Air Warrior

I was a part of a secret government organization.  I don't think they knew, but I was very special.  I could control the wind.  They had decided that they were finished with me, so my handler sent another lady to kill me.  One of my good friends was also on the rooftop where they decided my execution would take place.  I really didn't want to die, so I tried to convince the lady not to do it.  She had a syringe, filled with something that looked nasty.  I used a gust of air to knock it out of her hands, and she was impressed.  My friend and I finally convinced her that she shouldn't kill me.  I took my chance, and flew away.  I flew alongside the building and away from it.  My iron will was the only thing that wouldn't let me fall.  I kept going until I knew for certain that I was safe.

Eventually, I came to a cave. There were a few others who were also going into the cave.  When we into the cave, we looked for a good place to settle for the night.  We started exploring the cave, and as another guy and I were walking towards the largest opening, something was coming towards us.  It was a very large, troll like creature, with tentacles.  I tried to put up a wall of air to stop him, but he just walked straight through.  We were terrified, and started to run away, but then we stopped.

"Don't be afraid!  I'm just here to play!"
When he entered the room, it came to life.  There were tons of toys, arcade games, and so many other things to do all over the cave.  for hours, it must have been, we spent there playing.  The whole time, something felt wrong to me.  I started to tell a few of the guys about my misgivings, but they were not convinced.
"You don't trust me?" The monster said.
Then, the four guys who were playing at one of the biggest games in the room fell into a vat of boiling water.  He was going to eat us!  I knew it!   I messed with the controls on the games, and the vat fell over, and the guys came spilling out.  Only three of them had survived.  The monster was then after me.  I flew up to a rafter to escape from him.

"You will only ever be able to just barely escape from me,"  He said.
He jumped, and even thought the rafter was fairly high, he almost grabbed me.  He caught a part of the coat I had been wearing, and I let it fall with him.  I looked up, and saw a higher rafter, and flew to it.  The next time he jumped, he was still far too close for comfort, and grabbed my belt.  I let that fall as well.  It was then that a boy piped up.  One of the smallest in the room, but obviously the brightest.
"But wait.  You can't be real.  There is only one reason that this would all happen. This must be a test, and only the pure hearted would get through."

"And you have failed."
"No, by not falling for your trickery, we have one."
Behind the largest game, where the big vat of water once was, a bit of the wall was shimmering, and starting to disappear.  Behind it, was a door.  I opened the door, and went through.  The tunnel led us down a ways, into another chamber.  In this chamber were a few nuclear missiles, and three computers, all ready to launch these, and more missiles.  There were just a few people in the room at first, and then several centaurs rode in.
"Welcome, honored guests," they said.

Mutants in Berlin

We were all in a bus, and a mad man put in some poison gas, that started to transform our DNA.  A lot of guys from my floor were there, definitely Mason, and Justin, and Scott, and I think Trevor was along for the ride as well.  The DNA change didn't change our appearance much, but we gained extremely long tongues.  The bus crashed, but amazingly, most of us were completely fine. The police came, and started asking questions, and they discovered the mutation. They started rounding us up, but some of us hid. We were successful, got away. At some point, Carmen met up with us at a campfire, and I showed her my telekinesis I had also developed.  She seemed to take it pretty well, and we talked for a bit.  I saw a fly go by, and I grabbed it with my tongue.  It was pretty tasty.  As we walked around a bit more, I realized that everyone around us was talking in German, and it was nice to be in Berlin again, even if it was only for a short while.

Sweet Escape

He loosened my bands enough so that I could reach the telephone cord, with which I could strangle myself.  I was about to do so, when I realized that this was not my only choice.  I decided to try the door to my cell.  It was unlocked!  I opened it, and went out.  There were guards, and a fence, and a wall, but the nearest guards had come to get me out, and were friends in disguise.  They led me through a gate, and into the forest.  We ran down a wide path, and through many empty towns.  We finally got to a river, with a ferry.  We knew we had made it, because it was the only ferry for miles, and the ones chasing us would have to wait for it to come back.  As we left the shore, the heavy burden of fear and uncertainty lifted off my shoulders.

Murder and Mystery

Mom knew we were lying.  She came in, closed the door, and sat down on the bed right across from me. 

“Do you have something you want to tell me?”  She asked.

At first, I was filled with this sense of dread, that I was lying to my mother, and I felt terrible.  Then I remembered the cause, and was defiant.  I yelled no, because I knew she knew what I knew, and she still wanted me to tell the truth.  We argued for a bit, then she left.

There was an investigation going on as to a murder that had happened in a dark barn or cave or some sort.  I say that because I was coming down steps on one side of an enormous room, while, high up on the wall towards which I was walking, was a large window, through which I could see someone with enormous wings.  Two or three of my good friends were with me, and as we went down, we could see Jared down there too.  We got down to him, and heard a witch chanting.  We ran, but it was too late.  The witch was the one who had killed someone, but no one would believe our story if we told it, and no one else had seen Jared at the scene, so we decided to just be quiet about the whole thing. 

I couldn't understand why my mom and dad wanted so bad for us to tell them.  Didn't they trust us?  If we wouldn't tell them, they must know there was a reason, right?

When my mom had left, we watched a recording that I had of the whole event.  Jared was plain to be seen, placing him at the scene, but there was also the other strange happenings recorded as well.  A small troll with a long beak walked in, and it seemed only I was paying attention to him.  He started speaking a poem, and then I realized it might be important, so I put my ear up to his beak to make sure I caught it all.  I quickly copied it down onto my laptop, so I wouldn’t forget it.  It was then that I realized.  It was phoenix!  This was how she came back to life every time she died, this old lady would perform a ceremony.  Angel had apparently just discovered this as well, or was in on it, as he must have been the guy at the window that night. 

We had decided to go on a ride.  It was the sort of ride that scares you terribly, and the escorts that the theme park provides are excellent actors.  I went with the first crew, and, as its reputation would have us believe, it was, indeed, terrifying.  As it opened up, you went down a staircase, and there were two twins, one boy, and one girl, sitting in the car in front of you.  There is a voice that started to chant something, and then the twins join in.  As we got halfway down the stairs, I realized that we were once again in a similar place to where the murder had happened.  I endured the ride, and was glad when it was over. 

We hung out outside the ride, messing around as college kids do.  I remember we were playing a sort of tag, and I tagged Alexia, but she was tired, and didn’t really feel like playing.  That was understandable, considering what we had just been through.  Another group of IV people came, and said they wanted to go on the ride.  Most of the people with me wanted to go again, but I definitely did not.  I didn’t think my nerves could handle a second round.  I asked Scott if I could borrow his car to drive myself back to the church we were staying at, and he said yes, as long as I brought a game that was in his car back to Hannah’s house. 

I started out ok driving, though I wasn’t really sure where I was going.  I guess I wasn’t used to the streets of Denver anymore, or at least this part.  I got to an intersection, went straight, and just kept on straight.  I started to fall asleep.  I awoke when I heard and felt an aweful bump.  It seemed I had hit a cat.  I realized I had somehow gotten to a very rural part, as it seemed I was in the middle of a small farm.  I turned around, somewhat of a challenge in the newly fallen snow.  As I drove past the scene of the incedent, I saw red blood on the snow, but not the cat. 

I kept driving, and eventually drove through this food shop.  I kept going till I found a parking spot, and walked back to see what they could offer.  I walked in through the back wall, because it was too much work for me to find the front entrance.  I was right next to the cook, and he asked me what I wanted.  I thought that Hannah might enjoy some fried chicken, and so I asked for that.  As I waited for the food to be cooked, some people from Billings chapter walked in.  they had been in the second group that had gone on the ride again. 

“I got a little lost…”  I said

“You were close, we’re right on s 11^th, so all you had to do was turn right, and keep going.”

The Death of Dan

I was playing an aram on League of Legends, and I was Zilean.  I was chasing down a gangplank, who was almost dead.  For some reason, my ultimate was a mass slow and stun, instead of the whole revive thing.  Anyways, when I finally caught him with a time bomb,  he died, and then a chest spawned there.  It was then that I was myself again, and we were in a long, dark hallway.  The chest was still there, and I knew we might need it to survive, so I opened it to check it out. 

The first thing I felt was an arm.  I thought, oh great, someone left there arm in here, and then moved on.  I saw some gold, and a lot of moldy bread.  I kept digging, to see if there was anything else.  That was when someone said “Where’s Dan?”  I finally looked back towards the arm, and realized it was connected to a body, the body of Dan Hodun.  I was in tears as I rushed him to the med unit, with Dr. McCoy by my side.  We tried to revive him, but nothing would work.  McCoy said we should at least find out what had killed him, so we could avoid it ourselves.  He left to go get some equipment, and I started talking to Dan.  This isn't some creepy sort of talking to the dead, more like the silence in the library sort, if you are a Dr. Who fan.  I told him how strange it was that I was the only one who could talk to him when he was dead.  He said, “Yeah, that is kinda strange.  Wait, where else have I been dead?!?”  I reminded him of a couple of times that were close calls, but he couldn't remember me talking to him.  It was then that he started to deteriorate.  The only way we could continue to communicate was through a computer interface.  We would take turns typing.  After time, even that began to fail.  He started typing gibberish, and then nothing at all.  I was so very sad to see him go.

IV Trip

A group of us from intervarsity had stopped at a rest on the way to or from somewhere.  Up, in the distance, there was a huge rock formation, kind of like jump off ridge behind my house back home.  We were just talking, getting water, and suddenly, there was a huge bang sound, and some people just disappeared.  I knew somehow, that it was a huge magnetic pulse.  I looked around frantically, to see if Kat was gone too, but then I remembered that she had gone to some concert, and so was a little ways away.  I went over just to make sure she was ok, and I saw here in the distance, climbing up some stairs, and I knew everything was ok.  Just then, I looked over at the rock formation, and it was cracking.  From the very center, at the bottom, a line of rock was cracking, and coming apart altogether.  The mountain started to fall on all of us, like a wave crashing on the shore.  As it fell, everything was slow motion, and the one thing I had time to do, was to thank God for what a wonderful life I have had.  Then everything was dark.

When I awoke, I wondered if it was heaven.  I was on the shore of some sort of lake, a lake that had tons of bits of rock in it.  I had some pain, but not overwhelmingly so.  Somehow, it seemed, I had survived.  So, of course, we went to Disney World.  While there, we met an old woman who worked there.  It was me, Kat, Sarah, and Kathy.  We had been talking to her for quite some time, and it was getting near closing, apparently 3 AM on this night.   She said it would be ok if we stayed later, because she was with us.  It was at that moment, that Ariel crawled out from under a ramp, bleary eyed, and holding a stuffed animal.  Diana had already left some time ago, but there Ariel was, and we knew we needed to figure something out.  Kathy suggested she take the bus home.  She said she knew the bus driver, his name was Sam, and that he was really nice, and that the way home would be really easy, and that she would be fine.  I was not so easily convinced, but what other choice did we have?