50 deaths 50 mysteries

Glitter

New York's POV

I stared at dad who was on the floor of his bedroom, dad wasn't doing well lately, I've caught him talking to himself multiple times and it honestly freaked me out. Whenever I caught him talking to himself I always saw a faint figure of a ghost, it looked like someone I knew but couldn't make out who though. I sighed, I guess I'll go for a walk but I have to be careful or I'll probably end up with my guts everywhere. I gently shut dad's door careful to not make a sound and alarm him that he was being watched, I make my way to my room thinking about the dead states. I tried to put myself in their perspectives but it was difficult, just why was I even doing that in the first place?

America's POV

"You know Yorkie boy was spying on you?" Imperial said reappearing, "yes, yes I know, but can you please stop naming my states like that?" I asked in a tired voice looking at him, "only if you start taking care of yourself, because you won't eat, you won't bathe, you won't sleep, and you're getting really depressed." Imperial said staring at me, he had some card in hand and I didn't respond to Imperial and only stared at the ground. "What? I'm serious, I know your states keep dying but of you don't start taking care of yourself, your states are going to die quicker." Imperial said giving me a look, a disappointed but worried type of look. "DAD I'M GOING FOR A WALK!" New York yelled but before I could yell anything back I heard the door slam shut.

"Wait is the house empty today?" Imperial asked me, "yes, the states are out in groups so they could calm their nerves mostly, I just hope New York finds one of the groups because when one of the states are alone they die." I said and pulled my knees up to my chest and rested my head on them. Imperial tossed the card he was holding at me, "look at it." Imperial said and I picked it up, it was an old ace card and there were scribbles on the back of it, well more like writing that had said fuck this goddamn war in cursive, I recognized the card, this was mine from the 1940s. "Where did you get this?" Was my first question, "you stuck it in my mouth when I died." Imperial said, "but I killed you before that war, god, I have so many questions right now." I said utterly confused and gave the ace card back to Imperial.

"I could say the same, I just woke up with it in my mouth randomly after the 50s." Imperial said, "...wait, I remember that the sneaky fucker put those cards in the mouths of my dead enemy's, so maybe he did it." I said and Imperial nodded pretending to know what I was talking about. I probably wouldn't tell him so he could understand more, those times were complete hell and I hate talking about it even though I'm over those times. When I was out of my thoughts I found Imperial sitting next to me, at this point he was much taller than me because I was shrinking due to my states dying. Imperial put his hand on my head, "it's kind of funny how short you are now." Imperial said chuckling and I glared at him, "but your glare is still scary." He said looked away from he getting his hand off my head. I all of a sudden got a text from someone on my phone and I pulled my phone out, it was a text from a scam number, "who's that?" Imperial asked, "a scam number." I said and Imperial only nodded in response

I got another text, it was from UN, the message said, America I'm at your door, you have to answer because he haven't been to meetings in months and you better have a good explanation for it. I panicked a lot and just gave the phone to Imperial because I didn't want to explain because I didn't have much time explain to him before my door was broken down. I quickly got up and went out of my room and down the stairs to the front door and opened it a crack, "hello?" I said, "America, open the door fully." UN said, he sounded angry, "I'm afraid I can't." I said and he went silent, "explain then." He said, "..." I went silent for a few moments and soon started to explain, I explained how my states have been dying rapidly and how I gotten smaller due to this.

As I waited for UN's response I looked up to see Imperial looking at me from the top floor and he dropped my phone and I caught it. "What can I do to help?" UN asked, "you can't." I said, "what?.." he said surprised, "you can't, it's simple." I said blankly, "I-I'm so sorry for that!" He said, "don't be, it's how it works, it's a ripple affect, one dies, the rest dies, now, good day UN." I said and closed the door on him.

New York's POV

I ran from the strange creature that followed me but I knew I couldn't outrun it, it scratched my back hard and I fell to the ground. I screamed as I felt blood drip out from my back onto the ground andI was soon torn to shreds, I was quickly a ghost and I cringed at the seen of my guts everywhere, I saw the creature disappear and glitter went everywhere as a affect.