"Sans said that we'd have to battle his brother. How are we supposed to get by Papyrus? He said that Lily knew," Sonic said as they walked out of the restaurant.

"I'm still kinda shaken up from... what Sans told me about... Her," Shadow answered.

"Yeah... It was a little freaky, but so long as you're able to fight it, you shouldn't be possessed. You are a pretty tough guy!" Sonic said nudging Shadow to give him encouragement.

"Physically, yes. Every other way... I'd fall apart..."

"YEAH, TALKING LIKE THAT IS MAKING YOU FALL APART. C'mon! Let's go explore some new place! Go beyond the boundaries! See what the world has to offer!" Sonic yelled as he pointed to the sky.

"I'm with Sonic," Lily agreed.

Shadow pulled himself together enough to nod and continue on with them. They left the cute town of Snowdin (after saving) and just as they were outside of the town, someone stepped in front of them. Papyrus.

"Well, look who's trying to leave town... Didn't even care to say goodbye? That's kind of... insulting," Papyrus told them without a hint of anger. He was more disappointed than angry.

Sonic immediately felt the guilt. "Um... We didn't mean to! We just forgot! Besides, we were going to come back!" Sonic replied.

"Well, at least I caught you before you left. However, before you even dare try to leave, I want to tell you that the one day you stayed at my wonderful house has been... the most fun I've had in a while! Shadow is a magnificent cook, Lily is a glorious friend, and Sonic is always believing in others. I respect all of those things in you. You three meet all of my standards. I suppose that it's a bit much to ask, but can we possibly be... Wait. I can't be doing this! I'm supposed to deliver you to Undyne! I can't be your friends!" Papyrus said to himself.

"Um... You could become our friends and then deliver us to Undyne?" asked Sonic with a shrug. Shadow rolled his eyes to that idea.

"Undyne wants to kill us you, idiot!" Shadow snapped.

"Oh yeah..."

"Well, then there's only one way to settle this. We'll settle this with a battle!" Papyrus announced as he summoned a bone to his hand. He launched it towards Lily who sidestepped without a problem. The bone returned to his hand and Papyrus readied for a much more powerful attack. Lily sighed. She stepped forward to make her move.

When Sonic and Shadow figured out what Sans meant, they first laughed. Then, their jaws were left dropped. Sonic couldn't take his eyes off of her and Shadow had to jump up a tree just to escape from her ability. Of course, because it worked so good on the hedgehogs, it worked on Papyrus.

"F-flirting?! S-so! You finally reveal your ultimate feelings!" Papyrus stated as he tried to keep up battling and not be infatuated.

Lily continued to flirt, but she didn't get anywhere from it. Papyrus continued his attack, but he was still thinking about what Lily was telling him. "No! L-let's date later!"

Lily put her hands up to show that she wasn't going to fight. Papyrus sighed with disappointment. "So you won't fight... I guess that was to be expected from you! Well, let's see how you deal with my blue attack!" he yelled as a bunch of blue bones flew at her. She didn't move. The bones flew right through her.

Sonic was taking notes. Lily was really good at the art of the battle without fighting. He wrote down everything. From how he shouldn't move for blue attacks to how to flirt if usable in the specific situation. He went back to looking at the fight. Lily continued to spare and dodge with amazing speed.

Suddenly, out of nowhere a blue force came down upon Lily. Her soul turned blue and she found herself being mysteriously drawn to the bones that Papyrus was launching at her. She got hit by a small bone that was behind her that knocked her over. Papyrus laughed. "You're blue now. That's my attack."

Lily stared around in confusion. She figured out a way to dodge, but it was a lot harder. She'd always be drawn towards the bones so she'd have to jump over them when they came after her and her soul. Sonic watched in amazement as she dodged and refused to fight back.

No matter how hard Papyrus fought, he was still thinking about the date. He couldn't really stop thinking about it. He had never been on a date before. No one had ever flirted with him. Was he making a big mistake in fighting them?

"N-no! I can't give in to you! I shall unleash my special attack on you!" Papyrus announced.

One move later...

"I tell you, I will use that special attack!"

One move later...

"Any minute now, and I'll use that special attack!"

One move later!

"Alright, it's time that I show you my special attack! Behold!" Papyrus announced as he pointed towards Lily. Nothing happened. Papyrus looked next to him to see that his special attack was being chewed on by a dog. "You stupid mutt! That's my attack! My special one, too! Get back here with my attack!" The dog had already left with the bone. Papyrus and Lily simply stood there awkwardly.

"Um... I'll just have to use one of my super cool regular attacks... Prepare for a completely normal attack," Papyrus said now a little annoyed.

Lily jumped over his bones that were writing out words. Cool. Dude. Other words that I can't quite remember.

Finally, Papyrus sighed to himself. He wasn't getting anywhere. He threw a bone onto the ground. His special attack had been stolen by a dog, his blue attacks failed, his cool regular attack didn't even do anything to Lily, and she had her mind set on flirting with him! He looked back to her. "Well, it seems that I have failed to capture you. Undyne sure won't be happy with that. Well, because I, the Great Papyrus, is so compassionate to you as to not have you suffer the wrath of my attacks, I shall spare you. However, what shall I tell Undyne?! What should I do?!"

Lily smiled to herself. "You know, why don't we be friends? I think that you're a pretty cool guy. Maybe we could hang later!" she said.

Papyrus thought about it. In two seconds he was back to his normal cheery self. "Y-You want to be my friend?! Wowie! Nobody's ever asked me that before! My first real friend other than Undyne! I should go tell Sans about this! Oh! If you want, you can swing by later to have that date!" Papyrus chirped. He was walking on air. Literally. He flew right over her and back to his house. Shadow climbed down from his tree and Sonic was staring at Papyrus in wonderment. He didn't even know skeletons could fly...

"Well, that was kind of unexpected... I guess... I have a date tonight...," Lily said as she stared back towards Snowdin with an unreadable expression. Sonic wasn't sure if he should be worried or terrified.

Shadow's mind wandered. It wandered back to their conversation with Sans. What would he have done in this situation? He knew he couldn't flirt with Papyrus. What would he have done? Then, his mind wandered to the sounds of water just beyond them. Something was there just beyond Snowdin. Something that made him feel exposed. To what? To Her? What was in Snowdin that wasn't there?

The three hedgehogs decided that they would return to Snowdin to rest up before leaving to go to Waterfall. Lily did end up having that date with Papyrus... Sorry, but I'm not going to write that out. You can just date him yourself in the game! Okay, after Lily got Papyrus' phone number, they all decided to leave. With one final goodbye to the people of Snowdin and the skeleton bros, they were off. Their journey had only just got more serious...

They only just stepped outside of town when they started walking through a patch of tall grass. Everything was dark because night was now upon them. As they walked through the tall grass, they heard a familiar voice just outside of the grass. Sonic stopped and his ears twitched. He turned towards the voice.

"Papyrus?"

With the mention of Papyrus, Lily and Shadow also stopped. they turned to Sonic who was listening carefully to what he was hearing. There was another voice too, but he couldn't make out what the other voice was saying. However, because Papyrus is so loud, he could hear him perfectly. Shadow and Lily figured out what he was doing and started listening to the conversation as well.

"Papyrus reporting in! I have brought more news concerning the three hedgehogs!"

(The other being replies).

"Of course! I found two more! Actually, the hedgehog I found, found the other two! Now there's one female and two males."

(The being replies).

"Huh? Did I fight them? Of course, I did! I did valiantly!"

(The being replies).

"Did I capture them? Do you want me to be completely truthful...?"

(The being gives a much louder response).

"I-I'm sorry, Undyne! H-Hey, I know where they are and what they look like! Also, if I really have to, I'll get my older brother Sans to track them down!"

(The being quiets down and replies).

"Um... One's a blue male hedgehog with a quirky, perky, and friendly personality by the name of Sonic. The other male hedgehog is a black hedgehog with crimson stripes running through his hair. He has red eyes, hover shoes, and rings on his wrists by the name of Shadow. The female hedgehog looks like a female version of Sonic only wears a skirt and short shirt and a headband. Her name is Lily. They are heading into the Waterfall area now."

(The being laughs).

"What do you mean that you're going to take their souls?! We don't have to kill them! They may end up being your-"

(The being interrupts).

"...I... understand, Undyne. I'll help you in any way I can...," Papyrus said as he left.

Sonic, Shadow, and Lily shuddered. So this was the mysterious friend of Papyrus' who wanted them dead. Lily restrained herself from summoning some magical force to defend herself with. Sonic's curiosity got the best of him. He had to see what Undyne looked like. He snuck through the grass and peeped through the stems. He saw a knight in shining armor that filled him with fear. The eye of the knight seemed to glow and the person within the armor had a long, red ponytail coming out of the opposite end of the helmet. The person stood a few inches shorter than Toriel and looked very terrifying. Sonic sucked in a gasp and instantly regretted it.

"Huh?! Who's there?!" demanded Undyne with a female voice. The knight's armor came to life and walked towards the grass with an electric spear in hand. Sonic dove into the grass and jumped onto Shadow and Lily to keep them down. He silently shushed them.

Undyne came closer to the grass. Her eyes could clearly detect the presence of the three hedgehogs. However, instead of checking, she simply took a few steps backward into a dark shadow and disappeared into the night. Her glowing eye was all that they could see before that too, disappeared.

Sonic stood still for a few more seconds and stood back up. He checked to see if the coast was clear and then signaled Shadow and Lily when he couldn't find anyone. They got out the tall grass and got into a huddle.

"That was freaky! So, that's Undyne...," Lily commented on the situation.

Shadow sighed. "I knew that if Papyrus was going to treat you like a dog because of this person, she was a force to be reckoned with. Well, what now?"

Sonic looked towards the Waterfall Area. He slowly exhaled to calm his pounding heart. "We'll keep going. If we stay at Snowdin, Undyne will find us. If we stay here, Undyne will find us. If we keep going, we at least, have a chance of not getting captured. That's my logic. Everyone agree?"

Shadow and Lily both nod. Sonic crosses his arms. "Well, let's go."

Right as they were about to keep going a small, yellow dinosaur kid hopped out of the tall grass and ran around them excitedly. Shadow couldn't help but notice that the dinosaur didn't have any arms and was tempted to tip him over just to see how the dinosaur kid would do to get back up.

The yellow dinosaur smiled to them. "Wow!! Did you see the way Undyne was staring at you! Man, that was AWESOME!! C'mon! Let's go catch up to her to see her beat up some bad guys!" he said as he ran off. The dino kid fell on the ground and his face kind of stuck to the ground. He used his face to sort of help him get back to his feet. He then ran on ahead of them.

"Aww... That poor, sticky dino kid... He doesn't have any arms!" Lily said. Shadow merely laughed at that quote.

"Okay... let's keep moving...," Sonic stated.

The three hedgehogs strolled into Waterfall. They gazed around at the scenery. Voices were all around them and it nearly drove Shadow mad. They all knew that it was the flowers.

"There are blue flowers... Everywhere... Are these those echo flowers that Sans told us about? They whisper the last things they heard. Cool!" Sonic stated as he looked at one.

"They whisper the last things they heard. Cool!" it repeated.

"Guys, I want to hear what the flowers are repeating besides us. Be as quiet as possible...," Lily told them.

The eerie blue glow and the sound of falling water surrounded them. Water sausages sprouted from the water and the ground was a dark black. It was creepy and fascinating at the same time.

The flowers whispered the hopes and dreams of others who had passed through in hopes of wishing on the glowing rocks of the Wishing Cave. Sonic nearly cried when he heard all of the dreams that were whispered. Everyone wanted the same things. They all wanted to see the light of day, they all wanted to climb out of the mountain, they all wanted to leave the terrible prison that Shadow had bestowed upon them. Lily was equally emotional. Shadow didn't want to listen to any of them. It just made him feel worse about the whole situation.

After they walked for a little bit, They were just outside of the Wishing Cave. Shadow was getting out his phone to call Papyrus. He saw Toriel's number right beneath the number of Papyrus. Shadow dialed Toriel's number and waited to see if she would pick up. Nobody answered. He sighed and put away the phone. He looked behind him to see a yellow petal of a flower disappearing into the ground. Shadow raced over to the hole and looked at the ground. Flowey was gone. He saw the echo flower that stood just beside him. It whispered with Flowey's ominous voice, "She's just going to find another hedgehog... Do you really think that she even still remembers or cares about you?"

Shadow could feel something try to grab onto his soul. He stood up from the ground and stepped on the echo flower. He smashed the flower to pieces and spat on the remains.

"She won't get me. You can't bring me down. I'll fight you with everything I have. I will not give into your evil ways... Maria wouldn't approve, after all," Shadow hissed at the crushed flower. He turned and ran after Sonic and Lily who were just entering the cave. Sonic turned to Shadow.

"Hey Shadz, I just- Whoa... What's wrong?" asked Sonic as he peered at Shadow's face.

"What?!" demanded Shadow.

"Your eyes! Is it just me, or do they look like they've changed to a darker shade of red?" asked Sonic.

"It must be the light in here... Believe me. The light makes you look purple!" Shadow answered trying not to act too suspicious.

"Huh. I guess you're right! Well, come on!" Sonic said as he ran into the cave.

Shadow looked at his reflection in the water. He realized that his eyes were darker. He looked back to the echo flower. It was nothing more than a pile of dust on the ground...