The Nomad Chronicles

Tigress asks Silverwolf to come on the adventure. Silverwolf says she's too busy making all her recipes and concoctions, plus she doesn't really like to fight. Tigress insists Silverwolf is a great fighter. Silver just looks at her, and kisses her, and puts something in Tigress's pocket.

Silverwolf tells us to try the energy bars. I feel a rush of power, and a renewed energy. I feel like this dream could last for hours, or even days, at the same time, I feel calmer. I then notice everyone has a soft blue light coming out of their eyes, mouth, nose, ears, and even their pores, which fades after a few seconds.

Apparently, Raven ate too much. She teleports outside, and shoots a big blast of energy up at the sky.

Pixy snuggles up next to me, and says she's going to come with us on the adventure. We make out. Raven loudly clears her throat, and we have this telepathic conversation:

So... uh... would Angel get jealous?

Maybe... but Pixy is an aspect of her.

What do you mean, just like a piece of her personality.

A version of her in another dimension. Gabrielle, Angelina, Pixy, and Selene, all are versions of her in other dimensions, Selene being the closest, like a twinner almost. She merged with all of them, starting with Selene.

Okay...

But, each of them has their own independence and sentience. Selene is the only one who is permanently merged with Angel.

So, is Angel aware of this?

In dreams, yes, but her waking self is not.

Interesting...

I have to tell her these things bit by bit.

So, why didn't you tell me this before?

I guess I didn't want to feel that I was assuming I knew more about Angelina and Gabrielle since you introduced me to them.

Oh, Nate. Don't worry so much. This is a dream. I was just curious about things. You can tell me anything. You know that.

I know. (I telepathically blush.)

***

Tigress and Raven look at Pixy, scrutinizing her.

Well, you are going to need some weapons and armor...

We summon weapons and armor, and she tries them on.

"Ok, this is heavy, and ridiculous. I will be fine. I just need some..."

Pixy removes the armor, drops the weapons, and takes a bite of a potted plant. Her eyes flash green. The plant jumps out of the pot on to her back, and forms a vine-y armor over her with thorns. She says the plant is a symbiote, like my dark energy symbiote, only this is an earth energy symbiote.

Alright, ready? Let's go!

Raven creates a portal. Tigress kisses Silverwolf goodbye, and the four of us jump through.

****

We are on a snowy mountain. It's freezing, but I am not in pain. WTF? Oh yeah... this is a dream....

Raven says, "We have to get closer."

She teleports us to an ice cave. Hanging from the ceiling in a huge icicle is a beautiful blue gem the size of a human heart.

"The Glacier's Heart!" yells, Tigress excitedly. She flies up toward it, but Raven says no, it's dangerous.

"What?" Tigress shouts angrily.

The Frost Giant appears, but it's a ghost like image of him. I realize he is somehow projecting into this dream... His astral body maybe?

[I] Listen, children. You cannot take the Glacier's Heart like this. In fact, if you do take it, the whole glacier will melt, and everything in the valley will die.[/I]

"Well, why the hell are we even here? Why are we in this stupid dream?"

Tigress charges at the Frost Giant, but she goes right through him, and hits a wall.

"Listen, child. You can have something like this, but, not this one. You see, this particular gem is the mother of all Glacier Hearts. There are more, actually, but this is the first one. What you need to do is wait a hundred years for it to make babies. You can have one, and then you will have the ice power you crave."

"A hundred years?"

"You can go forward in time. I think we have a time traveler here, do we not?" he says, looking at me.

I create a large clock, then I make the hands spin forward until they're a blur. Raven creates some type of force field around us with wind to keep us from aging.

After a hundred years, I stop the clock. Raven lets the tornado thing die down.

The Glacier's Heart is vibrating and glowing. Hundreds of tiny gems migrate through the ice, making funny cooing sounds like human babies.

The float out, some of them fly out of the cave. Some fall on the floor and wiggle around. Tigress picks one up.

It crawls all over her, then jumps into her sword. Immediately, her sword is covered in frost.

"Nice!" says Tigress.

She attacks an ice pillar. Nothing.

"DoH! It won't work on ice! Duh..." she says.

Let's go kick someone's ass!

We all grin, and Raven creates a portal.

(cont'd)