I know I know, long wait but I had bad writer block on this certain part but now I'm good!:) I wanted to make this chapter serious but also amusing at the same time:) in other news, I am in a bet at school! Yup and it with my mate who is a total braniac in everything and he doesn't even need to study to be smart. Not to. Be mean to him but I hate it when people are naturally smart and get good grades without trying. Anyway, in English, we have to write a story and he said he could beat me. Well, I objected and if I get higher than him, he will give me a bag of Tangfastics (they are awesome) and if he wins, I have to give him cola bottles. He is going down! Cupcakes to all and I hoe you enjoy!:)
Indeed it was. Star had taken a recorder under her t-shirt but also a piece of paper. The wind had picked up a bit now that she was walking into the cemetery and she this was because Death was about. She put her hands in her pockets as she saw a hooded figure floating over a fresh grave and she bit her tongue. Here goes nothing. Well, if she got her soul sucked out, maybe she'd be chosen as a spirit of something by Manny! Knowing Llana, she would probably call her the Spirit of Clumsiness or the Spirit of Weirdness. But she kept her hopes up for the Guardian of Cupcakes.
Taking a deep breath, she trotted up to the grave and stood a few small steps away from Death, despite the weird feeling she was getting and switched on the recorder. "Umm… excuse me Mr Death?" Star asked.
Death turned around quite quickly and Star drew back at his face. There was a thin layer of skin on his face and he had no eyes which was kind freaky as he wasn't exactly a skeleton. His black cloak stretched down to the floor in rags so Star couldn't see any other part of his body besides his hands which were all bone but quite grey.
"Yes my dear?" Death said in a Jamaican accent which caught Star off guard a little bit. Who knew that Death had a Jamaican accent but then again, who knew that the Easter Bunny had an Australian accent. Death saw her face and he grinned a toothy smile. "Yeah, the accent is awesome isn't it?" he said and Star nodded quickly.
"Uh yeah! Never knew that before!" she stammered but then she looked at the grave behind him. "So what are you doing?" she asked curiously. Death turned around so he faced the grave.
"Just admiring my latest victim. Died of heart failure. I hate those" he said and Star looked at him.
"Then why are you admiring it?" she asked.
"You see, there are souls that I like taking and not taking. The ones I like to take are the ones who have done wrong in their lives like murdering and those are the ones that I hate to take as it isn't their time" Death explained. "But those dying of something, I know when to take. But sometimes, the souls don't give in as easily as I want to. This particular one and I practically had a tug of war but he gave in."
"Well I guess that makes sense. You aren't at all what I expected" Star admitted and Death raised an eyebrow.
"Oh? So what were you expecting?" he asked.
"Just a guy in a cloak with blood over him and carrying a scythe and a head" Star said casually and Death laughed.
"Aha! You are talking about the Grimm Reaper! Good friend as he helps me sometimes but he doesn't carry a head. Where did you get that from? He would like that idea" Death said.
"I write a lot of stuff" Star said with a sinister smirk that actually made Death shiver. Oh my God, I made Death shiver, Star thought excitedly.
"Write?" Death asked and Star nodded.
"Yes. My name is Starskulls but call me Star for short and I am an author on FanFiction" Star said and Death surprised and scared her by taking hold of her hand and shaking it hugely.
"Starskulls? As in the Starskulls, the writer of Tortured?" he asked and Star nodded again.
"Yeah why?" she asked and Death nearly danced on the spot.
"I love that one! I love the fact that you killed Jack but a little annoyed that you brought him back. I am not one to give choices you know" Death said.
"Oh I know but the fangirls were after me. They would kill me and threaten me if I killed Jack" Star said.
"Why?" Death asked.
"Jack kinda has a huge popularity for being the sexiest cartoon yet although Hiccup from How to Train your Dragon has become a little competition for Jack. The internet's word, not mine" Star replied. True to her word, someone on Tumblr had posted a picture of that and most fangirls agreed entirely.
"Seriously?" Death said with a shocked tone and Star nodded.
"As serious as my tutu" she said. "Now I am here to ask you a favour but before I go to that, I have a question for you" Star added.
"Which is?" Death asked eagerly, his fists clenching and unclenching in excitement and Star was feeling very chuffed that Death was so eager to help her.
"What do you think of the Guardians?" she asked and Death grinned.
"Them? Oh nothing more than mere people like the rest of the world. None have been close to dying except one of them. I was so close to getting him but then the Moon took him away from my clutches" he said with a sigh and Star smiled.
"You mean Jack?" she asked.
"Yes, how do you know?" he asked and Star smiled sinisterly.
"I have my ways" she said, not mentioning the fact that knew from the video on YouTube and that she had cried all the way through it. Death considered this.
Well, everyone knows things from somewhere, he thought. "I only find Bunny and North annoying because of their arguing about their holidays" he said and Star smiled.
"Well, if you agree to help me, then I can promise you that you will get a right laugh out of it" Star said smiling. Death folded his arms and thought about this.
"It depends what I am agreeing to" he replied and Star clicked her neck. Oh, so he wanted to play it that way? Well two could play at that game!
"Well, I would agree if I were you because if you don't… well… let's just say that my friends and I can do something that will make your insides curl up so much, you will never be able to take death away the same way again" Star threatened, leaning forward so Death flinched away and then he turned angry.
"You would dare to threaten me? I can take your soul away any time I want you know!" he snarled with his Jamaican accent but Star narrowed her eyes.
"Well, I thought you couldn't take a soul if it was its time" Star snapped back and Death recoiled.
"I'm sure I could bend the rules if I wanted to" he said and Star scoffed.
"Yeah but what would he have to say about it?" she asked, casting her gaze up to the Moon. "I'm sure that he would say something to you. More so the Guardians will hear about you taking a child's life and will inform the Moon and I don't think he will take that well. Annoying or not, they aren't slouches are they?" Star threatened. "So either you help me… or I will tell the Guardians that you threatened to kill me and don't even think about telling them that I'm lying. After all, who would they believe? An innocent child or a merciless soul taker?" she added.
Death cursed at this clever threat and he held out his hand. "Fine… I will help" he said and Star shook it, almost shivering at the touch.
"Okay, now sign this" Star said, holding out the piece of paper and also a pen. Death swiped it out of her hand along with the pen, scribbled his signature down and thrust it back into her hands.
"Good. Meet me back here tomorrow at noon. I will have your first task for you. No telling anyone else or you know what'll happen. Got it?" Star said and Death scowled at her but he was eager to hear what she was going to tell him to do. Giving a small wave, he spun around so a cloud of black smoke appeared and Star coughed at this. When it cleared, Death had gone.
Clicking off the recorder and checking that he was definitely gone, Star screamed like crazy and fist pumped in the air. "Oh sweet mother of cupcakes, I actually threatened Death and I survived to tell the tale! I have made history! Ha! Take that Final Destination! Death doesn't like to be cheated. Ha I say, ha!" she said proudly.
She did a quick mini dance where was standing before skipping like a mad woman back out of the cemetery and startling some nearby people. Now the fun was REALLY gonna begin! Only thing left now was to get her costume ready, and then talk to the Halloween spirit as the sun was almost set.
Llana had told her the proper name before leaving. She was super excited for this one. They were going to talk to the Pumpkin King and one of her favourite idols besides Jack Frost.
The one and only, Jack Skellington!
Jack Skellington is simply my favourite Tim Burton character ever! So I hope this chapter was good and next chapter is Halloween time and you will find out what Llana's costume is! But I had eleven reviews for the last chapter so for the Halloween chapter and more cupcakes, I request thirteen reviews please! :D Bye for now!
~Star