Thread: Raven Knight's Dream Travels

I fell right back asleep and merged back into the dream I had left. I looked around and wondered if anyone had even noticed that I had been gone. There was a portal opened. I saw people going through it. MoSh, Nomad, Basara, Q, Angel, and a whole bunch of the people from the temple were going through. A woman's voice in my head urged me to follow them… I got an image of Galadriel from Lord of the Rings in my mind as I heard her.

On the other side we were in a really strange place. It looked sort of like a really twisted Escher drawing… where the stairs go backwards and upside down and sideways and it is impossible to tell which way is up or down… it was really very disorienting.

"Focus on my voice," said a woman from inside my head. I got an image of Galadriel from Lord of the Rings. I suddenly remembered an angel had temporarily fused with me… and that was her talking to me right now. She said the strange appearance of the inner world reflected the current state of mind… which appeared to be quite disoriented. I agreed it was disorienting. I asked her what were we supposed to do. She said to unite the inner mind with the outer mind.. unite her inner self with her outer self. We had to find both.

Ok… finding anything in this place could be hard. I saw MoSh was looking around strangely. I wondered where to find this woman's inner or outer minds or selves… I really had no idea of where to even start. But Galadriel was speaking to me inside my mind… and she seemed to know what she was doing, so I followed her instructions. Galadriel instructed me a couple of locations to open portals. I did. There were insane DC's all over the place yelling random crap at me and the others. It was a bit distracting, but I focused on what Galadriel was saying.

In a small room we found there was a woman there. She was sitting by herself and looked lonely. It looked like she might have been trapped in that room. Galadriel told me to take the woman's hand. I saw an angel come through another portal and take the woman's other hand. The woman seemed happy to have company. So I had the woman's left hand, someone on my left took my hand… it was like we were forming a chain or something… I couldn't see what was going on. Then Galadriel said to focus the healing energy through now. I focused on the song Full Moonlight… it felt like the appropriate healing spell.

Suddenly I felt a surge of energy flowing through me… positive energy, healing energy. I'd had my eyes closed to focus on the spell, but now I opened them and I could see the other people around me were glowing with a radiant white light. The light continued to become brighter until it was blinding. I closed my eyes against the brightness but it was still extremely bright even against the back of my closed eyelids. The bright light continued as the healing spell continued… and as the final song I used was ending everything around me faded to white and I woke… which is unusual since things usually fade to black…

I was in a forest. I saw a small pond nearby. The forest looked vaguely familiar. I wondered if I could somehow be in the biodome… but it wasn't right for the biodome. (Damn… if I had thought it was the biodome I would've done an RC!) I started looking around. I was trying to think how I had come to be there. It was weird that I couldn't figure that out. I heard some sounds. Not very loud, but it sounded like a couple of people. I walked through the trees and peeked in the direction of the sounds. There were two people, a man and a woman, making out next to the pond. They were kissing a lot. I could feel my face turn red at intruding on an obviously private moment. I pulled my face back into the trees just a second too late. Damn!

"Raven!" the woman called out, "It's ok! You can come out! MoSh was waiting for you!"

She had called me Raven. I liked that. I couldn't remember getting anyone IWL to call me Raven before, except maybe Allison on occasion. She had said MoSh was waiting for me… MoSh? Man of Shred? Here in Tucson? Wait… this didn't look like Tucson… we don't have trees like this in Tucson… so where was I? I finally decided to do a reality check. I held my nose and tried to breathe. I was able to! I was dreaming. I became lucid…

I was still feeling kind of embarrassed for intruding. I told Asuka I could go if she wanted to be left alone with MoSh… I completely understood. She said no, it was fine. She had to get back to Shawna and the baby. She said mew was watching over them right now. I asked her if she has seen eevee around anywhere. She said no. I wondered what might have happened to eevee… I distinctly remember MoSh having an eevee…

"MoSh!" Asuka called, "Raven's here!"

"Now?" MoSh asked.

"It can wait," I told Asuka quickly, "I can go check on mew and the kids if you want…"

"No, no," Asuka said, "I'm sure we'll have more dreams together. Many more." She walked away into the trees.

MoSh was right beside me now. I was apologizing for interrupting. He said he probably wouldn't remember this dream anyway… I told him that was a negative view… why not try being more positive? He said he was positive he wouldn't remember the dream. I rolled my eyes. I said I had come here because he wanted to find his dream guide. He said yes, he did. He said maybe he could start remembering more once he had a decent DG. No more flakey Q's.

I focused on opening a portal. I asked MoSh if he could find the dream guide of someone he had called Erik. He said yeah and opened another portal. I closed mine and we went through his portal. On the other side it looked like we were on a stage. There were instruments being set up. I looked out and saw a big arena, but the seats were mostly empty. The bright lights were on. It was clearly not show time yet. There was a man there like MoSh had described. He was pretty tall and had long black hair peppered with some gray. He was wearing a cool looking leather jacket and tuning a black bass guitar. He looked up when we arrived. He set his guitar down and came over. I looked at the rest of the stage. There were a few other people there that weren't paying any attention to us.

"Let's go somewhere we can talk," the man said. He indicated us to go out a door in the back of the stage. I followed him and MoSh through the door. In the back there was a comfortable room. The man closed the door behind us and then looked at us.

"You are Raven Knight," he said. He must have seen the surprised look on my face. "Yes, I have heard of you. Many people have heard of you even if you have not heard of them. You and your shared dreaming friends are making quite a stir in the different planes and even in the different dimensions. You're stirring up enemies and allies alike."

"We spoke before," MoSh said, "But I woke up before we could talk for long."

"Yes," the man said, "I remember that, MoSh. You are seeking a dream guide. What you don't realize is you already have one."

"Q?" MoSh asked, "He's never around. Asuka helps when she can, but she's not really a dream guide."

"No," the man said, "Not Q or Asuka. That Q was a young fool, barely a couple centuries old. He didn't have a clue what he was getting himself into when Raven's guide asked him to help you. Asuka is a beautiful, loving person, but no, she has not been around long enough to serve as a true guide. Your true guide has been watching you from afar. He has been with you for quite some time."

"Then why haven't I seen him?" MoSh asked.

"Because you don't know how to look," the man said, "And you don't know how to listen. Your guide has set this up as, well, as sort of a test. He wants you to become aware of his presence before he contacts you. I think he has been one of us so long he has forgotten what it is like to be a corporeal entity limited by corporeal senses. While it is possible that you could find him, it could take many lifetimes for your senses to be acute enough to find him. Several of our kind haven't been able to spot him very easily. So I think a shortcut is in order. Come over here and I'll share a couple of hints with you."

MoSh went over to the man. The man started talking to MoSh. I got closer to hear. The man looked at me strangely. He said he didn't mean any offense, but this information was just for MoSh. He said it didn't have anything to do with me, anyway. I told him I was there partially to help MoSh remember. He said it wouldn't matter if MoSh consciously remembered these things… they would be in his subconscious. So if I didn't mind, please step back. I cooperated, though I was slightly annoyed. I heard music being tuned on the stage. I peeked out the door and saw musicians out there. They were testing their equipment.

"So there you have it," the man said louder to MoSh, "And thank you, Raven, for understanding."

"So he will appear however I want to see him?" MoSh asked.

"He will appear however you will best recognize him," the man said, "So if you have a specific image you prefer, form that in your mind now and connect it with how you want to see your dream guide. Then that is how you will see him. Good luck in your quest. Now it is time for me to go on stage!"

I noticed I could hear the crowd roaring outside. I wanted to hear them play. I was thinking this was cool. I went to the stage door and looked at the band preparing. I was ready for the music but everything around me faded to black and I woke…

I was in a building. I didn't know where I was. I looked around to see what was going on. Allison was with me. She looked at me and smiled. She handed me a shotgun. She said it had infinite ammo. Infinite ammo? Awesome! With the weapon and the setting I decided we were playing a virtual reality video game. I was wondering what the goal was. I asked Allison what was going on. She looked at me strangely… but then she said Janet and Washu were in the lab finding an antidote for the zombie virus, but they needed time to do that. We had to keep the zombies away from the lab until they got the antidote. I asked Allison how long that would be. She said she didn't know… they didn't have a time frame… A portal opened and Nomad came through. Allison said she wasn't going to repeat it again. I told Nomad that we just had to keep the zombies away from the lab. I indicated the door Allison had.

"I got infinite ammo shotguns!" Allison said and she passed one to Nomad. Nomad looked at the shotgun for a bit. He looked like he was about to say something when I heard something on the floor below us. The sound of many bodies moving around down there. Nomad dropped his shotgun as he transformed into a… um… an I'm-not-sure-what. Whatever he was he had big claws. He dug his huge claws into the floor and ripped a section of it out before jumping through the hole and tearing into a bunch of zombies. He headed down the hall to the left, taking out zombies as he went. Allison gave me a strange look.

"What the HELL was that?" she asked.

"That was a Nomad," I said, "Beyond that, I haven't got a clue. Probably a vampire saber toothed werewolf crossed with a demon clown from hell."

Allison just stared at me as if she was trying to decide if I was kidding. She then said we had better get to the zombies before that weird creature killed them all. I looked through the hole. Numerous zombies were reaching for us. There were plenty left. In addition to the zombies down below there were also zombies coming down the hall on our level. I formed Witchblade into armor and a sword. While shooting them with infinite shotgun shells had its appeal I preferred the idea of slicing them apart with my sword. So while Allison headed one direction and took care of zombies her own way I turned the other direction and proceeded to start cutting limbs off of the decaying freaks. And they were actively decaying… they even had bugs crawling around in their decaying flesh… yuck! (barf)

While there were many zombies, they were fairly slow moving and didn't seem too intelligent. Typical zombies. We all managed to hold the zombies away from the lab entrance. Finally after what seemed like forever the lab door opened and Janet stuck her head cautiously out. She said she had the antidote. Allison said we had to get to the stargate. I wondered where Nomad had gone off to. Janet asked Allison if she really thought the stargate could get them through time to allow they to prevent this disaster from ever happening. Allison said yes, it could… but we had to get to the stargate. Nomad jumped up through the hole he had made on the floor and threw something back down. That something exploded, throwing zombie parts everywhere. A splat of rot landed on my left cheek.

"Ew!" I said as I brushed and wiped the revolting stuff off of me.

"To the stargate," Allison said, "Someone cover the rear… and I need someone to help me take out the ones in our way!"

Nomad stayed behind the group and I was up front with Allison. There were plenty more zombies to make our way through. The progress seemed to be very slow… but finally we ended up in the stargate room. The gate stood large at the top of the ramp in the center of the room. Allison went up to the control room and set the coordinates for the stargate. It started dialing. It seemed to be taking forever. The door behind us was closed, but I could hear the zombies pounding on the other side. Nomad was standing by the door waiting in case any zombie happened to make it through. I was watching the door from farther back. I would pick off any that Nomad missed.

The gate finished dialing, and the zombies still hadn't penetrated. Allison came from the control room and told everyone to go through the gate. We all went through the gate. Janet, Washu, Allison, me, and then Nomad. We were just jumping through the gate as I heard the outer door give way to the attacking zombies.

On the other side we all kind of fell out of the stargate. I came out of the stargate and rolled to a stop right beside Allison. Allison got up and moved just in time… Nomad came flying out of the gate and landed right on top of me… People were looking at us all strangely. We were in the stargate room again… but it wasn't the same as it had been moments ago. I knew why. We had gone through time. This was the stargate room before the zombie virus outbreak. This was before the world started going to pot… before Gil Grissom had been infected and turned into a zombie…

I saw Allison trying to explain things. She had extra credibility since Janet was there with her. I walked over towards her and then I heard someone calling in my mind… MoSh? He was saying something had happened to Asuka? I told Nomad that Asuka was in trouble… she had been kidnapped by Templars… Allison was close by, but apparently not quite close enough to hear everything.

"Those Templar Bast turds are doing what now?"

"They have Asuka," I told her, relaying what MoSh was telepathically telling me, "They'll only return her in exchange for someone from us… they want P. It seems they aren't really interested in A as long as they can get P back…"

"Then we’ll just have to give them P," Nomad said.

"Not likely," I said.

"No one said it would be the real P," Nomad said.

"Let's not give them anything," Allison said, "Let's just kick their fucking asses!"

"That sounds like a plan to me," I said, thinking that kicking some Templar asses sounded fun.

MoSh was telepathically protesting that we didn't know exactly where Asuka was, so he didn't want to do anything that would put her in more danger. I responded that she was already in more danger. Allison said she was ready to kick some… *poof* she was gone. I yelled to the air for Allison to come back, this is no time to wake up! D'Oh!

So the plan ended up like this. The Templars wanted to exchange Asuka for P. They had set up a meeting place on a temporary stage in a parking lot surrounding by large buildings. Nomad and I showed up there with a fake P. MoSh was around as well, though he was invisible. Nomad said that way if they tried something we would have an ace up our sleeve. But they didn't try anything. The trade went smoothly. They took the fake P and seemed to have fallen for the trick.

Asuka was not looking good. She was looking really sick. She was pale and looked very weak. I wondered what those assholes had done to her. MoSh became visible. He was standing there looking at Asuka in stunned horror. It seemed he was unable to move. I commented on the obvious, that Asuka clearly needed healing. I said we could take her to the Healing Glen. Asuka took some weak steps forward and collapsed into MoSh's arms. She was crying and clutching onto MoSh. She said she wanted to go home. MoSh said she needed healing. She kept crying that she wanted to go home. Q appeared and looked at Asuka. He said we could take Asuka to the Healing Glen by force, but that might further traumatize her. He said her condition was stable, so maybe she should go home with MoSh for now and maybe he could calm her down. I was thinking that sounded like a good plan when everything around me faded to black and I woke.

Thanks again for all your help lately Raven!

Originally Posted by eternalstar01

Wow, that picture is gorgeous!

I don't know how she found that picture, but that is so much what it looks like! It gave me chills.

That last dream made me cry reading it.

I didn't mean to wake up! Many apologizes!

Originally Posted by WarriorTiger

I didn't mean to wake up! Many apologizes!

No worries. We kicked Templar ass together the very next night!

I was in the biodome. I recognized it right away. I looked around to see where I was. I knew if I was there then I must be dreaming. I could see several landmarks that only exist in the biodome. I walked a ways and I found there was someone else there. There was a young man who looked somewhat familiar. I looked at him for a moment, trying to remember his name. It annoyed me that all I could think of at the time was an assortment of baked goods…

"What are you doing here, Raven?" he asked.

"Huh?" I asked.

"I thought I said I didn't want to share dreams," he said, "Or are you a DC?"

"A DC?" I asked, "No. I'm not a DC. And you seem to know who I am… you are…"

"Loaf!" he said, sounding irritated, "What are you doing in my dream?"

"Your dream?" I asked, "This is the moon. This is the biodome… it's a public place. Anyone can come in here as long as they're not hostile… so it's not really a good place to come if you don't want to share dreams."

"So if I was to do this…" Loaf came over and kicked me in the leg quite hard.

"Hey!" I said, "What'd you do THAT for?"

"Hostile behavior detected," Stephanie said, "Initiating…"

"Security system override," I said, "Raven Knight."

"Alert cancelled," Stephanie said.

"How about…" Loaf started…

"Hey there, Raven," a familiar voice said from behind me, "Let's go somewhere to be alone. No need to hang around with idiots who aren't even out of diapers yet."

"You're right about not hanging around with people in diapers," I said to James, my ex fiancé, "Of course that means you'll have to leave… I can smell your diapers from over here." I held my nose to indicate I smelled something foul.

"That's coming from the baby beside you," James said as he pointed at Loaf.

"Stephanie?" I said to the security system, "Teleport that asshole…"

"Fuck off!" Loaf said and he seemed to be focusing on something. He made a fireball in his hand and threw it at James. James caught fire and was fully engulfed in flames… and laughing at the same time. He gathered all of the fire into a fireball in his hand and compressed it to the size of a golf ball. He threw it at Loaf, he threw it hard. It hit Loaf and exploded, throwing Loaf back onto the ground.

"You want to play?" James asked, glaring at Loaf, "Fine! I'm going to rip you to…"

"Hey!" I said to James, "How about you pick on someone your own size? If you want to fight, come get me!" I fixed my best glare on James. "Or are you afraid?"

James looked at me and then over at Loaf, who was getting up on the ground. "Wait a minute," James said laughing, "Is THAT your new boyfriend?!" he was practically rolling on the floor laughing, "Your new boyfriend isn't even out of his diapers! You are so pathetic!"

"Only a pervert like you would come up with that," I said to James, "You are sick. Wait… I was in the middle of saying something… yeah. Stephanie? Teleport James to the center of the sun, please."

"Ok, Raven Knight," the voice of the security system said. James disappeared before he realized what I had said. "Stephanie?" I asked.

"Yes, Raven Knight?" she responded.

"Why didn't you teleport James out for attacking Loaf?" I asked, thinking that move should've definitely been identified as a hostile act.

"You had given a security override," Stephanie said.

"That wasn't for everyone," I said, "James didn't count for that! As a matter of fact, I want you to always assume that James is a hostile and teleport him out immediately. Got it?"

"Yes, Raven Knight," the voice said.

"Good," I said. I looked over to see where Loaf was. He had wandered off or woken up… Everything around me faded to black as I woke.

How the hell did he get in there in the first place? hm....

Originally Posted by WakingNomad

How the hell did he get in there in the first place? hm....

From what I understand, he doesn't mean any hostility toward Raven. He seems like he comes wanting to be forgiven, and then he is attacked or insulted for his sheer stupidity. Stephanie might not have seen him as a threat because he wasn't, until he pissed Loaf off by interrupting.

Originally Posted by Royalpeach

From what I understand, he doesn't mean any hostility toward Raven. He seems like he comes wanting to be forgiven, and then he is attacked or insulted for his sheer stupidity. Stephanie might not have seen him as a threat because he wasn't, until he pissed Loaf off by interrupting.

Maybe you are right. I have to think about that for awhile.

Originally Posted by WakingNomad

How the hell did he get in there in the first place? hm....

Since the system automatically tried to cleanse the dark energy from Walms and he saw that as an attack the system is set to send people out based on their behavior and intent. Since James didn't come in with the intent of attacking Loaf (he doesn't even know who Loaf is) that was not detected.

My last dream involved me using healing spells on both A and P. Instead of going through all the details of how I woke up in my inner world and became lucid, I will just post what happened in the healings:

P: I used the song Devour by Disturbed on P again. It has always been the song that feels like the right one to use. He continued cursing at me the entire time. Calling me all sorts of nasty things. I really don't like him… I never have. I am beginning to wonder if maybe my dislike of him is interfering with my healing. It makes no sense since I have had to heal people I don't like before and it worked fine… but either that or he is just way harder to heal than anyone else I have healed… or there's another source of dark energy in him…

A: A actually seemed glad to see me. She said it can get a bit lonely with only DC's in there. I told her that her energy was pretty much cleared, so she should be able to go home soon. She seemed happy at that thought. She asked when. I said in the next few days. The song I felt drawn to use is the same one I have used on her the past several times… Love Will Save Your Heart from the Macross 7 soundtrack. Golden energy flowed through A and she seemed to be accepting it willingly, even absorbing it as if she wanted it. I thought that was a really good sign. I was just turning to leave when she started talking.

"Wait a minute," A said, "I just want you to hear what I have to say… and then you can decide if you believe me or not."

"Ok," I said, "What's up?"

"It's about MoSh," A said.

I rolled my eyes, wishing I hadn't agreed to listen to that. I should've guessed, but I hadn't really thought about what she would want to say.

"You really need to know," A said, seeing my response, "You do realize that it is inevitable that he will cast you aside, right? You do know that at the time you need him most that is when he will turn his back on you, right?"

"No, I don't," I said, "No one can know for sure how someone will react in an extreme situation."

"He will drop you," A said, "In an instant. If you are forced to learn to use the dark energy inside you? If you can't make it go away? He will turn his back on you… even if you need support to maintain control. He will push you aside just as quickly as he would a complete stranger. You mean nothing to him."

"Are you done?" I asked a bit impatiently.

"You don't believe a word I say," A said, looking distressed, "What will happen when he does turn his back on you? When you need him and he's not there?"

"IF that was to happen, and I emphasize the word IF," I said, "I'll deal with it then. I won't assume it before it happens. That only promises to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. I assume he will cast me aside so I start behaving differently, as having this knowledge would surely change my behavior, which causes him to become annoyed or stressed or to think I don't like him and then he casts me aside. I've played that game with Loaf and it would seem both of us lost… I'm not going to play it with MoSh."

"Fine," A said, "You've been warned."

"Fine," I said, "I count myself warned. Now are you done?"

"Yes," A said sadly. I left through the exit portal Q had opened.

Just remember what she did to him. Also remember how deceptive she is. She tricked all of us. 'Nuff said.

But, wow. Still a cool dream. P just loves his dark energy. It grosses me out.

Sounds like some of that dark energy might still be stuck inside her.

Note: I fell asleep with some goals in mind. The first goal was to heal Asuka after her ordeal with the Templars last night and also do a group healing so we would all be cleansed before going to fight the Templar bass turds that kidnapped her. They need to know not to fuck with us! I fell asleep with my light / sound machine and slipped into a WILD.

I was in the biodome. I looked around to see who else was there with me. There were several other people there. Nomad, Asuka, MoSh, Angel, Allison, Basara, Fox McCloud… no… that was Pablo… It almost looked like everyone had just been waiting for me and I had been late. I wondered if I was late… We all did the group healing. The entire area filled with healing energy. Golden light flowed through everyone and cleansed out some dark stuff that was quickly eliminated by the energy filling the glen. I noticed there was a lot of dark crap coming from MoSh… I'm sure he was pissed about what the Templars did to Asuka. There was also a lot of dark crap from Nomad. I wasn't doing too bad, myself, in terms of releasing a lot of dark crap. Finally the dark stuff seemed to disperse and the healing spells ended.

Nomad seemed to think we needed a plan. I had been considering just going there and kicking their asses. Who needs a plan? It's not like the Templars are a threat to us! Their dream powers pale in comparison! Nomad seemed insistent, though. He opened a portal. We went through into a circular room with a table. There seemed to be more of us there now. I wondered where the others had come from. I didn't make note of who all was there.

I looked over at Nomad. He still looked pissed. I could practically see steam coming out of his ears. I wondered if the healing hadn't been enough. He yelled at no one in particular that we weren't in the moon tower. I figured he was yelling at non-existent Templars when he said they couldn't watch us here. He is yelling a lot about revenge. I went over to Nomad and told him to try to calm down… it seemed he still had dark energy inside him, and that could mean trouble if we went to battle with him like that. He said this is a war, he will make them pay for abducting him. Abducting him? It was Asuka who had been abducted… he took off and crashed through the ceiling. Pieces of dirt rained down on my face as I watched him go.

I took to flying and followed Nomad. He was outside going completely berserk. He was yelling something I couldn't really understand. About rage, about eyes, about a legion of some kind, about time… Wtf? I flew over by Allison. I suggested we go find some Templars to kill. Nomad could do… uh… whatever it was he was doing on his own. Allison stared at Nomad for a bit longer. I saw Nomad fusing with a bunch of somethings I couldn't identify and then he transformed into another huge I-don't-know-what. But whatever it was it seemed Mary and Marty decided it would be better with guns… that figures… they'll attach guns to anything… Nomad kept transforming, now incorporating a bunch of guns into his form… it reminded me of the insane transformation of the main character (I think his name is Frank) in Dean Koontz's book The Bad Place… completely out of control. I wondered if he was out of control…

"Raven!" I finally heard Allison trying to get my attention. I had been staring at Nomad too long. Allison said she thought we were going to kill some Templar Bast turds. She said Nomad can take care of himself… whatever he was changing into… When I turned away from Nomad I could almost identify his form… looked kind of like a werewolf… with guns popping out everywhere…

Allison and I were heading for a castle which we knew was where they had been keeping Asuka. MoSh joined us along the way. He was a giant winged cobra snake. He had an impaled Templar stuck on one of his fangs.

"Ew, MoSh," I said, "You got some crap stuck on your fang…" He shook his head sharply and dislodged the dead Templar.

Allison and I landed. Allison transformed into a werewolf and multiplied herself. I was wondering if she would be able to make 1000 of herself like she had when building her space ship… I used the song Divide by Disturbed to multiply myself into 256. All of the versions of me split up and engaged the Templars in battle. All of me were using my Witchblade sword at the same time as we were calling lightning and fire down to strike at the Templars. It was complete chaos and it was hard to keep track of what was going on until I reformed into one at the entrance to the Templar castle. There were dead Templars there… I was surprised the bodies were still there… I would have expected them to disappear…

MoSh wasn't far behind me. A group of Templars behind burst into bright green flames and then MoSh landed beside me, changing into a human form as he did. He said he was looking for the bastards who had hurt Asuka. He looked seriously pissed off. I said they were probably somewhere in the castle. I said that because that's what Q told me telepathically. Q said Allura had identified two specific Templars who had been especially cruel to Asuka and had enjoyed it way too much. He telepathically gave me images of two particular Templars. I relayed those telepathic images to MoSh. He disappeared into the castle. I went into the castle shortly later.

There were numerous passages through the castle. I wondered if it was made to be deliberately confusing. I wondered where MoSh had gone. I roamed the passages. I found some Templars I had to kill. I was about to kill a specific Templar when I saw he was one of the ones that had been torturing Asuka. I told him that while I would really love to kill him, that pleasure was reserved for someone else. I focused on MoSh's energy signature and formed a vortex portal to send the Templar asshole straight to MoSh.

"Hey, MoSh!" I called through the portal, "I found something for you to play with!" The portal closed.

I finally found the position I was looking for. The center of the castle. I was going to release an immortal fire of pure light energy. I figured it would wipe out the Templars' dark energy without harming our allies… at least I didn't think any of our allies were using dark energy…

"And suddenly, the unreal fire is broken by a lament…" I did the spell, "A lament coming up from the deepest, darkest abyss… and from the seven gates of the dark fortress, the dead come back to life to face them! This is hell!"

I did one last check. Q telepathically confirmed no one on our side was using dark energy. MoSh had even found his other target and… um… dealt with the asshole. So I released the fire of light energy…

"Immortal fire, now rise, light my heart, light my way through the darkness, we're guardians of space and time!"

The wave of white energy expanded outward. The entire castle was shaking. It sounded like someone was pounding on the castle from the outside… no matter. The flames extended all around me in a blinding wave… then everything faded to white and then…

I was standing in the center of the ruined castle. Nomad was still there with me. There was a man there I didn't recognize. All I noticed at the time was that he was hot. He had long blonde hair that looked like it had some black highlights in it. He looked sort of like this picture of Zechs Marquise from Gundam Wing except he was more muscular than Zechs.

He had no shirt on… I could easily see his physique. He wanted to kiss me… uh… I looked into his eyes… one was blue and the other one a deep brown? Odd… but I also saw love there… but how? I didn't even know this man… he came in to kiss me. I found out through the kiss that he was a vampire. He took me in his arms and flew into the sky with me. I remember it being really comforting. Any other details I remember past this are private.

Private huh? Cool!

Note: Once again, the following dream was taken up healing A and P… so I will just list the highlights of the healings instead of the details of becoming lucid and getting to them, etc.

Healing P: My first stop was to do the healing on P since he is usually the more difficult case. I went into his containment area with him. He met me right at the entry portal. He was looking at me strangely. It was a bit creepy, actually. He smirked. I wondered what was going on. I noted the fact he looked like Draco Malfoy with dark hair. Draco from the end of the Harry Potter series where he is an adult, not from the beginning when he is a kid. I figured he was trying to get me off balance somehow. I would just continue and do the usual healing. I walked right past P and into the containment area.

The following event took place before I realized what was happening. P suddenly reached out and grabbed me, pulled me in close, and planted a rather rough kiss right on my lips. I was briefly shocked and then I pushed him away, slapping him hard in the face. He was laughing.

"You keep your filthy hands off me!" I said to P, feeling a bit ill. I could also feel a bit of dark energy in me. I wouldn't have thought he'd have enough dark energy left to give me any.

"You liked that and you know it," P said.

"Sure I enjoyed it…" I said, "About as much as I would enjoy having a root canal and an enema at the same time… After that I need to wash my mouth out with shit to make it cleaner!" I wasn't going to let this set me off balance any further. I focused on using the song Devour by Disturbed on P. The song played through and seemed to have its usual non-effect. I was disappointed. I turned to leave the area. P was yelling at me from behind.

"You do know what's going to happen when I get out of here, right, bitch?" he said in a growling voice, "I'll have all you shit heads begging for death! I'm going to cut you open and watch you bleed! All you shits think you know so much? You don't know what's waiting for you or you would never have fucked with me!" The exit portal opened. That didn't change P's ranting and raving. "You will all burn in the eternal flame! You bitch, Raven! That bastard Nomad! That piece of shit MoSh! And that traitorous bitch A! All of you! And any fool who has made the mistake of working with you!"

"Shut the fuck up," I told him as I left the containment area and the portal closed behind me. I told Q to double check to be sure the containment area was secure. He said sure thing and went to it.

Healing A: I went into the containment area with A. That was much nicer than going in with P. She didn't start yelling at me. She looked over from a bench beside a stream. She had a book there and she was reading it. I looked at the book to see what it was but it disappeared. She said Q had been nice enough to bring her something to read. I told her that if things keep going as it seems they are, she would be able to leave soon. She smiled. I used the song Love Will Save Your Heart on A. Golden energy flowed around and through her. She was willingly accepting it rather than blocking it like P. The song finished and I was ready to go. She asked me to wait.

"If you're just going to be talking more shit about MoSh," I said, "I don't want to hear it."

"Once I'm out," she said, "I need to know that he won't be able to come after me."

"Who?" I asked, "P? He'll still be locked up. He's far to psychotic to let him out."

"That's one thing," she said, "but I don't want MoSh to come, either. I know he'll want revenge…"

"Uh… no," I said, "He just wanted you to leave him alone."

"That was then," she said, "That was before. But now… I don't want to think about what he wants to do to me now… and I don't have the energy to stop him without using that dark energy again… and I don't want to go back to that."

"Ok," I said, feeling a little impatient, "Take a look at this. I summoned a laptop and set it on the bench she had been sitting on. I logged onto Skype. "This is a direct record of what MoSh typed when we were chatting:"

MoSh: "Maybe i should let her know i never held any bad intent towards her. and that i just wanted to be left alone, and she has nothing to fear from me... she never did it was all her and p's crazy dark energy perception"

A read that message several times. She looked at me strangely.

"But that doesn't make any sense…" she said, "P always told me…"

"P is full of shit," I said, "I don't think I've ever heard a true word from his mouth."

"But…" A seemed to be having an internal debate about something but she didn't voice it.

"Believe it or don't," I said, "It's the truth. I have to go wake up. One more healing should do it. Tomorrow night I believe you can go home. I'll be back." I had barely gotten out of the exit portal before everything around me faded to black and I woke.

Maybe I can see about handling it? Just a thought.

Raven Knight, I was wondering... everytime you go to the biodome is it the same as last time? or are there little differences?

Note: Today is the day we figured we could sent A home. MoSh said he would use a healing spell on her so she won't continue to be convinced he is out to get revenge on her. I was focused on this goal as I used my light / Sound machine and slipped into a WILD…

I was in the main dome of the containment area. I saw the three smaller domes in there. One had A inside, the second had P inside, the third had the Prince of Darkness inside since apparently Nomad brought him here to be locked up… Q was there with me, as was MoSh. Q said numerous scans had been done on A and the dark energy was gone. The only thing that could be said to remain was some negative energy regarding MoSh, although it would result in her wanting to stay away from him rather than attack him.

Q opened a portal to get into A's area. I went into the area. MoSh was right behind me. I saw the door to the building close as we got inside. I went over to the building. MoSh was looking around. I went to open the door to the building. Something was barring it. I wondered what. I kept trying and then finally decided I had to get inside by other means. I focused and phased through the solid door into the room beyond. I found the door was blocked by a solid steel beam that had somehow been fused to the wall and the door. A was in the room looking at me as I came through the solid door.

"What is HE doing in here?" A asked, sounding rather alarmed, "I thought you said you'd keep him away! You promised you would!"

I couldn't remember if I had actually promised anything. "I may have promised not to bring anyone in here who wants to hurt you… and I have done so."

"You have not!" A said, "I saw MoSh out there! Just make him go away!"

I thought it was ironic that she seemed to be afraid of MoSh when it has been her attacking him, not the other way around. "Ok…" I said, "I'll go out first and I'll let you know when it's safe to come out."

"When MoSh is gone?" A asked.

"I'll tell you when it's safe," I said. I used an intense blast of fire to melt through the door and the steel beam. A stayed out of direct line of sight of the door. I went outside. MoSh saw me and came over. He asked where A was. I spoke quietly and said she would be out in a minute. I said it seemed she was still thinking he would want revenge… but maybe that was because she thought she deserved it? MoSh didn't answer. I called to A that it was safe to come out now.

"Thank you," A said as she came out of the building, "For a minute there I thought you were going to let… uh… MoSh is still here…" She was staring right at MoSh, then at me. "Why did you bother healing me just to let MoSh…"

I heard some unfamiliar music play, golden energy formed and flowed through A. MoSh was doing a healing spell. After that was done A was actually quiet. MoSh asked if she was ok. She said she was… just that after the things she had done she had been expecting MoSh to be angry… she thought he would want to… She was then apologizing to MoSh, she said she didn't know why she'd done the things she'd done… He said it had been dark energy and P's lies… but really he just wants her to leave him alone for now. She said ok, she wouldn't be going anywhere near him or his dreams… never again. She told me she just wanted to get back home to dream normally again, without dark energy, without P… she asked what had happened to P… she said P had always been there to protect and help her before… what could have gone so wrong? Q appeared. He said he would take A back to her own inner world. Her normal dreams could resume. Both of them disappeared. Everything then faded to black and I woke.

Originally Posted by Dylan xD

Raven Knight, I was wondering... everytime you go to the biodome is it the same as last time? or are there little differences?

It looks very similar... I can't swear it is identical, I often don't notice small details, I just see it as a whole. Since it is on the dream plane and other dreamers have influence over it, it very likely changes a bit.

Originally Posted by Raven Knight

This dream came from somewhere in the late 90's during the time period when the television series Xena: Warrior Princess was being aired. In case anyone doesn't know, the character Callisto was insane and always trying to get revenge on Xena for the destruction of her village. She blamed Xena for the death of her family and would do anything to get her revenge. I was really into the show and I had quite a few dreams about it. This was one:

I was in a strange place. It was a forest. I was on a narrow path through the forest. I began walking along it, listening to the birds singing in the trees. I was thinking I had better get home. My mother would be worried. I stopped and looked around. I could not think how I had gotten there. I also didn't know how to get home. That seemed strange. I thought about that for a minute and then I decided to do a reality check. The fact I could not remember how I had gotten there was a clue I might be dreaming. For my reality check I jumped into the air and attempted to hover there. I hovered briefly before coming back down. I could fly if I tried! I was dreaming.

Note: My reality check worked perfectly here to make me lucid...

I was completely lucid now. I thought the forest was a nice place and I wanted to explore it some more. I followed the path for a ways and then decided I would fly. I saw the glimmer of light off of water through the trees. I would fly over that lake. I was heading for the lake when I heard someone yelling loudly. It was a woman. I couldn't hear what she was saying. I followed that sound. Right near the edge of the water I found Callisto (from the Xena: Warrior Princess series) pointing a sword at Gabrielle (also from Xena) who was tied to a tree. Callisto looked over at me and was clearly not happy. She was calling out to Xena, who was nowhere to be seen. She said Xena should come out or her pal would die. I told Callisto she didn't want to do that. Callisto asked if I wanted to die along with Gabrielle. I knew I was dreaming so I wasn't afraid of being hurt

Note: When I listen to some songs my imagination starts creating ideas for what kind of magical effect that song could have. I had been listening to Until It Sleeps by Metallica a lot and had been imagining that it would cause feelings of hate, anger, and pain to sleep. I don't know if that is the idea Metallica had when they wrote it, but it is where my mind went... And as so often happens when I have a lucid dream, I stopped thinking about the fact it was a dream and slipped into a state of semi-lucidity.

My first thought was to heal the anger and pain that had made Callisto go insane in the first place. And I knew just the song to make that anger and pain sleep. I focused on the song Until It Sleeps by Metallica. I imagined I could hear it playing in my head and then that I could hear it playing all around me. As I focused on it I realized I really could hear the song playing. And so could Callisto. She had looked like she might attack me with her sword, but now she was looking all around for the source of the strange music. Of course I was the source. As the song played I was focusing healing energy on Callisto, willing her to let go of her anger and hate. After the first part of the song Callisto looked like she was in some kind of trance.

The song completed, and Callisto came out of her trance. She looked disoriented. She looked over at Gabrielle, who was still tied to the tree. I asked Callisto how she felt. She said she felt at peace for the first time in a long time. She used her sword to cut Gabrielle free. Gabrielle looked quite confused at that. Callisto said she didn't know what had just happened, but this could be a whole new beginning. She turned and departed through the trees leaving Gabrielle looking very confused. Xena showed up just after Callisto left. She asked Gabrielle where Callisto had gone. Gabrielle said Callisto had let her go. Now Xena was also confused. Gabrielle looked like she was about to say something to me when everything around me faded to black and I woke.

Please don't take offense (I'm a big Xena fan too!!) did you happen to fall asleep with the TV on? Maybe Xena was on..and you were playing Joxer? lol just kidding... I had to joke. Do you watch Legend Of The Seeker? First show in a long time that I have liked since Xena. BTW I would have loved to have that dream..I would have been Xena, however. lol I used to have Charmed dreams all the time..I was an extra charmed sister with all their abilities loved it.