Conductor of Manhattan
Many years since that night
Gazed I on that braz'n be
Mem'ries of still incite
Fears of my slavery
Existence of him makes me ill
The angel of death at his kill
Week three of the same thing, I was starting to wonder if it were possible for ghosts to go insane. The mission came around again.
Location: Times Square
Mission: Arrive
Time limit: 60 minutes
Fail and face Erasure
-The Reapers
The timer appeared on my hand. I headed for Rockefeller to find a partner. I looked all over for a Player's Pin, but no one was wearing one besides me. Then I got the next text from the Reapers
P.S. Only one Player this week
I finished reading this text and the Noise attacked. Ulrika and Shane showed up to watch me be Erased, mocking my helplessness. The next second I heard Grey say three words.
"I'm diggin' it!" a shadowy figure took out all the Noise one by one then Grey stood above me, facing Shane and Ulrika in a dangerously defensive stance. "What'chu thinkin', yo!?"
"This is our business Fresh-meat stay outta this, aight?" Shane said.
"Ironhide may be good at prediction, yo, but she forgot the biggest rule in the book! In order to have a Game there's gotta be at least Two Players! Why else do ya' think I'd be here!?" Ulrika and Shane looked shocked. Grey turned around and faced me. "Yo! Beats you an' me gonna forge a Pact! I got Clearance from boss so it's aight by him!"
I kept thinking "Why would Frank Clear this?" I mean Grey racked up over 9000 points (in his own way) last week! Why give up someone so valuable? Not that I was complaining.
"I accept!" We grabbed hands and Grey lost his wings. My hand was imprinted with a skull belt chain, like the one on Grey's belt. Grey said we had to get outta there before we got Erased. We reached Grand Central Station and thought we were safe. We were right.
"Dude, your wings are gone," I pointed out.
"Huh… So they are," He said.
"Can I ask you one more time? Why did you join the Reapers?"
"Well… It started when Ash got erased. I was heartbroke, yo! I mean, I already lost my sister once… Why'd I have to see it again!?"
"Sister…?"
"Yeah. Didn't'chu see the resemblance?" I mull it over.
"Now that you mention it… I did. Anyway you were saying?"
"Right… Dracula collected her soul and put it in a pin, right? Well bein' an Acrobat Type Player, I couldn't use it. Dracula said that I could best help you by joining the Reapers. I wasn't interested until he said I could use Ash's Pin if I joined. So I signed up. Guess I won't be usin' her anymore now though, yo."
"Dude that was… I don't know how to describe that, but now we have to get to Times Square!"
The timer showed we had 30 minutes left. We raced there, Me on my feet and Grey on his boared taking out all the noise we ran into on our way. You have Seven Days.