Two Worlds Collide
(working title)
Chapter 1
Daniel
NOTE: Anything in bold is sign language used by Daniel so that he can speak.
Pain, horrible, stabbing, breath taking pain was all that I was aware of. There was a man hovering over me, his golden, glowing sword sticking into my shoulder. It burnt as if there were poison in the sword itself. The man was chanting something in latin, something I could not know, even if it would have saved my life. I turned my head to look for Joshua. He had been aptly next to me earlier. We had been fighting this man and others together, blindly. Now, I had lost sight of him.
I let out a silent gasp as my eyes fell on my twin brother. Joshua was lying still and he wasn’t breathing. He was a few feet away and I could see the blood pooled around him from stab wounds on his shoulders and the fatal wound at his heart. I wanted to scream. I wanted to yell and tell my brother to wake up. I wanted to question the man hovering over me. The man that I knew had murdered my brother. Why? Why had he done this? Why was he doing this to me? Yet, no words could ever come out. I was mute, and the wounds in my shoulders kept me from even trying to see if this man understood sign language.
As I looked back at the man, I realized with fantastic horror that he was no man, but an angel. He had the gorgeous white wings of an angel, though they were currently specked with blood, most likely my brothers. His hair glowed to form a natural halo and he himself cast off a bright ethereal light. There was no doubt in my mind that he could be anything but an angel. Yet, that only confused me more. Why would an angel kill Joshua, or me? What did we ever do? Somehow, that realization broke me and I started to sob. Salty, soundless tears rolled down my face. This angel had killed my brother, and now he was staring at me as a cried. Even with blood specking his wings, face and coating his hands he looked gorgeous. He had armor of pure gold on, and everything about him glowed, counting his armor and weapon. His azure eyes held a power that I had never seen before, or even imagined. Yet, as he held his sword up ready to deliver the blow that would be fatal to me, the power seemed frightening rather than admirable.
“Don’t worry small watcher, it shall be over in a moment and you will join your brother and father in Hell. Pity really, if not for your loyalty to your brother you could have been saved.” The angel confirmed, as he lifted his sword and prepared to stab my heart as he had my brother. I closed my eyes, preparing myself for the pain.
“Danny wake up!” someone yelled, startling me back into consciousness. Without even opening my eyes I reached over to feel my shoulder, to search for a wound, but there was none. I felt no pain, nothing. I opened my eyes to see my bedroom and to realize that the one who had awoken me was Joshua, my twin brother. He was alive, healthy and the same as ever.
I breathed a sigh of relief. It had just been a dream. Yet, could I even be sure of that? With all ever since I turned thirteen most of my dreams had come right or foreshadowed events. So, this wasn’t necessarily just a dream. It had to mean something, even if it wasn’t a thought of something to come as some of my dreams tended to be, it still held meaning. I had been having visions for three years now and I could tell the difference between something that was just a dream and a thought. This was most certainly a thought. Yet, I had never ever had a thought like this before. Most were smaller events involving school, family and friends. None had ever been like this.
I realized that I had yet to acknowledge Joshua when he waved his hand in front of my face to try and get my attention. I quickly swatted his hand away and looked at the alarm clock next to my bed. It read 8am. I groaned. What was he doing waking me up so early on a Saturday? I was grateful for the getting away from from the thought, but I wished for more sleep. Visions usually left me more exhausted than when I had fallen asleep in the first place. This time was no different.
“Finally you’re awake, sleepyhead!” Josh teased, reaching over to ruffle my hair as I sat up.
“Finally? It’s only 8am, on a Saturday.” I signed, allowing my fingers and hands moving quickly to do the talking for me.
Joshua knew sign language just as well as I did. We had learned it together the moment we were ancient enough. It made it much simpler for us to communicate since I was mute, and so our protect had made sure we both learned it as soon as we were capable. She of course had learned it too. Josh and my protect rarely used it, but they needed to be able to know it so that they could know me.
“Not just ANY Saturday, Danny. Don’t you know what day it is?” My twin questioned, pouting at me playfully.
“No, all I know is that I had a horrible nightmarish thought and I want to go back to sleep.” I answered, rolling my eyes at his pout. Joshua always tried to goof off and make me laugh when he didn’t like how serious I seemed, especially with a thought. He knew when I had one, he knew me better than anyone and so he could tell. Yet, he never cared. Half the time he didn’t even judge me until they happened. He thought it was a load of bullshit, to place it into his words. So, he usually tried to exchange the atmosphere. This time, it wasn’t going to work.
“Danny, come on it’s our birthday! I don’t want to hear about some stupid thought you had, I want to do something fun!” He whined.
I frowned. I despised when Joshua did this. I despised when he ignored my visions. I was certain he was simply worried of them. He always had been. That’s why he never wanted to judge them. The first one I ever had, had been about his pet snake wounding him and our protect making him get rid of it with they got back from the hospital. Since it came right, he has never wanted to judge another thought I’ve had. He didn’t judge that one and he tried to ignore all others. Most people would reckon he would do the opposite, but not Josh. He always wanted his way, and since my visions didn’t exactly work that way he never wanted to hear them. That still hurt. I understood his judgment, but it didn’t make it bother me any less. My own twin brother was always trying to ignore what hurt me the most, my visions.
This thought had been the worst. I never wanted to see my brother dead. That was one of my largest fears, and yet I had an unsettled feeling about this. Josh wouldn’t listen though, not if it just had to do with him. Yet, the part that had me the most curious would also make him curious, I knew. The angel had spoken of our father, a man neither of us had ever known, and that was the most confusing part and the part that would make Josh listen.
“Well, you NEED to. I NEED you to listen. Delight.” I begged him with my eyes. I really wanted him to listen this time. This was the first thought that truly freaked me out. I had never seen anyone dying in a thought before. The worst thought I had was one where our protect had been in a car accident, but she had walked away from it. This was a right nightmare, and as such it was really vital to me that Josh at smallest amount try to listen to me.
“Fine, spit it out.” Josh said, meeting down on the edge of my bed and looking at me.
“Okay. In my dream, there was an angel. At first, I thought he was a man, but then I saw his wings and his beauty. Anyway, he killed you. That’s putting it mildly. He outright murdered you, and was in the process of doing the same to me. The weirdest part was he mentioned our dad. He told me that I would be joining you and Dad in Hell. He also called me the watcher and told me I could have been saved if I wasn’t loyal to you. What do you reckon that means?” I questioned, moving my hands shakily at the reminiscence of what I had witnessed.
“Danny….I reckon that you’ve been watching way too many movies. That is what I reckon. That’s ridiculous and there’s no way that was a thought. First of all, angels are supposed to be the GOOD guys. I don’t reckon an angel would just kill two teenage boys for the hell of it. As for our dear ancient dad, well frankly I don’t care. He abandoned us and mom sixteen years ago so for all I care he can rot in hell.” My brother answered, shrugging. He stood up and watched me for a moment, just shaking his head. “Come on, Danny. Relax, it was a stupid dream. Get dressed we’re going out to breakfast with Mom before she goes to work. I’ll meet you in the living room.”
I watched Josh leave, frowning. He didn’t get it. He never had. I didn’t know why I had expected this to be any different from my other visions. I guess I had just wanted support. It was an upsetting thought and I had wanted support from the one person who mattered most, but of course that wasn’t going to happen. I couldn’t relax or brush it off like Josh wanted me to. I needed to know what it meant. I needed to know before it was too late to exchange it. But, I had no thought where to even start. I knew someone who would listen and try to help me though, my best friend Kairi. She always believed my visions and she always supported me when Joshua wouldn’t.
Kairi had lived next door to us for years. She went in when she was five and we were four. We’ve been best friends ever since. Even before she knew sign language we were always closer than her and Josh. We were both artistic, even as Josh and her half brother, Colin, were more athletic. Not being able to speak never held me back when it came to Kairi, she always understood. She could read my facial expressions before we learned to write. Once we could write, I would write her notes, carrying around a notebook when we were together just to speak to her. We had always gotten by. Now, she was taking sign language in high school. She still wasn’t perfect but she was getting there and appreciative more and more.
So, it was Kairi I wanted to speak to. She would listen and try to help me figure out what it meant. Yet, I had to go to breakfast with my family first. With all, it was my birthday so I had no doubts that Kairi would be over later in the day anyway. It was only early morning. I got up carefully and got changed. I would talk to Kairi about this later. That was enough to cool me down.
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