Beginning of Fate

Shawn, an innocent 11-year-old boy who believed that he had the happiest life with the happiest family. A loving and caring parents who always had time for them, and a little brother named Mike who had always looked up to him. They often went on a family bonding.

One day, Shawn went to his friend's house to play. When he went home, he saw that there were a lot of people gathered in front of their house, there were also police cars, an ambulance and fire trucks. He went closer to see what was happening, then his face filled with horror when he saw their house burning. He ran towards their house crying, looking for his parents and his brother, but got stopped by a police. He kept screaming and begging them to save his family.

But then he fell into despair when the firefighters carried out two completely burnt bodies of adults.

When the fire has been put out, Shawn asked the police lifelessly "What about Mike?" The police looked at each other confused and then asked him who Mike is, and he responded "My little brother."

"How old is Mike?"

"He is 8."

Then the police went to ask the others to help find Mike. But after looking for a while they found nothing. Shawn cried more and more.

While Shawn sat there depressed, a man in his 40's went to his side and spoke, "Your brother is probably dead." Shawn looked at him.

"If he's lucky enough to live, he's probably been kidnapped by the people who killed your parents."

"Huh? Kidnapped? People killed my parents? What do you mean?"

The man explained to him that the fire wasn't an accident, that his parents were killed by a gang called Dark Horse. Then he offered his hand to Shawn and asked "Will you avenge your parents' death and take you brother back, or will you just let them hurt a lot more people and your brother?" Shawn hesitated for bit but accepted the man's offer.

The man brought Shawn with him, and trained him. He had an intense training day after day after day.

10 years later, he has become an assassin, he had killed people he's ordered to. Because of that, he became well known to other gangs and mafias as "The Reaper."

And the day he's been waiting for finally came, he was ordered to assassinate the leader of the Dark Horse Gang. All the Dark Horse members present at the their base were down on the ground lifeless, blood was everywhere. The only ones left were the leader of the gang and his right man. Shawn pointed his sword at the leader and asked him sternly "Where's my brother?!"

"Brother? What brother?" was the leader's response.

"My brother who you kidnapped after killing our parents and burning our house 10 years ago!" Shawn shouted.

"I don't know what you're talking abo..." he paused after he realized it, and then he laughed and said "Oh, that brat. He's not here, kid."

"Then where is he?!"

"I don't know. He must be in heaven now... or maybe in hell." He laughed and continued "My men must've killed him somewhere after escaping. Haa, that brat was f***ing stubbo..."

Before he could finish his words, his and his right man's heads got separated from their bodies. Shawn stood there thinking that he had finally avenged his family. Then a gunshots were heard from behind, one after another after another, until he fell on his knees. He released a sigh of relief, "I can finally see you all, again." were his last words before he fell to the ground and drew his last breath.

Shawn woke up in a very bright place. He looked around and saw nothing but white. Then a lady's voice suddenly greeted him, he looked everywhere but found no one. "Who's there? Where am I? Am I... in the afterlife?" he asked.

"No. You're not in the afterlife yet, Shawn. You're in the spirit realm."

"Spirit realm? Why am I here?"

"You're were sent here because you've done things you must not have."

"But I just did that for a reason!" he argued.

"And now you're here because of that reason."

Shawn couldn't argue back knowing that she was right. "For you to go where you want to go, you must do something." the lady continued. "What is it that I must do?" he asked.

15 years had past after that, Shawn had become one of the spirit realm guardians that maintains balance in the spirit world, and his hair turned white as a sign of being a guardian.

Shawn was sitting on a tree branch admiring the moon, and thinking of what the mysterious lady told him that he must do, "Losing something I treasure the most... What more do I have to lose? I've got nothing left."

Then a gust of wind suddenly hit him, like it has told him something. After that, he rushed to where the wind came from, and that led him to a spirit that was about to attack a living girl. So he swung his sword and hit the spirit. That spirit was slowly disappearing into glowing particles. He approached the girl and asked her, "Are you... alright?" The girl did not respond and just stared at him with a shock look on her face.

Meanwhile, A lady from another place, with white glowing eyes and white hair, surrounded with will-o'-the-wisps, suddenly spoke to herself, "This is where your fate... begins."

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