It was nighttime at Mercy. Everyone was sleeping. Crickets chirped and owl hooted. But there was something that would come out of this darkness. On the outskirts of Canada, close to where Mercy was, there was this house with an observatory.
In the observatory, we see a telescope pointing straight to the sky and inside of the place was all white. A person sat in his chair as he was looking at the stars. His name was Dr. Jekyll. He was a local scientist in Canada.
He wore a night gown and slippers and was a man of 50 years but he looked great for his age. As he looked into the stars, he grumbled to himself and then slouched back and rubbed his eyes.
"Maybe I should go to sleep… I'm not gonna find anything here."
He then started to make his way to the door. As he did he heard the dread sound of thumping. He turned and saw nothing. He then turned to the door but kept hearing the thumping.
"The hell is that?" He asked himself. He then walked over to his telescope and then almost fell over in pain as he grabbed his heart.
"GAHH!" He yelled as he fell to both knees. He then heard the thumping even louder now and then he collapsed on the floor not moving.
We see a bird's eye view of him on the floor and we see a shot of him next to a wall. His body casted a shadow and then the shadow started to move as he body stayed still.
It broke off from the body and we see a black shadow that's in a silhouette of a small man. It moved across the walls as it then left the observatory and out into the world.
It started to cast shadows of itself on trees and the floors. It then made its way to a sign as it casted it presence on it and then left. The sign had said, "Welcome to Mercy…"
It's now morning and we see the Grim Reaper at the observatory with Saul and Claudette. Grim was measuring the body and waited for the soul to come out. Saul and Claudette waited impatiently.
"Can we hurry this up?" Claudette said as she tapped her foot.
"Shut up! I have to do this. It's me job!" Grim shouted at her as he took his scythe and started to twirl it on the body.
"Watcha doing?" Saul asked as he was on the chair next to the telescope.
"Trying to see if the soul can come out. Sometimes people are stubborn when they die."
"That's why I'm living until the end of time!" Claudette said with confidence.
"We'll see about that…" Grim mumbled as he looked at his scythe. He knew she was going to die somehow, but he had to wait for Gray to do it.
"Looks like the soul left before I can get to it. I hate it when this happens… usually the soul stays in the body for at least a couple of years."
"What are we gonna do?"
"It's probably still here, just hiding. I can use my scythe to track it."
He flipped a switch on the scythe and it glowed green. It then started to fly on its own. Grim rode the scythe like one of the brooms from Harry Potter.
"Get on…"
The two got on the back and they then flew off.