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Battle in the Land of The North
Demons on the backs of elephants crash through the trees. They are wielding scimitars and bows.
I summon Ganesh, and merge with him. I multiply myself into an army of elephants. I blast my trunk, and summon the Moon Dragons. We battle the demons on the plains in the Kingdom of the North.
I see an archdemon riding the largest elephant. He leaps off, and challenges me to battle. I merge with Zaphor, my red dragon dream guide, and become Solgawn, my archdemon form. I am a dragon-demon now, with a flaming whip-sword, and a round spiked shield. The archdemon grimaces at me.
I roar, and flick my sword at him. The blade shoots out, a chain unfurling between the blade and the handle, and it hits the archdemon in the third eye. He screams in anger, and pulls it out of his head. He lunges at me. I spin around, and the chain wraps around his neck, then the blade hits him in the shoulder. He grabs at the chain and growls. The blade stabs him repeatedly on its own. I realize it's the Witchblade acting of its own accord.
A devil dog leaps up and bites the chain, weakening it. One of the links breaks, and the chain retracts. I summon Jo, and he flies out of the sky, a great winged cerebus. He bays, and the sky turns to night. The Moon rises and he growls at the devil dog. He has one head like a labrador, one head like a German Shepherd, and one like a pit bull. He leaps at the devil dog, and they battle. My witchblade has turned into a snake covered in small blades for scales, and is sliding over the archdemon, ripping him to shreds.
I spread my arms, and roar. Moonlight streams down from the Moon, and I feel Selene and Angel merge into me. My eyes glow white. I feel Angelina leap into me from behind, and I am covered in claws, horns, and fangs. I feel Gabrielle merge into me, and I am covered in swords. Marty and Mary appear, and stick guns on me.
I fly at the archdemon spinning. He creates a large shield of steel. I drill through it, into his body. He screams in pain and anger, and his body explodes and dissipates into little bugs. Angelina and I summon frogs and other creatures to eat it.
The sky turns red.
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Dreaming Many Dreams
I am somehow on another battlefield in another time. I am dreaming dozens of dreams at once. Each dream is a bubble around me. Each bubble is the beginning of a row of bubbles going out into infinity. I feel almost insane. I decide to perceive only the original dream.
***
I am in what looks like a devastated Inner World. I have seen this before: dead trees, parched land, red sky. Where am I? I am killing everything, and everything is killing me. I am the trees, the landscape, and nothing at the same time. I feel completely disoriented.
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Conversation with The Frost Giant
I wake up in the Glen of Healing. Raven is asleep a few feet away from me. The others are doing healing on both of us. "What just happened?"
Gabriel: Everything and nothing. Sh... Rest, O Warrior.
I create a bunch of small Tesla coils, and make an additional layer of protection around Raven.
I am in the Cave of the Frost Giant. He is quietly stirring a stew.
Me: What's happening.
FG: Many things, all at once, O dreamer. You are being attacked, one by one. All of you. Beware, and be on guard. I am sorry to say... Now is not the time for Fun Dreams. I don't want you to be Worn Out in your Waking Life from dream battles, but if you don't fight them, you automatically lose.
They have given up on wily tactics. Bribes, divisiveness, fear attacks, don't really work on any of you. Now, they are resorting to full on Frontal Assault. Always be on guard. Always be vigilant. In dreams, and in waking. All of you are advancing, all of you are confronting your Inner Demons, aspects of yourselves which have been weakening you. The more you battle those creatures, the more the sentient demons from Outer Worlds will come to attack for fear of your growing strength.
The Great War for the Dream and Astral Planes of Urth has begun. Now, you will fight, O Warrior.
Me: What is Urth?
FG: Urth is the Dream and Astral Plane versions of Earth. They all exist together, inextricably intertwined. Long have the Angels and Dream Warriors from other dimensions fought against the Demons for Urth, and not many Dream Warriors from your dimension, not even since The Great Sleep.
Me: What is The Great Sleep?
FG: Ever since the Fall of Atlantis, the entire Urth/Earth Dimension has fallen into spiritual darkness. By darkness, I do not mean evil, I mean ignorance, and unawareness. Then, beginning with the invention of the printing press, your race has been so inundated with useless information flooding your brains, you have become unaware of almost everything. This is the Great Sleep. So many people fall asleep in dreams, into dreamless sleeps...
I see images of people yawning, and being attacked by demons grinning. The people unaware.
FG: Now is the beginning of the Great Awakening. Awareness of All is increasing. The War has begun, and intensifies. Fight on all planes. Fight for yourself, for your own mind, for your peace, for your rights, for the ones you love. Fight for what is yours, fight for what you deserve, fight for what you have earned, fight for ones who cannot fight for themselves.
It's time to train, and make ready your hands for war, O Child. You are but a tike, in a land of giants.
***
The Frost Giant grabs my wrists, and spins me around. He tosses me through a portal in the wall. We are on a permafrost tundra. He morphs into a huge hairy beast like a blue bear with huge claws, and tusks. He charges at me. I morph into a bull with tusks and claws. The Frost Giant opens his mouth and eats me.
I become very tiny. I suddenly feel him pulling at me from all directions. I can't hold my dream body together. I allow myself to fly apart. My dream body goes supernova, and all parts of me are flung into millions of corners of the universe. I find a dwarf star to draw myself back together. I form myself around it. It's now sitting in the center of my belly. I am floating in space. The Frost Giant appears before me.
FG: You are learning, O Child. Now rest.
***
I am back in the Cave of the Frost Giant. My dream friends and I, MoSh, Asuka, Selene, Angel, Angelina, WarriorTiger, Silverwolf, Joseph, and maybe some others are all there. Joseph says he is guarding the entrance. Now he looks like an older teenager, about 16 or 17. He gazes at the sky.
The rest of all fall asleep in sleeping bags. The Frost Giant plays Andean pipes.
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