The Cats

I was sitting on the ground in a carpeted room. Steve and Tara where sitting on the couch, and Sarah was sitting on floor across the room next to the couch. There were three cats. The crawled all over me, rubbing their fur on me, trying to get me to pet them. Tara and Steve kept laughing at how much attention they wanted from me, and how they had never wanted this much attention before. I asked where the cat's came from and they said they didn't know. Sarah said she knew but she couldn't say because the cats would get mad. One of the cats crawled up and pushed it's head against my cheek and whispered into my ear. It thanked me for petting it and showing it attention. I nodded and rubbed my head against it's head. Tara and Steve were telling me about all the trouble the cats had caused in the past and how mischivious they had been. Them and Sarah all laughed about it and I just shook my head at how much mischief the cats had caused. One of the cats ran away for a moment. The other two lay down in my lap so I couldn't move. Sarah said the other one had run to get me a gift. When it returned it had a mouse hanging from it's mouth. I took the mouse in my hand and I realized it was a flute, shaped like a mouse. I thanked the cats and then woke up.

Anok and Eroneke

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Anok's people lived in a village not far from a large mountain. On this mountain lived a giant made of rock and lava. It's name was Eroneke. Eroneke was so large that he cast a long shadow over the village of Anok's people. The people were so greatful to live in the shadow of Eroneke, for he shaded them from the heat of the sun. So grateful were they that they gave him offerings of food and riches. Eroneke took these offerings gladly, and ate them up. After a long time Eroneke had eaten so many offerings that he got larger and larger. Until his shadow cast further and wider. Soon his shadow blocked the sun from the crops and the farms. Anok's people grew to resent Eroneke. Their crops would not grow. Their food deminished. The people of the village stopped giving offerings to Eroneke. Soon Eroneke's hunger was so great he began to grab villiagers that walked to close to his mountain, eating them, to sustain his hunger. The people cried out, calling him the monster Eroneke. Eroneke cried as the people who once beloved him, now called him monster, and his tears were of rock and lava. His tears fell from the mountain and destroyed homes and farms. Anok's people cried out for him to end their suffering and slay the monster Eroneke that had caused them so much grief. Anok heard his people crying out and went to Eroneke's mountain and climbed it. Eroneke did not see Anok climbing for he was crying, and when Anok called out Eroneke's name, he was surprised
"Why does the great monster Eroneke cry" Anok asked
"Because the people that are beloved to me call me monster." Eroneke said.
"They call you monster because you ruin their crops, and eat anyone that comes near."
"My shadow ruins their crops. And I eat those that near because my hunger is so great since my offerings have stopped."Eroneke said.
"The offerings stopped because your shadow blocked the sun from our crops."Anok pointed out.
"My shadow grew because out of love the people gave me offerings after offering." Eroneke said.
"I have come to slay you, the people have cried out and I have heard them." Anok said holding up a sword.
"If you kill me great Anok my carcass will remain, blocking out the sun still."

With Eroneke's words Anok knew he killing the giant would not solve the problems. Anok went back to the village and told them this. Still they cried out for Anok to find a solution. For five hundred and twelve days Anok thought of the problem. On the five hundredth and thirteenth day Anok instructed the village to build a rope. One that could withstand the heat of lava, and was strong enough to move a mountain. Having nothing to make rope of the poeple of the village learned to grow special crops that grew without the sun's warmth. They grew these plants for one harvest. When the rope was done they cried out for Anok to rid them of Eroneke. Once more he climbed the mountain.
"You have come to move me with the rope you made that won't burn, and that can move a mountain." Eroneke said as Anok reached him at the peak of the mountain.
Anok did not stop climbing, and continued to climb, even climbing up to Eroneke's head. When he stood upon Eroneke's head Anok spun the rope in his hand, and with all his might he cast the rope up. When the rope was caught on the sun Anok began to walk down the other side of the mountain. As the rope grew tight the sun began to move in the sky. Eroneke's shadow moved until it covered half of the village but not the crops. The people cried out their thanks for Anok and began to plant crops once more.

Anok tied the rope to a tree. A tree only he knew where it was. And knowing the people of the village could grow their crops once more, and that Eroneke would be giving tribute once more, Anok continued forward, away from the tree and the village. Though for a long time through the rest of his journey he could still see the mountain with Eroneke sitting at the top. And when he would look to this mountain, Eroneke was always watching over him from his high throne.

Gaia give me strength (dream)

I was in a forest. Sitting in a clearing, with a teacher in front of me. The teacher’s name was Gaia. She was giving me instructions on how to pull energy from the earth. I was in a trial. I had to stand before a water element and prove myself in the use of the energy of the world. I stood when she was done instructing and turned and walked towards the sound of water. Through the tree’s there was a waterfall that turned into a river. A large man stood there in the water. He had a large beard, his hair blue, his skin scaly. I pulled energy from the earth below me. Nothing happened. I tried again, nothing happened. He laughed at me and told me to go away because I failed. I turned to leave, upset and disappointed. I heard him laughing. I turned and pulled energy from the sky above me and walked back towards him. My body glowed brightly with a green energy. He stopped laughing and nodded to me. I turned around and Gaia was behind me. She asked me if I passes, and understood. I said “Tell them I have passed. Yes I understand.” She nodded and left.

I went to the base of a cliff where my dad was waiting for me. I nodded to him as I approached him. He smiled and hugged me when I was near him. He said he was going to show me a new way to get home now that I had passed. He glowed green for a moment and he waved his hand. A path in the cliff revealed itself going up. The path was covered in what looked like ham pineapple and cheese. He started climbing it. I put my hand against it and my hand sunk in easily and held. I realized this was definitely not ham pineapple and cheese, but that’s what it looked like. I began to climb easily. I saw a woman climbing down taking another broken off path then the one we were. She nodded as she passed us but did not say anything. When we reached the top we were not far from my house. Dad hugged me again and said he had to get to work, and left. I walked the rest of the way home thinking about my trial.

As I approached my house my roommates ran out, a woman and a man and a child. They were all brother and sister. They were screaming for me. I ran to meet them. They said that it was the day the curse would take effect and they were scared and didn’t know what to do. I told them to settle down, and we would have to handle it. They wouldn’t let me get help because they didn’t want anyone to know. We went into the house and locked all the doors and windows and barricaded them and boarded them up from the inside. By the time we were done the sun was setting and they were getting more nervous. I told them we should make dinner to ease the tension. We started making dinner, and were joking and forgot about the time. It started raining outside. We were sitting down at the table when we heard some footsteps on the porch. And something dragging on the wood of the porch. Then the lights went out. I went to a window and looked through a crack in a board. I could see the entrance to their family crypt was open and swaying in the wind. I knew that their dad has been risen as a demon. He had come back to kill them and me.

We heard someone call out, it was a little girl. The oldest brother ran to a window and looked out. He screamed in terror because it was his little sister. I mentioned I never knew they had another sister. The oldest sister said that she had died when she was little. The brother started trying to pry the boards off the door. I ran and grabbed him by the shoulders and pulled him back. As I did a large blade plunged through the door and the opening he had made, barely missing him. The girl looked through, I saw demon in her eyes as they locked on me. She stared at me. I knew then that they were after me, not my roommates. I kicked my foot out planting my heel in her face, she screamed and backed away. We could hear lighting and see shadows from outside flash against the walls. I told them we needed to get them to safety. I took them to the cellar that could only be accessed from inside the house. It was under the table, under a rug. I told them to lock it from the inside, and showed them how. I grabbed a sword from the cellar, as it was where I hid my weapons. The oldest brother refused to hide and said he would fight with me. I could not convince him to stay. He grabbed a weapon too. We waited until we heard them lock it from the inside.

We pulled the boards off a window from an upstairs bedroom, and crawled out onto the roof. We looked down around the yard and saw the father. He was standing still looking up at us, resting his hands on the hilt of a scythe. He had a smile on his face. I looked to my left and saw the small girl crawling towards me. She moved like a lizard, slithering on her limbs rapidly. She leapt into the air and spun, swinging a scythe at me. I blocked it with my sword but it unbalanced me, knocking me over. I rolled off the roof landing on the ground. I heard a thump and saw the brother had jumped down with me. I quickly stood up we looked around. We couldn’t see either of the demons. I turned to talk to the brother and something sprayed in my face. I blinked and saw the back of his neck and head, and saw a curved blade sticking out of the neck. I looked over his shoulder and saw the little girl with a wide grin on her face. She pulled the scythe out and then spun slicing his stomach open. His intestines fell from his body, spilling into the dirt. I felt remorse flood over me, for letting him come with me. The father walked out of the shadows now and they both began to approach me. The father ran towards me. I held up my hand and pulled energy from gaia from above. I felt the energy enter me like lightening, and I directed it out of my hand. The energy hit the father blowing his right arm off and a portion of his torso. The girl stopped surprised. The father looked down at his wound and then back at me. He backed away slowly. The girl rushed towards me. I pulled Gaia’s energy into my hand and formed it into sold rock. I struck out hitting her face as her scythe entered my stomach. He head stopped separating from her body as it moved forward. The father looked surprised and stunned. I reached down and pulled the scythe out of me. The father backed in to the shadows and then turned and ran.

I walked over to the brother. He was holding his neck with his hand. Gasping for air staring at the sky. I dug dirt and mud from the ground and placed it in where his intestines had come from, and over his the hole in his neck. I pulled Gaia’s energy into me until I glowed bright green and then I placed my hands over his wounds. The mud and dirt changed, forming into organs and skin. It spread out and moved until his wounds were healed, leaving two red scars. He breathed in deeply. I looked behind me and saw the demon in the fathers body watching me. He turned and headed towards the town. I helped the brother up and we went inside and then down to the cellar.

(At this point we I woke up. Got up and realized I had fallen asleep in my clothes with my light on. I changed and turned my light off and went back to bed. )

Me and my roommates were running down a street towards a very tall large building. There were the possessed running after us. I told them to run ahead of me. I turned and pulled energy into me and called fire to a line in front of me. The possessed stopped before the fire. I turned and ran after the family. We entered the building. There were ten or twelve other people in the lobby area. We screamed at them we had to hide. They asked us where we came from and I told them because they had the lights on it had attracted lots of the possessed and we had come to warn them. They realized they had made a huge mistake and we began running up the escalators to the stairwell. We barricaded the door and began moving up the stairs. We could hear the door being slammed as we moved up quickly. We got to the top floor and exited the stairwell. We barricaded it and turned all the lights off. We found a large room that could only be accessed one way, but had another exit if we had to leave. We all sat down and rested. We talked and got to know eachother. We talked about how the possession had spread around the world. About the apocalypse. I told them how I had fought against the first possessed. We spent several days there, going out during the day to find food within the large building. Then on the fourth night we heard the possessed break into the floor we were on. We began to move, try and find a way out. But we heard them enter from the other side of the floor as well. They had surrounded us. We ran splitting up, trying to hide. Two girls followed me. We went to an electronics store that was on the floor. We hid behind aisle in the store. A possessed came in, and slowly walked up and down the aisle next to us. When he turned around the corner I pulled him to the ground and covered his mouth. I pulled fiercely and ripped his head off. The girl next to me vomited. I grabbed their hands and moved quickly ducking behind aisles. We found an employee’s only door and found it went to a large corridor system that ran behind all the stores. We found a couple more of our people there and they followed me. We found a small stair system that went up to the top level of another store, but I saw that it was near a walkway that lead to small cordoned off room. I climbed up and jumped over to the walkway. And then helped the rest of them do the same. As we got in the room, we heard the possessed enter the corridor. We shut the door . There was six of us. One of the girls that had followed me kissed me and told me she loved me. I cracked the door open and peaked out to see the possessed all standing silently in on the stairs. They began to slowly move as one. Lifting each other up to the walkway, I closed the door and we started to barricade it. The possessed soon started pounding on the door. I was overwhelmed with despair. I didn’t know what to do. Then I remembered the ham pineapple and cheese. I pulled Gaia into me until I glowed green, and I looked for another path. Two doors presented themselves. One said freeze, the other said fall. When the doors opened it revealed to elevators that hung outside the building, suspended over nothing. Everyone cried as the door began to break open. We made our choices, I stepped into the fall elevator. The two girls went with me, and one old man. The other two went into the freeze elevator. As we got in the door broke and possessed flooded into the room. The grabbed the doors to the elevator before they could close. I began kicking them until the doors could close all the way. The elevators were see through, like glass and we could see the two in the other one freezing. Slowly we watched them freeze to death. We hung in the air, the girls crying. In the bottom of our elevator was a large whole. With long chords hanging down. We sat in there for days. The possessed banged against the door constantly. On the final night, we new we had to try and escape or we would die. We were resolved to climb down the rope and then the next person would climb down and hang from the first persons feet. I was going to go down first and hold everyone’s weight. As we prepared I heard a large boom and the elevator shook. We saw a helicopter fly by in a circle and I saw that it was my friend in it. He had been working on a way to free the possessed. The helicopter was shooting smoke canisters into the building. He had saved us! We all screamed and cried and I kissed the woman that loved me fiercely. When they rescued us from the elevator we rejoiced together. All the live humans were ecstatic that we had finally beaten the possessed. My friend told me everything that had happened and how he found the cure. But it didn’t work on dogs, so we had to put all the possessed dogs down. I found my roommates they were still alive. We all hugged and cried together.

And then I woke up.