The Life Thief - Victims 5

The actual origin story of The Life Thief is unknown. Many legends are made about it because of how mysterious the thief is. Though parts of them are accurate, none of them are true nor do they accurately describe the real Life Thief. There have been many pretenders that claim to have been The Life Thief and they’ve convinced many people. The actual Life Thief, however, is largely unknown to the world as he, she, or it wanders the world, looking for it’s next victim. People say that the loved ones they knew changed in a subtle but noticeable way before disappearing. This person indeed wasn’t the person they knew and was...The Life Thief.
The Life Thief has been revealed to a small town in Europe. Since their identity was compromised, they decided to burn the town to the ground along with everyone in it. So far, the town is hell with blood, bodies, and fire in the town’s streets. The townspeople who weren’t killed are tied up in the center to be burned alive. A daughter and her mother are the only one who’ve managed to evade The Life Thief and are on their way to free the townspeople and kill The Life Thief. The Life Thief knows they’re coming and has infected several people with their ideals and has them defending the thief.
“Do you girls really think you can save them and kill me?!” the Life Thief says aloud, “I’m an entity as old as time and as sly as the devil himself!”
This Life Thief looks like a cross between a man and a woman with a voice that changes between a tone associated with either sex. They have a few other people with them that look exactly like the thief. They seemingly switch between bodies as if the thief was a spirit.
“We are legion!”
“We are unity!”
“We are the shadow in the darkness!”
“We are The Life Thief!” they say together.
The mother and daughter hear this from a distance and are distressed by it.
“Mom, I don’t know if we should do this. Do we really stand a chance against The Life Thief?”
“Of course we do. You and I are way stronger than that pretender who thinks they’re a living legend.”
“Don’t you think that someone else had tried this before? We probably aren’t the first.”
“We can do this, now stop complaining. We have company.”
Several of the thief’s minions search the house the mother and daughter are in, but they find nothing as they left before the minions entered. The two dart between alleyways, shadows, and cover to stay concealed. They break into the town’s gun store and replace their meager pistols with a new weapon. The mother looks through the inventory for the best weapons that’s best for her and her daughter.
“Mom, I’m not sure about this. What if the thief already has a trap for us?”
“We’re ready for him her whatever it is especially since we have better weapons now.”
“I don’t even really know how to use any of these guns. Do you?”
“I’ve used them before you were born. Don’t worry, it’s like riding a bicycle. Stop worrying so much. Your mother will protect you from anything that tries to hurt you.”
The thief’s minions find the two and start to shoot at them. With a store full of guns, the mother and daughter duo defend themselves from the small horde of brainwashed people. Though the mother kills most of them, the daughter eventually gathers the strength to take down a couple.
“See? What did I tell you?”
“I’m still a little afraid.”
“Well don’t be. I can do this if you can’t.”
“Mom, what are you saying? Are you superwoman or something?”
“You can call me that.”
Hurrying her daughter along, the mother takes them to the center of town to confront the Life Thief.
“Do you really think you can kill me? Me?! The-”
The mother shoots all three of the Life Thiefs and puts another bullet in their skulls to show her daughter that they’re really dead.
“See? Your mom is tougher than she looks.”
As she was about to smile, the daughter is stopped by the sight of bullet holes in her mother. The bullet holes in her mother are hollow and no blood flows out of her. Her daughter is even to vaguely see through her body.
“M-Mom? Did you get shot?”
The mother notices this then turns the gun on her daughter and shoots her then burns the town and its people to the ground. Since she doesn’t feel pain when hit, she neglected to check herself after the gunfight with the fake Life Thiefs’ minions. The real one leaves the burning town behind to get a new body and a new life. Later, officers find nothing remaining from the burning town. The only thing they manage to find is a hollow female body miles away from the town. A hollow body as in that it doesn’t have a skeleton or organs inside of it, yet it manages to stay in normal shape as if it did. It’s lifeless with bullet holes in it and some speculate that it belonged to another one of the Life Thief’s victims though no one can truly confirm that.

The Life Thief goes from place to place, life to life to steal and ruin. No one truly knows what it or who it is or where they came from. Some think they’re people with paranormal powers or they are a manifestation of the paranormal itself. They are a mysterious being indeed that will never be truly known. Such is the way of The Life Thief.

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