CHAPTER 2 : SEEING BEYOND

CHAPTER 2 

Seeing Beyond

"John Ozais Screeman!"

 The angel called as he turned to me. His bluish ocean eyes were the most unique thing I think I had seen in the past years of my life. He had what seemed to be like a helmet or crown, I couldn't tell, over his head, perhaps a halo, and on his knuckles, he had some golden jewelries and armors over his arm and his legs.

"Who are you?!"

 I squinted at him, with a straight up face.

I awaited his response, staring daggers at him. He  spoke suddenly, clearer at the moment. His voice fiercer than thunders and wild creatures.

"I am Raphael."

 He responded as he raised his (left or right?) shoulder up. At effect, his back absorbed the wide wings. Perhaps I was sure I wasn't hallucinating. 

If I want to leave this place alive, perhaps I should be as friendly as I can. I said to myself. 

"What is this? Am I dead?!"

 I asked, glancing a whole hundred and eighty degrees and back. 

"Listen to thy words before thou speak, you shall receive images of seven beings along with their names and locations, find them, and retrieve them, for they behold the shreds of your power, the spark."

 Raphael said to me.

"Am I dead?"

 I asked the angel, again with a more concern and bolder voice.

"No, you are not but if you do not do as I say, and with haste, you will be!" 

He said sternly.

 "I am not just preparing you for the demon, but I prepare you for death." 

Raphael added.

 Enraptured by confusion, I didnt even know what demon he spoke of, let alone death.

"What am I to do?"

 I asked, crinkling my brows and knitting them closely. Preparing me for death? I asked myself. It seemed like I couldn't even understand anything he said. He spoke like I knew exactly what was going on.

"Find the seven people, bring them together and I will do the rest and if you delay, it is at your risk and that of the world, because fate is already in progress to end you for what you did and all of humanity with it."

"What I did?"

 I was confused. I was about to ask what he meant by that before he spoke up again.

"If you doubt what I have said, when you wake up, you shall see a ring on your finger

"You will remember all of this I am saying and within a minute you shall forget the last of these words." 

Raphael added. It seemed like I was drowning in confusion the more he spoke.

"The ring", 

he said, staring at my right fingers. I took a glance at my hand and saw a ring with signs and sigils on it, made out of blue amber, as it seemed with other luminous materials I couldn't point out.

"it shall be until the last days of this era until the ring shall be seen to your eyes and all eyes!"

 The angel concluded with a voluptuous voice that made my heart clench.

"You said something about "what I did?" "What exactly did I do?!"

 I asked, furrowing my brows in curiosity and confusion.

"You shall discover when the time comes but now, now, you have a mission, go and fulfill it."

 Suddenly everywhere darkened, it was just actually my eyes closed. There and then, I got a deja vu, of what I saw earlier, the horned beast behind the bushes.  I opened my eyes and realised I was shirtless with a soaked towel on my forehead. I looked at my finger and I saw a ring, the same I just saw in the dreams I had. 

"John!" 

Khloe called as she came towards me with a wide grin.

 "You're alive", 

she said as she gave me a tight hug.

"What happened, you slept till noon and you were burning hot". 

Said Khloe as she furrowed her brows. 

I felt my brows crumbled up as a wide frown made its way to my face. Actually, all I felt was confusion ranging from what I just saw in my dream to the fact that I slept till noon.

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"You met an angel in your dreams?!"

 Khloe walked from one corner of the room to another, as she threw questions at me just after I told her the whole story.

It was at that moment images came into my head as well as the names. And I heard the voice of the being again,

 "They hold within, your spark." 

And suddenly I felt something missing in my head. I couldn't recall what it was. My finger felt strange as something slowly concealed from my eyes. I tapped into the pictures flying around in my head, trying to make sense out of it and it was then...I saw what I didnt expect.

"...the fuck..." 

I let the words out, as I raised my brows in awe. I had no idea if that was real or just me seeing things.

"What?"

 Asked Khloe.

"It is real, you are one of the seven I am to find, you possess a shred of my power."

 I said as I saw them all right before me, images and locations.

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"So, this being called your soul to a different world and  told you to find seven souls with shreds of your power? Preparing you for not just a demon but for death?" 

Khloe asked with her hand on her jaw as she walked around the room.

"Yes, at least it explains why I can't lift a bucket.

"That was a trash bin". 

Khloe corrected with a little tone of rudeness, anger and misunderstanding.

 "And who the hell does that...,prepare someone for death?"

 Khloe asked with a very very strange frown on her face.

I stared daggers at her just as she said that.

"And did you ask him why your powers are in seven bodies, like I mean, why did he scatter your power like that?" 

Asked Khloe.

 "That is if it was him."

 She added.

"I didn't ask. I have just been having these flashes of images, of a horned beast and signs...I can't really make something out of them".

 I replied.

"If this is real, if these people are real, then, the voice in your head, the dream,  must obviously be real too. Come on, we are going to look for them."

Khloe said, as she moved over to the kitchen and instantly gulped a whole cup of coffee, then over to her wardrobe where she took a jacket and put it on. 

"I am a supernatural, I am pretty sure there are more beings like me out there. Vampires? Witches?, Angels and Demons?."

 I mused, trying not to drown myself in confusion of if there were more beings out there and how my powers suddenly were spread into seven bodies.

"There are six names here."

 Khloe said as she lifted the paper where I had already penned the names.

I took the list and had a closer look just to find out she was right. I lifted my brows in confusion.  Something was wrong, somewhere obviously. I was told about seven names and their locations. I was sure of that.

"Let's find this ones first, when the being calls you back, you have to report that he gave you only six names."

 Khloe said.

 "But when we find them, what shall we do with them?"

 Asked Khloe in awe.

"Raphael will contact me, he shall give me further advice, only then, can I unlock my full potential after withdrawing the power he claims to have sent away from me".

 I replied Khloe's question. 

"Okay, you literally sounded like Shakespeare back there."

 Khloe said, sarcasm inveilgled the tone of her voice. 

Their names are;

1)Maria Chris 

2)Khloe Dave

3)Pete Pratt

4)Rod smith

5)Sam Ike

6)Prince butt

"Uhmm, no offence to this dude but who on earth names their kid". 

Butt? Sarcasm visibly present,  depicted in her face. Then Khloe Asked.

"I never knew asses could be kings and queens." 

Khloe added. 

I laughed before we got into Khloe's dad's car. It was an old one but it could still ride.

We decided to follow the names accordingly starting with Maria Chris. 

Maria Chris happened to be a sixteen year old girl whose back story was unclear to Khloe. And other than that, there have been rumors of her ancestors being witches and warlocks. Although, shifting from the ancestral points and details, she had a club where she'd spend most of her time, dozing herself in alcohol. 

Meanwhile,

*Third Person Narrative*

Sight sunk into the ground beneath the road which they drove on. It seemed like hell, Burning souls screeching and screaming for help. And just then, a horned man rose from the larva and the demons around chanted

 "All Hail Azazel."

Light instantly fades.

Song Of Choice : Believer By Imagine Dragons

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