I woke up in the middle of the room, wearing the long white dress I died in "My sweet Elizabeth" I looked around for the source of the voice, but nothing... I was alone in an empty school gymnasium "Little reaper had a dream~..." the voice echoed as a man stood up near the bottom of the stage-... his dead eyes were a psychotic red and crazy, his teeth were razor sharp and animal-like, stitches all over his icky grey pale face while he wore a suit like he was the perfect groom. I started slowly walking backwards "Then little reaper start to scream~" his voice growled as he sung "Run down the hall as fast you can, RUN MY LITTLE DEMON!~" he started crawling like a spider, incredibly fast. I ran out of the gymnasium and down the school corridor while he chased after me. Once I got out of site, I ran into a classroom and hid by the teacher's desk "Little reaper could run no more, tears making eyes grow sore" his voice echoed in the corridor outside, I placed a hand over my mouth as the classroom door opened. He paced the room, humming parts of his lullaby as he walked closer to the desk. "Bones not broken, believes their lies....." there was no more footsteps "Royal veins and b̵̥́̊l̸̼̠̈́e̸͉͎͛̄è̵̲̠̏d̷̝̬̏̒ǐ̴̬n̴̤̈́g̸͉̞̓͐ eyes" he leaned over the desk, grabbed my face and forced me up onto my feet, forcing me to look at him in the eyes "Such beautiful eyes~" he smiled, before plugging his claws into my chest and ripping my heart out-
(Angel's POV)
I jolted awake from he nightmare, hand over my heart.... there were a few children outside on the street setting of firecrackers in the early light, I took it as a sign to get up and get ready for the day. Half an hour later, I was at the palace.... and the whole time I was there, I kept nearly drifting off to sleep. "Angel? Are you alright?" Aristomache asked, a bit of worry on her face "Yeah, kids on my street were setting off firecrackers this morning, nothing to worry about" it took me a few minutes to realize we were now in the Eclipse study "Just saying, you look like what a human does after a dream cater gives them a nightmare" I thought about something for a second. "...do dream caters make nightmares for demons or devils?" "Not without my permission, they only make nightmares to 'gently' punish humans" Aristomache answered as she searched the bookshelf "Its about a month or two of torture if they make an unnecessary nightmare without permission from the Eclipse princess". I remembered the creepy lullaby the man was singing "Is there certain nursery rhymes that dream caters know?" "Dream caters know all sorts of nursery rhymes and lullabies since they also have to make nightmares for human children... a few of my cousins' mothers actually sung them and me these twisted lullabies about our ancestors, even the corrupted versions of them" Aristomache took a book off the bookshelf.
She flipped through the book "And whatever lullabies scared us the most, we remembered them- I'll never forget 'Little Reaper', Jackal's father thought it would be funny to sing it to me and his son on cleansing day, we were only thirteen at the time" she turned another page "Little reaper had a dream, then little reaper start to scream, run down the hall as fast you can, run my little demon". I felt a bit scared "Little reaper could run no more, tears making eyes grow sore, bones not broken, believes their lies, royal veins and bleeding eyes... what a fucking shit lullaby to sing to a child- at least when I'm a mother, I'm singing human lullabies to the kid, less scary than 'Death's Bells Ringing', 'Rejects', 'Heads and Tails' and 'Seven Dead'". Aristomache closed the book and placed it back in its original spot as Erik walked in who has obviously overheard the conversation "Don't get how those lullabies were scary, now Red Son's Plague-" "That one isn't scary-" "Its about one of our ancestors dying and their ashes becoming a deadly plague that could wipe out demons, devils and angels-" "Still not scary". Aristomache continued to search the bookshelves "Angel, since this week is the anniversary of the treaty... before you go home, could you stop by Death's and warn him that peak hour is gonna be earlier this week" "Right".....
The walk home was longer than it should've been, but I was finally back. I looked at the old hotel.... why do I feel scared- I don't want to go in there at all.... I kept walking down the road, past the hotel. I walked for a few minutes before seeing the casino... haven't been here for months. I signed and walked towards it. The doors were obviously locked so I took out my key and unlocked it, I walked into the casino, locking the door behind me "Angel, what brings you here?" Death asked, wiping down a table at a booth "Just... need a small break away from the house" "Why-" Death noticed the bags under my eyes "Maybe the better question is what happened- you look like you haven't slept at all" I signed "A dream cater decided to be a prick". I looked around the casino, seeing June teaching Gamer how to serve drinks without tripping, I smirked a bit "How's the fallen going?" Death looked over at Gamer and June "Great actually, been getting him to practice during closed hours... he did his first shift this morning, he did well" I looked at Death "No way, he's only been living here for two weeks-" "Quick learner". Death smirked as I rolled my eyes "Erik wants me to warn you that since its the week of the anniversary of the treaty between Heaven and Hell, there's gonna be more demons and devils hitting the pubs and casinos, you're gonna need everyone working tonight" "I appreciate the heads up" I turned to walk to the doors to leave- "Angel... dream catchers helps against dream caters, pretty sure there's a few in a box in a closet back at yours" "Thanks" I unlocked the door and walked out of the casino...
Unfortunately back at my place, searching the closets for the dream catches Death told me about but there was no sign of one "Dream catchers my ass-" as I opened another closet, I found a wooden box that had beautiful carvings in it... it's no dream catcher, but its diffidently something interesting. I picked up the box and closed the closet door, walking upstairs to my room. I walked into my room with the box, placing it down on the floor. I sat down, opening the box to see all sorts of things in there, I took out this old dream catcher.... why does it look familiar? All the things in the box was neatly and tightly placed in it, but while carefully reading a note that was sitting on top of everything, it mentioned there being other boxes in the hotel. I hung the dream catcher close to my bed, then picked up the box and placed it in a corner. I'll go through the box tomorrow.....
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