hi guys it's FFF back at it again with writing dumb fanfiction
So, uh, I know I haven't updated TDR in a little while, but no worries, I haven't given up on that. I was just... *flips hair* inspired to write this
Anyway you supported this so don't blame me for it
"What a weird dream." Lydia remarked, leaning against the trunk of a fruit tree. "So boring. It's been like an hour, and basically nothing's happened. You'd think that something would happen by now. Dreams are supposed to be exciting! Or at least strange! The only strange thing about this dream is that I'm in the middle of this random field. My subconscious is dumb." She glanced at the tree she leaned on. "Maybe I can climb the tree." Not likely, the trunk was fairly smooth and she was no expert at climbing trees. But maybe that's what she was supposed to do in the dream, so she gave it a shot.
Result: It didn't work. All she managed to do was get her hands all scraped up, which hurt a surprising amount. Ow. Dream pain hurt, but usually not this much. She glared at the tree, wondering why she couldn't just sprout wings. That usually worked once she figured out it was a dream, except in horror dreams. But, now that she considered the possibility, it probably wouldn't happen.
"Shazam!" She said aloud, waving her arms at the tree. Nothing happened. She had no control over this dream whatsoever. Rats. She was starting to get hungry, too, and it looked like there were some nice apples in this tree. As the dream didn't seem to be providing any other source of food, she decided to try again. Apples weren't her favorite kind of food, but she'd eat them.
After an hour of battling with the tree, she finally made it up into the branches, where she found, to her satisfaction, a lot of nice-looking apples. So she climbed up a bit further and settled down in a nook between two branches to eat one. It was a bit sour, but otherwise good.
Then she saw a spider and nearly fell out of the tree.
Luckily, she wasn't completely arachnophobic, so she managed to get out of the tree safely. She grabbed a few more apples on the way down, in case she couldn't get up again or something. At least she had shoes and decent clothes in this dream.
Lydia considered just walking in some direction – there really wasn't much of anything but the tree in that field, which was ringed on three sides by forest – but was hesitant to leave her food source. After a long debate with herself, she eventually decided to go to the open end of the field. Just to see what she could see. Carrying an apple in each hand and one in each pocket, she headed towards the edge of the field, humming,
After about a ten-minute walk through tall grass (thank goodness for jeans), she made it to the edge, which she found was at the top of a hill. Standing at the top gave her a very nice view of another couple fields, then a city. A very large city, with many skyscrapers and spires. The tallest tower had a very familiar shape to it, but she couldn't put her finger on where she'd seen it before, so she settled down on the shorter grass on the top of the hill to eat another apple.
The next few hours were mind-numbingly boring. Dullest dream she'd ever had. At least it was getting dark. That was a change from the bright sun in her face. As the sun set, a blue, holographic image flickered on over the oddly-familiar tower. An even more familiar image. Kind of like a… blue C, with an e inside…
"Borg!" She exclaimed aloud, snapping her fingers. "That's Borg tower! That's Ninjago- New Ninjago city! I'm in Ninjago! Heck yeah. Wait, why hasn't anything happened then? Usually Ninjago dreams I have give me powers or something. Though, with my luck, it's more likely that I'll meet Sonic the Hedgehog than some ninja." She sighed. "Dumb dream. I'll probably forget all this as soon as I wake up anyway, so it doesn't really matter." She took another bite of the apple. "Still sour." She muttered with her mouth full.
So was she actually going to be able to sleep? Would she even get tired? She got hungry, so, probably… but would she be able to sleep? She didn't have any pills. Whatever, something interesting might happen if she stayed awake. Nevertheless, at probably about midnight to one, she fell asleep.
The next day, to her surprise, she woke up on the hill.
"Odd. I'm still here." She muttered to herself, sitting up and stretching. "I even dreamed… in a dream. Unless this is real. But that makes no sense, and I shouldn't get my hopes up." She chided herself. "Does feel oddly realistic for a dream, though. Time appears to be passing at a normal rate, and nothing fantastic has happened. Except, of course. I'm in a random field in the middle of nowhere in a fictional world." Still, at some point she was sure she would wake up at home. Still, something was off about this.
She walked back to the tree to get some more apples, then spent the rest of the day being bored. By that evening, she was almost convinced this was real. What dream would last like 32 hours? She'd give it another day. If she woke up here tomorrow morning, she'd assume this was real.
That had both pros and cons. Mostly cons. Pros, she was in hecking Ninjago. Cons, she had no shelter, no source of food or water – apples and their juice worked for now, but once those ran out – no friends, no weapons, nothing. She would have to find shelter, but where? Maybe she could find a homeless shelter in the city, if such a thing even existed. And if she had the nerve to actually go in. Actually… this being real would be pretty bad. It would be a real shame if she died of hunger before even seeing the ninja.
On the other hand, what if this wasn't even the same Ninjago? What if it was some alternate universe? Unlikely, but so was randomly being transported to a fictional world.
After hours of overthinking everything, Lydia finally fell asleep at the base of the tree.
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"Toto," Lydia said aloud upon walking up the next morning. "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore."
for the record, this is completely unrealistic. Even if I tried to climb a tree for an hour I would never succeed.
~FFF