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Lady Death was used to Death, the smell of decaying flesh was found to be a comforting smell to her. It was a cold night and Lady Death Aka Rio found herself in Salem once again, she was here alot so she found herself a cabin nearby. She was laying down for bed before getting that familiar feeling that someone died nearby. Rio sighed before getting up off her comfy bed, not bothering to make it. She put on her Flesh face incase she saw a human, recalling the time someone saw her real face and screamed witch. Definitely not making that mistake again.
Rio opened the creaky door and began to walk, the leaves crunching beneath her, the cold breeze whistling through the trees. Rio could walk this path with her eyes closed if she wanted too, this is the same way she took to salem every time. About 5 minutes later she was at the scene and it was shocking to say the least. There was about 7 bodies, and they looked to be just dug up from their graves. She then looked up to the wooden post and she saw a girl sitting down with her head down in between her arms. Rio heard slight crying from the girl and Rio couldn’t get all these souls out of here with her right there, so she went up to the wooden post and crouched down next to the young girl.
“hey sweetheart” Rio said softly as she tapped the girls shoulder. The girl looked up and jumped, not expecting a person. “Im Rio, what happened here sweetheart?” Death asked. “Uh I-I didnt mean to kill them, i cant control it, i cant…” The young girl spewed out looking at her hands, slightly crying. “Hey sweetheart, dont ever be ashamed of your talent, you survived like witches have been doing for centuries. so what you killed them, big deal. Thats what kept you alive, thats what makes you a witch” Rio said, trying to get the girl to calm down. The girl sniffed before nodding “Im Agatha” She introduced herself. Rio nodded before offering Agatha a hand “Come with me to my cabin, you need rest” she said with a smile. Rio didnt know why she was offering this but she knew she felt connected to Agatha and that was enough. Agatha took her hand and stood up.
They began to walk the short walk to Rios cabin. They stepped over sticks, leaves, and fallen branches. Agatha tripped a few times but kept going. They started to come up on a clearing with the cabin, it was small but it had a porch with alot of flowers all around it. Agatha commented “This is really pretty” looking at the flowers “Thank you sweetheart, follow me… ill show you my bedroom so you can sleep tonight” Rio answered as they came up to the porch. Agatha followed Rio through the cabin and into a small bedroom with a messy bed and some clothes on the floor. “Im sorry about the mess, but please sleep. I have some work to do so ill be back in the morning to make us breakfast” Agatha nodded at Rios words and layed down before nodding off immediately. Rio went off to reclaim the souls Agatha killed. Rio didn’t believe it would take long.
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Rio came back from the other side and started her journey back to her home, the sun was just coming up from the night. Rio couldn’t get Agatha out of her mind the whole night, she couldn’t wait to see her and to hear more about her powers if Agatha would tell her. Rio came up on the clearing of her house. The steps crecked as she walked on them, she opened her door and immediately went to her room. She saw a sleeping Agatha all sprawled out, with one of her legs out of the blanket, her hair all over her face. Rio smiled at the sight “Shes adorable” she whispered. She walked back to the kitchen and started to make some eggs and pancakes. She lit the fire under the stove and started poring the pancake mix. Agatha came out of the room and sat down near the kitchen. “Good morning” Agatha said and yawned. “Good morning sweetheart, how do you want your eggs?” Rio asked as she put a plate with pancakes on it. “Oh uh scrabbled” Agatha said and started to eat the pancakes.
They both ate their breakfast together that morning and for every morning after that for about 6 months. Rio found out that Agatha has powers that when a witch blasts her she aborbs their powers and that her mother wanted to kill her for that but it backfired. Rio got a heart when she met Agatha, it may be black but it definitely beats for Agatha. They soon got together after a year of living together. They lived in Rios cabin for a few decades, Agatha never knew what Rio was untill one day.
“Rio love? Are you home?” Agatha called out when she heard the door close. She found no response so she walked over to the door. Agatha stopped immediately in her tracks. She saw Rio but she had her death form on. “Agatha, i-“ Rio covered her face with her hood, worried it scared her. “My love, you’re beautiful” Agatha said softly, moving Rios hood off her head, taking in her true form. “You are beautiful baby” Agatha said again. She saw a single tear fall down Rios face, she quickly wiped it off before pressing a kiss on the exposed teeth. “You dont find me scary?” Rio questioned. “Scary? God no baby, you’re devine” Agatha smiled softly. They put their foreheads together and held eachother, enjoying eachothers company.