Wizard School Dream
I am on the Moon in the Biodome. I am sitting on the park bench by the koi pond, watching the fish. Raven appears in a flash and a puff of smoke. She coughs. "Why did I make smoke?" I blow the smoke away like a wind dragon. "Thanks! I just had a cool idea, Nomad. Want to make a School of Magic?"
"Awesome! Can I be your first student?"
"Of course. But, you have things you can teach too, you know."
"Well, how are we going to do this?"
"In dreams, of course, silly!"
"Oh right!"
"And I have a spell I use to teach spells."
"A spell-teaching spell? Cool!"
"Yes! Let's make the building. Q is going to help."
We teleport to the temple of Gawn. "Let's make it right here!"
A black wooden building rises up out of the ground. I blow wind on it, and make it rain to get the dirt off. It looks like a great Scandanavian longhouse. A gargoyle that is perched atop it comes to life, and becomes a small green dragon, then he turns into a human. It's MoSh. "Hey, what are you guys doing?"
"We're making a dream school, a magic school. We're going to be Raven's first students."
"Yes! Rock and Roll!" MoSh summons a green guitar and plays a riff. The soundwaves feel like wind, and my and Raven's hair blows straight back and stays like that. MoSh laughs.
"How did you do that?" I ask.
"I don't know. I'm experimenting."
Raven walks inside the building. She says something about decorating the inside. I make wooden carvings on the outside of dragons and epic battles. MoSh plays guitar, and bushes and flowers grow around it, and vines grow up the sides. Raven pops her head out. "Hey Nomad, I'm going to put some finishing touches on this, and you go find some students."
"Alright!" I laugh. I teleport to part of the Biodome which has an open grassy field. I morph into my lion-man form, and open five portals. "Loaf! Majinaki! Portalboat! Red! Robo! I summon thee!" I shoot astral tentacles from my torso and pull the dreamers into the Biodome. Loaf looks confused and mildy annoyed.
Majinaki squints at me. "WakingNomad? Is that you?"
"Yes!"
Portalboat looks around, stunned. "OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD!" Then, he disappears.
"Oh, he woke up."
Red smiles at me and waves. "Hey, aren't you going to be a vampire?"
"Sure," I say, and change into a vampire. Red claps her hands.
Robo is a cyborg. "Hmm.... This place looks familiar. Do I know you?" he says to me.
"Yes, it's me, Nomad."
"You're a vampire."
"Yes."
"And before that, you were a werelion?"
"Yes."
"Where is Raven?"
"It's a surprise."
"Hmm... That Tower. Have I been there before?"
"A couple times."
"Hmm... I am going to inspect that Tower. Wait- am I dreaming?"
"Yes!"
"Oh! Oh shit!" Robo disappears.
"Oh, these guys don't know how to hold on to their dreams," says Loaf.
"Hey man, it's cool. We're all learning here."
"Right," Loaf frowns at me. Two portals open, and Robo and Portalboat appear back in the Biodome.
"Oh good! Okay, everyone. I summoned you here to ask you if you want to go to Wizard School!"
"Yes! Okay! Yes!"
"I just want to blow shit up!" says Loaf. He wanders off. "Maybe find that stupid tree I supposedly planted..."
"Uh... Loaf?"
Loaf tries to blow something up, and Q teleports him to the Outer Lands so he can blow shit up.
"Okay, the four of you. Raven is putting finishing touches on the School right now. We are going to be her first students. We are all going to learn magic, and I can teach you stuff, too. MoSh can teach us about energy. Raven is a Music Mage mainly, and I am a Shapeshifter. We all have different things that we are going to naturally gravitate toward. I don't fully understand how all this works, but I know it does. For example, vortexes are very powerful in dreams, though I can't say exactly why. Anyway, this is just for fun, and it's free, like everything in dreams. Teachers learn more than students, so, I am being kind of selfish here. Just kidding. Let's go check out the school!"
I turn into a big red dragon. "Climb on my back!" Red and Majinaki climb on. Raven tells me telepathically that she moved the school to the Mountain, because it's so pretty there.
Portalboat says, "Are you real?"
"Yes, as real as any dream!"
"Wait are you saying this is a dream?"
"Yes!"
"Oh wow. How did I get here?"
"I summoned you. Get on my back."
"Are you going to eat me?"
"No. I am going to take you to the Wizard School thingy. Hurry up."
"I don't know."
"Oh, you!" I grab Portalboat, and he freaks out and disappears.
"Oh, he woke up again!"
Robo says, "I have to check out that Tower." He teleports into the tower. I fly to the Tower and reach my hand through and grab him.
"Hey! What are you doing!"
"I am taking you to the Magic School, you fool!"
"Good rhyme!" Majinaki laughs.
We fly to the School.
"Are you going to eat me?" Robo asks telepathically.
"No, too many metallic parts. Good job with the telepathy."
"Huh?" He says out loud. I laugh.
I land in front of the school, and set Robo down. Majinaki and Red get off my back. I turn into a red gargoyle. There are two Chinese lion statues in front of the school. They come to life. It's Asuka and MoSh. Makinaki startles. Robo peers at them, and squints. Red laughs.
"Are you guys AI thingies?" Robo says.
"No, we're people, doofus." MoSh says. "Don't I look real to you?" Robo pokes MoSh in the chest. "Hey! What are you doing?"
"Oh! Sorry!"
"Let's go in!" I say.
We go inside. There are tapestries hanging from the walls, and big beautiful windows. There is a huge black dragon resting in the shadows at the back of the room.
"Hello, children," says Raven, the black dragon. Her voice sounds like an earthquake, and rumbles in my chest.
"Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit!" Maji says. Robo squints at her.
"Open your eyes and stop squinting, man! You can see perfectly fine. This is a dream."
"Oh, right..."
Red runs up to Raven and hugs her. Raven smiles.
Pixy appears and gives me a cup of what she calls, "Vividi-Tea."
I take a sip. Everything becomes sharp and clear, just as if I am watching a fantasy movie. I give the rest to Robo. He drinks it, and his eyes bug out. "Oh, I can see everything now!" Pixy kisses my cheek, and disappears.
We walk to Raven. She reveals a clutch of five eggs. They are hatching. Baby dragons pop out, and walk to Robo, Maji, and Red. They each pick them up and pet them. The other two dragons look disappointed.
"Are these your babies?" Red says.
"Yes, and no," says Raven. "They are aspects of you, they are dream guides, in a sense, more like dream signs actually. They have their own sentience, and will aid you in battle. We are all animals, we are all shadows, we are all angels, we are all magicians, we are all dragons and vampires and everything else. It's the nature of the universe in which infinite possibilities exist."
I pick up the other two dragons, and hug them. "They'll be here, soon!" I say. Robo starts to fade and flicker. He grabs me. I grab his wrist. "Hold on," I say quietly. "Focus, look around."
"Oh, I don't want to lose this dream!"
"Just focus- oh damn."
Robo wakes up. His dragon falls to the floor, and looks disappointed. He reappears in a second. "Wow! Here I am again? I made it!" His baby dragon scampers up his leg.
"Wow, this has been a long dream... We should start school later!" I say. Raven rumbles, and the dream fades.
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