The Adventures of Frost Winter

Planet Earth, March 31st. And a human by the name of Josh frost is waking up from a slumber. He has recently just graduated from university in Animation and illustration, with flying colours. He is 22 years old, Has white spiked hair, and light blue eyes. He went to college for 3 years doing 2 course, Interactive media and Art & design. He then spent the next 3 years at university. He is not what you call a sociable person, he only comes out once you get to know him. Don't get him wrong, he does try to talk, but what with being bullied at school and so on, he doesn't feel comfortable around new people.

Once Josh got up from bed he started heading towards the bathroom, to take a shower and brush his teeth, just like everyday. Once he finished he went down stairs to the kitchen. He lives in his parents house, who left it to him in their will. The house in the countryside, Josh had moved there after he finished university, its a nice house, but the bills were a bit much. Josh decided to make pancakes for breakfast, not the most healthy thing in the world, but who doesn't like pancakes?
After preparing and pouring the mixture into the pan, it gave off a satisfying sizzling. It didn't take long for them to be ready. Drowning his pancakes in syrup and placing a few blueberries on top, he digs in. Letting out a few hmm's and a burp that would make even a professional proud. After putting his dishes into the sink, Josh went out the door and headed for work. I won't bore you with the details, but his work is boring and lets just say requires a lot of energy, especially with the heavy lifting. After a days work, josh slowly walked to his car". Dropping into the car lazily, Josh turned on the ignition and headed home.

It takes Josh a good hour and 15 minutes to get home, “thank god it’s friday tomorrow.” Josh muttered under his breath when he got home. when Josh looked at the clock near the door it read 8:42pm. Walking over to the couch like any lazily teenager would, he jumped on the couch letting out a moan in pleasure to be finally off his feet and be able to rest. Taking his shoes off with his feet and flinging them to the floor and untying his tie and dropping it to the same destination as the shoes before, he picked up the remote for the TV and watched some documentaries about wildlife. For some reason as he got older the documentaries just got more interesting and enjoyable to watch, not so much the killing of things as the seeing new creatures and so on and learning about them. He looked at the clock again to see it was 11:21pm so he decided to turn off the TV and go to bed for a long day of work tomorrow, once he got to the door to his room he went in observing the clock on his bed side table still saying 11:21pm he laid down with a sigh

Josh looked to his clock as it changed to 11:57pm and he was lying in bed, wide awake. And he had no clue why, he was in a comfortable position in the bed, he wasn't thinking of anything in particular, and it was neither too hot or cold. (Between you and me that happens to me a lot) Sighing in defeat, he got up and headed to the kitchen to the big cupboard in the corner of the room. Grabbing a box with the items he is looking for, he removed the bottle of tablets grabbing a glass of water and dropping two of them into the drink. They slowly begin to dissolve into the drink, he has always had problems with swallowing pills for some reason. But luckily they came up with tablets that dissolve into liquids and are just as good if not better than the pill being swallowed. Stirring the drink with a small T-Spoon to make sure it was ready to drink, he gulps it down in one go. Placing the cup for wash the next morning in the sink, as he headed back to bed he started feeling the effects, it only takes around 10 minutes for him to drift off to dream land.

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

Slamming a hand on the annoying alarm clock and grumbling inwardly to himself. Josh did the same thing he does everyday and got ready for work. Little did he know it wasnt going to be a normal day, by anyone stretch of the imagination. Josh was currently driving to work in his car a Golf GTI, not one of the very old and new ones, it was around 5 years old, but its josh's pride and joy. Its painted white, and had two blue racing stripes going over the car directly in the middle. Anyway back to the story.
it was raining harder than it usually did, even with the window wipers/windshield wipers going at a crazy speed, its hard to even see 10 yards ahead. The sound of the raining hitting the car would drive someone crazy, but luckily he had his music on (Song). Josh was looking forward and he saw some headlights in the distance, thinking nothing of it, he looks to the stereo and turn the music up. When looking back up the lights were right in front of him.

"OHH SHIT!!!!" he shouted, he tried to turn the steering wheel to avoid the head on collision, but to no avail, the tires were too wet to grip the street, so he braced himself for impact.

Josh slowly opened his eyes, to see..... Nothing, it was just him and the darkness. “Did i die?” he thought to himself as he looked around for 3 minutes.

"NO! I couldn't of died! this can't be happening!" Josh continued like this for 30 minutes until he had calmed down. It was only then that he noticed a presence behind him, he turned to face the new presence. He couldn't tell with the cloak they were wearing with a hood over there head. It was black in colour and they were holding some sort of weapon in their hand. Standing and staring at the figure, it took awhile to realise who it is. "IT CAN"T BE! DEATH!?" the figure noded, this didn’t help at all, and josh once again started to panic, but he couldn't move from the spot he was standing, as if there was some sort of force keeping him there, maybe a force field of some kind. While josh was panicking death just stood there and waited, saying nothing, giving off no emotion at all, that just made him even more frightening. After Josh had calmed down again, death finally broke the silence.

"It's time young one" he voice sounded like morgan freeman but just a little deeper. Josh couldn’t take it anymore, he let tears flow down his face, "But I’m not ready to die yet." Death just stood there giving off no emotion, if it weren't for the sight of his eyes, you would never know he was there. But suddenly he gives off an unerring laugh.

"I'm not here for that, I'm just here to wait for you to pass on to the next stage."

"Wait what, so your not here to take me to the underworld or something?" Death only shook his / her head. "So whats this next stage?" Josh asked

"You have been given a pardon, by a higher up, but you can’t go back to the life you had before, so a new one is in order"

Josh just sat there looking down into what he thought was nothingness. But he could see something coming towards them at a very fast speed, it got bigger and bigger. He realised it was earth, and he was ‘falling’ for lack of a better word, to a certain spot on it. The car crash he had.

"This is for closure young one, so you know this isn't a dream." Josh looked at his car, it was in pieces and overall looked totalled, but he noticed some new colour on the damaged bonnet, Its a darkish red. He got closer and wiped his finger on it, it wasn’t dry completely, so it was recent. Josh then make the mistake to look in the car, he saw himself, with cuts and blood pouring out. He recoiled in shock, falling backwards to the floor. "No, i don't believe this" he muttered over and over again. He then fealt a hand on his shoulder, and looked up to see death.

"I'm sorry for your loss" Death then pulled the hood off to reveal a woman with a few scars he and there, she had black hair, and whiter skin than he had, only just though. It's the eyes though, they were black and red, the eyes are the thing he was most likely to remember. If she was a normal person they would be considered pretty, but there was just something about them, it was then he could see something in them. "D-Death what’s that in your eyes? He asked shakily.

"Don't be afraid, but its all the soul's i have had to meet and take to the next stage. They keep their bodies and are still themselves, but its their soul they leave behind."

Josh didn’t know how to process this, so he just moved on. "You know i was expecting you to be ......." He didn’t get to finish the sentence when she interrupted him.

"Cold and scary?" death finished for him, josh nodded. Death then surprisingly sighed, "Well you're not the first, believe it or not, i wasn't always death, and just because I'm death, people think I'm bad. Well, i'm not, but someone has to do this job. But it's not like i was good in life, so its kind of my fault in the first place. Thankfully my shift is almost up, I've only got a few hundred years to go, then someone else will take my place. And before you ask, the only way you become death, is if your bad or you have the soul to do this kind of thing, but take a wild guess which it is for me."

"I'm sorry to hear that, i truly am." Josh said

"Its okay.” she said “Everyone that is bad, gets the option of either go to hell of some kind, depending on your religion, if you have one, or do 20 thousand years service. And then you have to prove your not bad anymore or you start at the beginning."

"So religions are true then?" I asked.

"Yes and no.” she explained “There is no god, like your religions betray, yes he may have kick started the process, but he left the universe to its own devices. And this may be confusing but he is from this universe as well, so he didn't kick start it, he would be alive to do it in the first place. Anyway heaven and hell or whatever you want to call them, are similar in ways to what your religions think, but not 100%. Hell isn't like you're burning for ever, it just you by yourself in darkness, until you are ready to change your ways for the better. And heaven or whatever is whatever you want, within the rules that is. And you are not judged on what religion you follow if any, it just depends on your actions in life. Anyway it looks like you are ready for the next step, i hope i see you again, but for a better reason, goodbye Josh Frost. Oh and one more thing, you won't remember this directly, it will just be their in the back of your mind and inaccessible."

Josh slowly fell asleep as the words of death faded out into nothing.