You're in the Jungle
I tossed and turned in bed, twitching into another form. I became a black jaguar with purple at the tips of my fur. I jumped through my wall and into the street where Future's Hope, my silvery spacecraft was waiting. I leapt right through the wall of it, and was inside. I roared, and it went into warp speed. The entire top half became invisible, and d'n'b came on the sound system, and we flew through a wormhole to the moon. It was like being on a hoverboard, because of top half being invisible. I roared again, and DJ Hope mixed my roar into the music.
You're in the jungle, the jungle, the jungle
HA HA HA HA HA HA!
A voice laughed darkly in the song.
"Oh, I don't want to be here,
I have to find out how to get home!" a voice like Judy Garland's pouted.
As we approached the Moon, the entire ship became silver again. It flew the force field of the Biodome, and hovered a couple feet above the ground. Other dreamers came and looked at it. I leapt through the wall of the ship, and was covered with mercury in the air that melted off of me back into the ship before I landed.
I flew through the air in slow motion, as the music boomed out of my ship, and it vibrated. BOOM-BOOM-ch-BOOM ch-BOOM!
I landed on the ground, and the music stopped. A crowd looked at me, and I grinned at them, a black jaguar. I roared, changing colors, as I did it. Rays of color poured out of me. My roar echoed and the music dropped. Some of the dreamers ran away screaming. DJ Hope mixed in my roar and the screams into the song.
I felt drunk with power. HUH HUH HUH HUH I laughed. I changed into a lion-man wearing a cheesy polyester cartoon cape, a plastic red and gold scepter, and a plastic golden crown. A green flaming aura formed around, me and red flame poured out of my eyes.
"Nomad!" a voice scolded. It was Raven. "You're scaring people!"
"Huh? Oh sorry!"
Be nice, kitty!
I changed into a cute winged purple jaguar cub. I laid on my back. "Aw, you're so cute!" said Raven. She kneeled down and rubbed my belly. I giggled. "You're tickling me!" I batted at her hand.
"Hey, be nice kitty!" she said.
I rolled over, and flew in circles around her head.
"Hey, kitty! You! Come back here. Aw, I just want to pet you."
I let her catch me, and she held me like a baby. I'm not a baby!
I crawled up halfway over her shoulder. That felt more dignified.
"Cute, little flying purple jaguar cub. Where did you come from? Where's your mommy?" she asked. I morphed into a full size jaguar, and she fell on her back. "You're my mommy!" I laughed. I stood on her and licked her face.
"Eyew! Nomad!"
I bounded off of her. "Lose lucidity for a second, did ya?" I laughed.
She scowled at me, and pointed her finger at me. Funny magic came out of her hand and she turned me into a frog with a golden crown and gold ball in my mouth. I spit the ball out. "Hey, that's not very nice!" I croaked.
She laughed at me. I heard someone singing. It was Selene. She looked at the golden ball. "Ah, there's my ball," she said. She set a basket of fruit down, and picked up the ball. I shoved my jaguar face in the food and devoured it. Selene pet me, and smiled at Raven. I turned into an adolescent male lion.
"A big cat eating fruit?" Raven laughed.
I turned to her, and grinned, berry juice dripping down my face. "I'm a vegetarian."
"Oh, right!" Raven laughed again. Selene sat on my back, and pet my neck. "What we're we going to do?" asked Raven.
"Warrior Tiger and Silverwolf." I said.
"Oh right. Hmm."
"How about I get Silverwolf? She already came to my Temple, so it shoud be easy."
"And I will get Allison."
"Yeah."
I stood up and changed into Nomad form. I kissed Selene. She smiled at me. I changed back into a lion. Selene got on my back, and grabbed my mane. I reared back and roared. Moonlight poured down on to Selene as she took a deep breath. The breath was so intense, it felt like it was making my soul resonate. Orange and yellow rays shot out from us and spun around. DJ Hope started playing some dirty d'n'b.
"Nomad?" said Raven, and the music stopped. "Where are we going to meet up?"
"Oh, just call me, when you're done," I said.
DJ Hope walked out of the spaceship and on to the stage. She started spinning music, and some of the dreamers were dancing. I ran off with Selene on my back toward the Temple. I formed a silver hoverboard under my feet. Selene jumped off my back, and formed a white hoveboard under her feet. There was a wormhole in front of us. We flew into it.
"So, who do you think you are, Silver Surfer?"
"Maybe," I said, changing into Silver Surfer. "Selene laughed.
Selene and I tumbled out of the wormhole on to the landing pad and rolled into the temple. We stood up, and dusted ourselves off. We walked out on to the landing pad. There was a picture of Earth, with a large Moon in the background, and it was ringed by a two snake orobouros on it. The worshippers looked up at us, and fell silent. Selene walked down the stairs, and down the path. She smiled at them serenely, and they simply stared. "I am going to explore this jungle," she told me telepathically. She walked to the end of the path, and disappeared into the jungle.
My worshippers turned around and looked at me, and chanted, "Juargawn, Juargawn, Juargawn."
The Witch in the Woods
I walked to the mirror. "Hey, what's up, dude?" said Sarnox, leaning on his staff. "Oh, well, I am just going to summon this witch in the woods with the mirror."
"Witches are cool," he said.
"Witches are cool," I agreed.
I walked to the mirror, a silly lion-man. I waved my scepter in front, of it, and it rippled. I saw an image of a cute one-room cottage. There was a stone fireplace, a small dining table with some chairs, a simple rustic bed, and a counter with all sorts of things in jars and bottles on it. A glowing pink woman appeared in the mirror. All her clothes were glowing pink. It was hard to make out exactly what she was wearing, because her clothes, eyes, hair, and skin, was all the same glowing pink.
"Hello, Nomad, er... Jurgawn, lord of Nothing. How do you do?" she said in a cute little voice.
"Um, you can call me anything. It doesn't really matter. The mistress is busy right now. Would you like to chat for a little through these cool magic mirrors, until she's ready? Go ahead, ask me anything."
"Um, what is the nature of the dream realm?"
"It's another dimension. Next!" she said cheerily.
I saw a short little witch with a big fluffy black dress, and silly witch hat walking around in the background. She looked like a young girl in a witch costume, and a little old lady witch at the same time. She turned to the pink glowing woman, and said, "Oh, let him in, and stop being so precocious." The pink woman sulked for a second.
"My name's Pixy, by the way," she smiled as she reached through the mirror. I was startled to see when her hand came through, it looked like a regular woman's arm, with lavender fingernails. I took her hand, and I stepped through. I looked around the cottage. The roof was thatch. I noticed the things on the counter. I was interested to see what everything was. Above the counter were two shelves of dusty books. There was a large dreamcatcher hanging on the wall. There was a pentacle on the floor, taking up the entire floor of the cottage. It was white, and colored lights flowed through it and pulsed. The fire was crackling, and there was a pot of something cooking over the fire.
The witch turned to me. Now she was a statuesque buxom woman, all in black and violet, looking stern and beautiful. I turned into my physical self. She smiled at me, and turned back to something she was doing on another smaller counter on the other side of the room. "Would you like some tea?" she asked.
"Yes, ma'am," I said.
"Eyew, don't call me that, just call me... superwitch... no, no, that's sounds like a cheesy superhero... um, what the hell is my name? oh, silverwolf, or The Witch in The Woods, or Stalker of Demons.... hmmm.... "
As Silverwolf was talking, Pixy came and stood next to me. She looked like a tall pale elf in a short green dress. Her hair was ash blond and long. She placed her hand on the chair I was sitting in. She had long sexy legs. I felt uncomfortable by this sexiness. I looked down at the table and examined the cracks and knots in the old grey wood.
Silverwolf came to the table, and sat down in front of me. She handed me a small cup of tea. I sipped it. It was delicious. It was minty and sweet, with a hint of ginger. I felt a zing go through my body. "Oo! What's this?" I said.
"Mint, all kinds of mint, honey, fresh ginger, lemongrass, and some special... ingredients."
"What's that?" I asked.
"Magic. Secret lucid magic," she grinned, catlike. "I call it Lucidi-Tea. It's to help make people lucid. Are you lucid, Nomad?"
"Oh, yes, very much so, thank you so much! At least, I think I am... Oh, yeah. I usually am nowadays. I just kind of forgot."
"Would you like to hear your fortune?" she asked.
Webs of Fortune
"Um, it scares me a little, but, ok."
"There is nothing to fear," she smiled warmly. She layed drew some tarot cards, and laid them on the table, leaning forward. Pixy moved closer to me. I felt the wamth of her body she was so close. I found myself looking up from the cards at Silverwolf's chest without thinking about it. I was a little overwhelmed by all the sexiness around me.
"Look into my eyes!" Silverwolf growled, and I saw she had faint violet stripes like a Tasmanian tiger, little fangs, and her eyes were swirling black and white mirror portals.
"Sorry!" I said. Silverwolf squinted at me for a second, confused.
I was in outer space.
I saw myself, as a spider at the center of giant silver web. I plucked the threads, and sent energy down to the ends. Other spiders came, and walked over me, then created their own webs. Our webs spun together like gears, then wrapped around the planet.
I was back in the cottage. Silverwolf was placing cards down on the table. "The King, the Fool, Death, the Queen," she was saying. "You are the Fool-King. You have died many times, and been reborn. Every lifetime you die and are reborn more and more times within that one lifetime. You may die again before you die. You and Raven are the King and Queen of the Moon in the Dreamtime. The Queen of the Dark Tower, and the Fool-god in his Temple. You can choose to claim your birthright, or deny it. It doesn't matter. The fact remains, that is what you are. And this other card... hmm..."
I felt Raven calling me in my head. I ignored her for a second because I wanted to hear about the other card. I heard a telephone ring. My cel phone was ringing loudly in my pocket.
"Uh, excuse me a second. Sorry."
I pulled the phone out. I saw Raven on the caller ID.
"Uh, hello?"
"We're ready!" Raven said.
"Um, couldn't you do something more magical?" I said.
"Well, I called you telepathically, but you didn't answer."
"Oh, right. Sorry. Be right there." I hung up the phone.
"Well, let's go meet up with Raven and your girlfriend," I said.
"Um, we don't say that..."
"Oh!" I blushed. "What do you say?"
"Oh, it doesn't matter. This is a dream. Let's go!" Silverwolf stood up, and we walked toward her mirror. She waved her hand in front of it, and the mirror rippled, showing the inside of my temple. Pixy was now pink again. She kissed Silverwolf goodbye on the cheek, and we stepped through."
O Queen of the Nexus
Now, I changed to a lion-man in a cheesy plastic cape, scepter, and crown. Silverwolf was a woman in a tshirt and jeans.
"Welcome, Juargawn, Lord of Nothing!" said Sarnox loudly. Silverwolf turned to him, annoyed at his loudness. "And Guest!" he continued. "You should be honored, O Guest-"
"Hey, cut the crap, fancypants, I know who this guy is."
"Oh, well, you didn't have to be so rude about it. I was just being a High Priest. Jeez..." Sarnox sulked.
"Sorry," said Silverwolf. She put out her hand, and said, "Hey, I'm Silverwolf." Sarnox bowed to her, and kissed her hand. "Yes, O Queen of the Nexus, you walk between worlds."
"I'm just a normal person," she laughed.
"Oh, me to. My name's Samuel."
"Oh!"
Raven appeared in the mirror. "Nomad! Nomad?" Warrior Tiger was with her. I waved. In the background was the Biodome. I saw Selene in the background gathering fruit. She stood up and looked at me. She waved and smiled.
Raven and Warrior Tiger stepped through into the temple. Silverwolf and Warrior Tiger ran to each other and embraced. "Yaay! We did it!" they said.
Raven created a portal. "So, are you going to come with us?"
"Uh, no. I will join you on your adventure later. I am going to try and summon this woman, and play didjeridoo for her."
"What's that?" asked Silverwolf.
I turned my staff into a didjeridoo, sat down, and played it.
"Cool!" said Silverwolf. Raven grabbed Warrior Tiger's hand, and she grabbed Silverwolf's hand, and they went through.
Summoning "M"
I walk to the mirror, and wave my wand in front of it. The mirror ripples, and I see this woman at a desk. She is writing something. Her back is to me. I turn into a purple jaguar cub. She turns and looks at me. She smiles. "Hey, cutie." I roll on my back. She reaches through the mirror and pet me. I squirm around, and she grabs me. I run away, and she grabs my tail, and comes through the mirror.
"Oh, this place again?"
"Do you know you are dreaming?" I said, sprouting purple bird wings.
"Well, of course I am!" she pat my head and looked around.
"I am a real person," I said.
"Oh, so you're not a cute kitty cub?"
I turned into my cheesy lion-king form, and grinned at her.
"Oh!" she recoiled. "Don't do that!"
"Sorry!" I changed into my physical self.
"Oh, hello, you're a person. Nice to meet you."
"Hi. Do you remember you dreams often?"
"No. Dreams are just silly anyways. Little purple jaguar cubs with wings, and fluffy cotton candy clouds... I mean, they are fun, but, who really cares about dreams."
"I do," I said sadly.
"Oh, I'm sorry, dream person, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings."
"Oh, that's okay. Let's go look at the stars!"
"Okay," she said.
I took her hand, and we walked to the landing pad. Sarnox followed us. She turned to him, then to me. "Who's he?" she whispered.
"Oh, this is... Samuel. He's my best friend, from... another place."
Sarnox changed form into modern clothes. "Hey, how are you?" he asked casually.
"I'm good. I'm dreaming aren't I?"
"Yes," he said.
"I like this dream."
We sat down on the landing pad, and looked up at the stars. The constellations became animated. A centaur shot a bow at an unseen target. Lonewolf ran across the sky. He stomped on Cancer the crab, and ate it. He winked at me, then disappeared.
"This is beautiful," she said softly, and leaned on me.
"Are you going to remember me, when you wake up?" I asked.
"No, probably not, dream friend. But, that's okay. We're here now, and that's all that matters." A chill wind blew, and she snuggled up to me.
"I wish this was real," she said.
"It is," I said softly, and a tear rolled down my cheek.
"I have to go, I am going to wake up soon."
"Write the dream down," I said.
"Oh, it doesn't matter." She kissed my cheek, and winked out of sight. I sighed.
"Thanks, asshole"
Sarnox broke the silence. "Well that was depressing!" he said, chaging into his druid form with pale skin, and blood red hair, goatee, eyebrows, and irises.
"Thanks, asshole."
"Hey, cheer up, chum, you can summon her again."
"What's the point? She's like Alicia. She doesn't care about dreams. I am going to meet her, and she's not going to remember me."
"Maybe you should keep trying?"
"No, ah. I don't know. Sorry I called you an asshole man."
"It's okay, pal," he said, clapping me on the back. "Let's have a cigarette!"
"Sure!"
He stuck an American Spirit cigarette in my mouth, and put his arm around me, as we walked back into the temple. We lit our cigarettes with a lighter he had in his pocket. I changed into my cheesy king lion form.
I sat down in my throne, and slumped down.
"Damn, I need a chair or something, too.... hmm."
He summoned a recliner, and plopped down, pulling the seat back, and the foot rest popped out. There was a small table next to the chair with a dark alcoholic drink in it in a glass with ice.
"Disaronno on the rocks?" he smiled at me, lifting his glass.
"No thanks. Disaronno? What the hell is that? Hey man, fuck that dimension. Fuck this dimension, too!"
I roared and kicked over my throne.
"Whoah, easy their killer. I am not trying to usurp your throne or anything. You want I make this chair disappear?"
"No. I don't give a shit. None of this is real, this dimension, the other dimension, it's all a bunch of illusion and fakeness. Everyone lies, they project a false image of themselves in your mind. Nothing is real."
"You're right," he grinned. "Nothing is real," he said emphatically.
I laughed. "Thanks. I guess I needed that, you clever bastard. Man, what was I supposed to do?"
"Meet up with Raven, and the others."
"Right."
Sorcerer Lion Form
I walk to my mirror, now a lion man in sorcerer form with a violet and black cloak, a black staff, and a small black crown on my head. Purple flame poured from my eye sockets, and I was enwreathed in a green flaming aura.
I waved my staff in front of the mirror, it rippled, and I saw Raven walking in a pretty place with a few other people, looking around in wonder.
Sarnox and I step through the portal. Everything was dark. "Where the hell are we?" I said. "Hmm." said Sarnox.
I summoned a torch. Behind us was a dark arch, a portal, and at the top was the face of the devil with bat wings.
I saw many pits of flame, and people writhing and screaming in pain. I was horrified. My mouth opened in a silent scream.
"Change your perception!" a voice said loudly in my head.
I thought of the beauty of Hollow Earth, and everything changed to translucent plants and colorful creatures floating through the air. The arch behind us turned white, and there was a cherub at the top. I looked at it, and the cherub smiled at me and winked. There was a path in front of us of pale pink cobblestone.
"For fun, of course"
A winged snake the size of a person slithered through the air.
"Selene?" I said.
"Yes, it's me," she said, and wrapped herself around me.
"Why are you here?" I ask.
"For fun, of course."
"Oh, where are the others?"
"Let me take you there."
She uncoiled herself from me, and laid down on the path. Sarnox and I got on her back, and she flew up into the sky. There was a strange feeling of stillness. I felt like Selene was floating, or swimming, but not really flying. I saw all manner of plants and animals that I did not recognize. We landed on a plateau on a mountain.
Picnic in Hollow Earth
Raven was there with Warrior Tiger, Silverwolf, Mosh, and one or two others I did not recognize. They were sitting on a huge red and white checkered cloth having a picnic. There was a beautiful sky blue dragon that wrapped its body in a semicircle around the people. It was talking to them telepathically. Sarnox and I slid off Selene's back, and sat down. No one was talking. They were all eating. Someone gave me a sandwich. It was peanut butter with blackberries and honey. It was amazing. I summoned a large bottle of soymilk, and guzzled it.
MoSh was the only one in regular physical form. He was talking with his Q, a big floating transparent head. No one else seemed to notice Q. Q grinned and winked at me.
I was tired. I laid down on the blanket. Selene crawled next to me, a big warm snake. I fell asleep.
I was floating through the stars, a constellation myself, slowly changing form. I see Lonewolf. He is also a constellation of a wolf.
"Do you know what you are doing, Nagual?" he said.
"No, but I am trying to learn, brother," I said.
"Stop learning. Start doing. Let go of your insecurities, and self doubt. They only hold you back."
He smiled and me, and blew at me. My stars flew around in little spirals, and I woke up.
I woke up back up at the picnic. I was a cougar. I had my head in Selene's lap, and she was stroking my head and neck. She was in normal moon goddess form. Everyone else was gone. She gently moved my cougar head off her lap and stood up. We both stretched.
"Let's go find the others," she said.
"Come, my children"
We walked into the strange Hollow Earth forest. Everyone was picking all kinds of fruit and eating it excitedly. The dragon's head appeared. It spoke telepathically: Come my children.
It head disappeared, and we followed it. We were suddenly in the same picnic area, but all was bare and natural. We sat in a circle and the dragon spoke to us all telepathically simultaneously, individually.
"Yes, it is me, the Great Mother," she said. "I have summoned you here, only to let you know this: I love you, my child."
I felt love beaming out of a small jewel on the dragon's forhead, her third eye. I felt like I was a pure rainbow. I looked at the others, and they were rainbows. We all were. We swirled together, and made a small raincloud. We floated over the dragon, and rained on her.
"Rain, I like rain," she smiled.
Suddenly we were picnicking again. We stretched and yawned as if we had just woken up. I felt the dragon lick my face.
Everyone faded away except for Sarnox and I. We walked to the edge of the mountain, and looked out over Hollow Earth. A black sun was in the sky. I felt like I was inside of a giant sphere. All the plants and animals were very colorful. There were many pastels, and things that were translucent. Beautiful animals floated through the air with long tails, and long things trailing off their wings like feathers.
"This is real," he said, placing a hand on my shoulder.
I turned and smiled at him. I gave him a hug, then we looked back out at the breathtaking view. I felt that familiar wistful feeling that I always feel at the end of dreams. I faded away, and woke up.
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