Trapped in My Dreams

"Clari, Clari." A whisper so soft I barely heard it through my mixture of dreams. "Clari, wake up."

My eyes snapped open. I blinked trying to adjust to the dimness. Where am I? I took a deep breath and smelled leather, rubber, and something else. Cologne? What's going on?

I slowly turned my head. The first thing I noticed was that I was sitting in the backseat of a car. The second thing was that there was someone sitting with me and they were gazing at me.

"So she finally wakes up." Said the figure with a hint of smugness that was indescribably familiar. "So how was your nap?"

"Baine." I hissed as if his name was a cursed word.

"The one and only." He said leaning forward. He reached up and turned on the light that was attached to the roof of the car. His features intensified from the shine of the light. It was a dark beauty. His long black hair curling slightly to the right looked metallic compared to his slightly tanned skin. His eyes such a deep brown they looked black were staring at me as if I were an amusing sight.

"What is going on?" I asked narrowing my eyes.

He held up his hand as if to silence me. "Don't ruin this." He murmured. "I want to get a good look at you."

Just to annoy him, I turned my head quickly so he couldn't see my face. He laughed quietly. He was trying to get me angry, to amuse him.

"So stubborn." He muttered. "I've always liked that about you." I didn't say anything. He chuckled again. "Fine. I'll answer your question if you turn around."

I thought about it for a moment then slowly turned my head. He smiled shrewdly. "That's better." I glared at him. If only looks killed...

He leaned closer and brushed a stray hair from my face. I lifted my hands trying to swat his hand away but they didn't move. I glance down and saw that my wrists had been tied together, as well as my arms.

"You tied me up?" More of an accusation than a question.

He shrugged. "A precaution. Knowing you, you wouldn't sit through this without fighting."

I felt white-hot anger course threw my veins. No doubt he tied me himself, violating my personal space. Another stray hair fell on my face. I flipped it away impatiently before Baine could.

"Alright." He leaned back in his seat and sighed. "Time for your side of the deal. To make a long story short, me and my father need you for a little...experiment."

I stiffened, my anger gone. He and his father meaning his father's crazy plan for a powerful army and his ability to get what he wants. I suddenly felt cold, though my back was sweating from the humidity.

"What do you mean?" My voice no longer sounded steady or angry, but timid and afraid.

He smiled wider. "You know what we mean. There are hundreds upon thousands of other Meliorns like us." My eyes narrowed even further. "But there is no one like you."

I started shaking uncontrollably. Not again, please not again! "Why me? Why me?" I asked my voice rising to a scream.

"I just told you why. You're extraordinarily unique. You've been through this before." His eyes peered through me as though he could read my mind.

"Please," I sobbed though no tears would come. "Let me go. Get someone else."

His eyes softened and his smiled faltered. "I'm sorry, sweetheart. Can't do that."

The tears finally came, streaming hot down my face. "I can't– live like that again." I closed my eyes in defeat.

"You're going to have to." He whispered.

There was a rushing in my ears. I was angry again, no, beyond angry. I was livid. It was inside of me, like a bubbling hot magma. I wasn't going to go through this. Not again. I wasn't going to go down without a fight.

I clenched my tied hands into fists. The hot magma boiled and exploded within me. I sent all my anger, all my hatred, all my fear, towards my hands. I opened my eyes and clenched my teeth.

Baine's eyes widen, his smile slid off his face. He looked at me then my hands, now glowing red. "Clari." He said calmly. "Stop."

"I will not," I said through clenched teeth. "Go back. I will not live through that again." My hands were now gleaming a deep orange. The wire around my wrists glowed white then melted off. I flexed my arms and with my anger strengthening my, I broke the wire around my arms.

"Clari," He said louder, begging. "Stop. Please."

I opened my hands prepared to send all my fury at Baine, to see his dark face burn. But the moment I opened my hands, everything left me. My strength, anger, power had been sucked away. Only my fear remained.

My eyelids felt heavy and a fell back against my seat, exhausted. I peered up at Baine through heavy eyes.

"What...what did you do?" I gasped.

"It's the car." He said simply. He smiled cunningly but his eyes showed remorse and...affection? "I was trying to tell you it zaps your power out of you whenever you try something."

I tried to say something, anything, but I was overcome with fatigue and sorrow. The last thing I thought was that it was no use. I was going back to my nightmare of unfamiliar faces and pain. Black.

What do ya think? Yaaaa kinda long and kinda creepy but it was a dream i had friday. Ya it was definitely a nightmare. I've had the same dream everynite so far but have a feeling something different's gonna happen. Tell ya if something does!!! :D

~GONNABEARTIST~

P.S. please please please PLEASE tell me if you want me to write more. not just my dreams but also more stories that have randomly come to my mind in the middle of the day. Mkkkkk?!

CAMP! :D

I recently just came back from camp! it was AMAZING!!! i hope i can go next year! and the year after that and the year after that... (etc.)

Camp is not all what its cracked up to be. sure, there are fires and games and sleeping in tents sometimes but it pretty much stops there! This year i went to LAKE ANN CAMP for Fresh Start!!! i loved it!

First we hung around and slept in a Tee Pee! how cool is that! i loved it though it was a bit dirty and there were a few bugs. i'm okay with bugs but when my friend whitni sees a spider... "AAAAAAAAHHHH!!!! SPIDER!!!!!"

"It's only a daddy long-legs?!"

"Kill it! It doesn't deserve to live!!!"

i still love her! even with her aracniphobia! (i didn't spell that rite!)

So, after sleeping in a Tee Pee we went RAFTING!!!! WOO! it was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! we ALL fell in at least ONCE....or twice. And if you play games in the middle of a river, when u lose, you will jump in or be pushed in ( i learned the hard way *cough cough* HANNAH!)

It was SO beautiful! We were all singing a song together on the top of this really tall cliff-ish rafine-ish thing that goes down into the river and a BALD EAGLE flew by! it was SO COOL!

No offense to those none naturey people (well, a little offense) but being outside in nature ROCKS! i mean, im in cross country and all and i run okay fast but when im outside in a grassy field with no shoes on.....wow. I feel like im literally AIR! i love the feeling!

Anyhoo, even tho we did hav to ride for 8-9 hrs to get back it was a fun ride. I sat by my best friend (well of them ;) and all my other friends and played card games and txted and other stuff that teenagers do when they're all cramped into one bus.....with suckish AC.

I love camping and i wish i could do it more often! the more im outside the happier i am! Except around summerish fall when my allergies kick in XP blegh!

If you wanna find me in a good mood, find me outside in the middle of the nite lookin up at the stars!

AND....just to be random....here's a little part of a story that i got from a dream:

The creature rose from the darkness. It's skin was ghostly white and oozing with a strange coat of clear slime. It's body was snake-like and was at least sixty to seventy feet long. It's circular mouth had three rows of inch-long needle sharp teeth. One bite or jab with those teeth and I would transport back to the facility.

Surely I couldn't have been the only one to transport to the abandoned warehouse? The creature's black eyes had found me. The foot-long dagger in my hand felt like a toy compared to the beast. The two throwing blades in my belt would hardly scratch the pasty skin.

A flash behind me and suddenly Seth was standing in the light of the sun, slightly disheveled and holding a four-foot long silver sword. The creature's eyes glanced in his direction.

I used the distraction to spring from my spot and onto the creature's slimy back. I hooked the dagger into his skin and held on for dear life. The beast roared with anger and shook its leech-like head in anger.

"The Corruptor!" cried Seth. I looked up just in time to see a small iron hoop fly in my direction. I caught it in my free hand as Seth tried to draw the creature's attention away from it's oncoming death.

I wretched the dagger from the pearly skin and carved a neat circle of flesh on the creature's back. I lifted the flap of skin and was about to touch the Corruptor with the beast's under-flesh when i felt a quick jab on my back. I spun my head around.

The tail of the creature had been barbed. It was thrashed around so much the tail had jabbed me in the arm leaving a trail of blood behind. Immediately my body filled with searing hot pain. I felt like being burned alive from the inside out. My thoughts flew to Seth. I was only moments away from transporting back to the facility to report my failure. Would Seth make it out of this alive?

I had no time to find an answer. The world went black and my body seemed to fall into a never ending pit. The feeling of transporting was alien to me. I felt the Corruptor slip from my hand and I wondered if it would return to Seth. My feet landed hard on a tiled floor and the facility surrounded me.

cool huh? ya i got that all from a dream last nite! it was an awesome dream! tell me wat ya think of it, mkk?!

~GONNABEARTIST~

P.S. If you remind me, i will write all the dreams i've had this whole week. I've been having dreams everyday and been able to remember them the next day! You'd better hurry, tho. I'm starting to forget!!! AHHHHHH!!! and i mite start drawing them! hmmmm?!