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Chapter 1: Aww, goose off
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP
Ugh, where is it?
BEEP BEE-
10:00 am
After convincing yourself to get out of bed, you open your curtains only to be met with rain. Laila had asked on Tuesday if you could do her shift, you agreed, having a goose constantly attacking you will eventually deteriorate your patience. You didn’t really mind working another shift at the café, it’s usually calm with not that much noise as most of the regulars were college students who need a quiet space to study. It even turns out from what one of your regulars said, the café was the second best place to study. As you start to get changed after taking a shower, you think about how Laila and her new menace to her life. She was someone who enjoyed dressing up and dancing so now with that goose in her life, she pretty much is unable to do that. The bodysuits may be better now compared to when your Nana and grandma were alive but they are still uncomfortable.
You decide on eating brunch at work since you really couldn’t be bothered to make anything. Heading out of the door, you forgot your name tag and your helmet for work.
“AHHHH!, STOP PLEASE!”
“HONK HONK HONK!”
“HEY! WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING! YOU NEAR GOT RAN OVER.”
“HISS HONK HONK HONK HISSSS”
When you heard the commotion outside, you were happy that you forgot your name tag and helmet. Sounds chaotic out there. Heading out of your door, you get on your bike after putting on your helmet and start to ride to work. The scenery wasn't all that nice but when you passed the park, you were able to see Mt.Ebott and the forest that surrounds it. Around a month ago, monsters were set free from the underground in Mt.Ebott by a child named Frisk. Humanity was really surprised by this as we had always thought of monsters being fictional, nasty and all that jazz but they end up being real and very friendly with lots of compassion. Though it wasn’t much of a surprise to you as your Nana always told stories about the monsters. Which was weird when you think about it now as the history of monsters has been lost to the years.
As you start to enter Ebott’s city center, you see a monster family having some ice cream.
You haven’t met many monsters but you always made sure to be kind to them as they are a new race added to our world of a judgmental society. It also seems like monsters also have the lover adviser geese as well but from what they had said they appear much later in life as monsters live longer than humans. You take a quick glance at your watch to check the time,
‘ 11:30 am. Cool, I got 10 minutes before my shift’. You lock up your bike once you get to work and decide to take a quick look into the store next to the café. It was a small flower shop that was opened up by a monster. Toca had gone to the little shop a week ago and said that the owner sells teas as well. He had bought a tea that helps with sleep and said that it works really well. You guess the tea would be helpful if you had a tiring day, especially from a goose, and just want to go to sleep.
You enter the shop and are immediately hit with a beautiful fragrance. The shop itself felt cozy and warm like a summer evening. You knew a few of the flowers in the shop such as daffodil and Forsythia though the one that stood out to you the most was the Golden flowers. They are one of the few flowers that were able to grow Underground and able to be brought up to the surface without dying.
“Howdy there! Can I help you with anything?”
You nearly jumped out of your skin when the man spoke then you realize who talked to you. It was the king of the monsters, Asgore Dreemur. You thought to yourself:
Holy mother, I am working right next to the king of monsters.
“Ha ha, yes. I had heard from a friend that you sell tea here and I was wondering if I could buy some.”
“I see, of course. What type of tea are you looking for? Are you looking for herbal or non-herbal tea?.”
“Umm, a herbal that helps with um relaxation please. Sorry if this is rude but...you’re the king of monsters right?”
“HOHO. Yes I am dear. Must be a surprise to see a king running a flower shop.
I would recommend Chamomile tea or Golden Tea, both of which help with relaxation. Golden tea is my personal favourite, it has always helped me down in the Underground.”
You take a quick glance at your watch, you have 5 more minutes until your shift.
“Hmm. Mister Asgore if you don’t mind, I'd like to take both but can I come back around 1.00 to get them? You see I work at Catto cafe which is right next to your store and I start my shift soon.”
“Oh Golly! Of course you can. Catto is such a nice place, they gave me some of their baked goods this morning as a welcoming gift. You can get going, you don’t want to be late now do you, HOHO.”
You thank Asgore and quickly leave your work to clock in. After signing in and putting on your name tag, a hissing noise came out of nowhere. You see Mikel making fluffy Catcakes with a strained smile as his goose pecks at his legs. You suddenly get a chill after looking his goose in the eyes but you ignore it. You giggle at the sight and Mikel gives you a quick glare.
“Don’t be like that Mikel”
“Shut up, Y/n. You’ll soon have to experience this and it won’t be so funny.”
“But that’s the thing Mikel, I haven’t. I’m a record holder baby”
“Ugh, lucky. Anyway, take these two Catcakes to table 7.”
Taking the freshly made Catcakes to table 7, you notice a few were staring at the table’s direction. There sat a tall skeleton with a ragged red scarf, right across from him was a blue fish lady with bright red hair. Then it hit you, this is the first time your café had monster customers. You weren’t going to fuck up this opportunity to make these two feel welcome and gain new regulars, hopefully.
“Hello! Here are your Catcakes, I hope you like them!”
“NYEHEHEH,THANK YOU HUMAN! LOOK AT THESE UNDYNE THEY ARE SHAPED LIKE THE FOUR LEGGED PROWLER!”
“They’re called cats, you dork. Thanks for the uh Catcakes.”
“OH HUMAN! I KNOW WE ALREADY PLACE OUR ORDER BUT CAN WE GET THE…”
The skeleton squinted his eyes or eye sockets (somehow) as he tried to pronounce one of the items on the drink menu.
“Give it here Papyrus. Let’s see here, we would like to get the ‘Limonade Chat’.”
“THANKS UNDYNE!”
“Alright, two Limonade Chat coming right up! You choose a good drink by the way, it’s Mikel specialty. Never too sour or sweet”
“WOWIE! I CAN’T WAIT TO TASTE IT!”
You walk back into the kitchen to delay the order, you suddenly hear a ‘WOWIE’ from Papyrus. You chuckle at his reaction. Mikel’s pancakes have that effect on anyone.
“So we finally got our first monster customers, you think we can make them regulars?”
“Dunno m-”
“ HONK HONK HONK ”
“Yeah, yeah, Terlisa. I know gotta find your love but you see I’m trying to have a conversation. Stop bloody biting me”
You chuckle at his remark. At times like these you get jealous, simply because you know they are going to find love soon and they’ll have a story to tell to their children and grandchildren. Though those feelings don’t bother you as much, because you know(hopefully) that your dear aggressive goose will come one day. You heard back out to take an order from table 2 as Mikel makes the lemonades. The people on table 2 were still taking quick glances of the two on table 7 but stopped when they saw you. The table consisted of a man and woman who are probably around their 30’s. You asked for their orders but it looks like they have other plans.
“Hey cutie, your café seems to have some creatures in here. Do ya mind chucking them out for us?”
You gave a surprised face and looked over to Papyrus and Undyne to see if they heard. Madeline is handing them their drinks so they didn’t hear. Good you thought to yourself, you didn’t want them to be uncomfortable here because of these racists.
“Sorry, sir. Our café welcomes both humans and monsters so if you don’t like it then we are going to ask you to leave.”
“HUH!? You should be grateful we are even here! Hmph! And my friend said this is a good place. Your customer service is horrible! All we asked was for the removal of some creatures that shouldn’t even be here!”
The lady’s outburst caused everyone to look towards the table. You were already annoyed with what the man had said but this lady is taking the cake. Sure, you have seen a few racist people, hell you even knew a few racist until you cut them off for it. The thing with ones you have seen and known, is that they keep silent about it, only posting their stuipd thoughts online or talking about it with other people like them.
You suddenly get a chill again.
You were about to have a rant to two people until the lady tried to throw an open packet of salt in your eyes. You manage to block it in time but no you were hella pissed. How dare this fucking cunt try to kill your eye sight! You were about to take this lady outside until Undyne came over and Papyrus followed.
“HEY! Lady, if you have a problem talk to us instead of harassing the worker!”
“Oh yeah!? You guys shouldn’t even be here! You filthy creatures should go back underground. You’ll just be bad luck to the surface”
Then the man the lady was with tried to do the same thing and throw the salt packet at Undyne but Papyrus took the hit.
“PAPYRUS!”
“IT’S ALRIGHT UNDYNE! SALT DOES NOTHING TO BONES BUT FOR YOU IT DOES. NOW HUMANS, I KNOW YOU’RE NOT USED TO US BUT PLEASE HAVE SOME DIGNITY! I’M SURE WE CAN RESOLVE YOUR SITUATION PEACEFULLY!”
“Huh? W-Well, we would like you to leave then. If you guys want to eat somewhere you can eat where monsters eat.”
“UGH! No, you two will be leaving. You have caused a disturbance in the café and I will not have these two kind monsters leave. If you keep on acting like this, my manager will ban you from ever setting foot into this café.”
“Y/N, I’ll deal with this. Go calm down”
“...Okay, sir.”
Your manager goes and tries to reason with the two people but in the end they just end up leaving the café, of course without being banned as well. After cooling off, you head back out to see if Undyne and Papyrus were doing alright. They seem to be finishing off their drinks. You debate whether to go up to them or not, unsure how they would react. Finally, you got the courage to walk up to them and talk.
“Hi, I just wanted to thank you two for when you came to help me and I’m sorry that you had to experience that.”
“Nah, it was nothin. Those humans got what was coming from them anyway. Though I would have personally beat them up for throwing salt at Papyrus, FUHUHU.”
“AWW THANKS UNDYNE BUT THERE IS NO NEED TOO. NICE HUMAN, THANK YOU FOR DEFENDING US, WE APPRECIATE IT GREATLY! AND THIS PLACE HAS GREAT FOOD, OF COURSE NOT AS GREAT AS MY SPAGHETTI BUT NONETHELESS GREAT FOOD!”
“Thank you too. Mikel had made the food and drinks you had and by the way Mikel makes the best pancakes and lemonade but that's between you and me, hahaha.”
“WOWIE, UNDYNE! WE HAVE A NEW PLACE THAT WE CAN SHOW THE OTHERS TO. I THINK ALPHYS WOULD LIKE IT HERE! YOU’LL BE EXPECTING US HERE MORE NOW NICE HUMAN. I CAN’T WAIT TO TELL MY BROTHER!”
You get another chill but this time you feel something in your chest.
“Yeah! We better go visit Asgore now. See ya later punk.”
“BYE NICE HUMAN!”
Then they were gone. The rest of your shift before lunch was uneventful and around 1.00 you went to pick up the teas from Asgore. You made small talk with him until you went back to work. You had helped clean and close up around 4.00 and started to head home. Packing your two teas securely in your bike, you start to bike home. There were still a few people in town shopping around, some were monsters and some humans. You even saw a skeleton sleeping on a bench, you wonder if they were related to Papyrus. When you got to the park which is halfway home, something came flying at you. Something black and brown with some white and black beak. You thought to yourself with that word being repeated in your head.
Goose .
“FUCKING HELL, NOW?!”
Then you had a goose drive straight to your chest. Whatever speed that goose was going at was too fast as it had winded you. You eventually regain your breath after being winded and get off the ground. You pick up your bike and start to walk your way home.
“ HIISSS. HONK HONK HONK ”
You glare at your new companion.
“haaa, goose not now. You can harass me tomorrow.”
Of course the goose didn’t listen, it only has one goal in mind after all.