One Up Seeker

1. I was walking in a terminal inside of an airport with my friends Patrick, Dylan, Trey, and Treon. "You ready for this 6 day trip?" Dylan asked me as we walked. "Oh shit, I completely forgot to pack 6 days worth of clothes. Fuck!" I said. They all chuckled. I knew I was screwed and I'd end up having to buy clothes with money from my savings account wherever we went. As we boarded the plane I instantly realized how crowded it was. It appeared that we had showed up relatively late as almost all the seats were taken. Each seating section could seat up to 2 people. Dylan and Patrick decided to cram into a seating section that already had one guy in it, so now there was 3 people sitting in 2 seats. Trey and Treon sat in the seats behind them. The next closest open seat was 3 or 4 rows down. "Thanks for saving me a spot guys" I said feeling a little hurt(lmao).
I sat down in the seat next to a random guy and waited for the plane to take off. As I did so I looked around. I saw that it was extremely sunny outside considering the sunlight reflecting off of the windows was quite blinding. I became a little stressed as I thought once more about how unprepared I was. I opened up my backpack and looked inside to see what I had brought with me. As I looked inside all I saw was my phone charger, my vape, and my vape juice. "Wow this is great. I have absolutely nothing I need at all besides my charger" I thought to myself. I then began thinking once more about all the money I would have to spend to get the stuff I needed to make it through this 6 day trip.
The plane started its procedure for take off and I found a wave of fatigue coming over me. I laid my head on the headrest on my seat and closed my eyes. Somehow as I fell asleep in the plane I went into another dream, and I consciously knew this as it happened. Now I found myself walking along the catwalk of an ancient temple like structure. It was getting dark and the sky along with the sun was obscured by thick trees all around. I was walking behind Patrick and Treon, going who knows where. Suddenly lucidity came to me. "This is a dream" I said out loud. "This can't possibly be real because right now I'm actually asleep on the plane, and even past that, I'm asleep on my bed in waking life" I thought to myself. I stopped walking. Treon and Patrick looked back at me. "Aright I'm out, later guys" I told Pat and Treon as I started walking away. "What the hell Cory don't leave" Pat said. "Yeah you never do anything anything anyways" Treon said.
I ignored them and walked into the temple through the nearest door. I walked in through a glass door with a black frame around it, it was quite out of place considering the whole ancient setting. As I walked inside I noticed how nice the interior was. The whole interior looked like a professional office setting. There were offices everywhere I looked, each one closed off by glass walls. The floor was covered in dark green matte tiles and the walls were a soft white. "What am I doing in here?" I said out loud. With that I walked back out the door that I came in from and as I did so I jumped and took flight with an extremely smooth take off. As I increased my elevation rather slowly, I saw a small statue of a heart made out of stone on top of the temple. This instantly made me think of her- the girl I've been trying to find in my dreams forever.
Just then I lost my stabilization and found myself flying up into the air at an immense speed. I was now past the trees and was flying straight up into a dark blue night sky with few but thick clouds. As the dream fully destabilized I woke up, but now I was back in the plane. I found myself rather alert, but without lucidity back on the plane. I looked around too see where we were, but as I did so the plane transformed into a large half bus half train automotive. I looked back behind us as we continued on our way. I saw a large light green tank on the opposite side of the freeway from where we were. It was aiming at a building. "That thing is about to shoot" I thought to myself. Sure enough, the tank fired a missile at the building it was aimed at. "Holy shit" I yelled. Everyone on the bus looked back and saw the explosion, but showed no reaction so the bus was now dead silent.
Suddenly everything started collapsing, and the bus/train driver was now constantly dodging and weaving through falling bridges and cars from the highway that was above us. The ground was also splitting now as well, and many cars were stopping out of no where(The dream was collapsing). I noticed that there was another bus in front of the one I was in that looked fairly similar to mine. The bus driver seemed to be following it in a convoy-like formation. Suddenly a huge part of the highway above us fell down right in front of the bus that was in front of the one I was on. That bus as well as my bus stopped as we there was no where else to go. "Holy shit we're gonna die" I said out loud. Just then another part of the highway above us fell and crushed the bus in front of us as well as my bus.
I now found myself in a void, but only for a matter of seconds. After what seemed to be 2 or 3 seconds I was back at the ancient temple. I found myself lucid once again as I immediately recognized where I was at. "Aright this has to be a dream considering I was here not long ago, and I just know it is." I was walking on a wide path of sandstone that had cracks filled with plant life here and there. Not far in front of me were 2 armed men in military like outfits that looked to be of hispanic descent. I ran and jumped in an attempt to fly, but had no success. I tried twice more and still could not fly. I knew the exact reason was because I just wasn't believing in myself for some reason.
Now I decided to just walk around and explore for the time being. I came upon a mini bridge like structure. It wasn't one that someone could walk on though; it looked more like a sculpture of some sort. The 2 hispanic men were now approaching me at this point. Because I got too intrigued by the sculpture, I lost my lucidity. "Hey guys, what is this bridge-like art all about?" I asked the 2 men. They just stopped and looked at me sternly. Seconds later they pulled out their automatic rifles which highly resembled tommy guns and pointed them straight at me. I didn't stand to wait for an answer from them; I turned around and sprinted away. For some reason the men didn't shoot at me, and I thought I was going to make it out alive until out of no where I saw a grenade land only about a foot in front of me.
I continued sprinting past the grenade and I made it far enough away that I knew I would survive. However, I was still worried about the shrapnel hitting me. I made it through without being hurt at all, but seconds later another grenade was thrown at me, except this one landing a foot or so behind me. I sprinted and jumped to the ground and the grenade exploded. I immediately got up and resumed running as far away from the 2 men as possible. Once more, another grenade was thrown at me, but this one landed about 2 yards in front of me, and by the time I stopped myself I knew the grenade was going to blow up in a matter of milliseconds. I jumped away from the grenade with all of my strength and covered my face and head. The grenade blew up and I expected to be hit by shrapnel, but I was not.
I got up off of the ground and looked at where the grenade blew up. I was extremely surprised that I didn't get hurt. I looked back where the 2 men were, and they had their guns pointed at me again. This time I knew they were going to shoot. I ran and took cover behind a large shelf-like structure that was holding tons of wheels on it. The men started shooting at me just as I got behind cover. Their bullets went straight through all of the tires, and by some miracle I didn't get hit with one of them though I could hear the bullets ricochet off of the metal part of the shelf I was hiding behind.
After a minute or so the men stopped shooting. I got up from my crouched position and saw that my vape had fallen out of my pocket and was now broken in half. "God damnit, I paid 100 bucks for that" I said as a tear streamed out of my right eye and down my face. Seconds later some people and friends came to comfort me.