Chapter 6

What is your Name?

WOW. It took a lot longer to finish this chapter than I thought. I was just busy over the week. Well, here you go then lol. It's something.

After all of that searching, Papyrus finally gets that this whole thing was a lost cause. Well, for him anyways. I found the box of bullets in the trash. Soon, I'll need to see if it's the right size for my gun. I promised Sans I wouldn't use it on any monster, but what if I'm come across a relentless killer like Flowey?

I went back to Papyrus's house along with him. I had sat down on the couch and turned on the TV like I live here. I mainly turned on the television only to have some kind of background noise while I fall asleep, because I'm too emotionally exhausted to do anything else. But while I doze off, I can smell something odd coming from the kitchen.

"Papyrus?" I sit up, rubbing my eyes. "Are you cooking something?"

"INDEED I AM, HUMAN ALEX." I can hear water boiling.

The smell of something burning meets my nose. "What are you cooking?"

Papyrus pokes his head out of the kitchen with tongs in his hand. He's wearing one of those chef hats.

"I AM MAKING MY SPECIAL SPAGHETTI RECIPE!" The smell and sight of smoke becomes stronger each second.

"Uh, Papyrus? I think you are overcooking it…" I start to worry if a fire will start.

"HA! YOU INSULT ME, HUMAN ALEX!"

The only thing I can do is sit there and let Papyrus take care of it. I sit up and watch the TV, twiddling my thumbs nervously. Loud, abnormal sounds come from the kitchen as Papyrus cooks his pasta. I sure hope this food doesn't taste like burnt shit. After 20 minutes or so, Papyrus announces that he is done with his cooking. He brings a plate of food and a fork to me and I take it. Holy shit. What used to be spaghetti is now a hunk of black noodle shaped…Stuff… covered with tomato sauce. Papyrus stares at me, eager to see my reaction after eating this burnt pasta.

"GO AHEAD! TASTE MY MASTERPIECE!" He says with his hands on his hip bones.

I look at the "masterpiece", trying to brace myself for the worst tasting spaghetti I will ever eat in my life. I take the fork in my left hand, and attempt to get a hold of one of the noodles. The noodles crunch in half as I stab it with my fork. I still manage to get something on my fork, and slowly bring it to my mouth. But just before I bite down on this ruined spaghetti, Sans saves me by entering the house with some bags in his hands.

"SANS! YOU'RE BACK! YOU SHOULD HAVE A TASTE OF THE SPAGHETTI I MADE! HUMAN ALEX IS TAKING TOO LONG TO PUT IT IN HIS MOUTH." Papyrus greets Sans with his offer.

"* thanks pap, but i don't think me and al like spaghetti. not without ketchup, of course." Sans winks at me as if he were saying your welcome. Although ketchup and spaghetti definitely don't go together.

"WHAT A SHAME, I ALMOST BOUGHT SOME KETCHUP TODAY." Papyrus takes my plate to put it in the kitchen.

Sans plops down on the couch next to me, sighing from his work he did all night.

"* good thing i got some burgers and fries from grillby's." Sans takes the food out of the bags he brought, and hands some to me. "* here ya go, kid."

"Thanks Sans. Not just for the burgers, heh."

Sans winks at me, knowing exactly what I'm talking about. "* hey papyrus. want any of these burgers?"

"I WILL NOT BETRAY MY SPAGHETTI, SANS. YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS BY NOW" Papyrus sits down next to Sans, with a plate of burnt spaghetti in his hands.

Sans smirks. "* it's always worth a try."

With me on the left, Sans in the middle, and Papyrus on the right, we all sit on the couch watching some good'ol TV. We had some laughs and enjoyed the food. Papyrus even enjoyed his spaghetti.

"Sans, how did you do at selling your hot dogs?" I ask, just feeling like having a conversation.

"* i did pretty good today. i sold twenty nine hot dogs. Well, actually, most of the 'dogs i gave away for free. heh."

"THAT'S WEIRD. WHO WOULD WANT TO HAVE THAT MANY APOSTROPHE DOGS?" Papyrus takes a crunchy bite off of his pasta.

"* oh you know, that other human that fell awhile back. she ran out of space to hold the 'dogs, so i just put'em on her head. heheh. you should've seen her face. i told her the hot dogs were on the house, but really it was on her." Sans smiles at the joke he made in the past.

Wait. WHAT?!

"SANS!" I yell out. "You know about the girl?!"

"* of course i do, kiddo."

"Why haven't you told me about her?!"

Sans shrugs. "* i dunno. forgot i guess."

I place my hands on on my face and lean back .

"OOOH MY GOD."

"* what's the prob, bob?"

"What's the problem? Ever since I left the ruins I have been searching for her!"

Sans looks at me like everything's fine

"* oh. well, don't sweat it al. she's probably in the hotlands by now."

"Is that far away?"

"* pff. i dunno." Sans shrugs.

Are you serious?!

"Sans! You have to bring me there!"

He looks at me with one of those "really?" faces.

"* kid. do i look like the riverman to you?"

"Uugghh. So no one will help me out here?"

"* i just came from the hotlands. i'm too sleepy to do anything else" Sans yawns, stretching ot his arms and puts them behind his skull as he lays back.

"What about you, Papyrus?" I turn to him

"ANOTHER SEARCH FOR BETTER HUMAN? LET'S DO IT!" Papyrus jumps from his seat as he usually would.

A muffled ringing sound comes from Papyrus's armor. He takes his phone out and answers it.

"YES?... OH! HELLO UNDYNE!... RIGHT NOW?... OKEY DOKIE!" He hangs up the phone and puts it back in his armor.

"THAT WAS UNDYNE. SHE WANTS ME TO DO ONE-ON-ONE TRAINING WITH HER, RIGHT THIS SECOND! SORRY HUMAN ALEX. YOU'LL HAVE TO SEARCH FOR BETTER HUMAN ALONE…"

"Greeat. I guess I will then."

"BUT, WHAT YOU CAN DO IS COME WITH ME UNTIL I GET TO UNDYNE'S HOUSE, THEN YOU CAN CONTINUE ON TO HOTLAND! I AM A GENIUS!" Sans raises his hand and they high-five each other.

"Alright", I say disappointingly, "Let's go then…"

"INDEED! LET US GO!"

"* see you guys later. if you need any help, just give me a call" Sans comments sarcastically, just to piss me off.

Me and Papyus walk together down the same paths, but this time I'm a bit far behind from him. I'm not used to these long walks. I take my phone out to check the time, but it doesn't turn on. Ugh, it's dead. Now what? I stuff my hands into my pockets and pick up the pace with Papyrus. Me and him reach the path where we took a right and went to the garbage piles, but this time we took a left. Papyrus stops when we get to an area with a huge strange house that looks like an angry fish.

"HERE WE ARE! UNDYNE'S HOUSE!" Papyrus heroically puts his hands on his hip bones.

"NOW, YOU WILL GO FIND BETTER HUMAN AND I WILL BE TRAINING. SEE YOU LATER!"

"Alright then. See you later." I walk away as Papyrus knocks on the door.

Well. Now I'm on my own again. I have no idea where to go. Where are the hotlands anyways? When I get out of that area, I come across a sign. I've seen it before, but I never read it because I was heading for the garbage place. I walk up to the sign to read it.

"NORTH: GHOST TOWN

SOUTH: GARBAGE DUMP

?: TEMMIE VILLAGE"

Hmm. Maybe I'll go north to see if the girl is over there. I have to search every inch of this place if I want to find her and fulfill my promise. I go north to investigate. There are a pair of awkwardly shaped houses right next to each other, one pink and one blue. I decide to knock on the pink house first… No answer. Alright then. I'll knock on the blue one.

Knock knock knock!

I wait for a while and the door opens. There's a cliché looking ghost (it looks like it has a sheet on it's head) wearing headphones that floats before me, looking very surprised.

"Oh… Another human… May I help you?" The ghost says in a quiet tone.

When the sign read Ghost Town I didn't know it meant literally.

"Yes actually. Have you seen a girl human around here?" I ask.

"... Yes….." The ghost doesn't seem to like talking to me.

"Well, can you maybe tell me where she went?"

"...The last time I seen her was when she left my house..."

There is a long awkward pause.

"Well. Thanks, I guess"

"Oh… Your welcome…" The ghost slowly closes the door.

Woah. That was embarrassing. I guess I'll go back to the sign to see where else I can go. I reach the sign to read the directions again. But I get interrupted by loud banging and clashing sounds. It seems to be coming from Undyne's house. I'm too interested in the curious sounds, so I sneak over to the fish house. Papyrus is laying down on a rug next to a dummy, playing with a blue bone.

"Papyrus! What are you doing?" I yell so I can be heard over the loud noises.

Papyrus looks up and smiles at me. "AH, HUMAN ALEX! UNDYNE AND BETTER HUMAN ARE IN THERE COOKING PASTA! YOU MUST JOIN THE FUN! I WAS GOING TO TOO, BUT THIS DUMMY JUST LOVES MY BLUE ATTACKS!"

"What?! Really?! In there, right now?!" Is this really happening?" My heart leaps with excitement.

"YES HUMAN ALEX! HURRY BEFORE YOU MISS THE SEASONING OF THE PASTA!" Papyrus points to the door.

Ignoring my broken leg, I sprint to the front door. The huge clashes and clangs grow louder when I reach the door. I slowly open it in fear of some flying object that might hit my face. I peek my head in to see what's going on.

There is a blue monster with gills that is stirring up a box of noodles inside a red-hot pot. Tomato sauce and stray pasta straws fly all over the place as this is happening. But right next to the monster…

Is the girl.

She looks about my age, with long brown hair and a bow to top it off. She wears a pink and blue striped shirt, long black pants, and small black shoes. Although her droopy eyes look closed, it looks like she's having a great time with the reckless cooking.

I… I don't know how to introduce myself at this time. The only thing that comes to mind is knocking on the door, even though I already opened the door. Well. Here goes nothing.

Knock knock knock!

The cooking stops and the two look in my direction. Now, I have the girl and who has to be Undyne staring at me with mixed expressions. Undyne looks like she is astonished and angry at the same time with her mouth wide open, while the girl's face is full of unexplainable emotions. Blood rushes to my face as I stand there stupidly while slowly opening the door. Undyne grows angrier and angrier, unsettling me.

"Another… Human?!"

Undyne raises her arm, and a glowing blue spear appears in her hand. She then throws the spear at me! I quickly close the door a split second before the spear penetrates it, just a hair away from my eyes.

"I'll kill you, you little punk!" She sprints to the door from the other side.

I run to Papyrus and hide behind him. The front door immediately bursts open with Undyne searching for me.

"OH HELLO UNDYNE! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Papyrus casually greets the fish monster.

"WHERE IS THAT LITTLE PUNK!" Undyne screeches.

She looks left and right, until finding me behind Papyrus.

"YOU!" She stomps her way to me and the skeleton.

"UNDYNE, THIS IS ALEX. ALEX, MEET UNDYNE!" Papyrus happily introduces us to each other.

Undyne ignores him and picks me up by the collar of my shirt, lifting me up off the ground. A spear summons in her other hand as she readys herself to kill me. The small, poor heart glows in my chest once more, reminding me of Flowey trying to kill me. My heart beats faster and faster and I notice the girl slowly walking out of the house, looking almost as scared as I was.

"UNDYNE! ALEX HUMAN IS GOOD!" Papyrus tackles her, pushing me to the ground.

I pick myself back up and keep my distance from Undyne. She gets up as well, but she attempts to lunge at me, only to be held back by Papyrus.

"UNDYNE, WE MUST TALK AT MY HOUSE. HUMAN ALEX, YOU AND BETTER HUMAN GO HAVE SOME HUMAN TIME!" The skeleton drags Undyne away.

The voice of Undyne yelling at me drifts off each second until I can't hear her anymore. After a couple of minutes of silence, the girl and I just kinda stare at each other awkwardly. I slowly walk to greet her and decide to speak out to make it less silent.

"So, um. My name is Alex. I fell down here days ago. What's your name?" I'm off on a good start.

The girl looks down and nervously scratches her arm. She doesn't say anything, which makes the situation more embarrassing.

"When did you fall down here then?" I add, trying to get some answer from her. "Papyrus was right. You don't talk much."

She smiles at me, finally giving some kind of response to my blabbering. The girl walks towards the exit, gesturing me to come with her, so I follow. She heads to the cave opening with all of the glowing flowers and waters. We approach a small glowing tree near one of the lit up rivers. She sits down under the tree, so I sit next to her. I never really paid attention to this environment. I never realized how bright the glistening "stars" were around here. Not to mention the bright blue water that illuminates everything. Sometimes I could hear distant whispers from the echo flowers. I would say it's the equivalent of the sound of leaves rustling in the trees on a bright day.

Me and the girl sit there for quite some time without speaking about anything. I have so many questions to ask her about what had happened to her when she fell.

"Hey…" I break the soft background noises.

The girl looks up at me curiously.

"You know, I have been looking for you ever since I left the ruins."

She looks slightly surprised at my input. But I continue.

"I promised a monster that I would find you and keep you from danger." I look away from the ground to her.

"Have you been in any life-threatening situations?"

She gives me a nervous look, basically telling me she has.

"Well. You won't have to worry about that anymore…"

She smiles at me again, then rests her head on my shoulder. I'm a bit shocked since we just met, then again she probably hasn't seen another one of her kind in a long time. I catch myself grinning at the thought. I feel like I've reached my goal. Toriel will be proud. Speaking of which, hopefully we will meet again.

"Hey, um. I still don't know your name. Could you tell me?" I get another shot for an answer.

There's a long silence, with only the whispering echo flowers and the small splashing water making noises. She adjusts her head on my shoulder and takes a deep sigh.

"Frisk…"

Her small, sleepy voice at last utters out her name. Just the fact that she can talk satisfies me.

"Frisk? That's a neat name. Never heard that one before." I compliment.

I look at her, only to figure out that she's asleep. I sigh and slouch down. Now that I know her name I can stop calling her "hey". These days are going to be some good ones. I feel like there is more hope than there was when I broke my leg. I look back up to the cave's stars and think about all the stuff I've been through, and still survived afterwards. It wasn't much, but falling down here has been really stressful for me.

But now my only goal here is to get out of this place… Or, even better, brings my friends with me.

I did it! After, what? 5 days? Almost 3000 words too. I only came down here to tell you a fact that you may have noticed about Alex: He's left handed! Not that it matters to the plot, but y'know. Why not tell you guys? AMIRITE?