Chapter 6: Snowy Nightmare

Later that night as I lay asleep on my couch in my igloo, I began to toss and turn in my sleep; as a snowy scene haunted my dreams...

... (Dream-) A bright misty light shone from my colorless surroundings; as I climbed up some steep steps (from what I could tell), and out onto a large snowy cliff. I found it hard to focus on the objects around me but I could tell that there were mountains in the distance, and two statues guarding a long rope bridge leading to another mountain. As I stood on the cliff I suddenly realized that I was standing on a large round carving on the floor in the center of the 'room', it had a picture of a snowflake on it,

"What's this?" My voice echoed eerily as I spoke.

As I bent down to touch the floor I looked up at the statues at the realization that they were wearing Card-jitsu suits. I couldn't tell whether they were wearing Fire or Water suits as my dream was in black and white at that moment, but I could tell that they were wearing woolly hats, scarf's and mittens on top of their suits, which made me giggle. Out of curiosity I decided to try and make my way across the rope bridge to find out what was on the other side.

As soon as I set one foot down on the bridge the scene changed, and I found myself wearing a black ninja suit whilst holding a Fire Nunchaku in my flipper. I could see more clearly here and the scene was in color Two other penguins stood beside me, both wearing black ninja suits but carrying different weapons, one had a giant fish tank on a pole, a Water Hammer, and the other had two Snow Shuriken in their flipper.

The three of us where atop a large flat topped snowy mountain, and we weren't alone, three strange snowmen stood on the other side of the mountain top. One was big with a sled, another was skinny with a tennis racket and another was medium sized with a snowball bowling ball. Suddenly the three snowmen charged at us, I inwardly screamed as I found myself running determinedly alongside the two other ninjas towards the oncoming snowmen. My body seemed to know what I was doing even if my mind was telling me I hadn't got a clue, as I fought and protected the other ninjas, we worked together using our weapons to fight the snowmen.

We fought against many of the snowmen in many different rounds, each round of snowmen getting harder and harder to defeat, but finally we defeated them all. As soon as we'd defeated the last snowman a cold wind blew and the scene disappeared around me; I then found myself sitting before Sensei as he placed something in my flippers.

"A party hat?" I said puzzled, as my voice echoed again. I turned the cone hat around in my flippers, it had silver and grey strips twirling around the hat, with sparkly snowflakes on it. "Sensei, why a party hat?"

"Patient grasshopper, time will tell..." Sensei replied as he began to disappear into the darkness.

"Wait Sensei!" I called as I got to my feet, suddenly I heard someone laugh evilly behind me, I slowly turned, my grasp on the party hat tightened as I gasped.

A huge shadow loomed above me, its menacing eyes shining through the darkness, I could hear it's torn cape billowing in the wind. It wasn't a penguin, it was much bigger. The shadow laughed again as I tried to run away from it, suddenly it's shining eyes appeared in front of me, I screamed and ran in the opposite direction. I shouted for help but my voice only came out as a whisper as it cornered me, coming closer and closer, as I huddled into the corner trying to push myself away from it. The shadow evilly laughed again reaching its large hand out towards me until...

... "Aaaaaah!" I screamed in fright falling off the couch and onto the floor.

"Eva? Eva! Are you alright?" I heard someone call from outside my igloo door.

I opened my eyes, it was morning, I was inside my igloo, it had all been a dream, some of my puffles looked at me concerned, but I sighed with relief. That is until I noticed a familiar party hat lying on the floor; it was the hat Sensei had given me in my dream,

"Aaaaaah!" I screamed again.

"Eva, I'm coming!" the penguin outside called as he tried to break the door down, without success.

PIXAR shook his head and opened the door as the penguin ran inside tripped and fell flat on his beak, letters flew out of his bag and scattered across the floor.

"Ouch" he complained propping himself up with his flipper. I still hadn't stopped screaming, "Eva, what are you screaming at?"

I calmed down a bit and pointed at the hat still lying on the white floor. "J, Jonathan, look!"

"It's... a party hat?" the post penguin looked at me most bewildered.

"Not just any hat, the one from my dream, or rather my nightmare!" I shuddered.

"What happened in your dream or rather nightmare?" Jonathan asked. I quickly explained the dream I'd had too him, his eyes grew wide, "So you're a ninja, I'm one too!"

"You're a ninja?" I was astonished.

"Well a ninja in training..."

"Oh I see, anyway it's not the first time, I had a similar dream just before the Puffle Party, only I didn't dream of getting a party hat and an evil shadow." I explained.

"Have you told anyone?"

"No, only Sensei knows about the first dream, but I'm confused, what's this party hat doing here?" I picked up the hat; it looked exactly like the one in my dream.

"I don't know, but you're not the only one that's had that dream. I've had the nightmare too, only I wasn't given a party hat." Jonathan sighed uneasily, "Maybe Sensei knows the answer to these dreams?"

I nodded, "Maybe..."

Hope you liked that unusual twist to the story, this chapter is based on CP's Beta-Test of Card-jitsu Snow during this event. I don't own CP, I only own my penguin, other penguins are owned by whoever plays them.

-W. N. Eva ;D