With that, the environment around them dimmed and their SOULs appeared, Uncle Papyrus' a normal, gray monster SOUL, Kaya's a red and light blue fragmented SOUL. Although it was in two halves, her SOUL acted as a whole SOUL. The SOUL itself had decided to make it easier to interpret what her SOUL is, one half upright and red as a human SOUL, and the other upside-down and light blue as a monster SOUL.

They both started out easy, letting white and light blue bones fly at each other, each set faster than the last one. Uncle Papyrus may be adept at dodging, deflecting, and blocking her attacks, but Kaya easily teleported out of the way of his. He never said teleporting was against the rules, and he didn't now in the middle of their spar.

She knew she could tire her uncle easily, despite him being oh so very energetic. She simply teleported a little bit to the side of where his attacks would go, in order to save her energy, just enough not to get hit.

After a while, Papyrus called for a pause, both of them breathing hard and yet to have gotten hit by the other's attacks.

"WE'LL... HAVE A SHORT... BREAK, AND THEN IT'LL... BE ALL OUT ON BOTH SIDES!"

Kaya nodded, too exhausted to speak, and the environment lightened as their spar ended for the moment. They sat under one of the pines on the edge of the clearing, thinking about their next attacks.

"We don't have to keep sparring," she said after she had mostly gotten her breath back. "We could call it a fair match and go home."

"NO. THIS IS GOOD FOR BOTH OF US. NOW," Papyrus said, getting up. "ARE YOU READY TO CONTINUE?"

Kaya sighed. "Yeah." She stood up and went to the farthest part of the clearing, turning around to face her uncle. Instantly the fight began. The surroundings dimmed once again, and their SOULs appeared.

Papyrus went first, but the battle didn't even last long before Kaya was hit. She didn't mean to. To let her uncle win so easily.

During his attack, Kaya saw a large goat skull, which she knew as a Gaster Blaster, appear above him. She knew Papyrus couldn't summon Gaster Blasters, and her dad couldn't know they were out there. And if he did, she didn't see why he would interfere like that. But after a moment's glance at it, she knew it wasn't Sans' or her own gone rogue and was turning on her. Each one varies depending on the summoner, and she knew who this one's was because of the convenient two cracks like those Gaster has on his face.

Thinking that it was real, since it looked real instead appearing more like a hologram, she teleported to the side in a panic when it fired, the sound louder in their confined clearing, and ended up going too far, her SOUL getting hit by Papyrus' attack. She fell onto the ground, her HP lowered to 7.

"ARE YOU ALRIGHT, YOUNG KAYA?!" she heard her uncle shout, coming to her side.

"Uh, y-yeah," she replied, regretfully avoiding the truth. "Why are you asking?"

"YOU WENT DOWN INSTANTLY, ON THE FIRST TURN! AND YOU TELEPORTED IN A PANIC! DON'T THINK THAT I DON'T KNOW THESE THINGS; SANS IS MY BROTHER, SO I CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A NORMAL TELEPORT AND A PANICKED ONE."

Kaya sighed. "Yeah. Guess I should tell you what really happened, huh?"

"YES. I DON'T WANT TO BE LEFT OUT ANY DETAILS."

"I saw a Gaster Blaster appear above you. I knew it couldn't be yours, since you can't, and it didn't look like Dad's or mine. I figured it was Grandpa Gaster's; there were the two distinguishing cracks in the skull."

"WHY WOULD HE ATTACK YOU NOW?" her uncle asked in confusion. "YOU DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG, AS FAR AS I KNOW. IF IT WAS THE SECRETS THEN HE WOULD'VE ATTACKED DURING THE CONVERSATION OR WHEN WE WERE TIRED OUT, NOT DURING OUR SECOND SPAR. AND WHY ATTACK YOU AFTER A NICE CHAT THE FIRST TIME YOU MET HIM? ... I'M GOING TO INFORM MY BROTHER," he added after a moment, pulling out his phone and started texting Sans.

"What?! Do you know how mad he'll be if he knows I told you about Gaster?!"

"MY BROTHER'S TOO LAZY TO GET MAD."

"Maybe lazy but not careless," Kaya said in response.

"BESIDES, I WILL PROTECT YOU IF YOU DO GET INVOLVED," he said, finishing the text. "NOW ALL WE DO IS WAIT."

"How do you know he'll come?"

"I SET HIS NOTIFICATION ALERT TO MY WONDERFUL VOICE ON THE HIGHEST VOLUME EARLIER."

Kaya was speechless and decided to remain silent. Indeed, it wasn't long before her father appeared in the clearing, and she knew she was in for it when she saw how pissed he looked, with a frown on his face and his eye sockets dark.

She didn't try to explain herself as he said sternly, "we need to talk," and picked her up by her SOUL with his telekinetic powers. He resisted his brother's onslaught of questions by not answering them until he finally broke, his magical eye appearing.

"papyrus! can't you understand why i kept things like that secret from you?"

"Why? Because you're afraid of a RESET?" Kaya said for her uncle. Her father froze, his eye disappearing, and stared at the ground. She floated over to his side with little difficulty, used to floating in the air because of her nightmares, and flipped over. She gazed at the stars above her, trying to see how easily her father would believe that the world had RESET and the monsters were all back underground. "There's no need to worry, since Mom doesn't have access to it anymore. So you can let it all out, all that you've been keeping secret... hoping that the others would understand and not get angry."

Sans gazed at her, and she knew because she felt his prying eyes on her back. "that... " he stammered. "that's not entirely why i need to talk to ya. bro, please go home. there's no need to help or protect for what we're gonna be doin' and no one's in trouble. this won't be anything important."

"FINE. BUT I EXPECT YOU BOTH HOME BY DAWN."

"Is it almost dawn already?" Kaya asked. Have we really been out here that long? And why is Dad lying? Of course it is important if he appeared as pissed as he was.

"huh, i guess it almost is. cmon," her father said and went deeper into the woods, pulling her SOUL, and thus herself, behind him. She remained quiet and defied the normal laws by doing aerodynamic maneuvers in the air, twisting this way and that way, floating up and down; all the while her father didn't notice. Only when he decided they were deep enough in, and turned around to check on her, did he catch her in the act.

"how long have you been doing that?" she heard him ask, scaring her out of her fun, and her eyes went dark.

"Uh," she faltered, trying to find her way around it. Her glowing, white eyes appeared back in her eye sockets and they darted around, until she asked, "How long as in, when did I start when you picked me up, or, over my whole life?", slightly avoiding his question by not answering it and flipped over so she was looking at him.

"fine, when and where did you learn to do that?" he adjusted, releasing his power from her SOUL, making her drop onto the ground.

"I learned from my nightmares," she answered, lifting her head up and holding it there with her hand. "And no, nightmare you nor noghtmare Gaster ever appeared and tried to mess with me. I was usually free falling in an empty void, and being held up like that feels like I'm free falling. So I got used to it and managed to use it to my advantage in my dream state." She was messing with a blade of grass, her eyes dark as she remembered the problems that usually occurred during her nightmares: the darkness, the emptiness, the dark, empty, muffled, soundless void, the knives out of nowhere trying to kill her, her invisible, hidden or shadowy killer lurking just beyond the shadows. Why haven't I tried anything different? she wondered.

"ya should probably take off paps' scarf now," her father said, helping her up onto her feet.

"Oh, yeah," she agreed, knowing what he was thinking. She had forgotten that her uncle had put it around her neck in order to help keep her warm. She unwrapped it from her neck and sighed, slouching against a lonely oak in the pine forest by their town. The grass was cold when she reached the ground, and she turned into her skeletal form once again from the cold shock.

Sans burst out laughing. "The ground's cold and wet!" Kaya exclaimed, her cheekbones a bright purple. She pulled her hoodie over her face, trying not to show her embarrassment, and groaned out of irritation.

"huh?" Her father said after he had calmed down. "uh oh."

"What's wrong?" she asked, lifting her hoodie so she could see what was wrong. "Ohhh, shit." The sun shone through the branches of the pine trees. Dawn had arrived.

"paps is gonna kill us," he said. He took her arm and yanked her up onto her feet. "cmon! we gotta get home!" This was one of the times where she heard her father was scared. Not only was there fear in his voice, but it was written clearly on his face.

Kaya followed him, quickly throwing Uncle Papyris' scarf around her neck, and asked, "Why are we running? Can't we just teleport there?"

"no. paps is a skeleton of his words. dawn's already come, so he'll already be on his way here."

"Can't we teleport some of the way there, though?"

"no. there's no tellin' how mad he is, and his mood decides his pace. we don't know where he is since we don't know his mood."

"I swear... if he lied to us... and is waiting... at... the door... I'm gonna kill him."

"heh... you and me both."

As she guessed, Papyrus was standing by the door as they burst inside, collapsing on the floor from exhaustion.

"HUH. YOU TWO WERE FASTER THAN I EXPECTED."

"...What?!" Kaya exclaimed, still breathless. She stood up and placed her hands on her legs, her head towards the ground. "You mean..." She looked up at her uncle. "You mean that you were... testing us?!"

"YES. YOU TWO ARE TOO LAZY THESE DAYS."

"I was sick!" she argued, lashing her tail angrily. How do you expect me to get any exercise when I couldn't even stand up?! And how dare you lie to us."

"I DIDN'T EXPECT YOU TO EXERCISE DURING YOUR SICKLY STATE. AND BESIDES, IT'S OVER NOW. SO STOP WHINING."

"...Fine," she huffed. "I'm going to bed." With another angry lash of her tail, she teleported to her room and flopped her head onto her pillows, feeling the comfort of her bed envelop her.

"DO YOU THINK SHE'LL FORGIVE ME, SANS?" she heard her uncle's muffled voice ask.

"nah, i doubt it. no one can stay mad at the greatest uncle."

"YEAH! WANT SOMETHing To EAt, Brother?" She listened to their conversation dim into the background and eventually stop. Either because they had left the house or because she had fallen asleep, she didn't care. What she did care to know, was what was happening in her new nightmare.