Reapers: Gods of Death

Chapter 4: Friends

*Aaron POV*

    “Hey Aaron!” Damien came up behind me as I was walking out of the school “hey Damien, what’s up?” I asked him as he joined me. today was the last day of school and we would be on vacation for the next three months “not much, what are you going to be doing this summer?” he asked me “what do you mean? I’m gonna keep training.” I smiled and replied at him. He gave me a look that said I must be crazy “you’re seriously going to be training all summer, wasn’t school torture enough?” he asked again.

    This time I gave him the weird look, “well what else is there to do?” I asked confused, that’s when he smiled “you have no idea what you’ve been mission out on, come on!” He took my hand and dragged me with him “where are you taking me?” I asked, he just smiled and laughed but never gave me a reply. When we finally arrived to where he was taking me, it looked like a hang out spot for young reapers and teenagers.

    It was a small ice cream place with a skate park right next to it, my eyes widened in amazement as I had never seen anything like this before. I had been too busy training my whole life that I was missing out on my child hood, thankfully I had made a friend that was willing to drag me along for the ride. “This place looks amazing!” I said to him as I looked around “I know, and you haven’t even tasted the ice cream yet” “but, I don’t have any money with me” I said disappointed “don’t worry about, ill cover it this time.” I ordered a chocolate ice cream cone, and when I tasted it, it was the best thing I had ever tasted in my life. This summer was going to be great!

    Even though I was excited to hang out with Damien this summer, that didn’t stop me from training every chance I got. I had made a routine for myself to wake up at five in the morning and go for an hour long run. After I would get back home I would spar with my father for about another hour before he left for work. I would then take a shower, get ready, eat breakfast, and leave to hang out with my friend.

    Once I was done hanging out, I was back to training by myself. It had now been about a month since school let out and we were approaching July, which meant my birthday would be coming up. I was in the back yard of my house practicing with my lightning, making it smaller and more precise while I was shooting targets I had stuck to some bales of hay in our empty stables.

    I turned around to see the tree I had burned last year when I first got my powers and saw how much I had been progressing. As i turned back and focused my attention on the targets, instead of lightning, water shot out of my hands washing the bales of hay down and breaking the stables. I stepped back as I saw them crumbling down. The stables were made out of wood and they were old, they hadn’t been taken care of for a long time, and the roof was made of hay, that would tell you how old this place was. It was more of a place I liked to practice at.

    I wasn’t expecting a new power to show up, and especially shoot out of my hands with so much force that it knocked down my favorite part of the house. Just like last time, my mom came out running, all the noise had scared her and thought something might have happened to me. “Aaron, what happened?” she asked when she saw the broken stables and me just staring at them as they finished falling down. “I got a new power” I turned to her and said.

    Her face softened up and her worry was gone just like that, “I thought something had happened to you” she finally said. My father suddenly appeared in front of us, with all that power I let off just a few minutes ago, there was no doubt he was able to feel it and came as fast as he could. “Aaron, what happened?” he asked when he saw the stables were no longer there and instead in the ground. “I can shoot water out of my hands” I said excitedly.

    Having a new power would mean new training, I now that from when Lord Death was here last time that I was different than other reapers, I just didn’t understand how different, until now that is. “I have to report this to Lord Death” my dad said and teleported out leaving me with my mom alone. She turned to look at me and offered me a smile “would you like to start training?” she asked me. i couldn’t help but smile widely at her, besides the time that she put out the fire from the tree, I had never seen her use her powers, now, she was going to be the one helping me to train, I couldn’t wait to get started.

-About one Year Ago-

*Daniel POV*

    Another killing had happened in the black realm, Lord Death had sent me and a few others to investigate and find out who has been causing all the killings of the reapers. For some reason they had only been targeting the reapers that didn’t live in the underworld and those who had moved away to other realms. The incident with the town where I had found Aaron was a town full of reapers and other creatures as well. Now here we are again in the realm of witches, another town with reaper residents completely destroyed.

    As I was helping their souls move on to the other side I felt a powerful thrust of power, for some reason I just knew that it had come from Aaron. “I have to leave right away, I will be back as soon as I can” I told my second in command and teleported out and onto the back yard of my house where Aaron, Gina and Lord Death were talking. Aaron had gotten his first power of many, according to Lord Death, and so I started training him.

    Ever since that day, the murders pf reapers had stopped abruptly, I had a nagging feeling that all of those killings were somehow connected to my son. I didn’t want to think about it, but whatever was killing our kind was looking for Aaron and they knew that he was around reapers. I didn’t want anything happening to him, Gina and I had grown attached to him as if he were our own. we haven’t been able to have children of our own, so he has been a blessing to us from the moment I found him.

    To ensure his protection, I had started training him since the moment he started walking, but when he got his lightning power his real training begun. I was going to make him one of the strongest warriors the underworld has ever seen, aside from Lord Death himself and Lord Grimm.