A Most Disturbing Dream

The following vampire novel chapter is written with the following preamble to it. I have never written a preamble to one of my vampire novel chapters before and hope not to do so again in the future.

Preamble:  One of my favourite writers is the Jesuit priest Malachi Martin. It was reading his book The Keys of This Blood as a kid that got me interested in the field of Geopolitics and International Relations in which I once lectured and wrote articles about.

Malachi Martin wrote non-fiction, fiction and a literary genre of his own making that he called "Faction".

What Faction was was a novel that was for the most part fictional but contained allusions to real actual events that occurred but those events were of such a shocking nature that Father Martin decided to put references to those events within a fictional context.

Having been highly disturbed by events that have transpired the past 24 hours, those of you who read this preamble can make of it what you will as you read the following vampire novel chapter.

A Most Disturbing Dream

-vampire novel chapter

 written by Christopher

 Monday February 11th 2013

 The Feast Day of Our Lady of Lourdes

South Korean vampire huntress Hyung Grace Kwan walked along the beach towards her friend the Canadian vampire hunter Dracul Van Helsing.

Dracul hadn't told her much when he had called her on his cell phone but from his voice, she could tell that the vampire hunter was in a greatly agitated state.

As she approached, she noticed that his face seemed to be totally drained of colour.

In the 2 and a half years since Dracul's father had died of cancer, he had been through several rough patches but even the look on his face now- this seemed to be different,

"Dracul," Hyung greeted him.

"I had a dream about my father last night," Dracul said.

Dracul hadn't dreamed much about his dad since he died but those dreams he had, he was grateful for.

But whatever dream he must have had last night seemed to bother him greatly.

"What happened in the dream?" she asked gently.

"I was in my dad's house," Dracul said, "the house was totally empty, devoid of all possessions and when I entered the kitchen, my dad was standing there and he said, 'Christopher, I have something important to tell you'."

"Go on," Hyung encouraged him.

"You know it's mentioned in the Old Testament how in the last days people shall dream dreams and have visions but at the same time the great mid-20th Century Evangelical Christian apologist Dr. Walter Martin pointed out on his collection of audio tapes (my dad had the entire collection) how most cult leaders seemed to start out by deviating away from Scripture and using their own personal dreams and so-called visions to promote their own personal religion of their own making,"

Dracul said, "so I was never one to be guided by my own dreams and I never had a vision. I always just followed what the Bible said and paid attention to the Deposit of Faith that the Church has continuously proclaimed since the time of Christ."

Dracul then started talking about his dad.

How his dad had been raised in the United Church of Canada but how he had converted to Anglicanism in his mid-20s and then shortly before his dad died of cancer, both he and his father had converted to the Roman Catholic Church.

What had changed his dad's thinking was the apparition and visions of Our Lady of Fatima.

It is said that the Blessed Virgin Mary had appeared to 3 shepherd children at the village of Fatima, Portugal back in 1917 for 6 months between May 13th and October 13th 1917.

For years, his father had been the strongest sceptic against the story of Our Lady of Fatima.

He remembered once as a kid how his dad had spent an hour and a half at the dinner table forcibly debunking what he called "the ludicrousness of the so-called Miracle of Fatima".

What eventually gradually changed his dad's thinking was interestingly enough when his dad started researching for a 3-volume History of Western Canada he would begin writing when he retired.

His dad had completed the first volume and had finished handwriting the second volume and was halfway through typing up the second volume when he was stricken by cancer and died back in 2010.

But while he was in the stages of just plain research for writing the history trilogy, his dad had come across an interesting article in a magazine once published in the Canadian province of Alberta called the Alberta Historical Review.

The article had dealt with how a little known miracle of the sun occurred at the town of Hanna, Alberta, Canada back in 1920.

A Fatima villager who had seen the original Miracle of the Sun involving the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima, Portugal back on October 13th 1917 (in which the sun seemed to dance in the sky and appeared to be crashing towards the Earth- this was witnessed by over 80,000 people) had moved to the town of Hanna, Alberta in 1919 a few months after the end of the First World War.

The man and his family had through the course of living in the town mentioned to their neighbours that they had seen the event take place.

Finally one day at a town picnic, a rabid anti-Catholic atheist who lived in the town stood up at the picnic and told the man, "You're a damn liar. What you said happened never happened. And if what you say is true and if there really is a God, I challenge Him to perform His own Miracle of the Sun over Hanna itself in exactly one week's time."

The Chinese have an old saying- Be careful what you wish for.

For according to the Alberta Historical Review article, such a miracle happened exactly one week later.

The sun did a dance in the sky and then turned into what appeared to be a shining Eucharistic host with the name Jesus emblazoned on it right over the town of Hanna itself.

Well, this was too much for Dracul's dad who was the ultimate Fatima sceptic.

He went down to the Alberta Provincial Archives and went through copies of the local papers from Hanna and nearby towns at the time the miracle was said to have taken place.

To his shock, the papers mentioned the story.

The miracle of the sun seemed to have been witnessed by various people within a 70 mile vicinity of the town of Hanna.

The Eucharistic host with the name of Jesus on it was even seen over the town of Drumheller, Alberta itself (where Dracul was born).

His dad made notes on the story but never mentioned the subject of Fatima again until the last year of his life.

In 2009, his dad started reading books on Fatima for some reason.

He'd talk about the fact of how over 80,000 people had seen the event take place at Fatima, Portugal.

It was even witnessed in a town 40 miles away where the atheistic Masonic editor of the town's newspaper had even witnessed it.

Dracul's dad in his reading became convinced that there was even more to the so-called Third Secret of Fatima (which was supposed to be released in the year 1960 but wasn't) than the text of the vision that was finally released by the Vatican back on June 26th 2000.

In the vision released on that date, a bishop in white is walking through a city half in ruins when he was shot at by bullets and arrows and fell to the ground dead.

The Vatican explained that this was a prophecy of the assassination attempt on the life of Pope John Paul II back on May 13th 1981.

Many secular newspapers including The Los Angeles Times balked at this analysis.

Dracul's dad had pointed out that in the two previous visions with accompanying secrets that the Virgin Mary had shown the three shepherd children, Mary had provided vocal commentary as to what it was that the children were seeing.

Yet in this vision- the Third Secret- that was released back on June 26th 2000, no commentary spoken by Mary is provided- although there was spoken commentary by Mary that accompanied the two other visions that the Fatima shepherd children had.

The only commentary provided was by that of the Vatican panel itself at the June 26th 2000 press conference who said that the image of the bishop in white falling to the ground dead was a reference to the gun shots fired at Pope John Paul II (who did not die as a result of those gun shots).

Secular Italian journalist Antonio Socci in his book The Fourth Secret of Fatima noted the discrepancy between the first Two Secrets of Fatima and the release of the Third Secret in that the first Two secrets when released included vocal commentary spoken by the Blessed Virgin Mary while the Third Secret when it was released did not.

As Dracul spent time in hospital with his dad the last month of his dad's life as he was dying of cancer, his dad would suddenly start talking about the Third Secret of Fatima and just at that moment, Dracul's ride would arrive in the hospital room to drive Dracul back home again.

Dracul would try broaching the subject again with his dad the next time but his father did not talk of it until he brought it up himself.

And invariably Dracul's ride would show up just as his dad would start talking about the subject.

After his dad's death, Dracul would spend some time on his own trying to research and determine if there could have been a commentary spoken by Mary that accompanied the vision of the Third Secret.

But nothing concrete.

Then last night's dream.

Dracul had been flipping through the TV channels just before going to bed and stumbled upon Kenneth Branaugh's 1996 film Hamlet.

The scene was of Hamlet deciding not to kill his Uncle King Claudius as Claudius prayed in the chapel.

Dracul turned the TV off as he was feeling tired.

Actually Dracul's favourite scene in that play was when Hamlet encountered the ghost of his father the late King Hamlet.

The next morning after waking up from the disturbing dream, he determined that it was his thinking upon that scene which produced the dream with the disturbing message.

"What was the dream?" Hyung asked Dracul.

"Well, my dad said to me, 'Christopher, I'm going to explain to you what I never got the chance to say in hospital because we kept getting interrupted. I'm not going to give you the actual words of Our Lady but this is what Our Lady was referring to. She prophesied that this scenario would unfold and now this is how it would all begin..."

Dracul woke up extremely shaken.

But he said to himself, it's just a dream.

Still something about that dream.

Something different.

And those words of his dad.

They felt so real.

As if his dad in Heaven actually wanted him to know them.

He didn't think much of them again.

He went to a restaurant and had lunch.

He decided to look at his iPhone and read the BBC World News web page like he always did at least 3 or 4 times a day.

He typed in news.bbc.co.uk and the first item that greeted him was the following BBC World News Headline:

POPE BENEDICT XVI TO RESIGN CITING POOR HEALTH

Pope Benedict XVI to resign citing poor health- the exact same words that his dad had spoken to him in the dream right after he had just said 'She prophesied that this scenario would unfold and now this is how it would all begin..."

"What else did your dad say?" she asked.

"I really don't want to say at this time," Dracul replied, "we'll see what else unfolds..."

"Well don't give me the entire words that your dad spoke then," Hyung implored the vampire hunter Christopher Dracul Van Helsing, " what was the gist of what he told you?".

"The gist of what he told me to put it bluntly," Dracul answered, "is that an Antipope False Prophet and the Antichrist are about to burst upon the world..."

To be continued.