Short Stories

Developing Fear

Doctors and nurses all surround around me. I can hear them whispering and I could have sworn I saw my friend from my world standing just over me. But only for a moment.

I had decided rock climbing was the thing I had to do, unfortunately, since I had no experience, I only got up to four feet before falling. I had also worn no gear, there were around twenty minutes of blank in my memory. I just know that when I woke up, doctors and nurses were around me.

Some whispered I was lucky – after all, I had just gotten a broken arm and was in shock for a while. Apparently about 49% of people who fall from four feet die, with excessive injury. I had internal bleeding and it wouldn't stop.

"He must have a guardian angel watching over him," a nurse besides me whispered.

"It was just luck-" a male doctor or nurse started but the first nurse stopped him.

"Luck that the bleeding just stopped? He has someone watching over him... You were there-" what happened when I was out?

I was going to die? Was that even possible? I'm the Gream Reaper-

You were the Grim Reaper, a small voice in the back of my mind said.

Am, am the Grim Reaper, I said in my mind, I'm the one that picks people up when it's their time

You used to, now you're human and you don't belong in that world, the small voice said, and it dawned on me.

Panic rose inside my chest, I was really here, I was really mortal, sure I had some powers left, but that meant nothing. I was banished from my world and put into the human world. I could die if I didn't do this right, I could die if I spent all my life here, I was going to be collected from my friend!

Now, I don't know where you go after you die, I just know that I... Grim Reapers... Walk you down a glowing path... It was now uncertainty that crept in my mind, what if I die and don't go back to my world? What if that glowing path is all there is? What is that glowing path? I could never see further than the end of path, mortals often talked of hell, Elysium, and more fates of death. There was also nothingness. What if that's what that is? Nothingness?

One of the nurses must've realized I was awake and panicked, because she came over and quickly tried to calm me down, but now I couldn't be calmed down. How could I when I was going to die?