Lady Death And The Forsaken Soul

Chapter1: Natural Cleansing

This story takes place in a world where humans have been keeping on getting healthier each years, the life span they have is increasing little by little but it has known a halt for a few years now.
We are in a small town with a few thousands inhabitants. Here, most peoples are healthy, having activities and a convenient lifestyle insuring their longevity.
The population here is mostly constituted of adults and those are mostly employed, there are a few homeless peoples but nothing dramatic. The few kids that live here are going a school, a well ranked one on top of that, they are exceptionally intelligent and ace every tests, making that school one of the best in the land. That is due to the hard work of professors.
What's special about them is that they chose not to conform to the global schooling system, teaching their own ways, intricateness and entertainment are the keys to success.

Y/n, a student, his study years are almost over, he has been pretty careful about keeping everything he should know on check, learning everything he could to pass the final test. Globally, his professors were pretty happy of the results he had and of his willingness to learn. And that made learning so much easier since they were more open to question knowing that he was motivated.

This afternoon, He will graduate.

While he was on his way to take his test, in a lab underground, scientists had been going on for months to develop a method of antioxidants and biomechanically suitable for human, enhancing longevity by drinking that concoction.
They had many test subjects, most died after the first tries but a few were still alive and for the past days, the results were visible and their longevity potential exponentially increased. They could potentially stay alive for hundreds of years if nothing deadly happened on the way.
They had a plan and they were gonna fulfill it.

They will be making all humans consume that litteraly potion of longevity in one way or an other.
And now, managing to gasify that concoction, they made everyone inhale it.

Back to Y/n, since then, he had successfully passed his final test, graduating major in his course.
He was now actively looking for a job.

He was spending most of his time at home, searching for places to go and to find possible interviews he could do to get a job. He was still living with his parents, but they were not here often due to their job.
He didn't have anyone to consider as a friend, he spent all his life with a pure commitment to work, but ironically, no jobs wanted to hire him.

And today was no different, he had contacted five industrial estates trying to at least get asked to go there for an interview, but none wanted him.

It was the first time he had ever failed, not being able to find any job or any activity, he instead started to loose interest in work and researches. It has been almost a year and nothing had changed, he still lived with his parents, and he was still unemployed.

He stayed at home everyday now, with no reason or motivation to go outside, he was a mess and in distress...

While he was wondering why he should keep on hoping for anything to happen, a mysterious event occurred.

Peoples around the world started dying inexplicably. The media was taking over everything, any info that could be useful or leading to conclusion were taken and spreading faster than anything. Everyone started to freak out, not understanding why and how peoples died.
There weren't any symptoms, and the death was quick, no bleeding, nothing, they just died in a instant not leaving any chance for anyone to understand.

But while this general panick was happening, a certain group of people stated that they knew what was happening, that they could see what others couldn't, that they knew how to fight that catastrophic thing peoples started to call the Natural Cleansing.

Today, one of them accepted to get interviewed on TV.

The journalists and that person that chose to hide his identity had a discussion before the interview, but the camera went on and they stopped.
The newscasters stair turned toward the camera, indirectly staring at the viewers.

Kendy Tronner: Hi, I am Kendy Tronner and we are live with someone that claims to be able to understand the current events, a man that can see the cause of the natural cleansing. He is here with me to talk about that, he decided against telling us his name.

He extended his hand toward him, they shook hands and the man looked at the camera with his hood up, partially masking his face.
He crossed his arms.

???: Hello, indeed I have informations that may spark your attention. Those deaths occuring every days, those millions of death in that short span, the cause is something that you would never believe.

He looked at Kendy who looked back at him.

???: Do you believe in a personified version of what we call death?

He was surprised by that question, raising a brow and laying his hand on his chin, he answered

Kendy: Erm.... I don't... I don't believe such a thing exists, what are you implying?

The man gave a slight nod, silently chuckling to himself.

???: I knew you wouldn't believe in that, no one can believe in what they can't begin to see... Well you see, I have seen it. Death, the litteral reaper of souls... And I am not the only one able to do so, you may have heard of us already, we are a group of peoples said to be able to understand the cause of that extermination, well... Death is the cause...

Kendy: I see..... Well that group earned itself a name I believe, tha forbidden sou-?

From behind the camera, a quite murmure could be heard pronouncing the right name, he looked at that said person and nodded.

Kendy: The forsaken souls it is... What do you have to say to our viewers? Any advices to avoid having our soul reaped by lady death?

He stayed silent for a bit, setting an uneasy feeling in the room.

???: No one can escape... Even if we see it... We can't hurt or stop it ... It isn't intangible... But we aren't enough... Humanity is lost, us, the forsaken souls, are able to see, but we will see our end as well.

The interview ended soon after that, peoples around the world were not reassured at all, they were alarmed by the fact that even those so called powers aren't enough to even hope to slow down the extinction that is soon to unveil.

In his room, y/n didn't watch TV, even if that interview was broadcasted everywhere and that everyone knew it would stair today, he didn't even know that...

A few months after that, they were already a billion deaths and the scientists from all around the world were missing. But they at least managed to create something before they totally disapeared, something to detect those with powers... Because even if they weren't able to stop death, it was their only ray of hope.

He was now aware of what was happening around him,he had list his parents in this crisis. This loss made him depressed, he lost his father and his mother, but they were also the only peoples he knew, the only ones he talked to. He lost everything he had left.
Since then, he was still staying at home, not caring about anything that happened outside, but deciding to keep on living.
But soon, his tranquil, lonely and depressing life will change.....