Nightmare

My dreams were full of visions.

I saw a group of people, walking together, silent and stoic. I then saw the same group of people, laughing together on the beach. Then there was a boy, with hair so black it was blue, shooting himself in the head.

It was a pretty cool dream, and I assumed it came about because I was playing too much Persona 3.

Until the boy started talking to me.

It has to be you, he said. I tried to talk back, but soon figured out that I couldn't. I realized as I tried to move that I was tied up in invisible rope, all the way from my feet to my mouth. Great.

You're bound to this responsibility. You can seal me, can't you?

Then the boy's face melted, and revealed a smiling gray mask. It sneered at me.

Of course you can't. No one can stop The Fall. Welcome it, my child, and peace will come to you.

The mask came closer. It opened its mouth, revealing razor sharp teeth. I screamed in my head, realizing that I was about to be eaten. I closed my eyes, waiting for the end to come.

Wake up! Hey, May, wake up!

I opened my eyes, and above me stood a panting, red-faced Dana.

"Have… you been running recently?" I asked hesitantly.

"No, I haven't been running! I was trying to wake you up! You sleep like a log, you know? I mean, come on, how tired do you have to be to fall asleep on a bush!"

"A bush..?" I looked down and saw that she was right. Even though I reached my godparent's house, I had apparently not had enough energy to walk into it, because I fell straight into the main bush of our desert landscape.

"Yes. A bush. Now get inside and take a shower! God, do you know how many bugs could be on you? If I find one in my room, you are personally spraying Raid all over it, got it?" She huffed, then stormed into the house.

I rubbed my eyes and yawned. My dream had disturbed me, but I was used to the nightmares.

Things will be better tomorrow, I told myself. Repetition made its effect lesson.

I stood up slowly. My energy seemed to have come back, but my head was so fuzzy that I could barely get to the house.

"Shower….," I decided that Dana knew what she was talking about, so I took a good one and a half hour shower. I felt a lot less dizzy then I did before, so I could finally think clearly and realize that I did not have my evoker.

"Crap!" I screamed to no one as I searched my backpack and the bush outside. I could have left that thing anywhere! Sure, it probably wouldn't do any bad since it didn't have any bullets, but what if another shadow came around and attacked me! I would be defenseless and...

"…What if it never really happened?" the thought suddenly hit me. I mean, I had no scratches from the supposed magician shadow that I had fought, and there was no evoker anywhere to prove that it wasn't all some big daydream.

I fell back into my bed and sighed. Life was getting interesting, and it was just a lie I had somehow made up. It was more of a disappointment than a relief.

"At least it will be peaceful," I whispered.

Oh, was I wrong.