I was your average everyday electricians apprentice suffering from Major Depression Disorder, extreme anxiety, insomnia and PTSD.

Awakening to find myself floating in a void of nothingness, I look down at my hands they're translucent and pale. They look skinny, malnourished and sickly just like how I feel on the inside. My first thought was that I was dead…. It's the only explanation.

My second thoughts are of my family and how they are going to survive, my hardworking and loving step-father who has supported me throughout life. Even after the "incident" he always supplied what I wanted and needed. My loving Mother who sits up with me all night and looks after me while I suffer my panic attacks and drags herself to work as well. My autistic little brother who needs help but is to stubborn or forgetful to schedule any appointments. How are they going to make ends meat without me? I never even finished my hours for my E2 journeyman's license..

I have so many more things to do I can't be dead! My heart starts to race, my chest aches as my adrenaline flows through my veins. My increased heartbeat makes my blood pressure rise leading to a headache. I start to hyper ventilate worsening the pain I feel in my chest. I start to black out…

I wake up again just in time to see a spiraling black, red, and pink portal open up not more than 10 feet in front of me. As I stare at the portal bewildered out walks Calliope Mori wielding her scythe.

"Who are you?" I ask nervously. Starting to blush just being near such an attractive female. Mori just stares at me coldly, like she couldn't care less about my existence. " Why who else would I be other than Death, the Grim Reaper himself?" I pause the non-existent air catching in my throat as I hear her words. Time stops…. My thoughts start to race again trying to think of a way out of this situation I find myself in.

"So what happens now that I'm dead ?"

"Heaven?"

"hell?"

"Do they even exist?!?!?"

I ask, beginning in a whisper and ending in a thundering roar that shook the space around us. My thoughts racing faster than the electron molecule traveling through copper wire.

"Hahahah…. Exist? Of course they do…. But your time is up, I'm going to swallow your soul to become stronger. Normally I would give you the option of being reincarnation in a new world with you're memory's, or the same world with everything reset your soul power, physique, mental strength. But you seem to be decently powerful so I decided to eat you in order to increase my own strength."

"Wait!! Hold on for a second. You just said you are Death, The Grim Reaper HIMSELF? Correct?" My mouth moves before my brain can register what sounds I was even making. Calliope stops and stares at me for a few seconds before disappearing. The next moment I notice her in front of me, mid-swing with her scythe about to lob off my head. I was stunned, I couldn't even react to her movements. We both appear to only be frozen in space, but I can see Mori Calliope trembling. Almost as if she is struggling to break free from the weird force that is obstructing our movement. A mysterious vibrant yellow, grey, and black wooden door manifests out of thin air toward our right drawing both of our attention. It's not the sudden appearance of the door that bother me, but the pressure that's being emitted from the door. It feels weight crushing and makes me want to collapse and give up. But also that same force is what is keeping me standing at the same time.