mark by the grim reaper’s blade
life hasn’t always been easy on me, my name well been long since I hear someone call me by it , shi-yoon is my name and yes I’ve been born to Korea been living with my mother and sisters , I don’t have a dad he mysteriously disappeared a certain night leaving me and mother alone at that time I was just seven years old and well my little sister was just one month old and I thought that everything will go well but my life got hell when I got on grade 8 , I got bullied and stepped by , but I didn’t want to cause mother more pain so I keep quiet about my wounds and pain that wasn’t going so bad ,not until I wake up in the middle of the night feeling a dry throat I decided to go drink water I saw mother had fall asleep to the living room couch…again, I simply cover her and my sister, when I look up I saw a news report about dimensions portal find behind a mountain waterfall but I shut the tv and goes drink water.
but ever since no one life was the same every day was torture, neither I could understand it, the neighbor would wake up crying that they lose their most younger child or their mother, I got scare but I didn’t want to think about this, after all everyone have different lives, but I regret not caring about that ,
during a boring afternoon I come back home through the way people push over running around and screaming i stay still , that was my house direction “ no!” I start running looking the sky was more portals “ no…no!” I run as fast as I can when I arrive at the house the scent and scene was mortifying and terrifying I feel stuck couldn’t move closer but there she was mother and sister being drag into the portal , my mother was wound and my sister crying and struggling “ but I couldn’t move!” I struggled and force my foot “ move! MOVE! SHI-YOON MOVE!” I scream internally then I start running towards them trying to grab my mother and sister’s arms “ SHI-yoon!” my mother calls out trying to grab my arms too but too late they had disappeared into the portal the only thing they had stay was my sister black bracelet and a paper from my mother’s clothes i kneel down crying my heart out until I couldn’t anymore, the only person who was there for me, the only family I had , had just disappeared in front of my eyes, I feel internally sick and broken, I couldn’t scream anymore couldn’t even think anymore,
I get up and walk towards the now empty house the monster had ravaged it leaving nothing behind only a broken house I walk towards my mother’s room seeing our old family picture make me cry out again “ MOTHER! sister!” because of me…, if only I had move faster if only I had run faster I could have help them but I had just stand there.
days turn into weeks and my life got out of control I had to run away each time they were a other attack I grow thin and was now the one the bullies followed and hit, I was their punching bag and nothing, then one night I had enough of everything enough of life then I went towards a deep lake I saw my mother smile on the water I hear my sister voice calling me and I tear up I just couldn’t get any more and so I walk back and then run back and jump into the water I curl in a feotus position and let the cold carry me I wanted nothing more then to sleep , then I saw it a dark eye looking me I got scare and start swimming back up but I felt tired and passed out once I wake up someone had carry me back up on earth I breath hardly trying to feel if I was alive the I saw him standing in front of me a tall dark cloud on a human form with a scythe, I close my eye “ is it my time?” I ask , he then answers no and presses a finger on my forehead it hurts , when I open my eye he wasn’t there anymore , then I get up and walk back towards my old shattered house and walk towards mothers room I found a small box and the fold paper I had left there I decided to open it and saw what was inside and it was hard to tell , a old language and letters.
