The Awakening of a Soul Reaper

Chapter 16 A Spark has been lit

“We can start with that as a warm-up!” he replies. 

She goes and does a couple of the exercises correctly after each other.  Ignus stops her and says “what I want you to do now is before you hit the ground lift yourself one more time to break your fall, this will teach you to use your essence power as a reflex tool.  The first time she tries she gets it right she lands like a professional gymnast lightly on her feet.  “Again!” he orders.

This goes on for another half an hour or so.  “I want you to go get that chair that is standing against the wall, and place it here” he shows with his index finger.  After the chair is in place he explains “What I need you to do now is, stand in front of the chair jump straight up into the air and, then push yourself over the chair and land on the other side”.

She stands and tries it, the first time she doesn’t push enough and she lands with her one foot on the seat and the other on the mat, the second try goes a bit better but she is still not able to push herself hard enough.  She continues to practice, finally she manages to force herself over the char. 

“I did it!” she says excited, making fist and punching the air.

Ignus looks at her, “You need to practice that some more.  You need to work on your landing” her replies

The rest of the afternoon she practices till she drops flat on her back on the mat, hear hair wet from sweat “Can I rest now for a bit?” she asks out of breath.  “Collect yourself, and then you can go on home we can practice tomorrow again” replies Ignus who realizes that she has really been pushing herself, keeping him manifested while practicing her air movement, she really is really something to push herself this way he thinks.

On her way home she feels like doing it in the street, but she knows she can’t, she can’t afford someone to notice her doing some weird things.  She first goes in at aunt Bells bakery and sits down and have a conversation with her aunt.

“So, I expect you to have very good grades, because of all of these additional school work you are putting in” her aunt says forcefully to her.  She nods “yes I belief I will” she always was a straight A student so hopefully that doesn’t change too much in the new school she thought to herself.

While they sit and chat, they hear a commotion outside, before her aunt can’t say anything, she rushes out, she sees a lady down the street yelling “he stole my purse!” a young guy comes running past her, and then he disappears around the corner.  She follows him down an alley, with each step she concentrates and use her power to push her forward.  In the nick of no time, she catches up to him, she jumps in the air and launches herself with her power, she grabs his shoulders and pushes him down, and he goes tumbling.  He jumps up and shoves her, but she plants herself in her stance and with her power she pushes him against the wall while kneeing him in his crotch.  His face turns from red to a white pale color, his breath is gone and he falls to the ground with his hands between his legs, squirming around.   Her aunt comes running towards her, followed by the lady whose purse he grabbed.  Clarise bends over and plucks the purse from his hand, and starts to walk over to the lady.  Her aunt out of breath and flustered ask her, “Why did you do that?  I was very reckless of you!”  Her aunt says holding her by her shoulders.  “Never ever do that again, promise me that?” her aunt asks her.   Looking at her, Clarise can see how the tears in her aunts' eyes start to build up.  “I’m so sorry Aunt Belle, I don’t know what came over me” she says trying to apologies bowing her head and looking at the gravel lying in front of her on the ground.  “I promise I will not do something like this again!” she says grabbing and holding her aunt tight.

She pulls away and looks over the lady, “here is your purse,” she says while handing it over to the lady.  Clarise takes out her phone and walk over to the purse snatcher, she bends over and takes a photo of him, “If you ever come into this district again, I will go to the police and show them your photo, and I will tell everyone that a girl beat you up, do you understand?” she asks him.

He nods “Yes”.

The lady walks over to him and kicks him in his chest, “never do that to a lady again, go find a job!” she utters. 

Some other people also start to move towards them to see what the commotion is all about, the lady explain that Clarise on her own overpowered him, “she is a hero” she says smiling at Clarise.

After all the excitement Clarise and her aunt starts waling back to the bakery, “you know that is something your dad would have done” she says to Clarise.

“Really…?”

“Oh yes, he always like to help people and was always willing to fight and stand up for those who couldn’t defend themselves” her aunt replies with a big smile.

Later that night after dinner and a long intense bath with, some bath salts, Clarise feels like a completely new person.  She goes and sits on her bed, with her back against the wall, she starts to smile and laugh as she starts to think about the events of that afternoon, I can’t belief I did that, and the most amazing part, it felt so good she thinks to herself.

She lets the pendant lie in the palm of her hand, and for the very first time in her live she feels strong and alive.  She drops the pendant and tries to conjure Ignus without holding it, and yes, he appears. 

“Well, you look rested…!” he says.

She tells him all about the event of that afternoon, as he listens attentively, he can see her father in her and he can see a spark has been lit.  “Tomorrow I want you to train me even harder” she says looking at him with determination.

The next morning, she leaves the house, with a bounce in her step.  At the usual place she can see James, Willow and another lady standing and chatting, when she gets closer, they look at her and say almost with one voice “And here is our hero”.

Clarise starts to blush, “This is Amanda she the florist’s daughter she told us all about how you singlehandedly stopped a mugger” Willow explains.

“It was nothing!” replies Clarise with a big smile the three of them start to walk to school chatting, Along the way Clarise can Tyler walking towards her, “I heard what happened yesterday, are you okay?” he asks concerned, looking at her from top to bottom.

“Please don’t ever put your life in danger like that again!” he pleads with her, putting his hands together palm to palm in a praying way.

“It was instinct I don’t know why or how it happen” she replies “but don’t worry I’m fine! Thank you!” she responds.

During recess Tyler comes over to Clarise, he takes her hand and leads her away into the library.  “And what are we going to read and learn here” she asks him.

He smiles at her while he leads her in-between the book shelves. “Economic History” she says “interesting!” 

“Do you know of anyone that would read these books” he says while pushing her up against one of the bookshelves “this is the most private place there is in the school” he replies.  He leans in, his lips touch her lips, and she greets him taking her hand and running it up his back, pushing his head in so he cannot retreat.  His hand runs down her shoulder, and then up feeling her belly, his hand slides up in-between her breasts, up to her throat.

Her hands start to flow exploring his backside, her hand goes down his bum, she squeezes and pulls him close to her.  She stretches up to his ear and she nibbles softly on it, whispering “this feels so amazing!”

The bell rings and it’s time to go back to class, “Well that was an informative and interesting book,” she laughs as they walk past the librarian.

That afternoon after school the Tyler takes Clarise for a milkshake at their now favorite diner ‘Salt & Pepper’, the owner Mr. Mills, a chubby man in his late fifties or early sixties with curly grey hairs, is very pleased to see Clarise.  “Special discount for you my dear, and for today your milkshake is on the house” he says when she walks in.

She orders a triple chocolate milkshake and Tyler a crispy mint milkshake.  The two of them sits down holding hands and enjoying each other’s company.  “Why did you help that lady” he asks her.

“Because she was unable to help herself” she replies.  He looks down and see the stag on the pendant, “Is this your family crest?” he asks.

“You can say that” she replies.

“Do you know except for a lion, a dragon and an eagle the stag is the most popular animal to use in crests, some belief that its antlers represent a crown and they are the true kings of the forests”

“Oh really” she says “I didn’t know that” she smiles and kisses him on his lips.

After they finished their milkshakes, he walks her up to her houses’ front door, kissing her and saying goodbye.  She goes inside and waits fifteen minutes changing into more comfortable clothes and then locks the door again and starts making her way to the gym.  Inside the gym Ignus instructs her to start using her power when she is in the air to manipulate her direction and also the time she spends in the air.  She makes great improvement; she can launch herself over multiple chairs and can also start to do little movement changes in the air.

Suddenly a foul smell befalls the gym.  Ignus immediately instruct her to cloak herself and to draw her weapon.  She turns around but she sees nothing, “show yourself” she yells out.  From between the exercise equipment, she sees blue smoky figure appearing, “I knew it, I smell delicious essence” comes a creepy squeaky voice from the figure.  It looks like a creepy man with long nose and narrow hateful eyes it looks like he is gnashing his teeth.