//Mmmmm I know that smell//, you think as you walk into the house. Sure enough, on the table are boxes of your favorite pizza. After a long day at school and basketball practice, this sounds great. You eat dinner with the rest of your family and after your sixth slice you're finally full. You then remember you have homework but you're very tired and are considering skipping it.
[[Go to bed->Bedroom]]
[[Work on homework->Desk]]You fall right into bed exaughsted from the day and after a few tosses and turns you have no trouble going right to sleep.
[[Next]]Even though you're exhausted from the day you decide to finish your homework. You pull out your math homework and begin to stare at the words and numbers on the page. You begin to start the first problem but you can't keep your eyes from shuttering closed. After the first problem alone takes you 30 minutes, you decide to just work on it the next day.
[[Brush your teeth]]
[[Bedroom]](background: (gradient: 0, 0,blue, 1,purple))[You walk into the bathroom and pick up your toothbrush. As you begin to brush your teeth, you notice out of the corner of your eyes the walls starting to move. You rub your eyes and look again and it's gone. //Weird,// you think to yourself as you continue to brush your teeth. After another minute passes by the room starts to change colors and you think //I definitely need to go to bed.// As you leave the bathroom you see the whole house is the coated in the same purplish blue color. ]
[[Go wake up your brother]]
[[Go to bed->Bedroom]]You walk into your brother's room right next to yours and discover he is not there. "Hey bro," you call out. Nobody answers.
[[Yell out his name]]
[[Search for your parents]](background: (gradient: 0, 0,blue, 1,purple))[In the middle of the night you wake up in your bed feeling super hot for some reason which you never do. Your eyes blink open and you see your room is covered in a light purplish blue fog. Confused from where this came from, you take a look outside and see a lot of the same misty fog. Curious, you decide to go outside and check it out more.]
[[Go outside]]"Angel!!!" you shout out. No response. You then try to call him on your phone but you realize suddenly you have no service.
[[panic->Yell out his name]]
[[Run out the house and try to find somebody->Go outside]] You hurry up out your brother's room towards your parents' room trying not to freak out at the situation. You get over there in no time and bust open the room to your parent's door without knocking. Sure enough, neither of them are there either so you take a second to decide what to do next.
[[Run out the house and try to find somebody->Go outside]]
[[Go back to your room and lie down]](background: (gradient: 0, 0,blue, 1,purple))[Not wanting to panic anymore you decide you either must be very sick or dreaming. Either way, you decide you need to go to bed. You crawl into your bed, take one last look at the glow, and decide you're too tired to care why it's there. You pull your blankets over yourself and instantly your eyes close.]
[[Go to sleep]](background: (gradient: 0, 0,blue, 1,purple))[As you make your way outside you see a lot more of the same mist you saw before, but that's not what catches you attention. All of the houses around yours are lit up with huge decorations that represent some kind of theme. You start to walk down the street taking in everything going on. The house next to yours for example is has large neon signs of notebooks and pencils on the roof, about half as tall as the house itself. You see more in the distance, but wonder what these signs mean and are curious to check them out.]
[[Keep walking down the street]]
[[Enter the school-themed house]]Your curiosity has lead you to check out the rest of the houses down the street. You decide to keep walking down taking in all the lit up decorated houses on both sides of the road. There's one with a bunch of clouds hanging over it and this interests you more than the previous one, so you decide to check it out.
[[Enter the cloud house]]Upon opening the door, you look inside and it is nothing like what it looks on the outside. Inside you realize you're standing in a high school.
There's students around everywhere and when you try to ask one what's going on they ignore you as if you're not there. "Weird..." you think as you try to find someone else to talk to. You see a group of girls walking towards you and as you try to catch their attention one of them keeps walking right into you and bumps your shoulder.
"Hey, did you guys see that?" the girl asks her friends.
"See what?" one said.
"It felt like someone just bumped into me," she responded, disturbed.
"You're tripping," another one said laughing at her. "You need to sleep more."
"I guess," she said as they all moved on.
Wondering what is going on you then take a minute to actually look at yourself and see you're surrounded by a whittish glow around you. "Did I die?? Am I a ghost??" you ask yourself. Confused, you wonder what to do next.
[[Keep exploring]](background: (gradient: 0, 0,red, .8,orange))[As soon as you walk in the house, you look ahead and there's a huge tower not more than 100 yards away from you. It seems to be surrounded by a moat...made of lava. You can see it bright and glowing from where you're standing and you wonder what inside is so important it has to be protected like this. ]
Suddenly, you see a girl running towrards you with a sword in her hand.
"Come with me, I need your help," she said.
You suddenly realize it's your crush Sofia that lives down the street from you. If it was anyone else you would've instantly said no.
"What do you need help with?" you asked her.
"There's a cute boy up there that I need to save from this dragon and I could really use your help," she smiled at you. "Pleaseeee."
[[Fight the dragon]]
[[Tell her not a chance]]As soon as you walk through the door you find yourself looking at the bright blue sky ahead of you. The next thing you notice is that you are standing on the CLOUDS! Underneath you is a big white cloud...that you're somehow standing on.
It looked very soft and plushy and you wondered what it would be like to jump up and down on it. Now that you're here it seemed like not a bad idea to try. So you started jumping up and down on it and it bounced you up a bit like a trampoline. Suddenly before you could have any real fun someone behind you yelled "STOP YOU'RE GONNA FALL!"
You turned around to a girl far away from you drifting closer to you on another cloud.
[[Continue jumping]]As you keep walking through the halls, you realize nobody can see you or hear you. "I must be a ghost then," you say to yourself. You don't know how but you're hungry, so you decide to head to the cafeteria. You get in line for the food but there's a lot of people ahead of you.
"What's for lunch?" you ask the person ahead of you. Then, remembering nobody can hear you you decide to just wait until you reach the front. After waiting for a minute, you feel a tap on your shoulder and instantly you turn around to see who it is.
It's a guy. "Hey, why're you glowing?" he asks.
"You...you can see me?" you say to him.
"Yeah, duh. You're in my dream."
"Your dream?" you say. Then you realize the guy you're talking to appears to be your next door neighbor Mark. "Wait, Mark?" you ask.
"Yes it's me, he replies. Now I have a proposition for you. Let me just tell you right now that since nobody can see you, you're not getting any food. However, I can ask for a bit extra for you if you help me with something. What do you say?"
[[Help Mark]]
[[Leave the school]]You take a step outside and start walking down the street more. At the end of the block, the one that catches your attention is a house with a giant bright red dragon on top. You decide to enter this one.
[[Enter the dragon house]] //I'm gonna regret this// you think to yourself. "Sure," you say.
"Great!" she says. "Let's go."
So the two of you walk up to the moat which has a draw bridge located at the front. "This is the tricky part," she says. "Once we start to lower the bridge down it might make a large enough sound for the dragon to hear us, so we'll have to hurry. The last time I saw the dragon he was behind the tower, so he's most likely still there. Here, take the sword for when he comes while I unlock the door at the top of the tower."
"You want me to wait here and fight off the dragon? Are you crazy?!"
"You said you would help me though." she recalled. "Please it's the only way."
[[Refuse to stay and wait]]
[[Stay and wait with the sword]]"Sure, why not," you tell him.
"Great," he smiled. "Now step aside so I can get us pizza."
After he grabbed a couple slices for himself and an extra one for you, he led you to the table at the end of the cafeteria where he sat alone.
"Now," he said, already with half a slice of pizza shoved in his mouth, "here's what I need help with. I've had this dream multiple times and I'm tired of it. It always happens after I finish my second slice pizza."
"What always happens?" you ask him.
"You know Royce?" Mark asked. "Well, just like in real life he always picks on me but in my dreams it gets even worse. Everytime I have this dream he comes to the cafeteria after I finish my second slice of pizza and gives me the biggest ass-whooping I've ever got in my life. I swear it hurts more and more everytime too," he mumbles under his breath. "But this time I have you to help me, when he comes-"
"Let me guess, you want me to beat him up because he can't see me coming," you say to Mark.
"Precisely. Sounds like a plan?" he asks.
[[Suggest another idea]]
[[Decide to follow Mark's plan]]"Hmm... no I'm okay actually," you say. You're having a werid feeling about the whole thing so you decide to leave.
[[Leave]] You wake up in the morning and the first thing you notice is the dreamy glow that once surrounded your room is no longer there. You get up and walk over to your brother's room and he's sound asleep even though his school starts in 15 minutes. You go over to your parents' room but you realize they're already at work. //Hm... I must've been dreaming// you think as you continue on with your day."Why don't you just leave the cafeteria?" you ask him. "That makes more sense to me."
"You know what I've actually never tried that." he said. "Let me just finish this last slice real quick," Mark said as he devours the last half of the sceond slice of pizza."
"WAITTT." you yell at him. Too late.
"Oops."
[[Get ready to fight->Decide to follow Mark's plan]]
Right after he says that, Royce bursts right in through the cafeteria door. He looks around for a bit, then spots you and Mark (or just Mark) at the last table sitting alone. As he begins to stride over to where you're both sitting, Mark gives you a little nod.
"Hey Mark, how's it going?" Royce says with a mean smirk on his face. Not able to contain himself, Mark looks your way and starts laughing. "Hey, what you laughing at weirdo," he said very bothered by his laughing.
"I'm laughing at you," Mark replied, "'cause you're bout to get your ass kicked."
Now that the plan was in motion and you saw Royce up close, he was still a lot bigger than even you. You didn't know if you could beat him up even without him being able to see you.
"By YOU?! Hahahahahaha," he said, laughing to the point where tears were about to come out his eyes.
"Yeah me," he motioned you over urgently while Royce was distracted laughing. "Do something," he pleaded you.
"Oh i'll do something about that alright," he said as he stepped closer to Mark.
Not knowing what to do, you have to act quick.
[[Kick Royce as hard as you can below the belt]]You decide to use all the strength you have in your legs to kick Royce where it would hurt the most.
Instantly, there's a cry of pain and Royce bends over and grabs right where you kicked him. Mark then sits up from his seat and you can see him ball up his fist as tight as he can.
He then proceeds to sock Royce in the face as hard as he can and Royce drops, now clutching his face and his groin. Everyone in the cafeteria is now watching in shock at what just happened. Then, everyone is running up to Mark, hyping him up and giving him high-fives. As more people start to crowd around, you give Mark a nod and decide your job there is done.
[[Leave the school->Leave]]You decide to ignore her warning and continue jumping and doing tricks in the clouds. After you got high enough to do a double backflip in the air, instead of bouncing off the cloud once more you fall right through.
As you fall through the cloud you were just jumping on you start to fall through the sky at an alarmingly fast rate. The last thing you hear before you hit the ground is "I TOLD YOUUUUuuuuuuuu."//A DRAGONNN?// you're thinking in your head. Is it really that worth it. You decide you don't want to get eaten by a dragon whether it's only a dream or not. "There's no way I'm going to die doing that but good luck!" you say giving her a thumbs up and turning the other direction.
"If you can't help me you're not leaving either," she says and draws her sword on you. "HEYYYYYYYY!" she shouts at the top of her lungs, and immediately you hear a loud roar coming from the castle. From the backside of the tower a dragon pops up and heads your direction.
"Are you crazy?" you say as the dragon is flying towrds the both of you.
[[Run]]You run for your life but your legs are no match for the giant wings on the dragon. It catches up to you easily and gobbles you up in an instant. And yes, getting eaten in your sleep is very painful.At this point you start to get mad. "There is NO WAY I am going to stay here while you run up and save your guy. If you think-"
You're interrupted by the sound of a large roar.
"Look what you did!" she said, "you woke him up!"
[[Run]]"Fine," you say. So the two of you begin to slowly lower the bridge to et across the lava filled moat. Nothing happens. As it fully lowers to the ground it makes a thump against the ground and the two of you look anxiously around for any signs of the dragon.
"Go ahead," you tell her. "I'll wait here." You decide to stay and wait with the sword in your hand at the entrance to the tower. As she goes in quietly, you wait outside alert, waiting for anything to happen. Less than a minute in, you hear a loud roar followed by your crush screaming at the top of her lungs. You quickly open the door and see she's cornered by the dragon at the end of the large room.
[[Run towards the dragon with your sword in hand]]
[[Try to draw the dragon's attention]]You run over to the dragon in an attempt to save her and as you do so, the dragon loses focus Sofia and turns towards you. Not knowing what else to do you throw your sword as you're running at the dragon and it misses completely. The dragon decides to pick her up and then chases after you.
[[Run]]You start banging the sword up against the wall in order to grab the dragon's attention. The dragon instantly turns it's head in your direction so you have to make your move quick. Trying to do anything to get it away from her you start banging the wall and shouting at it. The dragon then puts its head down and starts charging at you.
You run out the door with the dragon on your tail and stop for a second to decide what to do next.
[[Run]]
[[Stay and fight]](background: (gradient: 0, 0,red, .8,orange))[You decide to take your chance to fight the dragon. Looking around to see what can help you, you peek down at the moat with the lava still in it you get an idea. Hearing the dragon getting closer about to break down the door you point the tip of your sword in the lava and quickly run over to the side of the front door of the tower. As the dragon bursts through the door you thrust the sword into its side and it immediately roars in pain.]
It takes a few more steps and then drops down in defeat. Before you start walking towards the tower to see if Sofia's okay, she's already outside running up to give you a big hug.
"What about your guy?" you ask her.
"Ehh, forget him. It's just a dream anyways," she laughs. You look back for a second and think //wow I really just killed a dragon. I must be going crazy.// You shake it off and the two of you walked away from the tower just as you entered it, except this time it was hand in hand.
[[The End]]
You wake up in the morning and the walls are all back to normal. //Was I really just in Sofia and Mark's dreams?// you ask yourself. //Well, there's only one way to find out.// You put on your clothes real quick and run outside your house. You look down the street and there's Sofia, this time with no sword, in front of her house locking eyes with you. "Hey," she smiles. "What's up?"