The Nomad Chronicles

MOON MOTH

I vibrate out of my body. I am surrounded by mirrors or clones of myself. I am a black furry mothman with sparse white spots. I have four arms and two legs. I feel aliens calling me with my antennae to the Moon. I decide to fly all the way there. I press the button on my energy belt, and a shield forms on me, then the witchblade, then my mech armor. My twelve clones connect with me, and we spin in circles like gears to form Metatron’s cube. Then we spin in all directions to form individual spheres. We become five dimensional, as we vibrate spinning to the moon. Surrounding matter is repelled behind, and attracted in front before being repelled again. And this is how we fly through space.... on waves of dark matter, baby.
I see my many forms I have become in dreams in a line before and behind me like ghosts on this dark rainbow bridge. I move my entire formation in a path as we fly, making sharp angles, faster and faster, until we form a giant Metatron’s cube, then we roll forward, and bend space and time around us. We slip through space, forming a vaccum in front of us, and repelling behind. And this is how we travel faster than the speed of light. I see Selene’s face in the Moon, which becomes an alien goddess. I tumble out on to the Grey Moon, and all my clones come into me. I morph into Juargawn.
“Why are we here?”
“Because this is my true home. The Green Moon is your true home.”
“Is this a dream, Selene?”
“No.”
I do a nose RC, and cough.
“How is there atmosphere here?”
“There is none where we are, but beneath the surface...”
“How am I alive right now?”
“It is my will.”
“Maybe I am pinching my nose in real life.”
“Maybe this is real life. Maybe it’s time to discard everything you ever thought you knew was true, and accept the reality of all. Maybe you hurt me when you talk like this,” she says looking away. I can tell she is about to cry. I am at a loss for words. She turns to me with sad fury in her eyes. I look at her beautiful big dark eyes, and her pale skin. I can see all the details, the texture of her skin... tears well up, and I see an eyelash fall into a tear as it rolls down her face. She blinks, and tears leap from her eyes. She balls a fist up in frustration. “I am tired of you doubting my existence. How could you? After everything we’ve been through? After all these lifetimes, and all these promises we made to each through eons to always find each other every single lifetime no matter what form we take? What is it going to take to get you to remember? What do I need to do to get you to believe there is love coming from this sentient being standing in front of you? You are my soulmate.”
I can do nothing as tears roll down my feline face. She runs into my arms, and beats my chest weakly. I embrace her silently. She feels so vulnerable and weak. Not my partner who has saved me so many times in battle. Not the Moon goddess, the daughter of the Dream Warrior Master. She feels so very... human. I feel her skin, sinews, bones. I feel her hair on my face and chest. I feel her morph, and she grows bat wings. Becoming a vampire like creature, she bites my neck, and I morph into my Vampire Self.
“I want to show you something,” she says, and we dive into the Moon.
***
We are back on the surface of the Grey Moon. “To the Green Moon!” I shout exultantly. “To the Green Moon!” shouts Selene, laughing, and I open a portal to the Green Moon. The portal opens above the Temple of Nowhere, and we float down, glowing. People point at us as we descend. I see the Black Sun Beacon is beaming a dark rainbow bridge to Urth. Right now, it’s on Mexico. Hukif shows up. “Hey, Nomad, want to fight?”
“Not right now, brother. I am am waiting for some dreamers.”
“Ok. Good. I hope they outnumber us, then we can fight them together.”
“Maybe,” I laugh.
Three people come around the corner of the temple.
“Hey, we were looking for you!” pichulick says. “I found these other two dreamers here... “ he looks down at his hands as his dream body becomes unstable.
“Try spinning,” I say. He spins and disappears. “Doh!”
He appears above my head and falls on me.
“I came back to this dream! Re-enter win check!” he says, making a check mark motion. I do not recognize the other two dreamers. We walk to the corner of the Temple of Nothing, and Atras is sitting there, staring at earth. He looks like a pale blue archeopteryx-type creature, but also humanoid.
“I hope it works I hope it works I hope it works...” I hear him chant.
“This is a dream this is a dream this is a dream...” I chant.
“This is a dream this is a dream this is a dream...” he says with me. He looks at his hands. “Pale bluish... bird hands with feathers... yeah, perfectly normal. No! Perfectly abnormal! This is a dream.” Atras stands up.
“I remember my dreams,” I say to Atras.
“Yes! Oh MY GOD HOW AM I GOING TO REMEMBER THIS?” Atras shouts.
“Calm down. Breathe.” Atras does a nose pinch RC.
“I am breathing nothing!” he shouts triumphantly. “You are real!” He runs to me, and rubs his forehead on mine, and kisses me on the nose. He runs around kissing everyone on the cheek as he grabs their faces, except Hukif who telekinetically repels him.
Suddenly, about 300 dreamers tumble up the dark rainbow road, and float down on and all around the pyramid. They all have some dark energy dust on them, like moth dust... Ah, it’s from my wings. I create a giant ball of pomegranate juice floating in the air, and then divide it into smaller spheres, which I float out to all the dreamers.
“YOU ARE ALL DREAMING!” I shout. “PLEASE REMAIN CALM. TAKE A DEEP BREATH. YOU ARE BREATHING NOTHING. THIS IS A DREAM!” Most of the dreamers disappear as they wake up. A few of them reappear a few seconds later as they re-enter. Some of the other ones begin wandering around touching things, eating fruits from the trees, drinking water from the streams. Other ones shout exultantly and fly off into space.
There is a young man who I do not recognize. His language sounds Arabic, or some older language, such as Sanskrit. “I have found you. I have been watching you, and I feel everything is so true, just as you say. You see, I am a Sufi Knight. We are an ancient sacred order of Moon People, who guard the portals to other dimensions. We guard the way to the Inner Earth, or at least one way. The Templar Knights are nothing more than Sun Worshipers, well, on the surface. Their true god is evil, or Harm. They believe Harm is necessary to achieve their means. Evil, death, gives them power. So, Mr. Black Sun, what are you trying to say here?”
I suddenly do not trust this man, and I grab him with astral tentacles, and fling him into the sky. “That is my brother!” Selene shouts at me.
“MoSh?” No... not him.
The Sufi Knight morphs into a Naga, a winged serpent and roars at me. I leap into the sky, and bite his neck, ripping him apart, and his jaws close around my throat... we die...
We are before some type of counsel of gods. They give us instructions which I cannot translate into English. We nod, then bow on one knee. The gods send us back to where we just were. We merge in the wormhole, and come out above the Temple, a great winged jaguar serpent man. We are shimmering with every color. Energy pours out of us, and everything blooms. We de-merge, and fall to the ground slowly, our default selves.
“What the fuck just happened, brother?” the Sufi Knight says to me.
“I don’t know.”
“I am just a dreamer from Pakistan. Well, now I live in Saudi Arabia, working for a rich oil king, but I found an ancient Sufi Master living in a cave near an oasis. He eats once every seven days, and is three hundred years old. Some call him the Dream Warrior Master.”
“Is he Pan?”
“He is his twinner on the Physical Earth.”
“What does he do all day?”
“Meditate.”
“At night?”
“He collects dates, insects, water, and feeds upon the birds and other creatures that visit the oasis.”
“What happens if the oasis dries up?”
“The oasis will not dry up. It connects to the Freshwater Ocean in the Labyrinthe.”
Suddenly, everything blows my mind. “SHIT!” I exclaim, waking up. RC. FA. RC. FA. RC. FA. RC. FA. GODAMMIT. FA. RC. This happens hundreds of times over a few minutes. I get mad at the dream. I run in a vertical circle, and end up in The White Void. I see my first dream of Morpheus, the god of dreams... I am watching it...
“I create everything you see here...” Morpheus says to my old dream self, as plants and trees spring out from around him as he walks. He looks at the current me, and grins. I finally wake up in my bed, and get up... but my bathroom is crawling with bright green fungus. I RC. Not a dream. I look in the mirror. I am a green and orange alien with no nose to speak of. Shit! How do I RC?
A portal opens, and and arm reaches out and pulls me into another dream.