Death explained to me how we only had a few more universes to destroy, but we would eventually have to do this clean up from time to time. I wasn’t sure of my place with Death. I wasn’t sure if I was his goon, or slave, or if I could talk back to him or possibly provide input or advice. Also at this point I wasn’t quite sure if I was alive. It had been a while since I was in the normal world.


Death assured me the universes I destroyed were not conscious of their deaths. “If those beings remained they may pose a threat to actual conscious living beings. They may seem harmless and happy now, but you must believe it was for the best.” Death paused and looked around. “You want to play hero, though. I have just the thing. You will collect for me beings with a chance of becoming conscious; their emerging souls are not yet accounted for in Heaven or Hell.”


A handful of us were sent to the universe Terra Gaia 3 by Death. The name I was explained because if one were to find life in a solar system in a galaxy in the universe Terra Gaia 3, the third planet would be inhabited. It sounded too stereotypical, but I would later find out why this is.

The Halo Virus is an unexplained phenomenon. It is unknown what causes the Halo Virus and whether it is even a virus at all. Doctors who tried to study the recent phenomenon have proposed drugs, exposure to an unknown radiation, and even possession has not been ruled out. The reoccurring themes, associated with the virus are that people who have it, behave as they never displayed before in public. They seem to lack fear and inhibition, and witnesses of people with the condition say there appears to be a Halo over the person’s head. Often when a person with this condition dies another person in view of diseased sometimes becomes infected or inhabited with the supposed virus.


Such as this case with an Oceania working class man Phillip Rudd. A man who seemed to be happily married, Phillip went into work today on the 18 floor of his office building asked some co working buddies if they wanted to go out to eat at lunchtime to a Eastasian buffet, in which they all agreed to. Phillip is noted to have said that he could not wait, and that he was starving. Phillip Rudd worked quietly at his desk until 11:23 almost 30 minutes till his plans for lunch were to begin.


Phillip surviving coworkers noticed at 11:23 Phillip Rudd with a transparent halo around his head standing up and violently opening up his desk drawers. Mr. Rudd appeared to find a sandwich in his desk in which he took a bite and put it in his pocket. Most of Mr. Rudd’s fellow employees at this time started running and screaming and heading for the exits. The deceased James McNeal from Tech Support at this time told Mr. Rudd to please calm down, and as Mr. Rudd went over to his coworkers desk and opened up some drawers to find two 30 round clips of 5.56mm ball and tracer rounds. James McNeal went to tackle Mr. Rudd, but was easily kicked to the side where the heavy James McNeal flew a good eight feet into a near bye cubicle. Mr. Rudd then was sighted walking toward the office supply closet where he pulled out a fully automatic M245 machine gun, and began firing on all remaining visible coworkers. Mr. Rudd then shoots the security cameras in the building. It is unsure what happens for approximately 18 minutes until news helicopter spots Mr. Rudd shooting form the 20th floor window onto the street with a M40 sniper rifle. Police gathered around the building and take fire upon Mr. Rudd. Officer Ron Calloway reports as the news copter also shows that it seems Officer Calloway makes a direct hit in the center of Mr. Rudd’s face. Mr. Rudd disappears behind the wall for approximately 3.7 seconds where at this time he is believed to be fallen and assumed dead. Mr. Rudd then appear again shooting from the broken window with the M245 machine spraying wildly and hitting no one. Mr. Rudd is then shot for a second and final time.


Sam Nguyen (Satoshi Nguyen) and Calvin Oshi (Katsuhiro Oshi) sit through another boring high school physics class. Their teacher Mr. Walthau explains how often when things fall off tables there is two ways most things break. The teacher tries to liven the class up, by dropping a bunch of drinking glasses off his teacher’s desk. He shows them to the class demonstrating the two variations of how glasses break. “Drinking glasses break in segments of five or seven, blah, blah, blah, etc”. Sam could care less about physics today. Today his friend Calvin just asked him if he wanted to go to a haunted house this weekend. Attending this trip will be Lauren Gilbert, Samantha Hawkins, and other pretty and popular girls.


Sam had always felt somewhat of an outsider mainly because of his Eastasian heritage living in Oceania. That is why he and Calvin have become such good friends. At first he didn’t really like Calvin’s new girlfriend Michelle Williams, because Sam wasn’t getting to hang out with Calvin as much as he used to, and Calvin was becoming too good for “Dorky computer games”, however this new situation with the haunted house turned things around. Hopefully he thought he might find himself a girlfriend this coming weekend.