The Nomad Chronicles

Battle with Raven on the Moon
I win. We bow.

2 out of three. She wins the next two.

Then, we battle infinitely. lulz.

***

In Angel's room. Astral demons. She morphs into a jaugar.
We battle.

We are on the moon with Selene.
Two dreams.

We go to the Pyramids.

I morph into the lion man KRSNA.

I shoot my astral tentacles into many dimensions.

I call dreamers to the Pyramids of Urth.

I vibrate my tentacles into the pyramids, and spin and juggle them.

There are entrances to Hollow Earth under the pyramids.

There is colorful light shining from below.

The dream diverges.

1.
Hollow Earth.

We fly on Hollow Earth dragons with swirling suns on their foreheads into Hollow Earth.

2.
Moon

We fly on Moon dragons to the Moon. We enter the Biodome. I give them a tour of the Tower.

I introduce the SD class to Selene, the moon goddess. I roar, and morph into Tezcatlipoca. I slam my fists into the ground, and shoot energy into the sole chakras of all present. They morph into their beast forms.

We dance to some dubstep. Most of them say they don't like it. I tell them to alter their musicFish. I hand them little blue fish like Babelfish.

We ride the dragons back down to the Pyramids.

I tell them to wake up and write their dreams down. Most of them don't want to wake up. I scare them, and for some it works.

AndresLD yawns at me. I tell him to write it down. He writes it down in a DJ. I tell him he is dreaming. He smacks his head and wakes up.

NOTES

I am walking around with a tiny gun you can hide in your palm. It looks like a .22 cal or a 9 mil.

I have a holster on my hip that is too big for the gun. I put a book in the holster to take up space.

I look at the gun, take it out, and make sure the safety is on.

- In Waikiki... running through on vibram five fingers
flag pole...

a man just illegally BASE jumped of a building

he is attached to a flag pole

I am with Matt

***

I am in my room

FA

There is a weird sculpture on the wall made six boxes with figures in it depicting the birth of a child while the gods watch. The child is sacrificed to the gods, and is impaled.

HOLY SHIT.

FA

Now the boxes are gone, and the comic is there.

I actually wake up.

There is a giant comic below it of four panels.

at the pyramids.

christmas lights on them

raven on the train

the pyramids fly up, and get small, landing on the backs of the dragons

we have found the way to Hollow Earth

We ride to the Moon.

We are in the Biodome. We show the students the Loaf tree, and the Dream School.

The Hogwarts students ask about dreaming.

Raven explains that we are dream, yet they are not.

We have a party.

[B]This is not a dream[/B]

I am the the drum circle on the mountain on Oahu.

We are playing music. I am dressed like a cowboy vampire.

I see Raven Knight's astral form with my third eye.

She looks at me.

I look back at her, and stick out my tongue, and do the deer antlers.

She is a little surprised, then laughs in amusement and smiles at me.

I wave at her.

She waves back, looks at the eclipse, then disappears.

I am perched on the Great Pyramid, a large gargoyle, patiently waiting.

Andres zips out of a portal flying on a small strange vehicle, like a hovercycle.

DUDE DUDE DUDE I AM HERE!

You have been here!

I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW BUT I AM HERE! WHERE ARE WE GOING? WHAT ARE WE DOING? YOU ARE NOMAD! WHERE'S RAVEN?

I call Raven.

She comes flying out of a portal on a broom.

She makes a classroom appear in the sky with transparent sides. A little more than half the SD class is there.

My forearm itches. Madmonkey is swirling around it. I shake him off. He lands on the ground and morphs into Hanuman. I AM THE MONKEY GOD! HAHAHAHAA! He throws tiny sand pyramids at me, screams, I AM DREAMING, then disappears.

Nephanim appears in front of me, a golden man. He looks at me curiously, yet seriously. He seems vaguely confused. He silently floats up to the classroom.

Queen Zukin appears on a broom. She says, I am not a witch, Nomad! Where's Raven?

A little green gargoyle appears on her shoulder. She says he is sick, and has to find Raven to help him. She flies up to the classroom.

I also see other people, but I don't recognize them:

A man in a cowboy hat, wearing a gold glowing pendant, with golden revolvers.
A cyborg wizard with a laser gun and a staff.
An android who won't stop dancing.

I join the class.
Raven says she is combining the Hogwarts class with the Shared Dreaming Class.

I dance around the class and knock stuff over. Raven tells me to behave. I turn into a chandelier.

WHERE ARE THE MOON DRAGONS? AndresLD shouts.

We go outside and practice making energy shields on ourselves, and each other.

Raven summons the Hogwarts Express. We get on Moon Dragons and the train. Raven opens a giant portal, and we land on the dark side of the Moon, in the Land of Nod. There is jungle music playing, which morphs into dubstep.

How did we end up here? Raven asks. Well, the only intent was "The Moon," I respond.

The moon is green. It is covered in rainforest. We walk through the jungle, then ride on strange beasts. Before us is the great City of Nowhere. The Juargawn statue bows to us, and the gates open.

I give them a tour.... The Free Market, the Temple of Nothing, and the Battle Pyramids. The strange gardener I met so many years ago (months in WL time) shows us his Hanging Gardens. The plants move.

I see a calm glen in the garden. I take a nap....

My alarm went off this morning to wake me up. I heard it in my dream. I looked at the clock.

3:33

Who the hell is calling me at 3:33 am! I thought as I woke up.

It was my cel phone alarm. It was 6:30 am.

NOTES

I stand atop the Great Pyramid. I summon dozens of dream bubbles. I shoot tentacles into their dreams. I shout COME TO THE PYRAMIDS. Many dreamers appear. Some are in the Shared Dreaming Class. Many are not. They look disoriented. I feel like an idiot.

Sorry, go back to your regular dreams.

Everyone does except AndresLD.

"Dude, I have to write this in my DJ! Hold on... pen..."

He hands me a notebook with a big blue DJ on the front and looks in his pockets.

I shove my face through the book and shout, "YOU ARE DREAMING!"

Andres looks at me with the book stretched over my face. Oh! he says, and wakes up.

***

sigh

I meet MoSh in his house. We are playing a video game. Asuka brings us cookies. I knock them over. MoSh: what the hell?

Me: She's an android!

MoSh: We are all android.

Everything is an android. Everything is silver machines. I scream in terror and wake up. I am in the Biodome. I rip wires off my head. I was hooked up to a strange "Dream Machine" created by Nomand Ink. Okay...

I see Raven, MoSh, and a spectral Asuka watching.

Raven: So what happened?

Me: I went into this dream machine's Inner World or something.

The machine transforms into a silver android.

"I am here to be sentient. Please show me sentience."

I give the android a lucidity cookie i had in my pocket from a past dream. I give it to the android. It eats it. Light shoots out of its eyes, and it screams as crumbs fall from it's mouth. Flesh and clothes form over it. It's a female ninja. She says her name is Darkblade. She is a version of Asuka from the past, and was able to manifest here by receiving her energy from the past through the cookie. She says she created a special forging technique to make matte black blades, so no light would be reflected from them.

Then, she says, "But now is not the time for stealth."

Darkblade summons a black horse. She gets on its back, and becomes a samurai.

MoSh looks at her suspiciously.

Raven says if she had ill will, the Biodome would have kicked her out. MoSh points his pinky at her.

Suddenly the energy flickers, and I see the true energy of all things, pure colors of moving masses. "Scan her. Scan her!" MoSh insists.

I scan her with my optical implant. I see there is a strange parasite thing operating the machine from inside. I reach in and yank it out.

The Biodome zaps it with a laser and destroys it in my hand.

"Thank you," Shadowblade says. "Now follow me."

"I don't trust you," says MoSh. "You just had a parasite."

"We all get parasites. C'mon."

MoSh looks at me. "I don't trust you either," I say. "You just appeared here out of the past or something, some machine I don't remember making on my asteroid, and now you are this cyborg android harpy ghost thing from a past life?"

The thing starts to morph into some strange demon beast.

I open a portal behind it, and tackle it into the portal.

"DAMMIT! THIS THING IS SOME WEIRD MIMIC! IT'S A DISTRACTION. I WILL KILL IT. YOU TWO FIND ASUKA. I WILL SEND SKYFIRE AND CLAYMORE WITH YOU!"

"Who's Claymore?"

"A sentient sword I've been working on! Just let him do his thing!"

***

Throughout this next dream sequence, I can see MoSh and Raven battling in a think bubble.

I tumble into the portal with the strange thing. It morphs into an android octopus. I morph into an electric shark. I bite it and shock it.

I turns into a swarm of baby jellyfish. I turn into a whale and eat it.

I teleports out of me, and changes into an orca, and bites me. I turn into a whaling boat, and harpoon it.

It turns into cancer and infects me.

I eat a giant marijuana plant, and it comes out of my pores. It's a ball of dark energy. Selene appears out of a portal. She has a bunch of baddies in a net. She shoots a moon net around this one, and adds it to her collection. She swings them all around, and tosses them into a portal. She flies to me.

We are on the Moon.

Selene talks to me.

We sit on a mountain, and watch a meteor shower together.

Oh my god! They need us!

MoSh and Raven come out of a portal with Asuka. "Thanks for sending your dopplegangers to fight with us," Raven says. She is covered in ectoplasm, wearing a blanket. She looks sick. Raven burns off the ectoplasm with violet flame. We take Asuka to the Healing Glen of the Frost Giant.

We play music. It rains. The rain is gentle and warm. Everything becomes clean. Plants grow over Asuka like clothes, and the blanket disappears. Tigress appears playing a small stringed instrument like a lute.

The plants form an armor over Asuka. They flower, and each flower drops a seed. The Frost Giant gives us large seeds, a little bigger than walnuts. We open them, and inside is a ring that is a live plant. There is a tiny jewel in the center of a white flower that looks like a pearl. The Frost Giant tells us that these rings will tell us if Asuka is in danger and where to find her.

He says Asuka needs to sleep for awhile. He picks her up and carries her like a baby. He takes her to his cave and we follow him. He talks with MoSh in the back of the cave.

Raven is talking with Joseph and the mouth of the cave.

I interrupt, and ask him if he can be Asuka's guardian. He says he is a dreamer from a parallel universe just like us, so he can't be her guardian when he is awake. Plus, he really has to work on her skills.

I run back to the Frost Giant and grab the fur on his chest, and shout in his face.

"Why-" Asuka stirs.

"Why does Asuka keep getting attacked? Why does she keep getting kidnapped?"

"She has what They want."

"What do you mean?"

"She is a jewel."

"Why can't we prevent this?"

"She has to learn to fight. She has to become stronger. The best thing you can do for her is to give her empowerments, and train her to fight. Raven can give her armor and weapons. You can make her armor. MoSh will find a special crystal for her for communication and increasing vibrational frequency. Tigress will teach her hand-to-hand combat, and weapons fighting. Pablo will teach her love attacks and defense. For now, every time you think of her, visualize a sparking white ball encased in a hard blue energy aura going to Asuka's heart charka with the intent of good will and empowerment. She has given you lots of lucidity cookies. Now, it's time to give her empowerments."

I am asleep. I hear Gypsy yelling at me from the astral plane. It sounds like she wants me to wake up. NOMAD!

I am confused.

NOMAD! she shouts again.

I wake up. I realize it's a dream. I go back to sleep.

***

I wake up, and I have and email from Gypsy telling me to call her.

frags of the same dream

I am in high school, or the military, somewhere where you get herded like sheep.


***

I walk on a tiny ledge on a building about five feet above the ground. I spin around and jump off. A female cop shakes her head and tells me not to climb on it. Then, I realize it's a police station. I feel a little embarassed. I run down a hill and vault over a wall and on to a truck, then jump off its rusty hood.

I come to a grassy area. There are some birds eating in the grass, mostly the common birds seen in Hawaii: pigeons, doves, sparrows, and chickens. All the chickens are babies. There are some small wolves watching hungrily. They look like coyotes, but I know they are wolves for some reason.... no... They are part wolf and coyote. There is a pretty female with white and reddish fur.

There is a black male wolf with giant alien Grey black eyes, pointed at both ends. I imagine the male coy-wolf eating one the birds in the future after it reaches adolescence. I realize the coy-wolves are not really that hungry since they are waiting for the chicks to get fat.

***

[I]Reflecting on this dream[/I]

[I]I have had thousands of very long dreams that I don't really care to remember with the same basic theme: I am being [B]herded.[/B] I used to call it being chased... But, I realized, no. I am not afraid, just annoyed. But, I always go along a little bit. No wonder we act like sheep. We grow up being herded in and out of human pens by the sound of a bell... Just like in [U]The Time Machine[/U], we are those little humans stopping everything they are doing and walking to their doom at the sound of a siren. The Hindus believe if you eat a cow, you will be reborn a cow in the next lifetime so you can have empathy for them. We are cattle right now. We have cursed ourselves with the mind of cattle.

I make a decision to ignore these stupid rules and boxes whenever I so choose. I decide to swim upstream. I have to find out how to be lucid 100% of the time, and have Total Recall every morning. This is my life's quest.

MOO MOTHERFUCKER MOO!

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Notes.

I am in a carnival.

I am known as the Man-Spider.

I perform, and climb all over stuff. People say I am fake. I grow four arms out of my body. Women faint, and men run in fear.

Gypsy is... a gypsy.

She tells me I will soon be seeing into my future.

I am in Raven's class in Hogwarts. I am sitting in a desk. AndresLD is sitting next to me. He is telekinetically pulling on a girl's braids in front of him. She keeps turning around and shooting tiny fireballs from her third eye at his face.

I giggle at their immaturity.

OK! TIME TO GO OUTSIDE AND PRACTICE!

This time, we practice using TK on elements. We pair up. One person summons a pure element, and the other moves it around. The elemental person alters the element, like changing ice to water to steam. Then we switch. I realize my partner is MoSh disguised as a boy. He calls himself Jayso. I laugh at the name and he says, "I couldn't think of anything, 'Jason'!"

MoSh and I then advance the technique by creating small shapes of fire and ice, and tk'ing them all over the place. STAY WITHIN THE RANGE! Raven shouts. MoSh and I bow to Raven, then we create a portal and jump into ancient Greece. We become two element fire and ice gods, and battle each other there. It feels like when I battled Zeus.

***

A strange shadow is swirling around my arm. I grab it. Are you Madmonkey? No! I am his evil twin! His Shadow Being. What's that? A being from the world where the shadows live. Ok....

A light is swirling around my right forearm. I grab it. It transforms into a monkey. "Are you Madmonkey?" Yes, he confesses, then swirls around my arm.

"Okay..."

Suddenly, my arms are pulled together like magnets, and the two swirls join. Then twist and spin together, and go shooting up into the sky. Madmonkey turns into a two headed monkey made of a gold twist and a dark brown twist. HAHAHAHA! WE ARE WE! NOW, SHOW ME THE WAY TO HANUMAN, FOOL!!!

I start up my Juarcycle, and summon a sidecar. I AM NOT RIDING IN THAT! HOW BORING!

I summon a black winged horse breathing fire. Madmonkey gets on. We ride into a portal to where the Chinese gods live, certain heaven. Hanuman is meditating on a mountain. We bow. Hanuman battles both of us at the same time. Then, when he uses his tail, he kicks our ass.

***

Raven, Angel, and I are sea turtles. It feels so real, I don't even feel like a human. I eat plants, and have fun swimming. I love my life.

I am at the Pyramids of Giza. I am decorating them with lights.

I perch atop, a gargoyle. Waiting waiting.... the sun rises. Then people arrive on sky scooters.

We fly to the Moon on Moon dragons.

Raven is driving the Hogwarts Express. Harry winks at me, and shoots me some sparkling magic. I eat it. It tastes like candy.

[I]abridged[/I]

I ride up on my Juarcycle to Club Nexus at the Center of the Universe. in my Shadow Beast form. I am a big burly android werecat biker wearing my symbiote. Lobo MoSh is in a barroom brawl. He looks at me and winks as he tosses two people to the side. The bouncers are making their way to him, when the club itself teleports him outside.

Why did you do that? I ask.

I was bored. He grins.

We ride in circles around the club taunting others to come out and fight us. We spin chains and other weapons around our heads.

We get a few dozen people to attack us. We have fun tossing the people back and forth at each other. We play a bit of baseball using the opponents as balls. Then, they all suddenly multiply. Mosh transform into his Shadow Beast form. He is a winged serpent with a snake Lobo head. He has legs like a centipede. He looks terrifying. The enemies swarm over us.

We use dark energy to make them stick to us, and use light energy to repel them from direct attacks. We use these swarms as extra armor, and we battle each other. The swarms beg for us to let them go. We do, and they attack us again. We turn into bears covered in honey and they stick to us. We eat them and laugh. They fly away and leave us alone.

missing time

Lobo Mosh and I are on a mountain having a cigarette. I morph mine into a joint. "You know those'll kill you?"

"I also know this is a dream, idiot."

I smack MoSh the back of the head. He growls at me and grabs my wrist. He turns to me. Now his a were-snow leopard. "So, this is a dream. Then why the hell do you look so real?"

"Listen, Nomad, and listen well. We always look this real. Your dreams are only blurry in the remembering, because you are afraid to remember them so vividly. Don't you always say, follow your fear? You have followed your fear to this: Our Second Life. This life is just as real as the waking one. You know this. You always have. Just let it be vivid."

I look at his left eye. Gold with green and pale blue flecks. I look at his right eye. Light blue with green and gold flecks. He blinks and grins. Now he has a lion face. Suddenly I am looking at my own lion face reflection in a pool. I lap the water. MoSh pounces on my head and leaps off. He is a lion in the air, then transforms into a tiger in the water.

"Why do you look like me?"

"I am you. Everything is you. You are the universe, and nothing at the same time. You are absolutely insignificant, yet immeasurably significant to at least one person: you. Who loves you? You! At least I hope so, because buddy, in the end, you're all you've got when you're all alone. But, who never leaves you? You! Who is with you in the best times, and worst times. Who understands you so well? Who knows you better than you know yourself? You!"

He laughs and transforms into an alligator. He bites my rear left leg. I am a gazelle. Then I realize I am dreaming, from the pain. He says as he gnaws on me:

Sthee, thisth isth a dream sthign fo me to tell me i wam dweaming. You know. with the dogsth?

Get your mouth outta my leg!

He laughs.

You know what I mean!

I turn into a monk, and spin kick with my other foot. He lets go. The dream fades, and he looks like Leatherhead from Ninja Turtles as he slips into a portal and waves at me.