Chp 1: awake
Once upon a time I think I walked among the living with the humans but I have no memories to prove it. I woke up in a strange building with a human-ish shape to my body but nobody could see or hear me. The building was crumbling with burnt corpses all over the place, I floated in the air as the people who were massacred had their spirits lifted into a circle of light. Over the course of a few years I gained new abilities and my form changed but my emotions slowly dulled. When I first appeared I cried every day but now I can watch people move on after death without a single tear to shed. My figure represented somewhat of an enormous ghostly fox, my eyes had a golden circle surrounded in a pitch black color.
Today marked my soul birthday, I have been in this state for longer than I can remember. I have seen civilizations build and crumble, The world I am in today has so much technology compared to everything I have seen before, the people seemed to come up with a non spoken rule about what they should talk and what not to. I guess that’s how they’ve managed to stop arguments before they had a chance to start.
Today I decided to wander around a school, I think the name was “private school” and all the young adults attending wore the exact same uniforms. Today was their first day of the school year, everyone including the teachers were gathered in a large auditorium. One of the teachers standing on the side of the stage caught my eye, I wandered over to her. She had a strange presence that felt like my own, I floated right in front of her face to sniff her. The strange thing was her eyes met mine, I knew some humans had spiritual powers but this lady was the real deal.
I wanted to have some fun with her, the man in charge of the school walked up to the podium and started introducing the faculty. I floated up to his back before looking to see her reaction, she had a little sweat coming off her chin. I poked at the man and she ever so slightly shook her head trying to stop me, I morphed my shape to match the man’s. I guess she knew I was going to posses him because she rushed up to his side whispering into his ear. The man told the vice principal to take over while he stepped out, I followed them to the hallway in the back of the room. She was talking to him like she was good friends with him “I’m sorry about that but you were in danger for a moment” the man believed every word she said too.
I watched as he patted her on the head and went back to the stage to tell his assistant to finish up for him. I went back to my natural form and watched the stage from a empty seat in the audience. The woman had he eyes on me the whole time but I didn’t notice because my eyes and ears were locked on each of the speakers. The last teacher came up and introduced a special student, she spoke to everyone with a dignified aura “Hello, my name is sophia and I will be taking place as the student council president so please be sure to behave. If anyone is interested in joining the student council please fill out a flyer” she went on to explain the student council did with a smile. Everything I heard today gave me a ping in my chest, a feeling I haven’t felt in forever. Tears fell from my eyes as all the students left the room to attend their classes, my form changed as I cried. My paws changed into hands as I rubbed my eyes, my face changed into a 17 year old boy complexion. I screamed so loud the building started to shake, I was filled with loneliness and depression while I cried out. The speakers in the building announced an earthquake was taking place, crowds of people were flooding into the room using their hands to cover their heads. The woman from before bolted into the room and rushed over to me, she tried talking to me and ignoring the strange looks from everyone else. I couldn’t hear her over my wailing no matter how loud she was. For some reason the building stopped shaking even though I was still crying, for the first time since I was born as a soul I felt someone’s hand on my shoulder. My hands moved away from my eyes to see the woman and two men standing in front of me. Each of the adults had a stone with a string attached around their wrists, the woman was about to start talking when I freaked out and ran out of the room screaming. By the time I reached the door I could easily float through the glass. A few stragglers stared at me as I flew down the hallway, I wasn’t completely back to normal so I couldn’t just vanished through the walls.
I jumped into the closest bathroom and started hyperventilating, there was a someone in the next stall over. His phone was blaring the news reports “High speed winds have taken over the city, do not step outside. Stay indoors until further news is announced about this weather phenomenon” the boy was silent as a mouse as the wind howled. My tears started up again and thunder struck right outside the building, my mental state went from funny to depressed to freaking the fuck out. The guy from the next stall busted my stall door off it’s hinges shouting “Hey kid if you’re that freaked out go find a teacher! Don’t hide in the bathroom like a-”his eyes darted around the stall trying to find me. I guess I went invisible again, my breathing calmed as he stepped into the stall “I guess we’ve got a ghost kid around here this year, if the wimpy ghost can hear me… STOP YOUR BELLY ACHING BEFORE YOU DESTROY THE FUCK’N CITY” my tears stopped falling as his rage struck my ears. This guy spoke to me even though he couldn’t see me, I stood up in front of him hoping he could hear me “Thank you, I am better now” the guy scratched his head a mumbled a few words before going back to the other stall. I was back to normal when I got to the hall. I trotted down the hall as a large ghost fox, my tail bobbed as I went back to the auditorium. The three adults were around the room comforting their students like a normal teacher would, I floated behind one of the men and snatched his magic stones he hid in his pocket. The man glanced at me with a smile as I dashed away from him into the hall. I set the stone down and pawed at it, it wouldn’t activate or glow until I pressed my whole paw onto it. The stone melted into my paw, My body started changing into a human shape. I was on my hands and feet with long black hair dangling on the sides of my face after my vision came back to me. I was wearing one of the uniforms this school gave to the students, the small deep blue stone was stuck in the palm of my hand. I rushed to the bathroom I was in before to look in the mirror, my face was really pale and my eyes were a beautiful sunset orange. I was tall and thin but I also had a bit of muscle, I slapped my face making sure I could feel physical touch. My hair was a deep blue like the ocean, the guy from before was listening to music in the stall. When I slapped my face the music stopped and a grunt echoed through the room. I watched in horror as his door opened, the guy stepped out and looked me up and down. His hair was spiky like a anime character with the tips of his black hair neon green, he had black piercings on his ears and lip. My eyes wandered his body until he growled at me “You a foriegn exchange or somethin?” I knew that voice was the one who spoke to me as a ghost. My face went from horror to joyful in moments, it hit me in that moment I haven’t spoken to anyone for a long time. I did my best to communicate properly “No, I don’t go here. You said to stop my belly aching before I destroy the city so I did” the guy stood with one hand on his hip and the other smacking his face. He jumped when the bathroom door slammed open, the man I stole the stone from walked in “Ah I see you have met this school’s worst delinquent. Excuse me Nicholas, I have to take this problem child with me” the man grabbed my arm with a rough grip. It felt like his hand was burning my skin through the clothes, I screamed in pain and the mirror cracked. The man let go of me and I dropped to the floor, I could feel my fox ears flat against my head and my tail stuck straight into the air. The delinquent backed up into the stall with the door open so he could watch shit go down. The man trying to take me away pulled out a bible while making hand signs. I stood up and laughed at him “Oh my god, you think I am a demon?! That’s too funny!” I bent over holding my stomach “Dude I am just a wandering soul! Do you actually think a book can protect you from a wanderer?!” my tail was wagging as I walked up to him. He took a step back with every step I took, stopped moving once he was against the door. I took on a serious face to let him in on the truth “Okay, so yeah there is a god you can bet on that. I am a soul, not a demon nor an angel,I have wandered this earth alone for a long time watching history unfold” I grabbed the man’s bible to see which version he had. I placed it in the air but when I let go it floated in front of us “the god in this bible is pretty cool but if you want to get on his good side..” I paused to spin the bible around the air with my finger “you should probably get a better version of the bible” I waved his bible back to him and he grabbed it before rushing out the door. I sighed as my nails went back to normal and my tail stopped wagging but didnt go away, I poked at my tail and It turned invisible. When I tried it on my fuzzy light blue fox ears they wouldn’t go away. I dashed to the broken mirror pushing and pulling on them but no matter what they wouldn’t leave. I caught sight of the guy in the stall, he had his phone pulled out recording me the whole time. My ears fell back as I attempted to snatch his phone, everytime I reached for it he would pull away right before I could grab it. He started laughing the more frustrated I got “Dude, just stop trying. I am not gonna post it! It’s not like anyone would believe me anyway” he stood up and held the phone way above my head. I jumped trying to grab it but he was too tall “You probably think this is all some kind of joke! I can’t let you keep that!” my tail poofed out again when I fell to the ground. He stuffed his phone away before grabbing my ears “Woah, they’re real! Oh my gosh, they are so soft and fluffy!” he practically tackled me trying to grab my tail. I tried crawling away but he tugged me by the tail sending a striking pain up my spine “Hey! It isn’t some toy! It hurts when you pull it!” his head was buried in my tail so he couldn’t hear a word. I smashed my fist into the back of his head and he let go with a big smile. I rushed out of the bathroom but he followed my every step, my hair was waving behind me as I ran down the halls trying to get away. I saw the woman from before at the end of the hall bracing for impact, I side stepped a few feet away from her and the delinquent slammed into her. I stood tall with a victory stance as they scrambled to their feet, a few students were watching from a distance. The woman told him to stay put and then made her way over to me “You are a little punk you know that?!” she grabbed one of my ears along with the other guys and dragged us into an empty classroom. She shouted at us like a mad mother “You scared the shit out of Mr.Corder and he had to leave for the day! Not to mention this boy saw the whole thing! What do you have to say about this?!” the other guy was holding my tail as I spoke “I want to say you are the one who caused me to become physical and that man tried to banish me like some kind of demon. Not only that the guy hurt me when he tried to drag me out of there” my face was blank without any emotion.
