“Now Angel, I know you don’t like them, but these dietary meals are much better for your health.” Angel was being a tad disobedient... again. Fluttershy had given into quite a bit of his demands of a carrot crème brûlée with a turnip cake side, as well as sneaking one of Pinkie’s leftover cupcakes from the last party. He was gaining a few noticeable pounds, well noticeable to Fluttershy, and she couldn’t let it continue this way; the poor thing needs to stay in good health after all! Angel was not having any of it though, and threw the light salad dish he was given straight out of the window. At least his throwing strength has improved; he certainly isn’t low on protein. She cast him a look of disapproval “Angel! We do not throw our meals out of the window like that. It could hit somepony!” She sighed, Angel was a sweetheart but sometimes she wishes he would be less cranky. “I know they aren’t as tasty as those fancy dishes but you have put on a few pounds from just the past few! I can’t let you get out of shape now can I.” After a moment of slight offense, Angel reassessed his body mass; a quick gut check confirmed her statement and he pouted in defeat. “Good, now I’m going to prepare another batch of salad, you just wait–”
Knock, knock, knock! A visitor at the door? She wasn’t expecting company. Maybe it was Rarity coming to offer a trip to the spa? Or Twilight wanting to have a nice chat? Fluttershy walked quickly to her door, can’t keep whoever is there waiting. She opened the door with a smile, “Hello? Who is–” Oh sweet Celestia, what was at her doorstep?! It was tall, much taller than her! It was wearing some kind of cheap metal armor and a tangelo colored scarf. It looked like it was made of, oh goodness are those bones?!
“Why hello there adorable creature! My friends and I were just leaving that horrible forest when we saw this salad fly straight out of your window!” It pulled out the salad that angel threw, now in tatters and missing some of its pieces. “Now it may not be what I’d call ‘fine cuisine dining’ or ‘in good condition’ but how could I, the great Papyrus, not offer a kind gesture to the poor, starving creatures of this new world?”
Shock, confusion, fear, denial, hilarity, nausea, and back to fear again; that completed the cycle of emotions present on Fluttershy’s face, right before screaming and slamming the door on this bony monster that called itself ‘Papyrus’. What was that thing?! Why did it look like it was made of bones?! Sweet Celestia, was that some kind of bipedal, talking, skeleton?! Fluttershy’s breaths were rapid; she just stared death in the face, so to prevent hyperventilation she took deep breaths and tried to rationalize what she just saw. Some kind of skeletal creature was at her doorstep; that' not too reassuring. It had a name right? Papyrus? What a strange name… Why was it here? Did it come for her animal friends? Was she too late to save Angel from the reaper?! If only he had eaten that… salad...the one that the skeleton was… trying to return. Fluttershy’s head drooped, her ears fell flat, and her eyes slightly watered; that wasn’t some monster, was it? It wasn’t here for Angel or any of here animals, it was just trying to be nice and return something, albeit a destroyed meal, and she went and slammed the door in its face. Didn’t she learn her lesson from Zecora about not to judge anypony by their appearance?
Hesitantly, she returned to her front door still trembling a bit, but otherwise more confident. She opened the door slowly; only part of the way so her head could stick out, “H-hello?” She squeaked. The skeleton was still there, smiling.
“Hello…again!” It said. “The salad fell on the ground again so I saved as much of it as I could!” The more it spoke, the more it sounded less like an ‘it’ and more like a ‘he’.
“I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to slam the door in your, uh, face.”
“No need to apologize” Fluttershy relaxed; at least he had qualities of a gentlestallion, “For you see…I know exactly why you ran off.” His eye sockets narrowed, she felt her heartbeat pickup. “You were so utterly amazed at the sight of someone so great that you needed to run back inside to find a way to get my autograph!”
“Umm…excuse me?” Fluttershy said utterly perplexed. “Autograph?”
“Why of course you can have my autograph! The great Papyrus wouldn’t be so great if he didn’t care for his fans, would he?” Why Fluttershy had flashbacks to a certain cerulean coated unicorn would forever be a mystery. “But alas! You poor thing! There was nothing you could find! Don’t worry; the great Papyrus is always prepared!” The skeleton whose name was confirmed to be Papyrus reached behind him and pulled out a small ink pen and a batch of sticky notes. He clicked the pen and asked, “To whom is this being made out for?”
After a brief pause Fluttershy realized that this was the perfect opportunity for formal introductions. “O-Oh, my name is… F-Fl-Fluttershy…”
“I see!” He spoke as he wrote, “To my adoring fan: F-Fl-Fluttershy signed: Papyrus, The great.” He took the note off of the stack and stuck right onto Fluttershy’s snout, causing her to let out a slight “Eeep!”
“Now that I have helped you, maybe you can help me, hmm?” He asked. “As I said, my friends found our way out of that dreadful forest after escaping the underground and are trying to find a place to settle down in.” Underground? What did that mean? Was he really from Tartarus?! He didn’t act like it though. “Is there any place the seven of us could stay for a while as we get used to our new lives up on the surface?”
Now she really was confused. On one hoof, from what the skeleton was saying it sounded like he came from Tartarus, but if he was he wouldn’t just say it outright like that would he? And his demeanor was rather… strange but nothing one would call evil. “Please could you help us? We barely made it out of that forest alive, Undyne had to fight off some new kind of manticore we’ve never seen without armor, and we’re all tired and dirty and…”
Her heart reached out to the poor thing. There was no mistaking genuine emotion like that. One of them even had to fight off a manitcore?! How horrible! She offered her home as a place for them to stay, if it was okay with them, and decided she would later take them to Ponyville to see what her friends could do.
“Really? Wowie! Thank you so much Ms. F-Fl-Fluttershy! You have no idea how much this means to us!”
“It’s no problem at all! Oh, but it’s just Fluttershy… sir.”
“Right just Fluttershy! I’ll go get my friends, they’ll be so happy to hear this!”
And with that he ran off towards where his friends were. As he ran, Fluttershy couldn't help but wonder, what were they like? Were they skeletons like him? Were they just as nice? Were they…scarier? Celestia knows what they could be like, but if one of them could fight off a manticore then they must be strong. All of these questions buzzed around in Fluttershy’s head before being interrupted with a carrot to the head. Angel was not happy with what he had just heard.
“Angel I know it might be a bit crowded, but it will only be for one night. Besides they need help, how could I turn down somepony in need?” Angel merely pouted in frustration, and his stomach gave a slight growl. In all of the confusion of talking to a skeleton, she forgot to feed Angel... and to take the sticky note off her snout. The hand writing was scrawled and the letters were all capitalized, she set the autograph on a nearby table.
Before she could make her way back to the kitchen, there was another knock on the door. She guessed it was the skeleton’s friends. She opened the door, and her eyes widened at the truly bizarre sight. Two horned goats, two skeletons, a lizard wearing glasses, and a grinning fish-like creature; all of which were bipedal; stood before the butter colored pegasus. Only after a second run across each of the six creatures did she notice the seventh one, an absolutely adorable creature that looked like some kind of hairless monkey wearing a striped shirt, it was holding one of the goat’s hands.
Papyrus banished the awkward silence, “These are my friends! And this is your salad that I forgot to give back!”
The fish barked back at him, “Is that what that is? I thought you were carrying a plate full of leaves or something.”
“Why would I be carrying around a plate full of leaves?”
“I don’t know that’s why I’m asking!”
The much shorter skeleton spoke up, “Hey come on Undyne, leaf him alone.”
One of the goats chuckled, but Papyrus wasn’t having the same amount of fun. “Sans!” was all he managed to say before a small fit of laughter erupted from everyone.
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