The Dreamers Exchange

Chapter 11: Bleeding Preparation, and Servants of Evil

Jake was under the water fall. Several monkeys were with him. There he saw the spirit again.

"Wow so you're finally on this thing huh?"

"Loki it's you"

"Not quite. Gabriel. Similar face thing. What is this place?"

"A past life"

"Monkey king really?"

"Yeah you could say that" Jake was quite.

"Why do you wear this face in your dreams? Why are you blonde?" he smirked asking his question. In the real world Jake had ruby red auburn curled hair, not the flat blonde mop that he was wearing in the dream.

"I'm not myself in my dreams. I'm always someone else. This is Casey. My favorite character. Casey is me"

"I see. Wowza" Gabriel said plopping down.

"Can I ask what's going on with you and Odin?"

"Alot." Jake said holding his hands tightly.

"Are you seriously Balder?"

"I'm sick of it okay! I want to be myself! Why is that so hard for others to understand?"

"That's a very Casey thought" Gabriel said.

"I like Sung Woo. So many masks to you?" he smirked.

"Am I going to die?" Jake honest didn't care. But it was something his dreams had been echoing.

"Now you're concerned about that. Fearless, brave Jake Caloway scared of death? Hmph."

"I'm not scared. It's more than just me..."

"You want my advice. Stop being a pussy about it. You have all the world to explore. A lightning bolt to find. DJ and Summer, bad eggs. Maika? Good egg. I would know I'm in his head as Loki" he smiled.

"So ..." Jake mumbled.

"Look you're going to become a god and your gona love it. Your little book series. It will sell out. I've talked to The Big Kahoona about you. Bigger deal then guns. You're important Jake. But you were always meant to be. Even before you sold your soul."

"Did I actually-"

"Yeah ya did." He paused adjusting himself on the floor of the waterfall. Water was filling his shoes, and he was getting uneasy around the monkeys. "You really sold it. To Belzebub I believe. Your "guardian demon" " he choked laughing. "Sorry sorry it's hard for me to take that guy seriously. God's favorite angel my ass"

"What?"

"There's more going on here, Case, Jake, Aradia, whoever you are. Then just lighting and Hades" He said sure of himself.

"There's more to you, then this world." He gestured under the water fall. "Then Sung Woo's cave. Then all of this. Consider me your guardian angel. Woah did not need all that info!"

"You're really him aren't you?" Gabriel looked at Jake dead in the eye.

"You're the messiah, you're him!" the words were slightly parsed, excited but not ecstatic a matter of fact, but holding will.

"I'm just Jake Caloway." Jake said.

"Or Brittany Sparta, Aradia Locket, Carry Under. Lot's of aliases Jake. I hear you saved Cronus's ass."

"I uh- um"

"Relax. Your secrets safe with me. But when all this comes down to it. When Odin reigns his fist. When kissups get their crotch comeuppance. I expect to be paid with a token." He paused. "Any token really. Norse, Writers, Bliss" he smiled. "I loved Bliss on that planet." he sighed pushing himself off the floor.