I'm weightless staring at the night sky where am I? I'm its s o . . . Fu z z y I'm fa-lling d o w n. Let . me . just . . . Close my . . Eyes. I feel like I'm in warm water that's comforting like I'm sinking in a couch. my world Is peaceful tranquil, I don't know what's happening but maybe it's ok. Maybe I'm fine. I'm in that place I don't know how long, 20 minutes ah hour? I can't tell time I can't see anything am I on drugs, maybe but that dosent feel right. Like I know it's not that, then what?
I can't tell if I'm sinking anymore, up down left right I can't really tell, its dark but I'm ok its quite but thats ok maybe it's so peaceful here but i shouldn't linger theres more here or further on maybe that's where i need to go. That-that sound right. Maybe it's ok if I move on-
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IT HURTS IT HURTS
Pain runs rampant on my body like a live wire was shoved in my chest. Like molten lead down my throat, the quite dark is replaced with a sound like a cold steel hitting your head ringing your world, unintelligible words ring and are screamed in my ears and my body lurched, I went from not moving to being pulled fast. So fast I can't find a description. Pain racking my body.
my quite peaceful world is ruined
I open my eyes, and see people there milling about panicking, they are all wearing ropes, not bath ropes real black and yellow trimed robes like you'd see in the movies it doesn't make sense is this a play? Movie set? Larp? It's night beautiful and it's familiar, I notices my surroundings for the first time it's a cave a sea cave, I don't recognize this one there is a. Hole in the cave roof and it let's the moonlight in the walls are most and I can smell the sea, it isn't a pleasant smell sure but it's home its comforting
Then I look down, I looked down. why did I look down, I shouldn't of looked down why did I look down?!?! It was me. my stomach was cut open in a y shape like at the morgue, my organs were pulled out, no a mess of blood and pain, my face was mangled my eyes where gone I couldn't look away my teeth where broken and some where just gone. I stare down in horror realizing I'm dead I'm dead imndead imdeadinfdeadimedeqdedimadeadimdeaedaaedae
I repeat over and over unti it's not even words just sounds of anguish. And then I get a look at my killers the people who found me wandering the streets after breaking up with my boyfriend the people that everyone knew and loves the people who tore me apart like animals the the people who founded the town, the Neal's the owners of the ship yards and the name on the front of the high-school I go to.
I got up seemingly with no input from me like I'm on autopilot, and I reached out for Hugo Neal's neck I'd seen him before on billboard and once at my school, my hands now wrapped around his neck and I squeeze, squeezed as hard as I could,I wanted this harder then anything I ever wanted, he didn't even notice it he let out a cough to clear his throat and said. "Did it work, it's been a couple minutes."
letting his hood down. He's 40 something with age just starting to get to him he has a square jaw and hazle eye I sare deep into them, my hads still on his throat still trying to rip the life from him, I only now realize there are twelve figures and in the same ropes, the figure next to Hugo speaks looking down on my corpse pulling her hood down, it's Charlotte Neal my principal the woman i cried to when my dad died I was her secretary for a year Hugo's wife, she speaks
"It worked Allright, I think he is pleased."
"Good now can we get out of here I'm dying to take a shower, strip them for parts and dump him" he waves his hand and now two of the figure get to work the mess of my body is cut and bottled taken and contained I'm jars filled with some awful brown see though liquid, and I'm screaming flailing trying to get them to stop ripping my body to piece. I fail they don't even notice me trying to kill them as Hugo is folding his rope and clean the knife he used to kill me I scream and scream no one can hear me but that doesn't stop me after a couple minutes of screaming I finally say I'll kill you ill fucking kill you and you whole rotten family I won't fucking rest until you are dead and buried you peace of shit. Suddenly the sea cave gets cold, I was cold before I spoke but it became much colder when I did like the air around me reacted to me and to my promise. I tried to deepen the promise, despite to cause anything to happen I kept shouting how I'm going to rip his body apart the night sky grew darker and colder the Star looking down as I promise to end his blood like and some tension in the air broke snapped like a wire and something changes I fell to my knees hate being all I could muster but tears all that was coming out
Hugo spoke again "God dame its cold I'm leaving toss the body in the nomal spot" he and the other 10 people walk off deeper into the cave soon enough there gone. And me I'm right there next to my body still on my knees. The two fingers lift up my body one Grasping my feet the other my shoulder and they lift me up and drop me on to a thick black tarp wrapping me up and taking me further from where H U G O went carrying what's left of me soon we round a corner and see a boat looks like a old yacht with sail and a moter dumping me below deck, they rase ancor and pull out of the cave,
Some time latter on the boat at sea
The two figures
"Jesus Fucking Crist how old was that kid what 15 and you butchered them for parts"
Says the girl
"YOU DID TOO", you did too says the man
"I was scared I thought we would be doing animal sacrifice or sex under full moon not this." She says
"To fucking late Nancy to fucking late, that kids blood is on our hands even if we go to the police, it's us vs Hugo Neal king of the coast" he says.
"How long" Nancy says
"What?" He says
"How fucking long did you know how FUCKING LONG WHErE yOU KilliNg kids" Nancy says
"Four years now one ever 6 month, and you wanted in you wanted to and I fucking quote "get your hands dirty" un quote."
Nancy begins to speak softly "we have to go to the poli- " *THUNCK*
the ghost
I can hear them arguing but it don't listen I'm laying my hand on my body, on my ring it was my grandmother's she gave it to me on her death bed, a symbol of resistance she said a warm memory. But I am ice cold that nuget of past burns in my mind and as drift to the present I scream all over again no one hears until, a dark black smoke rise from my mouth and a screen like from a computer manifests
[ scanning for viable users . . . . . Complete viable user "found" ]
[ Viable user "Kelly Bennion" you meet the requirements, and will be given an opportunity for revenge ]
I grap the floating black and white box and scream yes at it
[ loading basic function core type
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[ Congratulations new death core your application has been accepted and you are have leveled up "0->1" ]
[ You have 3 new abilitys and one free skill point and 200 sc "soul currency" from target you.
See abilitys? Y/N]
Yes
[ abilitys
Grave chill I cost 3 sp per minute-lowers the temperature in an area 10 f and cause a minor fear affect
Possession minor cost 4 sp per object-gives malignant life to an object letting it act out your will with limits
Haunting I cost 2 per affect -a skill for any good ghost a general skill can be used for anything within reason from spooking animal to cause them to attack, moving objects and or making noise,
Limit can never do more then 1 point of damge to a living thing can not make any understandable speech
And 1 skill point upgrade a skill or unlock new skill, ]
I look at the list of skill I can un lock there are thousands if not more, but something catches my eye
[ unlocked skill haunted sea I sp cost scaling 1-5]
I was below deck was a small storage closet it has nothing but a fishing net a harpoon gun and a empty wood box. The closet is connected to a small kitchen and living area a small toilet in a closet off the kitchen an a sleeping nook with a bed and some blankets. Suddenly i realized I can see though the walls, I can see the floor and the ceiling at the same time. I can see past the roof and see the deck and the the two people who gutted me. His hole ride the sea was as quiet as can be we are at high tide. Which make no sense the full moon is out we should see massive waves and tides but the sea is calm, I can see the whole boat inside and out, all at once.
Then my screen faced smoke monster pops up
[ area scaned area valid dungeon "living non dungeon entry's inside prospective dungeon please remove them to contue" ]
Oh I'll remove them all right I how do I use my ability
[ just feel it out the ability is apart of you now. ]
I tried to use possession on a the net
30 sp-> 27 sp the net undulates before falling to the ground knocking the spear gun to the ground as it falls off the hook it was on. Hitting the metal floor of the closet THUNCK the butchers on deck hear it I scramble to do something anything I in my panc cast Haunting and possession and grave chill hoping to do something I won't let them touch me again.
Nancy
"what was that" Jake "I don't know, something probably just fell. But look there is no way we go to the police. Our sister she in on it." Nancy "no she'd never she was always the good one between us she never." I pulled down my hood my taned skin and platinum blond ponytail being hit by moon light my silver earring shining, I . . . . looked like a typical valley girl, still in b-blood stained cult robe,
Jake pulled down his hood my brother his pale skin and ginger mop of a head with his hazel eyes which we shared. Also in a blood stained black robe. "Your have got to be fucking with me there is no way in hell she" the look on his face said it all the sad look on his chuby face says it all my little sister my Tam Tam was in on it I slumped down on a hand rail tears staring to form at the corners of my eyes Jake reaches out and is about to say something when *thud* a quite noise not as loud as before but definitely there, "Jake how much stuff you got down there" I look up at him "not much an empty crate and dad's harpoon." I look up pleading with my face "yeah yeah I'm going down" "thank you" I say "it's just a rat or something i look out at the sea the moon is shining alot of light tonight and the sea is reflecting I can see pretty good in this ligh. I hear an albatross i-its beautiful God dammit why did I get into this shit show, why did I let this happen why did I go why did suddenly the albatross
Stops its noise pointed down, something hits the deck, hard I look over it's the albatross I heard I lean over to look at it. It's dead the bird hit the deck hard it's not much more than a stain its white feather all red where it hit the ship. I pull back "What the fuck" I say out loud then I hear a second *THWAK* next to me a second bird dead in an instant I look up, the birds are circling above me there are like 30 of them a third bird fall into the water a fourth hits the deck and they keep falling I scream and run below deck
Jake 4 minutes earlier
Why did she get into this she never should of come I shouldn't of recommend her. Stupid stupid stupid, "fuck" I was going up in the world now she talking about the police, dosent she get that there's no way out, I'll get Tam to talk to her she can talk some sense into her all this goes though my head as I go down the stairs and make it to the deck I turn on the lights the place lights up, no rat or racoon I left dad's boat at Port for a while any number of vermin could of moved in, I look around when I hear something from up stairs hit the deck I turn around to go up when I hear a creek I look over my shoulder it's the storge closet I didn't open the door, I Did Not Open That Door. I'm going to close it and go above deck when I peek though the crack my dad's harpoon gun is not on the wall, is someone here did someone take it, did someone see the body oh God, even though I ment to close the door I open it and see the wrapped body and dad's fishing gear on the floor the box spilt. I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding until I look back at the corpses it's head isn't wrapped it's pale face and empty eye sockets starring at nothing even though it fells like there starring at me. I gently cover the head with the tarp, don't want to face the kid the old wood facade of the stoge closet brings back memories, whatever it's gone I go to leave and the doors closed, I didn't close the door I try the handle its locked I Didn't Close The Door, I Didn't Lock The Door. Both my hands rush the door trying the, shaking the door again and again "Nancy please if this is some prank please stop." silence dead silence. Is the only thing that greats me.
Ghost
He's here with me, the person who butched me, I used Haunting to open the door and Haunting to lock it, I wanted to use Haunting to have the birds attack the bitch on deck but apparently Haunting can't be used to hurt people. Box chimed in to use grave chill sure why not. He's stuck in here with me, he gutted me like an fish
Currently am at 22 sp Haunting
He's trapped in this box with me, he gutted me like an fish. let's let him get a look at what he did to me, I can't touch anything but Haunting can it unwraps my blood drained lifeless corpse, after a few seconds of banging on the door, wrenching the handle he slumps and looks behind himself just for a second, if he was panicking before now he's terrified. "whAT THE FUCK" the butcher screams he turns around back to the door starting down at my body he shuffles back only hitting the door he gets a good look
I look deeply at him like staring into something, its blurry but it's RED and dark RED. And it pulls on me making me hungry.
Box [ That is there will the culmination of there mind and body resistance to trauma and pain. It works like this green orange red black I can and will explain more later for now just know red or black means you can kill him ]
Not like it was going to stop me, it was then the net attacked, jumping from the floor to his face wrapping around his throat
The butcher let's out a pained gasp as the net squeezes, not nearly hard enough to brake his neck but he's not getting out of it. I watch as he struggles, like a fish I pulled out of the water with my dad.
Kicking back and forth pulling at the net. But it's no use. And soon the light leaves his eyes and he slumps against the door and his RED it flows to me
What this rush this feeling I feel warm and full like a sunny day after a large meal with my dad the times before the stroke, and then it's gone quickly as it came
[ again I will explain when you have time ]
Then it is when butcher two come down the stairs. Screaming her head off as she yells
"JAKE! JAKE HELP THE BIRDS ARE KILLING THEM SELVES"
No one answered, I don't bother scream at her she can her me. That's when I pull at her
Sp 22 Haunting I pull her attention to the door she's crying
"J-J-ake?" She looks around at the lower deck there's nowhere else he could be and she reachs for the handle to the door. Trembling
And she opened it only for :jake: to fall back from his slump on the door she yells as loud as a jet engine, net wrap around her neck the net is unresponsive. The she runs up the stairs and off the boat jumping in to the waters swimming slowly away, when it's then I use haunted sea 5 sp
15sp
It let's me contol water, it lets me drown people. I stare out at her looking past her and seeing the RED she isn't swimming that well before I used haunted sea after I can see it, the ocean fights back against evey movement waves pull her in the opposite direction she trying to swim, small waves crashing in her face an experienced swimmer or hell someone who regularly swim could of made it out but that when I saw it she realized she couldn't make it to shore when her only option was to go back to the boat and her RED turned BLACK. And she was pulled under the waves and I was hit with a rush of warmth
[ Success you take over a territory and have killed two people
Gain
200 sc / 300 sc and 70xp next level up 70/200 xp ]
I killed two people I, feel nothing
[ that would be apart of being a death core human sensibly no longer is with you after all you are now a higher being then a human.
As for Haunted sea it has a strong pull the lower the humands will is ]
I'm dead and I killed two people, I'm dead and I killed two people, I'm dead and I killed two people, I'm dea-
I spent the hole night like that. Try and failing to come to terms with either of those facts. Only for the sun to rise over the horizon staring out I remembered my father it was a good memory it was just befor he got sick i got in a fight at school. He was telling me that it was ok to defend yourself, never start a fight always finish it. We go ice cream even though I was suspended.
As I clutched on to that memory it burnd me, my cold self warning me and I felt shame I felt guilt I felt sad.
It was then I realized I was holding on to my humanity
It was a bright blue orp, I isn't my soul but it's apart of it like a mirror and a camera at the same time showing me who I am and who I was it hurt to hold on to but I cant just let it go.
Staring in to the sun rise from over the water I made a decision I'm holding on to this orp and I'm finishing this fight.
H U G O I MADE A PROMISE HUGO I MEAN TO KEEP IT.
I don't know if I'll keep writing this, if you like it and want me to write more. Please do tell me I have no idea if this is any good.