Error woke up slowly, blinking as he looked around the familiar, yet still so unfamiliar room. It looked like the Snowdin house, but not in any of the AUs he was familiar with. The air was also charged with magic, much stronger than any AU he had been in before, stronger even than the Original AUs, like Underswap and Underfell, but it was also oddly familiar, like he'd felt it before. He began to slowly slide himself off the couch, but then he saw something he'd never seen before, in any AU.

It was a tiny dragon, black with a long tail tipped with fins, and with small horn-ear things on its head. It was wearing a blue jacket with fur around the hood, very similar to classic sans' jacket, and it was curled up on a large, fluffy blanket, right next to the couch.

After processing that there was a dragon next to him, he continued to slowly slide himself off the couch, not wanting to disturb the sleeping creature.

As he moved, the dragon's ear-thingies twitched, and he froze in place. Its eyes opened, revealing bright blue eyes that glittered with intelligence.

It yawned and stretched, before somehow turning into a skeleton, wearing the same jacket, but with a shirt and shorts on as well.

"Oh! You're awake! My name is Snow, and we're in my home here in Startale. What's your name?"

"ᴍy naᴍe is ᴇrror," he said.

"Well then, welcome to Startale Error! Don't worry, your friends are upstairs with my friend Chara, they're safe."

"ɢood. ɪ was woʀried aboᴜt theᴍ."

"Awe, Error! You care!" Blue chirped from the bottom of the stairs.

"ʏou already knew ɪ cared ʙlue, if ɪ didn't then why would ɪ have asked Stretch to get you out of the way when ɪnk and ɪ fought? ɪf ɪ didn't care, then you would've gone mad in the ᴀnti-ᴠoid," Error said.

"I knew, but it's nice to hear you say it. Also, you're glitching so much less! It's crazy!" Blue said cheerfully.

"What do you mean, glitching?" Snow asked.

"Oh, normally when Error talks he glitches- his voice goes all weird and staticky, like a messed-up phone call," Blue said.

"ʏup, that's pretty much my normal voice in a nutshell," Error said.

"Huh. Weird," Snow muttered. "By the way... Blue, was it? Is Chara asleep up there, and is your Papyrus still asleep?"

"Yes, they're both asleep, and my Papyrus's Multiverse name is Stretch."

Outside the window, a certain colorful skeleton popped up.

"Oh GoD! NoT hIm!" Error screeched, glitching like mad.

"Who?" Snow and Blue asked.

"ᴍy brother- well, technically my adopted brother. ʜis name is ғresh."

"Oh, Fresh! He lives here in Startale sometimes."

"ᴡhy is that my luck..." Error groaned.

"What, you don't like your adopted brother?"

"ʜe annoys me so much, and he's a literal parasite. ᴀlso, his 90's lingo is obnoxious."

"Well, do you mind if I let him in? Otherwise he'll stand outside the window and stare at us until we do, and that's just creepy," Snow said calmly.

"ғine, if you insist. ɪ'd rather have him in here than staring at me through the window."

"Sup, my radical broski!"

"ᴘlease ғresh... leave. ᴊust leave."

"Broski, your radical glitches! They're mostly gone!"

"ғresh... gᴇt out!"

"Fine, broski. I'll leave. By the way, Blue, Error, Ink's on the warpath- he really wants to find you. Also, Nightmare and Dream are looking for ya, but they won't tell Ink. They know about that radical balance, so they're on your side brah."

"ᴛhank you ғresh. ɴow get out."

"Fine brah! Have a radtastic day!"

"Bye Fresh!" Snow and Blue chorused.

"ɢood riddance," muttered Error.

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Shortly after Fresh left, Chara came down the stairs. She looked like she had just woken up, and she immediately headed to the kitchen. They could hear her muttering "need chocolate," which Blue found hilarious, and Error just wanted some chocolate too.

Error followed her into the kitchen to see what kind of chocolate she was talking about, and was intrigued to see that she had a mug of some steaming brown liquid and the entire kitchen smelled like chocolate.

"ᴜm, ᴄhara? ᴡhat is that? ɪs it chocolate? ɪf it's chocolate can ɪ try some?"

Chara grumbled and said, "It's called hot chocolate. I'll tell you about it after I've finished mine. Lemme alone until I'm done."

"ᴏkay ᴄhara. ɪ can wait. ɪ'm rather curious about this hot chocolate stuff."

Chara irritably headed into the living room, where she settled on the couch to drink her chocolate. Error followed her, bored and curious.

"Hmph. Go away until I'm finished unless you want to die."

Error yawned and went over to sit next to Snow on the blanket.

"Yeah, she can be a bit of a grump in the morning until she's finished her chocolate. Azzy and I are pretty much the only people she's okay with before that. Just wait a little while, give her some time. She'll perk up soon," said Snow quietly. "In the meantime, I'll show you how to make hot chocolate."

Snow led the way into the kitchen, Error following her like a lost puppy.

"Oh, great! The water's still hot from her chocolate, it'll only take a minute to heat up all the way. Hey Error, do you want whipped cream or marshmallows on yours?"

"ᴡhat is whipped cream? ᴡhat are marshmallows?"

"Oh. I'm going to put some whipped cream on yours, it'll make it taste even better."

Snow turned off the stove and used blue magic to lift the kettle full of hot water and pour some into two mugs, one shaped like an owl and the other covered in colorful polkadots. She had already added the hot chocolate powder, so all she had to do was stir it and add the whipped cream. Snow burned very easily, so she used blue magic to stir them as well, before adding whipped cream. She then used her icy magic to cool them to a drinkable temperature, and handed Error the color dotted mug.

Snow knew that hers would still burn her mouth, so she continued to cool it until it was more of a lukewarm chocolate than a hot chocolate. She then added a lot more whipped cream and began to drink it while using her blue magic to put everything away and clean up. Normally she would've cleaned up by hand, but she wanted to keep an eye on Error.

It turned out that she really needn't have worried about Error- he was sitting next to Blue, and they were whispering, something about how lazy Stretch was and when would he wake up.

Snow wandered over and settled next to Chara on the couch, ignoring her irritated grumbles. She took a sip of her mostly-whipped cream not-so-hot chocolate, and turned on the tv. Their tv only got one channel, but it was normally decent.

Currently it was just news, so she settled in to ignore everything and drink her chocolate while the news played, even though she had already heard all of it. There was rarely anything interesting that happened here that actually made it onto the news before it had spread as gossip.

Error finished his hot chocolate, and asked, "Hey, where should I put this? I feel like I probably shouldn't dump it into Underfell like I do most things, as it's a rather nice mug."

"Eh, just put it in the sink," Snow said, still sipping her own chocolate.

Blue and Error continued to talk quietly to each other, ignoring Snow and Chara, who were drinking their chocolate and spacing out while staring at the news.

Eventually they finished their chocolate and put their mugs in the sink before joining in the conversation just in time to make some terrible puns. The group then just chatted and messed around, waiting for Stretch to wake up.

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Just a nice chill chapter. You can tell I ran out of ideas towards the end lol

- Snow ❄️

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