Born To Die

"Are you sure this is going to work?" Peter asked, unsure of the plan they plotted so hard for.

"Let's just hope that things aren't going to go south last minute," Liam answered, checking the cameras one last time. "Is Nyla ready?"

Peter only nodded, fear filling his eyes. He walked to his soulmate, tightly tied to a chair, a headband shielding her eyes. But before he could move any further. Liam stopped him by the shoulders, giving him a firm nod of encouragement. "Remember this Peter. What we're doing isn't only for the people we love, but also for people like us, our equals. For Menima."

They both parted ways, Liam got into the back of the van while Peter proceeded forward, taking the gun out of his back pocket.

Nyla trashed and whined in her seat, her wrists all scratched and bleeding from all the friction of the binding ropes.

"Please don't hurt me... please, I didn't do anything wrong!" The little girl screeched, begging to be freed.

"I won't hurt you, kits. I just need you to trust me and everything is going to be alright." Peter explained.

Nyla sucked in a deep breath not wanting to believe whose voice it was.

"Peter- No! You're supposed to be my soulmate!" She screamed in betrayal, as she trashed in her seat.

"And I am! But you don't understand... I need to do this or else they're going to kill everyone else... Judy, your mother... everyone we love." Peter protested, looking around him knowing he was being watched.

He walked closer to her, so close their foreheads touched. They both shivered as shots of electricity were enticed from their skin connecting, both their spirit animals bathing in the warmth of one another.

"You do know that you are going to die as well right... you can't survive without me." She shouted tears brimming her bandaged eyes.

"I know..." Peter answered reluctantly, as he parted from her.

He took three steps back, before aiming the gun and shooting at her heart.

"But I guess you and I were born to die."

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Important: Please do read!

Before you continue reading, I thought I should help you understand some terms and facts of this story, and that will help you catch the concept of it.

The mark: The soulmate mark is represented by a word located in every person's nape. When the two meet each other, they will instantly and unconsciously voice the other's words, and that's how they know they are fated.

Non-marked: Someone who doesn't have the mark, they either lost their soulmate or never had a soulmate, to begin with. The loss of a soulmate can cause multiple inconveniences, like illness. It's rare and almost impossible for a non-marked person to be granted another chance, to have a new soulmate.

Menima: A Menima is a person who has the ability to connect with their spirit animal, they can transform into it, but only when in extreme need of it. They are known in the whole world but mostly not accepted in society. In some countries, they are used and tortured leaving their soulmate suffering along with them. It is known for normal people to suffer whenever their soulmate is in pain, to share each other's emotions, but for Menimas the pain is more intense and real, and it sometimes drives to the death of both of them. When a Menima finds their soulmate, they have to mark them by placing their animal's print/mark on their soulmate's back. The marking process isn't for the faint-hearted, but it is crucial for it is the only way their souls can truly connect.

MenimaMea: They are rare, and hated. Considered an unfathomable phenomenon. They are people who unlike everyone else, have an animal as their soulmate. They refer to each other as soul companions. When the person meets their soul companion, they are able to unlock their power. This power can be used individually, but with the help of their soul companion, the person can discover and control other sides of it. When a person dies, their soul companion dies with them, the latter will then be reborn as a Menima, having the animal they once were as their spirit animal.

The other world: It's a place where Menima and MenimaMea can live in peace as one single community. Many think that it doesn't exist because no one ever wanted to leave it once they got in it, so no one could prove its existence to the remaining others who each day live a dangerous life outside, in the risk of exposure. Menima's soulmates are allowed in the other world but only after pledging to not reveal its existence to humans and to protect and live in harmony with its people.

Time and Place: I have decided to not determine the place as in what country and city the events of the story are taken, simply because it doesn't benefit me and it also gives you the freedom of imagining it as your own country and city. As for the time, it is exactly the one we are living in, maybe a few years in the future but the intelligence remains the same, as in technology and all that.

And that is all for now, I hope I was able to explain everything most thoroughly and that you were able to understand. If not everything will be clearer once you proceed to read the story, or you can just ask me to explain it again, I would gladly do so.

Enjoy!