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Dream – Running Angels

Unfortunate events lead for an opportunity to be saved and save others.

It started out in a club of some sort where there were a lot of people drinking, dancing, and having a good time. I was walking around with a drink and decided that I would make my way over to the dance floor. I made my way through some people and started dancing with a random girl. As I was dancing I couldn’t help but stare into her eyes. Her eyes were dark but if you looked into them, you would see a spectrum of light moving around within. I told her something along the lines of “I can’t take my eyes off yours” and continued to dance. She then got closer and we kissed a bit.


It was only a short time after that the dancing was interrupted. A car, looking like a 70’s muscle variety, smashed through one of the walls of the club and came straight at us. I grabbed the girl and jumped away from the car and it passed us and came to a stop. The guys in the car started shooting at the people in the club. So I took the girls hand, got up, and started to run to the front of the club. The firing rang out pretty loud, and as we ran, the girl was peppered with bullets and went down. I looked back and the car was now driving quickly towards me. I ran and jumped off the dance floor to a lower platform, and then ducked as the car drove off the elevated surface over my head and continued to drive through the front of the club’s glass facade. The car fishtailed to a stop, and started spraying the front of the club with bullets. I just curled up and waited as bullets hit all around me, yet not hitting me. There were a lot of people shot around me, but none of them connected with me.


They stopped shooting, and 4 guys stepped out of the car. They were walking back into the club, shooting anyone that they ran into. They were almost at the entrance when they were out of nowhere plowed into by a huge swat truck. The truck sped by, hit the guys, and disappeared. The bodies were nowhere to be seen. There was only silence left as I got up to look around at the destruction that had befallen us. No one else was standing.


I’m not sure if things shifted or not, but I was then walking through a Manhattan-style city with a guy and a girl. We were looking for a train home, but we couldn’t find a station. After walking through a maze of streets, we were all pissed off and split up. I made my way a couple blocks down and finally got a block that wasn’t wall to wall with apartment buildings. There was a park, as well as a few stores lined up.


I walked through the park which had a circular column-based structure at its center. Once I got through the park I was looking at the stores across the street. There was one very tall building on the block that seemed kind of out of place. In my observing, I saw that my friend Jake was walking across the street. I yelled his name and he looked over to me and waved. I started to cross the street over to him, but in a split second a bus steered out of control, swerved right into Jake and crushed him as it crashed right into one of the stores.


I couldn’t believe what I saw, but I ran over to the crash, where fire was breaking out. Before I could get to the bus though, the girl I was walking with before ran out of a store yelling to me “He’s trying to kill me!” She grabbed me and we were running towards the huge out of place building. I looked back and saw the guy we were walking with running after us. He had a really crazy look about him, which reminded me of a cartoon version of The Joker from the Batman cartoons.


We ran through a door that led us into the massive building, and for some reason the girl was taking me up the stairs. We ran up and up so many flights that I lost count. After a while she opened another door and we were on a balcony that wasn’t quite at the top of the building. The top of the building had three huge golden statues on them that looked like they were watching over the city. There wasn’t really any way out though, which made me wonder why the girl took this path. We were looking over the balcony when an elevator door opened to reveal the crazy guy, who now had a pretty big knife.


He pretty much ignored me and ran right for the girl. She tried to run but he took a swipe and slightly cut her back. I ran over to him, threw him down, and grabbed the knife. He was yelling a whole bunch of blabber that I couldn’t understand. He tried to claw at me with his hands, but then I grabbed him and stabbed him right through the chest. Foam started rushing out of his mouth and he was shaking. I grabbed his back and ran him over to one of the ledges and threw him over the edge. I then watched him fall down into a hidden courtyard that was kept out of sight by the exterior of the building.


It was like the core of the building, slightly elevated, but lower than where we were. There were a bunch of really tall trees that were on the edge of the courtyard. I wanted to make sure he was dead so I jumped down into the trees so that they would cradle me to safety. I jumped from one tree to another, until I was low enough to get to the concrete surface. There were some fountains, and statues of angels between them. I walked over to the crazy guy, and he wasn’t moving or breathing. Good enough for me. I looked up to the girl to give her a sign, but above her something caught my eye.


The golden statues on the roof started to move and come to life. The one I could make out was a female figure with really big goggles on and some kind of staff in her hand. The other two were male figures that had a Greek look to them. They separated themselves from their base and jumped down to the girl. One of them picked the girl up and threw her off the ledge so far that I didn’t even see where she landed. They then jumped down to the courtyard towards me. I started to run, but I only got between one of the fountains before one of them threw me to the ground. They stood in front of me and the female one raised her staff to the air above me. As she started to bring the staff down to strike me, one of the angel statues moved right off of its pedestal and jumped between me and the staff. It absorbed the impact, with stone exploding everywhere to reveal the angel in the flesh. The other statues of angels followed and started to fight the golden statues. While they were busy, the revealed angel grabbed my hand and I kind of blacked out.


When I returned, I was in the middle of the park that I was in before. The angel told me that she was my guardian. She then told me that I was to be a guardian of someone, and that I had to go because time was running out. She disappeared, and I was left to walk the same path that I had done before.


The bus that had crashed was nowhere to be seen. I was looking around at the stores, and I saw my friend Jake was walking across the street. I yelled his name and he looked over to me and waved. I started to cross the street over to him, and then time started to slow down. I looked over and saw the bus going towards him, losing control. I ran over, and extended my arms to him, shooting out a web from my wrists. The webs hit him, and I pulled back as hard as I could, while the bus was swerving towards him. I could see his body flying through the air, just barely avoiding the crashing bus. Time started to move normally again, and he crashed into me, sending us both rolling back. I got up, and then things came to a close.

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One Response to “Dream – Running Angels”

  1. Claire Greco says:

    Brian…great read!

    Moves along so nicely…little time to exhale.

    Claire

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