Death's Touch

Withered Heart

After a while Ilya just disappeared and her family moved away without saying anything. I was left wondering, empty hearted and didn't know how to feel about what was going on. 

I walked to school that day and I remembered it felt lonely, as if all the brightness had gone away. Everything I touched with my bear skin died. I stayed covered up no matter where I was, even in my house. I had to let Kento go, because I didn't want to kill him.

I got to school and Kenji was standing in front of the school. Was he waiting for me? I walked up to him, then I noticed he had a bat. I walked past him and he didn't seem to do anything. He looked almost terrified. It was probably the way the grass dies when I walk past or the primal instinct of not wanting to die, like what happened with that dog and his three owners.

When I reached the front door of the school, I could hear some bullies picking on a kid. I took a deep breath and followed the sound. A poor kid was getting beat up by a group of 5 bullies. 

"Hello there, could you kindly step aside?" I asked in a mumble.

"Oooh, you gonna do something about it?" Said the one who seemed to be in charge of the other four.

"You don't want me to," I said in my glooming voice.

Two of the bullies were contemplating about escalating the situation, because they knew about what I did to those boys and their dog.

"I don't think we should mess with him guys" they said, but the other three were laughing and walked up to me.

I walked past them and walked directly to the poor kid on the ground. I picked up his backpack and told him, "run and never look back," he got up, took his backpack and ran as fast as he could.

The leading bully, gripped me by the front part of my jacket and I looked him dead in the eyes. Even though he couldn't see my eyes he put me down and backed off and told the two others to beat me up. 

"Get him and make him hurt," he said.

They laughed and took out baseball bats and punching gloves. The one with the bat ran at me first, I took my jacket off and wrapped it around the bat, then pulled it out of his hands and puts my jacket back on. I then grabbed him by the neck and slammed him into the ground. Then I felt a punch on my back. I fell to the ground and I felt blood rushing through my body. I got up and blood started dripping from my mask. My nose was bleeding. My vision starts to darken as I feel my body move, I felt like a puppet. I could feel my gloves fall off and the movements of hitting people. Next thing I knew, I was standing in some ashes. My gloves and jacket were gone. I saw their baseball bat, it was rotten as if it aged over tens of billions of years.

It was raining and dark, so I decided to walk home instead of attend school. As I walked past some bushes they died, the animals living in them turned into skeletons. Why do I feel so empty and cold? Why am I here? Why am I alive? Who am I? I asked myself. I opened the door to my house and walked to my room. I took a quick shower and went to bed. The next morning the sky was cloudy. I walked to school and instead of just Kenji he had a whole gang. I just walked past them and into the school grounds.

"Don't ignore me!" Yelled out Kenji.

I stopped then continued to walk into the school.

"Where is she?" He yells at me as I enter the school.

After school there was a big group of guys following me with death glares. They had some type of weapons on them, guns, knife, anything you could name. I just kept walking, not sure of where to go or how to get rid of them. I went to a shop to buy myself a sandwich and walked to the park. I sat on the swing that we used to sit on and ate my sandwich. There were kids playing on the playground, but there was also a group of guys surrounding me. No matter where I went they followed me until I had enough.

"So... what do you want?" I said to Kenji,

"What did you do to her?" He said to me,

"I did nothing, now tell your guys to stop following me?" I said.

He rushes at me with a fist out. I moved to the side and he fell to the ground.

"I loved her," he said with an angry tone.

"Well I'm sorry, I can't do anything about that" I said as I turned and walked to school.

He runs at me screaming. As soon as he got close enough I turned to the side and tripped him and proceeded into the school.