His fluffy mushroom cut itching his twinkling eyes which are gazing at the starry sky.

"Ouch!"

Out of nowhere, the claws of a bird pass a cut below his eye. They open up, a feral bird with a golden Plumage and a peaky beak is flapping its wings. A mystical pink aura surrounds it. Ah, it looks beautiful!

Drip. Drip. Blood starts spilling from the cut beneath his eye, forming a group of words on the window sills wooden frame. But before he could read them, a call from his mother snatches his attention.

Walking with my partner Anna, who is wearing a black suit unlike me who is dressed in a camel trenchcoat, "we finished the entire city?", I ask. "Nah" just a part of it, she answers. I sigh.

The evening is foggy, we are walking on a highway where dead bodies are spread everywhere. "So, Anna. What place will we go to next?" I ask in my soft voice.

She sighs and then tilts her eyes to the ground as she continues to walk, "well, we have ended yet another city. So, I don't really know where to now. But according to the map, there are still more than hundred cities left. Wish they could have gifted us with the energy of speed and lightning, that combo would have had been much better." "Well, I like our pair! I love turning into fog and subtly toxicating toxic souls. Haha!"

The voice of a bird flapping its wings rings in our ears, we look up, their it is, a Phoenix in an orange plumage flying around.

It's eyes turn to us and their in, it starts to maneuver downwards. It lands right next to Anna, who chuckles in adoration. Anna turns to me, "meet you at the next stop Neil". She then sits on it and there it flies away. Her face looked uneasy as she departed on the mystical figure, what is it she has to worry about anyway?

Soon enough, I myself metamorphisize into fog and vanish.

Again, another day has dawned by. Another city, this one is located down hill so it has cold weather. I and her are both covered in trenchcaot's. Around us, a casual living is taking place as people drive to their offices, living a monotonous life. And some are jogging around, meaning they actually wish to change their lives. And oh, "Ah!" shrieks Anna, soon bursting into laughter.

Next to the mesmerizing view of the city, a guy is proposing to a girl in the cheesiest way to ever exist. Down on his knees, he is singing a specific part of the song, 'Love Story' by Taylor Swift.

Well, though I laugh at it, I once wanted all of it as well. But I never got to it because of the blooded prescription. It always haunted me.

Though everyone around has come to a halt given Anna's abilities, I continue to walk briskly. My eyes fixed to the ground, and hands in the pocket. Soon enough, I morph into fog, completely vanishing away.

As I reach the other end of the city, anestheitc or numb bodies slowly start to fall to the ground behind me. Standing there ruthlessly, I didn't even care to look back at the dead.

Just like this, we had killed nearly half the world, but one sudden day, Anna said something that disrupted our streak forever. We had been sitting in a cafe with a bagel in my hand, am about to eat it when Anna gravely asks, "the bagel that you're eating, we are about to kill its maker once the dusk hits. Don;t you feel guilty about it?"

I utter in jolly, "well, they don't feel guilty about making these tasty dishes, do they?" I mirthlessly laugh it out loud. She could see through me however.

With an expression of disgust, she gets off her seat as she throws the napkin on the table. In her soft voice, she says, "listen Neil. I don't know what you feel about this world and the task at hand. But I feel it going in vain. So many humans have already died that I guess the remaining billion have learned their lesson to not harm animals by now. Let's just leave it all and die ourselves" she spreads her hands in the air like a ferrall bird and says, "there is nothing better than dying with the person you love the most."

She leans towards me and kisses me on the lips, her beady eyes then fix at my puppy like face, "I knew you always loved me." The next thing I know, she starts walking away. Like a broken-heart, I watch her go. Soon enough, I turn into fog as well, and end up finishing another city.

The next day, I had been expecting her assistance when morphing into fog, but nothing happened.

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Standing by the outskirts of the last town to be killed, I was admiring the horizon at the far end. There were all sorts of security to prevent the 'harmful fog' from entering the city. Everyone outside had been proclaimed dead and I had lost the will to disguise as a citizen now. So, I guess it was time.

I remember my first meeting with Anna, and her being a reason I never thought about disobeying the order. Never realized how much wrong I was committing. But now I could.

On the arrival of darkness, I step off the rocks and as I turn behind, I see a mysterious figure standing by the gate in a ninja assassin's suit.

Anyhow, I take another step, at a flashing speed, it swooshes past me with the sword swaying at the precise coordinates of my neck. However, it was a lame luck as I transformed into fog at the precise moment.

Back to his room, he noticed the blood stains have formed a sentence. "To finsih the entire population is now your curse..."