Ok guys, I have decided to take a break from writing High School is a Strange and Scary World to start writing a new story that was brought up by Orangebird124. This story is about Joy staring in a dream. It has been a long time coming for this story to be written. Thank you for this idea Orangebird124 and I hope I do this story justice for you. I am intending to write multiple chapters for this story. I don't know exactly how many.
Anyway, I hope you guys like the first chapter of What Dreams Are Made Of.
Joy sits at the controls. It's her turn to watch over Riley's dreams. However, she's having trouble staying awake. It's not that she's tired, she's just bored over the dream taking place. It's Riley in class as the teacher is giving her a lecture. Joy dislikes having to watch such boring dreams. She knows that Riley does some pretty exciting things, but for the producers at Dream Productions don't seem to care about the exciting stuff. They're more interested on rehashing the dull mundane events of the day.
Joy starts to snore when the sound of the dream is cut off. "An important message from Rainbow Unicorn." An announcer says. That causes Joy to stir awake. She lazily looks at the screen.
"Hi everyone! I have some exciting news to share with you." Rainbow Unicorn will speak. That causes Joy's eyes to widen. Her full attention focused on the message. "We strive to create the most amazing dream as we possibly can." That remark causes Joy to make a horse sound with her lips as she rolls her eyes. "But as you may know we have hit a creative slump, and drastic measures must be taken to ensure we continue making quality dreams. With that being said, I have started a contest. This contest will be to decide who will join me to star in a dream."
Joy's face lights up with curiosity.
"All you have to do to enter the contest is send in a headshot of yourself to Dream Productions. You can either mail it to me or send it via email to We will announce the finalists. If you are one of the finalists, you will have to come down to Dream Productions for an audition. If we like what we see you could be the one who co-stars with me."
Joy begins to wiggle in her chair over the news.
"Good luck to all the contestants."
A very dry and dull voice will conclude the message. "That's it for the message. We will now continue the regularly scheduled program."
Joy sits there with a glint of pure excitement in her eyes. "I'm going to win." She says to herself in a quiet voice.
The next morning the other emotions will walk out of their respected rooms and head over to the controls. They greet Joy with the usual morning salutations. Joy will smile and greet them with her usually cheery demeanor.
"So Joy, anything good during dream duty?" Fear answers with a slight grin toward his yellow co-worker.
"Just the typical boring stuff." Joy says with a sigh.
"Huh, figures. Why don't they make a good dream for once?" Anger huffs.
Joy will change the subject. "Well guys, it looks like Riley is getting ready for school. I'm going to freshen up before we start the day." She'll step away from the controls and begin to walk past the other emotions.
However, that causes confusion among the others. Especially Sadness. "Wait Joy, you never just walk away from the start of the day. You always are here making sure Riley is in a good mood before going to school. What's up?"
Joy freezes she's not sure how to answer that question. "Uh, nothing is up, I just need to freshen up, that's all. I trust you guys to get our girl to school in an okay mood. I'll just be gone for a moment." She walks away, the others deciding not to pry any further
Joy sneaks off to the bedrooms that are located upstairs. She however, isn't going to go to her room, at least not right away. Her first stop will be to Disgust's room. She quietly opens the door and enters. Turning on a light she'll examines the room 'Now where would I find a camera.' Joy thinks to herself. This is the likeliest of places to find a camera considering Disgust's attention to her own vanity.
She'll look through a closest to find a camera. However, no such item was found. But then she spots a phone on a nightstand by Disgust's bed. 'Hmm this will have to do I guess.' Joy thinks to herself as she is holding Disgust's phone in her hands.
Joy doesn't have a phone herself, so she isn't sure how to even turn it on. She presses a button on the side of the phone and sure enough the screen lights up. Scan through the little icon she tries to find the camera icon. A little image of a camera appears, and Joy taps the screen. The phone is already set so that the front of the phone can capture the persons image. Joy can already see herself in the phone. Giving her best smile she taps a little button on the screen and a picture of Joy appears.
Disgust will groan. "Ugh, I left my nail file upstairs. I'll be right back."
"When you're up there, can you ask Joy to come back down?" Fear asks.
"Yeah sure." Disgust starts walking toward the stairs.
Just as Joy has finished sending the photo to Rainbow Unicorn she can her the sound of tapping. She immediately gets the phone over to main screen and places it back on the nightstand. However, she isn't fast enough to leave the room just as Disgust enters it.
Disgust looks at Joy with surprise. "Joy! What are you doing in my room?"
Joy is caught and it's not a good feeling. She must come up with an excuse. Anything to get out of this awkward situation. "I, uh was going to my room and then I noticed a really nice smell coming from your room. Did you get some new perfume?"
It's a lame excuse, but it works. "Yeah, it's a new scent I picked up at Fashion Island. You really just came in here because you smelled my perfume?"
"That's right." She'll give a weak laugh, rubbing the back of her head in embarrassment. "Pretty silly, right?"
Disgust will roll her eyes and shake her head. "Joy, you can be so weird sometimes." Disgust will go to her vanity on the other side of the room and pick up her nail file. Then she'll walk back to Joy. "Now come on, Riley is on route to school. We need you back down their asap."
"You got it Disgust. I'm right behind you." Joy will breathe a sigh of relief as she and Disgust head back down to join the others.
Somewhere at Dream Productions.
"No no no, none of these people are good enough to join me in a dream." Rainbow Unicorn says as she is scanning through the hundreds of photos of contestants that have entered the contest.
"Uh, why is that Ms. Unicorn?" A small pinkish looking figure stand with a clipboard in hand.
"Because they all look alike." She says with a stern look toward the figure in front of her.
"But Ms. Unicorn, with our alternate reality filter-." The pinkish blob will be shut down.
"I don't want to use that filter! I want to go all natural with this dream and I need someone who is-" She stops herself looking at a picture of a yellow figure in a picture on her computer screen. "I think I just found who I'm looking for."
Well Orangebird124 I hope you like the first chapter :) As for the other readers of this and my other works I promise I will continue writing for High School is a Strange and Scary World.