Death Won't Stop Me

A dream?

"So you're saying I was possessed this whole time by a soul you let out by mistake?" Jon was sitting in front of Ana inside a coffee house. It has been a few hours that has passed after her fight with Eddie ended. She explained her current situation to him and how everything started, but careful not to mention things that must not be known by mortals. "I know you're not joking after seeing everything that happened there. But why is it that he picked me?"

"I don't know either. I explained everything to you because I want to find out too. And how come you can resist my spiritual energy." She replied with a serious look. "Tell me how it started with you."

Jon pondered for a while, recollecting his thoughts then nodded seriously to Ana. He then started to recount everything that had happened to him from the past month.

Little by little as his story was progressing, he started to frown as he saw Ana's face contorting. He could see a smile forming from her lips from time to time, and in some her shoulders would shudder as she covers her mouth. Good thing for him that it was only for three months as it was getting embarrassing for him to continue with his story.

"Ahahaha." When he was done, Ana guffawed so hard that the other customers inside the shop started to look at them. She was laughing for a good while, unable to form a proper word. 

"Done?" Jon asked with a darkened face when he saw her stop laughing. "You realize everything is your fault, right?"

"I'm sorry. It was just so funny, I couldn't help it." She breathed in a little bit to calm herself more before talking to Jon again.

"It's okay. I'm already used to getting laughed at." He calmly said to Ana. "Doesn't mean I like it though."

"Sorry. Heh." She put her hands together in a praying pose and raised it on the left side of her face while she stuck her tongue out in a very cute manner.

He was suddenly dazed, realizing just now that she was actually a very lively person. Different from how he first saw her. Her facial expressions actually made him feel relaxed. Adding to her natural beauty, it was a captivating vision for just about anyone.

"Hey.. Hey!" A shout from her jolted him out of his trance.

"Ahem." He cleared his throat as he managed to looked away from her.

"Hm?" Ana was a little confused with how Jon suddenly reacted. But then she just decided to not think too much into it. "Anyway, you're a curious case. You have been possessed for three months without having your spiritual seed getting absorbed by a ghost. But that's for another time. I'm gonna have to investigate more on what happened so I can prevent him from getting stronger."

"What's a spiritual seed?" He asked.

"Spiritual seeds are a naturally formed spiritual energy when a human is born. It then continuously nourishes your body and soul until you die. It is a concentrated, purer essence of the spiritual energy that is ever present in the mortal world." She gave him a simplified version.

"So what happens when this seed gets absorbed by a ghost?" He followed up on the question.

"Your mind turns to mush. You will turn into a living vegetable. And since you don't have anything that can nourish your soul, when you die, there is an almost seventy percent chance that your soul won't form and you won't get a chance for a rebirth." She said in a very serious tone.

"So all those people in a coma.."

"Yes." She cut his question, knowing what he would like to ask.

"But you said that this has happened for the first time in almost a hundred years. So how did all those people end up getting absorbed?" He asked again.

"Not all mortals lose their seeds that way. When mortals are born, each form their own unique seeds. Some may give you more of a physical benefit, some may cause you to unlock a unique ability only available to you. But in some, unfortunate cases, they are born with very unstable seeds which may run out suddenly while they are still living." She explained.

"I see."

"Okay, let's end our talk from here. You can start living your life without any problems from here. Since I couldn't erase your memory, I decided that you can know some things since I at the very least, owe you some explanation. You can stop worrying about that scum. I'll handle him." She said as she stood up and walked towards the door.

"Wait." He stood up, raised his hand to hold her but then hesitated but he still decided to call her. "I don't even know your name."

She stopped walking when she got to the door. As she opened the door, she turned to him and smiled sweetly. The sunlight shining a little brightly, like it was timed perfectly just to give that stunning smile more life. "Its Ana." Then she continued to walk until she blended with the crowd.

He stood there dazed.

***

It was evening when inside an abandoned factory, a few kilometers away from the city, Eddie's soul suddenly materialized.

"Hah.. Hah.. Hah.." He was very tired, as his soul was flickering a little bit. It looks like it would be dissipating as he was floating there by himself.

"That wretch! I'll get you.. Just you wait!" He vented his anger as he shouted from the top of his lungs. As he calmed down he heard a few people's voices talking near him. He followed the voices and saw three guys talking merrily surrounding a metal drum with fire inside lighting up the whole area.

"That guy was loaded man! Just look at this watch. And that full wallet.. Whew~"

"What a haul man! Thanks for showing us that mark dude."

"No problem! It serves him right, that guy was cheap. He even had me kicked away by his bodyguard."

"Hahaha! We're eating our fill tonight!"

Eddie's eyes lit up as he looked at those three then he suddenly licked his lips. "Get ready you wretch! Wait for the time when it is me that's hunting you."

***

On his way back to his apartment, Jon noticed that something has changed in his perception. He could see every person he come across has their body covered in a fiery like aura. This auras were different from each person. There were some that was almost six to seven inches big while others only had two to three inches. But most people he had encountered had five inches in average. It was a little bit disturbing to see for the first time, but he realized this must be the "spiritual energy" that seethes from the seeds that Ana must be talking about. So it was a little bit easier to get over it after a while.

One of the changes he observed was, currently, his body hasn't emitted any so called aura. He even tried looking at himself in a mirror, but there was nothing he could see. Not even a little bit.

Another thing that he noticed was that his body feels really light. When he tried jumping earlier, he was able to jump up to three feet high without any effort at all. He felt that if he used all his might to jump, he could reach seven or eight feet.

When he got home, he was in no mood to eat anything as he was thinking about the sudden changes to his body. Will this affect his everyday life? Would this be a good thing or would be another cause for a headache. 

It was already late into the night when he withdrew from his musings and got to look at the time. He decided that he would try to adapt to this changes in his body starting tomorrow morning so as it would be less of an inconvenience to him and maybe, it could help with his daily life. 

As he went to sleep, spiritual energies all around could be seen going inside his body throughout every pore. If you can see the energies in his body, something is different with his spiritual seed. It was different from the light blue color before, now it was on the darker shade of the blue and no more spiritual energies could be seen being released by it, different than what a normal seed does. What's more was it was rotating clockwise! As it was rotating, the energies coming in from outside his body was converging around his spiritual seed while following it's rotation, forming a little light blue vortex around the seed. And as the vortex was slowly spinning, the energy was being refined into a more purer and condensed white energy and was being released and absorbed by the rotating seed.

With his spiritual seed being fed more energies, it was slowly getting darker as its light pulsed like a heartbeat. And on the inside of the seed itself, a shadow could be seen moving inside it.

As all of these were happening, Jon himself felt like he was in a dream and he was seeing everything that was happening inside his body. He was very curious on what was that shadow that he saw inside the seed. He felt his vision getting closer and closer to the seed the same time he thought of wanting to get a better look. A thought suddenly struck him and he willed the seed to stop spinning, and it actually did! He was shocked as this dream felt very real and at the same time he could control everything here. He let the seed spin again as he thought of what if he willed it to spin faster. He was a little curious as to what would happen and decided to try it out. After a few moments of hesitation, he willed it to spin faster and the seed suddenly spun rapidly. At the same time that the it spun rapidly, the vortex around it followed its speed. With the vortex's speed growing, the energies being absorbed from the outside also sped up. But with the faster speed of energies going inside him, all his pores were unable to cope up and he instantly felt like thousands upon thousands of needles pricked his whole body. 

As the firs rays of the sun started to shine inside his room, Jon was suddenly jolted awake. His eyes glinted with a bluish color.