Chapter 1: Welcome to SoulsPoint

Nice to Meet You
    “I know the funeral has been over for an hour, I just want to sit a little bit longer is that okay?” a young man argues over the phone.
    “Peter, I know this is hard for you to understand but…” the phone goes out. 
“Hello? Aunt May? Damn must have lost service” Peter puts his phone away as he looks at his mother's casket. “Mom, I wish I could have gotten here sooner, I wish…” he stops speaking as he hears something behind him he turns around quickly, but he sees that nothing is there. He continues to look at his mother's grave fighting back small tears. He takes a deep breath as he gently says “Bye mom” he walks away, but before he could take another step something knocks him over and throws him into tombstone. 
He jumps up only to see something crawl into an empty grave. “What the hell was that?” He slowly makes his way to it only to be tackled to the ground. As he struggles he feels something sink into his back and his body begins to glow. He can't get a look at the creature he could just feel something inside of him. The glow around his begins to dim he feels himself passing out until the creature is blasted off of him. 
“Stay down!” Peter looks up to see a young woman with glowing hands blast the creature again. “Mars!” She calls out to someone and someone leaps from across the graveyard like a panther and onto the creature clawing at it. Peter slowly feels himself passing out, “Markus, you’re on!” she says as someone comes to pick Peter up.
“You’re going to be okay” they start to carry him off, but Peter can’t take his eyes off the person who attacked the creature his body was glowing a dark purple, and he was emitting a very powerful aura that was taking the shape of a black panther. The creature is able to free itself from him and vanish into a black light.
“Damn it!” Mars said as the aura slowly vanishes from him.
“Mars over here!” Mars takes one last look to see if he can see the creature, when he realizes that it’s truly gone he runs over to them. 
“How is he doing, Ruby?” he asked her and Peter’s body slowly regains it’s glow.
“He’ll be fine, the soul eater wasn’t attached to him long enough to do any real damaged” Ruby said as Peter slowly comes to.
“So it’s true” Peter said weakly as he looks up and straight to Mars. “There is a soul bearer in this town” Peter stands up as he looks at Markus and Ruby then back to Mars. “Nice to meet you” Peter holds out his hand, but Mars just stares at it as he crosses his arms and begins to walk away, but not before he says.
“Welcome to SoulsPoint”.
A Mission
    Mars, Ruby and Markus head to small coffee shop while Peter follows them. “What do you want? This is not a story you can’t just follow people around, if anything that’s how horror movies begin” Mars asked him as they all sit down.
    “I just wanna talk that’s all” he takes a pause before taking a deep breath, “My mom was one...a soul bearer” he said as he looks at Mars.
    “I feel that a mystery or conspiracy is at the edge of your lips” Ruby said as she lifts up her hand and looks into her palm.
    “Well it’s not really a conspiracy, I’m just on a mission to deliver a message that’s all” Peter said while Mars just looks at him unmoved.
    “We can talk later, but now I gotta go. I got class in the morning” Mars gets up and walks away from them while Peter, Markus and Ruby are left alone at the table. Peter just sits with them in silence as Mars vanishes from their view.
    “Is he always like this?” Peter asked Ruby as she just feels on Markus’ shoulder.
    “Yes, but only to new people holding a secret” Ruby tells him as car crash happens in the back, he turns around to look at it. 
    “Damn” he turns back around quickly only to see that Ruby and Markus have vanished.
Familiar Soul 
    Mars is walking back home, but he is stopped by something, a familiar soul. “Not in the mood, Julian” Mars said as a glowing grey wolf appears in front of him. “Really Julian” Mars says annoyed, the wolf howls and Mars just stands there. “I’m not talking to Balto” Mars says as Balto disappears.
    “You are never any fun” Julian appears nears the wolf as it fades into a light grey fog.
    “Anything you have to say to me, you say it to my face. You’re not that cool” Mars grins as Julian just nods his head smiling.
    “That’s because you won’t let me be” Julian says as Mars continues to walk.
    “Come on Marshall” Julian begins to walk with him.
    “Just because you are the only one who calls me Marshall instead of Mars doesn’t mean that you’re cool” Mars keeps walks as Julian just smiles.
    “You know for a person with fiery soul energy, you are pretty cold” he chuckles as Mars just continues to walk.
    “You also seem to forget, Julian. I also have shadow soul energy” Mars said to him, “Also, be on the lookout there is a soul ripper lurking around town tonight. It got away before I could kill it so if you see it please deal with it for me” Mars pulls out his phone and begins to text someone.
    “What do I get out of it?” Julian steps in front of him.
    “A safer town, and we’ve already been down this road. We just don’t fit” Mars says with a solid expression.
    “In what ways?” Julian grins.
    “I’m so done with you” Mars burst out in laughter.
    “Nice to know I can still make you laugh, but I’ll keep a look out for this thing” Julian says to him.
    “Thanks”
    “So, do you want me to walk with you?” Julian asks him while Mars just grins.
    “Only if you can fly” Mars begin to glow a dark purple as the silhouette of an owl appears around him “I’ll catch you later, but I gotta fly” he smiles as he lifts into the sky and flies away.
    “Hmmmm, not as a cool as a pack of wolves though” Julian says a Baltom manifest besides him, “Awww so you wanna walk with me” he says as Balto lets out a tiring howl and fades away. “Guess I’m on my own” Julian begins to walk, but unknowingly to him a strange black cat watches him.
    It lets out a soft “Meow” before it disappears into the darkness. 
Soft Landing
    Mars continues to fly through the sky taking in the view of SoulsPoint from way up. “It looks peaceful tonight, minus that soul ripper” Mars says to himself as the breeze hits him and he smiles. Though it’s not too long before he feels something hit him, he tries to brush it off, but he can’t “What the hell?” he panics as a huge ball of energy knocks him out of the sky. He tries to regain his balance, but it’s too late he crashes in the park.
    “Talk about a soft landing” Mars said as he slowly gets up. “Damn it” he brushes himself, but only a matter of seconds that he could something was near him, something dark. He turns around quickly only to see the soul ripper lunge at him.

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