Scarecrow Jack- The Awakening

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Damon woke up in a huge white hall. He stood up and looked around. He saw many people standing in the distance. It was a long hall with white walls, white ceiling and white floor. The people also wore white cloths. Damon wasn't sure where he was. But then he saw some familiar faces and he walked towards them. First, he saw his parents. They embraced him, Damon's mother kissed him on his cheek and said "My lovely boy, we met again, I have missed you so much but you have to go back. The time of our reunion will come again." His father said "We are proud of you son, but you must return." Damon asked them "Return to where? What is this place?" But they vanished. Next Damon saw Sebastian, his brother. Damon ran towards him and embraced him "I am so sorry brother, please forgive me." Sebastian said "Its ok brother, I forgave you. You are good inside, but you have to return as the fate of the world depends on it. We will meet again someday." And Sebastian disappeared as well. Damon was confused where he was, the last thing he remembered was Viktor killing him. The next person was Marie. She cried as she hugged him and said "I am sorry my love, I couldn't save you. I will always love you. No one wants to stay here more than I do, but you have to return to save humanity." Damon tried grabbing her hand as she faded away. Damon was beyond confusion now. There were only two people left on the hall. a young boy which was a complete stranger and The Scarecrow which was lifeless, standing still next to the boy. Damon quickly approached the boy and asked "Who are you? What is this place? Why all the people I have lost were here?" The boy told Damon to sit beside him on the floor. After they both sat down the boy said "Its good to finally meet you Damon. I have known you for a while now but you don't know me. My name is Jack." The boy pointed towards the scarecrow and said "I am the scarecrow." Damon was shocked "You? But I was the scarecrow." Damon said. Jack told Damon to calm down and listen to him. "Viktor Castellanos was my brother, to attain his Immortality he needed five sacrifices bound by blood, I was the fifth sacrifice. I was the illegitimate son of Viktor's father, but when Viktor sacrificed me and I was dead, my soul didn't enter the soul realm in fact it ended up here. This is a place between the soul realm and the real world. Trapped souls that cannot proceed to the afterlife wait here for eternity. I cannot enter there as my soul has been fused with the scarecrow. The spell bestowed the power on the final sacrifice, causing my soul to become the scarecrow. However, no soul is complete without a host body so I waited many years for a host. I couldn't do anything as I needed someone to embrace the scarecrow. Then you came and put on the mask of the scarecrow, becoming the host for my soul. But your soul denied giving control of your body to scarecrow rejecting its full power and making it weak. That's why it couldn't stop Viktor or protect you, you have still a little life left in your body, embrace the scarecrow Damon. Stop Viktor from wreaking havoc on the world, I am going to fuse your soul with the scarecrow and leave, it will obey to your will now, whatever you decide is up to you now. Farewell Damon use this power well, and bring justice to us all." Damon agreed to take the mantle of the scarecrow, Jack took Damon's hand and hold it, he transferred his power to Damon's soul and faded away. Damon woke up in the mansion, he was hurt and was barely breathing. But he was healing fast and saw the dead body of Marie next to him. Outside the mansion three men fought valiantly with the beast but the beast overpowered them, they were hurt and the affects of the potion was wearing off. The three were getting pummeled by the beast and soon would be ended. Viktor was getting bored and shouted "William! Finish it already." The beast was ready to end all three with a devastating attack but suddenly they heard a loud roar from inside the mansion. Everyone stopped at once and wonder what it was. The door of the mansion was kicked opened and broke away by the force of the impact. It was the scarecrow in his huge form. He looked stronger than before he was taller, and had a more ripped looking structure. Viktor was completely surprised by this. The scarecrow charged towards the beast with a lot of speed. Although smaller in size in comparison of the beast the scarecrow punched the beast in his chest and sent it flying backwards. The beast was stunned by the attack. Everyone around was surprised to see the strength of the scarecrow. Viktor couldn't believe what was happening, he froze to see the scarecrow alive yet alone its strength. The beast lied on the ground, it had a large bruise where the punch landed, it was clearly in pain. The scarecrow walked towards the beast. It put his hand on the beast's chest, straw of hay came out of the ground and wrapped around the beast's neck, arms and legs binding it to the ground. The beast, despite its strength could not move and suddenly its heart was ripped out of its chest by the same straws of hay, the scarecrow then crushed its heart ending the beast's life. Viktor was terrified of the scarecrow. He witnessed how easily the scarecrow killed the beast. Viktor casted a spell and throw a barrage of fireballs towards the scarecrow. The scarecrow took the fireballs head on but it wasn't affected by any of them. Viktor ran back inside the mansion and the scarecrow returned to its original size and went after him. Inside the mansion Viktor went inside the hall again. The scarecrow caught up to Viktor and punched him in his back. Viktor fell to the ground, he was hurt but was recovering however this time the scarecrow didn't gave him time to recover and attacked again, and again.