I'm here with my next fanfiction: Solkat! And yes, I could totally have made the prologue and first chapter separate if I wanted I guess, but the prologue is short and I'm lazy.
Please enjoy this fanfiction, it's a bit long (33 chapters and a bonus story) so yeah. I hope you like it! :3
"Aaaah!" Karkat screamed. The man with the knife dropped his mother's body next to his father's. The man turned and grinned at him.
"There you are." he said, walking over. Karkat turned and ran. He could hear the man following, laughing like a madman. Karkat ran to a nearby window and opened it. The man ran into the room and laughed. "We're on the second floor! You'll just hurt yourself!" He lunged and Karkat jumped out the window.
Someone caught him, a boy maybe his age, but taller than him. He backed away from the house a few feet. The man looked out the window and grinned. He pulled a gun out of his pocket and Karkat's eyes went wide.
"Say goodnight!" the man yelled. But before he could shoot red and blue light shot from the eyes of the boy holding Karkat. The man screamed as the light enveloped him and the entire house. Karkat stared in amazement. When the lights died down the whole house was destroyed. The boy set Karkat down and patted his head.
"You'll be fine now." he said. He pulled a phone out of his pocket and handed it to Karkat. "Here, phone for help." Karkat took the phone and dialled 911.
"Hello. What is the state of your emergency?" a woman asked.
"I-" Karkat started to cry. The boy wiped his tears away and tapped the phone. "My-a man came into the house and killed my parents. My house is destroyed. I need help."
"What is your address?" Karkat frowned. He didn't know. They lived in a house in the forest. Karkat looked at the boy, hoping he could say something. He handed Karkat a piece of paper. Karkat looked at it and saw that it said what he assumed was his address.
"Two miles into the forest near Beforus Lake. Uh, northwest." Karkat said.
"Alright. Help will be sent right away." The lady hung up. The boy took the phone from Karkat and put it in his pants pocket. Karkat could already hear the sounds of sirens.
"Good luck." The boy said. He stood up and walked away. Karkat wanted to follow him, but he was so tired he couldn't move. He watched the boy disappear through the trees. The sirens began to get closer and Karkat covered his ears.
Six years later Karkat was walking to his first day at Alternia High. It was a cool autumn day, with a sky covered by clouds and a few leaves already turning orange and falling from trees. Karkat hated it. He was more sensitive to the cold than other kids, so he had to wear a jacket inside. He supposedly got it from his dad. Karkat didn't remember much about him or his mom. After they died he seemed to forget some things about them. But he still remembered the boy who had saved him. People hadn't believed him, and Karkat had come close to thinking it had been a dream. But it had been too real, too lifelike.
Karkat shook those thoughts out of his head as he approached the school. It was really big and had a lot of students. Karkat didn't like being in big groups, but it seemed like that year he wouldn't be able to avoid it.
"Karbro!" Oh, it was Gamzee. He was waving to him by the entrance. Karkat jogged up to him, avoiding making contact with as many people as possible. "Great to see you again!" Gamzee said when Karkat caught up to him.
"Yeah." Karkat said. He preferred to avoid talking. He'd been like this since six years ago.
"C'mon! Maybe we're in the same homeroom!" Gamzee put an arm around his shoulders and led him inside. They walked to the bulletin and checked their names. "Sweet! Same class! Let's go!" Gamzee dragged him upstairs to their classroom, even though the bell hadn't rung yet. No one else was there yet so they grabbed some seats in the back.
Karkat pulled out his phone and listened to some music. Gamzee had bought him the phone for his fourteenth birthday. Karkat didn't have many songs on it, but he'd been meaning to get some more. Gamzee said something to him but he didn't really listen. Not like he could hear him with his earbuds in and music blaring. Gamzee tapped his shoulder and Karkat pulled his earbuds out.
"What?!" he snapped.
"The bell rang. Teacher'll be here in a sec." Karkat sighed and put his phone away. A few seconds later the teacher walked in. Other students began to enter the classroom and sat down in seats. When everyone was there the teacher called their attention.
"Good morning, welcome back to school, blah, blah, blah! I'm you're homeroom teacher, Mr. Slick. And no, that's not a joke. So don't start making fun of it or I'll get stabby-wait, I'm not allowed. Fine, I'll give you detention. So don't be jerks and you'll be fine." He then handed them all their timetables. Karkat looked at his and sighed. All classes were boring, so he didn't really care what he got.
"Karbro, what classes do you have?" Gamzee asked. Karkat handed him his paper and he grinned. "Great! We've got all our classes together! This is great, Karbro!"
"Oh, wait a second." Mr. Slick said, interrupting Gamzee. "I'm supposed to introduce some new student. Are they here?" A boy at the back raised his hand. "Well, then stand up so we can all see your ugly ass."
Karkat's fist thought was that Mr. Slick was wrong, the kid wasn't ugly. He was tall and thin and had pale brown hair. He was wearing 3D glasses and a yellow shirt and black jeans. He was tall enough that he didn't fit very well in the chairs. He could even be almost as tall as Gamzee, who was just freakishly tall. Karkat thought he recognized him.
"Okay, this ugly's Sollux Captor. I don't care how you treat him, just don't stab him. That's my thing. Okay, now sit your ass back down." Sollux sat back down and Karkat heard a few kids whispering. He didn't listen to what they were saying though. He was too busy trying to figure out why Sollux looked so familiar. Sollux noticed him and Karkat could have sworn he looked shocked when he saw him. What the heck?
"Hey Karbro." Gamzee said, distracting him.
"What?!"
"Have you spoken to Tavbro recently?"
"No, why?"
"I listened to attendance, and he's supposed to be in this class. But that motherfucker is nowhere to be found."
"Then just text him."
"I just did, and he's not answering."
"He probably just slept in. Don't worry so much." Karkat glanced back at Sollux but he was busy writing in a notebook. Karkat pulled out his phone since the teacher obviously didn't care about the students and listened to some music. Gamzee mumbled something but Karkat didn't listen.
When the bell rang Karkat and Gamzee grabbed their books and walked to class. They had Science class first. When they got to the classroom they sat down at a table. Once everyone was sitting down the teacher got up and spoke.
"Okay, I'm Mr. Ampora. Noww, I need all of you to stand against the wwall so I can put you all in groups. So get to it!" Karkat and Gamzee stood next to each other. Mr. Ampora assigned everyone to different tables so that there were groups of four. "Gamzee, Karkat, Sollux and Tavvros are at table four." He pointed at a table that was in the front row. Great. Karkat sighed and sat down. Gamzee told the teacher that Tavros was absent. Sollux sat down across from Karkat. Karkat got the feeling he was staring at him, but he made himself not look up. Okay, seriously. Where'd he seen him before? It was like there was something blocking him from remembering. "Okay, evveryone read the first section of chapter one in these books, then do wwhatevver you wwant, as long as you're quiet." Gamzee grabbed them all textbooks, including one for Tavros.
"So, you're new here, Solbro?" Gamzee said.
"Yeah, I jutht moved here yethterday." Sollux said. Wow, that was some lisp.
"Cool. What'cha think of this town?" Sollux shrugged.
"It'th nithe. I haven't really theen much of it yet."
"Stop talking and read you're stupid textbooks!" Mr. Ampora snapped. Karkat sighed and opened his textbook. He sort of read the section, but it was hard to concentrate. He felt like something was nagging him in the corner of his mind, but he couldn't figure out what. Eventually he just shut his textbook and listened to music. He could read it when he got home.
The rest of the day was uneventful enough. Karkat found out that Sollux and Tavros were also in all his classes. During lunch Gamzee tried to call Tavros, but got no answer.
"He's probably sick then." Karkat said.
"He was fine yesterday." Gamzee said, looking at his phone.
"Go thee him after thchool." Sollux suggested. Gamzee nodded and put his phone away. So, when school ended for the day Gamzee headed in the opposite direction from Karkat to Tavros's house.
"I'll say hi to Tavbro for you!" he said. Karkat nodded and waved back. He sighed and started walking home. Then he realized Sollux was walking next to him.
"Why are you following me?!" Karkat snapped.
"I'm not. My houthe ith in thith direction." Sollux said. Karkat just nodded and ignored him. If he looked at him he started to wonder where he'd seen him before, and it was beginning go make his head hurt.
Karkat was quiet while walking. He really wasn't good at starting conversations. And Sollux didn't try talking to him anyway, so he probably wanted him to be quiet. When Karkat's house came into view he sighed. It wasn't that he disliked his home, he just felt out of place in it sometimes. Sollux's phone went off suddenly. He answered it with a polite "Hello?"
"Aw, theriouthly?" he groaned. "Fine, hang on." He glanced at Karkat. "Can I thtay at you're plathe for a bit?"
"Uh, sure?" Karkat said. Sollux nodded.
"Okay, I'll be at a friend'th houthe. Yeah, big woop dad, but nobody careth. Okay, bye." He put his phone back in his pocket and sighed.
"Uh, why do you have to stay over?" Karkat asked.
"My dad'th got thome friendth over, and that meanth it'll be loud." Sollux said. When they got to Karkat's house Kanaya was there to greet them.
"Welcome home, Karkat." She looked at Sollux like she was inspecting him. "And who's you're new friend?"
"I'm Thollux Captor." he said. Kanaya smiled and shook his hand.
"I'm Kanaya, Karkat's cousin."
"He's staying over for a bit." Karkat said.
"Jutht for a few hourth." Sollux said. Kanaya nodded.
"Okay, that's fine. Dad's out late tonight, so you should be able to avoid his lectures." Sollux looked confused. Karkat just nodded.
"Great. Come on." He led Sollux inside and took his shoes off. He dropped his bag in his room and sat down on his bed. "You can drop you're bag next to mine." Sollux put his down more gently and sat down on the floor.
"Tho, do you have any video gameth?" he asked. Karkat nodded and pulled some out. "Uh…oh, you've got a good one." Sollux picked up a shooting game. "Let'th play thith."
"Okay, sure." Karkat put the game in and turned on the TV. "Bet I'll beat you." Sollux grinned at him.
"You're on!"