The Reckoning

The Reckoning

My day started like any other day: wake up, go to school, and deal with James Hardison. "Hey broke boy! What you doing? Trying to make some money or have you never heard that?" Some days when he is starting on me I always end up snapping. And getting hit, and getting knocked out again. "Oh my God just shut up already! If it's such a problem to you then you can just ask your daddy to send you to private school if lower class people bug you so much!" I knew I screwed the second the words left my mouth. "The hell did you just say to me you little punk? Do you know who I am? I am James Hardison! One of the Hardison and heir to my family's bloodline money! I will not be spoken down by some worthless little peasant like you!" And now I'm on the floor. "Now what are you going to do now? Hmm? You don't have the guts to do anything you punk" His laughing made me sick. So I did the only logical thing anyone would do in this situation: I punched him in the back of his head. I'm so screwed now. "Why you little! I'll KILL YOU FOR THAT!!! I WILL NOT BE DISRESPECTED LIKE THAT BY THE LIKES OF YOU!!!" After that I woke up in a pitch black room. "Hello? Anyone here?" My voice echoes off the...walls? "I can help you with your problem. If you help me with mine." The mysterious voice rang out from the darkness. " who are you?" I said right back into the nothingness. "I am the solution to your problem and you are the solution to mine." Now the voice is really mysterious. "You are making no sense right now just tell me what to do" I had no idea what I was saying but I just wanted to get out of this creepy place. "I wish I could but it's not that easy. You must promise me you won't kill him" Now things got weirder. "I- I don't know what you mean." I was lying I knew exactly what he meant. I hear a chuckle come from the darkness. " You can't hide anything from me. I am your mind. I am you." Now things are weird and creepy, and I just wanted to get out of there. " Okay. I'll promise. Is that all you need?" I say to the darkness. "I need nothing more from you. I wish you best of luck." Those were the last words I hear before I see a gloating face of my enemy. "Wakey wakey. You awake poor boy? Good I was getting bo-" I punch him square in the face and catch James off guard and myself because he goes flying into a lunch table. I can't believe it. I hit a kid and it sent him flying. "Let me take over from here. He'll kill I you when he gets up." 'let him take over?' What is he talking about. "Uhhh... I guess go ahead." I had no idea what I was getting my self into. "Thanks kid." I felt something enter my body and after that I can't remember anything. "WHAT WHERE YOU THINKING? YOU BEAT A KID HALF TO DEATH AND GET YOURSELF SUSPENDED! YOU ARE SO GROUNDED! GO TO YOUR ROOM RIGHT THIS INSTANT!" I come back to consciousness to the sound of my angry mom yelling at me. I wanted to protest but she was already mad enough. Added from the stress of my father's death. I was only six when he died in work accident. I head up to my room and close the door. "What did you do to him?" I ask the mysterious voice. " I merely knocked him out and proceeded to repeatedly punch his face in." I was flabbergasted. He pounded James Hardison's face in? I'm so dead now. I can't go to school now. I'll get murdered if I show my face there. "Yes you are right but if you give full control of your body and a new era shall begin called The Reckoning." the mysterious voice responded to me in a more cryptic response. The Reckoning? Full control of my body? What did I get myself into? " What happens to me if I give full control of my body to you? What happens to me?" I'm dreading the answer he might give me. " Your soul slowly dies and I gain control the less life your soul has. And I essentially become an immortal god. I will finally be reborn as the strongest being on the universe! And for your information, my name is Foronte the Reaper." My heart sank. I'm going to die? But my body will be a god. But I'll die! " No. I won't do it I refuse. You are not going to kill me for your own selfish desires." It's over. I stood up for my self. I did it I won. or so that's what I thought. "No? Well I suppose I need to do this by force them don't I?" By force? What did he mean? "Aggh-" My body felt the same as it did at school today. He's strying to take over again. But this time I'll die! "I w-wont let you. You'll n-never win. Y-youll never be a god if I have anything to say about it." I struggle to get the words out of my mouth. Then it stops. I feel relaxed. I try to move but cant. Whats going on? Why can't I move. I worryingly think. I then feel my mouth move. "It's been nice getting to know you but I have more important things to do. First I must consume the soul of that James Hardison brat." Consume the soul of Hardison? "You're going to kill him?" I some how say, though I struggle. " Don't worry junior. He won't die. He'll be worse than dead." He laughs evily. What did he mean by that? How can someone be worse than dead? I thought when someone said 'injured or worse' it meant death. "H-how can someone be worse than dead?" I manage to stutter out. "One can exist with his or her soul but is just an empty shell of just organs, bones, and blood. Sounds terrible doesn't it? But you should shut up and save your life force. You don't have long to live. Two hours at the most " TWO HOURS AT THE MOST!??! I felt my body start moving and Foronte walks out of my room with my body. "Where are we going?" I choke out. "I am going not you. You are as good as dead. But you should brace your self anyway. Oh right you're body is mine!" I feel a weird force on my body and see a nice house in front of me. "The brats house." Hardison's house? I need to regain control but how? I try again to move a finger and it twitches. I have some control left. I move my entire arm and punch myself in the face. The pain is intense but I feel the same as before I got possessed. "WHAT THE HELL IS YOURE PROBLEM KID??? YOU SCREWED ME UP AND INJURED YOUR SELF!!" Foronte yells in my mind. " Yeah well it's better than me dying isn't it?" I say gloatingly. "YOU FOOL NOW IM GOING TO DIE UNLESS I SWITCH WITH YOU AT THE LAST MOMENT!" He said that and my heart sank. " Yeah well I just shouldn't let that happ-" My body tensed up and I felt even weaker than I did in my room. "Hehe. now I feel even stronger! JAMES HARDISONNN!!!" No he's going to kill him! But just as that last thought was done, I saw a white door. Was I close to death? "What's this kid? Dead already? That's sad. I was beginning to kind of like you. Oh well. Rest well kid. AHAHAHAHAAA" And Foronte's cruel laughter was the last thing I heard before I saw The Point Beyond...