After a deal of great suffering, a crow brings him back to the land of the living.

Chapter 2: Origins

The crow is your spirit animal, the crow is your guide, the crow will help you on your journey. Repeated over and over again.

"WAKE!"

My eyes opened to see a crow standing in front of me.

"GET! UP!" it said. I sat up and remembered what had happened.

The crow flew to the refrigerator and tapped the door, "HEY! LEE!"

"Haley?" I asked. I slowly got up and walked to the refrigerator. I grabbed the refrigerator's handle.

*"Here it is," she pulled the cake out of the refrigerator, lit the candles, and brought the cake to me "make a wish."*

"AH!" the memory hurt.

*"What did you wish for?" she asked.

"That we would be together forever." I said.*

I sobbed on the floor. "HEY! LEE!" the crow said.

I got up and opened the door. Haley was inside, her face looked like the Joker's. I would later take the body to the morgue.

"WHY?!" I asked still sobbing.

"IN! SANE!" the crow said.

"What happens now?" I asked.

"JOE! KER!" the crow said.

"He'll know who I am," I said "what should I do?"

"DIS! SKIES!" the crow said. It flew over to a tool box and tapped it, "CROW! BAR!"

I reached in the toolbox and pulled out the crowbar, "I feel like this is some sort of joke."

"SUP! LIES!" the crow said. And then I was transported to a cosmetics store. I stood in front of a window.

"DO! IT!" said the crow.

I took the crowbar and smashed it through the window of the cosmetics store. Alarms rang, but I got what I needed. The crow transported me to me garage.

I made my way into the bathroom. I did not recognize the man in the mirror, he had jet black hair… mine was red. "This is me now?" I asked.

"YES!" the crow landed on top of the mirror

I took the white cream out of my pocket, dabbed my fingers in it, and rubbed it all over my face. I took the black lipstick and applied it to my lips. Then I created a black smile stretching an inch from the corner of my lips. I also made two vertical lines with the lipstick that crossed each eye. I put on the leather jacket that Haley gave to me.

*"Medium present next," she said "open it, open it, open it."

"I'm opening it." I said.

Inside was a leather jacket with a crow sewn into the back.

"Really, a crow jacket?" I asked.

"It matches your knife." She chuckled.*

I took the knife out of the box and practiced with it, stabbing and slashing the air with perfection.

"CUT! SELF!" the crow said.

Without hesitation I cut the back of my hand with the knife, the wound healed almost instantly.

"The crows magic must have done more to me than enhancing my senses." I said.

"STRENGTH! SPEED!" the crow said.

"Able to take damage without pain, and that teleporting ability." I said.

"CROW!" the crow said.

I was silent for several moments, "I am the Crow."