The Talent

Well, had a fun time doing my teaching internship today, but I still have so much to learn. Dealing with high schoolers can be tough at times, though in the end they're all good kids.

I hope you enjoy today's story!

The Talent

         The actor placed a glass amulet in his pocket. His father was also an actor and gave it to him. His grandmother was also an actor and passed the amulet to his father. He came from a long line of renowned actors who could play any character they chose.

         Today the actor would be playing a general in a war movie. The rubbed his fingers along the amulet in his pocket. A spirit then emerged from the amulet and went into his body. The spirit was that of a Chinese general, renowned for his cleverness. He never told anyone, but before they were actors the members of his family line were necromancers, masters of the dead. His great-great grandfather made the amulet to channel the dead and their personalities into the user.

         With the spirit flowing through his soul the actor told the director he was ready to perform. Throughout the day he preformed his role perfectly. The director shouted cut confidently after each scene. The director felt that there was no need for any retakes. At the end of day the actor would release the spirit from his body. The actor did this for everything he acted in. People loved him in his movies and even the nastiest critics would admit his talent. Millions of dollars piled into his bank account over the years. For his movies he summoned spirits of politicians, bankers, janitors and thousands of others.

         For one movie he was given a massive script that could have been used as a door stopper. The movie told the tale of a madman with multiple personalities who went through his life viewing himself as deranged. The script had him going through event that would twist him even further. The actor hadn't done a role like this before. He knew in order to play the character properly he would have to channel multiple spirits into his body.

         He used the amulet to pull in three spirits. One of an artist, another of a construction worker plus that of a greedy corporate embezzler. He felt comfortable with those spirits in his body, but then without him rubbing the amulet an unintended spirit came in. That of a small child who died on a full moon's night. He pulled out the amulet and it wriggled like a worm. Another spirit came in, that of a murder who appealed out of death row four weeks before he died in a car accident. The spirit of a psychologist then climbed into him. He couldn't stop them. The spirits kept piling up. He then smashed the glass amulet to the ground. But they kept coming. Soon he had hundreds of spirits smashing about in his soul. Then thousands a few minutes later. He collapsed to the ground shaking in pain. The other actors came around him, unsure of what to do. They called 911 while the actor's soul filled with millions of spirits. He then felt the spirits weighing down his soul. They started pulling him down. They kept dragging his soul until a few moments later when he finally passed away.