[ WP ] '' Death extends his hand , smiling , “ Deal ? ” ''

Death extends his hand, smiling, `` Deal?'' 
 
 As my hand enveloped his boney phalanges it struck me how quick it all started to happen. My flesh was ripping away with increasing speed. It looked almost like a video game where you being transported from one dimension to another or Spock was beaming you up to the Starship Enterprise. Then the pain hit and my thought left me. All that was left was a soul scorching pain. 
 
 It was over in an instant as I looked at myself in front of me where Death had once been and he said `` One year. You got this! Enjoy the power do n't let it go to your head''. It was at that point I realized that all my flesh was gone and I was just a skeleton. I had become Death. The line of succession had be completed like some kind of sick twisted Dread Pirate Roberts bullshit out of Prices Bride. 
 
 See what you do n't know will kill you. Literally! 15 minutes earlier I had downed about three shots and done and eightball with my newest lady friend that I was trying to impress. Problem was that was some really high grade stuff and it pretty much shut my system down... all the way down. Then there was Death making me a deal as if he was Miracle Max he said `` you were only mostly dead''. The deal was to let him have my body for one year. At which point in time I could take my pick of anyone that died after that. I could, if I wanted, take girl, a baby, a old man, a young boy it just did not matter but they had to agree to the deal of being Death for a year and giving up everything they had been. You would then become them but retain all the knowledge you have now. Start over he said! Set up the death of a baby if you can stomach it to a rich family. He did warn that no one had been able to get a child under the age of 5 to agree. They actually have to say yes and shake your hand. Most of them just cried and would run away. Alas, the world is your oyster he chimed. Although, he did warn that you can get lost in the job and stay as long as you like. The girl before him seemed to have a sadistic streak in her and apparently had set up the whole Tsunami in Indo to have a little fun. You know you are evil when Death calls you a sick freak of nature... So here I am on the cusp of wiggling the fickle finger of fate at my first fatality. This should be interesting...
