The Soul of Empathy

Chapter Three

Pikachulover66 here, I realized I posted two chapters in one day, don't expect that every week, from here on out it's one chapter every Saturday!

Chapter Three

And Then...

Soon enough it was three in the morning and everyone decided it was time to call it a night. Alphys and Undyne hugged Shadow before leaving. They promised her they would watch more Fairy Tail and talk about it with her later. That left Shadow pretty excited. Once they went out the door Shadow turned to Sans and Papyrus.

"Thank you so much for inviting me, I had a blast, really", her grin was bright and caused the two boys to smile back at her.

"IT WAS REALLY NICE HAVING OVER A NEW FRIEND! I HOPE THAT YOU COME BACK SOON!"

"It was good seeing you Shad, drive safe."

"Do you think blasting music at this time would be bad?" Shadow asked her head tilted to the side a bit.

"If you want to drive our neighborhood insane then no."

"Heh, I guess I'll refrain from that then." With that Shadow went out the door and drove home.

The rest of the weekend was spent texting back and forth with Alphys and Sans. They were talking about all sorts of things. Alphys ended up bringing up a very interesting topic.

"So I noticed you're looking kinda close to Sans, is there a ship forming there?"

"With me and Sans? I dunno really, maybe? He's a really cool guy and I'd like to get to know him, other than that I wouldn't know yet." Shadow's response seemed really honest, to the point where Alphys couldn't really push it.

"If you say so then I guess I'll leave it be" Surprisingly the subject diverted back to Fairy Tail shippings. The two made plans to watch more Fairy Tail on Wednesday. They were also going to have Shadow over for dinner.

"Oh, do you mind if Undyne's and I's room mate is there?"

"You guys have a roommate? Also no it's not a problem. I'm sure if you live with them they're a really good person." Alphys could practically hear how excited Shadow was from her text.

With that Shadow ended up spending the rest of her Sunday on homework and classes. Monday and Tuesday was full of just normal working hours. Except she started to see humans come in and try the food there. A lot of them were nice but others were very rude. Shadow was a nice person though so she handled them very well. Shadow was sure they showed up purely to treat the 'monsters' here badly.

Grillby kept Shadow late on Tuesday to talk to her about some of the humans that came in today. He was voicing his concerns for his restaurant, he seemed rather distressed, the poor man had no idea how to deal with customers that just treat all his regulars in a really poor manner. They've been shoving food off the tables, pouring water on some of the other monsters. It's really started to get out of hand.

"Shadow, how do I make this stop? I won't be able to keep running Grillby's at this rate", poor Grillby looked so distraught.

"There's a sign we can put up. It's a right to refuse service sign. That means we can turn anyone away we don't want in here. However, don't turn away all humans, that'll cause more problems for us." Shadow looked rather worried but this was all she could come up with.

"I think that might do the trick. Don't worry I won't turn them all away, but I will ask them to leave as soon as they start being rude. That'll go for anyone."

"I'm glad you think that. I can go out and buy the sign, I think I know a place where I can buy it. I'll try to bring it to you in the morning", with that Shadow ran out of the restaurant and hurried home to her car.