Chapter 2: Candlelight
The souls gathered in the field. "Oh my God!" yelled a flying soul. "You know what I was thinking about?"
"What girl?" asked another ball of light.
"The dick that killed me. Let me tell you about it, I remember like it was yesterday, I don't know how long I've been here—But anyway. I was in bed with him, he had a set of teeth, real big black dick. I like niggas like that."
"Ok..."
"So, we fucking, he got naked and went down on me. But then my thigh started hurting and he flipped me over and my ass started hurtin'. Dem nasty niggas is trifling!"
"Mmhm. I think that's how you died..."
"I don't remember!"
More souls appeared on the dark field. The one soul turned, "More death."
"Why are so many people dying? When I got here the reaper was weightening and taking."
"He takes the devils away from the pure. Anubis and Sigourniel were talking--"
"He got fired!" yelled a soul passing by. "Who was that?" asked the soul. "My name is Optimus. I think but if it ain't, it is now."
The two souls turned to each other. "Do you know your name?"
They blinked, a glow surrounding them. "Madison?"
"I think my name is Billy!" yelled an orb. "Sherri!"
"No, that's my name!" shouted a being from afar. That soul turned to another and asked, "who are you?"
"Dareion."
"No! Dareion is on the floor!" sounded a squeaky soul. "Are you a mouse?" asked somebody. "No... I'm Austin! I think..."
"My name is Genevieve Ali Adams."
There was silence. "Why the fuck yo' name so long?"
"Is anybody black!? I think I'm black!"
"Everybody wanna be black..." lamented Madison. "I'm chinese! My name is So."
"So!" hollered the community of lights. "My name is So..."
"And you're chinese?"
"That's a fucking vampire!" yelled someone.
"The last thing I remember, I went to school."
"I remember getting fuck!"
"I am a mother of three... I think!"
"I used to have skin!"
"I had eyeballs."
"I don't wanna die!"
Many souls gathered with irritated spirits. A dark portal opened and a man with a boney hand appeared. He held a scythe and behind him an enormous canine with black fur and a golden chain with an ankh hanging from it. Gold bracelets clasped around his paws and ears pierced with three gold rings. "You are all lost..." spoke the skeleton. "But I have the answer."
"I sure hope the fuck you do!" exclaimed a redden soul.
"This madness was summoned by greed." said the dog, he stood over the reaper's head. "Vampires are on the ground manipulating the living."
"Has anyone bore witness to the creature?" questioned the skeleton. "Witness?"
"The law says, a vampire cannot enter a home unless invited."
"Well... fuck all that. Ause I'm here..." glowered another. "And what is your name?" asked the reaper. "Nigga, you know me."
"Somebody black!"
"Coochie Man."
"Coochie?"
"I was up in Norway. I didn't forget shit..."
Anubis squinted, "Come with us..."
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The trio walked down a mint green path with a light cerulean fog. The path ended towards a cliff with a wooden fence blocking the fall.
Near the cliff, a set of souls various in size.
"Hoodie... you gotta put yourself together baby..."
"I can't do this anymore, I'm worn out, Dela."
Childhood's soul was tiny, the size of a cookie crumb. "I hate your goddamn father... what made him do this shit?"
"Look at my grandbaby... she should be bigger than that."
"Well... I don't feel big." she turned to the cliff. "I would jump but I would just float."
A chuckle sounded, "Reverse suicide."
"Warr, shut up..." said the mother.
"I know that voice anywhere! Childhood!"
She turned, "Who the--" her soul met with the stranger. "It's me! Coochie Man! You were up in Norway!"
Childhood shook, "No I wasn't... I was giving a speech for healing the sick. A bullet flew at me..."
"Now let us discuss the fucking bullshit!" a soul the size of two gorilla fist waved as if his spirit would pop. "We shouldn't be dead!"
A soul sighed, "It's my fucking brother..."
"He's probably trying to get the house." said a soul behind him. "But the old house in Louisiana is gone."
"The Church of Boel?" Childhood went to the other. "It shouldn't be down, that's our house."
"Child... I been got rid of the old house." told the bigger soul.
"What--why?"
"Grandpa, Hoodie said don't sell it--"
"Boy I know what she said." the bigger sneered. "If I didn't get ri of the damn house, Chauncey would ease his ass in it."
"Mama why is grandpa on drugs? Not King Chere but Grandpa Chauncey." Warr floated to his mother
"Greed." she said. "It's not about drugs. It's not about power either. Vampire Kings are prophets for HIM."
"IT!" corrected King Chere. "That boy ain't done shit good since he came out a coffin. I hope he dies! Got my fucking ass in fucking limbo—if I ever walk on land again, imma shove my foot so far up his goddamn ass--"
"Ok, ok Chere..." calmed Childhood. Delagati snickered behind her. "What the fuck happened?" bellowed Chere.
"Grandpa, what if we went back to Church?"
"Church!? Boy, you ain't got good since—it's a goddamn infection!"
"It has to be magic. Mama?" Childhood asked her mother-in-law. "I don't know..." said O'Liga. "I haven't spoken to Chauncey since he bite me." She muttered under her breath, "Fuck that nigga..."
"Mama, do you have any clue?" said Delagati. "I mean y'all used to talk and shit..."
"I don't know... I remember the door to the House wide open."
"A vampire cannot enter a home unless invited," Chimed in Olisha. "He had to have used a ritual or other. The door is sealed, he's banished from the house of Angels."
"I agree with mama..." said Childhood.
"Then we have to get bodies so we can go back!" exclaimed Seign. "Fuck my brother... our father left the church. After Dela married Childhood, he switched... new faith and all that shit."
"I can't believe a snake did all this... that's depressing."
"Hoodie, stop saying 'depression', I swear it's shrinking you." Olisha coddled. "Excuse me for being the size of a pea... I just feel weird. Something isn't right."
"We need to use the mirror to look out at the world." suggested Seign.
"If I may intervene..." Sigourniel spoke with Anubis behind him. "I do agree with Seign. But I should bring up the fact that Gabriel is Childhood's father."
"We don't have to." mumbled Olisha. "Is it important?" asked Childhood. "Yes," said Anubis. "Gabriel is the messenger of heaven and his daughter is the speaker of the house."
"Yay me..." sighed Childhood. "The hole in this plot is why." Anubis turned to Sigourniel. "Gabriel came down, that shouldn't have happened. Heaven is the most beautiful, he usually sits in the Garden."
"When the Garden was a flame, Gabriel should have been there. I cannot even fathom why he would leave."
"My dad isn't a slacker!" defended Childhood. "You sound as if you're going to arrest him."
"Childhood... this is an offense."
"But we don't even know what's happening!" Delagati floated in front of Childhood. "Hold on! Gabriel is my father-in-law, I know he isn't doing anything. I'll make a deal with you!"
"Ok..." Anubis sat down. "Let us find our bodies and we'll investigate the whole thing."
"The whole thing?" Anubis lowered his gaze. "Alright."
"My father is leveled headed, he'll do it!" claimed Warr. Delagati winced, "Ok Warr, you go to your mother now."