Disclaimer: If I owned legend of Zelda shadow or Vio would I be writing fan fiction? If you've answered yes to this question than I suggest you go see a doctor.
Ah school days they were the worst. Waking up early and running to school if you were just the tiniest bit late. The hot school uniforms we were required to wear even in the most humid of weather. The classes that only told you things you'd learned a long time ago (for me anyway). And the lovely assholes who decided that my name was that of a girls. Ah school mornings, one of the very few things I just wish would go to hell.
The bell rung in my ears the moment I opened the school doors, biting back the sigh that threatened to pass my lips I began to asses my current situation. No time to make it to my locker and my first class was on the other side of the building, yep this morning was just bound to be wonderful. I jogged through the quickly emptying hallways so no one would stop me for running.
My refection followed me in the shining navy lockers, some papers lay scattered across the floor, and the blurry figure of my shadow faintly copied my every movement. The only sound to be heard was my foot falls that seemed to echo around the corridors.
After I made my way up a flight of steps and rounded two more corners; I was knocked over by a blur of white and navy. The impact threw me backwards, completely taking out all balance I had a moment before. I shut my eyes tightly upon hitting the ground; my backpack slammed against the tiled floor with a 'thwack'.
"Frick!" someone cursed loudly in front of me. The tell-tale sound of books falling and scattering across the floor erupted accompanied by a heavier sound. I opened my eyes a bit to see who'd dare run into me on one of the many mornings I was actually late to class.
A purple haired boy sat just about a foot away from me. The boy was a little smaller than me, his eyes were closed in pain and all his schoolwork lay around him, a half eaten piece of toast sat on the ground next to him. He was clutching his school blazer in his hand and his tie was untied. In his other hand he clung to a black glass vile with a cork holding some form of liquid inside. He slowly opened his sky blue eyes, and gave me a pissed look. Once he saw who he'd hit the anger evaporated.
"Vio!" he said in surprise. "You're late again!" a smile touched the pale boys lips as his eyes took on a more amused asset.
"Shut up." I muttered spitefully "you're late too." Ah, another person you could call my friend. Though he was more like an ally in the weird name category, shadow darklink a lot of people say his parents were obsessed with the version of links story where the shadow saved the day. Shadow however fully denied that that story could be true. Though whenever he did he looked sad for some reason. My only theory was that he didn't believe what he was saying. He got along fairly well with green and red and even though most of the time he seemed nice he could beat the crap out of blue if he was insulted. He didn't have a named 'type' in my book because the boy was inconsistent, almost like he had a mask that he was really bad about keeping on.
"Yeah I am but I don't have professor Ganon first period. He's gonna kill you" shadow laughed good-naturedly even though the statement was probably as true as they come. I shot off the ground as fast as I could
"Sorry about your books! I'm going to get to class before that comment of yours comes true! See ya shadow!" before he could say anything I had taken off down the hallways and as far away from the scene as possible. In a matter of a few minutes I was at the door to my first hour and trying to find some way to calm my nerves.
'Ganon can't really kill you Vio!' I mentally cursed 'he's just a teacher!' though even through my mental peep-talk I was still haunted by the thought of professor Ganon coming to my house in the middle of the night with a chainsaw. Shouting 'this is why you never come to my class late!' and cutting off all of my limbs. Trying to push the frightening image out of my head I opened the door, not even bothering to take a deep breath, due to oxygen itself suffocating me in my throat.
"Vio!" I squeaked and held up my hands. I closed my eyes tightly so I wouldn't have to see him
"Sorrysorrysorrysorry! I didn't mean to be late! I just-"I heard a throaty growl and fear stopped my ability to speak
"Sit down." Came the deathly calm voice "your ten minutes late so you get ten detentions" I opened one eye to make sure he was telling the truth and there wasn't a knife or bomb or anything that could kill me anywhere near him
"Really?" it came out heavily tainted with disbelief. The moment it escaped my lips I kicked myself for not just taking it and sitting down. He narrowed his eyes.
"Would you like to triple it?" he challenged still not threatening my life in anyway
"No sir!" I replied quickly "sorry!" trying to keep my head low I made it over to my chair and sat.
Next to me in the double desk to my left sat Green, his emerald eyes alight with laughter,
"What had you so late today?" he challenged playfully. Without looking at him, in fear of Ganon walking over and breaking my neck, I replied hastily
"I woke up late, and ran into shadow in the hallway literally" out of the corner of my eye I saw him smirk. I hated it when he did that, that smirk was the I-know-something-you-don't sort of smirk. That look was almost my trademark and when someone else used it things were always worse than you expected them to be.
~begging for mercy~
From then class was regular. Ganon calling us useless, giving us impossible assignments and doing anything possible to crush our self-esteem. Luckily for me his teenager destroying methods were amateur and childish at best. In my instance of boredom my mind began to wander back to shadow.
Maybe I would just call him the 'inconsistent type' so I could get that off my chest. Thinking deeply into all my knowledge of the boy I noticed a few small interesting quirks that he had. During PE if we were to go outside he would suddenly disappear, he never ate at lunch, he hung out with blue, red, green and I at school but he always declined meeting outside of the education system, and if the sun hit him at all he would cringe and try to fidget his way out of the light. Shadow was the kind of person you would expect to be in lots of sports, he was really athletic and strong but he didn't have much muscle to show for it. You'd also expect him to be some sort of heart breaker but the only way you'd see that is all the dates he declined.
So it was official shadow was my 'inconsistent quirky type' a perfect fit for him. Now that my thoughts on shadow were over I moved on to thoughts on other things. All week green had been asking me over and over to go to the arcade with him, red, and blue when the weekend came. I continually turned the offer down, I had studying to do over the weekend, and we went to the arcade every Saturday anyway. It wasn't like they would have any interesting new games or something. Unfortunately green used that small bit of information against me calling it 'tradition' so once again I was pulled into a stupid Saturday at the arcade when the school week ended. Other than the normal things in the life of Vio nothing seemed too interesting. Tests, homework, friends, girlfriends (or lack thereof) the only thing out of the ordinary I had to think about were the murders. Which brought me back to the question of the year 'who did it?' thinking about most people at my school about three fourths of them would be too stupid to be able to get blood out of a body without any open mark.
I let out a rather silent sigh and rested my head on my hand.
I was over thinking it all, I needed to take a step back and see if I could just find whoever was doing this in action or something. That would be step one. I needed some actual suspects. Some people who could do this and had full reason.
My eyes focused back to class in favor of listening to some lecture rather than drowning myself in my own little world any longer. After hearing a few minutes of mindless insults I simple let my eyes stray to where the clock hung on the wall. I bit my lip and tapped my fingers against the desk. It was hard to sit still when you had a lot on your mind. It was very simply going to be a long day
~begging for mercy~
Some flirty glances, sweet smiles, and girlish giggles were directed at me as I entered the lunch room, clutching my newest book to my chest, I weaved my way through the crowd.
This was bad. I'd seen this happen to many people. Innocent people like me… this quiet cycle broke the strongest wills. I must have ended up in the rumor mill somehow; people I passed tried not to look directly at me in favor of whispering among themselves. In a quick decision of not buying lunch I sat at the most empty table I could find. After which I was quickly joined by red, and blue.
"Hey Vio!" red chirped his huge childish smile still unwavering. I just smiled at them as the pair sat down
"Something wrong?" blue grunted sparing me a quick glance
"No" I responded trying to look normal. A third voice questioned
"Then why have you been sitting there locking yourself in your mind" I turned to find green standing behind me with a school tray in his hands.
"Just spacing out" I waved him off hoping he would just take it and leave me be. If I told them about my plans to find a killer they would stay by my side to make sure I never went out alone.
Normally it would be good to have backup… but when your back up was these three… you were probably better off going in solitude. Shadow slid into the seat on my right, green sat on my left and blue and red sat across from us.
"I see prof. Ganon didn't take you head off for being late" Shadow chuckled
"it's a nice change of pace for him"
Blue eyed shadow, knowing him he was probably thinking about challenging the dark haired teen to some sort of battle. Whether or be one of words or fists chances were that he would lose. Shadow seemed to work well at improvising in a moment's notice; he always seemed to have some sort of come-back. Whereas blue rushed into things without thinking, punching mindlessly or speaking the first words to his mind without some sort of filter to harbor the stupidity. Sometimes things like that worked out for him. But those times were few and his victories didn't last long. While blue was distracted red seemed to have no problem slyly taking the chocolate-chip cookie from off his plate and openly eating it.
Shadow looked bored if nothing else. He was just staring off into the distance, with a look that almost said he was ready to fall asleep and if he was not woken up by some outside force that he may lay in slumber forever. So to keep my friend from becoming sleeping beauty I used reds strategy, stole a grape from greens lunch and chucked it Shadow.
Considering all my practice with a bow my aim and the blow were very accurate. He turned to me glaring playfully
"What was that for?" there was absolutely nothing threatening or agitated about the sentence. Just genuine curiosity.
"yeah." Green muttered "if you're going to take someone's food take it from blue!"
"Hey!" blue barked finally coming to terms with the current situation. Shadow chuckled under his breath and green put on a rather smug look
"I'm just saying that with your lack of an attention span you won't miss whatever is stolen from you. If you even realize it's gone." Blue glared
"Sure, I won't notice I'm missing something at all" he spat sarcastically. Knowing that this would simply turn into another pointless battle between two of my friends I decided to occupy my mind with the only literature near me, opening the leather bound, cover I started drowning myself in an old story. I lost myself to the familiar sentences and words, losing my grip on reality and letting my over analyzing thoughts slip away