2 Death

That son of a bitch. I just got capped by my best friend. what the fuck.

I looked down and found I was still in my own body and had no bullet wounds on my head. I could tell I was dead though I don't really know how I knew. I looked around.

'well, this is beautiful' I think to myself. The room looks like an office but it's very grand and there are pillars lining the either side of bookcases built into the wall they were filled with books and stacks were formed in front of bookcases that couldn't fit. The pillars that are seem so clean and crisp they almost seem to be glowing even the wood of the desk in front of me seems to be giving a slight glow. Everything was so bright but after a few seconds I realized where I was. This is Dumbledore's office. I recognize a few things in the office the sorting hat in front of me and the two spiraling staircases on either side of the desk.

'Is Dumbledore the ruler of the afterlife?' I ask rhetorically to myself.

"You look right at me and then let some wild question like that fly from your head?" The sorting hat yelled out in the voice from the movies. I jump out of my seat an inch at the unbelievable event of

"So, you brought me here?" I ask the hat.

"Not really I'm just your evaluator to see if you are worthy of a certain gift that has been bestowed upon you." The talking hat says.

"Gift? What gift?" I ask.

"You will be reincarnated into a new world with a gift into a new world." It spoke.

I got excited for a moment even though the terror of a new life still hadn't fully settled I'd always had a little bit of that big nerdy dream of going to a new world and learning awesome magically powers. I was even thinking how things would be like in the potter verse but the next things the hat said cut that dream short.

"The reason you are getting this opportunity is that the reincarnation council believes that killing someone right as you fortify a soul mate bond is cruel and unusual torment plus the naturalness of your demise," he said that last part in a whisper.

"Unnaturalness what do you mean "I asked the hat. It looked ashamed that it let that slip.

"Well, you were supposed to live a relatively happy rest of your life you were hard-working you were finally loved and you would have fought to keep it. So on the record, you should have ended with positive karma but an evil dimensional being broke through and possessed your best friend and then killed you after you died he wrangled control of the being and jumped in front of a car.

While he was knocked out the heavenly host took, they are being and sent it back to its own dimension. We couldn't have your friend going to jail. so we wiped a few memories, and everyone thought you died to a random mugger. "He told me. I was glad that he didn't just come and murder me and that he wasn't held liable for the consequences of actions he was forced to commit.

"What about Anabell?" I asked. the Hat looked disturbed at my question.

"Well even though the heavenly host tried to change her memories she knew deep down and not being able to get past it because her mind and soul were at war saying the other was wrong about your death her soul split kind of like a Horcrux she was driven mad. This is also why you don't get to pick the world you travel to because you're going to a world where she is. as she went through the reincarnation cycle her soul tried to fix itself by filling the pieces that were missing of their parts kind of like baking a pie and then cutting it up and switching the pieces, so everything comes up a full pie. If you find one piece of the pie it may fix the whole pie, or it might make other just lose their filling gooping out the edges." The hat said. The hat sort of lost me. " By that look I lost you what It's a good thin a certain bat like professor is not here or you would definitely be labeled a Dunderhead. Long story short her soul since its split will resonate with you as a soul mate as with each other piece of her fractured soul. Not exactly a soul bond like the one you will share but still very powerful and you meeting these individuals will agitate the bond so if you find even one of your soulmate soul shards you will need to find the others because the longer her soul is incomplete the more, she will lose her mind similarly to the way Voldemort lost his mind."

[...] I blankly stare at the hat not knowing how to respond.

"your running out of time," The hat said." while we can't just give you the answer the council has decided to bestow you a gift for their horrible outside of reincarnation and memories of your past life we will give you magic from this world which I know will make you ecstatic but it will be hard work we aren't giving you some free pass you will have to be an effort to be anything more than a parlor trick lifting a book of a table then passing out. You will also get a gamer system but it will be modified no immediate overpowered adventures for you. your inventory will be related to magic power and skills will only be leveled up by regular usage."

"I hope you find her personally I'm rooting for you," the hat says to him" Even though Godric Gryffindor was the one who created me I've always been more partial to the snakes and ravens myself."

The hat starts to glow. It shows no signs of slowing it goes from a small bulb to a blinding light that encases the whole room and my eyes burn. My whole being burns in the light and then I'm gone from the beautiful room staring my journey to the next great adventure.

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