Art And The Like - Birthday Present for Ophelia

[Aphius]

Here&#39;s a dream I had not long ago, now with pictures&#33; -------------------------------- I was with Lomebririon and a guy and a girl I didn&#39;t know in a strange place. I was wearing a baggy white T-Shirt, jeans and I had a haircut like Wolverine from the X-Men movies. It seemed that I was wearing some kind of gauntlet that everyone told me was the hand of Midas. I may have been an experiment but everyone wanted it. We were hanging around this place when decided to take the bus from her to this old house that the girl that we were with wanted to take a trip to. We got on the bus and as we got on I noticed it was quite cramped, with bags in hangers and people looking at you. I remember seeing one of my friends on there. We arrived at our stop, which when we got out was beside a pond. Further along we could see that the house we needed to get to was on the other side. There were all these enormous weird frogs in the pond, so we walk around to the other side. Once we get there, I can see that this house is a very old colonial type building with several floors and faded paint. I knock on the front door only to have it opened soon after by a butler who greeted us rather rudely. As we go into the house I inspect around, making my way upstairs I find a room with a very colonial looking guy inside. He was doing up his boots when I walked in. He tells me that rich people like to have lots of mirrors in their houses, but they always have to wear nice clothes because they have to look at themselves a lot. We left the house soon afterwards for some reason, but as we went outside something pushed us into the pond and we couldn&#39;t get out. The frogs were nasty little devils who didn&#39;t let people go. We talked amongst ourselves to come up with a plan. I decided to turn something into gold to stop them. I think it was some objects in the water, which we climbed up on to get out, I may have also turned a couple of them into very expensive paper weights. As we were walking away, down towards a big structure, someone saw a used bookshop, and they asked to go in. so we did. I looked around, not much to speak of that I could see at first, everything seemed to be upstairs. I ran upstairs noticed how dark it was, it was only well lit enough to see some girls at the top of the stairs and some other people around the back looking around the store. Later on, I found myself at a bar on the first floor (looked kind of like a place in the uni I go to). I was watching this woman talk to the bartender about how many men had trouble accepting her because she had a tail. I looked at her back and there I saw a lizard like tail, not too long though. She toasted after muttering something under her breath and drank; I too finished my drink and got up. This strange shorthaired woman caught me as I went outside. <div align="center"></div> Behind her I could see a massive walkway with a paved middle and a fountain. She offered me another drink, she called it something like "PX 11 24" <div align="center"></div> She giggled and told me that it was a sorority name. <div align="center"></div> I said to her "Sounds more like a project name" I knew this drink would either take the hand of Midas from me or make me give it up. <div align="center"></div> I was only affirmed in my suspicion when she made one of those "Damn&#33;" faces. <div align="center"></div> I walked away; as I did I looked at the gauntlet on my right hand. It was gold in colour and composition, exquisitely engraved and moderately heavy. This hand had taken me on quite an adventure and it wasn&#39;t over yet. <div align="center"></div> I rocked up to the library of some university with a woman from my work, Lomebririon, a dark skinned guy and a blonde woman in blue I didn&#39;t know. I went and used their library to do some research on the gauntlet. I was sitting in the dimly lit library, looking through a book and marking things of interest. We were having quite a time. I think to get to the library we had to go through the main building to the library, but you had to go across a large field. We went outside and it was night, the clouds were visibly rolling across the sky, the tall grass rolled as the wind blew across it and through my hair. The field was massive; there was one building for the main part of the university. Off to it&#39;s left there was a smaller, yet still relatively large building, and behind me as I looked at the other two, the library. It&#39;s orange windows illuminating the darkness. <div align="center"></div> I said to the dark skinned guy who was with us "This used to be my favourite open field. Well, it used to be... before they built everything. It&#39;s still up there but..." "It&#39;s not at the top anymore." He finished. I just nodded and set off towards the library again. In the library, I continued my research. After I had finished, I closed the book and said "Thanks Library". I got up and headed towards the toilets to tend to the call of nature. As I walked along, I saw the woman from my work was still doing research as I went past, Lomebririon followed me, but I got caught up talking with the Blonde woman in blue that was with us earlier on my way past her. I didn&#39;t really trust her, even more so when she started giving me some sob story about how this sick girl she knew needed money for an operation but the uni wouldn&#39;t help her. I suspected she just wanted me to use my Midas touch to turn stuff to gold. I decided to play along, so I turned a desk into gold and said, "There, I&#39;m going...” I walked off to go to the toilet, as I went down the stairs, there were two girls, one standing off to the side, the other, a Japanese girl, naked on all fours with a strawberry in her mouth. She looked like the AV Idol Rei Amami. I knew this was another attempt to get the gauntlet, so I walked past them into the johns to take that leak. <div align="center"></div> I walked around to a different part of the uni where some young kids were studying. I sat down and rested at a table near a kid who seemed distracted. He spied my gauntlet and asked what it was for. I told him it turned stuff into gold, <div align="center"></div> he was like "No way&#33;" I said, "Yeah, I&#39;ll prove it" I grabbed his pencil case and it started changing from a blue to a gold colour. I let it go before it was finished so he could see it change back to normal, then I grabbed it again and held it until it changed totally to gold. I let it go and it dropped wit ha heavy &#39;clunk&#39; onto the desk. "Whoa&#33; He said looking at the pencil case. As I walked off I could hear him telling his friends about it. As I got back to the inner part of the library, the woman in blue cornered me again, she told me that the desk had helped, but they needed more or she&#39;d die. It was at this point that I became fed up with people trying to get gold, or trying to get the gauntlet off me. I just snapped and shouted "Fine&#33; Here you go&#33;" I slammed the gauntlet hand to the ground with a big tremor, a flash occurred and I was treated to a strange view as I was able to see a cut-away shot of the university and the underground water cave/chamber/sea that was apparently underneath. I looked up and saw as everything, all the books, shelves, desks, floors, everything was turned to gold. Now to the enormous chamber underneath. A massive sea monster living underneath was not happy to be half turning to gold. So unhappy in fact, that whilst I was changing things I heard and felt a thunderous crash underneath the ground. We all got backs as the crashing continued, and the thunderous sound of the ground cracking increased. I reached the second floor for a better view of the first floor, and just as I did this massive head suddenly burst out of the ground, sending debris and rubble flying. It gave a mighty roar as it came up causing the whole building to shake. These tremors continued as it began pounding at other parts of the structure. It was almost humanoid in appearance, but somewhat grotesque. I reached my comrades and said to them "I need to get down to it&#33; If I can finish turning it to gold, it&#39;ll stop destroying the place&#33;" I looked around as it moved past the water in the massive crater in the ground at the centre of the building. ------------------------ I had posted this in the Dream Journal section, but I wanted to post it here since I wasn&#39;t sure who&#39;d read it or not.

[Burns]

Cool dream, Aphius! And awesome drawings! It's nice to have the illustrations to look at during the story. Thanks for posting this!

[Bosco]

yea very cool

[NeAvO]

Wow cool drawings , you have talent

[Aphius]

Cool dream, Aphius! And awesome drawings! It's nice to have the illustrations to look at during the story. Thanks for posting this! [/b] Thanks Burns! I agree that it helps to have the illustrations to help visualise everything. yea very cool [/b] Thanks Wow cool drawings , you have talent [/b] Thanks NeAvO

[Aphius]

Some of my newest stuff: The Huntress (b00bs omg) Violet Parr Sketches Roxanne (Roxanne From 'A Goofy Movie&#39 Fairy Dusting Smoke Rings Like Halos Let me know what you guys think

[Burns]

Very cool I especially like the Fairy Dusting. and I forgot all about that Roxanne character until just now!

[Aphius]

Thanks Burns It looks as though you're the only one who gives a rat's though.

[NeAvO]

It looks as though you're the only one who gives a rat's though. [/b] I gave my opinion too . I like the smoke rings one.

[Neruo]

Cool dream. 'A japanese girl on all fours with a strawberry in her mouth' Way to go!

[nina]

Love your artwork Aphius

[Aphius]

Thanks Nina!

[Aphius]

Birthday Present for Ophelia Here's something I did for OB's Birthday not too long ago

[NeAvO]

Thats great . Where is OB any way?