I am in my bed. I fly out of the wall and head down to the forest entrance. I know what is usually around here is a bunch of temples and shrines, but this time it should be different. I run through the forest. I keep hearing a loud thud and keep running towards it. I can’t see anything though. The thudding is getting louder and louder and I am having trouble keeping up, I use some dream control to run faster and remind myself not to use any dream powers unless I can’t beat the beast. I finally see it. A giant spider. Weird, no, this isn’t it, but it is made completely out of wood and more like long branches wound together, like a vine made of huge trees in the shape of a spider leg. I climb up a tree and am a far cry away from reaching the monster, it is about 300 feet high, I can not make it that high on my own. I’ll try something else. I keep running until I get in the way of a leg, not as hard as you would think. I grab ahold and when the leg goes up, I let go when it was moving quickly upward and springboard up towards the bottom of the spider, it is also a mass of trees. I spin as I get there and pull out my sword. Making a large hole in the bottom, my sword still has some abilities I know not. It is about 10 feet by 4 feet and grab ahold of a small viney tree that is dangling from the mess I just created. I swing myself in and it is hollow, still really big, it is a natural mechanism, must be controlled by the giant. I run towards the front. It takes a few minutes, but there are no doors and the entrances are about 50 feet high, a really big spider fortress, there are some big tables and things, all created like the spider. I ignore them a lot and make it to the front.
The giant is sitting in a opening looking out towards the giant forest, I can see all sorts of mountains, the whole place seems to be a lot less populated than the area I am actually at, I imagine that this is what Zödra, Japan looks like. Smaller villages, but the same technology. I notice that the giant has his hands on the wood and it seems to be going out of his hands, he must be creating this stuff. He is using a ability really well, this could be difficult. I doubt he has the ability to animate objects, just create and control. I decide to chop off his arm and realize I don’t have my sword anymore. I put my hands together and resummon my sword, there is a noise, but the sword isn’t there, I do it again and it summons, it must need to be unsummoned and then summoned if I am not in control of it. Interesting. I run at the giant and am gonna knock off one of his arms when the term giant sinks in, he is about 50 feet high, (by my guess, hard to tell with him sitting down, and I couldn’t cut off his arm without alerting him because I can’t reach the 20 feet where his shoulder is at right now. I jump up and aim for the wrist, he is alerted right before I jump and turns, his hand lifts up and I sever the wood connection coming out of his hand. Instantly the whole right side of the giant spider stiffens up (he needs a connection to control it at all, interesting) and he lifts his hand back, points it at me and sends all sorts of tree vines my way. I slice them up, but I am losing my footing with the spider falling down. I hit the ground, the spider is falling, our descent slows and then we crash pretty softly into a clearing. I jump up and see that the giant has taken off running. I take off and realize that I was correct about the whole “size equivalent to speed”, because it is a dream, he isn’t slowed down by his mass, he moves the same amount of ground I would make if you compare the size of our bodies. I notice that I lost my sword again, so I put my hands together and unsummon it for later use. I take off running and decide to use my other ability. MAX STAT! I choose my legs, their stats get maxed out until the end of the dream with no negative repercussions. I take off running and easily catch up to the giant. He is running through a long clearing in the woods and turns around to face me. He yells and slams his hands on the ground, I am waiting for something to be made when I realize that he must have sent it under the ground. I jump up at him and tons of tree vines flow out of the ground at me a second too late. I am going in a straight line at the giant’s face and he lifts up his left hand to block. I pull my sword out while flying and swing at his arm, expecting it to be completely severed. My sword slices into his arm and gets stuck, since he sent out tree vines from the part of his arm that was cut, a very strong power, stronger than the acid like blow of my sword when severing something. He swings his arm out and it throws me across the glade. I am headed toward a tree, I still don’t want to use any more powers, so I shift as much as I can to plant my feet on the tree while it hits, the tree bends and with the max stat on my leg I am able to time the jump perfectly when the tree bends back and sends me back at the giant, I make sure to not use max power so that I land right before I get to him and jump again. He puts his right arm in front to block, and send out a tree vine, but I use my legs to jump straight through his legs and behind him, He turns around quickly, but as he is turning I stay in his blind spot and jump into the air, the 50 feet needed. As I am at the peak of my jump, I leave my sword in front of me and kick it (it is a white katana, so I kicked the side of the blade that isn’t sharp), the strength way stronger than my own and the surprise attack makes it soar through his neck as thick as it is, with no retaliation. I am super excited to have won and am planning on landing on his shoulder and riding that down.
His shoulder shifts off as I stand on it, the entire outer layer of his skin is falling off, made of the same tree vine thing that was coming out before. Revealing a much smaller giant (about 35 feet high) that was inside of him. I jump up off of the falling tree vines and aim for the head of this fiend as he steps out of the other shell. I unsummon and summon my sword in an instant and pile it down into the head of the giant. This also sheds like the previous one (about 20 foot giant) and I am too off balance this time, I land on my feet on the ground, but he is turning to face me, sending tree vines at me. I throw my sword at him and he pulls his hands up and jumps at my sword. I run at him and jump at his head. The sword lands in his arm, but without causing damage since it was just normal speed and all. My feet hit his head and knock him to the ground, my feet still in his face, as they are sending him to the ground. I unsummon and summon my sword as I am falling to the ground, my feet crush his head in and it also is just made of the tree vines and a 9 foot tall man sits up and jumps to his feet, he doesn’t seem to be made of wood this time since his movements are more fluid. He jumps at me and I set a foot on his chest while his long arm reaches me, He grabs my shirt and I kick him away. He lands against a large tree and my shirt is ripped off painfully. I jump to the tree and slice his head off neatly. The body fades away and the old man steps out.
“Why are you here?” I ask, but I already know the answer. I put him there, he wasn’t actually the giant or controlling the giant, but in my need to see him, he inserted himself into Zödra in the only way I let him. He looks at me and smiles.
