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Once upon a time…


There was me. I was brought into being by two people, one of Light, and the other of Dark. The officials of Light had noticed my being once I was born, they had felt the power, but they felt the power slowly die away. They told my mother of Light, that I was useless and should be left to the Dark ones, but they did not want me either. After some time, both the Kingdoms of Light and Dark decided to remove me and my family. My father was not welcome any longer, as was my mother. They were exiled from the Kingdoms and were sent to earth with me, there greatest mistake.

Two years passed, and the powers that had died that night, stayed dead. I was not week, but I was not Hercules. I could win a fight, but I could not win ten in one night. I was nothing special, and the Kingdoms did not bother with me. My parents were happy on earth, despite all of the human problems we had. Being poor was not so bad, as a boy I was content to find my own food, and my parents provided what they could. But as they started to age, and I grew, things grew harder. I worked for a few coins a day, and tried to grow food. When I was fifteen, they died peacefully, and when I was fifteen I swore on there deaths that I would revenge them and there sorrows.

Within the next year, my house would be burned, my food stolen, my friends killed by ailments, and my parents graves looted. Through it all, I lasted, and the rage built up. I told myself this was good, I could use the hate, and I did. I trained myself to fight and I grew stronger everyday. The hate fueled me when food was scarce, it drove me to fight imaginary beings till blood pored from instead of sweat. I was mad with rage, and I loved it.

When my sixteenth birthday came around, I felt a surge of something other then hate. I knew I had the blood of two Kingdoms in me, but there was no power. I figured it was just hunger or the need for rest, so I lay down next to the river and slept. I never dreamed, sleeping had always been a task for me and I hardly submitted to it. But during that noontime rest, I slept deeply, and I dreamed. I saw the two Kingdoms fighting over something. They were both equal in power, so neither could win. It was a never ending battle until the two merged. Now there was a new power, not Light or Dark, a gray color. I saw the other power grow stronger and overwhelm the Dark and Light. It scared me, but I wanted to know what that power was, so I got closer. As I moved closer, my dream changed, I felt the power inside as well as all around me. The fear was slowly ebbing away and I knew what the new power was. It was me, fighting both Dark and Light and winning.

When I woke up and was scared of the dream. I knew that I had no power, why did I have such a dream? For the rest of the day I was quite and snuck around the woods. And when I went home I didn’t sleep but stayed up, trying to feel that raw power again. I finally fell asleep around four in the morning and when I woke I decided to put my power to a test. I got up and went over to the river with a couple of friends. We were just joking around about drowning me, but I was really going to do it. As we got closer to the water, I was smiling and joking with the others, but inside I was thinking about how to do it. I could just jump in, but I also didn’t want them to tell everyone about anything. If the Kingdoms heard anything, they would try to gain my power or kill me.

When we all were in the water, I suggested a dunking game, they immediately joined in and the game began. Usually I was always the winner of the game, but today I went easy on them, trying to get one to hold me down. They were too careful, so I suggested we time each other, witch I was second in. we began with last week’s loser, and kept up till it got to me. I took a deep breath and held on tightly to a rock. After a few seconds, I lost some air and was getting worried about this test. It was already past a minute and I had lost off of my air. I looked up out of the water and looked for my friends, trying to see if they were going to help me out or not. I saw no one close, it seems like they were distracted by something else. I was starting to black out and my lungs were collapsing.

I woke up and instead of the cold water holding me down, I was surrounded by a new kind of cold. I opened my eyes and looked around me. It was a dark place and there was only one other person in the room. I looked at him and tried to get his attention with my arms, but I couldn’t move them. He came over and smiled a toothy smile.

“Hello…I know of you, by why are you hear? Did you die?” he said quietly.

“Did I what? Die? Oh, maybe I did. I was downing.” I said sheepishly.He looked at me and frowned. “Normally when people die, they go straight to the Tasks…why are you here?” I glared at him and put all my strength into moving toward him.

“It would help if I knew where I was. And who you were?”

He looked at me and sighed.
“I am Death, you are dead… I think, well at least you should be.”