Thread: Raven Knight's Dream Travels

I had some goals for the night… Plans to attempt a healing spell on SaberWolf, who was actually the strange creature who showed up and killed a bunch of Templars. He is part wolf and part saber tooth tiger. I also wanted to speak to my late brother, John… and go to a place called Green Sea. Unfortunately, I failed to slip into a WILD…

I was in a strange place. It was a green field outside a small town. I looked around to see where I was. I started walking through the town. It was a nice little town. Peaceful. It looked like it was right out of an RPG. But it didn't look like Assassin's Creed for a change. I wasn't expecting Templars to be hanging out there. I was walking down the street looking at the buildings on the side of the road. A pretty little town that looked… um… I am bad with identifying architecture… French maybe. From a long time ago. I had stopped for a minute when someone came up behind me and put his arms around me. I did a double take and turned around to see a strange man with his face in my face.

"Have you never heard of the term 'personal space' you jerk?" I asked as I pushed him away.

"Come, now, Belle," he said, "We're to be married. We're going to spend a lot of time closer than this!"

I eyeballed him. It hadn't really registered that he had called me Belle. He looked like he was all muscle and no brains. "Married?" I asked, "Me? To you? If you really believe that you'd better do a reality check… because you're dreaming."

"Yes, my love," he said, "It is your dream come true. You will have the honor of wedding me."

"My dream?" I asked, "More like a nightmare. I'd sooner marry the town drunk."

"Are you crazy?" a stupid looking woman asked me, "Any girl would kill to marry Gaston!"

I couldn't help myself… I started laughing at the name. "Gaston?" I asked through giggles, "GAS-TON? As in a ton of shit creating foul gasses? You certainly smell like foul gasses! I'd thought maybe you'd cut the cheese, but maybe you always smell like that!" Then to the stupid blond woman, "Lady, if you want him, he's yours. If I married him I'm sure I would kill… and it would be him that would die!"

The girl screamed and ran. I wondered why. I hadn't threatened to kill her, just Gaston. "Wait!" I called after her, "I'm not really going to kill anyone!"

"The girl belongs to me," a growling voice said from behind me. I turned to see a strange creature there. He looked like he was half tiger and half wolf.

"T…t…take her…" Gaston said as a foul odor wafted over from him… and I noticed a wet spot spreading from his crotch… "She's all yours…" he said just before he turned and ran.

"Well," I said sarcastically as I rolled my eyes, "Isn't he just the world's biggest hero?"

The creature seemed to not pay any attention to Gaston. He just grabbed me and took off with me. I didn't feel threatened, so I didn't fight him. I was wondering where we were going. He was fast. He leaped over wide chasms and sped through forests at dizzying speeds. I loved it! I was on his back now and I buried my face in his soft fur. He had fur as soft as his feline part indicated he would. I finally saw our destination. There was a castle. It was a big castle, although it looked a bit in disrepair. He climbed up the outside of the castle and went into a room at the top of a tower through an open window. He threw me down on the bed, which was very soft and big. He looked at me for a bit as if unsure what to do now. He finally, seeming a bit frustrated, snarled that dinner would be in a half hour and I would be attending to dine with him. He still seemed frustrated. He finally ripped the door off of a beautiful dresser and indicated that it was full of dresses.

Note: Somewhere in here I went semi-lucid...

"Get dressed," he said before leaving the room and slamming the door behind him.

I tried the door. It was locked. What was with thus guy? I looked through the room. It was a beautiful room. Bigger than my house! A bed that looked like the definition of the word luxury. Beautiful furniture (except for the broken piece). It looked like a room fit for a princess. So what gives? This guy was trying to lock me in the lap of luxury?

"SHUT UP!" I heard the creature yelling somewhere beyond the door, "I'm doing the best I can! She can't leave me! I won't let her!"

Something was not right with him. I thought I wanted to find out more. I didn't sense him to be a threat, but he wasn't well. I could find out more by attending dinner with him. I looked at the dresses in the broken dresser. They were all so beautiful. I went through them and finally selected a beautiful blue one. I put it on and finally looked at myself in the mirror. I noticed I didn't really look like myself. I looked mostly like this picture.

I really liked the dress. And I liked how I looked in it. I felt like a princess. I was still admiring my own reflection when there was a violent pounding on the door.

"Hey!" came the creature yelling, "It's time! Are you ready? You are coming!"

"Yes," I said, "I'm ready." I went to the door and opened it. It wasn't locked now. I saw the creature disappear around a corner. I wondered where I was supposed to go.

"Ma chere Mademoiselle," came a voice from near my feet, "Come with me, please." I looked down. There was a candelabra standing there talking to me! I thought that was really strange. I didn't think to do a reality check, though. I followed the talking candelabra down the hall and around the corner I had seen the creature disappear through. There were stairs there which the candelabra hopped down easily as I followed. The castle looked like it had been beautiful once. It was kind of neglected now, but I could still see the beauty. We entered a huge dining room. There was a huge table laid out with all manners of food and drink. The creature was at one end of the table, standing on two legs now. He looked surprised to see me. His jaw dropped a bit. I was expecting him to drool but he stopped short of that. I felt like laughing but I kept it to a smile. I didn't want to offend.

"You came…" he said.

"Of course," I said, "Why wouldn't I?"

"That's never happened before," he said, "None of the others came… they all ran."

"Well," I said, "That's rather rude. It would be rude of me to run away after you got me away from that gas bag that called himself Gaston, took me on a most amazing ride through the forest, gave me this beautiful dress, and laid out this wonderful meal!"

"So you'll dine with me?" he asked, somewhat hesitantly. It didn't fit his image at all.

"Sure," I said. I went to the seat next to his and sat down. There was all sorts of food. A big roast. A whole ham. A roast turkey. Breads. A big bowl of soup. Several desserts in the form of cakes and pies. A few vegetables, though not many. This was not a vegetarian's banquet… but the creature didn't look even remotely vegetarian. I wondered if he ate any of the vegetables or if they were more for me. The creature grabbed the whole ham and tore into it like a Neanderthal. The talking candelabra looked frustrated.

"You're in the presence of a lady," he said, "Try to behave like a gentleman…" The creature snarled at the candelabra but then he did try to eat more carefully, though still with his paws. I ate a few things. My favorite was the dessert. Chocolate cake. Raspberry / strawberry / blackberry pie with whipped cream on it. I wasn't really thinking about calories… I had been sooooo thin and pretty in my reflection. One splurge couldn't hurt. And I didn't want to offend my host by not eating. By the time I finished the creature was just sitting there watching me eat. He seemed to be enjoying that.

"Thank you for that wonderful meal," I said to him, "and now…"

"Now you want to go?" he roared.

"No!" I said quickly, "Not at all! I want to thank you with a performance. I sing. I dance. I wanted to show you. And I have a gift… You provide the food, I can provide the entertainment." I was thinking I knew what he needed. A song. A healing song.

"Oh…" he said, "Well, ok then."

I got up and took an amulet from my pocket. The amulet depicted a wolf jumping up on the right side of it and a tiger jumping down on the left side with a crystal in the middle. It looked like the tiger and the wolf were chasing each other around the crystal. I went over to the creature and showed him the amulet before fastening it around his neck. His fur was soft. I stroked his fur as I put the amulet on which he seemed to like. I then went to a clear area of the dining room. There was plenty of room. I focused on the song Touch My Heart from the Devil Hunter Yohko soundtrack. The song played through as I danced to it. The creature seemed entranced by my performance. Golden energy was flowing around and through him. It was also flowing into his amulet. The song ended. The creature looked very relaxed now.

"So you're not leaving?" he asked.

"I'm afraid I don't have a choice," I said, "I'm another dreamer and I'll wake up. How do you feel?"

"Better than in a long time," he said.

"Good," I said as I stroked his fur one more time before everything faded to black and I woke.

I was in the biodome. I looked around to see where I was. I was right beside the koi pond. Nomad was in lotus position floating over the pond. He floated over to me and landed beside me. Q appeared shortly after he landed. Q looked over at me and smiled.

"In case you haven't checked," Q said to me, "This is a dream. Do a reality check."

I did a reality check by trying to fly. I found I could fly. I was dreaming.

I landed behind Nomad, who was half jaguar and half human. I stroked his fur… it was just too soft to resist. Q gave me a little smile. He told me I didn't want to forget about going to see John tonight. I said ok. I felt like I miss John. Q said he would get us to the center world by the source.

"So, Nomad," he said to Nomad, "Are you coming?"

"Yeah," Nomad said.

Q snapped his fingers. The scene shifted. We were now in a beautiful place I looked around. There were some trees and a lake there. I saw someone over there. Nomad was looking around. He said he saw someone he knew. He wandered off. I asked Q where he was going. Q said he had spotted some dearly departed of his own past. Q smiled and disappeared. I walked towards the figure at the lake. It was a man. He was playing with a dog. I got close enough to recognize them. The man was John, my late brother. The dog was his dog Red. Red was a mutt that included some golden retriever. John threw something into the water. Red jumped into the water to chase it. I reached John. He turned and saw me. We hesitated briefly and then we were in each other's arms in a hug.

"I've missed seeing you," I said, "We just finished Thanksgiving and you were what was missing." I felt like crying and laughing at the same time. For a while we just sat by the lake and talked. About me, about my school progress, about my mother, about the things that have been happening in our lives, about the Dallas Cowboys, about his two dogs that are still alive, about our dogs… About anything and everything. We also petted and threw a squeaky toy for Red. She was sooooo happy. It was such a nice place to be… just sitting there and talking to John.

We had been talking for a while. I remembered that I wanted to ask him about the conspiracies he used to believe in, but I felt awkward about it. Like it was inconsiderate of me to do that. We sat there in silence for a while. It was nice to be there with him. I finally got the nerve to say something…

"Remember when you used to talk about people always watching us?" I asked John.

"Oh, you mean the government?" he asked, "Yeah."

"I'm just wondering if all that was true, or if you were just talking…" I said.

"Yeah," he said, "I remember that. You and mom thought it was nuts."

"Well…" I said, "Now I'm not so sure… It is seeming like maybe you were right. Did you know anything for certain about them? Or just theories?"

"Mostly theories," he said, "I didn't have any proof of anything."

"Ok," I said, "And I am looking for anything. Theories are good. Did any of those theories involve remote viewers? People watching you through astral projection and dreams?"

"They trained people for that," John said, "At least for the remote viewing thing… I don't know about the dreams."

"I am in a dream right now," I told John, "I am visiting you through a dream."

"You can do that?" John asked, "Then why don't you come more often? And bring mom!"

"She can't do it," I said, "She doesn't believe."

"Oh," John said disappointedly.

"I have been sharing dreams with someone I met online. And we set up a permanent meeting place in the dream realm version of the moon. And now it seemed there are always weird people watching us. Maybe from someone's government, maybe from something beyond that… Did you have any information that they might have been after you for? That they might have wanted to keep you quiet about?"

"Me?" John asked, "Nah. I just had theories. Nothing concrete. I died primarily because I smoked too much. I know that now. If only I could've seen that before it was too late…"

"So what was your theory as to what they were after?" I asked.

"Control of the world," John said, "which they pretty much already had. There's hardly anything that happens that they don't have some input over. And they used subliminal messages and drugs to keep people from realizing what was happening. And the few that did realize were labeled crazies."

"Damn Templars," I muttered.

"Damn who?" John asked.

"Templars," I said, "I have been calling them Templars. They act just like Templars. But the question is how can they be stopped?

"Stopped?" John asked, "They can't be. They've been doing it since the dawn of time and they will keep doing it until human kind destroys itself. I never figured they could be stopped… I just didn't want to be one of their pawns. If you can do that you have won."

"No," I said, "An Assassin has to fight the Templars… in whatever way possible."

"An assassin?" John asked, looking at me strangely, "Did you just tell me you've become an assassin?"

"Not in our home world," I said, "I am completely helpless there. In the other dimensions, yes, sometimes."

John was looking at me really strangely now.

"So the flu shots," I commented, "If the Templars are putting drugs in them, maybe those drugs would make it harder to travel in the dream state… I have gotten a flu shot for the past few years… and those few years have been the hardest for me to travel in my dream state. I'd thought I lost the ability because I had no one to dream with… and that might be part of it… but maybe the drugs had something to do with it, too…"

"Who do you share dreams with?" John asked.

"I had been sharing dreams with James," I said, "Remember James? My boyfriend?"

"Yeah," John said, "And I remember looking in on you guys once and seeing the creep had cheated on you. I haunted him for a while… him and his new fiancé and then wife. He didn't seem too scared, but I really freaked her out!" he laughed. "Then I got bored with that… and they moved to a new apartment… so I left."

"That was you!" I commented. I remembered back to when I had been talking to James regularly and he had said there was something weird haunting Tina in their apartment. Like sometimes they would see a dark figure. Or it felt like someone was watching them… or Tina would feel someone touching her and no one was there… "That was you that James was talking about when he said there were strange things going on around their apartment!"

"Yeah," John said, "I couldn't let them break my little sis' heart and get away with it!"

I hugged John. "Thank you for caring that much," I said. I was near tears again.

"So who do you dream with now?" John asked.

"A guy named Nomad, he lives in Hawaii," I said, "I met him on a dreaming forum online. And then another named MoSh. He lives in Canada. I have gotten back into dreaming again… and now we seem to have attracted the attention of these remote viewing Templars. I guess they never noticed when I was dreaming with James because we never set up an area that was visible to the general dreaming population. Just our own hidden inner worlds. But now they see."

"Are they hurting you?" John asked, "Interfering with your dreams?"

"Only a little," I said, "They can't really do much to us. They are more annoying, like a gnat in your face. They can't hurt us or interfere with our bases on the dream moon."

"Then just ignore them," John said, "They'll probably get bored with it and go away. Or they'll keep watching and not be able to do anything about it. If they get to be more of a problem deal with it then."

"Maybe I should start giving nightmares to random Templars," I commented, "That's the only way I can really get at them. Since I don't know where they are on the physical plane and I'm sure I couldn't get near them even if I did know…"

"Whatever makes you feel better," John said, "I'm just going to kick back here and play with Red for a while longer. Wait here as long as they let me…"

"Have…" I said, "Have you seen dad?"

"A couple of times," John said, "He's around somewhere."

I kind of wanted to see him… but I wouldn't even know how to act. "How about grandma?"

"She was here not long before you came," John said.

I was thinking maybe I could visit her. But I felt myself waking up. I hugged John one more time and then everything around me faded to black and I woke.

Awesome! You are amazing!

That's pretty amazing! I never thought about whether or not spirits could visit the dream realm.

Originally Posted by Royalpeach

That's pretty amazing! I never thought about whether or not spirits could visit the dream realm.

well shortly after my one grandma died. i dreamt i ran into her. I ran a way screaming "SHE'S SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD!!!"

I was in the biodome. I looked around to see if there was anyone else there. I was alone. I started walking. I didn't realize I was dreaming. I walked through a beautiful area. I reached a beach. I turned to my right and walked along the beach. I looked out at the ocean. It was really peaceful. It was beautiful. I kept walking. I reached a wall. I thought that was strange. The wall extended out into the ocean. I turned to the right again, walking away from the ocean. I followed the mysterious wall away from the ocean. This was really odd. I was going through the forest now. There were trees and other things to my right and a wall to my left. I kept going and finally I came to a place where there was a gate in the wall. I wondered where I was. I opened the gate and stepped out… onto the moon! The door closed behind me. I was now on the surface of the moon. Ok… now that was weird. I looked around. There was a man standing there on the moon. I went over towards the man. He wasn't in a space suit or anything… but then again neither was I. I was thinking maybe I should do a reality check. The man started talking…

"So," he said, "Raven, is it? But that's not your real name, is it? So… do you think we could talk?"

Note: I think I became semi-lucid somewhere in here…

I looked at the man for a couple of minutes. I was thinking he would be better dressed as a Templar. I focused on that and his outfit changed from a suit and tie to the armor of a Templar. He did a double take and looked at his own shirt. He gave me a dirty look and his outfit changed back. I changed him to look like a Templar again. I focused on making myself look like an Assassin.

"Let's see…" I said, "The only thing an Assassin and a Templar have to say to each other is best said with swords…" I formed Witchblade into a sword. I pointed at the Templar's right side. "Yours is right there. You do know how to use it, right?"

"I didn't come to fight you, Raven," he said looking a bit frustrated, "It seems there has been a misunderstanding between us. We are not looking for any hostilities with you. Things will be so much easier if we just work together."

"Work together?" I asked, "Assassins and Templars? Not gonna happen." I said.

He changed his outfit back to a business suit. "For the last time," he said, "I am not a Templar. I'm here to help you and your friends."

I changed his outfit back to that of a Templar. "I have nothing to say to you, Templar," I said, "And now I have somewhere to go. So I'm leaving.

"Where did your base go?" he asked.

"My what?" I asked.

"Your base," he said, "With the tower and the dome."

I looked back at the gate to the biodome and then back at the Templar. "What drugs do they keep you guys on, anyway?" I asked.

"Drugs?" he asked, "It's clear that you don't believe me. Well, just wait and see. Things will start going your way and then maybe you will see we aren't enemies." He turned and walked away, disappearing.

"Loser," I muttered to myself as I went back into the biodome. A portal opened and Nomad came through with a woman. I didn't recognize her. Nomad said he wanted to go to the Green Sea. Q appeared. He said he would take care of that. He snapped his fingers again.

We were in a large green meadow. We were lying back on the grass. I was looking into the sky watching white fluffy clouds float by. I was lying on the grass. It felt like I was lying on water. It was very relaxing. I fell asleep as I was gazing into the sky and the clouds. As I fell asleep I woke IRL.

I fell asleep with my light / sound machine on and focusing on going to the biodome to do a group healing. I remembered my first goal was to go get Pablo so he could be in on it. With the idea I might be being watched I didn't want to take the chance to lead anyone to Pablo so I focused on the biodome first. I fell asleep and slipped into a WILD…

I was in the biodome near the koi pond. I looked around and saw Basara was there with me.

"We're doing a healing, right?" Basara said, "I'm here to contribute." He started strumming on his guitar. I told him I would go get Pablo because he was also going to contribute. Basara seemed to think that was great. I was about to open a portal to find Pablo when I got a telepathic message.

"To battle!" it was Nomad.

"Battle against who?" I asked.

I got an image in my mind. A bunch of Templars on the moon? What were Templars doing on the moon? And the Templars were already fighting the orcs. Maybe the orcs needed help with them? I decided it didn't really matter. They were Templars… and they needed to die. I saw movement and I saw Shadow was there. She transformed into a winged panther. I rode her through a portal focused on getting to Nomad…

On the other side of the portal I was on Shadow and we were outside on the surface of the moon. There was a fight going on all around me. I saw a strange sight. Orcs, Templars, and a lot of familiar people all fighting. I saw a giant serpent flying in the sky. There were a whole bunch of Templars attacking the snake. None of their weapons were getting through a force field around MoSh.

"Focus on the snake!" one of the Templars yelled.

I made sure I looked like an Assassin and I jumped off of Shadow over towards MoSh. "Prepare to die, Templar bastards!" I yelled as I used Battery to hit a bunch of them with bolts of lightning. Those shits still wanted to ignore me! They were shooting a lot of laser guns at MoSh.

"Damn it!" I yelled out, "I will not be ignored!" I summoned more lightning to hit more Templars. There seemed to be an endless number of Templars. I wondered where they were all coming from. I decided a few more of me might help. I used the song Divide by Disturbed. I divided myself into 2, 4, 8, then 16 people. All of us had a Witchblade sword. Where were all these damn Templars coming from? I divided into 32, 64, 128, then 256 of me. The army of me split up through the group of Templars and became an integral part of the battle. I also saw quite a few familiar people while I was doing that. The following are some notes about what I saw:

MoSh spraying green flames over a group of Templars.

Nomad punching Templars with an electrical effect.

A werewolf tearing a few Templars apart.

Altaïr having a sword fight with several Templars which he quickly beat.

Pablo reflecting Templar attacks back at them using Whiplash. His Witchblade was on.

Mary or Marty pulling an 'Eat dirt, everyone in the vicinity!" as weapon fire exploded all around them and incinerated a group of Templars.

Vegeta was beating up Templars and also making them run away from him with only a glare.

There were sooooo many other things going on around me that I wasn't able to keep track of it all.

After the fight was over some of us gathered in the biodome. We did a group healing there. I don't remember everyone who was there. I know I was there with Basara, Nomad, Pablo, but I don't remember who else. As I was feeling the relaxing healing energy everything around me faded to black and I woke.

I was on the moon. I looked around to see where I was. I was in the biodome near the koi pond. It seemed like a pleasant and familiar place. I went over to the pond and watched the colorful fish. I didn't realize I was dreaming. I was thinking I was sitting beside the pond in our front yard. I noticed the green grass around the pond. I wondered how my mother had managed to get the grass growing nicely again. The last time I had noticed the grass it had been nothing more than a bunch of dirt and a few weeds. I watched the fish. The fish were also bigger than I had thought they could be. And so was the pond. My mother must have made some improvements to the front yard and I hadn't noticed. I sat there and watched the fish for a while longer. I heard someone behind me. I turned and looked. There was a man there. He was half jaguar and half human. I did a double take at the cat man. He made me think of Thunder Cats. There was a Thunder Cat in my yard? That couldn't be… Maybe this was a dream…


"Are you ready to go?" He asked.

"Go where?" I asked. I was still looking at him… no… he wasn't a Thunder Cat… it was Nomad.

"To see your fly people," he said.

"Fly people…" I muttered to myself.

"Are you ok?" Nomad asked, "You don't look well…" He looked concerned now.

"I'm ok," I said, "I am just gathering my thoughts. This is… a dream, right? Ok. The fly people. No problem."

"Are you sure?" Nomad asked.

"Yeah. Let's go," I said. I focused on opening a portal to a fly dimension. A portal opened. I stood there and looked at the portal a bit. How long has it been since I've been there? Forever. That's how long. I finally went through the portal, Nomad followed me. The portal closed behind us.

We were in a desert landscape. There were dark clouds overhead that looked like volcanic clouds. The light coming through had a red tint to it. I didn't see anyone there. Nomad was looking around now. He was looking up at a volcano. There was smoke coming from the volcano. I was thinking there were supposed to be people there. I started walking, thinking I would find the fly people. Nomad was following me. I came to a place where there was an open lava flow. A stone bridge spanned the flow. I could see a village on the other side of the bridge. I headed in that direction. Nomad stopped on the bridge and looked into the lava. I stopped to wait for him.

"She's here!" came a voice from behind me, "She's returned! The Lord of the Flies has returned!"

I turned and looked and saw there were numerous cloaked fly people watching me from the town. A group of 11 fly people came out of the town and approached me. All 11 of them bowed (which made me feel awkward) and one of them spoke to me.

"We are honored that you have returned, my Lord," he said, "How may we serve you?"

"Ok," I said, "Can we start by not calling me 'my Lord'? My name is Raven. Just call me that, please."

"Of course, Raven," he said and he bowed again.

"And can we do away with the bowing?" I asked, "It's a bit awkward…"

"Of course, Raven," he said, "What brings you here?"

"I wanted you to meet a new friend of mine," I said as I indicated Nomad on the bridge, "This is… uh… Nomad? What are you doing?"

He was standing on the railing of the bridge. He jumped off towards the lava. Almost instantly two fly people caught him in mid air. One on each side of him. They carried him over and deposited him next to me.

"Hey!" he said to the fly people carrying him as he pulled away from them, "I was going to take a swim!"

"That's lava…" a fly person said.

"I know that," Nomad said.

"It's hot…" the fly said.

"No shit, Sherlock!" Nomad said.

"Ok, guys," I said, then to Nomad, "They thought you were going to burn…" and then to the fly person, "This is my friend Nomad. And he could easily dive into the lava without hurting himself. Just as easily as I could."

"Oh," the fly I had been speaking with said, "We did not know that. We thought he was going to kill himself."

"I've done that," Nomad said.

A fly person looked at him oddly.

"He has the same setup as I do," I said, "We travel in the dream state. These aren't our real bodies, our bodies are safe at home in bed. So… Nomad, these are the fly people. This is the first fly dimension I've ever been to. It's a long story that I will hopefully get to eventually in my dream origins journal. But to make it short, I'd just started lucid dreaming and traveling. I was running from a demon that was more powerful than me. I opened a random portal to escape. The portal happened to lead here. I found them doing a ritual. The first part of their ritual matched the first part of an Iron Maiden song… It was the weird chanting part that comes before the Iron Maiden song, Sign of the Cross. After that was done they noticed me… and I continued the song. I tried to move away from them, 11 somewhat creepy cloaked figures making weird chants, but they followed me. I then ran into the demon that was after me. I moved on to the song that comes after Sign of the Cross… which is Lord of the Flies. That song seemed to supply the fly people with energy, and they used that energy to fight off the demon. After that they kept bringing me back to their dimension and wrapping me in a strange cocoon… we resisted at first, not knowing what they were doing, but it was meant to infuse me with the powers possessed by their Lord of the Flies. So that makes the long story short."

"Wow," Nomad said, "You'll have to post that."

"Hopefully I will get to it," I said, "Sooooo much has happened… it will be forever to post it all… and forever to read it all!"

Nomad laughed.

"So," I said to the fly people, "Can we give Nomad a tour?"

"Of course, Raven," he said, "Can I assume he can fly?"

"Yeah," I said.

"The follow us," the fly person said. We flew into the sky. We went past several volcanoes since Nomad seemed interested in them. One of them was actively erupting…

We flew down to the shore where there was a display of hot lava hitting the water and creating massive steam clouds, past the main city of the fly people which was really huge compared to the village I had seen. The architecture reminded me of that in ancient Rome.

And then we went around to a colony that had been set up by humans from another world.

After the tour was over Nomad spent some time talking to various fly people. I felt like I was waking up. I figured that since Nomad has been to other dimensions before he could get home fine on his own. So I didn't resist as everything around me faded to black and I woke.

Whoah pretty cool dream!! I'll keep checking back to see more of your awesome dreams

Note: One of my intentions was to visit MoSh in his inner world. This wasn't a WILD or anything but that intention seemed to influence my next dream. There may be parts I don't remember, but this is what I do remember, and none of it was lucid, though I think I was semi-lucid at parts:

I was in a room. It was rather crowded. There were lots of people I didn't recognize. There was a thin layer of smoke in the room. I thought it might be a bar but I wasn't sure. I found someone traveling around with a tray. There were several bottles of beer on it. He handed me a beer and then left before I had a chance to tell him I don't even like beer. I walked through the crowd more. I heard music. It was cool music. Someone was kicking ass on a guitar. I followed the music.

As I got near the music I saw the source. I recognized the musician! It was MoSh! And he was playing a guitar that had blue flames on it… and the guitar itself was on fire! He was ripping out some amazing riffs. I didn't recognize them as being from any song that I have ever heard, but I was thoroughly enjoying it. He played for a while longer and then he stopped for a rest. He set his flaming guitar down and the flames went out He spotted me and came over to say hi.

"Hi, Raven" he said, "Glad you could make it. Man, "I'm thirsty!"

"You rock!" I said as I handed him the beer I had been given. He opened it and took a drink.

"Damn…" he said, "It's warm!"

I took the bottle back and used a very light version of Trapped Under Ice by Metallica to chill the beer. I handed it back to MoSh. He drank deeply of it.

"Wow," he said, "Nice trick."

"Do you realize this is a dream?" I asked.

"What?" he asked.

"A dream," I said, "You're dreaming. Do a reality check. Nomad said he would be here. Have you seen him?"

"Yeah," MoSh said, "I saw him. Over here."

MoSh walked away, pushing through the people. We got to the other side of the room. MoSh opened the door and we went outside. I looked around outside. It was night time. It looked like a fairly normal neighborhood. There was a dog there. A rather shaggy dog. The dog came over to me and wagged its tail. I petted the dog.

"Hey, MoSh," I said, "Your dog?"

"I think maybe," MoSh said.

"You don't know for sure if you have a dog?" I asked.

"He might be mine…" MoSh said.

I saw another dog come out of the darkness. This one was a large black pit bull. This dog also came over to me and wagged its tail. I petted that dog, as well.

"Are you coming?" MoSh asked.

"Yeah," I said, "Are these both possibly your dogs?" I asked.

"I'm not sure," he said as he kept walking away.

"Wait up!" I said as I went after MoSh. Then everything around me faded to black as I woke.

I fell asleep with my light / sound device on. My goals included healing my friend Alicia and also getting some healing for the negative energy I've had this evening. I fell asleep and slipped into a WILD…

I was in the biodome. I thought I wanted to get Alicia to heal her. I opened a portal to get to her. It was particularly easy since she was spending the night at my house tonight. She was in my spare room on an inflatable mattress. I went into the dark room. My cat, Shadow, looked at me even though I was sure I could not be seen. She hunched her back and hissed loudly. Why was she hissing? I turned towards the bedroom door. A man was standing there. He was watching me. I ignored him. He didn't seem of consequence to me. I lifted Alicia's dream body into my arms. I opened a portal back to the biodome. The man was right next to me now. I gave him a dirty look.

"Your friend is very sick, you know," he said.

"No shit, Sherlock," I said.

"She needs medical help," he said.

"I should give you a medal for stating the obvious," I told him. For some reason I didn't like him. Even though he hadn't done anything but watch.

The man looked at Alicia for a couple more minutes. "I know some people who are very skilled healers," he said.

"You know healers?" I asked. I had been about to go through the portal but that caught my attention.

"Yes," he said, "They have years of experience in curing the most serious of illnesses through the astral plane."

"You…" I said, thinking healing was not the type of person I would think would have anything to do with healing, "Know healers…"

"That's what I said," he said.

"And let me guess…" I said scornfully, "If I do such and so for you, you'll contact these alleged healers."

He gave me a dirty look. "No," he said, "I don't know what you have heard about us, but we aren't monsters."

"I know that," I said, "You're Templars." I transformed myself to look like an Assassin and him to look like a Templar.

"It doesn't matter what you call us," the man said, "I know someone who can help your friend. And just to show that we're not what you think you don't have to do anything. The healers can start healing her immediately."

My first thought was that they would do something to Alicia under the guise of helping her. "If you do anything to hurt her I will have you begging for death!"

"What is with you?" the man asked, "I offer help and you offer threats?"

"Just leave her alone," I said, "She is no threat to you."

"So you don't want your friend healed?" he asked, "That's absurd. Call it a gesture of good will. The healing process will begin tonight." With that the man disappeared. I looked at Alicia's dream body in my arms. I was hoping she was safe. I went through the portal to the biodome…

I was not alone in the biodome now. Nomad was there. Pablo was there. Basara was also there, as was Selene and SilverWolf. There was a pool of water in the middle of the clearing that I don't remember seeing before. I laid Alicia's sleeping dream body in the water. We then did a group healing. Golden energy, blue energy, white energy all swirled together. The water Alicia was in began to glow with the energy. I felt the energy going through me. It was very relaxing. It was sooooo relaxing that as the healing session came to an end everything faded to black and I fell asleep in the dream which caused me to wake up in my bed.

I was in a pretty forest glen. I looked around to see where I was. I didn't see anyone. I sat down by a pond and watched the koi in the water. It was rather relaxing. I was thinking there was something I was supposed to be doing. And I wasn't doing it… but what is it? I couldn't think. I got up and looked around the glen. I thought I was supposed to meet someone… but who? Alicia? No. Allison? No. Nomad? No. MoSh? No… er… yes! It was MoSh! I was going to meet up with MoSh! I stopped pacing and opened a portal to get to MoSh… I went through the portal. I also became semi-lucid…

On the other side I was in a grassy field. There were buildings nearby. It looked like I was on a sports field of some kind. There were football goal posts at both ends of the field. I realized I was on a football field. I walked off the field and towards the buildings. It looked a bit like a school. I didn't know what kind of school it was. I saw one person walking along one of the walkways that ran along side a building. I went over to him.

When I got close enough to the man I recognized him. It was MoSh. I went over to him and got in front of him. He stopped and looked up at me.

"Hey, MoSh!" I said. He looked at me strangely, "We were going to find you a date. You can do a reality check. This is also a dream."

MoSh looked around. I was thinking I would try to find a girl he was interested in. I focused on Through the Never to open a portal. I had that idea in mind. I wondered if it would work. No, that wouldn't do. I couldn't be having doubts or it definitely wouldn't work. A portal opened and MoSh and I went through…

On the other side we were in a tent. There were beautiful women everywhere. They were throwing themselves at MoSh. I had ended up in the middle of a fucking outdoor brothel! A couple of the women came over to me and started fondling me. I pulled away.

"In case you hadn't noticed," I said, "I'm a woman!"

"That's ok," one of the women said, "We cater to all kinds."

"No," I said, "Seriously. Not interested. MoSh? Is this what you wanted? Or did you want to find a single woman meant for you?"

MoSh had to come up for air. "A single woman!" he said from inside the group of women, "I wanted to find a single woman, not a bunch of hookers!"

I opened another portal. I was focusing harder. The idea wasn't just to get MoSh laid… it was to find him a nice woman. A portal opened and I pulled MoSh away from the women and through the portal…

On the other side of the portal we were amongst beautiful trees. Cherry trees. It was a beautiful place. A stream flowing amongst the cherry trees. There was a woman standing there. She looked like the picture here, or mostly. She was wearing a kimono. She looked over at us and seemed surprised to see there was someone there. She came over and looked at me and then at MoSh. She smiled. She seemed really friendly. Her aura gave off a welcoming energy.

"Welcome, friends," she said to us, "You have found the hidden garden. You must have pure hearts or you could not have found this place. I come here to find peace. What brings you here?"

"That obviously doesn't work," I muttered, "Or I couldn't be here…"

"The same," MoSh said as he smiled at the girl and turned a bit red.

"We all seek different things," she said, "but what we really want is peace. My name is Asuka. What are your names?

"MoSh," MoSh said, but he told her his real name instead of MoSh.

I didn't want to intrude, so I pretended to be absorbed in looking at the flowers. Asuka and MoSh continued talking to each other. I could still hear most of it. I stayed close enough to hear with the hope I could remember what was said and record it even if MoSh didn't…

"I sense something…" Asuka said sadly, "dark shadows are following you. You need to keep them away from you. Here. I have something for you." She reached into her kimono and pulled out a small package. It was wrapped in bright golden paper with a pretty design on it. She handed the package to MoSh.

"What's this?" he asked.

"Open it," she said.

MoSh opened the package very carefully. Inside it was a crystal orb with a beautiful flower inside. MoSh was looking at the flower and the woman kept talking.

"It is the flower of life," she said, "Keep it with you. It will keep the shadows away."

"Wow," MoSh said, "It's beautiful."

The woman smiled even bigger. "Thank you," she said, "I grow them myself. It's so nice of you to say so."

About here MoSh and Asuka walked away down the stream talking. I heard them laughing as they walked away, and they seemed to be enjoying each other's company. I was watching them walk away as everything around me faded to black and I woke.

Did you read Man of Shred's latest entry (#255) prior to writing your last entry (#338)?

Originally Posted by Zoe

Did you read Man of Shred's latest entry (#255) prior to writing your last entry (#338)?

No. I record my dreams before reading others to keep what I read from interfering with my memories. It is confusing enough trying to keep things straight as it is! It looks like MoSh and I shared a dream. Although we did plan what we were going to do last night.

Her name means "the smell of tomorrow"

fitting if you think of it. She grows flowers.

I fell asleep with my light / sound device on and a couple of plans. Nate had said something about a dragon in Middle Earth challenging us to a battle, and he had also seemed interested in going to see Roy's home planet. So that was also on the plans list. With these goals in mind I fell asleep, slipping into a WILD…

I was in the biodome. I looked around to see where I was. I was in the usual place beside the koi pond. I looked around to see if there was anyone else there. I didn't see anyone. I heard Nomad talking to me telepathically. He was in the tower. He was at his ship. I was thinking I would go meet him and we could go to Roy's planet. I went into the tower and found Nomad in the landing bay. I saw there were parts of a ship hanging in mid air. I went over to look at it closer. I couldn't really tell much about it. There were several pieces arranged into what looked like a wing. I was thinking it was probably Allison's ship.

"The dragon fight isn't until later," Nomad said, "So we can see your guide's home planet!" He seemed excited about that prospect. I wondered where Roy was. I tried to contact him telepathically. I didn't get a response but Roy appeared in front of me. An alien, about four and a half feet tall, with almond shaped eyes that glow blue.

"So you DO remember I exist," Roy said in a somewhat irritated manner.

"Of course," I said, "I really don't know what to do about things right now. We still have no proof that the Quarks are coming… and actually we don't know for sure that they are. The timeline might have already skewed by now…"

Roy sighed.

"You know," I said to Roy, "If the timeline has skewed onto a new timeline, that means your home world is now on a parallel dimension… which means we can get there to do something about the invasion. Let's go find out if we can get to your planet. Not just another version of it, your home planet. That could solve all of your problems!"

Roy looked at me. He looked doubtful. "Ok," he said, "But what we'll find is a parallel version of my world."

"We'll see," I said.

I climbed into my ship and he climbed into his. We launched out of the tower and into space… Roy was in my ship with me. He input coordinates into the computer which then opened a portal. I flew through and Nomad followed in his Flight of the Navigator shop, Future's Hope. We flew through out of the wormhole to find ourselves in orbit around a ringed planet. Roy used the communicator and contacted the people on the planet. After a brief exchange we were cleared to land. So we flew down to the planet surface and landed on a landing pad near the edge of a large city. The sky was green and I could see bright colorful rings there.

There were a number of Alkazaran (Roy's people) waiting to meet us on the landing pad. We got out of our ships. Roy just teleported out to meet with some of the others. I saw that Nomad wasn't alone. MoSh was with him. I was surprised. I asked Nomad where he'd picked up MoSh. He said MoSh had come through a portal along the way and he had let him in.

We went over to the aliens where Roy was talking to them. The people Roy were talking to had no idea about any possible invasion… which makes sense since when Roy and his ship came to our planet through the wormhole they also came some distance through time. The invasion hasn't happened here yet. It looked like Roy was happy to be seeing some others of his own kind for a change. I guess it's been a while since he has seen any of his own people…

Note: I remember that we determined that the place we went was a world parallel to Roy's home planet, but I don't dismiss the idea we can get him home. A lot of things have changed since we first met Roy, and sometimes the smallest of changes in the present can create huge differences in the future.

I woke up in bed. I rolled over. I had to get a drink. Ok. I got out of bed and went to my door. It was closed. That seemed odd. I wondered if a cat had closed it by accident. No matter. I stepped through the door and I heard it close behind me. I sleepily trudged to my left, looking for my bathroom door. It wasn't there. There was nothing there! I opened my eyes completely and looked around. I was in a vast expanse of nothing. WTF? I looked back to where my door should've been. There was nothing there, either. It looked like I had somehow found myself inside the Animus that Desmond uses in Assassin's Creed… I wasn't sure what to do so I started walking. Away from nothing into nothing. I was getting nowhere very slowly. I finally spotted someone. I wasn't alone!

I walked over towards that someone. There were two men there. They were in business suits. They looked like they were off of Men In Black. But I knew who they were. They were Templars. Upon my thought their outfits changed to look like Templars from Assassin's Creed. I saw one of them was visibly frustrated by the change of apparel. The other didn't seem to care. He came over to me and smiled.

"Your friend is already being healed," he said.

"Two words…" I said, "Bull and shit."

"You don't believe me," he stated the obvious.

"Uh…" I said, "Let me think about that… that would be no. Actually it would be more along the lines of hell no."

"But believe it or not it's being done. I was hoping we could just talk. It seems you are always upset when you see us."

"What am I supposed to do?" I asked, "Sing you a song?" A thought occurred to me… and I was feeling a bit silly, so it would be a perfect option…

"I wasn't…" the man started.

"Yes!" I said to him, "I will sing you a song! It's a fun little song that Yacko, Wacko, Dot, and I like to call The Anvil Song!"

"Never heard of it," he said.

"You'll catch on quick," I said, "An anvil's black and shiny, it's very heavy too, so watch out my stupid friend, or one will fall on you!"

"What?" he asked… just before a large black anvil came plunging out of the sky and landed on his head with a loud CLANG! It knocked the Templar to the ground, and he didn't move any more. I saw a spot of blood on his head… and then the body disappeared. But that wasn't supposed to happen… It didn't happen on Animaniacs that way… I went to the other Templar.

"Hey!" I said, "Your friend left before I finished my song! Let me finish my song and then, if you stay, we can talk."

"Finally you will hear us out," the man said, "Certainly then. Continue with your song."

"It's made of solid iron," I continued, "it weighs a ton or two, I know you'd like to meet it, it wants to meet you, too!"

Another anvil plunged from the sky and landed on the Templar's head. CLANG! I could also hear the crack of bone from his head. He collapsed to the ground and then disappeared.

"Well," I commented to no one, "Since you didn't stick around, I guess you didn't want to talk after all."

Things were finally catching up to me… falling anvils… Templars… endless void… dreaming! I hadn't really thought about the idea I was dreaming. I did a nose-pinch reality check… and I could still breathe! I was dreaming. I focused on opening a portal to where I needed to be. Nothing happened. WTF? If this was a dream, why wouldn't a portal open? I did it again. Still nothing but the endless whitish blue fog all around me. I was stuck in the Animus! This could seriously suck! I tried a portal one more time, but it didn't work. I woke myself up trying.

I was in a strange place. It looked like a bar. I went over to the bar and sat down. The bartender came over to me and asked me what I'd have. I ordered a Coke and rum. He said sure and brought the drink over. I pulled money from my pocket and laid it on the bar then I started drinking my drink. It was good. Coke with a kick. I turned around and looked at the bar. I spotted a woman right away. She looked out of place. She was in a suit and tie… everyone else was in normal casual attire. I immediately knew it was a Templar. Damn! Why do they keep following me? I knocked back the last of my drink and went over near her. I thought she should look like a Templar… and she did.

"Hang on a minute!" she said, "Hold your anvils!"

"Anvils?" I asked, confused.

"I can only imagine how rude those men must have been," she said, "They have no idea what the word 'tact' means."

"What do you want?" I asked.

"I know the men are assholes," she said, "I was hoping you'd see your way to being a bit friendlier to a woman."

"Of course," I said.

"Really?" she asked. She looked surprised.

"This was never the way I planned, not my intention," I was singing, "I got so brave, drink in hand, lost my discretion. It's not what I'm used to, just wanna try you on. I'm curious for you, caught my attention. I kissed a girl and I liked it, the taste of her cherry chapstick. I kissed a girl just to try it. I hope my boyfriends don't mind it. It felt so wrong, it felt so right. Don't mean I'm in love tonight. I kissed a girl and I liked it."

With that I threw my arms around the Templar woman and planted a kiss right on her lips. A long kiss as I might give a lover… no tongue… I couldn't go that far… She pulled away in shock. She was staring at me like I was crazy. I felt that she was trying to leave. I didn't want her to. I felt like I could block her exit… During the next verse I was on the floor with the Templar woman doing dirty dancing moves with her as she was trying to pull away.

"No, I don't even know your name, it doesn't matter. You're my experimental game, just human nature. It's not what good girls do, not how they should behave. My head gets so confused, hard to obey. I kissed a girl and I liked it, the taste of her cherry chapstick. I kissed a girl just to try it, I hope my boyfriends don't mind it. It felt so wrong, it felt so right. Don't mean I'm in love tonight. I kissed a girl and I liked it."

I kissed the Templar one more time and then she disappeared. I didn't block that time. But I was having fun! I was on the table dancing. It felt like a scene in DDO where some of the characters will dance on the tables at the inns.

"Us girls we are so magical, soft skin, red lips, so kissable. Hard to resist, so touchable. Too good to deny it. Ain't no big deal, it's innocent, I kissed a girl and I liked it, the taste of her cherry chapstick. I kissed a girl just to try it, I hope my boyfriends don't mind it. It felt so wrong, it felt so right. Don't mean I'm in love tonight. I kissed a girl and I liked it!"

I jumped down off the table. Everyone was watching me. They seemed entertained. Good. I had behaved weirdly and in an interesting manner. Let that female Templar take that report home. I ordered another Coke and rum. The bartender was laughing. He said I really knew how to party. I took the drink and looked around. I was thinking about my behavior and now I got a case of the giggles. My giggles escalated into me doubled over with laughter. People around me were laughing and clapping. I looked around. I thought I saw some familiar faces… would people remember me doing this later? That thought made me laugh even harder until I woke.



"I Kissed a Girl" lyrics copyright Katey Perry

Maybe you should try talking to these "Templars." I admit I don't play video games and I'm unfamiliar with Assassin's Creed, but I've read in Laberge's book that it can be insightful to converse with dream characters that are antagonizing you, rather than killing them or running. As in, they might be some part of yourself that you should examine. Just a thought.

I was at school. I was looking around. I was really bored in class. I didn't recognize the other students. I left the room. The instructor asked where I was going and I ignored him. Outside there were people standing around. Other instructors… but they all looked like androids. One of them said I couldn't leave. I did a spontaneous nose-pinch reality check. I could still breathe. I was dreaming!

I told the instructors that it was my dream, so I could do whatever I wanted. I walked out of the building and they didn't stop me. When I got outside I thought I would fly. I jumped into the air and flew. I was flying over Tucson. I tried to open a portal… nothing. I tried again and it opened. I flew through the portal…

And I found myself in the mall. I was in a beautiful blue dress like the one I was wearing in the 'Beauty and the Beast' dream entry #327. Q was there. I was dancing with Q. Right in a clear area of the food court I was dancing with Q. That felt wonderful. Like I was off in some dream… but at the same time I forgot I was dreaming.


I danced with Q and I felt completely weightless, and like I didn't have a problem in the world. Everything was right with the world. But too soon the dance was over… and Q was gone. I left the food court and ran into my mother. She was mad at me. She asked how much money I had wasted on the dress. I didn't know. She looked at a tag and got madder.

"You spent $1500 on this thing?!" she asked, "You'd better try to take it back!"

I went to a dress store in the mall. I somehow had the dress off and casual clothes on. I tried to exchange the dress. They refused. There was another dress store at the mall. I went there. They also wouldn't take it. I cursed to myself. I'd put the dress on my credit card… and now I'd have to pay it. That sucked. I left the dress store. Now there were security people after me. The store owner was saying I had jacked the dress! I did not! I would now have to pay for the dress and not get to keep it! No way! I took off. I was chased into the food court. I noticed there was a dome over the room. I did a spontaneous nose-pinch reality check. I could breathe! I was dreaming!


I flew up towards the dome. I left the dress behind. I had no need of it. I flew right through the roof of the mall. I focused on opening a portal. I opened one and flew through it…


On the other side I was in a strange place. It looked like a massive underground cavern. There was a dragon there. The dragon was a big one. He was red and he looked pretty nasty. He was surrounded by fire and lightning. He still looked awesome. Nasty, but still awesome. He looked powerful. I was admiring the dragon for a couple of minutes before I realized I wasn't alone there. There were other people there with me… and it looked like they were engaged in battle with the dragon.

I took flight and flew out into the cavern where I could see the dragon better. The other people were attacking the dragon. One of them asked where I'd been. He said I was late. I didn't know what he was talking about. But I did see that there was a fight with this dragon. I was compelled to help the people being attacked. But not to kill the dragon… just to defeat it.

It was quite hard to figure out what was going on. I was a bit disoriented. But I could focus well enough to do spells. I was dreaming and I would use my powers now. I flew towards the dragon and used the song Enter Sandman. A spiral of light energy blasted from the floor to the ceiling and a spiral of dark energy came from the ceiling to the ground. In the middle there was a huge explosion. The structure of the cavern shook. Ok… maybe not a good idea… I would have to change my approach…

I tried to look around and see what everyone else was doing. I could vaguely make out that there were four other people. I couldn't even tell who they were. I tried to clear my head. I turned around just in time to see the dragon breath a blast of flaming lightning at me. A shield formed in front of me. I wondered if one of my allies had formed it. I hadn’t been paying attention… I formed Witchblade armor and into a sword. I would attack the dragon directly so it wouldn't bring the cavern down around our ears. I found myself dueling with the thing's tail! There was a massive spear type end on the tip of its tail! I flew up and over the tail to attack closer to the head. My view of everything went really bad here…

There is a segment of missing time…

I was out in front of the dragon. I had no idea how I'd come to be there. There was a blast of flaming lightning heading towards one of my allies. I flew up and got between the ally and the dragon. I used Whiplash to send the blast of flaming lightning right back at the dragon. He got a face full of his own attack.

More missing time…

I was flying near the edge of the cavern. Someone said to hit the dragon with one more ice attack should do it. I focused on the song Trapped Under Ice which filled the cavern with a blizzard. The dragon was completely encased in ice. I frozen dragon inside a solid mass of ice. I landed in front of the dragon. It was not able to do any more. I scanned it and saw it was still alive. Good. I hadn't wanted to kill it.

"Is it over?" one of my allies asked.

"I think so," another one said.

I was trying to identify my allies. All I could tell was that they were all men. I felt some annoyance. I already knew that every one of them looked down on me just because I am a woman… every one of them felt superior to me even though they're not. I had half a mind to kick all of their asses right there… but no… they were my allies… not enemies… Besides, where was this anger coming from?

"Raven?" one of the men said as he came over to me, "Are you alright?"

I looked at the man. I could not see him clearly. But I sensed he was a friend. And I didn't sense any hostility or even antagonistic attitude. "Yeah," I told him, "I'll be fine."

"But…" he started. Then he was interrupted as the ice around the dragon was cracking.

"Here we go again!" yelled one of the other men. But the dragon didn't attack.

"Enough!" he roared, "You have proven yourselves!"

Proven ourselves? What was this, some kind of test? A game? And why were we playing it? I was thinking I shouldn't have interfered. Whoever these people were had been taking a test and I had interfered. The dragon was talking to us. I couldn't make out what he was saying. He talked for a while. And then he took out some strange crystals. The crystals were red. He was passing them out to everyone. He got to me and handed me three crystals. I told him I couldn't; I had cheated. He said that was absurd and gave me the crystals. He told one of the others that I needed a healing session.

"I'm fine," I said.

The man who had been concerned about me before was beside me again.

"Raven?" he said. His voice was coming from a long way away. Echoing.

"What?" I asked.

"We need to get you back," he said. He had his arms around me to help. It felt nice. A portal opened and we all went through. I vaguely remember participating in a group healing. The golden and blue and white energies felt wonderfully relaxing. Everything faded to black as I woke.

I fell asleep with my light / sound machine on. Nomad had said he wanted to visit Angelina. MoSh wanted to visit Sydney. I figured I would go to Angelina's area with Nomad… I liked the idea of spending some time with the animals. So I fell asleep with that in mind. I slipped into a WILD…

I was in the biodome on the moon. I was beside the koi pond. I looked into the pond at the colorful fish. I was supposed to meet with Nomad. I wondered where he was. I wandered out of the biodome into the moon. There was a man there, though he wasn't looking at me.

"Who are you?" I asked. I immediately thought it was a Templar… but before I could say or do anything an anvil fell from nowhere and smashed his head in. I looked up in the sky wondering where that had come from. I hadn't been singing the Anvil Song… I looked around and spotted Nomad.

"Did you drop an anvil on him?" I asked.

"Yeah," he said laughing.

"Let's go back to my inner world and we can see Angelina," I said. I opened a portal to Angelina's are of my inner world. Nomad followed me through…

On the other side we were in a beautiful place. There were trees and flowers everywhere. About ten wolves were standing around us. They were glaring in our direction, teeth bared and growling. WTF?

"Hey, Angelina!" I called, "What's with the wolves?"

Angelina came from the trees. "They just don't like your friend," she said.

"Friend?" I asked as I looked behind us. There was a man standing there looking at the wolves. Nomad and I stepped out of the circle of wolves. They closed in around the man and growled menacingly. They were circling him. He seemed nervous by their behavior.

"They don't want you here," I said, "You might want to leave." I opened a portal back to the moon where we had come from. It opened right next to the Templar viewer.

"Yeah," he said, "Maybe later…" He turned and went through the portal. It closed behind him.

"Where'd you send him?" Nomad asked.

"The moon," I said, "Outside the biodome."

"You should've sent him to the inside of a volcano," Nomad said, "A nice lava bath."

"Nah," I said, "Not necessary."

"So," Angelina said, "How's it going with you?"

Angelina and Nomad went off to talk to each other. I sat down near a stream. I found I had a lot of friendly wolves around me. So while Nomad was talking to Angelina I was petting on a bunch of wolves! I did that until I woke.

I was in a familiar place. I looked around. I was in the biodome. Right by the koi pond. I watched the fish for a few minutes. They were pretty. Watching them was very relaxing. I got up and wandered a bit. I didn't realize I was dreaming. I thought it was such a nice place I have found to relax. I stared at the fish for a good long time. I thought about things. The entire scene seemed a bit surreal. I looked around to see if anything looked like I might be dreaming. I was now thinking about dreaming. I saw that I wasn't alone. Nomad was there. He was half jaguar and half human. He was dressed as an Assassin, though. I thought that was strange. A cat man… and an Assassin… both not likely in my waking life. I did a nose-pinch reality check. I could still breathe. That could only mean one thing… I was dreaming! I became lucid…

"So," Nomad said, "Are you ready to kick that fake Santa's ass?"

"Let's do it!" I said.

"I'm coming," a man said as he came through a portal. It was Bakura. A fox ran through the portal and then changed into Fox McCloud. I did a double take at that. Fox had a double bladed knife that he was spinning by the handle in the middle. Altaïr also came through the portal. I noticed Nomad looking at him strangely. Before he could say anything another portal opened. It was Batman. I did a double take at him. He said he had been tracking our target through multiple dimensions and he wanted to be in on the capture. There was another bat man there. It was Koomo, Nomad's guide. He fused with Batman to form a strange result. Batman with real bat wings, claws on his hands, and fangs. He shot up into the air with one flap of his wings and glided back to the ground. Another portal opened and Sorna was there, followed by Selene.

"Anyone else coming?" I asked.

"Me!" came a voice as someone I didn't recognize came through a portal. He looked like he was part cat and part… um… I wasn't sure what… rabbit? He was hopping. A cabbit! There was a cabbit here! I scooped the cabbit into my arms and looked at him. He was sooooo cute! He immediately hopped out of my arms and turned into a person. I still didn't recognize him. "Where are we going?" he asked.

"To kick the ass of an evil Santa Clause," I said.

"Cool!" he said, "I'm coming!"

"Ok," I said. I opened a portal, focusing on getting to the place Q had described to me earlier. A portal opened and we all went through it…

On the other side of the portal we were in the sky. There was a sleigh below us, flying. It was being pulled by eight reindeer. There was a huge sack on the back of the sleigh and Santa Clause was sitting on the front of the sleigh. Although Santa looked normal he seemed to have an aura of darkness around him. He felt wrong. Altaïr dropped from the sky and landed on the back of the sleigh behind the bag.

"Hey!" I yelled at Santa from where I hovered in the air, "Shithead! I know you're a fraud! Prepare to have your rotten ass kicked!"

Santa turned and glared at me. A glare that I would have never thought was possible on Santa Clause… and then his face started to change. It turned from flesh colored to a dull grey. He grinned to reveal rows of razor sharp teeth. He now looked more like a demon than like Santa Clause…

Batman had snagged the sleigh with a with the bat hook and he was pulling at the back of it. That was making the sleigh nearly impossible to control. Altaïr was clinging onto the bag in the back of the sleigh. And he was also climbing over it towards the demonic Santa. The sleigh sped past me going virtually out of control. I flew after the sleigh. Altaïr got over the bag of toys and slid down behind the demon Santa. I saw him activate his hidden blade and bury it in Santa's back. The demon Santa dropped the reigns and reached back trying to get hold of Altaïr. Bakura and Fox McCloud were hitting the demon Santa from both sides with energy blasts. Nomad was hitting him from the front.

"You charade is over, demon!" I yelled at the demon Santa, "No more innocents will suffer because of you!" I hit him with a bolt of lightning. I telekinetically from the sleigh. Altaïr was still hanging off of his back by his hidden blade. Altaïr's own weight made the blade cut downward until he fell back into the sleigh. He grabbed the reigns and tried to pull the sleigh back under control. It banked hard to the left briefly, causing the bag to spill some toys out. Batman was flying below the sleigh catching them. Bakura and Fox McCloud were also catching the toys. Altaïr got the sleigh under control.

The demon Santa changed back to the form of a jolly Santa. "Why would you stop an old man from delivering toys to the good children of the world?"

"You're not fooling anyone, demon!" I told the demon Santa.

Now Santa transformed even more. He was the demon Santa from earlier but now he had huge bat wings coming from his back and a long scaly tail. It dived at Nomad. Nomad punched him and he went flying backwards into a drift of snow. The man I didn't recognize blasted the demon Santa with a blast of energy. The demon Santa exploded in a rain of green slimy worms that looked like moving mucous. The guy I didn't recognize said he was going to puke. Nomad told him he wouldn't.

All of the worms gathered together and formed something really disgusting. It no longer even vaguely resembled Santa. It was a disguising blob. It came at me. I hit it with a bolt of lightning. That knocked it out of the sky. Nomad pounced on it as it was trying to get up. The two of them were wrestling on the ground. The thing's arm turned to a spear which it ran through Nomad's stomach. It pulled back and laughed a demonic sounding laugh. I did a quick rendition of Voices and sent the healing energy to Nomad. His wound healed.

"Thought you could use a healing spell!" I called.

Bakura and Fox McCloud were both now attacking the creature with swords. They were slicing away at it. Altaïr had apparently gotten very good control of the reindeer and the sleigh as he now steered them right over the creature such that it got trampled into the ground halfway and then sliced in half with the runners of the sleigh. Altaïr soared back into the sky. Some green worms fell from the sleigh where it had cut through the creature. I used Damage, Inc. to incinerate the loose worms with fire.

The two halves of the creature each formed a mutant dog thing now. The two creatures split in opposite directions. I called to Nomad to go after one of them while I went after the other. Bakura and Fox McCloud followed after Nomad while Altaïr flew low next to me. I jumped onto the sleigh and held on as we flew after the creature as it tried to disappear into the snowy woods. We caught up and were flying over the creature. I jumped out of the sleigh and onto the creature. I led the way with a ball of fire used by Damage, Inc. The creature was incinerated completely.

I looked into the sky where the sleigh had gone. It flew low over me again and Altaïr jumped out. He landed right beside me. I asked him who was flying the sleigh. He said Batman was. He said Batman was going to deliver the toys. He said Sorna and Selene had cleansed them of their curses. He said it also looked like the curse magnet they had made was pulling the curses off of the toys that were already in the houses.

"Perfect," I said, "Now… wasn't I going to do something else? Yeah. Build a snowman. I decided this would be an easy task. I used telekinesis. I rolled a gigantic snowball. It was about two stories high. I rolled a second and third snowball, the second snowball was about one story tall and the third one, for the head, was half a story tall. Two large boulders made the eyes, a fallen tree made the nose, and a line of smaller boulders made the mouth. It was done! Second task: done.

I looked over to where Nomad had gone. Nomad came over to Altaïr and me.

"Where's the sleigh?" he asked, "Where are the toys?"

"Batman is delivering them," I said.

"Batman?" Nomad asked in surprise, "With the bat wings? The claws? The fangs?"

"Yeah," I said, "That one. I think it's very nice of him to do that."

"If those kids see him," Nomad started, "They'll…" Nomad started cracking up with laughter.

I opened a portal back to the biodome. We all went through it, although I had to steer a laughing Nomad through the portal. Once on the other side we did a group healing session to cleans off any negative energy any of us might have picked up. The golden energy was very relaxing. I was in Bakura's arms when I fell asleep in the dream state… and woke up in my own bed with only my blankets holding me.

I spent the night with my friend Alicia tonight. She is still sick. I haven't noticed any change, and she hasn't reported any change in how she feels. I did a healing massage before bed and then I fell asleep with my light / sound machine on and I slipped into a WILD…

I was in Alicia's room. Alicia was on her bed sleeping. There was someone there with her! I looked at that person for a minute. It was a man I didn't recognize. He was bathing Alicia in golden energy. Alicia's dream or astral (I couldn't tell which) body floated out of her physical body. She was floating in some golden rings now. The rings looked kind of like this picture. But her position and the orientation of the energy looked more like the picture of the woman here.


"Hey!" I said to the man. He noticed me for the first time. He turned towards me and smiled.

"The healing is just getting started," he said, "She might not notice any difference right away, it might take time."

"Who are you?" I asked, "And what are you doing to her?"

"You already know who I am," he said, "Or at least you know who I work for… or you THINK you know. As for what I am doing, I am healing your friend."

"Sure you are," I said, "And in my waking life I'm the fucking Queen of England!"

"Not with that language," he said.

"Now what are you REALLY doing to her?" I asked, "You'd better not hurt her!"

"I told you I'm HEALING her," he said, "But you obviously don't believe me. Come on. Contribute your own healing energy. It's quite powerful."

"I'm taking her to the healing stream," I said, "In the Healing Glen."

"Ok," he said, "Let's go then."

"Let's?" I asked, "You expect me to bring you with me?"

"Of course," he said, "I can help you heal her."

"You really expect me to believe you're healing her?" I asked.

"Take a look at the energy I'm using," he said, "It's healing energy. I'm sure you can see that."

I looked at the golden energy surrounding Alicia. I scanned it. It appeared to be pure healing energy. I reached out and touched the energy field to directly feel the energy. It was warm and relaxing, just like the golden energy we produce with our group healings. There was no sign of anything harmful in it. I wasn't really sure how to tell him to get lost when it really looked like he was healing Alicia. But he couldn't be healing her! He's a Templar! Templars don't heal people! I wasn't sure what to say. So I used Through the Never to open a portal to the Healing Glen. A portal opened. I took Alicia's floating body into my arms. The gold energy rings broke in a small flash. I carried Alicia through the portal and the man followed me.

On the other side we were in the Healing Glen.

"There's a stream over here that washes away impurities," I said as I headed towards the stream.

"We're in the dream state now, aren't we?" the Templar asked.

"Yeah," I said, "But technically it's a parallel dimension. The stream is over here."

I lied Alicia in the stream. I summoned a pillow for her head so that when I lied her on her stomach her face was kept out of the water. I focused on the song Voices from the Macross Plus soundtrack as I massaged Alicia from head to toe. Golden rings were surrounding both of us now. I wondered if they really were just for healing… or if it was doing something else. It felt ok. The energy felt pure. It was just hard to connect the kind of energy I was feeling with where it was coming from… Since nothing seemed to be wrong with it I kept focusing on healing Alicia with a combination of the song Voices and the energy massage. I repeated the song Voices three times. When the third play finished I stood up. The golden rings stopped. I noticed the Crystal Golem was right behind the Templar. He was giving the Templar a dirty look.

"Dream warrior, why have you brought such evil to a sacred place?" he asked.

"Huh?" I asked.

"Him," the Crystal Golem said, "He does not belong here."

"I thought healing was for anyone who needs it," I said.

"There are those that cannot be healed," he said, "Like this one. He has a black heart."

"Now wait a minute," the Templar said, "I came here to help heal her friend. I…"

"You cannot fool me," the Crystal Golem said, "I see what you really are."

"That's ok," I said, not really wanting trouble to break out in the Healing Glen, "We were just leaving. I won't bring him back."

"You should choose…" the Crystal Golem started.

But I was already using Through the Never to open a portal back to Alicia's room. A portal opened. I shoved the Templar through the portal and followed through with Alicia in my arms. I lied Alicia's dream / astral body back into her physical body. I turned around and looked at the man who was still in the room with me.

"Exactly why were you trying to heal her?" I asked.

"What else would you expect?" he asked, "You've been told a lot of falsities about us," he said, "So it's not surprising you think the worst."

I looked at Alicia a bit closer. I was looking for any sign of negative energy. There was nothing there. It was still hard to reconcile the idea a Templar had been healing her. So what was he really after? I wasn't sure. I watched Alicia sleep for a bit longer before everything around me faded to black and I woke.

I bet they are really healing her, but just to gain your trust, not because they want to, Or something along those lines.