So I've written a Splatalot fanfiction. Well it's in process. This will be 9-10 chapters long and all 12 defenders feature in it. Pairings are Kookaburra/Shaiden Kookaburra/Faetal Faetal/Thorne Gildar/Ballista Gildar/Crocness and Vane/Ballista. Some of these are one sided, and some will become canon as the story goes on. Enjoy!
Only was girl was able to recognise Faetal on the first day of their senior year, and that was her best friend Madeva, who had been there for the transformation over the summer. Gone were braces, pimples and frizzy hair, replaced by beautiful straight teeth, flawless skin and shiny brown locks in a cute hairstyle. She had worked herself to tears losing weight, and was reading all the right magazines to know how to dress right.
When she walked through those doors people stared at her. And not in the way that had stared at her the term before, with sniggers and pitiful looks. Now boys' gazes held on her for a few more seconds, and girls raised eyebrows admiringly at her confident walk and cute outfit.
Faetal felt amazing.
"Is that my girl Faetal there or has she been replaced by some Goddess?" Madeva said as she spotted her.
Faetal beamed widely, the way she could now that her teeth were perfect. "I know right!" she squealed.
"Turn for me, Fae," Madeva said, gesturing for her to spin. Faetal did and she nodded approvingly. "You are going to be a Queen this semester."
"I hope so," Faetal sighed, "This might be the year I get in with the Pops."
The Pops was the nickname given to Kookaburra, Gildar, Ballista and Shaiden; the Populars. Cute, clever and rich, everyone wanted to be them or be with them. Not only that, but they weren't the rude, power crazy kind of Popular you get in High School. They were nice people, constantly standing up against the school's gang, Thorne, Skabb, Crocness, Vane and Tinkor. Those five weren't even friends, they just hung out because no one else would with them.
"Being with the Pops isn't everything, you know," Madeva rolled her eyes. She didn't want anything to do with being on the top. "You've always got me."
"I know," Faetal said, "And I love you and- oh wow I think Kookaburra got a new hair cut over the summer!"
Both turned, and saw the four Pops walking in through the doors.
Kookaburra, head leant back and laughing delightedly.
Gildar, tossing his hair and lifting one bicep lightly to show it off.
Ballista, lips pursed and one hand on her hip.
Shaiden, walking with confidence Faetal could only dream to achieve, and half glaring.
As they passed Faetal tried not to look creepy as she stared at Kook's new, shorter haircut. Just as green as it had been since sophomore year, when he had gotten bored of its natural brown shade and dyed it, but in a handsomer, more mature style, lightly coifed. His smile was stretched across his face even when he had finished laughing. Kookaburra was known to be the joker of the school, but had such a nice, friendly air around him that teachers never got mad. Usually they smiled fondly at his antics. He was known to be a little, well, kooky. Only when his pranks got a little out of control did he ever get punished, but everyone knew that wouldn't stop him.
Ballista slipped her arm through Gildar's; they had been official since half way through junior year. Both were gorgeous and Pops, so it seemed natural. The big question in the school gossip columns was whether Shaiden and Kookaburra would get together.
"They're gone, you can snap out if it now," Madeva said disapprovingly. Faetal ducked her head apologetically.
"I'm going to be with the Pops, Mad, I'm gonna do it."
"You know guys, I don't know how, but I think this is going to be a great year," Kookaburra said sincerely, eyes bright. He was looking around the hallways, undoubtedly trying to think of something fun to do. He leapt a pace in front of his three friends and started walking backwards so he could face them.
"You say that every year, Kook," Ballista rolled her eyes, "I for one want this year to be over as soon as possible so I can escape to college." She looked around. "Where has Gildar gone?"
Her eyes narrowed as she saw him leaning against a locker, a girl looking at him far too seductively and getting far too close to him. "Hell no."
Kookaburra grinned, "Here we go."
Ballista stormed over. "Hey sweetie. Who the hell is this."
They couldn't hear the rest of the conversation, but after less than a minute Ballista's fist has collided with the girl's face and Gildar was smiling smugly. He loved being fought over.
"OOOH!" Kookaburra called, letting out his signature laugh: A high pitched "HA-HAR!" Ballista glared at him for second before turning to start telling Gildar off.
Kookaburra turned to Shaiden. "So, Shaiden. Nothing anything… Different?" He ran his fingers through his hair.
"Uh, sorry," she shrugged. "New shade of green?"
Delighted, Kookaburra nodded. "Yeah!"
"Oh," she smiled briefly, "Looks lovely."
He beamed. It was well known to most his crush on Shaiden, though she usually didn't really notice him.
Behind the school, under the bleachers, five other students sat on the ground, or on boxes that had been placed there over time.
Skabb: a general bully. No manners, just rudeness. The etiquette of a barbarian.
Thorne: a blue Mohawk and a cold personality.
Crocness: messy hair and a sarcastic nature. Nothing really special about her beyond that.
Tinkor: short, dirty and annoying.
Vane: rude, mean, greedy and spoilt.
No one in their right mind hung out with them, they didn't even like eachother, apart from Crocness and Skabb who must have liked eachother a little because they slept together.
"Why are we even still here, dude," Vane complained boredly, "I could have dropped out years ago. My dad's rich enough to provide for me."
"You'd have no freshman to torture," Thorne pointed out, carving his initials into the bottom of one of the stands. He was probably the least cruel to other students, mostly because no one got in his way and he usually couldn't be bothered. He terrified the student body simply with his looks.
"Any agenda this year?" Vane yawned. "Want to take down the Poops?" It was a pretty lame insult to the Pops, but now he had started if he stopped it would look like he was respecting them. "I think Gildar should be knocked down a peg or two, thinking he can just walk all over me."
"I want to finally get a good prank on Kookaburra," Tinkor said, his ugly face squishing into a scowl. He had been jealous of Kookaburra's status as school Prankster for years. He wanted it, but whenever he tried to get Kook it hardly worked and would be retaliated readily.
Vane scoffed. "Good luck with that."
"I want to get that Knightriss," Skabb said, remembering how she had ridiculed and beaten him down in the middle of a hallway after he had tried to terrorize some freshman. He had wanted revenge ever since.
"Not gonna work," Crocness told him, "She's leader of the school council now. It'd be a death sentence. I for one want to destroy Ballista. You should have seen the way she talked to me last year. And then somebody refused to go beat her up."
"Have you seen the size of her boyfriend," Skabb retorted, "He's on the wrestling squad."
"You still should have fought for my honor," Crocness complained.
"Will you guys shut up with your stupid revenge ideas," Thorne turned around, "Nothing they've said hasn't been true."
"Ballista asked me if I was homeless because of the state of my hair and told me I smelt as if I hadn't showered in a month," Crocness said.
"Kookaburra filled my locker with slime for throwing a water balloon at him," Tinkor wailed.
"Knightriss called me a good for nothing weak minded idiotic Barbarian," Skabb growled.
"Gildar said I was practically a peasant compared to his family's wealth, and that his good looks alone are more valuable than any money I have," Vane scoffed.
Thorne raised an eyebrow. "You guys are so pathetic. By letting their words take effect on you you're letting them win."
"Which is why we need to get back at them," Crocness pointed out. "Isn't there someone in this school you'd really like to humiliate?"
"As a matter of fact, there's not," Thorne said, "I don't bother with that stupid nemesis stuff."
"What about that other Pop? Shaiden or something," Vane said, taking a swig of his soda.
"Shaiden's fine," Thorne said coldly. "I don't care about anything she's done in this school. I'm not going to hate for the sake of hating her. And Vane you only hate Gildar because you want his girlfriend."
Vane spat out his Irn Bru, "How did you know that?" he demanded.
"Everyone knows, Vane," Crocness rolled her eyes, "It's no secret."
"And you have less of a chance than I do," Tinkor sniggered.
"No, that's not true," Thorne said, and everyone nodded in agreement. Tinkor shrugged and looked down. The bell rung.
They let out collective sighs or moans, and stood up reluctantly. They would have to walk briskly to make it to lessons time, but trudged slowly.
"So, mate, you're saying that you really like poetry books?" Kookaburra asked sincerely after his teacher had finished ranting enthusiastically about them.
"Yes," his teacher nodded.
"Would you marry one?"
"What? No- I just enjoy poetry!"
"Do you know what I enjoy sir? Foam."
"Sorry?"
"Lots and lots of foam."
The teacher looked around fearfully as if he was worried Kookaburra had planted foam shooters all around the room. Kookaburra held his stare for a second, before letting his eyes flicker to the ceiling. The teacher looked up slowly, expecting to be covered in foam any second. It was Kookaburra's first lesson of the semester, and every teacher knew he liked to welcome the school year with a bang. Or an explosion. Or lots and lots of foam.
Kookaburra grinned, "Psyche!"
The class laughed.
"That is not funny!" the teacher scolded, "What is even funny about that? Why is everyone laughing?" he went to his desk and pulled out his chair. Which triggered a chain reaction resulting in foam pouring all over the desk.
The class applauded and Kookaburra stood up to bow. "Best one yet," Ballista chuckled from where she sat, and Kook grinned at her.
"Back of the classroom!" the teacher barked. Kookaburra looked crestfallen.
"But-"
"No, I don't want you sitting next to those three," the teacher ordered, "Go and sit next to Faetal."
Kookaburra sighed and pulled a pitifully sad face at his friends before retreating to the back of the classroom and flopping next to Faetal, who had frozen. The lesson started again.
"Hi," Kookaburra said to her, "I'm Kookaburra. You can call me Kook."
"Hey there," she whispered back, a smile crossing her face now.
"What's your name?"
She turned to look at him. His face was closer to hers than she could ever imagine, with his bright blue eyes and handsome but cute features.
"Oh, I'm Faetal." She smiled charmingly at him.
He grinned at her. "Nice to meet you Faetal."
"You too," she smiled. Oh this was going to be a good year.
"Sucks for you having to go to detention after school," Ballista mentioned as they made their way to the canteen for lunch. Kookaburra spent quite a lot of time in the principle office, being reprimanded for his actions. They had stopped bothering to call his father in, who usually laughed louder than Kookaburra had and high fived his son.
"It's fine," Kook grinned, "I'll write a couple of lines and then ah, charm my way out."
"Sure," Shaiden rolled her eyes, "Because that's worked every time."
"At least 7 percent of the time, actually!" Kookaburra argued, "When good old Miss Harris is on detention duty. She loves me."
Gildar scoffed, "Whatever you say, my friend. And also who was that girl you were sitting next to at the back of the class?"
"Her name's Faetal," Kookaburra said, "I think she's new."
"She started this school at exactly the same time you did," Shaiden told him.
"Oops," Kookaburra said sheepishly, "my bad."
Shaiden chuckled lightly, punching his arm and smiling at him. He grinned back. "It's not your fault, she looks completely different this year."
"Well, all that matters is that I know her now and she's great," Kookaburra said.
"You think anyone who smiles at you is great, Kook," Ballista said.
Kookaburra said, "She laughed at like all my jokes, and said she liked my hair." He grinned. "She said it looked kooky and cool."
"Look out, Gildar, I think Kookaburra's found a new best friend."
Not looking happy about that, Gildar opened his mouth to speak before Kookaburra cracked a grin and said, "Last one to the canteen is a lousy alligator!" and raced off.
The three stood there shaking their heads at his childish antics. Then,
"Well I'm not going to be a lousy alligator!" and Gildar hurtled after his green haired friend.
Competitiveness flashed in Ballista and Shaiden's eyes as they glanced at eachother for a split second, before they were running too.
Faetal watched from across the courtyard, taking in Kookaburra's loud whoops of laughter as he charged ahead, arms flailing, whilst his three friends chased after him.
She was going to get in with the Pops, she was going to do it.
So that's chapter 1. Chapter 2 should be up within a week, really.
I hope you enjoyed it