The Mistaken Failure is a Demigod Short Stories by D.A. Sanford - HTML preview

Rae and the Watcher

I know he is hurting. I tel him that I was sorry. I real y did not want to leave him but I had to. I can see him, I feel for him. He just sits there in that back room. He is so lonely. I want to help him but you see I’m his wife Rae Martin.

Now I am just a spirit, I can’t and won’t leave the man I loved for so long. I watched him hold my hand as that body jerked and then went still. His sister was there and told him that I was gone. I know, because I heard them say that they felt that I had already left that body. I had.

That’s how I watched my own end. I stayed here trying to make my presence known. He liked the easy listening music channel. He played that for the last few days of my corporeal life. I tried to contact him through the titles. Al it did was cause him heart ache and tears.

I cried and yelled

“Why can’t I help him? Wil someone, anyone please help me!”

The next thing I know, I am in a white world or something. There is no description because there is nothing that wil give any indication of where or what this is.

I see a figure forming. It is female and finally comes completely in focus. She then speaks in a soft understanding voice.

“I am the ethereal named the Watcher. I have heard your plea and have decided that your wish coincides with a mission I wish to undertake.”

Rae says that she wil do anything to help him get over his loneliness and grief.

The watcher tells her that he wil be in more grief because your son will shortly succumb to cancer.

“That wil kill him” Rae exclaims.

“There is a method to all this madness, if you wil let me explain. His sister is taking him on a trip to the next state. There he wil let it slip that he would like a bonded pair of cats. I have picked the exact pair he needs. They will be with him when your son pass’s.

They wil give him a reason to go on. You wil talk to the cats, especial y the male. He will be able t see and hear you. The looking up will drive him crazy”

“Your husband will die at the age of seventy three, in his sleep.”

“Do you realize how that sounds? That is not a plan. That is torture. Let me out of here.”

The Watcher does not act like she even hears. She continues.

“He reads al those light novels about someone being kil ed in this world and being placed in a body in a world of swords and magic. I need someone and have determined that your Justin is exactly the one I need. The big problem is that I need someone to inhabit. That is where you come in. I would like you to volunteer for the job. I wil reconstruct your physical body. You will be thirty but you will only be able to show ourselves to the two cats.”

“I need to be able to see and talk to Justin. How is that going to happen when I can only talk through the cats?”

“That’s the good part. Those two cats go with him to that new world but as humanoids., The one that he will call Chip, will be a sword and martial arts expert. The other one he will call Missy, wil be a seductress. She will be able to go berserk and shred anyone.

They wil start his core team for the adventures he will go on.”

Seems like they have the better end of this deal. With our connection with Missy, we will direct others into his life. He wil have that harem he has read about. He needs that harem to be able to complete what lies ahead. Every time one is added, we, in your body, will explain who you exactly are. You wil call yourself the watcher but I will be there in you.”

“He wil like that harem. He wil forget me and I can rest”

“Even with the five women, he wil not forget you. He wil miss you until you return to him.”

“Hold the phone! Did I just here you say that I return to him? Let’s go.”

“You never let me finish. This merger is going to be interesting. I continue. He takes on five wives. Al very interesting. Al would give their lives to protect him. All wil make his life, shal we say, interesting, especially at night. It’s a harem after al . The thing is, that with all that distraction, he is stil sad, even though he very rarely shows it. He always misses you. He must establish his name and his team’s fame. Not until then wil we appear in the flesh.”

Rae actual y starts to feel the merge and answers her own question.

“He needs to win a major battle but with the talents of all of them.”

The Watcher now talks through her.

“He wil be given one talent that he will know of. That will be the ability to copy any of his group’s best features or”

“Al of the talent” Rae finishes. “Aren’t we becoming slightly a little creepy? Split personalities?”

“Yes on the split personalities but we will work it out for his good. Once he wins that big battle, you wil tell Missy to tell him that it is time to show him who the Watcher is. That is where the physical body is needed.”

“He wil order me to show myself and I wil be that thirty, he told me I would be. I can tel that you wil not be leaving at that time. You speak and tell me what is going to happen.”

“Showing ourselves is the start of fun, sadness, anger and especial y love. You see, we will be able to switch in an instant. We will be ethereal all the time but also physical.

Someone shoots and arrow at us, it will just pass through. We wil age along with Justin.

I wil guide us through all of this and in the end, wel you already know.”

“We wil have a few weeks short of fifty years together. Our last act together will be when you take his two remaining wives and his father in law with you to the final eternal life.”

“Time makes no difference to the Watcher side but the human side I need to be able to feel. You see, I used to have a physical body and was named April. I had a very hard first twenty one years and a long term as a demigod. In al that time.”

Rae tel s her that she knows and that on the day we reveal ourselves,

“I wil tell the harem that I claim Justin for a solo night. Virgin is not a disease, it’s just lack of the right opportunity. I’l let you have the first round. Tell him to be romantic but the second round is no holds barred. How did that movie line go.”

“Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.”

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