It's just the End or the Beginning

"Hello. You must be new. Tell me do you fell tired, confused, foggy headed? Yes? Well don't worry it'll be gone soon. But there's something you need to know. Your dead. Now don't worry your fine now, you died from the bullets before the car hit you. Now your in the after life, but it's called Other Life. It's called Other Life because people live in both worlds like they have another life, but can't tell the humaniods, humaniods are just regular humans on every planted that's inhabited with regular, non-special people, so people won't use the word alien when they visit other planets. Other Life expands over into the other realm, plane, dimension, or what ever it's being called now except that there's a barrier so that not too many mad entities go and mes with the humaniods and a war breaks out. Too messy.Every one in the Other Life works or goes to school. I don't think you would what to go to the Other Life schools. The classes are the toughest take all of the home work from the top colleges and multiply the work load by 30 and the difficult level and multiply that by 150. And that's one nights load of homework of the easiest class. Not you? Then let me list the jobs you can do and an over look of every thing, if one sounds interesting let me know. First the gate keepers. The gates are simple when your body fully dies your soul appears at one of the gates, some times you appear in a line. A gate keeper will for your name and religion, the religion is so souls are sorted and your name is for a count of who and how many are died. Neither heaven or Hell are what they're said about. Heaven is were judgment takes place and is protected by magic. Hell is the weapons market and were the army and the 5 S.W.A.T. teams are placed at when there isn't any wars. Neither is more powerful then the other, remember that.You can be involved with killing people. First there's a book with every one's life and death information, it flips to the next person who's going to die, scribes record the the name, date, time, and the way the person is to die sends it to a collector and a group of staggers.The collectors collect souls or runs errands for people and staggers go back and forth through time to stage a death. No? Well your young and fit looking so you can be in the Triad. It's a giant youth group that has kids be in groups of three consisting of 1 demon, 1 angle, and 1 humanoid chosen by the angel and demon. the Triad is the majority of the police force secret services and intelligence of Other Life, can cross over to the other side at will, and they also helps to kill a person when a likely-cause-of-death isn't found. There are mausoleums were you can help the unresting keep close to their burial site or to release their souls to the Other Life. A pretty easy job since the teams don't range more than four and they get a whole cemetery or two. . . .

I couldn't hear the rest, and he was fading from the start. Should I ask the questions I have like "Should I remember my death?" "My life?" "My name?"that reminds me I should contact Sam. she has been freaking about what will happen to her conscience when she dies.

"Hey mister!"

So dizzy, pace your self, no yelling, or sudden movements for a while.

"Yes?"

"C-can I contact a living friend of mine? She's younger than me and freaks out about dieing.I wont to tell her it's nothing to worry about

"Ahhh, well I can't have you talk to you directly, but I can have you send a message to her. Do you two know something between you two that no one else knows like like an event or a joke, so she knows that it's from you."

"No."

Great. Now Sam's going to have anxiety attacks with no one to comfort her unless Haven visits Sam a week early. Now what did he say about dead and living kids?

"Do were-wolves and vampires count as demons?"

"It would have to be a very powerful were-wolf or vampire to be a demon, unless it is a hybrid of the two a were-wolf and vampire hybrid is considered a demon no matter how weak it is."

"Is it legal to have camps to make hybrids of were-wolf and vampires?"

" No it isn't. Were trying to stop the spread of them, and shut them down. Why do you know one?

"How do I sign up to be in the Triad?"

Debreifing

**C.A.A.T.O.G.--Cyborg adolescent assassins training outside all governments.**

"O.K. tell me what happened at the fire arms trade."

"The security and the arrival of the fire arms went as planned. But when I went to trade with the Mafia one of my friends, Victoria, fallowed me out to the trading area the guards opened fire and the Mafia group decided to leave because they thought that we were firing at them, and purposely ran over Victoria. In the end we don't have the fire arms and equipment for the next round of missions and we had a body that had been ran over and shot at with no explanation." Christina hung her head and waited for the punishment to come.

"This is bad." The leader of the newest Vampire Were-wolf hybrid training camp was upset. Only once was the leader of this camp lost her temper and that was when she was known commonly as Hellen and that was when the town she lived in was bombed and no one knew were her children were. Now she barely got mad with any one at any situation."We'll have to trade with the Mafia on their territory and thanks to C.A.A.T.O.G. no one in the Mafia, and evil rich man or evil business man, nor any one that works for the government will trust any adolescent that pops up at the last second.

"This will push 15 missions and training back weeks. The punishment for some one that caused some thing like this would be cleaning the toilets for 3 weeks, no combat training for 2 weeks, no blood-coffee for 4 weeks just straight blood,"No.Pleaded Christina in her mind Not the blood-coffee that is the only way any one will drink blood. If we don't drink blood we'll get weak, not drinking blood long enough and we'll wither away and dead."and that person will be the punching bag for the 60 hybrids that will have the extra training time. But the cameras we placed around the trading area show that your friend fallowed you on her own will at the last second, so all you have to worry about is all of the hybrids that will what to show you their anger."

That will be easy. Thought ChristinaI'm working in the caves with the blood giving humaniods and all of my training group. Any older hybrid that isn't serving a punishment will be sent to kitchen duties.

"Before I forget. I will need two new recruits to be hybrids so I will know that I can still trust you."

Christina smiles "I know just the two."

The More Aftershocks the Better?

Twelve South facing thirty foot open windows letting in a warm breeze and the smell of the apple blossoms form the orchard next door. Filing out was the sound of Bac, Beethoven, Cannon by Johann Pachelbel, Mozart, and other songs from classical composers played by a girl with icy cold water dripping down her back and onto her shirt and shoulders while a ballerina danced along with the songs and a brother and a friend sat, listened, and watched, while the brother is also thinking. This had been going on all day for 4 days

The wet girl that was playing the piano is named Sam. Sam is a 7 year old American living in New York City with her American Dad during school terms and lives with her brother Anthony and supposedly her English Mother in England during Summer Holiday. The ballerina's name is Haven. Haven is of Spanish/German/French/Austrian descendant but moved to the U.K. at the age of 4 with her mother and father but her mother died a year later. Haven is now 8 1/2, loves dancing, and is the only friend Sam has since Victoria's death. The brother, Sam's brother, is 16 year old Anthony who lives in the family estate in the U.K. since he was 13 years old. Lucifar is Anothny's friend. Lucifar is an orphan living on his own with a huge inheritance since he's the only living member of his successful family who is also 16. Now the parents, -_- sigh I feel sorry for the children. Sam and Anothny's parents are two levels down from being CEO's of Practical and Elegant Architect and Steven and Stacy's Fashion and Design. They call their father by Heath the only time they see him is on vacations and holidays while Sam is dragged in on Saturdays. Their Mother is Mother, but also known as Catherin and Sam doesn't seen her for more than an hour when it isn't a holiday or a family gathering, but Mother usually brings work home for a few days when Sam isn't at the Family estate she sometimes uses the house as show rooms and Anthony for a model. Sam's Mother doesn't like Sam, she's angry and scared of Sam and she keeps her distance from Sam because of an accident when Sam was 4 and moved to England and took Anthony with her. Haven's parents are Spanish/German and French/Austrian who fell in love during a school trip to Italy, married after finishing school, and moved to England because of witness protection, but Haven's mother got shot and died. Haven's father worked with Catherin so Haven lived at the estate while her father went to Steven and Stacy's Fashion and Design HQ in Austria, where he is now but is on a business trip.

Since Victoria's death Haven has been endlessly practicing her dance routine and viola part for an ensemble. She practices for 19 hours a day and sleeps for 4, since it's summer holiday in England Lucifar has been put in charge of her, and things haven't gotten any better. When someone told Sam that Victoria died Sam wouldn't have reacted as bad as she did, but the person that told her didn't just tell her that Victoria died they described Victoria's body worse than it was and described how she died to make her death intentional instead of accidental. Sam went to the most isolated place she was allowed at school and stayed there until her Father picked her up an hour later. She locked herself in her room in New York City for 3 days on the morning of day 4 Her father found her in the bathroom with her head totally submerged in water of 40 degrease and the temperature of the room was 35 degrease and was still dropping. Then She was sent to the family estate after Victoria's funeral were Anthony could keep an eye on her for the whole day For the next 2 days Sam drifted from room to room staring at a TV, a wall, out a window, anything the was in her sight, until they found her again in a bathroom with the same water temperature and the same room temperature happening again every one thought that Sam was trying to kill herself. But this time Sam went straight to the music room and started to play the organ and rehearse her dance routine with the same constant force that was making Haven dance and play the viola.

That brings us to this morning when Anthony found Sam eating an apple in the small kitchen. Anthony noticed that Sam's hair was wet so he thought that Sam took a shower and was getting something to eat, until he put his hand on her head and awoke to the cold temperature of Sam's hair was Anthony grabbed her arm and felt that her arm was also cold, he was going to scold her, but he was confused because she was acting as if was a normal day. Anthony told Lucifar what he found and his thoughts about Sam's state of mind, and that was the only thing said that day between the four of them.

"Christina e-mailed me few days ago telling me about two openings in a camp and asked if Haven and I could go and join her since Victoria can't join her now. Do you think our parents will lets us go?"

Thing was the first time one of the two girls talked since Victoria's death.

"If you stop trying to kill your self Heath will think about it."Replied Anthony.

"I am not trying to kill myself, I am trying to shock myself out of depression and to make myself think clearly. I got the idea out of a book I read.It has been working hasn't it?."

Lucifar and Anthony looked at her in disbelief.

"Observe." Sam took a bucket from her side that is filled with the water from this morning. She walked to the dance floor waiting until Haven danced close to her, when Haven reached Sam she dumped the bucket of ice cold water onto Haven. Haven instantly stopped, wiped some water out of her eyes.

"What poss-" Sam turned the bucket upside down and and put it on Haven's head before she could say any more, turned, and asked "Any questions?"

It just Doesn't Seem Right

***Sorry for telling you this late reader, but I wont use many last names, and sorry if I confuse the last names. I have never been that good with names.***

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Bam!"Taken."Bam!"Taken."Bam!"Here we go, you can sleep here."

Victoria looked in the room. "Sargent Miansan this room looks full."

"I guess you didn't look hard enough."

Victoria fully enters the room. "But there couldn't-." she walks towards the wall. "It's an optical allusion. I see people in After Life use..." Vitoria turns to the second closes wall"tricks. The bed was always hidden behind the door wasn't it." Sargent Miansan nodded

"You could learn a few new things in the Other Life, couldn't you?" Sargent Miansan remarked.

"Yeah like looking around your surroundings. Hey is there like a trading post or a place to get stuff like sheets, clothing, a watch, and an alarm clock?"

"Yes there is. When you are in the mess hall there's a window for the Lost and Found you pick up your stuff from there during lunch. don't get too comfy your going to get tested to see what your limits are and what abilities are for the next 4-6 months. Don't worry if things appear or disappear it happens, they leave on there own, they're magical." Sargent Miansan chuckled and walked away.

This is so weird. I have to be dreaming. The after life is too organized, it's more organized than the O.C.D. people that are on T.V..Over 50 percent of the population is either in a boot camp, that army, law enforcement, weaponry and technology, or in one of the five S.W.A.T.branches. Which range between 1,000-2,000 in each branch! This is insane!!!Shouldn't the after life be about rest and relaxation? Paradise? Not a Sargent banning doors open to see if there's a bed open. And were do bad people go to when they die to be punished for eternity? Like Hell?!? After I said that I wonted to be in the Triad Jerry said that Heaven and Hell started like that and every thing changed but he didn't say why or how. He just took me straight to Sargent Miansan. I'll ask when I get my stuff. I hope Haven and Sam are O.K. When and were is lunch?

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"I can't believe they changed the judging in the competition." Complained Sam

" 'We will now judge the music and the dance performances separate , but we will still have them perform at the same time as usual. this is because either the dance routine in an interpretation of of the music, or the music was an interpretation of the dance routine which causes the dancer, the musician, or both to be scored lower than what they could be if they showed their full talent.' That crushed many teams that make their own music and pair the dancing and the music as one. I saw two teams walk straight out after the judge made that announcement." Noted Haven.

"Will you two stop complaining, you cut your ranking in half this year, and it wasn't because of the extra practice you guys had." Anthony pointed out

"But we signed up as a team." Defended Sam." If they're scoring us individually then why did we perform together, and they could have told us a few weeks before or wait until the performance was over because that announcement made every one 3x as nervous.O.K., true that we cut our ranking in half, but Haven and I are 5 places apart, and haven Practiced longer and harder than I did and I ranked higher than she did. She should be in the same place as I am."

"Sam, your a better dancer than I am. You have the durability and flexibility that many dancers train for years to get so they can dance through the most difficult and the most unnatural feeling positions and you look like you do them with ease."

"Either that or her music abilities." Lucifar finally chimed in. "Your hand positions on the organ are close to expert, they're almost the same as your Organ teacher's, and you can stretch your hands to play cords for multiple moods. Plus your the youngest performer in the contest."

"Yeah, but...when I complete a series of difficult chords, or segment of music my hands feel like they have a different shape to them than they normally do. they feel like the muscles are placed differently with extra muscle set in the most unusual ways and different skin placed over them the skin felt like it was breathing. When I do the difficult dance moves I feel as if my body shifts into a very different form then what it should look like. It just doesn't feel right. It feels like someone or something else is doing those moves and positions not me."

Silence filled the car. Anthony tightened his grip on the steering wheel and looked uncomfortable and looking at something distant.

"You were working on the moves and the hand positions when you were going through Victoria's death a sub conscience shock was probably going through you which made you feel different in your mind but not the rest of your body. So when you did something difficult something went of in your mind that changed your normal setting in your mind and since it was only in your mind the rest of your body felt different. Understand?" Explained Lucifar

"Yes." Muttered Sam

"Soooo, what's the 4-1-1 on Sam and I going to Christina's camp?"

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"Don't worry guys you'll fit in quick and you'll get use to the routine of things in the camp. But first we'll have to get you to the campsite. Everything is packed and is in Benjamin's jeep say your good-byes and we'll be on our way." said Christina.Your last good-byes soon to be hybrids

"My Dad is on a business trip so I don't have to say bye to him."

"No one in my family says good-bye so we can just start going."

"Are you O.K. with Sam going to Christina's camp, Anthony?" Asked Lucifar.

"Why do you ask that?"

"You seemed nervous since Sam said that it didn't feel like it was her doing all of the difficult dance and music positions."

"I was thinking of the accident that happened in Suadville. Sam doesn't remember.

"Your worried that it's going to happen again?"

"No. I'm worried that they're not going to control it. Mother will know soon after Sam reaches the camp, but Heath will never know.

Girl meets Boy

Dong, dong, dong.

"Huh? what's with the church bells?" Victoria turned onto her side she saw a boy sitting on one of the other cots playing with a PS3. He looked very familiar.

"Hey dude do you where the mes hall is?" The boy didn't noticed Victoria decided to shout.

"Hey dude!Ga-mer! Do you know where the mess hall is?" Victoria gripped her cot as soon she finished the sentence since and earthquake was happening. Earthquake? There's no earth.A quake? Before Victoria fell asleep she pushed her cot to make a triangle of space between her cot and the corner, now Victoria dove right into the space.

"What the? Oh." The boy finally took notice of the quake and looked over to were he found the new girl and saw her under her cot.He spoke after the quake was over.

"Were you woken up by the quake?"

"No.It happened when I was trying to get your attention. I was woken up by the sound of church bells"

"Sorry. I was wearing earphones and any church bell sounds only come out of the speakers of the PS3.Don't talk too loudly because you probably caused the quake."

"How could I have created the quake?"

"When you die you acquire special abilities, a.k.a. super powers. We all can fly, glow in the dark on command, and go through walls. Others we gain later on, like your volume problem if you go louder then to talk across this room, like now, you'll cause another quake unless you can control it."

While the boy was talking Victoria examined the gamer. He looked to be 14 or 15 almost twice her age, blond, green eyes, peaches and cream color for his skin, freckles that stretch from beyond one check bone over the nose to beyond the other check bone. Semi muscular, wearing a t-shirt, a vest, and well worn jeans.On the floor next to his legs are a pair of boots and a bullet proof vest which could be hidden by the vest he was already wearing. His voice sounded like it was starting to deepen but it was already gravely. All of the characteristics sounded so familiar when put together.

" I know you!" Victoria said too loudly.The room shook for a few moments.

"Keep your voice down! And yes you probably know me from when I was alive. Any kid, teen, and adult with access to a TV, radio, or radio knows me."

Victoria's pace turned pale"Y-your that boy that trapped 500 families in a building including your own and blew it up."

"Yeah. I wasn't the most acceptable child. I don't know what was with me, but the screams, the mess made with blood, guts and flesh, the fear and the knowledge of knowing what kind of scares I could leave just seemed too-too-too. I don't know. It wasn't the power that came with it, and I wasn't seeking attention. It was just the ability of doing that was just my source of happiness."

"But what happen to you? They were showing pictures and film of the families going into the building, the building blowing up and the mountain of rubble. then every one from every were was saying that you died."

"If you look at the date and time of the film when they were showing the film and pictures it was almost a year before, so I had time to do other damage to people on my own will, but soon I needed money so I tortured and scared people for hire. What ended me was I was working for this big and powerful business guy and he wanted to talk to me what he said was that he wanted to keep me for life. He would send me to school, give me my own apartment to live near the school, but I didn't want to stay. I wanted to travel to the big cities. He didn't like that and had his guards and hired men to gun me down but I out ran them and slipped into small dark passages with tools they provided me with to make them not come after me. Well I was going down an alley in L.A. 2 weeks later and I got attacked by a little girl of 6 and was mutilating me while I was still alive and died of having my heart being cut out of me And I had no choice but to watch happen, too. I couldn't believe it either a small girl with green and blue hair and purple eyes came from behind and hit my spinal cord making me paralyze for a moment, but when she drew a huge curved gagged edge knife and started to carve into me and the fear from that kept me paralyze until I was dead. then I saw a guy from the owner that wanted to keep me, that guy hated me the most. He came looked down at me and said something but I couldn't hear him. I think he tracked me down for his boss and got the girl to take me down for him and he probably took the girl to the boss and the girl is living the life I gave up. And you know my first name Ralfial, you can call me Rolo."

Victoria looked at Ralfial in amazement."I know that-"

Ping, ping, ping.

"Will all new persons go to the mess hall for orientation and to pick up supplies."

"I'll take you to the mess hall. They want me to get as many new people as i can and help out with the orientation." Ralfial step into the hall and shouted "All who are going to the orientation better come out and fallow me to the mess hall or your going to stay in the same position your are for the next two days." Kids and teens flooded into the hallway.