The Demon's Bride

Proud Grim Reaper-II

Elise took a step back warily. She had never seen a creature like this before. Draped with a ragged black cloak that covered his whole lean body where she couldn't see the face of the creatures but the skeleton hand was enough to tell her that it was a ghost. But why was a ghost tied into a tree?

"You can see me!" The grim reaper moved itself for the tree to shake along and he eyed her blue gaze to move along with him but Elise was clever to know it was a trap and stared at the same place she had been staring before.

"There are a lot of leaves here. I should get the work done before Mr. Maroon comes." She talked aloud well enough for herself and used her broom to start sweeping carefully bellow the spot where the grim reaper was tied at. When her hand reached bellow the tied ghost, she could feel the temperature dropped down and chill ran to half of her upper arm.

She didn't know why the ghost was tied up nor and could only think that the ghost died in the state. As she didn't have a good memory of ghosts, she felt fear causing her to have her hand trembling a little.

"Maroon?" The reaper muttered the name in wonder thinking where he heard the name when he recalled it was the name of the butler who tied him to the very tree. "That fucking butler! Hey human girl bring your butler here! I know you can see me!" He shouted and swung his body for the hem of his rope which almost faded to the air brushed her hand. Startled, she almost let go of her broom but fortunately she didn't.

She tried to keep a poker face on her face whilst doing her work ignoring the ghost's shouting which now made her ears hurt.

"Hey! Damn it I really thought you can see me!" The reaper was frustrated that he can't do anything and let his head dropped down to the ground for a heavy breath to come between his lips.

"Elly, why are you not answering me?" Aryl flew over her face but if she make a sound now, she was sure the ghost would caught her. Bringing herself to the far corner of the garden slowly she replied to Aryl in a hushed tone. "There was a ghost tied in the tree."

"A ghost?" Aryl turned her eyes to the tree but faeries couldn't see the dead unlike the sweet child. "How does it look like?" she inquired.

"He wore a pitch black cloak and his hands are made up of bones I can't see the rest." She replied to the question the Sulix gave for the faerie to give a shocked face.

"That's not a ghost!" Aryl yelled, "It's a grim reaper! We should go from here!"

"Grim reaper?" This time around the broom fell from her hand creating a sound that took the reaper eyes away from the green grass. Turning his whole body in a great hurdle, she saw the red haired maid slowly bending to her heels to take her broom.

"How could such a clumsy maid work here anyway? She can't even hold a broom properly." The reaper tched and clicked his tongue to stop himself from moving again.

It wasn't that Elise doesn't know what Grim reapers were. She had read great amount of book that without being questioned she new the creature living in between the world of living and the world of the dead. A creature who was always hooded in black cloak like a sorcerer with a figure of a skeleton, the creature named Grim Reaper who was assigned to take the soul of humans when it was their due.

Then perhaps the grim reaper came to take someone's life?

Elise first thought was to tell Master Ian. The rope tying his waist seemed to be very fragile and look as it could break in any second. She had to hurry. She accumulated all the dried leaves at one place and trotted over to the door cautiously when she had to pass by the tree where the grim reaper was tied on. But just then, she felt something poking her back which made her nerves filled body jumped. The grim reaper had touched her!

The grim reaper was the one who had tried to touch her in a whim thinking that she wouldn't be able to feel his touches as he was now in a state of being unable to be seen by human nor to be able touch them yet this particular maid jumped from her spot as soon as she felt him. His eyes widened in surprise, "You can see me!" the reaper yelled. "I knew it! I thought it was weird in the first place that you hadn't been walking to my place!" the reaper knew that she had avoid to touch him as she could come to contact with the reaper.

In the first place for a human to be able to see grim reaper was strange on its own way. This was not good to grim reapers as creatures like her are called improbability beings that could cause imbalance because of their power.

The reaper let out a grin at the corner of his teeth. As improbabilities are hard to search on its own way, the reaper couldn't wait to have his hand on the human girl and bring her back as a trophy to ascend into a higher rank and perhaps it could also save him from his troubles now.

A few months before, the grim reaper was suspected for letting a soul to continue living in the mortal's realm when it was the time for the woman to die. However the truth was, he didn't do such a thing but the death Angels couldn't be bothered to hear his petition and was ready to destroy him into ash.

He was barely making a living by hiding himself from anyone finding him out and arrived at White's Mansion to hide himself when she find out of the butler who often kill people more than a grim reaper would ever do and decide to reside there for quite a long time.

At first he thought it was a bad luck to be able to have an unknown dead being who could caught him but unexpectedly he had hit a good jackpot! Even if he was caught by the dead man he could still have the human girl which was good as thinking that perhaps he could use the human girl to bring him some credibility when he request for an investigation to his case.

Elise gulped and point her broom to the reaper which was the closest thing she could take to guard herself. The reaper look at the broom she pointed to grin, "Do you really think a broom can work to me? Unless you become a witch you can't harm me with a broom. Now come closer human you can touch me so you could also come and untie the rope in my waist, Can't you? If you can untie the rope I promise I will let you off."

He tried to persuade her but she wasn't a fool to trust the reaper's words. "What are you doing here?" she asked in alarm, her broom pointed at him now almost turned as her weapon.

"What does grim reaper come for other than taking dead souls?" he replied with a boring look then tug himself for the last leaves to fall over the ground like little rains. "I had answer your question now help me to get out of here!" he demanded before the undead creature come back he had to bring the human girl away to the realm of the dead!