The Eyes Of Death

Chapter 2: The Ability

Third Person's POV

"Hey Ainsley, overtime again?", her friend Jayden asked. She sarcastically laugh. "Yeah, yeah, the chief told me so."

Jayden laughs, "You are late so that's your punishment. By the way, where is the case file of the last murder case?"

Ainsley pointed the drawer on her back and the black envelope. Jayden took it and read. "There is a bunch of unfinished test results here."

"Yeah, they do not want to bother about it anymore and closed the case."

Jayden sighs. "I still want to know who is the real killer though. They did not even mention about it and the family of the victim doesn't care also. That kind of a jerky move."

"Well, it is not our business anymore." He took the samples and evidences to dispose it as he was told to do so.

"Ainsley, mind if I get some little help?", Jayden asked her.

Ainsley nodded. "Sure."

Jayden gave her the evidence and so she looked at it. "Can I take it out?", she asked him staring at the evidences on the bag. There's the fingerprint samples, cellphones, bloodstained bed sheet and a broken glass from a lamp, she thinks.

"Okay, go on."

Ainsley took out the bag full of evidences and look at it. She suddenly touch it and was stunned. She hold her head and felt so much pain. "I-it h-hurts", she cried.

Jayden hold her hands and look at her. "Ainsley, are you okay? Hey, look at me."

Ainsley hit her head with her hands but it is still painful. She look at Jayden, straight into his eyes before he succumbed by the darkness.

~*~

A woman raised her hands and stared at him, stared through him. Her voice was so soft but tense. "I-i saw b-blood", she said while shivering in pure fear.

Her brother looked at her. "Rhea?" But she didn't respond.

"Rhea, can you hear me?", he asked again. Rhea looked at her with her eyes trembling.

"Y-yes."

"Whose blood do you see?"

"H-him", Rhea answered that makes her brother puzzled.

"Who is 'him'?" Rhea look down. She does not want to answer his brother's question as it will make 'him' furious.

"Rhea answer me!", his brother shouted but Rhea moved her head, left and right while looking down.

His brother stormed off and that is where the man he was talking about showed up.

He look at Rhea, smirking and eyes are smiling devilishly. He holds Rhea's hand and gently squeeze it.

He shared the blood on his hands on Rhea. It was the blood of the deer that he kills on the road. This guy is her boyfriend but Rhea think he was not the kind man that he used to love. This man is named Darius, a man full of wisdom, and the top on their class. It was so unusual to see him full of blood.

He looked straight at Rhea's eyes and she saw that strange black eyes full of anger and lust. Her boyfriend's eyes was colored hazel brown not pure black. Rhea knew that something was off but she doesn't know what it is.

Darius move closer to Rhea tilt his head and sniffs her neck. "Hmmmm", he smiles as if he smelled a nice perfume. He gently licks her neck making Rhea shivers.

"You taste so sweet, love", he said. Rhea pushed him that makes him fall into the ground. Rhea is so sure this guy is not his boyfriend. His boyfriend respects her.

Darius chuckled while getting up and compose his posture. "Why did you push your boyfriend, babe?"

"You are not him!", she shouted that makes Darius so angry and rushed towards her.

"Oh, yes I am. I am him now, just accept it", he said then furiously grab Rhea's neck.

"I-i can't b-breathe..." Darius looked straight at Rhea's eyes. "You should just be quiet and do whatever I want!", he said with a low voice. That dark voice doesn't sound like Darius. It sounds like a demon coming from hell.

Darius gripped more at Rhea's neck. "S-stop", Rhea said while trying to run for her breathe. She is suffocating and now slowly dying.

Rhea poked and hit his arms to make him stop but Darius just smile at her. "You. will. die."

And just at it is, Rhea stops hitting Darius, as well as her heart beat stops.

Rhea's brother came into the room and saw the horrifying scene. "D-darius?"

Darius looked at him. He released Rhea's neck that is now dead. He move closer to Rhea's brother who is now trying to examine what was really happening.

Rhea's brother took the lamp on her table and hit Darius with it. But Darius just stopped for a moment then look at him with such a terrifying black eyes.

Darius then again grab his neck and just like was he did to Rhea, he choke him to death.

~*~

Ainsley woke up on her office, lying on the couch. She look at the clock and it is now 3 o'clock in the midnight.

She closed her eyes and hit her head gently. Was that a dream? It did not look like one. It somehow feels so real, as if she was watching it all live.

Jayden came from the front door and gave her a warm coffee. "Oh at last, you are awake. It is so hard doing your work, you know?"

"What happened?", she confusingly asked and ignore his question while taking the coffee from him.

"Well, you took the evidence from the bag and then you suddenly dozed off and fell asleep for hours. Don't worry I already did the work and finish all your tasks", he said then smile at Ainsley.

Ainsley look at him, "Thank you."

"Nothing to worry about, you are my friend."

She sipped her coffee and talk more things with Jayden. He continuously asked if is there something wrong with her but she refused to answer it and open another topic. But she suddenly felt that someone was looking at them.

Ainsley look at the back of Jayden.

She then saw Darius smiling at her with those black eyes. That creepy smile is just like what she saw on her dream.

She blink again and the he was gone. "W-what was that?"

Jayden look at her baffling. "What do you mean by 'that'?"

"H-huh? N-nothing", she said then end the conversation about it there.

Jayden's phone suddenly starts ringing. "I'm just gonna answer this."

Ainsley just nodded. Jayden walk away from her office. She wants to know what is the dream that she saw so she called Azrael from her mind and just by like that, he showed up.

"Why do you need me, honey?", Azrael questioned her.

"I need answer. What was that dream?", she asked him even though she is so sure it wasn't. She still had this little hope that maybe that was just a real-like nightmare.

Azrael laughs. "Ainsley, it was not a dream. Don't you get it? That is the reason I gave you that gift because I know that sooner or later you will discover your ability and now I am not mistaken."

"But why now?", Ainsley asked.

"Because you and the spirits are getting stronger now. The more they are getting stronger is the more you are getting stronger too."

Ainsley tried not to listen to what Azrael was saying but she could not. Is he really telling the truth? Or did he just make it up so that he could be satisfied with its offer?

Ainsley didn't know what to believe anymore. She chose to hear what Azrael will say to her. "Your ability is what we called The Eyes Of Death, it was first introduced by Sibylla Schwarz, an ordinary poet who is also a seer. She can foretell the future but because of some events that happened in her life, the ordinary fortune teller began to see something beyond the capabilities of such an ordinary person."

"What did she saw?", Ainsley asked. Azrael look at her straight into her eyes and answered.

"Death."