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UNDERWATER

Chapter 4: Merman Skeletons That Can Talk

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My magic ignites in my left eye as I narrowly dodge the mermaid's sudden attack.

The turquoise scythe catches on the collar of my white turtle neck and effortlessly slices straight through it down to my chest. Fortunately, it misses my ribs and spine. A second too slow and I'd have been dust... yikes.

Note to self, don't sneak up on mermaids with 900+ LV...

Speaking of the feisty mermaid, I quickly back up as she swiftly turns around. Her magenta eyes are narrowed but they widen slightly when she catches sight of me. I warily glance back with sweat dripping off of my bony brow and my usual grin strained.

I've never seen a fully grown mermaid before and I can truthfully say that this one is beautiful. She has slightly wavy long violet hair with pale skin. She's wearing a long sleeved red turtle neck and a yellow and green sash across her waist. Her magenta eyes have red eye shadow on them and her eyelashes are long and thick. There are lavender and turquoise scales that make up her shark/lionfish tail and some are scattered over her cheeks and what can be seen on her torso. Her yellow and green fins are slightly tattered. I hear a low hiss from behind her and my eyes dart over to the huge dark blue eel that was slowly coming from behind her. It was a bit scratched up and had golden eyes. There was also a leather and silver chain collar around it's neck. Occasionally, there would be a stray flicker of bright blue electricity coming from it's body. It made me extremely uneasy... And following that thing was a semi-large transparent turquoise bubble with that damn weed implanted in it with some strange pastel purple sand. I close my eyes to change them back to their normal white specks before turning back to the menacing mermaid.

I take my hands out of my pockets and spread them then wink at her. "what'sa matter? haven't you ever seen bones before?"

The mermaid raises a finely sculpted eyebrow as she slowly straightens. Her scythe is still out however... "No, no, I have. They just don't shatter stalagmites and try to stalk me. Like a creep."

I shrug and put one of my hands back into my pocket. The other I hold out to her. "heh. well, sorry about that. i'm sans, sans the merskeleton."

Her eyes narrow as she finally dispels her scythe, but doesn't hold out her hand. Tough crowd... "Charmed. I'm Y/n. Now, why were you stalking me and what do you want?"

Oh, now she's a smart one. My eternal smile widens as I bring my other hand back into my pocket. So much for getting rid of the tense atmosphere with a well placed prank. "i'm supposed to be a sentry looking out for merfolk, but i don't try too hard. now my brother on the other hand is a merfolk hunting fanatic!" I look past Y/n and catch sight of Papyrus swimming over. "oh look, here he comes. here, follow me. my brother made the bars too wide to stop anyone."

Y/n cautiously follows me as I swim past her and through the bars made of stone. When I get to the conveniently shaped coral bunch, I realize that Y/n was too big to hide behind it. Luckily, my sentry station was close by. I turn back to her and point to it. "alright, go hide behind my sentry station while i deal with my brother."

The mermaid just crosses her arms and stares back. "I don't think so. I'm not sure if you're trustworthy and even if you are, I can handle myself if your brother tries to harm or capture me."

My eyes disappear at the hidden threat to my brother. "now look here girlie, i ain't gonna hurt ya, but if you lay one pretty finger on my brother, well, y o u ' r e g o n n a h a v e a b a d t i m e . . ."

Y/n's eyes harden. "I don't want to harm anyone. Unless someone starts it. Then I'll be the one finishing it."

We're both still staring at each other when Papyrus zips over. "SANS! I'VE BEEN LOOKING ALL OVER FOR YOU! IT'S BEEN DAYS AND YOU ST- OH, HELLO! SANS, WHO'S THIS? HAVE YOU MADE SOME NEW FRIENDS?"

 

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You look away first so that you can check out the newcomer. Unlike his brother, this one is taller and has a longer tail. Which is all bone as well, but has the same transparent ectoplasmic tail. This guy's is silver with jagged red fins that have orange accents. There's also black spots here and there. You think it looks like a barracuda's tail. He's also wearing some sort of white armor with a few red badges on the left side and has a red scarf wrapped around his neck. He has red gloves on his hands as well. You turn back to Sans. He was the one with the blue hoodie and white turtle neck that you had sliced halfway through. He was shorter and had a short blue, white, and black transparent ectoplasmic clown fish tail.

Sans' 'eyes' come back when he looks over at his brother. "heh, why? were you-"

His brother's eye sockets narrow. "SANS, NO-!"

Sans smirks. "-getting bonely?"

BA DA TSSS!

You jump and look around. Where the hell did that come from!? The taller brother screams and swims around in erratic circles while waving his fists around. "SANS! DON'T POISON NEW FRIENDS WITH YOUR INCESSANT PUNS!!! YOU SHOULD BE RECALIBRATING YOUR PUZZLES ANYWAY! NOT BOONDOGGLING!!!"

When the taller merskeleton calms down, Sans speaks again. "aw, come on papyrus, didn't you find it at least a bit humerus?" And that sends 'Papyrus into another fit of frustration. Sans chuckles at his brother before glancing back at you. "but to answer your earlier question, this is y/n. she's a mermaid."

Papyrus stops and zooms over to you. "GASP! A MERMAID!? THAT'S WONDERFUL! UNDYNE WILL- I'M GONNA- I'LL BE SO- POPULAR! POPULAR! POPULAR!" You're starting to get wary again so you drift back a little. Sans sees this and keeps a close eye on you. Papyrus stops celebrating for a moment to get a closer look at you. Panic doesn't like this and hisses at the taller merskeleton brother, but he doesn't pay him any heed. "OH MY! YOU SURE ARE PRETTY! AND YOU'RE SUPER STRONG AS WELL! I'LL BET THAT UNDYNE WOULD LOVE TO SPAR WITH YOU! I'D CAPTURE YOU, BUT I DO BELIEVE THAT YOU'RE TOO STRONG FOR ME SO, *AHEM* WOULD YOU DO ME THE HONOR OF GETTING CAPTURED BY THE GREAT PAPYRUS?"

You float there for a whole minute staring at him before answering. "...No."

The poor guy looks so heartbroken that you blurt out what you say next before you can stop it. "B-but, I'll do some... puzzles with you? If you'd like that..."

You can practically see the sparkles that light up his eye sockets. "I'D LOVE TO MERMAID! I'LL GO GET THEM READY NOW! AND PERHAPS LATER, YOU'D LIKE FOR ME TO GRACE YOU WITH A SPARRING MATCH?"

Sans doesn't like this, but you shrug at the, frankly, adorable merskeleton. "Alright. I'll make sure to go easy on you. But later I need to leave. You see, I've gotten sucked down here and I need to get back home to my family."

Papyrus 'gasps' again and rushes over to pull you into a big hug. You freeze up, but you gradually loosen up when you guess that he's not going to do anything harmful to you besides squeezing too tight. "OH, MERMAID!" "Y/n." "DON'T WORRY MERMAID! THE GREAT PAPYRUS WILL HELP REUNITE YOU WITH YOUR FAMILY! BUT FIRST, WE MUST SOLVE SOME PUZZLES! NYEH HE HE!"

And with that, he let's you go and twirls away and disappears into the stalagmite forest. "Well that was... something."

Sans stares in the direction of where Papyrus went for a moment before side eyeing you. "yes. it was. and remember what i said." He pauses as he looks behind you at the strangely silent Flowey before speaking again. "and if i were you, i'd kill the weed."

Then Sans lazily swims back from where you came from which made no sense, but whatever. It was time to indulge a magical skeleton of a merman. Who knows? Maybe you'll even have a bit of fun.

[TBC...]

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Edit: I drew my own fanart, WHEE!!!

http://darkfoxkirin.tumblr.com/post/138028230266/these-pics-i-drew-are-for-my-new-merfolk-au-for

http://darkfoxkirin.tumblr.com/post/138038978591/alrighty-heres-sans-and-papyrus-for-my-merfolk