Fire

We were in a basement, fighting off flaming foes.  They were like skeleton people, with their skins just a shadow, and underneath, flaming bones.  If any of the flame touched you, you would become like them.  I had the last one by the throat, where there was no flame, about to kill him, when he lifted his arm, and the flame hit me.  I felt the same, but I could see that I was burning on the outside.  I found my way to the others, who had already left, but they said nothing about the flames.  I assumed that they couldn't see them.  When I looked around, I realized we were in a gift shop of sorts, more specifically in a section where there were glass ornaments all around us.  I accidentally brushed against a wall, and it started to burn.  I tried to walk away inconspicuously, but a lady had seen what had happened, and was freaking out.  She yelled for someone to come quick, but I reached out, and touched her arm.  She soon began to burn as well, like me.  She stopped yelling then, because of her surprise.  Together, our group ran out of the shop, and into a nearby forest.  There was an empty cabin there, that we decided to stay the night in.  I checked my phone, and realized that my mom had called me at some point.  I called her back, and was about to tell her what had happened, but then Joe said that it probably wouldn't be a very good idea, seeing as how we did start a fire and all.  I also didn't tell her that we were in Italy, and about to travel all around Europe.

The Android Factory

They were going to turn me into an android, and I had to think fast.  They had sent me along a belt, that was moving towards a room that I knew would do the first step, taking my head off.  As I got closer, I saw something in the room that looked rather less dangerous than the knives waiting there.  There was a soft, flesh toned contraption, that looked like a brain on the outside, with tons of grooves and ridges, but it was empty, and it extended at the top and had a cord of the same material that led to the ceiling. When I got to the room, I dodged the knives, and put the brain-like thing on my head.  I suddenly found myself able to control the other androids.

The owner of the plant, one of my former teachers, came running, and when he got to the room I was in, I had two of the androids there hold him.  I took his keys, the keys to the factory, or so I assumed, and had them put him in a cylinder container that was on one of the walls.  It looked to be made of glass, and was slowly emptying the whole time.  When he was put in it, he began to leave the container as well, beginning with his feet.  There was only a small tube leaving the bottom of the container, so I assumed it would not end well for him. I looked down, and examined the keys he had given me.  There was really only one key of importance, the skeleton key.  I took that one, shoved it in my pocket, and left the others.  I went back to my dorm, which was in the basement of the factory, and waited.

About a half hour later, the owner was back.  He called two of his androids (which were now back under his control) and they held me.  He didn't realized that I still had the skeleton key, so he didn't take it from me.  He took me back up to the converting floor, where I had previously almost lost my head.  He showed me what had happened when I thought he had died.  He put first a Christmas tree into the cylinder, and then brought me out to another room, where, as the tree disappeared in the other room, tiny bits were flying into this room, and reassembling themselves.  To show how it worked on a human, he had the androids put Darrell into it, and I watched him get reassembled.  When he was put back together again, however, it seemed he was not all there.  He just stood there, staring blankly ahead.  The owner ran over to him, concerned that it had gone so badly, and my sister (Julie this time) and I took our chance.  We ran over to a car that was there, a jeep, and I gave her the skeleton key to try to start it.  Unfortunately, the skeleton key had broken while it was in my pocket, so the car wouldn't start.  I gave the engine a burst of energy, and it started.  In it, we flew up, and out through a window, to our freedom.

Creatures in the Dark

We were in my dining room, playing cards, as we did almost every evening, when there was a tapping on the sliding door.  I saw this terrible creature, a mix between a giant falcon, and a lizard.  I knew I had to face it.  I walked over to the door, and went out.  When I got there, told God that I was trusting Him to save me, and he did.  When the creature was about to attack me, it's talon got caught on something.  Nearby, there were bombs on the porch, that I threw at the creature with my mind, and it started to fly away.  The second bomb I threw, however, caught the bird-like creature on it's wing, and took it down.

Later on, one of my sisters(Julie) was talking to my cousin(Becky) about something that had happened recently.  I could tell that it was something rather significant, but I had no clue what they were talking about, so I just smiled and nodded.  Julie started to get angry at me, because she thought I knew what was going on, but I told her I had no clue, and she was satisfied.  Eventually, through talking with my mom, I figured out that she had gotten married not too long ago, and was already pregnant.  The only problem was, the baby was growing far too fast for a normal child.  At this rate, the pregnancy would last no more than 6 weeks.  Some time later, a week or so before the baby was to arrive, the father came to visit.  He looked like a normal person at first, but there were times when his image would flicker, or even go away for a moment.  When that would happen, it seemed no one else was able to see but me, and I saw a man with green skin, and blank, black eyes.  I tried to tell Julie what was happening, but she wouldn't listen.

The time finally came for the baby to be born.  It was all a flurry of activity, and for most of it, I just sat around, unable to do anything useful.  I waited for my sister and her new baby to get cleaned up with her husband in the waiting room.  The awkward silence was unbearable.  I asked him how they met, and he said that he was in the same program as her at Eastern.  Finally, Julie came out holding the baby.  Her husband was super excited.  "Finally, we can leave!" He said.  He pressed a button on his watch, and I watched as a swirling hole in space appeared in front of him.  "Are you coming?" He asked.  I looked over at Julie, and then I realized that he was talking to me.  I walked slowly over to the portal, and looked at it more closely.  I turned back towards my parents, said goodbye, and walked through the portal.

Of Death and Running

Daniel Radcliff was about to go on a cruise, and the boat was retracting its ramp from the dock.  A man was trying to run up the ramp, before it was entirely gone, to avoid the ticket takers, as he had not paid for the cruise.  Daniel tried to encourage him, and the man made it just in time, catching the edge of the boat just as the ramp disappeared into the hull.  Unfortunately, the owner of the boat had come over to see what all the commotion was about, and saw the man.  He told the man, that if he could make it once more, that he could stay on the boat. The man started all over again, but this time, he wasn't so lucky.  He fell into the river, and was never heard from again.

My sister (no one I actually know) was next to me, chained near the docks, and we saw the man fall into the river.  We were talking to our jailer, who was on the other side of a wall when it happened.  We realized this was our chance to escape, so we ran, still talking to the jailer.  We kept running until we got to a room where we thought we could hide.  My sister and I hid in a closet, thinking we were the only ones there.  When the authorities got there, though and started to search the room, my phone started playing music, and wouldn't stop.  I tried pressing pause, and stop, anything I could think of, but nothing would work.  I decided to give myself up, so that my sister wouldn't get caught.  As I left the cupboard, I realized there were tons of other people there, who had given themselves up as well.  They were packing their things, and getting ready to leave for jail.  Among them were Scott and David, Shane and Danielle, Blake, and a couple others.  We talked for a while, while they slowly packed.