SM:Beat the Criminal
From Create Your Own Story
You take advantage of the stunned criminal and lay into him with your fists. Initially unable to defend himself, with each subsiquent time you strike him he becomes less and less capable to do so. By the time you're finished the criminal is out cold, his face mangled, and covered in blood. Your knuckles are also covered in blood, his blood, and ache from the force with which you were striking him.
Slowly, you rise to your feet and go check on the woman. She's dazed, but conscious and alive. She still isn't fully aware of what happened or she'd probably be thanking you right now.
You can see a few people on the bus platform not too far away taking out their cellphones, probably to call the police. As you watch them, everyone before you suddenly freezes. It is as though time itself has just stopped.
"Thank you," a voice says from behind you, and you turn around you find some sort of spirit having appeared there.
It is made up of a white hooded cloak with a featureless, black porcelain mask where the face should be. It has no form, or body, and in the white voids of its' eyes you can sense a powerful malevolence and a deep hatred... for you.
"You saved her life, and thus allowed me to free myself from the mask my twisted self had sealed me in," the spirit continues, and you recognize its' voice as the one you made the deal with only an hour ago, "In turn, I was able to seal it away where it will stay for some time."
"What happens now?" you ask.
"Now? Now you have a choice to make. As you fulfilled the contract and I am oblidged to give you something in return.. I am going to offer you a choice. Would you like me to return you to the world of the living, or allow you to pass on into the afterlife? I do not wish to force one or the other upon you, as that is not my way."
You consider your options. Although you had agreed to the contract and done all of this initially just for a chance to live again... the fact that the offer to move on is available again leaves you with a tough decision to make. Which of those do you, deep down, really want?
The End: You have saved a life, and freed the spirit. Now you only have once choice left to make: to live, or to pass on. However... that is another story entirely.
