Among Us Fanfiction - Melannco

First Murder on the Ship

(Yellow's POV)

     Tuesday, January 27th, 2065.

     The only reason I still knew what day it was is because I had to clock my time in admin every morning, which requires me entering in the date. We've been up in space so long, I've honestly lost any sense of time I might've had. I can't even remember the last time someone referred to me by my actual name instead of just "yellow". The only reason I hadn't forgotten that too was, again, because of my admin card. It had all my information on it - legal name, date of birth, height, weight, zodiac sign. I'm a Leo, if you were wondering. I'm really into astrology. It's basically the reason I decided to come on this expedition; I really like stars.

     "Good morning, Yellow!!"

     Red entered into admin. He was my best friend on the whole ship; he was the first person I talked to all those months ago when we first took off into space. He's a cancer. Leo's and Cancers are very compatible.

     "Hey Red. Do you need to clock in?? I just finished up."

     "Nahh, I already did it a few hours ago. I was looking for you, actually."

     "Me?? What for??"

     "Well uhh... I mean, are you busy today?? I don't wanna interrupt you."

     "Nope, not at all, actually. My task list isn't very short today." I handed him the list Captain Cyan gave me the night before. "All I have to do is restart the reactor. It'll take like 5 minutes tops. Did you need help with something??"

     "Yeah, actually. Something's up with the wiring in electrical. I was wondering if you could help me..."

     "Wiring?? Really?? You can't do that yourself??"

     "Huh?? Yeah, of course I can. I just didn't wanna be in there alone."

     "What?? You scared??"

     "YES, OBVIOUSLY. Have you ever been in electrical?? That place is scary. I swear there's something in the vents, I constantly hear noises from in there."

     "I'm sure it's fine, Red. But if you want me in there, I guess I have nothing better to do."

     "YES, THANK YOU. I've had this weird feeling lately that something's up on the ship."

     "What do you mean??"

     "I don't know man. It just doesn't feel safe anymore. It's probably nothing, but I'd rather be paranoid and safe than oblivious and dead, if you know what I mean."

     "I get that. We should get over to electrical if you wanna get that done before lunchtime."

     "Yeah, true. I think Lieutenant Lime made coffee in storage, we can stop by there if you wanna grab some."

     "Oh bet, let's go."

     Honestly, it wasn't a long walk from admin to electrical, but we liked to take our sweet time going in between rooms. The captain hates when we take leisure time, but if we write it off as passing between jobs then there's nothing he can do about it. Cyan's a stick in the ass sometimes.

     We went south towards the storage rooms. They were generally pretty big, but they seemed like the smallest rooms in the entire ship because of all the crates and clutter filling up the room. Somehow, though, the captain always made an extra space in the corner so that Lime could set up a coffee spot for the crew.

     "Good Morning Lime!!" Red liked talking to the rest of the crew. I didn't. I kept my mouth shut.

     "Mornin."

     "You made coffee??"

     "Yeah."

     "You mind if I take some?"

     "Sure."

     Lime didn't talk very much. His responses were usually only one or two words. Captain says he's actually very talkative, though, behind closed doors, that's why he got appointed as Lieutenant. I don't believe it honestly.
     I grabbed some coffee silently. I really didn't like talking to other crew members if I didn't have to, especially higher-ups.

     "Red..." I whispered next to him.

     "Yeah?"

     "Is there creamer??"

     "Uhhh.. Hold on." Red spoke up for me, "Hey Lime?? Is there creamer??"

     "Bottom shelf" he mumbled, "Only peppermint, though. Leftover from Christmas."

     "Okay, thank you!!"

     Lime walked out of the room. I grabbed the creamer.

     "I can't talk for you forever, you know." Red said, "You can't be scared of the Lieutenant, he's just another crew member.

     "You know you're the only crew memeber I know how to talk to. I mean, unless there was like a murder crisis on the ship, I don't think I'd ever need to talk to anybody else."

     "Meh, you have a point, I guess." Red picked up his coffee cup and turned to walk out of the room. "Are you done?? Let's get to electrical."

     "Oh, right, yeah."

    
EMERGENCY, EMERGENY
ALL PERSONNEL, PLEASE REPORT TO THE CAFETERIA IMMEDIATELY
WE ARE EXPERIENCING A CODE FOUR
THIS IS NOT A DRILL

     "Code Four???" I looked at Red, "What does that mean??"

     "Well, they can't name the codes after colors, since all the crew members names are colors, so they went with numbers instead.

     "No, I mean like, what is a code four??"

     "Oh, I think it means there was a death on the ship."

     "OH SHIT. THATS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE."

     "Wait- YOURE RIGHT, WE GOTTA GO."

     Red put his coffee cup back on the table, and we ran up to the cafeteria.

End of Chapter #1

[A/N - You probably noticed already but each chapter at the top there's a picture of what each character looks like, just for fun. This chapter is yellow cuz she's the main character. There's gonna 13 chapters so we'll have each color. They're not good drawings, but I have to do all of them so I don't really wanna spend 3 hours on each one. Aight that's all hope you enjoyed the chapter]