Locked Between Souls

Chapter One

Reed a male at the age of twenty three groaned in discomfort as he shifted from side to side on his couch already bored out of his mind at what had laid ahead in the coming days. Reed glanced around his messy apartment bored and not knowing what to do, the low count tv stood in front of the couch on a table as a coffee table sat in the middle of the old looking room. The walls were an old and mucky brown color with a slight green tint, the hardwood floors no longer clean and scratched up in places. Reed's soft and drowned out blue eyes looked around his messy house as he pushed himself up the empty beer bottle in his hand dropping to the floor and slowly rolling across the floor away from the dark brown couch. Reed ran one of his hands through his black messy hair groaning out, Reed had a large figure and normally wore simple clothing when he didn't have work. He would wear tank tops and sweat pants that hung off his large body, his dark hair dancing over his washed out eyes. Reed yawned in discomfort as he stretched out and walked to the small kitchen. A kitchen table stood in the middle with a few chairs, leading to a stove, sink, and a few cabinets. A fridge stood by the cabinets, Reed walked to the white fridge and opened the door a slight suction sound came from the door as it was opened and the light flashed on. Reed scanned through the kitchen sighing when he found nothing that would suppress his appetite. He groaned and closed the door turning and looking at the sudden kitchen frowning slightly as he walked to the chestnut brown chair and sat down letting out a low sigh.

The days played by in Reeds mind of how it had all happened, how he gave his stupid soul away to a higher being. Reed had been at work soon leaving when some of his colleagues got his attention, Reed wasn't much of a people person so he simply listened to them talk on and on about summoning a demon and how they should use an Ouija board and a bunch of other paranormal stuff. Reed thought craziness of it through his whole ride home, one of the only rides when he wasn't drunk out of his bloody mind. Reed spent the day surfing through channels on this television yawning and groaning before he fainlly decided to get up and prove to not only himself but to his crazy colleagues that demons and so on weren't real. He got all set up in the kitchen with the normal summoning circles. A pentagram with a few Black candles, and other stuff needed. Reed set it all up lighting the candles and chanting a random chat he found on Google,  not at all taking what was happening seriously. Though soon black smoke rose around the candles which no one would think of. Candles make smoke so Reed couldn't care for it, not until an unseen force threw Reed away from the candles leaving him to gasp and groan when he hit the wall sliding down it. He soon took a shakey breath in pain from being thrown and looked up seeing a male step off of a spinning red pentagram black wings hanging proudly by his sides as a shiny metal chain was held in the males hands. Reed looked at the male not believing what was happening,  the male had pale skin and black hair, he wore a simple black suit and his black eyes piercing down to Reed as the male spoke his voice shaky and deep. "I was summoned to drag a soul down to my throen." Reed glanced over the male not expecting to see the chanting work or for the male to appear right in front of him, Reed soon smirked his voice sounding light hearted and in a joking tone. "Huh....you're actually kinda cute."

The male glanced down to Reed disappointment lancing his voice as he spun the chain in his hands drops of blood falling off of it. "Another mortal this weak...pity." The males voice soon cheered up with a chuckle. "Tell me what you want, your soul will be mine." The male said clearly amused. Reed looked at the male before soon starting to laugh shaking his head messing his black hair up, once he had calmed down he stood up from where he was sitting and looked at the male speaking in a taunting voice. "So what's the catch soft eyes?  My soul for what?" Reed asked. The demon stepped back from Reed looking at him confused before speaking yet again. "Whatever you wish it for, just know what you wish for will come back on you." The demon stated his black tail swaying behind him. Reed nodded as he glanced at the male before smirking softly. "Whatever I wish for..Okay. I wish for you to stay with me until I die, I don't want to be lonely anymore." Reed said as the male touched the ground slowly looking more human. His tail and horns still shows through his black hair. A paper soon formed in front of Reed and the male snapped his fingers allowing a quill to form in front of the male. "When you die your soul is mine, the contract must be made. Please sign your name." Reed chuckled as he signed the contract glancing over to the male. "You can't kill me you know, that would be quite unfair." The male chuckled and rolled his eyes as he pricked his finger with a pin pressing the bloody thumbprint onto the contract before it flashed any along with the quill. The male bowed a bit to Reed speaking in a normal dark tone, "I wouldnt dream of killing you. Now I follow you, Reed." Reed nodded to the male as he turned shrugging a bit not caring much for what happened. "Cool, then come on I'll show you to your room." The male nodded as he shoved his hands in his pockets and followed Reed with a dark aura surrounding him, one that scared people away from him and now Reed. The male glanced around the bland room with white walls, he groaned and pressed his hand to the wall tuning the walls black with shadows and diming the lights.

Reed groaned softly as he stood up from the kitchen table and walked down the halls stopping at the room where the male use to stay, he sighed and bit his bottom lip as he slowly opened the door and stepped in his eyes squeezing shut at the bright light flashing through the room and the white walls. The memory of the male rushing past Reed but he didn't care for them anymore. Reed wrapped his arms around himself as he sighed missing the presents of the other male, Reed was simply soulless and the demon had seem to broken their contract the memories jumping at Reed causing him to gasp.

Reed remembered sitting in his room as the male left to shower, getting bored Reed stood up before noticing the males jacket. He walked over and picked the jacket up soon putting it on and sighing happily,  before glancing at a paper that had fell from the males jacket. Confused Reed picked it up and sat down reading the paper not noticing the water stopping. "I take all and every punishment for my actions but my home now must be in the mortal world." Reed gasped as he stood up the male stepping out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist. "Hey Reed....are you up?" He asked as he glanced at Reed confused when he saw the male in his jacket. "Why are you wearing my jacket?" The male asked before Reed stood up looking at the male yelling to him. "What the hell! You can't stay here! You're released of your job! Take my soul! Kill me whatever! Go home!" The male gasped soon seeing the note, he walked over to Reed clearly upset. "You went digging in my jacket!" Reed stepped back from the male a bit before shaking his head, "I didn't go digging it fell out!" The two argued for a while before the male fainlly gave in and agreed with Reed. He would take Reed soul and leave.

Reed wiped at his eyes cursing softly at his tears and how he missed the male he told to leave. Reed shook his head and turned to leave the room before gasping the door slamming close and the light in the room starting to flicker. Reed looked around confused as cold air rushed at him hard enough to push him over, shadows covered the white walls before a male appeared from the shadows looking down at Reed, the same male that Reed had summoned. Reed pushed himself up and looked st the male confused as to why he easy back, the male sighed softly and looked at Reed. He placed his hand in Reeds chest a bright flash covering the room as Reed coughed looking at him. "Holy hell what the hell was that!" Reed yelled as the male spoke up. "I gave you back your soul....Reed I need a favor....." the male sighed shaking a bit, Reed perked up confused before nodding.