SM:Keep Crossing The Road
From Create Your Own Story
With strength born of desperation, you continue across the road at top speed. You think you're going to make it... and then you feel the corner of the car strike your hip as the driver desperately swerves to try and avoid you.
You are spun sideways and fall hard onto your back as you reach the other side of the street. The pain in your back is immense and you can't seem to move.
"Wow! Thanks!" the child squeals as she happily runs off. You look straight at the sun... and suddenly the sun seems to dissolve into a pure, blindingly white light.
As silence sets in, the blinding light is gone too. You find that you stand in some sort of white void. Your body seems to be healed!
"Thank you... " a voice says, eminating from behind you. The same voice you had heard an hour ago when you made your bargain.
You turn and find yourself looking at a hooded white cloak with a featureless, black porcelain mask where the face would be. It floats off the ground, has no body or discernable form, and within the white voids behind its' eyes you can sense a strong malevolent force as well as a deep hatred... for you.
"Thank you for saving that girl. Your act of selflessness gave me the strength I needed to break free of the mask my corrupt, twisted half sealed me in," the spirit says as you feel both joy and warmth flowing out from it.
"What happened to your other half?" you ask, but looking into its' eyes you think you know the answer before the spirit even responds.
"I have sealed it away. In time... It will break free again. Too twisted and single-minded, it will be unable to learn from its' mistake today so that I only need someone else like you to save a life and set me free again. But I do not expect that to happen for some time."
"What happens now, though?" you say while looking around the void. It's a nice place to visit but you aren't sure you want to stay.
"That is up to you. You have fulfilled your contract, but I do not wish to force upon you that which you may not want anymore. I'll leave the choice to you: do you want me to restore you to live, or allow you to pass unhindered into the afterlife?"
You consider your options once more now that passing into the afterlife is in the table again. You did all this for a chance to live, but what is waiting for you on the other side? You'd have to think carefully about this decision.
The End: You have saved a life, and freed a spirit. The only thing that remains is to choose to life again, or move on and see what the afterlife has to offer you... but that is another story entirely.
