Reapers: Gods of Death

Chapter 7: Found

*Aaron POV*

    When Julia stepped up to show her powers, she shifted, her legs disappeared and turned smokey. The rest of her body became black, covered in a cloak, I couldn’t help but notice that her face had also become dark, it looked like she was wearing a mask. When she opened her eyes though, all thoughts of her wearing a mask disappeared, that was how her face had shifted. Her eyes were glowing red, then wind circled all around her, and just like that she was back to normal.

    It was obvious that she had been training more than what we had been thought at school, and she had mastered how to use her power, at least that’s what I thought until her own wind blew her over and crashed with the other students. Joel went up next, just like Damien had done, he shot out fire, completely copying his move “did he just copy my move?” Damien crossed his arms over his chest and asked me “yup.” It was finally my turn, I don’t know why I was chosen to go last, but I didn’t mind, I was thinking back to what Damien had said about my parents and I knew what power I was going to show them.

    I walked up to the front and faced everyone as they looked at me, Joel scoffed and whispered something to some of the other guys that were standing next to him. Since I was always getting picked on and never did anything to defend myself, everyone thought that I was going to be a failure, even though I was top of my class, boy where they in for a surprise.

    I put both of my hands to my sides with the palms facing up, I locked eyes with Joel who was glaring at me, and after just a few seconds I shot lightning right into the sky. Everyone gasped and took a few steps backwards, even our teacher. The only one who didn’t seem a bit surprised was Damien, I smiled back at Joel who was still glaring at me and I made my way back to my spot. “That’s what you went with? I couldn’t have chosen better; did you see all of their faces?” Damien said to me as I joined him. “That’s the reason I did it” I smiled to myself.

    For the rest of the day Mr. Red had us practice with our powers to see how advanced we were, towards the end of the day he gathered us up again to talk to us. “The reason why I had all of you show your powers today is because some of you are not going to finish this school year, instead you are going to advance and start working for Lord Death’s warriors, you have one week to train on your powers, after that Lord Grimm will pick out those who will be leaving. Those of you that stay can still have a chance at the end of the school year.”

    As I was walking home with Damien to train some more, I felt a presence following us. I sighed out loud and stopped in my tracks “what is it?” Damien asked me “we’re being followed” I said to him. “Come on out, I know you’re following us!” I said out loud. I waited patiently for a few minutes, after they didn’t come out “what a waste of my time” I said turning to Damien and started walking again. “Wait” I heard a small voice calling out to us, I turned around again, and sure enough there was Jackie asking us to wait for her, now what does she want?

    “What do you want Jackie? Here to bully us some more?” I asked annoyed at her, “I’m sorry about all the bullying I’ve caused you both, but I really need your help” she said shyly. I scoffed at her, for the past ten years she has done nothing but bully me and treat me like I’m some kind of being lower than her, and now she wants my help just like that? I was pissed. “Why the f**k should I help you?” I could feel the anger rising inside of me, something was stirring up.

     Her eyes widened in horror as she saw me, but she was persistent. “Please I’ll do anything, even be your friend, you’re the top students in our class. I can’t fail, please” she begged, blood starting to dwell up in her eyes again. I was about to answer but before I could say anything, a bag was put over my head, I felt something sharp pinching me on the neck, before I knew it, darkness was consuming me “Jackie?” I heard myself call out.

*Dalton POV*

    I had been in the underworld for ten years now, I had to admit it felt peaceful, as hard as that is to believe. The underworld was similar to Earth, it had mountains, fields, green grass, dead grass etc. everything you could find in the Earth realm you could find here as well; the only difference was the inhabitants. The underworld was mostly populated by reapers, and other creatures here and there. Even though it could get light in here, it was more of a weird light, grayish sometimes and other times a weird orange, or just dark.

    My boss didn’t check up on me much as long as I gave him weekly updates, while I was living here I met a reaper and had children with her. They were now eight and five, a boy and a girl. I had felt the power a few times here and there, but they weren’t strong enough for me to pin point the exact location, but it was here. I traveled quite often, so that when I finally found what I was looking for, I could leave and my wife wouldn’t suspect anything, she would know it was because of business.

    I was early in the day when I felt it again, the power, I knew that the day had finally come. I told my wife I would be leaving today and that I didn’t know how long I was going to be gone for this time. I was going to walk the kids back home with her, and then leave. As we were walking back home, I felt it again, this time much more stronger than last time “it’s time” I said to them “be careful” she said to me “we’ll miss you daddy” my children hugged me and I hugged them back, giving them each a kiss before giving one to my wife. I took out my wings and left.

    I followed the feeling which was stronger today than it had ever been before, when I had finally spotted it, I was surprised to see that it was coming from a teenager. There was three of them, and I didn’t know which one exactly it was. I called for my back up and they arrived immediately, instead of taking chances guessing who it was, we decided to take all three of them, they didn’t even see it coming. They were about the age when reapers get their power, so we injected them with a serum to keep them asleep, we didn’t want them fighting back just yet.

    I took out my phone and dialed the number “we have it” I said “excellent, deliver it immediately” I heard my boss saying “there’s one problem though” I said again “oh? And what is that?” he asked amused “it’s a child” there was a pause coming from him, in the background I could hear fire being ablaze “bring him to me” then the line went dead. We were already on our way there, as soon as we took the kids we left, we didn’t want reapers coming after us when they discovered that three of their own went missing.