Here’s a dream I had the other night. I often get downloads of stories in my dreams. Unfortunately, they often contain only the first chapter. Enjoy!
I am sleeping peacefully when I think I hear the click of my bedroom door open. As I open my eyes in alarm, I can swear I see a shadowy figure drop to the ground at the foot of my bed. I sit up and say “Hello?” I wait. Nothing happens. My door was closed. I must have imagined it. I go back to sleep.
A little while later I hear a voice near my bed saying, “Wake up, we need your help, we haven’t much time!”
I startle awake and sit up in bed. I can just make out a figure standing next to me. He’s tall, male, dressed sort of strangely, but it’s hard to see in the dark.
I start to scream but he puts his hand over my mouth and whispers, “Shh, it’s alright. Please be quiet or they’ll hear you!”
He takes his hand from my mouth, and I whisper, “Who are you? What do you want?”
I hear a voice behind him say, “Ask her where the crystal is. Hurry!”
I try to see past the guy next to me to identify the voice behind him, but all I see is vague movement.
The guy in front of me says, “Sorry to bother you, really. We’re looking for a quartz crystal, about 10 inches long with a point at the end. We tracked it here, but I’m not seeing it. We need it right now.”
I swing my legs over my bed and say, “What?”
He sighs and says, “Please concentrate and we’ll be gone in a jiffy. We just need the crystal.”
I think for a second and say, “Um, well I have a quartz crystal in my desk over there. It matches your description, but …”
He interrupts me and says, “Fantastic.”
Then I hear a third voice near my door. It says, “They’re coming, we’ve got to go.”
I stand up, alarmed, and say, “Who’s coming?”
The second voice says, “I found it. Open the portal.”
The first guy looks at me with gratitude, but his expression quickly turns to concern. He turns to his friends and says, “Wait, we can’t just leave her here. They’ll torture her for information.”
My eyes open wide. “Who is going to what now?”
The second guy says, “Not our problem, mate. Let’s go, or we’re dead!”
I am very alarmed now. “Who’s coming? Why would they torture me? What the hell is going on!?!?”
The third guy pushes a button on some device. A light shoots from it and what is clearly a portal opens up near me. I can see space and stars inside.
The first guy looks back at me and says, “You’ll have to come with us. It’s the only way to protect you, and frankly, us.”
Third guy says, “We’ve got 7 seconds.” He runs into the portal and disappears with a pop. I take an involuntary step back. This is too much.
The second guy says, “You can’t take her, she is not prepared for travel.”
The first guy says, “It’s her only chance.”
He spins me around to stand behind me, wraps his arms around my upper arms, pinning them to my side, then shoves me forward into the portal. At the last moment, he hops onto my back and wraps his legs around my thighs. He yells into my ear, “Keep your eyes closed and don’t flail.”
I don’t close my eyes and immediately wish I had. We’re spinning through some purple vortex of energy. I feel g-force energy turning me inside out. Nausea grips me tight, and my brain feels like it’s going to leak out of my ears. I can’t breathe.
After just a few seconds there’s a loud pop, a burst of light, and we land hard on the ground. He somehow maneuvers himself to break my fall. I roll off of him and flail for a second as I tumble onto the dirt. When I come to a stop the world is still spinning, hard.
I hear the second guy say, “Is she okay?”
I turn my body to the left and start dry heaving.
The first guy says, “Yeah, no, I don’t think so.”
Then I pass out.
***
Later, as my awareness slowly returns, I can feel I’m in a very soft bed, covers drawn up to my chin. I’m shivering a little. My head is foggy, my thoughts unclear, and I’ve got the mother of all headaches.
I hear a woman’s voice say off to the side, “What the hell were you thinking, bringing a human through the portal with no preparation at all?”
The first guy says, “We had no choice. They were hot on our heels and we had the crystal. They would have killed her to find out how she got it. I couldn’t just leave her to die.”
Third guy says, “Not sure you did her any favors, mate.”
The woman’s voice says, “Why does she have the key anyway? How did she get it?”
The first guy says, “We’ll ask her when she wakes up. When do you think that will be?”
I open my eyes fully and see three male figures standing around the bed I’m lying in. A female wearing an apron approaches me and says, “There, there now, darling. Let’s get some of this tonic in you so your head stops spinning. Then I want to get some food into you. You’ve been out for several hours already.”
I say, “What the actual f…”
Then I woke up.
