Chapter 1: Rinse Repeat Until the End
???: "(depressed) Same day as yesterday."
The girl gets out of a dark green bed.
Alexis: "(in head) Alexis Heartfield. Fifteen years old and straight A student freshman at Cross Academy."
Alexis proceeds downstairs.
Alexis: "(in head) I wake up, eat breakfast, go to school. It's a cycle that will eventually end, and I accept it."
Alexis leaves the dorms to go to school.
Alexis: "(depressed) Hey Amanda."
A blonde girl around Alexis's height rushes to a crosswalk.
Amanda: "(cheerfully) Lighten up Alex!"
Alexis: "(in head) My only friend ever. No one ever talks to me, so someone actually talking to me feels... relieving."
The two arrive at Cross Academy as the bell rings.
Amanda: "(cheerfully) Time for my English test. See you in History."
Alexis: "(in head) Same old classes to go to every day."
Several hours pass as the final bell rings.
Alexis: "(in head) Nothing changes."
Alexis and Amanda meet up at the school gate like always.
Amanda: "Today was like every other day."
Alexis: "(depressed) Yep."
This process repeats every day, until February 3rd, of Alexis's freshman year.
Amanda: "Looks pretty cloudy today. I hope it doesn't rain."
The walk light changes color.
Alexis: "(depressed) Let's get going."
Amanda happily jog across the street as Alexis walks.
Amanda: "(panicking) Look out!"
Several cars in flames rush toward Alexis.
Alexis: "(relieved) Is it over?"
The cars smash into Alexis's sides, snapping her bones in two and burn marks from the flames.
Amanda: "(screaming) ALEXIS!!!!"
Amanda quickly gets help to try a futile effort to save a life as she sees her friend's blood flow towards her as a small river.
Alexis: "(puzzled) Where am I?"
Alexis wakes up in a strange, gray space floating.
Alexis: "Is this the end?"
Alexis looks up to see a golden light.
Alexis: "Is that where I go?"
Alexis begins to move toward the light.
???: "No!"
Alexis: "What the?"
A soul of a boy is moving as fast as he can from the light.
Boy: "I refuse to have never existed!"
The boy bumps into Alexis.
Boy: "You don't want to go there!"
Alexis: "Why?"
Boy: "You lose your very existence!"
Alexis: "(puzzled) How?"
The boy grabs Alexis's hands.
Boy: "We need to soul bond! I'll explain everything afterwards."
Alexis: "I hope this isn't marriage."
Samuel: "My name is Samuel, and don't worry, it's not marriage."
Several golden figures begin descending from the light.
Alexis: "Why am I afraid?!"
Samuel: "Hurry! We don't have much time!"
Alexis: "How do we do this!?"
Samuel: "Just let our souls swing in harmony!"
A faint light surrounds the two.
Samuel: "Just a little more..."
The two vanish in an emerald light and Alexis wakes up in an ambulance.
Alexis: "(weakly) A dream?"
Samuel: "Nope."
Amanda: "(relieved) Thank god you're alright!"
Samuel: "A friend?"
Alexis: "So now I have you in my head?"
Samuel: "Yep. Our souls became one and your body acts as the host."
Alexis: "(in head) Why did we run away?"
Samuel: "I can hears your thoughts."
Alexis: "(in head) Why were you running Samuel?"
Samuel: "I would've lost my very existence and you would've been shortly afterwards."
Alexis: "(in head) How?!"
Samuel: "All god does is use the built up emotions and energy in our souls to fuel a power he doesn't need."
Alexis: "(in head, freaking out) That's just twisted!"
Amanda: "You all right? You're breathing like a madman."
Alexis: "(calming down) I'm fine."
Samuel: "But there are a few side effects of our soul bond."
The two hear a loud crash.
Amanda: "What the?!"
Amanda checks the front to find the driver dead.
Samuel: "They're after us already?!"
Alexis: "What are?!"
Samuel: "God's empty husks, Soldiers."
Alexis: "Side effect number one?"
The ambulance doors are ripped open by a strange gold figure.
Sam: "Stop laying down!"
Alexis: "I was just in a car crash, how the hell can I get up?!"
Samuel: "Trust me or we're dead again!"
Alexis stands up without feeling any pain.
Alexis: "Huh?"
Samuel: "Now we need to tap into Zero Fiction!"
Alexis: "What the hell is that?!"
Samuel: "A realm where the soul roams free."
The Soldier steps closer.
Samuel: "Channel our energy into the space around us!"
Alexis concentrates on the immediate vicinity.
Samuel: "Focus..."
Time around them stops and turns monochrome.
Alexis: "Is this Zero Fiction?"
Samuel: "Now time for my soul to do it's job."
An emerald green spear appears in Alexis's right hand as cherry blossoms fly through the wind.
Samuel: "No let's kick their asses!"
Alexis: "(panicking) Does it look like I know how to fight?!"
Samuel: "Just swing the spear around and hit them!"
Alexis appears to move fluently as she swings in perfect rhythm.
Samuel: "(shocked) Fast learner?"
Alexis decapitates the Soldiers with ease.
Alexis: "I have no idea!"
Time begins to move again as the spear vanishes from Alexis's hand.
Alexis: "(in head) Do you mind explaining how I can stand Samuel?"
Samuel: "The host heals at a rapid pace the moment the soul binding returns the soul to the body."
Alexis: "(in head) That makes no sense whatsoever."
Amanda rushes to Alexis.
Amanda: "(shocked) How are you standing?!"
Samuel: "Just say you got lucky. Only those who have soul bonded can have any hope about understanding."
Alexis: "(depressed) Got lucky and didn't break anything."
A helicopter flies above the ambulance.
Samuel: "Looks like someone is going to be popular."
Alexis: "(depressed) Great."
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