The Third Substitute Soul Reaper

Chapter 2: The awakening of a mysterious power

        Michael was one of friends last year and his family moved to another town, so Jeannetta, me, and all of his other friends were left behind im just so surprised that he is here now all of a sudden. Michael is about one inch taller than me, has short brown hair, gorgeous hazel eyes, and is one of the first people I made friends with in fourth grade. So as I saw him there lying by me sprawled all across the bed like I thought he would never do, but the most shocking thing I’ve ever seen was that he was holding my hand as if I was his family member or his partner. It was stupid of me, but I did the most dumbest thing ever I saw him more in his slumber and I immediately pulled my hand back and accidentally woke him up. "E...Eric", he says with a shaky tone to his voice.

        "Yeah...I’m up Michael. What are you doing here?", I ask and as soon as I do Jeannetta walks in with cups of coffee she got for everyone. As she rounds the corner and almost drops the coffee Michael becomes aware of what’s about to happen and hurries up to stop the spilling of nine cups of Starbucks’ frappes. "Aaaaahhhhhhh......ERIC YOU’RE UP OMG I DIDN’T THINK YOU WERE EVER GOING TO WAKE LIKE OMG......AAAAAAHHHHHH!", she screams almost waking up the dead with that wail of hers. She bolts to me and starts to smother me with hugs and in all of this im being suffocated by her breasts and choked at the same time meanwhile this would be great for me, but it’s not only because I’m gay that she gives me these kind of hugs. "Uuuuhhh.....Jeannetta I think you should let go of him or he might suffocate underneath your gigantic breasts?", Michael says with a worried look on his face. "Do you really think so she asks while her breasts are still suffocating me.

        "Yes, now move aside I need to see my son.", my mom interjects with a death glare pointed at Jeannetta. Jeannetta moves away from me releasing me from he grip and my mother steps close to me give another look over making sure that I’m truly ok. The barges in bumping into Michael making him spill the coffees all over the floor and one landed on Danielle’s head waking her up completely. "I want to know who brought me here and why the hell I’m here anyways doc?", I ask furious with everyone in the room including Michael. "Well lets see I took you to the nurses office, then we laid you down on one of the beds, the nurse called your parents I was sitting in the waiting room.....then your mom arrived shortly after the nurse had called her. We tried to wake you up but it didn’t work so we checked you blood pressure and the nurse started to see it decrease rapidly and she told me to call an ambulance immediately. So I did your mom followed the ambulance with Dani and Sammy. I rode in the ambulance with you.", Jeannetta explains.

        "You were also unconscious for one week and three and a half days", the doctors continues,"you gave us quite the scare there kid. Don’t worry you’ll be fine though I would like to run a few tests though if you don’t mind Mrs. And Mr. King?", he finally asks. "No, we don’t mind at all doctor and when do you think he can go on the road we are scheduled to be leaving our house in a couple of days.", my dad replies concerned that I might not get to leave with them to Florida just yet.

~Two Weeks later~

        I finally got discharged at 9:00 a.m. and I said my last good byes to my best friends I ever had in and out of school. "Before I leave for good I have to ask how did you know that I was in the hospital Michael?", I ask as I get ready to go into the van for a very long trip. "Jeannetta told Ben, then he messaged me telling me to call him. He then explained the situation that Jeannetta told him and I just then asked which hospital you were in and they told me, but my dad wasn’t to thrilled to take me here in the first place because I think he doesn’t like you that much, like you kept on telling me." Michael answered with resentment in his statement.

        "Well I guess he doesn’t have to worry anymore because I’m going for good and y’all can be happy with out me being around.", I state blankly to him as I enter the van and sit in the passengers seat. Michael peers his head through the window and hands me a piece of paper and he whispers in my ear,"Don’t open it until you reach the state line.""Okay I will" is all I could muster up to say as I was trying to hide my beat red face from everyone. As we pulled away from the hospital’s front entrance Jeannetta and Michael were waving good bye and I resented leaving them like this.

~Ten hours later that day~

        Ten hours had passed and my mom needed to stop at a rest stop to take a nap of course I had already fallen asleep. Danielle and Jayden had fallen a sleep a couple of hours before my mom stopped to take a nap. As I woke up from my bizarre dream to ask my mom where we were at she replied that we made it past the state line of Maryland a couple of miles back and that we were in West Virginia now. I look out to see what it looks like outside (it’s almost looks like the sun is about to come up), I think to myself, (I wonder if he is up right now?) I look down at my phone to see what time it is and it is 5:30 a.m. (He wouldn’t be up this early in the morning would he then again I don’t even have his number to call him.) I then remember the slip of paper he gave me I fumble around in my pant pocket for the slip of paper and open it, but just before I did I saw an orange haired boy about my age appear behind the car out of nowhere and standing next to him was a short person with jet black hair. I step outside of the car and slowly walk towards them with my shoes on.

        "Ehhh...hmmm...what are you two weird freaks in bath robes and play swords doing running around at a time like this? You do know that most people are asleep at this time of day?" I ask the two strangers now in front of me."huh....wait you can see us? Rukia why can this stupid little brat see us? I thought that nobody in the vicinity had the power to see us." the orange haired boy said all pissed off. "I......I didn’t think that there was someone like you who could see us and now that you mention it he is giving off an immense amount of spiritual power much more stronger than yours", the girl next to him said Rukia I believe was her name. Then the strangest thing happened next a creature with a white mask and a hole in its chest appeared in the woods behind the rest stop.

        Rukia said,"Hado number one Sai." I was then forced to the ground face first with my hands around my back. "What the hell is this all about I don’t want to be near this I just want to go back to the car god dammit", I say trying to use what little strength I have to stand up and run to the car. Just as I remembered what she had said about me having this thing called spiritual power I cleared my thoughts and concentrated on what was holding me down like this. I then started to see a red type of aura surround my being and I started to channel all of that energy throughout my body and soon I was standing and when I started to scream in pain from trying to break the spell that was put on my person I soon separated from my body for a short while in the same clothes as the orange haired boy and Rukia. I looked down at my waist and saw that I didn’t have a sword like the other two (Am I different and what is happening to me?), I thought to myself. I looked at the other two and passed out, when the orange haired boy sliced the creature’s face in half with his sword.