Apocalypsis 1.01 Demons by Giordano Mario

Author:Giordano, Mario [Giordano, Mario]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Bastei Luebbe
Published: 2012-06-07T22:00:00+00:00

XII

May 9, 2011, Vatican City

It was still very obvious how shaken Peter Adam was. His face drained of color, he sat in Don Luigi’s kitchen, drinking the third espresso that the exorcist had brewed for him, mixed with grappa, in an old and battered aluminum jug. Maria looked at him with sympathetic eyes; the Jesuit was the only one who seemed to be calm personified, as she poured some more grappa into Peter’s cup. Silence spread between the three of them. The only sound was the twittering of the birds outside.

Finally, Don Luigi came to a conclusion and broke the silence. »My friend,« he said, »in my opinion, you are not possessed.«

Peter looked at him in bewilderment. »Thank you, that’s very comforting,« he mumbled in a sarcastic tone. »And what is your explanation?«

»You had a vision, very simple. There is a huge difference. What you saw and heard in your dream was a vision. A pretty terrifying and very specific vision, I have to admit.«

»Are you trying to tell me that the Vatican will really blow up in seven – no, actually now in six days?«

Don Luigi raised his hands. »This is something that only God knows. A vision does not represent an inevitable fact.«

»But?«

»A probability. One of several possible paths fate can take. Or as Leibnitz would put it, just one of all possible worlds. When God grants somebody a vision, he is asking them to do something. To change fate. To warn the world.«

»Do you mean to tell me that I should take my dream to the media and ring the alarm bells? Hey, folks, listen up! I dreamed that the Vatican is going to blow up. You’d better get out of harm’s way and start searching for the bomb!«

Again, Maria sighed disapprovingly. Don Luigi smiled at her before turning back to Peter.

»It is normal for a prophet to be deemed crazy. That’s an occupational hazard.«

»No thanks, I pass. I don’t believe that I had a vision. There has to be an explanation. Some form of mass suggestion or hypnosis, something like that.«

Forget it! You know better.

»Think about it, Peter. You know better than that.«

Peter let out a groan.

»You are familiar with the Fátima Prophecies, aren’t you?« Don Luigi asked him.

»Yes I am. An alleged incident in Fátima, Portugal, in 1917, when the Virgin Mary appeared to three children and gave them three prophecies. The first was interpreted as a vision of hell, the second as the prediction of World War II, and the third, which was withheld by the Vatican until the year 2000, contains crude apocalyptic revelations about a world filled with destruction, in which the Pope gets assassinated. The third prophecy has been linked to the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in 1981, which occurred on the anniversary of the first Fátima apparition.«

»Very good,« Don Luigi exclaimed. »but did you know that there is a fourth prophecy?«

Peter looked aghast at Don Luigi; and Maria, too, stared at the old exorcist, dumbfounded. Don Luigi seemed to enjoy their amazement.

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