Beyond Heaven and Hell

Chapter 5 - A dream within a dream?

I could hear talking around me, so I was being careful to keep my breathing slow, and at a regulated pace, so they would think I was sleeping. My goodness, with my heart rate at this speed, they must be blind to see that I'm not sleeping!

"He's much cuter than I imagined. I thought he would be ugly!" I heard one voice say. "Be quiet, you may wake him!" Another, softer voice. "You heard what Sophie said. We need to keep him as calm as possible. He is the key to our success, and we can't let anything disrupt that. Sophie will torture us if we have our wicked way with him. Absolutely torture us.." The quieter voice said.

What did they want to do to me?? I'm noticing a chain here.. Sophie's boss is hard on her, so she's hard on her underlings. Makes sense, everyone here seems fearful of someone else. I cracked my eye open a peek and saw two stunning girls. Seriously, what is it with gorgeous women here? I mean, I'm faithful. I love my wife. Nothing could change that. But as a man, I can appreciate beauty. And so far, all the women I had seen had just been something else. Out of this world. Which, I guess given where I apparently now seem to be, that makes sense. These two didn't give me as much of a creepy vibe as Sophie had. One had a short bob of black hair, smooth and silky looking. She wasn't very tall, but was very athletic, and curves in all the right places.

I couldn't see too much without giving myself away, which I think is for the best anyway. The other girl had wavy red hair that she had pulled loosely into a messy bun on her head, but her fringe and random strands that were left out gave it away. She, too, was also athletic build, but a lot taller than "shortie". They were whispering amongst themselves, much quieter now. I tried hearing what they were saying, but it was muffled. I decided to stop risking being caught, and just keep pretending to be asleep. It's hard to pretend for long without falling back asleep again.. Or awake.. I'm still so confused if I'm awake or asleep..

In my mind, I was in a field. A beautiful, green field. I saw Rosco. My sweet boy.. I suddenly felt a sense of peace wash over my entire body. There was my beautiful Liza. As stunning as the day that I first met her. This was where I wanted to be. Right here. I started calling her name and ran towards her, but she never got closer. In fact, she started changing shape, before my eyes. At first just her feet. They grew in shape, and turned a dark shade of red. They kept growing and began to develop claws on the end. Then the rest of her changed shape, growing also in size, until she was three times my size. And I'm 6 foot tall! Her head then changed, and the last remaining hope of seeing my Liza began to vanish.

Her face started to grow longer and wider, until it compared to the snarling snout of a wolf. But this was unlike any wolf I had ever seen in my life. This one was horrific. The eyes had turned a shade of red, blood-like red! The claws on her.. I mean it's.. hands were so long I swear you could use them to pierce anything in one stab of the finger. I blinked. For some reason, this seemed vaguely familiar. Like I had seen this vicious creature before. I tried thinking harder to place where, until I noticed my little Rosco also begin to change shape. He didn't grow as tall as Liza had. He did, however, reach my height. He also, developed a snout, claws, and blood red eyes. Although, he developed something much more sinister.. Wings. Freaking WINGS. They popped out of his back and began stretching to the height of the creature that now was Liza.

They were similar in appearance to a bat wing. This was horrible. I turned to run away when I noticed the area around me was scorched. Like the earth itself had reacted to whatever they had become. And it was spreading. Like a poison, killing everything as it spread out in a circular direction, with me being in the centre. I kept running, in an attempt to escape the circle and be on some sort of normal ground again. I didn't see the rock, until it was too late. I face-planted the ground.

As I was falling though, I remembered exactly what I was trying to think of. The vicious creature, the one I was trying to place. It was there! When I was in my car, the purple mist, then I felt something land on the car, squishing it. I felt like I was going to die. It then jumped and landed in front of the car, facing it, the beady blood red eyes staring through my eyes, right into my soul. Then it punched straight through the glass, and the moment it touched me, it was like we teleported somewhere. Somewhere horrid. There was a terrible stench, and everything was filthy.

Where it took me was similar looking to the hospital room that I am in now.. or was in.. or will be in.. I'm so confused right now. I started to feel an ache in my head, one that was almost unbearable. Like someone was screaming a high-pitched sound that I couldn't hear, but my brain could. And it felt like it was piercing a hole straight through it. I grasped my head and pressed my hands against my ears in some hope to dull the pain. It worked, although in a strange way. When I grasped my head, I realised I was sleeping.

Squinting my eyes open, I noticed the ladies from earlier had gone. Other than me, the room was empty. Still as I remembered this place... Tiles on the floor, no windows, and a bathroom. Plain and boring. Oddly, much more relaxing than what I had just seen in my mind. I rolled onto my side, in the foetal position, hugged my legs, and the tears escaped.