Knowing how clumsy Ara is, Add would learn to reflexively catch her with his dynamos. She'd be extremely apologetic, calling him 'Mr. Add' while she regains her footing. He'd scoff at her and scold her, but deep down his heart does flips when Ara says she's glad she can always rely on him.
One by one, student by student, the stacks of paper is passed upon, landing on top of each student's desk down the column. Everyone hands it to the student behind them without a second thought, until it reaches the last seat of the column. With feared gaze, she turns around. With a bored gaze, he glances down, waiting for his turn to receive the paper, with his left palm supporting his jaw and the other hand waiting for her to give him the paper. Because of her trembling hands, the paper doesn't even reach his fingers and instead, falls down to the floor.
"S-sorry!" She apologizes, her voice shaking.
He simply ignores her and lowers his body and grabs the fallen paper. He sits back up, and the feared female quickly turns around to avoid his gaze.
Annoying.
Flashbacking to the first day of school; everything happened during the welcoming ceremony for freshmen. Add was simply walking to cross the front gate of schoolground when three sophomores decided to stop him. Apparently, they were short on money to even buy a can of soda. Pitying his seniors, Add decided to help in, then he realized he forgot his wallet at home. The sophomores simply thought Add was playing around with them, then decided to use violent force for 'punishment' or at least whatever they called. Feeling attacked, Add guarded himself by using violence against violence… and ended up sending all three of the sophomores to hospital.
Because of such event, rumors have spread throughout the school and his classmates and even his seniors started to avoid is dangerous existence. Since no one wanted to speak or even look at him, Add haven't made a single friend so far, thus school have become a place he deeply despise of. Whenever they matched his eyes with his or even had to speak to him, they would tremble with fear, afraid of getting beaten by Add himself. Yet he had no intention of hurting anyone, unless someone was to hurt him first. But no one even dared to do such thing. Not only did the rumors affect the reason why no one approached him, but his glare with emptied emotion played a role with that as well. His expression never spoke anything, no one could tell whether he was happy or sad, he just seemed stressed and angry.
Therefore, Add didn't even try to approach anyone, since they would just run away. He ignored everyone and everyone ignored him.
There is one exception though.
"Add, did you do your homework like I told you to?"
"...,"
Ara Haan.
She's definition of perfection. Her silky black hair that reaches down to her waist, her slender body, dewy skin without a single imperfection, her intelligence, and her friendliness to everyone.
And she is the only person that approaches Add without fearing. Perhaps because she's so friendly and tender to everyone, that Add's rumor and his gaze does not even affect her.
"You didn't do it, did you?" She pouted, her hands resting on her hips.
"I guess I'll show you mine again. But next time! Do your homework!" She exclaims as she searches through her backpack. She hands neatly written homework to the male, who simply accepts the paper.
Even her handwriting is perfect; it looked as if she typed it out.
"Ahem…!" She stands rather proudly with hint of awkwardness as she clears her throat. Add glances up, confused of her actions. Her hands were wrapping around her slender waist as her long eyelashes covers her apricot eyes. With her chin held high, it seems as if she was waiting for a reply from Add.
Add let out a chuckle at her actions.
"Thanks," he replies back which automatically brings a smile across Ara's lips.
"You're welcome!" She replies back with a bright tone filled in her voice, then she disappears into the crowd among the students that surrounds her. Her happiness virus is spread across the campus, affecting Add as well.
However, she did not notice one thing. As she turned around and left the lonely male, his cheeks were blushing a red hue as his internal body heat was raising up, causing him to mildly sweat.
She causes fever.
Fever?
No, lovesick.
note:
v short v terribly written one shot !
i apologize, i tried to make this story longer and more detailed
but i personally think keeping it short and brief creates more of a simpler and cute story !
but the two characters barely even say anything oops
“Kill or be killed. Be the predator of be the prey”. For twenty-four hours, the act of murdering another human being is considered legal. Few will be the night hunter and shed blood, and few will be the night-hiders and hide in the shadows. Who will be facing the verge of their death?
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when there is hope, there is trials.
Predator
Terrified screams, horrified expressions― the lust for blood splattered across the cement walls does not end, not today. The only sound that echoes throughout the silent city is the mechanical buzzing created by the swift movements of six, highly technical weapon― dynamos. It effectively slashes flesh without a noise, too quick to even scream for mercy. The humanity is endangered, the population is decreasing at a fast rate. All because of one person, by the name of Add.
Predator, Edward Grenore, widely known as 'Add'. Since birth, his father abandoned his family that included Add himself and his mother. The mother who had to support his son's living, became a prostitute but soon enough, was brutally murdered due to unpaid debt. Since then he started to deeply despise the society and its culture. With naturally gifted skills: intelligence and swift movements, he was able to create six dynamos to assassinate every single human being. He have murdered numerous people prior to the government legally accepting the act of murdering for the next twenty four hours. Since the law is not kept in place, the number of victims continuously multiplies as time ticks by, as his main goal is to kill every single human being residing in his own city.
Add glanced up at the night sky, not a single petal of stars bloomed in the darkness. The only source of light was created by the full moon that illuminated down to the earth, absorbing the holy light. The humanity is the only enemy, and he will avenge his mother. Even if his fate ends up being his own death.
The sound of his shoes tapping on the marble stones are absorbed into the earth, not even echoing to others' ears. Silently and slowly, he turns his head to the side. His bloodshot, amethyst eyes glowing with bloodlust in the abyss of darkness. A feared woman and a child, embracing each other as they shake with terrorized looks.
Why are they even scared of him? He didn't even do anything. Yet.
With a lunatical smile slowly appearing upon his lips, he walks toward the innocent family.
"Please, at least let the child live o―," The woman spoke, only to be cut off as her neck was sliced in half. Blood gushed out of her body like a waterfall. The child's eyes widened with shock and fear, realizing that this nightmare is actually a reality.
At least your last memory will be with your mother. At least you will die with your mother.
Why? Why does this child have the chance to be with his mother even at his last moment? Why didn't I get to have that choice? Why did mother leave me? To rot in this world called hell.
Jealousy and anger overwhelmed the lunatic, staining his soul with insanity. He raised his arms slowly and rested his palms on top of his head, running his fingers wildly through his ruffled up silver hair. A chuckle escaped out of his mouth, only to transition into a psychopathic laugh that echoed throughout the silent city.
"Goodbye," Suddenly, his wild laugh changed into a gentle whisper, saying farewell to the little child as he slashed his neck with his dynamos. Pool of blood spreaded throughout the marblestone, staining his shoes.
Prey
What was that?
Trembling in the corner of her room wrapped around in blackness, the vulnerable female thought to herself. The sound of a maniacal laughter echoed into her ears, creating even more panic within her impotent self.
Prey, Ara Haan, widely known as the daughter of the Haan family, who are famous for their excellent spear fighting skills. However, that only meant more attraction for possible assassinations. With predator's advancement with technological weapons, the Haan family decided to stay quiet inside of their house, hidden in the shadows.
Just mere hours ago, two predators that were equipped with most advanced technologies invaded in, effectively murdering the two adults without much of a hassle. They used their equipment to turn invisible for couple seconds. Ara's father who had sharp instincts, realized something was wrong with the environment as he smelled foul smell of blood diffusing in the air. The father ordered Ara and her mother to go upstairs, yet both of her parents decided to fight in with the two predators while Ara escaped. She wanted to fight alongside them, increasing the possibility of winning the invasion yet her parents demanded that she should run upstairs. Obeying their orders, Ara hid herself under the shadows in the corner of her room, staying quiet. The two invaders could've walked up stairs to murder her as well, yet it seemed like her parents died along with the two predators, since the house was eerie quiet.
How much time have passed…?
She glanced up to see the clock hanging off of her wall, yet no light was reflected and instead, the clock was hidden under the shadows. She couldn't see anything. The only source of light was the moonlight illuminating through her window. If she moves just an inch, her flesh will be shown under the moonlight, for the predators to prey upon.
Then it was that moment, when her door cracked open. With a silent gasp, she quickly turned her head toward the bedroom door, a shadowy figure slowly walking towards her. Her palms turned cold and sweaty, but she gripped her hands tighter. If she was going to be preyed upon and be killed right here, it would better if she fought with her murderer, for there is a chance that Ara will be stronger.
Yet her opponent was not the usual kind of a night hunter. It was no other then Add, himself. The well-known serial killer who won't be a match for Ara, was standing right in front of her.
Escape? Fight back?
Did she even have a choice? Does she even have a time to make an escape for it, perhaps jumping out of the window? Does she even have the power to fight back? Only source of her weapon is her spear which she was gripping on for hours that it made a dent. On the other hand, he has six dynamos with a speed that a human eye cannot catch. She gulped down the fear and stood up with her trembling legs, ready to take action.
Yet that was not the case.
Add sat down next to her.
Wounded, exhausted, seeking for shelter yet the time is not over. He found a well-built house that would protect him if any hunter dared to even challenge him. The house was intricate enough with multiple shadowed areas, being the perfect place to hide and rest. Due to his fatigueness from fighting all day, he did not sense the fresh blood on the top bedroom floor. He too, was taken by surprise that another human being was already here.
Yet it was those apricot eyes.
She wasn't staring back at him with frightened eyes as if he was a monster. Instead, her eyes were ignited with determination.
In this sickened world of nightmare, somehow those apricot colored eyes brought hope.
"Time's over," He whispered.
"Kill or be killed. The act of murdering is now illegal starting this moment," The robotic voice echoed throughout the city.
The city is awfully quiet.
"Congratulations to the two who survived for the past twenty four hours,"
Predator ― finished.
clarification:
Add was close to finishing his original goal: to kill everyone in the city which he resides in. Even though he had one second left to kill Ara, after seeing those apricot colored eyes that seemed to tell him hope, he did not.
note:
i had outline of this story but didn't work on it until recently, and i made a lot of changes to the ending! i wasn't planning to make it just two surviving as if it was a hunger game or something lmao but i think the ending somehow worked out!
i just hate how everything looks so neat and nice in google docs, like the paragraphs were indented and stuff but copying and pasting it here ruins the format :c
/aesthetic ruined
also working on a lot of one-shots! i feel like most of them are add x ara or something lmao
