Charlie the Unicorn: Half Remembered Pillow

For Paul

"Charlie Charlie wake up! We built a Pillow Fort!" the red unicorn shouted with joy.
"For unicorns!" the blue unicorn added.

Charlie opened his eyes, and sure enough, there was a house sized pillow fort in front of him.
"Where'd you get all those pillows? Did you max out my credit cards again?

"Come inside with us Charlie!"

"Alright. At least I can suffer in comfort."

"You're such a downer Charlie"

They went inside.

"Ooo! A secret passageway."

"Guys there's nothing here, it's a dead end."

"Hey look Charlie, a human!"

Charlie looked away, "What are you talking about, humans don't exist."
Charlie looked back, "Hey where did that door come from?"

"Open the door Charlie!"

"But why me?"

"Because if you open it, we'll go away!"
"Away!"

"Oh okay then."
Charlie opened the door and fell.

"Watch your step Charlie!"

"You guys always warn me too late. At least this is soft, soft like a pillow." He looked down at the ground, "It Is a pillow! He looked up at the sky. "Everything is pillow!"
His eyes grew wide at the sight before him. Everything was made out of pillows. The sky, the sun, the hill he was stainding on, the village that the hill overlooked, the brontosaurus shaped dragon that was destroying the village

Ignoring the dragon, Charlie turned to red and blue, "How did you manage to fit all of this in a tiny pillow fort?"
"Never mind that, it's a pillow dragon!"
"Run away Charlie! Run away!"

"Guys, it's only pillows! Pillows can't hurt you, see?"
Using his horn, Charlie jumped up and stabbed the pillow dragon in the neck right below the head, slicing down towards the torso. Stuffing came out of the sliced pillows and the pillow pieces of the pillow dragon fell apart.
"Told you so."

"The dragon is dead!
Pillow shaped people stepped out of their houses

"Puhoy there! I am the mayor of Fluffytown, and to honor your corageousness and bravery, we will throw a banquet!

"Thank you this is really not necessary."

"You must be famished from your fight, here have a pillow, " The mayor shoved a fruit shaped pilllow in Charlie's mouth "His hastes hike poo," Charlie voice was muffled by the pillow food.
Out of the corner of his eye, Charlie saw the other unicorns sneak away up the hill.
He spit the pillow out "Hey where are you going?"
"We're going away Charlie!"
"Away!"
"Goodbye."

They closed the door and the door disapeared.

"Oh no, how will I get back to my world. Hey wait, this is great! now I won't have to see those insane unicorns ever again! Let's party!"

-80 years later-

A much older and dying Charlie laying down on a bed of pillow hay,
surrounded by pillow people

"You pillows have given me the best days of my life, everyone here is so calm and comforting, unlike those crazy unicorns back-"

Charlie died and his eyes closed

"Charlie woke up!"

Charlie opened his eyes. "Oh no it's you guys again. Am I'm dead and in hell?"
"No silly, you were dreaming the whole time"
"What?!
"We found this suitcase and it had this mysteeriouus liquid in it, we didn't know what it would do, so we gaave it to you just now!"

"I'm not your guinea pig!"
"But you were doing it just now!"

"So I was dreaming for 80 years of my life?"
"Yeah!"
"In the dream?"
"Yeah!

Charlie thought about it hard, "So this must be a nightmare, and when I kill myself, I'll wake up into reality!"
Charlie saw a sharp tree branch and ran into it.

"Noo Charlie! This IS real life! Oh look, a dentist."

Charlie died. For real this time.

GAME OVER "Huh what's going on?"

CONTINUE IN "wAIT wHAT?!"

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"Huh. Where am I?"

Charlie! Charlie! Wake up! Let's go to Candy Mountain!"

"Oh great. Now I gotta play all these levels again. And there's no save point. What kind of stupid game is this?"

"Charlie, have you been dreaming again?"