Another Year, Another Morning Routine
Slowly, their eye lids opened, to the sound of the door closing. Confused, Frisk sat up and saw that Chara, their roommate, had just reentered their shared dorm, a zip bag of toiletries (stick of deodorant, tooth brush and paste, floss, so on) in their hand.
Chara made their way to the chest at the foot of their bed, placing their toiletries in and grabbing a backpack. They put it on over top their dark purple and white school uniform.
Frisk looked at their bedside table, and saw it was 7:41 on their alarm clock. They looked back over to Chara, confusedly and angrily asking “Chara, why di-d-d-d-d-d-!…” A bit slower, “Why didn’t you wake me up! I always wake you up when you sleep in!”
Chara looked over at them, telling them “You looked like you needed it, Mx.I-stayed-up-until-1AM-working-on-my-stupid-blog-night-before-school-starts.” They turned around, and with everything they need for the day, minus a trip to their locker for a few more things, walked out of the room.
“SANS! HURRY UP, YOU’RE GOING TO BE LATE!” Why did he have to do this! He was going to miss the first day of the school year!
Sans shrugged as he pulled on his blue and white uniform. “Don’t worry bro, go on ahead. I promise i wont be late, okay?” He flashed his left eye socket, a blink of yellow and light blue before it returned to normal, a white pupil filling it and his other socket.
Papyrus was still skeptical, until Sans said “Bro, i got Ms.Toriels class first, i’m not gonna be late, okay?”
Assured by this, knowing his brother would never be late to one of her classes, he nodded. “Very well then. Have a good day Brother! See you at lunch!”
Sans said “Bye bro” as Papyrus ran out the door.
He finished putting on his uniform (just like Papyrus’ scarf), wearing his old blue hoodie over top it, and started gathering some of his supplies, strewn about on his side of the room.
“You ready Alphys?”
“Y-Y-Yes Undyne!” she had her light “Mew Mew Kissy Cutie” backpack on, her white and dark purple uniform, and her laptop bag with nearly everything she needed for class, using her laptop to take all her notes, write her assignments, so forth. All she had in her backpack was her gym clothes, and her phone with her wallet. Not much.
Undyne, on the other hand, wore her dark purple and white uniform (without sleeves, because you can only rip so many sleeves by working out before the teachers give up), with a green armband featuring the school logo her forearm. She had her “Satan Is An Intern” backpack (stuffed with rocks), a second “Kamna 2/5″ backpack over top (filled with rocks also), and an empty shoulder bag for her to put her stuff into once she actually gets it from her locker.
The two of them began walking out of their dorm. Coming to the staircase, they saw Chara.
“Hey punk! How’s it goin’?!” Undyne was happy they ran into them.
Chara looked over at them, and smiled, waiting right at the stairs. They happily said “Hi Undyne, Alphys. I’m doing quite well, you two?”
Frisk had on their purple and white uniform as they rushed to gather their school supplies from inside their chest, stuffing them into a worn blue and black backpack with “ULY ALL NOON” written on the back.
Eventually, they had everything they needed for their first two classes (they’d need to grab the rest later), and with no time to go use the showers, ran out their dorm and quickly down the stairs until they were outside, running across the grounds towards their first class.
“Kid, just calm down already, okay?”
“NO! YOU CALM DOWN ALREADY, ‘OKAY’!”
”Can we please just get to class?…”
”But Blooky, we CAN NOT simply leave this mystery unsolved!”
As Papyrus stepped out of the male dorm building, his grin widened, as he saw four of his wonderful friends having a wonderful discussion with one another. “Greetings, everyone!”
Happstablook (Happy) looked over, before turning away as their pink cheeks turned slightly pinker. Meanwhile, Napstablook began to speak, before being interrupted “Papyrus! You settle this! What is the best soul colour, orange or purple!”
“Kid, i told you already, they aren’t just colours, their traits, refer to them as such; Bravery, and Perseverance.” The tall human, with immaculate long hair dyed a deep purple, wearing a navy blue crimson school uniform with a red arm band featuring the school logo, glasses, a shoulder bag of school supplies and many notes (despite school not even starting for the year yet), and a notebook held under his arm, was getting extremely agitated with his unwanted dorm mate.
They angrily replied “I TOLD YOU MY FOR THE LAST TIME NICK MY NAME IS ATLAS!” The short human, Atlas, wore his usual pale blue and white uniform for junior male students, an “Outside In” kids backpack, and a bandanna, with a pair of slightly over sized leather gloves stained orange, with messy ginger hair.
Napstablook, a fairly large white ghost somehow wearing a ghost camera, and a ghost satchel (full of ghost school supplies, such as ghost pencils, ghost paper, ghost eraser, and some ghost lunch consisting of a ghost sandwich), whispered to Papyrus “Can you please help them end this, if it isn’t a bother…. We’ve been here the last ten minutes…”
Papyrus pondered what the question. “Orange or purple, orange or purple…”
“Uhg, not you too, i just explained.” Nickolas was sick of people demoting the different soul types to nothing more than aesthetic.
Eventually, Papyrus told them “They’re both amazing!”
Happy, Atlas, and Nickolas all stared at him, unsatisfied. After a moment of uncomfortable silence, Napstablook said “Uhh… Guys? We should be getting to class…”
Happstablook, a pink ghost slightly smaller than Napstablook with a fabulous hair style and a (ghost) designer bag, said “Blooky is right everyone! Class is not the place to be fashionably late to!”
Nickolas sighed. He told them “Later Blook, Pyrus, Happy, kid.”
As Nickolas walked off, Atlas shouted after him “MY NAME IS ATLAS!”
“See you guys at lunch!” Chara said excitably (well, relatively) to their friends, as Undyne and Alphys made their way down the hall to their respective first classes, a grade ten physics applied mathematics course for Alphys, and music for Undyne.
Meanwhile, Chara made their way down another hall. Eventually, they turned into a side hall, and into one of the classrooms.
As they entered, the teacher, Dr.Gaster, looked over at them, glaring, before returning to his papers at the front desk.
Most of the sitting students continued their discussions, or were laying out their stuff for class (there was no easy day with Dr.Gaster), though one of them, a tall, slightly older human with somewhat tidy dark brown hair and a nervous expression, looked up from their school supplies and gave Chara a small wave, with a faint smile.
Chara glared at them a moment, giving a brief wave back before making their way to a desk by the front, next to the center.
In the center desk, besides them, was Papyrus, smiling as they said “Greetings, Chara! How are you doing today friend!?”
They smiled back, always happy with Papyrus, answering “I’m doing good, thanks Papyrus. How about yourself?”
“I am very well Chara, thank you for asking!”
Frisk ran into the room, breathing heavily. Looking up on the wall, they saw that it was almost time for class to start. They looked around, and only seeing two desks open, sat down in one of them, a seat off to the side, one row from the back.
Ms.Toriel stood sat at the front desk, looking up at students and smiling at them as she preemptively did her attendance, writing it onto a clipboard.
Finally, only seconds before class started, all but one seat filled, in the seat in front of Frisk, Sans suddenly appeared, causing the room to flash black for just a moment. He looked back at Frisk, asking “Heyya Kid, what’s up?”
And as Sans spoke, all the students were jolted awake, throughout the school, as the bell went off.
For some, it was their first time hearing the school bell. For others, they would have heard it thousands of time already.
However, to all, it meant the same thing.
The beginning of yet another school year at the Underground Academy.
((My first original writing piece for UGA, BOOYAH! I was finally not lazy! Anyway, thank you to Arrow for suggesting this idea, and to my friend Kaitlin for reviewing this writing piece ahead of time! Here, we witness everybody making their way off to school, for the beginning of yet another year at UGA. We see Frisk, sleeping through their alarm, Chara, showing their disdain for humans but friendship to others, Papyrus, being- well, being Papyrus, Sans, being lazy. We had Alphys being nervous around Undyne, and Undyne wearing two backpacks of rocks. We got to see our favourite ghostygoos, Napsta’ and Hapstablook, and were well introduced i think to two more of our magic humans, perseverant uptight peer tutor Nickolas, and brave young wild angry and loud Atlas, as well as a minor peak i should say at yet another of the humans, Dr.Gaster, and Ms.Toriel (yes, she goes by “Ms.Toriel,” electing to not use her last name nor reference her… previous engagements). I hoped y’all enjoyed this, and will help turn UGA into something a little bit bigger, because i’ve got plans *insert disconcerting grin here*. Also, PLEASE SEND IN ASKS I’M BEGGING YOU! Oh yeah, i also learned Mx is the gender neutral version Mr/Ms. Neat.))
