Angel Redemption - chapter 1

Introduction

Chapter 1 – Awakening

A man wakes up in his bed in the middle of the thunder storm. Screaming. His heart is racing at 200 bpm….at least that’s what he think how fast it is….his head is throbbing…his breath is short….after a couple of minutes, he begins to calm down. Shaking his head, he tries to get up from his bed. He starts walking to the sink, turns on the light and washes his face. After drying his face, he looks at the mirror….he stops and gazes at the person in the mirror….saying to himself….”Who are you?” only to realize that it’s his own reflection.

He looks at an unfamiliar face…a rugged unshaved man with a long scar on his chest and a couple more on his arms and back….”What happened to me? What did I do?”

As he was trying to make sense of everything, a loud ring breaks the silence. With the tune of “Ride of the Valkyrie” it puts and an end to his pondering. He hurriedly grabbed his phone. “Hello?” Silence….then a weird voice comes out....the person’s using a voice altering device. ”Vincent?” He stays silent as the person calls out the unfamiliar name. Then the person calls him out again “Vincent? Are you there? “It takes him a couple of seconds before he realizes that it might be his name. Finally he replies “Yes” The voice speaks again “I got a job for you”.” What job?” Vincent asks. ”The usual” Vincent is puzzled. What is the ”usual” ? The only distant memory he has is the last 15 minutes of pure confusion. The voice says” Go to the newspaper stand on Clay and Leavenworth. I hide all the information you need there. Be there in 30 minutes.” Click. The phone went dead.

Vincent puts down his phone…walks slowly towards the window and opens up the blind....he can see the bright city lights among the raindrops….he notices a tall pyramid building that looks very familiar to him….it’s the Trans American building… he’s in San Francisco…..

“How do I end up in this city?”….”Who am I?”…”Who is ‘Vincent’?”…..Then he walks to his dresser... grabs a black shirt and a raincoat…then he gets out of his apartment. “Maybe I can find the answer in that package, whatever it is…” Vincent asks for direction, and then he starts walking in the rain, losing himself in deep thoughts as he walks among the crowd of China town…..