FOURSWORDS ONESHOTS MAYBE????

AU-Mid-Manga: Shadow Goes Good Sooner (VIOXSHADOW)

"Pretty cool, eh?" He gives me a grin that doesn't seem to hold any of the charm and good I had been seeing. All around us, the sky is full of smoke and below us, a raging inferno destroys everything, I don't want to think about all the people and animals dying, from burns, or smoke inhalation. But I think about it anyways.

I can only hope the horror doesn't show on my face, because it writhes inside me, reminding me that while Shadow is charming, and friendly, and has been nothing but kind to me, he's destroying and ending people's lives. "Wow..." I manage, and I hope he thinks that in my tone is awe and not fear. "So that's the power of darkness."

If he's aware I'm scared of him and what he's doing, he doesn't show it, instead climbing to his feet and looking down on what he's done with a grin that makes me feel sick.

He goes on a monologue I barely pay any attention to, before he offers a hand and pulls me to his feet beside him. The height is jarring, but the flames and screams are even more. He takes notice.

"Oh, Vio, you really don't like this, do you?" He grabs my hand and his smile is sweet and almost keeps my total nausea at bay. I take a moment to realize how much I hate smoke, the sweet almost intoxicating smell, the way it blackens everything. "Maybe taking you was a bad idea."

I grimace. Behind him is a blackened landscape with a couple embers floating up, but nothing else. If anyone survived to see it, they'd probably assume they died in the fire and were in hell.

I can see Shadow frown. He turns my head so instead of looking behind him, our eyes meet. "Don't look at that...Believe me, I'm not the biggest fan of this either, I just like fire." I don't know if that was totally true. Maybe some part of him liked feeling so powerful, as he watched people die like that.

I can hear screaming, people crying for help that will probably never arrive and some of the screams stop and I wish they kept going. If he's done this before, why does he seem to even remotely enjoy it?

He's still looking in my eyes, and I'm searching his. He's allowing this to happen, he's violent, and evil, I need to find that good I was seeing earlier, but I knew I was going to be searching a long time before I found what I was looking for. A long time, but certainly not forever.

But if I took too long, maybe there wouldn't be anything left to find.

The thought makes me shiver even though the air was unbearably warm.

Eventually, Cya--his dragon--stops moving. I realize we're back at the fire temple. He easily jumps off and I follow, but I hate how much my legs shake when I land next to him. He of course notices, he tries to pay me so much attention, but what I really need is for him to pay me a lot less so I can sneak away from him and break the Dark Mirror. I know that's what I have to do.

And knowing that makes my legs shake more. He wraps an arm around me and before I know it, we're walking to our room. Our room...It has two beds, but the one with purple and white covers was only used once, for a brief time. It was immediately after that damn forest, and he brought me to my bed and started flirting with me...I had woken up barely an hour later, shivering underneath all the blankets. And Shadow said he was cold, and I was hot, and he grabbed me and my blankets and threw me on his bed. I hadn't resisted, when he crawled underneath the blankets and then threw a black one over the both of us before commenting on how it was really weird I slept with a shirt on, and I fired back that it was so cold, I was tempted to put all of my clothes back on. And he had simply replied that I was unbelievably hot without my clothes, and I'd probably be even hotter without the rest of my clothes on, and I said that it might be that way with him, but I was really cold. So he said he'd warm me up. I feel ashamed for letting him do stuff like that to me.