New Dream Adventures of Raven Knight

I was in bed. I rolled over and looked at the clock. It was way too early to get up. It was only 2:30 am. The fact that this time is actually before the time I went to bed didn't occur to me at the time. I had to use the bathroom. I got out of bed and almost tripped over the edge of my waterbed… almost fell flat on my face… ow… I hit my shin on the frame of my waterbed and It really hurt. I figured that would leave a nice bruise for the morning… I reached down to feel if it was cut or not. There was something weird there… a really nasty scratch? I turned on the light when I got to the bathroom and looked at my shin. I went into the bathroom and turned on the light. There was a scratch there… much more than that. I could see the bone! But it wasn't bleeding… I gently touched the wound… and it hurt a lot. There was no way I had hit my shin that hard! I would need several bandages for that… and a lot of time for the flesh to grow back… but something was off. I finally decided to do a RC. I found out I was dreaming!

I looked back at the wound in my shin and healed it just by focusing on it. The injury went away. I stopped to think about my goals. I needed to go heal MoSh and Asuka. That was my first plan. So I opened a portal to go find MoSh. I went through the portal and into MoSh's inner world. I looked around, and the first thing I noticed was that the house wasn't the same as I am used to seeing it. I remembered that MoSh had wanted it rebuilt differently after it had been blown up in an attack. (Unfortunately, I can't seem to keep a steady image of the place in my mind long enough to look up a pic! >.<) I went over to the front door. I knocked on it, and it opened. I went inside and I saw Data not far inside. He looked over at me. He indicated a door I didn't recognize and said MoSh and Asuka were both in there.

In the next room I found MoSh and Asuka together. They were sitting on a very nice couch right next to each other. It looked really comfortable. I went over to them. MoSh said Asuka needed healing. MoSh said Asuka hadn't been herself since she had gotten back after the last time she was taken. I looked at Asuka, focusing on seeing her energy. When I sensed her energy it did look like there was some dark energy in there, and it didn't belong there. It was keeping Asuka's energy from becoming completely stable. I looked over at MoSh to see if he had any of the same. There was something weird in him… a strange form of energy. It didn't look the same as Asuka's dark energy, but it also was not a good thing to have there. I would do healing spells on both of them to clear that out. I used Silver and Cold to draw all of the dark energy in Asuka into me, and stabilized it right away. I looked at MoSh… I wasn't sure if it was a good idea to just absorb that energy since it looked kind of strange. I thought it might have more of a tendency to go unstable, and I don't need any more of that. So I focused on the song Touch My Heart from the Devil Hunter Yohko soundtrack. The song played through, golden energy formed and flowed through both MoSh and Asuka. The strange energy inside MoSh got cleansed out. The entire room was filled with golden energy when MoSh pulled a guitar out of nowhere and started playing.

After the songs were over, there was still residual golden energy hanging in the room. It made for a very relaxing atmosphere. MoSh and Asuka hugged for a bit. MoSh turned over to me. He said he was willing to help me with one of my goals… I wondered if he was lucid. I asked him if he realized this was a dream. He looked around, at Asuka, and then back at me. He looked at his hand and then back at me again. I wondered if he was doing a RC. I said a couple of the goals I have include opening the strange book from the Akashic Records (which was what MoSh had volunteered to help with) and he had suggested we dilate time to make sure the dream would last long enough to get more than one thing done. I said I didn't feel like waking up yet, so I would just open the portal back to my inner world. If he was about to wake up, though, we could try time dilation first. He said he was ok. I opened a portal back to my inner world. Both MoSh and I went through.

On the other side we were in my bedroom in my inner world. MoSh was looking around strangely. I asked if he was ok. He said yeah. I asked if he would remember the dream. He said no. I pulled a Gibbs on him and asked again if he was going to remember the dream. He said no. I wasn't sure if he was not really lucid or if he was just being stubborn… I took the book off of my dresser. It was locked tight as always. MoSh took the book and looked at it for a bit, turning it over in his hands and looking at the lock. He looked at some of the markings on the book. I wondered if he was understanding any of it. I remembered that Tigress had also said she would help. Maybe I should go get her… so both she and MoSh could look at it together with me, all at the same time. I was thinking about opening a portal when I felt like I was waking up. I asked MoSh about the time dilation. He said to count while focusing on one part of the dream and everything else… um… ok… I focused on the book that MoSh was holding. I wasn't sure how to focus on that and everything at once, though. I was counting. 1… 2… 3… 4… lost focus on the book when trying to focus on the room… then the room was spinning, and then I woke. D'Oh!