I woke to the sound of the tv in the living room blaring into my ears, muffled noises of some new reporter, a newspaper slams on my window, I slightly read it but stop when I read the words “human”. I let my body take its time to get up to start another day, ignoring the sounds of the outside world to take care of myself. As I stand my legs are wobbly and slightly shaky, a good sign my legs slept better than me I guess. I slide my shirt over my exposed skeleton body and then rub my eyes, glancing at my glasses on my bedside table, ultimately deciding that I don't need them, I can see perfectly fine.
I trudge out to the hallway, there's a railing to look down into living room, when i look at the tv its all about the humans,and how they've come to Dreemur castle begging for help with the thing they cause themselves.makes me angry, i look down the railing to the couch,seeing my brother the two humans, one ghost one alive, and flowey, trying to comfort my brother whos clearly upset and afraid,i walk towards the edge of the staircase, i step down with a tiny thud after each step,till i finally on the ground, i walk over to my brother and kneel in front of him.
I say softly, to try and comfort him, he nods at me that he's okay, “want me to get you some spaghetti? We have leftovers, I'm sure of it.”
he nods at me again,and i get up off the floor and go into the kitchen and open the fridge, grabbing a covered container of spaghetti, I grab a fork and a plate and start scooping spaghetti onto the plate and slide it into the microwave…
the microwave noises blend together with every other sound around me, i zone out for a little while until i hear the beep noise meaning that the spaghetti is done,i stir the spaghetti, and walk over to my brother whos calmed down and hand him the spaghetti and i smile, “feel better,paps?”
he nods to me again as he grabs the fork and starts eating again, while he does, the phone in the kitchen attached to the wall starts ringing.i walk over to the phone, i pick it up and answer
the person on the other end says to me,
“Hey sans, its undyne,Asgore says he needs every monster in the underground to come to the castle as soon as possible,bring your stuff too he says,personal belonging this whole thing its obvious its concerning the humans.”
she said with maliciousness in her voice,
i respond “hm, of course undyne,me, papyrus,frisk,chara and flowey will be there shortly, goodbye undyne,”
i said with a turn in my voice,as i place the phone back onto its mantle, hanging up the telephone call.
I turn towards a still eating papyrus, frisk sitting on the floor spacing out slightly, chara who is ghostly floating above flowey trying to do the same as him and pretending not to care at all about the whole human situation,i take a deep breath in and out,
“hey, guys please, i know this situation seems stressful, but hey maybe they're not here to literally obliterate all monster kind-??”
i say with a slightly stressed squeaky voice,chara responds,
its whatever, these idiots might not calm down but ill get frisks stuff, i dont think well be able to stay here with the mass amount of humans basically invading monster kind land,”
she says with a drawn out bored expression on their face as the moved through the air, their ghostly body not touching the ground at all, as they floated up towards the top of the stairs,leaving into frisks room.i stand there until i here papyrus slurp up the last of his spaghetti,he stands up, wipes his face.
“I guess ill go and pack my stuff as well then!”
papyrus, before he leaves, quickly places the plate into the sink in the kitchen and then jogs all the way up the stairs and into his room, you can hear him ruffling and shuffling from downstairs. I let out a big sigh, I turned to frisk and flowey, specifically frisk,
“hang in there kid, its gonna be okay… i bet asgore’ll have it all handled, lickety split, hey they might even find a way to let us monsters and you up to the surface like we've dreamed of, eh?”
i say, trying to lighten the mood between me and the kid, Flowey rolls his eyes at me even tho nobody's talking to him at all,i then start walking the stairs, my eyes never seem to leave frisk in their silent zoning out, that kid makes me worry about what they could constantly be thinking at all times… but I can't think about it now.
I reach my room, I grab a dark navy blue backpack stuffed into the back of my closet, I dust it off. It's dirty and torn, “ill fix it later”
I say under my breath to myself. I grab some of my necessary clothes, socks, pants, shirts, a jacket, stuff you'd usually need.
I go into the bathroom, grabbing a medkit,
i tell myself, i search through certain pill bottles, looking for a very specific one, i finally find one labeled “plant growth” its for flowey of course, being a plant in the underground that needs certain things from the surface requires extra care,i know he tries to play tough guy but it really doesn't stop his condition. I put it into my bag,
and with that I grab a small blanket and im done, i zipp up the backpack and throw the strap of the back over my shoulder, and i shut the door of my room, i admire it, even tho it isn't decorated nor engraved with anything, id like to be able to come back some day, i hope this isnt really goodbye to our home we've known for years…
I shake the thought from my mind and walk past frisks room and to papyrus’s room, i walk in and lean against the doorway, i look at him rummaging through his clothes in his dresser.
“Paps, only take what you need bro,it's gonna be okay.”
i smile as he turns to look at me, and smiles as he usually does, and he says to me
“of course i know that sans, but as long as i have you around, i know ill be alright!”
I feel a warmth within my heart,knowing happily that as long as me and papyrus stick together everything will be alright. Its a nice feeling.
”well, just making sure, im gonna go check on chara, meet me down stairs when your done packing bro.”
i walk away from papyrus’s room to the next, frisks and charas room, i loom in from the door frame to see the ghost struggling to put things into the flimsy backpack. I walk over into the dimly lit room with a bunk bed on the back wall, the bed on the bottom is nicely made and clean, while the one on top is messy and slightly stained with chocolate,
theres a desk to the left wall with art supplies and notebooks all over it, stickers cover most of the objects in the room, even the door, theres glow stars on the ceiling and some sides of the walls, two dressers with frisk and charas name on them, theres posters on the walls of some games or movies or musicals as chara called them, i reminisce a bit about a specific poster, a golden background with a man standing on top of a star and pointing to the guy…
apparently his names uh….. Ale Turkilton or something, but back to the point! I get close to chara
“need some help there kiddo?”
i say, as they clearly need some help. Chara looks at me, annoyed obviously,
“no ive got it i dont need YOUR help!”
i stand there, knowing in my brain they need help as the struggle to shove clothes into the bag, “hey, kid you really dont need all that stuff ya know? Only stuff you need, which means not chocolate.”
i say with a small chuckle to the chocolate-aholic.
“Noooo!! I need my chocolate tho man-”
she says with a whine, falling to lay on the floor like a child. I chuckle at them. They look very silly, i get down and sit on the floor next to them, i grabbed the bag and took the stuff out and sorted it,
“now tell me,your not just packing for yourself right? This is yours and frisks bag, but if you need a separate one im sure i can find a spare you know?”
“no no, really its fine, i just… im indecisive, i dont understand or know what i even want…i get afraid everytime i go back to the castle, or whenever im near asgore or even toriel for that matter,i just feel bad, so i was procrastinating.”
they say, talking to the ceiling almost, zoning out slightly as they talked, i look at them, their dull dead ghostly face, i turn to look at the stuff they packed. Chocolate, and a small handmade plushie of flowey.they act like they hate one another but in truth they're still family.
“Well, I mean.. What's happened in the past is in the past and you'll never get over it if you don't try to.”
They look at me. And sit up off the floor.
“You're right, besides I'm a little baby, if I want chocolate ill carry it myself if I have to!”
she chuckles at me with a childish smirk. I smile back,
“well now, do you want my help packing kiddo or do you think you've got it?”
i say whilst getting onto my knees and standing up.
“No i think i got it, just let everyone know ill be down shortly,”
she smiles, already packing up their stuff into the bag. I smile,
“Of course, see you down stairs kid.”
I turn my back towards her, hands in my jacket pocket, adjusting the backpack on my back as I exit the room to the stairway, I carefully step down the steps so as to not fall face forward down the stairs or fall on my ass in any way possible, sheesh that would be embarrassing. I finally get to the final step, I see papyrus chatting up a storm to flowey and frisk, as per usual as if this day was normal somehow…. I walk over to the front door, I rest my hand on the door handle, I hold it tightly in my grasp. Seeing papyrus so happy makes me feel glad even tho.
This could be the end of monster kind as we know it. Or maybe not, I wouldn't know,
“You ready papyrus? Chara will be down in a minute or so,”
papyrus stops talking and turns his head to me, i can see the gears turning in his skull, then he speaks,
“i believe the great papyrus is ready!”
papyrus stands up from the couch, from my peripheral vision i see chara loathing down the steps, backpack on her back, looking soulless as per usual, once she gets the the actual floor she gets close to frisks and swings the back pack off their back and hand it to frisk, frisk stands up,taking the back pack into their hands,frisk pulls it over their shoulder and onto their back, they smile silently, i smile just seeing that kid happy, even if its fake sometimes.
I say, my hand on the door handle tightening. They all nod towards me,papyrus picks up floweys pot, flowey sorta grumbles angrily as papyrus holds his pot like a child or a baby almost. I turn to the door, i stare at it, its like all of us combined. Stratch marks, stickers, a clothing hook on it, with an apron on it, the aprons got some sunflower seeds on it embroidered into the fabric.
And.. and my scarf. Plane and neon green, i grab it and throw it over my shoulder, i turn one last time to my brother and my friends. And i turn back to the door and open it.
I move out of the way so they all can go through the door first. They walk past me, and i walk behind them, and close the door. And i let go of the door, and jog slightly to catch up with papyrus and frisk,papyrus says
“i wonder why King Asgore needs us all at the castle…?”
i respond short and bluntly.
“Most likely due to the human problem, I don't understand what's going on but I'd guess hed like every monster in the underground there to discuss it”..
its eerily quiet in snowdin…