Death Won't Stop Me

Impossible!

Three months have passed since then. Eddie learned a lot through the long time he has spent with his host. He learned that he could not move away passed a five feet mark from the host's body. He was trapped. He also noticed that yes, he can still possess his host from time to time but it's very limited. The longest time he could hold on when he possesses his host was two hours. And after that he would have to wait for at least a whole day before he could possess him again. Another he learned is that he couldn't influence the host on anything unless he possess it. He was like a human sized parasite. What was a good news for him though, is that while his soul is constantly being devoured by it's orb, he was absorbing it's orb's seething essence too. Like a symbiotic relationship. But in his case, he felt his soul's energy getting stronger by the minute.

He felt like a parasite, unable to get away from the host but at the same time, still benefits from it. "Well, I guess it's not that bad now that I think about it. I get stronger by the day without effort and at the same time I can still make this thing's life a living hell. Haha." The "thing" Eddie was talking about was his host. During this few months of boredom with nothing else to do, he even resorted to caring about his host's name and story. His host's name was Jon. 

Jon was a newly graduate that majored in mangement. For the past three months, Eddie has been messing with Jon's chances with girls. He didn't that it wasn't a "condition" that suddenly manifested recently, but it was a soul messing with his life intentionally. During those three months, Eddie made him believe that his "condition" only happens when in front of gorgeous women. Little did he know that it was Eddie all along intentionally just picking his possessions when he was trying to talk to girls he likes.

What's more, Eddie learned that as his soul's energy gets stronger, he was able to manipulate the things around Jon, little by little. He learned of this power about two weeks of being trapped in his host. As he grows stronger, the things he could manipulate were increasing in size. He also used this to relieve his boredom by messing with Jon's head by imitating ghosts trying to communicate.

***

"Alright, I hope they'll have some opinions about this stupid condition of mine. I don't want to live alone all my life." A gentle sigh came from Jon's mouth as he thought to himself while getting ready to go to his appointment to a psychiatrist. 

As he was combing his hair inside his bathroom, the tap on the tub slowly squeaked open as water poured on to the tub.

Jon shuddered from head to toe from this sudden noise. His eyes could be seen quaking as it opened wide while his iris shrank to almost as small as beads. After a few moments of shock, he closed his eyes and breathed in and out a few times. When he opened them, the fear was gone from his eyes as he reached out to close the tap and left.

"Hah.." This has been a common occurrence to him now for the past two months. After a weird condition, he felt that the heavens wasn't done torturing him and gave him another headache. He became a magnet to ghosts! Can you believe it? Ghosts! At first he thought that the things moving around him were mere coincidences but as time moved on, the things moving escalated. He was freaked out at first, but by this time he was getting used to these "companions" that started to accompany him. But still, it'd be a lie to say that he wasn't scared anymore.

"What?! That's it? Come on! this is getting boring. Be more scared a little! It's a ghost! Scary big ghost! Woo~" Shouting like a kid that did not get his desired result from a prank, Eddie was a little disappointed on Jon's reaction to his "scare" tactics.

"Fine! I'll just mess you up on another girl meet up." Eddie pouted like a little kid.

"It's nine o'clock. My appointment's at around eleven thirty. I still have time for get some grub." Feeling a little good, Jon thought to himself as he tried to decide what he would like to eat before meeting with the psychiatrist.

***

"Okay. Let's review the plan. When he goes in, seal the space with the talisman then use my spiritual energy to knock out the host then use the gloves to separate the bastard from the body and seal the imp in the gourd. Quick, clean, efficient." A lady dressed wearing a white lab gown on top of a red silk blouse and black pencil skirt. She was wearing a round framed reading glasses with her hair tied in a bun with a gold chopstick hairpin with a roaring dragon for a head was used to hold the bun. If you could see the dragon's eyes very close it was shining like it had intelligence. She was looking at the mirror psyching herself up. "Hoo~ You can do this Ana. No experience doesn't mean sure failure."

Ana is currently posing as a psychiatrist for Jon, laying out a trap to retrieve Eddie's escaped soul and return to the spirit world and finish her botched job. This was her first mission in the mortal world and her current job was depending on the success of this mission. The higher ups were extremely upset that she was the cause of the blunder the spirit world hasn't had in more than a hundred years. It was extreme humiliation for the management. And Ana was decided to be the scapegoat, hence the current mission.

"It's almost eleven thirty. Five more minutes."

***

While waiting around the office, Ana was waiting anxiously for her target to arrive and spring her trap. She looked at the clock and saw that it was less than a minute left until the appointment and she felt her hands shaking.

*Tok, Tok, Tok*

Knocking sounds came from the door followed by a man's voice as the door to the office opened. "Um.. Hello. I'm Jon Riley. Your eleven thirty appointment."

"Come in." Ana replied.

"I hope she's not pretty, so I can talk to her without blacking out." Jon thought to himself as he was going in with eyes concentrated on the floor. But when he looked up, he was stunned. And at the same time, Eddie was also stunned. They were both stunned seeing the psychiatrist but it was for different reasons. Jon was mesmerized by Ana's looks while Eddie was dazed. Eddie shuddered as fear suddenly crept in his face.

"Crap!" Eddie shouted at the same time that Jon closed the door behind him. 

"Damn right!" Ana shouted as she activated the talisman that she had readied in her hand. The talisman shined bright and the area around the office turned to black and white aside from the two people inside.

"What the?" Jon was only able to react to what was happening after he was jolted from his reverie by the bright light that the talisman emitted. When he could see again everything inside the office was black and white aside from him and the "psychiatrist". Then he saw her move her other hand inside her coat pocket and removed a glove. It was all black with an orb like thing in the middle with clouds or smoke roaming inside it. He saw her put the glove on her right hand and he subconsciously stepped back from her.

Suddenly he felt the same sensation of his chest being squeezed but this time it was way stronger than the last time. Eddie decided to possess Jon in a panic and was planning to either fight his way through or run using the host's body as meat shield. He knew that even though he has become stronger than how he was three months ago, he was still no match with that woman in front of him.

As Ana wore the glove in her hand, she watched Eddie scramble to get inside Jon's body. She already knew what the pig was trying to do so she let out her energy to release her pressure on the host's body so as to stop the possession.

Jon saw wind seemingly blew towards him from the "psychiatrist" and he felt the squeezing pain lessen but at the same instant a tearing pain from his soul was suddenly felt. It felt like thousands of blades suddenly blasted out from inside him and his flesh teared away. "Ah..!" He felt like losing his mind from the pain.

"Oh no!" Ana realized that her way was too forceful and she was hurting the mortal, so she quickly recalled her pressure. At the same time she rush to get to the front of Jon and was almost face to face with him in almost an instant. She pushed her hand towards the chest of Jon as the orb on her globe released a gentle, blue light.

As the pain suddenly subsided, Jon opened his eyes and was shocked again that the "psychiatrist" was face to face to him and the hand with the glove on was almost touching his chest. He was horrified to see her hand actually went through his chest as he felt a gentle force warmed his body. When her hand passed through to the other side, he heard a guy scream. Jon himself fell down the floor forward as his knees gave out and was panting heavily trying to catch his breath.

"Argh!" Eddie was pushed out from his host's body. Not only pushed out, he was released from the five feet restriction from Jon. "You..!" He pointed at Ana as he was clutching his other hand at his chest. He felt a burning sensation in his chest.

"Yeah, Me!" Ana angrily replied. Her hands made a few seals as she controlled her energy to run through her hands. After the last seal, an inconspicuous looking gourd at her desk suddenly shined as it flew at high speed to Eddie. Startled of the flying gourd coming at him, Eddie reflexively swatted his right hand at it. Just as his hand almost touched the gourd, a very strong suction force erupted at the mouth of the gourd as it rapidly pulled Eddie inside without giving him any time to react. Ana reacted quickly and closed the gourd with a cork and then pasted a paper talisman to the top. Then the gourd slowly floated down as it's whole body emitted smoke like making it seem like it was very hot.

"Whew~" Ana breathed a sigh when the gourd reached the ground. She turned to look at Jon on his knees faced down, still trying to catch his breath. "Are you al-" She was cut off from asking Jon if he was alright as her head snapped back to the gourd. Her eyes were wide open as her irises shook heavily at what she saw. "Impossible!"