(ON HOLD)The Tale From Death to Death

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Jessica smiled a sweet smile as Death left to reap the souls whose time it was to die.

He left the room with his hood up and he closed the door behind him. He paused to look back at the door as if to make sure that what had happened was indeed real. 'I have an apprentice' he thought. He smiled slightly as he headed for the door just opposite the 'boneroom'. He opened the door, on the other side there was a large cortyard with a pond in the middle.

He went the the pond and without hesitation he walked in to the water. The pond was dead and soon Death's head was under the surface. When he reached the bottom he opened a passage way simular to the one he used to get Jessica to his domain. He stepped over the threshold of the passageway and stared to walk to the other side.

As he made his was steadily down the passage way he began to change. When he was in his own domain his cloke was white with what looked like red vains, he had a human face and body. What he was changing In to was close to human but not quite. His cloke dissapeared and his features lost their flesh. His clothes hung loosely as they rested on bone. He was just a skeleton. 'Ahh typical of humans' Death thought as he reached the end of the passageway. He stepped through the second threshold and instead of being at the bottom of the pond, he came out at the bottom of the ocean.

He looked around for a moment and then searched for the soul he was supposed to reap. 'Hmm it's a small soul' he thought as he sensed it tho his right. He looked over and saw a man floting at the end of rope. That rope was tied to multiple cinder blocks. Death sighed as he walked over to the man.

He grabbed the rope and pulled the man down to where he could look in to his eyes. The man stirred and opened his eyes only to see death. He tried to scream but waster rushed in to his lungs. Death covered the man's mouth with his boney hand and the man calmed down slightly.

"I have come to take you to the other side. Jase Flake." Death said as he let go of the man's mouth. Jase's eyes widened with fear once more at the realisation that he was dieing. Death let go of the rope and summoned his scythe. He did not give Jase a chance to comprehend the skeleton summoning the scythe. He just wanted to go back home. He swung his scythe at Jase's heart. The water did not hinder his movements and so it ended quickly.

He put the man's soul in to a small jar.

"A truly small soul indeed." Death said to himself as he opened another passageway and stepped through.

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Jessica watched as Death left the room and closed the door. Once the door was closed she turned back to the piles of bones and skulls. Her smile once again widened to a large happy one.

What she did first was separated the whole skeletons and the incomplete ones. Then she started to organize the many piles on to what seemed like an impossible amount of shelves.

By the time death got back she was halfway finished. He opened the door and his eyes had widened in surprize. He was impressed with how quickly she was getting her job done.

"Jessica, would you come here for a moment?" He asked. She jumped nearly out of her skin at the sound of his voice. She had been so obsorbed in her job that she did not hear the door oppen.