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For the teenager called Maxwell. During the first years of 4th grade, they began to see spirits of kids after a school shooting, many of them had injuries they had saw after seeing the kids being killed. He thought it was just a prank but once he realized no one could see the kids, he acted like they did not exist, but he completely forgot that they were real.
Maxwell was always have been a troubled kid since middle school. During middle school, they set the school on fire, as that was their first crime but, there was a reason for doing it as his middle school had been shot up more than 5 times since it was built. There were kids, adults, and teachers that roamed around the area as they usually scream due to the pain they felt before dying. One teacher had their head on the ground due to a shooter shooting the teachers head off.
After Maxwell burnt down the middle school as say he kept saying that there are sprites still there, they are in pain. Well, concluded him to mentally unstable as he was diagnosed with schizophrenia but once Maxwell got there it got worse. He kept saying there are patients screaming, crying, etc. Maxwell was listed as the most mentally unstable. But after Maxwell did not realize that other people could not see it and helped the spirits but, many spirits were just lost and were just trying to find home again. It taken him 2 years to get out. But once he moved to a new area with his dad due to that event.
But once he was at the new high school, He was known to be a misfit as he had a slight speech impediment, and with only having a single parent as his mom left him due to an event that traumatized him. Him and his dad usually move every 5 years, But once he moved to [reacted] everything got worse as he began to look for jobs as he was 17, but with his criminal record he couldn't find a single job, then he joined a group of assholes, then one day the dared him to go to the cabin in the middle of the woods and set it on fire.
Once the fire began to burn the owner sneaked up behind him and scared him. Then it began to rain due to it being cloudy and dark outside. The owner scared them as he instantly punched Seto, but the punch was stopped by a hand, then he got slapped. But Seto apologize due to almost scaring him to death, after his dad moved away leaving him there due to also thinking that he's insane and couldn’t keep dealing with Maxwell’s problems as well as having to spend money on books for Maxwell but his dad thought it was a faze before just throwing him out and leaving him there, Seto decided to take him in.
And after that he began to research spirits and other methods to get rid of them. But sometimes when he gets into an abandoned house, he knows that it has a spirit in it, they exorcist it. But one day when he was doing an exorcist at an abandoned place he was attacked, (attached) he began to panic before thinking why not put a talisman on his head and after he did the spirit screamed as when he placed the talisman on his head, it made his body invincible to low level spirits. He only had two enouncements with higher level spirits.
The only moment he had to deal with a spirit was due to a spirit that possessed by a high-level spirit, as this spirit possessed their eye, so they kept seeing horrible memories of. gruesome stuff. He ended up slicing his own eye out before having to put a talisman on it. They had to bandage themselves up due to money being tight.
And the other high-level spirit tried to attach themselves to Seto, but the spirit was burned alive as they screamed before Maxwell then they realized that Seto was not human, but they still taken him under their wing. But once they began to go back to high school, Seto helped with history as they explained that they were alive during those events and some textbooks got some of them wrong, but the schools will not listen as they thought it was right.
But since Seto began to rebuild a new cabin after I almost burning out down, he began to hear Seto talking about someone called Lennox and Trouble. They said he and Trouble would be good friends as they both get messed with. Has told a story of almost getting tazed too, they think Lennox is little too angry as they said they have thrown a snowball at him and by accident has made him fall off a roof.
The other time he was almost tazed. But he has told people to pour water on his head as it happened twice. One person poured water on his head, and he got angry and when they told him that it was them, they were about to get pepper sprayed but somehow Lennox was out of pepper spray. And another time trouble poured water on his head and continued to get tazed due to thinking it was a fake Lennox as there were two. But that is all they have told me about this person.
But one day Seto built a Japanese house as they still had more to work on for the cabin, He began to use the small house to research and sometimes sleeping if he does not have time to get home. He has been training outside of the small house. But with Seto having older books were tuff due to some of the information being outdated but they usually support him even when he thinks he cannot do it.
But they have not told Seto how many spirits have been with them. It is an army of spirits, but many spirits just want to stay with Seto. They do not want to leave Seto knowing what they have been though. He never questioned what Seto at all is but, he knows that they are not even normal.