Heavy Rain 2/2

The rain continues to fall heavy and into the darkness we jump only to land in an old alter.  Lost statuses of old angels and stone tombs litter the place. Our stranger hangs from the angels hand until it breaks and he lands only for him to fall back against the status and slide down to the ground. Out of touch with his body he can only wait for death to come and take him. He listens to the darkness around him and can feel the memories left behind by souls long passed like feet prints in the sand. Children playing hide and seek, wedding bells going off in a princesses mind because her beloved knight kneel and said his words of peace and love. A monk speaks his poems of faith and of the right path for you to meet with god. The stranger opens his right eye to see now the events play out over and over. The stranger speaks out to the image of the monk and asks when it rains is it a sign of a soul passing from one life to the next. But the stranger says what am I doing and he lowers his head. The monk turns and walks over to the stranger and kneels beside him and says your answer my son is no, they are the tears of angels crying for joy for the work you do and others, even babies being born to live a good and hopeful filled life. They cry for you even now to not lost hope to push on to continue your journey. The stranger says thank you father for your words. The monk fades and a warm light fills the large alter. Torches light up all around the room as the stranger looks up to see a weird undertaker with a top hat dancing towards him. He wears all black but has a white button up shirt with a tie that was red and glasses. His face was a frozen smile that gave anyone fear when they looked. He was spinning a shovel that buried a many a body. His eyes were a dark purple and fixed on the stranger. My name be gravely laugh if you want I always do.  He laughs out loud with out breaking his smile. The stranger laughs but coughs up blood and a sharp pain strikes him in the chest. The stranger has a heart attack and dies. Back at the court room the judge says it is done he is finally out of the timeline. Death smiles and says the story is never over he has a pure heart and is favored in everyone. The undertaker kneels and thrusts his shovel in to the strangers chest and than pulls it out. Gravely spins his shovel and says play me a song out there worlds for a soul to come back home. The large pool of blood around the stranger draws back in to his body and the arrow wounds heal a long with the shovel wound. The stranger takes a deep breath in and the undertaker helps him up and out of the alter ruins. Gravely says welcome, it is not much but it is home. It was a graveyard but there was bodies falling from the sky and landing into empty holes. Gravely walks over to a person trying to get out of its grave and he pushes him back in and starts to shovel dirt on to him and makes them all sleep until it is time to be reborn. Gravely looks back and says well my task is done so you are needed at the court house for your sentence and he laughs. He says as the stranger opens a portal, next time we will have a drink how about it mate. The stranger nods and walks through the portal to the crossroads of all life in time and stands out side the court house. Death smiles and says my lover boy is here to speak his words. The stranger walks in and sees the judge plus the jury staring at him. His wife runs into his arms and daughter too. He looks towards  death and she blows him a kiss. The judge yells for the guards and nothing happens. Outside the undertaker leans against the building and smokes while the guards are tied up but one of the guards tries to get free but Gravely says calm down and hits the guard on the head with the shovel knocking him out. The stranger steps up. Stranger : I am only going to say this once so listen good or not your choice. I am not a hero or a god, not a savior of worlds or warrior and not a enemy. I am just someone that is there to help if need be. I am a father and a good husband, I wish to be a friend to all if I can. So I mean this when I say that one day you might need help and it might be me so you can decide then to not accept me. But until then let me live to help those that need it more than I. The judge and jury stand down and let him go free. The stranger and his family walk out together and death pays her friend the undertaker and he goes on his way. The stranger asks but death hugs him and says I send him to save you because of two things. The stranger tilts his head and looks puzzled. She laughs and says one: Your job is not done and two: Your soul belongs to only me and your family no one else.   We all love you protector.