Brothers

Written by tomer3392
proofread by rhinotaz
edited by RussianRoflcopter

Every ending is a beginning of something new.

Rafael Gibson was a man at the age of 24 with blonde hair and green eyes, he was a normal person that could have been anyone of us, he went to work, talked with friends, payed taxes and searched for his place in the world.

That of course until the night came.
You see, from a very young age Rafael had spent his nights in nightmares that were always the same.

Rafael would wake up in a dark forest, he would wake up as a type of Equine, a Pegasus pony to be exact at the young age of a colt with a snow-white coat with a brown almost black mane but these were not the things that really frightened Rafael in his dreams it's not that he wakes up as a Pegasus pony but it is always that he would hear a terrible bone chilling scream "Aaarrrrrrrhhhhh!".
The scream followed him everywhere he would go, he continued to run until he would encounter a dark cave and immediately he would decide to go and try to hide from whoever made that horrifying scream.

There was a dark shimmering panel that was attached to the wall. It looked like someone had carved it, but the thing that caught his gaze more than anything was the image that was on the dark surface. With each step he would take the light of the cave diminished.

As he stood before the mirror what he would see was himself, sleeping in his bed. He was confused, scared and alone and it finally seemed he lost the thing that had followed him.

He began to relax, he decided to investigate the reflective surface. At first he thought it was a kind of picture. He soon realised this was not the case, her could tell this from the subtle shifts in Rafael’s duvet. He stopped believing that it was a picture.

He then came to the conclusion it was some type of passage so he tried to go through the mirror but when he tried to go through the mirror he bumped his head on the mirror and received a headache for his troubles.

Suddenly he saw that the Rafael in the mirror was starting to wake up and right after that he heard the creature terrible scream in the cave entrench "Aaarrrhhhhh!".

Every second the shout came closer and because the mirror stole all the light from the enclosure he couldn't see anything. He feared again, tears slipped from his eyes.
"Please someone help me!" Rafael shouted in his dream but no one came and when he started to lose his hope he saw in the darkness two angry eyes looking straight at his little body.

------------- 6:00 AM ------------------------------------------------------------------------

"No!" Rafael shouted in his bed, he immediately ran to the bathroom to wash his face after his nightmare last night "I really need to talk to someone about these dreams" Rafael said to himself as he looked at himself in the mirror.

He looked at his watch and as always it was 6:00 am. "I have two hours until I have to go to work" thought Rafael.
He went to take a shower to wash the sweat off his body but most of all to remove the terrible dream that last night he dreamed out of his head.

After he washed, Rafael went to the kitchen that was also his living room.
In one corner of the room stood a small refrigerator. There was a counter which had a microwave and a sink placed beside each other. Under the sink was a generic dishwasher. In the middle of the room stood a dining table and a chair facing the TV. The table was made out of wood and the dining chair was made of a combination of MDF and plastic.

Rafael looked at his watch and saw he had an two hours before he needed to go to work so he sat in his chair, turned on the TV and started to change channels searching for something interesting to watch. He stopped on the news channel.

"Today we are facing a historical turning point in human history, here in the Tel Aviv university, scientists believe they have found a star about 100,000 light years from Earth.”

“Scientists claim the star - with time - will have the same conditions that we here on earth. Scientist’s predict if we achieve higher tear galactic travel, it will still take 1.7 billion bi-" Rafael turned off the TV after he looked at his watch and saw that it was 8:00 and that he needed to leave soon to arrive on time for work.

So he returned to his room and there he put on his uniform that included a white T-shirt, a black suit, a gray tie with black stripes and black pants that he took from his dresser, he then grabbed his car keys off his night stand.

After he started the engine he turned on the radio and started to drive to work 'As always in these hours there is nothing to hear' Rafael thought as he approached his destination 'I want something interesting to happen soon. I'm tired of this routine I'm tired of working all day long just so I get minimum wage' Rafael thought as he had reached his destination.

Rafael worked at a fancy restaurant. As a waiter; his job was walking between the tables and inquiring people’s orders. You are probably asking yourself why he works here if the job makes him miserable with what he does. Well there are two reasons for that.

The first reason is that than there was a recession, and even if he did quit his job, then finding a better job was next to impossible. He knew only one thing, he needed to pay his bills and bring food to the table.

The second and really important for him is that he always dreamed of becoming a gourmet chef.

Even from a young age he was always watching his mother cook and always tried to learn from her. In middle school he was the only boy that wanted to do cooking class. Even though he was not very popular with the boys he was very popular with the girls. At university he studied cooking in the day and he worked hard through the night in two different jobs and he got enough to finance his studies.

--------------------------------------The blue ruse-----------------------------------------

When he completed his studies he had the opportunity to work in a prestigious restaurant named "The blue rose", but even after he worked for a year they still didn't let him near the kitchen.

Rafael parked his car and went inside the restaurant. As he entered he saw his colleagues conversing with one another.
As Rafael came closer he heard Tommy talking about something "Hey want to know something?" Tommy said too Idan and Rafael "You will never believe what I got."

"So what did you get?" Idan asked as he started bouncing excitedly like a little kid in a candy store for the first time.

"Well you're never going to believe this, but I got tickets for a vacation in Hawaii for four days and I can invite two friends," Tommy answered happily.

Idan at that moment seemed like he was going to explode, he started bouncing so fast it gave Rafael and Tommy a headache just by looking at it "Why you don't have a headache from all this jumping?" asked Rafael.

Idan answered "What? Can't I jump in excitement." He remained happy and energetic.

"Not While were still working. you know what will happen to us if the boss catches us," answered the irritated Tommy.
Tommy and Idan were three years younger than Rafael, they were cousins and everyone could see it.

They were both short for their age and had similar faces and freckles and the same blue eyes. The only thing that distinguished them apart was that Idan was tanned with short black hair and Tommy had Pale skin with long red hair - that was held up by a ponytail.

For Rafael, they were one of the things except his family who helped him to continue with his dream that he would one day become a famous gourmet chef 'It would be great if these moments happened more often' thought Rafael.
"Tommy, Idan please stop arguing, we are about to open in a few more minutes and I do not want customers to see you like this," Rafael told Tommy and Idan in an angry tone.

Tommy and Idan calmed down and gave a look that showed that they were sorry. Rafael gave them a smile and moved up to the front door to watch customers come in.

Rafael then saw a group of people that he wished would not come in and as they entered the door he quickly got a bad feeling 'not them, please not them' It was a gang that belonged to the boss's son who loved to make life difficult for the employees of the restaurant just because they could.

"Hey you come over here worker A and B!" Steven yelled at Tommy and Idan that hesitantly moved towards him while the gang members of Steven showed a menacing look towards them.

"y-ye-yea Steven," stammered Idan.

"You little shit, are you making fun of me? If so I'll tell my dad he should put an ad for new employees," said Steven too Idan while the gang members laughed.

Tommy started to get upset and he was not afraid to show it in his voice as he asked Steven "So what's your order punk?"

"Tickets to Hawaii of course worker A" Steven replied with a wicked smile.

"No way" Tommy replied and he immediately got punched in the face from one of the gang members.

"Wrong answer, so I'll ask again until you give me the answer I want," said Steven with the same smile as before.

Tommy Immediately came out of the shock of the punch and immediately replied, "You spoiled brat, you think that you will always get what you want, Fuck you!!!" replied Tommy, and immediately Steven's smile turned into a frown.

He rose from his chair and approached Tommy. He made a fist and he was ready to give Tommy a beating. Just before he had made contact with his fist, Rafael caught the fist in his hand and with the other punched Steven in the face in front of everyone in the restaurant. A stunned silence proceeded.

Tommy and Idan were terrified and afraid of what would happen now while the gang members rose from their chairs and helped Steven up to his feet "Are you alright boss?" They asked.

Rafael saw him rise from the floor and went all red from anger. He decided to run for the front door but he wasn't fast enough and one of the gang members caught him. Steven started to move closer to Rafael "look's like your dream is not to become a chef but punching bag?" Steven talked coldly.

This is bad, what am I going to do? Not only am I going to be fired, I'm going to go out of here on a stretcher' Rafael thought as Steven came closer raising his fists.
Suddenly throughout the city a terrible scream was heard that made everyone who heard it put their hands on their ears in an attempt to silence it. "Aaarrrhhh!".

Rafael could not move a muscle and the only thing going through his mind was 'This scream. This is the same scream from my dreams' Rafael immediately left the restaurant at a sprint while Steven started giving orders to his collaborators "I want him, you understand? But I do not want a scratch on him. He is mine, understand?" and immediately all the gang members started to run after Rafael.

"Idan did you hear that? We need to help! Rafael will be in trouble if these dicks of Steven catch him!" Shouted Tommy to Idan and immediately they began to run towards where Rafael had disappeared.
Rafael heard Steven's yells for him to stop, and the screams of his friends trying to help him. To him they were background noises and the only thing that interested Rafael was to find the source of the scream. 'I do not know who or what you are, but today I finally will find the source of this dream, that has haunted me all my life' thought Rafael as he was coming closer to his goal.

"Aaarrrhhh!" the scream was heard from the community park.

Rafael went into the park panting and was tired, he ran for 15 minutes without stopping. He arrived at the source of the scream, that had frightened most of the city. He came to a shallow pond and the scream stopped.

While he was looking tired and out of energy, he stopped a moment to catch his breath 'It's weird, the scream just stopped all of a sudden. I'm sure that the scream came from here' Rafael thought.

"Look at that, it looks like Rafael is finally out of air, what a shame" Rafael heard and all of a sudden he felt a kick to the head that caused him to fall to the ground. Steven looked down at Rafael.

"That's for the fist" said Steven as he took a knife from his left pocket" and this is for having the nerve to raise your hand from the first place!" Steven shouted while stabbing Rafael's side with his knife.

'Oh god, I'm going to die' Rafael thought to himself with tears in his eyes, he'd never felt pain like this in his life but he couldn't even let out a small cry for help as he winced.

While Rafael felt the excruciating pain roll over him, Steven started to smile, "Hey, it's not over." With a smile as he held something. Rafael opened his eyes for a moment to see what Steven was holding.

"No, no, no!" Cried Rafael as he saw Steven holding Tommy's flight tickets stamped with blood and at that moment Steven started to laugh mockingly.

Then something broke in Rafael, he never in his life felt so much hatred and rage. He was so angry that he felt no more pain.

As he got up with the last of his power, he started to walk slowly towards Steven and as he came close enough, he felt the pain come back. he looked downward towards his chest and he saw the same knife from before stuck in his chest and he felt the last of his strength leave him, he fell down and started rolling towards the shallow pond and as he fell into the pond. Instead of feeling the ground he simply continued to drown and as he began to lose his consciousness, he had only one thing in his mind 'Tommy, Idan, I'm sorry'.

------------------------ Five hours later ---------------------------------------------

"So what do you think, Twilight! Is he some kind of monkey or chimpanzee?"

Rafael heard an energetic and happy voice but he could not open his eyes.
'I had to have drowned or died from lack of blood. So why do I feel fine and why I can't open my eyes' he thought to himself. Suddenly he felt something soft like a cloud, and he realized he was on a bed. 'wait a moment what about Tommy and Idan? If they found me and I'm now in a hospital then maybe they're okay' He chose to ignore the voices around him until he felt something on him move. As he opened his eyes a great light blinded Rafael. A minute later and he got used to the light of the room and he could not believe what was in front of him.

"So you think he likes cakes?" asked the pink pony.

Author's Note

Hare is the new and improved chapter 1.
I hope i fixed all the problems it had before.