The New Reaper

Chapter 21: Cora's ALIVE

Cora's POV

I realized that every time I heard thunder the room got smaller.

And smaller.

And smaller.

Till it was suffocating. I could feel my tears running onto my knees. They had grown weak from me being in this crouching position so long. My heart was racing and my body was trembling, but all of a sudden it stopped- the thunder.

I looked up to see a blinding light coming out of the window. It was so bright I cringed. Because the door still wasn't there, I walked toward the light. It was welcoming somehow, warm and safe. As a precaution, I stuck my arm out, I was right out side (where ever outside was) was warmer than the room.

I submitted to the light and, with one, fluent motion, jumped out of my childhood bedroom.

My eyes began to adjust to the light and I found myself staring at the ceiling of the infirmary of the school. I was all alone.

"Hello?" I called once more, but this time someone answered.

"Hey darling girl," a voice called. I recognized it. It was-

"Mama?" I called, happily.

"Sh-sh-sh," she entered. I instantly sat up, overjoyed. "Is dad here?"

"Oh, no sweetie, he's at home."

"Alright," I smiled. I wrapped my arms around her when she came close to me. "Hey, mum-" I was cut off by a sharp pain in my back. I released the hug to see my mum with red, kishin eyes and a bloodied blade in her left hand. I felt my blood run ice cold. "D-did you s-stab me?!" I half screamed, coughing up black blood.

"Tsk tsk tsk," she waved the blade around, cutting her hand multiple times in the process.

"You did!" I fell off the bed and felt dizzy from lack of blood.

"You're so, uhm, how should I put this?" My mum said putting the blade to her lips, cutting them open, "Naive." She stabbed me in the shoulder with the bloodied blade and got up and left the room the way she had entered.

Everything went black after I got real dizzy. I woke up I was starting at Dr. Stein who was force-feeding me bread.

"She's awake!" He said in a cheery voice.

Everyone cheered while I spit out the stale bread. My stomach rumbled and actually hurt from lack of food. I clenched my stomach and wrenched my eyes shut. "W-when can I see Kid?" I whispered, curling myself in a ball, beginning to cry.

Kid's POV

I went home after the meeting with Kyla. I slugged into my bedroom and dropped to the ground and huddled into a corner.

"Kid?" I heard Liz yell from downstairs, "We're worried!"

"He's not here, we checked," Maka explained.

"C-can I at least just check his room, to make sure?" Crona asked passively

I didn't want them to see me so broken, distraught. I tried to hide.

"K-kid?" Crona peeked her head around the room, and I just sat there and watched through the crack in the closet doors, tears stinging my eyes.

After my friends kindly left to look for me somewhere else, I slept, I didnt know I was so tired until my head hit the pillow. I woke up periodically to stir, even dreamed occasionally, but when I woke up for more than a second, that's when I realized how long I'd truly been asleep. Some people came in to see if I was okay but no one disturbed my sleep. After 3 days I was calmer, a little happier, and a hell of a lot hungrier!

Cora's POV

"Three days?" I asked Spirit.

"Yeah, Lord Death said just to let him deal with your death in his own way, and if sleeping is his way of dealing, well, it's a lot better than some other ways," he handed me my lunch.

"I'm not going back to Death Manner, am I?" I asked, putting my back against the cold, jagged wall of the dungeon room. It was where I was being held; it was under the academy.

Spirit sighed and shook his head, "I don't think Lord Death wants word to get out that you were a grim reaper. If it does, he's afraid the citizens will overthrow him because he let your parents, two half reapers, escape, and that's very illegal," he looked at me with apologetic eyes.

I finished my lunch and handed him my tray. "Thanks," I forced a smile and Spirit left me alone, again. I found it cruel, cruel to bring back a whole human life just to keep it locked up in a dark, damp, and cold barren room without any human socialization. I don't exactly know the conditions of why Lord Death brought me back, it probably goes deeper than Spirit has told me.

After three days of only talking to Spirit twice a day (lunch and dinner) for five minutes, I actually started singing out loud to myself. Monster by Meg&Dia has been stuck in my head for a few days now. I couldn't help but run in circles sometimes as well. I hate to say this, but I kind of miss gym, even running around the academy and up and down the staircase. I wonder if Lord Death would let me run the halls down here, no one is ever down here except Spirit. I could use some exercise I'm beginning to feel like a fat-ass. I really do miss going outside, too. The sun shines in through my one little window at about 5pm. I can sit against the far wall and the sun hits my face square. It's my favorite time of the day. I feel sort of happy with the sun on my face and the sounds of water when it pours.

Every other night a frog finds its way to the window- it has a red eye. I'm pretty sure it's a witch or something, so whenever it decides to watch me I always pretend to sleep.

I really am going insane, though. I have conversations with myself now. I'm scared.