Chapter 2 -- "Cloud World"

Sam was too shocked to even close his mouth. "Where am I?" thought Sam.

"This looks like another world. Am I standing on clouds?!" Sam looked under his feet and exclaimed. He was indeed standing on clouds. The clouds were solid though.

"Why are there so many dwarfs here? What is this place? Am I dreaming?" thought Sam. Sam pinched his arm to see if he was dreaming. "Ouch! So I'm not dreaming?"

"You aren't dreaming. And stop calling us 'dwarfs', Sam. We are the angels. Can't you see that we have wings? For your information, this is the 'Cloud World'." The dwarf next to Sam suddenly spoke, Sam nearly had a heart attack.

Sam still could not make himself to either close his mouth and talk or nod. The angel didn't seem to expect him answering though because she continued talking. "Besides your world, there are many other worlds in this universe. The so-called aliens you humans claimed to see were just another type of living things in other worlds. The 'Cloud World' is a world on top of the clouds. Many of the things here are made of clouds."

"Whoa.... Wait for a second. How did you know that I'm Sam? Plus, can you read mind?! How did you know I called you 'dwarf' in my mind? This is creeping me out." Sam finally got his voice back.

"We angels have super powers. We can read minds. When we see someone, their name will just pop in our mind." The angel smiled and explained to him.

"Okay... So you're an angel. And you have super powers. I'm in 'Cloud World'. Do you expect me to believe in you? This must be a dream. I want to wake up! This dream is creeping me out! I want to leave!" Sam was feeling the chill creeping in him. "This is a dream. This is a dream. This is a dream!" Sam kept repeating that in his mind.

"Take it easy, Sam. This may be hard for you to accept for now. But let me show you around. That will make you believe what I just told you. You are not dreaming, okay?" The angel said.

"I'm dreaming. Stop it, will you?! This is really creeping me out. I must be dreaming. Yes, this is a dream. Yeah, just a dream." Sam was acting like a crazy boy losing his marbles.

"For God's sake! You're not dreaming Sam! Just follow me." The angel was getting angry.

Too scared to deny, Sam nodded. "First, please let me shrink you." Before Sam could answer, the angel took out a shiny stick, which Sam recognized as a wand like Harry Potter's, and waved it at Sam. At the speed of light, Sam began shrinking. When he was as small as the angel, he stopped shrinking.

The angel told him to follow her. Without waiting for his reply, she walked down the road, which was the clouds, and pointed at the buildings on both sides.

Sam quickly quicken his pace and was behind her when she said "This is the Bank of Angels.". She was pointing at a building on her left hand side. It was very tall and was white in colour, just as she said just now. Everything was white.

She continued explaining what those buildings were while Sam was looking at them in awe. Sam hadn't seen anything that white. Even the doors of the buildings were white. There weren't any windows on them.

"So I'm not dreaming. I'm in 'Cloud World'. And this place is amazing!" thought Sam. He was enjoying this trip now.