Perspective- Darkness the Hedgehog
Bored out of my mind and prepared to cry, I stare into the fatal sunset. Lifeless. Disgusting. Who would enjoy such a pitiful sight? I groan as I continue forward, escaping school after another day of heartbreaks. Before I can complain about my day, I glance toward a notebook on the floor, gesturing for me to retrieve it. Without question, I picked the slick, black notebook off the ground.
Death Note, the note read.
Death Note, the words stuck in my head as I hid the book in my book bag.
"Darkness," a voice called. I narrowed my eyes. The owner was only a student preparing to scorn me. I hurried home, ignoring my peer's hostile comments.
"Still bored…" I groaned and collapsed on my bed, the note in my hand. I opened the notebook and found pages of rules.
The individual whose name has been written in this note shall die.
"So that's why this thing is called a Death Note."
I flipped past the black rule pages and reached the first clean page. At that moment, I felt as though the angel and devil fought of my control at that moment. The angel told my clearly to put the note back where I had found it. The devil convinced me to pick up a pencil and begin naming individuals who have harassed me. The devil spoke louder as I stood up, picked a mechanical pencil, and tapped on the eraser to give more lead to the bottom of the pencil.
"Die…die all of you!" I hissed as I wrote the names of several classmates in the note.
Minutes later, I turned on the radio in order to relax with some music. As I turned up the volume, I noticed the radio wasn't playing music. They were reporting deaths.
My heart almost stopped as my grip on the pencil loosened.
All of the deaths were caused by heart attacks. All the people who died were students of my school.
As I tensed on my bed, the radio reporter spoke the names of the students.
All the names spoken were all the names I had written in the note. I held my hand on the leather cover of the notepad.
On the desk beside my bed, my phone rang. I checked the number. Iceberg. One of my few friends from school who I doubted would ever find time to call me. I answered the phone, only to hear Iceberg yelling from confusion and fear.
"ARE WE GOING TO DIE NEXT?" he cried in agony.
"Iceberg, I'll protect you from death, you know that by now, don't you? I'm your friend, you can fully trust me."
Silence.
Iceberg sighed, "The students that died were all from our school, and our grade. They all died from heart attacks."
"What are you getting at?" I pondered.
"I'm just thinking…"
He hung up.
I closed my phone and searched my room for a nice place to hide the notebook. I dismissed the worry as I tossed the notebook under my bed. A second later, Iceberg calls back.
"It can't be a coincidence that all the deaths were heart attacks, especially if they were all caused at the same time."
"Right…" I decided to agree with his logic to escape any suspicion.
"Darkness…weren't these boys messing with you earlier?"
"Yeah…why?" I shuffled nervously on my bed.
"Did you murder them?"
My heart stopped. I began sweating wildly.
"Just kidding, Darkness. I know you'd never murder anyone, right?"
I wiped sweat off my forehead, "Yeah…" I laughed. I thought for a moment and wondered what Iceberg would do if he knew that I did commit those homicides.
"You sound scared…I can't blame you at all for being afraid…" Iceberg paused, "Turn on the radio or news. They're talking about some Kira person who I presumed caused the deaths."
I followed his directions and turned up the radio.
"Everyone is wondering if these deaths were caused by Kira, who had once reigned over this world a while back. Many report that these students have been bullying Freshman Student, Darkness the Hedgehog, frequently before dying."
The radio's announcement almost made me faint from the pressure. They suspect me of being the killer- The Kira- already?
I pulled the phone back to my ear, "ICEBERG! HELP!"
No answer. He hung up on me seconds later.
I rushed back to the Death Note only to see a bony creature behind me.
"WHAT? WHO…WHAT ARE YOU?" I screamed in fear.
"A Shinigami," the creature replied.