Undertale

Chapter 18: CORE

I left the hotel, took the elevator to Left Floor One, and went to the river. "Tra la la. Care for a ride?" the River Person asked.

"Yes."

"Where will we go today?"

"Snowdin."

"Then we're off." The boat set off down the river. "Tra la la. I heard spiders have a favorite food. It's spiders." ... maybe the spider doughnuts really did have spiders in them! We arrived at Snowdin. The cold felt wonderful after Hotland. "Come again some time. Tra la la."

I went to Sans and Papyrus's house. Undyne and Papyrus were standing outside. "Hi! I haven't seen you guys in a while!"

"I'M SO GLAD YOU AND UNDYNE ARE FRIENDS NOW." said Papyrus. "YOU TWO GO TOGETHER LIKE PASTA AND BURNING!"

"Hey, punk! What's up!?" Undyne cried. Suddenly, she sneezed. "A-ACHOO! Papyrus, how can you stand this cold?"

"I HAVE NO SKIN."

"So why don't we stand in Grillby's instead?"

"BECAUSE I HATE GREASE."

"But you don't have a stomach!!" Undyne insisted. That was true. Come to think of it, how did Papyrus eat spaghetti?

"NO, BUT I HAVE STANDARDS!!!" said Papyrus.

I went inside Sans and Papyrus's house. I visited the trash can.

I decided to take a walk around Snowdin. There were many more monsters around than there were before. By all the snow poffs, I found an Ice Cap with a bronze hat. "We all live in the woods, so no one can tell us what to do!" it said. "But now everyone ignores us... I don't want freedom if it means no one's gonna pay attention to me."

Down on the ledge where I thought I saw Sans teleport was Gyftrot, the monster whose antlers had been decorated. It was very grumpy. "I've heard there's a local tradition based off of my own suffering."

"Yeah. People put presents under trees for you, and for each other."

It didn't respond. It didn't seem to have any opinion on it.

Down by the snow-Papyrus and lump of snow with 'sans' written on it was another Ice Cap. This one had a blue hat. "Everyone's wearing hats. Should I branch into a different item? Ice jorts... doesn't have the same ring to it."

There was a monster that looked like Snowdrake, but he was green and wore sunglasses. He was called Chilldrake. "Heh... us teens live self-sufficiently off the fat of the land. Oh, and the box lunch my parents bring us every day. Guh huh huh huh. Us teens rule these woods with a smaller-than-adult fist."

An Ice Cap in a green hat said, "Hey, stop thinking about my hat!"

"I wasn't thinking about your hat!"

"... you aren't thinking about my hat? ... can you, please?" I rolled my eyes and walked on.

When I got to the cardboard sentry station, I decided to call Papyrus. "NYEH HEH HEH!! IMPRESSED!?! NOT ONLY AM I GREAT AT PUZZLES... BUT I'M ALSO AN ESTEEMED ARCHITECT!!!"

Beside the sentry station was Snowdrake. "Hey. I met your dad. He misses you."

"I ran away from home," said Snowdrake sharply. "Why? 'Cause my father was so 'cold' to me... WHAT!? It's a JOKE!! LAUGH at it!!" Poor Snowdrake.

I talked to some of the people in the town. "That lady over there's been going for a walk for a while now," said the disturbed old bunny. "...but she hasn't moved an inch from where she's standing. W-well, I haven't either, but I don't want her to notice me over here."