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Spencer walked down from his apartment and out onto the street. It was a clear day out; the city was moving as always. People everywhere and everything looked peaceful. At first Spencer was confused as to why was his first assignment as a grim reaper's apprentice is to take a walk?
As Spencer walked passed a playground he saw children playing on the monkey bars. It was then he noticed something really, really weird. The children has glowing yellow aura surrounding their bodies. Children were glowing! Spencer was in shock but then again standing gawking at children would make the people at the playground suspicious and call the police so Spencer kept walking.
As Spencer walked passed a mother and her baby, he say that the mother had a blue aura and the baby also had a yellow aura.
Ok now this is getting weird.
As Spencer passed by a high school, he saw that most of the students had blue auras, except for several which were a grayish color. One of them was a boy walking out in a football uniform and the other is a boy that was staying as far from the others as possible. It was strange to see two very different looking people with the same aura. Spencer continued on and saw something even more perplexing.
A middle-aged woman and a man that was passing by her as she was sitting on a bench had pure white auras.
From what Spencer could see, people mostly had blue auras and children had many yellow.
Then he saw a man stumbling out of a bar, his aura was pitch black. It sent shivers down Spencer's spine when he saw it.
After another hour, Spencer was back home and plopped down on the couch. He shut his eyes for a second and saw Dave sitting across from him.
"How was your walk?"
"Really, really, weird. I saw all these…auras."
Dave laughed, "Yep that's the point. As the grim reaper, you have to be able to see the soul of the person in order to send it to the afterlife."
"So I saw seeing souls basically."
Dave nodded, "But I'm sure you noticed that they all had some…differences from each other correct?"
"Yes, the children had yellow souls."
"Yep, up until about thirteen or fourteen years of age, the soul of the person is not fully developed yet. So they are yellow. They then turn blue when they become teenagers."
"And blue means they are good souls."
"Correct Spencer. All souls start blue then can turn based on the person's deeds and sins in life."
"But I saw these teenagers with grayish souls…"
"I know, the jock looking one is Daniel Morris and the loner is Peter Edenton. The reason that they have gray souls is that they are "lost" souls so to speak. There not bad souls, just unsure and lost because of forces beyond their control."
"Their miserable huh?"
Dave nodded, "High school is the worst experience for many teenagers. It thrusts children into the adult world too quickly. More then what they and parents can handle."
Spencer knew that all too well, his high school years were less then pleasant.
"What about pure white souls?"
Dave looked up at him with wide eyes, "Oh souls like that are very rare. They are pure souls so they become angels when they die."
"Wow, so angels with the wings and halo do exist."
Dave nodded and smiled, "They work in mysterious ways. You never know when they are near."
"Can't we see them?"
"No they're the only beings that we are not able to see. Reapers have an ability called the "sight", which always us to see all otherworldly creatures that normal mortals can't see."
"The last soul I saw was pitch black. So he's a pretty bad soul."
"Oh yeah he's going to have a rough time if he doesn't try to change. But he has time; maybe he can turn around before then."
Spencer nodded and thought over about everything that Dave has told him. This reaper business is a lot more complicated then he thought it would be.
"Alright then, we still have a long day ahead of us. It's only one pm after all and we still have much to do."
"What's next?"
"We'll were going on another field trip again. Only this time were going to the Other world."
"You mean were souls go after they die, but I thought…."
"No not exactly. It's more like an office if you will. The place where all otherworldly beings live and keep the "business" running smoothly."
Spencer nodded and took Dave's hand. They disappeared in a flash of light and slowly crossed the border between the human world and the other world.
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Meanwhile-
"What's his name?"
"Spencer Reid."
"I see…he's Dave's apprentice?"
"Yep as of two weeks ago. He doesn't seem to be much of a threat and a bit naïve."
"Then it will be a lot easier to obtain what I need."
"What's that?"
"The job of the reaper is more than just reaping souls. They have the job of protecting a very important artifact. An artifact that could change time and space as we know it and bend it to my will."
"You mean…."
"Exactly…The book of the grim."
PLEASE REVIEW. What is the book of the grim? What awaits Spencer in the Other world? Who wants the book? Find out in the next chapters to come!