Moon Dragons
I open my coffin. I am a cyborg vampire cat-god. My spaceship, Future's Hope, is waiting outside in the street. Remote viewers spot me, and shoot lasers at me. I engage my shield and laugh at them. I become tiny, and shrink my ship. I get in it, and put on some dubstep, then fly to the Moon.
I see Raven. "So, how about ride with me on Moon Dragons to the Pyramids, Raven Knight?"
"Hell, yeah!"
I whistle, and portals open up, and dragons fly out. Most are black. Some are other colors, but most are darkly colored. They all have crescent moons on their foreheads. Koomo is riding a great three-headed black dragon. "I am calling my Darklings to me, my Vampire Brother!" he grins.
His face seems as a mirror to me. He is standing in front of me now. We grin and we both have sharp fangs. He draws a sword, and I draw my ridiculously huge Budgie Sword. I slam it into the Moonblade, and the Witchblade forms over it. We spar. He wins with speed and trickery. He laughs and says I have a lot to learn.
Zaphor, my dream guide appears, a great red dragon. "And now, we begin True Adventures!" Zaphor kneels, and I mount him. I am now a Paladin-Vampire. Raven is Queen of Night riding a black dragon. I see WarriorTiger riding a dark dark purple dragon, and mowglycdb riding a dark shiny green dragon. Loaf is riding a dark red metallic dragon. Redisreddish is riding a small dark metallic green dragon with lavender markings. I see others there, too numerous to name.
We take off, and fly in formation into space. Koomo opens up a portal, and we land at The Egyptian Pyramids. There are many mythical creatures, dreamers, cyborgs, and androids there. It seems like a strange party of sorts.
The Moon Orcs are there. The Moon Orc King speaks to me: What the hell is this about? Why was I not invited? You will be punished for your sins! He laughs. We battle the Moon Orcs for fun. Other people join in. It's a huge brawl. I turn into a bunyip, and wield my didjeridoo-warclub, The Beast.
The battle is over. There is no clear winner.
"Why are all these people here?" I ask.
"Ah, my Darklings, I call them to me, Nomad!" says Koomo.
The Moon Orcs mount their steeds, their wolves. Others ride strange and mythical beasts.
"TO THE MOON!" I raise my sword.
"TO THE MOON!" Everyone shouts.
Battle with Nevergawn
Nevergawn appears from the sky, the archdemon, with an army of demons.
"You and your kind will never leave Earth! You have broken my Law, and now you will be punished!"
I change into my archdemon form, Solgawn. I use black hole magic, to suck the fire and light from Nevergawn's eyes. I feel Gawn laughing inside of me.
Nevergawn: You asshole! How dare you steal my light! I am Lucifer, the Morning Star!
Me: Morning Star this!
I alter my sword into a morning star infused with demon fire, and slam it into his head. Raven multiplies herself, and flies around on her dragon, shooting fire and lightning at our enemies.
MoSh appears from a portal, a Naga, and my mecha suit comes out of his mouth, and lands on the ground. It's in the shape of a jaguar-vampire-demon with armor. The cockpit opens. I climb in. "Mecha XJ-224BA-596-23948-5962A394562-9 at your service!"
"Got a shorter name?"
"Jo."
"Oh, Jo! It's you?"
"Well, me merged with the suit. I am actually a cybernetic copy of his mind. You made me on Q10! Don't you remember?"
"Oh yeah."
"Let's kick ass, and take names!"
"HELL MUTHAFUKKIN YEAH!"
MoSh says he's going to get back to Asuka, but first he spews acid over the enemies, then goes back in the portal.
The suit feels like a second skin. Nevergawn grows two more arms. He has a sword and shield in one pair, and a whip and a short sword in the other pair. I form two disc shields, and block his attacks, then, slice him with the discs.
Nevergawn: I am going to kill your father. I have his soul, you know, you bastard child.
I form one of the discs into a sharp cone, and slam it into his heart, then electrocute him. "NAM!" I feel rage rising within me, but I curb it. "I am devoted to my father, whether or not he or I do good or evil, love is unchanging."
I become tiny, and fly into the hole in Nevergawn's chest. I form a shining bladed lemniscate around me. "MYOHO! I access the Mystic Law. I am as infinite and powerful as the universe, tiny and insignificant as a photon, and yet, I cause you pain!" I spin the lemniscate, slicing him from the inside out. He screams and writhes in pain.
"RENGE! Cause and effect are simultaneous!" I shoot lotus flowers out of my hands, and they grow through his meridians, taking over his body.
"KYO! Vibration!" I summon The Beast, and the Witchblade forms around her. I blast it, and vibration moves through the stems of the lotus plants, Nevergawn's body quivers and wavers.
Suddenly, we are separate, alone together, in outer space. The suit fuses with me, close to my skin. We are both archdemons.
"You fucking idiot," says Nevergawn. "Don't you know we are one and the same? I am you and you are me."
"And so is everything else in the Universe, in all universes, all dimensions, and all realities. Separateness is an illusion due to the interconnectedness of all things. Don't you know I know we are all stardust? You cannot deceive me into believing I am evil. I am evil and I am good. I choose to do what I will based on my desire and freedom, not your worthless idea of predestination and slavery. The Buddha nature is innate within us all, even you, though you may deny it."
Nevergawn's eyes become enflamed, and he roars at me with pure rage. He charges at me. I merge with Gawn. I am a great devil-man. Nevergawn and I lock horns, and tumble through space.
"You fear me, insolent child! I feel your fear, and feed on it!"
"No more than I fear my own greatness, and my own weakness, and I feed on it! I feel your fear Nevergawn!"
"Ptah! I have no fear! I am the greatest demon to ever walk the earth!"
"You fear your heart changing to good, you fear losing your power and identity if you do!"
"How do you know me? You do not know me!"
"I am your brother, your son, your lover, your enemy, your father and mother, your sun and moon!"
"Who are you to speak so cryptically, foolish mortal!"
"We are all immortal, because everything is nothing, and nothing never disappears. Even now, Gawn, Pan, Noah, Moses, Buddha, Jesus, Maui, all the demigods are inside me, and you think I am a simple mortal?"
I laugh maniacally, and Nevergawn separates from me and flies to Hollow Earth. "May the King of Hollow Earth welcome you with open arms, archdemon!"
Back at the Pyramids
A portal opens, and a Wormhole Wyrm appears and beckons me. I go into the portal. I am at the Pyramids. There are many corpses with flies on them. "What the hell just happened?"
Raven: We lost, we won... I am confused.
Raven passes out, and falls into my arms. I put her on the back of my dragon.
Koomo: We have a lot of work to do, before people can go back and forth to the Moon from the earth with ease. The War of the Wormholes is not over.
I take Raven to the Crystal Golem. He says she's fine, not sick, but wounded, and battle weary. He says he will tend to her. He gives me a list of herbs to bring. I fetch the herbs, and bring them to him in the Cave.
He makes a stew. Raven sleeps under a bear skin by the fire.
Joseph is now a young man. He has wavy sandy blond hair, and one blue eye, and one brown eye. "It seems so long ago, I was Tooth."
"It was, my little brother." Joseph gives me a hug. He turns into a great eagle, and flies into the sky. Then, he becomes a golden knight with huge wings, and flies away.
The First MoSh
MoSh sits on the edge of the cave with me. He looks transparent. "Are you a ghost?"
"No, I am MoSh from Dimension X."
"What's that?"
"The special planet we were all born on."
"Who is we?"
"You, me, Raven... all us dreamers, our first lifetime, to be specific."
"Are you from the past?"
"Yes, and no. I am from another dimension's ancient past."
"Are you the one I know?"
"Yes and no. I am him, but also an aspect of him, a version of him, and not him at all. I am gay. HAHAHA."
"Uh...?"
"Don't worry about it. You're my boyfriend in my dimension."
"Ok... this is weird."
"As weird as marrying the Moon Goddess the daughter of the Dream Warrior Master on the Dream Plane, then finding a physical plane version of her not once, but twice, who is also a version of Jean Grey AKA Phoenix, Professor X AKA Nomad, Mr. Bunyip Dreamtime?"
"Well, now that you put it that way..."
The Dimension X MoSh kisses my cheek, and changes into a Naga with a jaguar head, laughs and flies into a portal.
"You need to rest also, O Warrior."
The Crystal Golem leads me to a bear skin. Angel is sleeping there. "She battled with you. Don't you remember?"
"No."
"That's because she merged with you. She doesn't remember either. It's okay. Just go to sleep."
I spoon with Angel, and she mumbles something in her sleep about me. Then, I close my eyes. I hear voices, someone that sounds like the Dalai Lama, and Nichiren Daishonin, and Shakyamuni Buddha, and some others.
I fall into a dream sleep within a dream.
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