towerofanimus | Hand in hand

Characters: Shion, Xion and you!
Setting: Dorm floors, round the tower
Format: Either
Summary: After Xion's shadow experience Shion and Xion meet up again, and then go on their daily trek to find all their friends and check up on them, whilst chasing away each others shadows
Warnings: Shadows

Shion toweled his hair dry and tried to ignore the shadows surrounding him. What, are we just some extras now? Not even worth mentioning once the curtains are closed?

Shion gritted his teeth, he knew they weren't real and he knew trying to talk to them was useless.

Anger is not a good substitute for guilt and shame Shion, do you really think you can just ignore us?

"Safu..." He tried to push past the shadows, but they followed him, the smallest one piping up next.

Why did you let us die Shion? I thought you were really brave. I don't want to be like this, Can't you fix it, miss Karen says you can fix anything, like you fixed my knee.

He waited outside the bathroom, waiting for Xion, wanting to put his hands over his ears.

Just like your father, a waste of time.

[Around the tower] Hand in hand they walked the tower, chasing away each others shadows. And looking for those they knew, or those they didn't. It seemed people who were alone were in most danger from them, or at least seemed saddest. So anyone who was alone, or they knew at all was approached.

Shion paused every now and again to write notes, though he couldn't even work out how to even start to work out what they were, or if there was any way to get rid of them for good.

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It came from the infirmary. Veronica had finally wandered in there again and the shadows had followed. She has them at a broadswords length away from her.

[Veronica, you should be so ashamed of your--]

"I said shut up! I'm sick of all of you!"

Xion turned her head away from Shion, in the direction of the infirmary doors.

"It's coming from this way," she told him, striding quickly towards them. Judging by that shouting, whoever was in there (it wasn't a voice she recognized) was having a lot of trouble with their shadow children.

Once through the doors, she sees Veronica and her shadow children. "Hey!" Xion shouted, running forward, "Leave her alone!"

She didn't even know this person, so she wasn't sure it'd do much good, but she had to try, at least. She had to help any way that she could. And it would at least let this person know that they weren't alone.

Shion hurried after her, "Get out." He shouted at the shadows, going over to the girl with the sword, waving his hands at a few of the shadows that retreated a tiny bit.

"Are you alright?"

"Huh?

Well hello there, strange people Veronica has never met before. She looked at them while keeping a wary eye on the three shadows. She looked kind of tired actually, her collar was a light yellow.

"I'm... I'm fine I guess. Who are you people?"

[People who want to hurt you squirt. Tear them apart for us!]

"Quiet."

Xion looked from Veronica to Shion.

"I'm Xion, and this is.... well, Shion. His is spelled differently, though..." she started, a little awkwardly. It wasn't often that she and Shion had to introduce themselves at the same time.

"Anyway, we're other residents in the Tower. We've both been here for a while," she finished. Maybe it was a little obvious (at least the first part), but she wasn't really sure how else to introduce the two of them. It wasn't like they had any titles or anything like that.

"Uh..."

Veronica was a bit stunned. Nothing like this had happened yet, or ever to her really.

"Nice to meet you? I'm Veronica."

[There lying to you, take them all out for us.]

"Pipe down! I'm not listening to you."

"Hi Veronica." Shion had been glaring at the shadows trying to shoo them away leyying Xion do all the introducing, she was better at it than he was anyways.

[They're just here to mess with you, like everyone else.]

"Quiet!" She tried to slice one of the shadows, only for her sword to pass harmlessly though.

she looked back at Shion and Xion. "What do you two want anyways?"

Xion paused, tilting her head a little to the side, as if she were surprised at the question. Maybe she shouldn't have been, given the number of non-trustworthy people she'd come to meet... and yet at times like this, it felt normal to Xion for most people to join together.

"We want to help," she answered simply, with an awkward shrug, "These... shadow children, or whatever they're called... they're causing problems for everyone, so we're trying to help however we can."

Shion nodded at Xion's words, "And they seem to go away if chased by others." He told the other girl softly.

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