Untouchable: Chapter 22: Dreams Unwanted
"Ok, Oliver, be a good boy and stay in your room now, there's a storm coming and you need to stay safe," daddy says.
I'm sitting on the edge of my bed, I hope the storm is a fast one and that I can stay warm under my blankets. I grabbed wolfy my stuffed animal. He smells safe and familiar. The wind pushes on my window slashing it with rain.
I feel somethings wrong that the storm, no the thing daddy wants to keep me safe from is outside and wants to get me. I'm safe in my room but I know I won't be, not for long. Should I just obey daddy or go down stairs, he won't be mad if I go find him, he'll keep me safe.
I struggle to my small paws, its very hard to stay standing. Shaking legs I walk to the door with wolfy in my arms.
When I reach the door lightening flashes and thunder shakes the house I am about to run back to my bed, when I see the single horned darkness at my window.
I scream, "daddy he's here, daddy help me daddy!"
No one comes, the house sounds empty. The darkness smiles a red grin then turns to mist seeping through the edges of the window. I frantically pull at the door but it won't move, "daddy he's here, daddy where are you?"
I finally get the door open, but the house is full of a misty smoke and so much darkness, a silhouette stands half seen in the shadows. It stampedes the door, I slam the door in the silhouettes single horned face. I'm turning to run back to my bed but I'm not in my room anymore. I'm in a field of gravestones and the smoke, there are noxious black flowers that smell of antiseptics scattered all around me like a cage, they have saringe peddles and pill shape seeds. Holding wolfy tight I stand, breathing in rapid staccatos, in a sea of smoke full of darting forms just on the edge of my vision, no matter what way I turn always there behind me slightly to one side, and there are sharp peddles prickling my bare ankles as I turn.
"Daddy, mommy where are you?"
A hollow voice from the darkness says, "they can't hear you, no one can here you, your mine, give up boy."
"No, you're a stranger get away from me!" I yell and run to find mommy and daddy. I find the door again and run as fast and as hard as I can.
A harsh laugh follows me down the stairs, "you can't escape me boy, you're mine, I claimed you once I'll do so again."
The house is roiling with smoke and I can hardly see where I'm going.
Wolfy wants me to go to the front door but the darting shadows in the smoke are blocking my way, so I ignore wolfy and run to the back door. I through the back door open only to find a pouncing lion is swiping at me.
I turn and run forgetting to close the door.
"It's me or the prowling lions seeking to devour you, choose boy," the darkness taunts.
"Daddy where are you, can't you hear me," I scream as I fight to pull the front door open.
As I run through the door, a paw lashes out at me from the darkness. It hits Wolfy and lightening flashes, Wolfy and the lion both vanish.
Now completely alone I'm running weak and winded. The noxious flowers all line the yards around me. I reach the play ground of my church maybe here will be safe. Friends of mine are playing on the jungle gym, with their parents standing watch. But not my parents they're nowhere to be seen. I try and get everyone's attention but they can't hear me. It's like they can't see me.
Malicious laughter echos off the walls of the building around the church, mocking me.
"Someone can you help me?" I plead.
Everyone's motion freezes, in their eyes I can tell they finally see me, I feel relieved till their heads jerk to face me in unnatural positions bodies unchanged. Their mouths opened issuing the fog like smoke. I run and climb the jungle gym rung by rung as everyone I grew up knowing morphs around me, into the darknesses prowling lions. I'm on the ladder for the monkey bars above the sea of smoke, listening to the scrambling and hissing lost to view in the mists. I need to get to the slide. I swing from monkey bar to monkey bar but a lion leaps from the misty smoke its claws sinking into my chest and leg trying to pull me down. It reared back to bite my throat. But a blur of black grey fur collides with the lion, and it falls back into the mist with my wolf protector. A howl, yowl, and growl meet the roars of the lions as a battle rages under my blood streaked legs. I hurt, tears falling freely. I land on the slides platform.
"Wolfy come with me!" I call into the mist.
Wolfy calls back, "Run Oliver! ru-"
But he is cut off by another roar.
"It's useless boy you are mine, why keep running, no one can save you!" The darkness boomed shaking the whole jungle gym.
I try making it down the slide but my bloody fur makes me stick, I push harder, but the darkness is now at the bottom of the slide waiting for me. I roll off the side, into the misty smoke. I land with bone jarring force in an underground train station. The mist was gone but I couldn't see far. Over head their was one flickering incandescent light. I could hear it slowly creaking, that and my rapid heartbeat. The station smells stail and musty, and I hurt everywhere. I slowly get to my paws and look for a way out of the station. I hear a voice a long way down the train tracks, it might be mommy. I shuffle to the end of the platform.
"Mommy is that you," I yell down the tunnel only to hear my own faint echoes.
"Its not your mother boy," the darkness says behind me.
I turn in alarm falling backward onto the tracks. I try to get up to run again, but the darkness says, "No you don't boy time to stay where you are."
The metal tracks change into thorny chains wrapping my arms and legs further opening the clawing from the Lion. I cry tears that only make the darkness smile. The chains have my broken promises and sins dangling from it like a charms bracelet as the thorns hook into my skin.
"Let me go please not again," I cry hopelessly.
"You are mine to do with as I wish," says the rhino visibly aroused, he is coming for me, hopping lightly down onto the tracks.
He is a void that swallows the little light from the bulb above causing it to flicker out.
"Boy I claimed your whole body, but now, I'm here for all that you have left."
"You can't have it, I have given it to another," I say.
"Yes and a foolish choice you've made," He says.
"I'm the primes," I argue.
His mocking laugh is like a physical blow, "you have nothing to give the prime, I took your virtue and your promise of purity, you have nothing that the Prime wants anymore."
His legs are now pressing against my inner thighs.
"Get away from me, Prime help me!" I cry.
"See, he won't help you," he says inches from my face breath smelling of mothers tears, the darkness opens his mouth and it sounds like daddy slapping mommy when they fought.
"No, please no," I say as his hand rips through my chest to grip my beating heart.
"Fear stop this," The dark furred wolf who tackled the Lion says from behind me.
Fear laughs and I feel a great pain as he starts to crush my heart.
The darknesses red smile gleams at me when he says, "His soul is mine!"
Wolfy cries, "NO!" their is a flash of light and I awaken while hyperventilating, my heart aching physically.
The dream still working through my conscious mind I see a white robed and winged; cat, dog and wolf, standing around me on the platform radiating a warm gold and silver light, pushing back the darkness who circles me, this light in my mind makes tingles and warming shivers run through my body.
Oliver's arms and legs had fallen asleep while tangled in the blankets. As pins and needles shot through them his guardian angels floated around him in his minds eye. He stumble to the bathroom to pee and get a drink of water. After he had drank from the tap he saw the rhino in the mirror behind him. It made him jump but the rhino wasn't there when he turned. Worried that he took the wrong dose he got out his meds, the dosage side of the label was torn away, but the side effects wasn't. Hypnagogic Hallucination stood out to him.
"Oh, fucking hell, I mean if this is what Pence meant by vivid dreams I'm not sure what to do." Oliver said. Then stumbled back to bed his guardian angel Sean, Paul and Xander hovered around him.
"Keep me safe guys I'm going back to bed," Oliver said his anxious heart beat unsettled.
In his head they replied, "We will."
"I hope to the Prime I stop hearing things in the morning," Oliver said.
The rest of the fitful sleep he dreamed of his angels as a barrier holding back the darkness.