Chapter 5

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"Nicole that wasn't normal," Kelsey breathed.

"Yeah, it wasn't. Is that what you saw?" Kelsey shook her head viloently.

"No, not that, what happened between you two. What did you do?" Nicole knew what she did. But she didn't know how she did it. Nicole shook her head.

"You-you seen something?" Nicole asked nervously. Kelsey nodded her head.

"What is it Nicole?" She asked in a husky voice much unlike hers. Nicole quickly looked up at her.

"What?" Nicole asked.

"I just wanted to know what you did. Nicole are you ok?" Kelsey looked at her, brow furrowed. She was worried.

"Yeah. I don't know what it was. But I-I didn't get any sleep. Are you going to be alright if I take nap?" Kelsey nodded her head.

"Go ahead, whatever you want. I think I'll head home, my mom is going to be worried. I'll just tell her that I went to your house and she must have forgot, or something. Nicole…" she paused and looked at Nicole, "be careful." Nicole nodded and sat down on her bed with a plop. Kelsey closed the door behind her and before she even opened her outside door Nicole was already asleep.

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She looked down with all kindness and all compassion. Her face was absolutly beautiful. It was a wonderfully round shape with high cheek bones and rosy cheeks. Her complexion was fair and smooth as marble. Her long brown hair reached to her waist but seemed to go on forever in cascading curls. Her green eyes appeared luminescent and created their own source of warm, kind light. Her pouty red lips formed a smile that revealed dashingly straight teeth. She stretched out a long smooth hand and Nicole took it.

Immediately Nicole was filled with a warm comforting feeling. She closed her eyes and allowed herself to savor the feeling. She smiled when she felt a warmth begin to grow all over her body. She felt as if she were floating and when she opened her eyes she found that she was. She looked at this woman and seen that she had wings. Beautiful, large golden wings. Nicole smiled and the woman smiled back. A wonderfully radiant smile.

Nicole looked around more and seen that she was floating through clouds. The clouds turned from white to pink to blood red.

"What's going on?" Nicole asked. The woman smiled and continued to take her through the clouds. They seemed to be going faster now. Nicole felt the mist of the clouds residue and wiped at her face with her free hand. She looked at her hand and seen that it wasn't normally what a cloud's residue was but it was blood.

"Please, tell me what's going on," Nicole urged. The woman smiled again and continued to lead her faster through the blood formed clouds.

Nicole didn't know how long they had been travelling, but they finally began to slow down until finally they came to a stop. Nicole looked around and opened her mouth in surprise. The woman turned to her and this time she spoke: "This is what is happening," she said. Her voice was so beautiful as if it were singing. "We cannot stop it without assistance. For many years we have been trying to stop this, your years. Our years are different from yours. You along with a few others have been chosen to help finally end this."

"What is it," I asked.

"The barrier will finally be sealed and they will not bother you anymore. Everyone will live in eternal happiness."

"Yes, but what is happening. What do I do?" The woman looked at what Nicole had gaped at. Her face had grown solemn but it was still beautiful. Nicole turned her eyes away from the woman and looked at what she was watching.

Millions of black figures were scuttering around the surface of what looked like a wooded area. Each ones beady eyes met with one another and they grunted with confirmation. Suddenly everything qiuvered. Nicole looked at the woman to ask her what was happening but she didn't have to. The angel had her hand out and she swept it the side and the picture changed.

"This is the destruction that they will cause if we do not close the barrier," she spoke. Nicole looked at the picture and gasped. Even more black figures were hurriedly moving around. But this time it was modern. There were buildings and people. The bulidings were on fire and the people were running around in a horrified panic. Many lay on the ground dead, rotting. Others were running around stupidly screaming at their realization that they were rotting along with the dead corpses that lay on the ground.

Nicole turned away from the picture too shocked to watch anymore. She felt a hand on her shoulder a comforting hand.

"We need you."

"Yes, but what do I do?" Nicole asked, scared.

"You'll know, when the time comes." The angel began to fade, along with that wonderful feeling. The atmosphere began to grow cold and dark and Nicole could no longer feel the strength to hold herself up. She began to fall into the picture as it slowly began to change. She watched as that wonderful place she had just been in slowly moved out of her grasp. She felt hot. So incredibly hot. Her flesh seemed to be bubbling and when she looked, she found that it was. But she didn't care. She was too tired. She closed her eyes and waited for whatever it was that she inevitably knew was going to happen. She waited for the charred hands to take hold of her body and rip her limb from limb. Instead she felt a cold hand touch her hand gently. She opened her eyes and seen her boyfriend.

"You-you-"

"Shhh…" he said. "If they have found out that I have intercepted with the lines of communication then surely I will be of no use."

"What are you talking about?" Nicole asked, confused.

"There is no time to worry about that. Did she talk to you?"

"Who?"

"Jessica."

"Who's Jessica?"

"Jessica is your spirit guide. Your guardian angel. Whatever you want to call it."

"Yeah, I have."

"Then you know what to do. You and a few others hold the power that will close the barrier. It'll end, all of it."

"I keep hearing that, what is it?"

"There's no time. I will talk to you. All you need to do is follow your instincts. It could save your life." Then he was ripped away from Nicole. She had began to spiral back into reality.

3

She woke up crying. For the second time in her boyfriends death she had begun to feel like she missed him. She missed the wonderful feeling she received from that strange woman and the wonderful feeling she received from her boyfriend. Kelsey had said that he appeared somewhat rotten to her. But to Nicole he appeared just fine, perhaps even better.

She rolled over on her side and began to put the pieces together trying to figure out what they had said to her. Was it a prophecy? It had to be.

4

She knew what she had to do…almost.