I'm so lazy, here is your one shot Lexi_Dragneel. Hope you like it!

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"Hmm, what should I do with this one? I mean this family already beats the silly boy." Alice says to herself as she sits on a tree branch, her legs swinging back and forth. She puts her hand to her chin and watches as a beaten and bruised seventeen year old boy steps out of the house Alice watches.

The growls and kicks the tree Alice sits on and she shifts around to lie on her stomach and look down at the fuming neon green haired boy.

"I don't think this poor tree should take on your rage. It didn't do anything." Alice says, startling the young man who looks up at the girl. He doesn't know how she was able to get up on the branch when the low branches don't start until really high up on the tree. She smiles innocently and waves her hand at the confused boy.

"H-how long have you been there?" He questions Alice who makes a circular motion with her finger in the air.

"Oh, I don't know. Long enough I suppose." She says with a giggle and sits up to then slide down and dangle down with her hands holding the branch firmly.

"Hey! You're going to get hurt if you jump down!" He says and Alice grins. She lets go and the young man catches her, but ends up falling with her, sitting on his stomach.

"Nice catch, Jake." Alice says with a dark smile and then stands up getting off the young man who coughs and sits up, wiping away grass from his black hoodie. He takes a closer look at the young woman wearing a black and red Lolita dress. Her dark brown hair goes over her shoulders as she bends down to look at Jake.

"How did you know my name?" He questions Alice who stands back up and giggles happily. She starts to rock back and forth on her heels and points to the house.

"I heard someone yell it from that house. So, what will you do? Will you let them continue hurting you?" Alice questions casting her reddish-brown eyes towards Jake who looks at her with his wide golden eyes. If he wasn't so distracted he would have heard something in his head snap. Any sense of sanity he had left begins to slip away the longer he remains near this innocent appearing young woman.

Jake stares at the girl, an ominous wind blows making the area a lot colder than it should be. He watches Alice who stares at him. She reaches into the rather small pocket of her black apron and pulls out a rather large knife that looks like it shouldn't fit into the small pocket at all. She drops it at his feet and twirls away from him then skips away.

Jake watches her disappear into the darkness and looks at the knife. He looks at the way it glows a strange red color. In a way, it almost seems like the red glow is a trick of the eyes. He lets his shaky fingers graze the handle of the blade and the feeling of it sends a shiver down his spine. His hand wraps around it and he slowly stands up, staring at it. He runs his fingers over the side of the blade, feeling the bumpy swirl of designs on it.

"I never thought I'd have to kill again. First my biological family and now these lowlifes." Jake begins to smile and looks up at the moon. He holds the blade up to it, not noticing that his own shadow is not his. Instead it resembles Alice's silhouette. He points the blade to the house and walks inside.

"There you are you little bastard!" Jake glares up at the man he called father for years. The knife is hidden behind his back as he storms over towards him. He grips his black sweater and he smirks, driving the tip of the blade right under his chest. The man stares wide eyed and before he can react an enormous strength finds itself in him and he manages to slice right through him, killing him.

He watches the man drop and his smile turns more sinister as he sees the woman he called mother in the kitchen with her back to him. He quickly finds his way behind her and nearly cuts her head in half with this monstrous strength he suddenly developed. He watches her body fall limp to the ground and he starts to go upstairs, the light catching the shadow connected to him. The shadow skips after him and he simply goes on his way towards his adoptive brother's room.

"Finally you." Jake says, startling him. He sees the knife in his hand and tries to get away from him, but he didn't even get a chance to. Jake had flung the knife directly into his forehead and watched him die so painfully. He walks over to the dying body and pulls out the knife with pieces of his brain in it. He wipes it off on the body and is about to walk away when he loses control of his movements.

"Wh-what the hell?!" He says trying to move, but his body doesn't respond. His golden eyes widen as his hands turn the knife towards him. He tries to scream for help, but nobody is there. The knife is thrust into his chest by his own hand and starts to cut him open. He reaches his unwilling hand into his open chest and pulls out his heart. His body turns around and he notices the small female shadow standing before him.

"N-no way!" He panics as he continues to bleed out. He watches his own heart start to beat faster in is fear. The shadow reaches out, cupping his heart and pulling it right out of his chest. His world disappears, but the shadow remains and envelops his heart.

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"Oh Shadow, time to wake up." He opens his golden eyes to the sound of innocence. He looks up to find Alice looking down at him. He opens his mouth to speak, but Alice puts a finger to his lips.

"Hush, I really don't care. All I need to tell you is that I am your master and you must do what I say if you'd like to keep the gift I have given you. Nod your head or shake it and you'll never wake up again." Alice says as her eyes turn red and her sclera turns black. Jake AKA Shadow gulps and then nods his head. Alice smiles happily once more and pulls away.

"I'll be taking my knife back. You have fun with your rebirthing, but I must move on. Goodbye." Alice says, skipping away. Shadow watches her shadow, the same one that had taken control of him. He watches it disappear and then he sits up and looks towards the dead body of his former brother. He puts his hand to his shadow and watches the dead body sit up.

"Thank you, master." Shadow says with a smile and removes his hand watching the body drop back down.