I try to comfort myself in the darkness of my room, but I cant. what I assume is my heart is racing and beating rapidly,so fast it hurts. I curl myself into a ball and come to a realization; I am in a house full of strangers. Who ARE these people? My breathing starts to shorten as I start to think...I dont know nothing about Death but she is our mother now. Speaking of family, do I have one? Do they miss me? Am I really dead?? How did I die?? This darkness is becoming less of a comforting feeling and more consuming and suffocating. I curl into a ball and I try not to let my inner thoughts yell at me, but it doesnt work.

    Before I know it, Cyrus is knocking on my door, "Hey, Its time to wake up! Death messaged our phone telling us to meet her outside in one hour. You forgot your phone downstairs on the table." He says. But i cant help to think; Who are you?Why are you so calm? Are you not scared? The idea that I am dead has now just sunk in deeply. Now I feel as if everything around me is fake. Nevertheless, I get up, brush my teeth with the Toothbrush that is in the bathroom on my floor and I go back to my room. My hair. In my face so much. I start to get dress with the clothes in my suitcase and all the clothes are dark colors. Mostly black. I put on a big black shirt and tight black jeans with rips in the knees. Jeez my hair. I gotta fix this. I go downstairs and I knock on Estia's door.

Estia opens the door and says "Hey, you need anything?" Her voice is welcoming but I don't know if I can trust it. I'm still on edge from last night.

"Hey can you help me with my hair please??" I ask her.

"Sure," she opens her door more to let me in, "sit on my bed and face the wall." She smiles at me. I look her in the eyes and the color is a mix between a light and dark green. Anyway I do as I'm told and after about five seconds, Estia comes and starts to pin up my hair while she hums to herself.

"Hey, Estia? How long have you guys been here?" I ask.

"About a week. We were actually all separated then we were brought to this house about 20 mins before you arrived. I asked everyone when they got to the Underworld and we all said a week ago. We were all just waiting for you, dude. Wonder why you took so long." She said as she finished my hair. " And done! Heh heh heh." She hands me a mirror and my hairstyle is just like hers, a high ponytail with some hair acting as messy bangs and coming down to my eyebrows. I can feel the cold gold clips touch my forehead.

"Thanks." I say. It actually looks really nice.

"Any time. Now come on, I think Death is outside waiting for us." She says as she puts her hand on my shoulder, gets off her bed, and walks out her room. I follow her , grab my phone off the table and go to meet everyone outside. And sure enough, Death is standing up against her car with a rather um... revealing and tight dress on.

"Come on kiddos! We got places to be!" She walks to the drivers side and opens the door. Her tone drops again just like yesterday. "And people to see." She gets in. Woah. I thought this was "training". Now we are seeing people? What are we even training for? We all get in the car with me and the girls in the back, and Cyrus in the front since he is like 6'3".

   Dhalia nudges my arm. "Hey buddyyyy. Like your new hairstyle." She says with a smile on her face.

   "Hey. Are you not even like scared of all this?" I ask.

  "Oh I definitely, definitely am. But there isn't much we can do about it. We were chosen." She says. Death starts up the car and just like last time, I blink and I am now in front of a building that I don't even know. We all get out the car and enter the five story building. The inside seems to be tiled with metal and the inside is structured like a hotel, with a certain amount of rooms on each floor.

   Death walks in front of us and yells in a very commanding voice, "ATTENTION!! LINE!" Her voice echoes through all of the floors and in a matter of seconds, children start to pour out of their rooms and onto the open area in front of Death. After they all line up in several rows, I look at their faces and they all range from seven to twelve years old. Some are even crying. What is going on?! A sense of panic starts in what feels like my heart.

    Death begins to speak " As of Today, all of the Reapers have been united. Therefore, you will be assigned to a specific Reaper to act as your leader in the next coming weeks so look forward to that. For now though, you all are dismissed. Either go back to your rooms or go eat. Do what you need to. Bye, My lovelies!" The kids start to spread out and go to there respective rooms and soon, us four are alone with Death again. "Please, all of you. Put your dominant hand up."

    We do as we are told, with me putting up my left hand. "Repeat after me," She starts her sentence, " Titus Reborn." We repeat after her and as soon as our sentence ends, I feel a burning on my wrist. I look down at it and a tattoo of a chain is being burned into my skin. The chain connects and a fourteen foot black and purple scythe appears in my hand. What is going on at this point? I look over and everyone is as shocked as me, holding weapons. Dhalia has two broadswords, one white and one black with golden kanji engraved into it. Estia has a black bow but with no arrows. Cyrus has two huge gauntlets on his fists.

"Congrats all of you! You have been awakened. This is where it get fun!" Death is beyond ecstatic. She can't help but show how happy she is.

"Um," I raise my hand, "how do I put it away??"

   "Well it is apart of you now so think of it being gone and it will. Think of it in your hand and it will be there." She says with a smile from ear to ear. I think of it being gone the weapon began to vanish in-front of my eyes and rematerialized on my wrist as the same chain tattoo I know have. "Yep just like that!" Death walks up to each of us and gives us a very heavy cloak with short sleeves. The cloak was black and long, doin to my calf, lined with purple and green buttons. I put it on and...I feel like I'm going to war. Wait, am I? That would explain kids being assigned to us. Like our own person armies. I check my phone and it's seven pm. Why does time speed up so fast???

"Let's go home, okay? I needed you guys to at least see the kids and who you will be leading." Death leads us out the door and into her car. But I get a good glimpse of the area surrounding the building and it isn't in the city. Matter of fact, it is very very far away. We flash back home and we get out of the car. We all stand in front of our house and Death faces is with the softest smile on her face.

"This will become easier as time goes on. Trust me. For now, just bare with me. I know this is hard to get used to but it will okay." She's so...positive. And nice and pleasing and easy to talk to. "I had someone add a house phone in your rooms and one in the living room. Think of it as free room service. Call saying what you need and people will bring it to you, even a cab service. But get some rest guys." She opens her car door,blows us a kiss, and gets in her car and drives off. We head inside and Cyrus looks uneasy.

"So are we just not gonna talk about what just happened and why kids are being held in a suspicious building?" He says.

"Let's not talk about it in the open. I don't trust anything since people were in here when we were gone. Let's make a group chat on our phone." Estia takes charge and we all start trading numbers. Dhalia and I say goodnight and go up to our floor.

"Weird day. Anyway, try to get some sleep buddy." She puts her hand on my shoulder and looks at me with a look of a mix of confusion and positivity.

"Yea, same to you. Night." I go in my room and I change into regular clothes. I slowly start to think to myself of today and it dawns on me what actually just happened. Death is planning something.