The Shadow Hunter

Chapter Eight

When I finished explaining to the nurse I looked over to Shady when I noticed she had fallen asleep. The nurse left and came back with an ice pack and walked towards her. I look at the mark of the shadow people, but there seriously was something off about it, and the thing is, is that it looked so familiar...I was going to look at it better when the nurse covered it up by the ice pack.

"Hey, can you be a dear and grab the ice pack on her wrist while I grab something to wrap it with, please?" I walk to her and hold it while she left to grab something. I was about to lift it up to see it when the nurse came back. Shoot. "Thank you." I nod. She takes off the ice pack and starts wrapping her wrist, when she finished she put the ice pack back on top. When the nurse left I stayed and watched over her. After about fifteen minutes pass and the nurse came back in and took off the ice pack and left. About thirty minutes had passed and Shady started to move a bit.

"Mmh." I look at Shady and notice her start to wake up. She rubs her eyes and stretches. She looks around the room she was in. "What the?" She pauses for a while.

"Your finally awake." She jumps startled when I spoke. She looks at me and I smirk at her. She's so jumpy...it's quite cute...wait what am I thinking?!

"Um...how long was I asleep?" She asks. I look at my watch that's on my right wrist.

"About 33 minutes." I say, and she blushes.

"Um...sorry about earlier and thanks for carrying me here." I nod. She's pretty light if not for her backpack.

"It was nothing." I reply after a moment.

"So, have you been here this whole time." She asks. I nod my head in response. I hold out my right hand to help her up. It took her a few seconds to realize that I was trying to help her up. She took my hand and sat up on the bed. I grab her right wrist. I started unwrapping it. When I was done unwrapping it I smirk. Hmm maybe it's not her? But it must be, I saw it clearly, I can't be imagining things. Ill stay with her to find out more about her.

"So you don't have a tattoo, but I saw it?" I say a bit puzzled.

"Um...yeah." I look at her eyes suspiciously.

"Okay,...but you say it as even you don't believe it." She looks at me trying think of what to say.

"I should go to class before I get bad grades in them." I smirk at her response. Nice try on switching the subject, but it's not going to work on me next time.

"Okay, do you need any help getting up or going to your next class?" I question, she shakes her head. "Okay if you say so. Oh yeah, don't forget to get a pass to go to your class." She nods and gets up. I grab her backpack and walk towards the desk. Shady turns around and was about to ask something when she noticed that I had her backpack.

"You don't want to forget this, do you." I say smiling. She grabs it from me. "Thanks, and sorry you had to carry me with my backpack, I must have been heavy for you." I fan the air in front of me lightly gesturing that it was nothing, and it literally was almost nothing...

"It was nothing, really." I say while I ruffle the back of my hair. Why am I acting like a nervous mess? "Um, I should get a pass too." She nods and we head towards the lady behind the desk.

"Ah, I see you finally woke up Shady. How do you feel?" The lady asks her.

"Um, may I ask how you know my name?" The lady looks puzzled by her question but then said.

"Mr. Night told me your name." She looks at her apologetically. The lady smiles at me and Shady.

"Um, sorry about that, and yes, I feel much better than before, thank you for asking." She smiles warmly.

"It's okay hun." she rights down two passes. "I think you're going to need these. What class do you have."

"Algebra 2." Shady and I say at the same time. We look at each other and blush. Why am I blushing so much today?

"With what teacher." She looks at me to let me speak first but I refused and tell her to say it first.

"Mrs. Plum" She nods and motions to Pitch.

"Same here." I say to her. She nods and gives us our passes.

"Have a good day!" We look at her and smile.

"You too!" We reply as we walk out.

We head towards class when I hear someone whispering Shady's name in Shadow Language, also known as the language of the night, Night Shadow, or my personal favorite The shadow of the dead in English. I turn around and see some of the bad Shadowians (Shadow people or Shadians for short) talking about Shady being the target. I curse and turn into a shadow to dispatch them. They won't die though, but they'll be stuck in hell or The shadow dimension/world for three years as their punishment, it depends if their soul has been tainted by evil. Mine isn't tainted so when I die I go to the Shadow world.

I go behind them and take out my shadow sword silently and 'kill' them one by one after I had taken off my clothes and left them in the bathroom. When I was done I go back to the bathroom and transform back, I start to look for Shady to see if she was safe and that no Shadians are in hiding around the school, and also to figure out why she was a target for the shadow people if she's one too, I think.