DANTE'S ANGEL
PART 1
CHAPTER ONE: DEATH IS BORN
Dante was an ordinary hardworking man with a wife and two children he had a job that paid enough money to feed his family and care for the personal needs of his children. The only flaw he thought he had was his life was ordinary he didn't feel important he wanted to be extraordinary, he wanted to make a difference.
One night after Dante had fallen asleep he had a dream, about pain and death. When he awoke he started the day like he normally would, got dressed, ate breakfast with his family and said his goodbyes as he left for work. On his way home he had a strange feeling, he felt cold and was starting to get light-headed, his sight became blurred. As he was driving he couldn't tell but he was sure he saw fire surrounding his neighborhood and an unusual light emanating from his house, screams of women and children pierced his ears but the only concern he had was the safety of his family. There was no way of explaining what was happening. Dante had finally reached his house, he ran inside and tears ran down his face as he saw his wife and children lying on his bed, dead, the walls of his room were painted with blood…the blood of his family, he glanced to the left and saw human-looking creatures shrouded in light, bright as the sun, in the corner of his room, weeping. Dante with the look of despair in his eyes slowly takes step by step with a lifeless motion towards his deceased family. He dropped on his knees; his hands shaking while trying to lift himself onto the bed and starts to crawl. As he finally reaches the empty bodies he picks up his wife in his arms and looks at his children then back at his wife as the blood from her face is washed away by tears…tears falling from his eyes like rain from a cloud.
A loud sound deafened me and I woke in my bed crying uncontrollably, Kim my wife immediately woke after, asking me "what's wrong?". All I could do was sit there, paralyzed by pain from what I just saw, from what I just felt but the tears were still falling, the blood…the blood is still there…in my head I can still see the emptiness in my wife's eyes, the terror stuck on my children's faces. This will never happen to them, I will protect them. "Dante! Dante!" Kim screamed while shaking me. Immediately I was brought back to reality and I responded "oh, sorry...I…I spaced out, bad dream that's all". She gave me a confused stare and said "alright…don't scare me like that ever again, ok?" "Ok" I said.
All I could think about the next day was that dream it was so real and unreal at the same time. It's kind of been the same dream for the past couple of days and its getting clearer each time. I am beginning to fear sleep. What were those creatures shrouded in light? It sounded like they were whimpering, why? And now I'm starting to find excuses to leave my work earlier to check if they are safe, Kim is beginning to think I need to take a break from work and I think she's right. Maybe I just need to relax for a day or two, relieve some stress and spend some time with my family. But the dreams just got worse that night, this time I got a look at the creatures, they were beautiful, words couldn't describe their beauty…it was like looking upon the face of an angel, and their was another type less beautiful more frightening, looking upon their face was like looking upon the face of a demon and it was shrouded in darkness. They started fighting, not physically it looked as if it were with their light and dark surrounding them, I saw light drown one of the frightening creatures and it softly faded into a blinding light…purple…a purple light.
I decided to tell Kim about the dreams I have been having, I told her about their death and the "angels" I'll call them and "demons". "It sounds like a sign from god" Kim said with a worried expression on her face, I hate seeing her not happy so I told her "don't worry I'm sure it's nothing" in an attempt to rid her of her worries, she just got even more worried and said; "I'm worried about you". I wanted more people to know, I need help to understand what's happening. I don't know, I'm probably going crazy, and anybody I told would probably agree with me.