwich; attempts to bite into it but his mouth phased through it) Eh????

Napstablook: oh....nevermind....

Hiro (saddened): Awwww....Hmm, now what?

Napstablook: after a great meal I like to lie on the ground and feel like garbage...

Hiro: Eh? Why?

Napstablook: it's a family tradition.... do you want... …. to join me....?

Hiro: Hmm... I don't want to feel like garbage, but I don't want to be mean... I'll try it out. (nods) Yep.

Napstablook: okay.... follow my lead... (leads Hiro to the center of the room and lies down) here we go... you'll lie down as long as you don't move.

Hiro (lies down on his back, looking up at the ceiling): Like this?

Napstablook: yeah... so....only move around if you want to get up, I guess...

Hiro: Okay.

Hiro and Napstablook just laid on the floor for a few minutes.

Hiro: Hmn... This feels boring.... Maybe if I close my eyes a little....

As soon as Hiro did so, his world became dark. It was like that time when he fell into the trash area. But unlike that time, he began to see little lights appearing. Some of those little lights became bigger lights, elongated lights, blobs of light, spirals of lights, clouds of lights. Through his half-lidded eyes, he could see those lights twinkling, pulsating, and soaring all around in this darkness. He remembered seeing something like this in books.

Space.

He was in space. Or what seemed like space. His body felt so light like he was floating on air. Not like how he was with his soul was floating out of his body in battles, but a more calm, serene kind of floating, like a heavy weight was nowhere inside him. Hiro could also somehow hear a sound in this space, a whole symphony of it. It was like hearing the song of the universe, slow like its growth but enough to feel like one of those calm breathing exercises. All of this was enough to make Hiro feel like he was sleeping in a cosmic bed. Hiro began to wonder if this is what Napstablook and their family(?) always experienced, and to be honest, he was loving it. Eventually, thoughts of him leaving the Underground slowly creeped up on Hiro and as much as he didn't want to, he had to get up. After a short debate with himself on whether or not he should end this cosmic dream, he had no choice but to get up. As he did, the vision of space drifted away and his body felt heavy again. Hiro stood up as Napstablook sat up and did the same.

Napstablook: well, that was nice... thank you...

Hiro: Welcome....

Napstablook (floats over to the computer): Uuuhh..... so, I'm gonna keep working on that mix CD...

Hiro: Okay... Bye bye... (leaves Napstablook's house) …..I wanna do that again...

Before Hiro left the area, he was curious about Napstablook's music. He wanted to listen to them a little longer, so he re-entered the house and was able to relisten to them. Once he did, Hiro accidentally left without turning off Spookwave. He was making his way from the houses back to where the Save Star is when he was surprised by the area going gray-scale, running into Aaron and Woshua. But before they were able to do anything, the Spookwave song was heard playing. Everyone, including Hiro, was getting creeped out by this song, so much so that Woshua felt filthy and Aaron was regretting his creepy ways. Both monsters took off running and the “battle” ended. After the slight confusion and the eerie feeling shaken off, Hiro continued on until he spotted a path that led up to where he entered an area that was like a small  straight race track with three snails, a fenced area with some snails, and a small green monster in a tuxedo laying on the ground on his back with a snail shell on his stomach. As he went further in, Hiro saw Napstablook fading into view. They was telling Hiro that this area is the Blook Family Snail Farm and they're the only employee. The place used to get business, but the main customer disappeared one day, so it's just some hairy guy that shows up once a month. Napstablook invited Hiro to play a game called Thundersnail.

Hiro (excited): Thundersnail?! That sounds really cool! How do you play?

Napstablook (turns to the track where a yellow snail, a red snail, and a blue snail are waiting on the checkered line on the right side): the snails will race, and if the yellow snail wins, you win. It's 10G to play.

Hiro: Okay! (pays the cost then faces the track) Now what?

Napstablook: okay..... press Z repeatedly to encourage your snail.

Hiro: Okay!

And encourage he did, smashing the 9 button on his phone. Hiro gave the snail a lot of it! So much so that the snail-

Hiro (panicking): WHY IS THE SNAIL ON FIRE?!

Napstablook: Oh..... looks like you encouraged your snail too much... all that pressure to succeed......really got to her...

Hiro (trembling): H-How do I try again..?

Napstablook: you try again.

So, Hiro tried again a few tries until he got the yellow snail to win. His prize: 9G.

Napstablook: sorry..... we have to make a profit somehow...

Hiro thanked Napstablook and left the farm to continue on. He wandered into an area where he noticed an entrance across the way from a branching path. He looked in the bottom path first, but all he saw was a small area of land that leads to nothing but water. He left the area to check the entrance and entered a room where he saw an elderly turtle monster wearing an archeologist's outfit and holding a magnifying glass in hand. The room itself is wide like a mini-cave and dotted with many glittering stones in the walls. There is also a large black symbol that is a circle with a pair of wings and three triangles below it, the center one pointing down. The turtle was standing behind a black counter where there are a basket of apples shaped like crabs, a line of bottles with the words “Sea Tea” on the label, a box of glasses with clouded lens, and a single torn notebook with a purple cover. Hiro had enough for all four items, but didn't have enough room for them. He saw that he can sell his items, but...

Turtle: Ha! I'm trying to get RID of my junk, not get more of it!

Hiro: Oh....

Turtle: Though, I've heard if you want to sell stuff, the Temmie Vilage is your best bet.

Hiro: Temmie...Village? Where's that?

Turtle: Where is it? …......

Hiro: …...

Turtle: I don't remember.

Hiro: Oh....Hmm...Um, I want to ask about you.

Turtle: Me? Well...I'm Gerson, and I've been around a long time. Maybe too long. Studying history sure is easy when you've lived through so much of it yourself! Wa ha ha!

Hiro: Whoa... So...do you know all the monsters here...even the king?

Gerson: King Fluffybuns? He's a friendly, happy-go-lucky kind of guy. If you keep walking around long enough, you'll probably meet him. He loves to walk around and talk to people.

Hiro: Again? Is the king a good guy or a bad guy...? Toriel says he's bad, but everyone else likes him. Why? And um.... Um, Mr. Gerson, why did you call the king... “Fluffybuns”?

Gerson: Why did I call Dreemurr “Fluffybuns”? Oh, that's a great story! ….......

Hiro: …....

Gerson: …...I don't remember it.

Hiro: Ah..

Gerson: But if you come back much later, I'm sure I'll have remembered by them.

Hiro: Okay. (looks at the symbol on the wall and points at it) What's that thing on the wall?

Gerson (glances at the symbol): Eh? You don't know what that is? What are they teaching you kids in school nowadays? Wa ha ha!

Hiro: No sir, I've never seen that before.

Gerson: That's the Delta Rune, the emblem of our kingdom. The Kingdom of Monsters.

Hiro: The Delta...Rune...

Gerson: Wahahaha! Great name, huh? It's as I always say... Ol' King Fluffybuns can't name for beans!

Hiro: Err... Does it mean anything?

Gerson: The Rune? That emblem actually predates written history. The original meaning has been lost to time... All we know is that the triangles symbolize us monsters below and the winged circle above symbolizes...something else. Most people say it's the “angel” from the prophecy.

Hiro: Prophecy..?

Gerson: Oh yeah...the prophecy. Legend has it, an “angel” who has seen the surface will descend from above and bring us freedom.

Hiro: Really?

Gerson: Yes, but lately, the people have been taking a bleaker outlook...callin' that winged circle the “Angel of Death”.

A vision flickered in Hiro's mind.

Gerson: A harbinger of destruction, waitin' to “free” us from this mortal realm...

A vision of a shadowy figure flickering between an angel with a branch of sorts and the arms of monsters reaching up to it and another angel with a bladed object and the arms of monsters in a way that they're trying to protect themselves. That vision blinked away as Gerson spoke up.

Gerson: I jus' think it looks neat! Wa ha ha!

Hiro (a little shaken): Err...yeah..neat. Um....I ran into someone named Undyne. Do you know them?

Gerson: Undyne? Yeah, she's a local hero around here.

Hiro: A hero?

Gerson: Yep, through grit and determination alone, she fought her way to the top of the Royal Guard.

Hiro: Oh..

Gerson (squints): Actually, she just came through here asking about someone who looked just like you...

Hiro (worried): Uuuh...

Gerson: I'd watch your back, kid. And buy some items... It might just save your hide! Wa hahah!

Hiro: O...Okay...

After the discussions with Gerson, Hiro left the cave shop. He checked the box and saw that there was some room in it, so he put in a few items before returning inside to purchase one of each items available in Gerson's shop. Once finished, Hiro made his way to another area which he found another sign on the wall.

Hiro: “Hurt, beaten, and fearful for our lives, we sur.....sur..rend...surrend..er...ed...surrendered...to the humans. Seven of their greatest magicians sealed us underground with a magic spell. Anything can enter through the seal, but only beings with a powerful SOUL can leave.” A powerful SOUL? (walks over to the next one that is floating in front of two echo flowers) “There is only one way to reverse this spell. If a huge power, equ...equi...e-equi..va..lent...to seven human SOULs, attacks the barrier, it will be destroyed.” Seven? I heard stories of six falling here.... (moves to the next one as more echo flowers and some specks of floating light appeared and he crossed the water) “But the cursed place has no entrances or exits. There is no way a human could come here. We will remain trapped down here forever.” ….But.....I'm here. I'm a human. Does that mean.....

Hiro was putting the story together and found that the war against the monsters wasn't really one and that six people had fallen before him and gone missing for years. The monsters may have had something to do it, but for some time, no other human had come down until he did and that's why the monsters were after him. He arrived in a dark area where some of the plant life were illuminated by the blue light emitted from the water they absorbed, and accidentally stepped on a mushroom, lighting up the path ahead of him. Fascinated, Hiro found another mushroom to step on. Before Hiro could find another one, he saw the area become gray-scale and spotted a little creature that looks like a dog...or a cat? It has ears like a cat on top of its head, but rounded floppy ones like a dog's? It has a feline face with beady black eyes, a small nose, and a feline mouth. The cat-dog thing has shoulder-length hair that is parted on the front, and wearing a turtleneck short-sleeved shirt. According to Hiro's phone, it's a special enemy called Temmie and it's here to defeat him. Hiro was more concerned about why it's shaking. The only options he has are Check, Flex, Feed Temmie Flakes, and Talk.

Hiro: Feed...Temmie Flakes...? What are those, a cereal? Um, hello?

Creature: hOI!! i'm TEMMIE!!

All of a sudden, a long-legged version of the Temmie appeared and Hiro was caught underneath it. He tried to escape from under it, but he couldn't and its legs hit Hiro's soul. Once it disappeared, the Temmie was shaking a little more. He tried chatting up the Temmie and it repeated its “hOI!! i'm TEMMIE!!” line while lying on its back, which he thought was cute until he saw one of Temmie's arms stretch towards him. He panicked and flew around trying to avoid its paw, but he got trapped and was hit by it. Once the Temmie's arm retracted, Temmie looked like it had forgotten something. Hiro didn't have any Temmie Flakes to feed it, so he tried the flexing option. Hiro flexed with all he had, but it looks like the Temmie was not exactly happy about it, if one counts its face leaving its body.

Temmie: NO!!!! muscles r.......NOT CUTE.

Hiro: Eh? (sees Aaron slide into battle) Aaron?

Aaron: Oh, I have to disagree. ; )

Temmie: NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 (flops onto its back with Xs in its eyes)

Hiro: Uuuuh...

It was just Hiro and Aaron as they proceeded with an impromptu flex-off that, once again, caused Aaron to flex out of the battlefield. Once the battlefield faded, Hiro continued on to finding another mushroom when he ran into two Moldsmals. He knew what to do for them so he decided to Mercy them. Strangely, only one of them was spared.

Hiro: Huh? I thought I can spare the Moldsmals... (checks his options) I can...flirt with it, I guess? (wiggles his hips like he did with a Moldsmal) Wiggle, wiggle... (watches the Moldsmal grow taller) Wwaaah!! (sees a stack similar to the Moldbygg, as Hiro discovered it's called; it shoots out rings at him) Aah!

After the barrage of rings, the Moldbygg milled about in the corner of the battlefield. Hiro soon saw that he had new options: Lie Down, Hug, and Unhug. He decided to try and lie down and Moldbygg did the same. It understands life now. They both got up and the monster let out a simple roar. White spheres converged around Hiro and became one giant version, shooting off the field as he dodged them. Moldbygg gyrated reservedly as Hiro kept a distance from it. He thought about hugging it, but decided against it. He noticed it was appreciating his respect of its boundaries., and became comfortable with his presence. Hiro saw that he can spare the monster and did so.

Hiro: Phew, that was new. Hope I won't meet more of them...

Hiro wandered on past the bottom mushroom when he could have sworn he heard something coming from somewhere to the right of him. There was nothing lit down whatever path he's hearing sounds from, but he was somehow able to walk down an unlit path. He soon ended up in a little village that had creatures that looked like the Temmie he met in a battle. Four Temmies were standing under a painting of a Temmie and a dragon called the “Rich History of Tem”, a sign saying “hOI! Welcom to...TEM VILLAGE!!!”, and an entrance with a sign flanking its sides, both mentioning how one should visit the Tem Shop, and an exclamation point sign above it. Hiro decided to talk to the first four Temmies.

Hiro: Hello!

1st Temmie: hoi! i'm temmie! And dis is my friend, temmie!

Hiro (goes to the second one): Hello!

2nd Temmie: hoi! I'm temmie! And dis is my friend, temmie!

Hiro: Okay... (goes to the third one) Hello..

3rd Temmie: hoi! I'm temmie! Don forget my friend!

Hiro: Err... (goes to the last one) Um...hello?

4th Temmie: Hi. I'm Bob.

Hiro: Uh. Hi.

Hiro moved away from the group and met a Temmie by a giant Temmie statue with the word TEM on the plate. Apparently it's very famous. The Temmie by the statue exclaimed how humans are such a cute. Hiro figured humans were just cute to this Temmie. He soon met another Temmie with an egg. He was told that it was watching it in case it hatches and going to be a proud parent when it does. Oddly enough, the egg is hardboiled. He walked over to another Temmie that mentioned how it heard of the human being allergic to Temmies. Hiro didn't remember being allergic to them, but he does know that he's allergic to pecans. Temmie understood, though, as it's also allergic to the other Temmies. Suddenly, red spots appeared, causing its face to be bloated.

Allergy Tem: HOIVS!!!

Hiro moved away from that Temmie and approached a blue mushroom. When he talked to it, it started dancing in a swaying motion. Mushroom dance, mushroom dance, whatever could it mean?

Mushroom (cap raises to reveal a pair of blue eyes): It symbolizes my inner torment, trapped here by my hyphae. My struggle to pull away. My struggle to escape. But alas, to no avail.

Hiro: …..

Hiro decided to use the Save Star before entering the shop. There was something about this village and its inhabitants that felt strange, especially when he felt like he was being watched. Oddly enough, he felt a strange sense of detemmienation by being here.

Hiro: De...temmie..nation? Eh?

Afterwards, he decided to check out the Tem Shop. The interior of the shop is a wooden planked wall. From left to right, there is a pulled-back cream curtain, a stack of three rectangular boxes with a small framed photo of a familiar white dog, a white sock with a black toe and heel and an orange Christmas stocking with a white toe, heel, and opening, a small shelf with a bone, a twig, and a glowing pink potion bottle, and a lidded trash can underneath. The counter itself is just a cardboard box with the name “*TEM SHOP” in yellow except for the blue H, the flaps up and a small white coffee mug. The shopkeeper itself looks like the Temmies, but slightly bigger, and wearing a blue and yellow striped shirt. Hiro tried to talk to the Temmie and make sense of it all.

Hiro: Hello!

Shopkeeper Temmie: hoi! I'm temmie

Hiro: Um...Yeah, so um, tell me about yourself?

Shop Tem: hOI!! i'm temmie

Hiro: Uuuuh... I saw this really cool picture of a Temmie and a dragon, that “Rich History of Tem” one. I wanna know about it!

Shop Tem: yaya, us tems hav a DEEP HISTORY!!!

Hiro: ….....Yeah..?

Shop Tem: ver deep.

Hiro (shakes his head): Uh, how about this shop?

Shop Tem: yaYA!!! go to TEM SHOP!!

Hiro: But...I am in your shop....

Hiro turned his attention to the Temmie's wares and saw that there are three different stacks of Temmie Flakes: one is 3G, one is 1G, and one is 20G. There is also an option to send it to colleg...?...for 1000G. At least it's not as much as when Sans jokingly tried to scam him out of 50000G back in the snow fields, but it was still too much. Then he remembered the Dog Residue. He tried using it and discovered how when he used it, his inventory got filled with more residue and dog salads.. This gave him an idea. With this, some of his unneeded items, and some (possible) extra time, Hiro was able to procure a 1000G. He gave the shopkeeper the money and the Temmie was very excited to receive it, to the point of its entire body and counter leaving the shop and the face behind for a few moments. Hiro didn't have enough time to comprehend what just happened before Temmie's body and counter returned. It stated that it has returned from cool leg and learned many things, including about a new item, the Temmie Armor! Unfortunately, it will cost him 9999G. He decided that giving Temmie the 1000G for college was good enough and left the shop. Once he saved again, he departed the village and continued onward. He continued on the path until he couldn't go further and had to go back to open a new path. This path led up to another area where instead of mushrooms, there are lanterns and purple crystals. According to the sign on the wall, monsters used these items to light their way when lost in the dark. He soon saw why as he trekked through the area. It was getting dark unless he lit up a lantern. He did get stuck in a few spots and ran into a few battles, like with a Woshua and an Aaron, but he was able to get out with little to some damage. Nothing that a few food items can't handle. Exiting out of the lit path area, Hiro kept walking until the corridor was getting darker and darker. He couldn't really see, but he did brush against something like an echo flower. He knew because an unfamiliar voice came from it.

??? (medium-deep female voice): Behind you.

Hiro froze. Like before when he first met Sans, he didn't want to turn around. Maybe just a peek....and he immediately regretted it. As light brightened the area, behind him....was Undyne. The moment the voice came through the helmet, Hiro realized that it was the same metallic voice from the flower.

Undyne (steps forward twice): ….Seven.

Hiro: S-Seven...?

Undyne: Seven human souls... With the power of seven human souls, our king...King Asgore Dreemurr...will become a god. With that power, Asgore can finally shatter the barrier. He will finally take the surface back from humanity, and give them back the suffering and pain that we have endured.

Hiro: Uuh...uum..but-

Undyne: Understand, human? This is your only chance at redemption.

Hiro: Re...Re..demp-

Undyne: Give up your soul...or I'll tear it from your body. (gets into a fighting stance as a long aquamarine spear appeared in her hands, aiming it at Hiro)

Undyne drew closer to Hiro as she is prepared to skewer Hiro with her spear. As she drew closer, Hiro could see the light of his soul pulsating hard, flickering like his own racing heart. Before a battle could begin, out of the patch of tall grass, Monster Kid rushed out in between them.

Monster Kid: Undyne!!! I'll help you fight!!!

Hiro: ….

Undyne: …..

Monster Kid (faces Hiro): YO!!! You did it!! Undyne is RIGHT in front of you!!! You got front row seats to her fight!!!

Hiro (laughs nervously): Yeah...it's great...No, it's not....

MK (looks between them again): ….Wait...Who's she fighting??? (gets his cheek grabbed and pulled away by Undyne) H-Hey! You aren't going to tell my parents about this, are you??

As Hiro watched as Undyne pulled MK away, he brushed against the flower again, hearing MK's voice. He shook off the remainder of his distress and found a path leading upwards. He soon entered a watery path area dotted with echo flowers and light specks. Each of the echo flower he passed by had a conversation between two monsters. One of them asked the other to not laugh at their wish, which is that they'd climb out of the mountain. They were upset that they were laughed at, but the other stated that they also had the same wish. As he approached dry land, he spotted a sign on the wall and read it.

Hiro: “However, there is a prophecy.” Oh, the prophecy Mr. Gerson talked about! “The Angel...The One Who Has Seen The Surface... They will return. And the underground will go empty.” …..Um....

Hiro had a horrific vision flash through his mind. Monsters were being slaughtered and a shadowed figure with a red smily face stood upon a giant pile of dust. A yellow star descended from the sky and illuminated the figure from behind. The lit-up parts looked similar to him....

Hiro: AAAAAH!!! ….....Why....am I...having these things...? I don't get it....

Hiro staggered his way out of the area and came across a long bridge. He slowly made his way across it, but before he reached the end, MK called out to and approached him, albeit cautiously.

MK: I know I'm not supposed to be here, but...I wanna ask you something.

Hiro: ….Yes?

MK: Man, I never had to ask anyone this before.... Umm...Yo...You're human, right?

Hiro: ….. (nods) ...Yes...

MK: Haha, man! I knew it!

Hiro: Huh?

MK: Well, I know it now, I mean...

Hiro: She told you...huh?

MK (nods): Undyne told me , um... “stay away from that human.”

Hiro: …..

MK: So...like..umm...I guess that makes us enemies or something. But I kinda stink at that, haha...

Hiro: I don't want it to be that way....

MK (rubs his foot on the wood of the bridge): ...Yo, say something mean so I can hate you? Please?

Hiro (shakes his head): No.

MK: Yo, what? So I have to do it? (mutters under his breath) Here goes nothing...

Hiro: ….

MK: Yo, I...I hate your guts.

Hiro: ….Hm.

MK: Man, I..I'm such a turd...

Hiro: No, you're not. I'm not going to- (a vision flickered, but shakes it off) I'm not going to hurt you.

MK: Hmm... I'm..I'm gonna go home now. (backs up then rushes off, trips then slips off the bridge, catching the edge with his mouth) Yo, w-w-wait! Help! I tripped!

Hiro: Oh no! (spots Undyne appearing across the bridge) Ah. (a vision flickers where Undyne is hurt, but returns as a much stronger monster; it disappears when he hears MK yelling) I'll help you! (rushes over to MK and pulls him up to safety)

MK: Phew. (sees Undyne approaching) Y..y..yo...dude..If...If y-you wanna hurt my friend...you're gonna have to get through me first.

Hiro: Monster Kid...

Undyne (backs away): …. (walks off)

MK: She's gone. Yo, you really saved my skin.

Hiro: I didn't want you to fall down like that.

MK: Guess being enemies was just a nice thought, haha. We'll just have to be friends instead.

Hiro: Hehe...Yeah, I like that better.

MK: ...Man, I should REALLY go home...I bet my parents are really worried about me. (walks away before turning back) Later, dude!

Hiro: Later! (watches MK leave) That was close....Undyne...I saw her with more spikes...and red? Hmn...I don't wanna meet that version...

Hiro managed to push himself forward from the bridge to another area with a much smaller bridge and into another place where a large cave entrance is present. He was just about to enter it when he noticed someone on top of the pointed cave overlooking the horizon where it was like the sun was on its red stage of setting, crags of rocks lining the landscape, and two towers that look like they were part of the Industrial era. That red tassel...it was Undyne.

Undyne: Seven. Seven human souls, and King Asgore will become a god. Six. That's how many we've collected thus far. Understand?

Hiro: So...they're...dead? Then....it means...

Undyne: Through your seventh and final soul, this world will be transformed. But first, as customary for those who make it this far, I shall tell you the tragic tale of our people. It all started, long ago....

Hiro: ….

Undyne: …..No, you know what? SCREW IT! WHY SHOULD I TELL YOU THAT STORY WHEN YOU'RE ABOUT TO DIE?! NGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!

Hiro: Aah!

The area lit up in a blinding white light, and when Hiro was able to see again, the armored monster had removed her helmet. It turns out that the red tassel was actually Undyne's long red hair and that she is a fish woman. Piercing yellow and green eyes with the left one hidden by a black eyepatch, scaly bluish-green skin, sharp teeth, she looked fierce.

Undyne: YOU! You're standing in the way of everybody's hopes and dreams!

Hiro: Wha- No, I'm not!

Undyne: Alphys's history books made me think humans are cool...with their giant robots and flowery swordswomen...

Hiro: Where did I hear that name before...? Wait, what?

Undyne: BUT YOU? You're just a coward! Hiding behind that kid so you could run away from me again!

Hiro: That's not true!!

Undyne: And let's not forget your wimpy goody-two-shoes-schtick! Oooh! I'm making such a difference by hugging random strangers!

Hiro (scratches his cheek): I didn't hug everyone...

Undyne: You know what would be more valuable to everyone? IF YOU WERE DEAD!!

Hiro: If...If I was dead?!

Undyne: That's right, human! Your continued existence is a crime! Your life is all that stands between us and our freedom! Right now, I can feel everyone's hearts pounding together! Everyone's been waiting their whole lives for this moment! But we're not nervous at all. When everyone puts their hearts together, they's can't lose!

Hiro: ….

Undyne: Now, human! Let's end this. Right here, right now! I'll show you how determined monsters can be! Step forward when you're ready! Fuhuhuhuhuhuhu!

Hiro: Umm.. (the red word DETERMINATION flashed; he holds his head before the strain fades; notices a Save Star) Hmn...Can I just not fight her? (touches the star) But I can't, can I?

A soft breeze became stronger to the point of howling. Hiro had no choice but to face Undyne. He'll get to see whose determination is stronger, his or hers.

Undyne: That's it, then...! No more running away! (leaps off the mountain and dives at Hiro with her spear pointed down at him) HERE I COME!!!

Hiro jumped back as Undyne landed in front of him, the area exploding into gray-scale and his soul was forced out. Before he could do anything, Undyne swiped her spear at his soul, turning it green and finding himself holding a spear. He tried to move away from her, but he found that he couldn't move.

Hiro: What?!

Undyne: Fuhuhu... As long as you're GREEN, you CAN'T ESCAPE! As long as you face danger head on, you won't last a SECOND against me.

Hiro: Oh no!

Hiro was unsure of what to do. He pleaded with Undyne that he didn't want to fight, but his words fell on deaf ears. He managed to block some of the red arrow bullets, but not all of them. He was reprimanded for doing terribly, but he just didn't want to fight her. He missed a few arrows and the last one struck his soul. He could feel himself splitting in half as he watched his soul physically cracked down the middle.

Hiro (tries to hold his soul together): N....No...don-

With the sound and look like glass shattering, Hiro's soul broke into pieces. His world soon fell into darkness and so did he.

Hiro has died.

TO BE CONTINUED

[aveyondwinterexchange]

My fanfic for callmedan from the Aveyond Kingdom forum!

Happy new year callmedan! I heard you thought Uma and Nox were adorable, so I tried to run with that idea in my fic. I hope you enjoy. Also, props to anyone who catches the Star Wars reference that somehow ended up in my Aveyond story...yeah, I really don’t know how that happened.

Summary: While their mother and father are away, little Uma and Nox get up to some Mischief™ ft. Yemite.

Outside their mother’s bedroom, two twin girls peered through the crack of an open door. One had hair as black as the sky of the Demon Realm and a troublemaking spirit to match. The other had a complexion befitting an angel, complete with a halo of cloudy white hair. Both had luminous blue eyes sparkling with all the mischief and intelligence of their mother, who happened to be the current subject of the twins’ attention.

“Uma, move your fat head, I can't see!” Nox, the dark-haired twin, grumbled as she shoved her sister out of the way to get a better view.

“Shh! Do you want Mother to hear us?” Uma wrestled with Nox until they finally settled on the uncomfortable position of Nox crouching on Uma’s shoulders, both of their heads peeking into the room.

"Lars and I are traveling to Shaelnir to visit his ill mother, but it’s too dangerous to take the girls. The northern kingdom is harsh any time of year, but it's even worse now that it's winter,” Mel explained. “We’ll only be gone a week at most. Promise me you won't let them get into trouble this time.”

“Who’s Mother talking to?” Uma whispered.

“I don't know,” Nox replied. “She's standing in front of the door, I can't see.”

“I won't let you down, Mistress! I promise!” answered a cheerful voice that causes both girls to break out in grins.

“It's Auntie Yemite!” a surprised Nox exclaimed, slipping off Uma’s shoulders. They both tumbled into the room and landed in a jumble of black and white at their mother’s feet.

“Girls! What are you doing?” Mel glared at her daughters with the obligatory annoyance of a scornful mother, although her smile betrayed her amusement at their antics.

Nox grinned guiltily from the floor. “Nothing, Mother.” Uma hastily fixed the disheveled bow that Nox pulled off. “We were just, um, about to knock.”

Before their mother could reprimand the girls, their “aunt” rushed forward and scooped them into her arms. They had admittedly grown too big for the average person to be casually lifting them, but Yemite’s arms were still strong from her days of battle beside Mel. “Uma, Nox! How are my favorite children of darkness...er, I mean nieces?”

Mel eyes the three of them suspiciously. Yes, she knew perfectly well that leaving the three of them alone was a possible - no, probable - recipe for disaster. But what choice did she have? Edward and Stella were too busy ruling their kingdom in Thais to babysit. Ulf would’ve been an ideal choice, but he lived on another continent. And she certainly wasn’t about to ask Te’ijal and Galahad. But still …

“Maybe this isn't such a good idea.”

“No!” Uma and Nox protested in unison. They each grabbed one of Yemite’s horns, while Yemite protectively tightened her arms around them.

“Let them stay, Mistress, it's only for a few days. I'll take care of them, I promise.”

“Yeah, let us stay with Yemite!”

“We’ll be good. Please?”

Mel knew when she was  fighting a losing battle. Saving the world was no problem, but winning an argument against both of her daughters was an impossible task. With a long suffering sigh, she accepted defeat. “Fine, you can stay. But you're to be in bed by nightfall; no going into the weapons chest in the basement, and absolutely NO chocolate covered eyeballs for them, Yemite.”

Nox gasped. “But Auntie Yemite makes the best chocolate eyeballs!”

“I said none! Or you'll have me and your father to deal with.” As petulant as they were, even the twins recognized that Mel Darkthrop and Lars Tenobor VIII are a force to be reckoned with.

“Fine,” Nox grumbled, privately resolving to settle for caramel lizard tails instead.

“Be safe, okay? Father and I will be back soon.” Mel kissed each of her daughters on the cheek and playfully mussed their hair. “I love you both.” Mel donned her traveling cloak as she exited the room, sending Yemite one last meaningful glance.

“Well,” Yemite said with a grin as soon as Mel and Lars had left the premises, “Who wants chocolate covered eyeballs?”

~

“Auntie Yemite, we’re bored,” a disgruntled Nox whined as she tugged on Yemite’s tail. It had been three days, and she couldn’t stand to be cooped up in this house for one more hour. Even Uma, by far the more laid-back of the two, had begun to thrum with restless energy.

Yemite, as much as she’d like to oblige the little ones and have a little fun, was trying in earnest to be a responsible babysitter. Aside from the “forbidden” darkling delicacies and that one accident with the fire in the kitchen, she thought she'd done a fair job of it. Mel trusted her with the task of caring for her daughters, and Yemite didn’t want to let her Mistress down. But she had been quashing her own boredom for the past few days. Surely little excursion wouldn't hurt.

“How would you like to go to a party?” Yemite asked. Uma and Nox nodded fervently.

“That would be so much fun!” Uma gasped, and ran upstairs to get changed. Mel didn't host parties very often, as she found them tiring and boring. But Uma loved the enchantment of it all; she couldn't wait to dig up the party dress that had been collecting dust in her closet since last year. Nox was less excited to get dressed up, but she nevertheless enjoyed the excitement of the few parties she’d been to.

A few moments later, the twins emerged from their rooms in their partygoing outfits. Uma was a miniature snow princess in her white dress trimmed in sky blue. By contrast, Nox wore a knee-length black dress that looked more like an oversized shirt than anything. Still, Yemite fawned over both of them. “You look so adorable!” she squealed. “If only Mistress could see you. Oh, my friends don't usually like humans, but how could they not love you two?”

The twins gave each other quizzical looks. “Yemite, where exactly is this party?” Nox questioned.

Yemite’s only reply was an enigmatic “You’ll see”.

~

“Welcome to Underfall,” Yemite announced as she, Uma, and Nox stepped out of the mirror express.

Uma and Nox gaped at the exotic sight of the dark city. A sprinkling of white dusted the walkways and surrounding fields. On some of the buildings hung green garlands adorned with multicolored translucent baubles. Slate gray clouds hung above and below them, heavy with the promise of more snow.

“We darklings and other demonfolk have a tradition of celebrating the winter solstice with a week of celebration,” Yemite explained as they walked to their destination. “There are decorations, and feasts, and parties that can last until sunrise. And on the last day of festivities, friends and family give exchange gifts to give each other joy through the cold and dark winter.”

Darklings certainly are strange. But it would be nice to celebrate a holiday like that, Uma mused. She trailed behind Yemite slightly, scanning the area for something she could turn into a gift for Aunt Yemite.

I wish we had a holiday like that, I would so love to get free stuff in the wintertime, thought Nox, in total contrast to her sister’s thinking.

“We’re here,” Yemite announced in a singsong voice. They had arrived at a building called Darkling Hall, as indicated by the moss-covered sign. “They’re with me,” she added when the zombie guarding the door gave them a funny look. He stepped aside and the trio entered.

They were immediately greeted by a wall of overwhelming sights and sounds. A quartet played in the center of the hall, the music just a bit too gurgly to be coming from human instruments. Multicolored light bathed the room, emanating from a blob on the ceiling that looked suspiciously like it had eyes. “Yo, Yemite!” shouted a stout blue darkling, who rushed forth out of the crowd and embraced his friend. “Rotwart! It's been years! I haven't seen you since the slug-eating contest for who would get to be the chosen one’s servant.” Rotwart handed Yemite a glass of some slimy drink and they disappeared into the din to reminisce about the good ol’ days, leaving Uma and Nox unattended.

“Well, where do we go now?” asked Nox.

“I was thinking we could get gifts for Auntie Yemite and Mother. She did say presents were part of the tradition.”

“Yeah, a darkling tradition. And why should we, when she didn't get us gifts?”

Uma huffed at her sister’s selfishness. “Nox, do you only ever think of yourself? Besides, Yemite said the gifts were given on the last day of celebration. She’s probably waiting to give us our gifts.”

Nox considered for a moment. It could be fun to look around for a gift. “Okay,” she conceded, “But we should each only look for one present. One for Auntie Yemite, one for Mother; each from both of us.”

Uma smiled, alight with the energy the two of them shared when they were on a mission. “I'll go outside to find a present for Mother.”

“And I'll stay in here and get something for Yemite.”

“Meet back here in twenty minutes?”

“You got it, sis.”

Nox ventured into the crowd of monsters, careful to avoid anything with tentacles or large feet. She wandered around the edge of the room, scouting for anything that Yemite would like. Unfortunately, the only remotely giftable objects were dust bunnies.

She came to a stairwell that appeared to lead into a basement. Feeling adventurous, she crept down. A trio of monsters sat around a table playing a game of cards.

“I raise you 500 gold pennies,” said a small green demon.

“I’m out,” huffed a hooded figure.

“Are you kidding me? You know I can't cover that!” shouted a brutish orc as he slammed his drink on the table in anger.

The green guy shrugged. “That stone in your pocket is worth 500.”

The orc pulled out the stone and held it in defensively in his hand. The air around it shimmered with intangible dark energy. Somehow, Nox intuitively sensed that it was cursed. This was perfect - Yemite loved curses! She didn't understand how, but apparently they were delicious to darklings. “I ain't betting this!” The orc demonstratively slammed his fist again, shoving the stone back in his pocket. This orc sure was quick to anger. Wheels began to turn in Nox’s head, and a wicked smile spread across her face as she formulated a wonderfully awful idea.

She meandered into the room. “Excuse me, gentleman. Sorry to interrupt your game, but I’m looking for a suspect - green, a little bit slimy, about yea tall,” Nox gestured a few inches above her head. “Wanted for accounts of thievery, and uh, cheating at cards.”

The orc glared daggers at the demon across from him. “Eh Greedo, that sounds like you. And ya know something? I always knew you were a cheater.”

“It ain't me, I swear it!”  the monster apparently called Greedo protested.

“Hey kid, aren't you a little young to be playing detective?” The hooded figure raised a spindly finger at her.

“For your information, I'm actually, er, a gnome. We retain our youthful faces even at hundred of years of age.” Nox didn't know if that was true, but she figured these dumb brutes would believe it. “And yes, Greedo. That was his name. I’ll be back with my friends, and they won't let you get away this time!”

“You'll never catch me alive, kid!” Greedo made a mad dash for the exit, but the orc caught him by the collar of his jacket.

“Trying to cheat me out of my money?! You're not going anywhere, punk, until I introduce you to my fist!” he bellowed. Nox wrinkled her nose in disgust at the visible spray of spit.

While Greedo pleaded for mercy, Nox nonchalantly strolled past and lifted the stone from his pocket. The orc was too absorbed in making violent threats to notice. Nox emerged from the basement, smugly tossing the cursed stone up in the air and catching it. Her pickpocketing skills were truly a thing to be admired. She was, after all, her mother’s daughter.

~

Meanwhile, Uma skipped out the door into the crisp winter air. The hulking zombie was still looming in front of the entrance, but he didn't notice Uma as she crawled away, blending in with the snow. Now, where would she find a present for Mel? She wandered up and down the streets, but they were empty of everything except snow. Maybe she could get a flower from the fields, but that was so far away, she’d never make it back in time.

Suddenly, Uma’s thoughts were interrupted by the clamor of a couple on the midst of a heated argument. They emerged from the mirror express in the center of town and immediately started walking in her direction. The woman, a pale redhead in a slinky dress, was pulling her companion along, who seemed intent on refusing to move.

“Come on, husband, it's only a party. You need to go out more - the only time you leave the house is when you're trying to escape.”

“I will not socialize with creatures of the night!”

“Galahad, you're being ridiculous! I already promised them I’d bring a bottle of blood, it would be rude not to-”

Wait… Galahad? Uma recognized these two, although it'd been years since she'd seen them. “Te’ijal!”

The couple paused their bickering at the sight of Uma waving. Te’ijal ran toward her, and even the typically stoic Galahad’s face lit up upon seeing one of his best friend’s daughters.

“How’s Mel’s little crumpet? The last time I saw you, you were no bigger than a dragon’s egg!”

“Uma, what are you doing here?” Galahad asked. Leave it to him to ask the rational questions.

“Mother and Father are away, so Auntie Yemite brought us here for the celebration. But guys, I have a big problem. I need to find a gift for Mother, but I don't know what to get.” Uma looked up at them with wide, helpless eyes she knew grown-ups were unable to resist.

“That's quite the dilemma, young one.” Te’ijal surveyed the area, her catlike eyes eventually landing on a perfect gift. “Over there, in the greenery on the edge of that building, you see those orbs? I think your mother would appreciate one of those. Mel has … a thing for orbs.” The vampress giggled at how fitting the present really was.

Galahad reached to retrieve one for her. “What color?”

“Ooh, get the dark blue one! It’s the exact same shade as Mother’s eyes.”

The precious trinket was placed in Uma’s hands. She’d found a gift after all! Now all she had to do was meet up with Nox. She accompanied the two vampires back to the party, idly wondering what her sister had found for Yemite.

~

The party lasted until sundown. They danced to the strange darkling music, which Nox found thrilling and Uma, in spite of herself, eventually got around to enjoying. Te’ijal’s bottle of blood was a big hit, and she even let Uma and Nox try some, although they didn't find the taste very pleasant. When it was time for singing, Yemite and Te’ijal sang an old Underworld folk song together, and even Galahad couldn't resist a laugh.

As soon as they got home, all three of them collapsed in a heap back on their sofa. Their eyes were already drooping with the thorough exhaustion of a day of festivities.

“Auntie Yemite, can we just sleep here?” mumbled Nox.

“I suppose it won't hurt.” In truth, Yemite didn't want to get up herself. She used her tail to snag the blanket that was draped over the side and spread it over them. Curling her legs up onto the couch, she lazily wrapped a wing around each of the girls as they drifted off into the Dreamworld.

~

“Girls, we’re home!” Mel announced.

Uma and Nox pried open their eyes to the morning light filtering in through the windows and the sight of Mel and Lars standing in the doorway. They tore off the blanket and stumbled to hug their parents, who enveloped them in a crushing group hug. Yemite snuck up behind Mel and threw her arms around her neck. She wanted to hug Mel too, of course. “Did you miss us, Mistress?” she asked. Mel laughed in agreement and let go of Uma and Nox to show them the bag in her hands. “Grandma recovered quickly, so we were able to to come home early. And we brought special treats.” Mel opened the bag, revealing a dozen fragrant pastries with assorted fillings.

“I almost forgot! We got you presents too,” said Uma. She pulled out the ornament from the pocket of her dress. “It's an orb, for you and Father. Tei- I mean, Yemite said you liked them.”

Mel took the orb in hand, marveling at the glasswork and rich blue hue. “It's lovely, but why the gifts all of the sudden?”

“It's a darkling tradition,” Yemite interjected. “We exchange gifts in the wintertime. I … er, educated the girls about it while you were away.”

Nox held out her gift next. “This one is for you, Auntie Yemite.”

Yemite let out an involuntary eep of excitement. “A curse? For me? Where did you find it? Oh, you shouldn’t have! So many delicious treats to eat, I can't wait until dessert!”

Lars quirked his eyebrow at his daughters. “Yes, where did you get them?”

Uma and Nox exchanged a glance, the sort that scheming partners gave each other when they were knew someone was onto them. “Nevermind, I don't want to know,” said Mel before either one of them came up with something satisfactory to tell their parents. One day, Mel would get the full story, but right now she didn't want to spoil this moment with her family.

“I’ll admit, I didn't get gifts for all of you yet, but I think I can improvise.” Yemite motioned for them to follow her outside. She flew up into the air and perched on the roof of their house. “Everyone watch closely! And you might want to stand back a little.” The darkling raised a hand into the sky, drawing on magic she hadn't used in years but that still thrummed solidly through her veins. Suddenly, the sky was alight with dazzling firebursts and explosions of all colors.

The twins and even their parents were mesmerized by the display. “I've always wanted to see fireworks,” whispered Nox to her equally awestruck sister.

Mel’s heart swelled with love as she watched her daughters’ awestruck expressions. It turns out Yemite wasn't such a bad babysitter after all. Maybe they should celebrate darkling holidays more often.

FIN