Chapter 33 - Runes

"Tondrie!" BoBo yelled, throwing open his arms. "That was an amazing pun!"

"Bo, thank you!" She said, throwing open her arms before the siblings embraced in a hug.

Papyrus watched the two for a moment, looking back and forth between them before he said, "You're Sans' child, too?"

"She is! She's Tondie and one of my bestest sisters ever! Have a pin!" BoBo said, sticking a pin into her hoodie.

"My name is Tondra," She introduced to Papyrus, "Did you like my pun? It's important to me that you liked my pun."

"Oh, I guess?" Papyrus said, a little caught off guard by her question.

"Quick question, do you have any beer? I've been clean for like an hour and I might blow my top."

Papyrus looked at her in confusion. She didn't look old enough! He thought Sans would at least make sure to keep his children away from drugs, even if they were introduced to killing. Tondra was human, she could get drunk and get hurt, or worse! Why would Sans let her drink underage?

"Oh, she doesn't get drunk," BoBo explained to his Uncle. "She can drink and drink and she remains as sweet and adorable as ever!"

"You don't look like a monster," Papyrus said.

"I'm human, but I got a skeletons immune system. Never get sick, never get drunk!" Tondra cheered, sticking up her arms. "Tibia honest I feel like I'm just a mix of a lot of things. Like my Dads just threw their DNA into a bowl, threw in some other sh*t, and there I am!"

He had only met her a minute ago, and she was already talking about drugs. So she had the same immunities of a skeleton? This was all a bit much for Papyrus to take, the man staggering on his feet slightly. At least BoBo had given him a moment to breath by throwing up when they met, and that was after Papyrus learned that he was an experiment.

Wait, he didn't want to think about that either. Now he really felt like he was going to vomit.

"Okay, we should probably focus on the girl with the knives," Papyrus said, rubbing his hands together to calm himself. "Did you know her, Tondra?"

"Nope. Been trailing her for a good couple of days, though." Tondra leaned down and grabbed one of the knives, carefully twisting it between her gloved fingers to look at the markings. "Got some drugs, won a drinking contest, then trailed this girly for a little. Been carrying around that screwdriver for a solid week, though. I've waited to use that pun forever."

"She uses a lot of drugs, but she's a real sweetie!" BoBo told Papyrus.

"I use the drugs so others don't! If they drink they die, if I drink I just sorta... sit there!" Tondra argued, "Not to mention I go to a lot of parties, and I have to make sure to drink it or else the idiots will go drink and drive. Saving lives, one beer at a time!"

"Or you could dump it out!" BoBo said.

Papyrus couldn't really blame her for drinking alcohol, it wasn't deadly to her like it was others. If she gained the immunity of a skeleton, that meant it was just like any other food to her. It didn't matter to skeletons if they were drinking alcohol or apple juice, overall they still degraded it to magical energy the same way. And Papyrus himself had drank some alcohol before, watching everyone around him get drunk as he simply enjoyed the taste of the beverage. It was impossible for skeletons to become drunk or addicted, they had no organs or nerves to be affected by the chemicals. To them, food was food, it didn't matter really. It had just caught Papyrus off guard by how a human looking teenage girl was instantly on the topic of beer.

"Has the girl been trailing us?" Papyrus asked her, getting back onto the main issue.

"Only for, hm, maybe two minutes at the most," Tondra said, "She saw you guys and tried to go for the kill instantly. Man, look at her weapons! She has a Cinquedea dagger, it was mostly used in older history. Sh*t, there's even a Kalis, from the 13th century! Custom made, spell written right onto the sword! That's good, really good. I'm keeping these now man." Tondra kneeled down next to the girl, removing the weapons carefully from her waist. "Dude, seriously, these weapons are really good. Like, really good. They got awesome spells on them."

"That's right! I forgot you could read that stuff!" BoBo said.

It took no time before Papyrus was once again confused, crouching next to her. Tondra noticed and held out the blade, hand gently cradling it from under the blade while her other contained the handle. By the way she was using it, her Uncle could already tell that she was good with weapons. Delicate hands guided it under the light, letting the carvings glow from the metal.

"Those symbols," Tondra explained, tilting her head down to take in the sight of it. "They aren't just decoration. They're an actual language, and not just a language, it can be used for spells, too. You connect a certain amount of them in a certain way, and you got some good power on your side. I've tried it once or twice."

"She once summoned a killer snowman!" BoBo said, leaning down next to his family members. "It melted in hotland. It was really sad! He didn't like my pins I gave him, poor asexual snowman."

"You can understand them?" Papyrus asked her, "Did Sans teach you how to read these?"

"Uh, he never really taught me. I've always just... known, really," Tondra said, laughing awkwardly. "Crappy answer, I know, but I've always just known about these. I don't use them much, but I can read them and write them. I don't know how to write a bunch of spells, I'm real bad at that, but I can write puns in them. And summon evil snowmen, accidently explode a kitten-"

"You did that? Dad grounded Bean!" BoBo said, frowning slightly at her lie.

Tondra shrugged, and even though her mouth was covered, Papyrus could sense the smile from her.

"Eh," Tondra chuckled, "But uh, these weapons are cool. Really cool. These- can I call them runes? I'm calling them runes. These runes are a spell that can remove magic. It looks a bit complex, with all of those lines. I'm not really sure how to explain it. Basically the more lines and power is needed for a spell, the more difficult it is. Like taking magic away, that takes some craftsmanship. And it's why this couldn't have been on something different, like a stick. It could have been on a stick, but the energy from it wouldn't have enough to give the spell much of a boost. The stick has no power tied to it, no energy like one from a weapon. Natural things are better suited for natural tried spells, like one to cause overgrowth, like I did in the throne room, or one to summon a tree. That's why weapons are best used to carve spells meant to hurt, because their energy is focused around hurting. And why walls are best used for storage spells, or barrier spells. Really, the runes are used to focus the void onto a point in the world forcefully, and use it to bend the world around you to your will. It's really neat, and that's why energy and magic properties of items are important. That's why it must have taken ages to make these weapons, because they would have had to make sure to carve each line perfectly to bend the void around to their intentions. That's why I'm bad at it, because I tend to shake my hands whenever I try to still them. And, it's funny how-"

Tondra cut off, looking up with a slight tone of embarrassment. A blue blush covered her cheeks.

"I kinda get really excited whenever I talk about the runes, sorry," She grunted out, quickly pulling back the weapon.

"Aw, no!" BoBo whined, clapping his hands as his eye lights practically sparkled. "I love it when you talk about them! You never do much!"

"It's been a little since I last saw one, that's why I trailed her. I got a little excited," Tondra said, "Guess it was a good thing I did, all of these weapons remove powers. Well, not remove, but more of they use the void to block our your powers for a good amount of time. Around a good hour for someone with decent magic. But let me cut to the chase, you couldn't handle getting attacked by this blade."

"I love your puns!" BoBo gushed, "I want to hug you again. Can I?"

"Sure thing pal, bring it in!" Tondra said, opening her arms. "But after I loot this girl, we should run like Cole when it's nacho night. There was a lot of people who saw BoBo get stabbed, so yeah. Kinda needa get a head start before the police find us."

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Sorry guys it wasn't Bean XD, I thought that was clear by her brown hair.

This is Tondra, Toby's kid. Here's a rough concept sketch I did of her awhile back

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