I first met Death when he came for my hamster. I knelt before Mr. Hipster’s cage, the wet tears running down my face dripped onto the floor in splatters that horrifyingly resembled blood on the redwood tiling.
Suddenly I heard a crash coming from the front door. Reluctantly I wiped my tears on my hoodies sleeve and turned around. A dark figure clouded in mist came flowing through the door. The figure resembled a man wearing a dark cloak, but he had no face. Where his face should have been was just a mask of darkness. The figure drifted closer to me its shape shifting, and churning like a rain cloud.
“Who are you? What are you?” I stuttered, my tears now dry and sticky on my cheeks as I watched this strange thing come closer and closer.
The figure didn’t say a thing. He reached me and thrust a shadowy hand towards me. I flinched, but the shadow wasn’t reaching for me, it was reaching towards my dead hamster.
I watched, now interested, as the shadowy hand passed right through the cage and it wrapped around my hamster. Mr. Hipster slowly got covered in mist, like a disease, and soon he had completely disappeared.
“You-You’re Death, aren’t you?” I asked. I may have only been eight years old at the time, but I knew what I saw, and I wasn’t stupid. People all over my town was saying that they had met Death for one reason or another. I was now just another witness.
“Yes, child,” Death said, his voice was dark, and croaky like he hadn’t talked in thousands of years. “I am Death and I have come for your hamster. I can tell you now, that this will not be the last time you see me. But I must go. My job is a hard one, and hundreds of people and animals are dying right at this moment.”
“O-Okay,” I stuttered more. I didn’t understand why, or how I would meet Death again, but I didn’t ask. “Bye, Death.”
Death nodded his head and disappeared in a dark explosion. I just watched where he disappeared in utter disbelief. Death? Sure, I had heard the rumors, but my little mind still couldn’t quite grasp what I had witnessed. Soon Death faded from mind, and soon the memory vanished completely until one night almost nine years later, on my 17th birthday...
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