Chapter 5: A "Fun" Visit From "Death"

I walked out onto the floor which I would have guessed had all their rooms and maybe some kind of shop, bar, or something to that effect. Farthest door on the right, farthest on the... right, I thought approaching the door. I was about to knock when the door suddenly zipped open, "Umm, hey, are you okay," I asked noticing her face looked like she had been crying since I left or something. "Yea," she said sounding a little mad and sniffling. "Look, I'm sorry about jumping off the ship early, it's just, well I might as well tell someone now, I'm dead, deceased, or the more common term, unsent, but I'm unique in the fact that I was in the Farplane then came back here," I said all at once. She just stared at me for a minute, then gave me a slight look of disbelief. "Fine, don't believe me, I'll prove it," I said driving my right hand right through the torso of my armor. Then as I pulled it back out my armor sealed up behind my hand. She still looked astonished but now at the fact that I was dead.

"Well the truth is, I was more upset because you jumping off the ship reminded me of an old memory, when I was younger my Father, died trying to save me from falling off an airship, he managed to keep me from falling, but he fell and... well..." she almost started crying, and then hugged me. Syuck inside a cold suit of armor without any real emotions, it must be cold to hug me even, I thought letting her go, "It must even have been hard for you to be on top of an airship after that," I half asked her. She shook her head, "I recovered rather fast my mothre told me if I didn't conquer my fear I would never be able to be happy," she said seeming a little happier. I didn't even think about asking about her mother in case she had died, another time maybe. Then I loked up behind her into her room and sawsomething that made my jaw drop. Along with some memories of Yuna I got a few of my original world, one of which was standing in the next room.

It was a literal everyday rendition of Death, cloak, scythe and all. I fell back, pointed and tried to speak but I found no voice. What the hell is death doing in this world and why is he after me, or is he after her, nope definitely after me, I thought as "Death" passed through Stella and came straight for me, scythe raised. He swung and I rolled out of the way at the very last possible second, "Can you see that," I yelled not taking my eyes off this figure of Death. She turned her head sideways questioning my sanity now. WELL, OBVIOUSLY NOT OTHERWISE YOU'D BE A LITTLE FREAKED OUT TOO, I thought trying to plan a route to lose Death and hopefully be permanently safe, but now that I thought about it, since he aparated inside the airship couldn't he just go wherever he felt like. I decided to try and get away anyways and took off running and pushed right past Death and down the hall to the elevator. I was so lucky that the elevator was waiting on this floor, so as soon as the door opened I jumped in and hit any random button, just wanting to get to any other floor. Unfortunately, I was right in assuming that he could go where ever he felt like, since as I turned I saw him right in front of me. "Eep," I said as he swung aiming specifacly at my right arm. "Got a problem with my right arm there bud," I asked swinging right at his face but it just phasedright through him. Oh, freakin pickle nuts, this sucks, now what the hell am I supposed to do, I thought as I scratched my own thumb, which I only do if I'm nervous and stumped. He swung again but I dodged even though I was busy staring at my hand which I noticed was creating what looked like small bursts of flame. I looked over at Death who seemed to be a little worried about the flame I could produce.

I had an idea and began concentrating as hard as I could, a few seconds later it worked, perfectly, my arm was shrouded completely in flame. Death was now backed into the corner and holding his scythe in front of him. "Fear me," I yelled as I swung at him yet again, but this time he just disappeared just as I was about to hit him. That's right run you coward, I thought standing there, proud of my amazing accomplishment. I had fought off death, I stood there, happy with myself and decided to extinguish my arm, which was almost as easy as lighting it had been. I was surprised that my right arm did not smoke or burn at all. The door to the elevator opened and, there was a scythe in my arm. Death had obviously figured out which floor I was going to and got there ahead of me. The funny thing in all this is right after the scythe hit my arm it burst into flames and so did the scythe. I laughed inside as the scythe disintegrated and then so did the figure that looked like death. I suddenly found no energy to keep me standing and fell to my knees right outside the elevator which then proceeded to close. My right arm was burning, I could feel no pain, but this was painfull, it had been inflicted by that thing and now I could feel my arm changing. I knew nothing except that Stella came out of the elevator a little later and looked absolutley horrified at me, I had no idea what was happening, but I was losing control of my body, and something inside me was gaining that control. I managed to stand up but I knew this thing would try and hurt Stella and the other, and who knew maybe destroy the airship, so I was forced to do something once again, I walked towards the edge and planned to jump off again. I could barely hear now but I did hear Stella running up behind me and I turned and saw her reach out to touch me but pull away as she almost got burned. The armor was heating up, I needed to jump, NOW. I managed to reach the edge and jump and noticed there was nothing but water below. Well, at least it will cool off the armor I thought wondering if I would be able to leave the ocean depths or if me and this armor would be stuck there forever. Shortly before I hit the water though, I lost consciousness.

Ok, so its not that long but theres a long chapter in me somewhere, though maybe u dont want a long chapter, meh, plz review and let me know if you prefer longer or shorter chapters.