In a place, the grounds were dusty, the houses and mansion were broken, some had grasses covering them and their walls were broken, the whole town looked deserted and dry with no single soul moving around, it looked…
Wait there's something moving, they were ghouls walking around the streets. On my, this was the barrier, it was replica of the land of the living but more deserted just like a cemetery.
Deep in the forest was a very tall bent building, it looked scary as lightening struck repeatedly at the top of it and there were reapers moving around the building. It was dark inside except for the few lamps that were kept, and there were more grim reapers in their reaper form with their scythe in their hands. In the living world, the powerful were the Elite vampires, vampires, elite humans and then poor human but here at the barrier, it was the hawnets, the grim reapers, reapers, ghouls and then lost souls.
The Hawneys were just three, Crane, Wilson and Opliore. The grim reapers had card numbers and they were twelve of them.
The first card grim reaper was Guilt, the whisperer, he could hypnotise people and make them do according to his will.
The second card grim reaper was Barron, the bringer of all kind of sicknesses
The third was Katherine, the timekeeper
The fourth and fifth were Lucian and Walter, the gate keepers
The sixth was Rower, the one who brings dead souls who have been brought safely by their reapers to the land of the dead, he stays in his boat at the forbidden river that leads to the land of the dead. And for him to take any soul to the other side, the souls reaper will need to drop a coin to Rower
The seventh was Dylan, the bringer of death
The eighth was Devin
Ninth was Evelyn
Tenth was Moore
The eleventh was Creed and
Twelfth was Elliot, he was the highest reaper as he was made by the highest Hawnet, Crane. The most powerful grim reapers, Guilt, Lucian, Walter, Barron, Rower, Dylan and Elliot were the ones closer to the Hawnets and each of them were under a specific Hawnet. Elliot, Guilt, Barron and Rower were from Crane, Dylan and Katherine were from Wilson and the gate keepers were from Opliore.
The other reapers lower than the grim reapers aspired to be one but the only way to reach that was either the grim reaper in that position has been sent to oblivion and needs to be replaced or the grim reaper in that position has committed an offence, a bounty will be placed on his head and whoever gets him will get his/her position.
Now that was the case for the twelfth card grim reaper who was Elliot, Opliore has promised that whoever finds him and bring him back to the barrier shall be given his position
"No news about him yet?" A voice spoke in a certain room, the whole room smelt like death. The voice belonged to Crane, the highest Hawnet, he gave a powerful aura around him, he had a tall figure with long grey beards, to a human, he would look like he was in his late sixties. Although he looked old but one could see that he was still strong.
"No news yet, Crane" Guilt said. He on other hand, looked young with silver shoulder length hair, onyx eyes that gave the mysterious look.
"Where will he be then? Have you checked the special girl he was assigned to look after?"
"I personally went there but there wasn't any sign of him, and if he was, his scent was hidden properly"
"How is he able to hide even his scent" Crane asked
"He's your favourite so obviously, he had learnt that smartness from you" Guilt said
"I never thought him that"
"He might have learnt it secretly, for situations like this"
"We need to find him before any other does because even I wouldn't be able to stop him from being sent to oblivion"
"Do you actually believe he committed such offence or he was framed" Guilt asked
"I do trust him and I know that he had never commuted an offence without good reason"
"Then who do you suspect framed him, is it Katharine cause she would know who tamper with his time"
"I can say and we can't question her without any prove but just keep searching cause we must get yo him before any other reaper does, you should take Barron with you, it will make the search easier"
"I'll send for Barron immediately"
"You two will go look for him while I try to find prove of his innocence here"
"I'll do as said" and with that Guilt left his presence
"I'll have to search for him myself" Crane whispered to himself as Guilt left. Crane liked Elliot so much that he became his favorite among the other four grim reapers under him. Elliot was so good in his jobs as a reaper that Crane had given him the position of the twelfth card grim reaper, who was the only reaper that can reap reapers except for the Hawnets.
The next second, Crane was at the land of the living, he was at the cemetery at Borreve, unknown to him, Dylan was also at the land of the living. He was also sent by his master, Wilson to search for Elliot and he had been here for three years which he has been able to successfully get himself to be a duke. Wilson hated Elliot for being Crane's favourite and also having the ability of a Hawnet, he was finally happy as there was a chance to eliminate Elliot forever. Dylan who was at Borreve as a duke has also failed in the search for Elliot, hegoes back to the barrier every week to give back updates.
Crane who had appeared in his human form walked out of the cemetery towards the center town, he was really tall, above average height for humans and that got most vampires who walked on the streets to turn and give him second looks. Crane only stopped walking when he came in front of a building ' Evelyn's Dance School'. He went into the building, passed the main hall where there were students practicing dance steps and this caused the most of the girls to stop. Even through he looked in his late fifties in human form, he was still an attractive man. He ignored all those and went into the inner room, he didn't bother knocking and just went inside.
Evelyn sat on her chair and when she saw him, she bowed. Evelyn was a tall woman, with slim statue, full lips, red hair and gray eyes.
"Crane" she said as she bowed "what's brings you to the living world"
"The search for Elliot as always" he said making himself comfortable on the sofa in the office
"I haven't come across him"
"Have you checked with the girl he was assigned to look after?"
"Occasionally, I visit Bougreve but it seems like the girl had left"
"He was last seen here, in Borreve"
"Yeah, but I can't trace his scent anywhere around"
"The demon is on this land right?" Crane asked
"Yes?" Evelyn answered confused
"We can get information by watching him"
"How"
"The girl that was to be kept safe by Elliot is the same girl that can kill the demon, he has the girl already from what you had reported lately"
"And how does that help is in finding Elliot"
"You need to be smart to move with people like Elliot" Crane knew that Evelyn had feelings for Elliot so she was desperate in helping him look for him. She just rolled her eyes at his statement
"The only way to find Elliot is to find the girl and to find the girl, we stick to the demon. So stick to Xavier to find Elliot"
"Oh" she said after realising "So I should keep an eye on the Lord?"
"No, I'll get Guilt and Barron for that, you would keep an eyes on the girl"
"but Crane, if really Elliot is with the girl, will it be keep him from her as you said, he is meant to keep her safe"
"We aren't doing this to take him away from her, just to know where he is first"
"You really care for your favourite" she stated
"I do" he admitted and apparated from her sight back to the barrier. Evelyn was the ninth card grim reaper and also the reaper in charge of Borreve. Each land has its reaper assigned to it unknown to the living in it, Moore was in Rivelle, Devin was in Bougreve and Creed was in Poetwyth.
Evelyn who just sat was thinking of a way to get close to Hazel, she had kept a watch on her from afar and now she had to get closer to her