Originally Posted by Raven Knight
I was in the biodome. I didn't realize where I was. I thought it was just a beautiful park. I was walking down a path through the trees. Animals were all around me. I was thinking they seemed surprisingly unafraid of me. I wished I had a camera on me. I wanted to take photos of them. Since I didn't have a camera I decided I would try to pet a particularly brave looking bunny. I got down on my knees and crawled slowly towards the bunny. I was trying not to scare it. I was surprised when the bunny hopped in my direction. It was not only unafraid, it wanted attention! The bunny rubbed its face on my knee like a cat would. I started petting the bunny. It was so soft and furry. I scratched it behind the ears. It was a very affectionate bunny. I saw movement behind me and I turned around.
"Raven," a man there said. I noticed he was dressed like an Assassin but it wasn't Altaïr. He told me I was dreaming. I got up and looked at him closer. I finally recognized him. It was Nomad. He asked if I was still looking to track that man down. The one who was bothering Morrigan. He said I might want to start with a reality check. I flew into the sky. I was dreaming. I landed in front of Nomad.
The freak that was bothering Morrigan. I thought for a bit and then I remembered. I told him I would try to open a portal. I focused on using Through the Never. I focused on finding that creepy man. A portal opened. Nomad and I both went through it.
On the other side we were in a dark place. I told Nomad this looked like the place. I looked around to see if there was anyone else there. We were alone. Nomad yelled out, "Come out, you PUSSY!" He was very loud. I looked around to see if anyone was going to respond. For just an instant there was a strange man in front of me. It was just a flash and then he was gone. Nomad saw that and looked around to see where the man had gone. The man popped in and out a few other places right around us. He was laughing menacingly the whole time. That was getting really annoying. One of Nomad's dragons appeared. It was the golden one that uses fire and lightning. The next time the man appeared it wrapped around him and held on tightly. I used Battery and hit him with a bolt of lightning. Nomad ran a sword through his gut. The man turned into a vapor and reformed not far away. He looked pissed. He also looked like he was in pain. He vanished.
"That hurt him!" I said, "Do it again! Do it again!"
The man went back to teleporting. He was now trying to get in a few attacks. Black bolts of some kind. They bounced off a force field around Nomad and his dragon. They bounced off of my Witchblade armor. During an opening the dragon latched onto the man again. I hit him with another Battery and Nomad attacked him with his sword again. This time Nomad's sword was on fire. The man screamed in rage and pain and turned to mist. I had the idea one more time would do it. The man reformed a bit farther off. I went over to look at him. He looked exhausted. He was on all fours breathing hard. I wondered if there was any spark of good left in him. I looked in his eyes. He glared back. I thought I saw something. I focused on the song Touch My Heart from the Devil Hunter Yohko anime series soundtrack. The song was playing. The man tried to attack me while the song was playing. Nomad distracted him by attacking with his sword. He wasn't being serious about his attacks. I figured he knew I was doing a healing spell. Finally the man seemed to go into a trance. The song completed and golden energy flowed into the man. He looked at Nomad and then at me. He seemed disoriented. He said he didn't know where he was. He had to go. He disappeared in a flash of light. I wondered if he had been taken care of. At least for now he had. Everything faded to black as I woke.
Originally Posted by WakingNomad
18.10.2009 The Dream Leech (Non-lucid)
NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID
I stepped out of the portal on to the Moon. Raven was talking to Altair. "You ready?"
"Geared up, good to go."
She nodded solemnly. She created a portal, and the three of us stepped through.
We were in the bedroom of Morrigan. She was sleeping with a pained expression on her face, almost angry. There was a strange creature, almost like a man at the foot of her bed. He was wearing a black coat with long tails, black dress pants, black shoes. He had somewhat of a hunchback. He had long pale fingers with disgustingly long nails, hands sickly white and veiny. All his skin was a pale white color, with a disgusting purple undertone. He had sparse stringy white hair which came down past his ears. He spoke in a soft hissing gurgly voice.
"Ah, yes, little one, begin to dream, and give it to me. Your dreams are so exquisitely delicious. Yes. Mm-GGK!"
Altair had enough, and stabbed him in the back with his dagger. The wraith creature turned around. He had no eyes, no nose, no mouth even, just holes, five horrible holes, two for his eyes, two for nostrils, and two for his mouth. The wraith thing tried to speak. Altair grabbed on to his dagger with both hands, and ripped the creature all the way up to its neck. It began to convulse, and green worms like maggots spilled out on the ground. Raven and I summoned fire, and burned the little bastards up. The four of us were all covered in slimy ectoplasm.
Raven summoned violet fire, burning it all off.
Raven bent over Morrigan. "Poor girl needs healing," she said.
"Yes," I said.
I played my didjeridoo, pointing the end under Morrigan. Music came out of Raven's body. Little black astral ticks became agitated and ran off of Morrigan's dream body. "Keep playing," Raven said, and she summoned fire and burned up all the little parasites.
Music came out of Raven again, and I saw red energy flow out of her center, and move into the little wounds that the ticks left. The music was saying, "healing, healing, healing," almost like when people make guitars sing. I felt like Basara was there with us.
I closed my eyes, and spread my arms out. I chanted a mantra that the Dalai Lama taught to me by way of Cacaphony, "Om Muni Muni Mah Muni Sahkya Muni Soha." (translation: Hail to the thunderbolt in the dark void.) An angel slowly vibrated out of me forward.
I stopped chanting. The angel had a white robe, a winged helmet, and a silver sword. He was wearing a breastplate of the same dark silvery metal as our helmets. He also had armor on his forearms. "Hello, Michael," I smiled.
He put his finger to his lips, "Sh!" he said. Three angels came out of Michael, and stood at all sides of Morrigan's bed facing outward.
My winged helmet began to hum and vibrate at a high frequency.
A dream demon about two and a half stories high landed on the ground with a BOOM. He had red skin, legs like a bull, a long tail flicking back and forth, an ugly man's face with a big round jaw, yellow teeth, black eyes, and the horns of a bull. He was wielding a scimitar in his right hand, and a round shield in his left. He cracked his neck loudly.
"Oh you again?" I taunted. He seemed confused for a second. I guess it was not the same one from before, just one that looked similar. He brought his scimitar down at me with a loud crash, and I rolled out of the way. He sword got stuck in the ground for a second. Altair ran up the dream demon's left leg, and up to his shoulder. He stabbed it in its upper back with his dagger, then held on to his dagger with both hands, and hung from his blade, slicing the demon down its back. The dream demon roared in anger. He stomped on the ground with his left hoof, sending shockwaves at us through the ground, but we leapt up, and let the shockwaves flow under us harmlessly.
Raven summoned lightning, and it hit the demon's horns electrocuting him. I shot fire out of my hands at his chest. His hair caught on fire, and he looked at me and went, "Pfft!" He brought his sword up again to attack me. Blasts of moonlight hit him in the eyes. He roared in pain, blinded. He brought his sword down again, but I easily rolled out of the way. I looked up and saw Selene hovering in the air, her white cape blowing in the wind. She looked down and grinned at me. "I thought I'd come along this time," she told me telepathically.
The dream demon threw back its head, and a strange guttural cry emanated from his throat. More dream demons, about six or seven, dropped out of the sky. He was calling for help. Dammit. How the hell are we going to defeat all these bastards?
I summoned a conch and blew it. I used the song from Dragon Spirit. The blast from the shell filled the sky. The dream demons grabbed at their ears, and growled angrily. Bolts of white light shot down from the sky, and landed on the ground around us. Dream warriors matched size for size against the dream demons landed on the ground, and immediately attacked with savage fury. One of the dream warriors tackled a dream demon, then stabbed it in the face with a dagger. Another one had on spiked gloves glowing white. He punched all the way into a dream demon, and lifted it into the air, then slammed it on the ground. The dream demon grabbed the dream warrior's arm that was in his body. The dream warrior punched the dream demon in the face, crushing its skull.
Raven summoned lightning, charging our blades. The Moonsword in my hand vibrated and hummed like my winged helmet. I placed my sword parellel to the ground, and ran in a circle screaming a war cry, slicing our enemies' legs. Selene was flying and teleporting, blasting them in the face with moonlight from her staff, blinding them. Then, she changed to a bladed staff, and leapt from the ground, stabbing the dream demons in the chest.
Altair was a white blur, running up the demons' bodies, landing on their shoulders, then impossibly running parallel to the ground across their chests, slicing their throats. BOOM BOOM BOOM! I heard thunderclaps as Raven summoned lightning relentlessly on to the heads of the dream demons.
Selene jumped from one demon head to another, landing on their foreheads, then plunging a sword into their eyes. One of them grabbed her. White light shone out from the demon's fist, and his hand popped open, as he yelled in pain. Selene had her arms and legs pointed out like a star. The dream demon had a black third degree burn on the inside of his hand in the shape of Selene.
The dream demons fell to the ground, and the great dream warriors leapt upon them, stabbing them in the chest. Their bodies changed into little green maggots. One of the large dream warriors made heat emanate from the palms of his hands, burning the worms. Raven and I summoned fire. Skyfire, the golden dragon appeared, and she exhaled fire upon them like a flamethrower. Raven summoned violet flame and burned the ectoplasm off us. The great dream warriors looked at us, nodded, then pointing their weapons skyward, took off and flew up into the night.
We were all breathing heavily. We dusted ourselves off. "Is she okay?" asked Raven.
"Let's go check on her," I said.
I looked down at Morrigan, she seemed to be sleeping peacefully. I felt a familial affection toward her, as if she was my little sister. I kissed her forehead. "Sleep well, _____ ." I said a word that I can't remember. I asked Michael to send angels into the room of the child, but he said they were already there.
Suddenly Morrigan and I were walking down a sidewalk. It was a cool day. Leaves were just beginning to turn. She was carrying a small black purse. Her heels went clop clop clop on the pavement. She was looking at the ground, trying to focus on her thoughts, gesturing excitedly as she spoke, just like my sister R does. "I don't get it. I don't understand what is happening. All this... stuff... really upsets me. My dreams are not supposed to be like this. No one really teaches us how, ya know?" She looked at me concerned. She had a hard time putting into words what she was trying to express.
"I know."
"I mean, there's no way to complete classify, categorize, put into little boxes ... all this stuff, we don't understand it completely. No religion explains it adequately. We're all looking at the same elephant from different perspectives through the lenses of the bullshit belief system we were raised with. I mean, I am not saying religion is bullshit, not at all, but, it becomes like a filter, and it skews the image of the reality we are trying so hard to perceive. It makes things so confusing."
" I know what you mean," I said. "I am trying so hard to grasp, to wrap my mind around the essence of reality, and then, something happens which blows my mind and changes everything."
I stopped walking. She stopped and looked at me. "Morrigan," I told her, "they really like you. They are attracted to your energy. You are more powerful than all of us. I don't know why, but, there is something about you, that is very ancient and ... strong. That's not even the right word for it, but I think you know what I mean." I looked into her eyes, and tried to convey the essence of what I was saying telepathically.
"You are always called a witch, in every lifetime. People sense your energy, and it frightens them. These creatures come to you, to feed off your dreams. You have... something... I can't even put into words."
Her eyes began to tear up, and she nodded solemnly. We continued walking. She sighed in frustration.
"It's just that... oh... dammit. This shit started happening ever since-"
"Stop," I said, "you don't need to tell me. I have to go."
She nodded.
"Be safe," I told her.
She tried to force a smile.
I woke up.
From Raven Knight's Dreams
I was in a beautiful place. I looked around. It seemed somehow familiar. I was thinking how lucky I was to have found a place so beautiful. I walked around and looked at the surroundings. It was lush and green. There was a stream flowing through the area. But wait… I live in a desert… how could that stream be flowing? And some of these were tropical plants. Q appeared with Altaïr.
"Here," Q said, "Wherever you're going, take this with you."
"Take 'this' with me?" I questioned.
"Take Altaïr," Q said, "I don't like the way he's looking at that Templar that you brought back with you."
Note: All this strangeness made me semi-lucid.
"But isn't that Templar already dead?" I asked.
"Not any more," Q said, "The demon was trying to take his soul. That is a lot harder to do when the soul is anchored firmly in a body. So I made a new body and put him in it." I saw Altaïr give Q a dirty look but he said nothing. "And I don't like the way Altaïr is looking at him. I know the Assassins and Templars have a bit of a love-hate thing going on… they love to hate each other. And while you're at it maybe you should play a nice song for Altaïr. He doesn't have to like Templars, but he seems to be quite obsessed with them! Even though the one we have here is not a threat!" Q disappeared.
"So where are you going?" Altaïr asked.
"Uh…" I started. I couldn't think where. I wasn't lucid enough for that. I even thought that was my excuse! I wasn't lucid enough! But full lucidity still eluded me.
Nomad came over before Altaïr could expect an answer. He asked if I was ready to go help Morrigan. I hesitated. Hadn't we already done that? Why did I have the feeling of deja-vu? I wrote the feeling off. If we had already done it Nomad wouldn't be saying we still had to do it. I focused on Through the Never and on getting to Morrigan. We all went through.
On the other side we were in a room. There was a man at the foot of the bed with a woman sleeping in it. He was tall and dressed entirely in black with a black top hat on. He looked sooooo familiar. He was hissing at the woman in the bed. "You will eternally…" Altaïr moved in close behind the man. I knew he was bad news. There was no questioning that. "… belong to GLURK!" Altaïr had given him a hidden blade to the back. The man turned his head 180 degrees around to look at Altaïr. He had a skull for a head! It hissed, spitting gross stuff on Altaïr. He grabbed his left hand with his right and pulled the imbedded hidden blade upward, practically slicing the man in two from his waist to his neck. The man turned to mist. Nomad summoned fire and I used Damage Inc. to vaporize the mist before it could re-solidify into the man again. Now I knew who he was.
"I thought I had healed him!" I said, "That shit must've been faking!"
I looked at Altaïr. There was some dark energy around him. I used a shortened form of Full Moonlight from the Devil Hunter Yohko soundtrack to vaporize the dark energy off of all of us. It was clear that Morrigan needed healing. I focused on Voices while Nomad played his didgeridoo. Golden energy washed a lot of filth out of her. Nomad seemed to be focusing on something. An angel appeared. I figured it was his guardian. The angel multiplied. Three angels surrounded Morrigan and seemed to be healing her.
Suddenly I heard a huge CRASH from outside. I went through the wall to see outside. There was a really big and ugly thing out there. It looked somewhere around 30 feet tall! It looked like a minotaur crossed with Freddy Krueger; in other words it looked like the minotaur had been badly burned all over its disgusting body. He had a huge sword and shield.
"You again?" Nomad asked. Had he seen this monster before? The monster, I was thinking it was a dream demon, attacked Nomad with his sword. Nomad rolled out of the way. Altaïr was off and climbed up a house across the street… up to the porch roof, onto a narrow window ledge of a second floor window, then onto the roof. I stood there looking at him a bit. "He can really do that?" I asked more to myself than to anyone. The dream demon seemed focused on Nomad. Altaïr wasn't going to be ignored. He jumped off of the house and landed on the demon's back sword first. He held onto the blade and let gravity pull him downward. Of course the sword cut through the demon's back as Altaïr went down. The demon was pissed. It turned to find Altaïr. I used Battery to hit it with a bolt of lightning. His horns served as excellent lightning rods! I added a Damage, Inc. and he was also set on fire. Nomad added to the flames.
The demon was still obsessed with Nomad. It attacked him again. Selene was somehow there. Where had she come from? It didn't matter. She was hitting the demon in the face with light beams. He got more pissed and roared loudly. More dream demons materialized. He was multiplying! Nomad took out some kind of horn that looked kind of like a giant shell and blew into it. It made a deafening sound. The dream demons seemed to have more problems with the deafening noise than we did, however. They covered their ears and exploded. The demon was still pissed. He made a motion and an army of zombies rose out of the ground. So many of them. I attacked them with my Witchblade sword. I quickly used Battery to energize my and everyone else's swords. I thought I saw light around us. And I sensed we had gained allies… but I didn't stop to look. I was cutting through zombies. I removed the head of a zombie to find myself face to face with Altaïr. We stood back to back and killed any zombie dumb enough to get close… and zombies are really stupid! The zombies fell easily and I turned to see someone attacking the demon itself. I didn't recognize that person. The demon turned into disgusting worms. Everyone was burning the worms so I added Damage, Inc. to throw some more fire at them.
Now we were surrounded by warriors. I didn't recognize them. They all took to the sky in a blast of light and went through a portal up there. I saw some dark auras around Nomad. I used Full Moonlight to cleanse it away. Everything faded to black as I woke.
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