An extraordinary story also known as my life

Prologue

Hello, my name is Marcus I'm Death and this is my story.

Death runs in my family. Now you might be thinking that death runs in every family since everybody dies, but in my family it's a bit different.

Being Death runs in my family. I am Death and I have been Death during my whole life, ever since my father, who was also Death, died. I am Death because I'm the first born male child of the Death before me, my father. Just as he was the first born male child by the person who was Death before him, my grandfather. I've never actually met my father, but there is an explanation for that too. As soon as I was born, my father died, because when I was born, a new Death was born, me, and my father wasn't the only one anymore. There can only be one Death, so when he wasn't the only one, he had to die. So, as you can probably figure out I will die too when I get a son.

Okay, now when we have sorted out that I'm going to tell you the basics about what it means to be Death. You could say that I only work half time as Death, because I only work while the human me sleeps. During night, my job is to pick up all the souls who have died during the day and make sure that they will rest in peace. This sounds like a pretty easy job, right? But, that's not all. Being Death affects me as the human me is awake too. I have an ability to see when people will die if I want to, though this isn't an ability that I use a lot, I have actually only used it once in my life. Also, I always feel it when someone, anywhere in the world, dies, which feels like some sort of pain, a different kind of pain. This happens all the time, since humans pass away every second and I have kind of gotten used to the normal pain, but sometimes it's worse. When a human dies before he or she was meant to, when he or she still has unfinished business on earth, the person often fights death to stay alive and that hurts, a lot. They never win the fight though, because as soon as I feel the pain, they are dead and there is no going back.

Well, enough of explanations. Now I'm going to tell you the story that is my life.

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Author's note:

So that is some kind of a prologue/ short first chapter. It mostly contains explanations, but I felt like I had some things to explain before starting the story, which will start in the next chapter. And I promise that this story will get better, I know this chapter wasn't super interesting...

I hope you liked it, please give honest feedback.

Thank you for reading!

~ Hanna