Chapter 1 The Promise

Author's note: I've recently updated all my chapters so far to remove any spelling mistakes, you're welcome =)

This is labeled under horror for a reason, unfortunately I didn't mean to wait so long before it will come into play, so for newcomers who are looking for gore,suspense and so on. Please bare with me ^^; and again, sorry...

*BEEP BEEP BEEP*

Sans groaned and tossed around in his bed pulling the sheets over his head.

*BEEP BEEP BEEP*

"*damn alarm clock." He muttered going deeper under his blanket.

"SANS!" A voice screamed from the other side of his bedroom door. "GET UP YOU LAZYBONES! WHAT IF A HUMAN CAME AND WE WEREN'T THERE TO TRAP IT! SANS!" Papyrus was banging on the door now.

"*just a few more months bro" Sans called out but this did not stop his brother. "I THE GREAT PAPYRUS WILL NOT STAND BY WHILE HIS LAZY BROTHER SLEEPS THE DAY AWAY!" With that Papyrus kicked the door open almost making Sans fall out of his bed by the sheer shock-wave.

Papyrus ripped the blanket off Sans making him hiss from the sudden blast of natural light, Papyrus then proceeded to scoop up his brother in one arm and his brothers slippers in the other. "NYEH HEH HEH HEEEH!" Papyrus laughed.

"*Papyr-?" Sans started but was cut off by Papyrus jumping through his bedroom window almost landing on a arm-less monster kid, Papyrus then bounded off in the direction of Sans's sentry post by the big doors at high speed.

Papyrus finally stopped just in front of the station.

"NYEH HEH HEH HEEH! DIDN'T EVEN BREAK A SWEAT!" Papyrus said looking very proud of himself, he then carefully placed Sans on the ground.

"*arrgh...i think i'm going to hurl." Sans replied as he struggled to regain his balance.

Papyrus seem to flinch at the word and looked away in disgust.

"THERE ISN'T TIME FOR THAT SANS, WE HAVE TO RECALIBRATE OUR PUZZLES,"

Papyrus handed Sans his slippers. "AND MAYBE HAVE SOME SPAGHETTI, WHAT DO YOU THINK SANS?"

"*yeah bro, im PASTAring away." Sans snickered at his pun and slipped his slippers on. "SANS!" "*heh, come on your smiling" "I KNOW AND I HATE IT." Papyrus crossed his arms and looked away from his brother in disgust. "SANS I'M GOING TO RE-CALIBRATE MY PUZZLES, I THINK YOU SHOULD TOO." He said looking over his shoulder. "*I'll keep an eye-socket on them." Sans winked at his brother, making Papyrus put his hands on his hips (Vertebra?) and look down at him like a mother displeased by her child's actions.

"SANS! YOU SHOULD TAKE THIS MORE SERIOUSLY! WHAT IF A HUMAN CAME BY AND YOUR PUZZLES WERE COVERED IN SNOW! WHAT THEN?"

"*i gu-" Sans started but was immediately cut off. "AND YOU REALLY SHOULD PRESENT YOURSELF BETTER, YOU LOOK LIKE YOU'VE JUST GOT OUT OF BED!"

Sans just stood in silence, it was the best thing to do when his brother got like this.

"DON'T WORRY SANS! FOR I, THE GREAT, PAPYRUS, WILL HELP YOU, I HONESTLY DON'T KNOW HOW YOU WOULD GET BY WITHOUT A SUPER COOL BROTHER LIKE ME NYEHEHEHEHHEHEH!" And with that Papyrus walked away only to return a few seconds later. "HEH!" He then walked away again, Sans sighed, he loved his brother but he was a pain sometimes.

Sans trudged through the snow towards the GIGANTIC doors where he liked to practice knock knock jokes, he paused and gazed up at it.

He wondered wither a human would ever come through those doors, his

(nonexistent eyes. [Like he's a skeleton. {yet somehow has eyes. Made this a paragraph within itself so u don't have to scroll around just to work out where you were and what you were just reading. \Your welcome/I'm going to use this moment to say that for those who are enjoying my story so far...thank you, I replayed the game many times to get the characters just right and you guys are awesome ^.^ : I hope to write a lot more and i hope you guys will stick around for that | Am I just using this as an excuses to make a bunch of brackets you ask? *yes, yes I am. $Now back to the story$*|:/\}])

eyes wandered and stopped at the camera that was barely visible among a snow covered bush right next to the door.

Sans knew Alphys installed them a few weeks ago, she said it was for monitoring a human if one should come by...Sans didn't say it but he didn't like these cameras, especially when Undyne complained to Papyrus every time she caught him sleeping on the job, which normally led to more lectures from Pap.

With a sigh Sans reached up and knocked on the door, after a few moments and womans voice replied.

"*Who is there?" "*ice." Sans replied. "*Ice who?" "*ice to hear you." The woman started laughing. "*MY turn." She knocked on the door.

"*who's there?" Sans replied "*What." She answered and giggled a bit "*what who?" "*I'm sorry I don't know what your talking about." She answered and started cracking up.

"*you said knock knock?" Sans replied in confusion. "*Snicker* Who's there?" She then started howling with laughter, Sans who only got the joke a few seconds later joined her.

Sans only met this woman a few days ago, (around the time Alphys installed the camera's) but he grew closer to her with each passing day. He knew it sounded ridiculous, like he didn't even know her name but still, she was one of the only people who liked his knock knock jokes and puns.

They continued telling jokes back and forth for awhile, Sans soon noticed that the she wasn't as peppy as she usually was.

"*haha good one...um hey are you okay?" Sans decided to ask.

"*...yes...no...I'm just worrying too much it's fine." She replied after a pause.

"*you sure?" She paused for a few moments then answered.

"...Can I ask you to keep a promise?" Sans didn't like making promises, at all but he felt that she really could use some help, and how bad could this one promise be? "*...sure, what is it?" He replied and leaned against the door. "*If a human comes through here...can you... please..look out for them...I know everyone really wants to get out of here...but I don't think this is the right way to go about this..and if they got hurt...I..I just can't go through that again. I know this is a bit much, you don't have to if y-" "*don't worry, i'll keep an eye-socket on them."

Sans interrupted her quickly, he didn't feel as confident as his words sounded but it did seemed to make the lady very happy when he said them. "*Really? oh thank you very much, how can I repay you for this? I know how about I bake you a butterscotch cinnamon pie, and one for your brother too."

"*heh, you don't have to do that." Sans felt kinda embarrassed, it was like having your friends mom try to give you something for helping out.

"*Ah but I insist, and I will make a pattern of each of your faces on it, heehee, I've always wanted to try making face's on my pies but I've never gotten around to it. " "*heh ok but i guess then i would have to call my bro's pie PaPIErus then." They both laughed and started making jokes again.

After a few hours Sans said goodbye to the Lady behind the door and made his way back to his sentry station.

Papyrus was waiting for him grinning widely. "*hey Pap." Sans casually said pretending not to notice the object his brother was hiding behind his back.

"HELLO BROTHER, (QUIET NYEH HEH)." Papyrus replied practically shaking from excitement. "*whats boning on?" Papyrus ignored his brother's joke and beamed with pride. "I YOUR GREAT BROTHER HAVE FOUND YOU A JACKET! SO YOU WON'T LOOK LIKE YOU'VE JUST WOKEN UP ANYMORE." Papyrus presented a blue jacket with a grey hood to Sans.

Sans took the jacket from Papyrus and examined it closely while trying to work out how to make a pun or joke from it. It was just his size and had a hidden pocket on the inside by the chest. "*wow, thanks bro this..is.. great!" Sans answered deep in thought.

"OF COURSE IT'S GREAT,I CHOSE IT, IT'S ALMOST AS GREAT AS ME NYEH HEH HEH. COME ON SANS I'VE MADE SOME SPAGHETTI." Papyrus started walking to Snowdin "*that's ok, i'm gonna stop by Grillby's, you want anything Papyrus?" Papyrus turned away in disgust.

"TCH, YOU PRACTICALLY LIVE IN THAT GREASE TRAP, AND NO, I WOULD NEVER STOOP TO THAT LEVEL, I'M A SKELETON WITH STANDARDS...I GUESS I WILL SEE YOU LATER THEN..."

"*sure Pap, i'll bring you a jacket of fries." (Fail) Papyrus walked away leaving Sans with his new jacket, Sans was pretty sure he saw his brother glance back at him before he disappeared behind some trees.

Sans put his new jacket on. "*...not bad." he mumbled looking at in different angles. 'Jacket of fries not one of his best, and certainly not his worst. Sans puts a lot of work into his puns, actually almost as much as he puts into sleeping but no skill can beat that. I would put a pun here buuuut~ I think i should save it for later. =)

Sans opened a short-cut and walked into Grillby's.

"*Oh Saaaaaannsy~, you're baaack~" "*Bark" "*SANS TELL US A JOKE!" A few monsters piped up as soon as they saw him. "*nah not today, hey grillby, one batch of updog." Sans ordered before petting Doggerssa on the head. "*Grillby asked what's uppdog?" Said the duck monster sitting at the bar. "*not much whats up with you?" Sans replied and received a chorus of laughter from everyone in the bar except for Doggo who was glaring at Sans with suspicion in his eyes.

"*O-oh Saaanzy~ is that a new jacket?" The bunny head monster asked, she kinda irritated him but he answered her question regardless. "*yep."

"*It suits you, you smiling trash-bag!" someone shouted but no one else seemed to notice it. "*...thanks." Sans replied, he got used to random insults long ago, he never knew who it was but it was always the same raspy voice but he didn't really care about it though.

Sans wandered over to the bar "*the usual grillb." he said. "*(Firecrackaling noise)" Grillby said? "*Grillby said coming right up." The duck replied. His usual was the worst burger on the menu, at least that's what everyone else said but he chooses it anyway.

About an hour later Sans finished his burger and got up from the bar table, he then headed for the the door, "*Ohhhh Saaaaaannzy~ d-don't gooo~ everything is s-so much more f-fun when your around." The bunny head whined. "*sorry, i gotta bounce, Papyrus might jump out of his skin if i'm late again." Everyone burst into laughter. "*Say hi to Papyrus for me." someone else called out. "*will do." Sans replied and opened the door.

"*Ohhhh Saaaaaannzy~ d-don't gooo~ everything is s-so much more f-fun when you're around." The bunny head whined. "*sorry, i gotta..." Sans paused. Didn't this just happen? "*Come sit with me~" "*He can't, he has to get back to his brother." Someone else replied. "*Awwww." She groaned in defeat. "*heh, yeah he would probably jump out of his skin if i'm late again." Everyone burst into laughter...again? Sans quickly exited Grillby's. "*woah, deja vu." he mumbled and headed home.

As soon as Sans opened his front door he was knocked over by a small white animal traveling at a very high speed, it was then followed by Papyrus.

"SAANS! GET THAT DOG BEFORE IT..." Papyrus scanned the area. "SAAANS! YOU LET IT GET AWAY." Papyrus whined

"*sorry bro, it overPAWED me." Papyrus starting stamping his foot on the ground.

"DARN THAT BLASTED CANINE! SANS YOU NEED TO TRAIN MORE SO THIS WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN." "*ok." Papyrus suddenly looked at him with excitement gleaming in his eyes.

"YOU CAN TRAIN WITH ME AND UNDYNE!" "*ok." "THEN MAYBE YOU WON'T SLEEP SO MUCH." "*ok." "AND MAYBE YOU WILL PAY MORE ATTENTION TO YOUR PUZZLES AND PUT MORE EFFORT INTO THEM!" "*ok." Papyrus crossed his arms and looked down at Sans disapprovingly.

"SANS ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING?" "*yeah bro, you have all ears." "SANS THAT BETTER NOT BE ONE OF YOUR JOKES." "*come on Paps, sometimes you've gotta Jacket up."(Nailed it) Papyrus glared at Sans. "THIS IS SERIOUS BROTHER, YOU MUST 'LISTEN'." Papyrus emphasized "*sorry bro, can't." Sans replied. "AND WHY NOT?" Sans winked at his brother. "*you have my ears." *BA DUM TIS* Papyrus started stamping his foot again.

"SANS! WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH YOU...*Nyeh*(A sigh but with "Nyeh" instead)

I KNOW! LET'S START YOUR TRAINING! RIGHT NOW!" Sans closed his eyes."*ok." Papyrus stepped over Sans and went outside. "COME SANS, LETS GO TO UNDYNE'S!" "*ok." "WE CAN ALSO DRAW UP A TRAINING SCHEDULE!" "*ok." "LETS SEE, ON MONDAYS YOU COULD PRACTICE YOUR COOKING SKILLS, ON TUESDAYS YOU COULD..AH WORK ON YOUR CLEANING," "*ok" "WEDNESDAYS YOU CAN START STUDYING ADVANCED PUZZLE TECHNIQUES WHILE DOING A TEN KILOMETER RUN AND-" Papyrus stopped, turned around and looked down at Sans. "...SANS.." "*yeah?" Sans replied and opened one eye. "GET OFF THE GROUND." Papyrus instructed in a monotoned voice.

"*or what? your gonna ground me?" "SANS PLEASE, GET UP SO WE CAN GO TO UNDYNES." "*nah, i think i'll stay here for a while, its kinda comfy...zzzzz" Sans yawned and closed his eyes again. "OH MY GOD SANS! CAN YOU BE ANYMORE LAZY!? COME ON!" Papyrus started heading for waterfall. "*hey bro, wait..." Sans suddenly asked with a troubled expression on his face. (Skull?) "YES BROTHER?" Papyrus replied noticing that Sans's voice cracked just a bit.

Sans lifted his arms into the air from his lying position. "*help?" Papyrus stared at his brother completely unamused. "...I STAND CORRECTED." "*heh." Sans gave his brother his most innocent grin. Papyrus sighed in defeat. "FINE BUT THIS IS THE LAST TIME." Papyrus picked him up then placed him gently on the ground. "*thanks bro, your the best." Sans said. "OF COURSE I AM, NOW LET US GO TO UNDYNES, I DON'T WANT TO BE LATE." Papyrus answered and started off to undynes once more, Sans strolled along side him easily keeping up with his pace.

That's the first Chapter! hoped you liked it ^.^