Rise Of The Dreamer (10 page)

            Lucy then stretches the palms of her right hand to them and they all fall down to the ground unconscious.

            Joshua, Mike and nine others were all gathered and seated in a solemn assembly in a meeting room in the church.

            “Brothers, I thank you for assembling on such a short notice. I know that you are anxious to know why you are here and I’ll go straight to the point. We have been quiet for too long and because of this, the enemy has launched a ferocious attack on one of our own and is determined to have him or destroy him.”

            “Who or what are you talking about?” asked one of the prophets.

            “I’ve had contact with a dreamer who has no understanding of what is happening to him.”

            “How can you be sure?” asked another.

            “God showed him to me,” answered Joshua.

            “Why was he not shown to us, I have seen nothing
or
has anyone else seen anything?”

            Some of the others just shook their heads or didn’t respond.

            “What of you Mike?” he asked.

           
“Not yet Timothy.”

            “Because you haven’t seen him yet doesn’t mean there isn’t a problem.”

            “You know the
rules Joshua, in the mouth of two or three witnesses is
a matter established. You can’t be the only one to see this. We need a confirmation.”

            “We don’t have time for your doubts Timothy, someone’s life is in danger, every moment we waste is precious.”

            “I didn’t make the rules you know. It’s meant to protect us.”

            “Protect us?” questioned Joshua.

            “Yes, protect us,” mentioned Timothy. “What befell Peter wouldn’t have happened if we had stuck to the rules.”

            “Don’t bring Peter into this. Just because you haven’t seen or heard doesn’t mean God hasn’t spoken,” said Joshua.

            Timothy was angered by that last statement. “Are you saying I and the others are deaf to
God!
”

           
“Brothers!”
Mike cut in. “We are not here to fight each
other,
this is exactly what the enemy wants. We are meant to support each other and help those that need our help. If God has spoken, then we just need to tune ourselves in to Him to just be sure, it doesn’t make anyone of us less of a prophet”

            “What are you suggesting?” Timothy asked.

            “I strongly believe we should have an intercession as soon as possible,” said Joshua.

            “What?” asked Timothy as he looked in disbelief at the face of the other prophets in the
room.

            “I know I’m asking a lot, but it’s a chance to tune in and be sure, and the moment we realise that I didn’t get it right we step back immediately, but if I’m right, we’ll be saving a life.” He looked at the face of each prophet searching for support. “So what will it be brothers?”

            “Let’s have a vote?” suggested one of the prophets named John.

            Dennis and his fellow captives were bundled back to their basement cages by their captors. While they were still unconscious they were all bound with heavy fetters and chains. Some of them had already begun to awake, and they awoke to a whole new world of pain and misery. Not only were the chains heavy, they were quite painful and very uncomfortable. The fetters made it difficult for each person to walk,
then
the long chain was used to link everyone together. Their worsened situation was like something from a dungeon in medieval movie.

            Lucas was among those who had awoken and he felt extremely weak and dejected. He looked at Dennis who was still unconscious and wondered when he would wake up. It seemed like he had all the answers. He wanted to wake Dennis up, but he decided to let him be, he would need all the strength he could get.

            It was good that Lucas had not woken Dennis up because he wasn’t having an ordinary sleep. He was having one of those dreams. In his dream Dennis was inside the cage in the basement, but he was alone. All of the other captives were nowhere to be found. Immediately Dennis realised he was having a lucid dream again.

            “Dennis!”

            Dennis recognised the voice. It was Joshua. Then he heard other voices he didn’t recognise that were also shouting his name.

            “Dennis, where are you?” Joshua’s voice called out.

            “I’m here.” Dennis screamed out.

            Lucy appeared in front of him. “Who’s calling for you Dennis?”

            Dennis ignores her. He shouts out “I’m here,” to Joshua.

            Lucy incensed stretches the palm of her right hand at Dennis which throws him against the wall with enormous speed. A blazing whip appears in her hand and she disappears.

            Joshua, Mike and the other prophets are on an open field in the spirit dimension calling out to Dennis, until Lucy and a two dozen other witches in hooded black robes appear on the field carrying various kinds of unimaginable medieval weapons. Without wasting time Lucy lashes out at the prophets with her blazing whip while some of the prophets try to avoid the whip. Lucy’s whip releases massive explosions that causes fire and holes in the ground. The other witches also join in the fight.

            Joshua unleashes his white light sword and goes into battle along with the other prophets. “Where is the location of the dreamer, Dennis?” he asks Lucy as they clash and lock weapons.

            “He is mine and I’m not releasing him,” said Lucy. “He is to be sacrificed to my master, Lucifer.”

            “That will never happen.” said Joshua. “He is under our protection.”

            During the battle, some of the prophets abandon their medieval weapon mode and convert them to modern weapons and start using bazookas and rocket launchers in the spirit dimension battle. Massive explosions could be heard and seen with some of the combatants using flight to make their attacks more effective. Some of the prophets could be seen flying while some used horses and the witches employed the same tactics. The battle raged on for several minutes, and injuries were sustained on both sides, but the prophets were gradually gaining the upper hand.

            Joshua was eventually able to gain hold of one of the witches and held her head between his hands and began to search her thoughts for Dennis’s location. Lucy saw him and tried to stop him but she was busy struggling with one of the prophets. Once Joshua had gotten the location, he disappeared and appeared right in front of Dennis.

            Dennis was seated in his cage when Joshua appeared right in front of him. Dennis was delighted as soon as he set eyes on Joshua, he couldn’t believe his eyes.

           
“Dreamer.”

            “Joshua,” said Dennis.

            “Thank God I’ve found you.”

            “What took you so long?”

            “Believe me when I say it wasn’t easy.”

           
“Even in dreams?”
Dennis asked.

            “You have no idea.”

            “You’ve got to get me out of here. Some
bunch of devil worshippers intend
to sacrifice me and some other guys here and drink our blood.”

            “Yes I know
,
you’re being held by a very powerful coven of witches which I’ve only heard about but never come across before. They’re a handful. How did you come about being captured by them?”

            “I don’t know, the last thing I remember was being involved in a car accident and then I woke up here.”

            “Not to worry, now I’ve gotten the location of this place we should be able to get you out,” said Joshua.

           
“We?
Who are we?” Dennis asked.

            “It’s a long story, but what I can tell you
is
that there are more of us fighting for your safety.”

           
“More dreamers?”

            Joshua smiled. “We’re more advanced than dreamers, what you’re experiencing is just the starting point. You can’t even begin to imagine what you’re capable of.”

            “Try me.”

            “We’ll have more time for that later. Let’s work on getting you out of this God forsaken place.”

            Lucy appears in between Joshua and the cage that Dennis is in. “There’s no way that is going to happen.” She then swings her fire whip at Joshua who blocks it with his white light sword. The clash of weapons release an explosion which Joshua uses as an opportunity to disappear and it causes Dennis to wake up instantly from the dream.

            Dennis wakes up in fear with his heart pounding seriously. He could sense that he was in mortal danger. He had this great feeling of fear come over him, but he couldn’t explain why he was afraid. He felt the chains and fetters on his
body,
he looked at the chains and looked around at everybody else. He saw that some were still unconscious and Lucas was looking directly at him.

            “Bad dream?” asked Lucas.

            Dennis was still disoriented and didn’t answer the question. “What are these?” he asked in reference to the chains and fetters.

            “I guess they don’t want us trying anymore stunts like trying to escape.”

            Dennis could only sigh.         

            “They’re going to kill all of us, aren’t they?” asked Lucas.

            “There’s still hope.”

            “Hope for what?” asked Lucas. “Nobody knows we’re here, wherever here is. From what I could gather when we stepped out, we’re in some sort of country side far from civilization. Nobody is going to find us here.”

            “I have some friends.” Dennis said in reference to Joshua and the other dreamers.

            “What friends, what are they going to do?”

            “They know where I am and they’re coming for me.”

            “How do you know that?” asked Lucas.

            Dennis gave him a knowing look.

            “Don’t tell me,” said Lucas. “You had one of those funny dreams of yours again.”

            Dennis nodded. “Believe me when I say they’re coming,” said Dennis placing a hand on Lucas’s shoulder.

            “I can believe anything now, especially what we saw that witch do to Matt. I have never seen anything like that before. That’s scary.”

            “I can assure, there are many things which you haven’t seen yet,” said Dennis.

            “
That sure sounds comforting,”
said Lucas.

            SSA Marcus Gates was in his office working on data gathered from investigating Dennis’s whereabouts. Two of his other colleagues were seated at adjacent desks also going through massive amounts of data.