Thank you for the wonderful review julienthesheep, I'm happy you're looking forward to the story it's nice to hear and sadly yes, I did not realize I had been spelling Cartman wrong. That was a derp move on my part as I always heard them say Cartmen in the show, but I will be fixing that from now on thank you for the advice!
Chapter 2: Lighting always makes for good impressions.
Kenny and Leo had talked for a while longer, sharing funny stories about times weird things had happened in their homes, Kenny won by a long shot but had to leave soon. He waved him off as Leo smiled with a goodbye.
"Have a safe walk Kenny! And I hope you heat up when you get home you feel kinda cold." Leo had only meant it in a kind and concerned way, it was apart of his nature after all. Though it made Kenny's heart stop. No one had ever noticed the chill he always felt, hell he hadn't even noticed it ever since the pair had shaken hands, it had returned once they let go of each other but he hadn't noticed.
Had Leo felt the burn when they had interacted? Did he know something about all of this and was just messing with him?
"Kenny?" Leo's voice rang out in his head making him snap back over to him in surprise as he blinked, Leo was frowning slightly and biting his lower lip "Are you okay? You completely zoned out there..." Kenny blinked again before noticing what he had been doing and gave him a smile.
"I'm okay, sorry about that, a passing thought. I need to get going, my little sister is waiting for me. Bye Leo!" He said walking off with a wave, Leo blinked and waved back with a confused smile.
"B-bye!" Kenny was a really nice guy, though sometimes he had a weird look in his eyes, that and he was really cold sometimes. Leo looked at his hands in thought, they had gotten really cold after warming Kenny up, but they went back to normal after a bit. He had a lot to get use to here he supposed.
"Leo! Time for hot chocolate sweetie!" He snapped up at his mothers voice and hurried in with an excited smile.
"Oh boy! Hot chocolate!"
Kenny was walking him as he fixed his parka to cover him completely again, no need when you had no one to talk to right? He took the time to think about the new kid, something about him didn't feel normal. Not in the sense that he was deranged or dangerous in some way, honestly he seemed like he couldn't even hurt Cartman, and as Kyle had proved, it really didn't take much to do that.
Still something about him was... different. Something that he wanted to learn about as soon as possible, you never knew what kind of knowledge could get you to, as well as in and out of trouble.
Hey it was something right? At least he felt warm enough to get home and say goodnight to Karen without dying, that was always a plus.
Now if only he could find a way to keep this trend going.
Two days later Leopold and his family where completely moved into South Park, the last of their items were packed away in the house and all that was left was to decorate with things they saw fit. As well as buy Leo some actual winter boots, no good for him to be walking around with soaked shoes, his mother would not be having any of that. So they were off at the mall looking around, his father was off looking for kitchen supplies as his mother walked him around a the Donovan Shoe Store, Linda was talking to the man about what shoe would be best considering they had never lived in constant snow before, or ever really dealt with it at all. Leo was sitting down on a bench an aisle over, he was kicking his legs back and forth humming. He paused when he heard someone talking and glanced over blinking, whoever it was had a really nasally voice.
"So I'm about to make a goal and Kyle comes out of no where and nails me in the side. I would have won the point if it wasn't for that, then Stan and Craig got in a fight about how Kyle tackled me and it turned into a massive brawl. And that's why I have this black eye." A boy with messy brown hair and a red jacket was talking to a boy with black hair and a purple shirt, he also had a backpack for some reason, who was looking at him in concern.
"Dude you really have to stop fighting with Stan and Kyle, you and Craig don't need to keep getting scraped up like this." The other boy smiled and waved at him.
"I'll be fine Token don't worry. Besides Stan always starts shit and it's up to me to back Craig up. He's my best friend after all. Right after you that is." He said snapping his fingers as the boy named Token snickered at him and patted him on the back.
"If you're sure then. Hey- who's that?" Leo blinked at being noticed as the two boys looked at him in surprise before moving over.
"Hey there! Who are you?" The brown haired boy said as Leo blinked again.
"O-Oh! My name is Leo, nice to meet you both." He said with a smile waving at them, the pair looked at each other as the boy- Token stepped forward offering a hand.
"Hey there Leo, my name is Token, and this is Clyde." Clyde watched him for a few moments before smiling as well.
"Nice to meet you as well! What brings you to my dad's shop?" Leo blinked.
"Your dad? Oh that's cool, we just moved here and I need some shoes that will actually last during the snow." Token seemed interested.
"Oh? Where did you move from?" Leo smiled.
"We just came from L.A. we finished moving in just a day ago." The pair looked surprised before Clyde spoke up again.
"Wow, we don't get a lot of new people here. Hey it's nice to see a new face, what grade will you be going into at school?"
"Oh I'm gonna be a 4th grader when school starts up. What about you two?" The pair grinned at him as Clyde winked.
"So will we, maybe we can be friends when class starts up. I'm sure Craig wouldn't mind." Leo smiled at the pair as the two sat down next to him and started to talk with each other about random things. What they planned to do when school started and just got to know each other while Leo's mom bought his shoes. They all looked over when the door was opened and someone called out for Leo, he blinked in surprise before jumping off his seat and looked towards the door before smiling.
"Hi Kyle!" He said happily not noticing Clyde's shocked gasp as the green hatted boy walked up with a smile.
"I thought I recognized you from the window, what are you doing in here?" Kyle asked with a raised eyebrow. Leo pointed towards the front.
"My mom is getting me some new shoes, cause mine aren't meant for snow, what are you doing here?" He asked tilting his head as Kyle smiled and pointed back to the door.
"My parents and I are buying some last minute school supplies, the others are here too but Kenny was walking around with me and Cartman and Stan had to go get some extra jackets." Speak of the devil and he would appear, at that moment Kenny walked in looking around for Kyle before seeing him and Leo, he blinked in surprise before moving over to the two waving, he said something in muffled hood to Kyle before waving again to Leo.
"Hey there to you too Kenny! Nice to see you again." He said happily, the boy said something, he wasn't sure what but it sounded positive from the tone of his voice so he decided to assume it was something nice. "I was just talking to Clyde and Token before you came in." He said happily not seeing the two blink in shock before looking at each other. "Do you guys know them?" Clyde's voice came out from behind him making him blink in surprise.
"Trust me we know them quite well Leo." His voice sounded annoyed as the pair jumped off the bench and looked at the other two. Kyle and Clyde were glaring at each other as Token looked blankly at Kenny hugging his backpack he was now holding instead of wearing. Leo looked at the pair in surprise as he looked back and forth between them.
"Uh... y-you guys aren't friends?" He said weakly feeling awkward as the two boys didn't stop glaring at each other.
"No we really aren't." Kyle said crossing his arms "And trust me Leo, our group is much better then theirs." Kenny looked at Kyle in surprise as both Clyde and Token took a step forward at that looking angry.
"What?! Our group is much better then yours Kyle!" Clyde sneered, Leo took a step to the side before Kenny grabbed his hand and pulled him away, the look he shot was crystal clear to Leo.
You don't want to be in the middle of that.
"Please Clyde, you and Craig have nothing on me and Stan!" That seemed to be a trigger as the pair got up in each others faces looking like they were ready to start brawling with each other. Token was gripping his book in annoyance at how close Kyle was getting before he said something else "You want me to give you another black eye? Might make you match for once." he hissed as Token took a step forward his dark eyes burning.
"Enough! Kyle back off! Now!" Everyone froze at Token's voice and looked over to him in shock. Even he looked startled, the next moment they all heard a cracking noise and looked up.
The light above them was cracking and about to fall loose.
Kenny had known something was going to happen, he had been freezing cold as he walked around with Kyle and had hopped maybe grabbing Leo's hand would have helped. But it seemed to have just been a one time thing, the cold was still there and he could only watch as the light came loose on one side and swung towards him. He closed his eyes and prayed it would just be over quick and easy, and hopefully painless.
What he didn't expect was to be pulled forward against someone's chest and feel like he was being drowned in flames. His eyes shot open to look at Leo in shock, how had he moved so fast...?
And what was that in his eyes?
Leo had noticed Kenny felt colder then the last time the pair had met, it made him worry slightly with a feeling he didn't know how to place. The moment the light had broken loose from the ceiling though...
It just felt like everything had been moving in slow motion, he watched Kenny close his eyes accepting whatever was going to happen to him, but something told Leo excatly what would have happened to Kenny if he just stood there.
The cold that surrounded Kenny so often... was the chill of death.
The feeling of touching a corpse like when his mother's friend died from an accident.
He didn't want that to happen to Kenny, so he acted without truly thinking about it. His body moved on its own as he pulled Kenny to his chest and slid them both back, he wasn't even sure if it was a good idea but the chill was swept away and Leo felt like relaxing again. He was safe... he was pretty sure anyways. What just happened didn't make much sense...
Leo let go of him letting out a breath before his legs gave out and he collapsed to the floor panting, he felt... really tired after that. Adrenaline wearing off? He wasn't really sure. Man, his head felt fuzzy... He did look up when Kenny dropped down next to him looking scared as Token ran over as well.
"Oh my god are you two okay?!" He looked panicked at what just happened as he gripped his backpack tightly. "I-I'm so so-" He was cut off as Clyde's father had came over and quickly dragged all of the kids away from the accident as Linda ran up and crouched down freaking out.
"My baby! Leo are you alright sweetie?!" She grabbed him from Kenny's arms and hugged him tightly pausing to look at him, he looked tired and felt like he had been punched in the gut or something. "Mr. Donovan please put those shoes on hold... I'm taking my son home now." Without another word she stood up and rushed out of the store leaving four kids and one shocked man behind. Mr. Donovan snapped out of his shock and quickly took all the kids out of the store.
"Token, Clyde, you two stay close to me alright? You boys, where are your parents?" He said looking at Kyle and Kenny, Kyle looked around before pointing in one direction where he saw his mother.
"T-their right over there!"
"Both of you, off then, no one should be around here right now." He said as the pair nodded and hurried off. Kenny caught one last glance at them. Token looked sick and Clyde was trying to comfort him, he looked back forward as the two ran off with a million thoughts going back and forth threw his head.
Just what the hell had just happened? Why did Token seem to panicked? And the most important.
Who and what the fuck was Leo? Cause Kenny knew for a fact no normal person would have just saved him like that, no one ever did.
If only he had been able to talk to him before his mother dragged him away...
Well if anything he did get two things out of today. One was that he didn't die.
The other was that Leo sure knew how to leave an impression on someone.
And with that we have officially started this story! The characters might not be completely in character and please forgive me for that, sometimes I go off on a writing binge and well, that happens. Either way I hope you are all looking forward to this story as much as I am, I do plan on updating every Friday but sometimes I might add an extra chapter at random considering if I feel like writing for this story or if I just have the extra time.
With that said I hoped you all enjoyed this chapter and if you did please review!
Until next time everyone
Lyn out~
