Chapter 1: Where The Misery Begun

Being a little bit gifted was something Kai wanted and also hated. All the attention, the expectation, and disappointments arise, she despises those, especially fame. But being wise was not one of them.

And being a bit into the gifted side, Kai knows how things work and predict the possibilities but one of them was not going accordingly with the greatness of her mind.

Having an ability to see one's death was an exaggeration in her logic.

Proven wrong, she can only accept it. I mean, she even believes in ghosts and spirits even with the contradiction of her mind.

So, Kai vowed to use her ability to help people, to maybe, help them live a little longer and regret the wrongs they have done before it's too late.

Expecting to be someone like the good neighborhood future teller, the reality was a punch in the face, instead, she became the blooded tongue who brings death.

It didn't reach her expectation.

As the bell rang, no one minded her as she stands up with her bag on her back. Who is she kidding, of course, everyone's eyes were on her. Sometimes, she just wishes she wasn't so kind-hearted as her mother used to tell her to. Even if she doesn't look like it, she does.

At least that's what she thought. Kai went out of the room without a word.

Walking along the hallways was the worst. Worst than inside her classroom with 25 people in it, while the hallways are like sardines packed in a can, little space too many people. The hallways are always buzzing with rumors, rumors about the 'Tongue of Death'.

Kai sighed at the title. It could have been way more cooler! At least be a little creative people. She shakes her head at her thoughts.

"Don't, yes just don't go near her or even better don't talk to her."

"Dude! I heard she did it again!"

"Oh my god! Where is it this time? It better be not one of the students."

"If she opens her mouth, whatever she says, will come true so don't ever talk to her."

"And, it always brings weirdness."

Sensing something at one of the students, she stopped.

It was like time itself stopped, the whisperings, the clattering of the lockers, and the noise of people moving. It's like everyone forgot how to even breathe.

Slowly, Kai walked in the direction of a small girl. She was a lot taller than her and she's the only one who's not bothered by the weird occurrence of the students.

Stopping beside her, the girl finished getting her books and closed her locker. Glancing at her calm green eyes at Kai, she gave her a small smile with her red plump lips.

Properly facing Kai she tugs at the end of her black skirt that is above the knee as well as the blue tie of her white long sleeve uniform.

"What can I help you with?" she let out, her calm yet arrogant voice was heard over the hallways. Kai thought that she was a nice girl, maybe a bit, but nice. "No wait, don't answer that, I'm busy so I think I won't be able to help you." She added with a raise of an eyebrow at the end.

"Now, why don't you just go along in your way and go home, okay? Study for your sake maybe? Don't let your parents down for sending you to a prestigious school just for you to fail. Hard." Arrogantly, she smirked.

Kai frown at the smaller girl. 'I change my mind. She's cruel and arrogant. I might slap myself later for falling for the nice face again.' Kai thinks that what she saw, was now fitting the girl's character. 'Can I just let her die now? I mean, maybe she deserves it anyway.' She put her neutral expression again, not letting this first impression with the blonde let her do something Kai might regret later.

"Danielle Linden, Death: June 13, Friday. Where: At the equipment shed. Attacked by a Nightwalker." Kai spoke this as her dark blue eyes stared at Danielle's forest-green eyes and she didn't miss the shock and fear that suddenly appeared. Fear about mentioning her dying, but mostly with confusion.

Danielle has heard of the rumors. About a girl approaching them and telling them that they're going to die. Some say it's just bullshit and attention-seeking, but there is a majority who said that something weird happened to them after the girl warned them and avoided a cruel faith.

Even if it was just for a split second, Lois saw that she actually know what she was talking about and that thought suddenly excites her.

"Regret everything you've done wrong, forgive those who have done wrong and you will be spared." She started to walk and shrugged. "I think you will." With that, she left her school as students panic and crowded the poor girl. She can't wait to see if she'll save this girl or take her to the other side. Kai thinks she needs a better line in doing this.

Warning them there untimely death and low key asking for their participation is getting cringey now.

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2 years ago

By the time Kai is almost home, she feels her stomach was gonna burst. Something was just not right. Entering the door to her house, all lights were shut. An eerie silence was present as the cold air went in.

'Something's wrong, something is just not right. I can feel it and my gut is always right.' Kai looked around the dark house as she feels the walls and switched on the lights. With a click, she widens her eyes as the light presented something she regrets not foreseeing.

"Mom! W-what are you?! Get away from my Mom you monster!" Kai sprinted while taking off her bag and swinging it to a dark creature with hollow eyes.

The creature protected itself with its thin long limbs and let out a shriek. She stood in front of her mother who was lying on the cold floor, without a breathe left in her and a heart missing.

This made her eyes water and blurry, her chest suddenly felt tight and her breathing became hard. As the creature stood there, walking slowly in front of Kai as if seeing something it hasn't seen before.

Kai gritted her teeth as she pulled out a pocket knife from her skirt's pocket and with great speed from the young teen, she slashed to the creature with great force. But her eyes widen as it only went through it, as she stumbled down passing through the creature, shock and afraid at what she witnessed.

The creature let out an ear-piercing shrieked again as it kicked Kai on the stomach that sent her flying to the dining table landing on the wooden table.

The pain was all she could feel at that moment, pain, guilt, and regret. Pain because she literally just got kicked and thrown off the solid table which she thinks is broken from her fall. Guilt for not trying hard enough. And regret not seeing this happen to her Mom.

How could she see everyone else's death and help them by telling it to them so that, maybe, just maybe, they'll believe her and avoid their faith somehow? And also regret all of their sins. They might get reincarnated if they seek forgiveness and do good deeds with their last remaining breathes. If reincarnation even exists.

But no, the only person she cared for and love, was the one she could not help with when she has done it with so many strangers.

But not her own mother.

'I think my ribs are broken from that kick might as well stop to breathe. It fucking hurts people and other unearthly creatures I've seen and haven't seen!' She groaned as she tried to get up.

Masking her pain with her sarcasm and humor was something her mother was and could never achieve. She always tells Kai how she should let people in, how she should people know her pain sometimes because Kai literally gets mistaken for being a jerk because of that.

And Kai never minded that.

Again, well sometimes.

But no matter what, she loves Kai no matter who she is, what she is, no matter how of a dense person she is, no matter her flaws, her imperfections, her mother loved her. A love that nothing could compare to. Unlike her father, who expects greater things from her, no mind if she can't do it, blaming things on her that isn't her fault, how most of the times he shows no empathy.

Again, a lie. She just wants to sound cool right now because being emphatic is tiring.

Now, this creature has just taken the life out of her by killing her mother.

Standing up, she brushed the back of her hand on her lips to wipe off the blood. Her raven side bangs blocking her ocean blue eyes. Letting her arm fall off the side, she clenched her fist and grit her teeth with so much anger and hatred. Not knowing, the creature was fed by dark energies like the one Kai is emitting.

"Why? Why my mother you, whatever the heck your role here! Shout out to those or if you're alone, what the heck is this 'lonesome ghost face' doing in my life huh?!" Kai shouted at the top of her lungs while waving her hands as she mentioned the 'lonesome ghost face'. True actually, the creature's face was like of that horror costume ghost face but with a twist, long thin limbs like it hadn't eaten for years as bones were popping, but have drunk up all the calcium it could find for it was so tall. Almost reaching Kai's house's roof.

"She's too good to be killed by creatures like you!" Kai hated the fuck she can't do anything to this creature. I mean, who is she kidding right now? She would be like an idiot punching and kicking a hologram unlike earlier as if the creature was solid.

The creature suddenly appeared in front of her with a shadowy dark trail behind it. It scared the life out of her as she shivered at what she witnessed. "You mess...with death... we take... something from... you..." the creature groaned in a deep and ghostly voice. And Kai's eyes widen at that.

'Whatever this is, I'm gonna die without knowing. Maybe from a heart attack?' Kai thought as she steps back in instinct.

But then, it suddenly sinks into her. All those people she had warned, all of those who escaped and trick death, was just so she will be the one paying for saving their lives? By her mother's life?! Lois was livid. She shouldn't have saved those ungrateful jerks! And now look where she is? She needs to calm down and blaming others even though that option is eye-catching.

The unknown creature opened its mouth with a shockingly long chin, as it stretches down to the creature's knee and let out a cream at Kai as dark trails leave its mouth heading towards Kai.

Kai let out an agonizing scream as the dark trails surrounded her and entered her body. She could literally imagine a thousand needles being pierced through her skin and flow to her blood around her body. It was a pain she wishes she would never experience again.

She gasped for breath as the pain slowly fades as beads of sweat formed around her, already dropping to the floor.

She staggered and fell on her knees, and looked up to the unknown creature to see it looking down at her.

"So, you're the human... who has been messing up... my minions? What a... weakling... you are." Shocked at this, Kai could hear and understand the creature just like before.

"H-how could I-I hear you? U-understand y-you?" Kai stuttered as she could still feel the after-effect of what the creature had done to her.

'Dude! That was very painful! Agonizing! You should really try it for yourself before you do it to others.'

The creature slowly walks around her and picks her pocket knife from the floor, levitating it on the air as Kai thought how it breaks the Law of Gravity as the creature put down its limbs to show the knife to her, still floating.

"Tell me human... how could your kind... interfere with... my minions feeding? My food? As of now... you know... they are a bad, sick, unforgivable, and... a disgusting human... who needs to pay... for their deeds?" The creature twirled the pocket knife into the air as it slowly melted, slowly forming a longer shape as the creature emitted a dark trail from its limbs to the knife. By the time it stopped twirling, Kai saw a beautiful yet sinister long knife with a scythe designed on the bandaged handle. Its metal shining through the moonlight as its sharp edge glinted.

"I can see people's death. People could change, people could be good. A chance was enough to make them." She answered confidently looking directly at those hollow empty eyes.

Amused yet dissatisfied, the creature stabbed the knife with so much force into Kai's back directly hitting her right where her heart should be. Kai let out a gasp at the sudden change of action.

The creature lean into her in all forms and whispered, "What if they don't? You just let a murder, a rapist, a corrupt official, greedy and disgusting human run away. With the lives of the innocent they take, is in your hands." The creature grinned at her in all sharp teeth. "Be honest with yourself. A part of you agrees with me. Why don't you... just... let it... be? Don't hide it no more."

Kai's consciousness was slipping back and forth as blood quickly flowed out of her body. Opening her mouth like a fish to say something but nothing was coming out. Nothing. Just like her.

The dark creature let out a sinister laugh and turned into dark smoke, swirled around Kai while letting out another shrieked, but this time it was different, something was off with that scream. As the light of the moon illuminated the shadow, it pierced right through her.

"I'm amused to see, that the new Grim Reaper is a weak girly human. I will change you. Like that, think like that my human. Some people don't deserve another chance, some people are just nothing." It whispers into her ear, like a lullaby pulling her into sleep.

Fading away slowly, the moon and stars were the only witnesses of what happened. As Kai finally fainted. 'This is my end, I will die like a useless person I am, right father?'

"You will be my host human. I can see your potential. I can see how bright you will shine in the darkness of the Grims." With the voice fading in her mind, Kai only heard the last words of the creature before her life changes for better or worse, she may never know. "Go and balance the world alongside my minions and... by your sole opposite, the Guardians. Make them see humans. Make them see what we really are."

With one last word, the creature let out a laugh. "Your misery began. But... will it still be a misery after all of this is done?"