Angel and I float up out of bed together. She's grinning at me. "You know we are dreaming right?" No. "Well, this is a dream." Just kiss me. We kiss, and fireworks explode over the water of Malama Bay. I open a portal to the Moon with my eyes shut above our heads. Angel is kissing me with her eyes closed as we zip through the wormhole. It's evolving. The ecosystem is getting complex, and it's coated with some strange glowing fluffy pink and purple stuff. We land by the clear pool on the mountain. "Hey, we're in a dream!" says Angel. "Yes! Yes! Yes! So, will you remember." "Aw, Nate, I hope so!" "You can do anything." I morph into different shapes. "Aw my crazy shapeshifter. Be my big kitty." I bound over to Angel as a huge black jaguar with yellow eyes as she morphs into a dozen crazy shapes... a rat demon, a pig dog, a rat head on a steak, a demon car, an ice cube shish kabob with frozen heads in in it.... I land and her feet, and snuggle up against her. I am a tiger now, and she is an Indian princess... Now, we are in Egypt, she is Cleopatra, and I am a leopard... Now we are in ancient North America, and we are both white saber-toothed tigers. We are in a huge pack, hunting mammoths. We are very very hungry. We have separated one from the herd. Our allies are driving a mammoth toward us, as we wait on a cliff. The mammoth charges around the cliff, on the floor of the savanna. We sprint, and leap off the cliff on to the mammoth's back, and dig our great canines into its back. We sever the spinal cord, and as it drops to the ground, we leap off of its falling body.... We wake up next to the pool. "Whoah that was weird!" Angel knocks a goldfish out of her ear. "We are still dreaming!" Oh, yeah. We are supposed to go meet Bobby. Right! Ok, how do we do that? I pinch reality and wiggle it. NATE! STOP THAT MAKES ME FEEL NAUSEOUS! Oh my god. Angel vomits. I freeze time, and rewind it just a little. Ok, how do we do that? Let's jump into the pool! Okay! We hold hands, and jump into the pool. It feel cool, but not too cold. And I can breathe! This is a dream... right... There is a glowing white-blue wormhole with wooden cartoon signs saying, "This way to BanYanLand!" Angel is fascinated with the fish and the merpeople. "We don't have much dream time left!" I grab her hand, and we fly through the wormhole. She wraps her arms around me, and asks me if I'm Superman. We morph into Superman and Lois Lane, then fall through a portal to the main gate of BanYan Land. Raven is there. Everything is so vivid. IT'S FREAKING ME OUT. Raven looks at me strangely. Her faces morphs into a raven. "What's wrong, Nomad?" "Nate? Nate?" Angel becomes a giraffe-woman. "I'm so confused!" I morph into a dozen morphs. I roll around on the ground and shiver. I go unconscious. DJ Sabertooth steps out of the house. "Oh? Is he going to be okay?" Angel frets. "Oh, yeah," Saber says. "He just has vivid-sickness. He mixed Vividi-Tea with Recalli-Tea, and that shit will make you get the vivid sickness." He picks me up and carries me inside. I start to waken. "Who gave him that drink?" Angel asks Raven. "Pixy." "Oh, that little fairy bitch?" "She's an aspect of you, Angel," I say. "What? You're awake." "Like the Hindu gods and goddesses." "You're not-" I fall asleep. Saber sets me in an overstuffed chair in a den, and serves the ladies tea and crumpets. "Would you like some tea and crumpets?" asks Saber. "Yes, please. With chocolate." Raven says. "Uh, no. What's wrong with him. Wait, did you say chocolate?" "You can eat as much as you want, in a dream," Raven smiles at Angel. "This is a dream. You're Nate's dream friend." "Right." Raven summons a big box of chocolates and chocolate cake. I smell the cake. It wakes me up. I leap from the chair into the middle of the den with a flaming green aura as Saber enters with a large plate of chocolate mint tea, and chocolate mint crumpets. I morph into a huge cat, and spin around. Colors shoot out of me. I knock everything over. Everything is so vivid! I pass out again. Next thing I know, I am floating... I am in a harness with little cloud wings on it. Saber is holding on to a string at the other end, like I am his tiger balloon. We are going across a long wooden bridge. Angel is walking a gargoyle dog. I awake. Raven is a raven-human. Angel is a weretiger, and so am I. Saber is a were-sabertoothed tiger. There are strange cliffs all around us. I then realize the cliffs are the trunks of the banyan tree. I grab at the string, but, float over on my back. Everyone laughs. I fly backwards, and pull on the string. Saber holds on tight, then lets go, and I slingshot into the sky. I fly back down with indigo wings. We come to a ledge, and walk under an arch. We step out on to another ledge. We are on the inside of a waterfall. We take off our clothes as we morph into pure animal forms. We leap through the waterfall, and fly down the face of it. I look at my surroundings. We are in something like a valley, surrounded by gigantic banyan tree trunks. There is a green sky, which I suddenly realize is the canopy. The residents of the valley have orbs of light scattered about in the valley. We dive into a pool. We morph into merpeople. There is a merperson city in the roots of the banyan tree underwater. Everything there glows in the darkness. missing time We are on a beach at the bottom of a cliff. Raven is talking to Spike. I see Saber walking with C. I see Angel walking with someone else... a large shadowy cat... My Shadow Beast Self? WTF? I like him better! Angel says. I roar and charge at the creature, and it mirrors me. We, collide, and I absorb it into me. Q10 Reports: The origin of the dream creature you just absorbed is thus: It all began when a piece of your symbiote, created its own symbiote and.... WARNING WARNING WARNING! Sentient energy detected. Hostile detected in dream body! Initiating cleansing! A droid pops out of the ground. "Biodome security procedure activated." The droid sprays me, and a strange sentient parasite squirms out of me. He calls himself the rage demon. Tigress appears with a pair of tongs. She gives it to Washu, Janet, and Gabrielle. Gross. Angel looks at it like she wants to eat it. I am weirded out. The dream blurs. I am in Hell with Gawn. Angel, Gawn, and I are all demon-vampires. Gawn tells me to mix in red energy in with my green blue and white... and feed Angel a few orbs of red energy every day, for she is a red vampire. I am back in the Biodome on the beach. I feel like we are in a Scooby-Do cartoon. I cough, and a fish falls out of my mouth, then a whale... then a house... I hear a voice murmur: Vividity Sickness. I wake up in a storybook. Angel is reading it to our daughter. I am a lion in the book. The book is about me. The book is about Juargawn, but no one knows Juargawn is real. I dance and act silly as I run across the page, messing the story up. Our little girl laughs and claps her hands. The dream fades again. We are back in the den. Everyone is looking over me. I am on my back. "Dude, you were talking in your sleep." What? I wake up in my bed and I am a teenager again. The lights are dim... with my old girlfriend, the room is full of people... they are all smoking weed, there's a loud knock at the door.. the police, stop or i'll shoot... what is this a made for tv movie... i am in a movie theater, watching a movie about dreams. Starring.... WakingNomad...! Raven Knight....! We are on Celebrity Deathmatch, and MoSh is the announcer... "I don't want to clay-kill you, Raven!" I wake up again. We are at the beach. I wake up again. In bed. I wake up again, in the den. I am in infinite dimensions, waking up, and in infinite dimensions falling asleep. I pull myself back to center, and ground my energy. I am leaning on a railing on a cliff. We are looking at a waterfall in BanYanLand. Saber is giving a lecture on the ecology of BanYanLand. (cont'd)
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