The Awakening of a Soul Reaper

Chapter 12 Reapers Cloak

“Well, that is what I call a kiss” her aunt says, with a big smile on her face when she walks in.

“What did you see that?” she asks pancaking. 

“Yes, I did, it seems someone received a visit from Qupid” she teases, “I’m just pulling your leg” her aunts reply. 

“Is he the first boy you like?” her aunt asks her.

“Y-Yes” she stutters getting the words out.

“Just be careful don’t give your whole heart away till you know he is the one and that he will stay” her aunt says trying to give some advice but, “I’m glad you are happy” she says before turning around and going into the kitchen.

Later that night she goes up to her room, she stands in front of the mirror takes the pendant in hand, and turns around as Ignus appears out of thin air.  “I need to train! You need to teach me” she says stepping forward till she is almost pressing up against him.

“Have you been practicing opening and closing your essence channels?” he asks her.

“Yes, I have!” she says, while she looks at him, she picks up her hand and a smoky aura starts to form around her shoulder leading up to her hand.  “You are a fast learner” Ignus replies looking at her hand as she waves it slowly dragging the warm colors through the air.

“There is a couple of things that you should know before we continue, the aura in front of you is a manifestation of your life essence, which is part of your soul, if you manifest it like this you make it easy for other humans to see but, you also release its smell into the air attracting Vanus, that might be in this realm, so you need to be careful showing off your aura.  There is a way to hide it, so they can’t pick up on it till it’s too late, or till you have accomplished your task” he explains while drifting from one side of the room till the next. “Just like you can manifest and conjure me into a scythe you can also conjure me into your traditional dark hooded cloak.”

“Why a cloak?” she asks.

“A cloak is something easy and fast to imagine, it covers every part of your body but also because it fits loosely over you it doesn’t bring you any disadvantage in your movement, and you can use it to confuse your enemy and the dark color just makes it easier for you to flee or take cover.  When passing into the veil while cloaked it will also protect you, keep you hidden, and keep you warm while you are there”. He answers moving and swinging his arms around explaining.

“Veil, I have heard you talk about, but what is it?” she asks tilting her head to the one side, with a frown on her face.

“I want you to imagine this universe as a coin” he holds out his hand with his palm showing up “the one side is the living, where you are now,” he flips his hand so his palm directs to the floor, “the other side is the world of the dead divided into two parts, the realm of rest and the dark planes, but!” he shows to the side of his hand, “between the two there is a rim, the veil” this is where the Vanus exists, and this is where you want to fight them if you get confronted by them, when you move into the veil your body can become invisible to humans when you go into the veil and you can fight with the Vanus without having to worry about other people getting hurt.” He explains.  

Clarise stands there looking at him with a blank look on her face, “okay!” she says trying to wrap her head around the explanation he just gave.

“Remember if you conjure me and use me as a weapon or as your cloak, you will no longer see me!” he reminds her.  “Now close your eyes, I want you to imagine a cloak, feel me wrapping around you” he orders

Clarise closes her eyes and start to imagine, she remembers images in old comic books and movies she can feel how the cold starts to dissipate, her body starts to feel warm, she slowly opens her eyes, while looking down at her arms as the dark purple almost black material of the cloak softly wraps around her twirling and swirling like its alive, her hands covered in pitch-black leathery cloves, around her waist there is a thin black belt the buckle has the insignia of the stag the same as on her pendant, the rest of the cloak grows and goes down and drags on the floor behind her as she moves, on hear head rest the cloaks hoot it feels like its covering her eyes but it’s not she can see right through it, it does not block any line of sight when she moves her head from left to right, with it like this only her mouth and chin shows.

When she looks at her room it looks like at some places the air is trembling, when she touches the places where she sees the tremble she can feel the vibration, she drops her hand.  She goes and stands in front of the mirror it looks like she is phasing through the air parts of her disappearing for split seconds.

She concentrates and she can see how everything around her slowly returns to normal, the cloak that surrounded her slowly evaporating into thin air.  She looks up as Ignus starts to appear in front of her “you did well” he replies.

“Is that a smile on your face?” she asks him.

“You remind me about your father, I guess you inherited more from him than you thought” he replied looking at her with softer eyes and a smile on his face.

“I don’t understand?” she replies looking confused.

“Ever since I was infused onto this pendant I have only been used like a tool and a weapon, by men and women that fought the Vanus, and sometimes even mortal enemies” he replies.  Your father treated me with respect and as a companion” he turns away from her, “for some reason I feel like I miss him, even though I know it can’t be because I’m merely a lost soul, looking at you and how fast you progress it almost feel like he is still here”.

“But you once were a human? Right?” she asks him.

He sighs, “A very long time ago, I had friends, loved ones and companions but I cannot recall their faces, I have seen so many faces…” he says as he closes his eyes and bows his head.

Before she can reply, he turns around with sudden movement and putting on a smile, “but for now we need to get you training, you can’t take that long to forge me into a cloak you will need to do it within seconds while forging me into your weapon at the same time” Ignus says while pointing his pointing finger of his one hand into the palm of his other hand.

“If I’m cloaked, will living people see me?” she asks.

“When all your powers have manifested and with training you can move between the veil and the world of the living doing this will make you seem invisible, but in your current state yes, the living can see you” he responded.

“Powers?” she asks a bit excited.

“Yes, you will develop different kinds of abilities, it all depends on your will power, you're training and the strength of your essence, as you train your essence will become stronger and you will learn to manipulate it.  But! Take caution if all your essence is used up or absorbed you can die” he says beaning very serious.

“Then I shall not do that” she says showing him thumbs up.

He looks at her, she has come a long way in a very little time, it must be because of her bloodline, It usually takes years before someone can conjure me and train for so long without their essence starts to diminish.

“I want you to concentrate now and do it again, and again” he orders her.

Much later that night she falls on her bed, I need to get up early tomorrow to start packing for the picnic else Willow will never forgive me, and what is going on between her and James, it’s as if he is taunting her, she thought and what about Tyler she thinks.

She closes her eyes, it’s like she can feel his lips touching her lips as she drifts off…