I saw Raven in the Biodome near the koi pond. Raven said, "Ready kick Satan Claws' ass?" as she created a black and white swirling portal framed in yellow, white, and purple lightning.
"Hell yeah!" I said. Bakura appeared. He cracked his knuckles. Pablo ran up as a fox. He became bipedal fox-man, and had a strange weapon in his hand that I didn't recognize, like a small knife. He was deftly spinning it around his fingers. I assumed Bakura gave it to him. A woman showed up that I didn't recognize, a friend of Raven's. "Not without me," she said. Sorna and Selene appeared. Sorna put her elbow on Raven's shoulder and leaned on her. She looked like The Black Cat, but blue and white with some black mixed in. She extended claws, and polished them on her fur. Selene appeared wielding the Moonstaff. I guessed that we shared that weapon.
Batman appeared. "I have been tracking this creature through many dimensions," he said. Koomo appeared, and they merged. Now Batman had wings, fangs, and claws on his hands. His eyes were bright yellow. He boosted his jet boots, and hovered about six inches off the ground. He unfurled his great bat wings and flapped them. He slammed his fist into his palm, and said, "Nice."
"Alright. Everyone here?" said Raven. We all nodded, and went through. Loaf came running up as we were going through the portal. He looked like a half cat-half loaf creature. "What are you guys doing?" he said. I was already halfway through. We all went through. Loaf came also. I was flying through the wormhole, bodysurfing on waves of timespace, in android lion-man form. I had a five on my chest, and was wearing a black superhero suit. Loaf was holding on to my ankle. He looked like his physical self. He was wearing a white t-shirt with green sleeves. There was an interesting picture on it that I couldn't make out. "Where are we going?" he asked.
"Crazy, wanna come?" I said. He laughed, and we tumbled out of the portal into the sky.
We were immediately on top of Evil Santa's sleigh in the night sky. The reindeer were moving robotically and making strange mechanical noises.
He was a huge beast of an "old man", but we knew that this Santa was a sick bastard, some type of demon or something. Raven turned into Queen of Night. She hovered in front of him, and said, "Stop, Shapeshifter!" She slammed her staff down, and lightning came down from the sky, and charged it. The black orb at the top grew to the size of a bowling ball. It had a purple aura, and crackled with power.
He growled at her, and his face changed. His eyes looked demonic, and his mouth was full of rows of teeth like a shark. He manuevered his sleigh around her. Batman shot a grappling hook in the sleigh, then hung off of it, and swung in a big circle, making it go haywire. As the reindeer were running past Raven, Selene flew next to her, and blasted Satan Claws in the face with moonlight. He was blinded, and dropped the reins for a second. The woman I did not recognize landed behind Satan Claws, and tossed a strangling cord over his throat. I then realized she is an Assassin. Satan Claws gagged, and grabbed at the cord, and released the reins. Bakura and Pablo lightning punched him on either side. I flew right in front of Satan Claws. Loaf said, "What the fuck?"
"RAA!" Raven roared. She thrust her hand forward, and lightning shot out, and grabbed Satan Claws, lifting him out of the sleigh, with telekinetic lightning. "Too long have you preyed upon the agony of innocents, demon!"
"I am just a sweet old man, that loves children," whined Satan Claws, altering his appearance to a sweet old bald man.
"I see with True Sight, shapeshifter!" she said, and her eyes glowed bright blue. "Take the reins, Bakura," she said. Bakura took the reins, and Pablo sat down next to him, and waved at me, grinning. Cursed toys began to spill out of the magic sack. Batman let go, and flew in a circle, catching them in his cape.
Suddenly Satan Claws revealed his true shape. He was a great vampiric demon. He had the face of a vampire bat. Batman returned the cursed toys to the sack. "You have dishonored our people!" I heard Koomo say to Satan Claws. Satan Claws roared like a wildcat and growled. Raven laughed at him, and released him from her grip. He lunged at her, as I lunged at him roaring. I caught him under the throat with my right paw, and knocked him back. A flesh creature came off of a robotic android, something like General Grevious. The android boosted toward Raven, and she laughed and hit it with lightning. The android demon separated from the flesh demon. The flesh demon and I fell to earth, as we grappled. He kept trying to bite my throat. I punched him in the throat, knocking him back. Loaf followed us to the ground. He blasted the flesh Satan Claws with a giant beam of red energy. He exploded into bits. There were little green worms squiggling everywhere. A tiny imp with a large head crawled out of the belly. "Eyew, gross! I think I am going to puke!" said Loaf.
I leapt forward, and plunged my scimitar straight down into the head of the nasty imp.
"Well, that was easy. Good, job, Loaf. You are not going to puke. This is a dream," I said to Loaf.
"Oh, right," he said, blushing. "Let's go check on the others."
"First," I said, summoning orange fire to burn up all the worms, "things first." I summoned violet flame to burn the ectoplasm off of us. I heard a commotion in the forest behind us. Something large was crashing through the trees. The android demon was galloping toward us on four great limbs like how chimpanzees run. It had a bunch of tiny child like arms on its torso, all holding knives. The rest of our party was chasing it flying through the air. Raven was riding a small black disk.
"Stop, him, Nomad!" Raven shouted.
I roared and stomped the ground, sending a shockwave at him. It threw him off balance for a second. Loaf shot him with his energy blast, injuring the rear right leg. Raven hit him with lightning, but it wasn't effective. "Damn you!" she said. She lifted him off the ground with pure telekinesis. He tried to break her grip, but couldn't. I jumped forward, and tackled him to the ground. We tumbled around the forest grappling, and he sliced me up, especially my stomach.
"Go, ahead, fucker, I know this is a dream," I said.
"What?" he said. He was on top of me. He drew back his fist to punch me in the face, and a giant bull ran out of nowhere slammed into the android demon, and tossed him into a tree. We all ran at the android demon. Raven shot a blast of white and gold energy at me, healing my wounds. "In-battle healing! Pretty nifty, huh?" she smiled at me. "Hell yeah!" I said to Raven. I wanted to give her a high five, but there wasn't time. Bakura and Pablo changed into foxes, and ran at the android demon as he slid down the tree. They grew mean spikes on their golden knuckles, and lightning-punched the android demon. He started to short circuit. Bakura stood on his shoulders, and grabbed its head from behind. He twisted the head, and wrenched it off with a war cry. He slammed it into the ground. The head began speaking to us. The android grabbed Bakura and Pablo, and threw them off of him. He picked his head back up. "Oh no you don't!" said Raven, and blasted his head and shoulder with ice against the tree, freezing it. He broke some of the ice off his shoulder as he stood up. He looked like he was going to attack us, but instead, he shoulder slammed the tree to break his head free, then grabbed it, and ran off. I turned into a black panther, then a snow leopard, and roared as we gave chase again. I turned into Ice Man, and shot a slide of ice in front of me. "You fool!" I said. "Do you know how fast I am?" I sped past him, and swirled around him, creating a curved wall of thick ice to trap him. He was now at a dead end. He growled menacingly. I turned into Jack Frost. I had on a leather jacket, spiked hair, eyebrows that grew a foot off my head, and a pointy nose and goattee. I looked like a white and blue devil man. I had spikes all over my body. "You don't fuck with Jack Frost, Satan Claws!" I said, walking slowly to him. I felt Rainstorm as a fire lizard on my shoulder. He sprayed him with freezing breath, and I shot ice at Satan Claws feet. He clawed desperately at his feet. Raven laughed at him mockingly, and summoned earth lighting. It was like rock spidering down from the sky like tree roots breaking a rock, growing into the android's metal body, ripping it apart with the speed of lightning. Loaf blasted him with his energy blast, and Satan Claws was basically a hole. "Or that!" I said. Raven laughed.
"Oh, sorry! Was I not supposed to do that?" Loaf said.
"Do whatever you want! That was bad ass!" I said to Loaf, laughing and clapping him on the back. There were tiny robot parts stuck in the wall of ice. I pointed at the little parts and started laughing.
"Hmm, we are supposed to make a snowman," Raven said.
I summoned The Beast, my great didj-warclub, and lifted her high in the air. I smashed the remaining robot parts and ice into bits. Raven clapped and laughed. Bakura and Pablo smashed the rest with gold knuckles. We rolled the icy robot parts into snowballs, and began making a snowman. Loaf said, "Can I try and TK this?"
"Sure!" we laughed. We stood back, and Loaf closed his eyes, and moved his hands around in circles. The sun broke through the clouds, and everything became vivid. I saw a Naga fly out from the sun, and land next to us, turning into MoSh. "What are you guys doing?" he said. I gestured to Loaf. He said, "Oh!"
The snowballs rolled in circles getting bigger and bigger. Each one was about the size of a small car. Then, Loaf stacked them up. We clapped and laughed. Two dead branches flew off the ground into the middle ball for arms, and some rocks for the eyes and mouth, and a carrot for the nose.
Loaf opened his eyes. "How do you do that with your eyes closed?" I asked.
"I see through my eyelids," he said simply. "Shit!" he said. "I just did the Task of the Month! What if I forget it? Does it still count?"
"To me it does," I laughed. "You can always do it again. You're strong enough now." I ruffled his hair.
"Hey, I'm not really a kid any more, man!"
I put him in a headlock, and gave him noogies. Raven started laughing. Loaf became the size of a skyscraper, and held me between thumb and forefinger. "I am bigger than, you see?" he yelled. I turned into a cute grey kitten. He turned back into normal size, and pet me. "Aw, cute kitty!" he said. I jumped out of his arms and ran away.
"Hey, kitty, get back here!" he said. I laughed and then changed back into Juargawn form. "Oh, the presents!" I said to Raven.
"Selene and Sorna are taking care of the curses. Batman is giving the presents out."
"Really?" I said. "Batman?"
"Yes," said Raven.
"Batman-Koomo with the fangs and the bat wings and the-"
"Yeah," Raven said. "He has a good soul."
I rolled on the ground laughing until my eyes teared up. I felt Raven shoot healing magic at me. I calmed down and sighed. "Aw thank you," I said. "I had some little bugs on me, huh?" I asked.
"Yeah," she said. I gave her a hug, and I felt energy cycling through us. Q teleported us back to the Biodome. We were in the Biodome glen of healing. I laid down on the grass, stretched and yawned. "I am going to take a nap," I said.
"You and your dream naps. You are so silly, Nomad," she said. MoSh laughed.
"What? I am tired," I said, and fell asleep.
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