Essence

Chapter 12: The Grim End

"You know who the last target is." Theurgis was speaking to me as I kept hearing "almost everybody" in my mind over and over again.

"Who is it?" Cindy asked because she noticed my stunned expression.

"It's a man that Dan knows well, he goes by the name of Grim Reaper and the man happens to know Dan quite well too. Dan locked him away before escaping." I was shocked to hear that name. "The Grim Reaper or Clancy Phillips. He murdered a lot of people before being caught by Dan." I should of killed him while I had a chance. I should of shot him that day I arrested him. Maybe all those people in my home town would still be alive.

"Dan we have to go." Cindy said summoning these portal in front of us.

"Theurgis when Akuto wakes up give him some food and water or something. I know he tried to kill me, but he didn't know any better. Plus, I have always wanted a pet gorilla. I think that would be badass." I smiled, but I knew I wasn't looking forward to this confrontation with the Grim Reaper.

I was about to step through the portal with Cindy, but Theurgis wanted to reassure us one something before we left. "Ohhhh.... Dan. Be careful, Grim Reaper has the most powerful ability of them all. With one touch of his skin he can instantly kill you. Keep him at a distance and don't touch any part of his body with your skin."

I nodded as we stepped through the portal. Keep him at a distance, understood. When we appeared into the other side, we were standing in front of a police station. It wasn't just any police station, it was the one in my hometown, the one that I worked in on a day to day basis. This wasn't going to be easy.

Both Cindy and I noticed several corpses laying all around. They weren't normal corpses, Clancy reduces them to bones. All of their meat, flesh, and blood wasn't there, just a pile of bones and clothes. I seen a couple of them have police uniforms on, most likely my coworkers. "Alright, we are doing this the save way. The easy way, we can play around with this guy and make any mistakes." I walked over to one of the bodies and kneeled down. I glanced over at the badge before picking up his firearm. The badge had the name Officer Holt on it. Images and memories of Holt flashed in my head. He was a good officer, fair and kind. Holt always did his job by the book, unlike my corrupt cop ways. I can't believe you are dead Holt, don't worry I will avenge you.

I unstrapped his pistol from him and laid my hand on his skull. I will avenge you. I stood up and walked back up to Cindy. "Take this gun, have you ever used one before?" She shook her head quick and took the weapon. "I will take the lead to the front and you go through the back and we will flank him. I'll distract him and you shoot him."

Cindy was walking around the building. "Wait hold on." I pulled a set of keys from my pockets. A couple of them were for my house, my car, and the front of the police building, so I took those ones off. The rest were for the back of the station and the rest of the police station. I threw the keys towards her. "Just in case it's locked."

She continued to walk around the building and I decided to give her a minute before I walked through the front entrance. When I walked in skeletons scattered the floors and the doors were wide open. The receptionist's skeleton laid on the front desk with the phone in her hand. The place was like the start of an eerie horror movie. I walked through the door into a hallway. It was the hallways that lead to every office of the police sergeants, the chief of police, and that also included my office. If I were Grim Reaper I would definitely be in there.

I walked in, I heard the wheels of my office chair squeaking. The chair faced the opposite direction towards a large glass window. A window leading to the police of chief's office. Clancy turned slowly around with the chair and he had my coffee mug in his hands. I knew it was mine, because my son Jeffery bought it for my birthday. It was blue with a pink heart with the words "world's greatest daddy" written in the middle of the heart.