(Bonus Task)
I'm at my friend GenericLDer's house, we are sleep deprived in the youth of the day. Some 4am spaciness as we lazily sit on the couch, he is playing a text based MMO and I am listening to rain sounds on repeat. I remember reading the bonus task of the month and think to myself this is the perfect chance to attempt it.
"What do you want to do for the bonus task?" I ask quietly.
"I don't know man... I've always wanted to slay a dragon." he responds, still focused on his game.
I hatch a scheme to make this interesting and smile slyly before putting it into action.
"There is a game, like the one you are playing now it is text based."
He stops typing for a moment and listens intently.
"In it I am a mage capable of controlling reality by casting spells..."
"Nice, nice" he says intrigued.
"We are playing it right now, and I have only to use my magic to teleport us to the mouth of a stone cave hidden in an ancient forest of tall trees. They are so tall that their trunks disappear into the clouds, leaving nothing to hinder the gentle mist-like rain drifting down and over us. Steam Billows from the jaws of the ominous cavern, rushing forth in a deep rumbling growl. From beneath my heavy woolen cloak I ask slowly with a chilling calmness... Are you ready?"
"Uhh I don't know man."
"Just remember that it's a dream, you'll be fine." I turned to look at him, he still looked sleep deprived, slouching in his crumpled t-shirt and sweatpants.
"What?"
I started casting the spell to summon the dragon from the depths of an ancient slumber. From the steaming cave a gargantuan burst of fire billowed forth, it's heat nearly scalding my exposed skin.
"What the hell man?!" GenericLDer shouted as he stumbled back covering his face.
A deafening rumble echoed from the cave and it began to shake, showering the loose stone to the ground. Soon it was just a glowing smoking pile of rubble, but it continued to shake with increasing intensity. The ground around us began to churn in and terrible upheaval of earth and flora, and before us climbed out of it's own deep pit the fearsome and long forgotten slumbering stone dragon. It began to stretch it's wings, shaking loose the soil from the dull grey scales of solid rock, knocking the immense trees over with a thundering crash. It lowered it's head and looked us right in the eye.
"YOU PATHETIC CREATURES DARE WAKE ME FROM MY SLUMBER?!"
GenericLDer, apparently still annoyed from being breathed on quickly retorts in a sleepy but patronizing tone. "Look at this noob; afk in a pvp zone." he says with a pitying chuckle and a shake of his head.
The dragon reared it's long neck and threw open it's jaws to let loose a towering flame towards the sky. Above the clouds I noticed a orange glow, and realized he had set the forest on fire.
As burning wood and ashes begin to rain down from sky, Generic get's even more angry and runs at the dragon still garbed in his pajamas. He screams a blood curdling battle cry and attempts to punch the dragons giant toe with his bare fist. He pulls back and begins rolling on the ground while holding his fist and yells in agony.
"His def level is too high man, I can't hit!"
That was about when I realized he wasn't lucid at all, and with a swipe of the dragons foot was thrown into the huge chasm from when the beast had come.
"GENERIC! REMEMBER IT'S JUST A DREAM!" I shout toward the pit, despite thinking he's already lost.
The dragon looks at me from miles above and speaks softly in it's rumbling voice. "I am surprised that you fools dare think yourself a challenge to me. I am one without pity, for you are to me as an ant would be to you, and I have no remorse for such mortals."
Suddenly I hear that familiar battle cry echoing from the depths of the rubble. A blinding light began emanating from the ground glowing brighter as the scream became louder. Suddenly I saw GenericLder soar into the sky towards the dragons face. He was wearing beautifully decorated golden armour and dragging a giant shimmering blue sword behind him. He reached the dragons neck and ran vertically up it with a savage speed, growling so angrily that the dragon himself began to panic. Stone arms crashed against their own body with the intensity of someone attempting to swat away a deadly insect. He nearly knocked himself out trying to slap generic off own face. Yet moments before the crazed dreamer had leaped from the jaws of death in a daring but graceful front flip, pulling the sword in front of his head to bring it crashing down over the nape of the beasts neck.
Everything was crashing around me, burning trees, others torn up from the roots by the collapsing headless body of the dragon. Earth and dust and leaves being tossed into the air only to rain down in a chaotic confetti of the surprising victory.
Generic rode the disembodied head of the dragon like a crash-landing airplane, and it hit the ground in an explosive shower of dirty mulchy leaves. But moments earlier he had leaped in an insane somersault, rolling over the ground towards me, jumping up at the last moment to give me a high five.
"Bro I owned that noob!"
"Good job G." I said with a pat on his spotless golden plate armour.
"Thanks for the tip yo, I almost forgot It was a dream." Generic told me whole heartedly, but the moment of peace was short lived. He knelt to the ground, stabbing his sword into the earth and for a brief instant there was not a sound, even the falling debris paused on their way to the ground. I managed to see him stand up before he was already miles away in the sky leaving behind a thunderclap of air rushing in to fill his place.
I swear before I woke up I heard his voice echo from the distance.
"G G!"
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