COURT OF DREAMS: BOOK ONE : Gathering of the Court
CHAPTER 2: A Matter of Trust
From the diary of Gabriella Montoya:
Hola , in case you didn't know me from chapter one, the name is Gabriella Teresa Montoya and I used to go to Appleseed High[that's what we call John Chapman Memorial High] but that all changed the day I became part of the Court of Dreams.
I'm a bit high strung when it comes to people and communities but Allegra always keeps me steady like a rock when I'm near water I'm calm and collected and confident.
Which is why I was surprised the day I received the Aquamarine Trident from her and those dreams started.
But for me, the adventure started when I started walking one of my clients for some spending money [and by clients I'd mean the four legged kind],Even though a $20,000 Voucher is given to me as part of my Scholarship , I'd still want some spending money that I've earned by myself.
While walking this big Great Dane in Med City Park, it's just my bad luck that the dog spots a squirrel and goes after it, pulling it's leash from my hand so fast it burned my palm.
Yelling at the top of my lungs, I raced after him all over the park while he chased that estupido squirrel all day.
Then he lost the squirrel but spotted something else along the western pathway and took off like a shot aimed at a target. Once again I sped after him as I neared his target I realized , with a sinking heart in my chest, that it was the Princessa herself!
What happened next was like watching a rerun of a SCOOBY DOO episode: The dog running her over and licking her all over until she was awash in over 200 pounds of doggy drool. By the time I got there, she was already wet and soggy from her jacket all the way down to her loafers.
"!LO siento princessa!" I apologized profusely, "How was I to know that this perro would get away from me?"
"Esta Bien Gabi, Esta Bien." She said, trying to wipe off the drool from her hair, "Why don't we ditch the drool factory at the Doggie Den so you can get a spare set of clothes and shoes?"
Which I agreed to do but I told her that Mi Mami is washing the clothing and she might put her uniform in it. Fortunately I have a spare uniform that's just her size. There's one hitch though—
She'll have to wear hose and heels[stockings and high heels] along with the uniform or go barefoot to Ravenswood, which may be against the school dress code.
Well that really upset her big time but what can she do? Lunchtime has already started and she has to get back before it's over so it's onto a bus and off to my house for a quick shower and a change of clothes.
After she showered and dressed in the spare uniform and hose and heels it was almost 12:35pm ,meaning lunchtime is almost over so we rushed to the school via a portal she created -and got busted for running in the halls and without a pass.
We both finished our classes after being read the riot act by the Headmistress[and despite the catcalls and wolf whistles that assaulted the Princess in the hallways. ]
we were on our way out to the park to meet the others. And there we met Lucy, Alexia,Ayane and Janine,who were discussing the latest goings on in the superhero community in the US.
"Where have you been guys?" asked Lucy with a sly grin as she winked and pointed at Allegra's feet,"Nice footwear btw,you look really mature and sophisticated from the feet up."
"Ease up on her amiga," I said consolingly," she's been slimed by one of my clients and had to wear the footwear because hers is being cleaned at mi casa, So it's not her fault that she's wearing hose and heels today."
"Well that maybe the reason why she changed footwear today." Said Alexia,stiffling some giggles at her growing blushes," But seriously Sis, Lucy's right about one thing,with the hose and the heels,you do look very sophisticated and mature from the feet up."
"Amiga" Chided Jainine with a raised eyebrow and a childish grin," Don't tease your sister like that. Besides,hasn't she had enough troubles without You adding to them HMMM?"
"Ok Ok OK, I was just fooling around." 'Lexi replied holding up her hands," Besides with heels and hose she'd look prettier that way as a Cindy."
"Which makes me wonder minna-chan, why you had us recruited into the Society in the first place." Ayane replied with a bit of sarcasm in her voice, "After all I assume that the Princesu has something to say that's important to us all"
"Indeed I have something important for all of you." Allegra said, composing herself of her blushes, "There will be a surprise for each of you before you wake up three days from now but during that time you will have a dream of being someone else,someone prettier,powerful someone wonderfull."
"But what will we become?" Asked Lucy with a raised eybrow.
"That would be telling,besides it wouldn't be a surprise if you guys know about it would it?" She replied with a wry smile," If you start to have some strange dreams,let me know,a'ight?" and she walked to the limo that picked her and Alexia up,leaving us all with a lot of unanswered questions.
It didn't take us long to catch on the meaning of her statement,for a few days later a lot of the girls came to Ravenswood commenting on some weird dreams about fighting some monsters with Dreamstar which ended with a voice saying "You are not chosen!".
Curious,Janine and I talked to some of the girls, and as we question them,we remembered the very same statement that Allegra had given us. That got us thinking about the twins' secret lives; What are they up to and what does it have to do with us?
Those questions and what those girls said were still throbbing in my brain by the time I got into bed,in fact I was totally knocked out the second Mi Cabasa hit the pillow.
That's when the dream started. It began with me at the edge of the ocean sitting in some sort of wierd outfit,at least from the waist up. The rest of me was encased in fish scales going all the way down to my feet only in the place of my feet was a fish tail.
In other words I'm a mermaid,A magical mermaid who can communicate with animals of the seas and control the waters with my mind. And I'm flying in the air with the birds as a mermaid,well actually 'swimming' is more like it,as I was doing that a voice said to me " Are You ready for battle?"
I looked around,trying to see where the voice came from "don't bother."it replied,"Just watch out for the Leviathan coming out below you." I pulled up just in time to see a giant form with rows and rows of ginormous fangs,fins and spiderlike legs jump out of the ocean and snap at the space where I was.
Lucky Me! I just caught a glimpse of the thing before it dove under water,its outline looked to be a cross between a whale and a Great White shark,starting to circle faster and faster increasing its speed second by second. I was about to shoot up into the skies when the voice said again" Strike at it Now as it launches itself at you!"
"CARAMBA!" I cried "How do I stop this thing?" "Call forth your Trident and aim a lightning bolt at it" replied the voice again,"Say 'crystal Trident,Appear to me!' Point at it and say 'Diamond Thunder,Strike!'"
Sounds mucho mas loco, but it's better than becoming monster feed at the bottom of the seas. I raised my hand up to the sky and said "CRYSTAL TRIDENT APPEAR TO ME!"
[CRASSH! SHABOOM!] Out of nowhere and straight to my hand came a trident made out of glowing crystal and throbbing with enough energies to power the whole state of NC.
I then pointed it at the monster as it shot out of the waters right towards me and Shouted "DIAMOND THUNDER STRIKE!" and out of the prongs came three powerful bolts of lightning,[CRAAACK! KATHOOOM!]which hit the Leviathan squarely on both the chest and its fin blasting it to pieces in a glorious explosion which fell to the seas as dust.
As I looked around for the voice's owner,I spotted a familiar figure floating east of me :DREAMSTAR! "Not bad for a beginner and way impressive for a finish to a test which you dear Gabi just passed with flying colors. Welcome to the Court Of Dreams, OCEANA."
I woke up to my alarm buzzing in my ears almost wiping the dream from my mind. As I glanced at the time which said 6:55 AM, I spotted something on my end table in front of the clock. I picked it up and looked at it closely. It's a aquamarine amulet glowing with weird energies feeling like the warmth of the ocean itself.
The next day I met the girls at homeroom and discovered that I was not the only one with the weird dreams. Each of the girls had a different dream but it ended with a gemstone on their end table. So I interviewed each one for info, Starting with Lucy-
LUCY
I Found myself in some weird jungle wearing some kind of Magic Girl outfit with feathers in my hair,Trying to make sense of all this when I heard a loud CRASH three miles behind me. I started backing away from where it came from,increasing my walk to a run when I saw what made that sound. It turns out to be a T Rex Dinosaur-and he hadn't finished dinner yet!
I broke out into all flat out run when he spotted me and took off after me.
While I was running for my life I heard a voice whispering to me,"Call On the speed of the Cheetah!"
I said "What!?" Looking around while running for your life is not too bright when you're wearing high heeled boots. "Call on the Speed Of The Cheetah! You have the ability to call on the powers of the animals, so intone this command: I call On the speed of the cheetah!"
Kooky as it sounds to me ,it makes a lot of sense. So I yelled out " I call on the Speed Of The Cheetah!" and SHAZAAM! I took off like a comet leaving the T Rex behind in a cloud of dust.
I don't know how long or far I ran,but I almost found myself heading for a cliff at 260 mph,as I neared it the voice said again" call on the wings of the eagle and the power of the wind" I asked " You're kidding right? Two powers at the same time!?"
"Would you rather become a pancake smear on the face of the cliff?" said the voice again,"Or would you try and test out your powers right here, right now?"
Once again I have no alternative so I called out in my loudest voice,"I CALL ON THE WINGS OF THE EAGLE AND THE POWERS OF THE WIND!"
And WHOOOOOOSH! I was airborne before I was off the cliff,I also felt a tingling in my back, like something was growing out of it, Took a glance and saw two perfect angelic wings spreading out from my backside and shoulder blades.
I Moved my shoulders and the wings started flapping in concert with the body was flying with the wind doing loops in the air and speeding with the currents. And then the voice interrupted my fun,"OK funtime's over,You've got a beast to slay and people to rescue. Look down below you." It said.
I looked down and saw, to my shock, The T-Rex stomping through the forest towards a prehistoric village filled with Women and children who are unaware that they're about to become that dino's dinner!
"Not on MY watch it won't!" I snarled But i stopped my self and asked the voice:" But how can I slay him? I don't have a weapon."
Just then, in a blaze of lightning a crystal sword with wings on the pommel appeared and landed in my hands filling my body with a cloudful of animal energy, "You do NOW! Said the voice with a giggle,"Now give that T-Rex a dose of his medicine."
I nodded and divebomed the dino before he can get three stomps to the village,slashing at its' legs, tail and arms in a flurrry of speed,zapping cuts everywhere on its' body.
It was snapping and turning every which way trying to get at the fast flying morsel it sensed with it's nose but each time I just flew out of its' reach.
Just then I remembered a manuver that I saw on an old video game i played long ago with my dad. But to do that I need some speed and momentum, so i took off towards the skies again up up up towards the sun.
Then I dove down towards the T-Rex,sword pointed before me like the nose of a airplane Spinning faster and faster until I burst through that dino's front body and out the back,sending it crashing to the ground with only the trees to break its fall.
I flew away to a safe vantage spot as the villagers gathered around and carved pieces off the T-Rex Carcass [TRex steaks anyone?],When I spotted a familliar figure
DREAMSTAR! " Well, You beginning was less inspired," she said" But your ending the rescue was very impressive. Welcome to the Court Of Dreams,ANIMALIA! "
That's when I woke up and saw the amulet and the bracelet on my end table.
JANINE
MY dream started in a different locale,most specifically the city of Atlantis in the middle of a monster invasion with people running away in a panic.
When I looked in the crystal Pillar of a building I saw myself in a Magic girl outfit in silver and tourquoise with high heeled ankle boots.
When I touched the tiara on my forehead and instantly my eyes are covered with a VR[Virtual Reality] visor that emables me to see energy signatures and bodies from the inside out- and what I see almost made me lose my lunch!
I saw via the visor dark embryos inside each one of the people consuming them from the inside.
Horrified, I felt light energies well up inside me and fired a burst of energy at the nearest persons in front of me and in the blink of an eye the embryos dissapated within their bodies purifying them from the inside out.
I couldn't believe my eyes that I was able to do that,considering that science is my forte,`not magic but the fun didn't last long.
"HOW DARE YOU INTERRUPT MY GLORIOUS CORRUPTION OF ATLANTIS!?" Screamed a hooded figure pointing a finger at me. "YOU WILL PAY FOR YOUR MEDDLING BY DYING A PAINFUL DEATH!"
Hoo boy! where do these weirdos dig up thier lines,old tv sitcoms?
Anyhoo, I barely had enough time to jump out of the way when a bolt of black energy hit the space where I was standing. YIPES and a Half!
I was three ways from becoming one of them when i heard a voice talk to me "Are you gonna keep dodging all day or are you gonna take the offensive to this guy?"
"With what?" I asked looking around for the voice,"I don't have any weapons on me." all of a sudden,something popped into my hand with a BZZZZZ! as a bright blue blade of energy sprang from its pommel.
"NO WAY!" I exclaimed with eyes wide open, "A Lightsaber from STAR WARS!? I've gotta be dreaming or am I?"
"Use the destruction spell on the staff he's holding." the voice said again, "Say the poem;'By Nature's Craft, By mankind's Art, What once was one NOW FLY APART!' Now do it."
What else can I do? I faced the Hooded Ghoul and said the very words she intructed me to say, "BY NATURE'S CRAFT, BY MANKIND'S ART,WHAT ONCE WAS ONE NOW FLY APART!" and directed the energy at the staff that he' s holding and it blasted it into a pile of dust.
"IMPOSSIBLE!" It screamed in a earsplitting voice that hurt my ears, "It is not supposed to be easily destructable! The Master made assurances that my staff is invincible,INVINCIBLE I TELL YOU!"
He then started shooting these black lightning bolts all over the place shattering buildings and roads and nearly killing those people.
"Time for a Purification Spell to erase all traces of the corruption, and take out Sir LoudMouth there as well." said the voice once again, "Say these words: 'Corruption within,Corruption without, By the Celestial Trininty,from this place,from these people BE GONE HENCE AND NE'ER RETURN!'"
So I did as it instructed and the hooded one fell apart like a cheap MP3 Player, all that was left was his black robe which fluttered down to the floor and burst into flames.
"Thank You," said the Village elder of atlantis, "thank you for saving our people." the two elders placed a gemstone ring on my finger "This will enable you to control the ebb and flows of time and space. Use it well." they then walked away,leaving me with more questions then answers.
"Relax" said the voice behind me," just touch the ring to your gemstone, and you'll do the things that the elder told you about." I turned around and found the voice's owner,DREAMSTAR!
" Felicidades Janine," she said with a smile,"You just completed the most dangerous mission of all and you've done it while in the past,when Atlantis is at its' glory,"
"Welcome to the Court of Dreams,LOGIKA."
I woke up at 6:30 Am with the amulet on my end table and something else on my finger,the gemstone ring the Elders placed on it.
That's it for part one of Chapter Two, Be here for the conclusion of "A Matter of Trust" Please review and PM me if you want bios of the Court.
Till Next time Ja'ne`!
