lone road

Chapter 1

Year xxxx

The sun went down which mark the end of the day but not with the busy citizens in the busy town of Kuching, the city of cat. Majority are still working even until the moon arrives. Some are merely goofing around, probably having fun with themselves.

The traffic really heavy at this hour with vehicles honking at each other. Each of the person who are stuck in such jams are getting annoyed and stressed out, desperately wanting to get home and rest but of course the traffic wouldn't allow it.

While everyone are busy with their own activity, there's a young boy presumably in his teenage seems to run away from something or someone. His sudden apperance cause attention among the people on the street.

"If everyone are looking at me like this, how am I going to get away? They will know for sure."

He have been chased since half an hour ago and his legs honestly can't take it anymore but if he surrender now, he is as good as dead. He continues to run as he stumble upon several people on the street.

Behind him, there are two men with cloaked hoodies. Each of them are quite intimidating with scythe that they brought along with them, ready to slash anyone who try to get in their way. It's the grim reaper. Everyone are well aware of them and the risks involving with them. As much as they wanted to help the boy, they can't. Well the boy is not their problem either, so why would they give a crap about him. It seems that the boy who ran away from the grim reaper must be a lost soul that trying to slip away.

Whatever the reason that the lost soul is hiding, the pair of the grim reaper must catch him and bring back his soul to the after life. If they fail to catch it, it will become into a more dangerous spirit known as The Vicious Ghost and cause a chaos in humankind. They doesn't want the history to repeat again, that almost annihilated their kind and the humans.

The boy however become exhausted and his legs are trembling. Sweats runs down from his forehead as he try to catch any single breath to keep running and find a good hiding spot.

After a lot of left and right turn, unfortunately in front of him is a dead end.

"It's no use.." He sighed in despair.

He looked back and suprisingly the grim reaper are not there. He is still safe, he thought.

"Heh those stupid grim reapers. They're much slower and dumb than I thought." He laughs maniacally.

He rejoices his small victory but as always the nature wouldn't let it. He heard faint footsteps.

"It couldn't be them, right?"

Out of curiousity, he take a peep by the corner of the wall and there's no one there. He sighed in relief although he still feel a little off about it.

"It's not safe yet.."

He turned back and screams in shock. He fell into a puddle and much worse, his back hurt. He looked up and sees a man with long untidy hair, unkempt beard and torn clothes just stand in front of him like he did nothing wrong.

" A beggar?"

The creepy beggar just stares at him while he rub his back. The beggar lend his hand toward the boy. The boy is hesitant at first but accept it.

His back is in great pain and he glares at the beggar. Being a short temper he is, he started to throw tantrums over him. Somehow, the beggar stay calm and spoke nothing.

In the middle of a heated fight, the beggar suddenly hushed the boy. The boy sees to understand and go along with it. The wind howling, causes the leaf to fall.