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"HOPE WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON OVER THERE!" Hope was stunned or a bit trying to take in what happened with Ben... he looked totally different at the moment. And she could feel raw power radiate from his body.

"B-Boss you know the soul I was guarding"

"Yeah what about him?" there was a pause "YOU BETTER NOT BE ABOUT READY TO TELL ME HE WAS DEVOURED ARE YOU?"

"No sir nothing like that!" Hope said calmly "It just seems he has tapped into his Reaper powers prematurely somehow..."

"But Hope that's impossible no Reaper in history has tapped into their power until after death and that's only after we unlock it for them... I want a live video feed of this phenomenon if it's true!"

"One step ahead of you Boss" Hope said as she pointed her camera at where Ben was standing. He stood tall and looked somewhat smug while he stare the shadows down as if daring them attack. As soon as he noticed the camera he grinned and gave her a wave which created a massive gust of wind to appear around him and clear the room of smoke.

"Damn Hope you weren't kidding ...the kid is a Reaper alright." her Boss said as Ben started trash talking the Shadows who appeared to just be getting over their surprise and moving toward Ben ever so cautiously. "A bit cocky isn't he" Boss said with a chuckle when he heard what Ben said 'Just like men give them a little power and it all goes straight to their head' Hope thought to herself as she watched Ben until one second he was there then the next moment he suddenly disappeared. "Where..." Boss and Hope said at the same time before Ben reappeared behind one of the Wolf Shadow's with his sword lifted high over his head the sight of Ben was followed by a huge "BOOM" as Ben just swung his huge sword at the poor unsuspecting shadow cleaving it in two. The blow was so powerful the floor cracked and a nearby window exploded outward.

"Damn I was about ready to say be ready to give the kid backup but I don't think he needs it" Boss said as he and Hope watched a panther took the moment to get a slash against Ben's side. "Whoops did I just jinx him?" said Boss in apologetic tone. Ben then disappeared and reappeared in front of Dil (who was covering Ben's body from whatever was happening) while holding his now bleeding side but it didn't look too serious to keep him from fighting. "Ben must have twisted his body at the last second to just get a graze from the claws; but I bet it probably still hurt like a bitch."

"Who's the civilian? "Boss asked

"He's a friend of Ben's, um... the spirit boy... he was with Ben when I knocked his soul out of his body. I think their more than friends though... and I think he might be the reason Ben's powers awakened so early."

"How so?" Boss asked

"Ben is extremely defensive when it comes to Dil which by the way is the civilian, Dil's soul is unusually

powerful for a mortal, it's like he's a beacon for the shadows to follow. How he lasted so long without being eaten is beyond me though. He must have some kind of charm or something to protect him... Anyway instead of abandoning Dil like any normal mortal with no power would and at least attempt to find me; when Dil was threatened Ben turned to this like someone flipped a switch...I just hope Dil doesn't get caught in the crossfire..."

Just then all the shadows surrounded Ben and attacked at once. Ben looked behind him and saw Dil; a look of panic crossed Ben's face probably thinking 'there is no fucking way I can fight them off and protect Dil with an injured arm' but then his ears swiveled in surprise like he heard something no one else could, then his expression changed to a mix between of concentration and determination. He quickly tucked himself into a ball and he seemed to be covered in flames. The win also began to pick up around him almost like a small tornado.

"What is he...? Oh no! He wouldn't!" Boss said horror and disbelief plainly laced in his voice then he started yelling "HOPE GET IN THERE AND STOP HIM, EVERYTHING AROUND THAT KID IS ABOUT TO BE COVERED IN FLAMES!"

"Isn't that a good thing?" Hope asked as she watched the Shadows get closer and closer to Ben.

"Not when his body and the one he is trying to protect are right behind him! You will be burnt to a crisp as well!"

"Ahh Fuc-"was all Hope could get out before Ben unleashed his attack, Hope barely had enough time to put a weak magical shield around her to deflect the blast and even that wasn't enough to stop her from feeling the heat of the flames and get sent flying through the wall. Hope recovered quickly and looked at Dil expecting to see two bodies burnt into a crisp. "No-No way." Hope stuttered out as she saw the sturdy looking magical shield that protected both a unconscious Dil (must of passed out from freight when he saw the flame coming at him poor thing) and Ben's body from the blast.

"T-T-That's impossible there is no way a newbie can have enough power to pull off an attack like that AND summon a strong enough shield to stop his own attack from hitting someone at the same time!" Boss said in disbelief as Hope took in her surroundings again.

The room was trashed and was covered in flames from Ben's attack the only point that wasn't touched was where Ben's body and Dil were located. The Shadows looked pretty crispy but several of them had managed to survive the blast. The remaining ones began to melt into darkness and converged to one point. "Oh fuck this is bad" Both Hope and Boss said at the exact same time. While Ben who looked like he was finally beginning to tire as he breathed heavily and a bit woozy from the loss of blood had to resort to using his sword to hold himself up just sat and looked at the Shadow's action in confusion etched on his face as the Shadows began taking shape. The beast was massive... it had a large wolf tail and four large arms and three massive heads... a panther, a wolf and a lion. It looked like some gruesome chimera The Shadow's flesh remained the same inky black but it was far larger and looked much heavier. Hope noticed that the floor began to sag a bit where it stood. To make matters worse the creature was fully healed of its earlier injuries, was really pissed and hungry.

Ben disappeared and reappeared in front of Hope back turned and stared at the monster watching it movements in case it decided to attack. "Hope how long does it take for that healing spell take to work and does it recover energy?" questioned Ben his voice strangely calm.

"Yes and its instantaneous why..."

"No time do it now!" Ben said still not looking away from the Shadow. Hope's hands were quickly consumed in the same green aura as earlier but this time it was tinged with yellow and she shouted "Heal!" Ben's injuries quickly vanished and looked amped up. However this time his cocky demeanor was replaced with calm, cautious determination.

"Thank you. Stay here and protect Dil in case more Shadows come while I'm away oh and" his cocky smirk returned "so you won't get in my way" On second thought maybe he didn't learn his lesson...

"You know with that attitude you'll wind up disappearing from existence completely" Said Hope moving slowly toward Dil with her staff now extended.

"Huh so that's what happens if I die while as a spirit? And I was just fucking with you...by the way I'm still kinda mad at you for dragging me into this in the first place... but seriously protect Dil you at least owe me that...that and my body back" with that he dropped his sword, brought his arms back and did a pushing motion; hurricane force winds burst from his paws sending the massive beast flying out of the window and into the grounds which now seemed to be evacuated. "But then again these powers are pretty cool. I'll be back in a flash" With that he disappeared again presumably through the giant hole in the wall after the Shadow.

"I still don't like that guy's attitude "Hope said while walking up to the giant hole in the wall adjusting the cameras zoom enough where she can see the battle clearly with crystal clarity (it's a good thing Reaper technology defies the laws of physics)

"I dunno I kinda like the guy and he does have a point, all this is your fault...by the way I figured out your punishment I'll tell you when you get back to base."

"Fantastic!" Hope said sarcastically "I was hoping you forgotten about that" Hope mumbled, now miserable.

~~~

"You know that was kinda of a dick move you pulled back there" said Suzaku in a calm voice. He apparently was the source of my powers... he had been sleeping in my soul waiting to be awakened when I died. Apparently all Reapers had them and have to interact with them in order to become more powerful. Wow... just when I thought my day couldn't get any weirder it does! I'm talking to some pigeon (Or phoenix as he claimed to be) that nobody else could see... great just great!

"You do realize I can hear any thought including insults so you have so you don't have to talk verbally right?" I winced. Probably isn't smart to piss off something that can adjust my power as easy as turning off a faucet especially when I'm about ready to go into a battle. "Your damn right!" Suzaku said as we both touched down to face my three headed opponent . . . with fangs . . . and claws, slight height advantage and a heavier muscle mass... Suzaku sighed at that.

"You are starting to panic calm down and keep a level head or you'll wind up dead"

"Well EXCUSE ME for getting a little nervous after pointing something out that has every possible advantage" I nearly screamed inside my head.

"Oww, you don't have to yell... just remember everything has a weakness, find that and this fight is yours."

"How am I supposed to do that in the middle- *yelp* I said using my new found speed to barely dodge a paw swipe that would have taken of my head from Mr. Big-Bad- and-Gruesome who took advantage of me not paying attention

"PAY ATTENTION DAMNIT!! IF YOU DISAPPEAR FROM THE PLANE OF EXISTENCE THEN SO DO I!!!" Suzaku screamed in my head probably actually mad also likely payback from earlier. "Right on both accounts now roll" said Suzaku as I rolled away from getting made lunch for a hungry lion.

"Any ideas on a way to beat this thing?" I said as I dodged another chomp this time from the wolf and another attempted slash from the other paw before the paw got out of my reach however I slashed at it with my blade causing Frankenstein to scream in pain.

"Well the thing does have a physical advantage over you." said Suzaku

"I kinda already see that!" I said as I got hit in the chest with fur ball's tail that I didn't see coming which knocking the wind from my lungs and knocking me to the ground. I rolled when I hit the ground thus dodging another bite attack this time from the panther

"I do wish you will you will decide on a name for this thing it is kinda annoying hearing you change the name every five seconds" Suzaku said while telling me to duck from another chomp from the lion which I successfully dodged. (thank you super speed)

"Fine any ideas on how to take out Fur ball" I said while trying to slash at the lion's neck but all I got for my trouble was to give the lion a haircut and a paw to the face. I recovered from the hit by using my air magic to stop myself from flipping so I'll be able to hit the ground running which came in handy because Fur ball tried to pounce on me again when it though it had me in its grasp.

"Well I was thinking Cerberus after the Greek myth but Fur-ball works to I guess...also more fun to say" Said Suzaku

"Great now that's cleared up...I NEED FUCKING IDEAS!" I screamed intentionally in my head.

"Oww, fine...what is true with most muscle bound men besides being sexy as hell?" Suzaku asked which caused me to stop in and stare at him with a classic wtf face which caused me to get grabbed by Fur-ball's somehow dexterous tail. I quickly managed to get my arms free and managed to cut its tail off causing it to scream again.

"I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that" I said while hitting the ground running

"Whatever *chuckle* hey why are you blushing Ben?"

"Not getting into this now!" I said while dodging another strike. It seemed that all I could do was dodge.

"Anyway what I'm trying to say is that most muscle bound men are dumb as bricks so all you have to do is to outsmart him...or in this case cripple him have you noticed that Fur-ball's isn't using his paw that u cut earlier nor is he using all three of this heads to attack you?"

"I'll pretend not to take offence to that. Yeah now that you mention it yeah I have...thanks for the help"

"Oh shut up your half and half a nice combination for a warrior and your welcome" After another twenty minutes later of dodging and cutting I successfully crippled Fur-ball's movements enough to where he couldn't move.

"Don't count him out just yet look at his mouth!" Suzaku called out as Fur-ball's mouth began to glow with dark energy then he fired a huge mass at me that I barely dodged with a tuck and roll maneuver.

"Great he has long range attacks too! What now I can't get close enough to finish him off now!" I said as I had to dodge another dark mass this one smaller and faster.

"Why don't you meet his long range against yours? You can control Wind and Fire remember dummy?" suggested Suzaku

"Oh yeah why didn't I think of that" I said as I hit Fur ball with a hailstorm of fireballs causing him to scream in pain thus making him stop firing those stupid dark masses of energy at me.

"Why indeed...hey I'm going to take control of your body for a bit okay because I believe it's time for the finisher."

"Wait what" I managed to say before I felt my body gave control over to Suzaku making me feel like I was viewing the next few moments through a camera lens. Suzaku closed the distance between me and fur ball with his sword lowered against his side while coating it in fire and wind magic until he was 2 feet away. Then used air magic give him a sudden burst of speed; that made it seem like he disappeared and reappeared on the other side of Fur ball (which is how I did the disappearing and re-appearing trick earlier) , with his sword outstretched with magic no longer coating it. Suzaku then put the sword back into sheathe along my back, snapped my fingers and took a bow as Fur-ball screamed and started to disappear in a mix between shadows and white lights.

"We *pant* *pant* did it!" I said just before I collapsed where I stood as soon as Suzaku gave control back into my body.

Yet I still heard Suzaku say "It appears we used too much energy. I'm afraid you're going to be out for a while your soul recovers from the strain, in the meantime I'm going to limit your power to beginner levels so your body will be able get used to the using so much energy in battle. I have a feeling we are going to see each other even after the girl puts you back in your body...rest for now you deserve it."

"Thanks...for...everything" I managed to think before my body shut down completely making it impossible for me to hear Suzaku's reply as everything faded to black.

~~~

Dear Journal,

It's been forever since I last wrote and this is because I've been having a roller coaster ride of a week. Every time I think the ride is almost over life throws me another terrifying, stomach churning, heart stopping hill for me to climb and endure the best I can without throwing up; also on another note so much has been happening around me lately that I've been questioning my sanity. Before I elaborate on the last part, let me tell you about my week.

Monday, January 8th

Ben had to leave school due to a family emergency that consisted of babysitting his dying grandfather who his parents decided to abandon to go to a vacation in Hawaii. Ben had always been really close to his grandfather so he of course was livid at his parents actions and even I didn't like his parents decision choosing their job over a family member; but it isn't my place to place judgments on people's decisions so I tried not to think bad of his parents for this decision; plus it gets us out of school and I get to spend some quality time with Ben (I know this is selfish way of thinking seeing it's too babysit Ben's dying grandfather but I can't help it! I try to think of positives for every situation it's just how my mind works) anyway our day started off normal enough. Ben and I woke up, got on a bus to Ben's house. Ben was being more withdrawn then usual during the ride but I understand his situation. I managed to cheer him up though with some teasing and messing around...anyway we caught his grandfather at a bad time...by bad time I mean he was jerking off. Needless to say Ben and I are both officially scarred for life (yes I am too even though I'm gay...I still find wrinkly old men to be gross)

We played violent videogames after that doing our best to burn the memory out of our minds. All three of us pretending like it never happened...though his grandfather made it a game of his to mention it subtly to see the reaction on our faces, than laugh at our reaction. Besides that nothing else happened that day.

Tuesday January 9th

This is when my week started to go to hell and when all the weird stuff started to happen. I knew it was odd before I was completely awake when Ben didn't wake up to the alarm he is a REALLY light sleeper. Next clue was the fact BEN WAS DEAD! He wasn't breathing, he had no pulse and his body was starting to cool. Then I noticed it the fog over Ben's body and heard, not felt a breeze. Confused I decided I would check the window... It was closed plus it was a bright and sunny day. . .

Then it hit me where I experienced all these things before. I might have panicked just a bit because I don't remember what happened during the next few moments, when I came to I was holding the phone talking hysterically to the poor fur on the other end. But then another weird thing happened when I was explaining Ben's condition; he exhaled like he was holding his breath the entire time. Confused I checked his vitals and he came up ok but he wouldn't wake up no matter how much I shook him.

After relaying the information I hung up the phone then got a really bad feeling that I couldn't shake off no matter how hard I tried, it felt like all my instincts were screaming at me to leave the room; so I did dragging Ben out of the room as well. Not even seconds later I heard a series of crashes and bangs coming from Ben's room, the wind picked up as well yet we had no windows opened so that was impossible. I put Ben down on the floor and went to investigate to find Ben's grandpa was shirtless and looked as if he was about ready to take a shower (I completely forgotten about him during everything that happened) He asked what the hell Ben was doing to his room and I shook my head and explained that Ben has been in a coma all morning and an ambulance is on its way. Suffice to say Benji (he always insisted I call him that.) was surprised was an understatement. Benji dropped all his shower stuff, clutched his chest, demanded me to tell him all that happened and where Ben was now. Understanding his plight I tried my best to explain what happen leaving out the Ben died thing. I took him to where I laid Ben and he bent down next to the boy gasping for breath as if he was suffocating, he looked extremely dizzy, and was sweating profusely. I quickly realized that he was in the throes of a heart attack!

I slowly began panicking again but kept myself calm enough to try and remember what I had to do in this situation. I came to me in a flash; I pushed Benji down (who was now trying to grab his car keys yelling something about the ambulance taking too long) I told Benji he was having a heart attack as calmly as I could and told him to rest and calm down while I call another ambulance and attempt to alleviate the pressure on his heart. Ignoring Benji's complaints and a pointless argument I went to the bathroom grabbed several bottles of medicine bottles, I also grabbed the phone I had thrown on the couch earlier and dialed 911 again; then I popped in two baby aspirin capsules telling him to chew, when he finished I threw some sleeping medications down his gullet and stuck a nitroglycerin under his tongue. Now Benji looked really sleepy (the sleeping medication was actually a tranquilizer strong enough to take down a rampaging feral lion) but looked like his condition was improving. After mumbling I would pay for this later he passed out where he stood.

I took a moment to admire the similarities between Ben and Benji as they both lied on floor sleeping while I was ordering another ambulance and explaining the changed situation; Benji was still shirtless and Ben was still in just in his boxers. Both looked so much alike it was uncanny and I mentally slapped myself for not seeing it sooner. The only visible difference was Benji was like a really old version of Ben. After hanging up the phone I crawled next to Benji and Ben, lied down and rocked back and forth as I listened to the continuous banging and crashing coming from Ben's room that I no longer wanted to investigate due to the how loud the banging and crashing were beginning to get, and my instincts were also screaming at me not to go ten feet toward the door. As I tried to make the sounds go away, I succumbed to the stress and started to cry as I faded back into a moment in the past that hit me a while back when I began to panic in Ben's room.

--Flashback--

It was a time when I was five years old, back when my mom was still around, back before I even met Ben. I was a strange child growing up because I had tons of imaginary friends. Well that is until one of them told me that what they were called spirits or if I preferred to call them ghost. Being the kid I was I just accepted that as a fact due to all the games I was thinking about playing with my floating friends. My parents were none the wiser and just went along with my childish antics of describing all the things my floating friends could do.

Anyway one day while I was away playing at grandpa's and grandma's house (well it was just grandma's house since grandpa died in a car accident when I was two but since I could see ghost; I could see grandpa as well, making it grandma and grandpa's house to me. Poor grandma even up till she died everyone thought she was crazy but me when she talked to grandpa since it seems talking to ghost runs in the family) with my friends; my mother went to the doctor's office because she had been extremely ill for weeks only to find out it was due to cancer and that she didn't have much time left.

My parents decided not to tell me until Mom was completely bedridden and hospitalized. When my parents finally told me, my reaction scared them both. At first it looked like I was going to tackle Mom and cry into her chest like any other kid would when I looked behind me and appeared to listen to someone and turned around wiped away the beginning of a fit away with a smile then I said "That's ok it just means mom will get to play with me and my friends" ignoring my parents shocked expressions I walked out of the room talking animatedly to said friends while bouncing a big ball I brought with me to the hospital.

My parents were livid; they gave me a stern lecture on mocking death and in turn mocking God (since they were both hardcore Christians and my dad's a priest) and said me playing with Mom would be impossible. I tried to explain that it was but my parents wouldn't hear it and signed me up for therapy and made me promise I would try and make normal friends at school. I think my Mom made it her dying wish to see me with one actual friend due to the way she threw herself into my social life by the amount of time she spent arranging play dates. But during my attempts of making friends things began to get a bit weird and difficult. Every play date and attempt to make friends was ruined by 'accidents'. Several things being falling on my playmates and even one playmate feel down the stairs in a broke his arm. I of course had nothing to do with it! It was my ghost friends jealous of the attention I been giving other furs and not them. Pretty soon I got tired of being the one blamed for everything the ghost did, so I had a tantrum telling them to go away and never come back.

The ghost followed my wishes and I never saw them again. My parent were ecstatic when I finally began to acquire friends and people began to like me when they saw that the 'bad pup turned a new leaf'. Until the weird things began to happening again and they were worse than ever instead of easily fixed problems it escalated to almost homicides, I was also having night terrors screaming about "my friends coming back so they could have their revenge on me" we had to move from the town we lived at because many furs wouldn't go near me with a ten foot pole calling me a 'demon child' and stuff similar to that which was also an insult to Dad since he was a priest.

He tried every trick on me in the book but nothing worked. My parents then argued constantly about my behavior. Until one day when my mom passed away...

Immediately after her passing fog started to roll in the room even though it was bright and sunny out I then saw a strange man enter the room like he owned the place, stabbed her body with some kind of short sword and out came my Mom's spirit. They talked for a while my Mom seemed to want to stay but the man in the cloak wouldn't let her because it was time for her to move on. Eventually she walked out of the room while at the lounging aimed at me and dad. I pushed past the doctors that were coming in the room when my Mom flat-lined and rushed to her and the strange man in the cloak's side asking where they were going. They ignored me thinking I was talking to someone else since I couldn't possibly talking to them

Thinking they were doing it on purpose I fell to the floor and cried in frustration yelling "Mom where are you going with the man in the cloak?" they both looked at me in shock (well since the man's face was covered by his hood I assumed it was shocked)

"You can see us?" The man asked me.

"Yeah of course I do! I couldn't talk and follow you if I didn't" I replied annoyed "Though mom you look like my friends now. How are you floating like that? They never told me how before they left" A look of understanding flashed across my mom's face before shadows began to converge on three points forming three frightening looking beast with white eyes. One was a wolf, another lion, and the last one a lynx. All three I instantly recognized from my nightmares, because they were at one time my so called friends that now visited me every night in dreams.

"Bobby, Jake, Kenney what are you doing here I thought I told you guys to leave me alone?" I said while walking in front of the very two stunned looking adults. Just then three voices said assaulting my thoughts

"We came for your soul Dillon like we promised, you will be ours and only ours then we will get to play together for all eternity!" Apparently my mom and the man in the cloak heard them too because my Mom gasped and the man took out two short swords

"Not if I have anything to say about it you stupid Shadows" Just then all three of them jumped at me getting ready to tear me from limb to limb. I screamed and expected pain but I wasn't killed nor devoured. I open my eyes to see the man in the cloak in front of me with his swords down like he just slashed at something. I looked around the man in the cloak to see all three of my friends disappearing. I think I started to cry though I don't know why because they were the cause of everything bad happening to me and nearly killed me. Three lights came from the corpses and floated around me while speaking to me.

"We're sorry Dillon we were jealous when you started to make friends. Our jealously turned us into shadows of our former selves. It was our jealousy that made us do all those terrible things. Hopefully you will be able to forgive us eventually" then they disappeared. Mom hugged me when started to I

cry. When my sobs finally calmed down I said

"So are you moving on?" My Mom looked at the man in the cloak in a silent question and he shook his head no. She looked at me apolitically and said "Sorry honey...for everything, I really should have believed you before. And I'm sorry for dying and leaving you while you are still just a little boy"

"It's ok" I answered. Just then Dad came up behind us and started yelling at me.

"Dillon there you are what are you doing here?! I've been worried sick!" Mom turned to me and spoke

"Explain everything to your dad...make him see all those things weren't your fault."

"He won't believe me" I said bitterly. He never did... she thought for a moment then walked up to the man in the cloak and said a few things he nodded and disappeared. I looked at Mom and she said

"He'll be back he went to pick up something for me talk to you father in the meantime" I nodded and explained to Dad; like I expected when I finished explaining my story he didn't believe a word of it and began yelling at me for making up stuff up. The man in the cloak showed back up in the mist of my dads tirade holding something shiny in his hands which my mom took it from his hands while he leaned against the wall trying to regain his breathe back as if he ran a great distance. Meanwhile my mom gave the shiny object to me she while kissing me on the head.

"Give this to your father and say it's from me he'll believe your story when you do" Mom explained with a smile. While I was gazing at the silver metal chocker that was now in my paws; the man in the cloak elbowed her telling her it was way past time to go, after one last sad smile Mom and the guy in the cloak disappeared in the same fog that the man showed up in.

Meanwhile I showed Dad the necklace and said "Mom gave it to me just now...said it would help you believe my story" My father's face paled.

"T-This is the necklace I bought you mother on our honeymoon, we lost it during the move here and your mom cried for days when she couldn't find it.where did you find this?" Dad asked me with disbelief.

i just shrugged and said"a guy in a cloak gave it to Mom then she gave it to me to help you believe my story"

"If your mom is here right now prove it by asking her this: When and where did we get this necklace?"Mom whispered the answer to me and i replied to Dad's question "March 5,1993 on the shores of Hawaii of your honeymoon; you bought the chocker from a antiqe shop after Mom saw it a window. You didn't buy it immediatly but you bought the chocker for her as a surprise gift for her before you left to come back to the states"

My Dad's mouth dropped open and his facial expression turned to one of disbeief "There is no possible way you could have known that since we never told you the details to our honeymoon since we were going to do that together if you asked for the details yourself so that means...she must be here" Dad looked all over the place as if trying to find some sign of Mom but must of come up empty because he mumbled something along the lines of "stupid seal"and turned to me his facial was apologetic said "Sorry son I should have believed your story and the fact you can see ghosts. Sad thing is I should have saw it coming. "

"Why would you be able to see it coming?" I asked tilting my head in classic child-like curiosity.

"Well son... in your mom's family there comes from a long line of Mediums whic means that they can speak to spirits and ghost and I myself used to have my own powers... but I gave them up years ago after an incident involving some aquaintances from a group i was in. This group had the same powers i have, at first everything was great until they made me do something so horrible that quit the group and sealed my powers vowing never to use them agian to avoid the possiblity of ever doing what I did ever again;and no I will not tell you what they made me do... it was so horrible and that is still fills me with unimaginable feelings of pain,guilt, and regret every time I recall the incident. I let time slowly destroy the memory as I moved on with my life...I guess while trying to forget about that part of my life I also forgot about my powers. If I think back now to when all this started I want to slap myself because to the I feel like a complete idiot for not seeing the signs earlier...I hope with all my soul you aren't too mad at us for not believing you or hate us for giving you this curse."

"It's ok Dad I'm not mad...and it's not anyone's fault for the way I was born, and don't worry about it, is not like you can do anything about it I'll try to ignore the ghost the best I can" I said while hugging my Dad as the loss of my mom and the pain I suffered through finally hit us both as we held each other in that hospital hallway.

We cried for a while when suddenly my Dad got up and said "Actually Dil there is a way for me to help" confused I followed my Dad out of the hospital (I still crying a bit over the loss of Mom). To a small pond they had presumably to make the grounds have a more homey feeling. My Dad took an old book that looked similar to a small bible out of his pocket.

"To tell the truth I didn't seal my powers completly...just the part of my powers that i can use as a weopon...wards and other rituals on the other hand i can stilll pull off though they do to my weakened level of power they are extremly weak, they consist of mostly some basic stuff that any ameteur with ease along with a few more tricks i didn't erase from my memory in case they could come in handy in a emergency; I did this in case you did in fact inherit my 'gift' though now I see it as a curse... a taint on our bloodline. I'm nowhere near as powerful as I used to be, but I should have enough power to do what I have in mind" With that he began chanting strange words that I didn't understand to himself in a deep commanding voice that I only heard him use while preaching which was getting us all sorts of weird looks from furs.

Suddenly he reached into the pond and took out a goldfish; I winced as I heard him snap it small neck. "I hate taking life but this was a necessary evil" Dad said when he saw my horrified and disgust expression, with that said he began chanting again as the goldfish's soul which appeared in a white light began to creep out of its body and into the choker Dad had into his other hand. When the light disappeared into the chocker I though Dad was going to stop but instead beginning to chant louder and a dark purple aura begin to surround him. I looked at the furs expecting people to start to panic but all I saw was people staring at my Dad in curiosity some were just mumbling "crazy old man" and walking away (I guess I was the only one that could see it) I turned back to my Dad just in time to see some of the purple aura flow into the chocker.

When a bit was placed my Dad stopped his chanting and collapsed exhausted. "That...should...do it" he said in between gasp while handing the choker to me. I held up the choker in the light and saw an eerie glow the same as my father's aura coming from the item that certainly wasn't there before: , its mere presence in my hands was causing my vision to blur and I became nauseous

"Uh Dad what did you do exactly and why do I feel funny? I asked Dad as he slowly got his breathe back

"Oh yeah I should probably explain" Dad said while getting up "Well son I put the soul of the goldfish and some of my power in your mother's necklace, the point of this ritual was to make an item that greatly weakens your tie to the spiritual plane. Your soul is very powerful so I had to make the item just as powerful to limit your power. Why you feel funny is because you're not used to being suppressed yet, but you'll eventually get used to it and feel nothing like I do"

"But DAD" I whined" Being able to talk to spirits is a part of me like any other my qualities that makes me unique! I don't want it to go away even after all this stuff happened" I started to sob like a child grieving over a lost friend "I just want to be able to turn it off and on so I can be like a normal fur when the situation calls for its"

Dad picked me up and let me cry into his chest "Don't worry son I saw that coming that's why I put a limiting spell on the necklace instead of using my power to seal yours. So If you wanted to be connected to the spiritual plane again all you have to do is take off the limiter though you may have to wait for a few hours or even a day; depending how long you had on the chocker for your powers to slowly go back to the way before after being suppressed for so long...just be careful, don't missuse them for selfish intention,and don't and i repeat DON'T mess with dangerous stuff or I will seal them in a heartbeat...is this clear Dil?"

i nodded and said "don't worry i promise i won't do any of those things i'll be a good kitten" there was a pause then Dad started to chuckle "Oh the irony your mother's chocker is basically smothering your powers" That caused me to giggle like any other five year old even though my Dad's joke was horrible which caused my tears to quiet down which must have been my Dad's goal.

"That's pretty funny Dad" I said still giggling at my Dad's joke. Dad shrugged his shoulders with a smile on his muzzle

"I try son...hey do you want to go for out for ice-cream?" I looked at my Dad's watch before speaking.

"That's sounds awesome Dad! But it's like midnight and it's a school night I thought I wasn't allowed to have sweets before bed?" My Dad shrugged again and said

"I'll make tonight an exception tonight because I think we both need a quick pick me up after all that's happened; especially when me and mom treated you like a bad kitten for so long, I think I owe you a few...plus Helen just died and we have an funeral to go to if that doesn't count as excuse to stay home from school I don't know what does!" As soon as he mentioned Mom we both became depressed again but before the mood was completely ruined Dad picked me up and placed me on his shoulders which caused me to giggle hysterically after I got over my surprise which earned us a few odd looks from passing furs, like we cared.

"To the ice cream shop" my Dad said chuckling at my reaction.

"Yay I can't wait till we get there! I want chocolate and strawberry and..." I said excitedly counting the flavors with my fingers.

"Slow down kitten we have to get there first" Dad said still chuckling I blushed slightly while I rubbed the back of my head sheepishly

"Right sorry Dad."

"No problem" replied Dad

"Hey Dad I have a question?" I asked after thinking for a minute

"Yeah what is it kitten?" my dad replied looking up at my face

"What's irony?" I asked him tilting my head with the classic childlike curiosity which caused my Dad to nearly drop me from laughing so hard. "Dad what's so funny...come on Dad tell me" I said while mock pounding on his head as we started to once again walk to our destination with my Dad still laughing like a lunatic.

The next week after my Mom's funeral I went back to school. At recess some of the other furs started to tease me about my Mom's necklace which I hadn't taken off since my Dad gave it to me. They told me it made me look like a girl and when I told them it was from my Mom. They laughed at me and called me a 'mama's boy' before I could explain that my mother died they grabbed my necklace yanking it off of me and played monkey in the middle by tossing it to each other while still calling me 'mama's boy'. I was ready to explode in a frenzy of claws and tears when I heard a voice call out "Hey! You guys pick on someone your own size! Let's see how you do when the numbers are close to even" then one of the bullies (that was holding my necklace at that time) was tackled to the ground by a flash of brown fur and was punched in the face by the brown wolf on his chest. After I grabbed the necklace that started to roll away when the bully was tackled and put it on my neck before I turned to see the bullies now beating up the wolf that was helping me.

"Hey! Three against on isn't fair!" I said not using my claws as I punched away one of the bullies from the brown furred wolf. Taking advantage of the distraction the brown furred wolf tackled one of the bullies and started to punch on the bully that remained uninjured from the fight. The other one who was nursing a bloody nose and crying ran away presumably to find teacher. After a few minutes (it was a really big playground) of fighting with the other two and winning, four teachers came and spit us up. After giving us a stern lecture they sent us to the principal, all of us nursing some kind of injury.

During the walk I walked up to the brown furred wolf and taped him on the shoulder "Thanks for rescuing me back there...I'm sorry you got in trouble...where did you learn to fight like that?"

The brown furred wolf turned around and I got to see his face which was calm but bored expression; like he was used to getting sent to the principal's office when the other furs were balling their eyes out knowing they would get in trouble with their parents. I recognized him as the wolf that recently moved here a few days ago. Usually he shot hoops by himself next to the spot I was getting bullied

"It's Ok, and no need to feel sorry, I just did what I did what I thought was right no need to thank me and my grandfather taught me to some of the stuff that I did, he was in the military" he said with pride pointing to his dog tags around his neck that looked way too big for him. His expression turned to one of frustration and anger "I hate it when other furs like that tease and bully other furs because they are a bit different... I used to go through the same thing at my other school and got into a lot of fights that's why I moved here to hopefully get away from all that...but I guess butt faces like that are here too" I giggled at his insult to the other kids

"Thanks for the assist... wait what's your name?" I said blushing kinda embarrassed I didn't ask sooner. The brown wolf giggled seeing my blush

"It's Benedict but please call me Ben if you don't want to make me mad...what's yours?"

"Wouldn't dream of it...names Dillon but please call me Dil...I only allow friends and family call me Dil so can I call you my friend?" Ben smiled

"Yeah sure Dil you seem pretty cool...by the way is that a Transformers shirt?" Before I could answer yes and question him further on the subject we were shushed by the teachers that were escorting us to the office. We both mouthed 'talk more later' nodded then rushed to the group that we were beginning to fall away from and into the principal's office...I shivered when I pictured my father's reaction, Dad wasn't going to be happy about all this...