Our First Christmas

Chapter 1.

Here we go, Undertale Christmas time.

It was a a few days before Christmas and Frisk and the family were finishing up their preparations, as they got ready for a holiday get-together with many of their friends, new and old, for the following day. At the moment, everyone was in the kitchen, putting together some of the refreshments that they would have at their party, Frisk and Asriel were making Christmas cookies with Asgore and Toriel.

At the counter, Undyne and Alphys were making dips and spreads, while Sans and Papyrus were making the drinks and some of the other desserts.

"We better label these when we're done," Alphys said, "because, I don't think any of the humans, or specific monsters, would be to pleased to end up with a mouth full of insect spread."

"We will, don't worry," Undyne assured her, "besides, I think we made the bugs pretty distinct so that nobody could mistake it."

"Not too much sugar, Sans." Papyrus advised his brother, as they made punch.

"What, the humans love it this way." Sans replied, scooping up another full measuring cup of sugar.

"Some do like it really sweet," his younger brother voiced, "but, they still like being able to taste their drink."

"Just add more of the flavoring to balance it out." the short skeleton stated.

Papyrus shrugged and did just that.

"I hope everyone likes this cookies." Toriel said.

"There's three different kinds," Frisk affirmed, "each guest is bound to like at least one of them."

"There should be nothing to worry about," Asgore voiced, "we have enough of a variety that everyone should be satisfied."

"They should all love the gingerbread monsters," Asriel said, "Mom's gingerbread cookies are impossible not to love."

Once the family was done in the kitchen for the day, everyone got themselves cleaned up and settled down for the evening.

Frisk and Asriel were sitting at their craft table in their play room, making special crafts to serve as Christmas presents for the family.

"I know I've said it, like, a million times already," Asriel voiced, "but, boy, am I excited, our first Christmas on the surface."

"And my first real Christmas with a family." Frisk added docilely.

"I hope Mom and Dad like the trinkets we made them." the goat child said.

"I'm sure they will." Frisk said, bending a pipe cleaner.

"I already made yours," Asriel quipped, "but, you'll have to wait for Christmas to see it."

"Same." the brown-haired boy stated docilely.

Asriel looked at him curiously, sensing an uncharacteristic nonchalance from his human friend.

"Is something wrong?" the monster child inquired.

Frisk shrugged.

"I just wish I could give everyone something better," he expressed casually, "Toriel, Asgore,...you, something that really validates how much you all mean to me."

"But...Frisk, you don't have to, we already know how you feel," Asriel replied, "you say it so often, I don't think you could convince us otherwise if you tried."

Frisk looked down at his crafts thoughtfully, but, was surprised when he was hugged by the goat child.

"This is going to be the best Christmas ever...so far." Asriel said blissfully.

Frisk laughed and hugged back in response.

"Come on," his monster roommate advised, "let's hide this stuff already, Mom wants us in bed early so we can wake up and get everything ready for the party."

The next day, just as they planned, the whole family woke up at 6:00 a.m. and got to work setting up everything for their party, the first thing being to set the dining table and make it suitable to hold the amount of monster guests that would be staying for dinner.

"Mom," Asriel asked, "did you want up to put Styrofoam cups at the dining table or the plastic ones?"

"Plastic for the dining table," Toriel answered, "Styrofoam for the refreshments' table."

Her son then carefully put a stack of blue, plastic cups on the dining table while Frisk put the Styrofoam cups on the refreshments' table, right next to the jello mold.

"Good thing we had plenty of jello leftover from Thanksgiving." the human child stated, staring at the bits of fruit in the center of the jiggly dessert.

"It's nice that we have all this artificial dishware," Papyrus said, "this means we'll have less to wash afterwards."

"We'll have even less to deal with if we get this tarp laid out already." Sans stated, dragging a gray tarp behind him.

Alphys and Undyne were busy putting all of the extra chairs at the table for their other monster friends.

"Kinda weird that we're setting a place for Mettaton," Undyne voiced, "can he even eat actual food?"

"No," Alphys said, "but, he's still joining us, it would be wrong to leave him out."

"Also," the fish woman added, "why are we having the dinner tonight when Christmas eve is tomorrow?"

"Well, for the same reason we are having our party tonight," Asgore explained to her, "most of our friends have other places to be on Christmas and this was the one day where everyone was free to get together for a Christmas celebration."

"Okay," Undyne continued, "but, why are we having it so early in the day?"

"Why, so we can spend time with everyone before we have dinner." Papyrus affirmed.

"It will be fun," Toriel voiced, "I remembered when the humans first found out that we celebrate Christmas, boy, were they surprised."

After hours of rearranging different parts of the house and getting everything set up, the family was finally ready for their holiday get-together. Then, at 11:00 a.m., the guest began to arrive, some of them having brought treats of their own to share with everyone.

"Hi, everyone," Frisk said genially, as guests, human and monster alike, walked through the front door, "thanks for coming, glad you could make it."

As they greeted people, Frisk and Asriel took people's coats, boots and other outer winter-wear and put them in the corner so they were out of everyone's way.

"Hello, everyone," Muffet announced, as she walked through the front door with a tray wrapped in tinfoil in hand, "hello, Frisk."

"Hi, Muffet," Frisk responded happily, "what did you bring?"

"Fudge brownies," the spiderwoman affirmed, "made fresh this morning, I omitted nuts of any kind, just in case anyone is allergic."

The human boy lifted a corner of the tinfoil to get a look at the delectable baked goods beneath it.

"Ooh, yum," he said, "there's room on the food table, right over there." he pointed at the table in the corner, which was already piled high with a number of dishes.

Then, Bratty and Catty arrived, with Catty carrying a Tupperware bowl full of a strange-looking snack.

"Hey everyone!" the best friends called out in unison.

"Hey ladies," Frisk approached, "what's that you brought?"

"It's our newest creation." Bratty said.

"Yeah, it's..." Catty interjected, "well...we haven't gotten a name for it yet."

"We basically mixed up some fudge, dumped some crispy rice cereal and granola in it and let it solidify, then we cut it into bit-sized pieces." her reptile friend explained.

"Well," Frisk said, looking into the bow, "it looks edible."

"We tried it ourselves," Bratty attested, "and it actually pretty good."

"And it was all made with fresh ingredients," Catty added, "not one thing from the garbage, swearsies!"

Frisk then directed them to the refreshments' table to drop off their treat.

"This is going to be interesting." he thought as he watched the guests settle in.

Oy, I know it is a weird place to leave off, but, I had get this chapter done, I want this to work out.