Thread: Nomad's Submissions

21.09.2009
The Vampire King (WILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

As I fell asleep, I focused on the moon. I was with Selene on the moon. I asked her why she wasn't reincarnated with me this lifetime. She said she didn't know, and a tear rolled down her cheek. I held her close to me, and said I still loved her. I told Selene, "If I ever fall in love with another woman, she is going to know about you, and understand." She snuggled into my neck.
I saw Raven Knight in the distance. She was talking to Spike. She kissed him goodbye. He looked at Selene and me, waved, then turned into a bat, and disappeared. I was startled by him doing that. Raven said, "He has stuff he has to do." I nodded.

Raven started "singing". Music came out of her. It sounded like two vibrations, a low and a high one. The low one was almost subsonic. A portal opened. I grabbed Selene's hand, and dove in. Raven followed.
We were riding Arabian horses in the Sahara, at a full sprint. Raven's horse was black with a red mane and tail, Selene's was white, and mine was brown with a white mane and tail. We were being chased by bandits on camels. The bandits were whooping and laughing. We were dressed like Bedouins, all in white.

I turned around and shot white arrows from a white bow. Raven shot fire bolts at the bandits. We were hitting some, but missing a lot. Selene jumped off of her horse, and withdrew two short swords. She was smirking.
She leapt up and landed on a camel's back, and stabbed the bandit's on it. She ran back and forth, spinning, flipping, leaping, slicing, as Selene and I shot at them. Selene began running back to her horse, faster than the horses themselves. Raven called lightning down from the sky, and killed the remaining bandits, but the lightning did not strike the camels.

We slowed our horses to a gallop, and came to a huge hole in the ground, about maybe 200 feet across. It seemed to be slowly growing. Sand poured into it. It was so dark, I could not see the sides of it.

The great hole frightened me, but then I thought, "This is a dream. Nothing can harm me."
I said, "Let's go in."
Raven was hesitant. I told her, "This is a dream, we can't be hurt. Let's just jump in." She agreed, and the three of us got off of our horses and jumped in.

We landed in a huge dimly lit room. It seemed like maybe it was a temple. I could barely make out great pillars on the left and right of us.
There was something glowing up ahead. I felt like we were being watched.

We walked toward the glowing object. There were about six steps leading to a platform. A great precious stone, cut with many facets, and oblong in shape was sitting on an iron stand, softly glowing blue-white. It was about as long as my forearm. Selene's eyes got big. "I want it," she whispered. It reminded me of the diamond I had seen in the center of The Hanging Gardens of Bablyon, in a previous dream. Selene slowly walked toward the stone.
"Selene, no!" I hissed. She turned and looked at me, almost pouting. Then a wry smile came over her face, and she turned back to the stone, and lifted it off the stand.

At that moment, I heard some commotion from up high. "Dammit, Selene!"
Raven was looking in the direction of the sounds. We ran off to the right side. Selene hugged the stone and said, "I want it, I want it!" like a child. We ran into the corner of the room, a dead end. Selene tossed the stone to me. At that moment, a white staff appeared in my left hand, and the stone fused with it. I wondered if Raven or I summoned the staff.

We turned and faced what I felt was attackers. I slammed the staff on the ground, and moonlight burst from the stone, illuminating the room. Bats. Hundreds of vampires in the the form of bats were hanging upside down, with faintly glowing red eyes. Some were already flying at us, screeching in anger.
Raven shot fire bolts at them, and Selene threw shuriken at them, both hitting the bats with perfect accuracy. I shot moonlight out of my staff, spinning it around back and forth, as the bats were attacking us from all directions. We killed hundreds within moments. The remaining retreated from the room.

"We are in the Land of the Vampires," said Raven. We saw a doorway to the opposite corner of the corner we had ran toward previously. It was a yellowish brown stone, and had strange letters carved on it. We walked through.

We were in a great cavern, lit from below by lava flowing underneath us. There was a great tongue of rock, like a broken stone bridge, going out in front of us. There was a man, about seven feet tall, wearing a long black cape, that flowed to the ground with his back to us. He had bat ears on the side of his head. I saw a cage hanging from the ceiling in the distance. It seemed like the man was talking to the person in the cage.
The man turned and faced us.

"Oh, you must be my slave's friends, coming to rescue him?" he laughed mockingly. I looked at the person in the cage. He was a blond man with fangs. His clothes were tattered, and flesh was lacerated. He looked like he was dying of thirst. Raven whispered, "Spike!"

"You can have your friend back, as a gift. But, first you must defeat me!" said the man, his voice resonating through the cavern. On the word me, he grew in size until he was about 20 feet tall.

"Well, who the hell are you?" I asked.
"I am Death incarnate," he said as he opened his cape. His cape was full of dozens of bats.
"Well, I met Death last night, and he was a lot more badass than you," I mocked.

The bats came flying at us, screeching. Selene shot bolts of moonlight at them, I shot arrows, and Raven shot fire bolts. It wasn't enough, there were too many. I pressed the button on my energy belt, and formed a force field around us. The bats bounced off the energy shield and screamed angrily. Raven told me to turn it off, and just trust her. She lifted her hands, closed her eyes, and began singing.

A firestorm, a tornado of fire grew up around us, and we were in its eye. At first the bats tried to fly through the fire, but they got burned. They started to fly away, but Raven expanded the tornado, burning them as they retreated.
Raven ended the spell, and the remaining bats retreated into "Death's" cape. Before he closed his cape around himself, Selene shot a beam of light at his chest, Raven launched fire, and I shot an arrow. All three hit him at the same time, and he became engulfed in flame. He clutched at the arrow in his chest, and melted into a puddle of black ooze. Ugly little fat green worms squirmed out from the puddle by the hundreds, squirming away in all directions. I summoned sparrows and ravens and they swooped down and gobbled up all the worms.

"Damn you!" said a disembodied voice, echoing off the walls. "You did not kill me. I am immortal!"
Raven flew across the cavern to the cage. She broke the lock, opened the door, and went in. She cradled Spike in her arms, and teleported the four of us out.

We were in a glen in the woods. It was early spring. "Who was that?" Raven asked Spike.
"The Vampire King," he said. "I was being punished for rebellion." I looked around the glen. There were some small wildflowers growing. The grass was growing past our ankles. There were little white butterflies flitting about. I wondered if any of these plants had healing properties.

Boom! "What the hell was that?" I thought.
Boom! "Oh shit," said Raven. "This is not the time for a fight."
Boom! Boom! Boom! The ground shook.

A frost giant appeared, pushing the trees apart, and looked down at us. I placed my hand on the hilt of my sword, and he laughed at me. "I mean you no harm," he smiled. He had pale blue skin, and white fur. He had long arms, and huge hands and feet.

"I will heal your friend," he said. He scooped up some herbs from somewhere nearby, and crushed them in his hands. Then, he blew into his hands, and the herbs flew through the air, and landed on Spike, covering his wounds.
"He needs time to heal," said the frost giant, and walked away. Selene and I followed him, and Raven stayed with Spike in the glen.

"I could use a good fight, from someone like you. I need to sharpen my skills," I said.
"Oh, really?" laughed the frost giant turning toward me. I turned into a giant minotaur, and he charged me. We wrestled and tumbled on a snowy plain, and the ground shook.
"We should move away from here," I said, "someone's trying to rest."

We stopped fighting, and the frost giant led Selene and I over a mountain range. Selene flew to keep up with our giant gaits. We wrestled and battled on a cold plain on the other side of the mountains. We threw each other to the ground violently. Selene sat on a cloud, clapping and laughing with delight. We roared at each other in exuberance and determination.
We finally stopped, exhausted. Spike and Raven appeared on the mountain next to Selene. "Spike's better now," Raven smiled.

"You must go back and kill the Vampire King," said the frost giant to us.
Zaphor, my dream guide appeared, floating on a cloud, the red dragon-man.
I had a feeling the others' were talking to their spirit guides, but I wasn't paying attention. "How will we kill an immortal?" I asked Zaphor. "He is immortal in spirit, but you must destroy his body, or Spike will never be free of the Vampire King."

Then Koomo, a man-bat, one of my spirit guides appeared. So did Michael, an angel, another spirit guide.
"Ah! More warriors for the fight!" I said.

"No," said Zaphor, "this you must do yourself, but they are here to aid you."
My spirit guides smiled at me. Michael gave me a beautiful silvery winged helmet with a bluish tint to it. The wings were pale gold. He said it would give me holy protection.

Koomo gave me a pair of bat wings. I put them on my back, and opened my wings. "Now you can fly with the agility of a bat," he said. Then my spirit guides and I smiled at each other, and they disappeared from sight.

"Use these gifts to battle against the Vampire King," said Zaphor, and he winked out of sight.
I turned to my friends. "Let's go kill the bastard," said Raven darkly. I nodded.

We were suddenly back in the Sahara near the hole leading to the Land of the Vampires, and the sun was shining brightly.
I heard a thunderous voice. "So, you think the light and heat will weaken me? Don't you know that I am The Vampire King?"

The Vampire King leaped out of the hole, and stood in front of us. He was now huge, about sixty feet tall. Hundreds of bats poured out of the hole, and flew right into his body, making him bigger and bigger.

He opened his cape, and his entire body and inside of his cape were lined with bats. The Vampire King's face transformed into that of a vampire bat. They poured out by the thousands. I activated my energy shield over my friends. "Don't worry about us," said Selene. "All ATTACK!" she screamed with furious rage. I flew up into the sky with my bat wings. I felt my winged helmet vibrating. I didn't understand what was going on with that, but there was no time to ponder it.

I summoned an army of locusts. The locusts formed a great cloud behind me, their buzzing was deafening. The bats attacked the locusts, but they were outnumbered. The locusts swarmed over them, tearing into the bats' flesh with their insect mandibles. The bats began falling to the ground. I saw flashes of light and fire through the battle coming from my friends, but I couldn't see anything else. Two great living clouds clashed; bats and locusts, and I was in the thick of it. I summoned a great murder of ravens, and the battle intensified. The bats ripped at the ravens throats, and the ravens pecked out the bats' eyes, and tore at them with their talons.

The bats took heavy losses, and what few remained flew back into the Vampire King's body. There ground was strewn with dead bats, ravens, and locusts. Flies were already buzzing around the corpses.

"Damn you!" roared the Vampire King. Then, I saw fire moving across the sand toward the feet of the Vampire King from Raven, the fire caught his feet on fire, and traveled up his clothes, consuming his cape and robe. Spike leaped from the ground up at the Vampire King, and landed on his neck. Spike dug his claws into the Vampire King's flesh, and bit down into his jugular.

The Vampire king yelled in anger reaching for Spike. Selene shot two beams of white light into his eyes, and he froze in pain. Spike vaulted off the Vampire King, blood pouring from his mouth, an vengeful grin on his face.

I summoned an army of flesh eating beetles, and they crawled up from the Vampire King's feet, covering his entire body, consuming his flesh. The sound of thousands of beetle mouths grinding and clicking sounded unearthly.

All that remained was a huge skeleton, and two angry eyeballs looking down at us.

"You think you can kill me that easily? I am still alive! I am still alive!"

He tried to stomp us, but we were too quick for him. I flew up easily dodging his grasp with my bat wings. I summoned two giant ravens. As he tried to reach down and grab us, the ravens swooped down and pecked at his eyes.

He stood up, arching his back in pain. He reached for the ravens, but they plucked his eyeballs out and flew away.

I saw Raven doing something strange. She turned into what looked like a large green inchworm, and crawled on to the Vampire King's foot.

"What the hell?" I thought.

I heard Raven's voice in my head. She sounded like she was smiling. "I am a bone virus."

A greenish black spot formed on the right foot of the Vampire King, and spread like a crack, up his leg, and quickly traveled over all his bones.

"What is this?" He seemed shocked. The bone virus spidered out covering his bones like a hungry vine. He looked down at his foot, as it crumbled, and turned to dust.

"No," he said quietly. "No. Damn you. Damn all of you to hell!" he cursed, as his entire skeleton body crumbled to the ground in a pile of dust. A hot desert wind blew, and the Vampire King was no more.

We were suddenly back on the moon. Raven and I both kissed our dream lovers goodbye, and they disappeared.

"Wow! Let's have another adventure!" I said to Raven Knight.

"If you don't wake up now, and write it down, you are going to forget the whole thing!" she laughed.

"No I won't! Uh, maybe you're right," I grinned sheepishly. She walked away, and waved goodbye, then disappeared.

I was alone on the moon.

I pressed the button on my energy belt, and an energy field formed around me. I sat down in lotus, meditating on the dream. I wanted to remember the whole thing. I felt spirits around me. I was curious about them, but I didn't want to get distracted. I closed my eyes, and tried to remember the highlights: the camels, the hole, the temple, the stone, the staff, the Vampire King, Spike, the glen, the frost giant, the wrestling match, Zaphor, the gifts of my spirit guides, the final battle...

I felt myself beginning to wake up. For some reason I knew I would have to go right back to sleep. I didn't want to forget a thing.

I meditated and I thought about Robot Butler meditating in his dreams. "So this is what it's like!" I thought. "How strange." I meditated, and I felt like others were meditating with me.