22nd June 2008-
The Rogue Gerbils
At the start of the dream,Zach(my gerbil)was missing,and I was looking for him and panicking.After a while,I found him in a nearby field,but the field had been transformed into something that looked like a cross between a cave and a forest.I saw him sitting on a toadstool,and he was surrounded by other gerbils,all of whom were armed and as big as humans.He seemed to be their leader.I ran over to see him,but he glared at me.I could tell he didn’t want me there.The other gerbils were whispering to each other,and they started glaring at me too.Zach stepped down from his toadstool and grabbed me by the scruff of the neck.He glared at me close up,and I could tell he hated me.Then he started speaking in french.’Nous ne parlons pas devant cette fille!’,he said(we do not speak in front of this girl!)and I felt awful.Then he threw me to the ground again,and 2 of his comrades came and dragged me away.They tied me to a tree on the other side of some rocks.As they tied me up,they were arguing in french about whether to hijack the luas or not.(The Luas is a special,purple train.)They stole my glasses and walked off.I was shocked by Zachs betrayal, but I was determined to escape.I started calling for help.Eventually an octopus came along,and I asked if she could untie me.She did this with little difficulty,because of having 8 arms,and then she spat ink into my eyes,which gave me x-ray vision.I asked if she knew about the gerbils,and she said yes,but there was nothing we could do.But I was determined to stop them.After some persuasion,she told me Zach had been put under a spell, and if we managed to take it away,all the gerbils would go back to normal.I was so excited to hear this that I ran off immediately to find a remedy.The octopus didn’t follow.I walked further and further into the forest-cave place, and eventually I came to a door.It said ‘Home of Friar Laurence-The Renown Apothecary.’ This was just what I needed.I banged on the door.After I banged several times,he answered. He looked very tired. ‘Art thou mad??’, he asked.He was wearing a badge that said he was 500 years old.I told him about the gerbils.He told me he had a remedy, but I'd have to go and collect some poisonous daffodils first.He sent me off with a basket, and told me to come back in 3 hours.I set off, but at first, I couldn't find any poisonous daffodils.Then I walked into another cave,and it was full of red creatures who wanted to kill me.I knew that once I killed them, they would turn into poisonous daffodils.I called for the octopus, and as if by magic, she appeared.She handed me a spear.The red creatures were throwing sticky stuff (like cement) at me, and if I was hit,I would die.But I dodged the cement and aimed the spear at the first one.It hit him in the chest and he fell down, defeated.It was easier than I thought.The octopus managed to wrestle one to the ground, and I killed him.Then she did the same with the others.When they were all dead, they turned into poisonous daffodils, and I filled the basket.I was sure nearly 3 hours had passed, so I thanked the octopus and ran all the way back to Friar Laurence.He looked slightly angry. 'Thou hast delayed immoderately.' I ignored him and showed him the daffodils, and he became excited at once.He sent me to spy on the gerbils while he turned them into a remedy.I went back to the original field and looked around.There was no sign of them.Then I went to the luas station and sure enough, they'd hijacked the luas.There was destruction everywhere, and I met a luas driver sobbing.I told him about the remedy, but he didn’t cheer up.He told me the gerbils were driving up and down the track at 100 miles an hour,and they had already killed 17 pedestrians.I was sorry to hear that,but just then,the octopus came back, and she was carrying a bucket of the remedy.I didn't know how to persuade them to drink it, but I walked along the track waiting for a luas.I eventually saw one.I grabbed on to the back of it somehow, and climbed on to the roof.The roof was glass, and through it I could see the gerbils,being vandels.Some of them were drinking whisky, some of them were writing graffiti, some of them were playing with their weapons,and all of them were being loud and noisy.I crawled along the roof and realized that Zach was driving.I smashed the window and jumped down on top of him.Before he could stop me,I rammed the remedy down his throat.At once,he stopped.The train came to a standstill,the gerbils stopped their activity, and they all turned back into ordinary rodents.They ran off into the shadows,and nobody ever saw them again.We had to organize funerals for the 17 pedestrians.Zach was put in jail,the octopus won a prize,and Friar Laurence was put in charge of the damage.
This is probably one of the best dreams I've ever had.
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