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Date Posted: 08:10:34 05/28/03 Wed
Author: Red Angel
Subject: Chapter Forty-One: DreamFlight - Darkness Becomes Him

Okay. Let me see if I can get everything straight.

First, most of the posters on Magnus' message board are tunring into their avitars/S.I.s.

Then, Dolton Georgia and other areas (I would think) are turn into sets for real life Godzilla movies.

Then Amanda's parents - and, subsequently, a giant, polyester love-monster - are destroyed.

Then, We find out that Amanda, JT, Dan, and JUNIOR(!) had past lives as Sayins.

I need a nap.

"I think I'm gonna go lie down in the car."
"When Mandi-chan wakes up, I'll join you."
I wave to Dan and sit in the back seat to rest. I fall asleep.

Now I remember why I hate to go to sleep...
***
Hello, Darkness, my old friend.

Junior's surrounded by shadow.

I've come to talk with you again,
Because a vison softly creeping
Left its seed while I was sleeping.

The shadow's taking shape. A person? It's trying to get into his head.

And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains

It's putting something in his ear. Lemme see if I can get it.

I'm being sucked in!

Within the Sound of Silence.

In restless dreams I walk alone
Narrow streets of cobble stone.

Junior's on a brick road. Who makes roads made of brick anymore? I think we're in Philly, or somewhere...
It's dark and cold, too. Amanda wouldn't like it here.

'Neath the halo of a streetlamp,
I turn my collar to the cold and damp,

Ouch. What's that light?

When my eyes weere stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the Sound of Silence.

Junior, don't go to the light. It's not safe. Mami would kill me if you got hurt! Mami'd kill JT if you got hurt! And that's saying alot, considering his over-powered SI and all. She could do it, too. She gets more pissed than...
Aamnda.

NELSON AVILES JR., DO NOT GO INTO THE LIGHT!!
Please...

And in the naked light I saw...

Damn.

Ten thousand people, maybe more;
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share.
And no one dared
Disturb the Sound of Silence.

What are all these people doing here? They're just staring at the light. There's someone up on the light. That shadow guy. Hey. You all should get away. That guy ain't a good guy.
Hello?
Hello!!?
Can't you all hear me?!

"Fools," said I, "You do not know
"Silence like a cancer grows.
"Hear my words that I might teach you.
"Take my arms that I might reach you."
But my words, like silent raindrops, fell,
And echoed in the well of Silence.

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made.

Junior's the only one not bowing to the light. Maybe he knows...

And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming.

The lights getting brighter. It hurts. Wait, I think I can see who the shadow is!
It's...

Oh, God.

And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls,
And tenement Halls,
And whispered in the Sound of Silence."

It's... HIM...

No...
***
"NOOO!"

"You okay, Luis?" He startled me. I jumped right out of the seat and was about to hit him. My eyes focused. It was Junior.

"Yeah, I'm okay now." But I had my hand on my baseball bat (Cuz ya never know.)

"Please let go of my arm."

Okay, so it wasn't a bat. It was Amanda. (I didn't know.)

"Sorry. I think I had a wierd dream."

"Me too. I was in this dark place, and there were all these people, and they weren't saying nothing, and they were praying to this guy on a light - sign - thing, and..."

"But, that was my dream."

Oh. Now I remember one of my SI's powers. DreamFlight. I can look into other people's dreams. It happened a few times before I became Red Angel. I'd have a dream, and someone in my family would have the same dream I had. But they were never that, vivid.

"Did you see who that guy was?"

"Yeah. It was... Me..."
***
"The Sound of Silence" ~ Simon and Garfunkle

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