Originally Posted by Raven Knight
I was in space in my Fire Valkyrie. I was flying next to a silver ship of some kind. It looked like the ship off of Flight of the Navigator. I did a double take at seeing that. I flew in closer to the ship. They were making contact. My communication screen showed Nomad. He said he had been wondering if I would be back. Spike was behind him. Spike said to make sure the second seat was open… he was coming over. I said fine. Spike appeared in the seat behind me in my Fire Valkyrie. He leaned over the seat and kissed me on my cheek. I asked Spike where we were going. Spike said Q had located a colony of dream warriors here. He said we were going to check it out. That triggered me to set my sound system to play Dream Warriors by Dokken. It just seemed appropriate.
Note: Somewhere my lucidity slipped to semi-lucid...
We soon arrived at the outpost of the dream warriors. They had an amazing city set up. The city looked like something that would be seen in a dream. We flew to a small area where we were able to land our ships. Spike and I got out and I saw Nomad and Selene get out of the other ship. A strange man came over to us. He was tall and slender, not human. He said he had been told we were interested in dream warriors. He showed us to a strange silver building. We went in through the door. I saw him saying something to Nomad but I didn't hear what.
The room in the building was round. There was a chair in the center of the room. There were some people sitting around the edge of the room. I noticed the individual at the center chair looked like Yoda from Star Wars. I did a double take. I had not figured Yoda to be a dream warrior. Yoda called Nomad forward. They were talking for a bit and then Nomad left. Yoda turned his attention to me. I went over to him. He said here I would learn the ways of the dream warrior. He looked at me strangely and told me to gaze into a bowl he had. I looked in. There were images flowing around. It looked like a pensive from the Harry Potter books. I saw some images of me briefly and then it went hazy. Yoda looked a bit puzzled. He looked at me again. He said there was clearly more to me than the bowl was ready to show. He said all would be revealed in time. Spike came up next. It looked like Spike had to work hard not to cop a serious attitude with Yoda. Yoda seemed to ignore that. They spoke momentarily and then Yoda spoke with Selene. Yoda said now it was time to see what we have.
The next instant the four of us were in an arena. There was a large rock golem. Nomad immediately transformed into a large minotaur and charged it. He ran smack into it with a CRASH! It looked painful… for Nomad. He fell to the ground and I could practically imagine stars and birds circling his head as in a cartoon. I told him to try attacking the enemy with blunt weapons other than his own head. Witchblade formed into a large mace. Spike pounded the ground and created a shockwave worthy of the Hulk. Nomad hit the golem's leg with a hammer. The golem tried to crush me under one of its hands. I dodged and hit the hand with my mace. Selene was halfway up the creature. When she got to the top she ran a sword into one of its eyes. Spike sent another shockwave and the creature collapsed into dust. The scene around me changed…
I was in a graveyard now. I wondered where everyone else had gone. The ground was shaking. A large crack opened in the ground and a large hand reached out. Fire was erupting from the crack. I wondered what was happening. A large ugly thing came out. It's face looked a bit like Freddy Krueger. It was obviously a dream demon. Aside from its face it didn't look like Freddy. It looked like a giant insect. A ten foot cockroach with Freddy Krueger's face. I formed Witchblade into a sword and went at the dream demon. I sliced it right through the middle. It split in two… and then it formed two giant cockroaches. Both of them had Freddy's face and were laughing. They both grew to ten feet in height. Both of them spoke at once. They said they could not be killed. Strike them down again and there would just be more of them. I used Damage, Inc. to throw fireballs at one of the insects. It blasted apart… into 5 pieces… and formed 5 more giant cockroaches. Ok… this was getting a bit out of hand. I needed to drain its power. It was a dream demon… so I needed to be a dream warrior. I focused on the song Dream Warriors by Dokken. I could hear the song playing. As the song was playing the giant cockroaches didn't seem to like it. They were covering their Freddy Krueger ears with their insect legs. The giant insects began to shrink down. I focused the song on draining them even further. Finally I was facing six cockroach sized dream demons. I stepped on one of them and it made a satisfying crunch. And this time it didn't reform. The other cockroaches ran for cover. I threw a small fireball at each one and it was incinerated before it could reach cover. None of them reformed.
Then I was back in the arena with Yoda. Yoda looked at me closely. He said I had obviously done this before. He asked why I was really here. I said I was just there to fight dream demons. He eyed me closely. He said he could see that was the truth, but it was clearly not all of the truth. He asked what I saw him as. I said Yoda from Star Wars. The Jedi master. He nodded thoughtfully. I asked if that was his true form. He said he has no true form. Everyone perceives him differently. I didn't question him further.
Nomad was saying he wanted to show us his tree house. I said ok. I opened a portal to get back. Nomad asked what about our ships. I said Q would bring them back. I didn't know if I could hold the dream long enough to get back to the moon by space ship. On the other side of my portal we were in a strange room. There were lots of plants there. I didn't recognize them. Nomad said it was his greenhouse. We teleported again. Now we were in a large room. It was a comfortable looking room. I said it was nice in there. Nomad said he wanted a joint. I asked what is the point of smoking a joint in a dream. I said I had to go wake up. He said goodbye. I saw Selene snuggle up next to Nomad just before I woke.
Planet of the Dream Warriors
We landed on a planet in a beautiful city. There was a small landing pad, with stairs going down it. We stepped out of the ship. It looked like we landed in the center of a park. The place was full of colorful plants, and strange pastel towers reaching to the sky. There were people milling about. Before us was a beige walkway. There was a small group of people that clapped and waved at us as we stepped off the ship.
A tall alien in a long white robe, with long sleeves and a tall hat, with some cloth hanging at the sides, stepped out from the welcoming committee and greeted us. He had wrinkled pink skin, a long face with no cheeks, a small mouth, no nose, and small intense eyes.
"Why can I see his face so clearly, and not Raven's?" was my first thought.
"Welcome," said the alien, "to the planet of the Dream Warriors. We have been expecting you. Come with me."
As we followed him down the path, I looked around at the city. There were all types of races milling about. Some looked at us curiously, some gave us no heed. "I feel like I'm on Oa!" I thought. I instinctively morphed into a Green Lantern.
Our guide turned to me and chuckled. "Yes, this is like Oa," he said, "but this is not. Keep that ring." I looked down at the Green Lantern ring on my finger. "When your imagination is too great to use to become a form, channel the power into your ring, and use it to defeat your enemies."
I morphed back into my nomad self. I noticed the others were also walking around wide-eyed.
The alien walked quickly ahead of us on the path, then suddenly morphed into a giant metallic spider-like structure. It was startling.
"Do not be surprised," he said, "you are in the land of dreams. Now, step into my mouth."
We walked into his mouth, and were suddenly in a dome shaped chamber made of stone, dimly lit by firelight. There was a group of people sitting in a semicircle on wooden chairs. In the center of the circle, was a stand with a pool of water.
There was a creature sitting in the center chair, who looked like the Devil. He had smooth red skin, goat legs, the face of a man, and bull horns. "Step forward, Dream Warrior," he commanded Raven Knight. She stepped forward and stood before the water. "In your world, you are a Queen. Now you are an Apprentice. Gaze into the water." She looked down, and her eyes grew huge.
I looked around the room. "I can't believe this is happening. Is this real? Are we actually in the realm of the Dream Warriors?" The devil person said something else to Raven, but I wasn't paying attention.
"Step forward, Dream Warrior," he commanded me, "In your world, you are a king, here, you are an Apprentice. Now, gaze into the water."
I looked down in the water, and saw scenes of past lives, torment, pain, anger, rage, love, war, death, agony. It was overwhelming. I saw future lives where I will be non-human races. The future life scenes were blurry and obscured. Then, I saw a great lemniscate in outer space. All the Dream Warriors that have ever lived, and ever will live, were making up the great lemniscate. I felt they were all moving through me, and I was moving through all of them. I felt pain, joy, and anguish. Everything was getting smaller and bigger simultaneously. We were all infinite.
I looked up at the devil man. "What did you see?" he asked.
"Everything and nothing," I said. He almost imperceptibly smiled and nodded.
"Step to the side," he commanded me. I stepped over to the side, and two people placed some type of cloth over my shoulders, which draped down over my chest.
Next he called Spike who stepped forward sneered. The devil-man seemed as if Spike's contempt didn't bother him. I didn't really pay much attention to their exchange because I was still thinking about what I had seen in the water.
Then, the devil-man called forth Selene. "Yes, Father," she said.
"Father?" I thought, "this is getting too weird. Is that a title?"
Again, I didn't pay much attention to their exchange, so overwhelmed I was by everything.
"Here you will commence your training. And now we battle!" said the devil man.
Training in the Dome
The four of us were suddenly in a great dome with a dirt floor. A rock giant made of boulders stood before us. I morphed into a minotaur, and charged it. It was like slamming into a wall.
"Use blunt weapons!" yelled Raven.
Great hammers appeared in the hands of Raven, Selene and I.
"We should use earth attacks!" I shouted back. Spike was already wielding great metal fists, pounding the ground, sending shockwaves at the monster, and it wavered. I slammed my hammer into its right ankle with a loud crack!
Selene ran up its leg, and on to its back, going boom boom boom on the way up with her hammer. She got to its face, then plunged a sword into its right eye. It roared in pain and anger.
ShhK-BOOM! ShhK-BOOM! Spike sent shockwaves at the rock giant. His right ankle broke and crumbled, then his left, and it fell to the ground and disappeared.
A great fire elemental appeared before me, hissing, with a devious grin on its face. I looked around for my friends. They were gone. "Are you afraid?" a disembodied voice asked mockingly. I ignored the voice, and morphed into a water elemental, then charged at it. Its heat changed me into steam, then it laughed at me.
I summoned my water dragon, and now it was full grown. It looked like an Eastern dragon, with a Western dragon's head. I merged with the water dragon, and we wrapped ourselves around the fire elemental, like a constrictor serpent. It was contained, but not defeated. It tried to turn us into steam, but we were too powerful. "What else do I need to do?" I thought, getting frustrated.
"Aha!" I saw a little pile of fuel, like charcoal that it was coming out of, like a genie coming out of a lamp. I separated from my water dragon, then, as a water elemental, I sliced through the fire elemental's tail with my hand. I morphed back into human form, and stomped on the fuel.
The fire elemental screamed for a second, then disappeared, and my water dragon was gone.
A lightning elemental appeared in front of me. "I know how to handle this," I thought. I became a water elemental again, and as he tried to shock me, I channeled his attacks right back to him, but it did nothing. I changed into a mountain, and tried to do a physical attack against it. It just kept shocking me. I changed into a great tree, and it split me in half. "Why am I doing this?" I thought, "this didn't work against Zeus."
I changed into a giant rubber ball. The lightning elemental seemed confused. It's attacks did nothing to me now. I opened up a mouth slowly, and swallowed it. I could feel it bouncing around angrily inside me, then it dissipated.
The devil man appeared in front of me, towering above looking terrible and evil. His eyes glowed yellow. He chortled. He flexed his fists, cracking his knuckles. He picked me up, and swallowed me. I let my rubber ball self roll down his throat, and when I got to his stomach, I started bouncing, bouncing, bouncing, harder and faster, until I broke through his flesh. I bounced harder and faster off the sides of the dome, until I was bouncing as fast as a bullet, putting holes in him from all directions. His eyes bugged out. OOF! He gasped, and the battle was over.
He returned to normal size. Smoke rose from his skin. "So why do you look like The Devil?" I asked.
"Because you're a fool!!!" he answered derisively, then disappeared.
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Going Home
We were back in my silvery spaceship, as it attached itself to the tower.
Raven looked at me. "Wow," she said quietly. I nodded. For the first time, i saw Raven's face. She had a kind heart shaped face, gentle eyes, that were slowly changing color, from blue to grey to hazel to violet. Her shimmering hair hanging down at the sides was ash blond, with streaks of lavender, pink, and pastel blue. She had fair skin, and light freckles across her cheeks, a small pointed upturned nose, and a small mouth.
My cannabis plant sprouted little legs, and walked over to me, and nuzzled up against me like a dog.
"What the hell?" she laughed.
"What? It likes me." I pet it.
We were standing back on the moon, looking at the tower. Now there was a black wall around it, made of a shiny black stone, with Tesla coils built at intervals. The Tesla coils made a dome-shaped force field over the Tower. We walked in the front gate. Near my ficus tree was a mango tree, a starfruit tree, and other plants growing around it, spreading across the ground. "A biodome," Raven whispered.
"Yeah!" I smiled. "Hey, let's go look at my house!" I said.
We teleported into an indoor greenhouse, shaped like an egg, its wall made of living wood. "And this," I said, "Is my greenhouse!" as we walked between rows and rows of cannabis plants. Raven laughed again. "You are ridiculous." I broke a flower bud off of a plant.
We teleported into the Great Room, the room with the couch going around it. "Wow, it's really beautiful in here," said Raven.
"So..." I said, "anyone want to smoke a joint?"
"No!" laughed Raven, "you know I'm not into that stuff!" I looked down in my hands, sat down, focusing on rolling my joint. Selene grinned at me.
"It really is pretty in here," said Raven quietly. "Thank you," I replied.
Raven disappeared.
"I don't really care for that shit, but I could use a cigarette, mate," said Spike. I summoned a rolled cigarette and handed it to Spike. "Thanks, mate," he nodded, with the cigarette already in his mouth. He withdrew a lighter from his pocket and lit up.
He looked at me, and barely smiled, then disappeared.
I took a lighter out of my pocket, and lit the joint, taking a good puff. Then, I handed it to Selene. She took a puff, smiled and handed it back. I leaned back in the couch, and put my arm around her. I took another puff. "Ah, dream weed," I thought, "I actually feel high. Haha!"
Selene snuggled up next to me and sighed. I looked up at a window, and saw moonlight pouring in.
"Life is good," I said half to myself, half to her. "I want to stay in this dream for a little while longer."
"But, I don't want you to forget it," she said, as she caressed my chest.
The dream faded, and I awoke.
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