Now, where was I?

Oh, yeah.

I stared at Ray in horror. What could I do if I'm not even sure when I'm in control of myself?

"I got this. Close your eyes, Deuce."

I closed them, not sure how long I could. There was the sound of material, and next thing I knew I was in a burlap sac. After a few uncomfortable minutes, I felt Dark Ray say through me, "This won't help, Rayman. I may not have the strength I normally do in this body, but I still have my smarts."

I was removed from the bag and thrown in a jail cell.

"WHAT!?" I spoke for Dark Ray and myself.

"Hang on, deuce. We got VM cooking up a solution."

"VM?" I racked my brain for a "VM," and voodoo mama came to mind. I guessed she was cooking a potion or something.

After several minutes of pondering, Ray dragged me out of the cell and up onto a stepladder hanging above a huge cauldron of glowing, smoking, green crud.

"Is-is this all really necessary?" I spoke with nervousness from me, and chuckled as I said it from Dark Ray.

"Yes. It is." Ray threw me in, and as soon as I hit the liquid, all I saw was black.

Then, a corridor, poorly lit, materialized in front of me. I walked down, and it had a few pictures of a poorly illustrated raymarian anatomy. Apparently, the head is too small for a fully developed brain, so only the necessary survival functions are in the head brain. The rest, apparently, is in the nose. Each hand and foot, along with the head and body, has its own heart and immune system. But, I'm getting off topic. There were two rooms at the end of the hall: the brain and the heart. I entered the heart, and there were two more doors: a cartoon heart, and a picture of the organ heart. I entered the organ heart room to find a swarm of darktoons.

I kicked a few, and they exploded. I felt a bit more in control of my body. I proceeded to kick all of them until they were gone. Then I went into the emotion part. One darktoon was just sitting there. I stepped on him, and he popped. As in died. So he's dead now. I left the heart and entered the brain. There I saw one darktoon, but there was something intriguing that made me NOT kill it instantly. A huge screen. I walked up to it and read what was on it. It was of my abilities. Helihair, wall run, stuff like that. They were like switches on an iPod. I started tweaking it, so it became:

Wall run: On

Sharp Wall run: Off to On

Helihair: Off to On

Expando-Hair: Off to On

Limb Disconnection: Off

Double Hair Jump: Off

Charm: 46% to 56%

I smiled. This seemed better. Expando-hair, eh? I had to check that out. I squashed the last darktoon, and became surrounded in green goop. I swam to the surface, gasping for air and heli-hairing out of the pot. I thought about what the expando-hair could be, and I couldn't think up a good action for the name. Little spoiler, I learned that to do the expando-hair, you have to do that thing when you hold your breath and put pressure on your head. But anyways, I got out of the pot and I carried Ray home. When we got home, it was like midnight. He passed out, then I passed out. Helihairing for a long time wears you out.

That nap was the worst. Nap. Ever.

Ray was in front of a cloak and Dark Ray. I kept quiet and out of sight.

"What did you do?" Ray asked through gritted teeth.

"While you were unconscious, I injected some of my blood into you," said DR.

Ray gasped. "No."

DR laughed. "Yep." He moved his finger up and down, Ray's hands lifting in sync.

"Stop that!" Then, Ray just disappeared. No poof, no sound, just not there.

"He's awake. Why are we still here?" Asked DR.

"The black-haired one. He's here."

"Crap," I said under my breath.

DR turned to me. "You!"

"Me!" I said.

He rushed at me, not screaming, but smirking. I sidestepped him easily. He skidded to a halt and turned around. Still smirking, he snapped his fingers.

I looked around, expecting something to happen.

Nope.

My feet became brown and earthy, my body became black and hairy, my gloves faded away, my hands became black, fuzzy, and grew claws. My head became much the same, and my already black hair became frizzed and crazy everywhere. My eyes were bloodshot. I just started running around for twelve seconds. Then…

I wake up.

Everyone was surrounding Ray, as I found out when I entered the living room. Globox looked at me and squealed. Everyone else looked at me, and then screamed as well. I grunted in confusion. Wait. Grunted? I looked at my body, now that I was fully awake. I was the monster in the dream! I was like 3 times bigger, and I had to crouch so as to not hit the ceiling. The only person who approached me was Barbara. My rabid, shallow panting slowed to deep, slow breaths. I reverted to my normal self, smiling in embarrassment. She hugged me, and I returned it.

Next thing, DR was in the middle of the living room. And some way, somehow, only me, an unconscious ray, and DR were left in the room.

"What?" DR was trying to sound intimidating, standing on the couch, looking down at me.

"Here's what; you better get out of here, or else I'll try this fancy 'expando-hair.'"

His eyes widened. "Who told you about that?"

"Get out."

He dashed out, never to be seen again.

Until next week.

But that's another story. :)