Damn Remote Viewers
I floated out of my bed, my astral body already in Juargawn form. I was wearing space armor, and I looked like a ghost. There were two astral Men in Black watching me. They had attitudes that they were badasses. One was American, one was Russian. They were remote viewers. I said, "What the fuck are you looking at?"
The American said, "Holy shit, can people do that?"
The Russian said, "Oh, my god, it is the Cat God, he's going to eat us all!"
The American said, "Shut the hell up, man! Get Lucid.
I am not Ron Pierce, I just look like him."
The Russian said, "And I don't look like Woody Allen."
"Not now or in the physical reality Ron Pierce, Ron Pierce." said the American, apparently completing a dual astral lucidity poem. Ron Pierce was the name of the Russian, and the American would appear as someone else, but he would say he was Ron Pierce. This apparently helped the Russian stay lucid.
I thought that was a pretty good idea. I got distracted thinking about that, and didn't pay attention for a second, until I heard the Russian say, "Should we attack it, brother?"
Then, the American said, "Well, we're in the ether, so yes!"
Then they whipped out laser pistols and fired at me. At this point I was wearing a Fantasic Four costume, but there was a five on it. I was a mercury lion-man. Their laser hit my suit, burning it, revealing my mercury body beneath it. I walked toward them slowly, growling softly. My voice was quiet, but rumbled through the city subsonically. I made the fabric of time and space ripple. They turned 2D. "What the fuck is this shit?" said the American.
"He's making time-space ripple! He removed the third astral dimension! That fucker! Holy shit! The tale is true! The Cat God is upon us!" The Russian began crying.
"What the fuck is he talking about?" I roared.
"Aha! See, he's another dreamer! I think he's a rogue, look. Look at him, damn you!" the American yelled at the Russian.
"We are still 2D! Look at us!" He turned his hand over. "We are flat as a paper! Oh my god, he's a shaman. How the fuck did we awaken a shaman here?"
"Maybe because you fuckwads abducted me as a child. You know exaclty what the fuck I am talking about. Fuck you. I know about you. I know all about your bullshit. You can't put the blinders on my eyes. I have 360 vision, bitches."
I viewed them with 360 vision. Everything was made of tiny spheres.
"Oh my God! Look what the shaman has done to us!" At this point he started praying in Spanish, but I couldn't make out a lot of the words. "Jesu Christo.... O Senor... Santa Maria... espiritu..."
The American lit up a cigar, then, he looked around and said, "What the fuck?"
I changed back to regular vision.
"Why the fuck is he talking in Spanish?" I said to the American.
"He's a Mexican, a wetback, senor."
"Man, you're fucking crude."
"Hey, fuck you nigga, you want to fuck with me?"
I said, ""I said, 'Fuck you, nigga,' to the crackhead. 'Nigga, you want to mess with me?' Psh. 'Nigga please. Nigga, puhlee-eeze."
I said puhlee-eeze in slow motion, and I moved in slow motion, so he would think time was slowing down. I was laughing inside because he fell for it. He moved backwards in slow motion, and looked at my fist. I flew at him in slow motion, then when I got close, I moved to normal speed, and BOOM! hit him in the jaw. I said, "Uppercut!" and laughed.
"What the hell?" said the American. "Are you a kid? Wait? Street Fighter II! Oh my god, you are a nerd!"
I turned into a giant nerd, and I swallowed them. I made a bunch of infinite worlds inside my mouth. I gave them 360 vision.
"What the fuck is this crazy ass shit?" said the American. "You're fucking wackjob!" he said to me. I heard him think, "Can this guy really do this? Fuck! Time for an exit!"
Will ya look at the time?
He looked at his watch. "Hey, we have to get out of here, Ruskie."
The Russian man was crying. "Oh, he is the Cat God coming up from the South to eat us all. He has an anaconda around his torso that never leaves. It never eats him. It is his guardian when he sleeps, and the Cat God guards the Great Anaconda, the Snake Between Worlds! We are going to die!"
"Let's go!" said the American, and he grabbed the Russian by his collar.
The Russian looked up at him and cried, "No, we can't he has us in his power!"
"Damn you, you wetback fuckin MexiRuskie piece of shit! GAAAH!" he kicked him. "Damn you, snap out of it, Ron Popeil!"
Apparently the word Ron Popeil was to get people out of trances by making think of something in the physical world, namely Ron Popeil's face, the great infomercial salesman.
The American winked out of sight. The previous purple background changed to orange. "Dammit," I heard a voice say.
The Sacrifice
Then I noticed the American was invisible, but I could still see him a little. He looked like water floating in air. I pretended not to notice. Suddenly, the Russian laughed maniacally. He turned into an Aztec priest. He was adorned with feathers, and had a stone axe. He had a large hooked nose, a prominent browbone, thick lips, a small round chin, and black eyes. I was walking up a ziggurat, with my hands tied behind my back. I healed my Five suit. There were two DC's with spears, poking at me.
I broke my bonds, and tossed the DC's to the side. "Do you really want to sacrifice me you fucker?" I shouted. Thousands of DC's appeared all around me, with spears pointed at me. I roared in a spherical shout, and used an anti-gravity sphere to push them all away.
The Russian licked his lips and drooled. He touched his mouths, and slurped. "Well, maybe I do yes. Maybe I will get power from drinking your blood."
I saw the American. He looked like an orange sky body with stars, then a purple and black sky body with stars. "Dammit," he said looking at himself. "Why isn't my invisibility working. Shit!" He said to the Russian in a hoarse whisper, "Shit, he sucked us into the dream realm."
"No, your friend did that," I said telepathically to the American. He lifted up his sunglasses, and his eyes got big.
"Well, if that's the way you want, you crazy fool!" I said, bounding up the stairs. "Go ahead!" I yelled, as I laid down on a sacrificial stone.
Little mice came out and said, "O Aslan!"
"I am not Aslan, you crazy fools!" I said to the mice.
"Oh," they said sadly.
The Russian lifted up his stone axe. One of the mice, said, "No, look, he is Aslan!" The mouse put his paw on his friend's shoulder, and pointed at me. The Russian chopped my head off. It fell to the ground. Some silver sparkles came out of my neck. The mice looked at my head. I stuck my tongue out and winked at them. The Russian reached down my neck into my body, and pulled out a small amount of my mercury. It formed into a beating heart. "Ah! A beating heart!" he said. "Now, I will receive power from on high!"
The American said, "No, you fool!"
I moved my head back to my body, and reconnected it. I sat on the stone and watched the Russian take a bite of the heart. He smiled as mercury ran down his lips. I smiled at him, and shook my head condescendingly. The American smacked it out of the Russian's hand. The Russian growled at him.
"Mercury's poisonous, you fool cannibal!" I said to the Russian.
He touched his mouth, and looked at the mercury on my hands. "No, I am poisoned! No! No!"
"Goddammit!" yelled the American. "This is just a dream. Snap out of it! Ron Popeil! I am a wizard and you are a mountain! You piece of shit! Get lucid!" The American kicked him.
"Oh, my God! Why is this happening? Why? Why?" cried the Russian.
We went back to astral for a second. They were 2D ghost men.
"Maybe because of what your people did to my people thousands of years ago. Maybe because of karmic debt. Don't you remember, cannabil? Your people ate my people. Or maybe you just feel guilty for something you've done in this life."
We went back to the dream plane, and the Russian turned into a female cheetah woman. I then realized she was a woman in waking life, and she protrayed herself as a man in astral to disguise herself. She ran in a circle. "Why? Why? Oh my God, what is happening?"
She stopped running in a circle for a second. She kissed a rosary, then started praying the rosary in Spanish. She began running again, and she was creating a vortex. "I don't know, but, HEY STOP IT!" I roared.
The Russian woman stopped running in a circle. She sat and looked at me. She licked her paw. "Obviously you are one of Us, sister," I said. "Make peace with your Beast Self."
"Shut the hell up!" said the American, transforming into silvery android.
"Aha, and I see you are like me also, Android," I said to the American.
"Dammit, this is against the rules, we're not supposed to be in the dream plane. Especially not for this long. This place is just too ridiculous. Everything is so insane." He looked at his watch. I laughed, and he changed to 2D as time space rippled.
"Hey stop that!" he said.
"What? I am just rippling time space."
"Ah, you fucker, no you are not. You are just altering our perception of it."
"How?" I asked.
"Something to do with. Probably your soundwaves. See, I have you all figured out."
"Sound on the dream plane?"
"Listen," said the American, "will you just shut up please? We don't have a lot of time left. I am not going to waste time explaining things to you that you already know. We are Remote Viewers. We are not supposed to be here. Hey. what is your serial number, Remote Viewer?"
"What? My serial number?"
"Yeah, your social security number."
I went into a trance. "My social security number is 5- Hey, what the fuck?" I broke the trance. "What the hell did you just do to me, asshole?"
"Yeah, just like I thought," he sad. "Don't worry, we have it all under control. Don't worry, we're fucking tracking you by your SSN."
"Hey, fuck you man. We are all being tracked. I know all about your bullshit, so you can just fuck off."
"Hey, listen man, my partner here is fucking losing it. She is not some beast woman, and I am not an android. That is just how you are percieving us. Well, actually, we are all... fuck! What the fuck is going on?"
He suddenly turned and looked into the Russian's eyes. His eyes were swirling portals leading into space. She licked her paw and waved at me. She looked at the American. "Oh my, Jesus Christos, you look terrifying! Your eyes!"
"They are just portals," he said. "Time to go."
"No, my astral-shared-dreaming-partner-brother."
We are supposed to stay out of dreams, remember? There is no point in being here!"
"I like it!" she said. She licked her paw and waved at me. I waved back, amused.
He opened his mouth, and a third larger portal appeared.
"No!" she screamed, and got sucked in. I saw a bulge in his stomach bounce around.
"Now, that wasn't very nice, you weird orange and purple sky android man. Why the fuck did you do that?"
"Your girlfriend is safe in my world, dipshit. She's fine. Don't worry about her. She just got a little confused, because we accidentally slipped into the dream plane. We're not even supposed to be here. We are not going to appear here again. This plane is lame and pointless. Do not try to contact either of us again. You do not have permission to dream with me or her or astral, for that matter."
"You can speak for yourself, but you can't speak for other people. Don't you think I know that?"
"I think you're a fool!" he said, and changed into Cacarot.
"Oh, really?" I said, and changed into Vegeta.
He lunged at me, and did Chestnuts roasting on an Open Fire. I moved backward, blocking and dodging all his punches. Then, I started blocking with one hand, then one great lion finger. My face changed back to a lion face. I moved in a circle. He got red with anger, and I was cool and calm. I said, "Hiryu!"
Then, he looked at a vortex which was forming, and he moved away from it.
"Hey fuck your vortex shit, nigga!" he said.
"What is this move, some Ranma shit? You're a fag."
I turned into a tall old bald skinny drag queen with saggy man boobs in a tutu and leotard with garish blue eye shadow, fake eyelashes, a shitload of rouge, and bright red lipstick. I waved a fan in my face, and there was a Moulin Rouge background behind me. I had a saggy ass.
"Now, that's not very nice to say to a lady like me, you dick!' I smacked my ass.
He looked afraid. He said, "Mama!"
I spun forward like a corkscrew, slicing through timespace, and I hit him in the jaw. "Aw you fucker!" he held his jaw.
I grabbed him by the neck, and I reached down his throat. "Gah! Gah!" he said. I pulled out the Russian woman. She was covered with ectoplasm, and was passed out. She was curled up in a ball.
"What did you do to her?" I roared.
"She's fine," he said.
I became huge, and I smacked them together. "Wake up!" I said. The woman woke up. "What? Where?" she said.
You are gone!
"You are gone!" I said to the Russian. I flicked him with my finger, and then he flew tumbled into a Selene portal. She changed back into herself. "Thanks, dear," I said, and waved at her. She looked like the genie Jeannie, all in grey, but her face was different. She had yellow pupils, blue irises, and black eyes. She smiled at me, crossed her arms, and winked. She blinked out of sight.
I picked up the Russian woman like a baby, and held her in my arms. I breathed fire on her to burn off the ectoplasm. I summoned Skyfire and Rainstorm. There were two small fire lizards. Skyfire burned off the ectoplasm on the rest of her, and Rainstorm made it rain on her. She sputtered and coughed. She was wearing a t-shirt, denim shorts, and running shoes. Her hair was in a ponytail. She mumbled something about a river.
"Time to get out of here," I said.
I turned into a white lion man with golden gem eyes, and I waved my white ram wand with the ruby eyes, and formed a black and white swirling portal.
I was in the Biodome. There was a huge crowd of people there. There was a giant golden man in the background. I think it may have been Q, but I wasn't paying attention. I set the woman down she coughed and stood weakly. Raven ran to her. "Nomad? What did you do to her?"
"Rescued her, I think," I said.
"Oh, sorry," she said. She gently led the woman to a park bench by the koi pond. The fish were having lots of fun teasing each other. Raven patted the Russian woman on the back. Raven summoned a glass of water, and gave it to her. The Russian woman nodded gratefully and took a sip. She smiled weakly at Raven. "What is your name, dear?" Raven asked.
"Her name is Serena," I said.
"Nomad, she can talk for herself."
"Well, she doesn't seem very talkative... she's kind weak right now," I sulked.
"Sh!" said Raven. She patted Serena's hand. "What is your name, dear?"
Well, Serena.... but, also Charlie, and Patti, Xanthus also."
"Xanthus? I haven't heard that name."
"Xanthus is a diety, it's... who I become sometimes. I am not really supposed to talk about this, but, it's hard to lie in dreams."
Raven laughed and said, "I know, you just say whatever's on your mind. But, I am not trying to interrogate you, or anything! God, no."
"Oh, I know..." The Russian woman shivered. Raven summoned a thick terry cloth white bathrobe and some slippers with bunnies on it and puffballs on their heads with wings embroidered on them. Serena's bathrobe had an "SR" embroidered on it.
"SR..." Serena laughed. "Serena R_____"
"What's that?" said Raven.
"Oh, stupid code name, well, character name for WoW and other games. Haha."
"What, you play WoW, and other games? What's your real name?"
Serena looked at me, frightened. "Are you government?" she said.
"Nomad, stop scaring her!" said Raven.
"I didn't mean to," I sulked.
"No, we're not the government, we're your friends." Raven's voice trailed off as Selene stood next to me and began speaking quietly.
"She's another version of me you know."
"What, really?" I asked.
"Sh!" said Selene. "She mustn't find out right now. "It's too shocking. There are many versions of all of us. Malkus, Timelyst Knight, Professor X, Otherme, even Joseph, all versions of you."
"Joseph? How?"
"Well, Joseph has physical form on your world, but his lightbody, his soul, came down from another dimension to be here, or in your world here.
"Wow, amazing, so she is another version of you?"
"Yes, but it does not mean you are destined to be together or anything like that. You were drawn to help her because of her energy signature similar to mine, just as Raven was drawn to help Malkus."
"I still don't get everything," I said.
"Sh, listen," said Selene, and gestured with a white staff she had with the top of it like a curled fern.
"And, I think he has a nightstalker in his inner world, or he is one, or his version of himself in his inner world is only," The Russian woman continued. "I am not sure, it's confusing. But, he ate me."
"That's disgusting!" Raven said.
"His inner world, it's pure slime. It makes you feel like you can't breathe. And, I'm claustraphobic. You aren't government, are you?"
"No, dear," said Raven.
Serena's Recruitment
"That's what they do. They find out your fears, and control you with that. If you don't have any phobias, they create new ones, they insert them into your mind. It's a point of control. You want to avoid the induced terror. They sometimes make us have lucid nightmares. They deny they do anything on the dream plane, but they are liars. All the government Remote Viewers know about the dream plane, and slip back an forth between astral and dream all the time. They just don't talk about it. We have to pretend it doesn't exist to keep our jobs. A Remote Viewer for the government. Sounds like an ideal job, eh?" Serena shivered. Raven summoned a cup of soup and a blanket, and put it around her. I smiled at Raven, and she smiled back at me.
"It's horrible. We discover so much, and they keep denying its true. It's an inevitability. The number of years someone was allowed to be a Remote Viewers was actually ten at first. People would discover things after a while, then the government would call them crazy, and force them to take a bunch of psychiatric medication, even though they were fine. Also, hired dreamers would induce nightmares into the Remote Viewers to make them feel crazy if they saw too much. They crazy thing is, I got hired into it through dreams. These two Remote Viewers, a man and a woman, two Americans found me, and came into my dream. They were just watching me, for quite a few weeks, actually. Thinking them dream characters, I ignored them. I did not know you could share dreams with other people at this point."
"One, night, I had a false awakening, and I was in astral. I sat up in bed, and they were standing right there in my room, watching me. I screamed and pulled my blakets close. My physical body was naked. They said, "Oh! She can see us!" I ran out of my bedroom astrally into the street, and reached down into my pocket to grab my phone and call 911. Then I noticed my hip and hand where a pale white transparence. I was ghostlike. Then, I realized I was in astral. The agents came out of my room."
"'We are government agents. We want to hire you. You have extraordinary psychic powers. We want to promote peace in the world. We will pay you very well to do it,' they said. 'Oh my god, no! You people terrify me!' 'Sorry for that. We didn't mean to startle you. It's just that-' 'No!' I yelled, and woke myself up. I was really awake. I got up to use the bathroom. I lied back down in bed. I could feel them watching me, right there in my room. I said, 'No, this isn't real, and I made myself fall asleep. They were watching me in dreams again. They finally convinced me to join them. Soon afterward, a government agent knocked on my door, an asked me if I wanted to go for a ride. He said I knew what he was talking about. I was totally shocked. At first I was amazed at my own skills. I could go anywhere, see anything. We focused on the astral, the ether, they call it. We were forbidden to talk about dreams, or to try dreaming. They made us stay awake. A lot of us began being in each other's dreams, especially when it was a male female pairing. That man is my partner... and I think he might be a nightstalker. You guys seem powerful. Do you think you can help him?"
"I don't know..." I said.
Raven shot me a dirty look. "Yes, of course dear. We did it before with a boy named Joseph. He called himself Tooth before when he was a nightstalker. He's a sweet boy now."
"Well, this man is not a sweet boy. He may be malicious, he may not want our help. It's confusing."
"See!" I said to Raven.
"Well, I don't know..." said Serena. "He used to have a crush on me, and maybe now he still does... It's funny though, because he doesn't know what I look like. He used to be involved with the Russian Dreamhackers before he became a Remote Viewer, but he's in America right now."
"Well, the main thing is, you need our help right now," said Raven turning into the Scarlet Witch. Serena turned into Poison Ivy, and looked down at the ground sadly. Selene turned into a female Moon Knight and grinned at me. I looked down, and saw a big "x" on my chest with a bronze disk with a bat on it. I was bald, and was wearing blue black liquid clothes. I realized I was Professor X. Raven's witchblade armor formed over her. It was a dark dark red. She touched Serena. Green witchblade armor formed over Serena.
"Oh, my god!" said Serena. "What's happening?"
"Oh, you have witchblade armor now!" said Raven. "Summon your sword!"
A beautiful white bladed sword with green coming up in leafy curves at the bottom with a small dark blue jewel grew in Serena's hand. "Oh my god! Am I a warrior?" Serena said.
Many Witchblades
"You are now!" Raven laughed. Raven flicked her hand, and her witchblade sword appeared in her hand, a black blade with a curved handle or dark blood red flame. The jewel was a bright glowing ruby. There were other smaller stones in it of various colors. Little colored scarab beetles, each one a different color, crawled out of the pommel or Raven's sword and crawled to all the people. MoSh and Silverwolf were there, and I think Warrior Tiger also. There may have been others. I don't remember. A lavendar scarab crawled toward me, and crawled up my leg, and on to my wrist. It formed a dark red bracelet with a lavendar glowing jewel. Then a dream color: red and purple on black armor formed around me. I had bat ears on my armor. On my chest was a crest of a knight riding a snake like dragon to fight a lizard like dragon. There was a bat and owl spirit watching, with a castle in the background. There was a woman in a tower with long hair. In the castle was an ogre. There was a devil riding a dog at the door of the castle. I almost felt like I could've gotten sucked into the ogre dream again just by looking at this vivid crest. I shook my head. I looked at my armor. I was aware everyone else was doing the same thing. A shadow of a cloud passed over me. Then, I noticed the armor was a translucent lavendar in the sun, becoming pale at the edges of the plate, and in shadow was that dark dream color. I summoned the witchblade. A large matte black blade formed with red leaves curling up from the base. There was a red jewel on one side, and a lavendar one on the other. The purple jewel spoke: I have already merged with The Beast. Her female voice was calm and melodic. I turned the sword over. The red jewel glowed and growled. I turned the sword over again. "I like her energy," she melodically laughed. "I guess you can call me Witchbeast now?" I teleported outside the Biodome.
I summoned the Moonblade, the sword Selene gave me. I turned it into its staff form. I merged it with the Witchblade. It turned into a black bladed staff with a purple flaming aura. "Lunar Bladestaff!" she said. I turned it into a sword. It was a black and red sword, with a purple and white crystal on one side, and a purple one on the other. It glowed white. "Lunar Witchbeast!" it said.
I separated the Moonblade, and merged it with the Budgie Sword. The Witchblade was huge, about 20 feet long. The budgies inside wer black with red glowing eyes. They shrieked like macaws, and the Beast growled. The sword vibrated. I slammed the sword into the ground, and a two shockwaves came out in a v-shape. "Great Witchblade of Death!" it said.
I said, "Witchclub!" and the witchblade formed into a giant black translucent club. There was a flock of budgies and an animal that looked like a black jaguar inside. I slammed it on the ground. It went, BABOOM! and everything shook. I separated out the Budgie Blade. I separated out the Moonblade, and turned it into a staff, then rotated it 180 degrees. It was a double bladed staff, with one large short wide blade on each end. One, matte black and red, and the other shining white and blue. There was a red gem in the center. "Lunar Whichblade!" I said. A small hole opened in the shaft, and a chain with a barbed pyramid shot out, and I head The Beast roar. "That's badass, Beast!" I said. I heard the Beast purr. The Beast retracted the chain, and I spun the Whichblade in a circle. A vortex formed, parallel to the ground. I saw the light and dark merging and flashing, pulling and pushing. "This is like Hiryu Shoten Ha!" I thought. On cue, The Beast shot a spiked ball out from the center on a chain. The ball floated in space for a second, chain taut, then fell to the earth. The Beast retracted her chain. I grabbed the silver blade by the neck, and pulled on it, a short chain, about five inches or so stretched out from the staff. The black blade morphed into a black coating, and covered the staff. The blade changed shape to a semicircle. I spun it around. "Lunar Whipstaff!" the witchblade said.
I slid my hand across the black, and the silver blade rectracted. A small chomp-chomp came out of the other side. "Benefit: Eaten!" I said. I tried to spin it around, but the chomp-chomp had a mind of its own. The Beast chomp-chomp bounced around in the air, then lowered itself to the ground. It became larger, and lunged forward like a dog. "I can smell 'em! I can smell 'em!" the Beast said.
"Whoa! Whoah! Whoah!" I said, digging my heels in. "Easy, there, killa! This is just for practice."
The Beast seperated from the weapon, and became a female pale Dark Knight vampire.
"There are... creatures here," she said. "Things I don't like. "Government agents, and other things. Things I don't like, hidden underground. I want to hunt them."
"Whoah, I didn't know you had physical form!" I said.
"Hmm? What? Oh, that's silly. I thirst for blood, Juargawn," she said. She jumped back into the weapon.
I changed the weapon into a magical staff. The whole thing was black. At the top was the shape of a man-bat with large open wings standing on a sphere. He had two small pointed horns on his head. There was a large disk representing the moon held between his wings, and balanced on the horns of the man-bat. There were pearlescent silvers and greys swirling in the moon. A raven sat atop the moon, and it had golden eyes, that changed to red, then one red, and one gold, then green, then purple, then blue, and one blue and one gold. The raven cawed, and the man-bat went, "HUH HUH HUH!" I heard the moon disk sigh contendedly. "Yes," said the witchblade, "Raven's energy signature is in here, so is yours, so is Koomo's and Selene's too. I pick up on people's energy signatures, and use that for or against them."
"Then I shall call you, Ravenstar," I said. I felt the witchblade smile. I saw a squiggle like an inchworm, a black liquid shape, crawl up the staff. It got to the the sphere, and spikes came out and it roared softly. It was the Beast. I lifted up the staff. Dark clouds formed a vortex in the sky. Lightning struck the staff from the clouds, and charged the staff. I felt Selene merge with me, and my eyes glowed hot white. I slammed the bottom of the staff on the ground, and said, "Lunar Fury!" A hemisphere of moonlight with lightning sparking over it emanated out from me like a bomb going off. "Thanks Raven," I said telepathically admiring my new weapon.
"Huh?" she said. "Where are you?"
"Thank you so much for coming to me," I said to the witchblade.
"Well, I knew I was going to like you," she said.
"So, what shall I call you?"
"Jasmine, Jenice, Jessica..."
"Jessica? That's the name of my DJ Hope."
"Yes, I know,we're sisters!" she said. "Well, on another dimension. Stephanie, the Tower AI is our cousin."
"Oh!"
"Well, my name is Henrietta, but you can call me Henny. I like Henny Penny, actually."
"Seriously?"
"Yes? Why not? It's a common name where I come from. So anyway, the type of creatures we are, we are called Empowerments. We are Living Empowerments. Instead of jumping from body to body, we jump from object to object, and we spend a lifetime inside of a thing instead of a body."
"Wow! That's fascinating I said."
I saw Batman, Pixy, and Spike outside the Biodome with me, practicing with their witchblades. The Tick and Arthur were there also. Batman had on armor what looked like very thin, light armor. He was shooting grappling hooks at nothing, and swinging on them. He was arguing with his witchblade telling her to be lighter. Pixy summoned targets, then shot thorny metal vines at them out of her hands, and pulled them to her. Then, she yanked hard and ripped them in half. Spike made spikes come out of his armor when he kneeled and hunched over. He banged his fists on the ground, and he made an AoE shockwave, then a directional shockwave. He grinned, and jumped into the air. He turned into a bat, then a sparkly mist, then invisible. The Tick grew tick legs out of his torso, and shot spikes out of them. "Hey, this is pretty cool!" he said to Arthur. "Now, Arthur, you- Arthur?"
Arthur looked afraid of his own witchblade. He was holding it far away from his body. It formed armor over him, and laughed. He yelped, and dropped the sword. The sword jumped on to him, and stuck to his armor like a magnet. Vegeta showed up, flying on a witchblade disk. he smacked Arthur on the back of his head.
"Hey, man up!" he said, then flew away.
The Tick laughed. "Uh, Tick. Tick? What's going on?" Arthur's armor vibrated. He spun around, and he was in a black cocoon for a split second. He burst out of it, and was a giant moth. "I am Mothra!" he said, and screeched like a banshee. His eyes glowed red, then he shot circle red lasers from his eyes. The Tick jumped on his back, and a bridle appeared. He grabbed the reins.
"Well, Tally ho, you crazed Japanese monster movie beast! Let's go hunt Godzi-RRa!" laughed the Tick.
Arthur's eyes stopped glowing. "Huh? What? Tick! Hey stop, get off me!" Arthur wriggled.
"Yeehaw!" said the Tick, and kicked Arthur with his heels.
"Oh! What was that?" said Arthur, and took off into space.
I teleported back into the Biodome. Raven stood up from talking to Serena. Raven gently stroked her hair. I said to her, "Thanks for the gift or... well, this is a person... so? Thanks for the introduction, I should say."
The witchblade armor disappeared off of me, and turned into a little winged red gargoyle with blue hair and eyes wielding a tiny Beast over he shoulder. "So, I can go off of you, and do things for you. I am tiny so, I can go and grab objects far away and bring them to you. Steal things from enemies, in other words. Heehee. You still have your energy belt armor, and other weapons you can use when I am gone."
"Oh!" I said.
I put my palm out, and she landed on it. I looked at her closely. "My, how cute you are!" I said.
"Here, give me a kiss!" she said. I lifted my hand close to my nose. She grabbed my nose, rubbed noses with me. Then, she smacked my nose, and grabbed my lips. She kissed me and went, "MMM!"
Then she became the same size as me, and, went, "MMWAH!" I held her and kissed her back. Her skin felt rough, but her flesh was soft. Her lips were also soft. "I am turning to stone. The sun will rise soon." she said sadly.
"Really?" I said.
"Just kidding!" she said. She laughed and turned into the bracelet again, with a puff of purple sparkles.
"So what should I call you? I don't want to get you mixed up between the other witchblades... Henny Penny... or what?"
"Witchblade is fine, Ravenstar is pretty. Call me whatever you want."
Dream Nap
"Well, I am exhausted," I said to Raven. I stretched. I am going to take a nap right... here." I lied down in the grass.
Raven summoned a portal. "Well, I am going somewhere where I am going to be useful, for a change."
"Stop that," I said. I stood back up, and gave her a hug. "You're one of my best friends," I whispered in her ear. "You are amazing." I squeezed her tighter. "Nomad," she smiled. "Uh, you're embarrassing me," she blushed. I let go of her. A bunch of people were standing around us. They clapped. "Oh my god, stop you guys!" said Raven. She changed into Queen of Night form, but didn't seem to notice. "Everyone else thinks you're awesome too, apparently," I said. Everyone laughed, and she blushed again. "Hey you, sh!" she smiled.
"So, who wants to go kick some ass!" A bunch of people cheered and lined up in front of the portal. Raven jumped through. I saw about a dozen people following her. I sat down on the grass. Sarnox rode up on his Great Dane. "You okay, dude?" he said.
"Yeah man, just tired...too much... Guiness..." I said.
"Okay," he laughed, and rode away.
I went to sleep.
The Giant and the Golden Harp
I was in a giant house. I was on the edge of a giant table. I was about the size of a saltshaker. I saw a sad golden harp crying softly on the table. Bakura appeared next to me. "Let's steal shit," he chucked softly, then disappeared. Ravenstar floated off of me, and became a tiny gargoyle with red armor. She quietly floated to the golden harp, picked her up, and brought her to me. It was Jean Rae. She looked up at me. "Nate?" she said. "Sh!" I said.
"Who goes there?" a giant boomed from the next room. My witchblade armor formed around me. The giant walked in, and saw me standing on his table.
"Give my my golden harp back!" he said.
"No! This is a person, not a thing, asshole!" I saw Bakura run across the giant's chest, and grab something out of the giant's breast pocket. It was a cel phone. "A cel phone?" Bakura said. "Meh.." he dropped it on the floor.
"Hey, those things are expensive, you cockwad!" said the giant to Bakura. He tried to grab him, but Bakura kept running around on him. It was funny to watch. Bakura reached in his hip pocket, and grabbed some gold coins and tossed them to me. I sucked them to my open palm with gravity.
"Do you know how much bigger I am than you?" said the giant. I formed a portal behind him. Bakura ran to me, and I handed him the golden harp. He nodded and went through the portal. I formed the gold coins into gold knuckles, and became the same size as the giant, a dark knight with golden knuckles on my left fist. "Size is relative, dumbass," I said. "This is a dream."
I punched him in the face and said, "Surprise Southpaw!"
He rubbed his jaw and said, "Oh my god, you are so lame!"
"Tell that to your jaw, douchebag," I laughed. I shrank down, and flew through the portal. I saw Bakura in the wormhole holding the golden harp flying ahead of me. I turned around, and I saw the giant's hand reaching for us. "Fly faster!" I urged Bakura. "We need to close this shit up!"
We landed on the Moon, and the giant's arm reached out. Jean Rae turned into a person, and Bakura put her over his shoulder and ran into the Biodome. The giant's hand was feeling around on the Moon. I turned the witchblade into a big black club, and smashed his hand. The hand reacted in pain, and pulled back into the wormole. The portal was closing. It closed around the hand, pinched it, then cut it off. It suddenly turned into a bunch of slimy green worms. I changed the witchblade into its staff form, and summoned flaming lightning on to the worms, and burned them up. I collapsed in exhaustion.
I woke up in the grass near the koi pond. I was covered in ectoplasm. "Eyew!" I said to myself. I summoned the caduceus of the angels. It spun around and, a flaming vortex came out of it, and swirled around me. I felt heat come into my nose, and fill my lungs. I changed into angel form. I had on a winged helmet, and a white robe. My eyes glowed blue.
A portal formed in front of me. Raven flew through riding Shadow, a winged black panther. She was Queen of Night. A bunch of people followed after her. The portal closed. "Oh, you're an angel!" she said.
Angel Vortex
"Yes," I smiled. "I feel Michael here with me." Everyone was covered in ectoplasm. Pixy looked at he skirt, and said, "Eyew!"
I teleported everyone to the Biodome's glen of healing. I summoned a fiery vortex by spinning the cadueceus, and burned off the ectoplasm off of everyone. Then, I focused on sending healing energy to Raven Knight. Golden energy arched out of my cadueceus, and filled Raven. She closed her eyes, and changed into angel form. She held the caduceus in her hand.
We stood across from each other. We lifted our hands up, an golden energy flowed into us. We floated up a few inches off the ground, and we moved in a circle, facing each other. We created a golden healing vortex. People sat down in the grass and meditated. Some people lied down. Others went to sleep. We slowed down and stopped. A lot of people began talking at once. I wasn't paying attention. Raven was gone.
Where are You?
I spoke to her telepathically. "Raven, you okay? Do you need any help?" I saw her fighting a bunch of Dark Templars in the woods by herself as Queen of Night. There was a castle in the background. She had two hidden blades in her hands, and was spinning around like a top.
"I'm fine." she said back to me.
"Raa!" she roared at the Templars like a lion, and two swords shot out from her hands, slicing Templars up. She casted Immortal Fire, and a circle of fire moved out from her, knocking the Templars back. "I've had a enough of this shit," she said darkly. She created a portal.
I said, "That's it, I'm coming with you." I jumped into the image floating above my head. I landed in the forest next to Raven, with a Fantasic Five suit on, as a silvery lion-man. "Ah, the witch has summoned a demon!" The Templars said. "Focus on the witch first."
"Oh, do shut up!" Raven said, and stepped through the portal. I followed her. While we were in the wormhole, Shadow appeared and Raven got on her back. There were those nasty floating things again. Shadow picked up speed. I grabbed on to her tail. We appeared on the other side in outer space.
"Raven, where are you going? What are you doing?"
"I am going to kill Robert," she said grimly.
I formed a merkabah around me, and followed her. A bunch of astral parasites tried to stick to me, but got spun off. Some stuck to Raven. "Make a merkabah, Raven!" I said. "Oh, these things? Don't be silly!" she said. The witchblade armor formed over her, and spikes came out of it, piercing the parasites. Some more tried to crawl on Raven, but they couldn't penetrate the armor. I saw Raven's witchblade, a little man in black that looked like a vampire, run around on her armor, attacking the parasites. I turned on my energy shield and moved the glowing blue sphere on to her. The parasites bounced off it it like bugs on a windshield.
"Are you sure you want to do this? Where are we going?"
"Yes," said Raven. "We are going to where ever Robert is. The place doesn't matter. The ass-kicking does."
Strange Planet
We came to a brown planet with a lot of land on it, like one massive continent, and huge rivers carving through it. Raven jumped off of Shadow, and we were in free fall. Raven pointed her heels at the ground, and spun around. We became engulfed in flame. Raven drilled a hole through the ground. I held on to one of her horns because I could barely see anything but flame and dirt. We were in this planet's underworld. We were in a vast cavern. There were pits full of people engulfed in flame. There was a huge flaming demon, the size of a skyscraper sitting on a stone throne, looking satisfied with himself. Raven was the same size of him. She boldly strode up to him.
"Do you know who I am?" he roared at her. "How dare you enter my domain!"
Raven grabbed his wrists, and tendrils of water came out of her and wrapped around the archdemon. Lightning came out of Raven, and electrocuted the archdemon. He yelled in pain, and his fire went out. His skin was jet black like a gorrilla's and he had brown fur. He had a face like an orc. He looked at me. "Oh, and you had to bring your friend, you pussy," he said. I summoned a giant steel spike above his head, and it pierced into his crown.
"Gah! I can reform! I am a shapeshifter!" Raven grabbed him by his ankles, and tossed him over her head, slamming him on the ground. She did again, back an forth. He shapeshifted madly, trying to get away, but he couldn't break her grip. She spun him around in a circle, then I summoned a horizontal portal in the sky, and Raven tossed him into it. He cursed as he flew through the air, but I couldn't understand what he said. The portal closed.
Raven sat on the throne. All the demons that were in the pits floated up and bowed to her. "Oh Goddess! O Queen of Night! You are are Lord now! Command us, and we will do thy bidding! Do not release the terror of your familiar upon us!" I looked around. I didn't see Shadow. I realized they were referring to me. Raven summoned a flaming chain with a steel collar on it around my neck. She yanked me to her. I growled. The demons drew back in fear. I thought it was funny, so I played along. I then realized these creatures were Templars somehow. Just like they thought I was a demon that "the witch" summoned before. I was trying to figure out the connection, when I felt Raven pat my head. "Don't worry. He's a nice kitty, aren't you Juargawn?" I nodded my head and purred.
"Unless you fuckers get out of line. Isn't that right, JUARGAWN?" At the word, Juargawn, she roared like a thousand jaguars, and I roared like a thousand lions. We made the timespace fabric ripple, and we lost the third dimension. The demons' flames went out, and they cowered in fear. We laughed at them.
"First of all, stop bowing, you piece of shits," Raven said. They did. Their flames came back. "Listen, I am Lawful Evil. Do you know what that means? Let me tell you: It means you obey my Laws because I am a more evil bitch than you can ever hope to me."
OBEY
One the demon's mumbled, and Raven screamed, "Shut up!" and shot him with a bolt of lightning. He rubbed his butt, and smoke came from his ass. The demons around him pointed and laughed.
"Now, listen, I don't care you are, or where you have come from, or what you were in a previous incarnation. Blah, blah, blah. Go cry to your mamma with that shit. Now, you are all demons. And, now you are all my demons, and you will obey my laws, or FACE MY WRATH!"
At, face my wrath, we were suddenly in a forest on plains beneath mountains. Raven's face appeared huge in the sky, and her pupils were red. Lightning came down from the sky, and hit every tree, turning them to ash. The demons trembled in fear. We were back in the flaming cavern setting.
"Law One: You may only attack other Evils, or I will kick your ass, and send you into a world of eternal pain and torment. Law Two: Pay attention to Law One, or I will kick your ass, and send you into a world of eternal pain and torment!"
The demons cheered, and threw some of the smaller demons into the air. Raven grinned. "I am uniting you with the collective mind against your will, you evil fucks. You will be assimilated, and you will fucking like it."
A detailed cube came out of Raven's forehead, with a electronic rushing sound. It looked like a holographic projection. Suddenly, the demons all lost their flames. They looked more like gargoyles. They had scaly skin, bat wings, and fangs. They had varying shades of red, blue, and green, but mostly red the color of red lava rock. Suddenly they were very vivid, I felt like I was watching CG animation. The cube went back into Raven's head.
"My first command: Release the prisoners! Would you rather be prison guards or warriors?"
"Warriors!" roared the demons in unison. They lifted gates, and spirits came out. They had on prison clothes that looked like flame. They took them off, and where transparent ghosts. They floated up to a white orb in the sky. "Go to the light," they said to themselves in unison. Raven smiled, and the spirits waved at her.
Raven stood up, and then I was perceiving two settings, at the same time, just like in Hollow Earth. One scene was full of flames and gargoyles, and the other was full of beautiful translusence plants and animals and people floating through the sky. The light world had a black sun, and the dark world had a white sun. My dream was getting increasingly vivid, just like hi-res CG.
Raven lifted her arms. "I am Queen and Lord of This Hollow Earth, this Inner Planet. All bow to me!" I saw her in the light plane, and she was wearing a long white dress. She looked like an elf with branches growing out of her head like antlers and hair. She had long green fingernails, and bright green eyes. I turned into white Russian Wolfhound, and trotted next to her as she walked through a park, and touched flowers. In the dark realm, she was wearing a long black dress, that looked like satin over bone, and a high collar in the back. Her horns were gone, and her hair was pulled back. It was purple, and she had purple eyes, purple and black lipstick, and yellow smiley face pupils, and black where the whites of the eyes are.
There was a marble throne in the middle of this park. Beautiful rainbow colored birds and squirrels with ridiculously long tails floated snaked through the sky. There were rainbow nagas, and many strange creatures like jellyfish, and others which I did not recognize. Raven sat down on the throne, and she pet shadow in both places. I changed into a black three-headed dog in the dark world.
The people in the light world were moving toward her. Some were bowing, but most of them laughed. All the demons bowed. "O Queen of Night, Terror of the Underworld! (Please don't sick your dog on us, k thanks) We bow to you, O Goddess."
"Stop it, damn it! It was a joke." All the people in the light world laughed. A red blue and black velvety butterfly mask grow over her eyes. It turned green. and white like leaves.
"Ah, now I see with True Sight!" she said.
Um.... No.
Suddenly a minotaur appeared and ran to Raven, then stopped. In the dark world he was aflame. "Ah, you have arrived, my Queen, my bride."
"Who the hell are you?" she said.
"Your destiny!"
"Um, no, I am not marrying some flaming minotaur from another dimension just because he says, 'I am your destiny.' As if. Psh! Talk to the hand."
He pounded a club on the ground, and I roared. I created a shield with my roar, and the energy flowed around us. Raven pushed a button on the throne, and a trap door opened under the minotaur and he fell through. "Hey!" he said.
"Who was that?" I asked.
"I don't know!" said Raven. Suddenly he fell through the sky, and landed in front of us. His flame in the dark world was out now.
Raven raised an eyebrow. The minotaur just said, "Hmph," and crossed his arms, and turned his back. I walked to him. "Hey, who are you?" I said.
"I am Minotaur. She is supposed to marry me. But, she's not going to. She doesn't understand. I have dreamed about her. I thought she dreamed about me, too. Now, I don't know what to do. I feel like a fool. I am a Prince of this World. She is supposed to marry me to break the curse."
"What curse?"
"This, look at me. I am not human."
"Are you supposed to be?"
"Yes! I am a freak. Aliens experimented on my DNA. We used to think it was magic. Then, we learned the true nature of the caduceus. It was foretold that an alien woman would come to this world, and become the queen. She would have the cure to make me my handsome prince human self again, and I would marry her, and become King. You, see I am of royal lineage, but the aliens inserted bovine genes into our DNA, to turn us into freaks, so we would be outcasts, and basically automatically dethroned. They were worried about our genes affecting our thought. Well, it does affect thought, but not in the way they were afraid of. I have a strong affinity toward oxen, of course.
"I have had many dreams about your Queen of Night, before I saw her right now, and I thought she would instantly be mine."
"Give it time," I said, "and be prepared to let her go. Prophecies can be altered by free will. The future is altered simply by use viewing it."
Raven was giving a speech. In the light world she had a Queen's English accent. Little fairy floated around her. In the dark world she had the crisp manufactured TransAtlantic black and white movie actress accent, and had little female gargoyles flitting about her. I teleported back to Raven. She was finishing a speech. I couldn't pay attention, because everything was so vivid and realistic looking.
I laid down, and rested my head on my paws. "Hey, Raven?" I said.
"Yeah?" she patted me on the head.
"I feel like I am going to wake up soon. I want to get some training in."
"Okay. Wait. First change into a snow leopard."
I changed into a snow leopard, and Raven scratched me behind the ears. In the dark world, I was black with glowing yellow spots, and glowing yellow eyes. It felt like getting a back rub. I put my head on the arm of her throne, and she scratched my chin. "Good kitty! You're so cute!" she said. She kissed my nose. I licked her face. She said, "Eyew! Nomad!"
"Bye!" I said and teleported away. I saw Q's big floating head near me, and then he (Sacrosanct) was carrying me by the scruff of my neck through space. Little astral parasites flew up near me, and I batted and bit at them. "Git!" Q said, and zapped them with gold lasers from his fingertips.
"Oh, yeah, Merkabah!" I said. I made a merkabah around myself and Q, and he dropped me into the Colloseum.
Golden Axe Scenario
The Colloseum spoke to Q: One person training. New program, Danger Room. Initiate. Golden Axe scenario.
I was in Golden Axe. I was the Barbarian. I practiced the reverse spin attack. I collected potions from the enemies. I created a Dwarf DC, and I gave him some of the potions. I made him practice the roll attack. He got a lot of potions. He threw his potions in the air, and summoned lightning on the the goblins attacking us.
Raven appeared. She was the Valkyrie. She had on purple boots, a white cape on, and was wielding a bright white sword. "Hey, what are you doing?" she said.
"Fighting DC's. Want to join me?"
"Sure!" she said. Wave after wave of goblins came at us. Some dropped potions. Raven picked one up. "Something I am working on: empowerments!" I said.
"Oo! So what's this one?"
"Watch!" I said. I threw mine into the air. There was thunderous laughter from the heavens. Thor appeared in the sky, and flew through the enemies, knocking them over, as they got hit with lightning.
"Wow cool! Let me try!" She threw one at the ground, and a lightning elemental appeared and danced. It leapt at the goblins hitting them in a chain, paralyzing them.
"If we had a thief-" I said.
"You rang?" Bakura appeared in doorway of bar. He flipped a gold coin, then bit it. He smiled, and dropped it into a bag which he then placed on his hip and patted.
He ran around to the goblins, and stole their potions. They all had at least one potion, some two or three. The most common was blue, then red, then green was rare. They all had swirls in them. Bakura said blue stood for lightning, red, fire, and green was explosive chaos. He gave us a bunch of potions. "Wait til you have as many as you can hold, then, use them all at once!" I said. Raven had a whole bunch of the blue ones, and one green one. "I like lightning," she grinned.
She tossed half into the air, and half into the ground. Two astral mountain giants appeared with huge clubs in their hands, and slammed them on the ground, then disappeared. All the enemies lost their footing and fell over. Lightning came down from the sky, and hit every one of them. "More! More!" she said to Bakura. He ran around, and grabbed the potions before the DC bodies disappeared. He had a huge bag for carrying things. "All blue!" Raven said. We waited for enemies to gather. Raven tossed all the blue potions into the air. Eyes like Queen of Night appeared in the sky. Her irises were yellow and orange. Her pupils were yellow smiley faces. Fat lightning fell from the sky, and hit all the enemies, instantly killing them. Lightning formed force fields around us, and charged our weapons. Another wave of enemies came at us. If they touched us, they instantly got knocked back. The lightning made or swords slice right through them. I went berserk and ran around ramming them with my shoulder. If I hit them enough times, they eventually died.
"Now, you try!" said Raven.
Bakura gave me mostly blue, with some red, and a green one. I threw them all at the ground. Lightning came down and struck our enemies, and they exploded into flame. Plants grew and formed a wall of thorns, and sunflowers with flaming faces.
"Oh, goody!" said Raven. Raven grabbed a red one and a blue one, and smashed them together over her head. The potions disappeared. A lightning elemental, enwreathed in flame, ran around and attacked all the enemies.
I said, "Ah, we have a complete party. Ok! Dwarf, you are Tank! Pull hate! Use Magic if you begin to lose hate. Raven support heal, and support attack. Bakura, support attack, and steal items. I will main heal, and provide spell empowerments, and support attack if needed."
The dwarf rushed at the enemies with a war cry. He leapt up into the air, and got peppered with arrows. He ignored the arrows, and his axe changed to a hammer. He slammed it down in an AoE knockback attack. "Which one of you helpless warts wants to fuck with me?" he said. He drank one of the blue poitions. His muscles got bigger, and wings appeared on his helmet. His hammer became charged with lightning, and it vibrated. He slammed it down on to a goblin. All the goblins rushed at him. "C'mon! Heal!" he shouted at me. I cast a large healing spell on him of white light. The goblins moved toward me, then the dwarf did a spin attack with a sword and one-handed hammer. The goblins moved toward him. I cast a spell of moonlight shield in front of him, and their weapons bounced off my magic. Raven casted a small healing spell, then, a small lightning spell, from a floating black orb about 15 feet above us so as not to draw too much hate. Bakura ran around with daggers cutting the coinpurses off the enemies. Bakura collected enough gold to make a golden quarterstaff for himself. He ran through the crowd of goblins, hitting their nerve spots, crippling them before they got to the Dwarf. He wacked their moneybags, and caught the coins and the fell out from holes he put in the bags. Then he added to his staff. One one side was a wide flat blade, and the other side, a small ball. The staff changed from gold to black. The blade was steel, and the ball was black. The ball moved and wriggled as if it were alive. I casted a Defense spell over Bakura. Bakura's ball on his staff became spiked. He flicked his staff, and the ball shot out on a chain and grabbed an enemy with two arms that popped out of the ball. The ball had a mouth and no eyes. It said, "Come here!" Bakura flicked his staff again, and the chain rectracted. Bakura changed the blade end to a hammer, and bashed the goblin in the face. Bakura ran around through the goblins, flipping through them, sweeping them, slicing and killing. His spiked ball was swinging around, and he flicked it, then retracted it. It was grabbing all the enemies money purses. He looked at me. He looked like a goblin. He had dark grey greenish skin, and red eyes. He looked ancient. He had an earring in his left ear, and his eyes were red. He was wielding a bone axe. "Yes, I am one of them," he said. "Not one of them, but one of them," he said, and changed back. Then, golden armor formed over Bakura, and he grew in size.
"New Tank!" I shouted. "Bakura!" Bakura's weapon became a large two handed sword. The pommel on it fell to the ground, attached to a chain. The pommel roared to life, and attacked enemies that tried to flank Bakura as he slowly advanced through think ranks of goblins.
I casted a Defense spell on Bakura, then, Speed. His sword swinging sped up. Raven charged his sword with lightning, then it caught on fire. I cast a Size spell on him, and he grew bigger. The Dwarf ran around his feet, attacking the smaller enemies. I casted a Strength spell on Bakura, and he got more muscular, and his attacks did more damage. I casted a party defense spell, then a party healing spell. Raven casted a party healing spell, then charged Bakura's armor with lightning. All the goblins that touched him got knocked back.
Boss Fight
We crossed a bridge. There were steeds awaiting us. I got on a blue dragon, Raven rode a red one, and the Dwarf rode a pink wingless bird. In front of us stood a giant goblin statue, about four stories tall in front of a city. A goblin wizard appeared and blew powder on the statue. It came to life. The wizard stood on its head, directing it. The statue began slamming a club at us. It didn't have good accuracy, but its attacks were strong and large. It swung its club, and pointed at us. Spikes flew out of the club and flew around us. Raven made a vortex, and the spikes flew back toward the statue, and into his club.
"The wizard, we have to hit the wizard!" I shouted, as I rolled back and forth. "Right," Raven said, as she teleported about, leaving a small puff of purple smoke behind her. She summoned lighting on to the wizard, but he created an energy shield, and the lighting flowed down, and charged the goblin statue's club, which changed to a hammer. I summoned Skyfire, and he blew fire at the goblin wizard. The fire flowed down on to the chest of the statue, and the hammer was enwreathed in flame. "Well, these dragons are useless!" I said. We got off the dragons. The Dwarf got off the bird. "That things lame anyway," he said. The steeds ran off. Bakura slammed his hammer on the ground, and slipped out of his armor. The statue slammed it staff on the empty armor. Bakura ran up his leg, and said, "Pull hate!"
The Dwarf threw a bunch of blue potions into the air, and lightning came down from the sky upon us. I felt it fill my body. My skin crackled with power. The statue's left arm changed into a dragon head, and blew fire at the Dwarf. Rainstorm appeared as a water lizard and created a shield of water vapor in front of the Dwarf. Raven had white potions with green swirls. "Where did you get that?" I said.
"I found them in containers I broke along the way," she said. She threw them up into the air, and three Ents appeared in the form of lighting. They marched toward the Gobin Statue and attacked it with great wooden lightning fists. Their lighting branches penetrated it, shocking it. "Damn, you!" said the wizard, as he got shocked. Bakura got to the top, and stabbed the wizard in the back. I flew up to the wizard in Juargawn form, and whacked him with my plastic red staff. Raven opened a portal in the sky, and he got tossed in. The statue became inanimate. I smashed it with the Beast, and it turned to dust.
A giant purple gem was floating sitting in it. It floated up into the air. It spun, and little pieces came out of it and floated to us. A red one came to me, orange, blue, green and yellow, and then a purple one. The red one said, "New Spell: Heaven's Fire." I saw a pillar of fire in my mind falling from the sky. The orange one said, "New Spell: Heaven's Flame." I saw in my mind fire falling from heaven, and charging our weapons. The blue one said, "New Spell: Sacred Water Healing." I saw giant drops fall from the sky. They healed us, and astral ticks ran off of us at the same time. The green one said, "Sacred Tree." I casted this spell, and a tree appeared with glowing fruit on it. The fruits gave us basic attribute boosts. The yellow gem said, "Healing Angelstorm!" I summoned the cadueceus, and spun the snakes. I slammed the staff on the ground, and a multitude of tiny angels came out and flew amongts us. They did healing on us, and lifted us a five or six inches off the ground.
The purple one said, "Healing flame." I saw slime hit us, then, I cast the spell, and burn away the ectoplasm. There was a dark purple in the center of this gem which said, "Flaming auras." And I saw myself cast this spell, and we were all enwreathed in purple flaming auras. Slime hit us, and immediately burned off.
Words appeared in the sky, and I heard Q's voice.
"LEVEL ONE, COMPLETE. LESSON: Item and Spell empowerments. Teamwork strategy."
The doors to the city flung open, and there was a little parade. "Thank you! The goblin necromancer wouldn't let us leave the city!" They said. Raven smiled and waved at the DC's.
"Empowerments are cool! Raven said. Items! Let's get more!"
Silverwolf's Cottage
"I know who would have them: Silverwolf!" I said. I created a portal, and we stepped through into Silverwolf's woods. We were going to knock on the door, when a cute fluffly grey wolf carrying a basket of flowers pushed her way past us into the house.
"Hi, excuse me."
I went around to the window. Pixy appeared. "Um, Silverwolf is busy, sorry," she said. "Hey, I am her friend, too! I want to see her."
"Well, she is doing really important stuff. Making recipes. You know, gathering herbs, and other nasty things. Abominations, really. And then, her experiments, gosh, all her experiments, and of course, she always has to try them on me first," she sighed. "You know, the other day I was a rat?"
I saw Raven knocking on the door of the cottage. I walked away from the window. "Hey, where are you going?" Pixy said.
"To the door," I said.
Raven said, "Silverwolf? Uh, Jen? Hello? Do you have any more Lucidi-Tea?"
"I'm chaanging!" Silverwolf said. "Don't you have a man with you?"
"Yeah, um sorry!" Raven said.
"It's okay, give me a minute."
Pixy opened a little window in the door. "She's changing," she said. She closed the window. She opened it again. "Sometimes when she changes back to human form she's naked!" she whispered. Pixy and I stifled giggles, and Raven elbowed me in the ribs.
"I just have had a lot of those naked dreams. It's funny." I suddenly became naked and Pixy burst out laughing. "Oh my god! NOMAD!" Raven said, turning away. "Doh! Sorry!" I said. I couldn't think of a form, so I changed into Homer Simpson. "I think that just happened with thought! Sorry."
Silverwolf came to the door. She was a human sized handsewn cloth doll. She had brown yarn hair, and circular red cheeks. She was wearing a checkered red and white dress, and red felt shoes.
"Pixy, you naughty sprite! Why didn't you tell me I had visitors."
"Didn't you see them when you came in the door?" Pixy sulked.
"Oh my, yes! I was so busy gathering herbs... I like to do it in wolf form. I run around in the meadows and chase butterflies."
"Plus," Pixy interrupted, "you were changing, so I had to stall for time... and I just wanted to get attention from Nomad. I got his attention, all right. TEN-HUT! At ease, soldier," Pixy giggled.
"Oh my god." Raven looked away shaking her head.
"Anyway, how do you do? Oh, my it is so very nice to have guests. Pixy you want to put on a pot of Lucidi-Tea!"
"Yes, ma'am."
"Oh, hush you!" said Silverwolf. "I know you're centuries older than I am."
"I am centaurs more than you!" said Pixy. She turned into two centaurs, whinnied and laughed.
"Oh, you are a silly girl, for being so ancient!" Silverwolf said.
"So why are you a handsewn doll?" I asked Silverwolf.
"Oh, I didn't want to scare the children. Dear me, there are no children around here, are there?"
Silverwolf changed into a werewolf wearing a light grey robe with shadows that changed color in the light. "Ah, much more comfortable!" she said, and stretched and yawned.
"I have been working on some things." Her eyes twinkled.
"Empowerments," she whispered. "Items for other dreamers! Real energy, as temporary gifts, like potions, things like that. I am working on enchantments next! Permanent enchantments for weapons! But, you need to go on a quest for sacred gems for that. Bring gems to me, and I will cast enchantments upon them. Then, you may fuse the gem with whatever weapon you wish! But, that is for later. For now, look."
Mantra Balls
She held up two balls, one orange, one blue. They were translucent. Pixy poured us Lucidi-Tea, and sat down with us. We all drank the tea. The balls suddenly looked totally realistic. White words floated to the surface. The blue one said, "I am dreaming." The orange one said, "I remember my dreams."
"I call them mantra balls!" Silverwolf said. Here! She gave Raven the blue ball, and me the orange one. We tossed them around. Trails of sparkles followed the balls. When ever they were caught, or if they hit the floor, they said, "I am dreaming," or "I remember my dreams."
"Take a bite!" Silverwolf said. I had the orange one in my hand. I took a bite. It tasted like orange creamsicle and mango. "Squeeze it into your tea!" I squeezed the Recall Juice into my tea. I sipped my tea. It tasted like chamomile and orange peelings were added to the ingredients of ginger, lemon grass, mint, and honey.
"So, this is going to help me remember my dreams?"
"Very well!" Silverwolf nodded.
"Oh my God!" said Raven. "I have been dreaming this whole time! I think I have been dreaming for hours!"
"Yes, I think we have!" I said.
"No, listen, everything, all of life is a dream... false awakenings, 'real life' awakenings. They are the same thing. Everything is an illusion... yet so real. You all look so real to me! Oh my god! I am dreaming, and yet, here we are, sitting at my kitchen table?"
Suddenly we were sitting at Raven's kitchen table. Pixy turned into a cat, then a squirrel, then a yellow parakeet, then she changed into a small woman with a pixie cut. She sat on my lap and kissed my cheek.
"Whoah! That is some potent stuff!" I said.
"Yeah! You are telling me. If I wasn't so blown away, I'd offer you guys some chocolate cake. I need some water."
Raven went to the sink and got a drink of water. We were back in the cottage again. "Phew!" Silverwolf said.
Little Pills
"Now, look, here's my specialty. Little pills. Red and Blue." She opened her hands to us.
The blue one said, "This is only a dream." The red one said, "The dream world is another dimension."
I snatched both up. "Hey!" Raven said. "Don't worry," said Silverwolf, "I have a lot more."
I popped both in my mouth at once. "Nomad! Hey!" said Pixy. "That's too much!" I was blacking out. I felt her tongue in my mouth, and she sucked out some of the gel from the broken capsules.
I was falling through a wormole with Pixy. All the colors were spinning and changing. I felt like I was going to be sick. "This is a dream, only a dream world, only another dimension," I kept hearing a woman's voice say. Pixy looked like a human in a cat costume. I swam toward her as we fell. We clung on to each other.
"What the hell is happening?" I said.
"We are on drugs, you nutball! Not ones you are supposed to take together! It's supposed to be one or the other!"
"Oh shit! You're right!"
"Why don't you think sometimes?" said Pixy.
"Because, it's a dream!"
"But, it's also another dimension!" she said.
I saw images of Batman, Spiderman, Superman, The Hulk, The Tick, Arthur, Vegeta, Cacarot, American Maid, and other people float around me. They all seemed to be laughing about something, except for Arthur.
We landed on a tiny asteroid in space. A little robot rolled up to us and scanned us. He made some notes with a stylus on a papyrus scroll then, wheeled of. "What the hell?" I said.
A purple vortex portal appeared in the sky, and arm appeared and yanked us through. Raven's Q was pulling us through the wormhole. "Be careful what you wish for," said Q.
"Because you just might get it?"
"No... you'll understand later."
"I don't get it!" I said.
"I know," he said sadly.
We fell through a hole in the ceiling and our astral bodies landed in our dream bodies.
"Oh my god!" I said. "That was a trip."
"You were gone for hours!" Raven said. "Just passed out. We were worried, but Q said you were okay."
"Sorry!" I said.
"So what happened."
"We went into another dimension!" Pixy grinned. "It was terrifying! and... beautiful at the same time." She got up and danced.
"I am tired all of a sudden."
"But, you just woke up!" said Raven.
"I know... but, I'm so tired."
I turned into a tiger, and curled up by the fire and fell asleep. I was at the house in Tucson again. A woman came to me, all in shadow. Whe shared breath.
"That's it," she said. "You and I we know each other."
I was so shocked by the familiarity, I woke up. I stretched. I walked upstairs and I heard Silverwolf's voice. "And, this is the library, and this is the den, and this is the bathroom, and these are the bedrooms, see, you have your own little kitchenette. See! It's big on the inside!"
"Oh, how lovely!" Raven said.
They were in an old rustic bathroom with grey wooden walls. Sunlight streamed in through the window. The bathtub had four claws on it. For some reason it was full of water. I turned into a large wolf, then I jumped in it, splashing everyone.
"Nomad!" They said. I laughed and clambered out.
Silverwolf gave us a tour of the rest of the cottage. We went to the back balcony. We were in a huge mansion overlooking a great estate, with an extravagant patio, and a water fountain of cupid blowing a conch, and water coming out. There were two children playing with a pony and a dog. They waved at Silverwolf. "Hi mom!" they said.
"Dream children! You have dream children? Where did they come from?" I said.
"Oh my word! I don't know!"
"Well, I feel dirty," I said. "I am going to take a bath in that cool bathtub of yours!"
I turned into a wolf, and ran down the hall to the bathroom. I summoned hot bubbly water into the tub. I looked down at my wolf face.
"Silverwolf?" I thought. "Oh no, wait that's me!" I heard the door slam shut behind me. Pixy was standing against the door smirking. I looked back in the water at my wolf face. "That's me," I said to myself.
"And this is me," said Pixy, her reflection appearing in the water next to mine.
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I woke up in bed. Pixy was sleeping next to me. "Where am I? Who is this woman sleeping next to me? Is this a one night stand? Am I drunk?" I thought to myself. Pixy mumbled something about, "I want to ride the pony, my turn." I recognized her, and said, "Oh my god! This is a dream! Incredible! I am still dreaming! I remember everything, as if it's a second life!"
A little green man appeared, and said, "Or a first life!"
"Who are you?"
Wormwood
"The Green Fairy. Some call me Mytzlplyk. Some call me The Great Leprechaun. Some call me The Green Man. You may call me Wormwood."
"Oh! Does this mean I am supposed to drink absinthe?"
"You already, have!" he laughed. "And now, I am in you forever! Now, go back to sleep. You need to wake up and take a piss!"
Pixy mumbled something about, "Sh! Nomad. C'mere. I'm sleeping. Go to sleep."
I lied back down in bed, and closed my eyes. I felt myself float down to earth, and I was back in my body, as the dreamscape dissipated.
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