Eyes of Power

What I thought would happen when I die was I would forget about my previous life and end up living another one.

But I didn't expect to wake up in an unending red-purple and gold fog.

As soon as I realised I was still alive, I collapsed into a ball and cried my eyes out.

"Thi-this can't be happening. the demons. they killed so many people. I killed so many people. I killed my brother.OH GOD I KILLED MY BROTHER ! I KILLED HIM AND THE OTHER STUDENTS!"I threw my face into my hands then pulled it away and stared them. 'No blood ? was it all a horrible nightmare conjured by some malicious demon to have a quick giggle ?' I thought

I shook my head and smirked. 'No, this is real. no demon, no matter how powerful, can fake an experience like that.' I felt my eyes beginning to water but I shook my head again and wiped away the moisture. 'I mustn't wail over the dead.'

I stood back up and peered through the fog. 'Right now I should focus on where the hell I am and if possible, find a way out.'

After mustering back my resolve I delved into the fog, determined to find where I am.

I walked for what felt like days and the fog only seemed to get thicker. I tried to push the fog away but it was just to thick for my telekinesis to manipulate.

I began to think I was honestly dead but I felt my stomach churn and my a unrelenting assault of headaches do to the lack of food and water.

'Bugger All! if I don't find anything to eat or drink then my body is going to start eating itself.'

My searching through the fog became more frantic as I searched for anything edible, but no such luck.

I tried to compress the fog into a liquid but I got the same result as earlier.

I decided to check my CATTA but the buttons on the thing didn't move.

I raised my eyebrow at this. I then tried to check my phone but it wouldn't leave it slot.

My heart skipped a beat at this.

I opened my mouth and gingerly pressed the button on the empty implant but the hatch didn't open.

Realisation dawned on me and I face palmed.

"I'M IN THE FUCKING CLOAK!" As soon as those words left my mouth I felt my hunger and thirst disappear and felt a cold breath on my face.

"Well, it took you long enough to figure that out. but you did have your reasons." The fog surrounded me disappeared and revealed the golden clouds of the Cloak and right in front of me was a duplicate of me but made from the same red-purple mist I've been seeing quite a lot of.

"What are you? I know you're not a demon as they would never copy the form of a 'weakling'." I asked the copy in front of me.

"I am you or more specifically your imprint on the Cloak and even more specifically a Spirit of Death." The SoD answered my question.

"So I somehow created a Spirit that is attracted yo death." I held my chin. "Well it isn't far fetched that the demon infestation attracted enough energy from the Cloak to weaken the barrier. I have a vague idea but can you tell me exactly how you were born?"

"When those demons managed to possess someone and before you ask that later, your teacher got overconfident and tried to harvest the chemicals from a prime demonic which he failed horribly and he ran away but not before having been possessed by a pack of lesser demons. Anyway after the demons possessed him a small hole was between the barrier. afterwards you walked in on the demon and you sprinted off until you ran into a group people who then pressed the alarm and put the entire school on alert but it was too late as more demons come out of that hole. Then your group ran of but your brother got hit and then you went to save him but more lasers hit him and demons jumped on him and feasted on him." I winced as I remembered the horrible sight.

"You stood there in shock for a moment then something powerful inside you snapped as everything surrounding you were crushed or had their limbs teleported away. This caused violent shaking throughout the building on the hole in the barrier was ripped into a bigger one and started sucking the school in. It was at that moment where all the life force leaving their bodies came into contact with a strand of Cloak energy. Energised, the strand began to absorb the souls of the dead and the energy you were giving off. it was then the strand absorbed enough energy that it gained the ability to think. Intoxicated by the overflow of energy and my newly gained sentience, I gave you the push you needed to kill more of the demons and I became powerful enough to enter the physical realm as the mist you have been seeing and I gave you the boost to help you kill that major demonic in the sports hall."

I felt a bit of rage when I realised that his push ended up with me killing Keith but I realised that there was no way saving him anyway, the push only made his death quicker.

"You said you gave me a boost." Sod nodded. "How the fuck did you manage to get me to lift a 50ft demonic bird via grabbing it's blade wing mid-swing and pick it up via it's blade. the mist sword bit I can get, but what the fuck.

"Simple, I melded my energy with yours and this gave you a significant boost in strength, I really don't see how hard that is to understand."

"*sigh* Never mind then, just help me find away out of this mess before some demons notice us." Me and SoD began walking in a random direction.

That won't be easy.

"What do you mean?" I glanced at him

"Well you're kind of dead, well not fully but you are dead."

"Oh good, cause I've already thought I did so I'm not affected." I shrugged it off.

"I did say kind of so you can return to your bod-" I stopped and grabbed SoD by the shoulders.

"HOW DO I GET BACK!"

Errm well in order for a damned spirit stuck in the Cloak to get back to their body is to gather energy from a sufficiently powerful demon which means you have to murder a strong demon in order to repossess your body."

I let go of SoD. "Well that should be simple." I walked away and looked at the image of the new world I'm in. "Oh by the way, what should I call you?"

SoD held his misty chin. "After looking through the few memories intact memories i have gained from the souls I have absorbed I think you can call me Extirpate." Extirpate did a little bow.

"No."

"What why ?"

I laughed. "I know what it means and I'm not calling you that, despite meaning the destruction of something and it won't fit someone of your stature. How about a just call you SoD for Spirit of Death."

SoD frowned at me. "Oh sod off."

"HA you know what that means." I grin at his displeasure

You are not calling me that!" SoD crossed is arms and glared at me.

"Too late its already stuck." I snicker.

"Ugh lets just go and kill something." SoD looked away from me and walked off

So with my new buddy in tow, we went on a quest to find the biggest and most powerful demon we could find.

2 hours later

Normally I would be screaming at myself for looking for a demon willingly, but I like being alive, so I will kick the shit out off it no matter how powerful.

We walked for a few more hours, we weren't in much of a rush as My body isn't going to go anywhere if I my memories is right about where I landed, I can still feel the freezing water rushing around my body as it broke through the ice.

I thought crossed my mind for a second and I decided to ask SoD about it. "Why the hell are we looking a demon?"

SoD turned around and gave me a confused expression. "So you can kill one and return to your body. Didn't I already tell you that?"

I blinked. "Can't we attract a demon with a display of power?"

SoD and I looked at each other before slapping each other around face. "WE ARE FUCKING IDIOTS!" We both groaned.

"So we just wondered around like a blind cat for a few hours when I could have just flexed my mental muscles and have the demons come here." I moaned

"Well I'm at least comforted by the fact I can make mistakes." SoD then looked me in the eye. "If I give you a boost then a display would only attract a sufficiently powerful demon whilst also scaring off any weaker demons that would cause an annoyance."

I nodded and before I could react, SoD's form collapsed into a shapeless mist which then wrapped itself around me.

"Now just let out a strong burst of pure supernatural energy and that should get the attention of something." SoD rang through my mind.

Letting out the breath I didn't know I had, I focused on the energy flowing through my body and concentrated it into my hand.

I stared at the red-purple sparks shooting between my fingers before the similarly coloured mist seeped into my hand and combined with the sparks.

Staring at my now visibly shaking a hand, I clenched it into a fist before thrusting it into the air.

The energy exploded out of my fist and into a shockwave that pushed back the golden clouds that made up the Cloak and it also let out a rather ear popping noise.

I unclenched my hand and slowly brought it down as I stood their waiting.

Only a few seconds the whole area was shook by a booming voice.FINALLY, I SHALL FEAST ON A WORTHY FOE!" I giant golden hand shot out of the ground and I quickly teleported out of the way before I was cut to pieces by it's sharp claws.

Another hand shot out and I teleported out the way again, then another one shot out, then another one and another one and so on.

"I think we put too much power in it."

"YOU DON'T SAY!" I rolled out of the way of another claw before sprinting away as a swarm of giant hands came out of the ground behind me.

"HAHAHAHA I LIKE IT WHEN THE PREY RUNS!" I voice boomed before I was caught of guard by hand appearing in front of me and grabbing me and quickly threw me into the ground.

I went to get up but a massive golden head with hands for hair started to rise out of the ground and before long a humongous 1000ft demon stood in front of me.

"OH SHIT!"

I teleported as far away from that beast as supernaturally possible then grabbed my knees in exhaustion.

"WHAT THE FUCK!" I shouted

Well it seems we had the luck to draw out a prime demonic. That things really powerful, all we need is a single speck of it's blood and we are out of he- LOOK OUT!"

I shot up but I wasn't fast enough as i got grabbed by a hand and thrown inside the beasts mouth who easily caught up with me.

"HAHAHA I LOVE IT WHEN THEY TRY TO SQUIRM!" The beast giggled

"SOD WHAT DO I D- HURRRK." I was interrupted by one of the beasts teeth impaling me and then more teeth impaled me before a slid down the beast's throat.

The blood from my mouth started to splatter on my face and some demon saliva got rubbed in to as I slid down the demons throat.

"QUICKLY CHRIS, CUT IT OPEN, RIP IT APART FROM THE INSIDE!"Mist shot out of my right hand and formed a long sword.

Acting quickly, I shoved the sword into a pair of folds I was about to pass and cut a large laceration in it. This was met by a strong rush of air that dragged me back up, but not before thrusting the blade into the sides of it's throat and creating a hole in the demons neck and allowing me to teleport out.

Looking back at the demon, I can see it crouching down and clutching it's throat.

"HAHA YOU RIPPED ITS VOICE BOX, YOU CLEVER BASTARD, IT SHOULD BE IN AGONY RIGHT NOW!" SoD laughed. We've got the blood we need, but right here is I one time opportunity to get some of those Prime chemicals that everyone wants so much. SO QUICKLY GET IT!"

Not wasting time by responding, I teleported back onto the demon and began shredding bits of its skin then ripping a hole in its chest and started harvesting bits of it's bones and organs whilst inflicting as much pain as possible before teleporting as far away as I could and then legging it as fast as I could whilst the demon was too busy screaming in rage and agony.

"ALLRIGHT SOD, GET ME OUT OF HERE!" I began to run more frantically as the demons hands are popping out the ground again.

"TELL ME WHERE YOUR BODY LANDED SO I CAN FIND IT!"

"I THINK IT WA- OOOF!" I hand nearly grabbed me but thankfully it only clipped my side. "I LANDED SOMEWHERE IN A FROZEN LAKE, FAR NORTH OF WHERE THE SCHOOL LANDED! NOW HURRY!"

Looking behind me, I noticed the demon gaining on me so I turned towards it and teleported far behind it, confusing the beast and giving me time to run.

"AAAAAAAAAARGH COME BACK HERE AND DIE YOU LITTLE SHIT!" The demon screamed at me as it swung around to chase me.

"THERE! your body should begin to transport now." As soon as those words rang through my head, my body slowly began to dissolve into a mist like SoD did earlier.

I stopped running and faced the demon sprinting towards me.

"FUCK! YOU!" A gave it a double two fingers before my vision went dark.

Inside a frozen lake

'uuuuuughh its cold,'

I couldn't move and I was freezing. like I was frozen.

'Am I frozen?' I struggle a bit but none of muscles would budge.

'OH BOLLOCKS!'

Terrified I began putting as much effort as I can in an attempt to shake my body in order to crack the ice.

'DAMN IT I CAN'T BREATHE!' I started to panic as I began to suffocate from the lack of air.

'FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK!'

My attempts to crack the ice being fruitless, I began to draw on my telekinetic energy to rip the ice apart but it isn't easy to do when you can see a damn thing.

"Your doing it wrong Chris. You need to push the ice away from you." SoD informed me.

Listening to SoD, I focused my telekinetic energy towards my centre and already I began to feel the vibrations of the ice cracking, most likely the intense pressure caused by the energy.

With a guttural roar, I released the energy and smashed everything around me into pieces and pushing the water surrounding the ice away

For a second I felt cold air bite my skin and allowing me to quickly take some air in before the freezing water came rushing back which caused me to breath some of it in.

Acting without a thought, I swam as fast as I could to the surface and once I got through the cracked ice sheet, I jumped onto the sheet and began hacking the near frozen liquid out of my lungs.

"*cough* bloody *cough* hell." I continued to cough the liquid out.

After a few more minutes of coughing my brains out later, I noticed there was a lot of blood on the ice and some leaking from my lips.

I quickly looked over my self and noticed several cuts and lacerations along with burn marks. most wounds had what appeared to be a gel peeling of it.

I applied pressure on the gel to keep it down so it can heal the wounds then I placed my hands on the other wounds without the gel to prevent blood loss.

"Hahah*cough cough* didn't realise those demons actually managed to hit me earlier." I chuckled.

I began to stand up and endure the pain before reaching into my pockets and bring out a healing gel pack

I tore open the pack and began applying it on the wounds without the peeling away gel and then went over the other wound with any extra gel.

I looked at the remaining gel in the pack before drinking the rest so it can heal any internal wounds I may have.

I grimaced at the taste of the gel then noticed a certain flavour to it.

"Is this out of date?" I looked at the label and saw that the expired date was 1/3/2125

I then checked my CATTA (which is thankfully still working) and saw that todays date was 4/12/2135

I choked, not on the gel as the expired date only effects it's taste but more on the fact that the date is 15 years ahead of when I last checked it.

"I think the transference of your mind to your body took longer then what it actually felt to be. you most probably entered a coma or something similar due to the shock of your mind and body reconnecting. luckily I was with you or you would have suffocated and as soon as you woke up it woke me too and my subconscious forgot to supply you with air."

I took a sharp intake of air. "ffffffffffffffFFFFFFFFFFFFF BUGGER!" I ran up to a pile of snow and kicked it and sent bits of snow flying. "Well that's just FUCKING LOVELY!"

"Yup. Everyone you knew is probably adults now or six feet under." SoD chuckled.

I went to punch the ice but I felt an uncomfortable feeling in my stomach, some sharp pain and the rest of my body started to feel weak.

"*Cough Cough Cough* bloody hell I'm starving." I said before collapsing onto the ice.

"OH SHIT YOUR GOING TO DIE SOON!" SoD materialized in front of me and helped me of the ground. "WE NEED TO FIND YOU FOOD! QUICKLY!" SoD started dragging me in a random direction.

"Where are *Cough Cough* we going?" I struggled to keep up as I began to cough blood.

"I can feel life-force nearby. NOW QUICKLY WE MUST GET THERE!" SoD pulled me forward and dematerialized into a mist but instead of wrapping itself around me, it seeped into my skin and I felt a burst of energy.

"GO ! ITS STRAIGHT AHEAD OF YOU!" I nodded and sprinted forward, leaving a cloud of snow behind me.

4 hours of running later

"*Pant Pant Pant Pant*"

I've running for hours now and still no food in sight. Luckily SoD's miracle is keeping me going as I ran frantically towards the life-force.

"*Pant Pant Pant Pant*" I sucked in the cold dagger like air which fuelled my burning legs. It's times like this that I truly appreciate the millions of sweat pores my body has and my uniform and CATTA glove being able to breathe.

"STOP!" SoD's sudden shout surprised me and I tripped over and tumbled face first in a wooden post.

"SHII-MMmmph!" my exclamation of pain was stopped by SoD's misty hand as he rematerialized.

"Shhh, we're here." I looked up and saw that I face planted I tent that held a tent up and next to it was a carriage that had a sign that said "Hitched"

"Bit weird to have a honey moon out here but no use complaining because-" SoD reached into the back of the carriage and brought out a sack full of apples. [color=#9426af]"They got a shit ton of food"

Without a second thought, I dived into the apples and began devouring them like a swarm of locust.

"*Burp*" I gave a satisfied smile as I lied on a pile of apple corks.

"You done?" I nodded "Good, now we need to find meat as you don't have a lot of protein in your system." I got up and helped SoD searched through the bags but we found now meat, just apples and other fruits and vegetables.

SoD sighed before grabbing some of bags and dragging them of the carriage then slowly walking off.

I quickly walked up to him and grabbed his shoulder. "I'm going to check the tent, so watch my back."SoD looked uncertain before nodding and dropping the sacks on the ground.

As quiet as mice, we both snuck up to the tent and peaked through the hole. "AHHH YES AHHHH YES-" We quickly looked away with blushes on our faces.

"What about the carriage. There must be something in that carriage that would be worth our time."

We opened the door and hesitantly peeked in side, thankfully there was no frisky times happening so we opened the door and walked in.

Inside there was this white with pink furred female humanoid horse with wings on its back and a horn tucked in a styled purple hair with light blue highlights. she also had a tattoo of a blue heart and a pair of pink fluffy wings next to it. she was sleeping peacefully on a small but lavish bed

I walked up to her and stared at it whilst SoD kept his distance. "Must be some expensive pet that was given to the owners as a wedding present. Aaaaw it's adorable." SoD walked up to it and cooed about how cute it was.

But I saw something different in it as my stomach churned for something proper to eat. "Looks like we've found our meat."

SoD gave me a shocked looked as I said this but I didn't mind. I leaned down and grabbed her horn for extra grip so I can knock her out.

But as soon as I touched her horn she blushed before opening her eyes and staring at me.

Eyes widening with shock she gave out a high pitched scream as it continued to stare out me.

Panicking I began repeatedly bashing her heading until it was a pulpy mess. As I did this I felt a tingling feeling in my hand but it stopped as I snapped the horn off and repeatedly stabbed her in the throat.

"PRINCESS ARE YOU ALRIGH !?" I heard the tent rip open. SoD noticed this too and with impressive strength he picked up the bed and placed it on the door and just in time as we felt the carriage shake as someone ran into the door. "OPEN THIS DOOR AT ONCE AND LET THE PRINCESS GO!" We heard several bangs as people started ramming the door to opening.

"THROUGH THE WINDOW NOW!" I quickly picked up the body and tried to teleport but I got hit by a massive headache so SoD smashed the window open and jumped through and I followed along just as a blast tore apart the door.

I saw SoD run towards the sacks and pick them up so I ran towards him but I felt something hit my leg and cause the muscles to lock up.

By some miracle I managed to keep balance and I hopped towards SoD who had taken the body and the sacks and placed me in a telekinetic field before teleporting us away.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" I manage to hear someone scream before my vision was replaced by a bright flash as we were teleported away.