The Lost Soul

1. The investigation of Thalia

Months after a young girl named Thalia Primula's mysterious death, her girlfriend Victoria is left depressed and alone. She is unable to move on, its merely impossible for her. Victoria loved Thalia with all her heart, to have to lose Thalia, it crushed her heart. Victoria had barely moved from her bed since the day she found out Thalia had died. 

"Victoria! can you please come down for breakfast!" Victorias mother, Penelope had yelled to her from the kitchen. 
Victoria slowly sits up on her bed, taking off the blankets and standing up off her bed, she walks down the stairs with her unbrushed long dark hair. after Victoria reaches the kitchen she sits down, eating her breakfast. 
"Mom i don't like Vegemite, you know that." She mutters. 
Her mother proceeds to feed the toast to Victorias baby brother, Victoria wonders about Thalia while walking back up to her room...

"how did she die? theres no way Thalia died. she was not sporty, energetic or anything but she sure as hell wouldn't die without putting up a fight, and they are saying she just.. died?" 

Victoria sat at her desk, Opening her laptop and searching the name "Thalia Primula," she scrolls through many of images of Thalia before finding a very disturbing image, posted on a site she didn't know of. It was the image of Thalias corpse, The image included her ENTIRE body. how was this even allowed on the internet? though one thing caught Victorias eye, Thalia had no pupils where did they go? That discovery led her on a researching journey to find out what could have happened, she found out that in a far away country it was said that pupils represented if someone had a soul, she continued digging and found a user on social media which claimed he KNEW what happened to Thalia, that left Victoria stunned, did they really know? would the mystery finally be over? Victoria private messaged the user asking if they could have a meet up, to her surprise the answer was 
"Of course... meet me here at _________"
Victoria stood up, closed her laptop, walked over to her bed and laid down, though all she did was lay there, in her bed, staring at the roof wondering what could have possibly happened to Thalia. Victoria loved Thalia, more then anything. she has not been the same since Thalias passing.  

𝐼𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔 . . . 

Victoria jumps out of bed and races to the bathroom to take a shower and get ready to visit the social media user. She quickly undresses and takes a quick shower, hops out gets dressed and and runs to the front door.
"Bye mom, ill be back soon!" she shouts to her mother.

Before Victorias mother has a chance to respond to her, she ran outside jumping onto her bike and traveling to the mans address. Millions of thoughts racing through her head...
"what if he is the murderer?" was the biggest one, she froze on the spot, trembling. She remembers all of the fun times she has had with Thalia, Skateboarding, Ice skating, giong for long walks at the park. This gives Victoria all the more reason to want to figure out what really happened to Thalia.

"No, i need to see this person. if they are the murderer they wouldn't just admit it online of all places." she mumbled.

She continued riding her bike and after a long 10 minutes she arrived at the meeting location, it was right beside a fast food location, "Floyds burgers." Supposedly the best in town. Victoria parked her bicycle in the bike rack, chaining up her bike. She paces around the place looking for a person, Victoria ends up walking into an alleyway and she starts to feel footsteps behind her she runs and hides behind a dumpster, the footsteps fade away.

"Boo!" a soft voice comes from a man right behind Victoria, her reaction is to scream and punch the man right in gut, he cries out in pain.

"Wait... by any chance are you the user who i private messaged yesterday?" Victoria said after getting a good look at the man

"Yes, i am." He responds, while tightly gripping his stomach.

"Um, sorry for the... punch earlier, sir." Victoria says quietly.

"Urgh, Please just call me Luca, its my name after all, and don't worry about the punch, its my fault.  i startled you."

"Okay Luca, what exactly do you know about the death of Thalia Primula?" Victoria questions Luca.

"I wouldn't say I'm confident, but i sure as hell have an idea. You see, the exact thing happened to my daughter 5 years ago, maybe not exactly but very similar. She was peacefully sleeping but i woke up to a bloodcurdling scream coming from her room, i ran to see what the cause of the noise was, only to see a black cloaked figure, holding a scythe, he was floating, mist all around him and laying on the my daughters bed was a corpse, the corpse of my daughter, Though her pupils had disappeared. The Figure turned to dust, as if it died, but it couldn't have. not after what happened to your friend, Thalia. All of this is my reasoning as to why i believe this "thing" came after Thalia." Luca had finished his explanation and sat down on top of a closed dumpster.

"That's.. that cant be true. its impossible that's not real." Victoria responded

"oh but it is, if it wasn't true why would the exact thing happen, oh yes, also... i found out about a land called Mortem online, no one who has traveled there has come back alive, maybe in pieces but not alive. Though its just a legend, i have reasons to believe its real, Mortem, the land where souls of the dead are stored, but there is another area in Mortem, where i believe two souls are being stored by this creature, My daughters and Thalias."

"I see... Well um, thank you for the information Sir. goodbye." Victoria said before leaving swiftly

At this moment Victoria thought that it must be fake, but it did sound so real there is a chance its real and so after she arrived back home she did some heavy research revolving around "Mortem." After hours, and i do mean hours, she did not find one single thing, that was until she saw an article titled "The land of Mortem and how to travel there." it was a start, she read it thoroughly.

"How to travel to Mortem:
Hello and welcome to todays article, today ill be giving some information on how to travel to and from Mortem. whats Mortem? Mortem is a place like hell, where souls are stored, though it is filled with demonic creatures, that's fine. Now, how to travel to Mortem? first, find an open space, buy at least three candles and place them around you, light them and read this out as many times as it takes, it WILL take over three.
'Iter ad mortem' This means Journey to death in Latin, Doing this should trigger a black hole, drawing you towards it. if this works there is only one known way back, someone else opening a portal, though each chant you must cut your palm and draw blood, the blood must not drip anywhere or it could go wrong, very, very wrong."

Victoria thought to herself "oh this is such bullshit, but its worth giving it a go right? if it means i can see her again.." Could it really work? Victoria decided that tommorow she will ride to the shops and buy what she needs, She was quite scared due to the fact she had to harm herself in order to see her girlfriend, but she would do anything for her. to her, It felt like only yesterday she was out having fun with Thalia. She could remember Thalias amazing hugs and the way she was really good at comforting Victoria, Thalia was the only person Victoria could be herself around.

Suddenly Victoria was interrupted by a very eerie sound.
"To travel to Mortem means death. you will not come back alive, are you sure you want to do that, Victoria Aurelius." A deep raspy voice whispered in the ear of Victoria, she turned around only to see the one thing she didn't believe existed, Death itself, the black cloaked figure with a scythe, it was real after all. Victoria started to say something but before she could, the figure turned into dust, disappearing, Victoria started to hyperventilate, processing what just happened. Did this mean Thalia really could be brought back? Victoria Walked over to her bed and laid down, attempting to sleep, by the time the clock reached midnight she had fallen asleep, her hand was hanging off the side of the bed and her Smooth, long black hair was spread out all over the bed.

Author note:
Hey! if you guys have any feedback please say them so i can improve future chapters and anything i plan on writing. i am quite new to this so i'd appreciate it.

(p.s next chapter will be flashback, feel free to skip it if you wants, though you do find out alot about how Thalia and Victoria met.)