The Nomad Chronicles

DJ ENTRY

I leap out of my body, a minotaur wielding a morning star. I am surrounded by astral demons. They are growling at me like hungry dogs. They look like hair four legged gargoyles with grey skin. I focus on the details of their faces. “I’m going into the Deep Astral STATE BITCHES!”

Raven appears. She is wielding a crazy weapon. It has a long handled two handed weapon. One the damage end is a chain with a half circle blade on it.

I raise my arms in the air, and summon a black swirling storm. Lightning comes down, and flows over my body. I roar like a crazed beast. My dragons appear growing out of glowing tattoos on my forearms. I shoot my dragons at my enemies.
They perch on my arms and shoot flames and ice bullets at the demons. Raven swirls around, slicing them up.
Angel appears. WTF. She says something about still loving me, and gets sideswiped by a demon. I shoot a metal dragon into his brain, and make its head explode. I burn all the matter off of us.

“You can still dream with me, Angel, but you have to kick some ass.”

“FUCK YOU, NATE!” she screams at me. Her eyes glow white, and she summons lightning from the sky.

“You have dark energy, let me heal you,” says Raven.

“No! I am fine! Who are you? His new girlfriend? Ah! I hate you!”

“Dammit Angel!”

A dream demon comes from behind her, and bites down on her head. She screams, and the demon explodes.

“OK! New dream!” I shout, creating a portal. I gesture for Raven to follow. She looks at Angel concernedly. “She can handle herself, as long as she doesn’t get distracted by me.”

Raven walks calmly through the demons to me and the portal. She turns back to Angel, who is wielding a glowing quarterstaff. I grab Raven’s wrist. “Nomad, stop. She needs our help.”

“No, she doesn’t. She’s a powerful witch in this deep dream state- astral state, whatever.”

I grab Raven’s wrist and pull her through. While in the wormhole, I see Angel is following me, holding on to my ankle as we fly.

“Nate, sorry Nate, sorry. I still love you. Help.”

I see a demon gnawing on her ankle. I try to smack it off. Wait... It’s a growth. It’s part of her.

“You have to deal with your own demons.”
We tumble through on to the Moon by the Peaceful Pool in the Biodome where Angel and I always talk.

“Nate, you bastard. Is this a date with your new girlfriend?”

I am staring at the demon growth on her ankle.

“Oh gross.”

“Let me heal you,” Raven says.

“No one is going to steal my boyfriend away from me! He’s mine! My pet! My little pet! I own him.”

I yawn. “See,” I say to Raven, rolling my eyes. “She has to seek her own healing.”

Angel flying tackles Raven suddenly into the pool. When they come up, they are laughing and splashing water at each other. “Ok... weird.”

“The pool here has a calming and healing effect,” I hear Q10 say.

“Ah.” I jump in the pool also. Angel looks at me with wounded eyes. Raven excuses herself. She says she’ll be back in a bit.

“Is it over, Nate?” she asks.

“One phase is over. The part of the story where we get codependent and hate each other. That part is over. I wish you could remember, or at least try to remember how many lives we have been together.”

“I want to see. Show me.”

“You can see for yourself, whenever you want, Angelwitch.”

“One last kiss goodbye, Nate.”

“No.”

She grabs me and turns me to her. I gently push her away. She forcefully kisses me for a second, and I give in. A tear rolls down her cheek and mine simultaneously. “Are we going to be together again, ever?”

“As friends, always. As lovers... probably not again this lifetime. Maybe a few years down the road, my dear. We need to be apart for a long, long time. We have a lot of personal negative karma to expiate before we come together as a couple. If not this lifetime, I will see you in the next, as dolphins.”

Angel fades away. I fall back into the water, and let the excess negative energy flow out of me. I step out of the pool. Raven is on the bank.

“You alright, Nomad?”

“Yeah...”

I sit down and stare at the water. Raven sits next to me.

“Raven, look how real everything looks, how it feels! Look at the veins in the blade of grass! Look at the beetle crawling on it! Is this how gods feel? Did we make all this?”

“Well, Q helped a lot, right? And also, I think a lot of things are just evolving on their own.”

“True. Raven, I love dreams. This dream is real, isn’t it?”

“Yes.”

Raven smiles at me. It’s a very sweet, simple loving smile, the way my sister, Rachel smiles at me.

“So, you felt like “they” were coming for you? Who is that?”

“ I don’t know. Men in black, the spooks, the aliens... Shit I don’t know. All I know is some of my memories got blacked out, redacted... something happened... I have to find out. But, I am so tired right now... I have to sleep.”

“Always sleeping in dreams.”

“Try it! It’s cool.”

I fall asleep.